Light Novel Volume 4.5/Summary

Below is the long summary of volume 4.5 of the You-Zitsu light novel series.

Prologue
The narrator talks about "Sazae-san syndrome", a term about the depressive feeling one can have when realising the next day is Monday, and links the similarity to how the students feel near the end of summer vacation. The narrator disagrees with the feeling as they see the years in school are essentially the only time one is able to freely do what they want, as they will have to spend most of the rest of their life working until retirement after that. The narrator points out how many students have failed to appreciate being a student until later on in their life.

Chapter 1
Ayanokōji unexpectedly meets Ibuki at a fortune teller, after being informed of it through Sudou who wanted to use him as a way to get closer to Horikita. Since Horikita didn’t want to go Sudou didn’t either. They both can’t get in since you have to be in pairs. Ayanokōji finds out Ibuki likes fortune-telling.

They both leave and meet each other again the next day at the fortune teller again. This time they decide to just go together despite looking like a couple. During their 120+ min queue time, they chit chat a bit. They get in and get their fortunes told. Ibuki gets nothing unusual, but Ayanokōji is said to have a troubled past or something. They are also told if they go an unusual way back home something bad will happen.

They take a detour back and get stuck in the elevator. Ayanokōji calls someone for help. They struggle to get out to no avail. Before dying of heatstroke they try some button combinations and the elevator finally moves, but it was just Katsuragi calling for the elevator saying he was just returning a favour as a friend to Ayanokōji.

Chapter 2
It’s someone from class D’s birthday, so the Idiot trio + Ayanokōji wants to put their money together to buy her a gift. They go to the store and find Katsuragi buying a girly box of chocolates in a girly store. He buys it as a birthday present for someone with the birthday August 29th. The idiots suspect he has a girlfriend and force Ayanokōji to investigate. While in the store, Ike starts insulting Shinohara's physical appearance with the boys. Shinohara appears behind him and starts fuming. He’s forced to apologise due to the presence of Kushida.

At Sudou’s request, Ayanokōji starts stalking Katsuragi and notices he has his uniform on. He stakes out somewhere waiting for Katsuragi to show up. Before Katsuragi arrives Horikita Manabu and the secretary starts talking to him. He invites Ayanokōji to become the vice president of the student council shocking the secretary, but he declines. Manabu invites him to something but he declines.

Katsuragi shows up and he explains he’s been going to the student council every day. They go to the student council someday. Katsuragi argues with Manabu about sending a gift to his family to no avail. After Katsuragi leaves, Manabu taunts Ayanokōji some more before he leaves too. It ends with Ayanokōji using Sudou to help Katsuragi send his package to his orphan twin sister. Sudou sends the package and proof of it at a tournament and the two of them gain 100k points from Katsuragi and Ayanokōji gets a friendship.

Chapter 3
The school sends a mail informing the students, that the water won’t work for some days, but they could get 2 litres for free from the cafeteria so it got crowded. The convenience stores were also down, but the Keyaki mall would provide free water, but wasn’t allowed to take it back.

Horikita strangely calls Ayanokōji, when she usually texts if she reaches out. After calling her back a few times, he gets another call while his making dinner. He tries texting her but is left on read. He tries again and finally gets through after 4 tries. During the call, he hears a metallic thunk and notices that she’s tired before she hangs up.

At 9:00 PM, she calls him again. After vaguely telling her situation, she with a disgusted tone asked him to come over. He enters her dorm and notices, that she too hasn’t decorated much. He enters her room and sees a Horikita with her hand stuck in a water bottle. He then goes to the cafeteria and a vending machine to get water, but both are out.

After discussing their options, they conclude it’s best to get water from Sakura. Horikita also suspects Kushida for having betrayed them in the Zodiac Exam, but Ayanokōji argues it was also her fault.

Since Sakura didn’t answer, they decide to head to Keyaki mall to get water. Horikita objects to using the elevator. On their way to the stairs, they’re spotted by Kushida. When they arrived at the East staircase the door was locked. Kushida comes and suggest using the West staircase, and points out Horikita acting weird, but then offers water. Horikita signals, that she doesn’t want it and they leave.

They get to the lobby, but Horikita chickens out after seeing a lot of people. They hurry into an elevator, with Ayanokōji covering Horikita from the camera. While going up, the door stops at the 5th floor and Kouenji enters and goes directly to the mirror. He then calls Ayanokōji an elevator boy and tells him to go to the top floor. He didn’t look at them once. Sakura texts Ayanokōji back saying she has water and the incident is resolved.

Chapter 4
Yamauchi asked Ayanokōji for help on confessing to Sakura. Ayanokōji proof-reads the confession-letter and hands it to Sakura behind the school building while Yamauchi nervously observes her reaction from afar. Sakura feels faint realising the love letter is from Yamauchi. She leaves before reading the letter but promises to meet Yamauchi tomorrow at the same location. Sakura asked Ayanokōji to also be present for tomorrow's meetup.

Before the answer, Ayanokōji and Sakura meet. Ayanokōji encourages her to be brave, before hiding fearing making Yamauchi mad by being present. Sakura gets confessed to by Yamauchi but is turned down. Yamauchi takes it like a man and dips. Ayanokōji pops out and congratulates Sakura, then they get soaked.

Chapter 5
Ayanokōji, Horikita, Ike, Sudou, Yamauchi, Kushida, and Sakura go to the swimming pool. The idiot trio plan to peep at the girls and force Ayanokōji to join. Nagumo attracts lots of attention when showing off his volleyball skills, causing jealousy among the three idiots. They met Ichinose and Kanzaki and play against them in volleyball and win a free lunch/dinner. Ayanokōji suspects it was to scout their ability. The idiot trio’s plan unexpectedly fails because Ayanokōji got Karuizawa to interfere. Ayanokōji told Karuizawa he might try to expel someone soon enough before they play around in the pool a little.

Extra Chapter
The idiot trio’s + Karuizawa, Ichinose, Sakura and Horikita’s side of the peeping story.