Recaps

A report accusing Ichinose of having an enormous number of Personal Points failed to spread, and Oreki and Sakayanagi considered using security footage to identify who had planted it. Horikita then invited Ichinose to discuss repaying her for the help she had given during Horikita’s rumor incident.

• Ichinose thanked Sakayanagi for her concern and said she would let the teachers judge whether she had broken any rules.
• Oreki dismissed the report as a prank, and the accusation quickly stopped circulating among the students.
• Oreki told Sakayanagi that cameras near the shoe lockers might have recorded whoever placed letters in the first-years’ lockers, and Sakayanagi considered seeking compensation.
• Horikita messaged Oreki that she wanted to repay Ichinose for helping her through the rumor incident.
• Horikita invited Ichinose to meet with her, Oreki, and Kushida, then said she had noticed two cameras near the shoe locker area.

After the accusation against Ichinose faded, Kushida admitted she wanted to uncover Ichinose’s hidden feelings, and Oreki offered to help her in exchange for a secret of his own. Oreki received a system quest to learn Ichinose’s past, and Kushida agreed to try, but the quest remained at zero progress.

• Horikita suggested using points to obtain surveillance footage, but Ichinose said she would rather treat the accusation as a prank and avoid anyone getting hurt.
• Kushida told Oreki she believed Ichinose was hiding something and admitted she wanted to discover her secret.
• Oreki received a hidden quest to obtain Ichinose’s secret within twenty days, with Mind Divination as its reward and no penalty for failure.
• Oreki offered to help Kushida uncover Ichinose’s secret in exchange for Kushida revealing it to him, and promised to share his own secret in return.
• Horikita left rather than pry into Ichinose’s private matters, while Kushida agreed to try Oreki’s proposal.
• Oreki checked the quest and found its progress still at zero percent.

After Oreki abandoned his attempt to get progress from Kikyou Kushida, someone placed an insulting note on Ichinose’s desk, prompting Class B to suspect Ryuuen and secretly watch him. The chapter ended with Oreki and Sakayanagi noticing Class B’s wary behavior toward Ryuuen in the cafeteria.

• Oreki told Kikyou Kushida their agreement had fallen apart and left her alone after the mission showed no progress.
• Class B students found a note calling Ichinose two-faced on her desk and grew angry about the attack.
• Ryuji Kanzaki calmed his classmates by blaming the incident on another class, then suggested Class C and Ryuuen were likely responsible.
• Kanzaki told Class B to keep the incident from Ichinose and watch Ryuuen, and the students agreed.
• Ryuuen noticed Class B students watching him warily in the cafeteria, while Oreki and Sakayanagi observed the scene.

Oreki learned that Class B was secretly watching Class C and received a million Private Points from Ryuji Kanzaki, who asked him not to attack Honami Ichinose. After Oreki tracked Ichinose to the Student Council, he headed there to find out what she was doing.

• Oreki learned from Shiina Hiyori that Class B students had been following Class C, and suspected Honami Ichinose was behind their activity.
• Ryuji Kanzaki messaged Oreki and transferred him one million Private Points before asking to meet after school.
• At the artificial lake, Kanzaki and Shibata asked Oreki not to attack Ichinose because someone had left a threatening note on her desk.
• Oreki offered to return the money and checked his GPS, which showed that Ichinose had gone to the Student Council.
• Oreki headed to the Student Council to find out why Ichinose had gone there.

Houtarou Oreki visited the Student Council to investigate who had accessed Honami Ichinose’s file after she was attacked, but Nagumo Miyabi had already protected it. Oreki left after warning Nagumo not to overreach, while Kiriyama realized Nagumo had likely attacked Ichinose and then protected her file.

• Oreki entered the Student Council room and photographed Nagumo sitting in the Vice President’s seat before Nagumo switched places with Kiriyama.
• Oreki learned that accessing a student’s file cost five hundred thousand Points and asked whether someone could pay to protect a file.
• Oreki requested access to Honami Ichinose’s file and its access records to investigate her attacker.
• Nagumo claimed Ichinose’s file had been protected, and Kiriyama confirmed that it could no longer be accessed.
• Oreki warned Nagumo not to stretch his reach too far and left the room.
• Kiriyama realized Nagumo had likely protected Ichinose’s file during Oreki’s visit and concluded that Nagumo had attacked her.

Oreki warned Nagumo that the attack on Ichinose should stop, then returned the million Private Points Class B had pooled to protect her. Ichinose invited him to his dorm, apparently ready to discuss the secret in her file, and the chapter ended as he welcomed her inside.

• Nagumo accepted Oreki's warning and decided to stop pursuing Ichinose for now.
• Oreki realized Class B students had pooled their living expenses to protect Ichinose, and he returned Kanzaki's one million Points.
• Oreki told Kanzaki that Ichinose would not be attacked again for the time being.
• Ichinose messaged Oreki and invited him to meet, prompting a hidden quest to uncover her secret.
• Oreki found Ichinose waiting in the stairwell and let her into his dorm, offering her black tea.

Oreki rejected Ichinose’s request to spare Class B, and she offered a different price by undressing in front of him. He asked her to reveal her past instead, and she began explaining her family background.

• Sakayanagi made tea while Ichinose visited Oreki’s dorm room and asked him to persuade Class A not to attack Class B for the semester.
• Oreki rejected Ichinose’s request, saying she had little value to Class A and that he had to uphold his responsibilities to his class.
• Ichinose suggested another price, revealing that she knew Oreki had used Kushida to get close to her.
• Ichinose undressed, but Oreki looked away and asked her to tell him about her past.
• Ichinose said she had grown up in a single-parent family with her mother and younger sister, despite their financial difficulties.

Oreki went to Ichinose’s neighborhood to learn why she wanted to withdraw from school and met her younger sister, Kanade Ichinose. Kanade hinted that Ichinose’s decision was connected to her, and Oreki received a quest to uncover Ichinose’s secret.

• Oreki recalled helping Ichinose exchange points for cash and mail a letter, then decided to investigate her family situation over the weekend.
• Unable to find a photograph of the Ichinose home, Oreki teleported nearby and encountered Kanade Ichinose walking home.
• Oreki followed Kanade to her house, where she attacked him with her backpack and called for help when he claimed to be her sister’s classmate.
• Oreki convinced Kanade he was Ichinose’s friend by mentioning the letter her sister had mailed, then asked why Ichinose wanted to withdraw from school.
• Kanade suggested Ichinose’s decision was because of her, and Oreki received a quest to obtain Ichinose’s secret within twenty days.

Oreki learned that Ichinose planned to drop out and considered how her departure would affect her family and Class B. He joined Sakayanagi and Kamuro in deciding to try to stop her, though Sakayanagi warned that Ichinose’s resolve would be hard to change.

• Ichinose’s younger sister told Oreki that their family’s hardships and Ichinose’s past mistake had led her to blame herself for her sister’s struggles.
• On November 17, Oreki received Ichinose’s message saying she was prepared to drop out and asking him to help her classmates accept it.
• Sakayanagi said Ichinose was poorly suited to the school but that her staying would benefit Class A, while Oreki argued that leaving would worsen her family’s financial hardship.
• Kamuro said she also wanted Ichinose to remain, and Oreki proposed an Ichinose Dropout Prevention Plan.
• Sakayanagi warned that Ichinose had a firm resolve and would be difficult to persuade.

Oreki and Horikita planned to stop Ichinose from dropping out after Class A spread rumors about her, and Oreki arranged for Horikita to help by calling Ichinose when Kushida arrived. Kushida reached the cafe, leaving the three ready to act.

• Oreki told Sakayanagi he could either confront Ichinose’s attacker or remove Ichinose’s weakness, then messaged Ichinose that he would help if she followed his instructions.
• Class A spread rumors about Ichinose, and Ichinose calmed her classmates before missing afternoon classes and deciding to wait for the rumors to fade.
• Horikita contacted Oreki about Ichinose, and he asked her to meet him at a cafe in the Shopping District.
• Oreki explained that Horikita could repay Ichinose by calling her when Kushida arrived, and Horikita prepared Ichinose’s number.
• Kushida arrived at the cafe and walked over to Oreki and Horikita.

Oreki asked Kushida to help prevent Ichinose from withdrawing and explained that Ichinose needed to face the past behind her decision. Meanwhile, Sakayanagi and Kamuro visited the library as the third-years faced their final, consequential exams, and Sakayanagi considered using the Student Council President position to favor her class.

• Horikita called Ichinose at Oreki’s request, while Oreki offered to cover Kushida’s order and told her that Ichinose wanted to withdraw with his assistance.
• Kushida realized Ichinose’s hidden past might threaten Class B and asked whether Oreki wanted her to spread a rumor about Ichinose withdrawing.
• Oreki rejected spreading the rumor because it would burden Class B, and he said Ichinose needed to confront her past herself.
• Sakayanagi and Kamuro went to the library, where Kamuro felt pressure from the third-years’ important final exams.
• Sakayanagi dismissed the stress of preserving Class A and thought that obtaining the Student Council President position would let her favor her class.

Kamuro learned that Sakayanagi wanted Ichinose to stay because she valued her kindness, while Hiyori secretly considered approaching Sakayanagi as a fellow book lover. Oreki’s call with Kushida prompted Ichinose to leave her room to protect her classmates, and at Horikita’s room Ichinose began revealing her past.

• Sakayanagi told Kamuro that persistence could soften Ichinose and explained that she wanted to keep her because Ichinose had reached out to her.
• Hiyori watched Sakayanagi and Kamuro in the library and considered befriending Sakayanagi over their shared love of books.
• Kamuro received Oreki’s message that Ichinose had come out of her room and that he wanted everyone to discuss what to do next.
• Oreki told Kushida to use what she knew about Class B to make one-third of its students withdraw into themselves, and Ichinose heard the conversation over the connected call.
• Ichinose ran out of her dorm room to protect her classmates, then admitted at Horikita’s room that she had committed a crime.

Ichinose revealed the painful circumstances behind her past theft, and her classmates continued to support her. Oreki brought Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro to show footage identifying the students who distributed reports about Ichinose, while Sakayanagi urged Ichinose to prepare 20 million Points to protect her classmates.

• Ichinose told Horikita and the others that she had stolen a hairclip for her younger sister, then shut herself away for half a year after her mother took her to apologize to the store owner.
• Horikita and the other classmates accepted Ichinose's confession, and Oreki focused on addressing the current attack rather than condemning her past.
• Oreki introduced Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro, who played surveillance footage of four students placing reports in the first-year shoe lockers.
• Sakayanagi explained that she had obtained the footage and advised Ichinose to request a copy from the school.
• Sakayanagi urged Ichinose to save 20 million Points because Class B would likely be unwilling to abandon a classmate in trouble.

Sakayanagi asked Oreki to help her obtain ten million points, and he agreed to attack Nagumo through rumors. Their forum campaign spread allegations about Nagumo, leaving his Student Council scrambling to control the posts.

• Sakayanagi asked Oreki for ten million points, and he agreed to help her make Nagumo take responsibility and pay.
• Nagumo discovered anonymous forum posts praising him and initially ordered the Student Council to monitor and correct them.
• The posts turned into attacks accusing Nagumo of impregnating an upperclassman, bullying students, and forcing opponents to drop out.
• Oreki and Kushida used public opinion against Nagumo, drawing on evidence that a second-year had placed report letters in first-years' shoe lockers.
• Oreki stopped Kushida from continuing once users began joining the campaign against Nagumo.

Oreki’s rumor campaign led the school to shut down the forum and punish Student Council members, while new rules prohibited spreading rumors. On Saturday, Class 1-B welcomed the intervention, and Nagumo completed his handover after being dismissed as accountant.

• Oreki told Kushida to leave while he handled the rest, after Hashimoto reported that President Horikita would return the next day.
• Someone posted explicit images on the school forum, prompting the school to suspend it and the acting principal to reprimand the Student Council members who remained at school.
• After returning, Manabu Horikita gave Vice President Kiryu a demerit and dismissed Accountant Nagumo; the Student Council also announced severe punishments for spreading rumors.
• Class 1-B cheered when students saw the school’s notices against rumors, while Shiraha explained that Ichinose had something to take care of.
• Nagumo finished his Student Council work and prepared to hand it over, reflecting that his dismissal had left his standing as the second-year representative uncertain.

Nagumo Miyabi met Sakayanagi Arisu, who revealed that she had evidence tying him to the attack on Ichinose and the forum rumors. She offered to sell the surveillance footage back to him for ten million Points, leaving him facing a costly choice.

• Nagumo handed Kito unfinished Student Council statistics while waiting for Sakayanagi to arrive.
• Sakayanagi entered and challenged Nagumo over his attempt to use her name and attack Ichinose.
• Nagumo revealed that a hidden jammer prevented recordings, but Sakayanagi pointed out that the forum incident still lacked an identified mastermind.
• Sakayanagi presented the report letter linking her name to the attack on Ichinose and explained that Nagumo's subordinates had been caught on surveillance footage.
• Sakayanagi placed an SD card on the table and offered to sell Nagumo the footage for ten million Points.

Sakayanagi forced Nagumo to pay ten million Points in exchange for withholding surveillance footage, then Ichinose arrived to demand another five million. After Sakayanagi met Oreki, they saw that the latest exam results had sharply weakened Class 3-B, likely because Nagumo had interfered.

• Sakayanagi threatened to expose Nagumo’s scheme and pressured him into transferring ten million Points.
• Sakayanagi revealed that she had a humiliating Sports Festival video compilation, then left Nagumo with the surveillance footage issue unresolved.
• Ichinose presented Nagumo with an accusation letter and an SD card, demanding five million Points by the start of the next month.
• Sakayanagi met Oreki by the third-year bulletin board and noted the class Point totals after the special exam.
• Sakayanagi and Oreki suspected Nagumo had interfered with the third-years’ results, leaving Class 3-B far behind.

Oreki and Arisu Sakayanagi discussed money and his plan to force the school to intervene in the forum scandal. Sakayanagi revealed that she had found and edited one of Oreki’s erotic pictures, but they deleted each other’s embarrassing photos and parted on good terms.

• Oreki wondered whether Sakayanagi was gathering Points for a possible departure from school, then gained the Mind Divination ability after completing a hidden quest about Ichinose.
• Sakayanagi praised Oreki’s plan to pressure the school by escalating the malicious forum incident and showed him an erotic picture labeled with his name.
• Sakayanagi said Kushida had confirmed the picture was Oreki’s, and Oreki recalled that he had made erotic images of himself to intensify the scandal.
• Oreki took a picture of Sakayanagi holding the image and threatened to expose it, so they deleted each other’s embarrassing photos.
• Oreki and Sakayanagi ate breakfast together, and he escorted her back to her room before returning to his cat.

Oreki reassured Ichinose after she collected compensation from Nagumo and refused the money she offered him. Afterward, he encouraged Horikita to reach out to Ichinose as a friend.

• Ichinose told Oreki that Nagumo had paid three million points and would pay the rest at the start of the next month.
• Ichinose offered Oreki her student ID to repay his help, but he declined the money and urged her to save points for herself and her classmates.
• Ichinose thanked Oreki by taking his hand, following Kushida's advice.
• Horikita messaged Oreki, who told her that helping Ichinose mattered more than how much she had done.
• Horikita asked whether she could contact Ichinose, and Oreki encouraged her to do so.

In a Precognitive Dream, Oreki saw his future self visit a kindergarten run by adult Honami Ichinose, where his daughters with Horikita were enrolled. Ichinose revealed that she still secretly met him because her mother opposed their relationship, then offered him intimate compensation for making him wait.

• Oreki used Precognitive Dream to see Honami Ichinose's future.
• Adult Ichinose greeted Oreki in her office and explained that his daughters with Horikita attended her kindergarten.
• Ichinose said that Oreki had helped her stay in school and open the kindergarten.
• Ichinose received a call about her busy schedule, then locked the office door and closed the curtains.
• Ichinose said her mother still could not accept Oreki despite Ayanokouji's polygamy proposal, and offered to use her breasts to make up for keeping him waiting.

Oreki struggled to process a Precognitive Dream in which Adult Ichinose spoke of marrying him and Kiyotaka Ayanokouji becoming Prime Minister. After Ichinose appeared outside a café where he was eating with Sakayanagi, Oreki fled, and Sakayanagi sent Kamuro to follow him.

• Adult Ichinose told Oreki that Ayanokouji had become Prime Minister and proposed polygamy, while expressing her desire to be with Oreki.
• Oreki avoided going home after experiencing a Precognitive Dream and met Sakayanagi for breakfast, asking whether Ayanokouji could rise to his father's position.
• Sakayanagi said Ayanokouji might reach that position if he had the ability and resources.
• When Ichinose and Chihiro Shiraha passed the café, Oreki abruptly stood up, spilled his coffee, and hid from the window.
• Oreki paid the bill and left, so Sakayanagi told Kamuro to follow him; Kamuro saw him enter a bookstore in the Shopping District.

Houtarou Oreki struggled to control his thoughts about Ichinose while attracting attention at a bookstore. After Karuizawa Kei and Maya Sato drove away the Class C girls, Oreki went to see Student Council President Manabu Horikita, and Masumi Kamuro reported his movements to Sakayanagi Arisu.

• Houtarou Oreki went to a bookstore, where several Class C girls surrounded him and asked for photos.
• Masumi Kamuro watched Oreki but paused when Karuizawa Kei and Maya Sato intervened.
• Karuizawa and Sato drove the Class C girls away by invoking Horikita's reputation.
• Karuizawa noticed Oreki seemed unsettled and told him that Kamuro had been watching him.
• Masumi Kamuro reported to Sakayanagi Arisu that Oreki had gone to see Manabu Horikita.
• Oreki reflected that Ichinose had affected him more than he had expected.

Oreki sought advice from Manabu Horikita about being unsettled after avoiding Ichinose, then tried to clear his mind by reading in the library. Hiyori noticed his strained reading and asked what was wrong, but their conversation was interrupted when Ichinose and other Class B students arrived.

• Oreki went to the bathhouse and asked Student Council President Manabu Horikita for advice about feeling shaken around Ichinose.
• Manabu told Oreki to exercise or focus his attention elsewhere, and Oreki chose to read at the school library.
• Hiyori watched Oreki read several books, then approached him and asked whether he was troubled.
• Oreki began to consider sharing his worries with Hiyori, but he noticed Kanzaki, Shibata, Ichinose, and other Class B students enter the library.
• Kanzaki spoke to Ichinose, and Ichinose and the others noticed Oreki and Hiyori.

Oreki struggled with adolescent romantic feelings, then spent several days focused on reading before the students gathered for another exam. Sakayanagi said she had permission to join the upcoming training camp despite her limited ability to do strenuous activities.

• Oreki asked Hiyori whether she had ever had a wet dream, embarrassing her and prompting her to contact Kushida for help.
• Oreki told Kushida he did not need her and continued reading in the library for several days.
• On December 27, Oreki encountered Ichinose and Sakayanagi in the elevator and greeted them ahead of the exam.
• On January 1, Teacher Majima announced that the students would learn the new month's exam details the following day.
• Sakayanagi told Oreki she could participate in the special exam as long as it involved no strenuous activity.

Oreki examined the class point changes and suspected Class D had focused on avoiding expulsions rather than earning rewards. The students from all three grades began a week-long training camp, which Teacher Majima revealed was the month's special examination, and he said they would surrender their phones upon arrival.

• Oreki noted that Class A and Class B had each gained 100 points, Class C had gained 50, and Class D's score had not changed.
• The next morning, students from all three grades gathered at the school gates and boarded twelve buses for the training camp.
• Oreki sat beside Yanagi, while Katsuragi sat nearby and Kamuro took the row behind them.
• Teacher Majima announced that the camp would last a week and take place at a forest school two and a half hours away.
• Teacher Majima confirmed the camp was the month's special examination and said students would hand over their phones after arriving.