The next day, Kenzumi and Senpai and the rest of the music class were waiting patiently in the music class after school. The next event of the competition was Drummer Duel, and they were waiting for their team drummer.

"Are you nervous?" Senpai asked Kenzumi.

"More nervous for our team drummer than about the competition to be honest." Kenzumi answered. "I heard that the rival school's drummer is fierce."

"Where's our drummer?" One student said.

"He should be here by now." Said another.

"Now everyone, please wait." The music teacher said. "I'm sure he's doing something for another teacher. So do not worry, we will-"

Suddenly, another student bursted into the classroom.

"OUR DRUMMER LOST HIS RHYTHM!" She screamed into the classroom.

Everyone in the classroom turned to the girl, who was crying and acting hysterical.

"What do you mean?" The music teacher asked.

"He was confronted by a big mean man! He took away his rhythm and said he was gonna take it to someone named Queen Rhythmia!"

Kenzumi and Senpai looked at each other and sighed. They knew perfectly well what the girl was talking about, and nobody else did.

"She's still not giving up." Kenzumi said.

"That's so cruel of her." Senpai said in return. "I wished she's stop."

"Who's Queen Rhythmia?" The music teacher asked the girl.

"I don't know." The girl sobbed. "But now we won't be able to compete. We're gonna lose!"

The music teacher turned to the rest of the class and said, "Alright everyone, we will need a backup drummer for this competition, since our main drummer is, offbeat, at the moment. Does anyone in hear know how to play a taiko drum?"

Everyone in the classroom looked at each other, not knowing what to say or do. They were terrified that they would lose this competition to the rival school, or were confused about who Queen Rhythmia was.

"We can't lose to those jerks."

"They'll make us look bad."

"I'm scared."

"Who's Queen Rhythmia?"

"Why does some random queen wannabe want someone's rhythm."

"We need to confront this queen girl, what she did was selfish."

After awhile, Kenzumi said, "I'll do it."

Everyone turned to Kenzumi and froze in silence. He blushed, not knowing how they would react.

"You can go put on the team uniform in the locker room." The music teacher said.

Kenzumi nodded and left the room to get the uniform

General Luis was in his quarters, dealing with his annoying headache. He couldn't tell if it was from his lack of rhythm that Queen Rhythmia had, or Queen Rhythmia in general. He was getting really sick of taking orders from her, but he had to so he wouldn't get banished. But he didn't want take anymore orders, because he didn't want to take away more rhythm from innocent people.

Though he was told by Queen Rhythmia to start planning on a way to get all the rhythm from earth. After the first attempt failed, Queen Rhythmia would not allow him to fail a second time. Though he figured that would be a good thing for him, as he wouldn't have to deal with her anymore, but then again, he would longer be in Rhythm Heaven, the place he was born.

Darn, I hate this situation! General Luis screamed in his mind. Is this whole thing worth it? The queen is such an arrogant brat, and she won't even give the soldiers any rhythm to help them.

So he just kept pacing the room, thinking about his situation, as well as the new rhythm taking plan.

Kenzumi walked out of the school in his team uniform and headed towards the school track, where the taiko drums were located. He saw that the drummers would have a set of three cheerleaders cheering them on. Both of them wore their respective team colors, with Kenzumi's being blue, and the rival school's being red.

He made his way to his drum, sweating from the heat of the sun, and his nervousness. He knew that if he won this competition, his team would instantly win. So much pressure was put on him, and he was glad Queen Rhythmia hadn't taken his rhythm.

"May the best man win." The referee said.

The music started, and they started to drum. The red player did his drum first, and Kenzumi did his best to imitate. The cheerleaders cheered on for both of them, and Kenzumi didn't loose a beat.

The red drummer grew desperate, and started to drum faster, but Kenzumi kept up to the beat. The red player did if even faster, and faster on a third time. Kenzumi's arms felt like they were going to fall off.

The music stopped, and everyone turned to the referee to see the results. Would Kenzumi's team win and be done, or would they compete for one more day?

To everyone surprise, the referee said, "Everybody wins when the rhythm is right." That basically means that both schools win the competition, and they all managed to agree without argument, as they all felt that they had rhythm.