I'm sorry.
I put all 1.01 billion into my account.
That was the entirety of their funds being held in the Country of Day.
In the end... the three of them moved all of it over.
Yokoya pulled his plan off brilliantly.
What makes him such a genius
is the fact that he's always planning multiple steps ahead.
Take, for example, his stint as inspector.
At the same time he was working with Kikuzawa to earn money,
he was simultaneously evaluating the Country of Day team's members.
He then targeted the three he felt sure would be susceptible to his trap...
And they fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
Still, to practically clinch the result, even with thirty rounds remaining...
Turbulence
There are still 31 rounds left in the game, right?
We could carry up to 3.1 billion back out, right?
I'm going to be blunt here.
There's zero hope of us winning.
What? How do you figure?
If they just call doubt of 100 million in every round moving forward,
they're guaranteed to win.
Um...
If the Country of Night doubts 100 million in each of 31 rounds
and we carry an empty briefcase every time,
then the amount we'll end up with is...
Night 1.269485 billion -1.550000 billion (compensation of 50 million x 31 rounds) -0.280515 billion +4.228840 billion (ATM) Night: 3.948325 billion
Day 1.071675 billion +1.550000 billion 3.251675 billion +ATM 0 Day: 3.251675 billion
Huh?
It's true... We'll lose.
You can't actually doubt yourself into a negative balance,
but the chances of us winning are still zero.
This sucks...
But can't we still turn things around if we get a Country of Night defector?
How stupid are you?!
They've already carried out the plan Akiyama was proposing!
How do you tempt an opponent who already knows your plan?
The Country of Night's victory is assured.
Who would go turncoat under these circumstances?
You're going to tell Akiyama that you screwed up.
I'm sure he'll rake you over the coals, but you fully deserve it.
You've completely doomed our team.
The three of them explained what had happened to Akiyama-san.
I just want to know one thing.
Did you do it to help the team?
Well... of course I...
I'm sorry! I...
I did it for myself.
When I was bringing the money over,
I was only thinking about how it would benefit me.
And you two?
Well, kinda...
I'd probably be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about myself.
I see. That's a relief.
Did you not just hear them?
They screwed up because they put themselves first!
A mere beating's too good for these pigs!
You're wrong.
They admitted they did it for themselves, knowing that would end poorly for them.
Because their consciences demanded it.
As long as a person still has a conscience, there's hope for them.
Besides, hitting them isn't going to help our team win.
Wait, you mean...
I'll acknowledge that our situation is worse than before.
But there's still a way we can come back from the brink.
Yeah, of course!
Yes, I bet that'll work!
But you're the only one who can carry it out, right?
Of course.
When one of the tricksters takes their turn in the inspection room, I'll go.
But to obfuscate our plan, we'll have to mix up our rotation moving forward.
Doubt 100 million.
The Country of Night calls a doubt of 100 million!
And what's inside the case?!
It's empty!
The Country of Day takes 50 million!
Look at him.
He's so confident of their win, he's all smug about losing 50 million.
We'll just have to have faith in Akiyama-san's plan.
When one of the three men who'd tricked Tsunoda-san,
Eda-san, and Kitamura-san entered the inspection room,
Akiyama-san would make his move.
We waited for that moment.
And then...
Round 23 is about to begin.
Will the Country of Night smuggler please proceed to the border crossing gate?
That's me.
Hey! That's the guy who tricked me!
All right, then. I'm up.
You seem awfully confident.
I know your case is empty, you know.
I know you tricked members of our team into moving 1.91 billion.
In other words, you hold no money in the Country of Day.
Your case is inevitably empty.
Oh, you figured that out?
Those three were such dumbasses,
I figured they'd never realize they'd been tricked
and never give you guys a heads-up.
Tch, this is no fun.
But yeah, now we've got 4.2 billion sitting in Country of Night territory
and jack squat in yours.
You guys are 100% guaranteed to lose.
You seem so sure of that.
Let me hit you with the truth.
Your plan has given us a 100% guaranteed path to victory.
Huh?!
That's a damn joke! We're beating you for sure.
You made a fatal mistake.
That 1.91 billion yen never made it into our ATM in your territory.
What?!
What is Akiyama talking about?
They deposited the entire 1.91 billion into that ATM!
I see. So it's a bluff...
A bluff? A last-ditch effort?
Not at all.
Akiyama is taking advantage of a blind spot in the game.
That's total bull!
The losers on your team took it! I saw!
All the money we left for them was gone!
It's true that the three of them moved the money.
But they never put it in the ATM. Instead, they hid it.
What?!
We'd already come up with the same plan you guys had.
I told my team that if anyone tried to convince them to move money,
we should pretend to fall for it and hide the money instead.
This is utter nonsense.
It's a bold bluff indeed.
But the Country of Night has no way to confirm that Akiyama is lying.
This is the blind spot in the game!
The Country of Night players
can view their balance at the ATM in the Country of Day,
but they cannot view the balance of the other.
Where'd you hide it?!
I'll tell you when the time is right.
After all fifty rounds are over...
I'd wager.
What?!
When the game ends, the LGT Office will panic.
They'll find their coffers 1.91 billion short.
That's when we'll cough up the hiding place.
But then we'll have a question on our hands...
Where, exactly, does that money belong?
If they check the ATM records,
they'll see you were the ones who withdrew it.
In other words, that 1.91 billion
effectively still belongs to your accounts in the Country of Day.
And even more unfortunately, you have no access to that money right now.
You're forced to carry empty cases for the remainder of the game.
Which also leaves you with no way to pad your third-country accounts.
At the end of fifty rounds, this will be the result.
Final Balances
Country of Night
Third-Country Account\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h1.069485 billion
Country of Night ATM \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h2.318840 billion
3.388325 billion
Country of Day
Third-Country Account \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h1.901675 billion
Country of Day ATM \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h1.910000 billion
3.811675 billion
Has it sunk in yet?
We're not the ones set to lose.
That'll be you, 100% guaranteed.
No... Please, no...
I'll do anything you ask.
Please, just save me...
Akiyama is an impressive one.
To snatch a possible victory from the jaws of defeat...
If he finds out that I screwed up, he's gonna...
Yokoya, you mean?
Tell me your team arrangement and what Yokoya has over you,
and I'll save you.
Yokoya...
Yokoya is an unflinching dictator.
Everyone who showed up for our Losers' Revival
all played together in the second-round game.
Except there was one person there we'd never seen before. It was Yokoya.
It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Yokoya.
I am participating on Watanabe-kun's behalf.
This time, it was the Downsizing Game.
We all agreed to downsize Yokoya.
We thought he'd be an easy target.
Let's all vote for each other.
We'll all have the same vote totals in the end, and we can take Yokoya down.
I'm on board.
We settled on that and were already thinking ahead to the third game.
That's when he came to us...
Pardon me.
I have 50 million yen right here.
I'll give it to you in exchange for your five votes.
You're 100 million in debt, aren't you?
But I promised to vote for Wada...
So just break your promise.
This is the Liar Game.
Deception is the point, isn't it?
I... sold him my votes.
Then, when I saw the results of the first vote, my heart sank.
Norihiko Yokoya Kakeru Tajima Makoto Murata Kota Akagi Eiichi Nakadate Akira Tsumura Tatsuji Wada Kenji Ikezoe Yusuke Shibayama Hiroshi Hasegawa
Wh-What the hell?!
The creature known as man is a slave to its greed.
You all sold your votes to me.
Let's make sure we vote for each other in the other nine rounds, like we agreed.
It wasn't a convincing plea.
We'd all betrayed each other once already.
Another 20 million.
What do you say?
Norihiko Yokoya Kakeru Tajima Makoto Murata Kota Akagi Eiichi Nakadate Akira Tsumura Tatsuji Wada Kenji Ikezoe Yusuke Shibayama Hiroshi Hasegawa
Then came the results of the second vote...
It appears my victory is assured.
Which means one of the rest of you is certain to be the loser.
The threshold to guarantee your survival is 51 votes.
I have 90, ergo I don't need 39 of them.
I'll sell my excess votes,
as well as the 40 votes I cast in the remaining eight rounds,
to whoever wants them.
Step forward if you do.
Norihiko Yokoya Kakeru Tajima Makoto Murata Yusuke Shibayama Hiroshi Hasegawa Kota Akagi Eiichi Nakadate Akira Tsumura Tatsuji Wada Kenji Ikezoe
The game proceeded with the rest of us in tight competition.
Yokoya's votes suddenly became significant.
Yokoya!
Sell me your votes!
It'll be 50 million per vote. How about it?
I'll pay.
Yokoya had taken full control of the game.
We ended up paying him all the money in our M Tickets,
plus the bonus winnings after.
What then?
The one who paid the most to Yokoya was an office worker named Nakadate.
In addition to all his game money,
he wrote an IOU for 10 million out of his retirement.
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{\fad(190,1)\bord0\an8\fnArial\b1\fs12\shad0\3c&HABB5B8&\c&H080E13&\frz18.11\move(473.903,64.293,446.364,75.524)\t(\fs11)}Norihiko Yokoya
{\fad(190,1)\an7\fnArial\b1\fs9\shad0\3c&HCBD7DE&\c&H080E13&\frz13.43\move(96.833,225.979,128.833,211.825)\t(\fs8)}Terms: Give 220 million to Eiichi Nakadate
Yokoya left Nakadate at the bottom and paid him 220 million.
In other words, Nakadate left the game 10 million in the black.
Thank you, sir! Thank you very much!
Did you see that?
Show me sacrificial devotion, and I will reward you appropriately.
Now, the nine of us will be advancing to the third game.
Those who wish to be saved should give everything they have to me.
All who do will be saved, as well.
By the same token...
If you are disloyal,
I will see you damned to hell.
We're all 200 million in debt at the moment.
If we go against him or screw up, he'll damn us to hell.
How amusing.
Your experience in the Losers' Revival...
It's more or less the same as ours.
In our group, too, one player amassed a large number of votes,
took control of the game, and ended up with all the money.
Would that have been you?
No.
It was Nao Kanzaki.
What?! That girl?!
She gave 200 million to the only man that round who was kind to her
and freed him from the game.
But that's where things diverge.
She returned all the money she'd earned to the other players in the revival round.
Then she said this...
"As long as nobody tries to take the money for themselves,
it's possible to save everyone."
"The Liar Game isn't a game about lying."
"It's about testing your ability to remain honest."
That's who we have leading the Country of Day.
Join us.
Join the Country of Day.
Working with us is your only option for salvation.
Is this gonna work out?
Ten minutes is almost up...
Doubt 100 million.
Did he just doubt 100 million?!
That's crazy!
He knows that dude's briefcase is empty!
And what's inside the case?!
It's empty!
The Country of Day's doubt fails!
The Country of Night receives 50 million!
That was exhausting.
Don't give me that bull!
Now, now...
Does it look like Bandana-san will betray the Country of Night?
Absolutely.
He fell for my lie and agreed to my offer.
As we expected, they all feel entirely victimized by Yokoya.
Bandana is now a fully devoted member of the Country of Day.
Thank goodness. Does that mean we're out of the woods?
Calm down.
All I've done is nip our "guaranteed loss" in the bud.
The real hard part's yet to come.
Huh? But Bandana's sticking it to the Country of Night, right?
Don't we just need him to move 4.2 billion to the Country of Night ATM?
It won't be that easy.
Here's what I told him...
"We've hidden the 1.9 billion yen you tried to get us to take."
In other words, he thinks the situation looks like this.
Country of Night ATM: 2.318840 billion
Country of Day: 1.910000 billion (hidden)
I see.
The most we can ask him to move is 2.3 billion.
But wouldn't moving over 2.3 billion guarantee us a win?
No, it won't.
Third-Country Account
Night
1.119485 billion
1.851675 billion
4.228840 billion
0 billion
(Bandana thinks it's 2.318840 billion)
(Bandana thinks it's 1.910000 billion)
Night
Day
Total
5.348325 billion
1.851675 billion
Let's assume we move 2.3 billion from the Country of Night to the Country of Day.
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That would leave us here.
{\fad(1370,1)\bord0\fnArial\an3\fscy110\shad0\fs12\c&H272727&\3c&HC1C1C1&\b1\pos(320.4111,156.112)\t(1370,1370,\c&H422EBD&)}1.910000 billion
{\fad(1370,1)\bord0\fnArial\an3\fscy110\shad0\fs12\c&H272727&\3c&HC1C1C1&\b1\pos(564.411,156.112)\t(1370,1370,\c&H422EBD&)}2.31884 billion
{\fad(2130,1)\bord0\fnArial\an3\fscy110\shad0\fs12\c&H272727&\3c&HC1C1C1&\b1\pos(320.411,285.779)\t(2130,2130,\c&H422EBD&)}3.029485 billion
{\fad(2130,1)\bord0\fnArial\an3\fscy110\shad0\fs12\c&H272727&\3c&HC1C1C1&\b1\pos(564.411,284.779)\t(2130,2130,\c&H422EBD&)}4.170515 billion
But then we win.
Oh, that's right...
The result we want is to lose in score while making a profit.
But if we win by this much, can't we drop out?
Let's say we end the game with these totals.
Third-Country Account
Night
Day
Total
1.119485 billion
1.851675 billion
3.029485 billion
4.170515 billion
1.910000 billion
2.31884 billion
After paying our drop-out fee, each of us will be 30 million in the black.
But the rest of you are still carrying 100 million in debt from the second game.
You can't square your accounts like that.
So we'd have to move on to the fourth game...
What do you propose, then, Akiyama-san?
First, let's focus on getting our third-country balance
below the Country of Night's.
You want us to lose intentionally?
It's simple.
Day
Night
We'll all carry 100 million on the turns we're smuggling.
Doubt 100 million
They know there's 4.2 billion in the Country of Night ATM,
+100 million (contraband intercepted)
so they're very likely to call doubts of 100 million.
Doubt 100 million
+100 million (contraband intercepted)
And each time they make that call,
Doubt 100 million
+100 million (contraband intercepted)
Doubt 100 million
their third-country balance goes up by 100 million.
+100 million (contraband intercepted)
Doubt 100 million
+100 million (contraband intercepted)
Meanwhile, on our inspection turns,
we'll always call doubt of 100 million.
Day
Night
Doubt 100 million
Their briefcases are guaranteed to be empty,
+50 million (compensation fee)
Doubt 100 million
+50 million (compensation fee)
so if we keep that up, after six or seven rounds,
*Estimation* Assuming in the next six rounds, Country of Night inspectors call "doubt 100 million" four times and "pass" twice
Country of Night Third-Country Account
Country of Day Third-Country Account
Country of Day ATM
Country of Night ATM
1.119485 billion
4.22884 billion
1.851675 billion
0 billion
their third-country balance will exceed ours.
+700 million
+200 million
-300 million
-600 million
1.819485 billion
3.62884 billion
1.751675 billion
You're right! It's the total opposite!
Is that why you doubted him 100 million even though his briefcase was empty?
Precisely.
Once the Country of Night's third-country balance is above ours, we're safe.
Country of Night Third-Country Account
Country of Day Third-Country Account
1.819485 billion
1.751675 billion
The result will never flip, even if we don't smuggle anything else.
You want to wait until our third-country account is just a little bit below theirs,
then have the traitor smuggle money to the Country of Night ATM?
But Bandana will think there's only 1.7 billion left in the Country of Night ATM,
so that's all he's going to move.
I have no intention of using only one traitor.
I'll naturally negotiate with the other two, as well.
Are you sure about this?
It won't be particularly hard to convince them.
The key will be doing it in such a way that Yokoya doesn't catch on.
We enacted the plan.
Doubt 100 million.
The Country of Night inspectors doubted repeatedly.
The gap between our third-country accounts began to narrow.
Then, in the 26th round,
the man who tricked Tsunoda-san came up as inspector.
Akiyama-san entered the inspection room, and...
He's in.
All right!
Don't celebrate, idiots! You'll give us away!
Tsunoda, Eda, Kitamura!
They're supposed to think
you haven't told anyone you took the money, remember?
Try to act like the guilty little outcasts you are!
R-Right...
So guilty!
This doesn't seem right.
Next Time
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