Chapter Summaries

After the exam, Sogo Doma called Kaguya Shinomiya and teased her about Miyuki Shirogane’s accusation that he had cheated. He left Kaguya panicking over Sogo’s demand for millions of Fukuzawa Yukichi in luxury goods and how Miyuki could possibly pay.

• A glamorous teacher recognized Sogo Doma’s name but dismissed the possibility that he was Youko Touma’s disciple after seeing his brute strength.
• Miyuki Shirogane left the exam bewildered by Sogo’s apparent ability to walk through people and the other students’ reaction to his accusation.
• Sogo called Kaguya and admitted that he had cheated, then told her Miyuki had apologized publicly and promised compensation.
• Kaguya offered to pay on Miyuki’s behalf, but Sogo insisted Miyuki should learn from his actions and made clear that he wanted several million Fukuzawa Yukichi’s worth of luxury goods.
• Kaguya worried that Miyuki could not afford the compensation and would refuse her help unless she revealed her feelings for him.

During the joint exam, Sogo Doma teased Kaguya Shinomiya about her feelings for Miyuki Shirogane and arranged to show her a recording after the exams. He later denied Shirogane’s claim that he had passed through a proctor, leaving Shirogane questioning what he had seen.

• Sogo Doma told Kaguya Shinomiya that Miyuki Shirogane could get money from a proctor and teased her about her irreplaceable place in Shirogane’s heart.
• Sogo Doma told Kaguya Shinomiya he had a recording and arranged to meet her at private Toyogasaki after the exam.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Sogo Doma explained to Mashiro Shiina that they were taking exams in different rooms, and Utaha patiently explained why Mashiro could not take leave.
• Sogo Doma returned to the exam room and asked Miyuki Shirogane about the ten bottles of cola he had promised.
• Miyuki Shirogane said he had seen Sogo Doma pass through the proctor, but Sogo denied it and suggested Shirogane needed a doctor.

Miyuki Shirogane grew increasingly worried about his own sanity as Sogo Doma described his stays in psychiatric hospitals as pleasant vacations. Sogo left Miyuki shaking cola bottles and recommending a hospital visit, while Miyuki remained convinced that Sogo’s bizarre behavior might have caused his hallucinations.

• Sogo told Miyuki he could recognize that Miyuki needed psychiatric treatment and recommended several hospitals where he had stayed.
• Miyuki suspected that Sogo’s strange behavior had caused his own hallucinations, while Sogo behaved normally during the second exam.
• After the exam, Sogo had Miyuki shake five more cola bottles as part of his apology gift.
• Miyuki questioned Sogo about his hospital stays, and Sogo explained that he had tried to sneak in as a doctor but ended up cooperating with the doctors instead.
• Sogo recounted how doctors at one hospital had developed delusions after talking with him, and claimed the director and nurses wept when he was discharged.
• Miyuki worried that Sogo’s mental illness might be contagious and that his own hallucinations had come from Sogo.

Sogo Doma convinced Miyuki Shirogane that the Kaguya Shinomiya standing before them was a shared hallucination. The chapter ended with Kaguya debating whether to accept the cola Miyuki had prepared while Sogo threatened to tell him she had demanded expensive royal tea instead.

• Miyuki Shirogane asked Sogo Doma whether he had experienced hallucinations, and Sogo claimed he often saw Kaguya Shinomiya having her cola stolen.
• Kaguya Shinomiya arrived and found Miyuki shaking a can of soda while talking with Sogo, who insisted she was a hallucination.
• Sogo argued that Kaguya could not be at Toyogasaki, and Miyuki began to believe that he was suffering from a shared hallucination.
• Sogo teased Kaguya about her feelings for Miyuki, making her blush and convincing Miyuki that she was only an illusion.
• Sogo offered Kaguya the cola Miyuki had prepared, then threatened to tell Miyuki that she had asked for tea supplied to the British royal family.

Kaguya Shinomiya tried to defend President Shirogane from Sogo Doma’s taunts and challenged him over their cola bottles. She ended up drenched in cola again while Doma insisted he had not tampered with his own bottle.

• Kaguya Shinomiya rejected Sogo Doma’s offer of British royal family tea and argued that the Shinomiya Family did not rely on material wealth for its dignity.
• Sogo Doma challenged Kaguya about the cola’s cost and how long President Shirogane would need to work to afford it.
• Kaguya suspected Doma had tampered with his cola and insisted they exchange bottles and open them together.
• Doma tried to avoid drinking, but Kaguya threatened him and counted down as they prepared to open the bottles.
• Kaguya’s cola sprayed over her face, while Doma opened his own bottle without incident and claimed he had told the truth.

Sogo Doma teased Kaguya Shinomiya after she got sprayed with cola, and she grew increasingly furious as he twisted the blame and made an obscene joke. Miyuki Shirogane watched and concluded that the violent Kaguya before him was only a hallucination.

• Kaguya Shinomiya blamed Sogo Doma for getting cola all over her, while he argued she had insisted on switching bottles and opening hers too soon.
• Sogo Doma pointed out that Miyuki Shirogane had shaken the cola, then made an obscene remark that left Kaguya embarrassed and enraged.
• Kaguya Shinomiya reached super blackening and charged at Sogo Doma, striking him as he retreated toward Miyuki Shirogane.
• Miyuki Shirogane decided the aggressive Kaguya was a hallucination because the real Kaguya would not attack Sogo Doma without knowing she could win.

Sogo Doma warned Miyuki Shirogane that the real Kaguya Shinomiya had lost her temper after cola sprayed her, then used a smoke bomb to escape. Kaguya mistook Miyuki for Doma and beat him, leaving Miyuki trying to calm her down as she prepared to continue.

• Sogo Doma told Miyuki Shirogane that Kaguya Shinomiya was real and had become furious over the cola incident.
• Sogo Doma explained that he could not intervene because he had made peace with Miyuki, then announced he would flee.
• Sogo Doma threw a smoke bomb and escaped, leaving Miyuki behind as Kaguya approached.
• Kaguya mistook Miyuki for Sogo Doma and struck him with a series of blows.
• Miyuki begged Kaguya to calm down, but she insisted she was calm and said her martial arts training was finally useful.

Kaguya Shinomiya mistook a masked Miyuki Shirogane for Sogo Doma and feared she had killed the president after beating him. Ai Hayasaka arrived and began assessing Shirogane, while Sogo Doma challenged her judgment of the attacker.

• Miyuki Shirogane hallucinated that he was trapped on the Bridge of Helplessness as Kaguya Shinomiya panicked over his faint breathing.
• Sogo Doma revealed that the injured figure was Shirogane wearing a simulated face mask, and Kaguya tore the mask off in shock.
• Ai Hayasaka heard Kaguya call for the president and rushed over to find Shirogane injured, Kaguya distressed, and Doma standing nearby.
• Kaguya asked Hayasaka to examine Shirogane, and Hayasaka said the attacker must have a serpent's heart.
• Sogo Doma objected to Hayasaka judging the attacker before examining Shirogane, and Hayasaka began to defend her assessment.

Ai Hayasaka mistook Sogo Doma for the person who had beaten Miyuki Shirogane, then realized Kaguya Shinomiya was responsible. As Sogo treated Miyuki with a miraculous ointment, Hayasaka recognized him as the Doma Family heir who had humiliated Kaguya and wondered how the two had become involved.

• Ai Hayasaka accused the attacker of viciously targeting Miyuki Shirogane, while Sogo Doma played along and Kaguya Shinomiya snapped at them.
• Hayasaka realized Kaguya had beaten Miyuki and worried about facing her mistress’s anger.
• Sogo warned that Miyuki’s breathing was fading, so Kaguya ordered Hayasaka to call an ambulance.
• Sogo joked that Miyuki could be left for dead, then offered to treat him and applied an ointment that visibly healed his injuries.
• Hayasaka recognized Sogo as the Doma Family member who had humiliated Kaguya and wondered when they had grown close.

Sogo Doma made Kaguya Shinomiya apologize for attacking him and revealed that Miyuki Shirogane was her weakness. He then teased Kaguya about silencing Ai Hayasaka, and the chapter ended with Kaguya apparently preparing to make Hayasaka disappear.

• Sogo Doma refused to help Miyuki Shirogane until Kaguya Shinomiya admitted her mistake and apologized.
• Kaguya Shinomiya admitted she had attacked an ally, while Sogo Doma reminded her that Shirogane was innocent and important to her.
• Sogo Doma told Kaguya to make Ai Hayasaka disappear because she knew about their alliance, but Kaguya initially refused.
• After Sogo listed Kaguya’s flaws, Kaguya told Hayasaka to choose how she wanted to vanish, as black mist and a crimson glint appeared around her.

Miyuki Shirogane woke up on a bench in Toyogasaki after fainting and believed his painful encounter with Kaguya Shinomiya had been a hallucination. Sogo Doma convinced him that his hallucination reflected hidden desires, leaving Miyuki embarrassed by the thought that he might be a masochist.

• Sogo Doma told Miyuki Shirogane he had knocked himself out by shaking a cola, while Miyuki remembered Kaguya Shinomiya attacking him.
• Miyuki found no injuries and wondered whether the fight and pain had been hallucinations.
• Sogo Doma explained that hallucinations fulfilled subconscious desires and could feel painful if someone craved pain.
• Miyuki considered whether he secretly wanted Kaguya Shinomiya to beat him and imagined her in a queen outfit with a whip.
• Sogo Doma assumed Miyuki's hallucination had involved sexual punishment, and Miyuki realized he had been mistaken for a pervert.

Kaguya Shinomiya worried about Miyuki Shirogane and learned from Kei Shirogane’s LINE Moments that he had recovered. At home, Miyuki gave Kei a stun gun and rope so she could restrain him if he acted strangely, leaving their father bewildered when he returned.

• Kaguya Shinomiya fretted about Miyuki Shirogane’s condition and asked Ai Hayasaka to find out how he was doing without calling him.
• Ai Hayasaka checked Kei Shirogane’s LINE Moments and found a post about Miyuki giving her a stun gun, which suggested he had recovered.
• Miyuki Shirogane told Kei to use the stun gun and rope to restrain him if he did anything irrational, but Kei suspected he had a strange fetish.
• Miyuki insisted the stun gun worked, and their father came home to find Kei holding it and asked why Miyuki had given it to her.

Miyuki Shirogane tried to explain to Kei that he had a severe mental illness, but a faulty stun gun, rope, and lewd whip made him look like a pervert. As Papa Shirogane confronted him with the whip, Miyuki mistook his father for a hallucination and believed he secretly wanted to be punished.

• Miyuki Shirogane's father shocked himself unconscious while testing the stun gun, and Kei accused Miyuki of setting a trap for her.
• Miyuki told Kei he had a severe mental illness and had prepared the stun gun and rope so she could restrain him during an episode.
• A lewd whip fell out of the rope, and Kei questioned Miyuki about why he had it.
• Papa Shirogane woke up, heard Kei's explanation, and demanded to know what was happening.
• Miyuki mistook his awake father for a hallucination and urged Kei to flee, while Papa Shirogane picked up the whip and threatened to punish him.

Miyuki Shirogane mistook his father and sister for hallucinations and endured his father's scolding and blows, convinced he was mentally ill. After Kei Shirogane found a note from Miyuki's senior explaining the hallucinations and recommending a psychiatric hospital, Miyuki still refused to believe his family was real and went to sleep.

• Miyuki Shirogane insisted that his father's scolding and punishment were hallucinations, while Papa Shirogane confronted him.
• Kei Shirogane overheard Miyuki's outbursts and worried that her brother had become a pervert fixated on Shinomiya.
• Kei Shirogane picked up a note explaining that a self-knockout device replaced a stun gun and recommending doctors at Tokyo First Psychiatric Hospital.
• Papa Shirogane read the note and questioned whether Miyuki Shirogane truly believed he was mentally ill.
• Miyuki Shirogane dismissed his family's pain and presence as part of his hallucinations, then lay down to sleep.

Sogo Doma gave Miyuki Shirogane dubious advice about dealing with hallucinations and explained the rope he had given him, leaving Miyuki increasingly unsure what to make of their supposed psychiatric-patient support group. Sogo then offered to organize a lavish party when Miyuki got diagnosed.

• Miyuki Shirogane told Sogo Doma that he had stayed up researching how to distinguish reality from hallucinations.
• Sogo told Miyuki that he let hallucinations continue when alone and made himself fall unconscious when others were present.
• Sogo claimed that unconsciousness made hallucinations disappear and explained that the rope was a gift for Miyuki's supposed fetish.
• Sogo urged Miyuki to help fellow psychiatric patients and described them as a disadvantaged group who needed to stick together.
• Sogo asked when Miyuki planned to get diagnosed and offered to hold a grand mourning party, citing Yamaguchi XX's celebration after his diagnosis.

After the entrance exams, Sogo Doma met Miyuki Shirogane’s father, who had come to confront him about convincing Miyuki that he had a mental illness. Sogo instead pressed the father about his neglect and argued that Miyuki’s extreme stress could have made him ill.

• Sogo Doma finished his exams and prepared to meet Miyuki Shirogane for a psychiatric diagnosis.
• Shirogane’s father approached Sogo, introduced himself as an unemployed man, and said he had come to thank him for looking after Miyuki.
• Sogo called him a deadbeat and recounted how Miyuki had supported his family while working and studying.
• Shirogane’s father accused Sogo of deceiving Miyuki into thinking he was ill.
• Sogo challenged Shirogane’s father to consider whether Miyuki’s exhaustion and family responsibilities could have caused a mental illness.

Sogo Doma told Shirogane's father that Miyuki’s hallucinations could not have been caused by drugs or hypnosis, leaving him afraid that his son was genuinely ill. The chapter also revealed how Shirogane's father’s past failures had eroded his confidence and left him unable to face the possibility.

• Shirogane's father tried to thank Sogo Doma, but Sogo Doma demanded to know what the gratitude involved and mocked him when he had no answer.
• Shirogane's father suggested that hypnosis or drugs might have caused Miyuki’s hallucinations, and Sogo Doma argued that neither explanation fit the circumstances.
• Sogo Doma explained that Miyuki had hallucinated during an examination while Sogo Doma remained seated in his own place.
• Shirogane's father fell silent as he realized his explanations had been ruled out and feared that Miyuki was truly ill.
• Sogo Doma reflected on Shirogane's father's former academic success, failed business, and his wife's departure, concluding that those setbacks had destroyed his confidence.

Sogo Doma challenged Miyuki Shirogane's father to stop giving in to hardship and arranged for psychiatric hospitals to accommodate Miyuki if he sought an examination. That night, Kaguya Shinomiya blamed Sogo for the electric shock device Miyuki had given Kei, while Sogo feigned confusion.

• Sogo Doma compared the Shirogane family's situation to a novel about a family collapsing and urged Miyuki Shirogane's father to overcome his circumstances.
• Sogo revealed that he had bought Fujimi and claimed that being buried only meant someone was not strong enough, prompting Miyuki's father to leave with Miyuki.
• After Miyuki's father refused Sogo's offer of a free examination, Sogo called a psychiatric hospital director to ask hospitals to accommodate Miyuki if he came in for a diagnosis.
• Kaguya Shinomiya called Sogo that night and accused him of causing Miyuki to give Kei an electric shock device that stopped her frequent social media posts.
• Sogo denied knowing Kei's posting habits and asked Kaguya how she had concluded that he was behind the device.

Kaguya Shinomiya questioned Sogo Doma about the electric shock device Miyuki Shirogane gave Kei, and learned that Shirogane had chosen a device that knocked out its user. Sogo claimed Shirogane wanted it because he feared hurting his sister, then proposed that his mental illness made him hallucinate Kaguya beating him, leaving Kaguya speechless.

• Kaguya Shinomiya argued that Miyuki Shirogane could not have bought an electric shock device because he lacked money, but Sogo Doma explained that he had paid Shirogane for shaking cola.
• Sogo revealed that Shirogane had chosen the electric shock device himself and that it knocked out its user.
• Kaguya angrily blamed Sogo for failing to explain the device and worried about what Kei might have done with it.
• Sogo said Shirogane wanted the device because he feared hurting Kei, and claimed he had given it to him because Kaguya had previously beaten Shirogane badly.
• Sogo suggested that Shirogane could dismiss Kaguya’s violence as a hallucination caused by mental illness, leaving Kaguya speechless.

Kaguya Shinomiya enlisted Ai Hayasaka to help make President Shirogane believe his suspected psychological disorder was real, while Sogo Doma arranged Taihei Doma’s upcoming meeting and argued against thrift. The chapter ended with Taihei stunned by Sogo’s claim that thrift was the worst bad habit for members of their family.

• Kaguya Shinomiya told Ai Hayasaka she had agreed to help Sogo Doma confirm that President Shirogane had a mental illness because she feared the president would think badly of her if she refused.
• Kaguya Shinomiya explained that President Shirogane already believed he had a psychological disorder and might visit a psychiatric hospital, then asked Ai Hayasaka to find out where and when.
• Sogo Doma considered how to use Kaguya Shinomiya’s cooperation and then answered a call from Taihei Doma about the next day’s meeting.
• Sogo Doma told Taihei Doma to bring a fashionable luxury handbag, planning for him to give it to Shizuka Hiratsuka instead of Umaru.
• Taihei Doma objected to spending family money on luxury goods, and Sogo Doma declared that thrift was the worst bad habit for people like them, leaving Taihei speechless.