Chapter Summaries

After Class A’s quiz results and the midterm expulsion threshold were announced, Kijima Tsukur’s classmates blamed him for sharing exam information. Kijima asked why Class D still had zero points despite receiving the rules, and Totsuka Yahiko suggested they were simply bad.

• Mashima-sensei announced that students scoring below forty-three on the midterm in three weeks would be expelled.
• Class A students confronted Kijima Tsukur, accusing him of helping Class B overtake them, while Katsuragi said his support would not change before the first Special Exam.
• Kijima asked Katsuragi why Class D had received zero Class Points despite Hirata and the others sharing the exam information with their class.
• Katsuragi confirmed that Hirata and the others had passed the information on, leaving Kijima and the other Class A students bewildered.
• Totsuka Yahiko said Class D students were simply bad and dismissed the significance of their lost points.

Kijima Tsukur proposed using Class A students’ personal points to fund Class D in exchange for control over its future school points, provoking strong opposition from his classmates. The chapter ended with Sakayanagi Arisu and Morishige Takuro challenging his plan as unnecessary.

• Kijima Tsukur told Class A that Sakayanagi would lead midterm study sessions and tasked Katsuragi with buying last year’s exam papers for up to five thousand personal points.
• Kijima Tsukur invited Class A students to commit monthly personal-point payments in multiples of thirty thousand so he could lend them to students in Class D under a repayment contract.
• Sakayanagi Arisu objected to Kijima Tsukur’s plan, and Morishige Takuro joined her in questioning its value.
• Katsuragi argued that controlling Class D’s points could prevent the class from uniting against the upper classes.
• Morishige Takuro insisted that supporting Class D was unnecessary, and the students remained unconvinced that they would recover their points.

Kijima Tsukur defended his proposal to pool Class A’s Personal Points by arguing that students should be judged by their contributions to the class, not just their abilities. He left the class stunned and angry after saying that getting closer to him would create more chances to contribute.

• Morishige Takuro rejected Kijima Tsukur’s proposal, insisting that Class A had no reason to give its Personal Points to Class D.
• Kijima explained that future expulsions should be decided by each student’s contribution to the class rather than by ability alone.
• Sakayanagi Arisu and Morishige argued that the weakest students should be expelled, while Kijima said ability and contribution were different measures.
• Kijima declared that Yamamura Miki currently contributed the most by taking care of him, and said even prominent classmates could be expelled before her.
• Kijima told Morishige and the others to seek proximity to the center of power and earn opportunities to work for him, prompting Morishige to condemn his arrogance.

Kijima Tsukur asked for personal points to support Class D, prompting several students to contribute despite Morishige Takuro’s objections. Morishige attacked Kijima, who subdued him instantly and left him frightened.

• Yamamura Miki and Morishita Ai each offered sixty thousand personal points, while Katsuragi and members of his faction pledged thirty thousand each.
• Kijima Tsukur told the contributors to send their points to Yamamura Miki, and Sakayanagi Arisu voiced opposition to using Class A’s resources for Class D.
• Morishige Takuro grew furious over Kijima’s actions and threatened to teach him a lesson with violence.
• Morishige punched at Kijima, who caught his fist and forced him to his knees by squeezing his hand.
• Kijima released Morishige and said he lacked the strength to defy him, leaving Morishige shaken and afraid.

After Kijima Tsukur defeated Morishige Takuro, he invited Yamamura Miki, Katsuragi Kohei, and Kamuro Masumi to Class D. On the way, he explained that he was not angry with Morishige and believed his choices were best for the entire first year, though he knew others did not yet trust him.

• Kijima Tsukur crushed Morishige Takuro’s hand and told the students they could oppose him however they chose, then asked Yamamura Miki, Katsuragi Kohei, and Kamuro Masumi to visit Class D after school.
• Sakayanagi Arisu agreed to let Kamuro Masumi accompany Kijima so she could receive firsthand information.
• During lunch, Morishige Takuro told Sakayanagi Arisu and Hashimoto Masayoshi that Kijima was far stronger than Kito Hayato and might be impossible for the whole class to defeat.
• Yamamura Miki reminded Kijima Tsukur that she had supported him first, and Kijima said he had chosen her because he knew she would be on his side.
• On the way to Class D, Katsuragi Kohei asked Kijima not to hold a grudge against Morishige, and Kijima said Morishige was free to act as he wished.

Kijima Tsukur brought Class A students to Class D and offered to make a deal with its students after learning their Class Points had fallen to zero. He left the classroom with the conversation underway, having won the attention of even its most difficult students.

• Katsuragi and Kamuro Masumi doubted that Kijima Tsukur could get every first-year class to graduate from Class A, while Yamamura Miki followed him to Class D.
• Hirata Yosuke gathered Class D in the classroom, though Koenji left before Kijima arrived.
• Sudo, Yamauchi Haruki, and Ike Kanji complained about Kijima and his chair, and Sudo angrily objected when Kijima mentioned Class D's zero Class Points.
• Kijima reassured Sudo, then guessed that Yamauchi and the others had spent their personal points and offered Class D a deal.
• Katsuragi and Kamuro Masumi noticed that Kijima had deliberately used a friendly, respectful manner to draw the Class D students into the conversation.

Kijima Tsukur offered Class D students monthly Personal Points in exchange for their school-issued points, claiming the payments would continue while the class had fewer than three hundred Class Points. Horikita Suzune recognized the offer as a plan to sap Class D’s motivation and prevent it from reaching Class A.

• Kijima Tsukur offered Class D students ten thousand to thirty thousand Personal Points each month if they signed a contract transferring their school-issued points to him for redistribution.
• Kijima assured the students they would receive the maximum amount as long as they attended school and took exams, prompting Sato Maya, Yamauchi Haruki, and others to consider signing.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji noticed that even one student accepting the contract could undermine Class D’s chances of reaching Class A, and he saw that Horikita Suzune had recognized the danger.
• Horikita Suzune warned the students that Kijima’s offer was designed to make them lose motivation once Class D surpassed three hundred Class Points.
• Yamauchi Haruki realized Kijima’s real goal and asked whether Horikita had exposed his plan.

Kijima Tsukur offered Class D students Personal Points in exchange for their future points, and Yamauchi Haruki, Kanji Ike, and others moved to sign despite Horikita Suzune’s objections. As Hirata Yosuke reviewed the contract for classmates who were also short on points, its terms promised monthly payments while giving Kijima control of their school-issued points.

• Kijima Tsukur challenged Horikita Suzune to consider lending Personal Points to classmates who were struggling, then offered contracts to the first eighteen students who accepted.
• Horikita Suzune insisted she would reach Class A through her own efforts and urged Yamauchi Haruki and the others to reject Kijima’s offer.
• Yamauchi Haruki, Kanji Ike, and others chose to review and sign the contract, while Horikita Suzune failed to persuade them to accept loans from her.
• Sudo stopped Horikita Suzune from interfering, and Kijima Tsukur watched as the students favored his offer over her appeal.
• Sato Maya and other girls asked Hirata Yosuke to check the contract, and he examined its clauses after Yamauchi Haruki handed it to him.

Kijima Tsukur secured eighteen Class D students’ signatures on a contract that gave him resource-allocation proposal rights in exchange for monthly personal points, weakening their drive to reach Class A. As Kijima left with Katsuragi Kohei and Kamuro Masumi, they discussed Hirata Yosuke’s decision and Kijima’s strictness toward his own classmates.

• Hirata Yosuke and Horikita Suzune reviewed Kijima Tsukur’s contract, and Hirata agreed that the students could sign it.
• Yamauchi Haruki, Sudo Ken, Kanji Ike, Sato Maya, Sakura Airi, Shinohara Satsuki, Inogashira Kokoro, Maezono, Sotomura Hideo, and other Class D students signed, bringing the total to eighteen.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji realized Class D had been badly undermined, while Horikita decided to rely on herself and consider gathering twenty million personal points to transfer classes.
• Kijima explained that he wanted control over Class D’s resource allocation and questioned why Hirata had accepted a deal that hurt the class’s chances of reaching Class A.
• Katsuragi Kohei wondered why the leaders of several classes seemed to betray their own classmates, and Kijima dismissed Hirata’s motives as beneficial to them.
• Kamuro Masumi challenged Kijima about acting friendly to outsiders but arrogantly toward Class A, and Kijima said he was stricter with his own people because they were his foundation.

Kijima Tsukur used the previous day’s test papers to confirm that the upcoming midterm questions would likely match them, then arranged to share copies with the other classes. At the Palette Cafe, Ryuen Kakeru surrounded the meeting with Class C students, and Horikita Suzune challenged his display of force.

• Kamuro Masumi mocked Kijima Tsukur while inadvertently warning him about Sakayanagi Arisu, and Katsuragi agreed to buy test papers from the upperclassmen.
• Kijima Tsukur gave the papers to Yamamura Miki to request more copies and monitor Mashima’s reaction, then sent Morishita Ai to invite the other class leaders to meet him.
• Sakayanagi Arisu objected to Kijima Tsukur sharing the papers, but he overruled her, while she considered building opposition to him.
• At the Palette Cafe, Horikita Suzune, Ryuen Kakeru, and the leaders of the other classes met with Kijima Tsukur.
• Ryuen Kakeru brought a large group of Class C boys to surround the gathering, and Horikita Suzune called his show of force foolish.