Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu attended the first day of the Summer Special Training Class, where Horikita Manabu began testing the students with a literature lesson. Tang Yu challenged Manabu's interpretation of a historical battle, drawing the room's attention and bringing him close to unlocking a new ability.

• Tang Yu arrived at the villa and saw Miyabi Nagumo, Tachibana Akane, Horikita Suzune, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, and other students gathered for the training class.
• Horikita Manabu announced that the two-week class would include a final assessment, with the bottom 10% eliminated from eligibility for next semester's awards.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka warned Tang Yu to watch out for Nagumo, whose friendly manner concealed a calculating emotional state.
• During a lesson on The Tale of the Heike, Horikita Manabu asked Tang Yu why Taira no Kiyomori had withdrawn after victory at Uji.
• Tang Yu argued that Kiyomori had deliberately preserved his forces and political options, then stood by his reasoning when Manabu challenged it.
• The students reacted with shock, and Tang Yu's Emotion Points rose to 39700 out of 40000.

Tang Yu deflected Horikita Manabu’s question about class competition, then used his newly unlocked Emotion Mirror to stop a third-year student from provoking him. He was assigned a three-day campus power-structure project with Horikita Suzune and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, while discovering that Horikita Manabu and the School Board were monitoring him.

• Tang Yu answered Horikita Manabu’s question about strategy without discussing school competition directly.
• Tang Yu reflected a third-year student’s malice back at him, frightening him and discouraging further challenges.
• Horikita Suzune confronted Tang Yu about testing her brother and told him about the afternoon group assignment.
• Horikita Manabu assigned Tang Yu, Horikita Suzune, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka to Group Three for a three-day campus power-structure project.
• Ayanokoji said the assignment was designed to test teamwork, and the group agreed to research separately before meeting again.
• Tang Yu overheard Chabashira Sae and Horikita Manabu discussing his abnormal test data and the School Board’s attention, then saw a shadowy observer outside the lodge.

Tang Yu discovered Karuizawa Kei being threatened by Class C and used his emotional abilities to drive away the students watching her. Karuizawa revealed that Ryuen was planning an attack on D Class, while Tang Yu gained her as an information source and unlocked Emotion Weaving; the chapter ended with an unknown figure monitoring the lodge.

• Tang Yu found Karuizawa Kei distressed in the library and learned that two Class C boys sent by Ryuen were watching her.
• Tang Yu reflected Karuizawa's fear onto the two boys, frightening them into fleeing, then met Karuizawa in the west corridor.
• Karuizawa told Tang Yu that Ryuen planned to attack D Class after summer vacation and had bribed students including Kushida Kikyo.
• Tang Yu promised to keep Karuizawa's secret and protect her, and her gratitude unlocked Tang Yu's Emotion Weaving ability.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka saw Tang Yu with Karuizawa, while their project later earned the highest group score despite Horikita Manabu's criticism that it lacked innovation.
• Tang Yu spotted a mysterious figure monitoring the lodge and received a warning that multiple surveillance networks were active.

Tang Yu used Emotion Weaving and a strategic alliance to help the Military Faction gain resources while protecting Horikita Suzune from Nagumo’s coercive scheme. The simulation escalated when Ayanokoji’s Livelihood Faction joined the Technology Faction in a bid to overturn the resource system, while Nagumo hinted that a bigger confrontation was coming.

• Horikita Suzune told Tang Yu that the day’s task had been replaced by a faction-based resource allocation simulation, separating him from her and Ayanokoji.
• Karuizawa Kei warned Tang Yu that Nagumo had met with Ryuen Kakeru and other Class C students, and Tang Yu used Emotion Weaving to help Sato become the Military Faction’s leader.
• Tang Yu discovered that Nagumo was pressuring Horikita Suzune to use her personal charm in negotiations, then advised her to turn the assignment into a public alliance with the Military Faction.
• Horikita Suzune negotiated with Sato, securing basic resources for the Military Faction and giving herself a way to complete her task without yielding to Nagumo’s humiliation.
• Nagumo warned Tang Yu that the real show was still to come, and Ayanokoji’s Livelihood Faction joined the Technology Faction to launch a Technical Revolution against the existing resource system.

Tang Yu used his emotion-manipulating abilities to help the Military Faction through the final stages of the simulation, then clashed with Horikita Manabu over power and order. As the Special Training Class ended, Tang Yu learned that the next day’s individual Final Assessment would test the students’ limits, especially his own.

• Ryuen proposed a coup to seize the Central Warehouse, but Tang Yu reflected Ryuen’s fury back at him and made him withdraw.
• Horikita Manabu announced a simulated natural disaster, and Tang Yu used Emotion Weaving to unsettle the Livelihood and Finance Factions while strengthening the Military Faction.
• Tang Yu debated Horikita Manabu at the podium, unlocked Emotion Field, and helped the Military Faction earn the second-highest rating behind Ayanokoji’s Livelihood Faction.
• At the summary meeting, Horikita Manabu criticized Nagumo, and Horikita Suzune thanked Tang Yu for helping resolve her dispute with Nagumo.
• Ayanokoji told Tang Yu that Horikita Manabu had designed an individual Final Assessment for the next day, prompting Tang Yu to prepare for the high-risk test.

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.