Light Novel Volume 7/Summary

Below is the long summary of volume 7 of the You-Zitsu light novel series.

Prologue
Ryuuen talks about how he noticed that he was different from others since he was in middle school when he killed a snake while his class was watching in fear. He wasn’t afraid of being bitten nor was he trying to be a hero as he felt that there is no reason to fear it. That's when he realised that after his enemy meets their demise, he feels a rush of adrenaline and pleasure. He thinks that the world is ruled by violence. That, of course, means that the one that is the most violent, is the strongest to him. However, after people started bowing to him and he risen to the top, it became more difficult for him to experience that 'pleasure'. His dearest wish to be overthrown was not met and he became increasingly disappointed. Thus, he began to believe that only death could match and beat him.

Chapter 1
It's Mid-December. In one of the Ayanokōji Group meeting - Yukimura reveals that no one from the first years got expelled. Sakura shares that she wants the all the classes to be equal so that everyone can graduate from Class A. Miyake says that there's a rumour that a special test will be conducted to determine their ranking if they end 3rd year with equally as many points. Ayanokōji notes that Sakura has become more talkative and expressive.

Miyake brings up that Class C seems strange recently. He realised that Ryuuen's pawns have been following them around lately. They can't confront them due to a lack of evidence and their fear of being painted as the bad guy. Ayanokōji notes that another class has been spying on them, which Miyake hasn't noticed.

He starts thinking, that Ryuuen has already narrowed the suspected people down into a small group that contains him and Karuizawa. He states that it's a question of when Ryuuen would use Karuizawa to figure him out.

The others reveal that there's now only an 80-point gap between Class D and C and that Class C had an incident, where they lost 100 class points. The group suspects that Class C is self-destructing.

Ayanokōji suspects, that Ryuuen received private points in return for him using their S-points for partying and giving Katsuragi the leftovers. They start talking about relationships with Hasebe teasing the boys. As they talk about their plans for Christmas, Sakura starts laughing and crying from happiness for being able to talk like this to people. They then decide to go out for dinner.

While the group goes to dinner, Ayanokōji excuses himself to go to the toilet, but actually goes to confront the girl tailing him, Class A's Kamuro. He starts openly thinking of reasons why she'd tail him, threatening to report her bad job to Sakayanagi. He gets her to reveal that Sakayanagi is using her weakness to make her tail him. After she threatens to tip-off Ryuuen that he's X, he compromises that she can continue tailing him but to only report to Sakayanagi, in exchange, Ryuuen isn't tipped off or anyone else for that matter. Kamuro accepts and leaves.

Chapter 2
Sudou comes furious into the class. He tells Horikita, that he's pissed at class C for tailing him. Sudou didn't make a big deal out of it at Horikita's order not to be violent. After hearing that, Ayanokōji tells them about what happened to Miyake. Horikita mentions that it's necessary for Sudou to take the next step. Ayanokōji tries to peek at what she's writing but can't. Horikita explains they can't just only focus on Sudou.

Horikita brings up that this time is different from the other times Ryuuen has messed with people, and that he's most likely trying to find the mastermind of class D. As they talk about Ryuuen's past actions Horikita brings up the fact that it's weird no one from class C dropped out during the Paper Shuffle Exam. She also questions the Ayanokōji group.

At lunch, Horikita has a request for Ayanokōji. She wants him to return a book (that he couldn't get his hands on because it was so popular) for her. In turn, he could finally be able to lend it. He happily accepts and goes immediately. At the library, Ayanokōji decides he might as well lend one more book. He goes to the mystery section. As he's picking a book, he sees a struggling girl and decides to help her. As he grabs the book, he notices that it's Hiyori Shiina from class C.

While talking, Shiina reveals the book, Ayanokōji is holding, is very popular with 2nd years, and she's also been trying to get it. After recommending books to Ayanokōji, she asks him out for lunch (not romantically). Ayanokōji suspects this is due to Ryuuen's orders. Shiina again brushes it off as her own will, and they go to lunch together.

After choosing meals, Ayanokōji notices that Shiina can't take both the tray and her bag at the same time, so offers to help. When he gets the bag he notes that it's usually heavy. After talking about, how it is the first time Shiina has come to the cafeteria and such, she brings up 4 books and asks if he's read them before. She says the reason for doing this is in case she finds another book lover, so she can lend a book to them (the books are her own). He then takes a book, but finds the situation a little suspicious, but doesn't rule out that she could just be a massive book lover.

After school, Ayanokōji gets a message from Hasebe saying to come to the usual place at the mall. Horikita then says his grin was creeping her out. Ayanokōji doesn't recall grinning and makes a remark that causes her to leave.

He arrives at the meeting. Even Miyake is there, due to taking a leave from his club. Hasebe brings up the Shiina lunch. Ayanokōji suspects it was the reason for calling them there. The group, of course, suspects they are dating. Ayanokōji denies it and says she's probably just sent as a spy for Ryuuen. After hearing that Yukimura says that Ryuuen's doing it to find the mastermind behind class D and questions Ayanokōji, but he brushes it off. Ayanokōji notes Miyake's good observation skills. They then discuss who X may be. They suspect Hirata before Sakura suggests it may be Ayanokōji. He, of course, denies.

Next day after school, Ayanokōji is annoyed at someone. While he's ‘pissed’, Satou invites him to grab some tea, but he turns her down. He reveals that Chabashira had stayed behind and had been staring at him from time to time the whole day. After seeing Satou off, he tries to escape Chabashira, but She calls out to him. He notices, that she has a vulnerable expression despite being emotionless. She takes him to the headmasters’ room and sees a man in his 40s being present in the room, before being left with him after the headmaster excuses himself.

(Kiyotaka is son, Ayanokōji is dad)

The man is Ayanokōji's father, who wants Kiyotaka to drop out. Kiyotaka doesn't want to drop out reasoning that Ayanokōji doesn't have the same control over him as in the ‘White Room’.

Ayanokōji brings up ‘Matsuo’, who gave Kiyotaka the idea to enrol at the school. He reveals, that Matsuo was punished. Kiyotaka recalls, that he was a likeable man, often bragging about his son, who was around the same age as him. Matsuo's punishment was eternal unemployment in addtion to his son being unable to get into any high school. Ayanokōji reveals, that Matsuo committed suicide to ‘save’ his son, who's now working bad jobs.

He blames it all on Kiyotaka and claims that Matsuo would be ashamed of him. Kiyotaka thinks that the purpose for him coming here is to show that Ayanokōji takes no mercy on those who betray him. He defends himself by stating, that if he died that's more of a reason to stay and complete his will.

Ayanokōji states that he's changed. Kiyotaka understands this since he's always been following the ‘White Rooms’’ orders, but he had a ‘blank year’, which he describes as his father's biggest mistake. Kiyotaka acknowledges the White Room's good teaching methods but notes that they're unethical. He states, his knowledge is far greater than the amount learned in an average lifetime. He was taught so many different things, that caused him to want to learn about the world (that he threw away?).

The blank year was caused by temporarily closing down the institution before finishing. Kiyotaka suspects something big is going on behind his back. Ayanokōji states, he could make Kiyotaka forcibly quit, but he calls bullshit and points to the fact that the bodyguards, who even go to the toilet with him, aren't there. Ayanokōji reveals his plans for Kiyotaka to rule Japan. Kiyotaka then states his wish (dream?) is to raise ‘trash’ to be equal to geniuses.

Before Kiyotaka can leave, a man named ‘Sakayanagi’ enters and greets Ayanokōji. He hadn't seen Ayanokōji in 8–9 years (he's the board chairman of the school). Kiyotaka notes that this man is the reason Matsuo chose the school for him. Chairman Sakayanagi's father founded the school. After being turned down, Ayanokōji finally leaves. Sakayanagi reveals who eligible to admit is predetermined and everything afterward is just to scare the public. After talking about admissions, Kiyotaka leaves to confronts Chabashira, that everything she's said are lies (backing it up with his conversation with Chairman Sakayanagi).

It's revealed that the reason for Kiyotaka being placed in Class D was because Chabashira was the only teacher not interested in going to Class A because if he was placed into another class he would have stood out. Sakayanagi miscalculated, as Chabashira is the one who wants to reach Class A the most. He says, that she used the information she got from the chairman as a desperate measure. But when she blackmailed she hadn't accounted for the fact that Kiyotaka's father would make contact with the school.

She tries to threaten him by saying she could expel him at any moment, but Kiyotaka begs to differ (through all of this he'd acted agitated to draw out her true intentions). Kiyotaka will now stop trying to reach Class A. She threatens to take him down with her if their class points plummets, however, he counters by saying that her position as a teacher isn't guaranteed either.

In the evening, Ayanokōji accidentally eavesdrops on a 2nd-year student, who's talking about the student council president Nagumo, before being confessed to and rejecting someone (the person calling might be Nagumo). She mentions that Nagumo still hasn't settled things with Manabu. She falls notices Ayanokōji causing her to run towards the 2nd year dorms.

Ayanokōji starts thinking if he should continue to go for class A (or at least help) or stop. He decides to postpone to think about how to deal with Ryuuen. He gets Karuizawa to call him. Right after he notices that the 2nd year girl dropped her amulet and he decides to go give it to the dorm admin. He kinda admits to being X, but he also reveals to her, that his reason for helping class D has disappeared so he'll stop using her and that they should cut off contact. He then reminds her that he'll still protect her. Karuizawa seemed to have something to say but is not able to.

In his dorm, Ayanokōji thinks about life in the White Room and states that he didn't dislike it but it also wasn't fun. He states his goal is just to have 3 ordinary years as a student.

As he makes a cup of tea, he gets an unusual notification from the first floor. Turns out it's Manabu. Ayanokōji invites him into his dorm. Manabu has come to warn Ayanokōji about the new president Nagumo and says that he's changing the rules of the system so much it might cause an unprecedented amount of expulsions. Manabu states that only mistake he made as the president was repeated failures in training his successor (again). All the 2nd years are under Nagumo's control. Manabu's purpose was to get Ayanokōji to do something about Nagumo, by using the siblings (Manabu for the council and Suzune as the face). It concludes with Ayanokōji giving his contact info to Manabu as a token to make his try not seem useless.

Sometime later, While going home the Ayanokōji group comes across Ichinose and Sakayanagi. Ichinose states that they'll be class C in the next semester.

Chapter 3
As the last lesson was finishing up, some of class C entered class D and Chabashira left. The ones who showed up were Ryuuen, Ishizaki, and Yamada Albert (also Komiya and Kondou). Ryuuen says he's come to warn them. In the tense atmosphere, the only one able to move as if nothing's happening is Kouenji, who leaves. Ryuuen's target was Kouenji as he sends his men after him. Ayanokōji notes that Kushida's role has become far less present but not faded, as the class gossips.

Ayanokōji, Miyake with some other people go to check on Kouenji. Someone (I can't remember) suggest he's going back to the dorm. As they head towards the dorms they see class C surround Kouenji. Class D decides to just observe for now. Kouenji acts like Kouenji (arrogant) but realizes Ryuuen won't let him go until they finish their business so they go to a rest area. Ayanokōji suspects that this was just a ploy to narrow down the people who could be X. Kouenji trolls Ryuuen some more and gets him to hold a mirror while he does his hair. This pisses Ryuuen off and he throws the mirror on the ground.

Sakayanagi, Kamuro and 2 boys then also show up. Kouenji says he wants to leave, but Ryuuen's lackey stops him. Ryuuen suspects him due to the results from the Zodiac Exam. Kouenji denies and says if he came to that conclusion he must be a moron.

Ryuuen then asks Kouenji for his opinion on who X is, but before he does he's cut off by Sakayanagi, who points to the possibility of Ryuuen just being sour he lost to class D. Sakayanagi then reveals that the deal was that class C support class A in exchange for monthly paid private points. After some arguing, Ryuuen kicks Hashimoto, who was defending Sakayanagi, which caused quite a shock. They then rub some more salt in some wounds and everyone leaves.

Chapter 4
It's the last day of the second semester and Ryuuen states that it's time to strike (using Karuizawa). Ryuuen reveals that he only tailed the more prominent people in Class D to mostly signal that he's watching them.

Ryuuen reveals that he's kept his plan for the day secret even from his lackeys, due to fear of it leaking out. He plans on taking Karuizawa to the rooftop and ‘blackmailing’ her into giving the identity of X away. He also told X of his plans but is surprised that he hasn't made a move. Ryuuen only recently realized that Karuizawa was a pawn, because of the Karaoke incident during the Paper Shuffle Exam.

Ibuki mentions the fact that there are security cameras up there, but Ryuuen says that there is only a limited amount up there. He then takes a black spray and sprays it on the camera preventing any vision. He revealed that the reason for Class C's incident was because he already tried it on a camera and told Sakayanagi and got in trouble for it. At around 2:00 PM Karuizawa shows up. Ryuuen reveals to her of the way X manipulated Manabe. Ryuuen stops the cycle of frivolous arguments and ignorance by getting Ibuki to restrain Karuizawa. He then orders Ishizaki to fill 2 water buckets. As she's screaming at Ryuuen, he teases her by saying that he's aware that X had 'promised' to save her in the case of an emergency and that she previously used Hirata as a shield.

He goes on to explain how the exam and rules are different every year to prevent cheating from using the 2nd year students. He explains how they've been silenced with a threat of expulsion if anything is said. He starts talking about his past actions to tiptoe the line of what he can't and can do, this incident being one of those experiments. Ishizaki pours a water bucket on Karuizawa which makes her start trembling. They've then continued pouring water on her 4 times, which continues to break apart her heart. She thinks about her options and concludes that the only thing she could do now was to just to believe in Ayanokōji. She states that the Karuizawa that had been holding on died. She recalls that she was a competitive young girl which made enemies out of similar girls, and that caused her all sorts of bullying. She states the only thing she could do in the situation was accept it. As she's recalling her bullying, she wonders if Ayanokōji abandoned and used her.

Ryuuen reveals to her that the incident on the ship with Manabe wasn't just a coincidence and Ayanokōji had set her up. She starts considering the option of just telling his name to rid herself of their assault, but after verbalising ‘taka’, she stopped herself from going further. Karuizawa starts feeling proud that although she was betrayed by him, she on the other hand, made the active choice not to betray him and states that the things she did for him were fun.

Chapter 5
2 hours before Karuizawa and Ryuuen, Chabashira explained that all club activities will be suspended, some buildings closed for renovation, and to head back as soon as possible. She waits a few seconds to end class and announces that their position as class C will be nearly guaranteed provided they don't make any mistakes in the vacation.

After class Ayanokōji promises Yukimura to come to the mall with them today. He then goes to the group to be asked about them dating and he declines again. They wonder where to go and then talk about family (Hasebe probably has some family issues). After being together until about 2:00 PM, Ayanokōji excuses himself. After he leaves he calls Chabashira and arranges to meet her in the classroom.

In the classroom, he asks her why she's so desperate to rise to class A (to see if Chabashira is useful to him). He then threatens her by saying they might not even reach class C and tells her about Ryuuen and Karuizawa. He explains that the incident might cause Karuizawa to drop out. From Chabashira's facial expression, he deducts that expulsion will have a big penalty. Ayanokōji reveals he was just playing with her and invites her to observe.

The two of them go to the staircase, Albert is guarding. Ayanokōji notices that Ishizaki has already made a few trips to the bathroom to get water. He notes that Ryuuen's probably making Karuizawa relive her past, but he didn't expect her to not give up his identity.

While Karuizawa is being tortured, Ayanokōji and Chabashira talk about the private points system. Ayanokōji makes the hypothesis that there are pre-made price tags for everything you can buy for private points (including test marks). He questions if you can just buy test marks every exam if the price rises etc. He then threatens her to answer. She states that the key to beating the system is to figure out the rules around private points and there are prepared prices for everything, but can't continue her answer. There are also conditions to use private points this way.

At 2:40 PM, he mailed a person to come to them. He announces that he's going up, which shocks Chabashira (he suspects, it's because it limits her chances of using him). Before he does Chabashira tells him, that Chairman Sakayanagi explained, how Ayanokōji is a talented but special student, who they need to make like the school. So she blackmailed him into ‘liking’ the school. Ayanokōji states he would want to stay anyways. Chabashira then realises that using him was a mistake.

Ayanokōji ensures that Horikita will most likely lead the class to class A, anyways. He then states he brought her to show that he's stepping down.

As Horikita Manabu showed Ayanokōji goes to confront Ryuuen, which surprises Chabashira. He then says that he just needs a witness and instructs Manabu to just stand halfway up the stair not doing anything else than announcing his presence (he got him to do it probably by promising he'd control Horikita in the council). He says ‘give me 20 minutes and I’ll be back’.

He gets past Albert, goes on the roof, and looks at Karuizawa. Class C is shocked and denying it is him. Ibuki denies it being him and reasons with the actions on the Deserted Island Exam. Ryuuen reveals that after the Manabe situation he knew it was either Hirata or Ayanokōji. Ryuuen asks Ayanokōji, how he's going to over the predicament, but Ayanokōji just questions if it's a predicament at all and tells him to wait until the next exam to find out if it's him. Ibuki continues to vocally doubt him, but Ayanokōji shoots her down by revealing that he broke her camera during the Deserted Island Exam.

Ibuki knows that Ryuuen will use violence to assert his dominance over Ayanokōji and tries to stop him. He slaps Ibuki and tells everyone to keep it a secret for the best interest of both parties. He then orders Ishizaki to beat up Ayanokōji but is stopped by Karuizawa's scream.

Ayanokōji tells her not to worry and swiftly takes Ishizaki to the ground. Albert then grasps the situation and swings, but his punch is caught by Ayanokōji's hand. After swiftly beating Ishizaki and Albert, he reveals, he had known this situation would take place a long time ago, which shocks Ryuuen who thought Ayanokōji played into his hands. Ayanokōji then swiftly knocks out an angry Ibuki. Ayanokōji vs Ryuuen. Ayanokōji deliberately takes a few strikes, but gets bored and starts beating the living god out of him, while Ryuuen claims that he might have won the battle but not the war. Ayanokōji doesn't really care and proceeds to knock him out. He then goes to Karuizawa. He tells her to think about it later and assures her no one can use her past against her anymore. He tells her to go get help from Chabashira and Manabu who are waiting below.

He goes and wakes the class C people up. Ryuuen wakes up and states he'll do anything to win against him. Ayanokōji doesn't really care and tells him his mistake was to go after him first and that he'd gladly accept a rematch but he'd lay low for now. After arguing a bit Ryuuen realises that he's lost. He then says he wants to transfer all the points to Ibuki and get expelled, but Ayanokōji stops him (because it'd be less work for him if Ryuuen can take out Ichinose and Sakayanagi for him).

Epilogue
Ryuuen reminisces of his past and how life doesn’t have a reset button. As he recollects the past, he suspects that the number of times he lost should had been in the three digits in the present. The events of yesterday wasn’t even the first time he lost to Ayanokōji. He then decides to go to the school, expecting that he was probably the only student making his way there.

On his way there, he sees Ibuki and tries to ignore her. She explains that she is just there to return his phone. She then starts trying to convince him to stay, but Ryuuen mocked her by asking wasn’t she just there to return his phone. She retorts by saying that he'll have to fight her to drop out. She then grabbed his arm and questions his drastic change after only just losing to Ayanokōji. He laments that he misread the situation and lost, above all, 'that guy' was a big deal after all if he could make him feel this way. Ibuki is disappointed that he'd given up so easily and forsake their shared goal of reaching Class A. She then knocks him to the ground and leaves, taking advantage of his weaken body after his fight the day before.

Ryuuen then meets up with his homeroom teacher Sakagami, who suggests they go to the counselling room. Before they get there, Ishizaki and Albert tries to stop Ryuuen but fails. Sakagami asked if they had anything to do with the destroyed surveillance camera, which he denies. Lastly, the teacher asked if they really had a fight which Ryuuen took all the blame. Remarking that it’ll be a quick event, Ryuuen kicked Ishizaki after he tried to shed light on the whole situation. A violent outburst in front of a teacher while soon to be expelled was virtually meaningless in the mind of Ryuuen. The news Sakagami received was that a student of Class D was the one responsible for destroying the camera and that it has already been reimbursed. Ryuuen was shocked as Ayanokōji was probably behind it and did not choose to expose them. Before Ryuuen starts filling out his withdrawal forum, Sakagami reveals that Albert and Ishizaki plans on dropping out with him. He then decides against it, as making them drop out with him would make his action frivolous. He then thinks to himself of the purpose for him remaining.

Soon afterward, rumours begins to spread about Ryuuen no longer being the one in charge of Class C. Additionally, he no longer has an entourage and spends all his time alone, talking to no one. It felt like he was looking at his past self when first entering the school. Ayanokōji wonders if there'll come a time where he'll gain what he lost. Though one thing was indisputable, he shares some similarities with him and most importantly, he could still be used.

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