Recaps

Oreki outmaneuvered Ryuuen and Kushida during the VIP Exam, earning a vast number of private points and exposing Kushida’s betrayal. As the Sports Festival approached, he and Horikita began arranging a deal with students anxious about the bottom-ten penalty, while Class B considered cooperating with Class C.

• Oreki confronted Kushida about stealing Horikita’s key and working with Ryuuen, then used a recording to pressure her as Ryuuen’s group found a note instead of Class D’s phones.
• Oreki thwarted Ryuuen’s attempt to record him and brought the class representatives together to propose sharing the VIP Exam’s rewards through Result 1.
• Oreki ended the Ox Group exam by identifying Class B’s VIP, then secured the representatives’ agreement by offering to waive compensation and have the assault report withdrawn.
• The school paid out the exam rewards, and Oreki collected millions of points from the classes while revealing Kushida as a VIP and earning her resentment.
• Oreki’s gains pushed Ryuuen’s class down to Class D, and the school announced an all-grade Sports Festival with Classes A and D on the Red Team and Classes B and C on the White Team.
• After Sakayanagi withdrew from directing Class A, Katsuragi took charge, while Ryuuen refused to cooperate with the other classes at the Sports Festival rally.
• Horikita arranged for Class C students afraid of the bottom-ten penalty to pool four million points, then asked Ichinose’s Class B to withdraw in overlapping individual events.
• Ichinose agreed to discuss concessions with her classmates so Class B could obtain Class C’s participant roster, while Oreki distributed the pooled points and sought permission to bring pets to school.

Oreki helped Class 1-C exploit the Sports Festival rules while drawing Ryuuen into violations that cost him Points. After Ryuuen targeted Horikita and she was injured, Oreki and Horikita turned the evidence against him and forced Kushida into the remaining events under threat of exposure.

• Oreki devised a Sudou-centered lineup with Horikita and joined the all-grade relay to challenge Nagumo, while arranging training and recruiting Karuizawa to help Horikita and Onodera work together.
• At the Sports Festival, Sudou and Oreki won their opening races, but Ryuuen’s team targeted Sudou in Bo-taoshi, driving him away from the competition as the Red Group extended its lead.
• Horikita injured her leg during the 200-meter sprint, and Oreki found her phone, Kushida’s phone, and a Voice Recorder near the cafeteria after Kushida took Horikita to confront Ryuuen.
• Ryuuen accused Horikita of injuring Kinoshita and demanded four million Points, but Sakura recovered the missing devices and Horikita used recordings from her and Chabashira to make Ryuuen pay.
• Teacher Majima demanded compensation from Ryuuen’s classmates for Bo-taoshi violations, and Oreki confronted Ryuuen, made him kowtow, and offered a loan only if he kowtowed ten times.
• Horikita confronted Kushida about stealing her recorder and working with Ryuuen, while Kushida revealed her hostility and Horikita tried to negotiate a truce.
• Oreki explained how he had set up Ryuuen’s rule violations, then threatened Kushida with a hidden recording and ordered her to support Horikita and take her place in the remaining events.
• Oreki demanded nude photos as punishment, and Kushida joined Class 1-C’s afternoon Scavenger Hunt and Four-Way Tug of War in Sudou’s absence.

Oreki helped Class 1-C rally around Sudou and ran a dramatic final leg against Manabu Horikita, while the Sports Festival reshaped the classes’ standings. As the dangerous pair exam approached, Oreki maneuvered among the classes and faced confessions from Sato and Ichinose, leaving him unsure how to preserve friendships after rejecting someone.

• Oreki warned Kushida that incoming students could expose her past, then comforted Horikita after she injured her leg trying to show her brother how much she had grown.
• Ryuuen arranged for Class 1-C to withdraw from the relay in exchange for Points, while Horikita and Kushida rallied their classmates to bring Sudou back for the final leg.
• Kōenji and Hirata gave Class 1-C an early lead, but Onodera dropped the baton before Sudou and Oreki raced against Nagumo and Manabu Horikita.
• Oreki and Manabu overtook Nagumo, and Class 1-A won the Sports Festival as Shibata’s late finish cost Class 1-B its overall lead.
• Sakayanagi told Oreki that Ayanokouji was the successful product of the White Room, while Oreki said he had little interest in challenging him.
• Teacher Majima announced a pair exam with expulsion at stake, and Oreki considered how the classes could exchange papers while deciding to seek cooperation from Ichinose’s Class B.
• Oreki rejected Sato’s confession because he liked someone else, then asked Ichinose for advice and was immediately rejected after she confessed to him as a test.
• Ichinose prepared to resist Ryuuen’s class in the exam, while Ryuuen ordered his classmates to seek a paper trade and blamed Oreki for blocking their rise.

Oreki navigated the Pairing Exam’s bargains and helped Class A defeat Class C, while the exam results revealed both his influence and the worsening state of Ryuuen’s class. As Ryuuen investigated spies and used Kōenji as a decoy, Oreki anticipated that Karuizawa might be his next target.

• Ryuuen told Ibuki that Oreki had used her as a spy, but Oreki showed Ichinose he had repaid her classmates’ investment and admitted he had originally hoped to keep their points.
• Oreki and Ichinose learned that their classes had exchanged exam papers, while Oreki and Yanagi independently chose Class D as the class most likely to graduate as Class A without outside interference.
• Horikita asked Oreki to mediate between Class A and Class C, and he arranged a wager that reduced Class A’s payments if Class C earned enough evaluation points.
• Kōenji began tutoring Class C, while Oreki met Sato to study and received birthday gifts and messages from classmates and acquaintances.
• Oreki persuaded Ibuki to attend Kōenji’s tutoring and stayed out of the Pairing Exam, as Class A and Class C submitted their papers and Ichinose’s group exchanged papers with Ryuuen’s class.
• Ryuuen realized Oreki had tricked him about the timing of Ichinose’s paper submission, and the Final Exams began with students answering the exchanged papers.
• Class A beat Class C in the Pairing Exam, Oreki earned perfect scores and received substantial point transfers, and Sakayanagi showed him a handkerchief he had given her after rescuing her at the beach.
• Ryuuen exposed possible spies and threatened expulsion, then used Kōenji as a decoy while planning to learn about Oreki through Karuizawa, and Oreki anticipated the threat and tried to get Karuizawa’s phone.