LIAR GAME

You really are as stupid as they come.

S-Stupid?

Akiyama-san, do you really intend to fight the LGT Office?

Yes.

You're stupider than I ever imagined.

You're the stupid one here!

You don't get to talk tough after losing!

You said I made a serious mistake, yes?

But you've made one yourself...

and you don't even realize it.

Provocation

I will now announce the totals being paid out to each player.

First up, the Country of Day.

Nao Kanzaki

Shinichi Akiyama

Hiroto Kitamura

Teruyuki Eda

Takahiro Kikuzawa

Tetsuzo Sato

Kosuke Tsunoda

Yuji Fukunaga

Shingo Fujita

Nao Kanzaki

102,093,000

Shinichi Akiyama

422,093,000

Hiroto Kitamura

472,093,000

Teruyuki Eda

472,093,000

Nao Kanzaki 102,093,000

Shinichi Akiyama 422,093,000

Hiroto Kitamura 472,093,000

Teruyuki Eda 472,093,000

Takahiro Kikuzawa 912,093,000

Tetsuzo Sato 633,768,000

Kosuke Tsunoda 622,088,000

Yuji Fukunaga 722,093,000

Shingo Fujita 472,093,000

We really raked it in.

Too bad we're donating our profits to save the three Country of Night members.

Next, the Country of Night...

Yusuke Shibayama

160,000,000

Kota Akagi

120,000,000

Hiroshi Hasegawa

220,000,000

What was Akiyama-san's "mistake"?

Yusuke Shibayama

160,000,000

Kota Akagi

120,000,000

Hiroshi Hasegawa

220,000,000

Akira Tsumura

Tatsuji Wada

Makoto Murata

The three turncoats are 700 million in the hole.

We can cover their debts with our winnings, so...

Akira Tsumura

249,995,000

Tatsuji Wada

120,000,000

Makoto Murata

100,000,000

Finally realized it, did you?

Norihiko Yokoya

1,030,550,000

The hell?!

He's got over a billion?!

So that's it...

Wh-What is?

On the third day, Yokoya said he'd handle all the inspection and smuggling himself.

Why do you think he did that?

So none of the rest of us had a chance to betray him, right?

No. His real aim...

was to funnel money into his third-country account.

Yokoya had a hunch.

He felt his victory was certain, but that there still might be a pitfall somewhere.

So he prepared for the worst-case scenario

by devoting the final day to securing his own profit.

Norihiko Yokoya

1,030,550,000

This was what he said...

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.

What about it?

Yokoya used his card to deposit that money.

In other words, it was all attributed to his account!

Each time he succeeded at smuggling, the money went straight to him.

He wound up being the only one to make anything at all!

Akiyama-san, who's the real winner here?

You'll be able to get your team out of the game debt-free, sure...

But you weren't able to profit in any way.

Same for the three Country of Night members who helped you.

I'm the only one out of the eighteen players here who made any money!

Akiyama-san, you said your opponent was the Liar Game Tournament Office.

Isn't that right?

It doesn't add up.

The Liar Game is a zero-sum game.

If everyone covers each other and no one drops out, the LGT Office makes no money.

To the LGT Office, that's the worst-case scenario.

By the same token, the ideal result for them

is to see one big winner and a whole lot of losers!

After all, the LGT Office only makes bank when someone pays the dropout fee.

If the LGT Office was really your target,

you should have stopped me from making all this money!

And to my dear Country of Night comrades

whose debts have skyrocketed from the Contraband Game...

The real person who put you into such dire straits

is the man who's aided the LGT Office with his half-hearted heroics...

The man you know as Akiyama!

Oh, that Yokoya.

Despite seemingly losing the game,

he's turned things around to make himself seem like the winner!

Your stance doesn't add up either, Yokoya-san.

You really did lose today.

What exactly doesn't add up?

How exactly did I lose?

Remember our conversation when we first met in the inspection room?

Let me tell you something.

What this game is testing

is your ability to take control.

It's true that you made a lot of money for yourself.

But was that really because you were in control?

It looks to me like you just ripped people off with a cheap trick.

After all, you had three traitors right under your nose.

I'm not sure how you could argue that you were really in control.

The people loyal to you came off worse,

while those who betrayed you were saved.

You've made a very poor case for the idea that absolute control

is what matters most in this game.

The first time we spoke, I told you...

If you can abandon your desire to profit or save only yourself,

you can save everyone.

The Liar Game is about making you realize that!

I held true to my argument.

The rest of the Country of Day team chose to save everyone, too!

And what was the result?

Everyone who saw things my way has been saved!

In other words, you may have won in terms of monetary gain,

but you lost in your match against me!

You saved everyone?

How wrong you are.

You and Akiyama have put yourselves 400 million in debt!

You weren't saved in the slightest!

If anyone drops out of the Liar Game, someone else has to absorb that loss.

The minute I'm gone, your ideal outcome is done for!

You really do get attached to your fixed ideas, don't you, Yokoya-san?

Because it's a zero-sum game,

someone has to pay for the profit you made, true.

But there's a way to turn that on its head.

What's that?!

I can't see why you'd want to know!

You're dropping out, so you'll never see it.

But Akiyama-san and I will both be saved in the end!

The rest of you don't need to worry, either!

I promise we'll save you all, too!

So, Yokoya-san, to summarize this game...

We, who stuck by our principles, won.

You, who became so fixated on petty personal profit

that you abandoned your principle of "control over all,"

are the real loser here!

And so the Contraband Game came to an end.

All right, everyone. Let's square up your accounts.

Hang on a minute, Yokoya.

Aren't you even going to apologize?

You put us all in debt, you bastard!

Thank you.

For the way you shut him down.

Oh, sure...

By the way, what's your idea for overturning the zero-sum game?

Oh, that?

That was a lie. A bluff!

Watching Yokoya-san, I realized something...

He's a very proud person.

So I decided to poke at that pride.

Third-Country Accounts

Country of Night

Country of Night

Country of Day

Country of Day

2.369490 billion yen

1.481670 billion yen

3.348840 billion yen

Losing is the one thing he just won't accept.

I know he'll come back to the game.

If we can face him again and take back his winnings,

we can use them to save even more people!

H-Huh?

You've gotten stronger.

You really saved me this time.

I couldn't refute what Yokoya said.

Why do you think that is?

Because Yokoya was right.

I did say it.

I said that my real enemy was the LGT Office.

Which means I shouldn't have let Yokoya make all that money!