Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma challenged Yukino Yukinoshita’s guilt over Hikigaya’s accident and helped her see that she had been unable to change what happened. Yukino felt relieved, though she realized her sister Haruno’s response may have made her feel more responsible.

• Sogo Doma’s teasing about Yukino and Hikigaya made Yukino explain how her family’s car had been involved in the accident.
• Yukino said the car had hit Hikigaya on the way to Sobu High School, but she had gone to school after Haruno persuaded her to leave the scene.
• Sogo argued that Yukino had not caused the accident and asked what she could have done differently, pointing out that she could apologize without going back in time.
• Yukino recognized that she could not have changed the outcome, and her guilt began to lift.
• Sogo suspected Haruno had unintentionally deepened Yukino’s guilt by making the incident seem more serious.

Hachiman Hikigaya learned that Yukino Yukinoshita had been driving the car that hit him and accepted her apology. Sogo Doma then called Yukino over to reveal that he and Utaha Kasumigaoka had found someone they claimed was her daughter, leaving her stunned.

• Sogo Doma visited Hachiman Hikigaya with Utaha Kasumigaoka, teased him, and left after Utaha pinched his waist.
• Yukino Yukinoshita stayed behind and told Hachiman that she had been in the car that hit him.
• Hachiman accepted Yukino's apology and said she could have kept the accident from him.
• Yuigahama arrived and found Yukino bowing to Hachiman, then Yukino prepared to leave.
• Sogo called Yukino over and announced that he and Utaha had seen her daughter.

Sogo Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita about a lonely black-haired girl who resembled her, while Utaha Kasumigaoka wondered whether Yukino would help the girl. Elsewhere, Hachiman Hikigaya challenged Yuigahama's ideas about friendship, and she admired his honesty before bringing up the cookies she had given him.

• Sogo Doma joked that the black-haired girl might be Yukino Yukinoshita's daughter or sister, provoking Yukino and Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Utaha asked whether Yukino would help the girl, but Yukino said she could not, and Sogo questioned whether the girl needed help at all.
• Hachiman Hikigaya told Yuigahama that maintaining careful, exhausting friendships was not worth the effort.
• Yuigahama praised Hachiman's honesty and said she wanted to be herself, then reminded him of the cookies she had given him.

Yuigahama brought Hachiman to greet Sogo Doma and his companions, where Doma teased them about being alone together and introduced Hachiman with a string of mistaken names. Doma’s teasing also upset Yukino again, leaving him to realize he had hit the wrong target.

• Yuigahama questioned Hachiman about the girl he had seen with Sogo, then led him to find Sogo and his group.
• Sogo invited Yuigahama and Hachiman to join them and teased them about having private time together, prompting Hachiman to stay.
• Sogo introduced Hachiman as “Hikigaya Dead Fish Eyes,” and Yuigahama tried to correct him.
• Sogo called Yuigahama “Yuigahama Big-Breasted Girl,” but Utaha made him stop before he could finish.
• Utaha signaled Sogo to notice that Yukino had withdrawn into herself again, and Sogo realized his teasing had upset the wrong person.

Sogo Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita while the group introduced themselves and discussed a little girl who seemed out of place. Hachiman Hikigaya’s Odd Jobs Club drew Yukino’s interest, and Yui Yuigahama suggested he might help the girl.

• Yuigahama introduced herself to Sogo Doma and the others, and she recognized Yukino Yukinoshita as a former top student at Sobu High School.
• Sogo Doma claimed Yukino was now a Toyogasaki talent behind himself and Utaha Kasumigaoka, then teased her by saying the little girl looked like her daughter.
• Hachiman Hikigaya redirected the conversation by pointing out that the little girl seemed alone and out of place.
• Yuigahama asked whether Hachiman wanted to help the girl and explained that he ran a volunteer Odd Jobs Club at school.
• Yukino showed interest in the club, while Yuigahama praised Hachiman’s past help with cookies and finding a home for a kitten.

Sogo Doma teased Yukino Yukinoshita about the Service Club’s name, while Hachiman Hikigaya explained that Yuigahama had done most of the Odd Jobs Club’s work and that he had been forced into the role. The group discussed the teachers who pushed students into club activities, leaving Hachiman worried that Hiratsuka-sensei might notice him next.

• Sogo Doma compared Yukino Yukinoshita’s Service Club to Hachiman Hikigaya’s Odd Jobs Club, and the others questioned the Service Club’s name.
• Hachiman Hikigaya said Yui Yuigahama had led the kitten adoption effort and that he had been forced to run the Odd Jobs Club.
• Hachiman Hikigaya blamed Hayakawa-sensei for making him join the club to revive his eyes, while Yukino Yukinoshita privately preferred her approach to Hiratsuka-sensei’s.
• Sogo Doma warned Hachiman Hikigaya that Hiratsuka-sensei could lecture him for skipping class and might make him take on even more trouble if she noticed him.

Sogo Doma argued that people should not impose their assumptions on others and should take responsibility for their own lives. He left Yui Yuigahama unconvinced about the isolated girl, while revealing that he had once isolated an entire class.

• Sogo Doma told Hachiman Hikigaya and the others that people might choose to live alone and that assuming otherwise was self-righteous arrogance.
• Hachiman Hikigaya said that solitude did not suit him because he had an Imouto, and Sogo Doma teased him for dodging the question.
• Sogo Doma argued that each person should decide how to live and bear the consequences, while Utaha Kasumigaoka pointed out that he was describing himself.
• Yui Yuigahama insisted that the little girl's eyes showed she wanted to be with everyone, but Sogo Doma called that assumption arrogant.
• Sogo Doma said he had once isolated an entire class, leaving Yui Yuigahama confused and Yukino Yukinoshita speechless.

Sogo Doma argued that Hayama’s warmth might not help a lonely girl and claimed Hayama lacked the experience to change her situation. The group debated whether he was discouraging them from helping, while Hachiman grew increasingly wary of Doma’s attention.

• Sogo Doma said he had isolated his whole class and revealed that Hayama had been one of the people he kept at a distance.
• Sogo Doma compared Hayama’s friendliness to warmth that could not reach everyone, and Hachiman agreed that kindness could be misleading.
• Hachiman pointed out that Hayama was already speaking to the lonely girl, but Sogo Doma denied having stopped anyone from helping her.
• Yui Yuigahama defended Hayama as capable, and Sogo Doma countered that Hachiman might be more capable than him.
• Sogo Doma said Hachiman’s dead-fish eyes showed wisdom born of hardship and asked Yukino Yukinoshita whether Hayama’s smooth life had left him unable to change anything.

Hachiman Hikigaya explained why Hayato Hayama’s social skills could not solve the little girl’s exclusion, while Sogo Doma helped clarify his point. Hayama’s attempt failed, and Yui Yuigahama struggled to accept what she witnessed.

• Hachiman Hikigaya said Hayama had little chance of helping the girl unless he could use Sogo Doma’s ability to approach people.
• Hachiman explained that Hayama’s friends mostly gathered around him and that their circle could not hold together without Hayama or Miura.
• Sogo Doma clarified that Hayama could bring the girl into group activities, but the children would exclude her again once he left.
• Hayato Hayama watched the children continue excluding the girl and could not find a way to stop them.
• The little girl silently left, and Yui Yuigahama struggled to understand what had happened.

Hachiman Hikigaya and the others discussed how Sogo Doma differed from Hayato Hayama before Hayama approached their group. Hayama tried to warn Doma about getting close to Hachiman and Yui Yuigahama, but Doma brushed aside his concerns and left Hayama flustered.

• Hachiman explained that Doma brought people in his circle together, perhaps by acting as a common external enemy.
• Hachiman noticed Hayama had spotted their group, and Hayama came over to apologize for Miura's rudeness.
• Doma teased Hayama about Shizuka Hiratsuka's past punishment and called Hachiman and the others his new friends.
• Hayama warned Doma that Hachiman and the others were not as interesting as Doma thought, but Doma said they were more interesting than Hayama.
• Hayama insisted that Yuigahama was his friend and questioned whether Doma truly only wanted friendship; Doma challenged Hayama's assumptions and asked if his eyes were bothering him.

Sogo Doma and the others challenged Hayato Hayama for interfering with his conversations with Hachiman Hikigaya and Yui Yuigahama, accusing him of arrogance. Hayama apologized, but Doma’s remark about the little girl he had helped left Yukino Yukinoshita wondering why Hayama had singled her out.

• Hayato Hayama claimed dust had gotten in his eyes, then said Yui Yuigahama’s friends were looking for her.
• Sogo Doma and Yukino Yukinoshita accused Hayama of acting arrogantly by assuming Doma meant harm and trying to control whom Yui and Hachiman spent time with.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka challenged Hayama’s claim that Doma was dangerous, and Yukino said Doma had shown no malice toward Yui.
• Hachiman explained that he and Yui had chosen to join Doma’s smaller group, and Hayama apologized for overthinking the situation.
• Doma brought up the little girl Hayama had helped and hinted that Yukino should work out why Hayama had mentioned her.

Sogo Doma teased Hayato Hayama about his motives for helping a little girl, leaving Yukino Yukinoshita and the others confused by his insinuations about her sister. Hachiman Hikigaya stepped in to redirect Hayama before Doma could keep tormenting him.

• Hayato Hayama remarked that the little girl looked like Yukino Yukinoshita, and Sogo Doma clarified that she was her sister.
• Sogo Doma suggested Hayama had helped the girl because he wanted to cater to Yukinoshita's tastes, prompting the group to suspect he had romantic feelings for her.
• Sogo Doma clarified that he meant the other Yukinoshita, and the group wondered if Hayama liked Yukino's older sister.
• Hayato Hayama denied helping to please anyone and said he had wanted the girl to be with everyone, while Sogo Doma called him arrogant.
• Hachiman Hikigaya reminded Hayama that Miura and the others were waiting for him, redirecting the conversation and sparing him from further teasing.

Yukino Yukinoshita felt abandoned after walking away from the others, but she met the equally lonely Rumi Tsurumi and found herself drawn into Sogo Doma’s teasing. The chapter left Rumi trading barbs with Sogo while Yukino’s loneliness briefly eased.

• Yukino Yukinoshita left the group after getting angry at Sogo Doma, then felt empty when no one followed her.
• Yukino met a girl taking pictures alone and asked whether she liked photography.
• Sogo appeared and pushed Yukino to ask the girl whether she had friends, then called himself and Yukino bad friends.
• Sogo tried to get the girl’s name by guessing insulting names, and she finally introduced herself as Rumi Tsurumi.
• Rumi told Sogo she had shared her name only to make him stop talking, amusing Yukino and Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Sogo warned Rumi that people with too much personality usually could not make friends, and Rumi fell silent.

Sogo Doma argued that Rumi Tsurumi should choose her own way of life and challenged the idea that taking pictures with friends was necessarily happier. He left Yui Yuigahama shaken after editing a group photo to make her look far less attractive than Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka.

• Sogo Doma told Rumi Tsurumi that she should decide her own way of life instead of being forced to fit in with everyone.
• Rumi Tsurumi said Hachiman Hikigaya looked more like someone who would be isolated, and Hachiman asked whether she wanted to take pictures with friends.
• Sogo Doma objected to Hachiman's leading question and argued that friends were not necessary for taking pictures.
• Sogo Doma edited a group photo of Yui Yuigahama, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Utaha Kasumigaoka, making Utaha look like a queen, Yukino like a maid, and Yui like a middle-aged cleaner.
• Yui Yuigahama lost confidence in her claim that taking pictures with friends made people happier, while Rumi Tsurumi wondered what her camera was for.

Hachiman Hikigaya spoke with Rumi Tsurumi about why she had become isolated after standing up to her friends, while Sogo Doma challenged her view of herself as a traitor. Yui Yuigahama and the others arrived and revealed they had overheard much of the conversation, leaving Rumi surprised by their concern.

• Rumi Tsurumi left after Yui Yuigahama asked whether she still wanted to be with everyone.
• Hachiman Hikigaya found Rumi and asked why she had stopped fitting in with her former friends.
• Rumi explained that she had joined in excluding someone before later greeting that person, which led her group to treat her as a traitor.
• Sogo Doma arrived and argued that the people who followed the crowd were the real traitors.
• Yui Yuigahama and the others appeared, and Hachiman learned they had overheard the conversation and were worried about him and Rumi.

Sogo Doma offered to help Rumi Tsurumi fit in, while the group debated whether moving schools or areas could end her ostracism. He revealed that he had once ostracized Yukino Yukinoshita and Hayato Hayama, then hinted at a solution during an upcoming two-day, one-night activity but refused to explain it because Rumi had called them strangers.

• Rumi Tsurumi said graduation would soon separate her from the people around her, and she questioned whether anyone kept their childhood friends.
• Yukino Yukinoshita warned Rumi that the people ostracizing her might follow her to another school, while changing areas might not solve the problem either.
• Rumi realized Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino were friends with Sogo Doma, unlike her and Hachiman Hikigaya.
• Sogo revealed that he had ostracized Yukino and Hayato Hayama in elementary school and claimed he knew a special way to help Rumi fit in.
• Sogo said his method involved an upcoming two-day, one-night activity, then refused to explain it because Rumi had called them strangers.

Sogo Doma argued with Yukino Yukinoshita over whether targeting elementary schoolers made him weak, then Shizuka Hiratsuka called him away for a private conversation. Their bickering ended with Sogo threatening to expose her for trespassing.

• Yukino Yukinoshita accused Sogo Doma of drawing his blade against the weak after he had pressured Rumi Tsurumi to apologize.
• Sogo Doma twisted the saying about the strong and the weak, using Hachiman Hikigaya’s claim that the strong walked alone to argue that he was weak and Rumi was strong.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka called Sogo away, and Utaha Kasumigaoka, Hachiman Hikigaya, Yui Yuigahama, and Yukino Yukinoshita discussed his nicknames and his comments about Hachiman’s eyes.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka asked Sogo to help her, but he refused to act as her tool because she was not paying him.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka brought up Umaru, and Sogo threatened to reveal that she had climbed over a wall into a private area.

Shizuka Hiratsuka told Sogo Doma why she had paid attention to Hachiman Hikigaya and asked what he thought of him. Their conversation left Shizuka realizing Sogo had noticed the Odd Jobs Club was created to help Hikigaya.

• Shizuka Hiratsuka said she had noticed Hachiman Hikigaya because he seemed isolated and the light had gone from his eyes.
• Sogo Doma told Shizuka that Hikigaya had complained Hayakawa was a hassle and said he would have been less exhausted if Shizuka had stayed at school.
• Sogo Doma described friendship as people who could talk, face difficulties, support each other, or even bicker while sometimes smiling together.
• Shizuka said Hikigaya might be less withdrawn if he had some of Sogo's thick skin.
• Sogo pointed out that Hikigaya seemed to have friends through the Odd Jobs Club, and Shizuka revealed she had asked Hayakawa to create it for him using the Service Club as a reference.

Shizuka Hiratsuka explained why she had asked Sogo Doma to help Hikigaya make friends, arguing that Doma’s past success bringing people together made him a better choice than Yuigahama. Doma challenged her reasoning and pointed out that he, too, was a transfer student who had made friends.

• Doma joked that the Service Club was a place to kill time, and Hiratsuka admitted it had once been more of a refuge for Yukinoshita than a club for helping people.
• Hiratsuka said the Service Club changed after Doma joined, when Yukinoshita accepted her first request and gained a friendship from the experience.
• Hiratsuka revealed that she had suggested Doma submit that request because she wanted Yukinoshita to tutor Mashiro, and Doma saw through her excuse.
• Hiratsuka explained that she had called Doma in because Hikigaya remained isolated despite becoming familiar with Yuigahama.
• Doma objected that Hikigaya’s accident and late return to school did not explain his isolation, pointing out that he and several of his friends were transfer students too.

Sogo Doma explained how Yukino’s guilt over Hikigaya’s car accident had grown from Haruno’s exaggerations, while Shizuka Hiratsuka learned that Doma had already helped Yukino see the truth. The chapter left Hiratsuka reflecting that Haruno’s meddling had caused Yukino to blame herself for an accident that was not her fault.

• Sogo Doma argued with Shizuka Hiratsuka that Hikigaya’s accident did not determine whether he could make friends, and learned that Hikigaya had been injured while saving a puppy.
• Hiratsuka explained that Hikigaya’s selfless act had made her identify with him, while Doma falsely teased her about causing the accident before she corrected him.
• Doma said Haruno had made the accident seem serious to Yukino, leaving Yukino with an inner demon because she believed the car had been needed for her commute.
• Doma revealed that Yukino had told him what happened and that he had approached Hikigaya because of his dead fish eyes before learning about the accident.
• Doma explained that Yukino had overcome her guilt herself by apologizing to Hikigaya, even though she had not been responsible for the accident.