Recaps

Kamuro Masumi summoned Bai Lan to lunch on Sakayanagi's behalf, while Bai Lan privately recalled that he knew Kamuro's secret and considered how useful she could be. After a bystander mistook their close position for flirting, Kamuro began wondering whether Bai Lan's unsettling presence excited her, and Bai Lan accepted Sakayanagi's treat by ordering an extravagant meal.

• Kamuro Masumi told Bai Lan that someone wanted to treat him to lunch and talk with him, and Bai Lan readily agreed.
• Bai Lan recognized Kamuro and recalled discovering that she was a thief, then considered using her secret against Class A if he remained at school.
• A student in line told Bai Lan and Kamuro to stop flirting and blocking the line, prompting Kamuro to realize how close they were standing.
• Kamuro backed away from Bai Lan, then wondered whether her racing heart and attraction to his appearance meant she might like him.
• Bai Lan ordered an extravagant meal at Sakayanagi's expense.

Bai Lan joined Sakayanagi Arisu in a private cafeteria room after Kamuro brought him an expensive meal, where Sakayanagi declared war on him. She explained that she had once believed he would not compete with her, but Class D’s rapid rise revealed that she had misjudged his intentions.

• Bai Lan ordered premium dishes costing over twenty thousand points, and Kamuro paid for his meal before leading him to Sakayanagi.
• Bai Lan ate as he waited, then joked with Kamuro while she escorted him to a private room on the cafeteria’s third floor.
• Bai Lan found Sakayanagi waiting alone in the room and sat down across from her.
• Sakayanagi declared war on Bai Lan, saying his actions had surprised her.
• Sakayanagi recalled buying information from Bai Lan because she believed he was pursuing personal gain rather than helping Class D.
• Sakayanagi realized Class D’s promotion by two ranks meant Bai Lan had been her strongest competitor all along, and she reconsidered his actions during April.

Sakayanagi concluded that Bai Lan had deceived her during their information trade, costing her class points and giving him a two-million-point advantage. After learning Bai Lan was a free-spirited natural genius rather than a White Room student, she used the midterm exam to restore her standing and declared war on him, proposing a contest at the next special exam.

• Sakayanagi realized Bai Lan had used their information trade to investigate her class while feeding her false information, leading her to give him extra points.
• Sakayanagi recalled losing a chess match to a White Room student after only a week of training, then learned that the student was in Class D and was not Bai Lan.
• Using information from her father, Chairman Sakayanagi, Sakayanagi checked Bai Lan's file and concluded that he was a natural genius shaped by freedom rather than artificial training.
• Sakayanagi organized study groups and intensified her own review, helping her class earn 185 points on the midterm exam.
• Believing the midterm results had restored her to equal footing with Bai Lan, Sakayanagi declared war on him and proposed competing in the next special exam.

Bai Lan refused Sakayanagi’s challenge, provoking her by insisting she had no chance of beating him. As Sakayanagi suddenly suffered chest tightness and began to collapse, Bai Lan reached across the table to catch her.

• Sakayanagi declared that she wanted to compete against Bai Lan, but he laughed because he expected to be expelled before their next chance to face off.
• Bai Lan refused the challenge and deliberately made his words sound contemptuous to provoke Sakayanagi and help ensure his eventual expulsion.
• Sakayanagi took Bai Lan’s refusal as a genuine judgment of her abilities and grew furious.
• Sakayanagi clutched her chest, turned pale, and began to sway as Kamuro rushed over from the doorway.
• Bai Lan activated Overlord Body and grabbed Sakayanagi by the collar to keep her from falling.

Bai Lan learned that Sakayanagi had a serious heart condition after she collapsed, but argued that she had chosen to compete and should take responsibility for the risks. He then urged her to use her intelligence and willpower to overcome physical limitations, leaving Sakayanagi listening as he challenged her claim that she was not a genius.

• Bai Lan caught Sakayanagi when she became dizzy, and Kamuro explained that Sakayanagi had a weak heart and could not handle intense stimulation.
• Bai Lan said he would have skipped the meeting if he had known about Sakayanagi’s condition, angering Kamuro.
• Bai Lan argued that Sakayanagi had chosen to start their contest and could not expect opponents to hold back or avoid trash talk.
• Bai Lan told Sakayanagi to accept responsibility for competing despite her heart condition, while Kamuro tried to defend her.
• Sakayanagi stopped Kamuro from interrupting Bai Lan as he compared human frailty with the strength of wild beasts and urged Sakayanagi to rely on her intelligence and willpower.
• Bai Lan asked Sakayanagi whether she really was not a genius, since she never objected when others called her one.

Bai Lan challenged Sakayanagi to train around her weak heart, and she thanked him and promised to compete with him after overcoming her weakness. After Bai Lan left, Kamuro questioned why Sakayanagi had accepted his advice so readily.

• Bai Lan told Sakayanagi to build emotional resilience and practice low-strain physical techniques to compensate for her weak heart.
• Sakayanagi agreed that she should develop her physical abilities and said she would challenge Bai Lan again once she overcame her weakness.
• Bai Lan left the meal, wondering why Sakayanagi seemed convinced despite his lack of evidence.
• Kamuro asked Sakayanagi why she had been so easily persuaded by Bai Lan.

Sakayanagi explained to Kamuro that Bai Lan had persuaded her through his actions and experiences, and decided to improve her own physical abilities so she could become a worthy opponent. Her father learned of the plan and intercepted it, leaving Sakayanagi to go to his office to retrieve it.

• Kamuro questioned why Sakayanagi had listened to Bai Lan, and Sakayanagi admitted to herself that she had considered him as a potential husband for the Sakayanagi family.
• Sakayanagi told Kamuro that Bai Lan had earned her trust by acting on his advice and overcoming harsh conditions, including fighting wild beasts.
• Sakayanagi asked Kamuro to find a yoga instructor and arrange a low-intensity program approved by her attending physician.
• Kamuro arranged a training plan with an outside instructor and Sakayanagi's physician before lunch break ended.
• After school, Kamuro told Sakayanagi that her father had intercepted the plan and that Sakayanagi would need to collect it from the chairman's office.

Sakayanagi Arisu asked her father, Chairman Sakayanagi Narumori, to let her begin exercising despite their agreement, explaining that she wanted to shape her future through her own efforts. Their conversation turned to Bai Lan, and the chapter left Arisu astonished after she learned he had exposed leaked exam questions and extorted fifty million points from a second-year student.

• Sakayanagi Arisu met Chairman Sakayanagi Narumori after he summoned her to discuss her proposed training plan.
• Arisu argued that she wanted to improve her body through her own efforts while still keeping surgery as an option, and Narumori neither approved nor forbade the plan.
• Narumori asked Arisu about Bai Lan and hinted that he had recently caused a serious incident at school.
• Arisu paid 200,000 points for information about Bai Lan, agreeing not to share it with anyone else.
• Narumori told Arisu that Bai Lan had reported the leak of first-year exam questions and extorted fifty million points from a second-year student, and Arisu was shocked to learn he already had twenty million.

Sakayanagi Arisu learned that Bai Lan’s wealth and actions could provoke the school to restrict him, but Sakayanagi Narumori explained that the school would not target him for reporting the leaked exam questions because it caused no substantial harm. The chapter then shifted to Bai Lan coaching Horikita on how to distribute class points in a way that would build trust and strengthen her leadership.

• Sakayanagi Arisu worried that Bai Lan’s enormous point reserves and influence would make their future competition unfair, while Sakayanagi Narumori explained that the school might otherwise expel or restrict him.
• Sakayanagi Narumori told Sakayanagi Arisu that the school would not punish Bai Lan for reporting the leaked questions because every first-year student passed and the exam changes caused no substantial losses.
• Sakayanagi Narumori said the school could only counter Bai Lan’s point holdings if he made a serious mistake or stopped using them for class competition.
• Bai Lan told Horikita to redistribute the collected class points by 8:00 the next morning and explained that the gesture would build classmates’ trust in her leadership.

Bai Lan told Horikita he had been manipulating her with PUA, hoping she would resent him and stop trusting him. Instead, Horikita realized she had gained far more than she had lost and began to question why their growing distance upset her.

• Bai Lan urged Horikita to work overtime on his assigned tasks and claimed he had been PUAing her all along.
• Bai Lan explained that he wanted Horikita to finish distributing her points sooner and to dispel her mistaken belief that he was helping her advance.
• Horikita suspected Bai Lan had an ulterior motive for confessing, since exposing his methods seemed like a losing move.
• After they parted, Horikita felt distressed that she and Bai Lan seemed more distant and wondered why she cared.
• Horikita reviewed what she had gained while following Bai Lan's influence and concluded that she had mostly benefited from it.

Bai Lan prepared for his planned expulsion, secured the cash-exchange privilege, and received five million points from Nagumo, bringing his personal balance above twenty million. Sakayanagi Narumori learned of the privilege purchase and wondered why Bai Lan wanted to exchange points while worrying about the school’s finances.

• Horikita reflected that Bai Lan had manipulated her, yet concluded that she trusted him even more and thought he might surpass her brother.
• Bai Lan arranged backup plans and a network of people to track Nagumo and others so he could find them before his planned expulsion.
• Nagumo transferred five million points to Bai Lan, whose personal account then exceeded twenty million points.
• Bai Lan asked Chabashira to buy the points-to-cash exchange privilege, and persuaded her by showing that others owed him another thirty million points.
• Bai Lan spent 970,000 points to complete the privilege purchase, bringing its total cost to one million points.
• Sakayanagi Narumori received alerts about Bai Lan’s balance and privilege purchase, welcomed the prospect of points leaving competition, and wondered how much Bai Lan planned to exchange.

Bai Lan received his share of the points and prepared to carry out his plan to beat up his targets and drop out. He waited for most of them to leave their dorm rooms, then lured the last one out by imitating the voice of a girl he liked.

• Sakayanagi Narumori guessed that Bai Lan planned to exchange points for cash to restore the balance of the class competition and prepared capital-injection paperwork.
• Bai Lan received more than a million points from Horikita and decided to send her overtime pay before leaving.
• Bai Lan tracked Nagumo, Yonekura, and his other targets, then waited until only one remained in his room.
• Bai Lan marked the targets’ locations on a campus map and hurried toward the last person’s room.
• Bai Lan imitated the voice of the girl Suzuki liked, prompting him to open his door and call out to her.

Bai Lan launched a rapid assault on his targets, first beating Suzuki in the hallway before rappelling down the dormitory building to surprise another target outside. After taking down that target, Bai Lan ran off to find the next three targets, who were together.

• Bai Lan attacked Suzuki as soon as Suzuki opened the door, then dragged him into the hallway and beat him while witnesses watched.
• Bai Lan checked that witnesses and a camera could identify him, then entered Suzuki's room and rappelled from the eighth floor using a climbing safety rope.
• Bai Lan landed near a target who had just left the dormitory to get breakfast and knocked him down with the same sequence of punches, a balance-breaking kick, and stomps.
• Bai Lan fled before the crowd gathered and headed toward the next three targets, who were together.

Bai Lan raced across the campus and beat Yonekura and her two female accomplices on the commercial street, then headed for Nagumo at the soccer field. Nagumo remained unaware that Bai Lan had made him the final target.

• Bai Lan learned that Yonekura and her two remaining female accomplices were shopping on the commercial street.
• Bai Lan crossed more than two hundred meters of obstacles in about half a minute and landed in front of Yonekura and the other two girls.
• Bai Lan knocked all three girls down and beat them while evading students who tried to intervene.
• Yonekura and the other two girls escaped into the crowd when Bai Lan stopped attacking, while he climbed onto a shop roof and disappeared.
• Nagumo played soccer at the campus field, pleased by the attention of watching girls and unaware that Bai Lan was on his way.

Nagumo tried to regain confidence by scoring a goal in a soccer match, but Bai Lan stormed onto the field and attacked him. Bai Lan knocked Nagumo unconscious, leaving the match and Nagumo’s fate unresolved.

• Nagumo dribbled past five opponents, scored, and celebrated while mistaking the spectators’ reactions for praise directed at him.
• Bai Lan vaulted over the fence and goal, then charged across the field, leaping over players who scattered to avoid him.
• Nagumo’s teammates shouted for him to watch out, and he turned just as Bai Lan reached him.
• Bai Lan punched Nagumo in the face, followed him as he fell, and struck him repeatedly until he was incapacitated.

Bai Lan brutally beat Nagumo in public, then fled the soccer field, leaving Nagumo and the other students shocked. After learning Bai Lan’s identity and hearing that Suzuki had also been beaten minutes earlier, Nagumo realized the attacks might be connected and urgently asked when and where Suzuki’s beating happened.

• Bai Lan used his momentum to knock Nagumo down, continued kicking him, then hurled him into the rescuers before escaping over the soccer field’s fence.
• Nagumo recovered, demanded to know who had beaten him, and learned the attacker was Bai Lan.
• Nagumo struggled to understand why Bai Lan had humiliated him so thoroughly and what backing or purpose he might have had.
• A substitute player told Nagumo that Suzuki had reported being beaten by Bai Lan a few minutes earlier.
• Nagumo urgently asked Suzuki when and where the beating had happened, and Suzuki said it was outside his room and in the corridor.

Nagumo pieced together reports of Bai Lan assaulting students across the school and concluded that Bai Lan could reach anyone within minutes. He realized Bai Lan’s twenty million points let him evade expulsion once, leaving Nagumo with little way to stop him.

• Nagumo ordered Suzuki to obtain surveillance footage while questioning him about when Bai Lan attacked.
• Nagumo received a report that Bai Lan had ambushed another student near the dormitory entrance by sliding down a rope from a height.
• A girl from Class 2-D told Nagumo that Bai Lan had beaten her, Yonekura, and Mimura while evading people who tried to intervene.
• Suzuki reported that Bai Lan had attacked him between 9:35:24 and 9:35:42, knocking him down in under two seconds.
• Nagumo calculated that Bai Lan had assaulted five people in three places within two minutes and understood that Bai Lan was threatening him with his speed and force.
• Nagumo realized Bai Lan’s twenty million points could protect him from expulsion once.

Nagumo realized that Bai Lan’s leverage, fighting ability, and ability to avoid expulsion left him unable to retaliate, despite his plans to bind their interests and exploit Bai Lan’s supposed limits. As Bai Lan’s actions continued to be monitored, Chairman Sakayanagi received immediate alerts about any disturbance involving him.

• Nagumo feared that if the school expelled Bai Lan, Bai Lan could use Dropout Exemption to cancel the punishment after beating him, so Nagumo resolved to prevent the expulsion.
• Nagumo recalled his plan to pay Bai Lan in installments, making himself a creditor’s source of income and hoping to preserve his authority over the second-years.
• Nagumo concluded that Bai Lan had acted with restraint during the leaked-exam incident and believed Horikita Manabu’s endorsement and injuries protected Bai Lan from consequences.
• Nagumo realized his theories and plans could not constrain Bai Lan, who could beat him and still leave Nagumo responsible for preventing his expulsion.
• Chairman Sakayanagi monitored Bai Lan’s movements and received an immediate phone notification whenever the school system recorded a disturbance involving him.

Sakayanagi Narumori investigated Bai Lan’s spree of assaults and suspected he was trying to get expelled so the school would reclaim his twenty million points. Horikita Manabu explained that Bai Lan had joined the Disciplinary Committee to expose and fix loopholes in school rules, then described how those loopholes had nearly been used to expel an innocent student.

• Sakayanagi Narumori received reports that Bai Lan had attacked six people, including Nagumo Miyabi, and reasoned that Bai Lan might be seeking expulsion to spend his twenty million points on avoiding it.
• Sakayanagi Narumori summoned Horikita Manabu to explain Bai Lan’s motives and the circumstances behind choosing him for the Student Council.
• Horikita Manabu said Bai Lan had requested the Disciplinary Committee position and was working to find loopholes that let students exploit school rules and undermine campus order.
• Horikita Manabu recounted how Second-Year Class D students had tried to frame a First-Year Class B student after their bullying failed, using surveillance blind spots and fabricated evidence.
• Bai Lan exposed the false evidence, but the framing students avoided punishment because their backers had enough points to buy immunity.

Horikita Manabu explained to Sakayanagi Narumori that Bai Lan’s assault on rule-breakers was meant to punish and deter them, expose loopholes, and protect the class competition. He defended Bai Lan’s actions as necessary to restore order and said he trusted him because of a promise Bai Lan had made.

• Horikita Manabu argued that loopholes allowing students to evade punishment threatened safety, discipline, and the school’s order.
• Sakayanagi Narumori questioned how Bai Lan’s violence could count as maintaining discipline, and Horikita revealed that Bai Lan had once beaten him after Horikita ambushed him.
• Horikita said Bai Lan had punished him despite his status as student council president and had deliberately moved him beneath a surveillance camera so the incident would be recorded.
• Horikita explained that Bai Lan’s actions were meant to make rule-breakers pay, deter future abuse, warn the school about loopholes, and limit the effect of his twenty million points on class competition.
• Horikita argued that Bai Lan was preserving the school’s order and could spend points to avoid punishment under the rules, then told Sakayanagi he trusted Bai Lan because of their agreement and the leverage Bai Lan had given him.

Horikita Manabu explained how he would ensure Bai Lan could be expelled even if points protected him from school punishment, while Sakayanagi Narumori told Sakayanagi Arisu that Bai Lan had twenty million points. After being summoned to another arbitration hearing, Bai Lan wondered why the school was holding one instead of simply informing him of his punishment.

• Horikita Manabu told Sakayanagi Narumori he would provoke Bai Lan into a minor crime that could lead to his deportation if points made expulsion impossible.
• Sakayanagi Arisu visited her father to ask whether Bai Lan would be expelled, then paid one hundred thousand points to check his account balance.
• Sakayanagi Narumori revealed Bai Lan had twenty million points, and Sakayanagi Arisu realized she had paid twice for the same information.
• Horikita Manabu summoned everyone involved in the assault incident to a special classroom for another arbitration hearing.
• Bai Lan packed his belongings after beating Nagumo, then received the hearing notice and questioned why the school had not simply told him his punishment.

Bai Lan tried to use the arbitration hearing to secure his expulsion, but Nagumo and the other injured students denied that he had beaten them, derailing Bai Lan’s and Horikita Manabu’s plans. Horikita Manabu grew wary as Nagumo spun an implausible story, and the hearing continued without a clear explanation for Nagumo’s behavior.

• Bai Lan learned that someone else had initiated the investigation, requiring an arbitration hearing instead of letting him accept a punishment immediately.
• Bai Lan climbed down from his balcony and arrived at the hearing, where Horikita Manabu and Tachibana Akane presided over him and Nagumo’s group.
• Nagumo claimed that the beating was a misunderstanding and that the group had staged a fight performance for the students.
• Yonekura and the other injured students echoed Nagumo’s denial, though their explanations were hesitant and unclear.
• Horikita Manabu questioned Nagumo’s motives, recalling that Nagumo was petty and doubting that he had forgiven Bai Lan out of goodwill.

Horikita Manabu realized that Nagumo had denied being beaten by Bai Lan to protect his control over the second year and undermine Bai Lan’s reputation. He feared Nagumo could use the incident to weaken both Bai Lan and Manabu’s standing, leaving the school at risk of falling further under Nagumo’s control.

• Horikita Manabu reconsidered Nagumo’s motives and concluded that identifying Bai Lan would expose Nagumo’s control over the second year to challenge.
• Horikita Manabu reasoned that Nagumo’s rule had eliminated class competition and harmed the students’ ability to develop competitiveness, threatening the school’s educational mission.
• Horikita Manabu concluded that Nagumo’s denial could prevent Bai Lan from exposing the conflict and could make Bai Lan appear to be a villain, damaging his reputation.
• Horikita Manabu realized Nagumo could use Bai Lan’s damaged reputation to pressure him into revoking Bai Lan’s Student Council position and undermine Manabu’s authority.
• Horikita Manabu feared Nagumo would gain influence in the Student Council, sideline him, and bring the school closer to ruin.

Bai Lan spoke at the hearing about the assault, where he admitted to beating Nagumo and the others instead of accepting Nagumo’s attempt to frame the incident as a misunderstanding. Nagumo suspected the confession was part of a plan to destroy his and Horikita Manabu’s influence, while Horikita was relieved that Bai Lan had taken responsibility.

• After Nagumo’s group finished presenting their accounts, Tachibana Akane gave Bai Lan the floor.
• Bai Lan reasoned that Nagumo’s group could not settle the matter by forgiving him unless he also cooperated in portraying himself as harmless.
• Bai Lan stood and openly admitted that he had beaten the group, relieving Horikita Manabu, who had feared Bai Lan might betray his trust.
• Nagumo was stunned because he had expected Bai Lan to support his account that the violence was a misunderstanding.
• Nagumo concluded that Bai Lan might be seeking expulsion to undermine Horikita Manabu’s reputation and control of the Student Council, as well as Nagumo’s authority over the second-year students.

At the arbitration hearing, Bai Lan tried to ensure he would be punished for hitting Nagumo and the others, while Nagumo insisted on portraying him as innocent. Nagumo feared Bai Lan’s growing influence, but Bai Lan misread Nagumo’s refusal to accuse him as fear of being beaten again.

• Nagumo imagined Bai Lan could turn the assault into a popular bid for justice, win the second and third years, and threaten both him and Horikita Manabu.
• Nagumo told the hearing that Bai Lan had pleaded guilty out of guilt and urged Horikita Manabu to help protect him.
• Horikita Manabu refused to interfere, saying he would judge the case impartially and that protecting a disciplinary violation would harm the Student Council.
• Nagumo and Yonekura’s group continued insisting Bai Lan had done nothing wrong, while Bai Lan repeatedly denied it and looked for a way to break the deadlock.
• Bai Lan reasoned that Nagumo would benefit from accusing him, then concluded that Nagumo must be too afraid of retaliation to report him.