Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Zhou Yuang questions Agnes Tachyon about the night-wandering Uma Musume and Manhattan Cafe. Tachyon admits that a potion leaked, and she is developing an antidote in a hidden laboratory.
• Tachyon says she must avoid Manhattan Cafe, whom she calls a traitor for failing to bring Biwa Hayahide as instructed. Zhou Yuang remains skeptical: his own experience with Cafe and Bourbon makes the situation hard to understand.
• Tachyon asks Zhou Yuang to retrieve a hidden book from Tracen’s library. He must arrange several Uma Musume sculptures in specific positions to reveal it; Grass Wonder knows the arrangement. If he succeeds, Tachyon promises to meet him and explain more. The task will have to be done at night, when the roaming Uma Musume make it dangerous.
• After the call, Grass Wonder reveals that she is one of the night-wandering Uma Musume. Worried about harming anyone, she asks Zhou Yuang to keep her under control at night. He doubts he could restrain her.
• The livestream audience likewise questions how an ordinary human could control Grass Wonder, especially given her martial skill and the danger posed by other night-wandering Uma Musume.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang stays cautious and resists Tachyon’s attempts to manipulate or intimidate him, but agrees to pursue the book so he can learn the truth.
• Tachyon is relaxed and evasive, yet reveals more about her experiment and assigns Zhou Yuang a risky errand. She portrays Manhattan Cafe as dangerous, though her accusations are not proven.
• Grass Wonder shows awareness of her altered nighttime state and concern for others. She trusts Zhou Yuang enough to ask for help, despite having no clear idea how he could provide it.
• Zhou Yuang and Tachyon negotiate through a phone call; Grass Wonder listens in, then speaks candidly with him. The livestream viewers comment on both the mystery and the practical impossibility of his new task.

Significant themes

• Trust and conflicting accounts: Tachyon’s claims about Manhattan Cafe are difficult to verify, leaving Zhou Yuang caught between competing explanations.
• Responsibility amid loss of control: Grass Wonder’s request reflects her fear of causing harm while in a state she cannot manage.
• Risk and experimentation: Tachyon treats Zhou Yuang’s task as one trial among many, while he must face the danger of investigating the problem himself.

Plot and key events

Grass Wonder asks Zhou Yuang to help prevent her from wandering Tracen at night and damaging the school. Determined to be restrained rather than become a dangerous “monster,” she offers to do anything in return.
To help him stop her, Grass Wonder presents a real M1911 loaded with tranquilizer rounds and explains that dandelions could lure her in. Zhou Yuang is alarmed by the gun and doubts he could hit a fast Uma Musume. He also discovers that Grass Wonder can summon her enormous Naginata from a distance: after he throws it away, it flies back into her hand. The weapon therefore cannot easily be confiscated.
Zhou Yuang agrees that dandelions may help calm her, though he remains wary of how difficult the situation could become. Manhattan Cafe then appears and politely asks to speak with him. Grass Wonder steps aside, clarifying that Zhou Yuang is not her Trainer.

Character developments and interactions

• Grass Wonder shows her disciplined, earnest side. She is frightened by the prospect of losing control and harming others, and takes unusual practical steps to ensure Zhou Yuang can intervene. Her calm acceptance of his questions contrasts with the alarming weapons she brings.
• Zhou Yuang balances concern for Grass Wonder’s safety with disbelief at her preparations and supernatural Naginata. He tries to understand how to restrain her without hurting her.
• Manhattan Cafe arrives composed and courteous, shifting the scene toward a new conversation with Zhou Yuang.
• The onlooking Uma Musume react with shock and speculation, especially to Grass Wonder’s gun and her ability to summon her Naginata. Air Groove is particularly alarmed that such a weapon has appeared at school.

Significant themes

• Self-control and responsibility: Grass Wonder wants her strength expressed on the racetrack, not through uncontrolled nighttime destruction.
• Trust and willingness to accept help: She gives Zhou Yuang the tools and information she thinks he needs, despite the risks.
• Uma Musume’s extraordinary nature: Their speed, strength, and inexplicable abilities make ordinary methods of restraint unreliable, often with comic results.

Key events

• Grass Wonder leaves, after which Manhattan Cafe appears to collide with an invisible barrier. She is confused by its absence and seems to have arrived too late for something.
• Cafe gives Zhou Yuang a protective charm and shrine salt, claiming they can stop evil spirits. He accepts and stores them away.
• When Zhou mentions Matikane Great Immortal, Cafe urgently asks whether she is an Uma Musume he has a contract with, then visibly relaxes when he says no.
• Cafe insists that she and Zhou made a childhood promise, though he has no memory of it. She warns him that Tachyon is dangerous, claims Tachyon made a deal with Hayakawa and others, and says her corrupted friend has been assigned to use a Potion—possibly to infect more Uma Musume and destroy Tracen.
• Cafe plans to find and save her friend that night. She promises to return if Zhou needs help, and says that if she fails, she will take him somewhere safe—eventually proposing they flee to a small town in the United States and live together.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang remains wary and practical. He accepts Cafe’s gifts but questions her contradictory warnings and is reluctant to trust either her or Tachyon. He also recognizes that fleeing the academy could leave him more vulnerable.
• Manhattan Cafe shows both protectiveness and unsettling instability: she speaks of a possibly forgotten shared past, displays intense jealousy at the idea of another Uma Musume being close to Zhou, and becomes increasingly fixated on rescuing him and escaping together. She and Zhou share a brief, gentle physical moment when she holds and kneads his wrist.
• Grass Wonder departs before the main conversation; her earlier presence appears connected to the chapter’s unexplained tension.
• Tachyon remains absent from the scene but is a central subject of dispute. Cafe portrays her as a threat, while Zhou has reason to doubt Cafe’s account. The livestream commenters tease Cafe’s apparent possessiveness, and Tachyon’s provocative comment sparks a slap from Cafe.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and unreliable accounts: Zhou must weigh competing warnings without knowing which Uma Musume is telling the truth.
• Protection and control: Cafe’s care may be sincere, but her insistence that she is the only one Zhou can trust—and her plan to take him away—blurs protection with possessiveness.
• Memory and identity: Cafe’s claim of a childhood promise raises questions about Zhou’s past and what he can remember.
• Supernatural danger: The invisible barrier, protective charms, and suspected Potion plot deepen the mystery around the threats at Tracen.

Key plot points and events

• Manhattan Cafe proposes taking Zhou Yuang to the United States and speaks as though they have a future together. Zhou declines, reassuring Oguri Cap that he has no intention of leaving Tracen, and agrees with Cafe that they should first deal with the academy’s problems.
• Cafe leaves reluctantly, warning Zhou to contact her if anything happens. Her earnest but unsettling advances prompt the Livestream Room to wonder whether she might become more forceful.
• Zhou goes to sleep and wakes at noon to a note from Hayakawa: the Basement equipment has been repaired, and he is expected to follow his usual schedule and photograph every Uma Musume.
• Concerned about Cafe’s request not to photograph her, Zhou decides to avoid recording her unless she becomes hostile. He remains uncertain how much to trust Cafe’s information—or Tachyon’s—and plans to compare what they say with events at Tracen.
• Zhou heads to the Cafeteria, expecting to find McQueen eating under the influence of drugs. He shoots her with Grass Wonder’s tranquilizer gun, but the dart has no immediate effect. McQueen finishes her dessert, makes strange chewing noises, and then collapses.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang remains cautious and pragmatic. He refuses Cafe’s offer, avoids provoking her, and keeps his suspicions about everyone’s reliability to himself.
• Manhattan Cafe shows strong attachment to Zhou and reluctance to leave him, despite having known him only briefly.
• Oguri Cap admits that being separated from her friends—and from Zhou—frightens her.
• McQueen is again shown eating compulsively while apparently unaware of her actions. She is mortified by the possibility of repeating her earlier behavior, though she ultimately does.
• Tachyon reacts possessively to the thought of Daiwa Scarlet approaching Zhou, even briefly misunderstanding who would be pursuing whom.

Significant themes

• Trust and uncertainty: Zhou cannot be sure whether Cafe’s rambling or Tachyon’s explanations are truthful, so he chooses observation over confrontation.
• Attachment and separation: Cafe’s proposal and Oguri’s anxiety highlight how quickly relationships can form and how painful distance may feel.
• Comedy amid danger: The Livestream Room turns the academy’s unsettling drug-related incidents into jokes, while Zhou treats them as practical problems.
• Control and vulnerability: McQueen’s unconscious eating and the ineffective tranquilizer show how little control the characters may have over their circumstances.

Character interactions

• Zhou gently reassures Oguri that he will not leave for America.
• Cafe tells Zhou to call if he needs help, but her lingering looks reveal how reluctant she is to part from him.
• Zhou weighs Cafe’s wishes against Hayakawa’s instruction to photograph everyone and decides not to antagonize Cafe.
• Zhou tries to use Grass Wonder’s tranquilizer gun on McQueen; its failure leads to another embarrassing, drug-induced episode.

Chapter summary

• The chapter opens with McQueen having collapsed after overeating. Zhou Yuang mocks her and considers sending footage to the Mejiro family, while the livestream audience teases her about her dessert obsession. McQueen, overwhelmed with embarrassment, declares that she is sorry she was born a “fat horse.”
• The story then shifts to Zhou Yuang’s nighttime task: reaching the training room and eventually the Library. He finds the training equipment untouched, which warns him that Grass Wonder may arrive at any moment. Since she is dangerous and the corridor could let her build speed, he prepares to use dandelions as bait and his pistol to defend himself.
• Grass Wonder never appears. While checking the corridor, Zhou Yuang hears someone coming and scatters the dandelions on the stairs. The newcomer is Eishin Flash, unexpectedly on a route that differs from the one Zhou Yuang remembers. Before she can approach or explain herself, he shoots her several times to incapacitate her.
• Zhou Yuang realizes Flash may have changed her route because of a planned meeting. Remembering that she and Daiwa Scarlet had discussed training together, he rushes toward the Library. He encounters Scarlet coming up the stairs and suspects the two friends are meeting for late-night training. The chapter ends as Scarlet notices him and calls out, “Who’s there?”

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang remains wary and pragmatic: he plans around the Uma Musume’s speed and strength, prioritizing survival over waiting to see whether Flash is hostile. His discovery of her unexpected route shows how closely he studies the replay and connects clues.
• McQueen is portrayed as comically unable to control her eating, but her collapse and public humiliation leave her genuinely distressed.
• Eishin Flash acts outside her usual routine, suggesting she has a reason to meet someone; her unexpected appearance raises suspense rather than resolving it.
• Daiwa Scarlet and Flash appear to be following through on their earlier conversation about training together. Zhou Yuang’s arrival threatens to interrupt their meeting.
• The livestream audience supplies commentary and humor, while also pointing out tactical risks and helping interpret the characters’ movements.

Significant themes

• Survival through preparation: Zhou Yuang relies on planning, environmental awareness, and quick decisions in a dangerous setting.
• Uncertainty and misread intentions: Familiar routines change, and Zhou Yuang must act without knowing whether an approaching character is a threat.
• Comedy amid danger: McQueen’s overeating and the audience’s teasing contrast with the tense nighttime encounters and gunfire.
• Friendship and trust: Flash and Scarlet’s apparent secret training suggests a close bond, though Zhou Yuang’s intervention leaves their interaction unresolved.

Summary

Zhou Yuang’s attempt to escape the academy’s night duty goes badly: after tranquilizer darts knock down Mejiro McQueen and Eishin Flash, Daiwa Scarlet remains standing despite being hit repeatedly. She advances on him, apparently driven by the effects of a drug associated with Agnes Tachyon, and declares that she will “teach him a lesson” and become his first Uma Musume.
Zhou reloads, but realizes he cannot safely fight Scarlet and Flash at once. Instead, he uses his tablet’s flash to exploit Scarlet’s sensitive eyes. Blinded, she tumbles down the stairs, giving Zhou a chance to flee while Flash is still unconscious. Scarlet quickly recovers enough to shout after him, and Zhou fears she may bring Flash into the chase.
He calls Manhattan Cafe as he runs toward the Library. She answers anxiously, says she is coming to help, and ends the call abruptly. Zhou hopes she will arrive clear-headed rather than worsening the dangerous situation. He tells the livestream audience that he is heading to the Library to complete Tachyon’s task and advance the story; the chapter ends with a viewer asking whether Cafe will mind what has happened.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang stays resourceful under pressure. Though cornered and outmatched, he uses his knowledge of Scarlet’s vulnerability to escape rather than continue firing or fighting.
• Daiwa Scarlet proves unusually resistant to the tranquilizers, but her drug-influenced behavior is embarrassing to her. Watching the events on the livestream, she is horrified by her own advances and worries that her classmates will mock her.
• Agnes Tachyon is distressed by the possibility that her drug is causing the same provocative urges in different Uma Musume. She wants Zhou to escape and is mortified by the prospect of his becoming intimate with Scarlet.
• Manhattan Cafe shows concern for Zhou and rushes to meet him, though he worries her intervention could be unpredictable.
• Silence Suzuka reacts indignantly to Scarlet’s behavior, while the other livestream viewers comment, speculate, and urge Zhou to run. The stream lets characters outside the immediate scene witness and react to the chaos.

Significant themes

• The gap between intention and consequence: Tachyon’s experiment appears to have created dangerous, uncontrolled effects, regardless of her intentions.
• Improvisation and vulnerability: Zhou survives not through strength, but by recognizing and exploiting a small, specific weakness.
• Embarrassment and public scrutiny: The livestream turns a frightening encounter into a spectacle for the characters watching, intensifying Scarlet’s humiliation and Tachyon’s distress.
• Comic tension amid danger: The chapter mixes genuine pursuit and risk with exaggerated reactions, teasing dialogue, and Zhou’s darkly humorous fears about what might happen next.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang hides in the library to finish Tachyon’s task without Manhattan Cafe finding out. Daiwa Scarlet and Eishin Flash pursue him, with Scarlet threatening to capture him and train him into Tachyon’s ideal husband.
• Their comments set off a misunderstanding in the livestream chat about Tachyon being attracted to married men. Dober takes the joke seriously and imagines a disastrous future in which she is forced to marry Zhou Yuang and the Mejiro family falls under his control.
• Fearing that her manga hobby will disgrace her family, Dober destroys her newly drawn pages and mourns the loss of her work.
• Meanwhile, Zhou Yuang tries to evade the pursuers. He reasons that Scarlet is the obvious threat while Flash is likely to use tactics, and he navigates the library toward a statue of Rudolf.
• Zhou Yuang finds Rudolf’s sword accessory and places it on the statue. The statue and pedestal turn with a loud mechanical sound, revealing his position. Flash appears behind him, and he raises his tranquilizer gun.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang stays composed enough to joke with the livestream commenters, but remains focused on completing Tachyon’s task and avoiding capture. He anticipates the pursuers’ strategies and uses his knowledge of the library to evade them.
• Dober is swept up in her own imagined worst-case scenario. Her fear of family disgrace outweighs her love of drawing, leading her to destroy her work.
• Tachyon is embarrassed and exasperated by Scarlet’s claim that Zhou Yuang will be made into her husband. Manhattan Cafe enjoys Tachyon’s discomfort, while Takamine joins the teasing from the comments.
• Scarlet and Flash work together to hunt Zhou Yuang: Scarlet calls out to flush him from hiding, while Flash’s quieter, more strategic approach makes her the greater immediate danger.
• Takamine and Dober are indirectly linked through Dober’s growing suspicion that Takamine’s online identity is connected to the threats about marrying her off to Zhou Yuang.

Significant themes

• Rumor and misunderstanding: A joking claim about Tachyon spirals into increasingly elaborate assumptions, especially in Dober’s imagination.
• Fear of social and family judgment: Dober sees her art as incompatible with her family’s expectations and sacrifices it to avoid bringing them shame.
• Comic contrast between fantasy and reality: Dober imagines an extreme melodramatic future while Zhou Yuang faces the much more immediate, physical danger of being cornered in the library.
• Pursuit and strategy: The library sequence turns the task into a cat-and-mouse game, with Zhou Yuang’s careful planning undone by the statue’s loud mechanism.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang fires tranquilizer darts at Eishin Flash, but Daiwa Scarlet’s noisy arrival disrupts him. Flash removes the darts and remains composed, while Scarlet is furious.
• The two Uma Musume accuse Zhou Yuang of being a pervert and threaten to punish him. He tries to stall, hoping for help from Manhattan Cafe, but she has not arrived.
• Zhou proposes a game to avoid being seized immediately. Flash agrees to hide-and-seek: he runs, they chase, and if they catch him enough times, he must become their trainer and “plaything.” Scarlet and Flash negotiate the rules without giving Zhou much say.
• Scarlet declares that every capture earns them an unexplained “appetizer.” With Flash counting down, Zhou bolts deeper into the library as the chase begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang shifts from attempting to incapacitate Flash to improvising a game as a survival tactic. He remains anxious but tries to buy time and exploit the library’s layout.
• Eishin Flash is controlled and strategic. Rather than attack at once, she accepts Zhou’s challenge and frames the game as a way to make him submit mentally as well as physically.
• Daiwa Scarlet is openly angry, impulsive, and eager to chase Zhou. She joins Flash in setting the rules and treats the pursuit as exciting.
• The livestream audience comments on the danger and jokes about Zhou’s predicament. Gold Ship’s teasing adds to his embarrassment, while Tachyon feels guilty because the drug’s effects seem to have altered Scarlet’s behavior.

Significant themes

• Power imbalance: Uma Musume’s physical superiority leaves Zhou with few options beyond negotiation and escape.
• Improvisation under pressure: Zhou turns a threatening confrontation into a game in hopes of gaining a temporary chance to flee.
• Comedy through dramatic irony: The audience’s jokes contrast with Zhou’s genuine fear, while the characters’ playful tone makes the danger more unsettling.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang continues the Library maze challenge, collecting pieces and trying to activate statues without being caught by Daiwa Scarlet or Eishin Flash.
• Scarlet, who is unsedated and has three mistakes to spare, races through the maze, calling out to him and promising a “special deal” if he surrenders.
• Zhou Yuang narrowly avoids her by flattening himself against a bookshelf, then uses the tall shelves to hide above the maze. He fits a piece into a statue and escapes Scarlet’s search.
• When he tries to climb down, he finds Eishin Flash waiting below. Flash pushes over the bookshelf, sending him tumbling four meters to the floor. Scarlet’s voice approaches as Flash calmly offers him the chance to give up.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang stays cautious and resourceful, using the maze’s layout and shelves to evade the much faster Uma Musume. He is also determined not to let his fiancées—especially Silence Suzuka—be hurt by what they might see.
• Scarlet’s confidence and competitive energy are on display, but her teasing promises and pursuit embarrass her when the livestream audience watches.
• Flash remains composed and methodical, using her limited mistakes strategically. Her polite, charming manner contrasts with her willingness to topple a shelf to catch Zhou Yuang.
• Agnes Digital, Dober, and the other viewers react with dismay and embarrassment to the suggestive implications of the game; Manhattan Cafe chastises Tachyon for stirring up trouble.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter mixes slapstick suspense with flirtatious teasing: Zhou Yuang’s clever hiding places offer only temporary safety, while the runners’ speed and strength keep the danger immediate.
• The livestream turns private embarrassment into public spectacle, prompting viewers to joke, panic, or try to protect the characters’ reputations.
• Zhou Yuang’s evasive contest with Scarlet shifts into a direct confrontation with Flash: Scarlet hunts by speed, while Flash uses patience and force.

Plot and events

• Zhou Yuang keeps evading Eishin Flash and Daiwa Scarlet in the library. He tricks Scarlet into crashing into a bookshelf, then fires his tranquilizer gun at Flash—but she collapses after a single shot, despite apparently needing several before. He suspects a trap and runs rather than checking on her.
• While moving between the library’s statues, Zhou examines Orfevre’s statue and follows the opposite instructions from the academy: he removes its backpack, which Tachyon’s message marks with a red X.
• Scarlet catches sight of him. Zhou throws the backpack as a distraction and escapes around a corner, but Flash tracks him and knocks over bookshelves to obstruct his route. The two Uma Musume eventually trap him between rows of shelves.
• With Flash behind him and Scarlet ahead, Zhou chooses to charge Scarlet with his tablet rather than turn his back to her and shoot Flash. Scarlet anticipates the move, grabs him, knocks the tablet away, and pins him against a bookshelf. The chapter ends as she leans in and presses him down.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang remains resourceful, using misdirection, the environment, and deliberate gambles to escape. He also thinks ahead about using the Uma Musume’s assumptions and overconfidence against them.
• Daiwa Scarlet learns from earlier mistakes and approaches Zhou more cautiously. She ultimately reads his charge correctly and captures him, while teasing him at close range.
• Eishin Flash appears to go down unusually easily, then recovers or was feigning weakness; she pursues Zhou methodically and uses the bookshelves to herd him.
• Smart Falcon and other viewers defend Flash in the livestream chat, though their explanations only add to the chapter’s comic uncertainty about her behavior.

Themes and interactions

• The chase is framed as a contest of wits: Zhou tries to exploit the Uma Musume’s expectations, while they adapt and coordinate to corner him.
• The chapter mixes tactical suspense with slapstick and flirtatious teasing, especially in Scarlet’s capture of Zhou.
• The livestream chat provides humorous commentary, debating Flash’s collapse and teasing the characters as the chase unfolds.

Plot points

• Daiwa Scarlet, influenced by Agnes Tachyon’s drug, corners Zhou Yuang and kisses him, claiming she wants to make him a suitable husband for Tachyon. Eishin Flash quietly supervises, stepping in when Scarlet’s advances go too far.
• Zhou Yuang is flustered but resists, unwilling to be intimate with a drug-influenced version of Scarlet. Scarlet lets him go after boasting that she was his first, then gives him a head start before chasing him again.
• The livestream audience reacts with alarm and jealousy. Silence Suzuka is especially upset, while Tachyon panics at seeing her junior kiss Zhou Yuang and vows to intervene. The chapter ends with Suzuka threatening to stay awake to protect him and the Student Council being urged to inspect Tachyon’s lab.

Character developments

• Daiwa Scarlet is bold and possessive under the drug’s influence, but remains devoted to Tachyon and sees her actions as a way to repay her. Her inexperience shows beneath her confidence.
• Zhou Yuang is attracted to Scarlet but refuses to take advantage of her drugged state, distinguishing this version of her from the person he hopes to pursue.
• Eishin Flash acts as a calm, supportive chaperone, enforcing Scarlet’s promise to stop and helping Zhou Yuang escape.
• Agnes Tachyon shifts from scientific mischief to frantic jealousy and regret, while Silence Suzuka becomes more openly protective of Zhou Yuang.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter mixes romantic comedy with jealousy, emphasizing the tension between attraction and consent: Zhou Yuang’s desire is checked by his concern that Scarlet is not acting freely.
• The livestream turns a private encounter into public spectacle, amplifying embarrassment and rivalry among the watching Uma Musume.
• Scarlet’s affection for Tachyon drives her scheme, while her encounter with Zhou Yuang provokes a chain of reactions—from Flash’s quiet intervention to Suzuka’s protectiveness and Tachyon’s jealousy.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang continues the Library hide-and-seek game, racing to collect an ornament before Eishin Flash’s countdown expires. He evades Daiwa Scarlet by taking detours and reaches it, but soon hears her approaching.
• At a corridor junction, Eishin Flash pulls Zhou Yuang out of sight just before Daiwa Scarlet runs past. She leads him into a secluded dead end and argues that he has not been caught as long as Daiwa does not find them.
• Flash uses their hiding place to make advances on Zhou Yuang, who suspects the drug has affected her but is unsure whether her behavior is entirely out of character. He lets her kiss him, though he remains uncomfortable with the sudden intimacy.
• Flash teases that they are “building a connection” and suggests he could think of her as his fiancée. Their encounter is interrupted by Daiwa calling for Flash and searching nearby; the chapter ends as Daiwa’s footsteps draw closer.

Character development

• Zhou Yuang is relieved to see Tachyon rebuffed, but his relief gives way to anxiety as the game grows more dangerous. Though tempted to respond to Flash, he draws a boundary: he wants intimacy to follow a genuine bond, not happen casually.
• Eishin Flash reveals a playful, calculating side. She exploits the rules and the privacy of the dead end to pursue Zhou Yuang, mixing measured confidence with signs of inexperience.
• Daiwa Scarlet remains intensely focused on finding Zhou Yuang. Her earlier affection has left her craving another encounter, making her search increasingly urgent.
• Tachyon reacts with jealous fury at the possibility that Zhou Yuang might pursue Daiwa, then faints again. The livestream audience also worries about Tachyon’s drug and its influence on the Uma Musume.

Significant themes

• Rules and loopholes: Flash treats “not being caught” as a matter of interpretation, turning the game’s rules into an opportunity.
• Consent, intimacy, and genuine connection: Zhou Yuang distinguishes between a real relationship and sudden physical closeness, even while participating in Flash’s advances.
• Drug-induced behavior versus true personality: The Uma Musume’s altered conduct raises doubts about how much the drug changes them—and how much it merely amplifies existing traits.
• Public spectacle: The livestream audience watches, comments on, and judges the private interactions, adding comedy and pressure.

Character interactions

• Zhou Yuang and Flash: Flash saves him from Daiwa, then flirts with him and challenges his reluctance; he resists the idea that they are already close.
• Zhou Yuang and Daiwa: He evades her search, while she grows more eager to find him.
• Tachyon and the viewers: Tachyon’s jealousy and fainting prompt a mixture of concern, teasing, and alarm about the drug’s consequences.

Key plot points

• Zhou Yuang and Eishin Flash hide from the approaching Daiwa Scarlet and embrace and kiss. Scarlet passes nearby without discovering them.
• The livestream audience—and Silence Suzuka and Air Groove in particular—watch in jealous, helpless disbelief as Flash acts like Zhou Yuang’s wife, straightening his clothes and kissing his cheek.
• Flash explains that she is “poisoned” by love at first sight, not by a literal toxin. Zhou Yuang suspects Tachyon’s drug may have altered her behavior, but Flash insists she has every right to pursue love.
• Concerned that Flash is still a student and may not be thinking clearly, Zhou Yuang avoids making a romantic promise. He agrees to train her at Tracen Academy instead.
• Flash cleverly turns his agreement into an opening: she asks him to teach her running at school—and, outside school, to guide her for the rest of her life, calling him her “dear husband.” Zhou Yuang, realizing how deftly she has cornered him, decides to leave.

Character developments and interactions

• Eishin Flash is revealed as unexpectedly bold and strategically persuasive. She combines affection with sharp timing, openly pursuing Zhou Yuang and framing his practical answer as a long-term commitment.
• Zhou Yuang remains cautious: he does not want to exploit someone whose judgment may be affected, but his attempts to set boundaries are repeatedly outmaneuvered. He ultimately retreats rather than prolonging the conversation.
• Silence Suzuka and Air Groove react with intense jealousy, each imagining that Flash has taken a role they consider their own.
• Daiwa Scarlet searches for the pair but misses them, while Manhattan Cafe tries to steady the distraught Tachyon, who is fixated on Scarlet.
• The livestream commenters debate whether an Uma Musume can appropriately pursue her trainer, with most defending Flash’s right to take the initiative.

Significant themes

• Consent and responsibility: Zhou Yuang worries that Flash’s feelings or behavior may be influenced by a drug, and refuses to make a serious promise without certainty.
• Romance versus horror: The chapter contrasts the supposedly frightening situation with the audience’s fascination and the romantic comedy of Flash’s pursuit.
• Jealousy and rivalry: The spectators’ possessiveness turns Flash’s affection into a source of comic tension.
• Persuasion and commitment: Flash’s ability to transform a simple training agreement into an implied lifelong bond drives the chapter’s humor and conflict.

Key plot points and events

• Eishin Flash keeps pursuing Zhou Yuang, but her chase is playful and flirtatious rather than openly hostile. She lets him escape while teasing him about a future “interesting” conversation.
• Zhou Yuang places another piece in Tachyon’s Sculpture task, then flees when the library’s red light sweeps over him.
• Daiwa Scarlet spots him and adapts to his flashlight tactic by looking down and tracking him from the corner of her eye. She slaps him off balance, knocking away the Tablet, then catches and restrains him.
• Daiwa Scarlet teases Zhou Yuang while pinning him down and touching him. Afterward, Eishin Flash returns his belongings, and Zhou Yuang resumes the task.
• Manhattan Cafe still has not arrived with replacement clothes. Zhou Yuang wonders whether her absence is accidental—or deliberate.
• With only one Sculpture piece left, Zhou Yuang climbs a bookshelf. Eishin Flash appears with the final piece, but holds it back and taps her cheek, implying she expects a kiss or similar reward.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang grows more tactical, hiding his bookshelf-climbing strategy and trying to use every advantage against Daiwa Scarlet. Despite his suspicion and frustration, he recognizes that Eishin Flash can be trusted.
• Eishin Flash combines practical help with deliberate flirtation, supporting Zhou Yuang while making their exchanges feel like a game of courtship.
• Daiwa Scarlet learns from the flashlight’s effects and changes her approach, showing that she can adapt rather than simply charge blindly. Once she catches Zhou Yuang, she becomes openly provocative.
• Manhattan Cafe remains absent from the library, prompting Zhou Yuang to suspect she may be withholding help on purpose.
• Tachyon is still comically vulnerable to Manhattan Cafe: after drinking her coffee, she collapses again. Cafe calmly enjoys the moment and seems to have regained control of the situation.

Significant themes

• Chase as courtship: Eishin Flash’s pursuit blurs the line between competition and flirting.
• Adaptation and strategy: Zhou Yuang and Daiwa Scarlet both adjust their tactics as the chase develops.
• Trust versus suspicion: Zhou Yuang tries to distinguish genuine danger from playful teasing, especially with Eishin Flash.
• Affection as negotiation: Eishin Flash’s final gesture suggests that even practical help comes with a romantic “price.”

Character interactions

• Zhou Yuang and Eishin Flash trade teasing advances, and she ultimately helps him by bringing the last Sculpture piece—while demanding something in return.
• Zhou Yuang and Daiwa Scarlet’s chase ends in a physical, provocative capture that leaves him flustered and his belongings scattered.
• Manhattan Cafe quietly monitors Tachyon and uses her coffee to subdue her, while Tachyon’s collapse entertains Cafe.
• The livestream audience comments on Daiwa Scarlet’s behavior; Silence Suzuka studies it as a technique she might imitate.

Key plot points and events

• After Zhou Yuang installs Eishin Flash’s ornament, a crash in the Library draws him to a newly revealed book on Rudolf’s statue pedestal.
• Daiwa Scarlet suddenly appears and grabs Zhou Yuang, eager to push their relationship further. Before she can act, Manhattan Cafe rushes in and knocks her unconscious with one punch.
• Manhattan Cafe is badly battered, with torn clothing, bruises, and a possibly dislocated, bleeding arm. She explains she fought Sunday Silence and a powerful Uma Musume wielding a naginata, insisting she did not lose.
• Manhattan Cafe checks that Zhou Yuang is safe, then places herself between him and Eishin Flash. Eishin calmly picks up the fallen book, seemingly unfazed by the confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang is alarmed by Manhattan Cafe’s injuries and prioritizes getting her treated. He is also struck by how fiercely she protects him, despite their limited time together.
• Manhattan Cafe reveals formidable fighting ability and strong loyalty to Zhou Yuang. Even while wounded, she stays alert to perceived threats and reacts angrily to Daiwa Scarlet’s treatment of him.
• Daiwa Scarlet becomes increasingly impatient with their bargain and tries to take matters further, but Manhattan Cafe’s intervention stops her.
• Eishin Flash remains composed and practical, checking Daiwa Scarlet and retrieving the book. Her presence makes Manhattan Cafe especially defensive.
• Sunday Silence watches Manhattan Cafe with interest but denies enjoying fights, while the livestream audience reacts with shock and concern over her injuries.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts desire and restraint: Daiwa Scarlet’s escalating interest in Zhou Yuang is interrupted by Manhattan Cafe’s protective intervention.
• Loyalty and protection are central, especially as Manhattan Cafe risks worsening her injuries to keep Zhou Yuang safe.
• The Uma Musume’s extraordinary strength is shown as both impressive and dangerous, even in apparently ordinary encounters.

Key plot points and events

• Eishin Flash arrives, revealing that Tachyon sent her. She urges the injured Manhattan Cafe to accept treatment and leave the Trainer to his business, but Cafe insists on staying with him and refuses Tachyon’s medicine.
• Flash tries to subdue Cafe with her rapier. Cafe instead draws a tranquilizer gun and knocks Flash unconscious, showing that she is prepared to use force to keep the Trainer safe.
• Cafe carries Zhou Yuang toward the basement despite her injuries. He persuades her to stop at the Infirmary, where he bandages her.
• Still exhausted, Cafe struggles to carry him onward. Zhou Yuang picks her up and carries her himself. She relaxes in his arms, and the Uma Musume watching the scene comment on its unusual, romance-manga sweetness.
• Cafe falls asleep in the surveillance room. Zhou Yuang settles her in a chair, checks the electrical room, and returns to find her omamori on the floor. He replaces it and brings up the surveillance feeds.

Character developments

• Manhattan Cafe is fiercely protective of Zhou Yuang and distrustful of Tachyon, believing that accepting her medicine would serve Tachyon’s plans. Her determination persists even as her injuries and exhaustion catch up with her. Once Zhou Yuang cares for her, she lets her guard down and falls asleep.
• Zhou Yuang recognizes that Cafe’s stubbornness comes from concern for him, but insists that she receive care too. He persuades her through their trust and shared promises, then takes over when she can no longer carry him.
• Eishin Flash appears to be cooperating with Tachyon and tries to bring Cafe in for treatment. Her calm, formal approach gives way to a failed attempt to use her fencing skills.
• Tachyon is shown recovering and trading teasing remarks with Cafe, while the observers’ comments highlight the group’s playful, gossiping atmosphere.

Significant themes

• Trust and mutual protection: Cafe wants to protect Zhou Yuang, while he reminds her that care and safety must go both ways.
• Care overcoming stubbornness: Gentle reassurance succeeds where pressure would not; Cafe accepts treatment because she trusts the Trainer.
• Uncertainty and danger: Cafe’s warnings about Tachyon and her companion make the trip to the basement feel urgent, though their motives remain unresolved.
• Humor amid tension: The spectators’ reactions and the contrast between Flash’s sword and Cafe’s gun provide comic relief during a dangerous escape.

Character interactions

• Cafe rejects Flash’s attempt to separate her from Zhou Yuang and incapacitates her rather than fight at close range.
• Zhou Yuang and Cafe negotiate over her treatment; his appeals to their promises and future together persuade her to go to the Infirmary.
• Zhou Yuang tends to Cafe’s wounds, then carries her when she becomes too tired to carry him.
• Cafe and Tachyon exchange teasing barbs, while the livestream audience comments on the Trainer carrying Cafe as an unusually romantic sight.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang checks the Basement and discovers that Sunday Silence has joined Mejiro McQueen. Sunday signals that he plans to make trouble that night.
• Daiwa Scarlet arrives with Eishin Flash, followed by McQueen and Sunday. Zhou Yuang seals the Basement doors to keep the group out.
• Sunday, being a Ghost, passes through the doors and cuts the power. The doors automatically unlock, so Zhou Yuang switches to a limited backup supply and uses it to keep the security-room entrances shut.
• Scarlet and McQueen confront Zhou Yuang through the windows, demanding that he let them in. He refuses, fearing their advances and hoping to hold out until dawn, when Hayakawa will arrive.
• Sunday tries to enter the security room but is stopped by Omamori Salt Zhou Yuang has placed by the door. He also fails to get in through the air vent after Zhou Yuang salts it. As the chapter ends, Sunday eyes the unconscious, drooling McQueen as a possible way to get inside.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang is increasingly desperate but resourceful: he uses the backup power and Omamori Salt to delay the intruders, while trying to conserve energy until help arrives.
• Daiwa Scarlet grows jealous and possessive after seeing Zhou Yuang with Manhattan Cafe. She misreads the situation as an intimate encounter and angrily demands to join him.
• Mejiro McQueen is eager to get to Zhou Yuang, calling him “Mr. Ice Cream Machine” and pressing herself against the window to persuade him.
• Sunday Silence reveals a mischievous, predatory streak. Though his Ghost abilities let him bypass ordinary barriers, Omamori Salt blocks his attempts to enter.
• Manhattan Cafe remains asleep for much of the confrontation; her deadpan response to Tachyon’s coughing fit adds to the comic tone. Eishin Flash accompanies Scarlet but remains largely passive.

Character interactions

• Scarlet’s jealousy centers on Manhattan Cafe, whom she assumes is with Zhou Yuang romantically; her taunts also provoke Tachyon’s laughter.
• McQueen makes an eager, comic appeal to Zhou Yuang, while Sunday mocks him and plots ways around the defenses.
• Zhou Yuang counters Sunday’s supernatural access with Omamori Salt, frustrating his attempts to enter through both the door and air vent.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses farce and romantic jealousy to turn a tense siege into a series of absurd misunderstandings.
• Resourcefulness versus brute force drives the standoff: Zhou Yuang’s limited power and protective salt are his only defenses against the Uma Musume and Sunday’s Ghost abilities.
• The recurring sexual jokes and exaggerated pursuit emphasize the story’s playful, chaotic tone.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang distracts Sunday Silence by activating an ice-cream machine, which lures McQueen away. Sunday Silence remains outside, taunting him through the open doorway.
• Sunday Silence makes an obscene gesture and threatens Zhou Yuang. He fires back with insults, including a boast that he would rather have twelve children with Daiwa Scarlet than have any with her.
• Daiwa Scarlet hears the remark through the monitoring system and enthusiastically demands that Zhou Yuang open the door so they can discuss the children’s names. Eishin Flash encourages her to search the warehouse for a way inside.
• Eishin Flash instead confronts Zhou Yuang about Manhattan Cafe, whose injuries he has bandaged. She grows jealous and suspicious, then announces that she will take him away and “communicate” with him later.
• Eishin Flash joins Daiwa Scarlet in a coordinated assault: Scarlet attacks one iron door with a hammer while Flash strikes the other with a sword. Zhou Yuang shuts both doors and retreats into the monitoring room.
• Sunday Silence calls for McQueen, who crashes around inside the ventilation duct. Zhou Yuang tries to manage the situation, but the battery is draining rapidly—both from time passing and from the repeated blows to the doors. With no obvious way to distract the attackers, he is forced to wait.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang uses quick thinking to divert McQueen, but his provocative jokes worsen his situation. His concern for the injured Manhattan Cafe also puts him at odds with Eishin Flash.
• Sunday Silence shifts from threatening Zhou Yuang to mocking him and helping keep McQueen nearby. She and Zhou Yuang trade vulgar insults.
• Daiwa Scarlet reacts to Zhou Yuang’s claim about having children with her with excited determination, despite her earlier insistence that she would never want children with him.
• Eishin Flash reveals jealousy and distrust over Zhou Yuang’s closeness to Manhattan Cafe. Her composed manner gives way to a forceful plan to abduct him, and she teams up with Daiwa Scarlet.
• Manhattan Cafe remains asleep and injured, but her presence—and Zhou Yuang’s care for her—drives the conflict between him and Eishin Flash.
• McQueen is easily lured by dessert, but Sunday Silence’s call draws her back toward the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Comedy through escalating chaos: Flirtation, insults, misunderstandings, and physical attacks turn a tense standoff into farce.
• Jealousy and possessiveness: Eishin Flash’s reaction to Manhattan Cafe and Daiwa Scarlet’s response to Zhou Yuang’s provocative remark fuel the assault.
• Survival under pressure: Zhou Yuang relies on improvisation, locked doors, and limited resources, while the rapidly draining battery makes waiting increasingly dangerous.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yuang survives the second night in the game’s sealed basement when daybreak drives Sunday Silence, Daiwa Scarlet, and Eishin Flash away. The game offers a save option, and he saves before returning to the main menu.
• Exhausted by the stream, Zhou Yuang decides to stop for the day. He tells viewers he plans to stream again in three days.
• The stream’s ending releases the Uma Musume from their frozen viewing state. Silence Suzuka, Oguri Cap, and Air Groove rush to check on Zhou Yuang, while others set off on their own errands or investigations.
• Several Uma Musume plan to confront or question people connected to the stream: Sunday Silence goes looking for Zhou Yuang; Manhattan Cafe brings Tachyon to the Student Council; and Mejiro Takamine intends to check on McQueen and Dober. Another Uma Musume, intrigued by her in-game self’s apparent love at first sight, decides to meet Zhou Yuang herself.
• The chapter ends as Silence Suzuka, Oguri Cap, and Air Groove crowd into Zhou Yuang’s office, asking if he is all right.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yuang is relieved to discover the save function but remains worn out and second-guesses how he handled Eishin Flash. He considers whether a more affectionate approach might have worked, though he sees another chance as possible.
• Silence Suzuka grows more determined to be Zhou Yuang’s “first,” viewing his affection as a competition she cannot afford to lose. Yet she worries her eagerness might scare him, so she hopes to coordinate with Oguri Cap and Air Groove.
• Oguri Cap and Air Groove share Suzuka’s concern for Zhou Yuang and hurry to him as soon as the stream ends.
• Other Uma Musume react in varied ways: some are protective, some want to investigate the game’s effects, and others plan to discipline or check on fellow students. The in-game behavior has also piqued one Uma Musume’s curiosity about the real Zhou Yuang.

Significant themes

• Competition and ambition: Suzuka frames affection as another race, determined to keep the lead.
• Care and possessiveness: The Uma Musume’s concern for Zhou Yuang is sincere but mixed with jealousy and romantic rivalry.
• Reality and game influence: Events in the game shape the real Uma Musume’s plans, curiosity, and reactions.
• Rest and limits: Zhou Yuang recognizes that he is exhausted and chooses to stop, even as others remain eager to act.

Key plot points and events

• After a frightening livestream, Silence Suzuka, Oguri Cap, and Air Groove worry that Trainer Zhou Yuang may be psychologically shaken. He reassures them, and Suzuka and Oguri leave for class.
• Air Groove takes Zhou Yuang to the Student Council to help question Agnes Tachyon about the livestream’s potion props. Rudolf has ordered the laboratory checked for dangerous substances or damaged containers, but the potions’ effects remain unknown.
• At the Student Council, Zhou Yuang sees Tachyon and Manhattan Cafe. Air Groove quickly shifts into official business and discourages him from chatting with them.
• Manhattan Cafe’s ghostly friend, Sunday Silence, appears. She inspects Zhou Yuang and, finding him unusually attractive in her supernatural perception, bluntly offers to become his casual bedmate. When he rejects that idea internally, she proposes marriage instead—offering Cafe and Tachyon as a “buy one, get two free” deal. Cafe coughs in embarrassment, while Tachyon gets an ominous chill.

Character developments

• Zhou Yuang remains composed despite the livestream’s disturbing implications. He thinks carefully about romance, consent, and responsibility, and hopes to communicate with the Uma Musume before making any advances.
• Air Groove shows both professional discipline and possessiveness. She reassures Zhou Yuang, walks closely beside him with her tail wrapped around his leg, and brings him to the Student Council—but is also wary of other Uma Musume’s interest in him.
• Rudolf continues managing the consequences of the livestream calmly and methodically, prioritizing safety while the potion props are examined.
• Tachyon is anxious to defend herself against suspicion, while Cafe remains quiet and is caught off guard by Sunday Silence’s outrageous behavior.
• Sunday Silence emerges as mischievous, curious, and uninhibited, using her ghostly status to make provocative comments that others cannot hear.

Significant themes

• Reality versus fantasy: Air Groove stresses that the livestream’s game-like events should not be confused with real relationships.
• Consent and responsibility: Zhou Yuang rejects casual intimacy and intends to act only after honest discussion and with care.
• Jealousy and attachment: Air Groove’s physical closeness and concern suggest she wants to mark her bond with Zhou Yuang, even as she insists they are simply walking together.
• Comedy through contrast: Official Student Council business is repeatedly undercut by romantic tension and Sunday Silence’s shameless proposals.

Character interactions

• The opening shows the trio of Suzuka, Oguri Cap, and Air Groove trying to comfort Zhou Yuang, only to become flustered themselves.
• Air Groove and Zhou Yuang exchange restrained teasing during their walk, with her refusing to remove her tail from his leg.
• Rudolf and Air Groove question Tachyon about her potions while Cafe observes.
• Sunday Silence’s proposal embarrasses Cafe and unnerves Tachyon, while Zhou Yuang silently rejects the offer and reflects on what he wants from a relationship.