Chapter Summaries

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.

The second-year students learned that their School Trip would take them to Hokkaido in three days, with no Class Point special exam attached. Before the trip, they had to anonymously rank every other student in their grade by their personal impression of them.

• Teacher Majima announced the exam standings, with Class 2-A in first place and Oreki's class in last place; the Ryuuen Class also faced a 50-Class-Point penalty for finishing last.
• Chabashira presented Class 2-C's standings and announced that Hokkaido had been selected as the School Trip destination by three votes.
• Chabashira told the students that the trip would have no Class Point special exam, then instructed them to rank all 156 second-year students within an hour.
• Teacher Majima explained that students in Oreki's class had to rank the other 155 students anonymously using their own standards.
• Oreki suspected the ranking task was not a genuine assessment, though he believed the school had a purpose for assigning it.

Oreki learned the School Trip rules and received his mixed-class group assignment, while Sakayanagi was unhappy that she and Kamuro had been separated. After hearing that Ichika Amasawa was preparing to skip a written exam, Oreki visited Chairman Sakayanagi, who began discussing Arisu’s health and handed him a small box.

• Oreki ranked students by overall ability, and Teacher Majima explained that the Hokkaido School Trip would begin in a week and that eight-person groups would be formed using the rankings.
• The system assigned Oreki to a group with Hayato Kito, Yamamura, Masumi Kamuro, Mako Amikura, Kikyou Kushida, Ryuuen, and Daichi Ishizaki; Horikita Suzune, Rei Ibuki, and two other students formed a four-person group.
• Arisu Sakayanagi noted that Kamuro had been assigned to Oreki’s group, while Kamuro worried that she might have to wash Oreki’s clothes as she had during the Uninhabited Island exam.
• Oreki received a message from Ichika Amasawa saying that Arisu had called her to a meeting and that she was preparing to skip the first-years’ written exam.
• Oreki visited Chairman Sakayanagi, who said Arisu’s health had greatly improved, warned that her personality could become extreme, and gave Oreki a small box while mentioning Manabu Horikita’s effort to block contraceptives from the Shopping District.

Oreki accepted Chairman Sakayanagi’s awkwardly personal gift before the second-year students set off for their school trip to Hokkaido. On the bus, Kushida started introductions, Ryuuen brought up his goal of collecting 800 million points, and Oreki checked how acquaintances in other groups might fare.

• Chairman Sakayanagi gave Oreki a box of condoms and urged him to make good use of it, and Oreki accepted it out of politeness.
• On the 11th, the second-year students gathered with their belongings and were divided into groups before boarding buses for the airport; Oreki joined Group 15 with Kamuro, Kito, Yamabuki, Ryuuen, and others.
• Kamuro offered Oreki food and water on the bus, prompting Ryuuen to tease him about his comfortable life.
• Kushida suggested that the group introduce themselves, and Oreki, Kamuro, and Ryuuen shared their names and hobbies or goals.
• Ryuuen told the group that Oreki had once collected 100 million points, but Oreki explained inwardly that his Private Points balance was now zero after converting his points into cash.
• Oreki checked other groups on his phone and worried that Sakura might face questions from Class B students, while Karuizawa’s group included Manabe and her friends.

Oreki learned to ski with Kushida’s help during the school trip in Hokkaido, then overheard a boy confessing to a girl at the inn. When Kushida invited him out, he instead messaged Sakayanagi that he would not visit her that night and suggested they enjoy the snowy scenery the next day.

• Oreki watched the skiers and admitted he had never skied before, while Ryuuen also struggled to keep up appearances.
• Ichinose offered to teach Oreki, then fled in embarrassment after her classmates teased her about her wording.
• Kushida taught Oreki to ski, and he later went to the hot spring while Ryuuen and the others played table tennis.
• Oreki overheard a boy earnestly confessing to a petite girl, then decided to go find Sakayanagi.
• Kushida messaged Oreki asking where he was, but he contacted Sakayanagi instead and said he would not visit that night.

Sakayanagi Arisu waited in her private room, interpreting the snowy view as a possible confession, while Oreki met Kushida to help her vent. Instead of taking her outside to kick things, Oreki offered her test papers and tutoring, and reassured her that he did not want her to change.

• Sakayanagi Arisu watched the snowfall from her room and thought Oreki had likely gone to help Kushida instead of visiting her.
• Oreki met Kushida in a rented room after arranging for Horikita to cover the cost.
• Oreki explained that he had changed his plan to take Kushida outside and offered test papers as a safer way for her to vent.
• Kushida refused to do problems and said she did not want to change herself.
• Oreki told Kushida he liked her darker side and did not want her to become only an angelic version of herself.