Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan reluctantly enrolled at Advanced Nurturing High School after his parents persuaded him to take its entrance exam, despite trying to fail. When the system offered powerful rewards for completing his studies, he decided to pursue expulsion through disciplinary violations instead of quitting voluntarily or failing academically.

• Bai Lan’s parents persuaded him to take Advanced Nurturing High School’s entrance exam so he could have a stable high school experience.
• Bai Lan deliberately scored 44 in every written subject and gave uncooperative answers during the interview, but the school accepted him for his unique personality.
• Bai Lan prepared to ask how to drop out, but a system appeared and offered Invincible Luck and Extraordinary Physique for completing his studies.
• Bai Lan learned that the mission allowed him to complete his studies by dropping out, though quitting voluntarily or failing academically would forfeit a reward.
• Bai Lan decided to get expelled by violating school rules while avoiding actions that could send him to prison.

Bai Lan enrolled at Advanced Nurturing High School and tried to earn merit by forcing another student to give an elderly woman his bus seat. He reached First-year Class D, took the window seat occupied by a boy with Salted Fish Eyes, and waited for a chance to provoke him.

• Bai Lan rode the bus to school, suspecting that the passengers’ seat-giving situation was a school test.
• Bai Lan lifted a boy out of his seat and put the elderly woman there, then defended his actions by claiming the boy had wanted to give up his seat.
• Bai Lan noticed the bus surveillance camera and celebrated his supposed success before the bus arrived at school.
• Bai Lan entered First-year Class D, took the window seat belonging to a boy with Salted Fish Eyes, and fell asleep.
• Salted Fish Eyes returned and told Bai Lan that he had confirmed the seat was his.

Bai Lan tried to provoke Ayanokoji Kiyotaka by stealing his seat, but instead gave him an elaborate lesson in how to seem ordinary. After they switched seats, Bai Lan remembered his plan to intimidate the class, and another student challenged his reasoning.

• Bai Lan chose Ayanokoji Kiyotaka as his target, hoping to provoke him into a fight and test his suspicions about him.
• Ayanokoji calmly asked how an ordinary person would react to someone taking his seat, frustrating Bai Lan’s attempts to start a confrontation.
• Bai Lan called Ayanokoji a reserved flirt and argued that sitting in the corner made him conspicuously ordinary.
• Ayanokoji agreed to switch seats with Bai Lan and thanked him as his “Ordinary Teacher,” while Bai Lan realized the new seat was barely different from his old one.
• Bai Lan recalled that he had planned to make a show of force to the class, turned serious, and was interrupted by someone asking how sitting at the edge was ordinary.

Bai Lan questioned Chazhu Sae about the school’s points system and revealed that students’ conduct and performance could affect their monthly allowance. Chazhu privately anticipated the first covert disciplinary examination, which would sharply widen the gap between classes.

• A beautiful, straight-haired girl challenged Bai Lan’s claim that students were held back by their surroundings, but Chazhu Sae arrived before their argument could continue.
• Chazhu introduced herself as Class D’s homeroom teacher and explained the student IDs, school smartphones, and monthly allowance of 100,000 points.
• Bai Lan asked whether students’ allowances depended on individual or class evaluations, and concluded that both would determine next month’s points.
• The girl agreed with Bai Lan that students could improve their evaluations by studying and following school rules, while Ayanokoji wondered who among them counted as ordinary.
• Chazhu privately recalled that an undisclosed first-month disciplinary inspection would deduct points from classes for rule violations and reward the class with the strongest self-discipline.

Bai Lan revealed how Disciplinary Inspection Month could cost Class D its living expenses, then deliberately provoked the class and announced plans to break school rules. After he left, the students began wondering what he was trying to accomplish and whether his apparent recklessness was part of a plan.

• Bai Lan paid Chabashira 50,000 points for information about how many times students could skip class, arrive late, or leave early before expulsion.
• Bai Lan insulted his classmates as idiots or mutes, then warned that their rule-breaking could cost them money.
• Bai Lan said he would commit three violations by leaving early that day and skipping the first two classes the next morning.
• Ayanokoji questioned Bai Lan about his plan, and Bai Lan left the classroom while Chabashira allowed him to go.
• The remaining students reflected on why Bai Lan had called himself an idiot and what he intended to achieve.

After Bai Lan left Class D, he began a plan to provoke conflict among the four classes so he could get disciplined and expelled while earning points by selling information. Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was pulled into the attention surrounding Bai Lan, while Bai Lan headed to visit Classes A, B, and C.

• Class D students tried to guess why Bai Lan had acted as he did, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka revealed his identity after the others mistook him for Bai Lan.
• Ayanokoji explained that he and Bai Lan had switched seats, and the handsome boy asked Ayanokoji to exchange contact information.
• Bai Lan planned to spark conflict among the four classes, then provoke fights and accumulate disciplinary actions to secure his expulsion.
• Bai Lan planned to expose himself as the conflict’s mastermind if he could not earn enough disciplinary actions, using the resulting hatred to push the school to expel him.
• Bai Lan decided to sell intelligence for points and left to visit Classes A, B, and C while the other first-year classes were still in their classrooms.

Bai Lan went to Class A to sell information about how the school evaluated students and classes, hoping to recover the points he had spent on it. He met Sakayanagi Arisu, who doubted that a student from Class D could have pooled together enough points to buy the information.

• Bai Lan used the school map to locate the other first-year classes and suspected the classes were ranked by the quality of their students.
• Bai Lan learned that lateness, leaving early, and skipping class only penalized the whole class, so he abandoned that expulsion plan and kept his goal of provoking three disciplinary violations.
• Bai Lan overheard Sakayanagi Arisu asking Class A teacher Mashima how much it would cost to learn the school's evaluation criteria, then interrupted to offer the information for 900,000 points.
• Bai Lan introduced himself as a Class D student, and Sakayanagi questioned whether someone from Class D could afford to pool together 1,000,000 points for the information.

Bai Lan sold Class A information about the school's class-point system, while Sakayanagi used the deal to assess him and keep Class B from learning the same details. After leaving Class A, Bai Lan went to Class B with other valuable information he could still sell.

• Bai Lan negotiated with Sakayanagi and sold Class A and Class C information about the school's evaluation system for a total of 1,000,000 points.
• Sakayanagi questioned Bai Lan's claims, but he argued that the ranking rewards and risks of falling behind mattered more than the exact number of points.
• After Bai Lan left, Sakayanagi asked Teacher Mashima for more information and explained to Katsuragi that she had bought from Bai Lan to test him, recruit him later, and preserve Class A's information advantage over Class B.
• Bai Lan went to Class B, intending to sell information not covered by his agreement with Class A, including that points could buy anything, even information.

Bai Lan tried to sell information to Classes B and C, but Class B's warmth drove him away while a Class C student attempted to force the information from him. Bai Lan beat the student outside the restroom, where a surveillance camera could record the fight.

• Bai Lan visited Class B to sell information, but Honami Ichinose and her classmates responded with such kindness that he left without making a sale.
• Chie Hoshinomiya recognized that Bai Lan had shared useful warnings and used gentle moral pressure to encourage Class B to heed them.
• Bai Lan arrived at Class C, where most students dismissed him, but a red-haired boy took him to the men's restroom and threatened him for information.
• Bai Lan activated his Overlord Body, kicked the red-haired boy out of the restroom, and beat him in view of a surveillance camera.
• Bai Lan told the red-haired boy not to fight back and to admit defeat, while the boy failed to land a hit.

Bai Lan beat Ryuen Kaito on camera, and Ryuen mistook Bai Lan’s untroubled behavior for proof that he had a hidden recording. Ryuen offered money for a private settlement, and Bai Lan demanded 500,000 before Ryuen hurried away to get the paperwork.

• Bai Lan repeatedly threw Ryuen Kaito down, then checked that the camera had recorded the fight.
• Ryuen realized the footage made him look like the victim and suspected Bai Lan had lured him into a trap.
• Ryuen accused Bai Lan of secretly recording his threats, but Bai Lan denied having a recording.
• Fearing that Bai Lan had evidence that could get him expelled, Ryuen offered 50,000 and then raised his offer to 100,000 for a settlement.
• Bai Lan demanded 500,000, and Ryuen left before returning with two sheets of paper and a pen.

Bai Lan forced Ryuen Kaito to sign a costly settlement, then sold him information on credit and left with a fortune in points and debt owed. After the entrance ceremony, Hirata Yosuke worried that Bai Lan’s behavior could isolate him and lead the class toward bullying.

• Ryuen Kaito signed an agreement to pay Bai Lan 500,000 private points in compensation, with interest and a three-month repayment deadline.
• Bai Lan sold Ryuen Kaito Class C’s reserved information for 500,000 points, adding another debt to his settlement obligation.
• Bai Lan calculated his assets at 2.55 million points, then looked around the school for examples of students being punished or expelled.
• Bai Lan attended the entrance ceremony with First-year Class D, and the students were dismissed for the rest of the day afterward.
• Hirata Yosuke postponed his plans for class introductions and a gathering because he suspected Bai Lan’s conduct might be a misunderstanding and feared the class would ostracize him.

Bai Lan encountered Horikita Suzune at the convenience store and resumed their sharp verbal sparring, while Hirata asked Ayanokoji to help him understand Bai Lan. The chapter ended when Bai Lan offered his student ID to a Class D boy who had forgotten his card at the checkout.

• Hirata asked Ayanokoji to help him understand Bai Lan and improve relations within the class, and Ayanokoji reluctantly agreed to think it over.
• Bai Lan went to the convenience store for daily necessities and lunch, where he recognized the girl he had planned to make cry.
• Bai Lan called Horikita Suzune Class Beauty and argued with her about whether she cared about how others judged her appearance.
• Horikita Suzune introduced herself and challenged Bai Lan to continue their verbal contest, so they finished shopping together.
• A Class D boy forgot his student ID at checkout, and Bai Lan offered to pay with his own card.

Bai Lan settled Sudo Ken’s lunch debt, then provoked Horikita Suzune into a contest that ended with him shrugging off her punch and fleeing after declaring himself the winner. Later, Ayanokoji realized Hirata was relying on him to resolve Bai Lan’s conflict with the class, though Ayanokoji could not explain Bai Lan to him.

• Bai Lan made Sudo Ken transfer him 300 points for the instant noodles, then returned to the lunch line with Horikita.
• Bai Lan told Horikita he acted for his own amusement and had no interest in forming relationships, prompting them to keep arguing.
• Horikita punched Bai Lan in the ribs, but his Overlord Body ability let him withstand the blow; he countered with a harmless flick to her forehead and ran off, calling her “Sasuke.”
• Horikita searched online for the meaning of Bai Lan’s remark and mistakenly concluded that he wanted to become her big brother, then resolved that only Horikita Manabu could hold that place.
• Hirata visited Ayanokoji after lunch to discuss Bai Lan, and Ayanokoji concluded that Hirata was depending on him because he alone had a connection with Bai Lan.
• Ayanokoji found that Hirata would not accept the possibility of a bad outcome, while Ayanokoji himself still could not figure out what Bai Lan was like.

Ayanokoji invented a communication-disorder explanation to help Hirata reinterpret Bai Lan’s insults and reconcile with him. Hirata then concluded that Bai’s three rule violations deliberately set a behavioral limit for the class, though the exact consequences behind the violations remained uncertain.

• Ayanokoji told Hirata that Bai Lan’s poor Japanese and cultural differences could explain his abrasive speech, and pretended to share the same communication disorder.
• Hirata accepted the explanation and reinterpreted Bai’s warnings about the school’s allowance rules as blunt advice that had helped the class.
• Ayanokoji suggested Bai had made himself the class’s behavioral scapegoat and used the threat of being compared to him to discourage misconduct.
• Hirata reasoned that Bai’s three violations established a red line, leaving classmates room to make mistakes while warning them against repeated rule-breaking.
• Hirata recalled that Bai had researched the penalties before skipping class twice and leaving early once, and speculated that he had chosen violations with a specific cumulative severity in mind.

Hirata tried to convince Class D that Bai Lan’s hostility was a sacrifice meant to protect the class, using explanations he had prepared with Ayanokoji. His speech eased the students’ doubts, but Hirata’s attempt to control the story began to slip beyond his control.

• Hirata became convinced that Bai Lan had made himself the class’s warning line to protect his classmates, and he asked Ayanokoji to help prepare answers to their questions.
• Bai Lan spent the rest of his first day mapping blind spots around the school, then went to sleep pleased with his efforts to get expelled.
• On the next day, Hirata asked Teacher Chazhu to address Class D and claimed that everyone had misunderstood Bai Lan’s actions.
• Hirata explained that Bai Lan’s poor Japanese obscured his good intentions, that he had offered ways to preserve class allowances, and that he had set himself up as an example of misconduct.
• Hirata answered the students’ questions using responses he had prepared with Ayanokoji, while watching a confident, golden-haired student in the class.
• Hirata was surprised when someone other than the blond-haired boy caused his efforts to go beyond his control.

Hirata defended Bai Lan by explaining that he had helped Sudo, prompting Class D to believe Bai Lan was secretly trying to help the class. The girls grew fond of Bai Lan while rumors damaged his reputation, and he returned to class expecting hostility.

• Ike challenged Hirata to provide a practical example of Bai Lan helping someone.
• Sudo revealed that Bai Lan had paid for his convenience-store purchase after he forgot his student ID, then made him repay the points.
• Hirata presented Sudo’s story as proof of Bai Lan’s kindness, and classmates praised Bai Lan while Sudo objected to their remarks about him.
• Girls’ opinions of Bai Lan improved, but rumors that he had flirted with Horikita—and speculation that he liked being insulted—ruined his reputation.
• Hirata asked the class to keep Bai Lan’s supposed plan secret and focus on working hard, while Chabashira questioned whether Hirata had come up with the explanation himself.
• Bai Lan returned to Class D before the third lesson expecting hostile stares, but sensed something was wrong.

Bai Lan misread the girls’ attention as romantic interest and worried it could interfere with his plan to drop out. After a tense stare-down with Kei Karuizawa, he returned to his seat and began planning how to discourage potential confessions without hurting anyone.

• Bai Lan interpreted the girls’ flushed and favorable looks as signs that they liked him, while the boys’ expressions seemed jealous.
• Bai Lan worried that accepting anyone’s goodwill could lead to attachment and complicate his attempt to drop out.
• Bai Lan stared at Kei Karuizawa, mistaking her anxious effort not to show weakness for a fierce challenge.
• Bai Lan ended the stare-down and walked to his seat, while Karuizawa pretended to celebrate her victory and classmates speculated about his interest in fierce girls.
• Bai Lan began devising a way to lower the girls’ favorability and prepare for possible confessions, then Horikita insulted him.

Bai Lan proposed that Horikita pretend to be his girlfriend so they could fend off their classmates’ romantic interest, but she rejected him and blacklisted his number. After class began, Bai Lan came up with two countermeasures and decided to look for another fake partner.

• Bai Lan privately messaged Horikita and asked her to pose as his girlfriend so they could shield each other from pursuers.
• Horikita condemned Bai Lan in a long text and then added him to her communications blacklist.
• Bai Lan abandoned the plan to use Horikita and considered other ways to deter the girls in his class.
• After thinking through the lesson, Bai Lan decided to seek another fake partner as a temporary solution.

Bai Lan planned to use a fake girlfriend to deter girls who liked him and considered Kei Karuizawa a suitable candidate. At lunch, he tested whether rude behavior would upset his classmates and ate ramen in an unusual way, but the chapter left his plans untested.

• Bai Lan decided to study how boys earned girls’ hatred and outlined four requirements for a fake girlfriend.
• After checking the seating chart, Bai Lan chose Kei Karuizawa as a potential fake girlfriend and considered how he might ensure her cooperation.
• At lunch, Bai Lan observed his classmates’ meals and wondered whether eating strong-smelling food could lower the girls’ favorability toward him.
• When girls blocked his way, Bai Lan told them they were in his way, but they apologized happily, leading him to conclude that they were lovestruck.
• Bai Lan went to the cafeteria, diluted his beef ramen with purified water, swallowed it quickly, and returned for extra noodles.

Bai Lan mistook Kushida’s staged collision and earnest approach for a romantic confession, but she revealed that she wanted his help becoming friends with Horikita. The chapter ended as Bai Lan prepared to respond with a cutting remark.

• Bai Lan returned from lunch and dodged Kushida when she rushed around a corner, catching her before she fell.
• Bai Lan realized Kushida had been waiting for him and suspected her staged encounter was meant to win his affection.
• Kushida admitted she had arranged the meeting to raise the conversation’s initial favorability and asked Bai Lan to hear her out.
• Bai Lan braced himself for a confession, but Kushida said she wanted to be friends with Horikita.
• Bai Lan recognized Kushida wanted to use him to approach Horikita and prepared to answer harshly.