Spring. The Hatase High school gymnasium. Table tennis club adviser Koizumi Jo notices a cut-man with glasses on the team.
He is one of the up-and-comers who joined the team this year, Tsukimoto Makoto (Smile).
Meanwhile, the other up-and-comer Hoshino Yutaka (Peco) is swindling a man at Obaba's Tamura Table Tennis Hall.
It's sad that he had no one to instill it in him.
Es lamentable que nadie se lo enseñara.
Infelizmente, ninguém conseguiu 
passar isso pra ele.