Chapter Summaries

Masuzu Natsukawa transferred to Toyogasaki to pursue her goal of entering the University of Tokyo, but her classmates quickly connected her to Sogo Doma. She was left baffled by a class where the boys despaired over Doma’s popularity and the girls openly supported the many beautiful girls around him.

• Sogo Doma explained that Sakura Yamauchi was his fellow patient, easing her worry that she had caused a fight with Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Masuzu Natsukawa told the boys surrounding her that she had transferred to Toyogasaki to help her get into the University of Tokyo.
• The boys realized Natsukawa might become involved with Doma and scattered, lamenting that they had no chance against him.
• The girls asked whether Natsukawa knew Doma and told her that many girls, including Mashiro Shiina and Sakura Yamauchi, had transferred to be near him.
• Natsukawa listened as the girls praised the other girls around Doma and promised to support her, leaving her bewildered by the class’s unusual social dynamics.

Sakura Yamauchi recounted a sentimental, embellished story about how Sogo Doma encouraged her before her surgery, prompting the club members to tease him over his supposed affection for younger girls. Eriri Sawamura reflected on the club’s odd dynamics and realized she felt comfortable there.

• Sakura Yamauchi explained that Sogo Doma had comforted her during her illness and that she had transferred schools after recognizing his uniform.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita believed Sakura’s story and joined forces to call Sogo a scumbag and a pervert.
• Sogo Doma defended his preference for beautiful girls around eighteen, and Eriri Sawamura argued with him after he mocked her appearance.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka teased Eriri about acting like a child, while Eriri recalled how Utaha had discovered her identity as Kashiwagi Eri.
• Eriri Sawamura thought that the Service Club let her relax without hiding her identity or worrying that others would look down on her.

The Service Club had become a second base for Sogo Doma and his friends, and Yukino Yukinoshita had grown more comfortable with them. Masuzu Natsukawa visited the club and asked for help avoiding romantic advances so she could focus on getting into the University of Tokyo.

• Sogo Doma had persuaded Yukino Yukinoshita to let the group use the Service Club by pointing out the bad weather and offering her cat food.
• Sakura Yamauchi apologized for transferring schools mainly to reunite with Doma, and Yukino reassured her that her feelings and courage were understandable.
• Masuzu Natsukawa arrived at the Service Club and asked whether it granted wishes.
• Yukino explained that the club accepted requests and helped people, and Masuzu said she wanted to get into the University of Tokyo.
• Masuzu clarified that she already had a study plan and wanted the club to shield her from boys' confessions and advances.

Masuzu Natsukawa asked Yukino Yukinoshita to help keep boys from bothering her, then proposed pretending to date Sogo Doma as a shield. The proposal was rejected, and Masuzu left Yukino questioning what she had observed about the club members.

• Masuzu Natsukawa asked Yukino Yukinoshita for help avoiding unwanted attention from boys so she could study in peace.
• Masuzu proposed that Sogo Doma pretend to be her boyfriend, but Sogo refused and said he was only a passing member of the Going-Home Club.
• Masuzu questioned Sogo about his refusal and said she believed his popularity would benefit from having her as a pretend girlfriend.
• Masuzu claimed that everyone thought the Service Club girls were Sogo's girlfriends, prompting Yukino Yukinoshita and Eriri Sawamura to deny it.
• Masuzu insisted she had observed that boys and girls treated the club members differently, and Yukino demanded to know what she had seen.

Masuzu Natsukawa discussed the hostility she had faced as a beautiful transfer student, then accidentally revealed her love of JOJO when Sogo Doma teased her. The group accepted her fandom, but Yukino Yukinoshita admitted she had not watched JOJO, and Mashiro Shiina asked what it was.

• Masuzu told Yukino that boys and girls had shown her hostility after she transferred, while Yukino, Utaha, and Eriri recognized the malice she described.
• Sogo exclaimed that Masuzu was JOJO, and Masuzu instinctively struck a JoJo pose, revealing herself as an anime fan.
• Sogo teased Masuzu about being a hidden otaku girl, but Yukino and Utaha intervened, and Yukino reassured her that nobody would tell others about her fandom.
• Masuzu defended JOJO as a masterpiece after Yukino compared it with Dragon Ball and said she would catch up on it.
• Mashiro asked Sogo what JOJO was, shocking Masuzu because Mashiro had never even heard of it.

The Service Club discussed Masuzu Natsukawa’s love of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure before she explained how classmates’ hostility toward her vanished after the first class. Her classmates realized they had assumed she transferred to Toyogasaki because of Sogo Doma, though he denied doing anything to cause their reactions.

• Masuzu Natsukawa defended JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure against Sogo Doma’s criticism, and he teased her for remembering details from other manga.
• Yukino Yukinoshita asked Masuzu who had directed hostility at her, and Masuzu said most girls had been hostile until after the first class.
• Masuzu revealed that boys had also stopped pursuing her, while Sakura Yamauchi had experienced no hostility.
• Yukino suggested the difference was that Sakura had stated her reason for transferring, and Masuzu explained that classmates assumed she had transferred because of Sogo Doma.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka asked whether Sogo had caused the change, and Masuzu said the boys lost interest while the girls became unusually friendly when she pretended to admit she had transferred for him.

Sogo Doma used blackmail to get Higashino to bring him a drink, then refused a group of boys’ request to introduce them to Yukinoshita. He intimidated them into dropping the request and warned them not to involve him.

• Sogo Doma threatened to tell Higashino’s crush, Ono, about his feelings unless Higashino brought him a drink.
• Sogo Doma offered Higashino advice on chasing girls and teased him about other boys who liked Ono.
• A group of boys asked Sogo Doma to introduce them to Yukinoshita, but he told them to approach her themselves.
• The group brought up Kasumigaoka, Ako, and Mashiro, and Sogo Doma mocked their lack of courage to speak to Yukinoshita.
• Sogo Doma threatened the group’s leader with exposure and dangled him over the rooftop railing until the boys abandoned their request.

Sogo Doma stopped a group of boys from begging him for mercy and urged them to approach Yukinoshita themselves. He praised them for having the courage to take the first step, leaving them surprised by his encouragement.

• Sogo Doma grabbed the ringleader and tossed him down from the railing, then challenged the boys to speak to Yukinoshita themselves.
• Sogo Doma warned the boys that he would put them through special training, while explaining that he had originally created their club to help them find happiness.
• Sogo Doma said that openly asking to be friends with Yukinoshita took courage, unlike secretly watching someone or trying to attract attention with pranks.
• Sogo Doma mocked the boys' fantasies of saving Yukinoshita or revealing a handsome hidden side, then told them they already had more courage than most people.

Sogo Doma put a group of boys through three days of extreme courage training after they hoped he would help them befriend Yukinoshita, but they eventually abandoned the goal. In the present, Masuzu Natsukawa asked why the girls’ hostility had also disappeared.

• Sogo Doma criticized the boys for expecting others to help them approach Yukinoshita and decided to train their courage.
• Over three days, Sogo Doma put Yoshiyasu Nakamura and the other boys through frightening and humiliating trials, while they mistakenly feared his misnaming of them.
• Yoshiyasu told Sogo Doma that the boys had realized they had no interest in Yukinoshita and asked to end the training.
• The boys refused to continue after hearing there would be another stage, and Yukinoshita and her group became a taboo for them.
• Back in the Service Club, Masuzu Natsukawa asked why the girls’ hostility had vanished as well as the boys’ interest.

The Service Club discussed malice as Yukino Yukinoshita asked Mashiro Shiina how she would feel about someone more talented than her. Sogo Doma explained why people usually resent those close to them, then cited Umaru as an example of someone outstanding enough to live freely.

• Yukino Yukinoshita asked Mashiro Shiina how she would react to a girl who surpassed her, and Mashiro admired the girl's talent and wanted to see her paintings.
• Mashiro Shiina said she liked painting with Rita, and Yukino Yukinoshita told her she did not need to understand malice.
• Sogo Doma explained that people tend to direct malice at those nearby, who invite comparison and affect their immediate interests.
• Sogo Doma said outstanding students in the Celestial Empire could become friends with one another and live comfortably.
• Sogo Doma pointed to his Imouto as proof that truly outstanding people could live freely, and the others recognized Umaru's social ease.

Sogo Doma and Masuzu Natsukawa recognized each other from a childhood encounter on a beach, where she had paid him to test whether men were attracted to pretty faces. Sogo then explained how he had reduced the girls’ hostility by making them feel that his exceptional companions posed no threat to their interests, and began describing how social anxiety kept people from approaching one another.

• Eriri Sawamura and the others compared Masuzu Natsukawa to Umaru, prompting Sogo Doma to identify Masuzu as the Natsukawa Family’s young lady.
• Sogo and Masuzu realized they had met before, and he recalled that she had paid him on a beach when she was a little girl.
• Masuzu accused Sogo of swindling her, and they argued over her experiment about whether men fell for attractive women.
• Masuzu noticed that pretending to be interested in Sogo had ended the other girls’ hostility toward her, and Yukino Yukinoshita asked him how he had done it.
• Sogo explained that people were less jealous of exceptional people when they believed their interests were unaffected, and he described how fear of disrupting ordinary routines kept people from forming new connections.

Sogo Doma challenged Masuzu Natsukawa and Yukino Yukinoshita’s assumptions about friendship, arguing that ordinary conversation and communication help people overcome fear and mistrust. He compared their social distance to a dark forest and left the group considering how being hard to understand could provoke defensive malice.

• Masuzu Natsukawa questioned whether making friends required pretending or catering to others, and Sogo Doma challenged her to define meaningful conversation.
• Sogo Doma argued that people who cannot communicate may misread one another and let a gap form between them.
• Sogo Doma used the Dark Forest Theory and Columbus’s arrival in the Americas to argue that communication can prevent fear and violence.
• Sogo Doma called Yukino Yukinoshita and the others “Schrödinger’s Columbus,” explaining that uncertainty about becoming their friends could make ordinary people react with defensive malice.
• Sogo Doma said spending time with outstanding people could help someone improve, but warned that it could also create pressure and rivalry over romantic interests.

Sogo Doma explained that Yukino Yukinoshita’s classmates saw her as a lovable goofball and believed she was interested in him, while his reputation as a friend to women kept girls from pursuing him. When Masuzu Natsukawa challenged his claim that men and women could be friends, Sogo proposed a bet and suggested wagering fifty million.

• Yukino Yukinoshita questioned Sogo Doma about why people would not resent someone better than them, and he asked whether she planned to date.
• Sogo explained that classmates thought Yukino Yukinoshita was interested in him, so they did not see her as a rival.
• Sogo revealed that he had taught boys and girls about dating and scumbag men, earning a reputation that made girls keep their distance.
• Masuzu Natsukawa challenged Sogo’s claim that boys and girls could have pure friendships, and he proposed a bet.
• Sogo suggested they wager fifty million, shocking Masuzu Natsukawa and Utaha Kasumigaoka.

Sogo Doma explained that hostility among students often came from fear of potential threats, and that most students at Private Toyogasaki would rely on rumors and social exclusion rather than direct confrontation. His explanation left Yukino Yukinoshita recalling something as Masuzu Natsukawa questioned how popular students could be excluded.

• Sogo Doma's fifty-million-yen wager surprised Masuzu Natsukawa, who said she could not afford it and wished the Natsukawa Family would go bankrupt.
• Sogo Doma joked that the Natsukawa Family embodied a loving father and a laughing daughter, prompting Masuzu Natsukawa to bristle.
• Sogo Doma said hostility often faded when people realized someone posed no threat, and he used Yukino Yukinoshita and Eriri Sawamura as examples.
• Sogo Doma criticized bullying methods such as violence, rumors, exclusion, and isolation, while Yukino Yukinoshita called his remarks awful.
• Sogo Doma explained that students at Private Toyogasaki mostly resorted to rumors and isolation because they dared not confront others directly, and Masuzu Natsukawa asked how popular students could be excluded.

Sogo Doma explained why the bullying tactics against a group had failed, then teased Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka about their relationships and reactions. The Service Club ended with Yukino demanding that Sogo delete a video while Mashiro Shiina and Eriri worked on a drawing.

• Sogo Doma called the attempted exclusion tactics useless because the targets were a group rather than an isolated person.
• Sogo pointed out that Yukino, Mashiro, and Ako had each contributed to making him seem like a difficult target, then refused to explain what Utaha had done.
• Masuzu Natsukawa guessed that Sogo and Utaha were a couple, and they confirmed it together.
• Yukino warned Masuzu that Utaha liked women, while Utaha teased Yukino and made her flustered.
• Sogo revealed that he had filmed Yukino's reaction, then asked whether Mashiro had drawn it as Eriri continued working on the picture.

Mashiro Shiina told the others that Ayano considered her manga about Yukino and Utaha promising enough to potentially earn serialization. Yukino reluctantly accepted the idea so long as Mashiro changed more details, while Sogo Doma continued provoking her.

• Mashiro Shiina revealed that she had drawn a story about Yukino and Utaha, and Yukino worried that people would recognize them.
• Mashiro Shiina explained that her small name changes would keep the characters anonymous, but Yukino and Utaha Kasumigaoka thought they were too obvious.
• Sogo Doma suggested even more insulting name changes, prompting Yukino and Utaha Kasumigaoka to threaten him.
• Mashiro Shiina said Ayano would confirm serialization if the next chapters maintained their quality, and Eriri Sawamura and the others congratulated her.
• Yukino Yukinoshita told Mashiro Shiina to change more of the manga, then told Sogo Doma it would be best if he stopped breathing too.

The Service Club argued over Mashiro Shiina’s ambition to become a manga artist after Masuzu Natsukawa challenged her for not knowing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The dispute continued as Sogo Doma questioned what would happen if JoJo surpassed popular mainstream manga.

• Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka mocked Sogo Doma, while Masuzu Natsukawa asked about Mashiro Shiina’s manga debut.
• Masuzu Natsukawa doubted Mashiro’s ambition because she had never read JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but Mashiro said she would read it and work to make something even more interesting.
• Yukino Yukinoshita defended Mashiro, admitting she had never read JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and asking how Masuzu could judge manga she had not seen.
• Sogo Doma asked whether JoJo's Bizarre Adventure would become mainstream if its circulation surpassed Dragon Ball and One Piece, and Masuzu rejected the idea.

Yukino Yukinoshita argued that Dragon Ball had meaningful themes and challenged Masuzu Natsukawa’s belief that JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure could not be surpassed. The discussion revealed Mashiro Shiina’s status as an internationally known artistic prodigy who chose to draw manga because she loved it.

• Yukino Yukinoshita interpreted Dragon Ball’s characters and story as lessons about courage, understanding villains, rumors, and hard work.
• Yukino Yukinoshita asked why Mashiro Shiina could not create a manga better than JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Mashiro said she would work hard.
• Sogo Doma praised Mashiro Shiina’s art style, while Eriri tried to praise her before Sogo cut her off.
• Sogo Doma identified Mashiro Shiina as the Shiina Family’s artistic prodigy, surprising Utaha Kasumigaoka and Masuzu Natsukawa.
• Mashiro Shiina said she liked manga and wanted to draw interesting works, leaving Masuzu Natsukawa stunned that Mashiro’s family allowed her to pursue it.

Mashiro Shiina insisted on pursuing manga despite Masuzu Natsukawa’s objections, while Yukino Yukinoshita and her friends supported her. Mashiro revealed that her draft had been rejected by her master and Ayano, but Utaha’s and Yukino’s stories had been well received.

• Masuzu Natsukawa questioned why Mashiro Shiina wanted to leave painting for manga, and Yukino Yukinoshita defended Mashiro’s choice.
• Yukino told Masuzu that she supported Mashiro because they were friends, and Mashiro said Utaha, Ako, Eriri, and Yukino were helping her.
• Sogo Doma asked Mashiro where he fit into her manga, and Mashiro said the male character would die early and appear in flashbacks.
• Mashiro realized her draft had been rejected by her master and Ayano, while Utaha’s and Yukino’s stories were interesting.

Sogo Doma tried to correct Mashiro Shiina’s ideas about male characters, but her blunt comments and confusing explanations repeatedly left him on the defensive. The chapter ended with Mashiro calling Sogo useless again, while he protested that her judgment had nothing to do with the dispute.

• Sogo Doma objected to Mashiro Shiina’s claim that stories could simply avoid male characters, and learned that Utaha Kasumigaoka had been screening stories Mashiro wanted to read.
• Mashiro said boys were useless and cited Sogo’s inability to help her change clothes as evidence.
• Mashiro called Sogo forceful and said he had pushed her into a little room, prompting Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha to question him.
• Mashiro explained that Sogo had refused to help her bathe and had kept her in the bathroom until she got dressed, clearing up the misunderstanding.
• Yukino accepted that Sogo was innocent, but Mashiro still called him useless, and Sogo objected to the accusation.