Akutsu's flashback continues. He's kicking at a vending machine...He was revealed to have been robbed of a backpack, cell phone, wallet, and a bus ticket. Akutsu asks the police officer if he can borrow some money. He doesn't stay for an answer. So he walks around the city. Akutsu is training secretly while his mother is on the phone to the Yamabuki coach. Its revealed that he was going to America to study tennis but he changed his mind at the last minute.