Light Novel Volume 8/Summary

Below is the long summary of volume 8 of the You-Zitsu light novel series.

Prologue
Manabu Horikita talks about how he had not chosen the school in order to do anything in particular. He had lived with the intent of becoming a talented person but without any particular goal in mind. For better or for worse, he lived his life without stirring anything, being a role model and believing it to be the right thing to do, but Miyabi Nagumo had taken repeated actions as though to oppose him. Manabu says that he had already given up on taking action since he had failed to make a friend whom he trusted from the "bottom of his heart", and after 3 years, he had finally realized his mistake and the regret it led him to.

Chapter 1
On a Thursday morning, after the 3rd semester began, the 1st years along with the 2nd and 3rd were travelling in buses on a highway. As the bus in which the 1st year Class-C students were seated in approached a tunnel, Sae Chabashira revealed that they were going to a facility owned by the school for the next special exam and that the special exam was focused mainly on mental development, and they were going to take it along with the 2nd and 3rd year students.


 * RULES OF THE SPECIAL EXAM


 * After arrival at the camp, 6 gender-based groups would be formed, consisting of students from all the years.
 * There is a lower and upper limit to the number of students in a group. If there were 60 boys in a year, then the group should be between 8-13 boys. If there were 70 boys, then it should be between 9-14, and if there were 80, then it should be between 10-15.
 * Small groups would be initially formed within the school year. Once the small groups are formed, a large group will be formed by combining with small groups in the other school years.
 * Students are not allowed to withdraw. If a student is forced to withdraw, then the group must deal with the gap on their own.
 * A leader will be chosen by consensus within a particular group.
 * The group that would place last will face a penalty - the expulsion of its leader.
 * 100 private points per person would be deducted from the expellee's class.

If the leader of that group wanted, they could choose another student from their group to bear joint responsibility, and cause them to get expelled as well.

REWARDS


 * 1st place: 10000 private points, 3 class points
 * 2nd place: 5000 private points, 1 class point
 * 3rd place: 3000 private points

The above points will be added to every student of the group.

In addition, if a group is composed of students of more than two classes, the rewards are amplified. If the group is composed of three classes, the rewards are doubled, and if they are composed of all four classes, the reward is tripled. Furthermore, the amplification will be multiplied depending on the amount of people in a group (up to 1.5x for 15 people).

Lastly, classmates of the leaders will receive double the rewards.

PENALTIES


 * 4th place: 5000 private points
 * 5th place: 10000 private points, 3 class points
 * 6th place: 20000 private points, 5 class points

The above points will be deducted from every student of the group, however the private points or class points may not fall below zero, but will remain as a cumulative deficit and would be calculated out in later additions.

Hirata asked Chabashira if there was a way to extend a "lifeline", to which she answers that 20 million private points, along with 300 class points would be needed to save an expellee. Chabashira reveals that everyday for one hour, the boys and the girls would be allowed to talk freely in the cafeteria, in which, after hearing of it. Ike and Shinohara seem to rejoice. After Chabashira finished explaining, Hirata asks everyone how to overcome the exam, to which Sudo answers that they should form a group of 12 students of their class, to which Hirata says that the students of the other classes might not be willing to join their group. To this, Chabashira smiles and says that they were free to transfer private points whether it was an exam or not as long as it was legal, but private points are not regular pocket money and saving private points for others is not an effective strategy if you were the only one who could save themselves. Hirata seems to be displeased, and asks his class for a majority vote for who were willing to share private points evenly among themselves, to which less than half of class raised their hands.

After arriving at the exam site, the boys gather in the gymnasium to form their groups. Immediately, the 2nd and 3rd years begin forming their groups. Meanwhile, with the first-years, Class A prepared a large group of 14 people and informs all the other classes that they are willing to take one more in their group in the next 5 minutes. Everyone seems surprised by Class A's sudden declaration and says that Katsuragi is not the one giving orders here. The other classes disagree with Class A's proposal, but then Class A declares that whoever joins their group will be given special treatment: that if they place last, they will not drag down the non-Class A student with them because Katsuragi will be the one taking responsibility alone. Afterwards, Kaneda discusses a strategy with Class B's Kanzaki to siege class A with the cooperation of all three classes, to which Hirata and Kanzaki agree. After some discussion, Yamauchi joins the group of class A. The other three classes start forming groups, but no one is willing to take Ryūen so Akito Miyake volunteers to take him in exchange for the reward from first place. After the small groups have been formed, Miyabi Nagumo approaches the first years to form a large group right away, instead of waiting for the assigned time to form them. Nagumo proposes to form large groups based on the first years picking via a drafting method. Matoba's group, made of the 14 Class A students, picks Manabu Horikita's group. Meanwhile, Teruhiko Yukimura, who had become the representative of the balanced first-year group, consisting of himself, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji, Rokusuke Kōenji, Masayoshi Hashimoto, Yahiko Totsuka, Daichi Ishizaki, Albert Yamada, Tokitou, Moriyama, and Sumida, had chosen Nagumo's group. Nagumo notices the fact that the balanced first-year group led by Yukimura, had not decided who their leader should be, to which Nagumo advises that a leader should be elected as quickly as possible.

Yukimura has become leader of the mixed first years group.

Chapter 2
After waking up and cleaning everybody gathered to the place where the zazen practice has to be done professor comments that its first time that he is going to do zazen to which the instructor scolds him for his dialect. after finishing up everybody gathered for lunch a third year proposed a breakfast rotation to which Keisei accepted. next everyone gathered in the classroom for lessons. after PE and marathon everyone go to the bath and after dinner Ayanokoji was returning to his room where he sees that a crowd has gathered because Sakayanagi was fell because of Yamauchi's carelessness after standing up she says to Ayanokoji that she is going to play with Honami Ichinose if he won't. in the shared room at 10 o'clock Nagumo with Ishikura and Tsunoda came to their room and asked for playing cards and if they keep losing they have to prepare breakfast till the end. in the fifth round Ayanokoji and Ngumo were playing Ayanokoji figured that the joker has been marked and Nagumo has been predicting the outcome from the start. after losing the fifth match Nagumo left the room.

Chapter 3

 * The third day of the exam begins. Ayanokōji and his group make are in charge of preparing breakfast. Kouenji skips out on making breakfast and doesn't offer any excuses.
 * On the same day, Ayanokōji while in the morals classroom observes Ichinose, along with her group members Hiyori and Wang Mei-Yu running together. He notices that although Mei is smart she is bad at sports. Hiyori has been acting as the leader of the girls of Class D ever since Ryuuen stepped down as the leader of the class.
 * Meanwhile Kiriyama tries to ask Kouenji, who isn't paying attention, to fix his attitude towards the lessons. However, Kiriyama is eventually stopped by Ishikura and Nagumo when they realize that Kouenji has no intentions of cooperating.
 * During lunch Ayanokōji and Kei make contact. Ayanokōji has already memorized names of all the boys and which groups they belongs to. Ayanokōji wants to know about Sakayanagi and Kamuro's group. The two of them are in the same group composed of three classes with nine from Class A. Sakayanagi didn't take anyone from Class B and declared Ichinose is not trustworthy. Ayanokōji tells Kei to keep an eye on a few people for him.
 * on the third day of bath the boys began competing for over their weapons in which Ayanokoji and Koenji were last man stannding.
 * in the middle of the night Ayanokoji wakes up to see who left the message under his pillow turn out be Manabu Horikita. he calls him to ask about what Nagumo is up to which he says that he is doing nothing.

Chapter 4
ichinose talks about the outdoor exam.

Chapter 5
on Monday the fifth day of exam dedicated to physical exercise students have to run 18 km of distance. Koenji seems to have to run into the jungle Ayanokoji decided to look for him he asks why he took the detour to which he answers that he saw a wild boar. Ayanokoji asks him to lend a hand to the exam to which Koenji refuse .Ayanokoji grabbed his arm to Koenji sid that he is the person who tamed Ryueen .after leaving Koenji behind he reached his friends and decided to wait for Koenji in the turn point with Chabashira. during return he sees that Keisei has sprained his leg. they took the injured keisei back to school. during lunch time they talk about their groups with Haruka and Akito. during dinner Ayanokoji decided to make his move he had told Kei to look for Nazuna Asahina he decided to tail her during dinner after making contact with her he asks her how he can avoid Nagumo's attention to which she says why don't he beat him. in the night the group started talking about the position of their group keisei seems to have been depressed beacuse he wasn't able to accpmplish anything major in special exams.

Chapter 6

 * on the last day of the they begin to prepare for the long distance relay.
 * during the dinner Ayanokoji and Ichinose stated talking about the exam.
 * after dinnner he saw Akane Tachibana crying and advices her that she should consult the former student council president. she replies that she cant beacuse he always try to solve problems on his own.
 * during midnight he saw Hashimoto leaving the room he decided to go after him and sees that he was meeting Ryueen.
 * Ryueen and Hashimoto meets Manabu and Nagumo at night. Nagumo tells Hashimoto that Ayanokoji is ranked high by Manabu.

Chapter 7
Kushida seems angry about selecting her into the same group as Suzune.

Epilogue
on the last day after giving the exam everybody exhausted waiting for the results the proctor started announcing the result and says that all the boys have have scored more than average so their is no expulsions in boys group led by Manabu dominated as winner but Nagumo was smiling even though he lost. on the girls side a small group has been fall below average it was the group that Tachibana was. after the result announced the proctor asked the leader of the group who she might consider dragging down she tells the name of Tachibana it was the strategy prepared by Nagumo for her because he will never able to pull out the strategy against Manabu because he dosen't want to expel him. 3rd year class A decided to cancel the expulsion. after Ayanokoji started leaving the gymnasium he was approached by Kei he explains her the strategy that Nagumo used after that she asks him that what would he have done if it were her to which he answers that there is no need for her to ask that he would have use any method to save her.

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