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Announcement within the School

The 2 fangirls return to Japan safely and they show Ryuusuke a blurry picture of the dog they saw in New York. Ryuusuke burns up the picture. At a Buddhist temple, Koyuki wishes to be in a different class than Hyodo for the new school year. Koyuki practices guitar some more. The seniors graduate, including Izumi-sempai. On his way to work (at Saitou-san’s place), Koyuki runs into Momoko-sensei. Koyuki introduces her to Saitou-san who seems to be smitten with her. Unfortunately, she sees Saitou-san’s secret porn stash. Since working is forbidden at Koyuki’s school, Saitou-san tells Momoko-sensei that he’s just Koyuki’s swimming and guitar instructor (awww how nice!)

Ryuusuke: "You can play, right?"The new school year starts and Koyuki seems to have run out of luck since he’s classmates with Hyodo again. Hyodo tells him that Rikiya found out about the Jaguar and he’s asking for 50,000 yen. Saitou-san shows Koyuki his prized Gretsch White Falcon tells Koyuki that he (Saitou) will lend it to Koyuki if Koyuki would help Saitou out with Momoko-sensei. Koyuki runs into Ryuusuke and Ryuusuke invites Koyuki to the studio for a practice session. Ryuusuke asks Koyuki to play with him (he brought the Saitou-san’s White Falcon). Ryuusuke notes Koyuki’s improvement and good music sense.

Koyuki convinces Saitou-san to get rid of his porn collection so that Momoko-sensei will like him. Koyuki, under disguise, sells Saitou-san’s magazines to raise money for Hyodo. Koyuki is about 500 yen short when he hands Hyodo the money but Hyodo pockets Koyuki’s hard-earned money anyway. Koyuki sees Rikiya (he graduated already) in school, expecting him to beat him up, but surprisingly, Rikiya ignored him instead. Koyuki joins Beck for another practice session. Ryuusuke notices Koyuki and Maho-chan getting closer and he gives Koyuki a condom. Maho invites Koyuki to her house (a big one at that!). The condom Ryuusuke gave Koyuki falls out and Maho sees it and she beats Koyuki up (lol!). On his way, Koyuki runs into Izumi-chan at sees her with a boy and Koyuki seems pissed afterwards.

Koyuki and Ryuusuke jamming.The next day, Koyuki sees his locker filled with trash. Nobody in class would talk to him, too, even his buddy Tanabe. He then sees Hyodo smirking at him. Koyuki passes by the Announcement Room and plays one of Dying Breed’s songs over the school’s sound system. Koyuki gets scolded by the teachers but Koyuki tells Momoko-sensei of a movie in which an innocent man in prison plays a song over the prison’s PA and how the other prisoners felt freedom with that one song. On his way home, a transfer student approaches him and tells him DyBre’s 50 Cent Wisdom is an excellent song. He introduces himself as Sakurai Yuuji. Koyuki tells him not to talk to him anymore since he’s targeted by Hyodo. The next day, Saku approaches Koyuki with bruises on his face (he was approached by Hyodo’s gang and got beaten up) and hands him a CD with DyBre’s live set in Germany. The two talk about music and Eddie Lee and Koyuki invites Saku to Beck’s practice. Taira tells Maho-chan that Ryuusuke plans on including Koyuki to Beck.

Lucille

Koyuki resolves to make Paige sing with his guitar-playing although he realizes that he’s way below Hyodo’s level. Koyuki tells Hyodo and gang that he won’t be buying them melon bread anymore. Koyuki gets called into the teacher’s lounge by Momoko-sensei and as he leaves, she notices shoe marks on his back. Maho visits Koyuki at school. They eat out and Maho tells Koyuki that Beck has a live set coming out. Koyuki doesn’t want to see Ryuusuke until his guitar is fixed. Maho and Koyuki discover Saitou-san’s secret porn stash while Saitou-san was out. During Beck’s show, Koyuki comes anyway, heavily disguised (or so he thinks), but Maho recognizes him anyway. Koyuki sees Ryuusuke on-stage with Lucille and Maho tells him the bullet holes in the guitar are real. Beck performs and the crowd goes wild.

Koyuki crying over his broken guitar.While working for Saitou-san, Saitou tells Koyuki that he secretly had Ryuusuke’s guitar fixed. Koyuki goes to the store to pick the guitar up but on his way back, he runs into Hyodo and Rikiya. Hyodo and Rikiya play Ryuusuke’s guitar (Hyodo is good but Rikiya sucks). Rikiya thinks Koyuki laughed at him when he dropped his pick so he smashes Ryuusuke’s guitar into the pavement, saying it was a crappy guitar anyway. Back at Saitou-san’s place, Koyuki pretends that everything’s alright and smiles for Saitou-san’s sake. At Ryuusuke’s place, Maho finds the real guitar Eddie gave Ryuusuke so the one Ryuusuke gave Koyuki was an imitation.

Maho calls Koyuki out to eat and she invited Ryuusuke, too, but Koyuki runs out when Ryuusuke arrived. Koyuki is sad that Izumi-sempai is graduating soon. Saitou-san extends his vacation in Southeast Asia and he leaves Paige in Koyuki’s care. Koyuki practices his guitar-playing hard. Beck has another show and Eiji comes to watch. Koyuki is there, too, wearing his way-too-obvious disguise. Eiji sees Lucille and wonders how a damaged guitar can produce such great sound. The two fangirls who went to New York to do a documentary for Beck (the band) comes across a weird dog who looks a bit like Beck (the dog).