The story picks up right after the events of Academy vol. 16. After the initial preliminaries, Joanne with other girls gets invited by the Principal to a clinic for a surgery before the next contest. She meets a shady russian surgeon there, Dr. Fedorova... Back at the academy, Joanne discovers that Principal Chanae bought a new piece of hardware. She finds a way to get to it before it’s officially shown to other students, and invites the female Doctor to a secret date… In the meantime, Rebecca (from the older novels) wants back into the Academy. She befriends Sone Suzume (from vol 14 and Character Study) in order to take advantage of her rich father providing genetic respawning shards, so she could practice before she joins the Academy preliminary contest... She meets her in her dad's butcher shop kitchen... A 30-page PDF novel.