Sixth grade was when Ayase Chihaya met Wataya Arata, the transfer student from Fukui.  The shy and quiet Arata was hiding a surprising talent.  He knew how to play the competitive karuta version of Ogura's Hundred Poets.  Chihaya is stunned by the intensity Arata displays when playing karuta.
I was on the track team in middle school,
Yo estuve en el equipo de 
atletismo de secundaria,
Yo estuve en el equipo de 
atletismo en secundaria,
No fundamental, eu estava 
no atletismo,