Recaps

Bai Lan summoned Karuizawa intending to blackmail her, but her distressed reaction made him suspect that she was actually a victim seeking Hirata’s protection. He contacted Hirata for the truth and prepared to question Karuizawa further, leaving her status unresolved.

• Bai Lan met Karuizawa by the lake and began threatening to expose her, but she misunderstood his unfinished demand to mean he wanted her to be his girlfriend.
• Karuizawa broke down and cried that she could not escape being bullied, prompting Bai Lan to reconsider whether he had mistaken her for a perpetrator.
• Bai Lan reasoned that Karuizawa might have sought Hirata’s pretend relationship to protect herself and felt uneasy about possibly hurting an innocent person.
• Bai Lan emailed and called Hirata, asking for details about Karuizawa and threatening to cause trouble in class if Hirata did not tell him the truth.
• Bai Lan planned to compare Hirata’s account with what Karuizawa told him before deciding whether she was a victim or a liar.

After learning from Hirata that Karuizawa had only sought protection rather than coercing him, Bai Lan apologized for misjudging and frightening her. He promised to keep her secret and help her feel safe, but said she did not meet his requirements to be his fake girlfriend.

• Bai Lan tried to calm the crying Karuizawa, and his warning about her exposed skirt briefly interrupted her distress.
• Karuizawa accused Bai Lan of wanting to force her into intimacy, but he clarified that he wanted a fake girlfriend only as a shield from unwanted attention.
• Karuizawa agreed to be Bai Lan's fake girlfriend because she thought they would both benefit from the arrangement.
• After reading Hirata's email, Bai Lan realized Karuizawa had asked Hirata for protection and had not coerced him, so he apologized to her.
• Bai Lan promised to keep Karuizawa's secret and help protect her, then told her she did not qualify to be his shield and left her asking what his requirements were.

Karuizawa asked Bai Lan to help protect her from bullying, but he explained why a boyfriend could not keep her safe and offered her a choice of solutions. Meanwhile, Bai Lan’s plan to reduce his influence in Class D backfired as Kushida and Horikita’s verbal battles made him the center of attention, while he continued coaching Kushida.

• Karuizawa recognized Bai Lan as principled and dependable and considered him a more reliable ally than Hirata.
• Bai Lan told Karuizawa that his fake girlfriend had to protect herself and explained that even a popular boyfriend could not guard her constantly.
• Karuizawa realized her belief that a powerful boyfriend would prevent bullying was mistaken, and Bai Lan offered her a choice between treating the symptoms and curing the root cause.
• Kushida used guerrilla tactics to provoke Horikita, and their verbal battles became a popular spectacle in Class D.
• Kushida credited Bai Lan with teaching her to roast Horikita, drawing even more attention to him and making it harder for him to lower his profile.
• Bai Lan continued privately coaching Kushida, who practiced especially harsh roasts on him and used subtler, more cutting lines against Horikita.

Bai Lan learned that Ryuen had nearly recovered and went to fight him, while Ibuki explained that she had challenged Ryuen first to defend bullied classmates. Bai Lan revealed he had been waiting to beat Ryuen again, then left Ryuen badly injured as his subordinates obeyed Ryuen’s order to stand down.

• Kushida complained to Bai Lan about Wang Meiyu and Hirata while practicing verbal attacks, and Bai Lan assigned her more information-gathering work.
• Bai Lan learned that Ryuen had brought nearly all of Class C’s brawlers under his control but was avoiding Yamada Albert and recovering from his injuries.
• On April 20, Bai Lan saw Ryuen playing basketball and judged that he had mostly healed.
• Ibuki told Bai Lan she had challenged Ryuen because he was bullying classmates, then backed away in case Bai Lan blamed her for starting the fight.
• Bai Lan said he had planned to wait for Ryuen to recover so he could beat him again, and Ryuen’s subordinates stopped advancing when Ryuen waved them back.
• Ryuen’s pain left him unable to get up, and Bai Lan regretted that he had hit him too hard and ended the fight so quickly.

Bai Lan persuaded Ibuki to let him take the next chance to fight Ryuen, then arranged for her to monitor Ryuen’s recovery and notify him. After Bai Lan left, Ryuen explained to his lackeys why he feared Bai Lan and how their past dealings left him vulnerable to further pressure.

• Ibuki wanted to challenge Ryuen, but Bai Lan convinced her that she owed him a favor for intervening and should let him fight Ryuen next.
• Bai Lan and Ibuki agreed to exchange IDs; Ibuki would alert him when Ryuen recovered, and they would later compete fairly for the next duel.
• Ryuen’s lackeys questioned why he let Bai Lan leave, and Ryuen warned them that Bai Lan was calculating and had already outmaneuvered him before.
• Ryuen told his lackeys how Bai Lan had tricked him after enrollment and claimed he had paid 500,000 points to settle the threat before it grew.
• Ryuen reasoned that Bai Lan had attacked him to collect the 420,000-point settlement compensation and one million points owed for information, while Ryuen remained unable to oppose him until he paid.

Ryuen realized Bai Lan had cornered him financially, then decided to make an alliance by offering tribute in exchange for help unifying Class C. Bai Lan rejected Ryuen’s surrender and threatened to keep beating him, leaving Ryuen pushed toward fighting back.

• Ryuen’s lackeys discussed paying his debts, but Ryuen explained that he would owe 1.42 million points and likely face further demands from Bai Lan.
• Ryuen concluded Bai Lan’s actions had left him unable to repay the debts or unify Class C without offering ongoing tribute, and he wondered whether Bai Lan had planned it all.
• Ryuen decided that Bai Lan’s pursuit of profit might benefit Class C, then emailed him an offer of debt repayment, an extra 500,000 points, and half the class’s monthly living expenses in exchange for letting him unify the class.
• Bai Lan rejected the offer, said he would keep beating Ryuen, and told him to drop out if he had the guts.

Ryuen interpreted Bai Lan’s refusal as a demand for control of Class C and offered him a share of future class gains, but Bai Lan rejected the offer by insulting Ryuen. Ryuen began to suspect that Bai Lan’s repeated phrase “someone like me” pointed to a deeper reason for refusing him.

• Ryuen reasoned that Bai Lan had refused his first offer because he wanted more than half of Class C’s living allowance and might want to command the class in profitable activities.
• Ryuen emailed Bai Lan, inviting him to name his price and offering him a share of gains from activities conducted under his leadership.
• Bai Lan rejected Ryuen’s offer, saying that someone like Ryuen had no right to cooperate with him, and expected this to provoke Ryuen into fighting him.
• Ryuen read Bai Lan’s reply and noticed that both emails used the phrase “someone like me,” leading him to question whether Bai Lan meant more than Ryuen personally.

Ryuen agreed to reform Class C and give Bai Lan most of its earnings in exchange for help raising the class’s evaluation, while Bai Lan expected the agreement to collapse by May 1. With Sakagami witnessing their contract, Ryuen claimed he had a plan to make Class C accept it while obeying the rules.

• Ryuen concluded that he needed to abandon violence and lead Class C to obey the rules if he wanted Bai Lan to cooperate with him, then offered Bai Lan most of the class’s earnings.
• Bai Lan demanded a 30,000-point monthly allowance for each student and eighty percent of the income, expecting Ryuen to reject the terms, but Ryuen accepted.
• Bai Lan reasoned that Ryuen would be unable to enforce the contract without either losing control of Class C or violating its rules, and agreed to the deal.
• Ryuen and Bai Lan signed the contract under Sakagami’s supervision after Ryuen argued that Bai Lan could use Class C’s points to defeat their enemies and protect the class.
• Sakagami asked how Ryuen would make Class C accept the agreement while following the rules, and Ryuen said he had his own ideas.

Bai Lan learned how to unlock the school’s point-to-cash exchange system, but decided to wait until he had more points. As April ended, he heard that Ryuen had returned to action, with Ibuki reporting the news.

• Bai Lan called Chazhu to ask about converting points into cash, and she explained that he needed one million points to unlock unrestricted exchanges at a rate of 0.8 yen per point.
• Bai Lan decided not to spend nearly all his remaining points on the exchange permission and planned to earn more before leaving school.
• On April 20, Kushida told Bai Lan that Class B had finally learned about the Disciplinary Inspection Month exam.
• On April 28, Bai Lan heard that Ryuen had returned at full strength, and Ibuki was the one who informed him.

Bai Lan delayed his planned fight with Ryuen until their contract ended, while Ibuki agreed to challenge Ryuen first. At school, Kushida accidentally revealed her unrestrained side in front of Class D, and Hasebe praised her performance.

• Bai Lan remembered his agreement with Ibuki and asked her to wait until May 1 before he fought Ryuen, but she accepted the chance to challenge Ryuen first.
• Bai Lan arrived at Class D and found Kushida arguing with Horikita in the aisle to his seat.
• Bai Lan poked Kushida to get her attention, and she called him an idiot and a pervert before realizing the whole class had heard her.
• Bai Lan completed Kushida's familiar insult with “Shut up,” prompting Kushida to blush and retreat to her seat.
• Hasebe told Kushida that she liked both her smile and her spirited argument with Bai Lan.

Kushida practiced roasting Hasebe and Wang Meiyu, whose requests helped her loosen up and enjoy insulting people. Their friends’ reactions spread a rumor that enduring Kushida’s verbal attacks proved someone was truly her friend.

• Hasebe asked Kushida to roast her, and Kushida gradually stopped holding back during their practice.
• Wang Meiyu interrupted them, then asked Kushida to roast her to prove their friendship.
• Kushida called Wang Meiyu an idiot, and Wang Meiyu happily treated it as proof of their unbreakable bond.
• Hasebe reasoned that enduring more roasting showed a closer relationship, prompting Wang Meiyu to ask Kushida to continue.
• A rumor spread that people had to endure Kushida’s insults without resentment to prove they were her friends, and Kushida’s refusal to deny it was taken as confirmation.

After Kushida’s true nature was exposed, she managed her new invitations and friendships while worrying about trusting people in private. Bai Lan learned Ibuki’s planned fight with Ryuen had never been scheduled, and Kushida later concluded that Bai Lan had orchestrated her rise in popularity to teach her the Dark Side Favor Harvesting Method.

• Kushida rejected most requests for private verbal sparring, accepting only trusted girls and arranging group practice sessions.
• Bai Lan hid near the proposed fight location, then called Ibuki and learned Ryuen had rejected her challenge that morning.
• Ibuki explained Ryuen’s reasons for refusing the fight, while Bai Lan wondered why she had given him the time and place anyway.
• After a packed day, Kushida finished replying to practice requests and emailed Bai Lan about her exhaustion.
• Kushida decided Bai Lan had engineered the events that exposed her private side and helped her gain favor, and believed he had taught her the Dark Side Favor Harvesting Method through experience.

Bai Lan navigated Kushida’s strange emails and tried to stay inconspicuous during the first exam, while suspecting the school had included out-of-syllabus questions. After Ryuen repaid his one-million-point debt, their disagreement over whether Bai Lan might trade Class C’s evaluation for points left their cooperation on the verge of ending.

• Kushida emailed Bai Lan her thoughts and thanks, while Bai Lan wondered why her revealed hidden side had made her more popular.
• On April 30, Bai Lan took the five-subject exam and deliberately aimed for modest scores, but found that about a fifth of the questions in multiple subjects were beyond the syllabus.
• Ryuen called Bai Lan after school and repaid the one-million-point debt, and Bai Lan marked the IOU as paid before handing it over.
• Bai Lan explained that sacrificing Class C’s evaluation could sometimes earn him more points, and Ryuen threatened to terminate their contract.
• Bai Lan readily agreed to end the contract, leaving Ryuen silent as he considered how Class C could deny Bai Lan any benefit.

Bai Lan’s deal with Ryuen continued after Ryuen decided to trust him, while Class D’s reduced monthly living expenses sparked a dispute over who was responsible for the deductions. Bai Lan arrived as the argument grew, leaving the class divided over compensation.

• Ryuen decided that Bai Lan’s suspicious proposal was a test and agreed to sell points if the price was right.
• Bai Lan entered First-year Class D on May 1 and found students arguing over the sharp cut in their living expenses.
• Class D students who believed they had followed the rules demanded compensation from classmates who had been late or skipped class.
• Students targeted over obvious violations denied blame, while others joined the dispute or defended them to protect themselves from future demands.
• Hirata tried to mediate the conflict, but the students continued arguing over the money.

Bai Lan explained how he had preserved Class D’s living expenses and turned Ike’s attempt to involve him in a compensation dispute into a push for a fair review of everyone’s violations. The morning meeting began before the class could settle the issue, and Teacher Chazhu entered looking unusually buoyant.

• Bai Lan recalled that he had preserved much of Class D’s living expenses so his planned future violations would not leave the class owing him.
• Ike tried to draw Bai Lan into the dispute over compensating students who had skipped class, arrived late, or left early, hoping to protect his own living expenses.
• Bai Lan signaled to Hirata that he would retaliate, then argued that compensation should account for all violations rather than just skipping class, lateness, and leaving early.
• Students from both factions admitted uncertainty about their rule-breaking and called for an investigation into the class’s point deductions.
• Bai Lan proposed asking Teacher Chazhu to review the detailed deductions, but the morning bell interrupted the discussion.
• Teacher Chazhu entered the classroom with a faint spring in her step, which Bai Lan noticed.

Chabashira explained how the school’s April special examination determined Class D’s living expenses and revealed the rules behind class points. Bai Lan realized the class’s unexpectedly strong result could make his classmates depend on him, threatening his plan to drop out.

• Chabashira celebrated Class D’s historic advancement and considered using school information and points to keep Bai Lan interested in helping the class.
• Bai Lan worried that Class D’s success might make his classmates treat him as the key to escaping mediocrity and obstruct his dropout plan.
• Chabashira began explaining that each class started with 1,000 points and that April’s examination secretly deducted points for rule violations.
• Chabashira said class points determined monthly living expenses at a rate of 100 personal points per class point, meaning a 1,000-point score yielded 100,000 points.

Chabashira explained that only Class A at graduation could receive the school's promised education and employment benefits, and revealed the classes' points after the first special exam. Class D's students took heart at Class C's low score, while Bai Lan realized Ryuen could keep their alliance contract without collecting any taxes.

• Chabashira told Class D that class rankings determined which students could graduate with the school's guarantee, and only Class A would qualify.
• Hirata asked how the guarantee was awarded, and Chabashira explained that only students in Class A at graduation would receive it.
• Yukimura and other students protested that the rules had not been disclosed, but Chabashira told them they could withdraw and continue at an ordinary high school.
• Chabashira announced that Class D had 620 points and Class C had 120, making Class D students newly attentive to the rankings.
• Bai Lan realized that Class C's low points meant Ryuen did not have to collect the contract's minimum tax, so Bai Lan could not use a breach to end their alliance.

Bai Lan wondered why Class C had fallen to 120 points, while Ryuen had deliberately lowered the class’s score to keep their contract viable and win the students’ acceptance. Ryuen prepared to present the partnership as a path to better living conditions, after targeting Classes A and B to limit the damage to Class C’s ranking.

• Bai Lan learned that Class C had only 120 points and suspected either Sakayanagi or Ryuen had caused the loss.
• Sakagami announced Class C’s score, and Ryuen privately celebrated because he had intentionally let it fall.
• Ryuen recalled that he had first considered collecting class fees and borrowing points to pay Bai Lan, but abandoned the plan as too risky.
• Ryuen used Bai Lan’s idea of trading class evaluations for benefits to devise a plan that lowered Classes A and B’s scores as well as Class C’s.
• Ryuen planned to use Class C’s financial hardship to persuade the students to accept the contract and secure a guaranteed 30,000 points each month.

Ryuen manipulated Class C into accepting a points contract and took responsibility for his earlier fight with Bai Lan, leaving Class C with only 120 points. Class D finished second with 620 points and was promoted to Class B, while Teacher Chazhu watched Bai Lan closely and found he seemed unhappy about the result.

• Ryuen had his underlings lead students in Classes B and A astray to deduct class points, then admitted to starting his fight with Bai Lan so Class C would take the penalty.
• At midnight, Class A had 890 points, Class B had 580, Class C had 120, and Class D had 620.
• Hoshinomiya lamented that Class D had overtaken Class B, while Ichinose comforted her and the class.
• Teacher Chazhu announced that Class D had ranked second and would be promoted to Class B under the new rules.
• Bai Lan tried to hide in the classroom after hearing the results, and Teacher Chazhu observed that he did not seem happy.

Chabashira celebrated Class D’s unprecedented rise to Class B, then feared Bai Lan would turn against the class when its students downplayed his contribution. She tried to warn them that their success might not last, but Horikita Suzune challenged her explanation by attributing the different results to ability.

• Chabashira told Class D that it had made history by advancing two levels in its first month, and the students cheered.
• Class D members credited their shared effort for the success, while Bai Lan privately felt relieved that they had not forgotten their own contributions.
• Chabashira misread Bai Lan’s reaction as resentment and imagined he might retaliate against the class, so she warned the students they would soon fall back to Class D.
• Hirata asked Chabashira to explain her warning, and she pointed out that every class had started with 1,000 points but Class D’s rapid promotion was unprecedented.
• Horikita Suzune spoke up for the first time about class affairs, saying the different results came down to ability.

Chabashira explained that students were assigned to classes according to their records and announced D Class’s test results, revealing widespread low scores and the risk of expulsion at the midterms. With the class looking to Bai Lan for help, he said avoiding expulsion was simple: they only had to pass.

• Horikita challenged Chabashira’s claim that D Class held the least useful students, but Chabashira confirmed the school ranked students using entrance exams, interviews, and past records.
• Horikita and several classmates protested their placements, then examined the test results posted on the blackboard; Horikita, Kogenji, and Yukimura scored above ninety, while Bai Lan’s seventy-one placed him seventh in class.
• Bai Lan congratulated Ayanokoji for raising his score to fifty-one, and Chabashira announced that D Class averaged sixty-four points with eight students below the failing mark of thirty-two.
• Chabashira warned that students who failed any subject on the midterms on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth would be expelled, costing the class points.
• Kogenji mocked the low-scoring students, and Chabashira reminded the class that Bai Lan had shared answers before their earlier rise in rank.
• Bai Lan told the anxious class that avoiding expulsion was simple: they only had to pass.

Bai Lan proposed controlling the class average so that everyone could pass the midterms, but his classmates argued over the risks and unfairness of the plan. After Hirata calmed them, Bai Lan asked Teacher Chazhu for the class’s detailed point deductions from the previous month, and she refused to disclose them.

• Hirata asked Bai Lan for a way to help classmates who were at risk of dropping out, and Bai Lan suggested cheating or deliberately controlling scores.
• Bai Lan explained that the class could lower the average so the passing score would fall, prompting Hirata and many students to celebrate.
• Students with safer grades objected, and the class argued over the risks of deliberately scoring low and the possibility of school penalties or rule changes.
• Hirata calmed the arguing classmates while Bai Lan watched.
• Bai Lan asked Teacher Chazhu for the detailed point deductions from the previous month, but she said she could not freely disclose them.

Bai Lan pushed Class D to establish strict rewards and punishments for disciplinary violations, then revealed how costly each violation was to the class. When classmates pointed out that he had the most points deducted, the records showed he had stopped breaking rules after three initial violations.

• Bai Lan transferred 100,000 points and ordered the class to receive a detailed accounting of disciplinary deductions.
• Bai Lan argued that Class D needed firm rules and impartial rewards and punishments before it could control its exam score.
• The class received the previous month's deduction records, and Bai Lan calculated that one violation could cost the class at least 1.4 million points over the remaining school term.
• Classmates noticed Bai Lan had lost 50 points and challenged his authority to oversee the penalties.
• Students examined Bai Lan's record and realized he had committed only three initial violations and had not broken the rules afterward.

Bai Lan established a system of class rewards, penalties, and a shared fund to encourage Class D to contribute and protect its points. With Kogenji expressing interest and no one objecting, Bai Lan began setting the first fines, leaving the class ready to put his plan into practice.

• Bai Lan said he would personally bear the 7 million points lost through his rule violations and introduced rewards for students who contributed to Class D.
• Bai Lan proposed educational penalties for violations and warned that students who refused the class rules would lose the class’s protection and could be expelled.
• Bai Lan suggested funding class work through fines and a class fund, with a paid Finance Minister overseeing the money.
• Kogenji called Bai Lan’s plan interesting if it could work, and Bai Lan declared that Class D would begin implementing it that day.
• Bai Lan set an initial fine of 20,000 points per month for students who had lost no more than 20 points, lasting six months for every ten points lost.

Bai Lan set up fines and rewards to guide Class D into accepting his rules, while Karuizawa and Kushida both moved to use his financial hardship to earn his favor. The chapter then shifted to Class C, where Ryuen’s laughter drew the class’s attention after their quiz results and looming expulsions left them despairing.

• Bai Lan announced the fine schedule, offered to collect the points, and promised to distribute some fines as rewards to rule-abiding students.
• Bai Lan explained to Hirata that rewards and punishments were necessary to encourage score control, then left to study.
• Karuizawa noticed Bai Lan’s lack of money and began writing him an email to win his favor, while Kushida sent her own email first.
• Sakagami announced Class C’s rankings, low allowances, quiz results, and the expulsion rule for students who failed the midterms.
• Class C students despaired over their finances and the threat of expulsion until Ryuen laughed, reminding them that he had promised to lead the class to Class A.