Episode 2

It Takes a Great Deal and Skill to Conceal One's Talent and Skill. (才能を隠すのにも卓越した才能がいる.) is the second episode of You-zitsu Season 1 (Anime).

Synopsis
Sae Chabashira explains how the system works at this school as the four first-year classes are all ranked by merit, and that D-Class has the opportunity to be promoted to C-Class with strong performances on exams.

She also warns that with the current situation, anybody who fails one more exam is expelled. Now fully aware of the system, everybody is taking their studies more seriously except for the three biggest idiots of the class in Ken Sudō, Kenji Ike, and Haruki Yamauchi. Suzune Horikita treats Kiyotaka Ayanokōji to an expensive lunch to discuss the strategy, as well as bringing aboard those three to the library to study.

Kiyotaka and Kikyō Kushida succeed in getting them to come, but they leave immediately while Ken lets everybody know that he wants to make it rich quickly by going pro in basketball.

That night, Kiyotaka goes out for a drink and overhears Suzune talking to her brother Manabu Horikita, and Manabu tries to attack her over a disagreement about her view of isolation being independence which caused her placement in Class D. Kiyotaka intervenes, and after dodging several of Manabu's strikes, impressing him as he questions the style he studies only to get a vague answer. Manabu then remembers who Kiyotaka is as he reveals that he scored a 50 on his entry exams and recent quiz before he asks if it was on purpose but Kiyotaka replies it was coincidence. Manabu voices his surprise that his sister made a friend but she denies as she doesn't need such a thing as he voices disappointment in her mindset before leaving.

Suzune and Ayanokōji speak with her awkwardly thanking him as he shrugs it off as nothing special. She soon remarks about fighting proficiency as he answers before Suzune reminded him that he contradicted his previous statement. She questions him on this as well as her brother's query that he intentionally got half scores each time but he doesn't give a clear answer. Suzune remarks that everything is a mystery with him as he asks if she was really done with the study group which she confirms stating those who fail aren't her concern. Ayanokōji soon inquires if it was this distant and cold behavior that got her placed in Class D but she can't answer.

The midterm exams come, and class D as a whole performs very well with some scoring among the highest among the first years in the school.

D-Class

 * Kiyotaka Ayanokōji - 62110 points
 * Suzune Horikita - 88106 points
 * Kikyō Kushida - 47224 points
 * Ken Sudō - 31 points
 * Yōsuke Hirata - 9826 points
 * Haruki Yamauchi - 18 points
 * Kanji Ike - 21 points
 * Kei Karuizawa - 8967 points
 * Kokoro Inogashira - 51126 points
 * Chiaki Matsushita - 2985 points
 * Maya Satō - 1125 points
 * Mei-Yu Wang - 16353 points
 * Hideo Sotomura - 12002 points

Class Points

 * A-Class - 940 points
 * B-Class - 650 points
 * C-Class - 490 points
 * D-Class - 0 points

Trivia

 * Manabu Horikita hints that Kiyotaka is hiding his true intelligence.
 * Kiyotaka is shown to have some knowledge of martial arts.