Recaps

Tatsuya Sakuya navigated Class 1-D’s disorder, forged connections across classes, and displayed his abilities in tests and a chess match with Sakayanagi Arisu. The stretch ended with Sakuya confronting Horikita Manabu, then considering how Horikita Suzune’s attachment to her brother could help him influence her.

• Sakuya used a recording to drive off a rude passenger on the bus, then met Ichinose Honami and arrived at Advanced Nurturing University.
• Chabashira Sae explained the school’s monthly points system as Sakuya assessed his classmates and began conserving his points.
• Sakuya helped Airi Sakura choose a camera, advised Ichinose to save her points, and bought a recorder to capture quiet speech.
• Sakuya challenged Ayanokouji Kiyotaka to a fitness-test wager and beat him, then helped Hasebe Haruka face the swimming test after boys harassed her.
• Sakuya won the men’s fifty-meter freestyle, agreed to teach Hasebe to swim, and later recorded Kamuro Masumi stealing beer before deleting the evidence and meeting her.
• Karuizawa Kei hired Sakuya to pose as her boyfriend and protect her, while he also played a drawn-out chess match with Sakayanagi Arisu and discussed the four classes’ leaders.
• Chabashira and Hoshinomiya Chie discussed Sakuya’s exam results, while Sakuya befriended Ayanokouji and later confronted Horikita Manabu as he threatened Suzune.
• Sakuya fought Manabu to a stalemate, kept the encounter from Suzune’s classmates, and reflected that her attachment to her brother could help him influence her.

Tatsuya Sakuya used last year’s midterm papers to win a leadership role and organize Class 1-D’s exam preparations. As the study group struggled to keep Sudo, Ike, and Yamauchi involved, Kushida’s promise of a date finally brought them back on board.

• Chabashira Sae revealed that Class 1-D’s rule violations had erased its Class Points and warned that students could be expelled for failing the midterms.
• Tatsuya tutored Karuizawa Kei and arranged to obtain and sell last year’s exam papers, using the proceeds to secure Kushida Kikyou’s support for his leadership bid.
• Tatsuya presented the papers to Class 1-D and won thirty votes to become committee secretary, then proposed a class committee.
• Tatsuya organized a study group, with Horikita Suzune as coordinator, Hirata Yousuke and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka overseeing the boys, and Kushida and Karuizawa overseeing the girls.
• Horikita’s first tutoring session with Sudo Ken, Ike Kanji, and Yamauchi Haruki fell apart after Sudo argued with her and stormed out.
• Tatsuya proposed moving the study sessions to the library, and Class 1-D agreed to meet there.
• Kushida persuaded Ike and Yamauchi to return, and Horikita warned them and Sudo about the consequences of failing their exams.
• Kushida offered to date whoever earned the highest midterm score, prompting Ike and Yamauchi to agree to study and Sudo to join them.

Tatsuya Sakuya helped Class 1-D through the midterms, secured Sudo Ken a makeup exam, and began building closer ties with several classmates. As the class prepared for what came next, Sakayanagi Arisu promised him a gift during the upcoming Deserted Island Exam.

• Tatsuya Sakuya confronted Yamawaki after he mocked Class 1-D, then met Sakayanagi Arisu and learned that Ryuen Kakeru was interested in Sudo Ken.
• Tatsuya Sakuya became closer to Shiina Hiyori through their shared library reading, and Karuizawa Kei visited him while ill and later thanked him for the medicine.
• Tatsuya Sakuya discovered that the midterm exam scope had changed after Chabashira Sae forgot to notify Class 1-D, and the class revised its study materials.
• Tatsuya Sakuya celebrated his birthday with Karuizawa Kei, Chabashira Sae, and Hoshinomiya Chie, then took the midterms with his classmates.
• After Sudo Ken failed English by four points, Tatsuya Sakuya lent him one million Private Points and arranged a makeup exam for two hundred thousand points.
• Tatsuya Sakuya taught Hasebe Haruka and Airi Sakura to swim, rescued Haruka after she lost consciousness, and later walked in on Horikita Suzune changing.
• Class 1-D passed the midterms with 78 Class Points, and Tatsuya Sakuya nominated Ayanokouji Kiyotaka as a Class Committee member.
• Kushida Kikyou showed Tatsuya Sakuya photos suggesting Airi Sakura was the model Shizuku, while Airi invited him to take photos with her on Saturday.
• Kamuro Masumi told Tatsuya Sakuya that Sakayanagi Arisu would give him a gift during the next Deserted Island Exam.

Tatsuya Sakuya helped clear Ken Sudō by using Airi Sakura’s recording to force Class 1-C to withdraw its complaint, then secured a contract requiring the class to pay him half of its members’ monthly Private Points. The arc left Tatsuya considering Ichinose Honami’s prospects for the Student Council as he questioned whether she could prioritize school order over her class.

• Tatsuya Sakuya photographed Airi Sakura, and Asahina Nazuna took pictures of them together before they encountered Ishizaki Daichi, Komiya, and Kondo attacking Ken Sudō.
• Airi Sakura recorded Ishizaki’s group provoking and attacking Sudō, and Tatsuya obtained the footage from her damaged camera before the Student Council hearing.
• Tatsuya showed Class 1-C the recording and negotiated with Ryuen Kakeru, demanding signatures on a contract in exchange for sparing the three students from expulsion.
• Class 1-C withdrew its complaint, Sudō was cleared, and Tatsuya and Ryuen registered their contract with Hoshinomiya Chie as a witness.
• Tatsuya received over a million Private Points from Class 1-C and wrote notes about Ryuen and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka in his notebook.
• At Palette Cafe, Ichinose Honami read Tatsuya’s notebook, praised him, and asked him to conduct a mock interview for her Student Council application.
• Tatsuya questioned Ichinose about balancing Student Council order with loyalty to Class 1-B, then warned that her answer might not satisfy Horikita Manabu.