LIAR GAME

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 -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?!

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 1.069485 billion

Country of Night ATM 2.318840 billion

3.388325 billion

Country of Day

Third-Country Account 1.901675 billion

Country of Day ATM 1.910000 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.