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6 years ago, when Mr. Akiyama was still a senior in college...

he attended a seminar taught by Dr. Okabe,

a leader in the field of Criminal Psychology.

Ms. Kasuragi attended, too.

The midterm results are in. A member of this class received honors...

...congratulations, Akiyama-kun.

Woah! Akiyama, as always!

Mr. Akiyama was always at the head of the class.

Meanwhile, always stuck in 2nd place...

...was Ms. Katsuragi.

I'd like you to determine what kind of person wrote this letter.

The assignment was to guess what kind of person wrote this balloon-launch message...

...an activity also called "Profiling."

Professor, do you know the author personally?

Yes, of course. I know the correct answer.

Then, the day of their final presentations...

This letter uses many optimistic expressions, like "hope" and "courage"

so it is my belief that the author is a bright, optimistic person.

Mr. Akiyama gave a fantastic presentation.

But surprisingly, Ms. Katsuragi had a very different answer...

The author is a 16-year old, male high school student.

If I had to put his personality in a word, it'd be pessimistic.

The letter was composed sometime early in March.

It was launched from the Southern tip of the B?s? Peninsula.

That is all.

Very good. Now, let me tell you whose response was correct...

6 years have passed, and now the two are face-to-face once more.

It was the start of the Semi-final's first half: The Angels and Demons Game.

Ms. Katsuragi manipulated other players and took control of the game.

Even so, Mr. Akiyama discovered a way out and lead our team to victory.

Katsuragi, you...

LOSE.

But then...

I won't lose.

Contract

There's no way I can lose.

Ms. Katsuragi had planned well ahead of Mr. Akiyama.

You said this game was my last, was it?

Well, to quote your own words,

"You were too quick to assume victory."

Get serious next time, will you?

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!!

I'm still short one Cross!!

At this rate...at this rate...I'LL LOSE!!

What a pity, Mr. Yasukawa. I really want to help,

but we've already connected. We can't make any more Crosses.

SCREW YOU, BITCH!

S-somebody, ANYBODY!

Please, connect with me!!

I don't want to lose!! Nooooo!!

Y-you!?

Now, everybody wins!

Nao-chan!!

T-thank you!!

Thank you so much!!

Time is up.

This concludes the Angels & Demons Game.

Now to announce the results:

All players are Angels with more than 4 Crosses,

Therefore, all of you will proceed to the 2nd half.

Yes!! We won!! We won!

We won! Everybody won!!

Right on!

Why the celebration?

I promise you, you'll come to regret...

...not eliminating your fellow opponents.

That's not true!

We can all work together, again.

You'll see which one of us was right...

...in the next game.

Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin our Semi-final 2nd Half.

SO SOON!?

I'll be your guide to the next stage.

Wait a minute... Already!?

The Semi-Final is divided into two halves.

Both are held right here, right now, in this building.

So, right this way...

Move!

This is the vault our next game employs.

Vault!?

And here, we have the territorial border where players will go head-to-head.

Border...?

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome once again to the 2nd Half of our Semi-Final.

This is where we will determine who will make it to the Final Stage.

Wha--!?

Wait...is this...!?

Surely, you all do remember...

the CONTRABAND GAME?

That was the game you all enjoyed during our 3rd Round.

It holds an infinite number of opportunities by which to mislead and counter your opponents.

Thus, we've prepared a special edition of the Contraband Game that befits our Semi-Final Round...

And it is...!

THE GOLD RUSH GAME!

Gold Rush...Game...?

Goodbye, Akiyama-kun.

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THE GOLD RUSH GAME!

In the year 1848, America experienced the "Gold Rush" West.

The sudden discovery of raw gold drew a rush of people from all over the world.

In our scenario, two separate groups have arrived in search of gold.

Unfortunately, each side has discovered a tremendous amount of gold in the other's territory.

The situation is such that each side must secretly transport the gold to their home territory.

However, enemy Sheriffs are protecting the border.

Your goal is to elude the Sheriff

and carry the gold back home.

The money we'll use in our game is right here.

These are extra-large bars of pure gold.

Each bar will be exchanged for 100 Million yen at the end of the game.

Here are the rules for our game: You will be divided into 2 teams

and your goal is to carry gold from the enemy's vault back to your territory.

As of right now, you each have one gold bar.

Additionally, there are 3 bars per person in the enemy vault.

So in other words, each player begins the game with 4 bars available.

A Card Key is required at the vault to withdraw your gold.

* Note - You can only carry one bar at a time.

A Sheriff awaits you at the territorial border...

but if you can get him to pass, the gold is yours.

If the Sheriff calls Check, then your gold will be confiscated.

Confiscated!

However, in the event you aren't carrying gold,

The Sheriff is forced to pay one gold bar as consolation.

In this manner, each team takes turns to carry gold and serve as Sheriff for a total of 20 Games.

Please note that you are not allowed to enter the vault as Sheriff.

If this rule is broken, the Sheriff will pay a 100 million penalty.

100 Million Penalty

Furthermore, we will only reveal the remaining amount of gold in each vault

during the last 5 Games.

m 0 0 l 0 85 183 85 183 0

Displayed only during the final 5 Games

Any gold leftover in the enemy's vault...

...will become property of the enemy team.

The winner is the team with the highest overall amount of gold.

Team with the highest TOTAL gold wins

*Note: individual earnings may vary

Please note that the amount each player may have is not necessarily the same.

So, does the winning team proceed to the Final?

No.

By no means will the entire team have entry rights.

This is a ticket to the Final Stage.

One is awarded per 1.4 Billion of the team's total earnings.

Team Winnings

00 Million

Participant(s)

That is to say, for 2.8 Billion you'd win two,

and for 4.2 Billion, you'd win three entry tickets.

Should it occur that more players wish to enter the Final than tickets available,

If willing participants outnumber tickets available

we will offer the choice in order of individual earnings, highest to lowest.

Preference is given in order of individual earnings

But should you choose to withdraw, that is perfectly acceptable.

Withdraw?

Up until now, we have required half of your total earnings as penalty to withdraw from the Game.

But, as a special bonus to our Semi-Finalists...

We will allow you to withdraw without paying any penalty.

Honestly!?

Yea-haa!

There's no penalty!

Now to divide the teams...

Divide the teams!? Based on the previous game's scores,

we've divided everyone into two teams based on the number of Crosses you had.

For Team Shine,

Nao Kanzaki

Yasufumi Tsuchida

Wataru Makizono

Yuuji Fukunaga

Shin'ichi Akiyama

Norihiko Yasukawa

For Team Flame,

Teppei Ikezawa

Hiroka Saiki

Marie Ootsuka

Ryou Katsuragi

Tatsuya Kawai

Momoko Taninaka

In addition, we need each team to elect a leader.

Leader...? Yes...

The Leader manages the team's Cards,

and has the right to decide who will carry gold next.

But be warned...

Should your team lose all of the gold in your vault,

The Team Leader will bear the responsibility...

Leader

...and be forced to shoulder half of the team's entire debt.

Must pay half the team's debt

Would each team please elect a leader?

Half the debt...!

Then, I'll do it.

Nao-chan!?

Very well, please come and collect your team's Card Keys.

I'll be team leader.

Any objections?

Oh, just like before...

How many of you want to enter the Final Stage?

Okay...then we need to aim for 3.

We'll win with at least 4.2 Billion.

And now...we will begin the GOLD RUSH Game!

For our first Game, Team Flame will carry

and Team Shine will serve as Sheriff. Please select who.

Guess that's my cue!

I vote we each go as Sheriff and then carry, taking turns.

That okay, boss? Sure.

I'll leave the order up to you guys. Your cards...

Okay, everybody. Let's do this!

Go~!

Ms. Hiroka, please go on our behalf.

Okay...

Ootsuka, Marie

T-this card's...

There's no way I can give you your Card, now is there?

Huh!?

What the hell!?

Without this Card, you can't carry any gold.

...awarding you an instant 300 Million debt.

You'll do as I say...

...or else...

DIE.

From here on,

I will award each of you "Loyalty Points."

Loyalty Points?? For instance,

If you go against my instructions, -10.

If you follow my instructions, +10.

The player with the highest points will win a prize.

For 1st place...

...300 Million yen.

Oh, and one more thing...

...take a tape recorder.

If you catch someone trying to betray us, record their voice and report to me.

I'll give you more points.

Say, my dear...

...do you know what "perfect pitch" is?

I have it. Played piano as a kid, see?

And y'know,

Gold and Iron have just slightly different pitches when they hit a table.

Eh? So I already know...

That sound...

was GOLD!

Huh!? No way!!

CHECK!

DO~

RE~

MI~

FAAAAAAA~~!!

He did it!!

Only minutes into the game, and Mr. Fukunaga was on a roll!

PASS.

Ya-HOO!

Rally-ho! Rally-ho!

We took the lead right from the start.

PASS.

P-pass!!

...but Ms. Katsuragi had already put her secret plans into motion.

Then, on the 4th Game...

Mr. Akiyama was supposed to head to the border, but he was nowhere to be found.

HE'S LATE!

What's taking him so long!?

Ah!!

AH!

Pass.

In the end, he didn't do anything special. The Game ended the way it began.

What were you doing!?

Experimenting...

...to see what might come in handy to win.

For starters, our Cards.

Just like the Contraband Game, you can use one that's not your own.

Huh!?

To be honest, I borrowed Nao's Card this turn.

It worked without a hitch.

And I also found that you can deposit gold just as easy.

Any amount you want, I might add.

Lastly, I tried doing this.

AAAAH!!

And just like the previous game, they tendered a new card on the spot.

With all the the tricks you learned, does this mean you have a plan?

Yeah, more or less...

Eeeh!? All right!

What is it!? Tell us!

Not so fast...I'm still missing something.

Missing what!?

Someone willing to help our cause... on the other team, that is.

A traitor!? Yep.

That's impossible!!

Sure, finding someone willing to help is us hard...

...but not entirely out of the question.

What do you mean!?

Their team's reeking with discontent...

Discontent...? Mm-hm.

It's clear Katsuragi has them all under her thumb.

The big question, though, is exactly how she's doing it.

The way I see it,

their team is being ruled by fear.

But a rule by fear breeds discontent.

So given the right opportunity, a traitor will come forward.

It's time for our 5th Game!

I'll go.

Nao-chan!

Listen...our only shot at winning depends on scouting out the right person.

Probe them for information, even if it kills you.

Right.

Oh, noes!

It's Katsuragi!!

What should I do...!?

Of all the people, Ms. Katsuragi came!

Aren't you going to ask me any questions?

Uh, right...um...

I have to say something...but what...

I've been wondering, Ms. Katsuragi...

...do you know Mr. Akiyama personally?

I was his classmate in college.

Very good. Now, let me tell you whose response was correct...

Her response had something yours lacked.

Our professor determined that my ability to read people's hearts was superior.

Time is up.

Would Team Shine's Ms. Kanzaki please make her call?

Pass.

Be seeing you.

Thereafter, I did my best to probe our opponent's minds

in an attempt to fulfill the task Mr. Akiyama left me with.

Nao-chan, how was it?

I did all I could...

Good job...now it's my turn

...to give it my best shot, too.

What did you learn?

Well, it's just my hunch, but...

...everyone's pretty unhappy under Ms. Katsuragi.

I think we can find someone willing to cooperate.

I see...

Mr. Akiyama, won't you tell us your method already?

The way to win this game...

...is...

...to plunder all of our gold in the enemy vault.

I'm talking about transferring all of the gold into the enemy vault without crossing the border.

HAH!?

How in the heck!?

Tell me, how did you all plan to win this game?

Carrying our gold across the border, what else!?

Nope. There's something even more essential than that...

...and that's the amount of Gold leftover in vault.

Try as you might to carry gold across the border, the fact is

once this entire game ends, anything left in the vault goes to the enemy nation.

Since it's not up on the monitor it's easy to miss,

but this is the real factor which decides who wins.

So what the heck should we do!?

That's when the idea of looting the vault came to mind.

Right now, we have 17 bars in our vault.

We have one person go and withdraw all of them.

Then, we leave those bars right next to bank itself.

Assuming we have our traitor,

We just need them to deposit all of that gold into their vault.

At that point we'll have no gold in the vault,

while the gold in their vault will be doubled.

The moment the game ends, it's all ours.

But can that really be done?

Of course!

Once you've entered the corridor,

there's no way for anyone outside to know what's going on.

...whether or not someone transferred 17 bars of gold, for example.

Once that's done, we'll never again have to risk carrying gold across the border...

...since there's no gold left to carry, after all.

Amazing!! That plan is perfect!!

We can win!! We can win this!!

YAHOO!!

U-um...

What now, pops!?

A-akiyama just said that we had 17 bars, right?

Yeah, so!?

U-um...we...don't have...

17 bars...

Huh?

We have 23...!

Wha...?

What do you mean?

The truth is...

Look, lemme clue you in on something good...

Wh...what?

You're up to carry gold next, right?

Drop by our vault on the way...

There's 3 bars outside the vault.

You can take 'em if you want.

E..eh!?

Put them in your vault with your card.

'Cuz the truth is...

This Card isn't just for taking Gold out, but putting it in, too!

Wait, that's the same as Mr. Akiyama told us earlier!

Katsuragi put that gold there for some big plan she's going to pull.

B-but...why are you telling me...

I hate her guts.

But you teamed up with her!!

Yeah, at first...

But I'm not listening to her anymore.

Everyone else on my team hates her, too.

If we can ruin her plan, it'll knock her off her throne.

Besides, you need it, don't you?

You can carry across all the gold you want without being afraid of going into debt.

Even if a bar or two gets taken, you'll have extra to work with, right?

So...just take 'em!

What!? You deposited them in our vault!?

All 3 bars!?

S-s...sorry!!

I was so surprised when I saw them there!

I...I'm sorry!!

Huh?

But wait a minute...

If you put 3 in, then that'd be 20?

But you said 23...?

U-um...

You didn't.

You...

...I took...3...too...

Wha...?

T-the exact same thing happened when I went on the next turn...

YOU FRIGGIN' MORONS!!

HOW'RE YOU GONNA FIX THIS!? HUH!?

DIE, THE BOTH OF YOU!!

DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!

Pass.

Of course I took 'em all!

Now, we can't lose!

When you keep on moving~ Happiness will come your way~

So keep on truckin' till you find it! Haha!

We're up by 3 again.

So that means we're at 26 now.

Eh? What's up?

Why the hell'd you take 'em, gramps!?

To crush Katsuragi's plans.

That's OBVIOUSLY a lie!!

We only have 13 games left!!

It's impossible to carry all the gold across now!!

Another 3...

how're you going to fix this?

*Gulp*...

Hm?

3? It...wasn't 3...

Huh!?

When I went over to their vault...

There were 3 bars, like I was told.

But...

I found...even more...

Even more!?

HOW MANY!?!

All together...

11 bars...

11 bars!? What did you do!?

I transferred them into our vault...

...all of 'em.

11 bars? No...

That's...all their team had left.

They were able to transfer everything with just 3 people...!

Then, you mean to say that Ms. Katsuragi

beat Mr. Akiyama to the same plan!?

It's over.

We were finished.

We had lost to Ms. Katsuragi before we even had a chance to fight back.

Goodbye, Akiyama-kun.

I can't believe it's over so soon!

Katsuragi is superior to Akiyama...

...it's as simple as that.

Aaah!! B-but...but!!

Are we really finished!?!

Of course we are, pops!!

We've got 34 bars in our vault.

But there's only 13 Games left!

13 Games Remaining

Even in the best case scenario, we'll only make it to 21!

GAME OVER

It's game over!!

Since they'll get the rest of the gold,

they're going to win no matter what!!

SO!

Our chances of winning...

are zero.

Mr. Akiyama.

No...

It's okay.

We don't need words of encouragement.

It's over for us.

Nothing can change this situation...

Stupid, stupid, stupid!!

Oh, but we can.

I've got a way to turn things around.

There's a way to turn things around...?

How in the world!?

What is it?

Tell us!

Think back to the trick you fell for...

Marie!!

Mr. Kawai...

Ikezawa...!!

...now we make them carry the gold they gave us.

It is now Game 8, Team Flame's turn to carry.

Team Shine, please send your Sheriff.

You go next.

It's Marie!!

Mr. Akiyama!?

Gotcha.

It's Marie!!

Mr. Akiyama!?

Gotcha.

Mr. Akiyama's plan was simple.

We needed to make allies with the 3 who tricked us,

and get them to carry gold without crossing the border.

But...could we really convince them to join us?

We had no choice but to trust in Mr. Akiyama.

What now?

Thanks to the gold you left us,

our victory is 100% guaranteed.

Yeah, right.

No matter how you cut it, WE win.

Yeah, had we followed your instructions.

But you made one big mistake.

Mistake?

Mm-hm.

We moved 17 bars into our vault...

...or so you believe.

But the truth is...

it's not in the vault.

In other words, your team hasn't made a dime.

Quit bluffing! We checked afterward!

The bars we left out all disappeared!

Yeah, 'cuz we took them.

But we didn't deposit them.

We put those 17 bars...

...someplace secret.

HAH!?!

He's trying to bluff!!

We already came up with the exact same plan as you.

That's why when you offered first,

we immediately caught on to you.

So, we decided to act along with it...

...and hide the gold!

True, but Marie has no physical way to prove or disprove Akiyama's lie.

Where? WHERE ARE THEY!?

Where do you think?

Figure it out yourself.

But more importantly, consider this:

what will happen to your precious 17 bars?

Well, where did they originally belong?

The answer's simple:

If the game officials look up your Card and Vault usage,

they'll immediately see whose accounts they came from.

Which is, to say, your accounts.

So when we need to figure out where this gold goes, naturally, it's yours.

What I'm saying is, by hiding your gold...

it's as if you left it all in your vault from the very beginning.

And unfortunately for you, you can't lay a finger on it

since we have it hidden.

Think about what happens if we do nothing for the rest of the game.

Can you see the final scores?

You're pretty sharp, so I bet you are.

The losers aren't us... it's you, without a doubt.

Oh, shit...I'm screwed...

Screwed?

If she finds out I screwed up, who knows what'll happen!

If you mess this up, you'll lose points.

Relax.

Eh?

I'll save you.

Are you crazy?

I can't believe you!

Sure you can.

Because our team has Nao.

Nao Kanzaki...?

Mm-hm.

She'll save you, absolutely.

But...

I lied to your teammates.

There's no way they'll help me now!

Yes they will...because she's there.

No one in their right mind would forgive me!

Oh, really?

Think back...

Katsuragi, your "friend," left Yasukawa out to dry.

But Nao Kanzaki saved him; an opponent.

Do you know why?

That's because she believes in a certain creed:

"If we forget trying to profit for ourselves, everyone can be saved."

That, in itself, is the perfect method to beat the LIAR GAME.

She strongly believes it, even now.

If we win this game, she will save everyone.

That's the kind of person our team's leader is.

Understand now?

As long as you're under Katsuragi, you can't win.

But you can join us, your only way out.

So...what will it be?

They're sure taking their time...

Could he...have failed to convince her?

Oh...it's over!!

Pass.

Team Shine's Sheriff, Mr. Akiyama,

has splendidly seen through the enemy's feint.

Akiyama!!

Mr. Akiyama!

How did it go?

Marie...

...is on our side.

YEAH~!!

Ah, what a relief!

No...not yet.

We still need Kawai and Ikezawa.

B-but can we really convince them, too?

As long as they're afraid of Katsuragi,

they'll never admit their mistake.

The minute they hear their job failed, they're as good as ours.

Then, on Game 10, Mr. Kawai showed up.

Akiyama!! How was it!?

He's on our side, too.

Yeah! YEAH!!

I have an announcement to make:

Somewhere among us...

...lies a traitor.

We were confident we could turn this game around.

But...little did we know...

Mr. Akiyama's plan...

...was already discovered.