Recaps

The first-year classes discussed the Sports Festival, with Class 1-D choosing to give up and seek payments from other classes for taking last place. The focus shifted to Class 2-B, where students prepared cautiously while Shibata struggled with memories of the previous festival.

• Ichika Amasawa asked whether the Class Transfer Ticket allowed transfers between grades, and Sakurakoji said it only allowed transfers within the same grade until next semester.
• Class 1-A's teacher announced the examination rules and warned that the class could fall from its new position at the top.
• Class 1-D discussed its dwindling students and Points, then agreed to seek monthly payments from other classes in exchange for voluntarily placing last.
• Class 2-B students reacted to the Sports Festival, and a classmate tried to comfort Shibata about last year's relay race.
• Ryuji Kanzaki reviewed the second-year class standings and noted that Asako Amioka was Class 2-B's strongest female athlete.

Oreki met Kushida at their old spot while Horikita delayed joining them, and learned that Horikita still loved him despite his relationship with Sakayanagi. The chapter left Oreki considering Kushida’s account of Horikita’s feelings.

• Ichinose suggested that Class 2-B recruit Oreki or Kōenji with the Class Transfer Ticket to raise its class points, and Kanzaki considered asking her to persuade Oreki.
• Ryuuen planned for Kinoshita and Ibuki to win the girls’ event and intended to use the Class Transfer Ticket to pressure other classes.
• Hiyori worried that Oreki might reclaim the five million points he had given her.
• Oreki contacted Kushida and Horikita, then met Kushida at their old spot while Horikita remained in class.
• Kushida told Oreki that Horikita realized she loved him but felt troubled because he was dating Sakayanagi.

Oreki met with Horikita and Kushida to discuss the girls’ competition in the Sports Festival, while Horikita struggled with her growing feelings for him. The meeting ended with Oreki assessing their rivals and Kushida voicing regret that Ichinose would not be a serious contender.

• Horikita joined Oreki and Kushida and explained that the separate girls’ rankings gave second-years a chance to compete for first place and a Class Transfer Ticket.
• Oreki congratulated Horikita on her progress, then kissed her, leaving Kushida stunned and Horikita flustered.
• Horikita remembered their agreement that Oreki would return books and do work after kissing her, while she hesitated to explain why she had been avoiding him.
• Oreki suggested Horikita and Kushida could aim for first place, proposing that they buy off Kamuro and dismissing Ichinose as a weak physical competitor.
• Oreki inferred Ichinose’s lack of athletic ability from her absence from the previous Sports Festival’s relay team, and Kushida called that a pity.

Oreki planned to use the Sports Festival to exploit the third-years’ desire for Class Transfer Tickets and encouraged Horikita and Kushida to take part. After Sakura asked him for help, he began training her to improve her physical ability and confidence, leaving her with a new hairstyle and the first step toward changing.

• Oreki explained that the first-years could earn Points by defeating or negotiating with older students eager to obtain Class Transfer Tickets.
• Sakura messaged Oreki about what she should do for the Sports Festival, and he arranged to meet her early the next morning.
• Sakura told Oreki she wanted to improve her physical ability and become less introverted, and he agreed to train her.
• Oreki asked Sakura to remove her glasses and accessories, then tied her hair into twin ponytails.
• Sakura praised Oreki’s skill at styling girls’ hair, and he told her not to say that in front of Sakayanagi.

Oreki coached Sakura through running practice, using his Restoration Ability to ease her exhaustion and help her keep going. As they ran, they passed Chabashira, whose morning workout left her thinking about Oreki and the boy from her memories.

• Oreki told Sakura to call him Instructor and took her to the track to work on her stamina.
• After Sakura became exhausted and stopped running, Oreki held her hand and used Restoration to recover her body.
• Oreki encouraged Sakura to continue, and she ran several more laps with him supporting her.
• Sakura spotted Chabashira during their run, but Oreki urged her to stay focused on training.
• Chabashira rested beneath a tree and thought of how Oreki reminded her of the self-sacrificing boy from her memories.

Oreki continued training Sakura for the Sports Festival while students avoided events he entered because of his athletic ability. That evening, Sakayanagi noticed he was waiting for information, and Oreki admitted he was short on Private Points.

• Chabashira saw Sakura and Oreki running together as Sakura continued building her stamina.
• Sakayanagi asked Oreki about training Sakura, and he explained that he wanted to help a friend who had helped him.
• Oreki registered for the boys’ 200m Sprint, and students began withdrawing from events he entered.
• Kanzaki told Oreki that students feared his speed after his performance at the previous Sports Festival.
• While playing Go with Sakayanagi, Oreki acknowledged that he was waiting for information and needed more Private Points.

Oreki withdrew from group events that would have put him against Nagumo and Kiriyama after Nagumo paid him Points, then spoke with Amasawa at lunch and promised to support her financially. Two days before the Sports Festival, event registration closed, leaving students to decide whether the cost of a sixth event was worthwhile.

• Oreki received two million Points from Nagumo and withdrew from the group events entered by Nagumo and Kiriyama, leaving Sakayanagi to pursue Nagumo’s Points.
• Amasawa asked Oreki for a photo, then revealed that Sakayanagi had tasked her with taking one and sending it to her.
• Oreki promised Amasawa he would support her financially even if she chose to leave school, leaving her convinced he was pursuing her despite dating Sakayanagi.
• Oreki brought Kamuro food she liked, and Sakayanagi called him considerate while Kamuro quietly agreed.
• On the 25th, Sports Festival registration closed, and students had to weigh the cost of entering a sixth event against the Points they could earn.

Oreki discussed Class C’s Sports Festival lineup with Horikita and learned how Sakura’s training had greatly improved her running. The Sports Festival then began, with Sakayanagi leading its opening and Oreki encouraging a fast student to show her abilities.

• Horikita explained that Class C had arranged for most students to compete only in the five basic individual events, while Sudou, Horikita, Kushida, Matsushita, and Onodera would compete as standout athletes.
• Horikita regretted that Sakura’s roster had already been submitted, since Sakura had recently become much faster through daily training.
• Karuizawa visited Oreki’s room and gave up asking him to train her after learning Sakura had run more than 1.2 million steps.
• Sato asked Oreki to train her too, but went home after hearing how much Sakura had run.
• The Sports Festival began on the 26th, and Sakayanagi promised fairness as Student Council President while signing up for the maximum number of individual events.
• Oreki encouraged a fast student to give her all at the Sports Festival, saying she might have a chance.

The Sports Festival began, and Horikita encountered Ibuki, who had deliberately entered all the same events to challenge her. Airi Sakura surprised everyone by winning their 100m group after training with Oreki, while Sato and Karuizawa watched another girl take first place in the fifth group.

• President Sakayanagi opened the Sports Festival, and the individual events began the next morning.
• Kushida took second place in the first girls' 100m group after losing to Kinoshita from Class D.
• Ibuki challenged Horikita before their shared race and revealed she had entered every event Horikita had chosen.
• Sakura won the fourth girls' 100m group, surprising Ibuki and prompting Shiraha to ask how she had improved.
• Sakura said Oreki had helped her train by running long-distance with her every morning.
• Sato wondered whether running faster would attract Oreki's attention, while Karuizawa pointed out a girl who had won the fifth group.

During the Sports Festival, Sakayanagi and Kamuro discussed Sato and Karuizawa’s effort and Sakura’s hard work. Oreki urged Ayanokouji to show his ability in the boys’ event, then left to check on the girls as Ayanokouji and Sudou took their places.

• Sakayanagi credited her surprising speed to love and told Kamuro not to fall in love for ten years.
• Kamuro noted that Sato and Karuizawa might be motivated by Sakura’s ability and hard work.
• Oreki noticed Ayanokouji in the fifth group alongside Sudou and went over to speak with him.
• Oreki encouraged Ayanokouji to run freely and hinted that he should reveal his hidden ability.
• Oreki skipped his own fourth-group event and headed to the girls’ side while Ayanokouji and Sudou prepared for the fifth group.

Oreki skipped his own event to visit Sakayanagi while Class B prepared its contestants and watched Sudou get overtaken by an unexpected runner. Ayanokouji told Hirata he wanted a Class Transfer Ticket, and Hirata agreed to support him as they reached the finish line.

• Oreki decided to visit Sakayanagi instead of focusing on his competition, while Kanzaki arranged for Shibata to avoid facing Sudou.
• Kanzaki and Shibata watched Sudou fall behind an expressionless runner who sped past him, leaving Sudou stunned and demoralized.
• Hirata worried about Ayanokouji and went to speak with him after the race.
• Ayanokouji told Hirata he wanted a Class Transfer Ticket, and Hirata said he would support him.
• Ayanokouji reached the finish line, drawing surprised looks from the students around him.

Ayanokouji embraced his pursuit of freedom after demonstrating his full speed, while Oreki revealed his plans for Ayanokouji and a proposed Civil Code Revision to Sakayanagi. After the mandatory individual events, Ayanokouji led the rankings and Oreki stood in third place.

• Ayanokouji decided he would gain freedom and imprison his father, Mr. Ayanokouji, for thirty-four years, and Hirata told him his expression had been terrifying.
• Shibata resolved to keep competing despite the strength of his opponents, while Oreki learned that Sakayanagi had taken first place in every girls' event she entered.
• Oreki told Arisu Sakayanagi that he had given first place to Ayanokouji and wanted him to reach a position of power and propose a Civil Code Revision allowing exceptional people to marry three or more spouses.
• The five mandatory individual events ended, and Oreki's four event victories and participation points left him with 27 Points and third place behind Kiyotaka Ayanokouji.

Oreki reviewed the individual-event rankings, where Ayanokouji had beaten Kōenji and Sakura had surprised the girls with her performance. As the team events began, Oreki saw that Nagumo led the third-year boys while Asahina topped the girls, leaving the upperclassmen fiercely competing for a chance to transfer into Class A.

• Oreki saw that Kōenji had 33 Points after losing an event to Ayanokouji, who had 35, and Kōenji urged Ayanokouji to transfer to Class A so they could compete again.
• Oreki checked the first-year rankings and found Ichika Amasawa in first place with 35 Points and Tsubasa Nanase in second with 31.
• Sakura took first place in her physical solo events, while Kikyou Kushida won the obstacle course by gathering ten friends; Matsushita said Oreki had helped Sakura train.
• After the individual events ended, Oreki checked the upperclassmen's rankings and noted that Nagumo Miyabi led the boys while Kiriyama placed second, suggesting Nagumo wanted Kiriyama to win.
• Oreki found Asahina ranked first among the third-year girls as the students pursued the Class Transfer Ticket and a chance to graduate in Class A.

Oreki found Fuuka Kiryuin ill after Nagumo had drugged her sports bottle to keep her from placing in the Sports Festival. He realized Nagumo feared Kiryuin’s individual strength and decided to use the situation to take Points from him.

• Oreki checked the third-year rankings and saw that Fuuka Kiryuin had only 10 Points, then asked Kikyou Kushida for Kiryuin’s location.
• Oreki found Kiryuin and learned that Nagumo had drugged her sports bottle, leaving her too unwell to compete and preventing her from earning placements.
• Oreki showed Kiryuin Nagumo’s two-million-Point transfer and argued that Nagumo’s real goal was to stop her from moving up, not to protect the prize money.
• Kiryuin explained that she rejected class cooperation because she found it meaningless, and Oreki considered how Nagumo might exploit that conflict.
• Oreki decided to take Points from Nagumo, partly to help Ayanokouji and Sakayanagi.

Oreki restored Fuuka Kiryuin’s strength, encouraging her to keep competing in the Sports Festival and help challenge the leading third-years. As the team events began, Nagumo Miyabi checked the points standings after winning a basketball event.

• Oreki encouraged Fuuka Kiryuin to continue competing despite her drugged condition, and she accepted his help in repaying her for the Uninhabited Island exam.
• When Oreki clasped Kiryuin’s hand, his Restoration restored her strength, and she decided to compete in team events to disrupt the leading third-years.
• Oreki contacted Ryuuen as the team events began.
• Nagumo Miyabi won a basketball team event, earning 10 Points for his team, including Kiriyama.
• A Nagumo supporter handed him a tablet so he could check the students’ Points.

Nagumo tried to secure the Sports Festival’s rewards by managing classmates and undermining strong rivals, but Kiryuin unexpectedly rose in the girls’ rankings despite Kiriyama drugging her water. The chapter left Nagumo questioning whether Kiriyama’s plan had worked as Kiryuin continued winning.

• Nagumo arranged to move Kiriyama into Class A in exchange for the 15 million Points Kiriyama had saved.
• Nagumo avoided placing himself and Kiriyama in events with Kōenji and planned to pay Oreki a goodwill fee to keep him out of overlapping team events.
• Kiriyama drugged Fuuka Kiryuin’s water to weaken her, while Nagumo planned for Asahina to take first place among the girls.
• Kiriyama showed Nagumo the rankings, where Asahina had fallen to 31 Points and Kiryuin had climbed to sixth place with 28 Points.
• Nagumo questioned Kiriyama after realizing Kiryuin had won two team events despite the drugging.

Nagumo paid Arisu Sakayanagi to keep Kiryuin from interfering with Asahina’s bid for first place, while Oreki met Arisu for lunch during the Sports Festival. Afterward, Maya Sato and Karuizawa approached Oreki together, leaving him curious about their sudden openness.

• Nagumo realized Arisu could make Kiryuin win by arranging forfeits, so he agreed to pay her to help Asahina take first place among the girls.
• Arisu received five million Points from Nagumo and noted that she might not help Kiriyama take first among the third-years.
• Oreki came to the second-year camp to take Arisu to lunch, and she told him she had received Points from Nagumo.
• After Arisu returned to her events, Maya Sato and Karuizawa came to the cafeteria and competed over who would sit beside Oreki.
• Oreki asked Sato why she and Karuizawa had suddenly approached him so openly.

Oreki explained that he had forfeited his events after accepting Nagumo-senpai’s money, leaving Ayanokouji a chance to claim first place. Meanwhile, Sakayanagi told Kamuro she wanted to save money to have Oreki’s child without marrying him, then headed back to compete.

• Oreki told Sato and Karuizawa that he had forfeited his events and wanted Ayanokouji to take the first-place slot.
• Sato insisted she would not fall for Ayanokouji and accepted Oreki’s offer to hold hands.
• Kamuro asked Sakayanagi what she had wanted to tell Oreki, and Sakayanagi explained that she wanted to have his child without marrying him.
• Sakayanagi said she planned to earn enough money to live independently rather than rely on her family’s power.
• Sakayanagi and Kamuro returned to the rest area, where Sakayanagi prepared for her upcoming events and planned to show Oreki her abilities.

Nanase considered whether to greet Oreki while eating with Amasawa and Tsubaki, and Amasawa checked on the apparent cheating scene Nanase had noticed. Amasawa reflected on her efforts to build an ordinary friendship with Nanase and on her classmates’ hopes for the Sports Festival.

• Nanase, ranked third among the girls, worried that Ryuuen might order her to withdraw from events in exchange for 50,000 Points.
• Amasawa questioned why Nanase hesitated to greet Oreki, while Nanase said she had seen him holding hands with one girl as another sat across from him.
• Amasawa went to buy water and confirmed that Oreki was sitting with the two girls, then returned to the table.
• Amasawa considered how she had chosen Nanase as a friend and learned that Nanase had come to the school seeking revenge before Oreki helped her understand the truth.
• Amasawa reflected that her classmates expected her to win the Sports Festival and were counting on her team events to help their class rise back to Class A.

Ichika Amasawa questioned Sakurako Tsubaki about her interest in Ayanokouji and warned her against targeting someone Oreki protected. The mixed-grade women’s volleyball match then began, with Amasawa, Tsubaki, and Nanase on the Red Team and Ichinose, Kushida, and Sakayanagi on the White Team.

• Ichika Amasawa asked Sakurako Tsubaki whether she had photographed Ayanokouji and was still pursuing an objective against him.
• Amasawa told Tsubaki to give up on targeting Ayanokouji unless she could first defeat Oreki, whom their class owed twenty million points.
• The women's volleyball event began in the gymnasium, and the randomly assigned Red Team faced the White Team.
• Kikyou Kushida encouraged the anxious Ichinose to play well because Oreki would be watching.
• Sato noticed Arisu Sakayanagi’s unusually energetic play and recalled people saying Sakayanagi and Oreki could only have a platonic relationship.

During a volleyball match, Sakayanagi and Kiryuin’s powerful teamwork gave the Red Team an early lead while Oreki watched from the stands. The White Team tried to recover, but Amasawa’s teasing about Oreki’s lunch with Karuizawa stirred jealousy among the players.

• Nanase served for the Red Team, and Karuizawa recovered the ball after Sato failed to react.
• Sakayanagi set up Kiryuin for a powerful spike that gave the Red Team a point.
• Karuizawa suggested targeting Amasawa, then hit the ball toward her when she came to the net.
• Amasawa teased Karuizawa about having lunch with Oreki, drawing Sakayanagi’s attention and prompting Karuizawa to deny it.
• Horikita learned that Karuizawa had eaten with Oreki and, after Kikyou redirected her attention, refocused on the match.

The Sports Festival ended with Sakayanagi Arisu announcing the class rankings and updated class Points. Class 1-B closed the gap on Class 1-A, while Oreki's Class 2-A won its grade; the ceremony then moved on to the top individual students.

• During the girls' match, Sakayanagi declared that Oreki had been hers for a long time, leaving the other participants stunned and distracted.
• After the match, Oreki noticed the girls looking at him as though they thought he had grown up.
• At the closing ceremony, Sakayanagi Arisu announced that Class 1-B had won the first-year ranking, earning 100 Points and drawing within 50 Points of Class 1-A.
• Sakayanagi Arisu announced Class 2-A as the second-year winner, followed by Class 2-D, Class 2-C, and Class 2-B, and the classes' Points were updated.
• Sakayanagi Arisu began announcing the top individual students for each grade and gender.

Students learned the Sports Festival rankings and saw several first-place finishers choose Class Transfer Tickets, including Riku Utsunomiya, Tsubasa Nanase, and Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. The results left Nagumo’s class behind Class 3-B, while Kiryuin finished second among the third-year girls.

• Riku Utsunomiya chose a Class Transfer Ticket and transferred to Class 1-B, which Oreki suspected was a plan to hold the class back before returning to his own.
• Tsubasa Nanase also chose a ticket to transfer to Class 1-B, and Oreki inferred that Ichika Amasawa had yielded first place to her in exchange for doing so.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokouji took first place among the second-year boys and chose to transfer from Class 2-C to Class 2-A.
• Class 3-B topped the third-year class rankings, while Kiriyama won the boys’ individual ranking and Asahina Kei beat Kiryuin by two points among the girls.
• Kiryuin accepted her second-place finish and recognized that her solitary approach had left her vulnerable to being drugged.

After the Sports Festival, Nagumo welcomed Kiriyama into Class A in exchange for the Points Kiriyama had saved, while reflecting that his own deals had earned him little. Oreki celebrated with his friends, and Horikita’s question about whether he and Sakayanagi had crossed the line left the girls reacting to rumors about their relationship.

• Nagumo welcomed Kiriyama into Class A, and Kiriyama accepted the loss of his accumulated Points as the cost of preserving his Class A status.
• Nagumo reflected that the Sports Festival had brought him little benefit and that the Student Council President’s claims about fairness were hypocritical.
• Oreki celebrated the Sports Festival with Horikita, Kushida, Hasebe, Sakura, and others, and Hasebe asked him to train her.
• Oreki told Hasebe that matching Sakura’s progress would require running twenty thousand steps each morning for about 1.3 million steps, and Hasebe gave up.
• Horikita asked Oreki whether he and Sakayanagi had crossed the line, prompting the girls to consider rumors about their relationship.

After the Sports Festival, Oreki and his classmates faced a written exam before the School Trip, while his classmates’ concern over his relationship with Sakayanagi led them to shower him with contraceptives. The chapter ended with the exam results about to be announced, as Sakayanagi prepared to confront Amasawa over Oreki’s exhaustion.

• Oreki told Horikita and the other girls that students who crossed the line risked expulsion, reassuring them that he and Sakayanagi had not gone too far.
• The school announced a written exam before the School Trip, with expulsion for an overall average below 39 and class points awarded or deducted according to class rank.
• Teacher Majima welcomed Ayanokouji to Class A ahead of his transfer next semester, while Oreki noted that Sakayanagi was expected to be expelled after the School Trip.
• Oreki explained that classmates had given him twenty-five boxes of condoms after Sakayanagi announced he was no longer a virgin, and that Amasawa’s enthusiasm had left him exhausted.
• Sakayanagi realized Amasawa had drained too much of Oreki’s energy and planned to meet her, while the students studied for the written exam.
• The date reached the first day of the next month, when the written examination results would be announced.