Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma diverted Umaru Doma, Mashiro Shiina, and Ako Tamaki from their dispute by leading them into a rundown arcade. The group found prizes they wanted, and Umaru prepared to conquer the arcade cheaply as its manager secretly doubted anyone could win there.

• Sogo Doma pointed out an old arcade, drawing Umaru Doma's attention and persuading Mashiro Shiina and Ako Tamaki to follow.
• Manager Yamato told employee Kawaya that the arcade was closing and insisted its machines should remain unfairly difficult for customers.
• Umaru Doma and Ako Tamaki spotted limited-edition plushies, while Mashiro Shiina chose a mouthless cat she wanted to raise.
• Sogo Doma offered to buy ten thousand yen worth of tokens, but Umaru Doma argued that a true expert could win the most prizes for the least money.
• Manager Yamato secretly doubted Umaru Doma could win anything, believing no customer had ever claimed a prize from the arcade.

Umaru and Sogo Doma challenged Manager Yamato’s arcade, where the manager believed his machines could defeat every player. Their astonishing wins shattered his confidence, while Mashiro Shiina and Ako Tamaki quickly lost their tokens.

• Manager Yamato vowed that no customer would ever win a prize from his arcade, while Clerk Kawatani doubted the business could survive.
• Umaru explained her strategy for winning prizes cheaply, and Sogo Doma exchanged 500 yen for tokens for the group.
• Mashiro Shiina and Ako Tamaki lost all their tokens within two minutes, but Umaru won a triple match on a slot machine.
• Sogo Doma used a spinning token on the coin pusher, causing a cascade of tokens to fall into the payout slot.
• Kawatani recognized the Doma siblings as legendary players who always won something, and Manager Yamato struggled to accept their success.

Sogo, Umaru, Mashiro, and Ako visited an arcade where Manager Yamato tried to defend its reputation against legendary players. Sogo and Umaru emptied the arcade’s prize stock, and the group left with bags of prizes while Sogo’s jokes about evolution turned into an argument over whether he would stop eating.

• Manager Yamato worried that Sogo and Umaru would defeat the arcade’s games, but Kawatani reassured him that legendary players rarely claimed prizes.
• Mashiro asked Sogo to win a mouthless cat plush, and Ako requested a Goddess Knight plush; Sogo used the Mount Fuji Great Slide technique to make the claw machine’s prizes tumble into the chute.
• Umaru returned with more tokens, and Sogo and Umaru used several techniques to clear the claw machines and the arcade’s entire stock.
• Manager Yamato mourned the loss of his prizes after Sogo, Umaru, Mashiro, and Ako left the arcade carrying their winnings.
• Sogo asked whether they had taken too many prizes, but Umaru, Ako, and Mashiro were focused on their plushies and figures.
• Sogo joked that the mouthless cats had evolved beyond needing food, and Umaru and Mashiro challenged him to stop eating; Ako was startled by the supposed hunger strike.

As the break after the joint entrance exams ended, Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma tried to avoid returning to school by pretending Umaru was sick. Their schemes unraveled, and Umaru called out Sogo for wanting to skip school too as they realized they were already running late.

• Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma realized at 5:00 AM that their break had ended and they had to return to school.
• Umaru Doma claimed she might have a cold and fever so she could take the day off, and Sogo Doma agreed she was sick after checking her forehead.
• Sogo Doma announced he would stay home to care for Umaru, but she accused him of using her as an excuse to skip school.
• Sogo Doma handed Umaru a thermometer that already read thirty-nine degrees, and Umaru caught him raising its temperature.
• Sogo Doma teased Umaru about being selfish, then tousled her hair as she complained that they were already running late.

After staying up all night, Umaru Doma tried to get Sogo Doma to admit he wanted to skip school, but he insisted they would go as usual and used self-hypnosis to cook breakfast while asleep. He hypnotized Umaru into deep sleep and woke her again, then fell asleep mid-conversation, leaving them at breakfast with their strange hypnosis lesson unresolved.

• Umaru Doma accused Sogo Doma of wanting to take the day off, but Sogo said they would go to school as usual.
• Sogo Doma fell asleep instantly, then cooked tamagoyaki while still asleep by using self-hypnosis.
• Sogo Doma explained self-hypnosis to Umaru and snapped his fingers to put her into deep sleep.
• Sogo Doma snapped his fingers again to wake Umaru, who complained that he had interrupted her rest.
• Sogo Doma suggested Umaru hypnotize Komaru, then fell asleep before finishing his sentence.

Hamster Umaru tried to hypnotize herself into sleeping after Sogo Doma fell asleep, and her imaginary council of Hamster Umarus only argued before falling asleep too. At 6:40 AM, Sogo sleepwalked into Mashiro Shiina’s room and tried to wake her with a note, leaving Mashiro confused but unafraid.

• Hamster Umaru convened a mental roundtable to figure out how she could hypnotize herself into sleep, but the Hamster Umarus argued over whether Umaru and Komaru were different people.
• Hamster Umaru demanded that the group help her sleep, but the Hamster Umarus chose to rest around the table and soon fell asleep; Umaru joined them and also entered deep sleep.
• In the Doma Residence living room, Sogo Doma continued cooking in his sleep while Hamster Umaru slept deeply.
• At 6:40 AM, Sogo Doma entered Mashiro Shiina’s room, lifted her from the bed, and handed her a note with instructions to get up and eat breakfast.
• Mashiro Shiina realized Sogo was asleep and answering her questions incorrectly, then decided to ask Master Umaru what had happened later.

Mashiro Shiina took away Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma’s breakfast because she believed sleeping while eating was wrong, leaving them to battle imaginary food. After the delayed breakfast made them leave late, Umaru realized Sogo could drive them and wondered why he had not told her sooner.

• Mashiro Shiina removed the food from the sleeping Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma, deciding to stop them from sleeping while eating.
• Sogo woke Umaru and found Mashiro had cleared their breakfast away, so they had to eat again before getting ready.
• Sogo, Umaru, and Mashiro left the house at 8:30, and Sogo blamed their late departure on Mashiro taking their food.
• Umaru suggested they could walk faster and still avoid being late, prompting Sogo to point out that driving would let them leave later.
• Umaru realized Sogo could drive and asked why he had not told her sooner.

Sogo Doma told Umaru that he had a foreign driver's license, then revealed that he had learned to drive in Grand Theft Auto and avoided buying a car because traffic jams made him uneasy. He left Umaru refusing his offer to practice driving and drive a future car herself.

• Umaru asked whether Sogo had a driver's license and pressed him to buy a car so she could sleep later and eat breakfast on the way to school.
• Sogo explained that he had obtained a foreign license through money and had no interest in owning a car because running was faster and traffic jams were unpredictable.
• Umaru asked why Sogo hated traffic jams, and he revealed that he had learned to drive in Grand Theft Auto and someone had given him his license.
• Sogo suggested Umaru practice driving in Grand Theft Auto and offered to arrange her license, but Umaru refused because she wanted to be a passenger.
• Sogo tried to persuade Umaru that driving was cool and joked that cola, games, movies, and manga mattered more than becoming an old maid.

Sogo Doma worried that Umaru might be developing romantic feelings, so he probed her views on boys and love. He learned she preferred games to romance and ended by anxiously reminding himself that even young children could fall in love.

• Sogo Doma recalled teasing Umaru while she watched a tearjerker, and she insisted she was moved by resonance between girls.
• Sogo Doma offered Umaru an advance copy of Dragon and Sky City, and she grabbed his leg and begged him to hand it over.
• Sogo Doma asked Umaru how she would respond to boys who interfered with her games or snacks, and she said she would block them.
• Sogo Doma warned Umaru that romance could lead boys to control her, and she declared that games suited her better than real-life romance.
• Sogo Doma realized he had misread Umaru's melancholy and tried to calm his fears about her being only twelve or thirteen.

Sogo Doma recalled how he had tried to keep Umaru away from romance and taught her to distrust men, while Umaru argued that they should buy a car. Their conversation turned to whether Sogo would look cool driving one-handed, and Mashiro Shiina insisted that she understood what handsome meant.

• Sogo Doma concluded that Umaru cared more about games than romance and gave her the game she wanted.
• Sogo Doma remembered teaching Umaru to be wary of men, which led her to retreat further into manga and games.
• Umaru pressed Sogo to buy a car, and he said they would get one if she learned to drive.
• Umaru claimed a one-handed-driving Sogo would attract girls, but Mashiro Shiina said he would not look cool.
• Sogo questioned whether Mashiro understood what handsome meant, and Mashiro Shiina said that she did.

Sogo Doma, Mashiro Shiina, and Umaru Doma talked on the way to school, where Mashiro revealed she disliked other people hitting on Sogo. At Toyogasaki, the students' tense silence seemed connected to the joint exam results, and Sogo found Mafuyu Kirisu acting unusually cold.

• Mashiro Shiina said Sogo was coolest when making Baumkuchen and admitted she disliked the thought of other people hitting on him, prompting Umaru Doma to realize she felt the same way.
• Sogo Doma, Mashiro Shiina, and Umaru Doma reached Toyogasaki just as the bell rang after chatting on their walk to school.
• Mashiro Shiina noticed the school felt oppressive, and Sogo Doma guessed the joint exam papers had been graded and students were worried about their results.
• Sogo Doma led Mashiro Shiina into class and found Mafuyu Kirisu radiating an icy presence and turning away when she saw him.
• Sogo Doma asked Utaha Kasumigaoka why Kirisu-sensei was acting strangely.

Utaha Kasumigaoka reflected on how her difficult nature and Yukino Yukinoshita’s aloofness had made friendship hard, then the two challenged each other over their academic records while Sogo Doma boasted about the joint exam. Yukino recalled that Sogo had ranked last on an elementary-school transfer exam, leaving Utaha suspicious that Yukino and Sogo had a history together.

• Utaha thought about how childhood ostracism had shaped her and Yukino’s distant ways of dealing with others.
• Sogo confidently dismissed Kirisu-sensei’s anger and insisted he would win the prestigious school joint exam.
• Utaha said Toyogasaki had nearly been wiped out in the exam, and Sogo teased her about choosing a bunny-girl cosplay.
• Yukino challenged Utaha’s claim about doing well, saying she had never lost first place, and Utaha claimed the same.
• Sogo tried to boast about his own grades, but Yukino reminded him that he had ranked last on an elementary-school transfer exam.
• Utaha wondered why Yukino remembered Sogo’s childhood results and suspected something had happened between them back then.

Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita traded barbs over Yukino’s interest in Sogo Doma, then challenged each other to compete in the prestigious-school entrance exam. Mafuyu Kirisu interrupted their argument to reveal that the class had ranked fifth in all of Tokyo.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka mocked Yukino Yukinoshita for seeming unusually familiar with and concerned about Sogo Doma.
• Yukino said she watched Sogo because she considered him dangerous, and Utaha pointed out that Yukino had transferred schools to follow him.
• Sogo made a snide remark about Yukino facing danger, prompting Yukino to cite his words as evidence that he was dangerous.
• Yukino proposed a bet with Utaha over their exam results, and Utaha agreed to compete with her.
• Mafuyu Kirisu silenced the students and announced that Private Toyogasaki had ranked fifth in all of Tokyo, surprising the class.

Principal Yamamoto bragged to Mafuyu Kirisu about Toyogasaki’s fifth-place national ranking, then revealed that both national top students were Doma students. Mafuyu was stunned to learn that Sogo Doma from her class was one of them, and began questioning his perfect scores.

• Yukino Yukinoshita worried that fifth place might not be enough for Toyogasaki’s standards and questioned whether her bet had even been finalized.
• Principal Yamamoto called Mafuyu Kirisu and falsely presented Toyogasaki’s fifth-place result as a disastrous historic low to intimidate her.
• Mafuyu apologized and defended the shared responsibility of students and teachers, while Principal Yamamoto insisted that teachers could make any student succeed.
• Principal Yamamoto revealed that Doma students had taken first place nationally in both the first- and second-year rankings.
• Mafuyu asked whether Sogo Doma from her class was one of the top students, then blurted out a question about his perfect scores.

Mafuyu Kirisu scolded Class 2-D for earning the worst results in Toyogasaki’s history, but Sogo Doma pointed out that the school had little history and the joint exam was its first major event. After the papers were returned, Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita wagered over their scores, and Sogo asked to join.

• Mafuyu Kirisu announced that Class 2-D had achieved Toyogasaki’s worst results since the school was founded.
• Sogo Doma teased Kirisu about her claim, then explained that Toyogasaki had only existed for a little over ten years and the joint exam was its first major competition.
• The students challenged Kirisu’s criticism, while she realized she had repeated Principal Yamamoto’s words without checking the facts.
• Sogo Doma told Utaha Kasumigaoka that Kirisu would not reprimand him for skipping class, and Utaha declined to bet against him.
• Kirisu handed back the exam papers, and Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita agreed to compare scores across every subject.
• Seeing his perfect score, Sogo Doma asked if he could join their bet.

Sogo Doma revealed his perfect test scores, and the joint exam rankings put him and Umaru Doma first nationwide. At Shuchiin, Miyuki Shirogane placed below Kaguya Shinomiya and misread her teasing and concern as reactions to his supposed illness.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita tried to avoid their bet with Sogo Doma after seeing his perfect humanities paper, but Sogo reminded Utaha that they had compared overall scores.
• The joint entrance exam rankings showed Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma tied for first nationwide with perfect scores in every subject.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka remained ahead of Yukino Yukinoshita, who resolved to work harder after dropping in the rankings.
• Miyuki Shirogane discovered he had placed second at Shuchiin and third nationwide, while Kaguya Shinomiya took first at their school.
• Kaguya Shinomiya praised Miyuki Shirogane’s efforts, and he mistakenly took her words as sympathy for his delusional disorder before she encouraged him to recover.

After Sogo Doma earned perfect scores in every subject, his teachers and classmates marveled at his abilities while Utaha Kasumigaoka visited his home to watch Mashiro Shiina draw. Umaru Doma caught up with them and explained that her classmates had crowded around her after she placed first in the joint exam, leaving Utaha to compare the siblings’ perfect scores with her own ranking.

• Sogo Doma answered his teachers’ questions with multiple methods, leaving them unable to find flaws in his perfect exam results.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka and Utaha Kasumigaoka reacted to Sogo’s perfect scores, and Sogo reminded Utaha about their bunny-girl bet.
• Sogo brought Utaha and Mashiro Shiina home, where Utaha questioned whether she really had to wear the bunny-girl outfit.
• Umaru Doma arrived, saying classmates had surrounded her after the joint exam and that Megumi helped her get away.
• Umaru explained that she had wanted to preserve her image as a top student, while Utaha reflected on how she and Sogo had both scored perfectly.

After the exam results came out, Umaru Doma tried to get Utaha Kasumigaoka to join her gaming session, but Sogo Doma had other plans. He took Utaha’s phone during Sonoko Machida’s call and pretended to be a violent man demanding compensation, leaving Sonoko alarmed and the situation unresolved.

• Umaru Doma announced that she could focus on gaming again and invited Utaha Kasumigaoka to play, while Sogo Doma explained that Komaru was away in her hometown.
• Sogo Doma said he had invited Utaha for a reason, and Utaha received a call from Sonoko Machida.
• Sogo Doma took Utaha’s phone and pretended she had bumped into him, then threatened Sonoko with demands for compensation.
• Sonoko Machida offered to pay and asked to speak to Utaha, but Sogo Doma continued his act and said Utaha had less than three thousand yen.

Sogo Doma explained that he had tricked Enako to secure extra sample copies of Utaha Kasumigaoka’s upcoming novel, sparking an argument with Utaha and Umaru. He then began telling them a story about a strange person from the Sun-Moon Dynasty, but the chapter ended before the person was revealed.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka questioned why Sogo Doma had spoken to Enako so strangely, and Sogo explained that he wanted extra sample copies to avoid lining up for the novel’s release.
• Umaru Doma pointed out that Utaha would lose a reader if Sogo got the book through samples, and Utaha insisted that she valued her readers’ support.
• Utaha challenged Sogo for threatening Enako instead of asking her directly, while Sogo argued that asking Editor Machida would make him owe her a favor.
• Utaha and Umaru objected when Sogo claimed that blackmailing and threatening people was fun, so he began telling them about an eccentric who appeared on full-moon nights in the Sun-Moon Dynasty.
• Sogo described a passerby buying candied chestnuts from an elderly woman and sharing them with his companions, leaving Utaha and Umaru unsure who the story’s interesting person was.

Sogo Doma told Utaha Kasumigaoka and Umaru Doma a gruesome tale about Granny Xiong, and Utaha found unexpected inspiration in his phrase about destroying someone having nothing to do with them. Sonoko Machida arrived at the Doma Residence to find Utaha, and Sogo admitted he had taken her phone and impersonated a threat.

• Sogo Doma told a story in which Granny Xiong poisoned and killed travelers with her sugar-roasted chestnuts, leaving Utaha Kasumigaoka and Umaru Doma disturbed.
• Sogo explained that Granny Xiong was interesting because she killed without needing a reason, and Utaha connected his words to how he had helped and saved her without knowing her.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka agreed that Granny Xiong was interesting, while Umaru Doma concluded that Sogo had talked her into it.
• Sonoko Machida called Utaha Kasumigaoka to say she had arrived, and Utaha silently indicated that Sogo Doma should handle her.
• Sogo Doma greeted Sonoko Machida at the entrance and admitted that he had taken Utaha's phone and pretended to be a vicious thug.