Midosuji catches up to Onoda and company and is able to get ahead of the ace climbers. Seeing no other choice Toudou sends Manami ahead to keep Midosuji contained. Manami quickly realizes that he won't be able to keep Midosuji from reaching the aces. Instead he decides to race him one-on-one through the mountainous climb. Midosuji quickly realizes the two are apparently even and proposes a wager on their race. The proposal that both agree to is that the loser of their individual race cannot cross the finish line before the winner. Eventually Makashima realizes that Imazumi will be at a major disadvantage if he doesn't have help against the other climbers, and seeing as Onoda has kept up with him he sends him on ahead to try and even the odds.
エースの意識とチームを背負う覚悟から、覚醒を果たした今泉は、箱根学園のエース福富を力でねじ伏せにかかる! しかし、後方から、沈んだと思われた京都伏見の御堂筋が現れ、先頭を狙い加速する。エースを守る為、いよいよ箱根学園のゼッケン6番･真波がその実力を見せる!
에이스에 대한 자각과 팀을 짊어질 각오로 인해 각성을 끝낸 이마이즈미는 하코네 학교의 에이스 후쿠토미를 힘을 이용해 강제로 굴복시키려 한다! 하지만 후방에서 침몰했다고 생각한 교토후시미의 미도스지가 나타나 선두를 노리고 가속한다. 에이스를 지키기 위해 드디어 하코네 학교의 등번호 6번 마나미가 그 실력을 보여준다!
