Having spent previous volumes helping his classmates deal with their problems and their parents, is Hachiken ready to deal with his own family? Not if he has his way, planning a secret raid on his family home for his brother's college exam study notes.

We are given a chance to see how much Hachiken has grown since volume 1 before getting back to school business as the ag students deal with snowfall on the campus and a new, larger version of the previous bacon project. Only the final chapter that tries to play a computer virus for cheap laughs falls short of the new level of excellence this series has achieved. ( )