Chess Piece Time is the eighty-fifth chapter of the Assassination Classroom manga, part of Volume 10. Published in March 2014, its nineteen pages open on Korosensei facing Itona Horibe and Shiro before the wider Class 3-E returns.
Eighty-fifth in the series, this chapter is titled Koma no Jikan in Japanese. Placed in the tenth volume, its nineteen pages begin with the confrontation cast before widening back out to the full assassination class. Korosensei anchors the opening appearance order.
The early panels gather Korosensei, Itona Horibe, Shiro, and Tsuruta, keeping the Itona storyline in the foreground. From there the roll broadens to the rest of 3-E, running through Nagisa Shiota, Rio Nakamura, Ryunosuke Chiba, and the remaining students who fill out the confirmed cast.

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Chapter 85 is titled Chess Piece Time, known in Japanese as Koma no Jikan, part of Volume 10.
Chess Piece Time opens with Korosensei facing Itona Horibe and Shiro alongside Tsuruta, before widening to the rest of Class 3-E.
Chess Piece Time debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump's eighteenth issue of 2014, dated March 31, 2014.
Chess Piece Time spans nineteen pages.
Chess Piece Time is followed by Tenacity Time in Volume 10.
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