Chapter Summaries

On his first day at Kōiku Senior High School, Uesugi Gen tried to pull Class B away from their new class representative, Ichinose Honami, whom he suspected of winning everyone over too easily. After a scuffle with Shibata Hayate, the class met their homeroom teacher, Hoshinomiya Chie, who began introducing the school’s special rules.

• Uesugi Gen found Class B gathered around Ichinose Honami and accused her of turning his classmates into followers.
• Uesugi warned Shibata Hayate to wait and judge Ichinose later, but Shibata insisted she was kind and helpful.
• Uesugi tricked Shibata into dispersing the crowd by claiming class was about to start, then the students returned to their seats.
• Ichinose covered for Shibata when he realized the teacher had not arrived, and Shibata attacked Uesugi for deceiving him.
• Hoshinomiya Chie entered the classroom, introduced herself as Class B’s homeroom teacher for the next three years, and announced she would distribute materials about the school’s special rules.

Uesugi Gen questioned the school’s point system and learned that students’ monthly allocations depended on their individual value, though the evaluation criteria were classified. At the opening ceremony, he observed apparent differences among the four classes, then returned to Class B’s free time after the ceremony ended.

• Uesugi read the school handbook and suspected that points could buy more than ordinary goods, while wondering whether the initial 100,000 points would be a one-time allowance.
• Uesugi discussed the points with Shibata, and Kanzaki Ryuji joined them before Ichinose and Kanzaki asked Hoshinomiya-sensei about the monthly deposits.
• Hoshinomiya-sensei explained that students would not receive 100,000 points every month and that future amounts depended on individual value, but she kept the evaluation criteria classified.
• After Hoshinomiya-sensei left, Ichinose began organizing introductions for Class B, and Uesugi went to the opening ceremony.
• Uesugi observed differences in the students’ conduct across Classes A through D, listened to the principal’s speech, and returned to free time when the ceremony ended.

Uesugi Gen deduced that the school used points to measure students’ changing value and drive competition between classes, then settled into his dorm room. After overhearing second-years taunt Ken Sudō, Uesugi followed them and approached with questions.

• Uesugi declined Shibata’s karaoke invitation but exchanged LINE IDs with Shibata and Kanzaki Ryuji.
• Uesugi observed two hidden cameras and reasoned that the school was monitoring students to assess their value and rank the classes.
• Uesugi concluded that students began with 100,000 points and that class competition would affect their points, with higher education and employment serving as the ultimate reward.
• Uesugi collected his key card, entered room 404, and looked forward to enjoying his independence.
• Ken Sudō stood up to three second-years after they insulted him for being in Class D, and they threatened him before leaving.
• Uesugi followed the second-years into a quiet alley and approached them, saying he had questions for them.

Uesugi Gen learned the rules of the S-System and negotiated an information deal with three second-years, then approached Chairman Sakayanagi directly to demonstrate his value. He began discussing the Special Exam with the chairman, presenting the information he had gathered.

• Uesugi Gen used a recording of the second-years’ confrontation to make them explain the S-System, its Special Exam, and the Twenty Million Personal Points graduation option.
• Uesugi Gen deleted the video and persuaded the second-years to trade valuable information about their year for points.
• The second-years exchanged contact information with Uesugi Gen and speculated that he might be a better choice than Nagumo.
• Uesugi Gen decided he would beat the school’s three-year challenge in a single day.
• Uesugi Gen approached Chairman Sakayanagi, revealed that he understood the Special Exam’s purpose, and placed his phone with the second-years’ information on the chairman’s desk.

Uesugi Gen secured 30 million personal points from the school in exchange for information about the Special Exam. Sakayanagi Narimori then invited him to join the Student Council as vice president, and Uesugi asked what the school would offer him.

• Uesugi Gen received urgent messages from Shibata and Kanzaki asking him to come to Keyaki Mall, then decided to head there to keep Class B from falling into Ichinose's clutches.
• Sakayanagi Narimori told Uesugi Gen that the school had approved 30 million personal points for their deal, including a five-million-point reward for his performance.
• Uesugi Gen accepted the points and prepared to leave, but Sakayanagi Narimori asked him to stay and hear the school's proposal.
• Sakayanagi Narimori offered Uesugi Gen the position of vice president on the school's Student Council.
• Uesugi Gen asked what the school would offer in exchange for joining the Student Council.

Uesugi Gen accepted the Student Council vice president position after realizing it would give him authority over Ichinose, while securing an anonymous account for his points. At Class B’s karaoke gathering, he found Himeno Yuki, who disliked the crowd, and left with her.

• Uesugi Gen initially rejected the vice president position, then accepted it after realizing he would outrank Ichinose, and requested an untraceable account for storing his points.
• Uesugi Gen told Sakayanagi Narimori he would not share the exam information with other classes and left the Chairman’s Office.
• Uesugi Gen attended Class B’s karaoke gathering and watched Ichinose draw most of their classmates into the festivities.
• Uesugi Gen approached Himeno Yuki, teased her into admitting she disliked crowded gatherings, and said he wanted to leave too.
• Uesugi Gen called Kanzaki Ryuji to announce that he and Himeno were leaving, then hung up before Kanzaki could respond.

Uesugi Gen became friends with Himeno Yuki and met Kushida Kikyo while shopping, then spent the next morning dozing through class as Kanzaki Ryuji questioned the school’s teaching. The chapter left Uesugi hinting that Kanzaki’s family background might help explain what was wrong.

• Uesugi Gen invited Himeno Yuki to become friends, and she accepted while insisting she would skip the next gathering too.
• Uesugi Gen and Himeno Yuki went shopping, where Kushida Kikyo approached them and persistently asked to become friends.
• Uesugi Gen pulled Himeno Yuki away from Kushida Kikyo, then suspected Kushida’s eagerness to make friends concealed an agenda.
• Uesugi Gen assembled his computer and played games all night, while Kanzaki Ryuji arrived early and found the teachers’ lessons disappointing.
• Uesugi Gen dozed through class, accepted coffee from Himeno Yuki, and asked Kanzaki Ryuji whether his family owned a company.

Uesugi Gen and his classmates reasoned that the school might soon change its relaxed rules to ensure its graduates became outstanding talent, and Ichinose agreed to remind Class B to behave. Uesugi then attended the club information session to see Student Council President Horikita Manabu, whose strict presence left him expecting they would clash.

• Kanzaki Ryuji reasoned that the school’s 99.9% job-placement claim meant it would make a major move to ensure students became valuable graduates.
• Ichinose joined the conversation, and Uesugi Gen urged her to tell Class B to follow the rules without presenting their theory as fact.
• Shibata Hayate took Uesugi Gen and Kanzaki Ryuji to a ramen shop and invited them to the club information session.
• Uesugi Gen revealed that he had joined the Kodo Ikusei High School Student Council and went to the First Gymnasium with Shibata and Kanzaki.
• Horikita Manabu silenced the gathered first-years, announced that the Student Council would recruit candidates, and warned applicants against joining other clubs.
• Uesugi Gen watched Horikita leave and decided that the two of them probably would not get along.

Uesugi Gen joined the Student Council as its new Vice President and tricked Horikita Manabu into promising not to interfere with his work. When Ichinose's application to join was rejected, she stopped Uesugi from arguing further and explained that she did not want him to damage his relationship with the senpai for her sake.

• Uesugi Gen introduced himself to Horikita Manabu in the Student Council room and confirmed he had been appointed Vice President by the school.
• Horikita Manabu warned that he would keep Uesugi from interfering in Student Council business if he lacked the ability to handle it, and Uesugi recorded the statement as a promise.
• Uesugi ran into Ichinose outside the room and injured his nose, then learned she had applied to join the Student Council.
• Horikita Manabu rejected Ichinose's application, citing the rule against having more than one student from each class on the Student Council.
• Ichinose stopped Uesugi from challenging the rejection, left with him, and said she did not want him to damage his relationship with the senpai on her account.

After Ichinose gave up on joining the Student Council, Uesugi Gen filmed Kamuro Masumi stealing from a supermarket and tried to turn the video into leverage. Kamuro sought help from Sakayanagi Arisu, who suspected Uesugi’s interest in Class A had exposed a hidden rule of the school, then revealed the school’s class-based meritocracy to a shocked Kamuro.

• Uesugi Gen offered to apologize to Horikita-senpai, but Ichinose declined to reapply for the Student Council and said she could still help her classmates.
• Uesugi Gen saw Kamuro Masumi steal items in a supermarket and secretly recorded her actions.
• Uesugi Gen sent Kamuro the video and asked her to tell him about Class A, but Kamuro refused to trust his intentions.
• Kamuro Masumi showed their messages to Sakayanagi Arisu and asked her to help understand what Uesugi wanted.
• Sakayanagi Arisu asked Kamuro whether she knew the school’s hidden rules, then explained that students were divided into competing classes and only Class A could graduate.

Kamuro Masumi accepted Uesugi Gen’s demands after consulting Sakayanagi Arisu, while the two planned to uncover his identity. A week after classes began, Ichinose went about her cheerful routine, and Uesugi ended the chapter frustrated by a streak of losses in an online game.

• Sakayanagi Arisu told Kamuro Masumi that Uesugi Gen had planned to plant a spy in Class A and advised her to cooperate while they investigated him.
• Uesugi Gen suspected Kamuro had enlisted someone intelligent to help her and tested his theory by asking for her measurements.
• Kamuro Masumi angrily refused to give Uesugi what he wanted, then traded barbs with him before he urged her to stop stealing and signed off as her enemy.
• A week after school began, Ichinose prepared lunch and headed to her Class B classroom, greeting classmates along the way.
• Uesugi Gen lost seven consecutive games in his dark dorm room and blamed the world.

Uesugi Gen faked being sick so he could stay home and play games, but Ichinose, Shibata, and Kanzaki caught him and found his room in disarray. Ichinose made him agree to return to class, then sat down to talk with him while Shibata and Kanzaki commented on his expensive computer.

• After losing eight games in a row, Uesugi Gen took a photo of a thermometer reading 38°C and sent it to Hoshinomiya-sensei to get sick leave.
• Hoshinomiya-sensei asked Ichinose to check on Uesugi Gen, and Ichinose arranged to visit him with Shibata and Kanzaki.
• Kanzaki used a gaming website to show that Uesugi Gen had been online shortly before they arrived.
• Ichinose entered Uesugi Gen's messy, dark bedroom and ordered him to return to class that afternoon.
• Ichinose sat across from Uesugi Gen to have a serious talk while Shibata and Kanzaki discussed the price of his computer.

Ichinose forced Uesugi Gen to attend class by showing up at his door, leaving him exhausted and desperate to sleep. He escaped to the infirmary during history class, where Hoshinomiya-sensei let him rest but scolded him for treating it like a bedroom.

• Ichinose woke Uesugi Gen early and insisted he go to school, despite his complaints and attempts to avoid her.
• Uesugi Gen arrived in class exhausted, greeted his classmates, and fell asleep at his desk.
• During history class, Uesugi Gen pretended to feel unwell and got permission to go to the infirmary.
• Uesugi Gen settled into the infirmary bed, and Hoshinomiya-sensei scolded him for using it to sleep.
• Uesugi Gen teased Hoshinomiya-sensei about her drinking, and she hit him on the head with a folder.

Uesugi Gen secured Hoshinomiya-sensei's promise to help him while she mistakenly believed he would lead Class B to Class A, then slept through Ichinose's visit. Later, he discovered Kushida Kikyo venting her hatred of Horikita and tried to approach her, but she charged at him with a clenched fist.

• Uesugi Gen deduced that Hoshinomiya-sensei had once attended the school and told her he had already taken action against its problems.
• Hoshinomiya-sensei agreed to help Uesugi Gen, believing he would lead Class B to Class A, and he immediately went back to sleep.
• Ichinose brought breakfast to the infirmary, saw Uesugi Gen sleeping, and quietly left after handing the food to Hoshinomiya-sensei.
• Uesugi Gen watched Kushida Kikyo kick a railing and curse Horikita, then decided to use his discovery to win Kushida's cooperation.
• When Uesugi Gen approached Kushida Kikyo, she charged at him with her fist clenched.

Uesugi Gen and Kushida Kikyo made a secret deal after he caught her revealing her dark side, and Kushida later told him why she wanted Horikita Suzune expelled. The chapter ended with Kushida going to shower after Uesugi said she smelled awful.

• Uesugi Gen ran from Kushida Kikyo, then negotiated a deal to keep her secret in exchange for access to her classmates' secrets.
• Kushida threatened to accuse Uesugi of sexual assault, so he held her and claimed their mingled sweat could serve as evidence that they were accomplices.
• Kushida agreed to preserve their sweaty clothes as proof of their pact, and Uesugi decided she was easier to handle than the Thief Lady.
• In the boys' dormitory, Kushida explained that Horikita Suzune's refusal to befriend her made her feel that her efforts were being invalidated, so she wanted Horikita expelled.
• Uesugi called Kushida lame for only kicking a railing, and after she attacked him in frustration, he told her to shower because she smelled awful.

Uesugi Gen persuaded Kushida Kikyo to help him undermine Class D and Horikita Suzune, promising her payment for information. Later, he learned that Ichinose had become Class B's representative and that he had unknowingly voted for her.

• Uesugi Gen gave Kushida Kikyo clothes after her shower and listened as she complained that Horikita Suzune was more talented than her.
• Uesugi Gen had Kushida sign a contract and revealed that Class D had been labeled full of defective students.
• Uesugi Gen convinced Kushida to use her social connections to make Class D students lose points so Horikita Suzune would be embarrassed.
• Kushida agreed to pass Uesugi Gen information in exchange for payment.
• Kanzaki Ryuji told Uesugi Gen that Ichinose was Class B's representative and that Uesugi had voted for her by telling Shibata to decide for him.
• Uesugi Gen declared Shibata Hayate his mortal enemy and pounced on him.

After learning he had been made vice class representative, Uesugi Gen complained about being betrayed and tried to skip swimming class. Ichinose outmaneuvered him and brought him to PE, where the teacher began the swimming lesson.

• Shibata Hayate told Uesugi Gen that he was vice class representative and that Kanzaki Ryuji had withdrawn in his favor, then Shibata and Uesugi tussled.
• Uesugi Gen called Kushida Kikyo and messaged Kamuro Masumi to vent, but neither gave him the comfort he wanted; Ichinose sent him a good-night message.
• Uesugi Gen tried to slip out of the changing room to avoid swimming, but Shibata Hayate and Kanzaki Ryuji stopped him on Ichinose’s instructions.
• Ichinose reminded Uesugi Gen that he had agreed to honor their bet, then took him to PE with the rest of Class B.
• The PE teacher asked whether anyone could not swim and urged the class to take his lessons seriously, but no one raised a hand.

Uesugi Gen reluctantly attended a Student Council meeting, where Miyabi Nagumo showed his fixation on challenging Horikita Manabu to a duel. As the chapter ended, Ichinose, Shibata, and Kanzaki reminded Uesugi about the important end-of-month quiz.

• Uesugi Gen ignored Horikita Manabu’s meeting notices until Horikita issued a final warning.
• Uesugi Gen attended the Student Council meeting and greeted Miyabi Nagumo casually before falling asleep at his seat.
• Uesugi Gen claimed the school had appointed him Vice President, and Horikita Manabu backed up his explanation.
• Miyabi Nagumo explained that he repeatedly challenged Horikita Manabu to a duel, while Uesugi Gen misread Nagumo’s fixation as romantic interest.
• Ichinose, Shibata, and Kanzaki messaged Uesugi Gen to remind him to attend the next day’s end-of-month quiz.

Uesugi Gen prompted Ichinose and Kanzaki to uncover how the school arranged class points and encouraged competition, then his prediction was confirmed when Class B received 86,300 points. Hoshinomiya-sensei arrived to answer the class’s questions, leaving the remaining mysteries unresolved.

• Uesugi Gen attended class after withdrawing his leave request, and Ichinose and Kanzaki discussed how student conduct might affect points.
• Uesugi Gen led Ichinose and Kanzaki to realize that the school had arranged class scores to make the classes compete, while concealing how much he had understood earlier.
• Uesugi Gen challenged Ichinose and Kanzaki to work out how the school would drive class competition, keeping them awake as they pondered the question.
• At the start of the second month, Class B received 86,300 points, confirming Uesugi Gen’s prediction.
• Hoshinomiya-sensei entered the classroom and promised to answer the students’ questions.

Hoshinomiya-sensei announced the classes’ point totals, explained that only Class A graduates would receive school recommendations, and warned Class B about exam rules. Uesugi Gen tried to find a loophole in the attendance rules before Ichinose organized a study group, while Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi began investigating Class B’s unexplained bonus points.

• Hoshinomiya-sensei posted the Class Points, explained Class B’s extra 100 points, and announced that employment and further-education recommendations would go only to students graduating in Class A.
• Hoshinomiya-sensei revealed the exam results and explained that failing one subject could lead to expulsion; Uesugi Gen suggested that the whole class skip an exam to avoid failing, but Hoshinomiya-sensei rejected the idea.
• Ichinose proposed a weekend study group, and Kanzaki Ryuji stopped Uesugi Gen from sneaking away and made him stay.
• Katsuragi Kohei warned Class A not to underestimate Class B, while Sakayanagi Arisu asked Kamuro Masumi to investigate the source of Class B’s extra points.
• Kamuro Masumi agreed to investigate, determined to find Uesugi Gen after recalling his teasing phone call.