The Logical Girl

**The Logical Girl** is the thirty-third chapter of *Kakegurui* written by Homura Kawamoto and illustrated by Toru Naomura.

## Summary

Although it seems like Sayaka Igarashi will win the Tower of Doors, Yumeko Jabami wins the game by figuring out how the tower operates. After the game, Kirari Momobami announces that she is disbanding the Student Council, and the Momobami family will join in for The Election.

## Plot

Sayaka Igarashi faces a Chess problem at the Trap Door and answers with 1. The answer is correct and she advances. Just like before the game changes to Sayaka's perspective across multiple turns. She faces more pressure time-wise as she won't be able to discern the question unless she climbs up. She is faces two problems with 23 and 2 as answers. Since the latter is illogical, Sayaka answers with 2 and moves forward with renewed confidence. She answers one more undisclosed problem with 2 and reaches the 5th floor. She believes she is the winner but her confidence is broken as she finds Yumeko to have reached there first. Sayaka is thus deemed the loser officially by Kirari Momobami.

Yumeko Jabami then explains what happened. She reveals that the numbers on the wall doors were indeed angles and that they were rotating clockwise. Although seemingly useless in later floors they had a deeper meaning behind. She reasons that she wanted to see the Moon as they walked to the tower so she used a turn to open the door that after rotating, should have revealed the moon.

However she found nothing. Since the moon moving is illogical Yumeko reveals a shocking truth, it is the Tower, not the numbers that move every 5 minutes, the numbers remain static. Since the tower moves, this reveals something else, that the structure with the center door is a "core tower" that remains static. This is the reason for the "wall" they encountered before hand. The center door was always in the same place but since the tower moved the "opening" was concealed by the concrete of the "core tower." This leads to another point, that since the tower rotates 60° every turn, it takes a full 6 turns for the center door to be accessible again.

Therefore on the 6th turn, Yumeko uses the center door to climb all the way up to from the 1st floor to the 5th floor and win before Sayaka. Sayaka realizes her loss and that her overly logical way of thinking averted her from the game that Kirari Momobami had set up. Seeing that Kirari and Yumeko seemingly understand each other much better, Sayaka is resigned to her fate.

She opens up one of the doors and jumps ready to commit suicide. Much to her surprise Kirari also jumps with her as they fall into a safety mat. Sayaka is confused but Kirari reveals what happened. Sayaka unconsciously opened up a door in braille code whose answer was 5. Since they were on the 5th floor, the door chosen by Sayaka had the "correct" answer. This coincides with Kirari's warning of "answer correctly and you live." Kirari then reveals that all other doors lead to an inevitable death and that she wouldn't jump with Sayaka, had she used another door.

As Sayaka remained logical to the very end, even in the face of sure death, Kirari finds newfound amusement for Sayaka and "hires" her as her secretary in their condition of "total strangers." Yumeko believes Sayaka lost the game but won the war. After the game, Kirari announces to the student council that she will disband the Student Council as she will hold special elections, where every student is eligible to vote and to run for president, herself included as well where she also has the Momobami family participate as well. Elsewhere, Yumeko runs into the Momobami family and becomes excited for the new gambles she's about to play.

## Quick Reference

### Character Appearances

* Sayaka Igarashi
* Kirari Momobami
* Yumeko Jabami
* Itsuki Sumeragi
* Mary Saotome
* Ryota Suzui
* Ririka Momobami
* Yuriko Nishinotouin
* Yumemi Yumemite
* Runa Yomozuki
* Midari Ikishima
* Terano Totobami
* Yumi Totobami
* Miyo Inbami
* Miri Yobami
* Miroslava Honebami
* Erimi Mushibami
* Sumika Warakubami
* Rin Obami
* Ibara Obami
* Nozomi Komabami

### Chapter Notes

* Yumeko Jabami wins the game of Tower of Doors
* The Hundred Devouring Families are introduced