Recaps

Class 1-D studied for the midterms in the library, but Class 1-C students provoked them and nearly triggered a fight. Tatsuya Sakuya stepped in and challenged Yamawaki’s claim that Class 1-C was hiding its strength.

• Class 1-D students gathered in the library and studied for the midterms, with Hirata Yousuke helping Sudo Ken read an English sentence.
• Yamawaki and another Class 1-C student mocked Class 1-D, prompting Sudo Ken to prepare to fight.
• Hirata Yousuke held Sudo Ken back while Horikita Suzune confronted Yamawaki and defended Class 1-D.
• Tatsuya Sakuya calmed Sudo Ken, stepped between the classes, and told Yamawaki that a tiger playing the pig had to act like one.

Tatsuya Sakuya defused Yamawaki’s provocation in the library, then corrected Kamuro Masumi during a history quiz at Palette Cafe. Their conversation ended when Sakayanagi appeared and greeted him.

• Tatsuya Sakuya introduced himself to Yamawaki and traded insults with him and Sudo Ken until the librarian warned the students to be quiet.
• Hirata Yousuke calmed Sudo Ken, and Horikita Suzune dismissed Class 1-D’s study session with instructions to keep reviewing.
• Tatsuya Sakuya went to Palette Cafe and sat beside Kamuro Masumi, offering her an iced Americano.
• Kamuro Masumi wrongly said Sakura Nation signed its surrender on August 15, 1945, and Tatsuya Sakuya corrected her that the instrument was signed on September 2.
• Kamuro Masumi complained that Tatsuya Sakuya was nitpicking, and he suggested she learn more from Sakayanagi.
• Sakayanagi greeted Tatsuya Sakuya at the cafe.

Tatsuya Sakuya met Koenji Rokusuke at a café with Kamuro Masumi, then went with her to bring dinner to Sakayanagi Arisu. Meanwhile, Ryuen Kakeru learned that the red-haired student he had targeted was Sudo Ken, a volatile basketball player.

• Koenji Rokusuke arrived at the café with an upperclassman and told Tatsuya Sakuya he had skipped the study session because he did not need it.
• Tatsuya Sakuya told Kamuro Masumi that Koenji Rokusuke was as capable as Sakayanagi Arisu, but admitted he had never faced Koenji himself.
• Kamuro Masumi received a message from Sakayanagi Arisu asking her to bring dinner, and Tatsuya Sakuya decided to go with her.
• Albert Yamada told Ryuen Kakeru that Yamawaki had arrived, and Ryuen ordered Ishizaki Daichi to bring him inside.
• Yamawaki reported that the red-haired student was Sudo Ken, a hot-tempered basketball club reserve with strong athletic ability, and Ryuen smiled at the information.

Tatsuya Sakuya reassured Hasebe Haruka that he would teach her to swim after midterms, then recalled how he had been transported from his former world while reading Re:Zero. He remained in the library, reflecting on his arrival in the world of Classroom of the Elite.

• After the study session ended, Hasebe Haruka reminded Tatsuya Sakuya that he had promised to teach her to swim.
• Tatsuya Sakuya told Hasebe Haruka to focus on passing midterms first and promised they could arrange the lesson afterward.
• Hasebe Haruka accepted and teased Tatsuya Sakuya by calling him Yeye as she left the library.
• Tatsuya Sakuya went to the light novel shelves and picked up Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
• Tatsuya Sakuya remembered that he had been transported into the world of Classroom of the Elite after leaving his university library in his former life.

Tatsuya Sakuya met Shiina Hiyori in the library when they both reached for The Devotion of Suspect X, then discovered they shared an enthusiasm for discussing books. As the library closed, Hiyori asked whether they could read together again, and Sakuya assured her they had plenty of time.

• Tatsuya Sakuya offered The Devotion of Suspect X to Shiina Hiyori after they reached for it at the same time.
• Shiina Hiyori recognized Sakuya from a previous class argument and said she often felt lonely reading at the library.
• Sakuya and Hiyori discussed Ishigami's plan, the police investigation, and the role of human nature in the novel.
• The closing announcement interrupted their conversation, and Hiyori asked Sakuya if they could read together again.
• Sakuya told Hiyori that the library and its books would remain, and that they had plenty of time ahead.

After training, Tatsuya Sakuya let Karuizawa Kei into his dorm, where she proudly reported her practice-test score and tried to get him to notice her new manicure. He mistook her hint for signs of a cold and gave her medicine, leaving Karuizawa frustrated as she confronted him.

• Tatsuya Sakuya finished his workout, returned to his dorm, and answered Karuizawa Kei's late-night knock.
• Karuizawa Kei entered by pointing out that the school rules barred boys from visiting girls' dorm floors after eight, not the reverse.
• Karuizawa Kei showed Tatsuya Sakuya her score of seventy-four on Horikita's practice questions and asked for praise for helping the girls study.
• Karuizawa Kei displayed her new cherry-blossom-pink manicure and tried to prompt Tatsuya Sakuya to compliment it.
• Tatsuya Sakuya noticed Karuizawa Kei's coughing, checked her forehead, and gave her cold medicine instead of noticing her manicure.
• Karuizawa Kei grew annoyed and stood in front of Tatsuya Sakuya to confront him.

Karuizawa Kei returned to her dorm with the cold medicine after teasing Tatsuya Sakuya, then confronted memories of her middle-school bullying and the scar it left. With a mild fever and renewed trust in Sakuya, she swallowed the medicine just after it expired, hoping it might help her past.

• Karuizawa Kei poked Tatsuya Sakuya, called him an idiot, and rushed out of Room 217 with the cold medicine.
• Back in her dorm, Kei collapsed against the door as her illness brought back memories of the bullying she suffered in middle school.
• Kei saw the scar on her abdomen and recalled the abuse that had left it, then thought of Sakuya's promise to protect her and his choice to make her a class representative.
• Kei measured a mild fever and noticed that the medicine had expired one minute earlier.
• Kei swallowed the expired pills with warm water, hoping they could cure her past.

With the midterms a week away, Tatsuya Sakuya attended Class 1-D’s study session and noticed that Class 1-C was absent from the library. He went upstairs to investigate whether they were studying there, while insisting to himself that he was not slacking off.

• Class 1-D studied intensely as Yukimura Teruhiko urged his classmates to prepare properly instead of relying on past exam papers.
• Karuizawa Kei brought Tatsuya Sakuya strawberry milk as thanks for the cold medicine and became flustered when he complimented her nails.
• After school, Class 1-D began its usual library study session, with Tatsuya Sakuya tasked with gathering information about the other classes.
• Tatsuya Sakuya noticed that Class 1-C’s usual library spot was empty and wondered why they had not come to study.
• Tatsuya Sakuya went upstairs in the library to check whether Class 1-C was studying there.

Tatsuya Sakuya learned from Ichinose Honami that the midterm exam scope had changed, then informed Class 1-D. Chabashira Sae admitted she had forgotten to tell them, leaving the class to revise its study plans with only a few days before the exam.

• Tatsuya Sakuya searched the library’s second floor for Class 1-C and a bunny girl upperclassman, but found neither and instead ran into Ichinose Honami studying.
• Ichinose Honami showed Tatsuya Sakuya the revised midterm exam scope, which Hoshinomiya Chie had announced to Class 1-B.
• Tatsuya Sakuya told Hirata Yousuke, Karuizawa Kei, Kushida Kikyou, Horikita Suzune, and the others that the exam scope had changed.
• Hirata’s group confronted Chabashira Sae, who said she had received the notice but accidentally forgotten to inform Class 1-D.
• Horikita Suzune photographed the updated scope and asked Hirata and Kushida Kikyou to share it, then left to revise the class’s study materials.

With midterms looming, Karuizawa Kei went to Keyaki Mall to celebrate Tatsuya Sakuya’s birthday, only to be pulled into a joint birthday party with their teachers. The chapter ended with the four of them smearing cake on one another in the KTV room.

• Karuizawa Kei received Tatsuya Sakuya’s invitation to KTV and learned it was his birthday, so she hurried to meet him with a box of chocolates.
• Tatsuya Sakuya and Karuizawa Kei encountered the drunken Hoshinomiya Chie and Chabashira Sae in a private room at Keyaki Mall.
• Hoshinomiya Chie brought Tatsuya Sakuya and Karuizawa Kei into the room and arranged a joint birthday celebration for Tatsuya Sakuya and Chabashira Sae.
• Tatsuya Sakuya and Chabashira Sae made wishes and blew out the candles on a fruit cake.
• Hoshinomiya Chie smeared cake on Chabashira Sae, and Karuizawa Kei and Tatsuya Sakuya joined the cake fight.

Class 1-D took its midterm exams after Chabashira Sae promised a summer island trip if the class passed both the midterms and final exams. The exams ended, leaving Sudo Ken worried about his English performance while the class awaited its results.

• Chabashira Sae announced that she would consider taking the first-years on a summer island trip if Class 1-D passed the midterms and final exams.
• Tatsuya Sakuya took the social studies, Japanese, chemistry, and mathematics exams, which closely followed the past exam questions.
• Sudo Ken told Ike Kanji that he had not memorized the English past questions and regretted neglecting them.
• Chabashira Sae administered the English exam, during which Sudo Ken repeatedly sighed and Tatsuya Sakuya kept his own score under control.
• After collecting the final papers, Chabashira Sae told Sudo Ken that the midterm results would likely arrive in about seven business days.

Class 1-D received its midterm results, and Sudo Ken was set to be expelled after failing English despite the class’s high average. Tatsuya Sakuya noticed his English score was unexpectedly seventy and wondered whether Ayanokouji Kiyotaka and Horikita Suzune had secretly affected the results.

• Tatsuya Sakuya met Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi in the elevator, and Sakayanagi thanked him for providing the real midterm questions.
• Chabashira Sae posted Class 1-D’s midterm results, revealing that Tatsuya Sakuya had scored seventy in English and perfect scores in his other subjects.
• Chabashira Sae announced that Sudo Ken had failed English with thirty-nine points because the class average was 86.4, putting him below the passing threshold of forty-three.
• Ike and Yamauchi Haruki checked Sudo Ken’s exam papers but found no scoring error, while Chabashira Sae told him to submit a withdrawal application after school.
• Koenji Rokusuke criticized Sudo Ken for failing despite having the real questions, and Tatsuya Sakuya noticed Ayanokouji Kiyotaka and Horikita Suzune had left their seats.

After Sudo Ken failed the midterm, Tatsuya Sakuya offered to keep him from expulsion in exchange for a million Private Points, and Sudo signed the contract. They went to the faculty office to have Chabashira Sae witness it, but she had not returned yet.

• Sudo Ken panicked over his failing midterm and begged Tatsuya Sakuya to help him avoid expulsion.
• Tatsuya Sakuya offered to help in exchange for a million Private Points, with monthly installments and ten percent annual interest.
• Sudo Ken agreed to the contract and signed it, accepting that he would owe Tatsuya Sakuya the points if he stayed enrolled.
• Tatsuya Sakuya and Sudo Ken went to the faculty office, where Chabashira Sae was absent and Hoshinomiya Chie was celebrating Class 1-B's strong midterm results.

Tatsuya Sakuya secured a witnessed debt contract to keep Sudo Ken at school, then found a cheaper alternative to paying for altered exam scores. The chapter ended with Sudo scheduled to take a makeup exam in one week, with expulsion still looming if he failed.

• Tatsuya Sakuya had Hoshinomiya Chie witness his one-million-point loan contract with Sudo Ken, which required Sudo to repay twenty thousand points monthly with ten percent annual interest.
• Horikita Suzune brought Tatsuya Sakuya to the rooftop, where Chabashira Sae said exempting Sudo from expulsion by changing his exam score would cost four hundred thousand Private Points.
• Tatsuya Sakuya admitted that he, Horikita Suzune, and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka could not gather enough points to pay for the score change.
• Tatsuya Sakuya proposed buying Sudo Ken a makeup exam instead, and Chabashira Sae agreed to arrange one for two hundred thousand Private Points.
• Horikita Suzune thanked Tatsuya Sakuya, while Chabashira Sae warned that Sudo Ken would be expelled if he failed the makeup exam in one week.

Tatsuya Sakuya clarified the make-up exam rules after paying 200,000 points to secure Sudo Ken another chance. Sudo learned he needed only four more points than his midterm score and left determined to study for the exam in seven days.

• Tatsuya Sakuya returned to Chabashira Sae to ask about the make-up exam’s scope and passing score.
• Chabashira Sae explained that the exam would cover the same material as the midterm and that Sudo Ken needed 43 points to avoid expulsion.
• Tatsuya Sakuya told Sudo Ken that he had secured a make-up exam in seven days, but Sudo protested that he still had to take a test after signing the agreement.
• Tatsuya Sakuya revealed that Sudo’s midterm score of 39 left him only four points short of passing.
• Sudo Ken thanked Tatsuya Sakuya and vowed to study seriously for the next seven days.

After midterms, Tatsuya Sakuya agreed to teach Hasebe Haruka and Airi Sakura how to swim the next morning. At the gym, he encountered Horikita Manabu, who asked whether Horikita Suzune had been growing.

• Tatsuya Sakuya joined Hasebe Haruka and Airi Sakura for lunch, and Haruka reminded him of his promise to teach them swimming.
• Airi Sakura reluctantly agreed to join them, and the three arranged to meet at the indoor swimming pool the next morning.
• Tatsuya Sakuya went to the gym and encountered Student Council President Horikita Manabu.
• Horikita Manabu asked whether Horikita Suzune had really been growing, and Tatsuya Sakuya confirmed that she had.

Tatsuya Sakuya met Koenji Rokusuke, Hasebe Haruka, and Airi Sakura at the indoor pool for a private swim. After they greeted each other and agreed to use their first names, Tatsuya began leading warm-ups, but Haruka jumped into the water before finishing.

• Tatsuya Sakuya arrived at the empty pool and found Koenji Rokusuke swimming and admiring his physique.
• Hasebe Haruka brought a bashful Airi Sakura out of the changing area in their swimsuits.
• Haruka asked Tatsuya what he thought of Airi's swimsuit, and the group discussed how to address one another by their first names.
• Tatsuya began demonstrating stretches and ankle exercises before swimming.
• Haruka waved off the warm-up and leaped into the pool to get used to the water.

Tatsuya Sakuya taught Haruka and Airi Sakura to swim, but Haruka crossed into the deep end and nearly drowned. He rescued her with CPR, and the chapter left Haruka embarrassed after waking to find he had given her rescue breaths.

• Tatsuya Sakuya corrected Haruka's swimming technique and helped her practice floating and kicking.
• Tatsuya Sakuya guided the nervous Airi Sakura through warm-ups and swimming practice.
• Haruka crossed the warning line into deep water, sank, and lost consciousness.
• Tatsuya Sakuya pulled Haruka from the pool and performed rescue breaths and chest compressions until she woke.
• Haruka blushed and confronted Tatsuya Sakuya about the rescue breaths, while Airi Sakura hugged her in relief.

After recovering from a swimming cramp, Hasebe Haruka felt embarrassed about her memories of Tatsuya Sakuya. The next morning, Tatsuya Sakuya went to check on the absent Horikita Suzune, walked in while she was changing, and was punished before they both arrived late to class.

• Tatsuya Sakuya scolded Hasebe Haruka for swimming without warming up, and Airi Sakura helped stretch her muscles as Haruka remembered waking up close to him.
• Tatsuya Sakuya noticed Horikita Suzune was missing from class, and Kushida Kikyou asked him to check her room.
• Tatsuya Sakuya found Horikita Suzune's door unlocked and entered, discovering she was changing after tearing her uniform.
• Horikita Suzune finished changing and struck Tatsuya Sakuya with a hand chop for entering her room, leaving them both late for class.

Class 1-D received 78 Class Points for June after earning a reward for everyone passing the midterms and losing points to tardiness and rule violations. At a cafeteria meeting, the students agreed to continue study sessions and unanimously made Ayanokouji Kiyotaka a Class Committee member.

• Chabashira Sae announced that Class 1-D had earned 100 Class Points for passing the midterms but lost 22 points, leaving the class with 78 for June.
• Tatsuya Sakuya invited Ayanokouji Kiyotaka to the cafeteria, where they found Hirata Yousuke, Horikita Suzune, Oda Kikyou, Karuizawa Kei, and Kushida Kikyou gathered.
• Hirata Yousuke thanked Tatsuya Sakuya and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka for helping Sudo Ken secure a makeup exam and avoid expulsion.
• Horikita Suzune proposed continuing regular study sessions so the class could prepare for final exams without relying on makeup exams.
• Tatsuya Sakuya called for a vote to nominate Ayanokouji Kiyotaka as a Class Committee member, and everyone except Ayanokouji unanimously approved.

Class 1-D agreed to focus on improving for the next exam instead of relying on purchased past papers. Tatsuya Sakuya then noticed Airi Sakura’s resemblance to a print model and had to rush to the library to return an overdue book.

• Horikita Suzune persuaded Class 1-D to support preparing for the next exam through their own efforts, and the majority drowned out the dissenting students.
• Tatsuya Sakuya recognized the print model in Ike Kanji’s magazine as Airi Sakura without her glasses, but said he was unsure when asked.
• Tatsuya Sakuya silently pointed out that Hasebe Haruka was holding her textbook upside down, making her blush and hide her face.
• Tatsuya Sakuya received a library reminder that his renewal limit had run out and hurried to return Wilderness Survival: Bear Grylls' Autobiography before the library closed.

Tatsuya Sakuya ran into Shiina Hiyori in the library after she reserved the survival book he had been trying to renew, and the two read together as old companions. Their conversation turned to his possible expulsion and the upcoming Deserted Island Exam, and Shiina revealed she had handled Class 1-C’s midterm study scope for Ryuen Kakeru.

• Tatsuya Sakuya found that another student had reserved Wilderness Survival: Bear Grylls' Autobiography and went to return it to the shelves.
• Shiina Hiyori met Tatsuya Sakuya and admitted she had reserved the book because she wanted to read it and learn what her reading companion had been reading.
• Tatsuya Sakuya and Shiina Hiyori sat together and read quietly, then discussed his possible expulsion and promised to keep reading together.
• Shiina Hiyori asked whether Tatsuya Sakuya was preparing for the Deserted Island Exam with the survival book.
• Tatsuya Sakuya guessed that Shiina Hiyori had handled Class 1-C’s midterm exam, and she confirmed Ryuen Kakeru had assigned her to narrow the exam scope.

Tatsuya Sakuya met Shiina Hiyori and later went to the rooftop after Kushida Kikyou summoned him. Kushida showed him a gravure blog featuring the popular model Shizuku, who she suspected might be Sakura Airi.

• Tatsuya Sakuya reflected that Shiina Hiyori would be a more considerate leader for Class 1-C than Ryuen Kakeru, and Shiina offered to return his library books for him.
• Tatsuya Sakuya checked the class standings and saw that Class 1-D had 78 CP, far behind the other classes.
• Kushida Kikyou quietly asked Tatsuya Sakuya to meet her alone on the rooftop after school.
• Tatsuya Sakuya brought a voice recorder to the rooftop, where Kushida asked whether he was close with Sakura Airi.
• Kushida Kikyou showed Tatsuya Sakuya photos of Shizuku on a blog and said classmates suspected the model was Sakura Airi.

Tatsuya Sakuya wondered whether Kushida Kikyou’s brief reaction to her old blog had been genuine, then found Airi Sakura alone with her camera and agreed to take photos with her on Saturday. Airi fled when he invited her to dinner, leaving Sakuya to head back toward the dorms without eating.

• Tatsuya Sakuya asked Kushida Kikyou whether she still used her blog, and she said she had stopped for certain reasons.
• After school, Tatsuya Sakuya wandered along the main road while thinking about Kushida Kikyou’s reaction.
• Tatsuya Sakuya found Airi Sakura sitting alone with her camera and asked whether she had taken any photos.
• Airi Sakura asked Tatsuya Sakuya to take photos with her on Saturday, and he agreed.
• Tatsuya Sakuya invited Airi Sakura to dinner, but she hurried back to the dormitory, so he decided to return there too.

Tatsuya Sakuya learned that Sakayanagi planned to give him a gift during the next Deserted Island Exam, while Kamuro Masumi left without discovering how he had prevented a Class 1-D student from being expelled. After class, Ike, Yamauchi, and Ayanokouji discussed dating and youth.

• Kamuro Masumi confronted Tatsuya Sakuya at his dorm and asked how he had prevented a Class 1-D student from being expelled, but he refused to explain.
• Kamuro Masumi speculated about Tatsuya Sakuya's abilities, then became embarrassed when her stomach growled and he offered her food.
• Kamuro Masumi relayed Sakayanagi's message that she would give Tatsuya Sakuya a gift during the next Deserted Island Exam.
• Tatsuya Sakuya wondered what Sakayanagi's gift would be, then turned his attention to finding dinner.
• After class, Ike Kanji and Yamauchi Haruki talked about wanting girlfriends and praised Ichinose Honami and Kushida; Ayanokouji Kiyotaka replied that he had no experience with romance.