Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi helped Ye Shiyu respond to Mōri Hina’s messages, while secretly plotting to invite Yan Huan to the High Table Banquet dance. Yan Huan tried to observe Hitomi Sakuramiya for clues about Sakuramiya, but Bai Yi caught him at the window and he pulled her into a wall pin to stop her looking across.

• Bai Yi met Ye Shiyu for milk tea, learned that Mōri Hina’s frequent messages troubled her, and offered to tell Hina to send fewer.
• Ye Shiyu explained that she did not want to upset Yan Huan by blocking Hina or using hypnosis, and Bai Yi helped her reply; when Hina shared her worries about her mother possibly remarrying, Ye Shiyu advised her to object.
• Bai Yi privately planned to secure Yan Huan as her partner for the High Table Banquet dance while the others were occupied with their own concerns.
• Yan Huan watched Hitomi Sakuramiya through the Black-Frame Glasses, hoping to find clues about whether she was Sakuramiya’s true self or a Persona.
• Bai Yi arrived beside Yan Huan and started to look through the window, so he grabbed her wrist and pinned her against the wall, leaving her convinced he might confess to her.

Spencer mistook An Le’s vote for a sign that she wanted to reconcile, but An Le left without speaking to her. Yan Huan suggested a way for Spencer to reconnect with An Le, then discovered that Hitomi Sakuramiya was hiding the reason her health had improved; Spencer’s Modifier activated and left Yan Huan facing an awkward visit that evening.

• Class 1-C voted on Cultural Festival activities, and Spencer’s Bomb Piggy Kingdom Amusement Park proposal received two votes, including one from An Le.
• Spencer tried to speak to An Le after the vote, but An Le left without looking back, leaving Spencer to tell Yan Huan about the encounter.
• Yan Huan told Spencer that An Le might still want to make up and sent her Miyake Huhu’s Plane contact as a possible opportunity to reconnect.
• Yan Huan and Spencer watched Hitomi Sakuramiya practice kyudo, and Spencer revealed that Hitomi Sakuramiya had lied about her health improving because of medicine.
• Spencer’s Modifier activated, and she asked to visit Yan Huan’s home and eat barbecue that evening, when An Le was also expected to be there.

Yan Huan kept Bai Yi distracted with an intense wall-pin-and-embrace while secretly watching Hitomi Sakuramiya handle an assortment of weapons and a mysterious scroll. Bai Yi left convinced that Yan Huan had nearly confessed, while he was left wondering what Sakuramiya’s hidden scroll meant.

• Yan Huan pinned Bai Yi against a wall, and she mistook his actions for an imminent confession.
• Meow-chan alerted Yan Huan that something was happening with Hitomi Sakuramiya, so he distracted Bai Yi while looking across at the dojo.
• Yan Huan watched Hitomi Sakuramiya produce and test several weapons, including a pink chainsaw, then take out a scroll covered in irregular cells.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya circled cells on the scroll, causing writing to appear in nearby cells, before putting it away and practicing kyudo.
• Yan Huan told Bai Yi he would wait for a more suitable moment, then kept her close while studying the scroll from afar.
• Bai Yi left in a daze, believing Yan Huan had stirred her romantic feelings, while Yan Huan remained puzzled by Hitomi Sakuramiya and the scroll.

Yan Huan used Tong Yingying’s tavern shift as a truthful excuse to leave Spencer and Hitomi Sakuramiya, then returned home to An Le. While An Le massaged his sore back, he asked Little Finger to explain Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Modifier.

• Spencer asked Yan Huan to take her for barbecue, but he avoided agreeing because An Le was at his place.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived and told Yan Huan that the Doujin Club had to meet its deadline before the Cultural Festival, giving Spencer two weeks to reconcile with An Le and save the club.
• Yan Huan arranged for Tong Yingying to pick him up for work, then used the true commitment to leave Spencer and Hitomi Sakuramiya; he promised Spencer a meal later.
• Tong Yingying took Yan Huan to work at the tavern, and he later returned home, where An Le massaged his back.
• Yan Huan asked Little Finger to tell him everything it knew about Hitomi Sakuramiya’s Modifier.

Petite Sakuramiya and Reckless Sakuramiya entered Insecure Sakuramiya’s television-filled Barrier, where she revealed that she had warned the other Sakuramiyas about Perfect Sakuramiya. Petite Sakuramiya persuaded the frightened surveillance-obsessed Insecure Sakuramiya to consider helping them find Yan Huan, and she agreed to make a plan.

• Reckless Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya entered a dark Barrier through an iron door and found a room packed with televisions showing surveillance footage of them.
• Insecure Sakuramiya tried to scare the pair away with weightless televisions, but Reckless Sakuramiya caught her and learned she had sent warnings about Perfect Sakuramiya to the other Sakuramiyas.
• Insecure Sakuramiya admitted she had left her Barrier door open because she believed she deserved to be killed, while Petite Sakuramiya explained how watching a timid cat had once comforted Hitomi.
• The three Sakuramiyas watched Yan Huan discuss helping An Le paint again with Miyake Huhu and Aria Spencer, and Reckless Sakuramiya grew jealous of Aria.
• Petite Sakuramiya tempted Insecure Sakuramiya with the chance to place cameras in Yan Huan’s rented apartment, and Insecure Sakuramiya agreed to make a plan to help them find him.

Yan Huan and An Le learned that Sakuramiya’s Modifier created multiple personalities, while an unknown Sakuramiya appeared to have grown powerful enough to hunt them inside their Barriers. Petite Sakuramiya escaped Cold Sakuramiya’s confrontation with Perfect Sakuramiya and landed in Reckless Sakuramiya’s Barrier in Hawaii, where they planned to find Yan Huan and stop the massacre.

• Yan Huan questioned why Sakuramiya seemed healthier and more like her former self, and Little Finger explained that her Modifier created personalities to control separate Barriers.
• An Le recalled seeing several Sakuramiya personalities, and Little Finger admitted that a personality might be able to leave its Barrier because Modifier abilities varied and some functions could be hidden.
• Cold Sakuramiya urged Petite Sakuramiya to flee and find Yan Huan, but Perfect Sakuramiya arrived, attacked, and trapped Cold Sakuramiya behind a closing door.
• Petite Sakuramiya emerged in Reckless Sakuramiya’s Barrier in Hawaii and explained that Perfect Sakuramiya was killing the personalities to erase Hitomi’s flaws.
• Reckless Sakuramiya agreed to help Petite Sakuramiya find Yan Huan, who could open the Barriers and locate Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier where Hitomi was likely hiding.

Yan Huan helped Ye Shiyu with her embroidery while trying to keep her emotions balanced, and Mōri Hina confided that she felt lonely as her mother spent more time dating. That night, Ye Shiyu waited for Ye Lan and asked to sleep with her.

• Yan Huan added Bai Yi and the High Table Banquet to his notes, then hurried to the Sewing Club with Mōri Hina.
• Ye Shiyu taught Yan Huan and Mōri Hina Su Embroidery, while Yan Huan carefully managed Ye Shiyu's reactions to keep her from getting carried away.
• Mōri Hina told Ye Shiyu that she felt lonely because her mother came home late and messaged her less, and Ye Shiyu listened while thinking of her own distant relationship with Ye Lan.
• Ye Lan returned home late and found Ye Shiyu waiting in her bedroom with a pillow.
• Ye Shiyu told Ye Lan she wanted to sleep with her that night.

Bai Yi helped Ye Shiyu set a boundary with Mōri Hina, while secretly planning to secure Yan Huan as her High Table Banquet dance partner. Meanwhile, Yan Huan tried to investigate Hitomi Sakuramiya but was caught peeking and pulled Bai Yi into a wall pin, leaving her convinced he was about to confess.

• Bai Yi learned that Ye Shiyu was troubled by Mōri Hina's frequent messages but did not want to upset Yan Huan by blocking her or using hypnosis.
• Bai Yi sent Mōri Hina a tactful request to message Ye Shiyu less, and Ye Shiyu thanked Bai Yi before opening up to Mōri Hina about their shared single-parent family backgrounds.
• When Mōri Hina said her mother might remarry, Ye Shiyu urged her to object because she belonged to her mother and her mother belonged to her.
• Yan Huan used his Black-Frame Glasses to watch Hitomi Sakuramiya prepare for kyudo practice, hoping to find clues about whether Sakuramiya was her original self or a Persona.
• Bai Yi found Yan Huan watching the venue, and when Hitomi Sakuramiya opened a window, he pulled Bai Yi against the wall to stop her from looking over.
• Bai Yi blushed and believed Yan Huan was about to confess to her.

Ye Shiyu sought comfort from Ye Lan and received advice on how to pursue Yan Huan as a dance partner at the High Table Banquet. Meanwhile, Perfect Sakuramiya killed Cunning Sakuramiya and discovered that Insecure Sakuramiya and Reckless Sakuramiya had vanished, suspecting Petite Sakuramiya was responsible.

• Ye Shiyu cuddled with Ye Lan and admitted she worried Yan Huan might only see her as an older sister.
• Ye Lan advised Ye Shiyu to build toward inviting Yan Huan to dance at the High Table Banquet, and Ye Shiyu eagerly imagined claiming him in front of the school.
• Perfect Sakuramiya impaled Cunning Sakuramiya, who taunted her that she had made no progress with the President.
• The Barriers shook violently, and Perfect Sakuramiya killed Cunning Sakuramiya, absorbing her Little Mask.
• Perfect Sakuramiya used the Scroll to locate Insecure Sakuramiya, then found both her and Reckless Sakuramiya missing.
• Perfect Sakuramiya blamed Petite Sakuramiya for their disappearance and set out to find her.

Yan Huan kept Bai Yi distracted while secretly watching Hitomi Sakuramiya reveal weapons and study a mysterious scroll. Bai Yi left overwhelmed by what she mistook for Yan Huan’s romantic advances, while Yan Huan remained puzzled by Hitomi Sakuramiya’s unexplained actions.

• Yan Huan pinned Bai Yi against the wall as she mistakenly believed he was about to confess his feelings.
• Meow-chan alerted Yan Huan to activity at Hitomi Sakuramiya’s dojo, where Hitomi Sakuramiya produced several weapons, including a pink chainsaw.
• Yan Huan reassured Bai Yi that he would wait for a better moment, while secretly watching Hitomi Sakuramiya mark a densely written scroll.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya’s markings caused writing to appear in nearby boxes on the scroll before she put it away and began practicing kyudo.
• Yan Huan released Bai Yi, who staggered away, said she wanted to rest, and cheered faintly after reaching the stairwell.

Yan Huan faced growing pressure to choose a partner for the High Table Banquet dance as rumors spread through Totsuki Academy. Bai Yi decided to invite him herself, while Ye Shiyu stayed with Mōri Hina and listened as Hina explained why she had agreed to her mother's remarriage.

• You Anlina asked Yan Huan whether he had chosen a dance partner, and Hitomi Sakuramiya confirmed that rumors about him leading the dance were circulating.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya revealed that she had started the rumor to pave the way to becoming Yan Huan's dance partner while she hunted Insecure Sakuramiya.
• Bai Yi heard that girls were leaving letters for Yan Huan, reconsidered how little effort she had shown him, and decided to invite him to the dance herself.
• Ye Shiyu grew jealous when Mōri Hina explained that girls were leaving Yan Huan love letters, but Hina led her back to class.
• Mōri Hina told Ye Shiyu she had agreed to her mother's remarriage after seeing how happy her mother was, leaving Ye Shiyu deeply affected.
• Ye Shiyu resisted going to look at the girls outside Yan Huan's classroom and asked Mōri Hina to talk about Brocade instead.

Reckless Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya entered Insecure Sakuramiya’s television-filled Barrier, where they learned she had warned the other Sakuramiyas about Perfect Sakuramiya but had chosen to wait for death. Petite Sakuramiya persuaded Insecure Sakuramiya to help them find Yan Huan by tempting her with the possibility of placing cameras in his rented apartment, and Insecure Sakuramiya agreed to make a plan.

• Reckless Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya found a dark iron door into a Barrier and entered a room filled with televisions showing surveillance footage of them.
• Insecure Sakuramiya tried to drive them away with a cascade of weightless televisions, but Reckless Sakuramiya caught her.
• Insecure Sakuramiya revealed that she had secretly warned the Sakuramiyas about Perfect Sakuramiya and had left her door open because she expected to be killed.
• Reckless Sakuramiya and Petite Sakuramiya watched Yan Huan discuss helping An Le paint again with Miyake Huhu and Aria Spencer, while Reckless Sakuramiya grew jealous of Aria Spencer.
• Petite Sakuramiya urged Insecure Sakuramiya to help locate Yan Huan and promised she might get to place cameras in his rented apartment.
• Insecure Sakuramiya resisted at first but finally agreed to make a plan.

Yan Huan found a bloodstained birth certificate in the Equipment Room that revealed Sickly Sakuramiya had died and left a warning about the Barriers. As he tried to understand Sakuramiya’s missing original self, Hitomi Sakuramiya arrived and announced she wanted to join Yan Huan and Spencer.

• Yan Huan asked Tong Yingying to discreetly investigate whether anything strange had happened to Sakuramiya, then went to retrieve a shovel Hitomi Sakuramiya had borrowed.
• Yan Huan found Sickly Sakuramiya’s bloodstained birth certificate beneath some mats; its message said it could open the Delivery Room and warned him to run.
• You Anlina startled Yan Huan in the Equipment Room, and he hid the certificate before leaving with the shovel and one of her oranges.
• Yan Huan concluded that the Sakuramiya he knew was a personality avatar and wondered where Sakuramiya’s original self had gone, while he tutored Spencer at the Doujin Club.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya entered as Yan Huan and Spencer spent time together, then told Spencer she had come to join them rather than interrupt.

Yan Huan and Mōri Hina visited Ye Shiyu’s Sewing Club to learn Su Embroidery, where Yan Huan carefully balanced Ye Shiyu’s moods as she grew flustered by his attention. After hearing Mōri Hina’s worries about feeling lonely while her mother dated, Ye Shiyu went to her mother Ye Lan late that night and asked to sleep with her.

• Yan Huan and Mōri Hina went to the Sewing Club, where Ye Shiyu taught them Su Embroidery.
• Yan Huan watched Ye Shiyu embroider, and she blushed when she mistook his praise of her work for praise of her appearance.
• Mōri Hina told Ye Shiyu she felt lonely because her mother came home late and paid her less attention, and Ye Shiyu listened as the two embroidered.
• Ye Lan returned to the Ye Residence late at night and found Ye Shiyu waiting in her bedroom with a pillow.
• Ye Shiyu asked Ye Lan if she could sleep with her, leaving Ye Lan stunned.

Hitomi Sakuramiya sincerely joined Yan Huan and Spencer’s effort to reconcile Spencer and An Le, proposing a movie outing as a substitute for their unavailable comic convention. After helping settle the plan, she asked Yan Huan to call her Hitomi, but he could not bring himself to do so, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Spencer mistook Hitomi Sakuramiya’s offer to join their plan for a personal advance and guarded Yan Huan, until Hitomi Sakuramiya explained she wanted to help save the Doujin Club and reunite Spencer and An Le.
• Yan Huan explained their plan to promote An Le’s work and persuade her to return, but they found no suitable comic convention in Linmen and could not publicly display her adult doujinshi.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya offered two movie tickets from You Anlina and suggested using the cinema mall’s adult specialty shop as a meeting place; Spencer accepted the tickets and decided to invite Yan Huan to a movie herself afterward.
• Yan Huan contacted Miyake Huhu while Spencer called home, and Hitomi Sakuramiya arranged for Nara to contact the shop manager and help prepare the venue for the next day.
• In the quiet corridor, Hitomi Sakuramiya asked Yan Huan to call her Hitomi, but he said he needed time to get used to it; she accepted and asked to watch from the shadows during their outing, and he agreed.

Ye Lan comforted Ye Shiyu and advised her to build toward inviting Xiao Huan to the High Table Banquet dance, while Ye Shiyu resolved to keep practicing self-discipline. Elsewhere, Perfect Sakuramiya killed Cunning Sakuramiya, then discovered that both Reckless Sakuramiya and Insecure Sakuramiya were missing and suspected Petite Sakuramiya.

• Ye Shiyu sought comfort from Ye Lan and asked whether Xiao Huan might see her as more than an older sister.
• Ye Shiyu told Ye Lan about Xiao Huan helping her make friends, and Ye Lan suggested she gradually prepare to invite him to the High Table Banquet dance.
• Perfect Sakuramiya pinned Cunning Sakuramiya with a spear, and Cunning Sakuramiya provoked a violent tremor by suggesting Hitomi's situation had changed.
• Perfect Sakuramiya killed Cunning Sakuramiya and found Insecure Sakuramiya listed alongside Reckless Sakuramiya on the Scroll.
• Perfect Sakuramiya searched the two Barriers but found neither Sakuramiya there, then suspected Petite Sakuramiya had moved them.

Yan Huan claimed a Demon Shop reward and realized the Compass of Love could help him find Sakuramiya's original body, while the three Sakuramiyas searched through a balloon-filled barrier for a way to Linmen. They found Perfect Sakuramiya, who revealed she intended to kill Petite Sakuramiya.

• An Le read Yan Huan a message saying the Vice President Sakuramiya had recently been locking her bedroom door at night, and Yan Huan entered the Demon Shop to claim his weekly reward.
• Yan Huan received a Demon's Favor that could enhance one of his demon abilities, remembered the Compass of Love, and used it to point toward Meow-chan.
• Mousey Sakuramiya explained that she wanted surveillance footage of the President's private life so she could learn how to act around her, and the friends' balloon images helped reassure her.
• The three Sakuramiyas reached the center of the balloon barrier, where Perfect Sakuramiya introduced herself and suddenly grabbed Petite Sakuramiya, saying she was there to kill her.

At Totsuki Academy, a rumor that Yan Huan would lead the High Table Banquet dance set off a scramble over his partner, prompting Bai Yi to decide to ask him herself. Meanwhile, Ye Shiyu reacted jealously to the love letters but stayed with Mōri Hina, who explained why she had accepted her mother's remarriage.

• You Anlina asked Yan Huan about choosing a dance partner, and Hitomi Sakuramiya confirmed the rumor while secretly admitting she had spread it to advance her plans.
• Yan Huan realized the rumor would reach Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu, then alerted An Le and Tong Yingying in their secret group chat.
• Bai Yi saw girls leaving letters and gifts for Yan Huan, reconsidered how little she had done for him, and decided to ask him to be her dance partner, carrying a white flower as a gift.
• Ye Shiyu grew jealous when Mōri Hina explained that the girls were leaving love letters for Yan Huan, but Mōri Hina led her into class.
• Mōri Hina told Ye Shiyu she had agreed to her mother's remarriage because it made her mother happy, leaving Ye Shiyu shaken; Ye Shiyu then resisted going to confront the girls and suggested they talk about Brocade instead.

Reckless Sakuramiya, Petite Sakuramiya, and Insecure Sakuramiya escaped Perfect Sakuramiya’s attacks through Reflective Sakuramiya’s Barrier, but Reckless stayed behind to fight her. Perfect later returned to hunting in Linmen and messaged Yan Huan that she would arrive late, while An Le and Yan Huan prepared for their movie date.

• Reckless Sakuramiya struck Perfect Sakuramiya and helped Petite Sakuramiya escape, but Perfect healed her injuries and attacked them with Fire Axes.
• Insecure Sakuramiya explained that the balloons and stone steles in Reflective Sakuramiya’s Barrier recorded people’s good and bad sides, while Perfect claimed she was killing Hitomi’s weaknesses to remake her.
• Petite Sakuramiya led Reckless Sakuramiya and Insecure Sakuramiya onto Yan Huan’s balloon, which carried them toward the Barrier’s exit because Perfect could not bring herself to attack it.
• Perfect Sakuramiya ambushed them at the exit with a Chainsaw, and Reckless Sakuramiya fought her with her own Chainsaw so Petite and Insecure could escape to Linmen.
• Perfect Sakuramiya entered Lazy Sakuramiya’s former Barrier, reflected on having killed nearly all the Sakuramiyas in Linmen, and messaged Yan Huan that she would arrive late.
• An Le woke beside Yan Huan and said she was excited to go to the movies with him that morning.

Yan Huan discovered a bloodstained birth certificate from Sickly Sakuramiya that revealed a way to find the true location of Sakuramiya’s Barrier, deepening his concern about Sakuramiya’s missing original self. After helping Spencer study, he watched Hitomi Sakuramiya arrive and announce that she had come to join them.

• Yan Huan asked Tong Yingying to secretly check with Nara whether anything strange had happened to Sakuramiya.
• Yan Huan retrieved a borrowed shovel from the Equipment Room and found Sickly Sakuramiya’s bloodstained birth certificate hidden behind the mats.
• Yan Huan read that the certificate could open the Delivery Room and help locate the true Barrier, then concealed it when You Anlina entered.
• Yan Huan concluded that the Sakuramiya he knew was a Personality Clone and wondered what had happened to Sakuramiya’s original self.
• Yan Huan praised Spencer’s improved homework, and she cuddled up with him to play on his phone.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya interrupted them and told Spencer that she had come to join them, not to interrupt.