Chapter Summaries

Horikita Suzune was pressured by Sae Chabashira into leading Class D to Class B in exchange for five million points, with Chabashira threatening to expose her connection to Manabu Horikita. Oreki comforted Horikita and questioned Chabashira’s true goal, and Horikita asked him for help, offering him half the points.

• Horikita Suzune went to the rooftop intending to refuse Sae Chabashira, but Chabashira revealed she knew Horikita was Manabu Horikita’s younger sister and threatened that he could be endangered if others found out.
• Horikita recorded Chabashira demanding that she lead Class D to Class B and offering her a Private Points Card containing five million points.
• Horikita asked Oreki for help, and he found her distraught in a stairwell and listened to the recording.
• Oreki returned Chabashira’s card to Horikita and reassured her that the task was manageable, while suspecting Chabashira’s real ambition was to raise Class D to Class A.
• Horikita asked Oreki to help her and offered him half of the five million points.

Oreki and Horikita Suzune checked the Private Points Card Teacher Chabashira had given her and discovered it held only 100,000 points rather than 5 million. Oreki concluded Chabashira was testing Horikita’s ability to raise Class D while disguising the task’s real reward, and he ended the chapter by confirming the school did not monitor students’ phone records.

• Horikita asked Oreki to help lead Class D, and he demanded 80 percent of the 5 million points on her card.
• Oreki told Horikita to hide her points, then scanned the card and found it contained only 100,000 points.
• Horikita explained she would have delayed scanning the card to avoid drawing attention, leading Oreki to realize Chabashira had misrepresented its balance to test her.
• Oreki inferred that Chabashira wanted Horikita to lead Class D toward Class B while risking only 100,000 points.
• Oreki asked Horikita’s brother Manabu whether the school monitored phone records, and Manabu said it generally monitored only students’ personal accounts.

Oreki inferred that Chabashira had another student in Class D with hidden leadership potential and decided to undermine her plans. After the system gave him a quest to destroy Chabashira’s ambition, he resolved to keep Class D from rising, while Class A began splitting into rival factions.

• Oreki deduced that Chabashira wanted Horikita Suzune to improve Class D before persuading a hidden-capable student, possibly Kōenji, to lead it.
• Oreki triggered a quest to destroy Chabashira’s ambition, and Horikita refused to continue her teacher’s task.
• Oreki told Horikita that they should make Chabashira understand Class D could not rise, preventing her from calling on its hidden talent.
• Oreki returned to Class A and found Sakayanagi Arisu, Kamuro Masumi, Hashimoto Masayoshi, and Kito Hayato grouped together while Katsuragi and his supporters sat apart.
• Majima noticed that Class A had begun dividing into factions despite maintaining a commanding lead in class points.

Oreki discussed the anonymous one-million-Point transfer with Sakayanagi and said he would return the money if its sender made a troublesome request. After school, Kushida shared information about the upcoming written exam and seniors selling old exam papers, while Horikita seemed unusually stiff.

• Oreki told Sakayanagi that he could not identify the sender of the one-million-Point transfer and would refuse any troublesome request, then return the Points with extra.
• Oreki considered how he would soon gather twenty million Points by squeezing Points from second-years and use them to obtain his superpower reward and cash.
• Sakayanagi said she wished Oreki were in another class so she could try to crush him.
• Oreki met Kushida and Horikita after school, and Kushida remarked that Horikita had seemed stiff all afternoon.
• Kushida told Oreki that the upcoming written exam reused papers from ten years earlier and that seniors sold copies for about fifty thousand Points.

Oreki arranged for Kushida to buy and distribute old exam papers while building connections with the upperclassmen, planning to use the transaction to pressure Teacher Chabashira. By the seventh, Kushida had obtained and shared the papers with Class 1-D.

• Kushida reported that upperclassmen would take exams at the same time and that their tests used old questions, but she had not bought the papers herself.
• Oreki gave Kushida one hundred thousand points to buy the papers and develop ties with third-year students, advising her to hide excess points on a Private Points Card.
• Horikita asked what they should do, and Oreki told her to wait until around the fourteenth so the test-paper scheme could force the school to change the exam and unsettle Teacher Chabashira.
• Kushida later earned one hundred thousand points by buying the old papers and, on the seventh, copied and distributed them to Class 1-D as review materials.

After students learned that the upcoming exam might reuse old questions, the four classes chose different ways to prepare. Class B and Class A kept their study groups, while Class D relied on memorizing the old papers and Class C’s Ryuuen considered whether to encourage contact with other classes.

• Hirata investigated Kikyou Kushida’s claim and learned that exams from the previous two years used the same questions, with content differing from current textbooks by thirty percent.
• Class D students celebrated the apparent shortcut and focused on memorizing the old questions, while Kikyou Kushida preserved her reputation by letting Hirata and others make the decision.
• Ryuuen bought the test paper for Class C, learned that Class D students had connections with upperclassmen, and considered whether his class should interact with other classes.
• Honami Ichinose and Ryuji Kanzaki planned Class B’s study group and added questions from the purchased papers to its practice materials.
• Katsuragi Kohei decided Class A should continue its study group and distribute the old questions a week before the exam to prepare for either possibility.

Oreki met with Manabu Horikita and Nagumo Miyabi to report that first-years were relying on purchased exam papers from ten years ago instead of studying for the upcoming written exam. He left the two student leaders with the old exam papers and a warning about the first-years’ shortcut.

• Masumi Kamuro complained to Sakayanagi Arisu that her faction’s early study sessions seemed pointless because students were memorizing old exam questions, but Arisu defended the sessions as a way to build lasting knowledge.
• Oreki told Arisu that he was in a good mood because he could obtain a life-saving charm, and Kamuro offered to follow him before Arisu stopped her.
• Oreki met Horikita Suzune, took her unlocked phone, and sent Teacher Chabashira messages saying he would reject her task and defeat her.
• Oreki summoned Manabu Horikita and Nagumo Miyabi to the rooftop, where he handed them second- and third-year exam papers.
• Oreki told Manabu and Nagumo that first-years were buying ten-year-old exam papers and memorizing them to pass the written exam scheduled for the twenty-fourth.

Houtarou Oreki confronted Nagumo Miyabi and Manabu Horikita over the school’s acceptance of students buying exam papers, then publicly leaked first-year papers to force Nagumo to pay him 5.2 million points. The chapter left Nagumo facing a countdown before Oreki leaked the second-years’ papers as well.

• Nagumo Miyabi argued that buying and selling exam papers was tacitly allowed, while Manabu Horikita said Oreki could report the matter only after the exam if he had conclusive evidence.
• Oreki revealed a mechanism on the Physics Laboratory Building rooftop and demanded 5.2 million points from Nagumo on behalf of the second-years.
• Oreki tipped over a box, scattering first-year physics exam papers where students heading to lunch could see them.
• Oreki started a thirty-second countdown and threatened to leak the second-years’ papers unless Nagumo paid him.
• Manabu Horikita warned that Oreki had become the first-years’ public enemy, while Oreki argued that new exams would help Class A defeat Class C and Class D.

Oreki forced Nagumo and Manabu Horikita to pay five million Private Points each to prevent further exam-paper leaks. Nagumo paid after realizing the leak could threaten his control over the second-years, while the first-year exam leak still risked mass expulsions and Horikita’s position.

• Nagumo realized mass expulsions among the first-years could force Manabu Horikita to resign and create an opening for him to become Student Council President.
• Oreki threatened to leak the second- and third-year exam papers, and Manabu Horikita transferred five million Private Points to stop him.
• Manabu Horikita said he would collect 36,000 points from each third-year student to cover the payment and protect them from possible expulsions.
• Nagumo considered delaying payment and exposing Oreki, but Oreki refused to accept a promise to pay later.
• Nagumo transferred five million Private Points to Oreki after deciding he could not risk losing his standing among the second-years.

Houtarou Oreki tricked Nagumo Miyabi into paying him by pretending to have leaked exam papers, then revealed the papers were discarded questions from a question bank. Manabu Horikita got his points back, while Nagumo left furious and short on funds.

• Houtarou reminded Nagumo that he still owed 200,000 Private Points, and Nagumo transferred the money.
• Houtarou’s system confirmed that he had completed the 20-million-point quest and offered him the Supernatural Physique reward, which he postponed activating.
• Nagumo saw students leave the supposed leak site, and Houtarou showed him that the scattered papers were unfamiliar, outdated questions rather than real exam papers.
• Houtarou dumped more question-bank papers from the rooftop and explained that no first-year exam papers had been leaked.
• Houtarou returned Manabu Horikita’s 5 million points but kept Nagumo’s payment, leaving Nagumo to realize he had been tricked.
• Manabu told Houtarou that he had enraged Nagumo, and Akane Tachibana and Katsuragi arrived after hearing about the alleged leak.

Manabu Horikita recognized Oreki’s evidence against Nagumo as a chance to cooperate and joined the Student Council in cleaning up the discarded fake exam papers. Oreki then used Horikita Suzune’s phone to confront Sae Chabashira, leaving her wary of invoking Suzune’s connection to her brother.

• Manabu Horikita admitted he had reconsidered cooperating with Oreki after suspecting Nagumo had interfered in the third-years’ exam, and he helped Student Council members sweep up the papers.
• Oreki checked his Points and saw that he had completed his 20-million-Point quest, but a hidden quest still required him to destroy Chabashira’s ambition within a week.
• Oreki switched on Horikita Suzune’s phone and found sixty-eight missed calls from Chabashira.
• Oreki texted Chabashira that the papers were trash rather than leaked exams and challenged her over the 100,000 Points she had offered him.
• Oreki invoked Suzune’s relationship with Manabu, making Chabashira realize that Manabu was nearby and that using their sibling relationship as leverage was risky.

Oreki used Chabashira’s messages to reject her plans for saving Class D, including dragging the other classes down or buying him into the class. After returning Horikita Suzune’s phone, he transferred her 509,200 Points for taking out the trash.

• Chabashira explained how she had hoped Horikita Suzune would unite Class D and persuade Kiyotaka Ayanokouji to help lead it.
• Oreki told Chabashira that Class D could not climb the rankings and warned that deliberately dragging other classes down would lead the school to punish Class D.
• Oreki proposed the Four-Class Zero-Point Operation, but explained that the school would likely abolish Class D if it disrupted class competition.
• Chabashira offered to buy Oreki into Class D, and Oreki rejected the idea because it would not prove that Class D could save itself.
• Oreki returned Horikita Suzune’s phone and transferred her 509,200 Points for taking out the trash.

Oreki’s exam-paper scheme earned points for Horikita and Kushida while blocking Nagumo’s plan to replenish his funds. Chabashira then summoned Horikita and asked who the man behind her was, and Oreki headed to the Student Council after school.

• Horikita left after the exam-paper operation, and Oreki transferred Kushida 254,600 points as compensation.
• Kushida wondered what role she had played, while Nagumo saw Oreki’s forum post and realized it had thwarted his plan to collect points from second-years.
• Nagumo lamented his dwindling funds and tried to eat sparingly until the next point deposit.
• Chabashira called Horikita to the rooftop, where she described losing her long-held wish and asked who the man behind Horikita was.
• Oreki headed to the Student Council after school.

Oreki went to the Student Council to ask Manabu Horikita to take him to the Chairman, while Katsuragi reflected on the President’s influence over special-exam rewards. Manabu invited Oreki to help with confidential documents, but Oreki refused, leaving Kiriyama relieved and Manabu amused.

• Oreki arrived at the Student Council and met Katsuragi, who was working as secretary under Akane Tachibana.
• Oreki told Katsuragi he wanted Manabu Horikita to take him to see the Chairman.
• Manabu stopped reading his documents and asked Oreki to help process a large stack of confidential papers.
• Oreki declined, saying he was not the Student Council President, and Kiriyama felt relieved.
• Manabu seemed amused by Oreki’s refusal.

Oreki asked Chairman Sakayanagi to let him exchange his points for cash before graduation, and Manabu Horikita accompanied him to the Chairman's office. The Chairman offered Oreki a way to do it for 300,000 points, leaving the exchange awaiting Oreki's decision.

• Oreki concluded that Manabu Horikita had declined the Student Council presidency because he disliked its heavy workload.
• Oreki told Manabu Horikita he wanted to convert his 20,327,500 points into cash, but Manabu chose to wait until graduation to exchange his own points.
• Oreki and Manabu encountered Sakayanagi Arisu as she left Chairman Sakayanagi's office, and neither Oreki nor Arisu spoke to the other.
• Oreki asked Chairman Sakayanagi to exchange his points for cash in advance.
• Chairman Sakayanagi said early exchanges were normally forbidden but offered Oreki the privilege for 300,000 points.

Houtarou Oreki exchanged 20 million private points for 16 million in cash, securing a way out regardless of how he graduated. Afterward, he told Manabu Horikita about Horikita Suzune’s trouble with Teacher Chabashira, while Chairman Sakayanagi found his daughter Arisu waiting in his office.

• Chairman Sakayanagi discussed Oreki’s 20 million points with the Student Council Board, and Oreki chose to exchange them for cash rather than transfer classes.
• Oreki completed the exchange, receiving 16 million in cash, and the Chairman returned 300,000 points to his account.
• Oreki asked whether he could buy the right to exchange points for expelled students, but the Chairman refused.
• Oreki left with Manabu Horikita carrying the cash in a backpack and declined Horikita’s offer to apply for a safe.
• Oreki told Manabu Horikita that Teacher Chabashira had demanded Horikita Suzune lead Class D to Class B, and Manabu praised Oreki’s actions.
• Chairman Sakayanagi returned to his office and found his daughter, Sakayanagi Arisu, waiting there; he reflected on her congenital heart condition and the risks of surgery.

Oreki received a teleportation upgrade after completing a hidden quest and kept his body-enhancement ability in reserve. The next day, Kamuro approached him at lunch, apparently to bring him to Sakayanagi, leaving Oreki wondering what she wanted.

• Sakayanagi Arisu asked her father what Oreki wanted, and the Chairman said he had not disclosed their relationship to him.
• Oreki received a reward that let him teleport to places whose coordinates he knew or whose photographs he had seen.
• Oreki declined to use his three-day Superpower Modification ability until he could set aside time for it.
• Oreki returned home by teleportation with his backpack full of cash and used teleportation to commute between home and school.
• At lunch, Kamuro approached Oreki in the cafeteria, and he suspected Sakayanagi wanted to speak with him.

Oreki and Sakayanagi discussed her ambition to become Student Council President and how money and Points could influence students. After lunch, Oreki contacted Horikita to pursue a way to recover one million Points, while Sakayanagi promised Kamuro a place on her future Student Council—as its pet.

• Oreki praised Sakayanagi as a genuine Class A student, and she described a scheme to manipulate an exam leak for votes if they were in different classes.
• Oreki offered to help Sakayanagi canvass votes if she ran for Student Council President, while Kamuro listened uneasily.
• Sakayanagi asked about Oreki's reduced spending, and he said he had exchanged most of his Points for cash and had less than 500,000 Points left.
• Sakayanagi said she would choose cash over Points because real money could make students more devoted to her.
• Oreki messaged Horikita to help him pursue the one million Points he wanted to recover.
• Sakayanagi told Kamuro that she would appoint her to the Student Council as its specially created pet position if she became President.

Oreki received another million private points from an unknown sender, prompting Horikita Suzune to question why he had asked for money when he already had enough. He recalled that the first anonymous million came with a possessive demand, but the new transfer had no note, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Sakayanagi Arisu told Kamuro that Oreki was pushing her toward becoming Student Council President so she would take responsibility for Class A, but she refused to give him a Student Council position.
• Manabu Horikita overheard Oreki and Sakayanagi Arisu discussing the presidency and felt conflicted that neither seemed to value the role he still held.
• Oreki met Horikita Suzune after lunch, and she stopped when his phone announced a million-point deposit from an unknown sender.
• Oreki recalled that an anonymous sender had transferred a million points on May 1 with a demand that he remain chaste, and that he had spent those points with his other twenty million.
• Oreki saw that the new million-point transfer had no note, leaving him unsure what the sender intended.

Oreki discovered that an unknown sender had given him another million points with a note telling him to spend it freely, leaving him unsettled about who was behind the gift. He spoke with Horikita about his finances and her wish to earn twenty million points, while revealing that he had already exchanged his school points for cash.

• Oreki saw that an unknown sender had transferred him another million points and told him to spend it however he liked.
• Oreki wondered whether the sender was keeping him and decided to try using his Precognitive Dream ability to discover their identity.
• Horikita mistakenly thought Oreki had spent ten million points helping her and considered dropping out to stop burdening him.
• Oreki clarified that his points were low because he had exchanged them for cash in advance, and Horikita asked whether school points could be converted into money.
• Horikita said she still wanted to earn twenty million points to prove herself and gain her brother's acknowledgment.