Recaps

Tang Yu placed second in the Special Training Class’s brutal final assessment, earning Horikita Manabu’s commendation and unlocking the Emotion System’s ultimate Heart Connection Network. As the new semester approached, he learned that Nagumo and Ryuen were plotting against him and Horikita Suzune, while the School Board prepared a special assessment of his abilities.

• Horikita Manabu subjected the trainees to an eight-hour exam in rising heat, and Tang Yu used his Emotion Field to calm those around him.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka warned Tang Yu that Nagumo and Ryuen had secretly allied against him and Horikita Suzune, then offered him water when Nagumo knocked over his bottle.
• Tang Yu challenged Horikita Manabu during an impromptu speech, earned his approval, and finished second behind Ayanokoji, with Horikita Suzune placing third.
• Tang Yu surpassed 60,000 Emotion Points and unlocked the Heart Connection Network, which showed his emotional bonds with Horikita Suzune, Karuizawa Kei, Ayanokoji, and Horikita Manabu.
• Horikita Manabu warned Tang Yu that the School Board had taken special notice of his abilities, and Chabashira-sensei later told him he would face an assessment overseen by Tsukishiro.

Tang Yu arranged a day of meetings to deepen his ties with five classmates and gain Emotion Points, helping Sakura Airi confront harassment and probing Kushida Kikyo’s schemes before sparring with Horikita Suzune. The chapter left Tang Yu and Horikita in the middle of their match, with Horikita scoring the first point.

• Tang Yu met Sakura Airi, learned that third-years Imai and Sato were blackmailing her into taking inappropriate pictures, and reassured her by praising her photography.
• Tang Yu encountered Kushida Kikyo in the library and learned that she was targeting Karuizawa Kei, likely in connection with Ryuen’s plan.
• Tang Yu and Horikita Suzune began a kendo sparring match with their Mock Exam rankings as the wager.
• Horikita scored the first point by striking Tang Yu on the head.

Tang Yu strengthened his ties with Horikita Suzune, Karuizawa Kei, and Honami Ichinose while learning about threats tied to the Student Council election. The day ended with Vice President Kiriyama Ikiteru secretly surveilling Tang Yu, triggering a high-threat alert.

• Tang Yu lost a deciding kendo round to Horikita Suzune, who warned him that Miyabi Nagumo was a leading but untrustworthy Student Council successor.
• Karuizawa Kei told Tang Yu that Ryuen was threatening to expose her middle-school photos unless she helped him target Horikita, and Tang Yu told her to keep reporting Ryuen's plans.
• Tang Yu learned that Ryuen was working with Miyabi Nagumo and planned to use Karuizawa's past to attack Horikita and divide Class D.
• Honami Ichinose confessed to Tang Yu that she had cheated on a middle-school exam, and he reassured her, unlocking the Emotion Resonance ability after she embraced him.
• Kiriyama Ikiteru watched Tang Yu from the shadows and recorded him, prompting a system alert about high-threat surveillance.

Tang Yu used the System to buy and secure a top-floor apartment as a safe house. Just after Karuizawa Kei arrived there to escape people following her, Tang Yu spotted two suspicious delinquents nearby.

• Tang Yu exchanged System abilities and funds, opened a bank account, and arranged to view an apartment with agent Kojima Mai.
• Tang Yu negotiated the apartment price down to 55 million yen and used forged financial records to secure rapid loan approval.
• Tang Yu met the former owner, Matsumoto Koji, who revealed a concealed space in the master bedroom closet.
• Tang Yu completed the purchase, upgraded the apartment's security, and stocked the concealed space with emergency supplies.
• Karuizawa Kei told Tang Yu that people from Class C were following her, so he directed her to the apartment.
• Tang Yu saw Karuizawa arrive on surveillance footage and noticed two suspicious delinquents loitering nearby.

Tang Yu sheltered Karuizawa after Ryuen’s people tracked her down, while monitoring the growing interest of other school factions. With the new semester three days away, he prepared for the escalating conflict as Karuizawa slept safely in his apartment.

• Tang Yu brought a frightened Karuizawa into his apartment, where she explained that Kushida had exposed her connection to him and Ryuen’s people had followed her.
• Tang Yu reassured Karuizawa that his security system would keep her safe and offered her a spare room until the new semester began.
• Karuizawa thanked Tang Yu, grew more dependent on him, and settled in after showering and borrowing his clothes.
• Tang Yu spotted Ayanokoji Kiyotaka watching the apartment and later caught Kiriyama Ikiteru recording something outside.
• Tang Yu reviewed system alerts about Ayanokoji, Kiriyama, and the Ryuen Group, then covered the sleeping Karuizawa with a blanket.

Tang Yu returned to school as Ryuen’s pressure on Class D and Karuizawa Kei intensified, while new semester rules threatened expulsions and a class debate loomed. The chapter ended with Tang Yu discovering that Ryuen had tracked Karuizawa through spyware on her phone.

• Tang Yu arranged for Karuizawa Kei to reach school safely with Hirata Yosuke while he left first to check the situation.
• Tang Yu and Horikita Suzune discussed Ryuen’s moves against Karuizawa and students in Class D, then agreed to meet after school.
• Horikita Manabu announced a special examination in two weeks and a Student Council election, while Chabashira Sae revealed the new Expulsion Vote rule and next week’s debate tournament.
• Tang Yu noticed Kushida Kikyo heading toward Class C, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka followed her while Tang Yu checked on Karuizawa.
• Karuizawa showed Tang Yu Ryuen’s threatening text and revealed that tracking software on her phone had exposed her location.

Tang Yu prepared to protect Karuizawa from Ryuen’s blackmail and unite Class D against his psychological warfare. After discovering that Tsukishiro Shuhei was watching the school, Tang Yu set his trap for the delinquents stalking Karuizawa’s old apartment.

• Tang Yu reassured Karuizawa that her middle-school photos would not be exposed, then used the tampered tracking software to plan a trap at her old apartment.
• Ayanokoji told Tang Yu that Kushida had met privately with Ryuen and left with a USB drive, while they recognized Ryuen’s public threats against Class D as a distraction.
• Tang Yu unlocked Group Emotional Link and met with Horikita, Hirata, and Sudō, agreeing to protect Karuizawa, gather evidence against Ryuen, and unite Class D.
• Tang Yu spotted Tsukishiro Shuhei, a hostile School Board special evaluator, watching students from a black car outside the school.
• Tang Yu waited near Karuizawa’s old apartment as the two delinquents watched the fake location signal, preparing to confront them.

Tang Yu lured two delinquents sent by Ryuen Kakeru into Karuizawa Kei’s empty apartment, defeated them, and uncovered Ryuen’s threats involving private photos. With Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Tachibana Akane as witnesses, he prepared to deal with the unconscious men and report the evidence.

• Tang Yu used a false tracking signal and emotion-influencing skills to lure two delinquents into apartment 1803.
• Tang Yu defeated the delinquents and forced the yellow-haired man to reveal that Ryuen Kakeru had sent them to pressure Karuizawa and threaten to post nude photos.
• Tang Yu found messages and secretly taken photos on the delinquents’ phones, adding them to his recording as evidence against Ryuen.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka arrived with Tachibana Akane, and Tang Yu played her the recording of the delinquents admitting Ryuen’s involvement.
• Tachibana Akane agreed to report the evidence to President Horikita, while Tang Yu asked Ayanokoji to help restrain the unconscious delinquents.

Tang Yu secured evidence against Ryuen and comforted Karuizawa as she revealed the bullying behind the photos. With Tsukishiro Shuhei watching and a new School Board mission beginning, Tang Yu and Karuizawa shared a quiet moment before the new term and the coming conflict.

• Tang Yu left a warning and demands for the photos with Ryuen’s tied-up underlings, then noticed Tsukishiro Shuhei following him and evaded surveillance.
• Tang Yu told Karuizawa the plan was working, and her gratitude raised her affection to 90 and unlocked his Emotion Weaving Network ability.
• Karuizawa told Tang Yu that delinquent upperclassmen had forced her to pose for photos in middle school and that Ryuen had later found them.
• Tang Yu reassured Karuizawa and saw the system assign him a mission to respond to the School Board evaluation.
• Karuizawa asked Tang Yu to stay with her, showed him a middle-school photo, and said she wanted to stop pretending and start over.

Tang Yu confronted Ryuen Kakeru with recordings and communications implicating him in the threats against Karuizawa Kei, forcing Ryuen to agree to hand over the photos. The School Board then singled Tang Yu out for a special evaluation by Tsukishiro Shuhei, and the chapter ended as Horikita Suzune and Hirata Yosuke surrounded him.

• Tang Yu began the new semester with Karuizawa Kei, who said she wanted to face her classmates as herself, while Ayanokoji Kiyotaka warned him that Ryuen Kakeru would retaliate.
• At the school, Ryuen confronted Tang Yu in Class D, and Tang Yu left with him to discuss the evidence against him.
• Tang Yu played recordings and showed communications linking Ryuen to the thugs and the threatened photos, then demanded that Ryuen hand over the originals and backups by noon.
• Ryuen agreed to deliver the photos but warned Tang Yu that their conflict was only beginning, while Tsukishiro Shuhei watched from the rooftop doorway.
• Chabashira Sae gave Tang Yu a School Board evaluation form naming Tsukishiro as his evaluator and warned him to be careful.
• Tang Yu returned to class and was surrounded by Horikita Suzune and Hirata Yosuke.

Tang Yu destroyed the photos Ryuen had returned, avoided a Class C ambush, and helped Class D organize for its upcoming debate tournament. The chapter ended as he entered a Student Council meeting with Horikita Manabu and Tsukishiro Shuhei.

• Tang Yu told Horikita and Hirata that Ryuen had admitted defeat and proposed using the Emotion Weaving Network to reorganize Class D's study groups.
• Tang Yu retrieved the photos and backup drive from a Shinjuku locker, destroyed them, and messaged Karuizawa that they were taken care of.
• Tang Yu evaded Ishizaki Daichi and two Class C students by meeting Ayanokoji and Tachibana Akane at a café, then learned that Horikita Manabu wanted to see him.
• Chabashira announced a Class Debate Tournament on meritocracy, and Tang Yu helped Class D choose Horikita, Hirata, Karuizawa, and himself as its debaters and set a preparation plan.
• Karuizawa gave Tang Yu handmade cookies and said she might miss their secret apartment, while Horikita Suzune questioned whether something had happened between them.
• Tang Yu arrived at the Student Council Office and found Horikita Manabu waiting with Tsukishiro Shuhei.

Tang Yu faced scrutiny from Horikita Manabu and Tsukishiro Shuhei over his actions and ambitions, then learned Ryuen Kakeru feared Tsukishiro’s mental abilities. As Class D prepared for the Debate Tournament and Karuizawa Kei shared dinner with Tang Yu, she asked why he helped everyone, and he answered that he saw their potential.

• Tang Yu gave Horikita Manabu evidence against Ryuen Kakeru, while Tsukishiro Shuhei probed his background and questioned his abilities; Horikita Manabu accepted the evidence and warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro considered him an anomaly.
• Tang Yu returned to Class D and helped plan the Debate Tournament, where Horikita Suzune organized students into research and coordination roles.
• Ryuen Kakeru confronted Tang Yu in an alley, admitted that Tsukishiro Shuhei was different, and warned that Tsukishiro could get inside people's heads.
• The system assigned Tang Yu a quest to investigate Tsukishiro Shuhei's true identity and offered the Mental Defense Network as a reward.
• Karuizawa Kei brought Tang Yu dinner at his apartment and asked why he helped Class D; Tang Yu said he saw potential.

Tang Yu investigated Tsukishiro Shuhei’s mental abilities while preparing Class D for the Debate Tournament, and the class grew more united as Karuizawa Kei found confidence as a speaker. The chapter ended with Tsukishiro attacking Tang Yu mentally after meeting with Ryuen Kakeru, escalating the conflict into a supernatural battle.

• Tang Yu warned Karuizawa Kei about Tsukishiro Shuhei after detecting his mental probing, then investigated Tsukishiro and found little information about him.
• Horikita Suzune told Tang Yu that Tsukishiro had applied to judge the Debate Tournament and had asked specifically about Karuizawa Kei.
• Tang Yu encountered Tsukishiro in a hallway, resisted his attempted mental intrusion, and heard his ominous account of unusual students who had disappeared.
• Karuizawa Kei impressed the debate team with an emotional speech, strengthening Class D’s cohesion and earning Tang Yu Emotion Points.
• Tang Yu saw Tsukishiro and Ryuen Kakeru speaking near the sports field, then suffered a mental attack that damaged his Emotion Shield.

After Tsukishiro Shuhei’s mental attack left him hurt, Tang Yu suspected Tsukishiro was involved in teenagers’ mental abnormalities and helped Karuizawa Kei prepare a personal speech. The next morning, Tang Yu tested a new group-emotion ability as Class D prepared for the Debate Tournament, and Chabashira Sae called him aside.

• Tang Yu saw Tsukishiro Shuhei on a news broadcast about teenagers with sudden mental abnormalities and suspected he was investigating or causing them.
• Karuizawa Kei met Tang Yu, accepted his invitation to practice at his apartment, and resolved to share her experience of bullying in her debate speech.
• Karuizawa delivered her speech, and Tang Yu’s system unlocked Group Emotion Resonance after her emotional resonance raised her affection to 95/100.
• Tang Yu warned Karuizawa to avoid Tsukishiro, then researched Tsukishiro’s work with psychiatric hospitals and found signs of mind control among his adolescent patients.
• The system gave Tang Yu a quest to expose Tsukishiro’s experiments, and he tested Group Emotion Resonance at school the next morning before Class D’s final rehearsal.
• Chabashira Sae summoned Tang Yu for a conversation as the class prepared for the Debate Tournament.

Tang Yu defended Class D from Tsukishiro Shuhei’s mental influence during a debate rehearsal and learned that Tsukishiro had allied with Ryuen Kakeru. As the Debate Tournament approached, Tang Yu prepared to protect Karuizawa Kei and uncover Tsukishiro’s experiments.

• Chabashira warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro Shuhei would judge the Debate Tournament and had requested a suspicious assessment for him afterward.
• Tang Yu used Group Emotion Resonance to shield Karuizawa Kei’s speech from Tsukishiro’s attempt to influence her, then reflected Tsukishiro’s mental suggestion back at him.
• Tang Yu received an anonymous midnight meeting invitation, but Ayanokoji Kiyotaka identified it as Ryuen Kakeru’s trap and revealed Ryuen’s agreement with Tsukishiro.
• Ayanokoji warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro was watching Karuizawa Kei, while Tang Yu’s system assigned him the task of protecting Class D and exposing Tsukishiro’s experiments.
• Tang Yu reassured a nervous Karuizawa over the phone before the Debate Tournament, promising that everyone would see the real her.

Tang Yu went alone to the abandoned gymnasium to rescue Karuizawa Kei, where Ryuen forced him to fight a crowd before an audience of students. As Tang Yu neared collapse, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka arrived and demanded that Ryuen release her.

• Tang Yu bought Combat Prediction and Adrenaline Surge, then went to the old gymnasium after receiving Ryuen's threat and Karuizawa's photo.
• Tang Yu discovered Ryuen had gathered about thirty hostile students and spectators, including members of Class D, and Ryuen ordered him to endure ten minutes of fighting to free Karuizawa.
• Tang Yu fought off several attackers but was beaten down as his stamina ran low and Adrenaline Surge began to wear off.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka entered the gymnasium, told Ryuen to release Karuizawa, and began removing his uniform.

Ayanokoji defeated Ryuen's attackers and Horikita Manabu intervened, while Tang Yu and Karuizawa recovered from the trap and grew closer. Tsukishiro continued watching them, and Ayanokoji later warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro had accelerated the White Room plan, which involved them both.

• Ayanokoji defeated Ryuen's students in the Gymnasium, and Horikita Manabu ordered those involved to face disciplinary action.
• Tang Yu learned that Karuizawa had been threatened with fake photos and that Ryuen had used her to lure him into a trap; he also unlocked the Combat Emotion Resonance ability.
• Karuizawa kissed Tang Yu, while Tsukishiro watched them from a rooftop before disappearing.
• Tang Yu recorded what he had learned, then Ayanokoji visited and warned him that Tsukishiro had accelerated the White Room plan, calling Tang Yu an unexpected variable.

Tang Yu and Class D faced Tsukishiro’s mental interference during the Debate Tournament on meritocracy-based education. Karuizawa overcame his attack with a personal speech that won the audience’s sincere support, but Tsukishiro escalated his mental waves against the debaters.

• Tang Yu arrived at school with Karuizawa, Horikita Suzune, and Hirata Yosuke, then learned Tsukishiro Shuhei would be judging the tournament.
• As Horikita delivered Class D’s opening statement, Tsukishiro used rhythmic finger taps to spread mental interference through the audience, which Tang Yu tried to counter with his abilities.
• Tsukishiro’s interference made Hirata lose his words, but Tang Yu used Group Emotion Resonance to help him recover and continue his argument.
• When the audience jeered at Karuizawa, Tang Yu linked their consciousnesses, and she steadied herself to speak about her past, resilience, and the meaning of strength.
• Karuizawa’s speech moved the audience to sincere applause, while Tsukishiro’s mental wave intensity rose to 70 percent and targeted Class D’s debaters directly.

Tang Yu overcame Tsukishiro Shuhei’s mental interference with Ayanokoji Kiyotaka’s help and led Class D to victory in the debate tournament. Ayanokoji revealed his White Room origins and warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro had begun a more extreme move, just as Tang Yu was summoned to the principal’s office.

• Ayanokoji reduced the cost of Tsukishiro’s mental interference, allowing Tang Yu to deliver his closing speech and help Class D win the debate tournament.
• After the ceremony, Ayanokoji told Tang Yu that he had escaped the White Room and could resist and mimic mental abilities.
• Ayanokoji warned Tang Yu that Tsukishiro was targeting Karuizawa Kei and revealed that Ryuen was being coerced with a nanocontroller.
• Ayanokoji gave Tang Yu a list of potential allies and urged him not to meet the school officials alone.
• The system announced an emergency school board meeting, and Tang Yu was summoned to the principal’s office with a new temporary Group Consciousness Link ability.

Tang Yu and Horikita Manabu resisted Tsukishiro Shuhei’s mental attack during a school hearing, while Ayanokoji Kiyotaka exposed Tsukishiro with a medical report. After Tsukishiro was suspended, Ayanokoji revealed that the White Room sought Tang Yu and Karuizawa Kei as experimental materials, leaving them at risk of further retaliation.

• Tang Yu entered a hearing where the principal and School Board questioned him about recent campus incidents, and Tsukishiro Shuhei used a mental attack to push for invasive tests.
• Tang Yu linked his consciousness with Horikita Manabu, who challenged the proposed examination on procedural grounds and questioned Tsukishiro’s surveillance of Karuizawa Kei.
• Horikita Manabu confronted Tsukishiro about his apparent influence over the Debate Tournament audience, but Tsukishiro launched a stronger mental attack before Ayanokoji Kiyotaka interrupted with a medical report.
• The principal suspended Tsukishiro pending investigation after the report implicated him in the White Room, and Tsukishiro threatened to obtain samples from Tang Yu and Karuizawa Kei.
• Ayanokoji told Tang Yu that the White Room cultivated superhuman beings and that Tsukishiro wanted Tang Yu’s and Karuizawa Kei’s abilities as research materials.

Tang Yu learned more about Tsukishiro’s threats and gained Ayanokoji’s help, then discovered Ryuen was willing to join forces against him. The chapter ended with Tsukishiro surveilling Tang Yu and Karuizawa as Tang Yu prepared to investigate the White Room further.

• Ayanokoji gave Tang Yu an encrypted pager, warned him that Tsukishiro targeted people his targets cared about, and said he wanted to see how far Class D could go.
• Tang Yu reunited with Karuizawa at Class D’s celebration and learned from Horikita that Tsukishiro’s influence had made her thoughts feel blurry.
• Ryuen showed Tang Yu a device Tsukishiro had implanted in him and offered to work together, warning that Tsukishiro could manipulate people’s thoughts and memories and was especially interested in Karuizawa.
• Tang Yu warned Karuizawa that Tsukishiro was dangerous, and she kissed him on the cheek before a system alert revealed Tsukishiro watching them from a rooftop.
• Tang Yu returned to his apartment, reviewed the clues, and saw that his main quest was to thwart the White Room’s conspiracy and contact Ayanokoji.

Tang Yu used his new cyberwarfare skills to uncover Tsukishiro's digital defenses, then raced to Karuizawa's dormitory after learning she was in danger. After rescuing her from two attackers and repairing damage to her memories, he and Karuizawa fled as pursuers stormed the room.

• Tang Yu spent 80,000 Emotion Points to gain top-tier cyberwarfare skills, traced Tsukishiro's command source, and escaped a malware attack by isolating his devices.
• Tang Yu received confirmation from Ayanokoji that Tsukishiro was a seventh-generation biological and quantum hybrid dependent on a central node, then got a threat targeting Karuizawa.
• Tang Yu rushed to Karuizawa's dormitory, broke in, and found her under the influence of a neural interferer while the school infirmary doctor and his assistant tried to take her.
• Tang Yu used Memory Projection to frighten the attackers, incapacitated them, and spent 25,000 points to restore Karuizawa's damaged memories.
• Tang Yu discovered that the attackers had livestreamed the room, and he and Karuizawa rushed toward the bathroom as pursuers broke into the dormitory.
• Tang Yu made a rope from the shower curtain and tied it to a drainpipe so they could climb down the sheer wall in the rain.

Tang Yu escaped the school with Karuizawa and reached Ayanokoji’s safe house, where they learned how to locate and attack Tsukishiro’s Hive. With 31 hours until Tsukishiro’s next synchronization, they began planning an infiltration together.

• Tang Yu caught Karuizawa when the shower curtain tore, and they escaped the guards by hiding in the bushes and slipping off campus.
• Tang Yu brought Karuizawa to Ayanokoji’s safe house, where she cried over Tsukishiro targeting her transformation.
• Tang Yu found Ayanokoji’s video, which revealed the Seventh Hive’s location, Tsukishiro’s connection to its server, and the defenses protecting it.
• Karuizawa insisted on helping Tang Yu infiltrate the Hive, and he agreed on the condition that she follow his instructions.
• Tang Yu began reviewing Ayanokoji’s hacking tools and mapping the Hive as Tsukishiro continued searching for them.

Tang Yu infiltrated the White Room-Hive7 facility to hack Tsukishiro’s central server, with Karuizawa watching from outside. Tsukishiro detected him and revealed his fusion of human brain and quantum computer as Tang Yu’s hack reached 65 percent.

• Tang Yu used his remaining Emotion Points to activate Environmental Vision and locate the guards, security systems, and underground server room while Karuizawa monitored the facility.
• Tang Yu bypassed the laser grid, incapacitated a guard, and entered the Hive through a maintenance passage.
• Tang Yu crawled through the ventilation system, found the server room, and connected his modified phone to a backup network port.
• Tsukishiro’s autonomous defense detected Tang Yu’s hack, and Tsukishiro awakened the core, locked the security door, and trapped Tang Yu inside with it.
• Tsukishiro revealed a human brain fused with a quantum computer and called Ayanokoji a failed product while Tang Yu continued hacking against the counterattack.

Tang Yu and Karuizawa destroyed Tsukishiro’s Hive node and uncovered encrypted data about Project Elysium. They escaped with Ayanokoji’s help, but a tracking program implanted in Tang Yu left the White Room’s pursuit imminent.

• Tang Yu endured Tsukishiro’s mental attack and connected his consciousness to the network through his Neural Interface.
• Karuizawa joined Tang Yu in the digital battle, and their connection helped him destroy Tsukishiro’s core and reveal data about Project Elysium.
• Ayanokoji rescued Tang Yu and Karuizawa, downloaded the remaining intelligence, and warned them that Tang Yu had been implanted with a tracking program.
• Ayanokoji gave Tang Yu a safe-house address and told him to avoid electronic devices for 72 hours before separating from the pair.
• Tang Yu and Karuizawa drove away from Tokyo Bay as the System warned that White Room pursuers could detect Tang Yu within 48–72 hours.