Hikaru gets a phone call asking him to enter the preliminaries to try to earn one of the three seats for Japan in the Japan, China, and Korea Junior Tournament. While discussing this with Akira, he finds out that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries. Now Hikaru must compete for one of the two remaining seats. Hikaru decides not to visit Akira's Go Salon until he takes his place on the team with Akira. But can Hikaru overcome his friends and new challengers including a strong player from the Kansai Go Institute. Two seats remain, and only two players in Japan will join Akira...
Tomoko Kawakami
Hikaru Shindō
Susumu Chiba
Fujiwara no Sai
Sanae Kobayashi
Akira Toya
Yumi Kakazu
Akari Fujisaki
Makoto Tsumura
Kimihiro Tsutsui
Kentaro Ito
Tetsuo Kaga
Yuu Asakawa
Yuki Mitani
Mayumi Asano
Okumura
Takahiro Sakurai
Kaoru Kishimoto
Reiko Takagi
Yoshitaka Waya
Kenichi Suzumura
Isumi Shinichirou
Yoko Matsuoka
Kosuke Ochi
Atsuko Enomoto
Asumi Nase
Wasabi Mizuta
Yuuta Fukui
Eizo Tsuda
Kouyou Touya
Keiji Fujiwara
Seiji Ogata
Rokuro Naya
Kuwabara Honinbo
Eriko Fujimaki
Shi Zhao
Satsuki Yukino
Ichikawa-san
Eriko Kawasaki
Mitani's Sister