Chapter Summaries

Oreki used a clue from his quest to identify a hidden world, then investigated Shuchiin Academy’s long-term truants. Kaguya Shinomiya named four students, including Masuzu Natsukawa and Kurumi Tokisaki, leaving Oreki with several leads to pursue.

• Oreki learned from Ms. Sakurajima that Yuki Morikawa had sung “White Album,” allowing him to identify White Album 1 as a newly integrated world, though the system marked it unimportant.
• Oreki used his Task Supplement Card and received the hint “Shuchiin Academy’s truancy list.”
• Oreki told the Student Council he wanted to address truancy across Shuchiin Academy’s divisions and proposed coordinating with their student council presidents.
• Kaguya Shinomiya listed four long-term truants: Extra A, Extra B, Masuzu Natsukawa, and Kurumi Tokisaki, noting that the police had been notified about Kurumi.

Oreki identified Kurumi Tokisaki as a supernatural-world target, then accepted a timed mission to overhear Kaguya Shinomiya’s elder brother scheming. With Ai Hayasaka’s help, he obtained a photo of the Shinomiya main residence and teleported there, arriving above the hall where the family discussed important matters.

• Oreki entered Oreshura and Date A Live into the system and identified Kurumi Tokisaki as a supernatural existence.
• The system assigned Oreki a mission to overhear Kaguya Shinomiya’s elder brother scheming within a limited time.
• Oreki asked Kaguya about the Shinomiya main residence, and Ai Hayasaka redirected the conversation after noticing Kaguya’s discomfort.
• Oreki explained to Ai Hayasaka that he wanted Kaguya to gain her family’s recognition so she could later look after Ichinose, and Hayasaka sent him a photo of the residence.
• Oreki used Teleportation from a restroom stall and appeared on the roof above the Shinomiya family’s meeting hall.

Oreki recorded Kaguya Shinomiya’s brothers plotting to cut her out of the family inheritance, then sent the recording to Ai Hayasaka and declared that he would support Kaguya. After completing his mission and receiving a puppetry ability, he returned to Shuchiin Academy in high spirits.

• Oreki eavesdropped on Kaguya’s brothers planning to provoke her into eloping so they could deny her a share of the Shinomiya fortune.
• Oreki completed the ten-minute mission and received Shinomiya Family Special-Grade Puppetry, which could banish a target and control a simulated body.
• Oreki sent his recording to Ai Hayasaka, who questioned whether it was authentic and panicked when he revealed he knew she had been ordered to report on Kaguya.
• Oreki told Hayasaka he would stand with Kaguya and considered using his new ability to make her brothers surrender their inheritance claims.
• Oreki returned to the Student Council, cleared his accumulated paperwork in a good mood, and carried Rio Futaba’s books at the library.

Oreki encountered Reine Murasame and learned that she was fixated on a friend who had died by suicide. A hidden quest tasked him with saving that friend in Itomori Town, leaving him to pursue the mission before his time-space travel ability was taken away.

• Oreki told Futaba that suppressing her personality and interests could cause a backlash, then noticed Reine Murasame approaching.
• Oreki left Futaba with the book bags and went into the rain to speak with Reine Murasame.
• Reine Murasame said she had been thinking about her friend, who had died by suicide three years earlier, and that she wanted to see her again.
• Oreki learned that Reine Murasame's friend was named Takari and had died in Itomori Town.
• The system assigned Oreki a three-month hidden quest to go to Itomori Town and save Bailixiang, with loss of time-space travel as the penalty.

Oreki confirmed that Your Name was one of the fused worlds and used his new skill to take control of a puppet based on Mitsuha Miyamizu. He woke in Mitsuha’s body in the past, intending to use her connection to Reine Murasame’s friend’s suicide to address Reine’s emotional trouble.

• Oreki entered Your Name into the system quest, completed it, and received an Overtime Card and a skill that could max out one human technical skill.
• Oreki left Rio Futaba at the bookstore and gave Reine Murasame an umbrella, then returned to his villa and chose Mitsuha Miyamizu as his target.
• Oreki used the Scarecrow Puppet and woke in a room in Mitsuha’s home, where Yotsuha Miyamizu called her to breakfast.
• Oreki sensed Mitsuha lying beside a lake and discovered that his current body was a puppet projected from a clay figure modeled after her.
• Oreki tested his control by altering the puppet’s hair and body, then put on Mitsuha’s school uniform and went downstairs.

Oreki adjusted to living as Mitsuha in the Miyamizu household, learned more about the family’s estrangement from Mitsuha’s father, and walked toward school with Yotsuba. The chapter ended when Mitsuha’s friends Sayaka and Kawahara arrived and noticed Oreki acting strangely.

• Oreki sat with Grandma and Yotsuba for breakfast, hinting that he was a Tokyo boy whose memories felt blurred, and Grandma calmly accepted his behavior.
• Oreki walked downhill with Yotsuba, who said Mitsuha was usually withdrawn and urged her to help reconcile Grandma and their father.
• Oreki asked Yotsuba to let her hair down, praised her appearance, then tied her twin-tails back before she headed toward elementary school.
• Yotsuba left Oreki at the fork in the road after warning Sayaka and Kawahara that her older sister was acting weird.
• Sayaka and Kawahara arrived on a bicycle and questioned Oreki about what had happened.

Oreki, controlling Mitsuha’s body, intervened in her father’s mayoral campaign and enlisted Sayaka and Kawahara to help him navigate school. He left Sayaka reconsidering her dream of moving to Tokyo after describing its costs and crowded trains.

• Oreki tied Mitsuha’s hair into a ponytail and noticed that few people in Itomori seemed to have phones.
• After students mocked Mitsuha, Oreki used the campaign loudspeaker to praise her father and frighten the mockers with his status as the mayor’s child.
• Oreki told Sayaka and Kawahara that he was a Tokyo boy whose soul had switched bodies with Mitsuha, and they agreed to help him at school.
• Sayaka asked Oreki about Tokyo, and he described its high living costs and packed trains until she reconsidered leaving the countryside.

Oreki, disguised as Mitsuha in 2018, learned about an absent classical literature teacher and tried to find out how to contact Takari. He skipped ahead to art class, where he questioned the painter Sojiro about the prices his work had fetched.

• Sayaka told Oreki that the beautiful classical literature teacher Koyuki had been absent for two weeks after reportedly clashing with third-year girls.
• Oreki noted the year was 2018 and reasoned that Takari’s reported suicide was still a year away, then asked Teacher Ito to borrow a phone.
• After learning the school phone was broken, Oreki considered asking for leave to use the mayor’s office phone and realized Mitsuha’s father had invited Sojiro to teach art.
• Oreki decided he wanted to protect Yotsuba and Mitsuha from a self-sacrificing family life like the one he associated with Kiritsugu Emiya.
• In art class, Oreki judged Sojiro’s paintings and asked how much they sold for; Sojiro said his three sales that year ranged from 300,000 to 1.2 million yen.

Sojiro recognized Mitsuha Miyamizu’s painting as promising and sent her out to sketch, giving Oreki an excuse to seek information about Takari at the mayor’s office. Rain drove Oreki to shelter in a park pavilion, where he met a beautiful, unusual woman reading poetry.

• Sojiro graded the students’ paintings and selected Mitsuha Miyamizu for individual instruction because he saw potential in her work.
• Sojiro summoned Mitsuha Miyamizu and asked her to make a sketch, lending her supplies and telling her to return before school ended.
• Oreki left school with the drawing board, planning to use his sketching errand to visit the mayor’s office and learn about Takari.
• Rain forced Oreki to take shelter in a park pavilion, where he met a woman who offered him a tissue.
• Oreki noticed the woman was holding a collection of poems by Tsangyang Gyatso and read the verse on its open page.

Oreki discovered that the woman he had been searching for was Yukino Takari, whose future suicide could trigger a supernatural phenomenon in Reine Murasame. After receiving a hidden quest to hold Takari’s hand for ten minutes, he began using a painting as a way to earn her trust and create a chance to help her.

• Oreki borrowed Takari’s phone and recognized the contact name Reine Murasame, then learned that Takari was the woman he had been looking for.
• Oreki reasoned that preventing Takari’s suicide could stop the supernatural phenomenon that might affect Reine Murasame.
• The system gave Oreki a hidden quest to maintain contact with Takari’s hands for ten minutes, with a fifteen-minute time limit.
• Oreki decided to use an art project to make Takari comfortable and create an opportunity to hold her hand.
• Oreki began painting a black base layer and told Takari that he wanted to draw something to cheer her up.

Oreki used his max-level painting skill to captivate Yukino Takari and guide her through painting, completing a hidden quest that increased his Out-of-Body Experience time limit. He left the pavilion after giving Yukino the painting and saying he would return to sketch the next day.

• Oreki chose painting as his specialty and quickly created an impressive rainy landscape while Yukino watched.
• Oreki repeated the painting demonstration and guided Yukino's hand, completing a hidden quest that tripled his out-of-body time limit.
• Yukino praised the painting and accepted it from Oreki, unaware that his skill had drawn her into art.
• Oreki painted a deliberately poor assignment piece and spoke with Yukino about how people could be different without being treated as outsiders.
• As the rain eased, Oreki asked to take back the first painting for treatment, then left the pavilion and said he would return the next day.

Oreki visited the mayor’s office and spoke with Grandma about the Miyamizu family’s mysterious body-swapping ability. He then tested whether he could use Out-of-Body Experience while inhabiting Mitsuha’s puppet body, and discovered that he could float and move his soul.

• Oreki went to the mayor’s office, learned the mayor was raising election funds, and considered helping him secure reelection for Mitsuha’s sake.
• Oreki returned home and asked Grandma whether gods existed; she explained that Miyamizu women mysteriously swapped bodies with someone who might become their future husband.
• Oreki compared the family’s body-swapping ability to Puberty Syndrome and told Grandma that a teacher had encouraged his drawing.
• Oreki used Out-of-Body Experience while lying in Mitsuha’s puppet body and found that he could move his soul up and down through the room.

Oreki explored Itomori as a soul, concluded that the world had no gods or supernatural disturbances, and returned to Mitsuha’s life with a new interest in painting. After Teacher Sojiro praised his sketch and classmates gossiped about his special training, Oreki displayed a striking painting at school, where Koyuki’s arrival caused a stir.

• Oreki left his body, explored Itomori Lake and the town, and concluded that no gods or supernatural forces existed in the world.
• Oreki returned to Mitsuha’s puppet body, showed Teacher Sojiro his sketch, and received lavish praise and an offer of further training.
• At home, Oreki spoke with Yotsuba about their father and considered making paintings to ease Mitsuha’s life when she returned.
• On the way to school, Oreki met Sayaka and Kawahara, who discussed Teacher Sojiro’s plans to train Mitsuha.
• After classmates spread rumors about Mitsuha, Oreki painted a starry night scene and silenced their criticism by displaying it.
• Koyuki arrived at school, drawing everyone’s attention.

Oreki learned that Yukino Takari had been ostracized over rumors and found her hesitating outside the school gate. He brought her inside and warned her not to trust the men at school, leaving Takari wondering why he said that.

• Sayaka told Oreki that third-year girls and their parents had boycotted Yukino after accusing her of seducing a student's boyfriend, and that the school had not defended her.
• Oreki left class to approach Yukino, but Teacher Ito reached her first and greeted her at the gate.
• Oreki interrupted Ito, took Yukino by the wrist, and led her into the school, telling Ito to return to teaching.
• Oreki warned Yukino to stay away from Ito and not trust any man at the school, and Yukino asked why.

Oreki helped Takari explain why she had withdrawn from teaching after students falsely accused her and ostracized her. He resolved to help her return by creating a place where she could belong, and asked her to paint another picture.

• Oreki told Takari that he understood why she used makeup to make her appearance less striking, and she admitted that she was in pain.
• Takari explained that a third-year student had falsely accused her of pursuing the student's boyfriend, leading girls to boycott her lessons and making her afraid to enter school.
• Takari revealed that she had come to school hoping to find Sojiro and ask him to frame the painting Oreki had given her.
• Oreki hurried back to class for Sojiro's art supplies, then returned to Takari and told her to stay where she was.
• Oreki told Takari he would create a place where she could belong and asked her to paint another picture so they could change her reputation.

Oreki painted Takari’s portrait and devised a plan to repair her reputation by presenting the artwork as a gift from someone close to her. He began producing more paintings for an exhibition, leaving Takari stunned by his ability to paint six canvases at once.

• Oreki pointed out Takari’s insecurities and taste disorder, then began painting while describing his work as art therapy.
• Oreki painted Takari beneath a cherry blossom tree and told her to claim her boyfriend had given her the portrait when she asked Teacher Sojiro to appraise it.
• Oreki explained that presenting Takari as having an outstanding boyfriend would undermine rumors that she was pursuing an ordinary countryside boy.
• Oreki set up six easels and painted six pictures simultaneously, shocking Takari with his speed.
• After class, Takari handed Oreki her scented handkerchief while he washed paint from his hands.

Oreki helped Takari bring her seven paintings to Sojiro, where the teachers marveled at their quality and learned they were supposedly gifts from her boyfriend. Sojiro declared each painting worth tens or hundreds of millions, and the staff’s view of Takari began to shift.

• Oreki accompanied Takari to the staff office so she could ask Sojiro to mount her paintings, and she entered despite feeling anxious.
• When Takari froze and could not speak, Oreki drew Sojiro’s attention to the paintings and asked him to look at them.
• Sojiro examined the seven paintings, praised their technique, and warned the teachers not to touch them.
• Oreki asked who had painted the works, and Takari said her boyfriend had left them for her while visiting town.
• Sojiro valued each painting at tens or hundreds of millions, stunning the teachers and prompting them to react to Takari’s supposed relationship.

Oreki helped Yukino Takari overcome the rumors by arranging an exhibition of her paintings, which made Itomori Town famous and helped Mitsuha's father win reelection. At the lake, Oreki revealed that he came from four years in the future and left Yukino with a painting for Mitsuha as he prepared to say goodbye.

• Oreki persuaded Yukino to lend her paintings to an exhibition, and Sojiro brought Mayor Miyamizu to secure her agreement.
• Mayor Miyamizu promoted the exhibition, drawing experts and media to Itomori Town and making Yukino and Takari famous.
• The exhibition helped Mitsuha's father win reelection, while Aizawa and her boyfriend were mocked and Takari was no longer condemned.
• At the lake, Oreki told Yukino he was not Mitsuha but a painter from four years in the future, and asked her to give his painting to Mitsuha Miyamizu.
• Oreki said Yukino's setback had been overcome, then prepared to leave as his hidden quest to resolve Reine Murasame's emotional knot stood at 99.9% progress.

Oreki returned to his own body, discovered that the hidden quest to eliminate Reine Murasame’s emotional knot was still 99% complete, and teleported to Itomori Lake. There he reunited with Mitsuha Miyamizu, now four years older, after pretending to drown so she would rescue him.

• Oreki left Mitsuha’s body and returned to his room, while Yukino found that Mitsuha had vanished and met a Mitsuha who did not recognize her.
• Oreki saw Rio Futaba’s message and asked Kamuro to help her move books at the bookstore.
• Oreki checked the hidden quest to save Bailixiang in Itomori Town, saw its three-month deadline and 99% progress, and teleported to Itomori Lake.
• Oreki spotted Mitsuha on the shore, faked a leg cramp, and called for help.
• Mitsuha jumped into the lake to rescue Oreki, and he warned her that her soaked coat could make swimming dangerous.

Houtarou Oreki reunited with Mitsuha Miyamizu in Itomori and visited her family, where Hitoha recognized him and invited him to accompany them to the shrine’s divine body. Mitsuha explained how the town’s tourism growth had also revived Miyamizu Shrine, leaving Oreki to reflect on her father’s role in its recovery.

• Oreki met Mitsuha while she cleaned trash beside Itomori Lake and said he had come to search for a god.
• Oreki told Mitsuha that tourists had come to paint because her painting and her father’s promotion of tourism had made the town famous.
• Mitsuha brought Oreki to her home, where Hitoha recognized him as the person who had asked whether gods existed.
• Hitoha invited Oreki to join her and Mitsuha on a trip to the mountain the next day to pay respects at the divine body.
• Mitsuha told Oreki that her father had stopped pursuing the mayor’s office and that the shrine had grown lively as a tourist destination.
• Oreki realized that Mitsuha’s father had helped Miyamizu Shrine recover by supporting Itomori’s development after a fire damaged the shrine and destroyed its records.