Recaps

Kazehara Tetsu caught Amasawa Ichika sneaking near his campsite and refused her attempts to keep him company or lure him out of his Tent. Amasawa left after her nighttime raid failed, while the mystery of who pushed Komiya and Kinoshita down the slope remained unresolved.

• Kazehara Tetsu heard someone outside his Tent and found Amasawa Ichika hiding behind a tree.
• Amasawa claimed she was out for a walk and followed Kazehara, asking him to keep her company.
• Kazehara went into his Tent and shut Amasawa outside, refusing to risk breaking the school's rules.
• Amasawa offered information about who had caused Komiya and Kinoshita to withdraw, but Kazehara said he did not want to know.
• Amasawa tried to entice Kazehara with a sexual invitation, but he saw through her act and rejected her.
• Amasawa gave up on her nighttime raid and walked back into the woods as Kazehara lay down to sleep.

On day six of the island exam, Kazehara Tetsu raced to secure his lead while Nagumo Miyabi sent third-year students to hunt him using GPS. Kazehara repeatedly escaped their traps and remained ahead of his pursuers as night approached.

• Kazehara Tetsu left Horikita Suzune and Ibuki Mio at camp and hurried to an F4 task to claim the first-place arrival reward.
• After finishing a Chemistry test, Kazehara spotted five students waiting to intercept him and sprinted through their blockade before they could act.
• The interceptors spent another point to track Kazehara, while he reached a slope and anticipated that the pursuit would become harder after dark.
• Throughout the morning, Kazehara evaded repeated interception attempts, including a human wall outside a puzzle task tent, and continued toward the next task.

Kazehara Tetsu assessed Nagumo Miyabi’s pursuit and rejected Kiryuin Fuka’s offer of help, hinting that he intended to deal with his pursuers himself. After Kazehara escaped into the forest, Kiryuin refused to answer to Nagumo’s followers, who resumed tracking him.

• Kazehara concluded that fewer than twenty third-year students were pursuing him and expected Nagumo to send more.
• Kiryuin Fuka offered to help Kazehara, but he declined and suggested that his pursuers might be permanently crippled in the mountains.
• When several third-year boys arrived, Kazehara leaped from the rocks and disappeared into the forest.
• The boys accused Kiryuin of helping Kazehara, but she dismissed Nagumo’s authority and left.
• The leading boy restarted location tracking, and the group chased Kazehara into the forest.

Kazehara Tetsu prepared to hunt the students pursuing him by arranging for Sakayanagi Arisu to locate them. He disabled his watch’s GPS chip and staged a fall to make its tracking failure look accidental, then set out into the night.

• Kazehara Tetsu contacted Sakayanagi Arisu and asked her to locate the students who had followed him that day.
• Kazehara Tetsu smashed his watch, removed its GPS chip, and damaged it so it could no longer transmit his location.
• Kazehara Tetsu returned the damaged chip to the watch and restored its casing to make the device appear intact apart from its cracked screen.
• Kazehara Tetsu fell backward down a fault line and dirtied himself to support the cover story that an accident had damaged his watch.
• Kazehara Tetsu gathered his backpack and supplies as he prepared to pursue the students during the night.

Nagumo Miyabi’s group lost track of Kazehara Tetsu after his Electronic Watch stopped transmitting, then came under a hidden attacker’s barrage of rocks in the dark. The boys were left injured, trapped, and unable to locate their assailant.

• Nagumo Miyabi’s ten pursuers complained about Kazehara Tetsu’s speed as they rested in a clearing.
• The group leader discovered that Kazehara Tetsu’s Light Spot had vanished from the Tablet Terminal and guessed his Electronic Watch had broken.
• An unseen attacker struck the leader’s shoulder and calf with rocks, then pelted the other boys throughout the clearing.
• The boys tried to flee, but the attacker hit a runner behind both knees and brought him down.
• Four uninjured boys hid in a hollow, where the attacker repeatedly struck the dirt around them and kept them cowering inside.

Kazehara Tetsu ambushed and incapacitated the twenty students Nagumo Miyabi had sent to hunt him, using stones and surprise attacks while Sakayanagi Arisu tracked the groups. He left them on the exam grounds rather than forcing them to withdraw, hoping their fear would spread to Nagumo Miyabi’s future hunters.

• Kazehara Tetsu knocked out four boys hiding in a depression after using a falling branch to distract them, joining the other unconscious students in the clearing.
• Kazehara Tetsu contacted Sakayanagi Arisu, who reported that two groups of six and four students remained nearby.
• Kazehara Tetsu attacked the six-boy group from over a hundred meters away and knocked all of them unconscious with thrown stones.
• Sakayanagi Arisu gave Kazehara Tetsu the location of the final group near a dry riverbed, and he incapacitated all four students there.
• Kazehara Tetsu left all twenty students on the island without pressing their withdrawal buttons, intending for their fear to deter Nagumo Miyabi’s next hunters.

Ichinose Honami got lost after her electronic watch failed and overheard Tsukishiro Tokinari and Tsukishiro Takuya discussing a plot against Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. She fled into the forest, leaving her backpack behind, while telling herself they had not seen her face.

• Ichinose Honami discovered that her broken electronic watch had left her lost on the island and set out to find D9 Port.
• Ichinose spotted Tsukishiro Tokinari and Tsukishiro Takuya and followed them through the forest instead of asking them for directions.
• Ichinose overheard the men discuss a disguised homeroom teacher, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, the White Room, and a plan to finish him off at I2.
• Tsukishiro Tokinari turned toward Ichinose's hiding place, and she ran into the forest, throwing away her backpack to escape.

Ichinose Honami was caught by Tsukishiro Takuya and Tsukishiro Tokinari after stumbling through the forest, and they threatened her into silence. Kazehara Tetsu then appeared, forcing the two men to reconsider how to handle the witnesses.

• Ichinose Honami fell in the mud while fleeing and Tsukishiro Takuya grabbed her, demanding to know what she had heard.
• Tsukishiro Tokinari stopped Tsukishiro Takuya from knocking Ichinose Honami unconscious and threatened to withdraw a team from Class 2-B if she spoke.
• Tsukishiro Takuya put on rubber gloves and offered to handle Ichinose Honami, but Kazehara Tetsu suddenly emerged from behind a tree.
• Kazehara Tetsu showed his damaged watch and injuries, explaining that he had rolled down a slope and wandered through the forest.
• Tsukishiro Tokinari weighed the risks of dealing with Kazehara Tetsu as well as Ichinose Honami.

Tsukishiro Tokinari and Tsukishiro Takuya let Kazehara Tetsu and Ichinose Honami go, then discussed how Tetsu’s priorities made him difficult to control. Ichinose accompanied the injured Tetsu to the port, where a medical examination cleared him to continue the exam, and she stayed close as he went to replace his Electronic Watch.

• Tsukishiro Tokinari tossed Ichinose Honami’s backpack to her and left with Tsukishiro Takuya after Kazehara Tetsu warned him not to threaten her.
• Tsukishiro Takuya questioned why they were letting the pair go, and Tsukishiro Tokinari explained that Tetsu would not be deterred by threats against his classmates.
• Ichinose Honami worried over Tetsu’s injuries, and he told her they could have them checked at the port.
• Ichinose carried her backpack as she and Tetsu reached the D9 Area, where Faculty Members took him to the medical tent and sent her to replace her Electronic Watch.
• Ichinose received a new Electronic Watch and waited outside until Tetsu emerged, cleared of internal injuries and fractures.
• Tetsu headed to the logistics supply tent to replace his Electronic Watch, and Ichinose quietly followed him.

In the rain, Kazehara Tetsu urged Ichinose Honami to stop following him and condemned her naive attempts to help everyone. Ichinose accepted that she could not help him yet, promised to grow, and returned to her companions as Kazehara headed into the forest.

• Kazehara Tetsu told Ichinose Honami that Tsukishiro could not threaten him and dismissed her questions about his injuries and attackers.
• Kazehara Tetsu reminded Ichinose Honami to rejoin Shibata and the others, then called her foolish for believing she could save everyone and said he no longer wanted to travel with her.
• Ichinose Honami admitted she was currently unable to help, but asked Kazehara Tetsu to trust her if trouble arose again.
• Kazehara Tetsu took Ichinose Honami's hand, told her to regroup with her companions, and left for the forest.
• Ichinose Honami composed herself, checked her location on her Electronic Watch, and ran to rejoin her group.

In a downpour, Nagumo Miyabi tracked down Kazehara Tetsu and confronted him about the destruction of his twenty watchers. Nagumo proposed a contest, and the two agreed to settle it with a fight in a more spacious part of the forest.

• Kazehara Tetsu used his Tablet Terminal to see Nagumo Miyabi and two subordinates approaching his shelter through the rain.
• Nagumo Miyabi accused Kazehara Tetsu of taking out the twenty people who had been watching him, but Kazehara denied it.
• Nagumo Miyabi admitted that sending people to slow Kazehara down would not stop his first-place ranking and proposed a contest.
• Nagumo offered to keep his subordinates from interfering with Kazehara if Kazehara won, and asked Kazehara to help him crush Koenji if Nagumo won.
• Nagumo Miyabi chose a fistfight, ordered Gowaki and Tonokawa to stay behind, and led Kazehara toward a more spacious spot in the forest.

Kazehara Tetsu and Nagumo Miyabi discussed the island exam, Nagumo’s ambitions, and the future student council before meeting in a clearing to fight. Nagumo attacked first, but his punch missed Kazehara, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Nagumo Miyabi told Kazehara Tetsu that Kiriyama had accepted his authority and that he planned to use the exam to demonstrate his strength.
• Nagumo Miyabi said he would not hinder Kazehara’s pursuit of Class Points and looked forward to seeing how far he could rise.
• Nagumo Miyabi predicted Ichinose would be the likely next Student Council President and suggested Kazehara could benefit from their relationship.
• Nagumo Miyabi and Kazehara Tetsu reached a clearing, where Nagumo took a fighting stance and Kazehara declined to prepare or attack.
• Nagumo Miyabi charged and threw a jab at Kazehara Tetsu, but his fist passed through empty air.

Kazehara Tetsu defeated Nagumo Miyabi in a single move, and Nagumo agreed to leave him alone for the remaining week on the island. As Kazehara settled into the cave, Morofuji Ritsuka, Isoyama Nagisa, and Shiina Hiyori arrived seeking shelter and found him there.

• Kazehara Tetsu blinded Nagumo Miyabi with rainwater and knocked him unconscious with a strike to the back of his neck.
• Nagumo woke in a nearby cave and recognized that Kazehara had defeated him in one move.
• Nagumo promised not to send anyone to bother Kazehara and said he could roam the island freely for the next week.
• After Nagumo left, Kazehara planned to rest in the cave but heard people approaching through the rain.
• Morofuji Ritsuka entered the cave, called for Isoyama Nagisa and Shiina Hiyori, and was startled when she spotted Kazehara.

During a heavy storm, Shiina Hiyori, Morofuji Ritsuka, and Isoyama Nagisa took shelter in a cave where they found Kazehara Tetsu. After their tent was destroyed, Tetsu gave them a groundsheet for privacy while they changed into dry clothes, leaving them to wait out the rain together.

• Shiina Hiyori recognized Kazehara Tetsu in the cave and greeted him as “Tetsu-kun,” surprising Morofuji Ritsuka and Isoyama Nagisa.
• Hiyori explained that a windblown branch had torn their tent and soaked their sleeping bags, forcing the three girls to seek shelter.
• Kazehara Tetsu told the girls to sit down, warned them about staying in wet clothes, and gave them a groundsheet to use as a changing curtain.
• Morofuji Ritsuka and Isoyama Nagisa changed into spare sports uniforms behind the groundsheet while Tetsu waited at the cave entrance.
• Shiina Hiyori finished changing, and Kazehara Tetsu returned to his place beside the rock wall.

Kazehara Tetsu sheltered Shiina Hiyori, Isoyama Nagisa, and Morofuji Ritsuka from the storm in a cave, where the girls questioned him about his relationship with Hiyori and his high score. He left before they woke, and Hiyori’s classmates teased her about her feelings for him as they prepared to rejoin their class.

• Isoyama Nagisa asked Kazehara Tetsu how he knew Shiina Hiyori, and Hiyori described them as important book friends.
• Morofuji Ritsuka asked how Tetsu had earned so many points, and he said he had put in a little effort without explaining further.
• Shiina Hiyori arranged the sleeping places so she lay between Tetsu and her classmates in the cramped cave.
• After the rain stopped, Tetsu left the cave before the girls woke, taking one of the groundsheets with him.
• Morofuji Ritsuka and Isoyama Nagisa teased Hiyori about seeming heartbroken and possibly liking Tetsu, while Hiyori urged them to pack and head for the designated area.

On the eighth day of the Uninhabited Island exam, Kazehara Tetsu discovered Tsubaki Sakurako, Yagami Takuya, and Utsunomiya Riku plotting against Ayanokoji. He warned them not to expel Ayanokoji before the final day, when he was meant to reach the I2 Area, and the chapter ended with Tsubaki proposing that they eliminate Kazehara first.

• Kazehara Tetsu reached 534 points while Nagumo Miyabi's group reclaimed second place and turned its attention toward Koenji Rokusuke.
• Kazehara Tetsu overheard Tsubaki Sakurako, Yagami Takuya, and Utsunomiya Riku communicating with Hosen about their plans for Ayanokoji.
• Kazehara Tetsu told the three that he would allow their plans unless they forced Ayanokoji into Expulsion before the final day, when Ayanokoji had to go to the I2 Area.
• Kazehara Tetsu exposed Yagami Takuya's feigned peacemaker act and challenged him to take part with his full strength.
• Tsubaki Sakurako decided the three should try to eliminate Kazehara Tetsu, and he declared that they could not succeed.

Kazehara Tetsu stopped Utsunomiya Riku’s ambush and persuaded Tsubaki Sakurako to abandon her group’s pursuit of Ayanokoji. After settling their conflict, they parted with Tsubaki planning to pursue exam Tasks instead.

• Kazehara Tetsu caught Utsunomiya Riku’s punch and forced him to his knees, while Yagami Takuya declined to fight.
• Tsubaki Sakurako called off the confrontation, and Kazehara Tetsu spoke with her privately about the plan to hunt Ayanokoji.
• Tsubaki Sakurako agreed to persuade Utsunomiya Riku and the first-year Class C students involved to stop pursuing Ayanokoji, while disclaiming control over Hosen Kazuomi and the others.
• Tsubaki Sakurako asked why Kazehara Tetsu had given her candy, and he admitted he had taken a liking to her.
• Tsubaki Sakurako said she would pursue Tasks and try to reach the top ten before the exam ended, and Kazehara Tetsu left.

Kazehara Tetsu found Morishita Ai lying in the forest, absorbed in watching a shell-less snail, and learned that her teammates had spent a point to locate her. Yamamura Miki and Shiraishi Asuka arrived to retrieve Morishita, whom Kazehara handed back to them with a warning to keep a closer eye on her.

• Kazehara Tetsu caught two small fish in a stream and headed back to camp.
• Kazehara Tetsu found Morishita Ai lying in the mud and watching a snail whose shell she had crushed.
• Morishita Ai said Yamamura Miki and Shiraishi Asuka were likely using a point to locate her, and Kazehara tapped her on the head for causing trouble.
• Yamamura Miki and Shiraishi Asuka arrived, and Yamamura was surprised and faintly pleased to see Kazehara.
• Kazehara Tetsu lifted Morishita Ai to her feet and handed her back to Yamamura Miki and Shiraishi Asuka, warning them to watch her closely.

Yamamura Miki persuaded Shiraishi Asuka to camp beside Kazehara Tetsu, leaving Shiraishi alone with him while the others gathered firewood. As Kazehara helped set up the tent, they discussed the exam and the rumor linking them, and Shiraishi was left unsettled by her own feelings about it.

• Yamamura Miki suggested that she, Shiraishi Asuka, and Morishita Ai camp beside Kazehara Tetsu, and Shiraishi agreed.
• Morishita Ai volunteered to gather firewood, and Yamamura followed her, leaving Shiraishi with Kazehara.
• Kazehara helped Shiraishi set up her tent while asking why she had not teamed up with Nishikawa and hearing about her plans to form a Large Group.
• Kazehara asked whether Shiraishi was distracted by the rumor that she had a hundred-man kill and a relationship with him.
• Shiraishi said she had no reason to deny the rumors, but privately wondered why she had not rejected the claim involving Kazehara more firmly.

During the Uninhabited Island Exam, Kazehara Tetsu and the others prepared a campfire meal while Shiraishi Asuka quietly watched him. The chapter left Shiraishi reflecting on how Kazehara’s voice remained cold but not inhuman, whether he was giving orders or offering her food.

• Shiraishi Asuka checked her Tablet Terminal and thought about recording Kazehara Tetsu’s voice, but hid the screen when Yamamura Miki and Morishita Ai returned with firewood.
• Yamamura Miki offered river water for cleaning the fish, and Kazehara Tetsu gutted and prepared the two small fish while Morishita Ai examined the innards.
• Kazehara Tetsu grilled the fish over the campfire and shared them with Yamamura Miki, Morishita Ai, and Shiraishi Asuka.
• Shiraishi Asuka accepted a piece of fish from Kazehara Tetsu and listened to his voice, thinking that its coldness felt different from deliberate gentleness.

Kazehara Tetsu encountered the isolated Kushida Kikyo, whose revenge plan against Yagami Takuya had failed after he exposed it. Kushida asked Kazehara to help ruin Yagami in exchange for a down payment, and the two headed toward a cave to seal their deal.

• Kazehara Tetsu wandered the forest, raising his score to 552 points while exploring obscure tasks and avoiding crowded resource points.
• Kazehara Tetsu found Kushida Kikyo alone and mocked her for trusting her partners and being exposed.
• Kushida Kikyo blamed Yagami Takuya for revealing her plan and demanded that Kazehara help her take revenge.
• Kazehara Tetsu agreed to help ruin Yagami Takuya if Kushida provided tangible compensation.
• Kushida Kikyo offered a down payment at a nearby Cave and led Kazehara Tetsu toward the entrance.

On the morning of the tenth day, Kazehara Tetsu left Kushida Kikyo recovering at the cave after promising to deal with Yagami Takuya. After showering at D9, he returned to searching the island for tasks.

• Kazehara Tetsu washed up at a stream and told the weakened Kushida Kikyo to stay behind while he went to D9.
• Kushida Kikyo asked about Kazehara Tetsu's promise concerning Yagami Takuya, and he assured her he would fulfill it.
• At D9, Kazehara Tetsu encountered Sakayanagi Arisu, who teased him after noticing the scent of his recent transactions.
• Kazehara Tetsu waited in line, showered, and changed into a clean sports uniform.
• Kazehara Tetsu saw that Sakayanagi Arisu had left and set off to search for more tasks.

Kazehara Tetsu returned to the cave after finishing the day’s tasks and found Kushida Kikyo leaving after cleaning away all traces of their stay. On the eleventh day of the exam, he encountered Ryuen Kakeru, who challenged him to a fight and lunged at him.

• Kazehara Tetsu checked his tablet, saw that his score had reached 576 points, and headed back to the cave where Kushida Kikyo had stayed.
• Kushida Kikyo told Kazehara Tetsu to keep his promise, thanked him, and left; he found that she had cleaned the cave to erase evidence of her other side.
• Kazehara Tetsu encountered Ryuen Kakeru in a clearing on the eleventh day of the exam, and Ryuen mocked his comfortable lead.
• Ryuen Kakeru challenged Kazehara Tetsu to fight, then charged at his face.

After defeating Ryuen Kakeru, Kazehara Tetsu offered him a deal, using evidence of assaults and information about the attacks on Komiya and Kinoshita to secure his agreement. Ryuen negotiated to include four people, and Kazehara accepted the demand.

• Kazehara Tetsu beat Ryuen Kakeru until he could no longer stand and asked what he planned to do during the last four days of the exam.
• Ryuen rejected the idea of chasing a top-three finish and denied that his eight-hundred-million-Personal-Points ambition had changed.
• Kazehara proposed a deal, and Ryuen initially refused because he saw it as charity.
• Kazehara threatened to use evidence of Ryuen's assault to get Ishizaki and Albert expelled and offered to reveal who attacked Komiya and Kinoshita.
• Ryuen accepted Kazehara's proposal after confirming he was serious, then demanded that four people be included.
• Kazehara agreed to Ryuen's demand and stood up, calling the deal wasted money.

On the twelfth morning of the Uninhabited Island Exam, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka discovered that Kazehara Tetsu was coming directly toward him. Kazehara announced he would stick with Ayanokoji and use him as bait against the first years, leaving Ayanokoji to accept that the powerful outsider would disrupt his plans.

• Ayanokoji checked in at H10 Area, claimed second-place reward points, and kept his score just below the leaderboard’s tenth-place cutoff.
• Ayanokoji scanned the radar and saw Kazehara Tetsu rapidly approaching his location.
• Kazehara intercepted Ayanokoji and admitted he had crossed the map to find him, despite having a designated area in the opposite direction.
• Kazehara said he planned to stick with Ayanokoji because he was bored and wanted to use him as bait against the first years pursuing a bounty.
• Ayanokoji failed to find a practical way to send Kazehara away and decided to accept his presence while seeking an opportunity.