Chapter Summaries

Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka lost themselves in Sogo Doma’s seafood feast, then choked after Kaguya was reminded of cola. Sogo teased them over their table manners, while Kaguya accused him of giving them cola on purpose.

• Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka ate Sogo Doma’s cooking so eagerly that Utaha Kasumigaoka’s anxiety about Kaguya’s status disappeared.
• Umaru asked Sogo Doma for cola, and Kaguya froze before choking on her food; Ai Hayasaka choked while trying to help her.
• Sogo Doma went to fetch drinks while Umaru and Utaha Kasumigaoka patted Kaguya and Ai’s backs.
• Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka grabbed bottles of cherry-flavored clear cola, coughed again, and accused Sogo Doma of choosing it deliberately.
• Sogo Doma teased Kaguya and Ai about their dining etiquette, and Kaguya protested that he had given them cola on purpose.

Sogo Doma served Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka his extraordinary cooking, then demonstrated that his techniques were far beyond what Hayasaka could learn. The meal ended with Kaguya discovering that Sogo had recorded her and Hayasaka, while Utaha Kasumigaoka wondered whether he had embarrassing footage of her too.

• Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka praised Sogo Doma's cooking, and Hayasaka asked him to teach her.
• Sogo Doma told Hayasaka to study at Totsuki and demonstrated shaving a sashimi slice to a fraction of its thickness with chopsticks.
• Sogo Doma claimed the technique required an advanced foundation and said the fish was still swimming after he had sliced it.
• Kaguya Shinomiya confronted Sogo Doma for recording her and Ai Hayasaka, and he admitted it while teasing Kaguya about having dirt on her.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka wondered whether Sogo Doma had also recorded embarrassing footage of her.

Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka tried to make Sogo Doma delete the photos he had taken, but he refused and toyed with them. Kaguya challenged him to a competition, then struggled to think of anything she could compete against him in.

• Kaguya Shinomiya called Sogo Doma despicable, but he dismissed her and reminded her that she was in the weaker position.
• Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma exchanged teasing looks about his embarrassing past, leaving Utaha Kasumigaoka curious about what they meant.
• Ai Hayasaka asked what it would take to get the photos deleted, while Sogo insisted he was still a child and needled Kaguya over calling him a bastard.
• Sogo agreed to send Kaguya and Hayasaka copies of the photos but made clear he would not delete them.
• Kaguya challenged Sogo to a competition, but could not think of a suitable contest after ruling out martial arts and academic grades.

Kaguya Shinomiya challenged Sogo Doma to a video game contest, believing she and Ai Hayasaka could beat him. Sogo accepted after Umaru Doma proposed a team match, confident that the outcome would expose the enormous gap in their skills.

• Umaru Doma urged Sogo Doma to accept Kaguya Shinomiya's challenge, while Sogo resisted and Kaguya struggled to choose a contest.
• Umaru framed Sogo's refusal as making him a bastard in Kaguya's eyes, then teased him by asking whether he was scared.
• Kaguya Shinomiya chose video games, convinced that she and Ai Hayasaka had become skilled after practicing with Umaru.
• Sogo Doma, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Umaru Doma reacted with surprise at Kaguya's confidence, since Sogo was far better at games.
• Umaru Doma proposed that Sogo and Umaru team up against Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka, and Sogo prepared to show them the difference in skill.

Umaru Doma challenged Sogo Doma to a game over their allowances, stacking the teams and rules in her favor while warning Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka that Sogo was still difficult to beat. As they prepared to compete, Kaguya mistook Umaru’s shaken cola bottle for a plan to sabotage Sogo, but Umaru denied that it would be enough to defeat him.

• Umaru Doma split the players into uneven teams and wagered their next month's allowances on the match.
• Umaru proposed Defense Mode with computer-selected generals, then briefly agreed to Monopoly before Sogo Doma insisted on playing Defense Mode.
• Sogo teamed up with Mashiro Shiina, while Umaru told Kaguya Shinomiya that they had only a thirty percent chance of beating him.
• Umaru shook a bottle of cola while discussing preparations, leading Kaguya to offer her experience spraying cola at someone.
• Umaru clarified that she did not expect the cola to make Sogo lose, leaving Kaguya confused about her plan.

Umaru’s cola-slushie scheme led into a rigged team game that left Sogo betrayed by Mashiro and his little sister. After losing the bet and being pressed for more allowance, Sogo challenged Umaru to Monopoly, determined to win everything back.

• Umaru bargained with Sogo for three back-rub vouchers in exchange for making her a cola slushie.
• Umaru revealed that the game’s second phase was not based on Mashiro becoming commander, and Sogo returned with the slushie.
• The game assigned Sogo to Mashiro’s team and Umaru to Kaguya’s, but Mashiro revealed she was a spy and shot Sogo’s character.
• Mashiro accepted Baumkuchen from Umaru for betraying Sogo, while Kaguya demanded that Sogo delete the recording and double her allowance.
• Sogo rejected Kaguya’s accusation that he was unconvinced and accepted Umaru’s challenge to play Monopoly, vowing to win back his losses.

Sogo Doma arranged a Monopoly contest against Umaru, Kaguya, Hayasaka, Utaha, and Mashiro, with allowances and personal favors at stake. As the game began, Kaguya wondered whether Sogo had once meant to make her cola shaved ice rather than prank her.

• Sogo proposed that the girls team up against Umaru in Monopoly, and they agreed after he offered various incentives.
• Sogo wagered that Umaru’s next allowance would double if she won, but drop to zero if she lost; Umaru accepted eagerly.
• Utaha negotiated the right to do as she pleased with Sogo for a day if she won, while Umaru offered Mashiro unlimited Baumkuchen.
• Sogo imagined the players facing off in a tense contest, but instead he served them shaved ice as they relaxed.
• Kaguya reconsidered Sogo’s old cola prank, wondering if he had intended to make her shaved ice, and Sogo started the game.

Sogo Doma and the others played a Monopoly-style game called Road of Life, where Umaru Doma’s lucky rolls quickly gave her a huge lead. The chapter left Sogo hopeful after Umaru was forced to buy a failing game company that would drain her money each round.

• Umaru Doma, Kaguya Shinomiya, Ai Hayasaka, and Utaha Kasumigaoka rolled strong opening results, while Sogo Doma repeatedly rolled ones and had to return to the start.
• Umaru Doma won 300 million yen in a lottery, and Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka gained high-paying jobs.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka chose to become a novelist, while Mashiro Shiina chose to become a painter.
• Sogo Doma rolled another one and returned to the start again, then insisted Umaru’s early lead did not guarantee victory.
• Umaru Doma rolled a six and was made to invest 200 million yen in a failing game company, whose upkeep would drain her money each round.

The group played a luck-based board game, and Umaru Doma’s investment unexpectedly earned her 3 billion despite her bankruptcy buff. Sogo Doma went bankrupt after being expelled and losing everything in the lottery, while Kaguya Shinomiya’s next turn left her reconsidering her career.

• Kaguya Shinomiya rolled a six and became a subsidiary CEO earning 500 million a year, while Ai Hayasaka became her assistant earning 100 million.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka earned 80 million in royalties, and Mashiro Shiina received a 50 million investment after her art exhibition succeeded.
• Sogo Doma rolled a one, was expelled from school, lost all his money on lottery tickets, and became homeless.
• Umaru Doma rolled a six and earned 3 billion from her investment, then refused to take her company public and gave employees raises that cost her 300 million per round.
• Kaguya Shinomiya rolled a six and realized that working for someone else meant earning money for them, prompting her to resign.

The game continued, with Utaha Kasumigaoka choosing to follow her own creative instincts and Mashiro Shiina deciding to become a manga artist. Sogo Doma remained nearly penniless while Umaru Doma’s wealth and success kept growing, leaving the others stunned by the game’s outcomes.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka chose to change genres despite her readers’ expectations, but her new book was neglected and her publisher canceled it.
• Sogo Doma rolled a one and ended up working for a restaurant owner for 300 yen an hour, while Umaru Doma earned 800 million from her company’s new game.
• Kaguya Shinomiya earned 350 million from her new company, and Ai Hayasaka received 250 million as a shareholder.
• Mashiro Shiina reflected on her dissatisfaction with painting, chose manga, and excitedly announced she had become a manga artist.
• Sogo Doma rolled another one and continued scraping by, while the game depicted him as useless at school and finding a discarded novel as his only world.
• Umaru Doma’s success left her feeling empty, and the others wondered whether she had become an interested party in the 2D world.

Sogo Doma tricked Umaru into choosing the extravagant-lifestyle route in the money game, but she kept a restart in reserve as Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka pulled ahead. The game left Sogo staring at a death-and-debt ending for Mashiro Shiina and wondering whether paying off the debt before the game ended could still count as victory.

• Sogo Doma distracted Umaru with a holographic UFO and secretly chose the extravagant-lifestyle option for her, then blamed the trick on an AI program called Shaqiang.
• Umaru declined to restart the game for now, though she privately kept restarting as an option if she fell behind.
• Kaguya Shinomiya gained ten billion in assets from a risky gamble, and Ai Hayasaka gained seven and a half billion, putting both ahead of Umaru.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka made no money by returning to her old writing genres, while Mashiro Shiina struggled to begin as a manga apprentice.
• Mashiro's game story ended with her choosing death, then being rescued and burdened with enormous hospital bills, leaving Sogo to wonder if paying her debt could still win.

Sogo Doma and the others played a connected life-simulation game, where Umaru’s company struck gold while Kaguya and Hayasaka made choices that affected each other’s fortunes. Utaha and Mashiro both decided to search for a reader who had protested a canceled novel with their death, leaving Sogo burdened with debt and wondering who that reader was.

• Umaru chose to develop her pleasure island after the game revealed a gold mine, and her company qualified to go public.
• Kaguya encouraged Hayasaka to leave their shared company, and Hayasaka sold her shares at a discount, increasing Kaguya’s assets.
• Utaha’s rejected novel became a hit after a reader’s suicide protest sparked public attention, and Utaha chose to search for the reader.
• Mashiro learned about the protest and chose to search for the reader too, losing money and forfeiting her next reward.

Sogo Doma and the others continued a wildly grim Monopoly game, where Sogo lost his job, had his debts paid, and was hired for a low salary through Mashiro Shiina’s agency. Kaguya Shinomiya’s choices made her wealthy again, while Sogo ended the chapter realizing the game portrayed him as an underpaid employee to be ordered around.

• Sogo Doma’s game character lost his job, fell into debt, had his medical bills paid by a mysterious benefactor, and accepted an annual salary of one million yen.
• Umaru Doma sold her company and chose to enjoy herself, while Kaguya Shinomiya acquired it for a huge increase in assets and reorganized its staff.
• Ai Hayasaka hired employees who had been fired from her friend’s company, and Utaha Kasumigaoka paid off Sogo Doma’s debts before debating whether to approach him.
• Mashiro Shiina’s two-million-yen payment secured Sogo a job, but the agency kept half the money and offered him only a one-million-yen salary.
• Kaguya Shinomiya told Mashiro Shiina that Sogo’s invitation to be ordered around meant treating him like a slave.

Sogo Doma and the others played Monopoly while Mashiro Shiina’s earnest comments embarrassed him and unsettled the group. Umaru failed to earn money, while Kaguya Shinomiya lost heavily on a game-company venture and Ai Hayasaka unexpectedly profited from a competing game.

• Mashiro mistook the game’s prompts for Sogo Doma’s guidance and said he could be the slave owner instead of her.
• Kaguya Shinomiya recognized Mashiro as the celebrated artist and nearly asked whether she was also a manga artist before Ai Hayasaka stopped her.
• Mashiro answered Sogo’s questions candidly, and the game portrayed him as moved by her kindness and unworthy of her attention.
• Mashiro told Sogo she would not mind if he got close, making Utaha Kasumigaoka and Kaguya Shinomiya suspicious of their relationship.
• Umaru gained nothing during her turns, while Kaguya’s new game lost 100 billion and she chose to replace employees.
• Ai Hayasaka’s company released a successful game, gained 100 million in assets, and received a prompt asking whether she would go public.

Ai Hayasaka took her company public and gained enormous assets, while Utaha Kasumigaoka and Sogo Doma played through a scenario about a novelist meeting Mashiro Shiina. Sogo quit the job after realizing he could not face Mashiro's questions, then chose to better himself without knowing how.

• Ai Hayasaka took her company public, increasing its assets by 300 billion and provoking Kaguya Shinomiya's frustration.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka decided to meet the reader who had once attempted suicide, and the game revealed that the person worked with a painter.
• Utaha discussed her novel with the reader without revealing her identity, then chose to visit again.
• Mashiro Shiina's manga submission was accepted, and she chose to keep drawing rather than celebrate.
• Sogo Doma became jealous of Mashiro's success and quit his job, then chose to better himself despite not knowing how.

Sogo Doma and his friends continued playing a game that produced increasingly unpredictable business and life choices, from Ai Hayasaka’s successful company to Umaru Doma’s plan to found a country. As Utaha Kasumigaoka and Mashiro Shiina’s in-game stories drew them toward one another, Sogo wondered whether his character was about to gain a wealthy patron.

• Kaguya Shinomiya’s assets kept falling while Ai Hayasaka’s company prospered after she hired the employees Kaguya had let go and later left to start her own business.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka noticed Mashiro Shiina’s creative difficulties, and Mashiro got advice from Utaha that helped her continue her manga.
• Umaru Doma decided to establish a free country on her island, while her game narrative also made her reflect on her past business partnership and want to see her friend.
• Ai Hayasaka accepted Kaguya Shinomiya’s call and chose to meet her, prompting them to discuss whether earning more money mattered.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka finished her story and felt lonely, while Mashiro Shiina decided to repay her novelist’s help just as Sogo Doma’s character appeared.

Sogo Doma’s group watched their Monopoly game end with Umaru, Kaguya, Utaha, and Hayasaka’s characters reaching wildly different life outcomes, while Sogo shut the game off after his own character lost. Afterward, Kaguya offered to fund Umaru’s allowance in exchange for cooking lessons, and Sogo revealed the scale of Umaru’s allowance before agreeing to teach Hayasaka.

• Umaru read the game endings, revealing that she had founded Freedom Island while Kaguya and Hayasaka’s characters pursued each other and Utaha’s character confessed to Mashiro.
• Sogo shut off the game when he saw the others’ successful endings and Umaru’s character become an island lord.
• Umaru said Sogo had admitted defeat and demanded that her allowance be doubled twice.
• Kaguya offered to cover Umaru’s allowance if Sogo taught Hayasaka to cook, and Sogo revealed that Umaru received three million each month.
• Umaru fell silent when Sogo offered to transfer her three million immediately, and Hayasaka asked him to teach her cooking despite his warning about his knife skills.

After dinner and gaming, Sogo Doma arranged to take Kaguya Shinomiya and the others home when Toshiro Hijikata refused to pick them up. The game’s results crowned Umaru Doma the winner, leaving Sogo irritated by his own ending and the console’s saved data.

• Kaguya Shinomiya confronted Sogo Doma about whether he had arranged for Toshiro Hijikata and Kondo to leave her behind.
• Sogo Doma called Toshiro Hijikata, who joked about Sogo’s date with Kaguya and said Kondo was being taken to the hospital after Tae beat him up.
• Toshiro Hijikata told Sogo to take Kaguya and Ai Hayasaka home, and Sogo hung up before agreeing to drive them himself.
• Sogo Doma invited Utaha Kasumigaoka, Mashiro Shiina, and Komaru along so they could pick up Umaru Doma, who pretended she had been worried about Umaru staying out late.
• Kaguya Shinomiya discovered the game had kept its save file, and the displayed endings showed Umaru as the victor while Sogo’s ending called him a successful failure.

After returning to her castle, Kaguya Shinomiya discussed Sogo Doma’s motives and his elaborate cooking with Ai Hayasaka. She ended the conversation wanting a cola slush and worrying that Mashiro was a rival for Doma’s affection.

• Kaguya Shinomiya confronted Ai Hayasaka about stopping her from losing her temper around Sogo Doma and his companions.
• Ai Hayasaka suggested Doma had provoked Kaguya because he might want to avoid their arranged marriage, and Kaguya reacted as if he thought she was unworthy.
• Ai Hayasaka explained that Doma’s cooking and spices reflected his feelings and desire for freedom, while Kaguya suspected he had wanted to make her unable to eat anything else.
• Ai Hayasaka told Kaguya that Doma’s actions suggested he cared about her, and Kaguya wondered whether he had meant to give her a cola slush.
• Kaguya asked Ai Hayasaka for a cola slush and worried that Doma’s fiancée Mashiro was a serious rival.

Ai Hayasaka explained to Kaguya Shinomiya that Mashiro Shiina’s friend Rita had grown jealous of Mashiro’s talent, while Umaru Doma and Utaha Kasumigaoka put Sogo Doma on trial over his connection to Kaguya. Sogo proposed inviting Chika Fujiwara over so the others could understand her, and the chapter ended with him wondering whether he had become involved in the strange situation.

• Ai Hayasaka told Kaguya Shinomiya that Mashiro Shiina was a gifted painter with little common sense and that Rita had led her into manga after becoming jealous of her talent.
• Umaru Doma accused Sogo Doma of hiding the truth about Kaguya Shinomiya, but she dismissed the trial when he mentioned his allowance.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka pressed Sogo about Kaguya’s feelings and the girl who had betrayed her, while Sogo argued that the girl was simply airheaded.
• Sogo Doma offered to invite Chika Fujiwara over the next day so Umaru and Utaha could see what she was like.
• Sogo Doma wondered whether he had become an interested party after arriving in the two-dimensional world.