Recaps

Kei and the other girls rode the elevator with classmates, discussing perfume and guessing that Ichinose had changed hers for someone she liked. When Oreki joined them, their lively conversation stopped, leaving the girls silently watching him.

• Kikyou noticed that Karuizawa seemed guarded and had changed to jasmine perfume, while Horikita kept reading her vocabulary book.
• Sakura and Hasebe joined the elevator, followed by Ichinose, who revealed that she had switched to citrus perfume.
• The girls speculated that Ichinose had changed her perfume because she was in love, while Ibuki entered and awkwardly ignored Horikita's silence.
• Haruka, Sakura, and Kei discussed their perfumes as the elevator descended to the boys' dormitory floor.
• Oreki got into the elevator, Horikita greeted him, and the girls fell silent around him.

After Class A celebrated its Command Tower Exam results, Oreki urged Sakayanagi to become the next Student Council President so their class could retain influence. Sakayanagi questioned why he had chosen her, especially when his own record seemed more than impressive enough.

• Teacher Majima congratulated Class A on earning 190 class evaluation points, gave Sakayanagi 500,000 Private Points, and announced a Student Council assembly that afternoon.
• Oreki invited Sakayanagi to lunch and treated her and Kamuro, prompting Kamuro to wonder what had changed between him and Sakayanagi.
• Oreki told Sakayanagi that he had already acted regarding the Student Council President's resignation and wanted her to shoulder the position for Class A.
• Oreki argued that Sakayanagi was the best candidate because Class A needed a fair president and he lacked an outstanding track record of leading a class.
• Sakayanagi doubted Oreki's explanation, recalling his many successes and wondering why he was willing to let her take on the demanding role.

Arisu Sakayanagi realized Oreki had arranged for her to gain expulsion protection and lead Class A to victory, giving her a strong record and a path to the Student Council presidency. Oreki then showed her a radical plan to replace the council with members of their own year, while Manabu Horikita nominated Kiriyama as his successor.

• Sakayanagi connected Oreki’s role in the expulsion vote and Command Tower exam to his plan to make her a credible Student Council President candidate.
• Oreki and Sakayanagi discussed naming a future child Alice, while Kamuro watched their flirtation.
• At the library, Oreki gave Sakayanagi the Student Council roster and proposed removing its current members from other grades so she could appoint her own team.
• Manabu Horikita delivered his final speech as Student Council President and nominated Kiriyama of Class 2-B as his successor.

Manabu Horikita announced Sakayanagi Arisu as a Student Council Vice President and candidate for Student Council President, disrupting Nagumo’s plans. He then revealed that Houtarou Oreki was another candidate, leaving the election’s lineup unresolved.

• Nagumo Miyabi tried to secure Kiriyama’s support by promising him backing and considering a 20 million Point payoff to control the future election.
• Manabu Horikita invited Sakayanagi Arisu into the Student Council as Vice President and recommended her for Student Council President.
• Nagumo resented Horikita’s announcement but had also made plans to benefit from Kiriyama, Sakayanagi, or Houtarou Oreki winning.
• Horikita hinted at a third candidate, prompting speculation that he would recommend Horikita Suzune before he named Houtarou Oreki of Class 1-A.

After Manabu Horikita withdrew Oreki’s nomination for Student Council President, Oreki began canvassing first-year class representatives for votes. The representatives gathered at Keyaki Mall, where they discussed the election and the recent Command Tower Exam while waiting for Oreki and Sakayanagi.

• Manabu Horikita announced that only Kiriyama and Sakayanagi Arisu were candidates, then left the Gymnasium.
• Oreki messaged representatives from all four first-year classes and asked them to meet him at a tea restaurant in Keyaki Mall.
• Katsuragi and Ryuuen clashed over whether Katsuragi was becoming Oreki’s subordinate, while Katsuragi affirmed his loyalty to Class A.
• Katsuragi said he was willing to support Sakayanagi, noting that Kiriyama was aligned with Nagumo and that the election would depend on securing votes.
• Ryuuen dismissed Class C’s loss to Class B in the Command Tower Exam, and Kanzaki recalled Oreki’s earlier prediction of Class B’s victory.
• Ichinose asked Horikita Suzune whether she knew why Oreki was late, but Horikita remained absorbed in Manabu Horikita’s speech.

Suzune recognized that her brother had nominated Houtarou Oreki for Student Council President, but Oreki missed the announcement while exchanging points for cash. After Principal Tsukishiro failed to stop him, Oreki arrived late at a reserved meeting, where Kikyou Kushida entered with three third-year students.

• Suzune felt relieved and proud when her brother nominated Oreki, then wondered why Oreki had not answered his phone.
• Oreki went to the Chairman's Office to exchange points for cash using a privilege he had purchased.
• Principal Tsukishiro confronted Oreki, suspected he planned to buy votes, and learned that Oreki had already exchanged his points.
• Oreki arrived late at the tea restaurant at Keyaki Mall, carrying a case, and asked whether Kushida and the third-year students had arrived.
• Kikyou Kushida entered the private room with two girls and one boy.

Oreki used cash to buy third-year votes for Arisu Sakayanagi in the student council election and arranged for Kōenji to offer the graduates a better price for their remaining points. After the third-years completed their exchanges, Hirata and Ryuuen offered to bring their classmates in to vote.

• Oreki gathered Class 3-C and Class 3-D upperclassmen and explained that he was canvassing votes for Sakayanagi.
• Hashimoto opened two suitcases holding twenty million yen in cash, and Oreki offered each upperclassman 100,000 yen after their vote was verified.
• Oreki warned an upperclassman who threatened to record the deal that the graduating students could earn money from selling their votes.
• Oreki introduced Kōenji as a buyer who would purchase the upperclassmen's remaining points for more than the school offered.
• Katsuragi and Hashimoto verified the votes and paid six million yen to the remaining Class 3-C and Class 3-D students.
• Hirata offered to gather Class 1-D, and Ryuuen offered to message his classmates so they would vote for Sakayanagi.

Oreki secured support for Sakayanagi by offering Student Council positions instead of cash, pressuring Class B into voting for her. With Sakayanagi already holding a strong lead, she set out to win the remaining votes by deceiving someone into supporting her.

• Kanzaki and Ichinose questioned Oreki's plan after he clarified he would not pay Class B for its votes, and Hiyori recognized that he was offering Student Council positions instead.
• Oreki warned Ichinose that refusing his offer would leave Class B without Student Council members while Class C gained positions, pressuring the first-year classes to vote.
• Oreki reminded Hirata that the Student Council President could expel a member, prompting Class D students to comply as well.
• Kamuro reported that Sakayanagi had secured her class's votes and that third-year Classes 3-C and 3-D and first-year Classes B and C were casting green ballots.
• Sakayanagi decided to pursue the remaining votes herself, intending to deceive a gullible student into supporting her.

Arisu Sakayanagi won the Student Council presidency by a landslide and appointed Nagumo Miyabi as her sole Vice President, leaving Houtarou Oreki off the council. The day after her first speech, Nagumo approached Manabu Horikita and apologized for his past actions.

• The school publicly counted the election ballots, invalidated two students’ double votes, and announced Sakayanagi’s 346 votes against Kiriyama’s 64.
• Sakayanagi thanked the students, named Nagumo her Vice President, and appointed other students to council and committee roles.
• Kiriyama realized Nagumo had not delivered the second-year votes he had promised, while Nagumo recalled securing Sakayanagi’s support with a written guarantee.
• Nagumo noticed Oreki was absent from the assembly and stayed home with Hayate instead.
• After Sakayanagi’s first speech as president, Nagumo met Manabu Horikita backstage, praised him, and apologized for supporting Class 3-B and using underhanded methods.

Manabu Horikita warned Akane Tachibana that Sakayanagi had set up Nagumo, who was expelled from the Student Council after the leadership handover. At school, Katsuragi proposed easing the isolation rules, and Oreki prompted him to imagine changing the school from within.

• Manabu Horikita told Akane Tachibana that Sakayanagi was a dangerous politician who had used Nagumo as a pawn.
• After Sakayanagi became Student Council President, she expelled Nagumo Miyabi and updated the council roster.
• Katsuragi asked Oreki about his absence and then raised the school’s restrictions on contacting family and leaving campus.
• Oreki explained that the isolation was meant to shape students and suggested Katsuragi could eventually change the school by staying to work there.
• Katsuragi imagined himself as a teacher and considered how students might respond if the school’s rules changed.

Katsuragi proposed sending recordings to students’ families, but Sakayanagi’s new Student Council roster revealed a major overhaul and announced that she was dating Houtarou Oreki. Nagumo Miyabi was removed as vice president, leaving him to reconsider how to maintain his influence.

• Katsuragi suggested that the Student Council send recordings of students to their families and went to collect Sakayanagi’s new roster.
• Sakayanagi’s bulletin-board announcements declared that she was dating Houtarou Oreki and unveiled extensive changes to the Student Council.
• Nagumo Miyabi learned that he had been expelled from the vice president position and realized his recorded evidence against Sakayanagi would not help him.
• Nagumo left the bulletin board to rethink how to stabilize his position as the new roster sidelined him and threatened his plans.
• The new roster placed Katsuragi Kohei and Kiriyama as vice presidents, Honami Ichinose and Shiina Hiyori as secretaries, and assigned other students to newly reshaped roles.

Sakayanagi formed a new Student Council filled with students from rival classes while leaving Oreki off the roster, and Kamuro suspected she had gathered his love rivals to keep them close and interfere with their dates. The chapter ended as Kushida’s group stopped at a bulletin board and spotted Horikita reading a notice.

• Sakayanagi appointed Kiriyama and Katsuragi as vice presidents and selected students from across the classes for the Student Council, including Kushida, Ibuki, Hiyori, and Horikita.
• Sakayanagi publicly announced that she was dating Oreki, while leaving his name off the Student Council roster.
• Kamuro concluded that Sakayanagi had recruited Oreki’s love rivals so she could keep them occupied while she went on dates with him.
• Sakayanagi dismissed the women who liked Oreki as defeated dogs when Kamuro warned that they could cause trouble.
• Kushida walked to class with Wang, Haruka, Sakura, and Matsushita, and they stopped at the bulletin board after seeing students gathered there.
• Haruka pointed out Horikita among the students reading the notice.

Kikyou Kushida and her classmates discovered that Sakayanagi Arisu had overhauled the Student Council roster, appointing several students from their class. Haruka Hasebe noticed that the new appointees matched the group Oreki had assembled during an earlier exam, leaving her to suspect he had arranged the roster.

• Kikyou learned that her Student Council position had been retained and that Haruka Hasebe and Airi Sakura had also been appointed.
• Kikyou, Hasebe, and Sakura went to the bulletin board to inspect the revised Student Council roster.
• The roster named Sakayanagi Arisu as president, Horikita Suzune as an accountant supervisor, Kushida as a public morals committee leader, and Hasebe, Sakura, and other students from their class in new roles.
• Sakura was distressed to be listed as a Student Council mascot, while Hasebe wondered why the roster included students connected to Oreki.
• Hasebe noticed that several appointees matched the students in Oreki's group chat and called everyone's attention to it.

Students reacted to Sakayanagi’s public announcement that she was dating Oreki, while Kushida and several girls planned to ask him about it at lunch. Kamuro reported their plan to Sakayanagi, and Oreki received a flood of messages.

• Hasebe found Sakayanagi’s announcement that she and Oreki were dating above the Student Council roster, and Karuizawa and Sato reacted with shock and tears.
• Kushida connected the Student Council appointments to Sakayanagi’s possible romantic rivals and suggested that the girls ask Oreki about the announcement at lunch.
• Hasebe noticed Kushida was pretending to be distant from Oreki, though she considered that Kushida might simply be respecting his new relationship.
• Karuizawa and Sato agreed to seek Oreki out at lunch, with Karuizawa wanting to understand why he had started dating someone after previously saying he would focus on studying.
• Kamuro reported the girls’ plan to Sakayanagi, and Oreki received numerous messages on his phone.

After Arisu Sakayanagi announced her relationship with Houtarou Oreki and the new Student Council lineup, students reacted to the news and Horikita Suzune explained why she was not upset. As lunch break began, Class D students hurried toward the cafeteria, apparently eager to see what would happen around Oreki and Sakayanagi.

• Masumi Kamuro asked Horikita Suzune how she felt about Oreki dating Sakayanagi, and Horikita said she regretted that Oreki had started dating instead of studying as promised.
• Horikita told Kamuro she believed Sakayanagi had won votes through a deal with Manabu Horikita and had offered her a Student Council position as payment.
• Kamuro recalled that Sakayanagi had chosen girls from Class C, including Hiyori and Ibuki, because she worried Oreki might dislike having boys from other classes on the Council.
• Classmates congratulated Oreki after reading the bulletin board announcement, while he anticipated that Class D students might confront him over his earlier rejection of Sato.
• After Class D's math lesson ran ten minutes over, several girls hurried toward the cafeteria, and Ike followed them as they discussed Sakayanagi's public announcement that she was dating Oreki.

Kushida realized Ike had followed the girls because he was anxious about Shinohara’s interest in Oreki, but she chose not to interfere. Oreki met Sakayanagi at the cafeteria, where she brought him a large homemade bento, just as Shinohara and the others arrived.

• Ike followed Shinohara and her friends toward the cafeteria, and Shinohara told him he was getting in the way.
• Kushida inferred that Ike had a crush on Shinohara and suspected Shinohara was interested in Oreki, but she pretended not to notice.
• Oreki arrived at the cafeteria and found Sakayanagi with Kamuro; Sakayanagi sent Kamuro to get food so she could speak with Oreki alone.
• Sakayanagi brought out a large homemade bento, and Oreki suspected she wanted to fatten him up so other women would not be attracted to him.
• Shinohara and the other girls arrived at the cafeteria, and Oreki and Sakayanagi noticed the group.

Class 1-D’s girls gathered to watch Oreki and Sakayanagi, and they concluded that Sakayanagi might be the wealthy senior who had supported him. The group decided to question Sakayanagi about treating Sakura as a mascot, and Kushida was asked to approach her.

• Sakura suggested that Sakayanagi might have been the person supporting Oreki, after seeing the pair act like a couple.
• The girls speculated that Sakayanagi’s Class A status could explain the monthly million-Point support Oreki received.
• Karuizawa argued that Sakayanagi was unlikely to be the wealthy senior, while Sato regained hope that she might still have a chance with Oreki.
• Haruka proposed asking Sakayanagi why she treated Sakura like a mascot, and the group looked to Kushida to do it.
• Kushida hesitated and said she had thought of someone more suitable.

Kushida redirected the girls’ questions about Oreki and Sakayanagi toward Mio Ibuki, hoping to stir up trouble between them. Ibuki confronted Oreki and Sakayanagi over his rejection of Class C’s offer and Ryuuen’s removal from the Student Council, then said she would bring Ryuuen and Ishizaki over.

• Kushida noticed the girls expected her to ask Oreki about his relationship with Sakayanagi, so she singled out Ibuki as someone who could approach him instead.
• Kushida told Ibuki that Oreki was dating Sakayanagi, who supposedly paid him one million points each month, and mentioned that Ryuuen and Ishizaki had been removed from the Student Council.
• Angered by Oreki’s refusal of Class C’s offer and confused by Sakayanagi’s decision about the council, Ibuki confronted Oreki and Sakayanagi at lunch.
• Ibuki challenged Oreki over accepting Sakayanagi’s one-million-point offer instead of Class C’s proposed ten million and protested Ryuuen’s removal.
• Ibuki said she would call Ryuuen and Ishizaki and bring them over.

Sakayanagi told Ibuki that Oreki dated her because he liked her, while Kushida learned the truth and the school began gossiping about Oreki’s preferences. After Sakayanagi publicly announced their relationship, Oreki went to meet Manabu Horikita to address the fallout.

• Fuka revealed that the lower-ranked classes planned to pool twenty million points to recruit Oreki, and Ibuki told Sakayanagi that Kushida had claimed Sakayanagi paid him one million points monthly.
• Kushida asked Ibuki what had happened, and Ibuki clarified that Sakayanagi was not Oreki’s sponsor and that he dated her because he liked her.
• Oreki received teasing messages from classmates after word spread that he and Sakayanagi were together, and he headed to meet Manabu Horikita after receiving his messages.
• The girls who had confronted Oreki and defended Sato retreated to the cafeteria and sat down together for lunch.

Sakayanagi arrived and ordered the new Student Council members to report for work the next morning. Meanwhile, Manabu Horikita told Oreki that he planned to leave the school after graduation and asked him to contact him through a private phone number if he ever got out.

• Sato said she no longer wanted to join the Student Council, but backed down when Sakayanagi confronted her.
• Sakayanagi instructed Sato, Kikyou Kushida, Karuizawa, Hasebe, and Airi to report to the Student Council at seven the next morning.
• Oreki tracked down Manabu Horikita in the Special Building, where Akane Tachibana was also present.
• Manabu told Oreki that he planned to leave the school on the thirty-first of the following month, after the third-years graduated.
• Manabu gave Oreki a private phone number and asked him to contact him if he ever got out of the school.

Manabu Horikita told Oreki that Suzune had romantic feelings for him and urged him to protect her from romance while focusing on school. After Manabu left, Akane Tachibana discussed Arisu Sakayanagi’s changes to the Student Council and her public relationship with Oreki, while students began preparing for the final exam.

• Manabu Horikita admitted that he had failed as Suzune’s older brother and said he believed Oreki had changed her, while acknowledging he had done the same in the past.
• Manabu told Oreki that Suzune’s feelings for him included romantic love, based on her reaction to Oreki being named and then removed as a Student Council candidate.
• Manabu said he had used Points to stop the school from supplying contraceptives and asked Oreki to keep Suzune away from romantic troubles and focus on studying.
• After Manabu left with Akane Tachibana, Akane told him Arisu Sakayanagi had removed Nagumo, reorganized the Student Council, and announced that she was dating Oreki.
• Manabu suspected Oreki was using the public relationship to borrow the Student Council President’s influence and gain Points, but warned that Arisu might not follow his plans.
• At the end of February, students began serious revision for the final written exam, and the library became crowded.

Class 1-D organized study groups and prepared for the final exam while Kōenji remained focused on reaching Class A. After the exam, Manabu Horikita represented the graduating students at the graduation ceremony.

• Majima announced that the final exam would be a written test on March 17, with the school setting its value at fifty Points.
• Class 1-D formed seven study groups, with Hirata leading two and Sakura joining the organizers, while Kōenji refused to tutor his classmates.
• Karuizawa studied with Houtarou in his room, questioned him about Sakayanagi, and then returned to her workbook.
• The first-years took their final exam on March 17, and the school held the third-years' graduation ceremony.
• Manabu Horikita, the former Student Council President, spoke as the representative of the graduating students.

After the graduation ceremony, the first- and second-year Student Council members finished cleanup and gathered at a family restaurant, where they discussed Sakayanagi and Oreki’s relationship. Their conversation ended when Chiaki Matsushita left after someone invited her out.

• Manabu Horikita addressed the graduates and urged Class 1-A to carry on Class A’s legacy.
• The Student Council members stayed behind to clean up the ceremony venue and sort supplies, then went to Keyaki Mall for food.
• Sato complained that Sakayanagi had given everyone work and speculated that she had gone on a date with Oreki.
• Karuizawa suggested Sakayanagi’s poor health made frequent dates unlikely, prompting the girls to discuss her relationship with Oreki and Horikita’s feelings.
• Chiaki Matsushita received an invitation and left the restaurant, while the others wondered if she was going on a date.

Chiaki Matsushita reflected on hiding her abilities and regretting that she had not joined the Student Council, then followed Houtarou Oreki at the shopping center. She saw an injured middle-aged man meet Oreki at a restaurant and hand him the promised Private Points Card.

• Chiaki Matsushita recalled deliberately keeping her abilities hidden and regretted missing her chance to enter Class A and join the Student Council.
• Matsushita suspected Arisu Sakayanagi had recruited girls connected to Oreki and wondered about the Student Council's motives.
• Matsushita spotted Oreki outside and followed him into a restaurant after a middle-aged man in a cast greeted her.
• The injured man sat across from Oreki and pushed an anonymous Private Points Card toward him as payment.
• Oreki scanned the Private Points Card with his phone.

Matsushita overheard Oreki negotiating with Principal Tsukishiro about Ayanokouji, the White Room, and a wager to identify its top student. She followed Oreki after the meeting, but he vanished and confronted her in the alley.

• Matsushita mistook Tsukishiro for Oreki’s mysterious Sugar Senior after hearing that one million points had been paid for Oreki’s time.
• Tsukishiro said he wanted Ayanokouji expelled and proposed a wager in which Oreki could earn 20 million points by identifying the White Room’s top student among the incoming students.
• Oreki argued that Tsukishiro’s proposed student would be meaningless and ended their ten-minute meeting without touching his food.
• Matsushita followed Oreki out of the restaurant, lost sight of him in an alley, and heard him ask why she was following him.