Congratulations to all players!
The fifty rounds of the Contraband Game are now complete!
I will hereby announce the final scores!
Morning of the Final Day
Solidarity
Um, I'm sorry about what I said this morning.
Oh, that?
Round 35 Country of Night Smuggling Turn
Pass.
Round 36 Country of Day Smuggling Turn
Pass.
Both sides keep passing.
Hey, didn't Yokoya say we could profit 500 to 600 million?
That's totally not happening here!
And?
You think I lied to you?
No, of course not...
But we don't seem to be extending our lead at all.
The Country of Day is trying to lose by a very close margin.
Third-Country Accounts
Country of Night
1.769490 billion yen
Country of Day
1.65167 billion yen
The difference in our third-country accounts is only about 100 million.
Neither side has any money in their ATM,
leaving both countries carrying empty briefcases.
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Pass
So if the inspector doesn't want to lose money,
all they can call is "pass."
If this keeps up, we'll be in a holding pattern until the game ends.
He's right. We're not gonna make any money like this.
You people really are idiots.
I-Idiots?
Indeed, under our present circumstances, "pass" is all they'll ever call.
So, how do we put a stop to that?
We start carrying money.
That money.
On my smuggling turn, I'll put 100 million from the pallet in my case and take it.
But you can't do that.
That's registered to their ATM here in the Country of Night, right?
If we try to smuggle it, it'll bug out the records.
Do you think I'm stupid enough to just carry it as-is?
On my smuggling turn,
I'll deposit the money into our ATM in the Country of Day, then withdraw it.
That way, the 100 million will formally have come from our ATM.
There will be no issue whatsoever.
But we don't actually gain anything that way.
There's zero benefit at all.
Wrong.
My intention is to confuse the enemy.
"The Country of Night can't possibly be carrying any money..."
"Yet there it is."
It will throw them off their game.
Our victory will follow.
Just watch as the game proceeds.
Round 39 Country of Night Smuggling Turn
Pass.
Incredible! There's 100 million!
The Country of Night's smuggling attempt succeeds!
But how?!
Round 41 Country of Night Smuggling Turn
The Country of Day calls doubt of 80 million...
But there's 100 million in the case!
The Country of Night bags a total of 140 million!
Round 43 Country of Night Smuggling Turn
The Country of Day doubts for 60 million, but now the case is empty!
Their doubt bombs once again!
The Country of Night takes 30 million!
You were right, Yokoya-san.
Your plan has left the Country of Day in tatters.
It's brilliance personified. And I was a fool.
If that's how you feel, do as I tell you in the fourth-round game, as well.
The tally of your third-country accounts is now complete.
Please gather in the central lobby on the first floor.
Congratulations, everyone.
Before now, you've only ever spoken within the confines of the interrogation room.
Now that the game is over, you are welcome to speak freely.
Anyone who has anything to say, please step forward.
Allow me to begin.
Country of Day, I'd like to congratulate you on a game well played.
Particularly you, Akiyama-san.
Managing to hide the 1.9 billion we asked your team to port over for us...
You truly had me in a cold sweat.
I'm flattered by your praise.
But I'm afraid we never hid that 1.91 billion.
What?!
We fell for your trap hook, line, and sinker.
You deserve all the praise in the world.
So... what does that mean?
With the stack of cash we kept, all the money is in our ATM?
Oh, wow. I thought we were up against someone on Yokoya-san's level.
Turns out you're just a bunch of morons.
Akiyama... Is that all you've got?
Now, I shall announce the final score!
The winner of the Contraband Game is...
Third-Country Accounts
Country of Night
Country of Day
Third-Country Accounts
Country of Night
2.369490 billion yen
Country of Day
1.481670 billion yen
The Country of Night team!
Yes! We dominated!
Yes! We did it! We won!
Congratulations to you.
The nine members of the Country of Night will move on to the fourth-round game.
Next, we'll be paying out the prize money.
I invite all players to return their cards to the closest staff member.
Ah...
Well, I'm being told the money in the ATMs doesn't match their registered totals.
Nearco-san, we found the rest of the cash in the game venue.
The tally is now complete.
I will hereby announce the results.
The money remaining in each team's ATM stands at...
Country of Night
0 yen
Country of Day
3.348840 billion yen
See? We took it all!
Talk about a huge score!
What?!
There's gotta be some mistake!
How are we at zero?!
There is no mistake.
These are undoubtedly the final totals.
Yokoya, you lost.
We made a load of money and get to leave the game free and clear,
while you have to move on to round four even deeper in debt.
You made a serious mistake, you know.
Did I? When exactly was that?
Allow me to explain.
As I mentioned, our team completely fell for your trap.
We deposited the entire 1.91 billion yen into the Country of Night ATM.
To be honest, I briefly thought we were done for.
But I decided to bet on a long-shot comeback
and took measures to break off members of the Country of Night.
That 1.91 billion yen never made it into our ATM in your territory.
What?!
My bluff worked perfectly.
I quickly turned your teammates to my side.
Akagi, Shibayama...
And Hasegawa, too.
You're wrong.
Hasegawa might have pretended to go along with your plan,
but that was an act.
Yokoya-san caught on to your plan, and he kept the traitors to two.
He severed Akagi and Shibayama's bond with his Confession Game, too.
You're wrong.
Our bond actually survived that game intact.
What? Wait a minute...
I was sure Shibayama betrayed you in the Confession Game.
Yeah, I pretended to betray him.
You people are under a fundamental misunderstanding.
"He kept the traitors to two."
That's what you said, right?
But you're wrong.
At the time of the Confession Game,
I'd already joined the Country of Day.
Hasegawa?!
Yokoya, you were too slow.
By the time you realized what Akiyama was doing,
all three of us had already entered into an agreement with him.
Your Confession Game had us shaking in our boots, though.
When Shibayama confessed, we figured our alliance was shattered.
Don't worry, Hasegawa.
This is all just an act.
Shibayama's only pretending to betray us?
I see...
He can reveal what Yokoya already suspects without blowing the core plan.
Most importantly, Yokoya doesn't know I'm a traitor yet.
Our strategy is still in play!
Playing dumb during the Confession Game wouldn't have cleared us of suspicion.
So I decided it was best to pretend Yokoya had driven a wedge between us.
And in doing so, I convinced him that Akiyama's plan had failed.
That left him vulnerable.
At that point, Akagi really thought I'd betrayed him.
His realistic reactions made Yokoya even more susceptible to manipulation.
The Confession Game convinced Yokoya that Akiyama's plan was done for.
But Yokoya... The fact that you didn't fully believe Shibayama's confession
and continued to harbor doubts was really smart of you.
Unfortunately, you decided to use me to dispel those doubts.
That was the moment you lost the game.
Akiyama had worked it out with the three of us like this:
"The next time one of the three of you is a smuggler,
we'll carry out the plan."
"We'll move all of the money over from the Country of Night ATM."
Wait, then you mean...
That's right.
I went in there to find out if Shibayama's confession was on the level...
That's what you all thought, right?
But what I actually did...
was move a billion yen and change back from the Country of Night ATM
to the Country of Day one, like Akiyama asked.
So they had all the money by then?
What's wrong, Yokoya?
You look like you still don't follow.
In order to keep absolute control over others,
you created a surveillance state.
It made your team so paranoid that they barely spoke to each other.
So it should've been impossible for them to coordinate, right?
Yeah, it should have been!
We were constantly watching each other.
Hasegawa never talked to you, Akiyama. How did you get him on your side?
Yokoya created his surveillance state to maintain absolute control.
But he picked the worst way to do it...
These.
A voice recorder?
Yokoya, you can't go handing out such nifty little devices.
This is certainly a powerful tool to make your followers paranoid,
but it's also a great way for them to communicate.
Is that how you did it?
That's right.
It would be difficult to have whispered conversations, or even pass around notes,
but these devices solve all those problems.
If you want to send a message, you just record it.
They're small enough to palm, so you can pass them around without anyone noticing,
and you can listen to them without arousing suspicion.
Most of all, they can pass on a whole lot of info reliably.
When I first made Akagi my offer, he told me about the recorders.
That was the moment I knew our plan was guaranteed to succeed.
I took my time outlining the purpose and benefit of the plan on his recorder.
I used it to get not just Shibayama on my side,
but also Hasegawa, even without ever interacting directly.
And that wasn't all.
Once they realized this application for their recorders,
the three of them could continue to pass them around and coordinate,
allowing my strategy to proceed unfazed by your Confession Game.
Yokoya, your plan backfired.
Akiyama-san had said earlier...
that bonds are what empower people to break free of control.
He was right.
The bond between the three of them overcame Yokoya-san's dictatorship.
Third-Country Accounts
Country of Night
2.369490 billion yen
Country of Day
1.481670 billion yen
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3.348840 billion yen
The Country of Day had amassed a total of 4.83051 billion yen.
Less the initial 3.6 billion we were upfronted,
our net winnings amounted...
1.23051 billion!!
to 1.23051 billion yen.
We... lost?
Even with Yokoya-san leading us?
That doesn't make sense!
How is there no money left in our ATM?
When the game was over, Akiyama said...
We deposited the entire 1.91 billion yen into the Country of Night ATM.
Which means there should be 1.91 billion yen in the Country of Night ATM!
I'll explain everything.
After Hasegawa moved the cash to the Country of Day ATM,
I told him the truth.
When I said I hid the 1.91 billion...
That was a lie.
You guys fell for our trick.
That 1.91 billion is in the Country of Night ATM.
Wait a minute!
Then your promise to have the Country of Day
dominate and let us drop out of the game with that money...
Don't worry.
You three will get out of the game.
Just help us get that 1.91 billion into the Country of Day ATM.
Then the Country of Day will dominate, and you'll be saved.
What do you think?
It's not happening, Akiyama.
Yokoya's onto our plan.
He's not likely to let any of us play the smuggler ever again.
I never said you have to carry it over.
We'll carry it ourselves.
How, exactly?
To move that money, you'd need a card from both the Day and Night sides.
No, you can't have this one!
I have to give it back to Yokoya!
I'll make a fake version of it.
You can give the fake back to Yokoya.
I-Is that possible?
You mean you're going to damage this card and have a new one made somehow?
Hey, bingo.
No way, no how! It'll be obvious if the card is damaged!
Don't worry. I'll damage it in a way that's not visibly obvious.
Using this.
What's that? A speaker?
Yeah, I broke a piece off of one in the Country of Day and brought it with me.
If you subtly rub your card on the magnet used in the speaker,
the magnetic field will wipe the data on the card.
The Country of Day's speaker...
So it was Akiyama who damaged it!
And while you were distracted by that, the following exchange took place...
Your card is damaged?
Wait just a moment.
Yes, it does appear to be unusable.
I've reissued your card, so please use this one.
Kakeru Tajima
Which means...
The card you returned to Yokoya was the unusable one,
and you gave the working one to Akiyama?
That's correct.
We then used that card to move
the entirety of that 1.91 billion to the Country of Day ATM.
Yokoya.
You were just a bit too late.
Okay, so how does the big stack of cash belong to them?
That happened when Yokoya gave Akagi his marching orders:
"Pretend to cooperate with Akiyama's plan,
and hide 1.8 billion in the Country of Night."
That one had me panicking.
All the money was in the Country of Day ATM by then.
But then Akagi did something awesome.
He pretended Akiyama had never tipped him off.
Huh? Wait, what?
He's not showing me where he hid the card.
Then he explained the situation in the inspection room.
Akiyama recorded a new plan and passed it along for me and Shibayama.
The next turn, when I played the smuggler,
I pretended to follow Yokoya's plan and carried out Akiyama's instead.
I withdrew the money using the card in the location he indicated,
then carried it to the Country of Night.
But the card I used was my previously duplicated one from the Country of Night.
Kakeru Tajima
One that could access the Country of Day ATM.
In other words, the money I brought over came from a Country of Day account.
Meaning the money left in the Country of Night ATM stayed at zero.
No way. I never dreamed you could duplicate a card...
So that's that.
You unfortunately lost big-time, Yokoya.
You people...
How much did you betray me for?
The Country of Day's paying us three enough to leave the Liar Game debt-free.
That was the condition.
It's not funny.
Oh, but it is!
You really agreed to that nonsense?
The three of you get out of the game debt-free?
You really thought that was possible?!
Akiyama, don't you realize how much it'll cost to save these people?
You may have profited 1.23 billion, but that's far from enough.
Everyone on your team but you and Kanzaki is still 100 million in debt, right?
That's 700 million to save them all.
And these three members of the Country of Night are a total of 600 million in debt.
You can't save them!
But I can.
Nao Kanzaki and I have made 130 million off the game so far.
We'll put that all toward saving them.
But they've all racked up more debt in the Contraband Game.
I'd estimate 600... no, perhaps 700 million or more.
You don't have nearly enough.
I do, Yokoya.
There's going to be a Losers' Revival after this third-round game.
And?
Once this is over, Nao Kanzaki and I will default our 400 million repayments.
That'll give us 800 million to use paying off their debts instead.
In other words, we'll both proceed to the Losers' Revival 400 million in debt.
What a pair of fools!
Who would voluntarily do something so stupid?
You're the stupid one here, Yokoya!
Do you realize why the three of us betrayed you to join the Country of Day?
Because these two are willing to sacrifice themselves to save other players.
They said the real enemy they're fighting isn't other players,
but the Liar Game Office itself!
They're playing on a whole other level from you.
You really are as stupid as they come...
Both of you.
Next Time
Provocation