Chapter Summaries

Bai Lan exchanged five million points for cash and openly challenged Nagumo to have him expelled, sacrificing part of the points that could protect him. Nagumo suspected Bai Lan had another plan and decided not to identify him yet.

• Chabashira refused to exchange Bai Lan’s twenty million points, but said she could arrange an immediate exchange of up to five million.
• Bai Lan transferred five million points to Chabashira and showed Nagumo the remaining fifteen million, along with the call and transfer records.
• Bai Lan urged Nagumo to identify him and said he wanted to drop out, while Horikita Manabu grew alarmed at the risk of Bai Lan being expelled.
• Nagumo considered identifying Bai Lan, then suspected he had another source of protection or might attack Nagumo before leaving school.
• Nagumo decided not to act rashly and continued weighing the conditions needed to proceed with his original plan to expel Bai Lan.

Bai Lan failed to get Nagumo to expel him and instead beat him again, while Chabashira revealed that his five-million-point cash exchange could be canceled. Horikita Manabu ruled that the group had disrupted campus order, leaving Bai Lan unexpelled but imposing class-point deductions on everyone involved.

• Nagumo concealed his suspicion of Bai Lan and refused to accuse him of wrongdoing or move to expel him.
• Bai Lan gave up on persuading Nagumo, then launched another flurry of punches while Horikita Manabu failed to stop him.
• Chabashira explained that Bai Lan could cancel his cash exchange, revealing that the five million points were still available to use.
• Horikita Manabu ruled that Bai Lan had not deliberately assaulted a classmate and rejected his expulsion, but warned the participants and deducted fifty class points from each of them for disrupting campus order.
• Nagumo's Year Two Class A lost fifty points, while Yonekura and the other four participants from their class lost a combined two hundred and fifty points.

After the arbitration punished Bai Lan and reduced Class 2-A and Class 2-D’s points, he considered how to exploit Nagumo’s weakening rule to provoke his own expulsion. Horikita Manabu then told Bai Lan that Chairman Sakayanagi Narumori wanted to speak with him, and Bai Lan agreed to go, hoping to stir up trouble.

• Horikita Manabu announced disciplinary action and point deductions for the students and classes involved, leaving Nagumo visibly shaken.
• Bai Lan realized the deductions would sharply reduce Nagumo’s income and began planning to keep provoking him until the second year turned against him or Nagumo identified him for expulsion.
• Nagumo hurried out of the classroom while Bai Lan watched him with a sinister grin and considered following him to frighten him.
• Horikita Manabu told Bai Lan that Chairman Sakayanagi Narumori had watched the arbitration and wanted to meet him.
• Bai Lan confirmed he could refuse without punishment, then agreed to meet Sakayanagi Narumori because he hoped the conversation might give him a chance to cause trouble.

Bai Lan went to meet Chairman Sakayanagi, intending to make a bad impression and gain support for his plan to drop out. The chairman responded with unexpected warmth, leaving Bai Lan unsure why he seemed to like him.

• Nagumo injured himself by tumbling down the stairs and was taken to the infirmary, where the doctor diagnosed a sprained ankle, a hairline elbow fracture, and several wounds.
• Horikita Manabu assigned Tachibana Akane to announce the arbitration decision, then escorted Bai Lan to the chairman’s office.
• Bai Lan noticed dried blood in the stairwell and wondered whether someone from Nagumo’s group had been injured there.
• Bai Lan entered the chairman’s office acting like a dangerous troublemaker, hoping to make the chairman dislike him.
• Bai Lan greeted the chairman as Mr. Sakayanagi and realized that Sakayanagi was likely the chairman’s surname and the white-haired girl’s father.
• The chairman laughed warmly at Bai Lan’s joke, prompting Bai Lan to suspect that the chairman already had a favorable impression of him.

Bai Lan met with Chairman Sakayanagi Narumori, who misread his attempts to appear rude and arrogant as signs of exhaustion and concern for the school. Bai Lan explained that he had wanted to spend his twenty million points by provoking an expulsion, while Sakayanagi concluded that Bai Lan had abandoned cash exchange to avoid harming the school.

• Bai Lan explained that he had guessed Sakayanagi Narumori’s surname from the signature on a file, and Narumori took his remarks as praise for his own broad-mindedness.
• Bai Lan told Sakayanagi Narumori that he had beaten the upperclassmen because he disliked Nagumo and wanted to vent his anger.
• Bai Lan said he had intended to provoke expulsion and spend twenty million points to cancel the punishment, but Nagumo and the others had declined to press charges.
• Bai Lan complained that exchanging points for cash carried a twenty-percent fee and that school offered nowhere to spend the money, so he planned to cancel the exchange.
• Sakayanagi Narumori interpreted Bai Lan’s remarks as evidence that he wanted to spend his points without disrupting the school, and connected his plan to exchange cash with Chabashira’s warning about the school’s limits.

Sakayanagi Narumori realized Bai Lan wanted to spend his twenty million points because the school offered few appealing options, then suggested he use them to buy time outside campus. Bai Lan became tempted by the offer and began negotiating over a special monthly discount.

• Sakayanagi Narumori concluded that Bai Lan had reluctantly chosen expulsion exemption because he could not spend his points through ordinary purchases.
• Bai Lan complained about the school's limited ways to spend points, while Sakayanagi Narumori listened and encouraged him to continue.
• Sakayanagi Narumori proposed letting Bai Lan leave campus to spend his points, reviving Bai Lan's interest in going outside.
• Bai Lan pretended not to know about paid outings and complained that one million points for a day was too expensive.
• Sakayanagi Narumori offered Bai Lan a special discount, explaining that the first day of each month cost one million points and the second cost nine hundred thousand.

Sakayanagi Narumori explained a discounted time-outside program that let Bai Lan leave during class without being marked truant, with the number of discounted days tied to exam performance. Bai Lan learned his low midterm score would limit his benefit, and Sakayanagi Narumori began outlining the score thresholds.

• Sakayanagi Narumori explained that each month's exchange price started at one million points and fell by 10% for each additional day, while discounted outings did not count as truancy except during mandatory events.
• Bai Lan calculated that the program could let him stay outside for extended periods and planned to use it while continuing to pursue dropping out.
• Sakayanagi Narumori said discounted days were limited according to students' recent exam scores, prompting Bai Lan to object that he had deliberately kept his midterm score low.
• Sakayanagi Narumori agreed to use Bai Lan's pre-midterm quiz score temporarily, and Bai Lan recalled that he had scored 71.
• Sakayanagi Narumori listed the first score thresholds, explaining that scores below 30% earned two discounted days and higher percentages earned additional days.

Bai Lan learned how his quiz score determined his leave days and heard Sakayanagi Narumori’s offer of unlimited leave for a perfect score. He tried to bargain over the cost, but Sakayanagi Narumori recognized that freedom to leave school was exactly what Bai Lan wanted, leaving Bai Lan with little leverage.

• Bai Lan learned that his 71-point score earned him eight discounted leave days and that a perfect official-exam score would grant unlimited leave and freedom from in-class assignments.
• Bai Lan decided that chasing perfect scores was not worth the effort because he could finish assignments quickly by deliberately getting some answers wrong.
• Bai Lan claimed he was too busy to use much leave and argued that Sakayanagi Narumori’s discount was still too expensive.
• Sakayanagi Narumori offered to cancel the leave discount, prompting Bai Lan to back down.
• Sakayanagi Narumori revealed that he knew Bai Lan wanted to leave the enclosed school and had designed the discount for him, making Bai Lan’s bargaining ineffective.

Bai Lan accepted Sakayanagi Narumori’s discounted outdoor-time offer and a fee-free cash exchange allowance, then encountered suspicion from students in the shopping district. When he returned to his dorm, he found classmates arguing outside his room, with Karuizawa and Horikita defending him.

• Sakayanagi Narumori offered Bai Lan a five-million-point fee-free cash exchange allowance for each month he exchanged for time outside, and Bai Lan accepted.
• Bai Lan exchanged points for one day outside, activating the allowance, and left the office after Sakayanagi Narumori received a work call.
• Bai Lan found students in the shopping district wary of him, so he ordered takeout and decided to go out after collecting his cash.
• Bai Lan returned to his dorm and saw Horikita, Hirata, Kushida, Karuizawa, Ayanokoji, and other classmates gathered outside his room.
• Karuizawa argued with classmates who accused Bai Lan, while Horikita criticized their assumptions and Hirata and Kushida tried to mediate.

Bai Lan returned to find classmates arguing outside his room, apparently gathered to condemn him for losing the class points. Their confrontation fell silent when he arrived, and his strange, taunting behavior made the crowd retreat as he looked for someone willing to challenge him.

• Hirata tried to calm the argument while Kushida and Karuizawa defended Bai Lan, and Ayanokoji backed up whoever was speaking.
• Bai Lan inferred that the classmates had come to blame him, but he felt little guilt because he believed he had already compensated the class with points.
• Bai Lan headed toward the group, hoping someone would provoke him and give him a chance to earn expulsion through another disciplinary violation.
• A classmate announced Bai Lan's arrival, and the heated argument stopped as everyone turned to face him.
• Bai Lan asked who had been speaking badly about him, then scrutinized the crowd until many classmates, including Karuizawa, retreated.

Bai Lan discovered that the students gathered outside his room were arguing over rumors that he and Karuizawa were romantically involved, not condemning him for losing class points. He realized Ike had a hidden motive for pushing the gossip and suspected that Bai Lan himself stood to lose from it.

• Bai Lan pressured an isolated student to explain what he had been saying, and the student apologized for spreading rumors about Bai Lan and Karuizawa.
• The student blamed Ike Kanji for starting the rumor, while Ike defended his speculation that Bai Lan had protected Karuizawa because they were involved.
• Bai Lan connected Karuizawa's guilty, blushing reactions to embarrassment and decided the rumors could make her a useful human shield.
• Bai Lan questioned why the students had gathered outside his room and concluded that Ike's argument must serve his own interests at Bai Lan's expense.

Bai Lan found that some of the students gathered outside his room had come to defend him, though he still did not understand why they were there. Horikita directed him to the class group chat for an explanation, and he began reading the messages about his fight.

• Students who had earlier stayed silent began defending Bai Lan, saying he would have helped anyone in the class and that Karuizawa had only been the catalyst.
• Bai Lan suspected that Karuizawa had acted as a shield for him and chose Horikita to explain why the students were blocking his door.
• Horikita silenced the gossiping students and suggested Bai Lan check the class group chat around 10:10, then lent him her phone because his was battered.
• Bai Lan scrolled back through the chat and found the first report of his fight at 9:38, three minutes after he began beating people up.
• The students quickly confirmed the fight using photos, then started discussing its details.

Bai Lan watched former Class D debate why he had beaten Nagumo and the others, with many students praising him as a defender of Karuizawa and the class. Ike Kanji rejected that interpretation by claiming Bai Lan and Karuizawa were a couple, then posted a photo as evidence.

• Former Class D discussed Bai Lan's fight in the group chat, and Ike Kanji steered the conversation toward Bai Lan's motives.
• Students linked the people Bai Lan had beaten to Karuizawa's bullying incident and praised him for standing up for her.
• Ike argued that violence was wrong, but students in the chat backed Bai Lan and defeated Ike's argument.
• Some students tried to portray Bai Lan as the class's protector, and Bai Lan suspected they wanted to pressure him into guarding them for free.
• Ike claimed Bai Lan had defended Karuizawa because they were romantically involved, then posted a photo of a girl leaning against a doorway while looking at her phone.

Ike Kanji saw Karuizawa waiting outside Bai Lan's room and decided to use the sight to argue that Bai Lan had beaten people for personal reasons rather than to protect the class. The chapter ended with Ike anticipating that Bai Lan might be punished and the class might lose points.

• Classmates identified the room in Ike's photo as Bai Lan's, and Karuizawa spotted Ike taking the picture and confronted him.
• Former Class D students gathered outside Bai Lan's room to watch Karuizawa and Ike argue after their group chat discussion stalled.
• Ike resented the idea that Bai Lan had protected the class because he did not want to owe Bai Lan a favor or be overshadowed by him.
• Seeing Karuizawa waiting outside Bai Lan's room, Ike decided to claim that Bai Lan had beaten people to protect his girlfriend, not the class.
• Ike hoped the rumor would make Bai Lan and Karuizawa seem like a couple, undermine Bai Lan's popularity, and cause Karuizawa to attract hostility.
• Ike expected Bai Lan to be punished for beating six people and thought the class might lose points as a result.

Ike stirred rumors about Bai Lan and Karuizawa, hoping Bai Lan would receive a severe punishment after his fight and the class would lose points. The boys helped spread the gossip, while the girls stayed out of it, and Sato Saya and Matsushita Chiaki concluded that Karuizawa’s denial meant she secretly wanted to be with Bai Lan.

• Ike reasoned that Bai Lan could face a severe punishment if the class believed he had knowingly harmed its interests for Karuizawa’s sake, and hoped the resulting point loss would increase his monthly income.
• Ike photographed Karuizawa waiting outside Bai Lan’s room and spread claims about their relationship in the class group chat.
• Many boys joined Ike in promoting the rumor because they hoped a relationship would redirect girls’ attention from Bai Lan and make Karuizawa less likely to argue with them.
• The girls declined to support either side because they did not want to help Karuizawa, whom they regarded as a rival for Bai Lan’s attention.
• Sato Saya and Matsushita Chiaki stayed quiet because they worried that intervening would worsen matters, then interpreted Karuizawa’s firm denial and flushed face as proof that she wanted a relationship with Bai Lan.

Bai Lan broke up Ike’s attempt to spread rumors about his relationship with Karuizawa, then asked why Karuizawa had waited outside his room. The classmates asked whether Bai Lan had been punished, and Horikita pointed out that the school had already announced the result.

• Sato and Matsushita decided not to help Karuizawa deny her relationship with Bai Lan, while Horikita and Kushida tried to stop the rumor for their own reasons.
• Bai Lan confronted Ike, and Ike backed away from his claim that Bai Lan and Karuizawa were definitely dating, calling it ordinary gossip instead.
• Bai Lan asked Karuizawa why she had waited outside his room, and she claimed she was showing loyalty and gratitude.
• Karuizawa had waited because she feared Bai Lan might be expelled and wanted to feel safe near him.
• When classmates asked whether Bai Lan had been punished, Horikita told them to check the school announcement, which had already been posted.

Bai Lan admitted he had beaten the seniors for his own reasons, then privately discussed his punishment with Horikita, Hirata, and Kushida. Horikita spotted his open suitcase and suspected he had prepared to drop out because he lacked confidence in his plan.

• Students debated whether Bai Lan's fight with the seniors had been staged, and Bai Lan admitted that he had hit them.
• Bai Lan said he had attacked the seniors because he could not stand them and because they had threatened the agreement he made with Karuizawa, then sent the crowd away.
• Horikita, Hirata, and Kushida stayed behind, and Bai Lan let them into his room to discuss his punishment.
• Bai Lan hurried to close an open suitcase, but Horikita noticed it and asked whether he had been preparing to drop out before the fight.

Bai Lan explained that he planned to spend points to leave campus for eight days and rejected Horikita’s argument that he should invest his fortune in the class. He agreed to let the class decide his punishment, intending to weaken his invincible image before he pursued his plan to withdraw from school.

• Hirata tried to conceal Bai Lan’s desire to drop out, while Kushida dismissed Horikita’s suspicion that Bai Lan had nearly been expelled on purpose.
• Bai Lan said he planned to leave campus for a few days by spending points, then revealed that his discounted eight-day trip would cost over five million points.
• Horikita urged Bai Lan to invest his points in the class, but he argued that he could use them as he pleased and that investing in the class was a poor return compared with transferring to Class A.
• Bai Lan persuaded Horikita that his spending would give her more room to prove herself and earn her brother’s recognition.
• Hirata asked whether Bai Lan would let the class decide his punishment, and Bai Lan confirmed that he would follow the rules he had created.
• Bai Lan planned to use the punishment to reduce his standing in the class and break the image of him as invincible.

Bai Lan proposed an anonymous class process to determine his punishment, easing Hirata’s worries about the class fearing him. Horikita interpreted the situation as Bai Lan creating an opportunity for her to gain authority while he was away from school, though she had only begun to work out how to use it.

• Bai Lan agreed to accept the class’s judgment but suggested that Hirata remove him from the group chat and let classmates discuss and vote anonymously.
• Hirata accepted the plan and asked Kushida and Horikita to organize the process, believing it would reassure the class that Bai Lan could be restrained by rules.
• Kushida and Horikita suspected Bai Lan was pursuing some benefit through the judgment, although Kushida eventually stopped trying to guess his plan.
• Horikita connected Bai Lan’s planned absences and spending to a possible opening for her to take on some of his class responsibilities and build prestige.
• Horikita concluded that the judgment could help her gain influence while Bai Lan was away, and began considering his need for points to fund his time outside school.

Horikita realized Bai Lan wanted her to use the rules to secure him a profitable outcome in his punishment, strengthening her position as his spokesperson. Meanwhile, Ike panicked after seeing Bai Lan openly admit to assaulting people and feared becoming his next target.

• Horikita concluded that Bai Lan wanted points rather than Class A advancement and was testing whether she could anticipate his plans and protect his interests.
• Horikita realized Bai Lan's insistence that his punishment follow the rules could let her turn the judgment into a reward for him.
• Ike initially thought Bai Lan had concealed his assault because he was reluctant to beat people, but Bai Lan's open admission convinced him that Bai Lan feared no consequences.
• Ike heard Bai Lan accept punishment according to the rules, but he remained terrified and worried Bai Lan would target him like Nagumo.
• Ike considered begging Bai Lan for mercy, then rejected the idea because it could draw unwanted attention or be mistaken for provocation.