Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya left the mountain to bathe, but when the women’s bathhouse was closed, Kaguya reluctantly used the empty men’s bathhouse. The chapter ended with Natsuki trapped in her stall after using his time stop to save Kaguya from falling just as other boys entered the bathhouse.

• Natsuki secretly photographed Kaguya’s legs, then persuaded her to return to the valley and take a bath.
• Natsuki found the women’s bathhouse under repair and convinced Kaguya to use the empty men’s bathhouse instead.
• Kaguya realized she had forgotten soap, so Natsuki brought his to her stall.
• When boys entered the bathhouse and Kaguya slipped, Natsuki stopped time, caught her, and returned with her to the stall.
• Time resumed with Natsuki still inside Kaguya’s stall as the boys approached.

Amamiya Natsuki secretly helped Shinomiya Kaguya bathe in the men's bathhouse, then gave her a massage after overhearing boys mock her appearance. Kaguya left the bathhouse vowing to identify the boys and take revenge that same day.

• Amamiya Natsuki washed Shinomiya Kaguya's back while she hid from boys in the men's bathhouse.
• The boys praised Kaguya's beauty but mocked her cold personality and flat chest, angering her.
• Amamiya Natsuki held Kaguya back until the boys finished bathing and left without a fight.
• Kaguya hinted that she wanted a massage, and Amamiya Natsuki used his Healing Skill to give her one.
• Kaguya messaged Hayasaka Ai to identify the boys who had bathed between four and four thirty so she could get revenge.

Amamiya Natsuki and the Student Council prepared for the Forest School courage-testing event while Shinomiya Kaguya split off to take revenge on the boys who had mocked her. At their ambush point, Fujiwara Chika told a ghost story that frightened Accountant Kashiwagi.

• Hayasaka Ai teased Shinomiya Kaguya about secretly spending time with Amamiya Natsuki, and Kaguya denied that they had shared a forbidden moment.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, and Accountant Kashiwagi cooked together, while Kashiwagi privately suspected that Kaguya had bathed after meeting Natsuki.
• The Student Council organized the courage-testing event, and Shinomiya Kaguya chose Route C after Amamiya Natsuki warned her to go easy on the boys who had mocked her.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Accountant Kashiwagi reached their ambush point and waited for the event to begin.
• Fujiwara Chika told a story about a haunted-house tester and showed Accountant Kashiwagi a frightening photograph, leaving Kashiwagi in tears and wanting to go home.

Amamiya Natsuki and his classmates ran the Forest School Courage-testing event, where their scares sent one boyfriend fleeing and left Kashiwagi embarrassed about being single. After the event, Natsuki met Shinomiya Kaguya on the mountain and later discovered that the pajama-clad girl asking for his Pure White Bride Skin Card was disguised.

• Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Kashiwagi scared a couple during the Courage-testing event, prompting the boy to run and his girlfriend to chase after him in anger.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika teased Kashiwagi about being single, and Chika led her away after their shift ended.
• Amamiya Natsuki went to Route Three, encountered his accomplices, and then joined Shinomiya Kaguya on the way to the shrine checkpoint.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Shinomiya Kaguya took a photo at the shrine, returned from the mountain, and later finished bathing after the event ended.
• That night, a girl in pajamas asked Amamiya Natsuki for the Pure White Bride Skin Card, and he recognized that she was disguised as Shinomiya Kaguya.

Hayasaka Ai disguised herself as Kaguya to obtain the Pure White Bride Skin Card, but Amamiya Natsuki saw through her and discovered her dog-ear side effect. After giving her the card, he teased her about what he had done with Kaguya that afternoon, eventually revealing that Kaguya had received a massage.

• Hayasaka Ai, disguised as Kaguya, entered Amamiya Natsuki’s tent and tried to get the Pure White Bride Skin Card, but he exposed her disguise.
• Amamiya Natsuki guessed Hayasaka’s identity, then broke her disguise with a slap, revealing her dog ears from a Witch’s Potion side effect.
• Hayasaka Ai explained that she had drunk the potion while searching for Kaguya’s lost headband during the Courage-testing event.
• Amamiya Natsuki gave Hayasaka the Pure White Bride Skin Card, and she used it inside the tent while he prepared to take a picture.
• Hayasaka Ai asked what Amamiya Natsuki and Kaguya had done that afternoon, and he revealed Kaguya had received a massage.

Amamiya Natsuki teased Hayasaka about his secret afternoon with the Young Lady, then joined his friends for Forest School’s final commemorative photos. The students returned to Tokyo, bringing Forest School to an end.

• Hayasaka tried to trade her real identity for details about Natsuki and the Young Lady, but Natsuki refused and drew her into a private one-minute trial that lasted until a teacher interrupted them.
• On Forest School’s third day, Natsuki took commemorative photos with Kitagawa Marin, Fujiwara Chika, Shinomiya Kaguya, Miko, Yurikawa, Sayu, and others.
• Natsuki called Hayasaka over for a group photo with the Student Council and their friends, capturing the gathering beneath the summer sky.
• The students boarded buses at two in the afternoon, and Kashiwagi-san chose to sit beside Natsuki, claiming he could help with her motion sickness.
• The bus reached Tokyo at five thirty, and Forest School ended.

With final exams two days away, Amamiya Natsuki promised to help several girls cram using his Eidetic memory ability and arranged special late-night tutoring. After school, he met Komie-san in the park and teased her into choosing between Desensitization training, saying she missed him on a recording, or kissing him.

• Fujiwara Chika begged Amamiya Natsuki for tutoring, fearing she would place near the bottom of the class.
• Kitagawa Marin asked Amamiya Natsuki to help her study, and they shared lunch behind the Old School Building.
• Amamiya Natsuki invited Sayu, Miko, Koyasu Tsubame, Zhuzhu, and Komie-san to special late-night tutoring; Komie-san initially declined.
• After school, Amamiya Natsuki treated Mizuhara Chizuru, then met Komie-san at the park and held her hand as they sat together.
• Amamiya Natsuki offered Komie-san a choice between Desensitization training, saying she missed him while he recorded her, or kissing him to avoid more teasing.

Amamiya Natsuki spent the evening with Kaguya and their friends before the start of summer vacation. A long-delayed Summertime Rendering dungeon opened in Kagoshima, summoning the group to take part.

• Amamiya Natsuki teased Komie-san into kissing his cheek, then hugged her until her skill finished copying.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned home, where Shinomiya Kaguya prepared dinner and their friends gathered for food, drinks, games, and a late-night study session.
• At midnight, Amamiya Natsuki opened the theater, and Shinomiya Kaguya and the Yandere Young Lady joined him and Miss Sadako for Mahjong.
• Amamiya Natsuki and his classmates finished their final exams as summer vacation began.
• Amamiya Natsuki received a notification that the Summertime Rendering dungeon had opened and learned from Kitagawa Marin that the group had been summoned to Kagoshima.

Amamiya Natsuki and the student council members planned for the Summertime Rendering instance on Hito Island, discussing supplies, information gathering, and travel. Koyasu Tsubame, Sayu, and the Yukinoshita sisters also asked to join the trip, while Natsuki began organizing preparations before the challenge.

• At the Student Council Office, Amamiya Natsuki and the others discussed the newly triggered instance, checked their equipment, and decided to gather information about Hito Island and travel there by Shinkansen.
• Fujiwara Chika found that the instance was set on Hito Island, and the group agreed to ask an information broker for details about the island and its recent cases and urban legends.
• Koyasu Tsubame asked to join Amamiya Natsuki because participating in the instance would reset her Forced Instance timer, and Natsuki agreed she could come if it triggered for her.
• Sayu asked to accompany Natsuki, who told her she could join if the instance triggered for her and assigned her his summer homework as a mock punishment.
• Amamiya Natsuki attached a Rogue physician's Healing Skill to Mizuhara Chizuru and declined her offer to help with the instance, though he agreed to borrow her rice-ball-making gloves.
• Yukinoshita Yukino told Natsuki that she and her sister would join the trip to Kagoshima.

Amamiya Natsuki gathered his companions and traveled to Kagoshima to enter the Summertime Rendering instance. After arriving on the island, the group checked their missions, and Natsuki learned he had been assigned to act as a detective investigating a string of murders.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Miko he was leaving to challenge an instance, and Miko gave him a kiss before asking him to return safely.
• Amamiya Natsuki's companions gathered at his home, and the group traveled overnight by Shinkansen to Kagoshima.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others boarded a cruise ship and reached the island where the instance was located.
• Amamiya Natsuki's group entered the instance together and moved beneath the trees to check their missions.
• Amamiya Natsuki read his mission, which named him a detective tasked with investigating the island's recent murders.

Amamiya Natsuki investigated the supposed accidental drowning of an elementary school girl after his detective mission identified her as a serial-murder victim. He broke into the girl’s room with Sayu and Haruno, claiming that a great detective could let the dead speak, but had not yet explained how.

• The group compared their missions, split into teams, and Amamiya Natsuki took Sayu and Haruno to investigate the island’s alleged murders.
• Sayu and Haruno learned that no one knew of any murders, but an elementary school girl had drowned three days earlier.
• Amamiya Natsuki visited the girl’s funeral and received a prompt identifying her as a serial-murder victim.
• Amamiya Natsuki decided against searching the beach or police station and climbed through a window into the girl’s house.
• Amamiya Natsuki pulled Sayu and Haruno into the girl’s bedroom and said real great detectives let the dead speak for themselves.

Amamiya Natsuki and Sayu summoned Sakurako’s ghost and learned that a clone had dragged her underwater. They began investigating earlier suspicious deaths and planned to use Yukinoshita Hiyori’s transformation to lure the culprit out, leaving to meet the elementary school student Chika had found.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Sayu summoned Sakurako’s ghost, and she recalled that someone identical to her had dragged her into the sea.
• Sakurako’s account revealed the culprit was a Shadow Clone, but Amamiya Natsuki said the mission remained incomplete until they caught it.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Sayu, and Yukinoshita Hiyori left the house and learned the island’s previous accidental drowning had happened three years earlier.
• Amamiya Natsuki proposed using a transformation to make someone resemble Sakurako and draw the culprit’s attention.
• Yukinoshita Hiyori volunteered to transform, and Amamiya Natsuki began copying the skill onto her after Chika reported finding the child they were meant to protect.

Amamiya Natsuki and the girls debated how to protect the children during their island mission, while Amamiya and Sayu helped Yukinoshita Hiyori impersonate a drowned girl to spread a ghost rumor. The rumor began to circulate, and Hiyori’s transformation ended in front of the others at the abandoned hospital.

• Amamiya Natsuki suggested kidnapping the children and their families to keep them safe overnight, but the girls decided to watch the children for now and reconsider at night.
• Yukinoshita Hiyori copied a child’s appearance, wore the drowned girl Sakurako’s swimsuit, and posed for pictures at the beach.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Sayu spread the story that the girl in the pictures was Sakurako’s ghost, expecting the rumor to travel across the island.
• Amamiya Natsuki took Hiyori to the abandoned hospital, where she met Yukinoshita Yukino, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Hayasaka while disguised as a child.
• Hiyori’s transformation ended in front of the group, and Shinomiya Kaguya told Amamiya Natsuki to turn around before he asked Ai-chan for a kiss.

Yukinoshita Hiyori lured Sakurako, the drowned elementary school girl’s supernatural copy, out on the beach and helped Amamiya Natsuki capture her. Sakurako was bound for questioning, while Hiyori worried their suspicious scene might draw unwanted attention.

• Yukinoshita Hiyori disguised herself as an elementary school girl and waited on the beach, where Sakurako approached her.
• Sakurako admitted she was a copy of Sakurako, then decided to kill Hiyori after realizing she had been lured out.
• Sakurako grabbed Hiyori, breaking her disguise, and Amamiya Natsuki appeared to protect her.
• Amamiya Natsuki fought Sakurako, stopped her escape, and used Magic Rope to bind her.
• Yukinoshita Hiyori sighed with relief and worried that anyone who saw the scene might mistake them for perverts.

Amamiya Natsuki and his companions captured the elementary school student copy of Sakurako and interrogated her with the Truth Mirror. They learned that she was a shadow capable of taking human form and that damaging her shadow could kill her, but Chika's voice at the cabin door interrupted them.

• Sayu joined Amamiya Natsuki and Yukinoshita Hiyori at the seaside, where they confirmed that the captive was a copy of Sakurako and the culprit behind her drowning.
• Amamiya Natsuki took the captive to an abandoned cabin and examined her with Sayu and Yukinoshita Hiyori, discovering that she had a slow heartbeat and could heal wounds almost instantly.
• Haruno and Yukinoshita Hiyori tried to frighten the captive into talking, but she remained uncooperative and showed no fear of pain or death.
• Amamiya Natsuki used the Truth Mirror in a Quiz game and learned that the copy had killed one person and drowned Sakurako to steal her identity.
• The Truth Mirror forced the copy to reveal that her true form was a shadow, and Amamiya Natsuki learned that damaging the shadow could kill her.
• Someone knocked on the cabin door, and Sayu recognized Chika's voice before Amamiya Natsuki stopped her from opening it.

Amamiya Natsuki captured a clone of Fujiwara Chika after she attacked him, and learned that players were protected from being replaced. He discovered that clones could communicate through pheromones and took Clone Chika away to interrogate her.

• Fujiwara Chika's clone stabbed Amamiya Natsuki, but he dodged the attack and restrained her with Magic Rope.
• Amamiya Natsuki realized the clone did not know about his time-stop skill and suspected that players' core memories were protected.
• Yukinoshita Haruno shared a video of the attack, prompting the group to warn everyone on the island about the clones.
• Amamiya Natsuki told the group that ordinary people could be cloned indistinguishably, but players were safe from replacement.
• A prompt revealed that the clones communicated through pheromones, and Amamiya Natsuki took Clone Chika to another room for interrogation.

Amamiya Natsuki interrogated Clone Chika, learned that a mother body was cloning humans to eat them and heal, and was interrupted before she could reveal its location. When Fujiwara Chika, Kitagawa Marin, and the others arrived, he stopped them at the door and demanded a password.

• Amamiya Natsuki discovered that Clone Chika had copied her clothes and learned she was a second-generation clone.
• Amamiya Natsuki fed Clone Chika rice balls, then used his Warrior of Love Title Skill to make her reveal that the mother body needed to eat humans to recover from an injury.
• Clone Chika began to collapse as Amamiya Natsuki asked where the mother body was, and Sayu called him to the entrance.
• Fujiwara Chika, Kitagawa Marin, and several other girls arrived, and Amamiya Natsuki demanded that they give him a password before entering.

Amamiya Natsuki’s group found Shadow Chika and learned that his Title Skill had severed her connection to the Mother body, giving her free will. As they questioned her about making copies, the girls realized a strange flash they had seen might mean several of them had already been copied.

• Amamiya Natsuki verified the group’s identities and stopped Fujiwara Chika from entering the room, but she saw the bound, half-dressed Shadow Chika and accused him of mistreating her.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained what had happened, and Sayu and Yukinoshita Hiyori confirmed he had not harmed Shadow Chika.
• A prompt revealed that Amamiya Natsuki’s Title Skill had severed Shadow Chika’s connection to the Mother body and given her free will, so he untied her.
• Shadow Chika teased Fujiwara Chika by recalling an intimate night with Amamiya Natsuki, and Amamiya changed the subject by asking how copies were made.
• Shadow Chika explained that they scanned people with a flash, leading Yukinoshita Hiyori, Sayu, and Koyasu Tsubame to realize they had seen a strange flash and might have been copied.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others questioned Shadow Chika, learning how shadow clones worked and where their source might be. After destroying Shadow Elementary School Student, they set out to reunite with Kaguya and the others at Rhombus Hospital.

• Shadow Chika explained that the clones copied people but did not share memories, and that a source lived in a cavern beneath the island.
• Shadow Chika revealed that destroying a clone’s original shadow erased it permanently, so Amamiya Natsuki killed Shadow Elementary School Student with a hammer.
• Shadow Chika explained that clones could travel through shadow space briefly and would die within three days to a week if their originals remained alive.
• Amamiya Natsuki stopped the Magic Rope from binding someone else and stored it in his Game Backpack.
• Amamiya Natsuki’s group left to meet Kaguya and the others at Rhombus Hospital.

Amamiya Natsuki’s group explored the abandoned hospital on Eagle Beak Mountain and discovered that its black marks were left by Shadow Replicas. After Shadow Chika copied a hidden key from inside a statue, the group opened a secret door and descended into an underground cavern beneath the island.

• Amamiya Natsuki’s group met Kaguya, Yukino, and Hayasaka at the abandoned hospital and verified their identities with Skin Cards.
• Yukinoshita Yukino showed the group her hospital map, and Shadow Chika identified the black marks upstairs as traces left when originals had been erased to make Shadow Replicas.
• Shadow Chika entered the statue of Ebisu God, found a key inside it, and copied the key for Amamiya Natsuki.
• Amamiya Natsuki opened the secret door, and the group descended together into a vast underground cavern.