Chapter Summaries

Su Yang struggled to resist Sakurajima Yayoi after she explained her lack of interest in men and flirted with him. He called Hayasaka Ai to say he would not be coming home that night, leaving with Sakurajima Yayoi.

• Su Yang admitted to himself that Sakurajima Yayoi’s mature beauty was unsettling his resolve.
• Su Yang said he was not interested in women who were not pure, and Sakurajima Yayoi explained that she was X-Asexual and had used artificial insemination to have Mai.
• Sakurajima Yayoi smiled at Su Yang and challenged him to find out whether her claims were true.
• Su Yang called Hayasaka Ai and told her he was not coming home that night.
• Hayasaka Ai obediently accepted the news, then stared at the television after the call ended.

After spending the night with Sakurajima Yayoi, Su Yang jogged home through a park, where he noticed a young woman resting beneath the same tree. The chapter left him watching her as she wiped her face with a towel.

• Hayasaka Ai saw news about Sakurajima Mai’s comeback and wrongly suspected Su Yang had spent the night with Mai.
• Su Yang kept a bloodstained handkerchief from Sakurajima Yayoi, who gave him her private number but told him not to interfere with Mai’s affairs.
• Sakurajima Yayoi dropped Su Yang off before dawn and drove away, and he chose to jog home instead.
• Su Yang used his mental map of the city to take a quiet route through a park and rested beneath a tree.
• A young woman with a single ponytail stopped to rest on the other side of the tree, and Su Yang noticed her as she wiped her face with a towel.

Su Yang returned to school and resumed his duties as Student Council President after his fellow officers confronted him for abandoning work and letting his fan club handle important documents. He found that many of the resulting judgments were wrong, leaving him to correct the errors.

• Su Yang saw Chabashira Sae running but chose not to disturb her, then returned home and encountered Hayasaka Ai.
• Su Yang arrived at Private Shuchiin Academy with Shinomiya Kaguya, drawing admiring attention from the students.
• Ichinose Honami criticized Su Yang for leaving the Student Council’s work to its members, while Fujiwara Chika and Yukino Yukinoshita agreed.
• Shinomiya Kaguya showed Su Yang that he had passed important documents to his fan club, where a member had added a request for his number.
• Su Yang accepted the criticism and began reviewing the documents, discovering that about a third of the judgments were wrong.

Su Yang rapidly cleared the Student Council’s backlog and organized the remaining work, impressing the other members. Shinomiya Kaguya then proposed pairing Fujiwara and Yukinoshita for shopping, and Su Yang recognized that she was deliberately teasing him while they remained stuck in their council roles.

• Su Yang corrected the documents while Ichinose, Chika, Yukinoshita, and Kaguya watched, then finished processing the backlog and arranged for Disciplinary Committee members to distribute the notices.
• Kaguya brewed tea for Su Yang, who asked the council members whether they had completed their assigned tasks.
• Ichinose reported that the notices had been sent and posted, and that she had prepared a list of items to buy.
• Su Yang prepared to assign Yukinoshita and Ichinose to purchase supplies, but Kaguya suggested pairing Fujiwara with Yukinoshita instead.
• Su Yang noticed Kaguya deliberately holding her smile and understood that she was teasing him about their situation as council members.

Su Yang diverted Fujiwara Chika from shopping with him by inviting her to a concert, then went shopping with Shinomiya Kaguya instead. The chapter ended with them leaving school together in Kaguya’s family car, both looking uncomfortable.

• Shinomiya Kaguya teased Su Yang by suggesting that Fujiwara Chika and Yukino could go shopping together.
• Su Yang asked Ichinose to shop with Yukino, claiming Fujiwara Chika was busy the next afternoon.
• Su Yang messaged Fujiwara Chika an invitation to a concert, and she agreed to pretend she had plans.
• The next afternoon, Su Yang and Shinomiya Kaguya left school together in the Shinomiya family car.

Su Yang and Shinomiya Kaguya went to Rokutenma Shopping Mall to buy supplies for the welcome gathering, while the other students cleaned the pool. Su Yang tried to get away from Kaguya’s bodyguards and improve her favorability, leaving her puzzled by his actions.

• Su Yang was excused from cleaning the pool with his all-girl class, so he and Shinomiya Kaguya went shopping for supplies.
• Su Yang and Kaguya arrived at Rokutenma Shopping Mall with two Shinomiya family bodyguards following them.
• Su Yang grabbed Kaguya and carried her to the mall entrance, where she recovered and questioned whether he had kidnapped her.
• Su Yang told Kaguya he thought coming to the mall was her wish and considered equipping Artist's Temperament.

Su Yang persuaded Kaguya to enjoy a rare chance to shop freely by reassuring her that her bodyguards were no longer following them. He had arranged for Murasame Reion and her group to block the guards, leaving Kaguya to shop with him.

• Su Yang described Kaguya’s wish for an ordinary life and a chance to walk and shop freely, and she admitted he had understood her feelings.
• Kaguya worried that her bodyguards would interfere with her shopping, but Su Yang told her to look around and see that they were gone.
• A few minutes earlier, Kaguya’s two bodyguards had pursued her and Su Yang, but Murasame Reion and her group stopped them.
• Murasame Reion introduced herself as Su Yang’s subordinate and refused to let the bodyguards pass.

Murasame Reion's team bribed Kaguya's bodyguards, and Su Yang arranged to bribe the people in Kaguya's residence as part of his plan to befriend her. While shopping, Kaguya marveled at the low price of a pen and learned about everyday prices from Su Yang; elsewhere, Moeha reunited with Chika and asked about Su Yang and Shinomiya.

• Murasame Reion's subordinates offered the Shinomiya bodyguards cases of US dollars, and the bodyguards handed over their communicators and GPS devices.
• Su Yang told his team to continue the plan and bribe everyone in Kaguya's residence.
• Kaguya was astonished that a ballpoint pen cost 100 yen, and Su Yang explained that inexpensive items could still be useful.
• Kaguya checked Yukinoshita's shopping list and reflected that Yukinoshita knew a lot about ordinary goods.
• Moeha visited Chika after the pool was cleaned and asked where Su Yang and Senior Shinomiya were.

Su Yang reassured Ichinose about the welcome party’s dress code and arrangements after noticing her worry about attending without formal clothes. The preparations continued with the French students expected to wear their school uniforms, and accommodations arranged in the dormitories.

• Moeha suggested that Su Yang might be interested in Kaguya, but Chika dismissed the idea because Kaguya knew about Chika and Su Yang’s past relationship.
• Chika warned Moeha not to make a move on Su Yang, and Moeha agreed outwardly.
• Su Yang returned from the principal’s office with cakes and found Ichinose alone in the decorated auditorium, looking troubled.
• Ichinose asked whether Student Council members had to attend the welcome party and whether they needed formal clothes, and Su Yang explained that it would not be a ball.
• Su Yang told Ichinose that he had arranged for both schools’ students to wear uniforms and that accommodations would be provided in the dormitories, prompting her to take notes.

Su Yang trained Ichinose in upper-class etiquette before Shuchiin Academy’s welcome party for French students. At the party, Ichinose stayed at Su Yang’s side as his attendant and wondered how he remained so composed.

• Ichinose admitted she feared embarrassing the Student Council because she lacked experience with etiquette, and Su Yang offered to train her.
• Su Yang coached Ichinose’s confidence and had her practice walking in a custom-made maid outfit.
• Eighty-eight French students arrived, and Shuchiin Academy paired them with eighty-eight students who could speak French.
• Su Yang kept Ichinose beside him as an attendant because she knew only a few French greetings.
• Ichinose asked how Su Yang stayed composed, and he reflected that he recognized many students as the children of families he had met while building his forces.

Su Yang welcomed French students to Shuchiin Academy and let Shinomiya Kaguya handle their Student Council President after the French president tried to recruit him. Ryotsuki Kanade then warned him that the Student Council might soon become unstable.

• Su Yang advised Ichinose to stay confident, then asked Shinomiya Kaguya to welcome the French delegation while he checked a message inviting him to France.
• Shinomiya Kaguya greeted the French Student Council President, who stopped pursuing Su Yang after seeing her status.
• Fujiwara Chika told Kaguya that her relationship with Su Yang seemed to have improved, and Kaguya questioned her about it.
• Ryotsuki Kanade joined Su Yang in a quiet corner and said she had given his number to students who had asked for hers.
• Ryotsuki Kanade told Su Yang that things in the Student Council might not be stable, and he asked what she meant.

After the French students returned home, Su Yang’s Student Council reviewed the exchange and discussed monitoring students’ chats to prevent inappropriate relationships. The Disciplinary Committee then brought him the middle school division’s complaint about high school truancy, including his own poor attendance, leaving him to consider the challenge to his authority.

• The French students finished their visit, stayed overnight, and flew home after breakfast the next morning.
• Su Yang asked Chika to collect chat records from the student volunteers and French students, claiming it would protect the students from being deceived.
• Kaguya proposed filtering suggestive messages and sending them to the French school, while Su Yang admitted he mainly did not want couples forming during his tenure.
• The Disciplinary Committee reported that the middle school division wanted the high school division to crack down on absences and truancy.
• The Head of the Disciplinary Committee explained that Iino Miko had passed along the complaint and that Su Yang’s two-percent attendance had made students question his position as Student Council President.

Su Yang organized a Student Council effort to bring students who skipped class back to school, but the attendance records showed that most unexplained absences were in his own Class 2-C. The chapter ended with the council reviewing the truants’ records, including Su Yang’s own history of barely attending class.

• Su Yang ordered the Head of the Disciplinary Committee to tell Iino that he would handle the matter and to warn a student that skipping class required exceptional academic results and student council leadership.
• Su Yang recruited Yukinoshita, Shinomiya, Chika, and Ichinose Honami to help persuade truants to return to class.
• The Student Council gathered attendance information from the class representatives and learned that thirteen students had been absent long-term for various reasons.
• The council found that nearly all students skipping without an acceptable reason were in Class 2-C, where several had claimed they would attend when Su Yang did.
• The council reviewed records for students including Su Yang, Sakayanagi Arisu, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, and Nakano Ichika, distinguishing approved leave from unexcused absence.

Su Yang was assigned to persuade the four Nakano sisters to return to school, and Suou Amane told him she had seen Nakano Itsuki at a meat bun shop. He found Itsuki there during class and confronted her about skipping school.

• Su Yang and the Student Council reviewed the absent students and divided up the work, giving him responsibility for persuading the four Nakano sisters.
• Su Yang told Suou Amane about his assignment, and she said she had seen Nakano Itsuki at a newly opened meat bun shop.
• Su Yang followed Amane's directions to the shop and found Itsuki eating meat buns during the second period.
• Su Yang warned Itsuki that she would gain weight, startling her as she realized he had found her.

Su Yang confronted Nakano Itsuki about skipping school and discovered that her sisters had been taking turns impersonating her to attend class. Their confession made him wonder whether the Nakano he had dated in the past had actually been Itsuki.

• Su Yang showed Itsuki a Student Council notice warning that students who skipped school could be expelled.
• Itsuki questioned why Su Yang was enforcing the rule when he was often absent himself, and he replied that he had attended all five days that week.
• Su Yang asked whether Itsuki's sisters had been taking turns pretending to be her at school.
• Itsuki admitted that her sisters had impersonated her, leaving Su Yang to question whether he had really dated Itsuki before.

Su Yang discovered that the Nakano sisters had been taking turns attending school disguised as May, and he realized he might have mistaken her sisters for May during their encounters. He then warned May that the sisters risked expulsion for skipping school, but May said their poor grades made returning impossible.

• May told Su Yang that the Nakano sisters had been using her appearance to attend school under her identity.
• Su Yang realized May remembered being with him only once, while he remembered seven or eight times, and wondered which of her sisters he had been with.
• Su Yang claimed he had only been with May once and had been with Chika many times, making May return her attention to the meat bun.
• Su Yang warned May that continued absences would lead to expulsion and asked her to persuade her sisters to return to school.
• May refused, explaining that all the sisters had terrible grades, usually scoring between 0 and 20 points.

Su Yang offered to tutor May and her sisters after learning that the Nakano quintuplets had the five lowest grades in their class. May resisted, but Su Yang urged her to take him to her sisters and warned that their truancy could get them expelled and shame their father.

• May explained that Nino had suggested using one sister to take the embarrassment for all five after the quintuplets earned the bottom five grades.
• Su Yang recalled May's poor scores and offered to help tutor her and her sisters.
• May refused, explaining that a previous tutor had scolded them and made Miku cry, and that her father had later fired the tutor.
• May told Su Yang that Nino thought the tutor deserved it, while Ichika and Yotsuba had tried to apologize to her.
• Su Yang asked May to take him to her sisters and warned that their absences could lead to expulsion and disgrace their father.

Su Yang persuaded May to bring her sisters to school by arranging tutoring, then accompanied her to the apartment where they lived. As May went to retrieve her forgotten key card, four of her sisters approached, and Su Yang looked toward them.

• Su Yang reasoned that May's father was distant from his daughters and proposed tutoring them so they would return to school.
• May agreed to cooperate and said she would tell her sisters that Su Yang was their new private tutor.
• Su Yang and May went to the high-end apartment their father had bought for the sisters.
• May realized she had left her key card at the shop and went to retrieve it, leaving Su Yang waiting by the entrance.
• Su Yang heard four girls talking, then turned and saw a short-haired pink-haired girl among them.

Su Yang tested whether the Nakano sisters recognized him by making himself conspicuous, but discovered that May had already shown them his photo and told them about their relationship. After May found her misplaced key, Su Yang led her away from her sisters and asked whether she had told them about him.

• Su Yang equipped Artist's Temperament to see which Nakano sister recognized him.
• Ichika, Nino, Yotsuba, and Miku all recognized Su Yang from May's photo and reacted with surprise.
• May returned after finding her key in her skirt pocket and noticed Su Yang and her sisters staring at one another.
• Su Yang turned down Artist's Temperament, took May aside, and asked whether she had told her sisters about their relationship.
• May admitted she had told them about being a backup and asked her sisters for advice.

Su Yang and May joined forces to help the Nakano Quintuplets, though May’s sisters remained suspicious of him. The elevator ride ended with Nino demanding an explanation before Su Yang could enter their home.

• Su Yang decided to help the Nakano Quintuplets and fulfill May’s wish to make her sisters stop being idiots.
• May agreed to help Su Yang speak with her sisters, and they returned holding hands.
• Ichika, Nino, Miku, and Yotsuba saw them together and agreed to hear them out at home after confirming May was not being threatened.
• On the elevator, Nino challenged Su Yang and warned that she would not let him into their home without an explanation.
• Su Yang released May’s hand, called their handholding temporary, and said he would explain once they reached the thirteenth floor.