Recaps

Kazehara Tetsu faced Hosen Kazuomi in a half-court basketball match after Amasawa Ichika teased them both. The game began with Albert winning the tip and passing to Kazehara, who scored an uncontested three-pointer within seconds.

• Ryuen Kakeru arrived with Albert and Kitou Hayato, completing Kazehara Tetsu’s team as they waited for First Year Class D.
• Amasawa Ichika approached Kazehara and teased him about tying her up before Hosen Kazuomi’s team arrived without Nanase Tsubasa.
• Hosen threatened to take revenge on Kazehara, while Amasawa urged Kazehara to defeat him before leaving for her own match.
• The referee started the game, and Albert jumped against Hosen for the opening tip.
• Albert beat Hosen to the ball and passed it to Kazehara, who scored a three-pointer before Class D could set its defense.

Kazehara Tetsu dominated Hosen Kazuomi’s team before proposing that Onodera Kayano partner with him in the remaining high-scoring doubles events. Onodera agreed, and she entered the match as Kazehara and Hashimoto Masayoshi took over on the court.

• Kazehara Tetsu led his team to a 35–2 victory over Hosen Kazuomi’s team, leaving Hosen exhausted and humiliated.
• Kazehara’s team easily won its next two matches against weaker opponents.
• During a break, Kazehara asked Onodera Kayano to team up with him in the remaining doubles events and sweep the highest-point prizes.
• Onodera accepted the proposal, setting aside her concern about sharing points with a rival class.
• Ibuki Mio and Kamuro Masumi left the court, Kazehara and Hashimoto Masayoshi took their places, and Onodera entered the central confrontation.

Kazehara Tetsu led Class 2-A to a decisive 51–9 basketball victory over Class 2-C, and he and Onodera Kayano left to look for more high-Point events. Onodera learned he had invited her because of her abilities and because he valued her as a friend, though his answer left her flustered.

• Kazehara Tetsu entered the game and overwhelmed Onodera Kayano's defense, scoring a layup that sealed a 51–9 victory over Class 2-C.
• Hirata Yosuke accepted the loss and encouraged his classmates, noting that they had still earned points by placing second.
• After the match, Onodera Kayano joined Kazehara Tetsu to search for more events and praised his performance.
• Onodera asked why Kazehara had chosen her for the Class Transfer Ticket, and he cited her ability to handle intense events and his fondness for her as a friend.
• Onodera became embarrassed and hurried Kazehara along, urging him to find high-Point doubles events.

Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano won the mixed doubles table tennis event with ease, then looked for another competition to earn points before lunch. Kayano led Tetsu toward a newly opened swimming race, eager to see him compete at her club’s pool.

• Onodera Kayano registered herself and Kazehara Tetsu for the table tennis event, and they used five minutes to practice.
• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano swept through the competition and took first place.
• Onodera Kayano noticed that she had participated in one more event than Kazehara Tetsu and suggested he enter another individual event.
• Onodera Kayano told Kazehara Tetsu that registration was open for a newly added one-hundred-meter round-trip swimming race.
• Kazehara Tetsu agreed to enter the swimming race, and Onodera Kayano led him toward the pool.

Kazehara Tetsu tested his swimming at the pool, astonishing Onodera Kayano with his speed and leaving her flustered by her unfamiliar reaction to him. Koenji Rokusuke then disrupted the pool with a dramatic, splash-filled entrance, and Kazehara left the water for the preparation area.

• Kazehara Tetsu changed into the school-issued swim trunks and swam a lap with extraordinary speed despite imperfect form.
• Onodera Kayano watched Kazehara swim, blushed as she noticed his body, and wondered why she had reacted differently to him in the past.
• Koenji Rokusuke made a huge splash that drenched nearby students and ignored their complaints.
• Koenji Rokusuke swam wildly across the pool, splashing everyone nearby, while Kazehara stayed outside the chaos.
• Kazehara climbed out of the pool and headed to the preparation area.

Kazehara Tetsu faced Koenji Rokusuke in the one-hundred-meter swimming final after Onodera Kayano urged him to win decisively. Kazehara pulled ahead in the final sprint and reached the wall several seconds before Koenji, leaving their rivalry unresolved beyond the race.

• Onodera Kayano challenged Kazehara Tetsu to defeat Koenji Rokusuke decisively in the one-hundred-meter swim.
• Kazehara Tetsu and Koenji Rokusuke took adjacent starting platforms and declared they would race at full strength.
• At the signal, both swimmers dove in and stayed neck and neck through the first fifty meters.
• Kazehara Tetsu and Koenji Rokusuke made near-simultaneous flip turns at the wall.
• Kazehara Tetsu increased his explosive power during the final sprint and opened a growing lead over Koenji Rokusuke.
• Kazehara Tetsu touched the pool wall two to three seconds before Koenji Rokusuke.

Kazehara Tetsu beat Koenji Rokusuke in the swimming event with a time that Onodera Kayano said could qualify him as a Level One athlete. Onodera admitted her envy and frustration, then blushed when Kazehara said he wanted to help her, and the two headed to the lunch tent.

• Kazehara Tetsu finished the swim in 54.6 seconds, beating Koenji Rokusuke, who blamed the pool for his loss.
• Kazehara suggested that he and Onodera Kayano go get lunch after changing out of their swimwear.
• Onodera told Kazehara that his time could qualify as Level One and confessed that watching him reach the mark so casually made her feel helpless.
• Kazehara said he was considering how he could genuinely help Onodera, making her blush and thank him for the intention.
• Onodera hurried toward the Sports Field supply tent to get lunch, and Kazehara followed.

Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano ate lunch with Sakayanagi Arisu, who asked whether Onodera had decided whether to transfer classes. Onodera remained undecided, while Sakayanagi quietly regarded her as someone who might become a friend in the future.

• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano took pork cutlet bentos and walked past Onodera's class to the Class A rest area.
• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano sat with Sakayanagi Arisu, who was eating sandwiches.
• Sakayanagi Arisu asked Onodera Kayano whether she had decided which class to join.
• Onodera Kayano said she was still considering the proposal and explained that she and Kazehara Tetsu had teamed up for doubles events.
• Onodera Kayano sensed that Sakayanagi Arisu regarded her with a familiar, accepting gaze and silently continued eating.

Kazehara Tetsu encouraged Onodera Kayano to overcome her nerves about the Two-Person Three-Legged Race, then tied their legs together so they could practice. Onodera remained flustered by his words as they prepared to run.

• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano led their respective individual rankings by twelve and twenty points before the Two-Person Three-Legged Race.
• Onodera Kayano admitted she feared repeating her past failure after Horikita Suzune had criticized her rhythm and coordination.
• Kazehara Tetsu urged Onodera Kayano to face the race and pursue victory with him, then told her that running alongside her mattered more than his results.
• Onodera Kayano became flustered by Kazehara Tetsu's words but agreed to practice with him.
• Kazehara Tetsu tied their calves together, and Onodera Kayano reached around his waist as they began coordinating their steps.

Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano won their three-legged race after he saved her from falling at the turn. As they headed to the final event, Onodera Kayano focused on claiming the first-place reward and deciding where to go next.

• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano practiced their rhythm before taking their place in the first group.
• At the starting gun, Onodera Kayano accelerated hard, and the pair quickly pulled ahead of the other competitors.
• Onodera Kayano lost her balance at the turn, but Kazehara Tetsu caught her and used her momentum to carry them around the flag without falling.
• The pair sprinted to an overwhelming first place, and Kazehara Tetsu checked Onodera Kayano's ankle before untying their legs.
• Onodera Kayano asked Kazehara Tetsu for a precise evaluation, but he deferred the conversation until they became true classmates.
• Onodera Kayano followed Kazehara Tetsu toward the Gymnasium, determined to claim the first-place reward and choose where to go next.

Kazehara Tetsu told Onodera Kayano he had not used his full strength in the school’s athletic events. Their tennis final against Hosen Kazuomi ended when Hosen forfeited, and Kayano learned Kazehara had previously stopped Hosen’s violence in basketball.

• Onodera Kayano asked whether Kazehara Tetsu had gone all out in the day’s events, and he admitted he had not.
• Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano entered the tennis final against Hosen Kazuomi and his partner.
• Hosen Kazuomi confronted Kazehara Tetsu, threatened to defeat him someday, then forfeited and left the court.
• The referee awarded first place to Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano.
• Kazehara Tetsu explained that he had shut down Hosen’s violence during their morning basketball match, while Kayano regretted missing the chance to beat Hosen herself.

The Sports Festival ended with Second Year Class A taking first place, while Kazehara Tetsu and Onodera Kayano topped the individual rankings. Kazehara chose the two-million-Point reward and declined to seek help from higher authorities, though Sakayanagi Arisu offered to ask her father to remove a restriction if he ever needed it.

• Nagumo Miyabi delivered the closing speech, and the final rankings showed Second Year Class A in first place, Class 2-D in second, Class C in third, and Class 2-B last.
• The individual rankings named Kazehara Tetsu first among the boys and Onodera Kayano first among the girls.
• Majima Tomoya asked Kazehara Tetsu to choose between two million Personal Points and a Class Transfer Ticket, and Kazehara chose the Points.
• Kazehara Tetsu refused to ask Chairman Sakayanagi for favors, saying he wanted to keep trying through his own methods.
• Sakayanagi Arisu offered to ask her father to remove a restriction for Kazehara if a desperate situation arose, but Kazehara said he did not need that help for now.

Onodera Kayano chose to transfer to Kazehara Tetsu's Class A, and Sakayanagi Arisu invited her for a private walk. After they left, Ichinose Honami thanked Kazehara for helping her class and invited him to eat together.

• Onodera Kayano told Kazehara Tetsu she had decided to use her unconditional Class Transfer Ticket to join Class A, with the transfer set to be finalized next week.
• Sakayanagi Arisu invited Onodera Kayano to take a walk with her, and Onodera agreed after Kazehara reassured her.
• Kazehara Tetsu watched Sakayanagi Arisu and Onodera Kayano leave, then began considering where to have dinner.
• Ichinose Honami congratulated Kazehara Tetsu on taking first place and said the Sports Festival reaffirmed her choice to protect every student in her class.
• Ichinose Honami thanked Kazehara for helping her class, insisting his actions had been kindness as well as a fair exchange.
• Kazehara Tetsu accepted Ichinose's invitation to get something to eat together.

Ichinose Honami took Kazehara Tetsu grocery shopping and brought the ingredients to his dormitory to cook dinner. While preparing the meal, she admitted that she had first visited his room because she liked him, then accidentally rubbed onion juice into her eye.

• Ichinose Honami and Kazehara Tetsu bought discounted beef and a few vegetables at the Fresh Food Supermarket.
• Ichinose Honami used her faulty stove as an excuse to cook in Kazehara Tetsu's dormitory, and he let her in.
• Ichinose Honami noticed the new sofa and cushions in Kazehara Tetsu's room and teased him about his friends visiting.
• When Kazehara Tetsu asked why she had come before, Ichinose Honami said she had liked him.
• Ichinose Honami began preparing dinner and boasted that her cooking had reached Michelin-chef level.
• Ichinose Honami rubbed her eye after onion water splashed into it, and Kazehara Tetsu pointed out that she had been handling onions.

After dinner, Ichinose Honami gave Kazehara Tetsu a cherry blossom necklace as an unexpected gift. She asked him to sit close so she could put it on him, leaving the moment poised as she prepared to fasten it.

• Kazehara Tetsu praised Ichinose Honami's improved cooking after they finished dinner.
• Ichinose Honami regretted forgetting to buy ingredients for the dessert she had promised to make, and they agreed she would prepare it for the Cultural Festival.
• Kazehara Tetsu cleared the dishes while Ichinose Honami took a small box from her pocket.
• Ichinose Honami opened the box to reveal a silver necklace with a cherry blossom pendant and said she had bought it for three thousand points.
• Ichinose Honami asked Kazehara Tetsu to try the necklace, and he sat beside her so she could put it on him.

Ichinose Honami put a cherry blossom necklace on Kazehara Tetsu, took a close photo with him, and kissed his cheek before leaving in a fluster. In the elevator, she revealed an identical necklace and put it on herself, deciding their matching pendants counted as a special connection.

• Ichinose Honami fastened a cherry blossom pendant around Kazehara Tetsu's neck and took a photo of them together.
• Ichinose Honami teased Kazehara Tetsu about his praise, and he said his judgment had led him to choose her.
• Ichinose Honami kissed Kazehara Tetsu's cheek, then hurried toward the entrance and told him not to follow.
• Ichinose Honami said goodbye to Kazehara Tetsu and left his apartment.
• In the elevator, Ichinose Honami took out an identical cherry blossom necklace and put it on, calling it a special connection.

Kazehara Tetsu encountered Amasawa Ichika, who asked to borrow hundreds of thousands or even millions of his Personal Points. He agreed to lend them but proposed a loan with twenty percent interest settled daily.

• Amasawa Ichika noticed the nearly one hundred million Personal Points on Kazehara Tetsu's phone and teased him for displaying them openly.
• Amasawa Ichika asked Kazehara Tetsu to lend her Personal Points, claiming she needed them for her expenses.
• Kazehara Tetsu called her a spendthrift, and Amasawa Ichika pretended to cry until he agreed to consider lending her points.
• Amasawa Ichika requested a few hundred thousand points, or possibly millions, and opened her payment-receiving page.
• Kazehara Tetsu agreed to lend her the points but set the interest at twenty percent per day.

Amasawa Ichika walked with Kazehara Tetsu and probed him about his points, his class’s Cultural Festival plans, and his relationship with her. She warned him that Yagami was scheming again, then joked about forcing her way into Kazehara’s home before they parted at the Teaching Building.

• Amasawa Ichika questioned Kazehara Tetsu about his wealth and Cultural Festival plans, but he refused to reveal details.
• Amasawa Ichika claimed their shared experience on the Uninhabited Island made them close, and Kazehara dismissed her role in the exam as insignificant.
• Amasawa Ichika told Kazehara that Yagami had resumed scheming and remained focused on Ayanokoji-senpai under the White Room’s orders.
• Amasawa Ichika joked that she would drug Kazehara and move in with him if she had nowhere else to go.
• Amasawa Ichika stopped outside the Teaching Building and said goodbye to Kazehara.

Majima Tomoya welcomed Onodera Kayano as Class A’s new transfer student and explained the Cultural Festival rules and funding. Class A ended with the largest budget, helped by Onodera’s additional 10,000 points and its greater student count.

• Majima Tomoya introduced Onodera Kayano, who joined Class A and offered to participate in the class’s athletic activities.
• Onodera Kayano took the new seat beside Ibuki Mio, whose greeting was curt and dismissive.
• Majima Tomoya explained that each second-year student received 5,000 points for festival preparations and that the top four classes would earn Class Points based on sales rankings.
• Majima Tomoya announced Class A’s 28,500 additional points and revealed that Onodera Kayano had earned the largest individual share: 10,000 points.
• Majima Tomoya reported that Classes B, C, and D received 17,000, 24,400, and 26,600 additional points, respectively.
• Class A’s 46 students brought its total festival budget to 258,500 points, giving it a substantial funding lead over rival classes.

Majima Tomoya explained the Cultural Festival’s guest spending points, stall rental rules, settlement deadline, and tie-breaking policy to Class A. He then posted the Midterm Exam rankings, where Kazehara Tetsu remained first and Onodera Kayano ranked below thirtieth after joining the highly competitive class.

• Majima Tomoya announced that 485 guests could spend a total of 3.84 million points, with adults receiving 10,000 points and minors receiving 5,000 points.
• Majima Tomoya explained the stall rental trade-offs between the first, second, and third floors and warned students to complete payments before four in the afternoon.
• Katsuragi Kouhei asked how tied festival revenues would be ranked, and Majima Tomoya said tied classes would share the highest applicable reward while warning against exchanging points between classes.
• Majima Tomoya displayed the Midterm Exam report card, which listed Kazehara Tetsu first with a perfect score and Sakayanagi Arisu second.
• Onodera Kayano found herself ranked below thirtieth in Class A despite maintaining her grades, as the class’s scores were tightly packed.

Onodera Kayano befriended Ibuki Mio and persuaded her to play volleyball after school. Meanwhile, Kazehara Tetsu went to scout Cultural Festival stall locations and considered renting the most expensive space by the Special Building entrance.

• Onodera Kayano asked Ibuki Mio to become friends, and Ibuki reluctantly agreed to spend time with her.
• Onodera Kayano invited Ibuki Mio to play volleyball in the Gymnasium, and they headed there together.
• Kazehara Tetsu walked to the Special Building with Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi to find a stall location for Ryuen Kakeru's class.
• Kazehara Tetsu proposed renting the conspicuous first-floor spot by the entrance, and Kamuro Masumi criticized his willingness to spend points without comparing locations.

Kazehara Tetsu inspected the Cultural Festival stall locations and questioned Horikita Suzune’s group about their plans. He revealed that he knew their class intended to run a maid cafe, leaving Matsushita Chiaki shocked and suggesting that Horikita Suzune or Sakura Airi had told him.

• Kazehara Tetsu reconsidered the stalls near the entrance and favored the more spacious middle section of the corridor.
• Horikita Suzune and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka arrived with Sato Maya, Matsushita Chiaki, and Wang Meiyu to inspect the stalls.
• Kazehara Tetsu pressed Horikita Suzune and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka for their preferred stall locations, but they gave no concrete answer.
• Matsushita Chiaki blocked Kazehara Tetsu’s attempt to learn their class’s plans.
• Kazehara Tetsu named their planned maid cafe, shocking Matsushita Chiaki, and realized that Horikita Suzune or Sakura Airi had likely revealed it to him.

Kazehara Tetsu explained to Matsushita Chiaki that he had helped inspire Class C’s maid cafe project, easing her fears that confidential information had leaked. He then approached Wang Meiyu, revealed his interest in Chinese culture, and began speaking with her fluently in Chinese.

• Kazehara Tetsu told Matsushita Chiaki that he had contributed ideas to the maid cafe project before the girls proposed it.
• Horikita Suzune explained that Kagihara had suggested the maid cafe to her earlier, and she later approved it when Matsushita and the others made the same proposal.
• Matsushita Chiaki refused to disclose Class C’s stall plans, but Kazehara Tetsu said he had come to see someone rather than gather information.
• Kazehara Tetsu asked Wang Meiyu about her Chinese background and said he wanted to discuss Chinese cultural history with her.
• Kazehara Tetsu spoke impeccable Chinese, surprising Wang Meiyu, who replied fluently in the language.

Kazehara Tetsu impressed Wang Meiyu by identifying a poem she had deliberately misattributed, and she invited him to discuss poetry another time. After leaving the corridor with Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi, he reserved a cost-effective stall for Class A.

• Wang Meiyu tested Kazehara Tetsu's knowledge by attributing Li Bai's Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu to Li Qingzhao, and he corrected her without hesitation.
• Wang Meiyu apologized for her suspicion and invited Kazehara Tetsu to meet later to discuss poetry, which he accepted.
• Kazehara Tetsu ended the conversation and left with Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi, while Matsushita Chiaki and Sato Maya watched without understanding their exchange.
• Sakayanagi Arisu teased Kazehara Tetsu about starting another romance, and he suggested spending the evening with her, but she declined.
• Kazehara Tetsu selected a cost-effective stall on the school's application interface and submitted a reservation for Class A at a rental fee of fifty thousand points.

Unable to sleep, Kazehara Tetsu reconsidered his exhausting plan to help the entire grade graduate as Class A and received a late-night call from Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. Ayanokoji accepted Kazehara's offer to help counter the threat against him in exchange for owing him a favor.

• Kazehara Tetsu lay awake weighing his Class A plan against the easier possibility of using Horikita Suzune's future authority as Student Council President.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka called Kazehara and asked whether his hallway remark had been a deliberate hint.
• Kazehara asked what Ayanokoji planned to do about the person targeting him, and Ayanokoji admitted he lacked the connections to carry out his plan fully.
• Kazehara offered to help, and after questioning whether the offer concealed a trap, Ayanokoji asked what he would owe in return.
• Kazehara asked Ayanokoji to owe him a favor, and Ayanokoji accepted the terms.