Muroe High goes to a national kendo competition and meets with many of their former opponents. Miyako, having watched footage of her previous kendo match filmed by Reimi in an effort to improve her kendo skills, manages to beat Carrie Nishikawa, the latter of which calls the former out for a match of their own and is beaten again. Tamaki fights Rin Suzuki again and wins by using the thrust attack. Kōjiro, on the other hand, has emptied out his apartment, and in the last few minutes of the episode is shown getting on Nobu-chan's motorcycle and going to a different place--presumably his new home.
決意も新たな室江高剣道部は、昇龍旗大会に出場することになる。
虎侍と石橋が１０年程前に大会で対戦したことを思い返す中、個人戦にエントリーする部員一同、そして会場で、都はキャリーを、珠姫は凛を見つけそれぞれの想いで闘志を燃やす。
一方、男子の部に参加した勇次とダンは、それぞれ勝ち進み…
