After the second character popularity poll is released, Shinpachi sits alone in a restaurant bemoaning his placing in 8th. Yamazaki approaches him from behind and consoles him by saying that characters like them are like the dirt - plain, and unnoticed, but they help beautiful flowers bloom. Soon afterwards, Yamazaki is stripped naked and beaten by an unknown villain. The humiliation causes Yamazaki's ranking to drop drastically, warning Shinpachi of an unknown villain who is trying to reach the top of the character polls by taking out everybody above him.