Chapter Summaries

Class D disclosed that one source check had been completed while a personal action remained ongoing and class preparation was still waiting. The other classes maintained different observation plans, and the next public update remained dependent on the individual's completed check.

• Horikita and Gu Heng clarified that personal resources would not automatically transfer to class preparation and that no end time or official result could be inferred.
• Horikita updated the public sheet with one completed source check, an ongoing personal action, and waiting class preparation, without adding names or times.
• Ryuuen told Ishizaki to record the exchange only for observation and kept Class C's preparation order unchanged.
• The first-row applicant continued reviewing the source and conditions while Hirata and Gu Heng refused to close her personal page early under public pressure.
• Ichinose kept Class B's external observation beside the public version, while Class C prioritized its own preparation and waited for another comparison.

The first applicant completed her round of personal verification, and the resource was released without automatically transferring to Class Preparation or another class. The next-round review remained pending, while Class D, Class C, and Class B retained separate records and choices.

• The first applicant recorded that her personal review and application were complete, and Hirata confirmed the round’s end conditions.
• Gu Heng confirmed that the internal verification was not an official school settlement, and the third line recorded the round as closed and the resource as released.
• The person in charge completed source verification for Class D’s second Class Preparation item, keeping that result separate from the personal record.
• The first applicant declined to apply for the next round before a new review, leaving the next-round choice pending.
• Class C and Class B read the public status separately, while Ryuuen kept Class C on its own preparation sequence and Ichinose observed without accessing Class D’s internal record.
• The third line recorded Class D’s Class Preparation source verification as complete and left alternative coordination suspended; the resource slot remained empty pending a new personal choice.

The first-line applicant submitted a new individual application for the current resource, while Class Preparation remained waiting in its original order. Before she could confirm Personal Responsibility, Chabashira announced that the temporary resource window would close before the Sports Festival Preliminary Grouping was confirmed that evening, leaving the choice unresolved.

• The first-line applicant confirmed that the previous round’s result could not provide consent for the new round, then asked whether declining would transfer the resource to Class Preparation.
• Gu Heng clarified that Class Preparation had no current choice, and Horikita told Sudo that he could submit a class application but could not use the applicant’s individual review for it.
• The first-line applicant submitted a new individual application, putting the resource into pending lock-in while Class Preparation remained in its original order.
• Horikita published the resource’s pending status without the applicant’s name, and Ryuuen and Ichinose recorded their classes’ observations without changing their own choices.
• The first-line applicant continued confirming Personal Responsibility, but Chabashira announced that the temporary resource window would close before the Preliminary Grouping was confirmed that evening, leaving the final choice pending.

With Evening Confirmation approaching, Class D’s first-row applicant confirmed Personal Responsibility and began occupying the current resource, while Sudo filed a separate class application and developed a Backup Route. The deadline for Preliminary Grouping was moved up, and Sudo discovered that Class C had registered the backup location first.

• Sudo submitted a Class Preparation application for the second preparation item, which remained waiting while the first-row applicant’s Personal Responsibility was unconfirmed.
• The first-row applicant moved her pen away from the responsibility field, and Sudo submitted a Backup Route application rather than pressuring her to give way.
• The first-row applicant confirmed responsibility for the current time period, temporarily occupied the resource, and completed the first action slot while Horikita confirmed only the public boundary for the second.
• Sudo took Hirata to verify the Preliminary Grouping notice while the Backup Route continued source verification.
• The school moved Preliminary Grouping confirmation up to one hour away, and the first-row applicant pushed the second slot into the results column.
• Sudo discovered that Class C had already registered the Backup Route’s location.

Class D struggled to secure a usable backup location while another student’s unfinished personal application kept resources occupied. As other classes began acting, the first applicant faced the decision of whether to close her round and release those resources before Evening Confirmation.

• Sudo submitted Class D’s Second Backup Location after Class C registered the first backup location, while Horikita and Hirata verified the route and capacity.
• The first applicant completed the second-slot verification, then confirmed her final slot without immediately releasing the occupied resources.
• Ryuuen discovered Class C still needed to verify the source of its location application, while Ichinose chose to confirm Class B members’ willingness to take the Backup Route instead of competing for the same location.
• Sudo confirmed the Second Backup Location was usable, and the first applicant checked her records and completed the conditions needed to apply to close her round.
• Class C submitted a backup location application and Class B began personal preparation confirmation; with forty minutes left until Evening Confirmation, the first applicant paused before deciding whether to close her round and release Class D’s resources.

Class D released a resource held by a personal application and began reviewing Sudo’s application for the Second Backup Location, while Classes B and C also weighed their own pending actions. Before the resource application finished verification, a Sports Festival lineup deadline forced Class D to decide how to proceed with members whose personal confirmations were incomplete.

• The first applicant closed her personal action, and the resource marker changed to released after her records were verified.
• Sudo began a new class review and chose the Second Backup Location, while Ryuuen had Class C finish its own pending confirmation and Ichinose refused to record unconfirmed consent for Class B.
• Sudo submitted Class D’s application and personally took responsibility, moving it into the first verification slot.
• The first applicant filed her result in the historical records, and Ayanokoji observed that personal confirmation slowed the process but made responsibility clear.
• A Sports Festival notice gave Class D twenty minutes to submit an executable lineup without members whose personal confirmation was incomplete.

As Class D finalized its Sports Festival preliminary roster, Gu Heng and the others kept personal confirmations separate from class decisions, allowing an uncertain student to choose an acceptable role. The roster was accepted, but a new rule announced a Temporary Exchange Authority for the next day, leaving Gu Heng to prepare by finding out what each student was willing to take responsibility for.

• With the countdown running, Gu Heng and Horikita kept the unconfirmed student off the official lineup while Sudo reopened the event assignments instead of filling the empty slot himself.
• Ryuuen and Ichinose submitted lineups based only on confirmed members, refusing to treat Class D's unnamed vacancy as certain information.
• After reading the revised options of relay reserve or equipment handoff, the student confirmed participation on those terms, bringing Class D to eight confirmed members and allowing Horikita to submit the roster.
• The school accepted the preliminary lineup and announced that final events would be chosen later; Chabashira-sensei then revealed that each class would receive one Temporary Exchange Authority under rules announced the next morning.
• Gu Heng told Horikita they would make no exchanges that night and would instead establish what each person was willing to take on before the rules arrived.

Class D reviewed the Sports Festival’s exchange rules and prepared possible offers without agreeing to any trades. After rejecting Class C’s demand for private training information and leaving Ichinose’s offer pending, Gu Heng told anyone seeking an exchange to state what they were willing to lose.

• Gu Heng, Horikita, and Hirata reviewed the exchange rules and separated the target, event, and participant on the application forms.
• Gu Heng had Class D’s confirmed members list what events they could handle, what they would refuse, and what they would accept in exchange.
• Class C offered a sprinter for Class D’s relay reserve position if Class D publicly disclosed a training record, but Horikita opposed the condition and Gu Heng limited negotiations to events.
• Class C abandoned its inquiry with Class D and initiated an exchange with Class B after Gu Heng refused to share personal information.
• Ichinose asked Class D for a long-distance reserve slot in exchange for a promise not to bid again on that event, and Gu Heng left the offer pending personal confirmation.
• Gu Heng closed the trading page and told Class D that anyone seeking an exchange had to say what they were willing to lose.

Class D negotiated a Sports Festival exchange with Class B, gaining a long-distance reserve in return for a Relay reserve and limiting future exchanges. The Public Window closed with Class D still needing to fill the Relay vacancy, which Ryuuen saw as a new opening.

• An unnamed Class D boy offered his Relay reserve spot but refused to exchange personal information or accept terms that restricted future adjustments.
• Horikita rejected Class C's demand for Class D to acknowledge a member's Relay handoff flaw, while the boy agreed to negotiate event terms and withdraw if asked for a name.
• Ichinose revised Class B's conditions to apply only to the current Public Window, and the boy confirmed the terms after she clarified that an injured reserve would invalidate the exchange without compensation.
• Horikita and the boy confirmed the exchange, giving Class D a long-distance reserve while costing it a Relay reserve and the option of a similar second exchange with Class B.
• Ryuuen had Ishizaki record Class D's new Relay vacancy and planned to target personal confirmations in a future exchange.

Class D struggled to fill the relay substitute vacancy without automatically transferring responsibilities, as Sudo and Horikita set personal conditions for helping. A new school rule then required every class to publicly designate a Replacement Member, leaving Class D facing a more consequential choice.

• The preparation page warned that the relay substitute vacancy could not inherit the original member’s eligibility, and Sudo realized that applying again would leave his Second Backup Location duties unsettled.
• Gu Heng asked potential substitutes to state their conditions; one withdrew, another moved to coordination-pending, and the third stayed under review with a ban on reassignment to logistics.
• Sudo handed his location page to Hirata for a possible responsibility change, then began reviewing the relay substitute conditions without making promises on the applicant’s behalf.
• Horikita volunteered as a final backup under the condition that her original event and stated responsibility remain unchanged, giving Class D two possible candidates.
• The school announced that every class must publicly designate a Replacement Member before official grouping, and refusing an exchange would cost the class a temporary reassignment opportunity.

Class D selected Horikita and Sudo as public replacement candidates after both personally agreed to the risk and set limits on forced exchanges. As the Sports Festival approached, Ryuuen made an anonymous relay trade offer that targeted one candidate’s personal confirmation rights.

• Sudo volunteered to become a public candidate, but Horikita and Gu Heng warned that the choice carried risks for both him and Class D.
• Gu Heng required candidates to confirm their own willingness; the third applicant refused, while Horikita and Sudo joined the public list with personal conditions.
• Ryuuen saw Horikita’s and Sudo’s names and sent an exchange proposal that deliberately left its target unnamed.
• Ichinose confirmed that public candidates could refuse exchanges, and Horikita personally affirmed their right to do so.
• The school announced that the Class Relay would begin the next morning and that Class D could use its Temporary Exchange Authority during the ten-minute pre-event window.
• Ryuuen anonymously offered to trade a relay runner for one public candidate’s Personal Confirmation Right, and Gu Heng recognized that Class C had begun targeting Class D’s choices.

Class D rejected Class C’s attempt to exchange a public candidate’s Personal Confirmation Right, and Sudo personally confirmed that he would run the first leg. Class D finished fourth in the relay and kept its lineup, but lost the chance to make further relay adjustments; the next event would require class leaders to disclose their exchange decisions and refusals at a rooftop conference.

• Class D declared Class C’s exchange terms invalid, and Ryuuen challenged a public candidate to bear the cost of the refusal.
• Sudo confirmed that he would keep the first leg, while Horikita retained her reserve eligibility and refused an advance transfer of her confirmation right.
• Class C submitted no legal exchange, and the relay began with Class D’s original lineup.
• A handoff error dropped Class D to fourth place, behind Class C in second and Class B in third.
• The Sports Festival Terminal confirmed that Class D had retained an unused Temporary Exchange Authority but could make no more relay exchanges.
• The school announced that class leaders would submit exchange statements and Personal Refusal Records in the Rooftop Conference Room, where Ryuuen, Sakayanagi, and Ichinose would see Class D’s choices.

The four classes began publicly explaining their exchanges, with Horikita, Gu Heng, and Sudo establishing that each person could testify only about their own choices. The school opened a supplementary window, leaving the next stage focused on who had personally borne responsibility and could explain their actions.

• Horikita recorded Class D’s exchanges, the candidates’ Right to Refuse, and the unused-rights policy, while the school required the second explanation to be confirmed by the entire class.
• Sudo testified that he had refused the Relay exchange because the decision was not his confirmation.
• Horikita limited Sudo’s testimony to his own refusal, and Hirata recorded its time and scope.
• Gu Heng distinguished rights left unused for now from rights permanently relinquished, while Horikita rejected Ichinose’s offer to explain for absent Class B members.
• The school restarted the twenty-minute supplementary window, requiring each class to present someone who had personally borne responsibility.

Gu Heng and Horikita submitted Class D’s plan to allocate its Unused Permissions through project-by-project personal confirmation, and Gu Heng made his own role explicit in the Public Ledger. The school then called him to explain his recorded responsibilities, leaving him facing the next round of questions.

• Horikita reported that Class D had used an Exchange Privilege and would not transfer its Unused Permissions yet, while limiting her statement to confirmations already completed.
• Gu Heng presented three allocation proposals, and Horikita chose project-by-project confirmation as Class D’s procedure.
• Gu Heng entered his proposals, rejected conditions, judgments, and uncompleted confirmations in the Public Ledger with times and executors.
• The school recorded Gu Heng’s ledger and required the people named as responsible to explain their actions, calling Horikita, Sudo, and then Gu Heng.
• Horikita asked Gu Heng to confirm what he would make public, and he agreed to disclose the recorded items while refusing to treat unrecorded observations as evidence against him.
• Hirata placed Sudo before Gu Heng in the explanation order, and Gu Heng stood ready as the School Terminal began loading questions.

Gu Heng answered questions about Class D’s unused Exchange Privilege, accepting responsibility for his proposals while refusing to claim the class’s strategy was already superior. Class D won a Grade-Wide Public Inquiry Authority, then set its questioning rules and scheduled the inquiry for that evening.

• Gu Heng said Class D had kept its Exchange Privilege because no one had explicitly accepted the consequences of using it, and said the class would bear the outcome, including his responsibility for proposals he had carried out.
• Gu Heng declined to claim Class D’s proposal was superior or name an individual student as its most exploitable weakness, identifying the class’s habit of treating individual choices as collective decisions as the risk instead.
• Horikita and Sudo backed Gu Heng’s explanation by saying Class D should not write anyone into a collective decision without confirmation, and the School Terminal approved the explanation and granted the class a Grade-Wide Public Inquiry Authority.
• Horikita published proposed limits for using the authority, while Sudo urged questioning Ryuuen and Hirata cautioned against letting Class C set the pace.
• Gu Heng proposed confirming the inquiry rules without predetermining questions, and Horikita recorded the decision as Class D’s temporary postponement rather than Gu Heng’s order.
• The four classes received question cards, and the inquiry was scheduled for eight that evening as Class D added a Public Ledger column recording who proposed, confirmed, and would bear the results of using the authority.

During Class D’s Public Inquiry, Ryuuen challenged whether Gu Heng had become the class’s sole leader and decision-maker. Class D’s members defended their right to refuse his plans, leaving the inquiry’s next round focused on who could make irreversible choices for the class.

• Horikita said Gu Heng had proposed the exchange plan, while she submitted it as representative, and Sudo said the class could not record consent that someone had not given.
• Horikita admitted she might pressure someone for the sake of victory, but said she could not record that pressure as confirmation; Hirata said he would explain the consequences of refusal without forging consent.
• Gu Heng acknowledged his plan could turn Class D into his tool, then said preventing that depended on everyone being able to refuse him.
• Sakayanagi described Class D as an organization that placed its leader inside the rules, and the school announced that the next inquiry would examine who could represent the class in irreversible choices.
• Ryuuen said he would question only Gu Heng the next day, while Horikita copied Gu Heng’s Public Ledger for Hirata to verify and distinguish between Personal Responsibility and Class Responsibility.

Sakayanagi traded Class A’s rule interpretation review for Gu Heng’s agreement to an Individual Inquiry, with Gu Heng setting strict limits on its scope. The review confirmed that class representatives could submit proposals but could not complete others’ personal responsibility fields, and Gu Heng left the inquiry as a recorded obligation to be carried out that night.

• Sakayanagi offered Class D a rule interpretation review in exchange for Gu Heng accepting an Individual Inquiry, and Gu Heng agreed after adding limits to the inquiry’s terms.
• During the second Public Inquiry, Gu Heng argued that a representative could submit a proposal but could not create consent or accept responsibility for others.
• Sakayanagi’s review confirmed that individuals had to complete their own personal responsibility fields, making Ryuuen’s challenge fail and prompting the school to publish the restriction.
• Sakayanagi told Gu Heng to repay Class A’s inquiry that night, and Ayanokoji became certain that her intended question concerned more than the rules.
• Gu Heng had Yukimura preserve the transaction records and treated the Individual Inquiry as a personal obligation rather than a debt Class D could bear.

Gu Heng answered Sakayanagi’s inquiry about why he resisted becoming Class D’s sole representative, while Hashimoto recorded the exchange and Ayanokoji remained a separate source. After Sakayanagi warned that Ryuuen and the school would push Gu Heng into sole responsibility the next day, Gu Heng arranged for Class D to test its ability to proceed without him.

• Sakayanagi questioned Gu Heng about his fear of choosing for Class D, and he said he wanted members to understand what they gave up when they handed him their choices.
• Sakayanagi reviewed Class A’s records of Gu Heng’s proposals and warned that Ryuuen and the school would try to make him Class D’s sole representative.
• Hashimoto sealed Sakayanagi’s questions and Gu Heng’s answers separately, while Gu Heng logged Ayanokoji’s presence as a distinct source.
• Gu Heng decided to leave the next day’s planning meeting temporarily and preserve the class’s progress without his involvement.
• Gu Heng wrote three separate responsibilities on the classroom whiteboard, and Horikita and Hirata added rules allowing them to reject opinions and suspend incomplete confirmations.

With Gu Heng absent, Class D completed its first round of personal reviews and he refused to become the class’s sole submitter, choosing the reviewer role instead. Horikita narrowed the candidates for a new representative, but the submission deadline was approaching and no one had yet accepted the position.

• Gu Heng missed Class D’s first proposal meeting and told Horikita not to wait for his explanation without his personal confirmation; Horikita led the class through individual reviews and recorded disagreements without treating them as sabotage.
• Kushida suggested giving the unused exchange permissions to whoever could reassure the class, but Horikita challenged her to take responsibility, and Yukimura recorded that no unified proposal had been formed.
• Gu Heng consulted the school about submission rules, and Chabashira-sensei told him that the clock would not stop because he was absent.
• Horikita presented the class’s review results, including confirmed participants and restrictions; Gu Heng declined sole submission authority and entered the reviewer position, which the school terminal recorded.
• After Gu Heng’s choice, Horikita had candidates review the representative’s authority, deadline, and refusal conditions; Hirata declined the representative role but agreed to serve as temporary recorder, while Yukimura recorded his refusal.
• Kushida asked whether the class would accept losing the submission window if no one represented them, and Horikita required everyone to review the question personally as the representative position remained unfilled.

After refusing sole submission authority, Gu Heng helped Class D establish a process that separated Horikita’s submission role from his document review. Horikita submitted the first plan, while an anonymous note prompted the class to preserve evidence without making unsupported accusations.

• Hirata declined the representative position, so Horikita accepted it while Gu Heng took a limited review role and Hirata tracked personal confirmations.
• Horikita answered Class C’s challenge by publishing her own records and declaring that she would submit independently of Gu Heng.
• Horikita removed an event requiring unconfirmed Temporary Exchange Authority and corrected the plan after Gu Heng spotted a timing contradiction in Sudo’s withdrawal record.
• The school accepted Class D’s first plan, while Ryuuen and Sakayanagi recorded judgments about Gu Heng’s influence and Horikita’s independence.
• Kushida placed an unsigned note before Gu Heng; he recorded its delivery but not its authorship, and Horikita kept it in the risk file without treating it as an accusation.