Chapter Summaries

Oreki suggested that Class D use its many pretty girls to run a Maid Cafe at the Cultural Festival, then asked Karuizawa about Chabashira and Horikita. When Karuizawa asked why he cared about Horikita, Oreki said he would choose to marry her, leaving Karuizawa and Sato stunned.

• Oreki told the group that Class D's advantage was its many pretty girls and suggested a Maid Cafe for the Cultural Festival.
• Hasebe decided that Class D would run a Maid Cafe, while Sakura nervously considered whether to participate.
• Oreki asked Karuizawa whether Chabashira had changed and learned that Horikita had seemed distracted and unsettled.
• Karuizawa asked why Oreki cared about Horikita, and Oreki replied that he would choose to marry her.
• Karuizawa dropped her phone in shock, and Sato saw Oreki's message and nearly dropped it too.

Houtarou visited Class D’s Cultural Festival preparations after tensions with Sato and Karuizawa eased, then encountered Teacher Chabashira and asked whether she seemed familiar to him. Chabashira mistook his question for flirtation, while Houtarou left with the unresolved purpose of investigating her connection to his Precognitive Dream.

• Horikita noticed the class’s chatter about marriage, and Kushida told her to ignore it while privately hoping Houtarou would marry her.
• Houtarou saw 16 missed calls from Sato and Karuizawa but stayed calm because he knew the outcome through his Precognitive Dream.
• Class A began consolidating Cultural Festival proposals, and Katsuragi recognized that their wealth gave them more options than other classes.
• Three days later, Sato and Karuizawa invited Houtarou to inspect Class D’s Maid Cafe preparations in the Science Laboratory.
• Houtarou met Teacher Chabashira on the stairs and asked whether she thought he looked familiar; she mistook his question for flirtation and rejected him.
• Houtarou headed upstairs, intending to investigate Chabashira because she had offered information in his Precognitive Dream about possible time travel.

Oreki visited Class D’s Cultural Festival maid cafe and admired the girls’ outfits. He suggested that they invite Teacher Chabashira to join them in a maid outfit, and the girls eagerly considered the idea.

• Oreki reached the science lab, where Onodera was guarding the door and keeping the room’s activities private.
• Karuizawa let Oreki into the decorated classroom, where six girls greeted him in maid outfits as customers at Maid Cafe Maimai.
• Oreki asked why Horikita was absent, and Karuizawa explained that she was handling logistics and decorations.
• Oreki suggested that the girls make their cafe more eye-catching by inviting Teacher Chabashira to wear a maid outfit.
• Hasebe and the other girls approved of Oreki’s idea, while Airi imagined taking photos of Chabashira in costume.

Oreki explained why the Unanimous Special Exam’s seemingly simple votes could trigger real rewards, point losses, or expulsions, while the teachers’ worried reactions suggested hidden dangers. After considering the need to protect classmates if an expulsion vote arose, he received a message from Ichinose requesting a meeting, likely to discuss gathering points.

• Teacher Majima announced that the Unanimous Special Exam would have students vote until they reached a unanimous result on five tasks.
• Katsuragi asked whether the sample question’s point deduction would be enforced, and Teacher Majima confirmed that its terms would become real.
• Oreki warned Class D’s group chat that unanimous choices could carry serious consequences, including expelling a student.
• Oreki considered how Class D might need rescue points if the exam demanded an expulsion.
• Ichinose texted Oreki around seven that evening and asked to meet, likely to discuss gathering points.

Ichinose visited Oreki to borrow points in case the special exam forced her class to expel a student, and he agreed while asking her to hug him. Oreki also warned Class D to coordinate their choices before the exam began the next day.

• Ichinose visited Oreki, whose cat Hayate she admired, and asked to borrow points because she feared the exam might require a student to be expelled.
• Oreki explained that unanimous class choices could still cost Class Points and suggested Ichinose’s class might need 20 million points to protect a student.
• Ichinose admitted she had dressed up hoping Oreki would lend her the points, though Nagumo had also ordered her to pursue him and undermine his relationship with Sakayanagi Arisu.
• Oreki agreed to lend Ichinose the points and asked her to hug him, leaving her shocked by his sudden affection.
• Oreki advised the Class D Mutual Aid Group to stick together and choose the same answer when the exam results came out.

Karuizawa worried about expulsion, while Sakayanagi and Kamuro discussed Arisu’s future and her unsettling dream. The Unanimous Special Exam began, and Class A chose Class B as its opponent for the third-semester Final exam.

• Karuizawa privately asked Houtarou what would happen if she were selected for expulsion, and he assured her she would not be expelled, adding that he would probably pay twenty million to save her.
• Kamuro told Sakayanagi that Houtarou had taken back the cat, and Arisu described dreaming that she and Houtarou had a gifted daughter who was not their first child.
• Houtarou held Arisu’s hand before the exam began, comforting her while she remained troubled by her dream.
• Teacher Majima explained the Unanimous Special Exam rules, which required students to vote privately on tablets without contacting one another.
• Class A voted on which class to face in the third-semester Final exam, and thirty-five students chose Class B while six chose Class C.

The classes completed the first unanimous vote, choosing their challenge targets, while Hoshinomiya revealed that she had failed this kind of exam as a student. Task 2 began with students choosing a school-trip destination, and Oreki saw that the classes were already divided.

• Class A failed to agree at first, then Sakayanagi led the class toward choosing Class B as its target.
• Class B unanimously chose Class C, while Hoshinomiya told her students that she had failed a similar exam as a student.
• Ichinose worried over her recent interaction with Oreki as Chihiro noticed her troubled mood.
• Class C chose Class B, and Class D chose Class C after its initial votes were split among all three classes.
• The Chairman defended giving second-year students an exam usually reserved for third-years, saying their experience had prepared them.
• The classes began Task 2 by voting on whether to visit Hokkaido, Kyoto, or Okinawa on the school trip.

Class A chose Hokkaido for the School Trip, and the students debated how to handle a new question that could cut their Personal Points in exchange for Protection Points. As they prepared to decide, Oreki wondered what the fifth question would bring.

• Class A followed Sakayanagi’s lead and voted unanimously for Hokkaido after Oreki said he wanted to ski there.
• Kōenji told Hashimoto that every School Trip destination was the same to him, while considering whether Oreki could work for him.
• The third question offered the classes a choice between losing all or half of their Personal Points for Protection Points, or depriving the next written exam’s bottom five students of Points.
• Class A’s initial vote split, with 21 students choosing Option 3, 16 choosing Option 2, and 4 choosing Option 1.
• Katsuragi argued that Option 3 was the most cost-effective, while Oreki wondered what the fifth question would be.

The classes chose how to handle the third task, with Class 2-B protecting students, Class C choosing free protection, and Class D sacrificing the bottom five students’ Points. The fourth task then forced each class to impose a disadvantage on its end-of-semester written exam, and Class 2-A unanimously chose reduced rewards.

• Ichinose guided Class 2-B to choose Option 2, while all of Class C chose Option 1.
• Ike objected to Class D choosing Option 3, but Horikita argued that it cost the class the least; Class D ultimately cleared the task by sacrificing the Points of the five lowest written-exam scorers.
• Majima announced Task 4, requiring each class to increase exam difficulty, increase punishment, or reduce rewards.
• All 41 students in Class 2-A chose to reduce the rewards, completing the fourth task.

Class A unanimously rejected expelling a classmate and finished the exam, choosing Class B as its Final exam opponent and Hokkaido for the School Trip. Class B’s vote exposed one person in favor of expulsion, and Honami Ichinose offered herself if that student insisted on someone being expelled.

• Class A unanimously voted against expelling a classmate for 500 Class Points, completing the exam without an expulsion.
• Class A chose Class B as its Final exam opponent and Hokkaido for its School Trip, while the bottom five exam scorers would receive no account points for six months.
• A staff member reported the exam results to the Chairman and noted problems in Class B and Class D; Class C had chosen not to expel anyone.
• Class B’s vote resulted in one vote in favor of expulsion and 39 against, prompting Hoshinomiya Chie to call a recess.
• Chihiro Shiraha questioned why anyone would betray a classmate, and Honami Ichinose said she would accept expulsion if the student who voted in favor insisted.

Class D’s fifth exam question asked whether to expel a classmate for 500 class Points, and 29 students voted in favor. During the break, Hirata argued against sacrificing anyone, while Chabashira remained distracted.

• Kanzaki revealed that he had voted to sacrifice himself for 500 Points, reassuring Ichinose and Class B.
• Class D saw the fifth question offering 500 Points in exchange for expelling a classmate, and the proctor stopped Hirata from speaking during the vote.
• Hirata restrained himself because he wanted to protect Ayanokouji and could not intervene during the exam.
• Chabashira announced that 29 students favored expelling a classmate and 10 opposed it, so Class D entered the mid-exam break.
• Hirata urged Class D not to expel anyone, and Ike and Sudou supported him.

Class D debated whether to expel one of its students for 500 Class Points, with many classmates drawn to the reward and others fearing they could be targeted. Oreki watched Teacher Chabashira from the corridor and connected her unease to a similar vote from her own school days; the class remained divided as the exam continued.

• Sudou said he expected to be at risk if Class D chose to expel someone, and Hirata asked Kikyou Kushida for her view.
• Kikyou Kushida avoided taking a position and redirected the question to Horikita Suzune, who said she had voted in favor of expelling one student for 500 Points.
• Teacher Chabashira ended the break, and the class resumed voting, with twenty students supporting expulsion and nineteen opposing it.
• Several Class D students worried they could be chosen for expulsion, while many others focused on the Points the class could gain.
• Oreki waited outside Class D and recalled that Teacher Chabashira had once opposed her class representative’s self-expulsion, costing them a chance to gain 300 Points.

Oreki accepted a special mission to help Class 3-B complete the Unanimous Choice Exam and received a trial of the Time Travel ability. After arriving at the school nine years in the past, he teleported to meet a young Sakayanagi Arisu, hoping to find a way to cure her heart condition.

• Teacher Chabashira announced that the recess would continue because the answers were not unanimous.
• Oreki accepted the mission to assist Class 3-B with the Unanimous Choice Exam, which had a three-day deadline and promised Time Travel as its reward.
• Oreki arrived at the High School of Advanced Education nine years earlier as a Class 3-B student sharing a dorm room with Midori.
• Oreki used Teleportation to reach Sakayanagi Arisu, despite having no photograph of her from that time.
• Young Sakayanagi Arisu saw Oreki appear in the courtyard and asked who he was.

Houtarou Oreki visited young Arisu Sakayanagi and used his Restoration Ability to ease her pain, promising to meet her again at the High School of Advanced Education. After Oreki disappeared, Arisu’s father arrived to take her to visit the White Room.

• Houtarou Oreki introduced himself to Arisu Sakayanagi and claimed he had come to cure her heart disease.
• Oreki noticed Arisu’s scraped knee and demonstrated his ability by breaking and restoring a ten-million-point card, though Arisu assumed it was a magic trick.
• Arisu shook Oreki’s hand, and he used Restoration Ability to remove her pain and make her feel lighter.
• Oreki told Arisu they would meet again at the High School of Advanced Education, then vanished.
• Arisu’s Father arrived and told her they were going to visit the White Room, prompting Arisu to think that fake geniuses needed to be buried.

Houtarou Oreki began his three-day mission to help Class 3-B complete the Unanimous Vote Exam at High School of Advanced Education nine years in the past. After gathering some information from his roommate Midori, he met Hoshinomiya Chie and learned that a special exam would be announced the next day, with Class 3-B trailing Class 3-A by 340 points.

• Houtarou Oreki reviewed his mission to assist Class 3-B with the Unanimous Vote Exam and learned that his temporary identity would be forgotten after he departed.
• Oreki waited for Midori to finish helping classmates, but Midori left to comfort a classmate after a breakup.
• Oreki checked his system-provided account, which showed that he was in Class 3-B, a class promoted from Class D, with 50,004 Private Points.
• Oreki left the dormitory to gather information about Class 3-B and encountered Hoshinomiya Chie in the elevator.
• Hoshinomiya told Oreki that the month's special exam would be announced the next day and that Class 3-B was 340 points behind Class 3-A.

Oreki encountered the young Chabashira before the special exam and tried to reassure her, though he knew her class was destined to fail and that his task required him to help bring about that outcome. Chabashira admitted she was afraid of the exam, and Oreki again offered to pass his strength to her by shaking hands.

• Oreki judged Classes 3-C and 3-D’s point totals meager and heard Hoshinomiya warn him not to betray her or reveal her true side.
• After Hoshinomiya left, Oreki went to the lakeside and found the young Chabashira, whom he thought resembled Horikita Suzune.
• Chabashira asked whether their class could reach Class A, and Oreki encouraged her despite knowing the class would ultimately fail.
• Oreki offered to shake hands, but Chabashira mistook his suggestion for a romantic advance and declined.
• Chabashira admitted she was afraid of the coming exam, and Oreki urged her to shake hands so he could pass his strength to her.

Oreki shook hands with Chabashira, leaving her with an intense new feeling before she departed. At the cafeteria, he encountered his roommate Midori, Suma Bando, and Majima, who warned that Class A would not go easy on his class in the next day’s exam.

• Chabashira asked why Oreki seemed to have such a weak presence, then shook his hand and felt an unfamiliar sense of clarity and warmth.
• Oreki told Chabashira that she had felt his power, and she left with complicated emotions.
• Oreki went to the cafeteria and ordered an expensive meal, noticing that food was cheaper and better than he expected.
• Midori arrived with another student, and Suma Bando criticized Oreki for spending so many Private Points.
• Majima apologized for Bando’s behavior and declared that Class A would not go easy on Oreki’s class in the exam.

Oreki learned that Midori was willing to sacrifice himself if the Unanimous Special Exam required an expulsion, then joined Class 3-B as the exam began. Teacher Ogura explained the voting rules and showed sample questions, leaving the class awaiting the exam’s first real question.

• Oreki asked Midori what he would do if an exam required someone to be expelled, and Midori said he would choose himself.
• Oreki checked the system task and saw that assisting Class 3-B with the Unanimous Special Exam was 10% complete, with two and a half days remaining.
• Oreki and Midori attended homeroom, where Teacher Ogura announced the Unanimous Voting Exam and explained its rules.
• Teacher Ogura displayed a sample question about exchanging five Class Points for 10,000 Personal Points per student, and the class looked toward the next sample question.

Oreki raised the possibility that a unanimous vote could expel a student, unsettling Class B before the exam simulation continued. Midori volunteered to accept expulsion if necessary, and the class practiced voting before being left to discuss freely.

• Oreki asked whether the exam might include a unanimous vote to expel a classmate, extinguishing the students’ excitement over the possible million-point reward.
• Midori offered to leave if the class faced an expulsion question, while Hoshinomiya Chie objected to losing the class representative.
• The class continued the practice exam by voting on which Cultural Festival activity they would choose.
• After two simulations, Teacher Ogura explained the rules and left the students time and space to discuss.

Oreki’s warning about a possible expulsion vote sparked a tense exchange with Hoshinomiya Chie, but the class settled down before the unanimous choice exam began. The students unanimously rejected a personal-points offer on the first question, prioritizing their effort to reach Class A.

• Hoshinomiya Chie suggested Oreki should be expelled as a backup if the exam required the class to choose someone, and Chabashira objected to casually selecting a classmate for expulsion.
• Midori tried to calm the class and offered to be expelled himself, while Oreki challenged Hoshinomiya to accept the same sacrifice she had proposed for him.
• The class’s tension eased, and the students gathered for the exam after lunch, aware they were 340 Points behind Class A and could gain 100 Points for unanimous answers or lose 200 Points if they failed.
• Teacher Ogura announced the rules for the three-hour unanimous choice exam and displayed the first task, offering each student 10,000 Personal Points in exchange for five lost class points.
• All 40 students opposed the offer, and Teacher Ogura announced that they had unanimously passed the first question.