Light Novel 2nd Year Volume 1/Summary

Below is the long summary of the first 2nd Year volume of the You-Zitsu light novel series.

Prologue
The prologue starts off two months before the new school year begins, inside a conference room of a certain facility located in Tokyo. Tsukishiro was explaining the details of the students studying in the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School to a 15-year old person, who was from the White Room. Tsukishiro explains that the person's job is to expel Kiyotaka Ayanokouji from the school before April ends and to bring him back to the White Room. He also warns the person to not be too obvious in his actions so that this secret movement won't reach the ears of the higher-ups, which may damage the reputation of Kiyotaka's father. However, the White Room person was not very satisfied about this job given to him/her, which Tsukishiro picked up and explained further. He said how it's humiliating towards the other White Room people that Kiyotaka has basically forced its operations to halt further due to him escaping, despite being the most outstanding person among the White Room people. Tsukishiro's intent in explaining so was to draw out the White Room person's competitiveness. He told his only listener to surpass Kiyotaka, and that his team has already prepared the necessary means for his plan to succeed. The listener turned on his heels coldly to leave after the explanation ended, which sent a chill down Tsukishiro's spine. Before the White Room person left, Tsukishiro asked one more question: They didn't hide anything, did they? This was so that the White Room person wouldn't disobey his instructions. The person nodded, and continued on his path. After they left, Tsukishiro once again looked at the image of Kiyotaka displayed on a screen, to which he thought that he was a monster, even though he doesn't like using that word casually. Kiyotaka's abilities are way superior compared to his peers, including his academic and physical abilities. If he were to fight an adult head-on, there is a higher chance that Kiyotaka would win. Tsukishiro had another thought: What would happen in a battle between artificially nurtured humans from the White Room and natural born geniuses. To hunt, or to be hunted, he still thought of it as a game between children.

Chapter 1
The author explains how society has become familiar with the term ability. He stated that Japan was at a turning point as it faced numerous problems: declining birth rate, old population, environmental problems, and a declining sens of nationalism. So, in order to rebuild the country from the ground up, the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School was born. Its purpose was to attract and train world-class students from all over Japan in order to lead the future. The school's biggest selling point is how it evaluates its students; not by grade alone, but also many different aspects, thus making this school different from normal high schools. The purpose of doing so is to teach the students how to live in society and co-operate with each other. Each year is divided into 4 classes - class A to class D - which many different people with different strengths and weaknesses will compete to reach the top. At the same time, the students aren't allowed outside the school. However, many facilities have been prepared to suit the students' needs, whether it is studying, sports, or even leisure. Other than that, the school operates on a different currency system, which in turn teaches the students to manage their money properly. To gain wealth, students must co-operate with their own class to compete with other classes in special exams; the ones victorious will gain points, and the ones below will lose them. The biggest selling point, however, is that a job or higher education is practically guaranteed if a student manages to graduate while being in class A. Then, the narrating shifts to Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, a student from class D who will be starting his second year at this school as a sophomore. The class points of each class states their position at the start of the school term: Even though the point difference is huge, the author claims that there are still a lot of chances for class D to rise to the top.
 * Class A: 1119 class points
 * Class B: 542 class points
 * Class C: 540 class points
 * Class D: 275 class points

Chapter 2
The class receives their seating and Kiyotaka ends up in the back near the hallway. The class is surprised to see Horikita's haircut (this is from volume 11.5), Kushida is internally mad that Horikita has pretty much the same haircut. They were forced by Chabashira to put their phone out and the announcement was made to download an app called Overall Ability (OAA), this shows the abilities of their peer with numerical values, Horikita and Hirata are at the top of the class for academics and Sudo is at the top of the grade for athletics with an A+. They are introduced to the newest activity which is an activity of brains and you have to pick a partner, with your classmate or a 1st year. If a student can find a partner they will lose 5% and if you score below a certain score you will be expelled. Kiyotaka will not find a partner because Tsukishiro has installed a student from the white room to get Kiyotaka expelled, and Kiyotaka suspects the partner will join him and purposely fail. Tsukishiro proposes a deal if Kiyotaka finds the white room student Tsukishiro will leave him alone.