Every exceptional high school wind instrument club holds regular concerts.
If they make it to the national competition and perform well, they can even charge for tickets.
Clubs with no achievements can also participate in these concerts, but may find themselves playing to empty seats, even with free admission.
At the start of the new semester, perhaps unwilling to let high school life end without a flourish, the "upper echelons" of Goda High's Wind Instrument Club decided:
To compete in the Kantou competition.
They didn't just spout this slogan— they took concrete steps: intensified their training and actively signed up for the scheduled concerts.
Then, at their first scheduled concert, they were criticized.
And it was the kind of criticism that's a real blow to morale.
According to Hanaoka Chaozi, she collapsed onto her bed for a whole day after returning home, that's how deeply it affected her.
