Chapter Summaries

Kushida and the others searched for witnesses who could clarify Sudo’s fight, but found only Sakura Airi, whose social anxiety made her difficult to approach. The school then began a public hearing with Horikita Manabu presiding, leaving Class D and Class C seated opposite each other.

• Kushida asked Ichinose and other students for information, but their search produced no leads on Sudo’s case.
• Kushida learned that Sakura Airi might have witnessed the incident, but Horikita and Kushida both failed to question her, and Sakura’s camera broke during the encounter.
• Sudo became frustrated, and Chabashira called Sudo, Horikita, Ayanokōji, and Shinjo to the school’s public hearing.
• At the meeting room, Sakagami and the Class C students mocked Sudo while Chabashira objected that the investigation was unfinished.
• Horikita Manabu arrived with Tachibana Akane and arranged for Class D and Class C to sit opposite each other as he presided over the hearing.

Class 1-C presented evidence accusing Sudō of assault, leaving Class D unable to defend him at the student council meeting. After the meeting, Horikita Suzune learned that Shinjo had founded Yorozuya and decided to seek more information.

• Shinjo challenged Class 1-C to prove Sudō had attacked their students, but they showed an incriminating photograph and medical certificates.
• Sudō claimed he had acted in self-defense but could not provide evidence, and Horikita Manabu postponed disciplinary action until Tuesday.
• Shinjo invited Horikita Manabu and Tachibana Akane for tea, while Sudō left to clear his head.
• Chabashira Sae told Horikita Suzune that Shinjo had founded Yorozuya and directed her to ask him about it at the Activity Building.

Shinjo met with Horikita Manabu, then explained to Horikita Suzune and Ayanokōji what the Yorozuya would and would not do to help Sudō. He agreed to look for a witness but made clear he would offer no more than ordinary help to a classmate.

• Tachibana Akane complained about Shinjo’s meager refreshments, while Horikita Manabu approved the Yorozuya’s next budget and warned that the school was monitoring it.
• Horikita Suzune and Ayanokōji visited Shinjo’s Yorozuya and asked whether he had a lead that could help Sudō.
• Shinjo told Horikita Suzune that he had only learned from Kushida that Sakura might have witnessed what happened.
• Shinjo clarified that he considered Sudō a friend but would only help find the witness, not take responsibility for him or go beyond an ordinary classmate’s effort.

Horikita Suzune learned that Shinjo helped people for profit and left without hiring him to help Sudō escape punishment. Two days later, the Yorozuya received an anonymous request about a suspicious electronics shop clerk, which Horikita Manabu made an official investigation.

• Ayanokōji revealed that Shinjo had bought exam questions and proposed buying points because someone had paid him, and Shinjo admitted it.
• Horikita Suzune asked whether Shinjo would help Sudō escape punishment for a fee, then left with Ayanokōji without making a request.
• Two days later, Shinjo and Karuizawa found an unsigned request asking them to investigate an electronics shop clerk who gave girls unsettling looks.
• Shinjo reported the request to Horikita Manabu, who classified it as official and ordered the Yorozuya to uncover the truth within a day.
• Karuizawa offered Shinjo pudding to motivate him, and he set off while joking about changing her foot bathwater.

Shinjo investigated a suspicious employee at the school shopping arcade’s electronics store but found no useful clues. The next day, he planned to ask Sakura for help, just as she returned to Class D.

• Tachibana Akane reluctantly helped Shinjo search employee records, and he collected information on the male camera-shop workers.
• Shinjo watched the electronics-store employees but noticed nothing suspicious and left without identifying a suspect.
• The next morning, Shinjo told Karuizawa he would return to the store at lunchtime and ask Sakura whether she had any leads.
• Sudō nearly attacked Kōenji after Kōenji insulted him, but Hirata intervened and scolded both of them.
• Kōenji argued that expelling Sudō later could cost the class more points, then left, and Shinjo spotted Sakura returning.

Shinjo approached Sakura under the pretense of asking about cameras and gradually earned her trust through written notes. Sakura revealed her secret identity as the online idol Shizuku and asked Shinjo to save her from an electronics shop employee who had obtained her personal information and was leaving disturbing fan messages in her shoe locker.

• Shinjo asked Sakura about her camera and warned her to bring a friend to the electronics shop because someone there seemed suspicious.
• After lunch, Shinjo encouraged Sakura to communicate by writing notes, and she asked what he meant about the strange employee.
• Sakura hesitated to tell Shinjo what she knew, but he promised to keep her secret and did not pressure her.
• Sakura revealed that she feared speaking to people and dreamed of becoming an idol, performing online as Shizuku.
• Sakura explained that an electronics shop employee had kept her broken camera, obtained her personal information, and left creepy declarations and pictures in her shoe locker.

Shinjo helped Sakura identify the man who had taken her camera and accompanied her to retrieve it from the electronics store. After the man reluctantly returned it, Shinjo was left wondering how the original client had learned about Sakura’s situation.

• Sakura identified the perverted fan from Shinjo’s list of suspects and asked him to accompany her to collect her camera.
• Shinjo treated Karuizawa to lunch, then questioned how the client had learned about Sakura’s situation.
• After school, Shinjo and Sakura went to the electronics store, where the clerk mistook them for a couple.
• Shinjo blocked the perverted fan from approaching Sakura and demanded that he return her camera.
• The man handed over the camera, and Shinjo passed it to Sakura before they left the store.

Shinjo rescued Sakura from a fan who tried to kidnap and molest her, then helped bring the man to the Student Council and disciplinary staff. The store employee who had filed the anonymous request revealed how Sakura’s encouragement had once helped him survive his despair.

• A fan grabbed Sakura after Shinjo left and tried to silence and molest her.
• Shinjo kicked the man away and confronted him, while the fan threatened to report Shinjo for using violence.
• The electronics store’s top salesperson struck the fan, and Shinjo sent Horikita Manabu a photo and details of the assault.
• Horikita Manabu brought the Disciplinary Committee, teachers, and security guards, who handcuffed the fan and asked Sakura to give a statement the next day.
• The top salesperson confirmed that he had submitted the Yorozuya request to protect Sakura and explained that her encouragement had helped him through thoughts of suicide.

Shinjo reported his investigation into the anonymous request to Horikita Manabu, then tried to recruit Ichinose from the Student Council into the Yorozuya. Horikita rejected the poaching attempt while acknowledging that Shinjo’s talents suited his own organization better.

• Shinjo told Sakura there was no need for her to testify yet and advised her to rest, then reported the investigation to Horikita Manabu without revealing her secret.
• Horikita Manabu praised Shinjo and discussed inspecting the school’s custodians, while Shinjo refused to let the Student Council outsource more work to the Yorozuya.
• Ichinose arrived with the Student Council’s financial report, and Shinjo teased her about handling miscellaneous duties.
• Shinjo invited Ichinose to leave the Student Council and join the Yorozuya, claiming the Student Council had outsourced most of its work to his group.
• Horikita Manabu explained that Ichinose’s role had been decided internally and dismissed Shinjo’s attempt to recruit her, while reflecting that Shinjo was better suited to the Yorozuya.

Horikita and Ayanokōji tricked the three boys from Class 1-C into believing a surveillance camera had recorded their attempt to frame Sudō. Just as Horikita pressured them to withdraw their complaint and pay compensation, Ryuen arrived and berated them.

• Ayanokōji pointed out the classroom surveillance cameras, inspiring Horikita to set a trap at the stairwell where Sudō’s alleged attack took place.
• Horikita, Ayanokōji, and Ichinose prepared the scene, while Ichinose explained she hoped to form an alliance between Class B and Class D.
• Ichinose lured Ishizaki, Komiya, and their companion to the stairwell by claiming they had found incriminating evidence.
• Horikita and Ayanokōji implied that a camera had captured the boys plotting to frame Sudō, making them panic.
• Horikita offered to drop the matter if the boys withdrew their complaint and paid three hundred thousand private points.
• Ryuen appeared and called the three boys pathetic for falling for the scheme.