Chapter Summaries

Ken Kaneki boarded the bus to Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, where he recognized Suzune Horikita and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. When Kikyo Kushida asked passengers to offer an elderly woman a seat, Rokusuke Koenji refused, leaving Kushida searching the bus for someone willing to help.

• Ken Kaneki recalled his past life as a champion fighter, his rebirth, and the dangerous accidents that pushed him to enroll at Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School.
• Ken Kaneki noticed Suzune Horikita reading and identified Kiyotaka Ayanokoji as the seemingly ordinary boy whose body concealed formidable strength.
• Ken Kaneki saw an elderly woman struggle to stand while the other students ignored her.
• Kikyo Kushida asked the passengers to give the elderly woman a seat, then pressed Rokusuke Koenji to surrender his priority seat.
• Rokusuke Koenji rejected Kushida's request, arguing that he had paid for the seat and the elderly woman's weakness was not his responsibility.
• Kikyo Kushida scanned the bus for someone else who might offer the woman a seat.

On the bus to Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, students watched as Kikyo Kushida tried to persuade someone to give up a seat for an elderly woman. After arriving, Ken Kaneki reunited with Rokusuke Koenji and met Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Koenji declared the three of them a team.

• Kikyo Kushida appealed to the bus passengers to give an elderly woman a seat, but a woman in a business suit eventually offered hers.
• Suzune Horikita confronted Kiyotaka Ayanokoji after the students got off the bus, and he denied watching her.
• Rokusuke Koenji greeted Ken Kaneki, who recalled defeating Koenji in a fighting tournament two years earlier and becoming his friend.
• Ken Kaneki and Rokusuke Koenji discussed why they had enrolled at the school as Kiyotaka Ayanokoji joined them.
• Rokusuke Koenji announced that he, Ken Kaneki, and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji were now a team.

Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji joined Class 1-D and met their classmates, including Suzune Horikita and Kikyo Kushida. After awkward introductions and a tense moment with Ken Sudō, their homeroom teacher Sae Chabashira arrived, and Ken recognized that the game had begun.

• Ken Kaneki learned that he, Rokusuke Koenji, and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji were all assigned to Class 1-D, and the three entered the classroom together.
• Ken Kaneki spotted Ken Sudō, Kanji Ike, and Haruki Yamauchi, while Kiyotaka Ayanokoji recognized Suzune Horikita from the bus.
• Kikyo Kushida greeted the class, and Yosuke Hirata proposed that everyone introduce themselves.
• Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, Rokusuke Koenji, and Suzune Horikita gave brief or unfriendly introductions, and Ken Kaneki's stare stopped Ken Sudō from confronting Koenji.
• Sae Chabashira entered as the class's homeroom teacher, and Ken Kaneki realized the game had begun.

Sae Chabashira explained the school’s closed-campus rules and introduced the S System, which gave students points to spend on campus. Ken Kaneki and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji suspected the monthly points were not guaranteed, and Ken prepared to put his plan into motion.

• Sae Chabashira told the class that students had to live in the dormitories and could not leave campus or contact the outside world.
• Sae Chabashira explained that student IDs also served as payment terminals and that the school had given each student one hundred thousand points.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji calculated the cost of giving the students that much money and realized Sae Chabashira had never promised the allowance would arrive every month.
• Sae Chabashira clarified that points reflected the school's assessment, could be transferred, and would be reclaimed at graduation; she also warned that coercion to obtain points meant expulsion.
• Ken Kaneki checked the time and prepared to set his plan in motion.

Ken Kaneki attended the opening ceremony with Ayanokoji and Koenji, where Student Council president Horikita Manabu warned the first-years that ability and results ruled the school. After the ceremony’s club introductions eased the tension, Kaneki led Ayanokoji and Koenji into action.

• Ken Kaneki left Class 1-D with Ayanokoji and Koenji and observed the leaders of Classes A, B, and C as they reached the gymnasium.
• Horikita Manabu silenced most of the gymnasium with his presence, while Kanji Ike stopped Ken Sudō from confronting him.
• Horikita Manabu delivered a stern speech about ability, results, and the school’s unequal distribution of resources, drawing Horikita Suzune’s fixed attention.
• The club representatives introduced their clubs, easing the tense atmosphere in the gymnasium.
• Ken Kaneki took Ayanokoji and Koenji with him and began to act.

Ken Kaneki led Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Rokusuke Koenji to the Martial Arts Club and provoked its president into accepting a three-on-three challenge. The chapter ended with the club agreeing to one-on-one matches for points, with Ken Kaneki eager to begin.

• Ken Kaneki led Ayanokoji and Koenji to the Martial Arts Club's training hall.
• A club member mistook the three freshmen for potential recruits, but Ken Kaneki announced that they had come to challenge the club.
• The Martial Arts Club members gathered angrily, and their president confronted the freshmen.
• Ken Kaneki taunted the president into accepting a three-on-three challenge, with the matches fought one-on-one.
• The president agreed that each freshman victory would earn the trio three hundred thousand points, while each loss would cost them one hundred thousand.

Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji wagered points against the Martial Arts Club and won the first two matches decisively. Faced with Ken Kaneki, the club president conceded, and the trio left with their points.

• Ken Kaneki, Koenji, Ayanokoji, and the Martial Arts Club president signed a contract for a best-of-three match with point transfers.
• Ayanokoji defeated Daiki by striking his neck after testing the club fighter's attacks.
• Koenji evaded Yamashita's high kick and stopped his own kick beside Yamashita's head, securing the second win.
• Ken Kaneki asked the Martial Arts Club president whether they would fight, and the president conceded.
• The advisor processed the point transfer, and Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji confirmed their balances had risen to four hundred thousand points before leaving.

Ken Kaneki and his classmates exploited the welcome-day rules to earn points before Class 1-D’s balance fell, then went their separate ways. Kaneki won a high-stakes chess match against Sakayanagi Arisu, who left determined to challenge him again.

• Ken Kaneki warned Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Rokusuke Koenji that Class 1-D would likely lose its points and suggested earning more by wagering against clubs.
• The three agreed to pursue points separately, and Kaneki earned a substantial sum by visiting clubs where he excelled.
• Kaneki entered the Chess Club and challenged Sakayanagi Arisu to a game for three hundred thousand points.
• Kaneki and Sakayanagi introduced themselves as students of Class 1-D and Class 1-A, then played an intense match.
• Kaneki checkmated Sakayanagi, who paid the wager and left saying she would reclaim those points in a future game.

Ken Kaneki caught Kamuro Masumi stealing a can of beer at the campus convenience store, but deleted his recording instead of blackmailing her. He left after warning her about the cameras, while Masumi returned the beer and thanked him.

• Ken Kaneki shopped at the campus convenience store and spotted Kamuro Masumi taking a can of beer from the refrigerated cabinet.
• Ken Kaneki recorded Kamuro Masumi hiding the beer, and she confronted him and asked what he wanted in exchange for deleting the video.
• Ken Kaneki erased the recording and explained that the cabinet glass had reflected her actions to the security camera.
• Ken Kaneki warned Kamuro Masumi not to risk expulsion over a beer, then left to pay for his purchases.
• Kamuro Masumi returned the beer to the shelf, introduced herself, and quietly thanked Ken Kaneki.

Ken Kaneki and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji watched Ken Sudō argue with three second-year students, then left for the dorms rather than intervene. Elsewhere, club presidents complained that four students had taken most of their clubs’ points, while Ken Kaneki and his companions remained unaware.

• Ken Kaneki found Kiyotaka Ayanokoji watching Ken Sudō argue with three second-years and asked what had happened.
• Ayanokoji explained that the second-years had claimed the break room as their territory, and Ken Sudō had refused to leave.
• The second-years mocked Ken Sudō for being in Class 1-D, and Ayanokoji warned Ken Kaneki that they seemed to be baiting Sudō into attacking under the security camera.
• Ken Kaneki and Ayanokoji left Sudō arguing with the upperclassmen and headed toward the first-year dorms, discussing their shopping and points.
• The club presidents complained in a group chat that four people had taken most of their clubs’ points, but Ken Kaneki’s group and the white-haired girl knew nothing about it.

Ken Kaneki and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji moved into the freshman dormitory and discovered that their rooms were beside Rokusuke Koenji’s. After settling into his apartment-style room, Ken joined his new neighbors on a trip to the school restaurant.

• Ken Kaneki and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji registered at the dormitory and received rooms 402 and 403.
• Ken read about the dorm’s free utilities and coeducational floors, while Ayanokoji found relief in the rule barring contact with the outside world.
• Ken and Ayanokoji met Rokusuke Koenji, who emerged from room 401 and invited them to dinner.
• Ken unpacked his toiletries in his apartment-style room and admired the view from its floor-to-ceiling window.
• Ken, Ayanokoji, and Koenji left together for the school restaurant.

Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji shared dinner in the Student Cafeteria and talked about earning points from the afternoon’s club challenges. At the pickup counter, Ken Kaneki met Shiina Hiyori after nearly taking her meal, and she left curious about him.

• Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji noticed first-years spending their new points lavishly as they walked to the Student Cafeteria.
• Koenji and Ayanokoji described winning points from upperclassmen in club challenges, and Ken Kaneki teased Ayanokoji about his enjoyment of their losses.
• Koenji and Ayanokoji collected their meals before Ken Kaneki went to the pickup counter for order 217.
• Ken Kaneki nearly took Shiina Hiyori’s order 218 shrimp tempura set meal, then apologized and let her collect it.
• Shiina Hiyori watched Ken Kaneki return to his friends, found his calm manner unusual, and carried her meal to a quiet corner.

Ken Kaneki and his classmates began their first lessons, and Class D quickly descended into disorder as students ignored the teachers. At lunch, Kikyo Kushida got Ken Kaneki and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji’s contact information but failed to approach Suzune Horikita, who left the classroom.

• Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji attended their first classes, while the teachers largely ignored the students’ behavior.
• Class D grew increasingly chaotic, and Ken Kaneki and Ayanokoji pretended to pay attention while considering their own plans.
• Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji bought yakisoba bread for lunch and ate together in the classroom.
• Kei Karuizawa pulled Yosuke Hirata away before he could invite the trio to join him and the girls for lunch.
• Kikyo Kushida asked Ken Kaneki and Ayanokoji to exchange contact information, and both agreed while recognizing her two-faced nature.
• Kikyo Kushida prepared to approach Suzune Horikita, but Horikita packed her bento and left without acknowledging her.

Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji declined to join the boys’ betting pool about the girls’ figures before swimming class. In the changing room, the three drew attention for their exceptionally muscular physiques and then headed to the outdoor pool.

• Kaneki asked Ayanokoji about the boys’ betting pool, and Ayanokoji explained that Sotomura had ranked the girls by breast size.
• Ike invited Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji to bet, but all three refused.
• Ike and Yamauchi debated whether Kushida or Sakura had the larger figure while the girls reacted with contempt.
• The boys rushed to the changing room for swimming class, where Kaneki, Koenji, and Ayanokoji revealed their muscular physiques.
• The other boys crowded around the three with questions, but Kaneki and Ayanokoji ignored them while Koenji admired himself.
• Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji left the changing room and headed toward the outdoor pool.

During swimming class, Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji suspected that the teacher’s emphasis on learning to swim foreshadowed a water-related assessment. The chapter ended with all three deliberately tying for first in the boys’ fifty-meter freestyle test, demonstrating extraordinary control over their performance.

• Kanji Ike and Haruki Yamauchi waited for Haruka Hasebe and other girls, but the girls stayed in the self-study area; Kikyo Kushida arrived in her swimsuit and drew the boys’ attention.
• Suzune Horikita questioned Kiyotaka Ayanokoji about his physique and combat training, but he gave a joking explanation and she walked away unconvinced.
• After the teacher announced that everyone had to learn to swim, Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji inferred that a future assessment might involve the sea or water.
• Onodera beat Suzune Horikita in the girls’ fifty-meter freestyle test, while Kikyo Kushida finished fourth.
• Ken Kaneki persuaded Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Rokusuke Koenji to race, and all three took first place in the boys’ division with exactly the same time.
• Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji silently recognized that their identical results came from deliberately controlling their speed.

After leaving lunch, Ken Kaneki visited the library and met Shiina Hiyori, a fellow mystery reader from Class 1-C. They bonded over a detective novel, exchanged contact details, and left the library together after Shiina offered to lend him books.

• Horikita Suzune ignored Kushida Kikyo’s invitation to visit a new café, then overheard girls criticize her and chose not to explain herself.
• Ken Kaneki went to the library after lunch and spent two hours reading a detective novel.
• Shiina Hiyori joined Ken Kaneki at his table, and they discussed the novel’s clues and storytelling.
• Shiina Hiyori offered to lend Ken Kaneki rare mysteries from her room, and he accepted and offered to treat her to a meal.
• Ken Kaneki and Shiina Hiyori exchanged contact details and walked together to their dormitory building, where they parted ways.

Ken Kaneki hosted Shiina Hiyori, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji for hot pot in his dorm. After Ayanokoji and Koenji left, Hiyori reassured Ken that she did not mind his affectionate gesture, while privately admitting she had liked it.

• Ken Kaneki bought hot pot ingredients and invited Shiina Hiyori to lunch with Ayanokoji and Koenji.
• Ken Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji prepared hot pot, and Hiyori arrived with books and introduced herself as a Class C student.
• Ken Kaneki wiped spicy broth from Hiyori's mouth after she burned herself, leaving her embarrassed as Ayanokoji and Koenji teased them.
• Ayanokoji and Koenji cleaned up and left Ken Kaneki alone with Hiyori.
• Ken Kaneki apologized for overstepping, and Hiyori said she did not mind, privately realizing she had liked the moment.

Three weeks into school, Class 1-D’s discipline had deteriorated while Ken Kaneki grew closer to Shiina Hiyori. After Haruki Yamauchi revealed how much the class had spent expecting another monthly allowance, Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Koenji set out to plan a business exploiting their classmates’ misplaced confidence.

• Ken Kaneki and Shiina Hiyori spent time reading together and visiting the café, growing close while Kaneki waited to confess to her.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji told Ken Kaneki and Koenji that Yosuke Hirata and Kei Karuizawa had probably started dating, and they reacted calmly.
• Sae Chabashira announced a quiz and warned Class 1-D that its results might affect them; Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji completed the basic questions.
• Haruki Yamauchi told Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji that he had spent over ninety thousand points and that classmates expected another hundred thousand points next month.
• Kaneki, Ayanokoji, and Koenji went to the campus café to discuss how to profit from their classmates before the next month arrived.

Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji planned ways to profit from Class D students running out of points, combining secondhand sales, loans, and outside capital. They split up to launch the scheme, with Kaneki aiming to put their website online that night.

• Ken Kaneki predicted Class D's points would soon run out and proposed buying classmates' unwanted goods cheaply, then reselling them to upperclassmen.
• Kaneki outlined a real-name secondhand trading platform that would charge a fee, and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji suggested adding a campus lending institution with interest and strict repayment terms.
• Rokusuke Koenji proposed using his family's money to obtain campus points through school merchants, then disguising the transfers among the platform's transactions.
• Kaneki agreed to the plan and took charge of the website, Ayanokoji began drafting loan contracts, and Koenji went to approach the fresh-food supermarket owner about startup funds.

Ken Kaneki, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, and Rokusuke Koenji advanced their plan to profit from the coming changes to Class Points by arranging an illicit exchange, drafting predatory loan terms, and building a secondhand-trading platform. Ken Kaneki shared the plan with Shiina Hiyori, and after they kissed, he resolved to confess his love properly once the business was settled.

• Rokusuke Koenji persuaded the supermarket owner to exchange school points for outside money through disguised transactions at a one-to-one rate.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji drafted strict microbank lending terms while studying school rules and contract law.
• Kiyotaka Ayanokoji told Shiina Hiyori that Ken Kaneki was in his dorm, prompting her to visit him.
• Ken Kaneki finished and submitted the initial version of his Campus Life secondhand-trading platform for review.
• Ken Kaneki explained the coming Class Points changes and the group's business plan to Shiina Hiyori, who shared her suspicions about the school's generous conditions.
• Ken Kaneki and Shiina Hiyori kissed, but Hiyori stopped him from going further, and he resolved to confess to her after handling the business.