Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma frightened Shizuka Hiratsuka by revealing that he could read minds, then visited Principal Yamamoto, whose obsequious attempts to serve him turned a simple conversation into a farce. Doma left the principal still struggling to provide him with a drink.

• Sogo Doma used his telepathy to tease Shizuka Hiratsuka, who panicked and fled.
• Principal Yamamoto celebrated his plans against Mafuyu Kirisu and the other rebels until Sogo Doma entered his office.
• Principal Yamamoto tried to conceal his embarrassment by scolding Sogo Doma, then immediately began excessively flattering him.
• Sogo Doma stopped Principal Yamamoto from fetching tea leaves stored in a shoe cabinet and tried to settle for coffee or soda instead.
• Principal Yamamoto could not decide what to serve, discovered he had no ice, and prompted Doma to settle for plain tap water.

Sogo Doma visited Principal Yamamoto at Toyogasaki to negotiate Mashiro Shiina’s makeup exam, using warnings about the school’s reputation to pressure him. Yamamoto had not yet agreed when the chapter ended.

• Principal Yamamoto fawned over Sogo Doma by offering drinks and cigars, while Sogo tested whether he would join in mocking the Kotobuki Family.
• Sogo accepted a cigar and pointed out Yamamoto’s careful, faultless hospitality before raising the makeup exam.
• Yamamoto praised Sogo’s perfect exam results, and Sogo clarified that he wanted to discuss Mashiro Shiina’s makeup exam instead.
• Sogo argued that Mashiro’s struggles came from adjusting to a new educational system and that an exam could damage her motivation.
• Yamamoto hesitated because the makeup-exam list had already been issued, so Sogo warned that requiring Mashiro to take it could harm Toyogasaki’s international reputation.

Sogo Doma persuaded Principal Yamamoto to consider canceling the makeup exam to protect Shiina from an unfair test, but Shizuka Hiratsuka interrupted and confronted him about his cigar and mind-reading tricks. The chapter ended with Principal Yamamoto suddenly realizing something was wrong.

• Sogo Doma convinced Principal Yamamoto that Shiina’s makeup exam could create a diplomatic dispute and proposed treating the joint exam as an in-class test so the makeup exam could be canceled.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka burst into the office and challenged Sogo Doma for abandoning his promise to help Mashiro and the others study.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka called out Sogo Doma’s use of microexpression reading and psychological prompting, while he tried to tease her about her underwear.
• Sogo Doma said Taihei had exposed him, and Shizuka Hiratsuka confirmed that Taihei had asked her to look after him.
• Principal Yamamoto changed his stance after learning about Taihei, then suddenly exclaimed that something was wrong.

Sogo Doma and Shizuka Hiratsuka argued in the principal’s office about the makeup exam and who should help Mashiro and the others study. Hiratsuka offered to take Doma somewhere that could help, though she questioned whether he would be embarrassed to go.

• Principal Yamamoto pretended to suffer an old ailment and fled the office after explaining where the coffee and drinks were.
• Sogo Doma and Shizuka Hiratsuka traded barbs about his cigar, his claims about the Face-Face Fruit, and how he addressed her.
• Hiratsuka reminded Doma that he had promised to help Mashiro and the others study, while Doma defended canceling their makeup exam.
• Doma argued that tutoring was the teachers’ responsibility, and Hiratsuka insisted that helping struggling students was part of an educator’s dedication.
• Hiratsuka admitted that asking Doma to handle every subject was too much and said she knew a place that could help him, if he was not too embarrassed to go.

Sogo Doma bantered with Shizuka Hiratsuka about whether he could feel embarrassed before she told him about the Service Club. In the Service Club, Yukino Yukinoshita questioned why Doma and Utaha were too busy to help their friend Mashiro study, and Doma began giving her a mostly truthful explanation.

• Sogo Doma listed increasingly absurd places where he might feel embarrassed, and Shizuka Hiratsuka scolded him for his shameless answers.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka introduced the Service Club as a place that granted people's wishes, and Doma revealed he already knew about it.
• Yukino Yukinoshita challenged Doma's claim that he and Kasumigaoka were too busy to tutor Mashiro before her make-up exam.
• Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita about her lack of friends, then said that tutoring Mashiro would reveal what he and Utaha were occupied with.
• Sogo Doma began explaining that Utaha had a light novel project for Undying River's new rookie award, using mostly truth to disguise a lie.

Sogo Doma asked Yukino Yukinoshita to tutor Mashiro, whose exam scores were zero in every subject. Yukino accepted after challenging Sogo’s excuses, then questioned how closely he had been watching her.

• Sogo Doma explained that Utaha Kasumigaoka had become a literary prize judge and that he was busy with a light novel and a manga.
• Yukino Yukinoshita accepted the tutoring request after learning Mashiro needed help in every subject and had scored zeroes across the board.
• Sogo admitted Mashiro had forgotten about the exams, and Yukino accused him of lying when he tried to blame her unfamiliarity with Mashiro’s school background.
• Sogo deduced that Yukino had memorized her classmates’ names and faces from her trips to summon students to the office.
• Yukino wondered how Sogo knew so much about her, and he insisted that his observation did not mean what she seemed to think.

Sogo Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita about her chest and challenged her accusations that he secretly watched her. After he revealed he had overheard other girls talking about her, Yukino apologized, and Sogo asked her to help Mashiro pass her makeup exam.

• Sogo Doma mocked Yukino Yukinoshita about her chest, and she accused him of secretly watching her.
• Yukino argued that she had been monitoring Sogo as a citizen's duty, while he denied spying on her.
• Sogo imitated conversations between Yukino's admirers to explain how he knew she had summoned someone to the office.
• Yukino provisionally accepted his explanation and apologized for judging him without investigating.
• Sogo offered to forgive her if she helped Mashiro study for her makeup exam, and Yukino insisted she would keep her promise.

Sogo Doma explained Mashiro’s exam failure and artistic ambitions to Yukino Yukinoshita, who agreed to tutor her unless Mashiro refused. At Toyogasaki, President Emi confronted Vice President Okada over his disastrous investigation of the Oolong Tea Research Club.

• Sogo Doma told Yukino Yukinoshita that Mashiro had become so absorbed in drawing during her exams that she had not realized she was taking them.
• Sogo Doma explained that Mashiro was a celebrated artistic prodigy whose goal was to become a manga artist.
• Yukino Yukinoshita agreed to tutor Mashiro unless Mashiro herself objected.
• President Emi demanded an explanation from Vice President Okada for his conduct while investigating the Oolong Tea Research Club.
• Vice President Okada tried to excuse his behavior as a Toyogasaki custom, and President Emi condemned his cryptic messages and apparent partying with the club.

President Emi reprimanded Vice President Okada over his bizarre report on the Oolong Tea Research Club and his participation in its party. Meanwhile, Sogo Doma brought Yukino Yukinoshita to the Doma Residence to help Mashiro Shiina study, where she met Umaru Doma.

• President Emi criticized Vice President Okada for joining the Oolong Tea Research Club’s party and submitting an incomprehensible investigation report.
• Sogo Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita about her first visit to his home before bringing her inside.
• Umaru Doma and Mashiro Shiina greeted Sogo and Yukino when they entered the living room.
• Sogo repeatedly gave Yukino insulting or incorrect nicknames before introducing her properly.
• Umaru politely thanked Yukino for looking after Sogo and the others, and Yukino returned the pleasantry despite privately resenting it.

Yukinoshita Haruno panicked after Sogo Doma sent her a recording that made her believe he had seduced Yukino, and she called her sister to find out what had happened. The call ended with Haruno realizing Yukino was at Doma's house searching for the family account book.

• Yukino Yukinoshita spent time with Umaru and Mashiro Shiina at the Doma Residence, reflecting that Umaru was considerate and easy to talk to.
• Yukinoshita Haruno listened to Sogo Doma's recording of Yukino acting shy and convinced herself that he had deceived her innocent little sister.
• Haruno agonized over whether to confront Doma, prepare red bean rice, or ask Yukino about precautions, then called Yukino.
• Yukino told Haruno she was at a friend's house and fell silent while considering searching the Doma Residence for the family account book.
• Haruno tried to ask about Yukino's love life indirectly, and Yukino finally admitted she was at Doma's house for the account book.

Yukinoshita Haruno mistakenly believed Yukino had sacrificed her happiness to secure a family ledger that Haruno had invented. After struggling with guilt, Haruno confessed that the ledger did not exist, leaving Yukino eerily calm and angry.

• Haruno teased Yukino over the supposed ledger, then panicked when Yukino said she would make sacrifices for the family.
• Haruno imagined that Yukino had entered a relationship with Sogo Doma to obtain the ledger and worried about telling their mother.
• Haruno tried to prepare Yukino for a difficult confession by talking about life's many firsts.
• Haruno admitted she had made up the ledger as an excuse for Yukino's sudden school transfer.
• Yukino silently absorbed the confession and became an eerily calm, angry honest person.

Yukino Yukinoshita learned that Sogo Doma had never taken her family’s account book and realized her observations of him had been based on Yukinoshita Haruno’s lie. Embarrassed by how she might have appeared to Doma, she confronted Haruno, who worried Yukino had developed feelings for him.

• Yukino followed Sogo Doma to his residence and focused on tutoring Mashiro Shiina instead of searching for a chance to retrieve the account book.
• A call from Yukinoshita Haruno revealed that the account-book story had been fabricated, and Yukino realized she had been observing Doma for no reason.
• Yukino blushed as she considered that Doma might think she liked him and blamed Haruno for making her act like a stalker.
• Yukino calmly told Haruno that Doma was not as much of a bastard as Haruno was, making Haruno fear that Yukino had feelings for him.

Yukinoshita Haruno tried to reassure Yukino Yukinoshita that her secret observations of Sogo Doma were common, but their conversation became increasingly confused over what “safety measures” meant. It ended with Haruno realizing Yukino and Doma had taken no precautions, leaving her furious at him.

• Yukinoshita Haruno tried to persuade Yukino Yukinoshita that she was young and impulsive, but Yukino insisted she was already in high school.
• Haruno apologized for teasing Yukino in the past and for causing her to secretly observe Sogo Doma, while Yukino suspected the apology was another setup for mockery.
• Haruno claimed that secretly observing boys before marriage was common and supported her claim with social surveys, leaving Yukino unsure whether her behavior was normal.
• Haruno asked whether Yukino and Doma had taken safety measures, and Yukino said Doma probably had not used any.
• Haruno became furious at Sogo Doma for failing to take precautions.

Yukino Yukinoshita grew suspicious of her sister and Sogo Doma after Yukinoshita Haruno panicked and offered to pick her up. At the supermarket, Sogo Doma tried to teach Lady Umaru to choose ingredients, but Umaru’s complaints revealed that she was upset about having Yukinoshita in the house.

• Yukino Yukinoshita wondered whether Sogo Doma knew her sister had persuaded her and vowed not to let either of them off easily.
• Yukinoshita Haruno tried to track Yukino, discovered the tracker had no signal, and struggled to find her without admitting she had lost control.
• Sogo Doma argued with Lady Umaru over the snacks she kept adding to their supermarket cart instead of choosing ingredients.
• Lady Umaru complained that Sogo Doma had brought Yukinoshita home to tutor Mashiro without considering how it would affect her.
• Sogo Doma assumed Umaru was upset because she could not relax around a guest, and she confirmed that she wanted them to lounge around together at home.

Sogo Doma took Umaru shopping for cooking training, but Umaru schemed to bring home hamsters hidden beneath her snacks. Sogo threatened to return them, leaving Umaru accusing him of breaking his word.

• Sogo Doma reminded Umaru that they had come to shop for her special cooking training, but she tried to focus on snacks instead.
• Umaru argued that Sogo should buy hamsters after he compared her to one, then revealed she had hidden a glass enclosure and hamsters in the cart.
• Umaru explained that she had used the snacks to pressure Sogo into taking the hamsters home.
• Sogo said he could return the hamsters, and Umaru accused him of going back on his word.
• Sogo appealed to Hamjiro and the other hamster, who seemed to agree they would find new owners, while Umaru protested that he was a liar.

Umaru persuaded Sogo to adopt Hamjiro and the other hamsters, and the siblings went to buy ingredients for Cooking. Sogo pressed Umaru about why she had called him baka and mentioned Yukinoshita, but his offer of snacks failed to get an answer.

• Umaru threatened to roll around on the floor until Sogo agreed to adopt Hamjiro and the others.
• Umaru and Sogo discussed the hamsters' names and Umaru's plans to train them to carry cola.
• Sogo asked Umaru why she had called him baka and brought up Yukinoshita, but she insisted she had been talking nonsense.
• Sogo deduced that mentioning Yukinoshita might be one of Umaru's trump cards and offered to let her take back the snacks they had put away.
• Umaru rejected the offer, saying she could buy the snacks with her allowance.

Sogo Doma tried to persuade Umaru to save her allowance for other expenses, but she turned his argument into a scheme to avoid being scolded for overspending on snacks. He warned her that a similar trick had ended badly for a student, leaving Umaru stunned by the tale of a double beating.

• Sogo Doma warned Umaru that spending her allowance on snacks could leave her unable to afford games, merchandise, and other expenses, but Umaru said she could collect gacha characters cheaply through free draws.
• Sogo Doma pointed to Umaru's overflowing cart and told her to fetch another cart for ingredients, but she filled it with more snacks instead.
• Umaru explained that a student could scare parents with a false claim of killing someone and running away, then soften their reaction by revealing they had only been suspended.
• Sogo Doma said a student from the Celestial Empire had tried a similar trick and received a mixed-gender double beating after his parents caught on.

Sogo Doma took Umaru grocery shopping and tried to teach her how to choose vegetables and cook curry, while warning her not to imitate internet memes. The chapter left them preparing to make beef brisket curry, with Sogo unsure whether Umaru would turn it into dark cuisine.

• Sogo recalled how his prank with exam papers had prompted Umaru to learn foreign languages and develop brother-teasing techniques.
• Sogo warned Umaru against imitating a story about pretending to be angry, then sent her to fetch a shopping cart without snacks.
• Sogo explained that wormholes did not prove vegetables were pesticide-free, and Umaru mistakenly concluded that eating beef helped the environment.
• Sogo chose beef brisket curry for Umaru to cook, and Umaru quickly stopped arguing about beef after he mentioned yakiniku, steak, and hamburgers.
• Sogo worried that Umaru might ruin the curry by adding too much tomato juice, sugar, or salt.

Sogo Doma took Umaru to the supermarket to teach her about choosing fresh beef, but she wandered off and won nearly every premium wagyu prize from the claw machines. As Umaru called for a barbecue feast, Sogo Doma followed a suited man to meet the shopping center’s boss.

• Sogo Doma explained how chefs obtained fresh meat while Umaru quietly followed and took notes.
• Sogo Doma realized Umaru had disappeared, then heard her calling for him from a crowd.
• Umaru emptied the claw machines of Kobe, Matsusaka, and Omi beef, astonishing the onlookers.
• Umaru proposed a barbecue feast, and Sogo Doma told her to keep playing while he went to get seasonings and more wagyu.
• A suited man asked Sogo Doma to come with him, then brought him to an office and called Umaru the “claw machine witch.”

Sogo Doma visited a secret room expecting to meet yakuza, but became convinced that salesman Taizo Hasegawa’s sunglasses were a mysterious life-form. The short, fat BOSS challenged Hasegawa to remove them, leaving Sogo unsure how dangerous the situation was, especially with Umaru beside him.

• Sogo Doma watched the short, fat BOSS argue with Hasegawa about wearing sunglasses indoors.
• Sogo suggested that the sunglasses were Hasegawa’s actual body, and Hasegawa’s stammering made Sogo suspect his guess was right.
• The BOSS dismissed the idea that a human could have sunglasses for a body, and Sogo thought they had avoided provoking the unknown life-form.
• The BOSS demanded that Hasegawa take off his sunglasses, while Hasegawa clarified that his name was Taizo Hasegawa.
• The BOSS revealed that Hasegawa was a salesman, not a yakuza, and Sogo worried that the apparent supernatural being’s strength was unknown.