mata "ohayou" tte itte
Once more tell me "good morning"
mata yume wo misete
Once more show me a dream
kyou mo genki de sugosetara ii yo ne
I hope it will be a good day today.
konna ni tanjun de atari mae na koto ga
It's the simple things in life
hontou wa, ichiban miushinaigachi dakara ne
That are the easiest to lose sight of
me wo aketa mama miru yume
Having a dream with open eyes
shiranai ashita e hakobu
Merry-go-round goes
kimi to kata wo kunde kimito te wo sunai de
My arm around your shoulder
koibito datari tomodachi de itaikara
My hand holding yours
"ohayou" tte itte
Tell me "good morning"
mata yume wo misete
Once more show me the dream
shizen na sono ikikata de iikarasa
Keep on living just the way you are
Well, I'm glad this is a betting match.
Because if I actually had to fight against a girl
I don't think I could take it seriously.
This is going to be easier than I thought.
All right, it's your turn to choose what we're gonna bet on.
So what's it gonna be?
Well, Doctor...
I have an idea.
I would like for you to bet on whether I am a man or a woman.
What the...?!
A doctor who kills without a scalpel, Leroute the Insane Psychologist.
This is gonna be fun to watch.
That pretty face of hers has driven countless many of her patients to commit suicide.
She's a big shot with a 112 year sentence on her.
Is that bet even valid?
She's a woman no matter how you look at it!
No. There's a case where looks alone might not be enough to judge.
There's all kind of guys here.
She can't be a transvestite, can she?
What are you gonna do?
Are you going to take the bet or not?
I will take the bet all right, but...
Suppose I get the wrong answer...
How are we supposed to verify it?
You can give my body a thorough examination until you are satisfied.
Well, Doctor?
I know Leorio... He'll bet that she's a he.
Yep.
Huh? Why?
All right!
Ten hours says you're a man!
As I thought.
He's such a pervert!
I don't get it. How did you guys know he'd bet that way?!
It's quite simple.
It definitely looks like she's a woman.
But there is the possibility that she's a man who's trying to deceive us.
But if I say she's a man, even if I were wrong,
I still get to examine her as long as I want.
Whether I get it right or wrong, I can't lose here!
The truth is...
I hope I'm wrong!
That's how it is.
Is... Is that so?
Eh? Why do you think she'd do this?
She's horrible.
She read Leorio's mind, and decided to toy with him.
Okay, what's the answer?!
I'm sorry, you lose.
I am a woman.
Wh-What?!
I don't believe it!
How phony can you get?
You sure you're a woman?
Need... proof...
Would you like to examine me?
O-Of course!
I do have the responsibility for the ten hours we lost.
Wait a sec! What's going on here?!
No! The monitor went offline!
Quick, fix it!
That was definitely worth the loss!
What's happening?! I can't see! Mr. Tonpa!
This is so stupid.
We are going to lose this one.
From the start, Leorio has been placing his bets with the least possible risk in mind.
In gambling, those who focus on what'll happen if he loses
would never win in a million years.
You say that like it's someone else's problem,
but if we lose this next bet, we'll have no time left at all.
Not only that, but we'll be tied with the other team at two points each...
and have 50 hours less to get out of here.
Yeah.
We are still at the very beginning of this tower after all.
We were only given 72 hours to make it through.
We can't afford to lose fifty right now.
If we do, we'll have less than ten left.
Leorio!
Right, this is not the time to be fooling around.
Doctor Leorio?
Now it's your turn to decide what the next wager will be.
Well, doctor?
Knock it off with all that "doctor" stuff!
We're getting into it now...
Come on, hurry up already!
There's that smile of hers... it gives me the creeps.
She digs out the opponent's secrets through conversation while he has his guard down.
Then she will corner him to the edge mentally.
Observing this man has proved quite illuminating.
He values his friendships and seems to take pride in being part of the team.
Which means those are his weaknesses.
Because he knows this at the corner of his mind,
it has made him much more susceptible to bets that didn't involve them.
Since I'm a woman,
it makes it even easier for me to get around his usual defenses.
I've only got ten hours left to wager.
I can't afford to lose any more.
But I can't come up with a sure win wager so quickly!
He's really having a hard time.
Psh, it didn't take him that long to decide whether she was a man or a woman.
What's wrong? It's your turn, doctor.
Can't you come up with something?
I'm getting tired of waiting.
J-Just give me a second, okay?
This isn't as easy as it seems, you know?
Really? An intelligent doctor like you should be able to think of something.
Shut up!
Would you stop calling me doctor already!
I'm not a doctor!
Maybe I should make a bet whether I'm a man or woman...
Nah, that'll never work, it's too obvious.
Oh!
That would work a lot better with Kurapika...
W-Why is he looking at me like that?
How long are you planning to make me wait?
It's not all that complicated.
Just make it something about yourself.
Or could it be...
that you don't even understand yourself very well, is that it?
What's that?
It's difficult to tell which one of us is the doctor here.
Alright... Then I'll give you a diagnosis of yourself.
I understand you quite well... Leorio.
There's something weird about her.
Even though you act tough,
you're really a nice guy with a strong sense of justice.
But you seem to hold an enormous trauma deep inside your heart.
Were you, perhaps, responsible for the death of a patient who was in your care?
It looks like I hit the nail on the head.
Who was it that died on your watch?
A close friend, maybe?
That's it.
It was your friend.
A friend of yours died and it was all your fault.
You're wrong! That was not my fault!
Leorio!
She must be some kind of an expert at psychological warfare.
This won't be good.
I'm just getting started.
I'll make a game out of that friendship you care about so much.
I only wish you really were one of my patients.
Then I could take the time to torment you properly.
I could even make you cut your own wrist or hang yourself.
Damn it!
Your dead friend is laughing at you, Leorio.
You've wasted ten hours of your team's time
just to check if I'm a man or a woman!
Everyone in your group is going to fail the Hunter Exam, all because of you.
Stop it!
You are about to make the same terrible mistake again.
Just like when your friend died because of you.
Look into the eyes of your friends!
They're disappointed in you just like your dead friend must've been when you couldn't help him.
It's all your fault!
You're the one to blame... aren't you, Leorio!
No! Stop it!
He's completely under her control now!
Leorio! Just calm down!
We all believe in you!
Yeah, that's right!
If it wasn't for you,
we wouldn't have won the last round, remember?!
It seems nothing we say reaches him in his current state.
Leorio!
He's like a little mouse that's been caught in a trap.
So then... What's it gonna be... Leorio?
Uh, it's gonna be...
That hurt!
Get back in the game, Leorio!
You hafta make her bet on something!
Uh... make her bet?
Oh! Yeah, right!
Oww!
Gon...
I think you may have hit him in a wrong place.
No good. I still can't think of anything!
Well, guess I'll let luck decide.
Rock-paper-scissors!
What?!
We'll bet on who'll win a game of rock-paper-scissors!
Rock-paper-scissors...
Well, he's obviously lost the ability to think clearly.
All right then.
Rock-paper-scissors, huh?
I'm gonna bet all our time on my win.
You're betting it all?
You don't have a problem with that, do you?
We can wager as much time as we want.
All you've got to lose is ten hours anyway. So you should just relax.
If I lose all ten hours this round is over.
Aw, man! Why do I always focus on the worst case scenario?!
This one bet could turn the whole thing around for us!
Wait a second...
She seems really confident in her ability with rock-paper-scissors.
Leorio has just as much of a chance of winning as she does with rock-paper-scissors, right?
Don't count on it.
Rock-paper-scissors is a game of probability and psychology.
Really, psychology?
That has something to do with rock-paper-scissors?
If you just consider the laws of probability,
your chances of losing are one in three.
And the other two thirds of the time, you'll either win or force a draw.
Which means, in an ordinary game
your chances of not losing are close to seventy percent.
But those odds apply to both of them, don't they?
That's right. However...
This is really bad!
Against her Leorio is at a distinct disadvantage!
All right... It's time to begin.
Rock, paper...
Just statistically speaking,
the throw most players resort to first is usually...
Scissors!
Scissors.
Which means your best chance of emerging from the first throw
with a win or a draw is to open with rock.
Then! Leorio must have known about that too!
Yes, but the problem is... from the next throw it becomes much more of a mental game.
A mental game...
I wonder what she's gonna throw next?!
She threw rock first.
So now she's gonna try to psyche me out...
But she knows that I know that...
She's gotta be thinking how she can stay one step ahead of me.
Who knew rock-paper-scissors could be so intense?!
Should I just come out and tell you?
Huh?
Next, I'm going to throw paper.
What the...?!
Is she telling the truth or lying? Which is it?
No good. I can't tell what she's thinking at all!
Leorio!
If you throw scissors, then you can win!
Just shut up!
Scissors beat paper every time!
I said shut up, didn't I?!
Aw man, is it gonna be rock, paper, or scissors?
Now, shall we do this?
Yeah!
Here it goes!
Rock, paper...
Scissors!
Oops...
That was stupid.
Didn't I tell you I was throwing paper?
I lost.
Oh, man. He would've won if he went with scissors like I said.
That is true if you see just the result, but...
When people hesitate or start to doubt themselves,
they will usually stick with what worked for them
before hoping for mental stabilization.
Or they'll often overcompensate by going with a throw that would've beaten their previous one.
Which means they'll most likely go with either rock or paper.
Then all I have to do is throw paper...
And I won't lose.
To make matters worse,
she announced her intention to throw paper,
which made Leorio doubt going with scissors.
She set a trap for him and he fell into it.
In other words, that snake of a woman swallowed Leorio whole.
The rock-paper-scissors match is over!
Doctor Leorio is outta time! And I'm the winner!
That was an anticlimactic ending for the match between two doctors.
That gives us two wins and two losses.
Not only that, we lose the fifty hours
we wagered from our time to escape the tower.
Then... How much time does that leave us with?
Nine hours, three minutes!
Time means nothing to me.
Whoever my opponent is...
his only option is death.
I'm sorry.
I was pretty confident in gambling.
I should've chosen a game of strip poker
instead of stupid old rock-paper-scissors.
How big of an idiot are you?
Now to play the final card...
The only one left is...
Let's see, who still hasn't gone from our side?
That would be me.
I was getting so bored of waiting I almost fell asleep.
Wh-What...? What?
What's with that expression?
I really should have won, no matter what!
If this match requires the use of a brain, we're goners!
Gon, this guy's getting on my nerves!
Calm down.
I don't wanna hear it from someone who just lost in the match that did require the use of brain!
Sure, I admit I'll probably lose if I gotta answer a bunch of math questions.
Don't worry about it.
No matter what kinda match your opponent picks,
I'm sure you can do it, Killua!
Gon...
Just make sure you throw rock first!
Just don't pick rock-paper-scissors!
As if!
Killua...
That man's name is...
Johness the Dissector!
Johness!
Killua!
Hm?
I suggest you forfeit this match.
You shouldn't fight this guy.
I have heard that name myself.
Me too. Johness the Dissector.
He's the worst mass murderer in the history of Zaban City.
Really... How many has he killed?
Nobody knows for sure, but it's a lot!
So far, there are 146 victims that they know of.
And every one of his victims has been torn apart mercilessly
in to more than fifty different pieces.
That's how he got his name...
Johness the Dissector.
And all those were works done by his bare hands.
When they finally arrested him,
Johness didn't show any signs of resisting at all.
But when the police officer who took him into custody went to start his patrol car...
That's when...
His special skill is to tear the flesh off someone's body in the blink of an eye with his bare hands.
What makes it possible is the extraordinary strength of his fingers!
Of all the criminals I captured as a Blacklist Hunter,
Johness is the ultimate prize.
Whoa, that's a stone wall!
I've never seen grips like that!
Now you know.
No one should be expected to fight against a psychopath like this.
We can always take the Exam again next year.
I hope you all agree with me on this, but...
I think we should abandon the Exam right here and now.
If you have any objections...
Killua!
Hey!
Killua! Wait!
Don't try to stop me.
This is game is finally starting....
to get interesting.
Killua.
Game, is it? Do you know what you are saying...
Gon?!
It will be okay!
Please believe in Killua.
See, this is just a game for Killua.
So he doesn't even listen to the kind advice.
Here we go.
I've waited so long...
Now I get to feel the flesh of the outside world.
I wonder.
Gon.
That guy's not gonna choose an intellectual match.
He's kind of guy whose only thought is of tearing flesh apart.
It'll be okay.
So, what kinda fight is it gonna be?
A fight?
Gon.
I told you it's okay.
I think you got the wrong idea...
The only thing that's gonna happen here is me slaughtering you.
I don't care about the Exam, or getting my sentence reduced.
I just wanna dig my fingers into your flesh.
That's all.
All you have to do is scream and cry out.
All right, so whoever dies loses the game.
Stop this, Killua!
Killua!
Okay, you will...
Give... it... back...
That gives us three wins and two losses.
Which means we've passed this stage, doesn't it?
Yeah...
You guys win.
There's a small room behind us.
That's where you'll have to wait out the fifty hours you lost in the bet.
I see.
By the way, old man...
You must be bored since you didn't actually get to do anything.
Wanna play with me?
Nah!
Thanks, but no thanks.
He's from a family of elite assassins?!
Yeah. The Zoldyck family!
Hey, let's go already.
Killua... How did you learn a skill like that?
I wouldn't even call that a skill really.
All I did was reach out and grab it.
Of course...
I had to manipulate my body a little to make it easier to do.
That guy may've been a mass murderer,
but he's still an amateur.
And well, I used to be a professional.
If you thought that was good, you should see my dad in action.
When he plucks out someone's heart,
he doesn't even spill a single drop of blood.
You're someone we can depend on.
Is he a cat?
As long as he's on our side.
That explains it... he's a member of the Zoldyck family.
I must say, these guys are all very interesting.
Congratulations.
You all may pass.
Finally! We can move on ahead!
Yeah, yeah, we get to move on,
but first we have to sit around for the next fifty hours.
Then Leorio we can spend the time training for our next rock-paper-scissors match!
Ah, please don't mention that!
We've gotta hurry!
There's only 8 hours and 57 minutes left!
But which way should we go?!
Next time on Hunter x Hunter:
Three People x Five People x Last Choice!
Okay, now we're moving!
Did you hear it?
kiitanone
The voices of the wind sighing across the land
daichi wo soyogu kaze no koe
It wakens a distant memory
tooi kioku yobisamasu
Why lies beyong the clouds that drift by?
kumo no nagareru sakini nani ga aruto iuu no
You saw the future out there over the forest
mori no mukou no
ashita wo shitte shimatta no ne
Go ahead, go
ikinasai saa
Don't look back the promised home
yakusoku no ie furi mukanaide
Believe in it
shinjinasai saa
Turn your overflowing emotions into strength
afureru omoi tsuyosa ni kaete
The sound of your footsteps running up and down
kakemawaru anata no ashio to
I'll search for them in the wind, on my own
watashi wa hitori kaze ni sagasu wa
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