Summer vacation is over, and the second school term has begun. Having learned that playing on a team expands the possibilities of karuta, Arata musters up his courage and tries to start a karuta club at his school. Meanwhile, Mizusawa High's karuta club has begun practicing in preparation for the Master/Queen qualifiers, but then they learn something that makes them doubt their chances of participating in the qualifiers at all...
Those of you laughing are the ones
who were not included in our 20 Poems.
من يضحك بينكم الآن هم من سقطوا
من قائمة العشرين قصيدة
Vejo que os que estão rindo, são aqueles 
que não estão inclusos nesses 20 poemas.
Смеются сейчас те, чьи работы в сборник
двадцати стихотворений не попали.