Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma questioned Rikka Takanashi about how she recognized the impostors, but her answers only exposed the group’s confusion. The disguise was revealed when Mashiro noticed that the person who hugged her was not Utaha, leaving Yukino and Utaha arguing while Eriri awkwardly realized her insult had hit both of them.

• Sogo Doma repeatedly hand-chopped Rikka Takanashi until she agreed to answer his question about the Iceberg Banshee.
• Rikka Takanashi misunderstood Sogo Doma’s question, and he gave up as the others struggled to understand what he meant.
• Sogo Doma tried to stop the commotion and remind Muse that they were attending an event as guests.
• Mashiro revealed that the person who had hugged her was not Utaha Kasumigaoka, exposing that Utaha had been disguised as Yukino Yukinoshita.
• Eriri asked where Yukino’s breasts were, prompting Utaha and Yukino to argue while Eriri realized she had insulted both of them.

Sogo Doma discussed how the group should respond to the body-swapping mutation affecting Yukino and Kasumigaoka, while Mai Sakurajima explained her past Puberty Syndrome. Rikka Takanashi claimed her magical grimoire could solve the problem, and everyone believed her after Sogo's technically truthful explanation.

• Sogo Doma argued that the group should avoid confusing the swapped women and instead recognize Kasumigaoka beneath Yukino's appearance.
• Mai Sakurajima revealed that she had previously suffered Puberty Syndrome that made her presence fade until her work resumed.
• Umaru Doma suggested that Megumi Kato become an idol, prompting Sogo to steer everyone back to the mutation problem.
• Rikka Takanashi insisted on helping and claimed she possessed a magical grimoire written by Lord Mori.
• Sogo Doma explained that Lord Mori had compiled and sold chuunibyou notes, and the group took his words as proof of Rikka's expertise.
• Yukinoshita Haruno and the others became confident that Rikka could solve the problem, while Sogo silently judged them all.

Sogo Doma let Takanashi Rikka's chuunibyou claims mislead Yukinoshita Haruno and the others before revealing that Rikka had noticed a real difference between Kasumigaoka and Yukino. He warned that Mai Sakurajima and the others could gradually become each other, though not through a simple body-and-consciousness swap.

• Takanashi Rikka claimed that finding the Unseen Horizon with her Wicked Eye could solve the problem, and Haruno began considering using her family's resources to locate it.
• Sogo Doma revealed that Rikka's talk of grimoires and the Unseen Horizon came from her chuunibyou beliefs, leaving Haruno embarrassed that she had taken the claims seriously.
• Sogo Doma explained that Rikka had correctly noticed Kasumigaoka, who looked like Yukino Yukinoshita, was less cold in temperament than the real Yukino.
• Sogo Doma compared the situation to Mai Sakurajima's worsening condition and warned that Mai and the others might completely become each other, clarifying that he did not mean a simple swap of bodies and consciousnesses.

Sogo Doma explained why Yukino and the others had to retain their own identities despite their transformed bodies, then accompanied Muse and the others to observe Totsuki’s residential training camp. There, his attempts to make money from a student facing expulsion provoked Kojiro Shinomiya and Erina Nakiri.

• Sogo Doma warned Yukinoshita Haruno that transformed bodies could raise questions of consciousness and identity, so they had to preserve the girls’ sense of being themselves.
• Muse began training under Mai Sakurajima’s supervision, while Haruno stayed nearby to support Yukino.
• Muse and Yukinoshita’s group visited Totsuki’s training camp and watched Kojiro Shinomiya scold a student over his lack of culinary integrity.
• When the student offered millions to stay, Sogo Doma proposed taking thirty million and later suggested letting him advance before failing him for an even larger profit.
• Hinako Inui cheered Doma on and was tied up after provoking Shinomiya, who challenged Doma’s reliability.
• Erina Nakiri suspected Doma had deliberately lost to Senior Tsukasa as she watched him argue that he was not a chef.

Sogo Doma joined the Totsuki residential training camp meeting and irritated Erina Nakiri, Kojiro Shinomiya, and the other attendees with his usual provocations. After the camp began, Gin Dojima pulled him aside and asked whether he hated cooking.

• Erina Nakiri scolded Sogo Doma for arguing about Tsukasa's Shokugeki and asked Umaru Doma to keep him under control.
• Kojiro Shinomiya tried to keep the meeting on track, but Sogo Doma proposed charging students to stay at Totsuki.
• Head Chef Dojima declared that Sogo Doma no longer had authority over whether students stayed or left.
• The residential training camp began, and Hinako Inui warned students that anyone who failed her assessment would be expelled.
• Gin Dojima stopped Sogo Doma and discussed Toka's cooking before asking him whether he hated cooking.

Sogo Doma learned that Gin Dojima and the instructors were worried about Kojiro Shinomiya’s stagnation, while Soma learned how fearsome Doma’s reputation was at Totsuki. The chapter ended with Erina Nakiri insisting she had not wanted Doma and Umaru to visit, despite having prepared games and cards for them.

• Gin Dojima told Sogo Doma that Shinomiya had stagnated and that the staff had devised a way to help him, then hinted that someone was returning.
• Sogo Doma traded the returning person's news for Gin Dojima's promise to stop asking about what the pangolin had said.
• Megumi Tadokoro warned Soma Yukihira not to attract the attention of the Great Demon King, and Hinako Inui explained that Doma's talent had raised the standard of Cooking at Totsuki.
• Megumi Tadokoro said Doma and Erina Nakiri were close, leaving Soma unsure how to interpret their relationship.
• Hisako pointed out that Erina Nakiri had prepared games and cards for Doma and Umaru, but Erina insisted she had only planned to enjoy them herself.

Erina Nakiri and Alice Nakiri argued over Sogo Doma’s support for molecular cooking, while Alice stormed off after Ryo called her out. Back in the room, Sogo Doma and the others debated whether Totsuki was safe, and a knock interrupted them as they worried about manga-like dangers.

• Arato Hisako warned Erina Nakiri that Alice Nakiri might take Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma, and Alice boasted that the Nakiri family could not interfere with her relationship with Sogo.
• Ryo said Sogo supported Alice’s molecular cooking because machines let him slack off, making Alice furious enough to threaten Erina and flee.
• Sogo returned to find the group packing, and Yukinoshita Haruno and Umaru Doma worried that Shinomiya might retaliate against him.
• Yukinoshita Haruno proposed finding clues in a manga, but Sogo pointed out that its ending might never arrive and urged her to seek help instead.
• Yukinoshita Haruno blamed Sogo’s recklessness for her panic and said his safety was tied to finding a way to save Yukino.
• As the group debated whether Totsuki was safe from manga-like dangers, someone knocked on the door.

Rikka Takanashi startled the crowd with a dragon-headed cat, then Toka Takanashi scolded her for bringing it to Totsuki Resort. Toka thanked Sogo Doma for confronting Chef Shinomiya, and the chapter ended with the reveal that she opposed the resort’s planned pet garden because she was allergic to animal fur.

• Rikka Takanashi appeared with Chimera, a cat wearing an elaborate dragon mask, and Yukino Yukinoshita removed the mask.
• Toka Takanashi struck Rikka and scolded her for bringing Chimera to the hotel, warning that Chef Shinomiya could object to pets at the resort.
• Toka apologized to the crowd for Rikka’s antics and thanked Sogo Doma for standing up to Chef Shinomiya.
• Toka explained that Chairman Nakiri and Head Chef Dojima were considering building an ecological garden for guests’ pets.
• Sogo Doma revealed that Toka was allergic to animal fur.

Toka Takanashi explained that Gin Dojima’s test of Kojiro Shinomiya was also an assessment of her readiness to become a head chef. The conversation ended with Toka mistaking Yukinoshita Haruno’s teasing for evidence that she had suffered through a difficult relationship.

• Yukino Yukinoshita sympathized with Toka Takanashi’s cat allergy, while Toka complained about her troublesome younger sister and praised Umaru Doma.
• Yukinoshita Haruno asked whether Head Chef Shinomiya could punish Toka for keeping the cat, and Toka revealed that the situation was a test arranged by Head Chef Dojima.
• Toka explained that Gin Dojima hoped to help Kojiro Shinomiya overcome his stagnant cooking and had set up a contest that would also assess her as a future head chef.
• Mashiro and the others compared Toka’s ideas about cooking for diners to their own creative fields, leaving Sogo Doma puzzled by their interpretations.
• Toka mistook Yukinoshita Haruno’s remarks for a story of romantic hardship and patted Yukino Yukinoshita, who was disguised as Utaha Kasumigaoka.

At Totsuki, Muse and the others enjoyed an extravagant feast while Sogo Doma hid from Umaru among them. His conversation with Nozomi Tojo turned to Muse’s name and her supposed ability to foresee the future, ending with his warning about the consequences of her eating so much.

• Toka Takanashi said farewell and left, and the others began sampling Totsuki’s lavish food.
• Nico Yazawa urged Muse to take as much food as they wanted, while Honoka Kosaka worried they did not deserve such expensive ingredients.
• Sogo Doma hid among Muse to avoid Umaru asking him to cook and praised Nico Yazawa’s ambition to become national idols.
• Sogo Doma asked Nozomi Tojo whether she had foreseen that Muse would have nine members when she named the group.
• Nozomi Tojo claimed Muse also meant the goddess formed by nine goddesses united and suggested Sogo Doma belonged in the story because he had brought Kazusa Touma back.
• Sogo Doma dismissed Nozomi Tojo’s mystical claims and warned that her eating might lead to a tragic future, startling Muse.

Muse accepted Totsuki’s invitation to taste-test student cooking, not realizing their full stomachs could determine the students’ futures. When Honoka Kosaka and the others could not finish a steak set, an examiner eliminated its student, leaving Muse horrified.

• Sogo Doma warned Muse that Totsuki’s lavish hospitality came with a catch, but Kazusa Touma dismissed his warning and encouraged everyone to enjoy the food.
• After lunch, a waiter asked Muse to help test students’ cooking, and Honoka Kosaka and the others agreed when they learned the request was voluntary.
• At dinner, Muse struggled to eat steak sets because they were already full and found the dishes less impressive after tasting the head chef’s cooking.
• When Muse left most of one student’s steak uneaten, he feared his cooking had failed, and an examiner eliminated him for not fulfilling the assignment to satisfy the guest.
• Honoka Kosaka and the other Muse members protested that the steak had been good, but the examiner explained that the student had failed to meet the guest’s needs.

After Sogo Doma teased the stuffed Muse girls about their calorie intake, Umaru explained to Erina Nakiri why she had intervened in the morning’s events. Umaru then revealed how her secret identity and her role in shaping a novel had stirred up misunderstandings between Erina and Hisako.

• Sogo Doma taunted the Muse girls by pointing out how many calories they had eaten.
• Umaru told Erina that Dojima would have acted against Shinomiya even if Erina had not intervened, and Erina realized she had disrupted their plan.
• Umaru revealed that Erina was the only person who knew she could switch between her Komaru and Umaru appearances, then teased her about her manga habits.
• Umaru said she had read Utako Kasumi’s unpublished work and had suggested using Erina and Hisako’s relationship as a reference for the heroines.
• Erina admitted that the novel’s scenes had made Hisako act distant, while Umaru teased her about possibly confessing to Hisako.

Umaru and Erina teased each other about their embarrassing secrets and Erina’s friendship with Hisako. When Hisako joined them, Umaru suddenly remembered she had come out to look for her Onii-chan, leaving Erina and Hisako bewildered.

• Umaru and Erina argued about Umaru’s Onii-chan being expelled and joked about Erina and Hisako being a couple.
• Erina admitted that she and Hisako were only friends and said people’s gossip had made Hisako keep her distance.
• Umaru and Erina agreed that sharing embarrassing secrets showed they trusted each other as friends.
• Hisako returned to Erina’s room, and Umaru and Erina reassured her that they had been talking about her as Erina’s best friend.
• Umaru suddenly realized she had come out to look for her Onii-chan, leaving Erina and Hisako confused.

Nodoka Toyohama watched Muse perform and began to reconsider her assumptions about school idols and their abilities. After the show, Mai Sakurajima gave the group specific advice, while Nodoka’s teammates continued to mistake the returning Nodoka for the version who had trained them.

• Nodoka Toyohama saw her teammates treating her warmly and wondered why their attitude had changed so suddenly.
• Nodoka watched Muse perform and was impressed by their stage presence, while Sogo Doma told her how they had once performed for an empty audience without giving up.
• Nodoka asked whether Mai Sakurajima had worked hard, and Sogo Doma told her to discover the answer for herself.
• Mai Sakurajima praised Muse’s performance and advised Eli Ayase to coordinate with the group, Kotori Minami to sing more boldly, and Nico Yazawa to keep Nico Nico Nii out of the performance.

Sogo Doma persuaded Nodoka Toyohama that Mai Sakurajima’s team was holding her back, then watched Mai perform and bluntly criticized her teammates in front of Muse. The chapter left Mai’s teammates awkwardly facing his harsh judgment while Muse tried to defend them.

• Sogo Doma told Nodoka Toyohama that Mai’s performance was being diminished by her teammates and suggested Nodoka could prove herself by succeeding in Mai’s place.
• Nodoka left the practice room, asking Sogo to let her have some peace and quiet, and he stayed behind.
• Mai finished performing and told Sogo she felt guilty that their plan’s success seemed to come at Nodoka’s expense.
• Sogo introduced himself to Mai’s teammates as Totsuki’s person in charge and criticized their performance as far weaker than Muse’s.
• Honoka Kosaka defended Mai’s team, but Sogo continued by saying his blunt criticism might make the debuted idols resent Muse.

Sogo Doma criticized Muse and Mai Sakurajima’s performances, then pushed them to improve by warning them about each other and the school idol groups soon to arrive. When he returned to the presidential suite, he found Umaru, Komaru, and the others playing games together and reflecting on how they had neglected Komaru.

• Sogo Doma told Muse and Mai Sakurajima that their performances had problems and explained that he had criticized them to spur them to improve.
• Sogo Doma warned Muse and Mai Sakurajima that the other’s group could outperform them and that Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, the Summer Group, and other performers would soon arrive.
• Mai Sakurajima told Sogo Doma to stop guessing her thoughts and had him leave so they could practice.
• Sogo Doma returned to the presidential suite and found Rikka Takanashi, Utaha Kasumigaoka, Eriri, Umaru, and the others playing games.
• Megumi Kato explained that Umaru had joined Komaru in playing because Komaru liked games, and Umaru agreed that they had overlooked Komaru’s feelings.

Umaru’s gaming disguise fooled most of the group, while Sogo Doma watched the sisters bicker after Totsuki’s brutal residential training camp. Alice Nakiri arrived looking for Umaru and accused Erina of arrogance, leaving Erina to defend herself.

• Umaru played as Komaru, and Sogo noticed that Megumi Kato, Erina Nakiri, and Utaha Kasumigaoka had different degrees of awareness about her identity.
• Haruno and Yukino joined the gaming group, while Sogo reflected that he had asked Takanashi Toka to help look after Umaru and the others.
• Totsuki’s residential training camp ended with 397 students eliminated, prompting shock from the Muse members and Yukino.
• Alice Nakiri arrived with Ryo and confronted Erina for skipping the camp, while Ryo pointed out that Erina was an Elite Ten member.
• Alice tried to embrace Umaru and claimed they were comrades with life-and-death bonds, but Erina revealed she had shared those experiences too.
• Sogo asked Alice to explain how Erina acted arrogantly, and Alice accused Erina of looking down on others because of her God’s Tongue.

Alice Nakiri argued with Erina Nakiri over unanswered letters, then realized someone else might have intercepted them and left vowing to defeat Erina. Afterward, Gin Dojima reminded the remaining students that Totsuki followed a harsh survival-of-the-fittest system.

• Alice Nakiri claimed Erina Nakiri had ignored the letters she sent after going abroad, while Erina denied ever receiving them.
• Sogo Doma suggested the letters might have been intercepted, and Alice Nakiri realized that a woman had been behind it.
• Alice Nakiri vowed to defeat Erina and make her write back every day, then left with Ryo while invoking Sogo Doma and molecular Cooking.
• Erina Nakiri grew subdued after Alice left, and Sogo Doma remarked that Alice was interesting.
• Gin Dojima told the remaining Totsuki students that their dwindling numbers reflected Totsuki's way of survival.

At the residential training camp’s finale, Gin Dojima announced that the students would sample the chefs’ cooking, then paid Sogo Doma the three hundred million owed from his Shokugeki agreement. Sogo teased Nodoka Toyohama about Mai Sakurajima’s performance, and Nodoka watched Mai’s group deliver a live show that left her questioning her own ability.

• Gin Dojima frightened the students with talk of a crucial final day before revealing that they would taste cooking prepared by him and the other head chefs.
• Gin Dojima discussed the three-hundred-million payment with Sogo Doma and confirmed the Shokugeki agreement involving Shinomiya.
• After receiving the money, Sogo Doma noticed Nodoka Toyohama’s silence and provoked her by claiming Mai Sakurajima was held back by her teammates.
• Mai Sakurajima and Nodoka Toyohama’s group performed a powerful live show that impressed the Totsuki students.
• Nodoka Toyohama watched Mai’s group and wondered whether she could have performed as well, concluding that she could not compare to Mai.

After Mai Sakurajima rescued a live performance mishap, Nodoka Toyohama felt unable to measure up to her. Sogo Doma urged Nodoka to work harder and take on one of Mai’s jobs, leaving them ready to pursue their goals together.

• Mai Sakurajima caught a dropped microphone during the performance and returned it without missing a step, earning louder cheers from the crowd.
• Nodoka Toyohama fled and told Sogo Doma she could not compare to Mai or do her own job properly.
• Sogo Doma revealed that Mai and Nodoka’s former teammates had practiced hard, while Nodoka had not worked as hard as they had.
• Sogo Doma encouraged Nodoka to prove herself by completing one of Mai’s jobs, and Nodoka agreed to pursue their goals together.
• Sogo Doma reflected that Yukinoshita Haruno’s efforts to protect Yukino could leave her unprepared for the world, unlike the experiences of the dumpling in his family.