Recaps

Uesugi Gen maneuvered his way into the Student Council and tried to use Class B’s position to undermine rival classes. After Ichinose and their classmates rejected his plan, he abandoned it and secured changes to the school’s exams, while Ichinose reaffirmed her trust in him.

• Uesugi Gen confronted second-years, learned about the S-System and its Special Exam, and offered Chairman Sakayanagi information in exchange for points.
• Sakayanagi Narimori offered Uesugi Gen the Student Council vice presidency, which he accepted, and Uesugi later learned that Horikita Manabu had rejected Ichinose Honami’s application to join.
• Uesugi Gen recruited Kushida Kikyo as an information source by striking a deal over her secrets and her hostility toward Horikita Suzune.
• Uesugi Gen helped Ichinose and Kanzaki Ryuji infer that class conduct affected points, and Class B received 86,300 points in its second month.
• Uesugi Gen overheard Horikita Suzune challenge Chabashira Sae about her Class D placement and learned that Suzune and Horikita Manabu were siblings.
• Uesugi Gen proposed using an old exam paper and altered answers to make rival-class students fail, but Ichinose and Class B withdrew their support, so he abandoned the plan.
• Uesugi Gen persuaded Sakayanagi Narimori to change future Special Exams and remove past questions, then Ichinose apologized and said she trusted him to lead Class B to Class A.

Uesugi Gen formed the Uesugi-gumi and used Class D’s troubles to secure concessions while Class B prepared for an island-survival Special Exam. On the island, he enforced Class D’s supply obligation and promised Ichinose to prevent expulsions, before their classmates found them asleep together.

• Uesugi Gen clashed with Ichinose over Class B’s pooled points and formed the Uesugi-gumi with classmates who supported his plan to reach Class A.
• Uesugi Gen funded the rescue of Yamauchi, Sudo, and Ike from expulsion after Horikita Suzune accepted a condition for Class D’s next Special Exam.
• Uesugi Gen recovered Sakura Airi’s photographic evidence of Class C’s attack and forced Ryuen Kakeru to agree to monthly payments of 800,000 points.
• Uesugi Gen led Class B in following Ichinose over a love letter, ambushed Ryuen Kakeru, and disrupted Shiranami Chihiro’s private conversation with Ichinose.
• Uesugi Gen obtained Class B’s approval to spend three million personal points on an island-exam outline while privately planning to pocket the money.
• Uesugi Gen chose Kanzaki Ryuji as Class B’s island-exam leader and enforced the contract requiring Class D to provide 150 points’ worth of supplies.
• Uesugi Gen promised Ichinose to minimize Class B’s losses and prevent expulsions during a nighttime conversation by the waterfall.
• Class B found Uesugi Gen and Ichinose asleep together the next morning, and Uesugi Gen fled to his tent after his classmates teased him.