Vol. 5Island Exam and Class Recast

Kazehara Tetsu won the Uninhabited Island Special Exam and returned to find Class A reshaped by Ryuen Kakeru’s transfer, while he built alliances and faced Horikita Suzune’s confession. The volume left Class A preparing for the Cultural Festival and confronting an Unanimous Special Exam.

  • Kazehara Tetsu raced through the island exam, built a leading score, and accepted Ryuen Kakeru’s wager while Horikita Suzune questioned his plans for the Free Ride cards.
  • Kazehara Tetsu learned that GPS tracking could expose his group and investigated the incident that forced Komiya and Kinoshita to withdraw.
  • Kazehara Tetsu evaded Nagumo Miyabi’s hunters, defeated Nagumo, and made deals with students including Kushida Kikyo and Ryuen Kakeru.
  • Kazehara Tetsu found Ayanokoji Kiyotaka at H10 and announced he would use him as bait for the first years pursuing a bounty.
  • Kazehara Tetsu defeated Hosen Kazuomi, Tsukishiro Takuya, and Yagami Takuya before finishing first in the island exam with 575 points.
  • Kazehara Tetsu reciprocated Ichinose Honami’s confession and later noticed Himeno Yuki walking toward the cruise ship’s stern.
  • Kazehara Tetsu saw Ryuen Kakeru and several classmates transfer into Class A, while Sakayanagi Narimori and Sakayanagi Arisu offered support for his plans.
  • Horikita Suzune confessed her feelings to Kazehara Tetsu, and Class A rejected a simulated proposal during its briefing on the Unanimous Special Exam.
Chapters 401–500 Read from Ch. 401

Arc 17Island Exam First Place

Kazehara Tetsu raced through the island exam, piling up points by reaching areas quickly and winning tasks while encountering classmates and rivals along the way. He ended this stretch in first place, as GPS tracking and a dangerous incident threatened to change the competition and Horikita questioned his plans for the Free Ride cards.

  • Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi teased Ibuki Mio during the second-years’ briefing, where Majima Tomoya explained the island exam’s points, tasks, watches, and rules.
  • Ibuki Mio revealed that Ryuen Kakeru had wagered five Free Ride Cards on Kazehara Tetsu, and Kazehara accepted the wager while deciding to make Ryuen pay later.
  • Kazehara raced between designated areas and tasks, winning points and reaching 187 by the end of the second day as Nanase Tsubasa and Onodera Kayano crossed his path.
  • Kazehara helped Onodera during a climbing task and continued winning events, pushing his score to 248 before racing onward without her.
  • Kazehara raised his total to 320 despite full task sites, then spoke with Miyabi Nagumo, who warned him not to stand in the way of Nagumo’s first-place bid.
  • Kazehara checked the rankings and found his group leading with 345 points, then beat Koenji Rokusuke in the two-kilometer open-water race to earn 20 points.
  • Sakayanagi warned Kazehara that GPS positioning would soon make his top-ranked group easier to target and reported that Komiya and Kinoshita had withdrawn after being pushed down a tampered slope.
  • Kazehara questioned Utsunomiya Riku and Tsubaki Sakurako about their focus on Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, then denied Horikita Suzune’s suspicion that he planned to use Student Council power against Ichinose Honami.
Chapters 401–42525 summaries Read

Arc 18Island Exam Pursuits

Kazehara Tetsu evaded Nagumo’s hunters, confronted Tsukishiro’s plan, and struck deals with several students while building a commanding score. As the exam entered its final days, he sought out Ayanokoji and decided to stay with him as bait for the pursuing first years.

  • Kazehara Tetsu rejected Amasawa Ichika’s advances, then evaded repeated interception attempts by Nagumo Miyabi’s students and destroyed his watch’s tracking chip.
  • Kazehara Tetsu used Sakayanagi Arisu’s information to ambush and incapacitate all twenty students hunting him, leaving them on the island without withdrawing them.
  • Ichinose Honami overheard Tsukishiro Tokinari and Tsukishiro Takuya discussing Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and the White Room, but Kazehara intervened and helped her reach D9 safely.
  • Kazehara Tetsu defeated Nagumo Miyabi in a forest fistfight, after which Nagumo agreed to stop sending people after him.
  • Kazehara Tetsu met Shiina Hiyori and her classmates during the rain, then later confronted Tsubaki Sakurako, Yagami Takuya, and Utsunomiya Riku over their plan to hunt Ayanokoji.
  • Kazehara Tetsu reunited Morishita Ai with Yamamura Miki and Shiraishi Asuka, then agreed to help Kushida Kikyo ruin Yagami Takuya in exchange for compensation.
  • Kazehara Tetsu defeated Ryuen Kakeru and made a deal with him, agreeing to Ryuen’s demand that four people be included.
  • Ayanokoji Kiyotaka claimed second-place reward points at H10, where Kazehara Tetsu found him and announced he would use him as bait against the first years pursuing a bounty.
Chapters 426–45025 summaries Read

Arc 19Island Exam and Aftermath

Kazehara Tetsu won the Uninhabited Island Special Exam after confronting the students sent to stop him, then returned to the cruise ship and navigated the fallout with his classmates and rivals. The arc ended with him noticing Himeno Yuki heading toward the stern after she had claimed to feel ill.

  • Kazehara Tetsu left Ayanokoji Kiyotaka to face Hosen Kazuomi, then defeated Hosen and continued toward I2 with Nanase Tsubasa catching up to him.
  • Kazehara Tetsu confronted Tsukishiro Takuya and Yagami Takuya, defeated them, and staged the scene to make it appear that Sima had attacked them before leaving with Amasawa Ichika.
  • Kazehara Tetsu and Amasawa Ichika reached the port, where he met Sakayanagi Arisu, and the exam ended with Kazehara placing first with 575 points.
  • Kazehara Tetsu agreed to attend Ichinose Honami’s Appreciation Party, where she confessed her feelings and he told her he liked her too.
  • Nagumo Miyabi acknowledged Kazehara Tetsu’s victory, while Kiriyama Ikuto blamed him for the third-years’ lost rewards and expulsions, and Kazehara rejected Kiriyama’s accusations.
  • Kazehara Tetsu attended Ichinose Honami’s party, answered her classmates’ questions about her, and said he valued her resolve despite disliking her tendency to carry others’ burdens.
  • Himeno Yuki left the party after claiming to have a headache, and Kazehara Tetsu noticed her walking steadily toward the cruise ship’s stern.
Chapters 451–47525 summaries Read

Arc 20A Class Recast

Kazehara Tetsu returned to school as Class A absorbed Ryuen Kakeru and his classmates, while Tetsu secured support for his broader plans and Horikita Suzune confessed her feelings. The class then prepared for the Cultural Festival and learned that an Unanimous Special Exam would begin the next day.

  • Kazehara Tetsu spent time with Himeno Yuki, Sakayanagi Arisu, and students from other classes during the ship’s pool activities, then discussed Yagami Takuya and the island exam with Ryuen Kakeru.
  • Kazehara Tetsu encountered Kushida Kikyo and Horikita Suzune at the temporary office, where Horikita described her Student Council ambitions and later joined Tetsu for a date aboard the ship.
  • Amasawa Ichika told Kazehara Tetsu that Tsukishiro had been dismissed, while Hoshinomiya Chie accused Tetsu of blocking her class and discussed her frustrations with him and Majima Tomoya.
  • Ryuen Kakeru, Ibuki Mio, Yamada Albert, Ishizaki Daichi, and Shiina Hiyori transferred into Class A, and Ryuen agreed to lead the class’s Cultural Festival preparations with Katsuragi Kouhei assisting.
  • Sakayanagi Narimori supported Kazehara Tetsu’s plans to raise the costs of competition and offered school-level support, while Sakayanagi Arisu promised to help him with difficult problems.
  • Horikita Suzune confessed her feelings to Kazehara Tetsu, offered help with his plans, and discussed his idea of having Class A run a maid cafe at the Cultural Festival.
  • Majima Tomoya explained the rules of the Unanimous Special Exam, and all forty-five Class A students rejected a simulated proposal to trade 50 Class Points for one million Personal Points for Kazehara Tetsu.
Chapters 476–50025 summaries Read
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