Recaps

Oreki maneuvered through the first-years’ new expulsion vote, helping decide who would be protected and who would leave while arranging a deal with Ayanokouji. The arc ended with Tsukishiro confronting Ayanokouji about his father’s demand that he return home.

• Oreki transferred Ichinose 20 million Points to keep her from leaving school, while Sakayanagi discussed how he would manipulate classes and students for their own gain.
• The school announced an anonymous praise-and-criticism vote exam that would expel each class’s lowest-ranked student unless the class gathered 20 million Points to protect them.
• Oreki organized a mutual-aid alliance, secured praise votes from Ichinose and Shiina, and warned Ayanokouji that someone in Class D would be targeted.
• Horikita exposed Yamauchi’s effort to gather criticism votes against Ayanokouji and redirected Class D’s expulsion vote toward Yamauchi, despite Hirata’s objections.
• Class C chose Ryuuen for expulsion, while Oreki refused Ishizaki and Albert’s request to save him, and Class B pooled its points to protect one student.
• The vote expelled Yahiko, Tokito, and Yamauchi, while Sakayanagi, Ichinose, Ryuuen, and Ayanokouji won their classes’ protection awards.
• Oreki explained that he had helped Ryuuen survive and arranged for Sakayanagi to receive protection, while Ryuuen recognized Oreki’s plan to leave Shiina managing Class C.
• Oreki and Ayanokouji exchanged future favors at the Special Building, where Tsukishiro revealed that Ayanokouji’s father still wanted him to leave school and return to him.

Oreki maneuvered among the classes as they prepared for the Command Tower exam, while Horikita led Class D’s strategy and trained for a chess match against Sakayanagi. Class D lost to Class A, but Horikita earned her classmates’ respect, and Oreki’s relationships with Sakayanagi and Karuizawa continued to develop.

• Ayanokouji and Oreki lured Tsukishiro into switching off a camera, then Ayanokouji defeated him and Oreki found an expelled student’s ID on Tsukishiro’s phone.
• Oreki gathered Horikita, Kushida, and Hiyori, discussed plans involving Ryuuen and Points, and offered Kushida 500,000 Points for her help.
• The school announced the Clash at the Summit, which required each class to appoint a Command Tower who could be expelled if their class lost, and the four classes named their commanders.
• Sakayanagi targeted Class D, while Horikita organized its exam preparations and nominated Ayanokouji as Command Tower, and Oreki coached Horikita in chess for her match against Sakayanagi.
• Class D lost several early events against Class A, then won English cloze before Horikita lost the chess match and Class D fell to a 2–5 defeat.
• Class A and Class B each gained 190 class evaluation Points, while Class C and Class D each lost 90, and Oreki told Manabu Horikita that Suzune had helped plan Class D’s strategy.
• Sakayanagi invited Oreki to a private chess rematch, but their intimate encounter stopped when she asked him to stop because it hurt.
• Kei appreciated Oreki’s birthday gift and saw Sato resolve to study harder, while Horikita continued studying and Kei wondered if she might become her rival for Oreki’s attention.

Oreki secured Sakayanagi’s election as Student Council President, and she reorganized the council while publicly announcing their relationship. After Manabu’s departure and the final exams, Oreki met with Tsukishiro, who challenged him to identify the White Room’s top student among the incoming students.

• Kikyou, Karuizawa, Sakura, Hasebe, Ichinose, and Ibuki discussed perfume in the elevator before Oreki joined them and Horikita greeted him.
• Oreki persuaded Sakayanagi to pursue the Student Council presidency, then helped her secure votes by paying third-year students and offering council positions to first-years.
• Sakayanagi won the election by 346 votes to Kiriyama’s 64, became president, and appointed Nagumo vice president before expelling him and reshaping the council.
• Sakayanagi announced that she was dating Oreki, and students including Hasebe, Sakura, Kushida, Karuizawa, Sato, and Ibuki reacted to the news and confronted the pair.
• Manabu told Oreki that Suzune had romantic feelings for him, asked him to keep her focused on studying, and gave him a private phone number before leaving the school after graduation.
• Class 1-D organized study groups for the March 17 final exam, and Manabu gave a farewell speech at the third-years’ graduation ceremony.
• Matsushita followed Oreki to a restaurant and watched Tsukishiro pay him with a Private Points Card.
• Tsukishiro proposed a wager offering Oreki 20 million points to identify the White Room’s top student among the incoming students, and Oreki left the restaurant before Matsushita followed him into an alley.

Oreki investigated Tsukishiro’s plans and the suspicious first-years as the school introduced a dangerous cross-grade exam. He arranged cooperation between Class 2-D and Housen’s Class 1-D, while the threat to Ayanokouji and Oreki’s own relationships remained unresolved.

• Oreki transferred 20 million points to Horikita Suzune, bringing her total to 60 million, and Manabu left the school with Akane Tachibana.
• Oreki and Sakayanagi examined the freshmen’s files and identified several suspicious students, while Tsukishiro prepared to use the joint exam against Ayanokouji.
• Mashima introduced the Cross-Grade Joint Exam, whose rules meant a pair scoring 500 points or less would get the second-year student expelled.
• Oreki and Horikita discussed recruiting first-years, and Oreki proposed coordinating the second-years and selling verified information to disadvantaged classes.
• Housen and Nanase visited Class 2-D, where Housen attacked students until Oreki stopped him and Horikita photographed the incident.
• Oreki warned Housen that the Student Council had evidence of his violence, and Housen agreed to cooperate with Class 2-D in the exam.
• Yagami approached Kushida and asked her to partner with him, but she declined, and Oreki suspected Yagami was a White Room Student.
• Housen told Tsukishiro he had a plan to expel Ayanokouji but promised not to hurt him, while Oreki sought another way to help Sakayanagi and met a purple-haired first-year who asked to be his friend.