Chapter Summaries

The Student Council President resigned, prompting an election in which Shinomiya Kaguya announced her candidacy. Su Yang declined Ichinose Honami’s suggestion that he run, suspecting a conspiracy, and left the school, where he spotted Hayasaka Ai with two friends.

• The Student Council President resigned and announced that the next president would be chosen within three days.
• Shinomiya Kaguya declared that she would run, leading several students, including Ichijo, Kirigiri Chitoge, and Ryotsuki Kanade, to rule out running themselves.
• Suou Amane told Su Yang that Shinomiya Kaguya seemed likely to win the election.
• Ichinose Honami asked Su Yang to run, but Su Yang refused because he suspected a conspiracy behind the election.
• Su Yang left school and saw Hayasaka Ai chatting with two friends by a wall near the gate.

Su Yang learned that Shinomiya Kaguya had arranged the Student Council President’s resignation and suspected she was targeting him. Kaguya won the election and summoned Su Yang to the Student Council office, while Ichinose Honami showed an unexpected interest in his scent.

• Hayasaka Ai told Su Yang that Kaguya had met the former Student Council President’s grandfather and secured his cooperation.
• Su Yang refused Hayasaka’s suggestion that he run for Student Council President and said he was unafraid of Kaguya’s attempts to target him.
• Three days later, Kaguya won the presidency with 98% support and began organizing school activities.
• After the morning assembly, Ichinose Honami told Su Yang that Kaguya wanted to see him and led him toward the Student Council office.
• On the way, Ichinose asked Su Yang what perfume he used, then wondered aloud whether his scent came naturally from being handsome.

Su Yang entered the Student Council office, where Shinomiya Kaguya welcomed him and announced her appointment for him. The chapter ended with Kaguya naming Su Yang the Student Council’s vice president.

• Su Yang received a message from Suou Amane saying she had brought him another bento.
• Ichinose Honami brought Su Yang to the Student Council office, where Shinomiya Kaguya, Chika, and Yukino Yukinoshita were gathered.
• Shinomiya Kaguya thanked Ichinose and sent her and Yukino away, while Chika stayed behind.
• Shinomiya Kaguya told Su Yang she wanted to make an appointment as Student Council President.
• Shinomiya Kaguya appointed Su Yang as the Student Council’s vice president.

Shinomiya Kaguya threatened to expel Su Yang unless he joined the Student Council, using Chika and her knowledge of his relationship with Yukino Yukinoshita as leverage. Su Yang agreed to join only if he could be President, leaving Kaguya to consider his demand.

• Shinomiya Kaguya ordered Su Yang to choose between becoming Vice President and being expelled, citing her authority as Student Council President.
• Kaguya accused Su Yang of arranging for her to shoulder Student Council work so Chika would not be overburdened, and Chika questioned whether it was true.
• Su Yang realized Kaguya was threatening to expose his relationship with Yukino Yukinoshita to Chika unless he agreed to join the council.
• Su Yang countered that he would join only if he became Student Council President, and Kaguya said she needed time to think.
• Hayasaka Ai met Su Yang in the corridor, and he explained that Kaguya wanted him on the council to retaliate for his scheme.

Su Yang accepted Shinomiya Kaguya’s nomination for Student Council President, intending to punish her for forcing the role on him. At the school assembly, he made Kaguya his Vice President, leaving her unable to withdraw from the Student Council.

• Su Yang told Hayasaka he would join the Student Council and take the presidency to put Shinomiya Kaguya in check.
• Shinomiya Kaguya invited Su Yang and agreed to nominate him, then spread the news that he would become President.
• Suou Amane congratulated Su Yang and asked him to adjust the school hours.
• At the assembly, Shinomiya Kaguya nominated Su Yang as the 153rd Student Council President.
• Su Yang appointed Shinomiya Kaguya as Vice President and asked her to speak, making her accept the role in front of the students.

Su Yang and Shinomiya Kaguya ended up serving together on the Student Council after their attempt to make the other take on the work backfired. Fujiwara Chika realized Su Yang had recruited Kaguya to protect her from being overburdened, while the two new colleagues remained hostile toward each other.

• Shinomiya Kaguya clung to Fujiwara Chika and cried over being brought into the Student Council, while Su Yang pointed out that they had both lost out.
• Fujiwara Chika comforted Kaguya and questioned Su Yang for bullying her, but Kaguya and Su Yang exchanged hostile looks.
• Ichinose Honami delivered documents with Yukino Yukinoshita and remarked on the tense atmosphere, while Yukino admitted she did not know what was going on.
• Fujiwara Chika realized she liked both Kaguya and Su Yang and understood that Su Yang had recruited Kaguya to keep Chika from being burdened with too much work.

Su Yang took charge of the Student Council and assigned everyone else to handle an overdue welcome event for a French sister school. He defended doing none of the work himself by claiming the President’s role was to command, leaving Kaguya regretting that she had given up the position.

• Chika felt happier after reassuring herself that the people she liked were by her side.
• Kaguya discovered that the former Student Council President had left urgent work unfinished, including preparations for a French school's visit the following week.
• Su Yang assigned Kaguya, Chika, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Ichinose tasks for organizing the welcome event.
• Kaguya pointed out that Su Yang had given himself no task, and he argued that a commander should delegate rather than do a foot soldier's work.
• Kaguya regretted giving up the presidency because she could have enjoyed the same freedom as Su Yang.

Su Yang left the Student Council members to handle their work and went to Himari TV Station after Sakurajima Mai invited him to watch her live return announcement. He met Mai backstage and offered to help, while he also noticed Sakura Group performing and heard someone mention Emilia and Roswar.

• Su Yang told the four Student Council members to share responsibility for the leftover tasks, and they left to research the welcome party and organize the work.
• Su Yang received Sakurajima Mai's message about her live appearance and sent encouraging messages to the Student Council members before heading to Himari TV Station.
• Backstage, Su Yang saw Sakura Group preparing to perform and overheard someone say that Roswar had scolded the group, so they were taking their anger out on Emilia.
• Sakurajima Mai met Su Yang backstage and admitted she was nervous about returning to the cameras.
• Su Yang complimented Mai's appearance and offered to help with her comeback announcement.

Su Yang and Mai discovered that Sakura Group had sabotaged Emilia’s performance outfit, leaving her unable to go onstage. Mai stepped in and offered to move her interview program earlier so Emilia could prepare another outfit.

• Su Yang asked Mai about Roswar and Emilia and learned that Emilia was a talented newcomer who had not officially debuted.
• Su Yang and Mai went backstage after hearing that Sakura Group had caused trouble for Emilia.
• They saw Roswar reprimanding Ram while Emilia’s white performance dress lay stained with purple juice.
• Roswar explained that Sakura Group’s students had made Emilia buy drinks and then splashed them on her outfit, threatening her upcoming performance.
• Mai entered the room and offered to move her interview program earlier to give Emilia time to prepare another outfit.

Su Yang saw through Roswar and Ram’s attempt to make Mai mentor Emilia, then confronted Ram privately about the setup. He offered a way for Emilia to perform on time, leaving the group waiting to hear his solution.

• Mai explained that she and Emilia belonged to the same agency, and Roswar ended his reprimand of Ram before leaving.
• Emilia apologized to Mai, who planned to speak to the director, but Su Yang stopped her and introduced himself to Emilia and Ram.
• Su Yang privately accused Ram of arranging the incident to draw Mai into helping Emilia and warned that the scheme could hurt Emilia’s career.
• Su Yang said he had a solution that would let Emilia finish her performance on time, and Emilia asked if he really could help.

Su Yang found a way to fix the red juice stain on Emilia’s purple performance dress by using color theory. He exposed that Ram likely knew the solution already, as Sakura Group prepared to leave the stage.

• Su Yang examined the stained dress and the different-colored drinks on the table.
• Mai suggested covering the stain with other colors, but Su Yang said the plan would take too long and alter Emilia’s appearance.
• Su Yang said there was an easier solution and pointed to Ram as the person who would know it.
• Su Yang reasoned that adding blue juice to the red stain could turn it purple, and suspected Ram knew this from the start.
• Su Yang casually noted that Sakura Group was about to leave the stage, and Ram lowered her eyes.

Ram covered the red stain on Emilia’s clothes with blue pigment, while Mai recognized the setup as a staged attempt to win her sympathy. Mai thanked Su Yang for intervening, then questioned his Student Council role and suggested that Shinomiya Kaguya might have changed because she loved him.

• Ram proposed covering the red stain with blue pigment, and Emilia’s clothes looked clean once Ram applied it.
• Mai led Su Yang out of the lounge and thanked him for stopping her from falling for the staged bullying scene.
• Mai explained that Roswar had likely arranged the act to stir her sympathy for Emilia and that Ram had asked her mother about her schedule.
• Mai congratulated Su Yang on becoming Student Council President and asked why he had taken on the role.
• Su Yang said he had intended to bring Shinomiya Kaguya into the Student Council, but she had turned the tables on him.
• Mai said Shinomiya Kaguya seemed different and suggested that love might have caused her to change.

Su Yang received a rare King-level sign-in mission that required him to touch Emilia’s ears for ten minutes before time ran out. He asked Mai to switch her segment ahead of Emilia’s, leaving Ram and Emilia confused about his motives.

• Emilia appeared in her performance outfit as her stage segment approached.
• The System assigned Su Yang a King-level sign-in at Emilia’s ears, with a ten-minute time limit.
• Su Yang learned Emilia’s segment would last at least fifteen minutes, too long for him to complete the mission afterward.
• Su Yang asked Mai to persuade the director to move her segment first, and Mai agreed to ask.
• Ram and Emilia watched Su Yang in confusion as he prepared to explain himself.

Su Yang used his artist's temperament to persuade Ram and Emilia that an elf-inspired makeover could help Emilia stand out. He took Emilia to the dressing room and began touching her ears to complete the system's ten-minute sign-in, though he did not know how to do makeup.

• Ram wondered why Su Yang had arranged for Sakurajima Mai to greet Emilia after exposing Ram and Roswar's scheme.
• Su Yang equipped Artist's Temperament and claimed that a makeover could help Emilia make a successful debut.
• Su Yang suggested styling Emilia as an elf, convincing both Emilia and Ram that the idea could make her distinctive.
• Su Yang took Emilia to the dressing room and touched her ears under the pretext of changing her styling.
• Su Yang began the system's ten-minute sign-in, but he had no idea how to do makeup.

Su Yang disguised Emilia with elf ear props while signing in, and the completed sign-in rewarded him with a Destruction Stone of the Ordinary World. Emilia liked how the ears looked and hoped they would give the audience a new impression of her.

• Su Yang told Emilia that massaging her ears would prepare them for the elf ear props, and Ram fetched a suitable pair.
• Su Yang massaged Emilia's sensitive ears and began attaching the elf ear props while the sign-in was underway.
• Su Yang finished fitting both elf ears and continued massaging them until the ten-minute sign-in completed.
• Su Yang received a Destruction Stone of the Ordinary World, and Ram and Emilia praised the elf ears' appearance.
• Emilia thanked Su Yang and said she hoped the disguise would leave the audience with a new impression of her.

Su Yang left Emilia’s performance early and invited Mai to dinner, prompting her to cancel another appointment and disguise herself before they departed together. They arrived at a five-star restaurant, where a doorman approached their car.

• Emilia began her performance, and Ms. Sakurajima told Su Yang that Emilia could become a talented singer.
• Su Yang invited Mai to dinner, and Mai’s mother canceled her evening appointment so Mai could accept.
• Mai removed her makeup, disguised herself, and explained to Su Yang how strict the entertainment industry was about idols’ public image.
• Su Yang, Mai, and Sakurajima Yayoi rode in Yayoi’s company car to a five-star Michelin restaurant.
• A doorman approached the car as it arrived, apparently ready to park it.

Su Yang and Sakurajima Mai ate at his restaurant, where a waitress recognized Mai and connected Su Yang to her comeback announcement. At home, Fujiwara Moeha noticed that Chika had torn down all her Sakurajima Mai posters after returning the previous week.

• Yayoi stayed in the car while Mai and Su Yang went into the restaurant together.
• A waitress recognized Mai, asked for an autograph and a photo, then realized Su Yang was the junior Mai had mentioned during her comeback livestream.
• Moeha told Chika that Mai had made a comeback while they watched an entertainment program at home.
• Moeha recalled that Chika had once admired Mai but had torn down all her posters after coming home the previous week.

Moeha learned that Sakurajima Mai credited Su Yang with helping her return to entertainment, and realized Chika saw Mai as a romantic rival. After dinner, Sakurajima Yayoi drove Su Yang to Front Gate Bridge, where she planned to speak with him privately.

• Moeha told Chika that Mai had announced her comeback, then heard Mai name Su Yang as the junior who had encouraged her.
• Moeha inferred that Mai was Chika's love rival and added Mai's name to her notes.
• Sakurajima Yayoi offered to drive Su Yang home and said she wanted to talk with him.
• Su Yang inspected his King-level reward, a stone that could make supernatural phenomena appear, but decided not to use it.
• Sakurajima Yayoi drove Su Yang to Front Gate Bridge and parked there without yet explaining what she wanted to discuss.

Sakurajima Yayoi warned Su Yang to stay away from Ram, then asked him to stop visiting Mai because his presence was affecting her acting and emotions. She explained that Mai wanted to return to acting and had hidden signs of crying before seeing him.

• Sakurajima Yayoi touched Su Yang's hand and warned him to be careful around Ram.
• Sakurajima Yayoi admitted that Murasame had told her how powerful Su Yang was.
• Sakurajima Yayoi asked Su Yang not to visit Mai again, even after he assured her he would not hurt Mai.
• Sakurajima Yayoi said Mai had struggled with acting and gained strength when she learned Su Yang would visit.
• Sakurajima Yayoi told Su Yang that Mai had put on makeup to hide that she had been crying and genuinely wanted to return to acting.

Sakurajima Yayoi told Su Yang that he had become an obstacle to Mai’s entertainment career and asked him to avoid intimacy with Mai until she recovered, offering herself as a substitute. She asserted that Su Yang would not treat her cruelly because she was beautiful, then pressed his hand against her body.

• Sakurajima Yayoi explained that Mai still needed Su Yang’s encouragement but that their intimacy could endanger Mai’s career if discovered.
• Sakurajima Yayoi asked Su Yang not to make a move on Mai until she got back on track and offered herself as a substitute.
• Su Yang challenged Sakurajima Yayoi about whether he could treat her however he wanted, and she said she would refuse if he treated her as less than a person.
• Sakurajima Yayoi took Su Yang’s hand in both of hers, pressed it against her upper body, and said he would not be able to bear treating her cruelly because she was beautiful.