Paulo's not really thinking this through, is he? He's assuming Lucy would faint over a mere squirt of water, when she gets way more than that in her morning shower. Yeah, he's probably gonna have his ass handed to him in the ensuing skirmish. This may be over rather quickly. Or at least, only one page remains for us to see of this preview. Unless it's actually part of a longer intermission, and the rest is book-only?
I swear Taeshi must be teasing us about Paulo being mindful of Mike.

The only thing I can think of is that he's allowing Lucy to remain with Mike instead of splitting the two up to make the teams equal. After all, Paulo is grudgingly Mike×Lucy at this point, because he knows Lucy is infatuated with Mike and so he thinks he has no chance with her at all. Although he really should remember (since Lucy
told him) that Mike was starting to hate her. Or maybe Paulo's intention is to attack Lucy on purpose so that Mike can 'save' her again and bring the two a little closer? Yeah, that'd definitely be short-sighted of him...
Taeshi said:
Wacko: Only about three or so remained, you'd be surprised how many changes I did!!!!
Only three or so fan characters, eh? Let's see which ones:
- Obviously Tess remains in the story for now, as does McCain (although he only appears in a couple of scenes in Volume Two).
- Carter is rather important in "In the End", and also appears in "Mischief Night".
- Kizuna would be fairly troublesome to remove, given that she appears in several panels in "A Distance Apart" and "Unrequited". Still, if you managed to excise her without creating any glaring holes, then kudos to you, although I'd be interested in seeing how you handled the last panel of this page.
- "Mischief Night" as a whole would be troublesome also, given there's three whole pages of Carson, albeit a Carson making his permanent exit from BCB. Carter and Liam also make cameos, and there's a solid half-page of Kevin, by which I mean Rukral's fan character. (The other two kids I assume are based on actual people rather than being fan characters.)
So if it is to be "three or so", I will venture to guess that Tess, McCain, Carter and Carson are the fan characters that will still appear in Volume Two, assuming all the rest will get replaced by original characters and/or cameos of actual people.
Also, I forgot to mark Jenny (Sandy's friend) as a fan character. So yeah, the list just grows.