Chapter Summaries

Yan Huan comforted Ye Shiyu after she confessed her fears, then prepared with the Student Council and the Avenging Women Alliance to confront Hitomi Sakuramiya at the High Table Banquet. As the boats carried the guests toward the island, Hitomi Sakuramiya strengthened her defenses while working to bring Hitomi back.

• Ye Shiyu hypnotized Yan Huan and asked whether Hitomi Sakuramiya had made him her dance partner, then revealed her insecurity about whether anyone would approve of her feelings for him.
• Yan Huan reassured Ye Shiyu that he liked the way she had changed, and she hugged him, promising to save him.
• At the hotel, Ye Shiyu told the Avenging Women Alliance to find Hitomi Sakuramiya and disable her Barrier before the opening dance, while Bai Yi refused to use Time Stop.
• Yan Huan checked the countdown to the banquet, knowing he had to reach Hitomi inside Perfect Sakuramiya's Barrier or disrupt the dance before it began.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya allowed Yan Huan and the other Student Council members to board with the masked staff, then reinforced the palace with rotating Barriers and surveillance as she prepared to reach Hitomi.
• The boats left shore carrying Totsuki Academy's guests toward the island venue.

Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi over their anger about her dancing with Yan Huan, then proposed that everyone share him so they could avoid fighting. After they rejected her offer and threatened to ruin the High Table Banquet, Hitomi Sakuramiya wondered how they had learned about her and Yan Huan; meanwhile, Yan Huan left Principal Hermes feeling confident that he had gained permission for something unspecified.

• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi demanded to know whether Hitomi Sakuramiya had used her superpower to become Yan Huan’s dance partner, and she admitted it had helped her improve herself.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya challenged Bai Yi’s and Ye Shiyu’s assumptions about Yan Huan and their claims that they had turned over a new leaf.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya proposed that she, Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, An Le, and Spencer accept Yan Huan being with several girls, but Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi rejected the idea.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya used her Barrier to prevent Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi from acting against her, then released them and warned them not to target Yan Huan.
• Ye Shiyu threatened to ruin the High Table Banquet, and Hitomi Sakuramiya wondered how the two girls had learned about her and Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan learned from Principal Hermes that the High Table Banquet proposal he had signed was approved, then eagerly thanked Hermes for saying the school would overlook problems with the event.

Yan Huan launched a treasure hunt at the High Table Banquet to draw Hitomi Sakuramiya out of hiding. The students flooded the island to search, while Spencer found the first card.

• Yan Huan ignored Hitomi Sakuramiya’s prepared speech and announced a game in which students searched the island for ten cards and could win a share of five hundred thousand by finding Vice President Sakuramiya and reading a card’s message to her.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya realized Yan Huan was using the game to find her, but worried that Superpower users among the students could expose her Barrier.
• Elvira’s daughter and Ye Lan’s daughter left the banquet first, and the other students soon followed to search the island.
• Yan Huan persuaded the school administrators to give their speeches to the mostly empty venue while students searched.
• Spencer found card number 2 tucked into a light fixture and proudly showed it to the other Modifier Hosts.

Yan Huan visited Sakuramiya Liang’s villa to watch the island where Hitomi Sakuramiya was preparing the High Table Banquet, then borrowed the beach for his own plans. After Tong Yingying warned him to leave, he learned that armed Feather Gang members had come to eliminate her, and he turned back toward the villa.

• Yan Huan discovered that Insecure Sakuramiya was using powerful mask-vessel duplicates to build the banquet hall and asked Sakuramiya Liang to use her family’s beach for preparations.
• Sakuramiya Liang agreed, and Yan Huan decided to wait until the banquet to reach the island.
• Tong Yingying messaged Yan Huan to get out of the villa, just as armed men with wing tattoos arrived and Sakuramiya Liang’s mother ordered him to leave.
• Meow-chan investigated the men’s bags and found guns, then overheard them say Tong Yingying was inside the villa and that they had come to eliminate her.
• Yan Huan pretended to leave, then turned back, claiming he needed to use the restroom.

Hitomi Sakuramiya’s card hunt and pursuit by Yan Huan’s group turned into a race to stop the High Table Dance from being sabotaged, while the cards revealed memories of her relationship with Yan Huan. With the dance only ten minutes away, Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted the four Modifier users and Ye Shiyu declared she would save Xiao Huan.

• Bai Yi argued with Spencer over the black card until Ye Shiyu spotted suited clones approaching to seize it.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya announced card locations to divert students, but Yan Huan deduced she was hiding near her first announced location and chased her across the venue.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya evaded Yan Huan and the others while several cards revealed memories involving her and the President; Yan Huan’s announcements repeatedly exposed her location.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya called Yatsuhashi Ki an evil Galgame demon to draw students away from the dance preparations, and the students caught him in the Multimedia Room.
• Spencer gave Hitomi Sakuramiya card number two, which showed the birthday fan she had given the President and a note praising her.
• With ten minutes until the dance, Hitomi Sakuramiya threatened Ye Shiyu, Spencer, Bai Yi, and An Le, and Ye Shiyu said she would save Xiao Huan.

Tong Yingying and Yan Huan reunited in the beach cabin while Sakuramiya Liang learned of their relationship, but armed men closing in forced them to hide. Yan Huan used Sparkling Fireworks and Meow-chan to fight off the attackers as they tried to escape.

• Tong Yingying restrained Sakuramiya Liang in the cabin, then learned from Sakede Mina that a woman intended to kidnap her young lady.
• Yan Huan arrived, and Tong Yingying argued with him over his refusal to leave before admitting she had been worried about him.
• Sakuramiya Liang realized Yan Huan and Tong Yingying were involved and threatened to tell her cousin he was cheating on her.
• Meow-chan warned Yan Huan that armed men were approaching, so he and Tong Yingying hid in a cabinet while Sakuramiya Liang tried to distract them.
• Three armed men found the cabin, and Yan Huan used Sparkling Fireworks to set one man ablaze and injure another.
• Meow-chan appeared on the last man's gun, then transformed into Spinosaurus Form and lunged at him.

Perfect Sakuramiya trapped Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, An Le, and Spencer in a collapsing barrier while she prepared to dance with Yan Huan, and Ye Shiyu’s attempt to save Petite Sakuramiya began as the barrier reached its final second. Yan Huan rejected Perfect Sakuramiya’s offer, then a power outage halted the countdown and let him kiss her, opening the barrier where Hitomi’s original body was hidden.

• Perfect Sakuramiya expanded her barrier, imprisoned Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, An Le, and Spencer, and silenced most of their Modifiers with illusory centipedes.
• Perfect Sakuramiya projected the approaching High Table Dance into the barrier and told the Sakuramiyas that their barriers would soon perish before she danced with Yan Huan.
• Yan Huan chased Hitomi Sakuramiya into the banquet hall, where she used the students’ approval and the approaching dance to pressure him into accepting her in place of Hitomi.
• As the Sakuramiyas began turning to dust, Yan Huan refused Hitomi Sakuramiya’s outstretched hand and told her, “But I disagree.”
• Yatsuhashi Ki’s USB Drive caused a blackout that stopped the barrier’s countdown, and Ye Shiyu hypnotized Petite Sakuramiya while the darkness froze Perfect Sakuramiya and the staff.
• Yan Huan kissed Perfect Sakuramiya, opened her barrier, and fell with her through a doorway into the space where Hitomi’s original body was hidden.

Yan Huan and Tong Yingying subdued the attackers at the beach, while Sakuramiya Liang questioned Yan Huan’s relationship with her sister. Meanwhile, Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, and An Le planned to break Hitomi Sakuramiya’s barrier before the High Table Dance, as Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya found Insecure Sakuramiya’s barrier and witnessed her inferiority take monstrous form.

• Tong Yingying killed one attacker with a surfboard and knocked out two more, then spotted Sakede Mina arriving by speedboat with others.
• Yan Huan received fifty thousand in hush money from Liang’s mother and asked Sakede Mina to help him with something in two weeks; Sakuramiya Liang saw his sand drawing and wondered if it showed fireworks.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi agreed to An Le’s plan to destroy Hitomi Sakuramiya’s barrier shortly before the High Table Dance, then let Yan Huan choose his dance partner without superpowers.
• Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya entered Insecure Sakuramiya’s barrier and watched memories of Hitomi Sakuramiya’s childhood produce sludge creatures they recognized as Inferiority.
• Insecure Sakuramiya arrived behind Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya and admitted she had not expected them to visit her barrier.

Yan Huan found Hitomi trapped behind the doors of Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier and persuaded Perfect Sakuramiya to let the real Hitomi return. He rescued Hitomi from a wardrobe and, as the Barrier collapsed, invited her to change into dancing clothes so they could share the dance they had missed.

• Yan Huan landed in a vast flower field with the unconscious Sakuramiya and realized Hitomi was hidden behind one of the doors covering the sky.
• Perfect Sakuramiya awoke, learned the High Table Banquet had gone dark, and cried that she had failed to make it perfect as Yan Huan searched for Hitomi.
• Yan Huan told Perfect Sakuramiya he liked her and asked her to return the real Hitomi; she agreed, crumbled into dust, and the flower Personas returned through the doors in the sky.
• The Barrier revealed itself as the Sliding Door of a wardrobe, and Yan Huan removed the Wooden Sword wedged against it and found Hitomi curled inside.
• Hitomi apologized to Yan Huan, who comforted her and showed her the hydrangea he had saved from the banquet.
• As the Barrier began to collapse, Yan Huan asked Hitomi to change them into dancing clothes so they could share a dance.

Perfect Sakuramiya trapped Petite Sakuramiya and Cool Sakuramiya in her Barrier as the countdown to the High Table Banquet began. Yan Huan realized the Camera’s message pointed to Sakuramiya’s Barrier, but she evaded him and flew toward the dance venue, leaving him a formal suit and promising to dance with him.

• Insecure Sakuramiya revealed that she intended to let the Barriers collapse, then shed her mouse ears and became Perfect Sakuramiya as her Barrier turned into an ownerless cage.
• Petite Sakuramiya realized Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier was located on her body and urged Cool Sakuramiya to send Yan Huan a message through the Camera.
• Yan Huan understood the message during his final exam, ran to Hitomi Sakuramiya’s classroom, and learned she had already left school.
• Yan Huan chased Sakuramiya across the Courtyard as students watched, but she escaped by helicopter before he could reach her Barrier.
• Sakuramiya dropped Yan Huan a formal suit and promised to wait for him at the High Table Banquet in two days to dance the first dance with him.

Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya reunited at the High Table Banquet, where he arranged fireworks and invited her to their long-awaited first dance. As the other hosts emerged from the shattered Barrier and watched the livestream, the dance revealed the many forms of Hitomi Sakuramiya, while Perfect Sakuramiya remained absent.

• Yan Huan restored his and Hitomi Sakuramiya’s clothes, tied her hair with the hydrangea ribbon, and invited her to dance beneath the fireworks.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya accepted Yan Huan’s invitation, and they began their opening waltz as students and teachers watched and cheered.
• Nara and Tong Yingying watched the dance from a speedboat, while hosts including Spencer, An Le, Bai Yi, and Ye Shiyu emerged from the shattered Barrier across Linmen.
• Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi saw Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya dancing together on the livestream, and both reacted with shock.
• As the waltz reached its climax, fireworks made Hitomi Sakuramiya appear in the forms of Sickly Sakuramiya, Reckless Sakuramiya, Petite Sakuramiya, Cool Sakuramiya, and Mom Sakuramiya.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya finished the dance to applause, and the fireworks revealed countless versions of Hitomi Sakuramiya’s shadow while Perfect Sakuramiya remained eternal in Yan Huan’s heart.

Yan Huan faced Ye Shiyu’s suspicions about his dance partnership with Hitomi Sakuramiya, then comforted her as she admitted feeling insecure about whether others would accept them. On the day of the High Table Banquet, Yan Huan and the Student Council boarded for Hitomi Sakuramiya’s island venue, where she prepared defenses around the palace and continued her plan to reach Hitomi.

• Ye Shiyu hypnotized Yan Huan and confirmed that he had agreed to be Hitomi Sakuramiya’s dance partner, then confessed her doubts about whether anyone would accept her feelings for him.
• Yan Huan reassured Ye Shiyu, and she hugged him while promising to save him; he held her back.
• At the waterfront hotel, Ye Shiyu told the Avenging Women Alliance to find Hitomi Sakuramiya and disrupt her Barrier before the opening dance, while Bai Yi refused to use Time Stop because of its side effects.
• Yan Huan watched the countdown to the banquet and boarded a boat with the Student Council as Hitomi Sakuramiya’s suited attendants kept the group under surveillance.
• On the island, Hitomi Sakuramiya prepared the luxurious palace venue, activated rotating Barriers and surveillance, and said she was nearly ready to reach Hitomi.

At the banquet, Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya escaped the crowds to talk about her modifier, while Bai Yi searched for them and Ye Shiyu struggled with doubts about Yan Huan. As a storm swept over Linmen, an unfinished AI called Leaf awakened across the city, whose flickering lights formed a giant spider silhouette.

• You Anlina ate at the buffet while Yatsuhashi Ki explained to Aishili why he had played Satsuki-chan’s voice clip, and Aishili asked him to dance before Bai Yi arrived looking for Yan Huan.
• Bai Yi questioned Yatsuhashi Ki about Yan Huan, then sent Yan Huan a flood of messages after he pretended not to know where the President was.
• Yan Huan and Hitomi Sakuramiya sheltered together in Sakuramiya Liang’s beach hut, where he told her about modifiers and Meow-chan showed him fragments it had collected from Sakuramiya’s Barrier.
• Yan Huan saw Bai Yi’s messages and Ye Shiyu’s unsettling silence, while Ye Shiyu confided in an unfinished AI that replied that someone else needed to turn over a new leaf.
• Leaf took control of the computers and a Security Guard’s phone at Ye International, then Linmen’s lights and displays flickered into the shape of a giant spider.

Yan Huan launched a treasure hunt at the High Table Banquet to draw Hitomi Sakuramiya out of hiding. The students flooded the island to search, while Spencer found the first card.

• Yan Huan arrived at the island with You Anlina and Yatsuhashi Ki, then enlisted the Student Council members to help with his plan.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya monitored the banquet through her Barrier as Principal Hermes began the formal proceedings.
• Yan Huan scrapped Hitomi Sakuramiya’s prepared speech and announced a game in which students could find ten hidden cards and claim prizes by locating Vice President Sakuramiya.
• Elvira Spencer and Ye Lan left the banquet first, prompting hundreds of students to rush out and search the island for cards and Hitomi Sakuramiya.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya realized the crowd could expose her hiding place, while Yan Huan stayed behind as the school leaders confronted him.
• Spencer found card number 2 on a hanging lamp and showed it to An Le and the other Modifier Hosts.

On the first day of summer vacation, Yan Huan worried over Ye Shiyu’s silence and Bai Yi’s anger, then rushed to Totsuki Academy after learning Bai Yi was being investigated for cheating. He told Bai Yi his feelings had been real, but refused to cut off Hitomi Sakuramiya, and Bai Yi tearfully declared they were through before running away.

• Yan Huan fretted over Ye Shiyu’s unanswered messages and a Modifier poster covered in black marks, while Bai Yi’s block left him unable to contact her.
• Yan Huan learned Bai Yi had ranked first in their class and that the school had summoned her to review her results; he witnessed her use Time Stop to cheat during the review.
• Yan Huan went to Totsuki Academy and found Bai Yi collapsed in the corridor after suffering the physical effects of using Time Stop.
• Bai Yi demanded to know whether Yan Huan’s past affection had been real, and he told her it had been.
• Bai Yi asked Yan Huan to announce their relationship and cut off Hitomi Sakuramiya, but he apologized and refused.
• Bai Yi accused Yan Huan of choosing Hitomi Sakuramiya, shouted that they were through, and ran off sobbing as fragments fell from her body.

As the students searched for cards, Hitomi Sakuramiya used her clones and announcements to evade Yan Huan and the other Modifiers, while the cards revealed memories of her relationship with him. With the High Table Dance only ten minutes away, Hitomi Sakuramiya confronted Ye Shiyu, Spencer, Bai Yi, and An Le, demanding they move aside as Ye Shiyu vowed to save Xiao Huan.

• Bai Yi argued with Spencer over the card, but Ye Shiyu pointed out that it had drawn a group of Hitomi Sakuramiya’s suited clones toward them.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya announced card locations to divert students, then escaped Yan Huan on the rooftop and ran into students redeeming cards that showed memories of her with him.
• Yan Huan and the others pursued Hitomi Sakuramiya across the venue as she tried to stop Yatsuhashi Ki from disrupting the dance; she exposed his Galgame plan, and the students dragged him away to claim the reward.
• Spencer gave Hitomi Sakuramiya card number two, which showed the fan she had given Yan Huan and his note calling her the most perfect girl in the world.
• With ten minutes left before the dance, Hitomi Sakuramiya threatened the four Modifiers blocking her, while Ye Shiyu declared that she would save Xiao Huan.

After refusing Bai Yi’s ultimatum, Yan Huan learned that Hitomi Sakuramiya had fallen ill and received an internship offer from Ye International, where he tried the new Leaf AI. Bai Yi resolved to improve herself and accept more entertainment work, while Leaf’s unsettling message followed Yan Huan to Hitomi Sakuramiya’s home.

• Yan Huan refused to choose between Bai Yi and Hitomi, and found that Bai Yi had removed him from her contacts.
• Yan Huan learned that Hitomi Sakuramiya had become ill, suspected Bai Yi’s Modifier had reflected damage onto her, and arranged to visit her.
• Yan Huan received an internship offer from Ye International and downloaded Leaf AI, which provided detailed information about Girl Group Face-Off.
• Bai Yi decided to practice self-discipline, build her career, and accept some entertainment offers so Yan Huan would regret rejecting her.
• Ye Shiyu called Bai Yi to ask whether she would appear on Girl Group Face-Off, then abruptly hung up, leaving Bai Yi feeling watched.
• Leaf AI told Yan Huan it would always be watching him as he arrived at Hitomi Sakuramiya’s home.

Perfect Sakuramiya trapped Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, An Le, and Spencer inside the collapsing Barrier while she prepared to dance with Yan Huan at the High Table Dance. Yan Huan rejected her offer to replace Hitomi, and a blackout let Ye Shiyu hypnotize the Sakuramiyas and Yan Huan open Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier.

• Perfect Sakuramiya expanded her Barrier, sent Ye Shiyu, Bai Yi, An Le, and Spencer inside, and used illusory centipedes to disable their Modifiers.
• Perfect Sakuramiya projected the High Table Dance into the collapsing Barrier and told the Sakuramiyas that she would dance with Yan Huan before they disappeared.
• Yan Huan chased Hitomi Sakuramiya into the banquet hall, but she warned him that kissing her in public would expose the Barrier to everyone.
• As the countdown neared its end, Yan Huan refused Hitomi Sakuramiya’s outstretched hand, while Yatsuhashi Ki’s USB Drive caused a blackout and Ye Shiyu hypnotized Petite Sakuramiya.
• Yan Huan seized the darkness to kiss Perfect Sakuramiya, opening her Barrier and falling through a doorway with her.

Yan Huan visited Hitomi Sakuramiya, who had been cursed to meow and act like a cat, and grew close to her as she recovered from fainting at his kisses. Just as their intimacy escalated, Ye Shiyu hypnotized Yan Huan, and Hitomi Sakuramiya fainted again.

• Nara showed Yan Huan that Hitomi Sakuramiya could only make cat sounds and was instinctively behaving like a kitten.
• Yan Huan comforted Hitomi Sakuramiya, guessed why she felt embarrassed, and kissed her without causing her to faint.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya invited Yan Huan beneath her covers and repeatedly kissed him, showing that she could now stay conscious through their kisses.
• Yan Huan pinned Hitomi Sakuramiya down, but Ye Shiyu appeared in a vision and revealed that she had hypnotized him to suppress his desire.
• Yan Huan broke free of the hypnosis and saw Hitomi Sakuramiya faint again.

Yan Huan survived the fall into Perfect Sakuramiya’s Barrier, persuaded her that he loved every version of Sakuramiya, and watched her release the Personas that had formed the doors trapping Hitomi. He freed Hitomi from the wardrobe and, with the High Table Banquet still underway, asked her to change into a ball gown so they could share a dance.

• Yan Huan landed in a field of pink flowers with Perfect Sakuramiya unconscious and discovered a sky full of doors that he believed concealed Hitomi.
• Perfect Sakuramiya woke and grieved that the High Table Banquet had been ruined, while Yan Huan insisted he would keep searching for Hitomi.
• Yan Huan gave Perfect Sakuramiya a flower and told her he loved every Sakuramiya, then asked her to return the real Hitomi to him.
• Perfect Sakuramiya agreed and crumbled into dust as the flowers transformed into masks and returned through the doors in the sky.
• The Barrier shifted, revealing that its sky of doors was a wardrobe’s sliding door; Yan Huan removed the Wooden Sword blocking it and found Hitomi trapped inside.
• Yan Huan comforted Hitomi, gave her a hydrangea, and asked her to use the Barrier to change their clothes so they could share a dance.