Recaps

Bai Lan joined the Student Council as a Disciplinary Committee member after Horikita Manabu dismissed the complaint against him and praised his rule-breaking intervention. He gained access to detailed disciplinary information and left with a portion of Horikita Manabu’s paperwork, while Nagumo watched uneasily.

• Bai Lan challenged Horikita Manabu to punish him, but Manabu praised his intervention and ended the complaint without deducting class points.
• Bai Lan completed his Student Council application, and Horikita Manabu approved him as a Disciplinary Committee member.
• Bai Lan learned that his new position gave him free access to detailed information about school rules and punishments.
• Bai Lan quietly asked Horikita Manabu for the confidential information he had promised, and Manabu said he would email it with a warning not to disclose it.
• Horikita Manabu offered Bai Lan a share of his unfinished paperwork, leaving Nagumo alarmed that Bai Lan might gain influence in the Student Council.

Bai Lan refused Horikita Manabu’s documents and reported Horikita Suzune for pressuring him to help her earn their brother’s approval. Horikita Manabu disciplined Suzune, and she confronted Bai Lan in class, where their argument remained unresolved.

• Bai Lan refused Horikita Manabu’s offer of work rather than gain his favor and take on extra tasks.
• Bai Lan told Horikita Manabu that Horikita Suzune had threatened to sabotage his attempts to find a girlfriend unless he helped her earn Manabu’s approval.
• Horikita Manabu confirmed Suzune’s actions with her, scolded her, and threatened her with expulsion until she apologized and promised to stop.
• Horikita Suzune confronted Bai Lan in class for complaining to her brother, and Bai Lan retorted that she was useless.

Bai Lan and Horikita traded messages and barbs after class, then Horikita insisted on continuing their fake-girlfriend arrangement and asked to join his future plans. Bai Lan considered putting her to work as an errand runner as the Golden Week holiday began.

• Horikita threatened to report Bai Lan for breaking rules, but he told her that reporting was useless unless the person she reported him to could control him.
• Bai Lan returned Horikita's cleaned lunch box and praised her cooking in a way that made her think he had insulted it, leaving her furious for the afternoon.
• After classes ended, Bai Lan left for the holiday, and Horikita caught up with him, saying their transaction and her fake-girlfriend duties were still in effect.
• Horikita asked Bai Lan to include her in his next actions so she could contribute to their class's rise instead of being carried.
• Bai Lan considered Horikita a possible errand-running intern.

Bai Lan recruited Horikita as an intern and used her to distribute fines as bonuses to classmates who had followed the rules. He expected the Golden Week spending spree to leave many students dependent on the bonuses, making them more likely to support his reform plan when school resumed.

• Bai Lan accepted Horikita as an intern, reasoning that she had the time and willingness to help him raise the class to Class A.
• At midnight on May 3, Bai Lan checked the transfer records and identified the one rule-breaking student who had not paid a fine.
• Bai Lan had Horikita distribute the collected fines evenly as bonuses to the twenty-four students who had not lost points the previous month, strengthening her standing in the class while saving himself effort.
• Bai Lan anticipated that students would spend their bonuses during Golden Week and become reluctant to return the money if his reform plan faced opposition.
• Bai Lan calculated that returning the bonuses could leave spendthrift classmates with only about 7,000 points for the remaining twenty-two days of the month, likely pushing many to keep supporting his plan.

Bai Lan finished his immediate work and spent Golden Week managing his duties while training Kei Karuizawa to overcome her fear of bullying. The chapter left Karuizawa enduring daily physical and psychological drills as Bai Lan tried to prepare her to handle real danger.

• Bai Lan received Horikita's confirmation that her task was complete, then used notes about campus hazards to satisfy Horikita Manabu's holiday work requests.
• Bai Lan kept up appearances with Horikita Suzune and listened to Kushida Kikyo's holiday gossip and complaints.
• Bai Lan continued reviewing Kei Karuizawa's self-defense skills because he had not found a suitable person to provide her practical experience.
• Bai Lan used the Judo Club dojo to simulate bullying, instructing Karuizawa to practice specific responses while he insulted and threw her onto the mats.
• Bai Lan trained Karuizawa for three hours each morning throughout Golden Week and assigned her additional exercise to build her strength.

Bai Lan’s training helped Karuizawa build stamina and confidence, while he finally accepted Ichinose’s offer to spend time with him and realized she wanted to repay him. He decided to give Ichinose a role using her extensive connections, especially as he prepared to gather information among second- and third-year students.

• Bai Lan put Karuizawa through daily physical training, and after a week she improved her 1,000-meter time and began resisting his bullying with anger and confidence.
• Bai Lan repeatedly put off Ichinose’s invitations until the fourth day of Golden Week, when he accepted and received etiquette tutoring while they patrolled the shopping district.
• Bai Lan realized Ichinose was using the lessons to find ways to help him and repay what she believed was a debt.
• Bai Lan considered Ichinose’s broad social network a valuable resource and decided to give her a task so she could repay him.
• Bai Lan planned to use Ichinose’s connections to help develop an information-gathering network among second- and third-year students.

Bai Lan enlisted Ichinose to investigate the second- and third-year students and used the class bonus discussion to introduce the next step in preparing First-Year Class B for the midterm exams. The class turned against Sudo for opposing the new rules, and Sudo accused Yamauchi and Ike of urging him to resist paying the fine.

• Bai Lan asked Ichinose to gather information about the second- and third-year students, and Ichinose agreed to send her reports.
• Horikita joined Hirata's study-group arrangements to help classmates at risk of failing, then rebuffed students who approached her.
• After Golden Week, Bai Lan confirmed that students who had followed the rules had received their bonuses and announced that the midterms were two weeks away.
• Bai Lan said Sudo was the only student who had rejected the new class rules, prompting classmates to blame and question him.
• Sudo protested that he was not the only one who had failed to pay the fine, then confronted Yamauchi and Ike over their advice to resist.

Bai Lan resolved Sudo’s unpaid fine, then introduced the class reward-and-punishment system and began explaining its rules. The chapter ended as he started outlining the Light Fine.

• Yamauchi admitted that he and Ike had joked about the fine, leaving Sudo feeling humiliated for believing them.
• Hirata asked Bai Lan to let Sudo pay late, and Sudo borrowed twenty thousand points from Hirata to cover the fine.
• Bai Lan transferred Sudo’s payment to Horikita, who divided it among the class and recorded each transaction.
• Bai Lan explained how rewards and punishments were meant to encourage cooperation and announced that the simplified class rules were just over one hundred words long.
• Bai Lan introduced three levels of reward and punishment, then explained that the Tiny Fine ranged from two thousand to ten thousand points.
• Bai Lan began introducing the Light Fine, but its details were not included before the chapter ended.

Bai Lan announced class punishments and rewards, including shares for students who helped earn or preserve class points. He revealed that he had preserved points during the special exam and began asking the class to decide his reward, warning that their decision would affect everyone.

• Bai Lan explained light and heavy punishments, including fines, probation, and making students who betrayed the class and refused to atone drop out.
• Bai Lan introduced lottery, grand, and special prize shares for students who helped earn points, and added that preserving points counted as earning them.
• The class accepted the rules Bai Lan sent to the group chat and reacted eagerly to the chance to earn rewards.
• Bai Lan revealed that he wanted to discuss the points he had preserved during the special exam, and classmates debated whether he deserved a reward.
• Bai Lan said the class should decide how much he received, then warned that their decision would affect everyone in the future.

Bai Lan argued that he had preserved Class B’s 620 points and deserved a special reward, using the class’s violation records and other classes’ scores to support his claim. He left the class facing pressure to grant him a 50% to 90% share of their points, warning that an unfair reward would undermine his future efforts.

• Bai Lan said preserved points counted as his contribution because his efforts helped the class avoid losing points.
• Bai Lan used the class’s final three days of violations to estimate that, without his guidance, they would have lost far more than their current 620 points.
• Bai Lan compared the classes’ final scores and said at least 500 points of the class’s total belonged to him, while Kogenji Rokosuke agreed that the original Class C’s expected score approached zero.
• Bai Lan argued that no one could have replaced him and classified his contribution as eligible for a 50% to 90% special reward.
• Bai Lan warned that taking too small a share would make future rewards unfair and could cost the class his motivation to contribute.

Bai Lan argued that his contribution to the class’s future earnings justified a substantial share, while classmates debated how to balance his reward with their fines, bonuses, and living expenses. Hirata stepped in to seek a compromise, but the chapter ended before he announced it.

• Bai Lan cited Class A’s scores to argue that the class could earn thousands of points over the next three years and asked how much they would give him.
• A classmate warned that a large share could leave students who paid fines with too little money for basic expenses.
• Bai Lan clarified that his share would be calculated after fines and would not include students’ bonuses.
• Students argued over whether to raise or lower the standards for rewards and penalties, and those who had paid fines opposed changing them.
• Bai Lan returned to his seat and ignored the discussion, making the class anxious about losing his help.
• Hirata called Bai Lan back to the discussion and prepared to propose a compromise.

Bai Lan secured a 50% share of the class’s special-exam reward, along with future compensation, and the class agreed to Hirata’s proposal. He then required everyone to sign formal agreements before beginning his midterm strategy, which he had only just started outlining.

• Hirata proposed giving Bai Lan a 50% share immediately and compensating him through priority opportunities and reduced penalties until that compensation reached the agreed amount.
• Bai Lan accepted, privately recognizing that the future compensation would fuel resentment and give him ways to exploit the class’s agreement.
• The class accepted Bai Lan’s reward, and Bai Lan declared that their rules were established before turning to the midterms.
• Bai Lan brought out contracts for the class rules and his share, asked Teacher Chazhu to witness them, and assigned Horikita to draft the share agreement.
• As the students began signing the agreements, Bai Lan noted that fourteen days remained before the midterms and started listing the tasks they needed to complete.

Bai Lan explained his midterm score-control plan and secured the class’s signed agreements, believing his rules would keep the class unified even after he left. Meanwhile, Ryuen announced that Bai Lan had given his class a way to pass the midterm safely and earn class points.

• Bai Lan outlined practice tests, personalized target scores, rewards, and punishments, then discussed ways to control exam scores.
• Yukimura Teruhiko took over the discussion when Bai Lan called on Ayanokoji, who declined to share any techniques.
• Bai Lan asked Hirata and Kushida to hurry the signing, and every student finished signing both contracts.
• Bai Lan stored the contracts and concluded that the class’s growing investment in his rules would make betrayal costly and loyalty more likely.
• After Sakagami finished explaining matters, Ryuen announced that Bai Lan had provided his class with a way to avoid expulsion and potentially earn class points on the midterm.

Ryuen announced that he had negotiated a 30,000-point monthly guarantee and a 20% share for his class, then secured everyone’s signatures on an authorization form to make his agreement with Bai Lan appear to cover them. The arrangement left Ryuen confident he could collect points from his classmates, while Bai Lan’s contract actually made Ryuen personally responsible for payment.

• Ryuen told his class that Bai Lan had agreed to a 30,000-point guarantee and a 20% share, prompting the students to celebrate and look forward to higher allowances.
• Ryuen claimed he had spent a week persuading Bai Lan despite his injuries, earning his classmates’ gratitude with a fabricated account of his efforts.
• Ryuen explained that his agreement with Bai Lan needed class authorization, so he had all forty classmates sign forms and left the date blank.
• Bai Lan’s contract required Ryuen himself to submit points according to the class’s income, rather than requiring each student to pay.
• Ryuen and Bai Lan kept separate copies of the agreement, and Ryuen avoided having Sakagami notarize it so the signing date would be harder to establish.
• Ryuen felt relieved that the agreement would let him collect points from his classmates without violence, deception, or threats.

Bai Lan studied the school’s rules and educational philosophy, realizing that disrupting the school’s intended training system could make the school itself target him for expulsion. He planned to undermine the school’s vision for Class A, while Ryuen accepted his exam strategy and began reconsidering the power of law.

• After tasting the benefits of using the law, Ryuen considered becoming a lawyer and explained his midterm strategy, which Bai Lan supported.
• Bai Lan reviewed the disciplinary regulations and found few viable ways to get expelled without committing a crime or doing something he found unacceptable.
• Bai Lan used the information Horikita Manabu had provided to conclude that the school’s educational philosophy defined its normal operation and that hindering it could make the entire school his enemy.
• Bai Lan decided to oppose the school’s ideals by disrupting its training environment or preventing the expected students from reaching Class A, hoping the school would eventually try to expel him.

Bai Lan analyzed the school’s ideals of competition and cooperation, then decided to challenge the school by monopolizing resources and conquering the entire school. He began planning to take control of the first year, treating the project as entertainment even though he expected to be expelled before finishing it.

• Bai Lan reviewed the school’s educational philosophy and concluded that its special exams centered on competition and cooperation.
• Bai Lan rejected undermining cooperation through vicious tactics because he did not want to abandon his moral limits.
• Bai Lan decided to eliminate competition by monopolizing the year’s production resources, and considered following Nagumo’s example by expanding his control beyond the first year.
• Bai Lan spent several days planning how to conquer Advanced Nurturing High School, beginning with taking down the first year.
• Bai Lan recognized that boredom, rather than dropping out, was his main reason for pursuing the conquest, and he treated its obstacles as game stages.

Bai Lan devised a plan to dominate the first-year by controlling the former Class D and Ryuen's Class, bringing Ichinose's Class into an alliance, and weakening Sakayanagi's Class. After the morning meeting ended, he destroyed his written plan while keeping it clear in his mind.

• Bai Lan reasoned that Hirata's scoring priority and the new class rules let him control the former Class D's opportunities and resources.
• Bai Lan concluded that Ryuen's Class would cooperate for benefits, while refusal would give him grounds to end the alliance and attack Ryuen.
• Bai Lan planned to persuade Ichinose to join a cooperative alliance among the former Class D, Ryuen's Class, and Ichinose's Class.
• Bai Lan expected Sakayanagi's Class to reject the alliance, so he planned to use the other classes to take its points and drain its resources.
• Bai Lan finished outlining his first-year domination strategy, tore the page into unreadable scraps, and gathered them after the morning meeting ended.

Bai Lan invited Ichinose to discuss cooperation between their classes, and they met at a dessert shop after club activities. They quickly agreed to an alliance and ended the chapter enjoying the desserts, with Bai Lan finding them less impressive than he had expected.

• Bai Lan emailed Ichinose to arrange a conversation about working more closely together.
• Ichinose learned that Bai Lan wanted the classes to cooperate through future school challenges and accepted his invitation.
• Bai Lan and Ichinose met at a dessert shop, where Ichinose recommended her favorite sweets.
• Bai Lan and Ichinose quickly agreed on an alliance after comparing their modest expectations and writing an agreement.
• Bai Lan and Ichinose ate the desserts in private, and Bai Lan soon decided they were not as delicious as he had imagined.

Bai Lan and Ichinose shared desserts, and he secretly filmed her with cream smeared on her face before sending her the video. Three days later, Bai Lan used Class D’s self-assessment scores to plan how everyone should control their midterm results, leaving the class with a strategy for handling weak performance on multiple-choice questions.

• Bai Lan filmed Ichinose’s dessert-covered face, then sent her the video after she demanded that he delete it.
• Class D students gave Bai Lan their self-assessment scores, and he used them to set safe target scores for the midterms.
• Bai Lan assigned students with low, average, and high scores different ways to control their exam performance.
• Bai Lan told students who could not answer multiple-choice questions to choose the same option for each one and leave the rest blank, so their scores would be predictable.

Bai Lan prepared multiple safeguards to keep the former Class D from losing students in the midterm exam, then learned that Kei Karuizawa had been suspended for allegedly bullying a classmate just days before the test. The chapter ended as Bai Lan answered Kei's call to hear what had happened.

• Bai Lan distributed exam assignments and planned how the class could control scores while top students pursued high marks.
• The Judo Club President told Bai Lan that first-year midterm papers had been reused for years and gave him an old corrected exam paper.
• Bai Lan decided to use the old paper to improve the class's score control and considered buying points to prevent expulsions.
• Starting May 13, the former Class D practiced score control under Bai Lan's rules.
• On May 19, Kei Karuizawa received a week-long suspension for allegedly bullying a classmate, leaving her at risk of missing the midterm exam.
• After his workout on May 18, Bai Lan answered a call from Kei.

Bai Lan rushed to rescue Karuizawa after she sent him their distress signal from a girls’ restroom. As he raced to the school building, Karuizawa used the combat training he had given her to fight back against her attacker.

• Karuizawa sent Bai Lan their cough signal while an unfamiliar girl confronted her and demanded an apology.
• Bai Lan tracked Karuizawa to a girls’ restroom in the school building but could not tell which floor she was on.
• Hearing Karuizawa scream as the girl advanced, Bai Lan rushed out of his dorm room to reach her.
• On the first floor, Karuizawa shifted from a cowering pose into a fighting stance and struck the girl’s exposed armpit and chin.
• Karuizawa began swinging her fists at the girl, drawing on the physical training Bai Lan had arranged.

Karuizawa used the strength Bai Lan had taught her to fight off a girl who confronted her in the restroom, then explained the incident to him over the phone. Bai Lan suspected the attack had been deliberately staged because the girl seemed unlike anyone he knew at the school.

• Karuizawa struck the vicious girl with a burst of powerful punches, knocking her down and making her flee in tears.
• Bai Lan recognized the familiar sounds of Karuizawa using her trained movements, shouted her name through the phone, and helped her regain her composure.
• Karuizawa told Bai Lan that she had returned to school for her jacket and encountered the girl while washing her hands in the first-floor women's restroom.
• Karuizawa explained that she had secretly called Bai Lan using the discreet method he had trained her to use.
• Bai Lan reasoned that the girl's deliberate provocation and apparent age did not fit anyone he had encountered or heard about at the school, leading him to suspect a setup.

Bai Lan investigated the girl who had provoked Karuizawa and suspected someone was manipulating events, possibly Nagumo. After Karuizawa was suspended for allegedly bullying Yonekura Kōko, Bai Lan reassured her that he had evidence to clear her, but chose to delay appealing so he could uncover who was behind the accusation.

• Bai Lan identified Yonekura Kōko of Class 2-D as the girl who had confronted Karuizawa and suspected Nagumo might be involved.
• Bai Lan secretly gathered information and prepared evidence while avoiding any rule-breaking before midterms.
• On May 19, Chabashira summoned Karuizawa and suspended her for seven days after Yonekura reported being injured.
• Bai Lan told Karuizawa he had recordings and photographs that could clear her, but wanted to use the suspension to learn who was targeting her.
• Karuizawa agreed to cooperate, and Bai Lan asked when her punishment would begin.

Karuizawa faced a possible suspension for bullying and asked Bai Lan, Horikita, Hirata, and Kushida for help. The four met her at noon to hear her case, while Bai Lan insisted they should neither protect the guilty nor abandon the innocent.

• Karuizawa told Bai Lan she could accept her suspension or appeal to the Student Council for arbitration, and he instructed her to ask Horikita, Hirata, and Kushida for help without revealing their connection.
• Horikita asked Bai Lan whether Karuizawa's suspension could make her miss the upcoming exam and lead to expulsion, but he said he would not defend her if she was guilty.
• Horikita said Karuizawa claimed she had been bullied and falsely accused, and Bai Lan agreed they should investigate before judging her.
• Hirata and Kushida separately asked Bai Lan about Karuizawa, and he told both that they should not protect the guilty or wrong the innocent.
• At noon, Bai Lan, Horikita, Hirata, and Kushida met Karuizawa outside the school building, where she angrily demanded that the class managers protect her.

Bai Lan and the others appealed Kei Karuizawa’s suspension for allegedly bullying Yonekura, and Horikita Manabu scheduled an arbitration hearing. At the hearing, Yonekura arrived appearing badly injured and afraid of Karuizawa, while Bai Lan suspected she had exaggerated or faked her injuries.

• Karuizawa recounted the restroom incident, and Horikita judged that the evidence seemed to favor Yonekura.
• Bai Lan and the others went to the Student Council, where Horikita Suzune registered an appeal denying that Karuizawa had bullied anyone.
• Horikita Manabu accepted the appeal and arranged an arbitration hearing, while Karuizawa asked Horikita Suzune whether she was available to attend.
• Karuizawa received the hearing details, and Bai Lan and the others went to a courtroom-like classroom after the final class.
• Yonekura entered limping with visible bruises and swelling, and Bai Lan suspected her injuries were faked or exaggerated.
• Bai Lan noticed Yonekura shrink back from Karuizawa and saw Karuizawa’s hidden fingers trembling faintly.