Recaps

Houtarou Oreki reflected on the profits from selling work permissions and examined the third-years’ class scores with Horikita Suzune and Kikyo Kushida. On May 1, as the new month began, a rumor spread that someone was offering one million points to keep Oreki.

• Oreki realized Sakayanagi may have arranged bets with upperclassmen and confirmed that his account held 13,521,100 points toward his 20-million-point mission.
• Oreki met Kushida and Horikita at the third-year building’s bulletin board and reviewed the updated class scores, noting that Class 3-D had fallen to zero.
• Kushida told Oreki about unusual classmates, including Kōenji, Matsushita, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, Sudou, and Hirata.
• Oreki suspected Kushida was persistently trying to get closer to Horikita, just as Hirata appeared unusually devoted to his class.
• On May 1, someone spread the word that one million points had been offered to keep Oreki.

Class 1-A awaited its first monthly evaluation, and Majima announced that it had retained a commanding lead with 1,230 points. The chapter ended as Oreki and his classmates received their first monthly deposits of 123,000 Private Points each.

• Katsuragi’s faction grew to twenty-eight supporters, while Kamuro noted that many students also backed Sakayanagi and Oreki.
• Oreki arrived at class tired after another forgotten dream about a girl and learned that he had been ranked among the school’s handsome boys.
• Class 1-A students voted Ryuuen to the bottom of the handsome boys ranking in retaliation for his earlier provocation of Oreki.
• Majima announced the monthly evaluation scores: Class A had 1,230 points, Class B had 570, Class C had 390, and Class D had zero.
• Majima explained that the class score determined each student’s monthly Private Points deposit, and Oreki’s class received 123,000 points per student.

Class A learned it had earned 1,230 class points, then discovered that Oreki had received an anonymous million-point transfer with a possessive message attached. Teacher Majima announced a written exam for the twenty-fourth, warning that students who failed would be expelled.

• The school deposited 123,000 points into each student’s account, giving Class A a total evaluation score of 1,230 and a 660-point lead over Class B.
• Oreki received an anonymous transfer of 1,000,000 private points with a note telling him to remain chaste for the sender during his three years at school.
• Oreki and his classmates wondered which upperclasswoman had sent the money, while Katsuragi denied making the transfer and Sakayanagi’s phone remained untouched.
• Oreki asked Teacher Majima to continue the announcements, and Majima introduced the upcoming written special exam.
• Majima said the exam would take place on the twenty-fourth, cover five subjects, award up to 100 class evaluation points, and expel students who failed.

Class A’s lead widened after the Behavioral Standards Exam, while Class C and Class B reacted to their scores and prepared for the written exams. The chapter left Class D in disarray.

• Kamuro scored over 60 points after nearly a month of tutoring, and Class A’s evaluation lead over Class B reached 660 points.
• Kakeru Ryuuen rebuked Class C for its low score, defended his decision to end its deal with Houtarou Oreki, and warned that failing the coming written exams meant expulsion.
• Shiina Hiyori reasoned that the Behavioral Standards Exam was a one-month warning, and Class C students transferred 20,000 points each to Ryuuen, giving him 780,000 points.
• Class B received 570 points, stayed optimistic and united, and planned to transfer another 450,000 points to Oreki under its shop-opening agreement.
• Class D was described as already being in complete disarray.

Houtarou Oreki discussed Class D’s zero points with Horikita Suzune and Kikyo Kushida, then proposed using the upcoming routine exam to earn about four million points. He assigned Kushida to gather information from upperclassmen and Horikita a riskier task, leaving their preparations and payment unsettled.

• Oreki met Horikita and Kushida by the fountain and compared their class scores, noting that Class D had received zero points.
• Horikita confronted Kushida for repeatedly trying to draw her into conversations, while Kushida claimed she wanted to be friends.
• Oreki told Horikita and Kushida that he had found a new way to obtain points and expected a reward of around four million.
• Oreki explained that the written exam was routine and asked Kushida to get information about it from upperclassmen.
• Oreki offered Kushida five percent of the reward and Horikita ten percent because her assignment carried a risk of expulsion.

Kushida agreed to gather information about the written exam and the upperclasswoman who sent Oreki one million Points. After Horikita received a summons from Teacher Chabashira, Oreki told her to go, considering his ties to her and Manabu.

• Kushida accepted Oreki’s request to gather information about the exam, hoping to help her classmates and earn a 5% share of the plan’s reward.
• Oreki checked Horikita Suzune’s account, then told her and Kushida about his recent transfers, including an unexplained million Points with a possessive message.
• Kushida asked what Oreki would do if she identified the upperclasswoman, and he said he would probably reject her because he wanted a mutual relationship.
• Kushida left to collect information, while Oreki asked Horikita to contact him when she learned anything.
• Horikita received a message summoning her to the academic building’s top floor, and Oreki told her to meet Teacher Chabashira.

Houtarou Oreki persuaded Horikita Suzune to refuse Chabashira’s offer to lead Class D, then went to the Student Council to ask about the Points transferred to him. Nagumo Miyabi, still resentful over his demotion, refused to engage Oreki, who had recently sold a Student Council position to Katsuragi Kohei for one million Points.

• Oreki warned Horikita Suzune that Class D was unlikely to rise and that she would have to defeat Class A, so she decided to refuse Chabashira’s offer.
• Oreki went to the Student Council to learn who had transferred Points to him and how to uncover the transfer information.
• Oreki found Nagumo Miyabi alone in the Student Council room, where Nagumo was brooding over his demotion from Vice President to Accountant.
• Oreki asked Nagumo how many Points he had accumulated, but Nagumo refused to make a wager or get involved with him.
• Oreki had sold the Student Council position he had declined to Katsuragi Kohei for one million Points, disappointing Manabu Horikita.

Oreki visited the Student Council to identify who had secretly transferred him one million points, but Nagumo could not access the sender’s information. Oreki left after paying the lookup fee, while his deliberate taunt helped show Manabu Horikita where he stood and got Nagumo assigned overtime.

• Nagumo claimed he had only a little over two million points and refused to give Oreki any, while privately considering whether paying him off would protect Nagumo’s bid for Student Council President.
• Oreki asked Nagumo to identify the person who had secretly sent him one million points and paid 100,000 points for a lookup.
• Nagumo tried to trace the transfer but found that the Student Council lacked permission to reveal the sender’s information.
• Oreki decided not to pay more to investigate and said he would keep the points unless the sender made an unwanted request, in which case he would return them.
• Oreki mocked Nagumo’s new Accountant position, and Manabu Horikita arrived to find documents scattered across the floor and ordered Nagumo to work overtime.
• Oreki reflected that he had acted deliberately because Manabu still distrusted Nagumo, using the encounter to show Manabu which side Oreki supported.

Houtarou Oreki considered taking Points from Nagumo or the second-years to finish his quest, then repaid Kei Karuizawa for her earlier generosity. In Class A, the factions continued to split as Katsuragi Kohei joined the Student Council and Hashimoto chose Sakayanagi’s side.

• Oreki saw that he needed about four million more Points to complete his quest and decided to target Nagumo or the second-years, first intending to bring Manabu Horikita onto his side.
• Oreki remembered that Kei had once given him Points and messaged her; when she offered to borrow Points for him, he sent her 200,000 Points in repayment.
• Kei accepted Oreki’s transfer and thanked him during their phone call.
• Class A students noted that Oreki was absent as the Sakayanagi and Katsuragi factions grew more divided.
• Hashimoto left Katsuragi’s group and formally joined the Sakayanagi Faction, while Katsuragi’s supporters congratulated him on joining the Student Council.

Katsuragi secured a Student Council secretary position, while Sakayanagi assigned the offered Accountant position to Kito and reasoned that Oreki had gone to the Student Council to investigate whoever had paid him. Oreki received a plea for support from Horikita Suzune, who had been unable to hold off Teacher Chabashira for even ten minutes.

• Katsuragi told Sakayanagi that the Student Council President had invited her to take the Accountant position after school.
• Sakayanagi gave the Accountant position to Kito Hayato and told Kamuro she still needed her help.
• Sakayanagi reasoned that Oreki had visited the Student Council to learn about the person who had transferred him one million points.
• Horikita Suzune messaged Oreki for support after failing to hold off Teacher Chabashira.
• The chapter flashed back to Horikita meeting Chabashira on the school rooftop, where Chabashira often went to smoke.

Horikita Suzune was pressured by Sae Chabashira into leading Class D to Class B in exchange for five million points, with Chabashira threatening to expose her connection to Manabu Horikita. Oreki comforted Horikita and questioned Chabashira’s true goal, and Horikita asked him for help, offering him half the points.

• Horikita Suzune went to the rooftop intending to refuse Sae Chabashira, but Chabashira revealed she knew Horikita was Manabu Horikita’s younger sister and threatened that he could be endangered if others found out.
• Horikita recorded Chabashira demanding that she lead Class D to Class B and offering her a Private Points Card containing five million points.
• Horikita asked Oreki for help, and he found her distraught in a stairwell and listened to the recording.
• Oreki returned Chabashira’s card to Horikita and reassured her that the task was manageable, while suspecting Chabashira’s real ambition was to raise Class D to Class A.
• Horikita asked Oreki to help her and offered him half of the five million points.

Oreki and Horikita Suzune checked the Private Points Card Teacher Chabashira had given her and discovered it held only 100,000 points rather than 5 million. Oreki concluded Chabashira was testing Horikita’s ability to raise Class D while disguising the task’s real reward, and he ended the chapter by confirming the school did not monitor students’ phone records.

• Horikita asked Oreki to help lead Class D, and he demanded 80 percent of the 5 million points on her card.
• Oreki told Horikita to hide her points, then scanned the card and found it contained only 100,000 points.
• Horikita explained she would have delayed scanning the card to avoid drawing attention, leading Oreki to realize Chabashira had misrepresented its balance to test her.
• Oreki inferred that Chabashira wanted Horikita to lead Class D toward Class B while risking only 100,000 points.
• Oreki asked Horikita’s brother Manabu whether the school monitored phone records, and Manabu said it generally monitored only students’ personal accounts.

Oreki inferred that Chabashira had another student in Class D with hidden leadership potential and decided to undermine her plans. After the system gave him a quest to destroy Chabashira’s ambition, he resolved to keep Class D from rising, while Class A began splitting into rival factions.

• Oreki deduced that Chabashira wanted Horikita Suzune to improve Class D before persuading a hidden-capable student, possibly Kōenji, to lead it.
• Oreki triggered a quest to destroy Chabashira’s ambition, and Horikita refused to continue her teacher’s task.
• Oreki told Horikita that they should make Chabashira understand Class D could not rise, preventing her from calling on its hidden talent.
• Oreki returned to Class A and found Sakayanagi Arisu, Kamuro Masumi, Hashimoto Masayoshi, and Kito Hayato grouped together while Katsuragi and his supporters sat apart.
• Majima noticed that Class A had begun dividing into factions despite maintaining a commanding lead in class points.

Oreki discussed the anonymous one-million-Point transfer with Sakayanagi and said he would return the money if its sender made a troublesome request. After school, Kushida shared information about the upcoming written exam and seniors selling old exam papers, while Horikita seemed unusually stiff.

• Oreki told Sakayanagi that he could not identify the sender of the one-million-Point transfer and would refuse any troublesome request, then return the Points with extra.
• Oreki considered how he would soon gather twenty million Points by squeezing Points from second-years and use them to obtain his superpower reward and cash.
• Sakayanagi said she wished Oreki were in another class so she could try to crush him.
• Oreki met Kushida and Horikita after school, and Kushida remarked that Horikita had seemed stiff all afternoon.
• Kushida told Oreki that the upcoming written exam reused papers from ten years earlier and that seniors sold copies for about fifty thousand Points.

Oreki arranged for Kushida to buy and distribute old exam papers while building connections with the upperclassmen, planning to use the transaction to pressure Teacher Chabashira. By the seventh, Kushida had obtained and shared the papers with Class 1-D.

• Kushida reported that upperclassmen would take exams at the same time and that their tests used old questions, but she had not bought the papers herself.
• Oreki gave Kushida one hundred thousand points to buy the papers and develop ties with third-year students, advising her to hide excess points on a Private Points Card.
• Horikita asked what they should do, and Oreki told her to wait until around the fourteenth so the test-paper scheme could force the school to change the exam and unsettle Teacher Chabashira.
• Kushida later earned one hundred thousand points by buying the old papers and, on the seventh, copied and distributed them to Class 1-D as review materials.

After students learned that the upcoming exam might reuse old questions, the four classes chose different ways to prepare. Class B and Class A kept their study groups, while Class D relied on memorizing the old papers and Class C’s Ryuuen considered whether to encourage contact with other classes.

• Hirata investigated Kikyou Kushida’s claim and learned that exams from the previous two years used the same questions, with content differing from current textbooks by thirty percent.
• Class D students celebrated the apparent shortcut and focused on memorizing the old questions, while Kikyou Kushida preserved her reputation by letting Hirata and others make the decision.
• Ryuuen bought the test paper for Class C, learned that Class D students had connections with upperclassmen, and considered whether his class should interact with other classes.
• Honami Ichinose and Ryuji Kanzaki planned Class B’s study group and added questions from the purchased papers to its practice materials.
• Katsuragi Kohei decided Class A should continue its study group and distribute the old questions a week before the exam to prepare for either possibility.

Oreki met with Manabu Horikita and Nagumo Miyabi to report that first-years were relying on purchased exam papers from ten years ago instead of studying for the upcoming written exam. He left the two student leaders with the old exam papers and a warning about the first-years’ shortcut.

• Masumi Kamuro complained to Sakayanagi Arisu that her faction’s early study sessions seemed pointless because students were memorizing old exam questions, but Arisu defended the sessions as a way to build lasting knowledge.
• Oreki told Arisu that he was in a good mood because he could obtain a life-saving charm, and Kamuro offered to follow him before Arisu stopped her.
• Oreki met Horikita Suzune, took her unlocked phone, and sent Teacher Chabashira messages saying he would reject her task and defeat her.
• Oreki summoned Manabu Horikita and Nagumo Miyabi to the rooftop, where he handed them second- and third-year exam papers.
• Oreki told Manabu and Nagumo that first-years were buying ten-year-old exam papers and memorizing them to pass the written exam scheduled for the twenty-fourth.

Houtarou Oreki confronted Nagumo Miyabi and Manabu Horikita over the school’s acceptance of students buying exam papers, then publicly leaked first-year papers to force Nagumo to pay him 5.2 million points. The chapter left Nagumo facing a countdown before Oreki leaked the second-years’ papers as well.

• Nagumo Miyabi argued that buying and selling exam papers was tacitly allowed, while Manabu Horikita said Oreki could report the matter only after the exam if he had conclusive evidence.
• Oreki revealed a mechanism on the Physics Laboratory Building rooftop and demanded 5.2 million points from Nagumo on behalf of the second-years.
• Oreki tipped over a box, scattering first-year physics exam papers where students heading to lunch could see them.
• Oreki started a thirty-second countdown and threatened to leak the second-years’ papers unless Nagumo paid him.
• Manabu Horikita warned that Oreki had become the first-years’ public enemy, while Oreki argued that new exams would help Class A defeat Class C and Class D.

Oreki forced Nagumo and Manabu Horikita to pay five million Private Points each to prevent further exam-paper leaks. Nagumo paid after realizing the leak could threaten his control over the second-years, while the first-year exam leak still risked mass expulsions and Horikita’s position.

• Nagumo realized mass expulsions among the first-years could force Manabu Horikita to resign and create an opening for him to become Student Council President.
• Oreki threatened to leak the second- and third-year exam papers, and Manabu Horikita transferred five million Private Points to stop him.
• Manabu Horikita said he would collect 36,000 points from each third-year student to cover the payment and protect them from possible expulsions.
• Nagumo considered delaying payment and exposing Oreki, but Oreki refused to accept a promise to pay later.
• Nagumo transferred five million Private Points to Oreki after deciding he could not risk losing his standing among the second-years.

Houtarou Oreki tricked Nagumo Miyabi into paying him by pretending to have leaked exam papers, then revealed the papers were discarded questions from a question bank. Manabu Horikita got his points back, while Nagumo left furious and short on funds.

• Houtarou reminded Nagumo that he still owed 200,000 Private Points, and Nagumo transferred the money.
• Houtarou’s system confirmed that he had completed the 20-million-point quest and offered him the Supernatural Physique reward, which he postponed activating.
• Nagumo saw students leave the supposed leak site, and Houtarou showed him that the scattered papers were unfamiliar, outdated questions rather than real exam papers.
• Houtarou dumped more question-bank papers from the rooftop and explained that no first-year exam papers had been leaked.
• Houtarou returned Manabu Horikita’s 5 million points but kept Nagumo’s payment, leaving Nagumo to realize he had been tricked.
• Manabu told Houtarou that he had enraged Nagumo, and Akane Tachibana and Katsuragi arrived after hearing about the alleged leak.

Manabu Horikita recognized Oreki’s evidence against Nagumo as a chance to cooperate and joined the Student Council in cleaning up the discarded fake exam papers. Oreki then used Horikita Suzune’s phone to confront Sae Chabashira, leaving her wary of invoking Suzune’s connection to her brother.

• Manabu Horikita admitted he had reconsidered cooperating with Oreki after suspecting Nagumo had interfered in the third-years’ exam, and he helped Student Council members sweep up the papers.
• Oreki checked his Points and saw that he had completed his 20-million-Point quest, but a hidden quest still required him to destroy Chabashira’s ambition within a week.
• Oreki switched on Horikita Suzune’s phone and found sixty-eight missed calls from Chabashira.
• Oreki texted Chabashira that the papers were trash rather than leaked exams and challenged her over the 100,000 Points she had offered him.
• Oreki invoked Suzune’s relationship with Manabu, making Chabashira realize that Manabu was nearby and that using their sibling relationship as leverage was risky.

Oreki used Chabashira’s messages to reject her plans for saving Class D, including dragging the other classes down or buying him into the class. After returning Horikita Suzune’s phone, he transferred her 509,200 Points for taking out the trash.

• Chabashira explained how she had hoped Horikita Suzune would unite Class D and persuade Kiyotaka Ayanokouji to help lead it.
• Oreki told Chabashira that Class D could not climb the rankings and warned that deliberately dragging other classes down would lead the school to punish Class D.
• Oreki proposed the Four-Class Zero-Point Operation, but explained that the school would likely abolish Class D if it disrupted class competition.
• Chabashira offered to buy Oreki into Class D, and Oreki rejected the idea because it would not prove that Class D could save itself.
• Oreki returned Horikita Suzune’s phone and transferred her 509,200 Points for taking out the trash.

Oreki’s exam-paper scheme earned points for Horikita and Kushida while blocking Nagumo’s plan to replenish his funds. Chabashira then summoned Horikita and asked who the man behind her was, and Oreki headed to the Student Council after school.

• Horikita left after the exam-paper operation, and Oreki transferred Kushida 254,600 points as compensation.
• Kushida wondered what role she had played, while Nagumo saw Oreki’s forum post and realized it had thwarted his plan to collect points from second-years.
• Nagumo lamented his dwindling funds and tried to eat sparingly until the next point deposit.
• Chabashira called Horikita to the rooftop, where she described losing her long-held wish and asked who the man behind Horikita was.
• Oreki headed to the Student Council after school.

Oreki went to the Student Council to ask Manabu Horikita to take him to the Chairman, while Katsuragi reflected on the President’s influence over special-exam rewards. Manabu invited Oreki to help with confidential documents, but Oreki refused, leaving Kiriyama relieved and Manabu amused.

• Oreki arrived at the Student Council and met Katsuragi, who was working as secretary under Akane Tachibana.
• Oreki told Katsuragi he wanted Manabu Horikita to take him to see the Chairman.
• Manabu stopped reading his documents and asked Oreki to help process a large stack of confidential papers.
• Oreki declined, saying he was not the Student Council President, and Kiriyama felt relieved.
• Manabu seemed amused by Oreki’s refusal.

Oreki asked Chairman Sakayanagi to let him exchange his points for cash before graduation, and Manabu Horikita accompanied him to the Chairman's office. The Chairman offered Oreki a way to do it for 300,000 points, leaving the exchange awaiting Oreki's decision.

• Oreki concluded that Manabu Horikita had declined the Student Council presidency because he disliked its heavy workload.
• Oreki told Manabu Horikita he wanted to convert his 20,327,500 points into cash, but Manabu chose to wait until graduation to exchange his own points.
• Oreki and Manabu encountered Sakayanagi Arisu as she left Chairman Sakayanagi's office, and neither Oreki nor Arisu spoke to the other.
• Oreki asked Chairman Sakayanagi to exchange his points for cash in advance.
• Chairman Sakayanagi said early exchanges were normally forbidden but offered Oreki the privilege for 300,000 points.