Salvation
I will now reveal the results of the ninth vote.
Tetsuzo Sato Takayoshi Miura Shingo Fujita Takahiro Kikuzawa Kosuke Tsunoda Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga Nao Kanzaki
Next, I will reveal the movement of votes.
Nao Kanzaki Tetsuzo Sato Takayoshi Miura Shingo Fujita Takahiro Kikuzawa Kosuke Tsunoda Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga
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Wha...
What the hell?!
Hey! What's going on here?!
What do you mean?
I got ten votes from each of you!
Ten votes... from each of us?
Did she get you, too?
You mean she also got you?
For 70 million?
For 70 million, yeah.
Then all that about the highest-scoring loser having nineteen votes was...
Oh, that was a lie.
I don't actually know if there are revival rounds happening elsewhere.
You tricked me!
And what's wrong with that?
This is the Liar Game.
It's all about tricking people.
Right?
When did you...
Wait, are you helping her?!
That's not fair! Outsiders can't participate in this game!
Calm down. You've got it all wrong.
Players are allowed to bring anything they want into this game.
In other words, I'm one of Nao Kanzaki's possessions.
What is wrong with you people?!
How stupid are you, giving her your votes?!
How could you not realize she'd say the same thing to the other players?
How was I supposed to know that?
She bought my votes with all the game money she had left!
Wh-What do you mean?
Kikuzawa-san's right.
I bought his votes with the 70 million yen I have left.
What about the others?
I bought votes from them the same way.
I promised them all 70 million yen.
Wait a minute here!
You can't overdraw your M Ticket ledger like that!
That's right.
So I promised to pay each of the other seven players 70 million yen
before the tenth round in exchange for ten votes.
What?!
You won't be able to afford that! That's 100 mil for each breach!
So 600 million for the six people you can't pay!
You're the one who ends up in the hole!
I'm aware.
But I'm fairly certain I won't have to pay a thing.
What?
Forget about that for now and look at the monitor.
Nao Kanzaki Tetsuzo Sato Takayoshi Miura Shingo Fujita Takahiro Kikuzawa Kosuke Tsunoda Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga
There are currently eight people here short of the fifty votes needed to secure a win,
while Nao Kanzaki is thirty votes over.
In light of this...
We're willing to sell off those thirty votes.
If you want to win, come tell me how much you're willing to pay.
I'll sell to whoever makes the best offer.
Of course, you're under no obligation to buy our votes.
You'll just lose the game deep in the red.
You'd better come to terms with it.
The paradigm just shifted.
Nao Kanzaki
The person in full control of this game is Nao Kanzaki.
Your lives are completely in our hands.
Takahiro Kikuzawa Kosuke Tsunoda Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga
Right now, you, Fukunaga, and I are tied for last place.
Fukunaga's probably got something up her sleeve,
which means one of us is bound to lose.
We'll be another 100 million plus in debt.
There's no way I could ever pay that back.
My life's basically over, I guess.
We'll have to buy those votes.
For how much, though?
We should probably be ready to pay at least 10 million.
Ten million? Out of the question.
How much do you want, then?
Let's see...
That'll be at least 70 million.
S-Seventy million?!
Th-That's way too high!
It's not too high at all!
Think about it, gents.
Say you buy the votes for 10 million.
10 million
-10 million
10 million
We'll take your 10 million
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but can't repay the 70 million we owe you.
That puts us in breach of contract,
and we have to pay a 100-million-yen penalty to the LGT Office.
-100 million
Here's what we'll all end up shelling out.
-180 million
-10 million
But if you both buy votes from us for 70 million,
70 million
-70 million
70 million
we can pay you what we promised,
and we won't be penalized.
70 million
This makes the result for us three...
It's a win-win-win!
So the 70 million is basically free?!
Crazy how that works out.
So, what'll it be?
We'll gladly buy the votes!
Thing is, I can only sell you two each.
Two votes?!
Those are a big two votes.
They'll get you both out of last place.
You don't have to buy if you don't want to.
But if you don't, one of the two of you is going down.
That's all there is to it.
We'll buy!
We'll do it, okay?
Hey, Fukunaga.
Kitamura and Eda just bought two votes each for 70 million.
That puts you in last place by your lonesome.
I'll sell you some votes if you'd like.
But for you, two votes will be 80 million.
Nao Kanzaki Tetsuzo Sato Takayoshi Miura Shingo Fujita Takahiro Kikuzawa Kosuke Tsunoda
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Fukunaga-san bought two votes immediately.
The purchases by our three buyers left the other five tied for last place.
Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga
Nao Kanzaki Teruyuki Eda Hiroto Kitamura Yuji Fukunaga
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Naturally, the five of them sprang into action.
It's 100 million yen for two votes.
A-A hundred million?!
You don't have to buy if you don't want to.
Have fun losing, though.
Sold!
The votes went.
I'd originally bought lots of ten votes for 70 million,
a cost of seven million per vote.
Now we were selling two for 100 million.
Transaction with: Nao Kanzaki
Takahiro Kikuzawa
Terms: Buy two votes from Nao Kanzaki
Amount
In other words, 50 million per vote.
A roughly sevenfold increase in price.
Akiyama-san continued his brazen behavior.
Everyone else has now bought two votes,
which puts you guys back at the bottom.
Well? Wanna buy more?
Yes, please.
That'll be 50 million per vote.
Fifty million?!
Or you can buy two for a special discount:
just 95 million.
Ninety-five million?!
That's all the money we have left!
Well, I was selling votes to the last group at 50 million a pop.
I can't exactly go giving you guys special treatment.
We'll buy the two votes.
It was close to 50 million a vote,
and yet they still bought them.
But of course, not everyone took the extortion lying down.
I just came up with a foolproof plan!
I don't want to lose for not buying votes.
But I don't wanna pay out the nose for them, either.
So I'll sell off my own votes and lose!
They were just selling votes for 50 million apiece.
I'll sell my own for half that!
I've only got 65 million right now.
If I sell two votes to three people for 25 million each,
I'll wind up with 215 million!
215 million
I'll be the loser, to be sure,
but I'll pay the 100 mil for this game
115 million
100 million
plus the 100 million I owe from the last one,
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100 million
and I'll still walk away with 15 million!
It's perfect! A surefire way out!
Meanwhile, Akiyama-san raised the price of our votes again.
It's 65 million per vote.
Sixty-five million?!
Th-That's all the money I have...
Seems like it's worth the price to me.
Give me time to think.
I'll be back in three minutes.
Now's my chance!
What?
Akiyama's really gouging us, right?
I'll sell you my votes for half what he's charging.
For real? You're cool with that?
Some stuff happened, and I wound up with more votes than I need.
I'll sell you a few out of the goodness of my heart.
Transaction with: Kosuke Tsunoda
Tetsuzo Sato
Terms:Sell two votes to Kosuke Tsunoda
Amount
You're a lifesaver!
I owe you, man!
He agreed to it just like that!
Now let's see if I can get two more people!
No, thank you.
Screw that.
No way, man.
H-How come?
Too expensive?
I can do two votes for 40... No, 30 million!
You're aiming to lose, right?
We all know you sold votes to Tsunoda with the goal of losing.
That puts you at the bottom right now.
The rest of us don't even need to buy votes to survive.
The person who figured out Sato-san was trying to lose
and leaked that to the other players was Akiyama-san.
Sato-san ended up coming back to Akiyama-san.
I'll take as many votes as my remaining money can buy, please.
Sato-san's purchase made the state of last place opaque once more,
and the buying of votes resumed.
Akiyama-san had everyone in the palm of his hand.
He was truly the one in control of the game.
Transaction with: Nao Kanzaki
Teruyuki Eda
Terms: Buy two votes from Nao Kanzaki
Amount
That's 900 million.
The game money of everyone here now belongs to you.
Incredible.
And we're the only ones who know...
who will rise to the top and who's going down.
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We will now begin the final vote.
The game's ending at last.
I wonder who will come out the loser.
You must all be quite on edge.
You spent all the money you had buying votes,
but most of you haven't secured the fifty you need to ensure victory.
You still have a chance to make a comeback, though.
Nao still has her five final votes to cast.
She hasn't yet decided who gets them.
Not even I know how things will turn out.
The allocation of those five votes is 100% up to her.
Don't think of them as just five votes.
Those five votes could save someone from the bottom
or sink someone who thought they were safe.
It's time to make your pitches to her.
And you'd better make them good.
Explain to her why she should save you.
Nao, you have my word!
If you save me now, I'll always help you from now on!
You'll definitely be better off with me on your side!
That's bull, Fukunaga.
No one here can trust you!
Besides, Nao-chan's got a ton of money right now.
She's obviously gonna drop out.
Save me, then!
If I fall any further into debt, I might be killed!
I-I'm in the same boat!
There are some really scary people who might kill me!
Same here!
Me, too!
Maybe trash like you is better off dead.
What?!
Damn you!
You wanna do this?!
Stop it!
I don't want to hear a single thing from any of you!
You're all so self-serving.
Not one of you heard me out during the first pitch meeting.
I already know how I'm voting.
I've filled out all the names.
You heard her.
So it's all over now.
All you can do is accept the results as they come.
It is now time to reveal the votes.
There has been significant movement in vote tallies,
but as this is the last vote, only the final result matters.
I will therefore announce the totals starting from first place.
First place:
Nao Kanzaki
Nao Kanzaki.
Fifty-one votes?
If she alone took first place with 51 votes,
then last place will have 49?
The following were tied.
Nao Kanzaki
In second place:
Kosuke Tsunoda
Kosuke Tsunoda.
I actually made it to fifty votes all by myself.
Nao Kanzaki
Kosuke Tsunoda
Also in second place:
Teruyuki Eda
Teruyuki Eda.
For real? Awesome!
Also in second place:
Shingo Fujita.
Yes!
Also in second place:
Takahiro Kikuzawa.
Hell yeah!
Also in second place:
Hiroto Kitamura.
Yes!
Three people left.
Let's see...
Who will the loser be?
I know who it is.
Sato's going to be the loser.
He tried to take the money and bail, but he failed.
I saw him go crying to Akiyama, but at those prices, he could only buy two votes.
Unless Nao gave him all her votes at the end, he's going to be the loser.
Also in second place...
Say it.
Say my name!
Tetsuzo Sato.
What?!
How?!
Nao, don't tell me you voted for him at the end!
Oh, no.
I didn't cast a single vote for Sato-san.
Huh?
Nao Kanzaki didn't have to vote for him.
When Sato came to us asking for all the votes his money would buy,
I sold him enough to get him to the fifty-vote safe zone.
So he knew he'd won before the announcement began.
Akiyama tricked me!
That bastard had it out for me from the start!
One player remains tied for second.
The player whose name is not called is in last place.
In other words, they are the loser.
I will now make the announcement.
Damn it, damn it... Damn it!
Takahiro Kikuzawa Hiroto Kitamura Tetsuzo Sato
The final player tied for second:
Yuji Fukunaga.
Yuji Fukunaga
Huh?
Yes! I won!
Thank you, Nao! Thank you so much!
I lost...
But why?
Why me?
Let me explain.
As I said before, nobody heard me out during the pitch meeting.
And after that, everyone else completely ignored me.
When I was drowning in despair, you were the only one who reached out to me.
And you said you were sorry you couldn't save me.
That made me so happy.
Then why did you make me the loser?!
I've come up with a surefire plan to beat the Liar Game.
What?
In the Liar Game, as long as nobody tries to take the money for themselves,
it's possible to save everyone.
In each game so far, the LGT Office has lent participants 100 million,
and when the game is over, they take that money back.
Which means, as long as the winner doesn't drop out,
the LGT Office doesn't make any money.
By the same token, as a group, the players don't lose anything.
For instance, in the first round,
if neither player took from the other's 100 million,
neither would be out anything.
Same for the second game. The rules stated it was winner takes all,
but if they redistributed their winnings to the others,
everyone else would have been free and clear.
But the winner would still be stuck in the game!
No.
The winners just have to keep doing the same thing as they advance.
As the tournament goes on, there will be fewer and fewer winners.
In the end, everyone can get out.
Typical of someone so stupidly honest. Just a moronic abstract theory.
Do you think so?
I feel like it tells me what the LGT Office is really after.
The only way they make money is when they can make players drop out.
When one person lies, tricks others to serve their own greed,
makes money, and drops out...
That's the only time the LGT Office makes money.
So whenever the LGT Office turns a profit,
it means there were players who went unsaved.
Do you all think the Liar Game is a game where liars win?
I don't think it is.
What I think the Liar Game is really about...
is testing your ability to beat the temptation to make yourself a liar.
Your ability to remain honest.
In today's Downsizing Game, if you put yourself in the shoes of the liar,
here's how it plays: "It's a game about taking one idiot down."
But from the perspective of an honest person, it goes like this:
"It's a game where we can save one person."
Of course, I think the latter is the real meaning of the game.
And so...
I'm saving Miura-san.
Take this.
It's an M Ticket worth 200 million yen.
It will cover the 100-million entry fee for this game,
Transaction with: Takayoshi Miura
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plus your 100-million debt from the last game.
Which means you're now free from the Liar Game.
Nao-chan...
Miura-san was the only person here who was honest with me.
That's why I'm saving him by making him the loser.
I'm currently holding all of your money as well,
and I'll be returning it to each of you.
None of you will lose anything in this game.
You can all enter the third game just as you ended the second.
Yeah!
And so the Losers' Revival Match came to a close.
Miura-san exited the Liar Game free and clear,
and the rest could move on to the third-round game in the same state
they were in before it began.
Nao Kanzaki...
What an interesting girl.
I thought she was the stupidest person there,
but she seems sharper than I thought.
Leronira-san...
That's fine by me.
The tournament is about to get very entertaining.
Next Time
Contraband Game