En 3e année à l'université, Haruto s'inquiète de son avenir. Il a envoyé une dizaine de candidatures qui restent pour le moment sans réponse. Quant à Asuka, elle hésite entre rentrer chez ses parents ou intégrer une entreprise possédant une équipe de softball. Alors qu'elle discute de la situation avec Haruto, tous deux se rappelent soudain une phrase de Kyôsuke : "Il ne faut pas abandonner avant même d'avoir essayé" !
Koji Seo (瀬尾 公治) is a Japanese manga creator from Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan.
He debuted in 1996 with the one-shot HALF & HALF in Magazine Fresh. His two hits, Suzuka and Cross Over, both mixed the genres of sports with high school romance. Suzuka focused on track and field while Cross Over used basketball. He was an assistant to Tsukasa Ōshima, and respects Fujiko F. Fujio and Masahito Soda. In 2009 he designed the High School Girl Kimchi for Hokubi Construction food company.
He has stated in an interview that he was a member of his high school's track and field team and that he loves to watch baseball both emphasized in his hit manga Suzuka.
This volume is all about Haruto searching job, well a new charachter is introduced but she isn't cool,not as Eba, but finally Haruto got a job and Takashi has already a child and he named it Haruto, this is very nice.