Episode Title:
The King and the Lie
Episode Description:
Hiroto transfers to Eimei Academy, overseen by the Saionji Corporation who provides all the technology in the student’s phones. Students compete in games to determine their rankings, the highest and rarest being seven stars. Hiroto encounters Sarasa from Ouka academy just as a grass sprinkler soaks her clothing, so she blames him for trying to embarrass her and challenges him to a staring contest enforced by facial recognition cameras. When the sprinkler soaks her again she is embarrassed he can see her bra, and the cameras declare her the loser, giving Hiroto one of her stars. Hiroto is summoned by Principal Natsume who informs him Sarasa is one of the few seven star students and granddaughter to Saionji Corporations CEO Masamune. As a commoner his life is now at risk for the insult to the Saionji’s, but luckily the star he won was one of fifteen red stars that allows him to pass off any lie as the truth, so for his own protection he fakes being a seven star, as this is less insulting to the Saionji’s. Sarasa desperately confronts him, revealing she is actually Akabana, Sarasa’s decoy who was entrusted with the red star so people would believe she is Sarasa. She begs him not to expose this. She is shocked when Hiroto reveals he is a fake seven star and the sprinkler was a genuine accident, meaning losing the red star was entirely her own fault for overreacting.
