Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki visited Shinomiya Kaguya’s villa with Fujiwara Chika while Kaguya stayed hidden in her room because of the cat-tail side effect. Hayasaka Ai negotiated with Natsuki for access to Kaguya, then proposed copying his Healing Skill so she could handle the situation herself.

• Amamiya Natsuki learned that Kaguya’s cat-tail side effect had not worn off and promised to visit after Student Council work.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika went to the Shinomiya villa, where Hayasaka Ai said Kaguya was asleep and could not be visited yet.
• Amamiya Natsuki slipped away from Chika and followed Hayasaka upstairs toward Kaguya’s room.
• Amamiya Natsuki offered Hayasaka three photos of Kaguya with a cat tail in exchange for one of Hayasaka, and she accepted.
• Hayasaka proposed turning into Natsuki to enter Kaguya’s room openly and asked him to copy his Healing Skill to her.

Amamiya Natsuki visited Shinomiya Kaguya and discovered that her latest side effect had given her silver cat ears and a tail. He treated her ears until they disappeared, then began examining her tail, leaving Kaguya embarrassed as it tensed in his hand.

• Amamiya Natsuki entered Shinomiya Kaguya’s dark room after Hayasaka Ai stopped him outside.
• Shinomiya Kaguya revealed that she had grown cat ears, and Mrs. Kaguya and Amamiya Natsuki took pictures of them.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Mrs. Kaguya touched Kaguya’s ears before he used Massage Therapy to make them disappear.
• Amamiya Natsuki learned that Kaguya’s tail remained, and Mrs. Kaguya left after Kaguya insisted on being treated alone.
• Amamiya Natsuki began examining Kaguya’s tail, which tensed as soon as he touched it.

Amamiya Natsuki tried to treat Shinomiya Kaguya’s cat tail, but the treatment became an embarrassing ordeal as he examined her legs and helped free the tail from her underwear. Kaguya finally stopped him when she reached her limit.

• Amamiya Natsuki persuaded Shinomiya Kaguya to close her eyes and pretend to be asleep while he treated her tail.
• Amamiya Natsuki admired Kaguya’s legs and touched them, prompting her to break the pretense and tell him to know when to stop.
• Amamiya Natsuki found Kaguya’s underwear tightly constrained her tail and asked whether he should help remove it.
• Amamiya Natsuki freed Kaguya’s tail, but she grabbed his wrist and pleaded with him not to continue.

Amamiya Natsuki helped Shinomiya Kaguya recover from the side effects, then reunited with Fujiwara Chika and visited Kaguya with her. After dinner, Shinomiya Unryu arrived, and Natsuki and Chika left for school the next day.

• Amamiya Natsuki helped Shinomiya Kaguya get rid of the side effects, kissed her, and told Hayasaka Ai that she was well again.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned to Fujiwara Chika, and Hayasaka Ai led them to see Kaguya after she woke up.
• Fujiwara Chika noticed Kaguya's swollen lips, and Amamiya Natsuki admitted he had caused them.
• Shinomiya Unryu visited Kaguya, told her to return to class, and left without staying for dinner.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika said goodbye to Kaguya, and Chika explained that Unryu was Kaguya's third older brother.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others sold the Witch's Secret Potion and Momotaro Onigiri through a new Trading app, then went to the Amusement Park without Shinomiya Kaguya after learning she had been grounded. When Kaguya sent a brief plea for help from a banquet, Natsuki and the others went to the villa to rescue her, and Natsuki slipped inside to reach her room.

• Amamiya Natsuki, Kitagawa Marin, and their companions launched the Trading app and sold out their Witch's Secret Potion and Miss Chizuru's Momotaro Onigiri.
• Koyasu Tsubame volunteered to flip the coin to earn the Goddess of Fortune's Favor by enduring Bad Luck.
• Fujiwara Chika invited everyone to the Amusement Park, but Maid Hayasaka told Amamiya Natsuki that Shinomiya Kaguya had been grounded and had her phone taken away.
• After the group spent the day at the Amusement Park, Shinomiya Kaguya briefly messaged, "Save me," before withdrawing the message.
• Mrs. Kaguya supported helping Little Kaguya, so Amamiya Natsuki and the others went to the villa, where Natsuki used the Hamster Cloak to sneak past the guards.
• Amamiya Natsuki contacted Hayasaka Ai, learned that Kaguya was in her room, and headed there to help her escape.

Shinomiya Kaguya left the mansion with Amamiya Natsuki and Mrs. Kaguya, choosing to live with her mother for a while. After meeting their friends for barbecue, Kaguya went with Mrs. Kaguya while Fujiwara Chika declined an invitation to stay over.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Mrs. Kaguya helped Shinomiya Kaguya decide to leave the mansion and live with her mother.
• Amamiya Natsuki retrieved Kaguya’s phone from Hayasaka Ai, and Kaguya packed her belongings and wrote a note.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Mrs. Kaguya helped Kaguya avoid the guards and climb over the mansion wall.
• Amamiya Natsuki led Kaguya to the girls waiting nearby, and the group went to an all-you-can-eat barbecue.
• Fujiwara Chika invited Kaguya to stay with her, but Kaguya chose to go with Mrs. Kaguya, and Chika declined Natsuki’s invitation to stay over.

Shinomiya Kaguya stayed overnight at Amamiya Natsuki’s home and learned how to do laundry, while her sheltered habits led to several awkward moments. After a brief call from Shinomiya Unryu, she returned with an undisclosed message.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya returned to his home, where Mrs. Kaguya teased Kaguya about becoming family.
• Shinomiya Kaguya bathed and left her underwear in the laundry basket, which Amamiya Natsuki noticed while washing up.
• Amamiya Natsuki asked whether they should wash their clothes together, and Mrs. Kaguya warned Kaguya against it.
• Shinomiya Kaguya watched a laundry tutorial, washed and hung the clothes herself, and earned an eight-out-of-ten rating from Amamiya Natsuki.
• Shinomiya Kaguya answered a brief call from Shinomiya Unryu and returned to Amamiya Natsuki with something to say.

After Shinomiya Kaguya ran away from home, she settled in with Amamiya Natsuki and her mother, while Hayasaka Ai arrived under an assumed identity to stay with them. Kaguya tried to learn household chores, but Hayasaka kept stepping in, and the chapter ended as Amamiya began telling Hayasaka a saying from the criminal world.

• Amamiya Natsuki said Kaguya's family had cut off her financial support, but Kaguya could support herself by selling valuable items.
• Amamiya asked Kaguya's mother to entrust Kaguya's life to him, prompting Kaguya and her mother to argue over who would care for her.
• Miko visited that night, and the group played Mahjong with Miss Sadako before the night passed peacefully.
• Kaguya woke to her mother preparing breakfast, then learned household chores and washed dishes while Amamiya photographed her and sent the pictures to Hayasaka Ai.
• Hayasaka Ai arrived with a suitcase and persuaded Kaguya to let her stay, then repeatedly tried to take over Kaguya's chores.
• Amamiya asked Hayasaka to pour him tea, and after they argued about whether he should drink it at night, he began asking if she knew a famous saying from the criminal world.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls made their usual draws, and Kaguya gained instructions for crafting a magical binding rope. Natsuki spotted an expensive one-second time-stop skill in the shop but lacked the coins to buy it, leaving the group to hope for a dungeon before the shop refreshed.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Hayasaka Ai flirted secretly while Kaguya was doing laundry, then behaved themselves when she returned.
• Kaguya used Lucky Favor to make six gold pulls for Chika and Marin, and her Witch’s Legacy Crystal Ball gave her instructions for crafting a magical rope.
• Chika volunteered to ask the Mutual aid group for the rope’s ingredients, while Natsuki received chewing gum from his Daily Blind Box.
• Natsuki found a Golden Super Rare time-stop skill costing three thousand Game coins, but he was short by several hundred.
• Kaguya suggested clearing a dungeon before the shop refreshed, but Natsuki noted that no dungeon had appeared, including Summertime Rendering.

Amamiya Natsuki spent the evening at home with Kaguya and Hayasaka before agreeing to join Chika at a Love Hotel to test whether their theater could earn Game coins. He left to meet Chika, while Kaguya happily continued doing chores and Hayasaka watched with concern.

• After school, Natsuki helped Mizuhara Chizuru's grandmother by using his Healing Skill, and the doctor found that her cancer had stopped spreading.
• At home, Kaguya cooked tomato beef stew for Natsuki, while Hayasaka teased him and shared a grape with him in secret.
• Chika messaged Natsuki with a plan to use the theater at a Love Hotel to earn Game coins, and he agreed to try it with her.
• Natsuki told Kaguya and Hayasaka about his plan, then left home after dinner to meet Chika.
• After Natsuki left, Kaguya happily started doing chores, while Hayasaka looked troubled.

Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika visited a love hotel and played at interrogating him in its prison-themed room. When Chika lost the handcuff key, Natsuki was left desperately trying to find a way to free himself before he had to use the bathroom.

• Fujiwara Chika disguised herself and met Amamiya Natsuki before leading him into a love hotel.
• Fujiwara Chika chose a prison-themed room and paid for it herself.
• Fujiwara Chika cuffed Amamiya Natsuki and role-played as an interrogator while he pretended to confess to crimes as a witcher.
• Fujiwara Chika took a call from Moeha, then realized she had lost the handcuff key when Natsuki asked to be released.
• Fujiwara Chika suggested that Amamiya Natsuki turn into a shadow or use Polymorph Spell to escape the cuffs, but he said he lacked Copy Skill and could barely wait any longer.

After Fujiwara Chika accidentally left the handcuff key in the bathroom, she helped Amamiya Natsuki use the toilet before they found the key and went out for food. Meanwhile, Shinomiya Kaguya grew suspicious about their hotel visit, and a misleading phone call left her convinced something intimate was happening.

• Fujiwara Chika helped handcuffed Amamiya Natsuki use the toilet, then discovered the key beside the hand soap and unlocked his cuffs.
• Chika remembered she had left the key by the sink after washing her hands and felt mortified.
• Amamiya Natsuki coaxed Chika into leaving the Love Hotel for late-night food, and eating quickly cheered her up.
• Shinomiya Kaguya searched for Love Hotels, called Amamiya Natsuki without getting an answer, and then called Chika.
• Kaguya heard Chika panting and saying that it hurt but felt good, causing her and Hayasaka Ai to suspect Amamiya Natsuki had made a move on Chika.

Amamiya Natsuki’s missed call and Fujiwara Chika’s overheard complaints made Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai mistake their dinner for something happening at a Love Hotel. After they cleared up the misunderstanding, the group ate spicy mapo tofu, returned to the hotel, and prepared to start the midnight theater.

• Hayasaka Ai and Shinomiya Kaguya listened to Amamiya Natsuki and Chika’s call and assumed the pair were at a Love Hotel together.
• Amamiya Natsuki video-called them and showed that he and Fujiwara Chika were eating Chen Mapo Tofu at a restaurant.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai joined Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika, and all four girls struggled with the spicy tofu.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the three girls returned to their prison-themed hotel room, where Chika suggested bathing together and Natsuki admitted he had wanted everyone to bathe together.
• After they washed up and chatted until midnight, Amamiya Natsuki took out the Jack-o'-lantern and asked what rules they should set for the theater.

Amamiya Natsuki turned the Love Hotel into a protected Midnight Theater and sent Miss Sadako and the others to scare its guests. As the guests fled through the halls, Shinomiya Kaguya encountered increasingly bewildering sights that shattered her assumptions about the hotel’s visitors.

• Amamiya Natsuki activated the Midnight Theater, and Kaguya and the others agreed that guests would be protected from harm.
• Miss Sadako began scaring guests, while Amamiya Natsuki discovered that Alice’s handmade matches could calm nearby vengeful spirits and monsters.
• Miss Sadako drove a young man and an older woman out of a room, and Amamiya Natsuki ordered her to keep working.
• Miss Sadako and Kaguya frightened more guests, including two men fleeing together, leaving Kaguya stunned by same-sex couples.
• Kaguya saw a naked woman run from another room with a ball in her mouth and a tally mark on her thigh, and her worldview shattered.

After earning Game coins by staging a night of terror at the Love Hotel, Amamiya Natsuki prepared for another visit and arranged to join Rikka’s upcoming Forced Instance for a chance at a Golden Legendary reward. The Magic Ropes were left to finish absorbing their solution, and the chapter ended as Marin prepared to visit a Love Hotel for the first time.

• Amamiya Natsuki and the girls earned 98 Game coins for their chaotic Love Hotel show, then learned that the final ingredient for the Magic Rope had arrived.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others left the hotel after seeing the cheating couple argue in the parking lot, then returned to school and discussed preparations for Forest School.
• Fujiwara Chika told Amamiya Natsuki that Rikka wanted Witch’s Secret Potion before entering a Forced Instance, and Amamiya asked the Mutual aid group about buying invitation tickets so he could join her.
• Shinomiya Kaguya and Kitagawa Marin finished making two Magic Ropes and left them to absorb a special solution while Amamiya Natsuki went home.
• Amamiya Natsuki invited Miko to the Love Hotel, but she refused, and he later set out with Kitagawa Marin, who asked what she should bring for her first visit.

Amamiya Natsuki, Kitagawa Marin, and Shinomiya Kaguya checked into a Love Hotel, where the completed Magic Ropes suddenly sprang from Marin’s bag and bound Natsuki and Marin. As Natsuki tried to undo Marin’s knot with his mouth, her bathrobe fell open, leaving them exposed just before Kaguya came out of the bathroom.

• Amamiya Natsuki, Kitagawa Marin, and Shinomiya Kaguya packed their schoolbags and went to a Love Hotel, where Marin paid for a gym-themed room.
• After Natsuki and Marin showered, the two Magic Ropes shot from Marin’s schoolbag and bound both of them.
• Marin hid their predicament from Kaguya and refused to call for outside help because she was embarrassed by the way the ropes had tied her.
• Natsuki noticed a prompt indicating he could undo the ropes and suggested using his mouth to loosen the knot on Marin’s chest.
• As Natsuki tried to reach the knot, Marin moved, her bathrobe fell open, and Natsuki stared while Marin told him not to look.

Amamiya Natsuki and Kitagawa Marin were interrupted while trying to free Marin from the rope, then tested a Magic Rope and prepared another theater performance with Miss Sadako. With the group still short of the Game coins needed for Golden Legendary, Natsuki decided to secure an Item Lock Card so they could preserve a shop item after the refresh.

• Amamiya Natsuki tugged up Kitagawa Marin's bathrobe with his mouth, but a phone vibration startled her and caused him to crash into her.
• Shinomiya Kaguya came out of the bathroom, and Amamiya Natsuki demonstrated that the Magic Rope attacked anyone who approached unless someone held its ends.
• Amamiya Natsuki made Miss Sadako finish her work before they staged a frightening theater performance with Kitagawa Marin and Shinomiya Kaguya.
• Amamiya Natsuki checked the theater's earnings and decided the group needed to enter an instance because they remained a few hundred Game coins short of buying Golden Legendary.
• Fujiwara Chika found only two Instance Invitation tickets, and Shinomiya Kaguya said her Leg accessory item should let her join without another ticket.
• After no more invitations appeared, Fujiwara Chika showed Amamiya Natsuki an Item Lock Card offered by Aparen, and he decided to trade for it.

Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Fujiwara Chika traveled to Chiba Prefecture to meet Rikka and prepare to enter an instance. While visiting a plaza, they used a supernatural camera to photograph Mrs. Kaguya’s ghostly image, and Natsuki drove away the evil spirits around them.

• Koyasu Tsubame agreed to handle Student Council business while Natsuki, Chika, and Kaguya went to meet Takanashi Rikka in Chiba Prefecture.
• Zhuzhu and Komie-san wished Natsuki well, and Komie-san let him copy her skill after they teased each other about lap pillows.
• Hayasaka Ai, disguised as Hanamori, gave Kaguya a Magic gun and asked Natsuki to protect her during the instance.
• Natsuki, Kaguya, and Chika traveled to Chiba and met Rikka, who led them toward a restaurant.
• Mrs. Kaguya asked Kaguya to take a photograph with her ghostly image, so Natsuki handed Rikka a Supernatural Camera.
• Natsuki used Evil Spirit Repellent to destroy the evil spirits gathered around the Chiba-ko statue before the group took their picture.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others prepared for their next instance, sharing skills, choosing code words, and arranging how to regroup if they were separated. Mrs. Kaguya urged Natsuki to confess to Kaguya, and the group headed to the beach as he prepared to begin.

• Takanashi Rikka used the Supernatural Camera to photograph Mrs. Kaguya, and the group went to a grilled chicken restaurant.
• Amamiya Natsuki reunited with Yukinoshita Yukino, and the group discussed their skills and Natsuki's ability to copy skills for them before the instance.
• The group selected copied skills and agreed to use dishes from the restaurant as code words, though Shinomiya Kaguya rejected grilled chicken butt as hers.
• Amamiya Natsuki proposed using the Love Charm to communicate with Kaguya if they were separated, while Fujiwara Chika planned to enter bound to him as a Leg accessory.
• Mrs. Kaguya encouraged Amamiya Natsuki to confess to Kaguya, who said a normal confession was enough, and the group went to the beach.

Amamiya Natsuki began the confession ritual with Shinomiya Kaguya, then entered the Netherworld Marriage instance and found himself on a driverless bus with Sayu. After reaching a mountain village, he reunited with Rikka and Yukinoshita Yukino, while the Love Charm revealed Kaguya’s password without her saying it.

• Amamiya Natsuki chewed gum to steady his thoughts, confessed to Shinomiya Kaguya as part of the ritual, and she accepted the charm.
• Amamiya Natsuki awakened on a bus in the Netherworld Marriage instance beside Sayu, who revealed she was a despairing runaway and an experienced player.
• The bus crashed into a tree despite having no driver, and Amamiya Natsuki and the passengers got off in a forest above a rundown village.
• Amamiya Natsuki spotted Yukinoshita Yukino, then reunited with Rikka and confirmed their identities using a password.
• Amamiya Natsuki heard Shinomiya Kaguya’s unspoken password through the Love Charm, startling her.