Recaps

Oreki presented Class C with evidence that the milk tea shop could be profitable and offered them a choice between lending him points or becoming shareholders. He warned that their participation should be kept secret from Kakeru Ryuuen, leaving Manabe Shiho and the other students to consider the proposal.

• Daichi Ishizaki questioned Oreki about the high interest and whether his offer was trustworthy.
• Oreki showed Class C the shop’s costs and revenue, while a large takeaway order demonstrated its sales potential.
• Oreki distributed a shareholder proposal that offered long-term dividends in exchange for monthly contributions and forgoing interest.
• Manabe Shiho asked why Class C could not pool points and open its own shop.
• Oreki cited the violence in Class C and said participants should keep their involvement secret from Kakeru Ryuuen.

Oreki persuaded thirty-six first-year Class C students to join his shop-opening profit-sharing plan, using their hostility toward Ryuuen to recruit them. After collecting their first payments, he arranged to transfer two million Points to Kikyou Kushida and asked her to approach Class B next.

• Ishizaki and the Class C students left to discuss Oreki’s proposal, while Oreki predicted that more than half the class would join because they disliked Ryuuen.
• That night, thirty-six Class C students arrived at the shop, and Ishizaki told Oreki they had agreed to sign the second profit-sharing plan.
• Manabe told Oreki that Ibuki had refused because she distrusted the offer, while Shiina Hiyori had declined and tried to dissuade Manabe; Manabe then asked Oreki for his phone number.
• Kikyou Kushida collected the Class C students’ first payments, totaling 1.8 million Points, and transferred them to Oreki.
• Oreki told Kikyou he would transfer two million Points to her and asked her to contact Class B students sometime that week without forcing the issue.

Oreki’s shop plan drew Nagumo Miyabi’s attention, and Nagumo revealed that he controlled the right to open shops at the school. He demanded five million points for authorization and invited Oreki to consider joining the Student Council, while his interest in Kushida and Suzune left the confrontation unresolved.

• Oreki decided to end the fundraising deadline that week, having collected 2.4 million points from students in Classes B and C.
• Nagumo Miyabi waived the group’s bill and introduced himself as Class 2-A’s representative and the Student Council Vice President.
• Nagumo explained that he had bought the school’s shop-opening rights and demanded five million points to authorize Oreki’s group to open a shop.
• Horikita realized Nagumo’s monopoly was the backup plan Oreki had not mentioned, while Kushida appeared genuinely surprised by it.
• Nagumo showed interest in Kushida and Suzune, then recommended that Oreki consider joining the Student Council.

Oreki learned that Nagumo had lost many students through expulsions and triggered a quest to disrupt Nagumo’s pursuit of Kushida and Horikita. He rejected Nagumo’s Student Council invitation, confronted him about pursuing younger girls despite already liking someone, and left with Horikita and Kushida.

• Nagumo explained the cost of opening a shop, offered Kushida a discount, and invited Oreki, Horikita, and Kushida to join the Student Council.
• Oreki asked about Nagumo’s second-year class and learned that twenty-six students had left the cohort, including ten expelled from Nagumo’s class.
• Oreki triggered a quest to disrupt Nagumo’s pursuit of Kushida and Horikita within ten days, with Precognitive Dream as the reward.
• Oreki refused Nagumo’s invitation, citing Manabu Horikita’s decision not to recruit first-years, then criticized Nagumo for pursuing younger girls while already liking someone.
• Oreki led Horikita away, and Kushida followed after giving Nagumo an apologetic smile.

Oreki warned Kushida that Nagumo Miyabi pursued cute girls and could be dangerous, then used Kushida and Horikita Suzune’s rejection of romance to complete a Side Quest and earn Precognitive Dream. A week later, Oreki, Kushida, and Horikita met to calculate compensation for their planned shop, though it had not opened yet.

• Oreki told Kushida that Nagumo was calculating, had expelled opponents, and might pester her because she had given him her full name.
• Kushida worried about Nagumo pursuing her, and Oreki received a Side Quest to ruin Nagumo’s pursuit of Kushida and Horikita Suzune.
• Oreki asked Horikita what she thought about romance, and she immediately said she would reject Nagumo if he pursued her.
• Oreki completed the Side Quest and received the ability to specify three precognitive dreams each week.
• A week later, Oreki, Kushida, and Horikita met at another milk tea shop to calculate compensation before their shop had opened.

Oreki explained that he had never intended to open a shop and had instead used the proposal to collect points from Class B and Class C students. After paying Kushida and Horikita their shares, he considered another plan to advance his 20-million-point quest.

• Horikita clarified that the shop plan had only been a way for Oreki to gather students’ initial points, and Kushida confronted them after realizing she had been misled.
• Oreki told Kushida he expected the students to cancel their agreements, bringing his total earnings to 3.06 million points and her five-percent share to 153,000 points.
• Oreki explained that Kushida had been asked to help because students trusted her, and that Nagumo’s demands would keep the failed shop plan from making her a target for blame.
• Kushida accepted the points, asked Oreki to consider them friends, and Oreki agreed before transferring 306,000 points to Horikita and returning Kushida’s two million points.
• Oreki checked his quest progress at 3,877,500 points and considered buying Nagumo’s shop-opening rights as a future way to earn more points.

Kakeru Ryuuen took control of Class 1-C and demanded that students hand over points, claiming only Class A graduates would receive the school’s promised benefits. His collection stalled when Shiina Hiyori transferred him 50,000 points, drawing the class’s attention.

• Ryuuen told Class 1-C that a second-year student had revealed the school favored Class A and that students outside it risked expulsion or reassignment.
• Ryuuen demanded 50,000 points from each student and half of their monthly school points, including from Daichi Ishizaki.
• Rei Ibuki challenged Ryuuen’s claim that strength ruled the school and demanded proof.
• Ryuuen considered Ibuki, Albert, Ishizaki, and Kaneda as possible members of his team.
• Shiina Hiyori transferred 50,000 points to Ryuuen, surprising him and the rest of the class.

Oreki used Precognitive Dream and saw Kei Karuizawa describe how he protected her from bullying in middle school and how she later came to love him. While Oreki wondered whether their future relationship was tied to his new power, Ryuuen discovered that Daichi Ishizaki had far fewer Points than expected.

• Ryuuen invited Shiina Hiyori into his small team because he believed she was wise.
• Oreki used Precognitive Dream and saw Karuizawa recall being bullied and Oreki forcefully stopping her bullies in middle school.
• Karuizawa’s dream account described her reunion with Oreki at the High School of Advanced Education and her feelings for him.
• Oreki stopped watching the dream and wondered how he could have met Karuizawa in middle school when he was already in high school.
• Ryuuen demanded 50,000 Points from each classmate, but Daichi Ishizaki showed him a balance of only 22,000 and said he had invested his Points.

After Class C students signed up for Houtarou Oreki’s shop plan, Kakeru Ryuuen confronted his class over the costly decision and considered accepting the loss. Oreki returned to school, spoke with Sakayanagi Arisu, and was then called out by Ryuuen, who arrived at Class A with Ishizaki and Albert.

• Ryuuen learned that most of Class C had joined Oreki’s shop plan, and he berated the boys who had signed up.
• Shiina Hiyori advised Ryuuen that the class might have to sacrifice its Points to preserve its chances of climbing higher.
• Oreki returned to his dormitory and found an angry note and messages from Ryuuen demanding that he open the door.
• In Class A, Katsuragi announced that the class had earned 200 evaluation Points, while Sakayanagi continued tutoring Kamuro and Oreki asked her about love and marriage.
• Ryuuen arrived at Class A with Ishizaki and Albert and demanded to know where Oreki was.

Oreki dealt with Ryuuen’s visit to Class A and received the points owed after Class C abandoned their shop-opening plan. He explained to Katsuragi how Vice President Nagumo’s offer had ended the business opportunity, leaving Katsuragi to realize Oreki had collected a large sum.

• Hashimoto blocked Ryuuen at Class A’s door, but Oreki warned Ryuuen about the classroom camera and said he did not know him.
• Ryuuen threatened revenge, then left after taking a photo of Oreki.
• Oreki received 360,000 points from Ryuuen, confirming that Class C had terminated the shop-opening plan and paid the agreed amount.
• Katsuragi asked Oreki what had happened, and Oreki explained that he had planned to imitate a second-year Milk Tea Shop but Nagumo had bought the shop-opening rights for five million points.
• Oreki told Katsuragi that the contract required early terminators to forfeit collected points and pay him 10,000 points, prompting Katsuragi to realize Oreki had amassed a large sum.

Oreki completed his first-year point-gathering scheme and planned to collect points from the second- and third-years, but first sought to learn the Chairman’s limits. Sakayanagi suspected Oreki had recognized the danger her connection to the Chairman posed to Class A.

• Sakayanagi explained to Kamuro that Oreki had never intended to open a store and had used the proposal to gather points, then told her to follow him again.
• Oreki checked that his quest had reached 4,231,100 of 20 million points and began planning to collect money from older students.
• Oreki messaged Sakayanagi to ask what kind of person the Chairman was, hoping to judge the school’s tolerance for his next plan.
• Sakayanagi described the Chairman as tolerant of student autonomy but willing to guide them, and Oreki continued to the Student Council.
• Sakayanagi worried that Ryuuen could use her relationship with the Chairman against Class A and wondered whether Oreki’s message had been a warning.

Oreki visited the Student Council office and found its members divided between Manabu Horikita and Nagumo Miyabi. After Nagumo arrived and insisted he would not budge on the shop rights, Oreki stayed, worried that Nagumo’s rise to power would put the girls at the school at risk.

• Oreki went to the Student Council office seeking Manabu Horikita, but the President was absent and Akane Tachibana explained that Oreki had been offered a Secretary position.
• Oreki noticed another Student Council member secretly contacting someone and concluded that many members were reporting to Nagumo Miyabi.
• Nagumo arrived, told Oreki that he had bought the shop-opening rights for four million and would not compromise, then asked whether Horikita Suzune and Kikyou Kushida had come with Oreki.
• Oreki considered how Nagumo might exploit Manabu Horikita’s vulnerabilities and take over the Student Council after Horikita graduated.
• Oreki decided to stay, fearing Nagumo might harass the cute girl he expected to become involved with in the future.

Oreki accepted a quest to curb Nagumo Miyabi and earn 5 million Points within three days. As Nagumo tried to sell him store-opening rights, Oreki revealed how he had collected Points from his classmates by recognizing the school's rules early.

• Oreki considered Nagumo's growing influence and accepted the hidden quest to extinguish Nagumo's arrogance and earn 5 million Points in three days.
• Nagumo explained that he controlled the school's store-opening rights and offered to sell them to Oreki for 4 million Points.
• Akane Tachibana recalled that Manabu Horikita hoped Oreki could oppose Nagumo after his graduation.
• Oreki said he had no desire to open a store because students risked expulsion before repaying their debts, making Nagumo worry about his own borrowed funds.
• Nagumo asked why Oreki was collecting Points, and Oreki explained that he had used agreements with his classmates to gather their Points early through an information advantage.

Oreki explained how he had profited from the first-years’ shop agreements and challenged Nagumo to a bet for another 300,000 Points. Nagumo wagered that Oreki would be barred from joining the Student Council if he lost, but Oreki accepted confidently.

• Oreki showed Nagumo that Class C had withdrawn from the shop plan, leaving its prior payments as compensation, and said he had earned five million Points in three days.
• Nagumo doubted Oreki could collect more Points and warned that the second-years would resist him, but Oreki estimated that half of Nagumo’s grade would side with him.
• Oreki revealed that his account held 4,231,100 Points and asked Nagumo to wager 300,000 more so it would reach 4.5 million.
• Nagumo offered the bet, stipulating that Oreki could not join the Student Council for a year if he failed, and privately suspected Horikita wanted to recruit Oreki against him.
• Oreki accepted Nagumo’s terms and said he intended to win the 300,000 Points.

Nagumo Miyabi learned that his bet with Houtarou Oreki would cost him nothing if Oreki lost, and his attempt to turn the girls in his class against Oreki only made them admire the first-year more. Frustrated, Nagumo contacted Honami Ichinose, a friendly student from Class 1-B whom he had begun considering as another romantic prospect.

• Houtarou Oreki told Nagumo Miyabi that he had already refused a Student Council position, so losing their bet would not affect him while winning would earn him 300,000 Points.
• Nagumo told the girls in his class about the bet, hoping they would dismiss Oreki, but they called Oreki cute and criticized Nagumo for targeting a first-year.
• Nagumo grew irritated as the girls discussed Oreki and showed little interest in Nagumo himself.
• Nagumo recalled his interest in Suzune and Kikyo Kushida and decided he needed to defeat Oreki to get their attention.
• Nagumo contacted Honami Ichinose, a friendly Class 1-B junior he had met while she struggled to choose breakfast.

Nagumo invited Ichinose to his cafe, explained the school's class-ranking system, and offered to help Class B open a shop while trying to turn her against Oreki and bind her class to him. Ichinose hesitated, weighing how to refuse without hurting Nagumo's feelings.

• Nagumo welcomed Ichinose to his cafe and ordered them expensive coffee.
• Nagumo explained that class rankings depended on class evaluation scores and that Class A at graduation received the promised benefits.
• Ichinose blamed herself for not telling Class B about the school's system sooner, and Nagumo reassured her that the class could still catch up.
• Nagumo claimed Oreki's shop plan would fail and offered Class B help and favorable terms for opening a shop through his class.
• Nagumo planned to make Class B dependent on him through the shop and watched as Ichinose considered how to decline politely.

Honami Ichinose rejected Nagumo Miyabi’s offer to help Class B open a shop after Houtarou Oreki’s forum post accused him of demanding 5 million Points for shop-opening rights. Nagumo tried to defend himself and warned Ichinose against Oreki, but she left wary of him.

• Ichinose showed Nagumo Oreki’s viral, real-name-verified forum post accusing him of demanding 5 million Points from the freshmen seeking to open a shop.
• Nagumo claimed Oreki had misrepresented the dispute and was trying to keep the Points students had paid him.
• Ichinose asked why Nagumo had not warned Class B students about Oreki’s plan after seeing them join it, leaving Nagumo unable to explain convincingly.
• Nagumo said he had to prioritize Class A’s interests and confirmed that his 5 million Points demand was genuine.
• Ichinose decided to leave and avoid further contact with Nagumo, who urged her to stay away from Oreki and mentioned their bet to earn 5 million Points in three days.

Nagumo Miyabi realized that Houtarou Oreki had used his store-rights gambit to buy work permits from the school and offer students a way to earn money. Manabu Horikita and Akane Tachibana recognized Oreki’s perceptiveness, while Manabu predicted the school would soon prohibit the work permits.

• Ichinose warned Nagumo that he had already lost their bet, then left him standing alone.
• Nagumo found Oreki’s forum posts announcing that he had bought work permits from the school for 2 million points and was selling them to students.
• Nagumo realized Oreki had extended the points-for-permission idea from opening a store to doing prohibited part-time work, threatening Nagumo’s influence over the second-years.
• Manabu showed Akane Oreki’s posts, and they discussed how Oreki had recognized an opportunity that appealed to students broadly.
• Manabu predicted the school would prohibit the work permits because students earning money independently could undermine its special exams.

Houtarou Oreki completed the Protecting Flowers quest by earning five million points in less than a day, then met Kikyo Kushida and Horikita Suzune in the dorm elevator the next morning. Kushida asked Oreki to help her become friends with Horikita, who said she did not consider friendship important.

• Oreki promoted the transfer of work permits while Horikita handled interested students and collected points for him.
• Oreki completed the Protecting Flowers quest and received the special reward Invisibility.
• Oreki dreamed about a future in which he and Horikita were married with two daughters, then returned to his dorm room using Teleportation.
• Oreki encountered Horikita and Kushida in the elevator, where Kushida said she felt tense and asked him for help.
• Kushida told Oreki that Horikita had rejected her attempts to become friends, and Horikita replied that she did not think friends were important.

Oreki’s arrangement with Horikita drew Kushida’s curiosity, while Nagumo messaged him that their wager would be settled at lunch. The chapter then revealed that Oreki’s work-authorization scheme had brought in over twelve million points and prompted Chairman Sakayanagi and the faculty to consider how it threatened the school’s control over students.

• Horikita left the elevator after reminding Oreki that he owed her compensation, and Oreki said they would wait for the school’s decision on the final points.
• Kushida questioned Oreki about working with Horikita and wondered whether Horikita mattered more to him, while Oreki suspected Kushida was using him to get closer to Horikita.
• Oreki received Nagumo’s message confirming that their wager was still valid and would be settled during lunch break.
• At 10 p.m., staff in Chairman Sakayanagi’s office reported that Oreki’s account had risen past twelve million points as students paid 100,000 points each for work authorization.
• The faculty warned Chairman Sakayanagi that students earning points independently might stop relying on the school and participating in its special exams.
• Chairman Sakayanagi acknowledged the faculty’s concern about the work-authorization scheme exceeding the school’s control.

Chairman Sakayanagi and Manabu Horikita discussed Houtarou Oreki’s work permit scheme and the agreement he signed to surrender its privileges if they caused trouble. Oreki told Kushida that the school would likely compensate those involved, then invited her to join him in settling his bet with Nagumo; she accepted.

• Chairman Sakayanagi explained that Oreki had signed an agreement allowing the school to reclaim his work permit privileges without compensation, and Manabu Horikita praised Oreki’s insight.
• Kushida recalled how Ryuuen had cut Class C off from contact with other classes, and regretted the trouble her previous business with Oreki had caused.
• Oreki told Kushida that the school would reclaim the work permit privilege but might compensate him and the students involved.
• Oreki received a message from Nagumo about their bet and explained that Nagumo owed him 300,000 points if he earned five million in three days.
• Oreki invited Kushida to join him in settling the bet with Nagumo, and she agreed.

Houtarou Oreki waited at Nagumo Miyabi’s café to collect the 300,000 Points from their bet, while Nagumo arrived believing the school had shut down Oreki’s job permits. Oreki demanded payment, but Nagumo revealed the permits had failed, leaving the bet’s outcome unresolved.

• Oreki took Kikyou Kushida with him to Nagumo Miyabi’s milk tea shop and waited past their meeting time.
• Nagumo arrived with his childhood friend Nazuna Asahina and gloated that the school had stopped Oreki’s job-permit scheme.
• Nagumo recalled persuading sixty second-years not to buy permits, while forty had already transferred Oreki a total of 4 million Points.
• Oreki confronted Nagumo, showed him a payment QR code, and demanded the 300,000 Points he had won by earning 5 million Points within three days.
• Nagumo told Oreki that the job permits had failed because the school had intervened.

Houtarou Oreki revealed that he had expected the school to revoke the work permit and refund his purchase, then received ten million points in compensation. He surpassed his five-million-point goal and warned Nazuna Asahina that Nagumo Miyabi’s store could become a liability if Nagumo challenged the school’s interests.

• Nagumo Miyabi told Oreki and Kikyou Kushida that the school had terminated the work permit and demanded that the collected points be returned.
• Oreki explained that his agreement allowed the school to revoke the permit and that he had expected a refund after Nagumo announced the school’s action.
• The school refunded Oreki’s three million points, and a senior student confirmed that permit buyers were also receiving refunds and compensation.
• Oreki showed Nagumo that the school had deposited ten million points as compensation, far more than Nagumo expected.
• Oreki asked Nagumo to pay the three hundred thousand points he owed from their bet and advised Nazuna Asahina to distance herself from Nagumo.

After Oreki earned ten million Points from selling part-time work authority, Nagumo learned the school disapproved of his control over the second years and exploiting special exams. Nagumo lost his Student Council Vice President position, while Oreki transferred one million Points to Horikita Suzune and left Kushida regretting that she had missed his deal.

• Asahina transferred Oreki 300,000 Points to cover Nagumo's lost bet, and Nagumo received a summons from Manabu Horikita.
• Nagumo met Manabu, who stripped him of his Vice President position and demoted him to Student Council Accountant over the part-time work authority dispute.
• Oreki transferred one million Points to Horikita Suzune while Kushida watched and regretted not joining his plan.
• Oreki and Kushida returned to their classes as students across the school reacted to the part-time work authority sales.

Oreki and Sakayanagi Arisu profited from the school’s cancellation of the part-time work permits, though they used different methods. As the first month ended, Oreki realized Sakayanagi had mobilized students because she knew the Chairman’s character as his daughter.

• Students who had not bought permits regretted missing out after participants received 50,000 points in compensation.
• Katsuragi realized he had missed a chance to earn free points and looked toward Sakayanagi Arisu.
• Sakayanagi sent Oreki a note congratulating him on becoming a multimillionaire, and he asked how many points she had earned.
• Oreki deduced that Sakayanagi had organized third-years to buy permits, expecting the school to cancel them and pay compensation.
• Oreki recalled meeting Chairman Sakayanagi through Manabu Horikita and inferred that Arisu had acted with knowledge of her father’s generous nature.