At the school, Yagami greets Kushida in the hallway in Classroom of The Elite Season 4 episode 2. He reminds her that he was her junior. She recognizes him then. She tells her friend that the boy was very smart even if they didn’t have a talk. Kiyotaka asks Horikita if she knows Yagami as well. He mentions she and Kushida were at the same school.
Contracts And Costs
Horikita says that she doesn’t know the boy. She didn’t have time to pay attention to the people who aren’t interested. The boy knows Kushida’s past. Yagami reaches out his hand to Kushida. He asks her to team up with him for the special exam. She’s surprised that someone like her can do that. She persuades him to go to team up with the person who gets better grades. But he grabs her hands. He says that he knows nothing. He wants to look for a partner who can be trusted. But she wants to think about it. He agrees. He tells her that he won’t team up with someone else. He will wait for her reply.
Outside the restaurant, the first-year students are shopping. Ken, Horikita and Kiyotaka watch the first-year students. Ken thinks those guys are taking it easy. He says that they’re serious to look for partners. Horikita reminds him that he shouldn’t forget who he was a year ago. He claims that he doesn’t forget it. He’s reflecting.
Kiyotaka learns that they need to go to look for the first-year student who wants to team up with Ken. Horikita takes Kiyotaka and Ken to walk to the three boys. She tells the boys that they’re looking for the partners for the special exam. She wants to have a talk. They agree because they didn’t team up with other people. She feels relieved after knowing those guys are easy to get along with. She wishes they team up with Ken. But the boy asks for 500,000 points. Another boy mentions they received the invitations from Class A and Class C. So they won’t sell themselves short. Horikita gets their point. But they need to think about it. She asks them to introduce some Class D students like them. But they are in a difficult position. Hosen will get angry if they make the decision on their own.
Ken believes that those guys won’t find any partners until the very end if they do so. Horikita points out that the ones who are afraid of the punishment are second-year students. She knows Hosen wants to use it to collect points. Kiyotaka says that the result is the same if they continue to ask random people. He asks Horikita what she will do. She decides not to take part in the money game. Even if she gets first place, the class points are only 50. Converting to individual points are only two million points. If they recruit a person with 500,000 points, they will lose money once they recruit five people. So she thinks they shouldn’t spend points. They should try their best to negotiate with Class 1-D. The risk is too high if they only expect Hosen’s class. They need to go to ask a lot of people if they want to find outstanding partners.
The girl calls Horikita. She tells her that she’s the outstanding partner. Horikita thinks the girl was eavesdropping. The girl explains it to her senior that she just happened to overhear. She introduces herself as Class 1-A Ichika Amasawa. Her rating is A. She can team up with Horikita if Horikita doesn’t mind. Horikita thanks Ichika for her invitation. But she asks her to team up with Ken. Ichika knows Ken’s rating is E. She tells him that she can help him. It promotes him to be excited. She confesses it to him that she likes strong men. What she means isn’t mentally. She means physical toughness. She offers to get some strong people to fight each other. She can team up with the strongest person.
Horikita thinks they won’t do that. But Ichika says that she’s serious. Ken pushes the girl away. He asks Horikita to leave with him. He thinks the girl teasing them. She agrees with what he said. She tries to leave with Ken and Kiyotaka. But the girl stops them. She tells them that she’s going to give them other chances. She asks them to forgive her. She says that she likes men who can cook. If the guy can cook the dish she specifies, she will team up with him. But Ken never cooked. Horikita wants to replace Ken to cook for Ichika. But Ichika rejects it. Because she asked for the man who could cook. Horikita remembers Kiyotaka bragged it to her that he was a great cook. He claims that cooking is the only thing that he’s good at. She offers to let Kiyotaka cook. Ichika agrees. But she worries that the guy isn’t good at it. She scares Kiyotaka that she will be very critical. Horikita thinks it’s a problem. Ichika tells the three if Kiyotaka cannot cook the delicious dish after school tomorrow, she will break her promise.
Ken begs Kiyotaka to use his cooking skills to catch his partner. Ichika is happy to run away. Kiyotaka tells Horikita that she should know his cooking skills. But she asks him not to speak. Because she’s coming up with a plan.
The next day, Kiyotaka arrives at the school. He thinks he should take action. Nanase greets him. She apologizes to him for Hosen’s offending. He thinks she doesn’t have to apologize for it. She reveals she followed the guy to stop what he would do. She thinks she lacks the necessary skills. Kiyotaka notices that the girl is good with people, and she’s polite. Her rating is high as well. He wonders why she was assigned to Class D. He minds her eyes at that time.
Kiyotaka asks Nanase if she found a partner. She denies it even if there were some people visiting her. She didn’t make decision. He offers to let the two D classes look for partners together. She agrees. But the problem is Hosen. There were a lot of students following his instructions. Kiyotaka points out that Nanase’s stance is very special. He cannot see that she groveled to Hosen. She claims that she did it because she didn’t want to give in. He thinks if the one who determined the class plan was Hosen, the talk would be hard to be achieved. She offers to arrange the meeting that helping each other. He’s surprised that she wants to do that. He believes that Horikita will be happy. She wonders if Horikita is the chief of the class. He admits it. He will tell it to Horikita. Nanase smiles at Kiyotaka.
Kiyotaka meets Horikita in the hallway. She thinks it’s a good news. But he knows what Hosen wants is the money game she has avoided. But she thinks what the guy wants isn’t just points. He learns that she thinks the guy wants to use their class. She knows the guy is a tough nut to crack. She’s contacting the juniors in Class 1-B. He remembers Yagami who’s in Class 1-B. Kushida teamed up with the boy yesterday. Horikita is negotiating with some people through the boy. She asks Kiyotaka to help her. He realizes what she means is Ichika. She has figured out a strategy.
Ichika takes Kiyotaka to the supermarket to buy kitchenware. He points out that he has kitchenware in his room. She claims that she wants him to buy her the specialized items. He knows it’s high-end goods. She’s interested in the knife. He asks her who will pay. She says that it’s him. He decides to treat it that he can use high-end kitchenware in the future. But she tells him that it’s for her. She asks him not to usually use it. It promotes him to think that she’s a demon.
Ichika gets into Kiyotaka’s room. She finds out that the room is very clean. He asks her to take a break when he cooks. But she asks him not to check his cell phone while he cooks. He thinks she’s very strict. She wonders if he’s confident. He puts his cell phone on the bed. He asks her what dish she wants him to cook. She announces the dish is Tom Yum Goong soup.
Kiyotaka walks into the kitchen. He tells Horikita that the dish is Tom Yum Goong soup. She has told him how to use the knife. The cooking time is 30 minutes. He wants to know how far he can go after he learned it one day and one night.
Kiyotaka completes the soup. He puts it on the table. Ichika thinks he passes, according to the look of the dish. She eats up with food. She tells him that he passes. She goes to wash the bowl. Because he completed her capricious demand. She wants to do the little thing. He asks her about the result. She confesses it to him that it wouldn’t count as passing. But she got him to buy a lot of expensive things. She takes pity on him because of his efforts. She agrees to team up with Ken. He thanks her. But she asks him to thank her more. She leaves his room.
Horikita thinks it’s a tremendous achievement that they resolved Ken’s problem. But Kiyotaka knows he was saved by Ichika’s kind review. He promises Horikita that he will tell it to her if the girl contacts him. If Ichika is the person of White Room, she will do evil things. Fortunately, the girl and Kiyotaka aren’t in the same team. He thinks the possibility that she’s a student of White Room disappears. Ichika sends a message to him. She asks him for a meeting up after school.
Arisu meets her people at the cafe. The girl brings up that Class C went to recruit the students they invited. They said that they would give 10,000 points if anyone rejected Class A’s invitation. Arisu laughs. She learns that Ryuuen wants to challenge her. She asks the girl to tell the first-year students that she prepared the same points. She asks them not to sign a contract with Ryuuen if they accept her points. The girl doesn’t understand why Arisu does so. Arisu laughs. She thinks Ryuuen’s plan helped her. She tells her people that Ryuuen’s plan isn’t bad. But he made a mistake to persuade the same students with them. But the girl knows the guy has a lot of points. Arisu doesn’t think so. Because he can bribe even if he’s broke. The girl learns that the guy pretended to be rich. She wonders what benefits Class C can get from doing it. Arisu says that they can recruit a lot of top students with the brand of Class A. But Class C chose the bribe strategy. They dragged them into the money game. She thinks those guys will raise the price, forcing them to spend a huge number of points. But he misjudged the brand power of Class A.
In the room, Ryuuen meets the students of Class 2-C. The guy reports it to Ryuuen that the student of Class 1-B rejected him after he tempted him with 200,000 points. Mio gets angry. She wonders if the guy was unhappy with the money. Ryuuen calms Mio down. He mentions they don’t know those guys’ goal. He decides to give those guys 100,000 first. He will give them 200,000 after the exam. He thinks most of them won’t agree even if he does so. Because they will expect Arisu to raise the price. But Mio points out that they will lose in the end because of the brand power. Ryuuen tells Mio that the brand power of Class 2-A is just a decoration. They don’t have to pay it. Because what he wants to do is to see it clearly what kind of people are in the first-year. He can recruit the greedy people at any time. What matters are the people beyond that. He didn’t plan to pick up the class point that’s not even pocket money.
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The next day, Kiyotaka and Horikita run into Hiyori in the library. Kiyotaka reveals he came to negotiate. He thinks it will be a bit noisy. Hiyori suggests that the two should sit a little further inside. He wonders if the students of Class 2-C were doing well. She says that those guys are very busy.
Horikita worries about what Hosen is going to do. Kiyotaka thinks the guy won’t come. Nanase shows up. She knows Horikita wants to get the students with poor grades to help each other. But Hosen is an individualist. Nanase worries that the students with poor grades won’t find partners. They cannot fight even if they face the exam that they need to work together. So she won’t negotiate with Horikita and Kiyotaka. Horikita asks Nanase how many students in Class 1-D want to find partners. It’s about 15 students. Horikita tells Nanase that she wants to sign a major contract with them. She wants to arrange the 15 teams with her. Nanase thinks it’s a good proposal. But Hosen won’t agree with the free help. Horikita doesn’t understand why the guy won’t do that. She thinks it’s not bad for him. But Nanase still thinks Hosen won’t agree. Kiyotaka realizes something about Hosen.