Chapter Summaries

The students debated whether Class D or Class B was the likeliest place to find the Preferred Person, while weighing personal rewards against the risk to their classes. After the first discussion ended, an anonymous notice reported an attempted submission, leaving Gu Heng unwilling to treat it as evidence against Class D.

• Ishizaki directed suspicion toward Class D, while Kanzaki argued that Class B was easier to exploit and made it a target of suspicion.
• The students debated whether to submit independently, and Hashimoto said Class A would listen before risking class points for private rewards.
• The first discussion ended at 20:10, and Ishizaki approached a public terminal, paused at the confirmation prompt, then turned the page away without revealing his answer.
• At 20:17, the system announced that a group member had attempted to submit an answer, without identifying the person or target.
• Gu Heng recorded the notification time and stopped Yukimura from treating it as evidence against Class D.

Gu Heng struggled to interpret the Rabbit Group’s submission notice as shifting weights and a headache complicated his investigation. After Kanzaki shared an unverified screenshot and Ibuki questioned its format, Ayanokoji warned Gu Heng that the submission might have been planted to mislead him, leaving him to treat the evidence as unverified.

• The Rabbit Group members discussed the submission attempt notice, while Gu Heng saw shifting entries that suggested different people’s concerns and targets.
• Gu Heng interpreted Sakura’s silence as secrecy, excluded her observation from the class report, and watched her leave.
• Kanzaki shared a screenshot claiming to show a submission attempt at 20:16:42, but its source remained unknown.
• Ibuki pointed out that the screenshot’s seconds and status field did not match the public notification’s format.
• Gu Heng stopped following the apparent leads and marked the screenshot as pending verification.
• Ayanokoji warned Gu Heng that the submission might have been deliberately shown to him, and Gu Heng preserved the uncertain records instead of treating the weights as answers.

Gu Heng replaced the island-style assignment chart with a shared record of verifiable facts, times, prompts, and abnormal contacts as Class D navigated the cruise ship’s scattered discussions. Kushida then presented an early Monkey Group submission time, leaving Gu Heng to decide how to verify and share the potentially important lead.

• Gu Heng revised the shared chart to record exact facts and times without interpretations, and Horikita granted him permission to edit its factual fields.
• Sakura reported seeing Ishizaki near the lounge at 8:12 p.m. and Kanzaki return at 8:16 p.m., and Gu Heng added both times as facts pending verification.
• After Sudo confronted a student who had asked about Rabbit Group, Gu Heng recorded the encounter in a public passage with witnesses nearby.
• Horikita reported that her group's discussion had been moved to 11:00 a.m., while reports from other groups accumulated on Gu Heng's chart.
• Kushida showed Gu Heng a screenshot claiming Monkey Group had attempted a submission at 10:07 a.m.; Gu Heng required its source and verification status to be recorded before sharing it.

Kushida exchanged three outer-layer records for a public fact summary while Gu Heng and Yukimura logged every change and kept uncertain sources separate. She then offered Gu Heng a list of students contacted after anonymous notices, but he questioned where one of her sources came from.

• Kushida agreed to submit records under Gu Heng’s terms, while Yukimura created a read-only Cold Backup that preserved versions and timestamps.
• Kushida entered Monkey Group, Snake Group, and Chicken Group records, and Gu Heng labeled their source levels without treating them as linked or confirmed.
• Gu Heng corrected an inaccurate claim about the Monkey Group’s submission time, and Horikita and Hirata helped circulate wording that separated known facts from unknown details.
• Kushida offered Gu Heng a list of students contacted after anonymous notices, and Gu Heng asked whose source she had not disclosed.

Gu Heng gave Kushida a single-page report to test whether she would leak its contents, and an anonymous group rewrote the report as confirmation of an answer direction. He sealed the channel pending source verification, while Kei Karuizawa saw the anonymous message.

• Kushida and Gu Heng reviewed public facts and contact records, limiting the list to claims with traceable sources.
• Kushida accepted responsibility for the list and asked for access to Class D's unorganized outer-layer reports; Gu Heng agreed.
• Gu Heng issued Kushida an R-17 report visible only to her, recording a Chicken Group submission attempt and its direct source.
• Kushida sent the internal number in a private message, and an anonymous group posted it as confirmation that the Chicken Group's answer direction was reliable.
• Gu Heng sealed R-17 and suspended external sharing until the source could be verified; Kushida left the page sealed.
• Kei Karuizawa passed the automatic doors with the anonymous group message displayed on her phone.

Gu Heng observed Kei Karuizawa receiving an altered anonymous message on the Snake Group page but kept his uncertain assessment in a private record. Ayanokoji stopped him from pursuing the thread, and Gu Heng decided to wait for the Snake Group's public prompt.

• Karuizawa saw the anonymous message saying R-17 was confirmed and that the Chicken Group's answer direction was credible, but left it unopened and went to meet her companions.
• Gu Heng recorded Karuizawa's message status and on-site actions as personal observations, while leaving her out of Class D's shared report table.
• Karuizawa ignored a second notification, joined her companions in the cafeteria, and kept her phone hidden beneath her thigh.
• Ayanokoji blocked Gu Heng in the hallway and told him the thread ended there.
• Gu Heng deleted his forwarding draft to Horikita and kept Karuizawa's observation under individual-only access, deciding to wait for the Snake Group's public prompt.

Gu Heng kept his observation of Karuizawa private because it did not prove her connection to Ayanokoji or Class D, while he and Horikita prepared for Rabbit Group’s second-round discussion. With the discussion moved up to 11:50, Gu Heng focused on watching who would claim the floor first.

• Gu Heng recorded that Ayanokoji had warned him not to use Karuizawa as an entry point, then kept his observations of her under single-user access.
• Gu Heng and Yukimura separated Karuizawa’s unverified personal observation from the Class D shared table and set conditions for reviewing any second piece of evidence.
• Horikita told Gu Heng to retain the time and source status of his personal record, then asked him to focus on Rabbit Group’s second-round facts.
• Horikita reported that Rabbit Group’s second-round identity discussion had moved up to 11:50, and Hirata relayed that the group would discuss class affiliations first.
• Gu Heng told Horikita he would issue no class directive beyond the verified timing change, then removed Karuizawa’s name from the current page and prepared to observe who seized the floor.

Gu Heng used a public test item to observe how Ishizaki and Kanzaki reacted, while carefully separating their statements from unverified interpretations. As Rabbit Group's answer window approached, an anonymous message claimed to know the group's favored person, but Gu Heng's records still did not identify the Privileged Person.

• Hashimoto began Rabbit Group's second-round discussion by asking everyone to disclose one fact and keeping the answer direction for later.
• Gu Heng publicly proposed testing whether Class C was using Monkey Group's time to probe Rabbit Group, prompting Ishizaki to object and Kanzaki to suggest investigating Class B instead.
• Gu Heng deleted the test item but preserved its version history and recorded Ishizaki's and Kanzaki's reactions separately from their possible motives.
• Sakura gave Yukimura timestamps showing Ishizaki stood up at 11:52 and Kanzaki switched to the Class B page at 11:53, which Gu Heng added to his unverified association record.
• As the answer window approached, an anonymous message arrived claiming, "I know who Rabbit Group's favored one is."

Gu Heng documented an anonymous claim about the Rabbit Group's favored student without replying, while he and his classmates cross-checked the message against group activity and outside statements. As the answer window neared, Hirata reported that Karuizawa was questioning who first mentioned their class during the Rabbit Group's second-round discussion.

• Gu Heng saved the anonymous message as a personal record, withheld its wording from the shared sheet, and told Horikita only that an unverified claim had arrived.
• At Horikita's request, Gu Heng and Yukimura compared the Rabbit Group's early notice, members' actions, discussion closing time, and the message's receipt time, finding no proof of the sender's identity.
• Hirata collected separate statements from Ibuki and Shibata, while Gu Heng kept their explanations distinct and marked another unverified question about the message's origin.
• Gu Heng maintained Kushida's archived external-compilation permissions and treated the four groups' unusual activity as a personal hypothesis rather than a shared conclusion.
• As the answer window neared, Gu Heng left the anonymous message unanswered, and Hirata reported that Karuizawa had twice asked who first mentioned their class during the Rabbit Group's second round before leaving early.

Karuizawa’s tense questions about the Rabbit Group drew Gu Heng’s attention, and he recorded her actions without deciding what they meant. When Kushida publicly called her “Little Nobody,” Karuizawa visibly reacted, leaving Gu Heng to watch how she would respond.

• Karuizawa repeatedly asked two girls who had first mentioned their class in the Rabbit Group’s second round, then left the cafeteria conversation early.
• Hirata reported Karuizawa’s questions and hardened tone to Gu Heng, who instructed him to record only what he witnessed.
• Gu Heng observed Karuizawa stop one girl from forwarding an unconfirmed message, while Karuizawa kept her suspicions private and deleted an unsent warning.
• Kushida approached Karuizawa with the two girls and asked whether she remembered being called “Little Nobody.”
• Karuizawa’s expression changed, and Gu Heng recorded her reaction while waiting to see what she would say next.

Gu Heng tracked Hayakawa’s attempt to obtain Class D message information and Kushida’s confrontation with Karuizawa over an old nickname. He restricted outside access to Class D’s shared page while leaving Karuizawa’s choices to her, then Ichinose asked why he always considered risks first.

• Kushida confronted Karuizawa about the nickname “Little Invisible,” while Karuizawa refused to explain it.
• Hayakawa asked Karuizawa whether Gu Heng had received an anonymous private message and showed her a proposed information exchange.
• Gu Heng recorded the contacts without treating them as proof of a connection, and he declined Hirata’s suggestion to arrange protection for Karuizawa.
• Gu Heng asked Horikita to seal external references to Class D’s shared page, and Yukimura confirmed the references were read-only.
• Gu Heng noted that Kushida did not pursue Karuizawa, then Ichinose asked him why he always thought about risks first.

Gu Heng and Ichinose exchanged limited, verifiable information while keeping names and Class D’s unconfirmed judgments private. After Ichinose left, Morishita Ai offered Yukimura 80 points for a withdrawn Rabbit Group test direction, leaving the offer pending.

• Ichinose showed Gu Heng a redacted Class B transaction record and explained that its copy included recipient and return-status fields, though the actual operator was unconfirmed.
• Gu Heng and Ichinose agreed to exchange only narrowly scoped facts, and Gu Heng shared Rabbit Group’s advance-notice and discussion times without linking their sources.
• Gu Heng gave Ichinose a record that someone had claimed to know Rabbit Group’s privileged person, while refusing to disclose Class D’s unconfirmed core judgment.
• Gu Heng kept Ichinose’s information out of Class D’s shared table and told Yukimura to preserve the public time fields without putting the name in cold backup.
• Morishita Ai offered Yukimura 80 points for a withdrawn Rabbit Group Class C test direction, but Yukimura refused to provide an unverified answer.

Morishita Ai tested Class D with an unverified Class C lead linked to a Class B personal page, while Gu Heng investigated who was presenting personal choices as Class B's position. The chapter ended with Shibata Hayate poised to submit Class C as the Rabbit Group answer just as the next discussion round began.

• Morishita Ai showed Gu Heng an anonymous warning not to give Class C's lead to Class D, and Gu Heng noted that the message had already changed the offer's visible destination.
• Kanzaki Ryuji arrived and urged Morishita Ai to return to Class B, then suspected Shibata Hayate had supplied her lead.
• Shibata admitted he had sent the Rabbit Group lead and said he was selling a version people might believe, not an answer.
• Gu Heng recorded the lead's time, source tag, and unverified status on Class D's personal page without naming Shibata.
• Shibata revealed that Class C was already selected on the Rabbit Group answer-submission page, and his finger hovered over the confirm button as the next discussion round approached.

Gu Heng learned that wrong answers would be distributed in a coordinated feed before the next discussion and warned Class D to verify sources. A false delivery record bearing his name appeared, and he confirmed a Rabbit Group submission attempt, making the planted misinformation implicate more than Class B.

• Gu Heng persuaded Shibata to withdraw from submitting and offered to keep his name out of Class D's shared records in exchange for verifiable information.
• Shibata told Gu Heng that at least three versions of a wrong answer would be circulated shortly before the next discussion, and Gu Heng recorded the timing.
• Morishita Ai withdrew her eighty-point offer, and Kanzaki took Shibata back to Class B after Ichinose asked to hear the source first.
• Gu Heng warned Yukimura not to accept Class C information for the next seven minutes without checking its source.
• A public exchange record falsely labeled Gu Heng as the sender of a claim that the Rabbit Group's privileged person was in Class C, and a member attempted to submit an answer.
• Gu Heng confirmed the submission attempt, making the wrong direction no longer appear to belong to Class B alone.

Gu Heng preserved the false Rabbit Group record and defended his choice not to force Shibata to submit, while Ayanokoji questioned his approach. An anonymous claim linking Kei Karuizawa to the Rabbit Group's second round left Gu Heng with another lead to verify, not an answer to submit.

• Gu Heng froze the false record under his name and decided to preserve it rather than withdraw it.
• Ayanokoji criticized Gu Heng for letting Shibata leave, but Gu Heng said he wanted to preserve the source of the result and avoid making Shibata a disposable scapegoat.
• Ayanokoji warned Gu Heng not to approach Kei Karuizawa, saying that doing so would make her an entry point for others seeking answers.
• Gu Heng received an anonymous claim that Karuizawa knew who first named their class in the Rabbit Group's second round, and he recorded it without contacting her.
• Ayanokoji said Shibata's time might be false, and Gu Heng decided to use it only to arrange verification rather than submit an answer.

Gu Heng contained an anonymous claim about Karuizawa and tracked who circulated it or approached her, while refusing to treat unverified content as evidence. The chapter ended with him waiting for the next anonymous message and trying to identify who was directing the situation.

• Gu Heng archived the anonymous claim about Karuizawa, separated it from verified Class D information, and told Yukimura to investigate who watched her rather than question her directly.
• Karuizawa posted that private references without verified sources would not enter discussion, then left without explaining herself.
• Kushida showed Gu Heng the same claim in an anonymous preview and labeled it for verification only after he asked her not to forward it.
• Gu Heng recorded Hayakawa's and Kushida's movements near Karuizawa, while another anonymous response tried to use her boundary as evidence that she had seen the original.
• Hirata reported that someone asked Karuizawa about the original and that she turned away without explanation, and Gu Heng recorded her response as an on-site fact.
• Gu Heng kept the shared page restricted and waited for the next anonymous delivery while seeking to learn who was steering the situation.

Gu Heng, Kushida, and Karuizawa pushed back against an anonymous attempt to expose Karuizawa’s private nickname, while refusing to treat speculation as evidence. As the answer window continued, a new anonymous message redirected attention toward the Rabbit Group members without naming a favored party.

• Gu Heng added rules barring unverified personal weaknesses and private nicknames from Class D’s records, and Yukimura and Hirata confirmed the reporting standard.
• Kushida showed Gu Heng an anonymous question about Karuizawa’s former nickname, then demanded that the question’s sender provide a source.
• Karuizawa rejected unconfirmed private nicknames as a basis for conclusions, and Kushida recorded that deleting the question would not make it valid.
• Gu Heng saved the timestamped records of Karuizawa’s response, Kushida’s demand, and Hayakawa lingering near the cafeteria, without identifying an original sender.
• Ayanokoji warned Gu Heng not to choose an entrance for someone else, and the second-round discussion record was saved with 27 minutes left in the answer window.
• An anonymous message appeared beside the Rabbit Group location page, claiming the favored party was not where people thought, but providing no source or reply.

Gu Heng investigated Hayakawa’s role in the anonymous message’s circulation and questioned Ayanokoji, but neither interaction revealed the privileged person’s identity. He left the answer unconfirmed, keeping the verified records separate as nineteen minutes remained in the answer window.

• Gu Heng questioned Hayakawa, who admitted viewing the submission page after receiving an anonymous reminder but denied submitting anything.
• Gu Heng recorded Hayakawa’s movements and sent Yukimura a report that distinguished viewing the page from confirming an answer.
• Gu Heng confronted Ayanokoji at the stairwell and sensed the terms “Secrecy,” “Old Covenant,” and “Protected Subject 94,” but learned no identity or details.
• Gu Heng recorded Ayanokoji’s actions without adding the uncertain information to Class D’s shared page.
• Gu Heng left the answer confirmation untouched and sent Yukimura only the verifiable report, with nineteen minutes remaining.

With the answer window closing, Gu Heng and Class D documented changing anonymous notes without claiming they proved the answer or who had submitted it. The system later recorded an attempted submission, but the chapter ended without revealing who confirmed an answer.

• Gu Heng and Yukimura recorded the changing order of the anonymous notes and left their answer and confirmation status unresolved.
• Gu Heng preserved the anonymous note separately from the later attachment of the Class D label.
• Horikita deleted a prepared Class D recommendation and refused to vouch for an unverified answer.
• Karuizawa added a rule requiring her confirmation before anyone designated content as referring to her, while Hayakawa refused to relay further anonymous reminders.
• Yukimura moved an unsourced quotation into the fact column, and Gu Heng sent Class D a message saying he would take responsibility for anything written in its name.
• The system announced that a member had attempted submission, but a student later exited the confirmation page without leaving a result.

With the answer window closing, Gu Heng refused to let Class D issue a unified statement or compel members to submit viewing records, preserving individual responsibility at the cost of losing evidence. He closed Class D’s external response field and waited as anonymous posts continued to reinterpret the class’s silence.

• Yukimura showed Gu Heng how an external quote had truncated his responsibility statement, and Gu Heng refused to restore the full text as a class statement.
• Horikita withdrew the shared registration request, prompting two members to withdraw their personal stay reports, which Yukimura recorded in the Cold Backup.
• Gu Heng told Hirata that individual actions were still up to each person, then recorded Hayakawa’s decision to stop forwarding anonymous warnings.
• Kushida gave Gu Heng a time difference showing that the external quote changed seventeen seconds after the system prompt, then covered the name on her screenshot.
• Karuizawa covered the form of address on her boundary statement while retaining its time, and Ayanokoji told Gu Heng that the cut-off portion was often more useful than what remained.
• Gu Heng closed Class D’s external response field, and an anonymous post claimed that the class’s silence meant it admitted the first person was right.