Ren and a Reversal-recovered Suiko finally find Asaka, but it`s too late: she`s been Reversed, too! Asaka throws down the gauntlet to Ren, and if he loses this match, he`ll be made into her mindless marionette.

As Ren fights his Reversed best friend, Tetsu, we go back several years to see how they first met, when Ren was a wide-eyed freshman and Tetsu was a juvenile delinquent brawler who wanted to have nothing to do with him.