Below is the long summary of volume 1 of the You-Zitsu light novel series.
Prologue
An unnamed person speaks to the reader of the novel, asking them to think about the state of society. They then talk about equality in society, concluding in the end that equality does not exist. They go on to refer to a famous passage which states that learning creates imbalances in equality, emphasizing that the teaching remains the same, albeit in a more complex situation, in the modern era. Finally, the unknown person then speaks to the reader again, asking if they have given thought to the future. They finish by referencing their own experience from when they were in high school.
Chapter 1
An old woman had boarded a crowded bus and did not have an available seat. A businesswoman noticed this and asked a high school student who was sitting in the priority seating section whether he would be willing to give the old woman his spot. He pompously rejected the request and started to banter with the businesswoman. After the atmosphere in the bus had gotten more tense, a female high school student attempted to help convince the boy to give up his seat. After being rejected again, she asked all the passengers if anyone would be willing to give up their own seat for the old woman.
Sitting in another section of the bus, Kiyotaka Ayanokōji thinks about his stance on the event that just occurred before him. Not wanting to get involved with troubling matters and partially agreeing with the reasons that the boy gave for not giving the woman his seat, he decides against it. He noticed that the girl next to him had come to the same conclusion. Eventually, a woman gives up her seat and the bus ride proceeds normally. The bus arrives at Advanced Nurturing High School and as Kiyotaka is departing from the bus stop, he is stopped by the girl he sat next to during the ride. She asked him why he was looking at her, and the two discuss the event that happened on the bus.
Later on, Kiyotaka gets to his classroom and, after failing to make connections with anyone, discovers that he sits beside the girl that he had met on the bus. The two speak for a bit, introducing themselves, and watch as various other students come in, including the boy from the bus. The homeroom teacher arrives shortly afterwards and introduces herself as Sae Chabashira. She gives some handouts and speaks a bit about the rules and policy that the school has, proceeding afterwards to give out student ID cards. She explains that these cards contain points that are used as the currency across campus, the distribution of these points is done monthly, and that 100,000 points had already been deposited.
Chabashira speaks a bit more to the class and ends homeroom, telling the students to attend the opening ceremony in one hour. The students begin speaking among themselves and prepare to leave. One student, Yōsuke Hirata, speaks up to the class and proposes that everyone do introductions, while also introducing himself to the class. Kokoro Inogashira, Haruki Yamauchi, and Kikyō Kushida all introduce themselves to the class. Hirata prompts the next student to introduce himself, and receives some backlash against the idea due to his aggressive nature. This conflict spurns many like-minded students get up and leave the classroom, including Horikita. Despite this, introductions continued and Kanji Ike and Rokusuke Kōenji introduce themselves next, followed shortly after by an awkward introduction by Kiyotaka.
After the opening ceremony concludes, Kiyotaka decides to stop by the convenience store. He runs into Horikita and the two talk for a while about the peculiarity of the school and the rule system. After talking for a bit they notice the red-haired boy from earlier arguing with the sales clerk due to having forgotten his card. Kiyotaka helps him pay for his goods and introduces himself. The three of them talk for a little bit until Sudō and Horikita get into an argument which causes Horikita to lose interest and leave. Kiyotaka and Sudō stay out in front of the store to eat their meals until a group of older students come by to hassle them away from where they are eating. There is a small argument, but the older students leave after taking pity on them after learning that the two of them are students from Class 1-D, much to their confusion.
Kiyotaka returns to the dormitory and receives a handbook regarding the dorm's rules. He quickly goes over the rules and considers how perfect a system the school has made for the students. He recalls what makes the school so enticing for students, but thinks they are trivial as he had joined the school for one reason: the freedom he has gained by entering the school. He then thinks to himself how glad he was for being admitted and is excited to start his new life.
Chapter 2
The following day, the students of class 1-D start slacking off, and surprisingly, Chabashira does not attempt to stop them from doing so. Kiyotaka laments about his inability to make strong connections with anybody in the classroom so far and is chided by Horikita about it. Class ends and Kiyotaka is pulled aside by Kushida. Kushida explains that she is looking to learn more about Horikita, who had been refusing to become acquainted with her. Kiyotaka states that he was only barely acquainted with Horikita himself and wouldn't be of any help.
Later that day, after hearing about the upcoming club fair for first-year students, Kiyotaka decides to invite Horikita to go and look at the clubs with him. After bantering back and forth for a while, she inevitably decides to join him and take a look with the excuse of watching him fail at making friends. In the gym, the duo listens to various club representatives give out introductions to their clubs to try and entice the students into joining. This carries on for a while until only a single student had yet to present. The student takes control of the stage and intimidates the first-year students into silence before introducing himself as Manabu Horikita, the president of the student council. He states that the student council is looking for new students to fill the openings from the new school year and that only exceptional students will be considered for the spots.
After Manabu leaves the stage, Suzune is left unable to speak. Sudō, Ike, and Yamauchi show up and start to talk with Kiyotaka. They talk for a little bit about clubs and invite Kiyotaka to a group chat that they had started. He gladly shares his contact information with them as Suzune quietly leaves the club fair without saying anything.
Chapter 3
About a week later, Kiyotaka listens in on a group of boys in the classroom. Ike and Yamauchi had arrived early and are excited to begin swimming later that day in order to see the girls in their swimsuits. Ike and Yamauchi talk about a plan that they've set up in conjunction with another student Hideo Sotomura to record and rank the cup sizes of the breasts of the girls in the class. Ike suddenly invites Kiyotaka to join them in placing bets on who has the largest breasts in the class. He decides to join in with them in order to get closer to his classmates and attempt to make friends.
After lunch, the swimming class begins, but some of the girls of the class foil Ike and Yamauchi's plan to rank their breast sizes because they are nervous around aggressive boys. Horikita shows up and banters with Kiyotaka for a bit. She notices Kiyotaka's fit body and asks if he works out at all, to which he denies, stating that it is due to genetics. Kushida shows up and tries to start speaking with Horikita, but is coldly rejected. The teacher starts the swimming class and eventually instructs the class to compete with each other in a 50m freestyle separated by gender.
The girls swim first, conducting two races. Horikita comes in second overall, with Kushida coming in fourth, and a girl named Kayano Onodera taking first place. After they are done swimming, Horikita goes over and talks to Kiyotaka, who expresses his interest to just not be the last place. The boys have three races that would be decided with a final, with Kiyotaka taking 10th place, Sudō taking 2nd place, Kōenji taking first, and Hirata taking 3rd. After the conclusion of the races, Kushida goes up to Kiyotaka to compliment him on his fit body, to which he again attributes to genetics, similar to what he had just told Horikita.
Chapter 4
Kushida and her friend decide to go to a cafe after school. Kushida tries to invite Horikita to go with them. After a swift refusal, Horikita includes saying that she should stop inviting her out. Kiyotaka witnesses the event and Horikita asks if he will also attempt to do the same, to which Kiyotaka says he understands her enough to know not to. As he is leaving the classroom, he is pulled aside by Hirata who is concerned about Horikita's loner attitude. Hirata asks Kiyotaka if he could tell Horikita to get along with people as it is a cause of concern and he does not want bullying in the class. Kiyotaka tells him it would be better for Hirata to tell Horikita personally.
Kiyotaka leaves the classroom and finds Kushida waiting for him on his way back to the dorms. She vocalizes her desire to become friends with Horikita and was looking for help from the only person who appeared to be close to her. After attempting to resist, Kushida's begging surpasses his resistance and he reluctantly agrees.
Kushida proposes the idea of having Kiyotaka invite Horikita to Pallet, a very popular cafe on campus, where they would then "unexpectedly" run into Kushida. Kiyotaka suggests that they enlist the help of Kushida's various friends to make the encounter more believable, to which she agrees. After class, Kiyotaka invites Horikita to go to Pallet with him after school, and after some convincing, she agrees to go with him.
After heading to the cafe, they order food and sit down at a recently vacated table. Shortly afterwards the table next to them opens up as well and Kushida sits down and acts as if she just noticed the two. After saying hello, Horikita immediately notices their scheme and confronts them on it. Kiyotaka realizes he's been caught and admits the scheme while Kushida restates her desire to become friends with Horikita. Horikita bluntly asks for her to stop trying and that she will be angry if she continues to do this, adding on that, for her, friends are unneeded.
Kiyotaka states that he shares in her sentiment with the idea that friends are unneeded, as he states that he had never had a friend before coming to high school. Horikita denies the similarity between them, saying that she was a loner by her own will, whereas Kiyotaka was one due to his inability to make friends. She states that she had been alone the last nine years, so if she's alone for the next three, there would be no difference. She gives a final warning to Kushida to leave her alone and then leaves the cafe.
After Horikita had left, Kiyotaka remarks on the failure of the plan due to Horikita having become accustomed to being alone. Kikyo apologizes to Kiyotaka as Horikita might start hating him due to his role in the plan, but Kiyotaka waves it off, saying that he wanted Horikita to consider the benefits of friendship. Kushida then expresses shock at Kiyotaka saying he didn't have friends. The two discuss the value of friendship a bit more, with Kushida re-expressing to Kiyotaka her desire to still become friends with everybody.
Chapter 5
Three weeks after the start of the school year, behaviour in the class has been getting progressively worse, with students being tardy, skipping periods, speaking during lessons, sleeping, or using electronic devices during class-time. Despite the behaviour, the teachers pay it no mind and continue their lessons like normal. Due to their poor behaviour and academic performance, Sudō, Ike, and Yamauchi have been labelled as "The 3 Idiots of D-Class". In addition, Kei Karuizawa apparently begins to date Yōsuke Hirata, according to rumours that are spreading among the students.
The next period, Chabashira announces that there will be a surprise mock exam that will not be reflected on the student's report card. Kiyotaka looks over the questions and realizes that there are a few extremely hard questions mixed in with the usual questions and senses something amiss about the test. He doesn't think further about the matter and takes the exam the same way he answered the entrance exam.
During lunch, Kiyotaka joins with Sudō, Ike, and Yamauchi as they talk about which girls they liked. They prod Kiyotaka about his relationship with Horikita, to which Kiyotaka denies being in one. They continue speaking about relationships for a while until the conversation turns to their monthly point balances. The majority of the group have already blown through most of their points and are excited to get a refill for the next month. Kiyotaka goes to a vending machine and noticed the selection option for free water, which causes Yamauchi to remark that the cafeteria had free meal options. Kiyotaka recalls seeing many upperclassmen partaking in the free meals, to which Yamauchi replies that it was probably due to having no money at the end of the month. Once again, Kiyotaka thinks that there is something amiss about the school, but is distracted away from thinking further once again.
In the middle of class, Ike and Yamauchi invite Kiyotaka to go hang out with them after class, indicating that Kushida and a few others would also be coming. The three of them leave after class to meet up with Kushida. She shows up and admits that she had invited Hirata, Karuizawa, Nene Mori, and Chiaki Matsushita to join them. The group leaves to go look around campus. They talk a bit about relationships before visiting a clothing shop. After the brief stop, they visit a cafe where the group's conversation turns into one about the monthly point balances. As everyone expresses their opinions about the school's point balances, Kiyotaka begins wondering about how the school determines which students have merit as it didn't appear to be based on passing or failing through test scores.
Chapter 6
A month after the start of the school year, Chabashira arrives and addresses the classroom for homeroom. The students of the class are concerned since they had not received any of the points they were told they would receive at the start of the month. Chabashira reveals that Class 1-D received all of the points they were supposed to get, and goes on to reveal that their constant poor behaviour over the last month had decreased their monthly point earnings to zero as the school has evaluated them as being worth that much. Hirata contests this for a bit, but it is an unchanging fact that they have lost all of their points. Chabashira proceeds to explain that these points will not be returned even if they stop their bad behaviours, much to the dismay of the students.
Chabashira reveals that the students are placed into each of the classes is based on their merits, with the best students being placed into Class A and the defective ones being placed into Class D. These points are also explained to be the basis for ranking the performance of the classes.
She then displays the scores the class got on the mock exam a week earlier and laughs at the class for their overall poor scores, adding on that seven of the students would have been expelled for their results should the test have been officially recorded on their report cards. It is revealed that students who score poor enough on their midterms or finals are expelled immediately. She also reveals that only students in Class A are guaranteed the 100% post-high school education and employment guarantee that Advanced Nurturing High School promises their students, which Teruhiko Yukimura protests about. Finally, she lets the class know that there will be a midterm exam in three weeks before leaving the classroom.
The students begin to quarrel among themselves about the truth of the point system and their status as the leftovers of the school. Kushida resolves a few conflicts among the students while Kiyotaka and Horikita discuss the events that transpired. After a while of talking, the conversation shifts to stopping the poor behaviours that lost the class points in the first place. The class begins to have a hostile attitude towards Sudō for his behaviour and uncooperative attitude since he doesn't agree to change his attitude. Hirata invites Kiyotaka and Horikita to discuss how to increase the class's points, but they both decline.
After school, Kiyotaka is summoned to the staff room over the loudspeaker by Chabashira. He heads to the staff room, where he meets Chie Hoshinomiya instead. She flirts with him for a bit before being interrupted by Chabashira. She requests that the two of them move to the guidance room, but they are followed by her. It is only after Honami Ichinose comes looking for Chie that the two are left alone and arrive at the guidance room. Chabashira has Kiyotaka stay in the kitchen attached to the guidance room and tells him to stay silent with a threat of expulsion if he doesn't comply.
Chabashira leaves him in the room and Horikita appears in the next room. Horikita had come to ask Chabashira about why she was placed in Class D, not believing that she was defective at all. She asserts that it must have been a mistake, and it is revealed that Horikita placed third overall on the entrance exams and had top marks in academics outside of the exams. Chabashira then proceeds to affirm that the school had not made any mistakes when it came to placing Horikita in Class D, stating that academics are not the only qualifier as to whether someone has merit or not in the school.
After their talk was concluded, Chabashira requests for Horikita to stick around, saying that she will give her a hint about how to reach Class A. Chabashira calls out to Kiyotaka and Horikita realizes that their whole conversation had been overheard. Chabashira then proceeds to question Kiyotaka about his perfect score of 50 on all of the exams taken so far, as well as his ability to get one of the hardest problems correct on the mock exam while also getting one of the easiest problems incorrect. Kiyotaka dismisses her accusations as a coincidence, but Horikita remains suspicious about the uncovered information.
After they leave the guidance room, Horikita begins to grill Kiyotaka with questions about his scores, to which Kiyotaka maintains that they are coincidences. They then discuss the issue with the class points and the upcoming midterms. Horikita requests the help of Kiyotaka to solve this issue and doesn't take no for an answer despite being denied several times.
Chapter 7
Behaviour in Class D slowly begins to improve, with the exception of Sudō's. Hirata decides to create a study group to help the class prepare for the upcoming midterm exams. He invites everyone, but Sudō, Ike, and Yamauchi show no interest in joining. Sometime later, Horikita invites Kiyotaka to lunch. Using a free meal as bait, she gets him to hear her out. She had noticed that the Idiot Trio refused to join the study group created by Hirata, and wants Kiyotaka to get them to join a study group created by her instead so that Class D could pass the midterm exams and potentially raise their class points. Because she is unable to take no for an answer, Kiyotaka dejectedly agrees to get them to join.
Kiyotaka attempts to get the three to join Horikita's study group, to no avail due to them not taking the situation seriously and the effort that studying would require. Now out of options, he gets the idea to ask Kushida for help with getting the three of them to join the study group.
After class, he proposes his idea to Kushida. She gladly accepts with the condition that she be allowed to join the group as well. Accepting this, they exchange contact information. Not long after, Kushida lets him know that she was successfully able to convince all three to attend. Kiyotaka tells Horikita that he had to enlist Kushida's help in order to convince them to join, and after a bit, she accepts it.
The next day, Kiyotaka and Horikita go to the library to set up for the study session. Sudō, Ike, Yamauchi, Kushida, and Kyōsuke Okitani arrive to study. Almost immediately, it is apparent that the Idiot Trio are farther behind in their studies than was initially believed, and Horikita's harsh attitude discourages them from trying further. They begin arguing, which leads to the Idiot Trio losing interest in the study group despite Kushida's efforts. Everyone other than Kiyotaka, Horikita, and Kushida leave the study group. Horikita states that she's lost interest in teaching them further as she sees it as a hassle to teach them anything moving forward. Kushida is distraught about the outcome and leaves shortly after.
Looking to thank Kushida for the work she put in to help the failed study group, Kiyotaka chases after her. He notices that she was not leaving the library, but was instead heading to the roof so he tails her quietly, curious about what she's doing. He finds her cursing Horikita, which shocks Kiyotaka and he quickly attempts to leave. Making a loud noise with the door, she is alerted of his presence on the roof. She immediately confronts him asking if he heard anything she was saying, which Kiyotaka doesn't deny. She threatens him to stay quiet about what happened, taking his hand and placing it on her breast to use the fingerprints as a form of blackmail. Kiyotaka swears to silence, and then questions her on her behaviour and why she is so upset with Horikita. She brings up her desire to be friends with everyone, to which Kiyotaka asks if she and Horikita knew one another before coming to high school. She shifts the topic away from that quickly and ensures his silence one last time before she goes back to her usual self and leaves.
Later on, the group chat that Kiyotaka was in started discussing the topic of Horikita, with antagonistic feelings towards her being shared among most of its members. Tired of the situation, Kiyotaka ignores his phone and recalls the situation leading up to that point. At night, after being unable to sleep, Kiyotaka heads down to the lobby of the dorms to get something to drink from a vending machine. He notices on the CCTV of the elevator, after he's done, that Horikita is heading down to lobby as well. He hides and tails her out of the building where he finds her meeting with an older student. After listening for a little, the older student turns out to be Manabu Horikita, who is confirmed to be her older brother.
Suzune tells her brother that she came to this school to catch up to him, as well as saying that she will absolutely reach A-class. Manabu scoffs at her drive and taunts her before pushing her against the wall of the building. He tells her to leave the school and prepares to throw her to the ground. Kiyotaka quickly moves in and holds back Manabu's arm. After some choice words, Kiyotaka lets go of Manabu's arm. Manabu immediately takes some swings at Kiyotaka, all of which are expertly dodged. Manabu attempts to fake him out with a handshake, but Kiyotaka sees through this and slaps his hand away.
Manabu realizes that Kiyotaka is quite skilled and opens a quick dialogue, stating he's shocked to learn that Suzune had made a friend and expressing interest in Kiyotaka. He leaves after saying this, leaving Suzune and Kiyotaka alone. Kiyotaka begins to leave himself but gets stopped by Suzune, who tries to interrogate him about his true skills, once again accusing him of lowering his scores on the exams on purpose. He continues to deny this, and she then laments at having shown him her weakness. He once again begins to depart until the topic of the study group comes up. Kiyotaka asks her what she intends to do moving forward, to which she states that she has given up on the Idiot Trio, seeing them as nothing but heavy baggage for her goal of reaching A-class. Kiyotaka counters by saying that the school bases things off merit and not strictly academic success, and that there might be punishments that they are unaware of should a student be expelled. He states what her flaws are and goes further by saying that there are things that the Idiot Trio are better at than her. Eventually convincing her to change her mind, they agree to try to stop the Idiot Trio from failing the upcoming midterms.
Chapter 8
A week before the midterm exams begin, Kiyotaka and Horikita begin brainstorming on how to get the Idiot Trio to study for the midterms once again. Kiyotaka invites Kushida to join them for lunch so that the three can discuss things. At Pallet, they once again request for Kushida's assistance with helping them, to which Kushida happily agrees once again. She invites the Idiot Trio to join her at Pallet. After they arrive, Horikita asks them if they would join her study group once more. They all show their distaste for studying and plan on cramming, especially Sudō, who wants to prioritize basketball. Horikita explains the plan that they made to get them to study while also not using their free time, which consists of spending their time during class to memorize and study questions, and then to use the time in between the periods to personally teach them whatever they had issues understanding. They only agree to the plan after Kiyotaka gets Kushida to offer the person who gets the highest score the permission to take her out on a date.
The next day, Kushida invites Kiyotaka to eat lunch together. They go to the cafe where after some light-hearted chatter, Kushida directly asks who he would prefer to choose as an ally between Horikita and her. He states that he is neutral and doesn't want to choose, to which Kushida states that she is expecting him to side with her in the future.
After they finish eating, everyone meets up together in the library to get in some study time. The study session gets a bit rowdy, and a passing group of Class C students call out the study group requesting for them to quiet down. They then realize that they belong to Class D, and begin to taunt them for it. Sudō gets fired up from their provocations and is about to get physical until Horikita intervenes. A Class C student mentions that they aren't even studying the correct content for the test and insults them again, to which Sudō loses his temper and grabs him by the collar of his uniform. Sudō prepares to knock out the student until Honami Ichinose arrives and gets in the middle of the conflict, telling both sides to stop their fighting and threatening to draw over a teacher. The Class C students depart after her threat to get teachers involved and she, herself, departs shortly afterwards.
Horikita recalls the Class C student saying that the material they had studied for the exam isn't even correct, which concerns everyone in the study group. They then decide to go and verify with Chabashira if the material that they're studying is correct. In the staff room, Chabashira tells them that the material on the test was changed a week earlier and that she had forgotten to inform them about it. The group is about to complain, but Horikita tells them to drop the issue, as studying the material is more important. Kiyotaka requests that Kushida inform the class about the changes in the test content. The Three Idiots also plan on taking studying seriously.
During lunchtime, the next day, Kiyotaka and Kushida leave for the lunchroom at Kiyotaka's lead. After reaching the lunchroom, he scouts out the older students who are buying lunches, looking for one who was buying the free vegetable meal set. After seeing one buy the set, Kiyotaka goes to sit with him. Kiyotaka asks the student if he still has the problems from his first year's midterms, and after bartering with him a bit, he agrees to sell the older test problems to Kiyotaka for 15,000 points. Kiyotaka also gets him to throw in the answers to the post-admission mock exam from two years earlier as well. After receiving the problems to the past exam and test, he immediately notices that the mock exam had exactly the same questions as the version given to Class 1-D this year. Kiyotaka asks Kushida to take credit for the idea to get old test versions and asks her to hand out copies of the old midterm to the class on the day before the midterm, to which she agrees after raising suspicions about Kiyotaka's capabilities.
Chapter 9
The day before the midterm, Kushida hands out the old midterm exams to the class, much to everyone's delight. Horikita thanks Kushida for her efforts, but asks if Kushida hated her, to which Kushida confirms. Horikita isn't surprised and plans to continue working with her.
The next day, Chabashira informs them should they pass both the midterms and the finals, which will happen in July, they would be rewarded with a vacation. The first four tests go well, while the final test is the English test. Sudō is confident about his ability to pass all of the tests, except the English test, which he had not been able to review. Sudō reveals to everyone that he had fallen asleep early the night before and was unable to get in the required amount of studying. After some last-minute cramming, the test is taken and the study group rejoices over the finished task. Despite what happened with the English test, Horikita commends Sudō for his efforts and apologizes for some of the harsher things she had said to him previously, causing Sudō to establish feelings for her.
Chapter 10
The next day, Chabashira arrives in the classroom and presents the scores for all five tests of the midterms. The class begins to rejoice over the number of perfect scores, and it appears that all students in the class had gotten scores above the red line on the mock test three weeks ago. Cutting their celebration short, Chabashira draws a new red line on the English score sheet right above Sudō's name, who had gotten a 39 on the exam. She states that the passing score for the exam was a 40, which means that Sudō will be expelled from the class. Hirata, Ike, and Horikita attempt to back up Sudō on the topic, but Chabashira disregards their attempts by stating that the matter has already been settled.
After she leaves the room, Kiyotaka leaves the room on his own and follows Chabashira out into the hallway. He asks her about whether or not she believes society is fair, to which she states that she believes that it isn't. Kiyotaka agrees with her, and Chabashira reveals that she is aware that getting the old test questions was done by Kiyotaka and commends how he went about it. Kiyotaka asserts that not being informed about the change in the material for the midterms was done intentionally to give Class D a disadvantage, which Chabashira admits is being unfair to them. Kiyotaka plans to complain to the school, but Chabashira says the expulsion can't be overturned that way. Attempting one last try, Kiyotaka requests for her to sell him a point to add to Sudō's test score and pulls out his student ID card. Chabashira realizes that he is aware of how the point system works and agrees to sell the point to him for 100,000 private points. Kiyotaka clearly does not have enough points to cover that sum on his own, but at that offer, Horikita appears stating that she will also contribute her own points to purchase the test point. Chabashira sells it to them and praises them, stating that the two of them might be capable enough to reach Class A in the future.
Epilogue
After school, a party is hosted inside Kiyotaka's dorm room. The Idiot Trio gives a sincere thanks to Horikita for her efforts at keeping them from dropping out of school. They ask her how she managed to rescind the expulsion, but she states that it was a secret, showing that Kiyotaka had her take credit for his plan once again. They celebrate among themselves more as Kushida reveals Kiyotaka and Horikita's goal of reaching Class A to the Idiot Trio. The Trio doubt their ability to reach Class A, but Horikita states that academic performance isn't the only factor that will decide the class rankings. As Kiyotaka listens to the conversation, he resolves to do his best for the time being.