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My name is Nao Kanzaki.

I have a gullible personality,

and a lot of people say that I'm idiotically honest.

By carelessly opening a box,

I got caught up in a terrible game.

"Thank you for participating in the "Liar Game"."

The rule is to take away 100 million yen from your opponent.

I was to play against

my former high school teacher,

Mr. Fujisawa.

He told me that he'd take care of my 100 million,

but that was a lie.

"She would fall for anything..."

I was deceived by my teacher,

and robbed of my 100 million yen.

"Because you can't trust people!"

I'd have to face a debt of 100 million yen like this.

In my despair,

I sought out a man said to be a "genius swindler",

and asked him to recover the 100 million.

"Please help me!"

His name was

Shin'ichi Akiyama.

I acted accordingly to his strategy,

and began observing Mr. Fujisawa.

"Co... could you explain to me..."

"about the purpose of this strategy?"

"We can't take back the money like this..."

"We're trying to put Fujisawa in a situation of mental stress."

The strategy succeeded in driving Mr. Fujisawa into a corner,

and we also managed to find out where he hid the 200 million, but...

"Good work finding out the whereabouts of the money,"

"but that's as far as you'll get!"

"You've lost!"

"What's so funny?"

"I'll assert you,"

"it's a piece of cake for me to steal 200 million out of that safe."

I didn't understand everything about Mr. Akiyama's plan.

So I couldn't grasp the true nature of his confidence,

and I got more and more worried

when we were approaching the final stage of the game.

Look at this miserable figure.

He must've thought we'd give up if he showed us the safe.

But since I didn't show any reaction,

He's been growing more and more impatient.

Mr. Fujisawa...

He's become really thin...

The perfect example of somebody in a state of cognitive dissonance.

What's that?

Cognitive dissonance?

It's a term used in psychology... haven't you ever experienced something like this?

"Which of the two figures shows a triangle?"

You are asked to pick between A and B,

and you know that "B" has got to be the right answer.

A!

A!!

But then, the other people answer with "A",

and when your turn comes,

even though inside you know that the answer is "B",

you answer with "A".

Cognitive dissonance

I had that happen to me alot.

If a gap between people and their environment occurs,

that is, if they experience dissonance, they begin to feel anxiety.

By sympathizing with their surrounding, they attempt to dissolve this anxiety.

His belief in his advantage,

and my equanimity, made him feel a gap.

And so he sympathized with my calm attitude.

In other words,

he now believes that I've an ace up in my sleeves,

and is shaking with fear.

But still,

it's only a bluff, right?

To put him under mental stress...

It's neither a bluff nor is it nonsense.

I do have a plan to get that money out of the safe.

How's he going to do it?

By force...?

Or is he going to take the safe away...?

If you think you can do it, then come and get it!

I'll meet you face to face!

How's that!?

Do you think I'm just gonna let you take it away?

Just so you know, the money is mine!

As if I'd let you have the money.

The 100 million belongs to me.

Alright!

What's he doing now?

No matter what he tries, it's useless.

Tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. ...

Tomorrow at 5...

Just a bit until the end of the game, right?

Say...

Shouldn't we be doing something?

Not really...

But there's no time!

If we don't do something...

I told you it's alright, didn't I?

I casted a magic spell on that safe.

When the time comes, it'll just crack open.

Just a little more...

Just a little...

Time remaining: 11 hours

Time remaining: 8 hours

Just... 8 more hours.

Time remaining: 5 hours

Mr. Akiyama...

We've got only 5 hours left...

Mr. Akiyama!

Time remaining: 1 hour

Just an hour!

Time remaining: 10 minutes

Mr. Akiyama!

Ten minutes left.

We're going to lose like this!

We're losing!

Mr. Akiyama!

I'm begging you!

Please open the door!

Mr. Fujisawa!

I beg you!

I knew it!

Open my safe?

It just had to be a bluff!

Mr. Fujisawa...

I'm asking you!

Please return my 100 million yen!

I beg you!

Please help me!

I don't care!

Mr. Fujisawa!

I beg you!!

5...

4...

3...

2...

1...

It's time!

5 o'clock! It's 5!

5 o'clock!!

The game's over!

Mr. Fujisawa...

LGT Secretariat

No...

5 o'clock!

I did it!

Game over!

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Timers: Komobore, SacredCultivator Timings Provider: tianj

Translator: LanBreak

Editor: SacredCultivator

Special Thanks To: furransu, zeldAIS

May I... ask who is it?

I belong to the Secretariat.

I came to retrieve the money.

Oh! Please, come in!

Here..

After you!

I lost...

It's in here.

The 200 million...

How's that?

It's all of it, the whole amount.

Please allow me to verify this.

Ah, of course.

I did it...

The 200 million is mine...

Divorce papers

The money...

The money is mine!

Umm... how long is it going to take you to verify the sum?

Ah, I'm sorry...

I don't mean to rush you...

Please take all the time you need.

Who's that now?

At a time like this...

Who are you?

We belong to the Liar Game Secretariat.

The game has ended,

so we came to retrieve the money.

Ah, you too?

Oh, of course, I see.

It's too hard to do it all alone, isn't it?

There's already one of you in there...

What are you talking about?

The three of us...

are the only ones taking charge of this game.

Huh? Now you're kidding me.

He's already inside...

Y... you...

You win.

Wa, wait a moment!

This is...

You lost, Fujisawa.

You did quite a good job,

but you messed up at the very last moment.

I messed up?

The man who just left was working for me. He's a fake.

Those three over there are the real dealers.

Miss Nao Kanzaki.

Congratulations on your victory.

Please let us verify the amount of money in your hands.

No!

This is invalid!

It's got to be!

That guy stole my 200 million after the game had ended!

And about you...

It's got to be your fault

if you're too late to retrieve the money.

If you had appeared in time,

none of this would have happened.

What are you talking about?

What do you mean?

We arrived here just as it was announced to you.

What are you talking about?

Idiots!

Look at this!

You see this?

It says "5 o'clock" right here!

You messed up the time, that's it!

Idiots!

Fujisawa.

What do you want? Shut up!

Is this...

what you were looking at?

Huh?

Of course.

Here, look at this.

It's all in here.

"We will send somebody to retrieve the money at 6 o'clock."

6 o'clock...

This... why...

6 o'clock...

The letter you got was fake.

I sent it to you.

The one with 6 o'clock on it is the original.

How did you...

It had been in your mailbox...

from a week ago.

A week?

But you spent all day and night inside of your house,

coming out to check your mail just once a week.

This can't be...

All the things you did...

Observing me all the time...

"It's a piece of cake for me to steal 200 million out of that safe."

Telling me that you'd steal the money...

That was all but lies?

Yes,

it was all to keep you inside your room.

I never intended to use violence to get the money.

I only had one goal in mind.

The moment of retrieval.

What interested me from the start was but one thing.

The method the Secretariat gets in touch with the players.

They don't use phone or fax,

only letters and video messages.

With this, it was easy to set you up.

By constantly putting you under pressure,

you needed to stay in front of the safe

and couldn't check for any new cards to arrive.

I took out the real card sent to you.

There was more than enough time to create a fake one.

You believed that the card in your mailbox was real.

You believed that fake card,

which had the game end an hour early.

6:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

Put under so much pressure from the constant observation,

you misjudged your final step.

That moment of relief when you were released from having to protect the money,

left you completely unguarded.

Without verifying whether the card or the collector was real.

Finally...

you lost at the very last moment.

We have retrieved 100 million yen.

Please take the remaining 100 million as your prize money.

That's 50 million for each of us.

Hurry up.

You could have told me before.

Lying even to me...

It was because you were really panicking back there,

that he believed in his victory.

Well, I really believed that I had lost.

You couldn't have given an expression like that if you'd just been pretending.

Well... that's true, but...

Say...

About Mr. Fujisawa...

What's going to happen to him now?

Who knows?

His debts amount to 100 million.

Since he's got a dangerous organisation against him,

he might end up paying for the rest of his life,

or maybe they're gonna sell him someplace.

Either way, it doesn't seem like he's got a bright future ahead of himself.

Hey! Where are you going?

After all this... what do you want from me?

50 million yen.

It's all of my share from the game.

Please take this.

It's only enough to cover half of your debts, but...

You...

But I ask you to...

promise me one thing.

"People are not to be trusted"...

I ask you...

please don't ever say such a sad thing again.

I... I promise.

I promise!

I promise...

I promise...

Hand this over to Fujisawa as well.

But... this is your share...

My reward is half of your prize money, that's what we agreed on.

You didn't even get 1 yen,

so I can't get any reward either.

Mr. Akiyama...

At that moment, I began to wonder a little...

Why would that person become a swindler?

This is where I live.

It's a bit small, but please come in.

No, I...

You've got to.

You were helping me for a month.

I can't let you go without doing something in return.

Please let me at least cook dinner for you.

No, thanks.

I'll cook you something really good!

Just come,

no need to be reserved!

Please come in!

I'll start preparing right away, so just wait a moment.

What's up?

LIAR GAME: Second Round

I congratulate you on winning the first round of the Liar Game.

Miss Kanzaki,

you have two options now.

The first option is to participate in the second round of the Liar Game.

The second option is to abstain from further participation.

Abstain?

The condition for this would be to return

half of the prize money from the first round.

In your case, this would mean 50 million yen.

50 million...

Please make up your mind,

whether you are to participate or to abstain.

If you are not to make a decision until the beginning of the second round,

we will retrieve the whole amount you obtained in the first round.

We are going to retrieve the money at all costs.

Which, in your case, would be...

100 million yen.

We will await your decision.

This can't be...

Just ignore them.

Don't get involved with them any further.

But...

If anything happens, I'll be there to hear your story.

Mr. Akiyama...

What's up, Nao?

Are you worried about something?

Nothing at all.

I'm fine.

The next round takes place tomorrow...

Mr. Akiyama

(Kids' voices: "Quit fighting!")

What's that you say...

Those guys are quite persistant, what?

Another round, you say?

Yes...

I think I'm just going to ignore them though.

Ignore them...

But don't you think it would be better...

if you just told them directly to quit bothering you?

Directly?

You know, people like them,

they usually aim for weak people.

I think that if you act bold in front of them,

they're going to flinch and have to give up.

But...

I know.

How about I'll go with you?

You'd do that?

If you've got an officer on your side,

they'll probably be unable to say anything.

Thank you very much!

Well then, I'll come to fetch you tomorrow!

Yes!

Mr. Akiyama!

You just called me?

I got a bit worried about tomorrow...

but I'm alright now.

I can get this sorted out on my own.

Sorry for having you worry.

Is that so.

Oh, that's right!

I forgot to thank you the other day,

but I'll be sure to do it next time!

Alright!

I'm really sorry...

Having you sacrifice your free day for this...

Don't sweat it!

This is also part of my work, you know?

Alright...

"Please leave a message after..."

Damn...

So this it...

The meeting place for the second round...

Well then, let's go.

Yes.

Miss Nao Kanzaki.

Welcome to the second stage of the Liar Game.

Eh...

Please stop involving me in this any further!

I don't want to participate in such a game.

You're bothering me, so...

That's why...

I brought someone from the police with me.

You came with someone from the police?

I did.

So, would you...

And where would this person be?

Where?

Right here...

Why...

He only brought you here.

Turns out that our organization is much bigger than you imagined.

Miss Kanzaki.

I will lead you inside.

Please, along this way.

I...

Why are you making such a face?

You are going to get a chance to earn a huge amount of money.

This is a very important object.

Please keep it on your body all the time.

These people...

did they also win in the first round?

Correct.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for assembling here today.

It is time.

Let me commence with

the second round of the Liar Game.

Wait a sec.

I'll take part as well.

Mr. Akiyama...

Why?

How did you get...

I could ask you the same.

I told you to ignore them, didn't I?

I...

With the 22 of you assembled,

we will conduct the second round of the Liar Game.

I will begin with a simple explanation of the rules.

Just like in the previous round,

all of you have already received 100 million yen.

100 million yen?

Please examine your nameplates.

The 3 carat pink diamonds embedded in them...

are worth 100 million yen each.

In the second round, these nameplates will be used as money.

Which means that in this room,

a total sum of 2.2 billion yen is contained.

In the second round,

you will play a game.

We are going to have the 22 of you contend for the 2.2 billion.

One after another, the losers are going to leave the game,

reducing the number of players.

If you lose,

you are to put down your nameplate and leave this place.

This means that the number of players will decrease gradually,

but the amount of 2.2 billion remains unchanged.

The final player is thus able to collect all of the money.

We are going to retrieve the 100 million handed out in the beginning,

so the highest prize money possible

would be 2.1 billion yen.

In exchange for the nameplates of the winner,

we are going to pay out the cash amount.

If...

If you lose...

What is going to happen to you?

Nothing special.

Except...

that you have to return the 100 million yen,

that you were given in the beginning.

We are going to retrieve the money at all costs.

Regardless of the means we have to use.

Without failure.

They're all thinking the same things.

There isn't anybody in here imagining about what it's like to win.

What they're feeling is the fear

of losing and having to bear debts of 100 million yen.

I will now explain about the process of the game.

The game all of you are going to play.

It's...

"Minority Voting"

Minority voting?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

you all know about majority voting, don't you?

It's a means for decision during an election or in an assembly.

Our present days which are infested by democracy,

is indeed a period of majority voting.

At anytime, the majority has the initiative,

while the minority is put at a disadvantage.

However, the game you are going to play now, will be the opposite way.

The majority dies, the minority lives on.

In this "Minority Voting" game.

I will now introduce the rules of minority voting.