Raetsel...
That’s right. I’m Raetsel, Jin.
The annihilation of all puzzlers...
in accordance with a pledge I swore to Jin Makata.
If you can’t solve my puzzle, just like you’re buddies, you’re...!
I’m going to defeat you with a puzzle.
I’m using the thing Jin hated and detested above all else,
wishing that they’d fall of the face of the planet: Puzzles!
You Don’t Know Anything
We’ve gotta find the right door fast
and make a break for it or else...!
Kaito...
Say, Jin?
Jin, didn’t you hate rats?
But you know,
I love them!
The statue rotates each time she snaps her fingers.
That’s our only key to solving this puzzle.
What does it mean...?
That’s it!
There is no way the correct door would move
if the statue was simply rotating!
But it did move.
Which means...!
Kaito!
That statue hasn’t rotated once this whole time!
What?
It was the room that was rotating!
Each time she snapped,
the correct door moved away from the starting point.
Raetsel has snapped her fingers six times so far!
So right now, the one connected to the exit is...
this door!
What?!
A dead end?!
Too bad! You’re wrong.
Look out, Kaito!
I’m the Master Brain, Whodunit.
I’d like to begin with a super-important warning.
Go ahead and try to escape!
You’ll never get to solve puzzles ever again!
What?! Don’t talk in riddles!
The demon will devour you!
You’ve made it crystal clear just how messed up
you are in the head.
I accept your challenge!
I’ll put everything I’ve got into crushing you!
Rook!
I’m fine...
It just grazed me.
Raetsel!
The next one is your last chance!
You really will die if you get it wrong.
What’s going on?
She made it look like the statue was rotating instead of the room.
That was supposed to be the key to this puzzle!
Am I overlooking something?
If you can’t solve a low-level puzzle like this,
did you fail to learn anything from Jin?
From Jin?
What I’ve learned from Jin...
That’s...
Kaito, solve them. Set them free.
Free the puzzles.
I’ll solve any puzzle I come across!
There's no puzzle I can't solve!
I’m confident that the room was rotating.
But so was the statue!
She differentiated the two with her right and left hands.
Based on that, there are five potentially correct answers.
The questions are: How many times
did Raetsel snap her fingers on each hand?
And which hand correlates with the room and
which with the statue?
Kaito!
I remember the number of snaps.
She snapped three times on both her right and left hands.
Let’s go, Rook! Nonoha!
Yeah!
Both the room and statue have rotated three times each.
So right now, the correct exit is...
I see.
This puzzle...
This is the door!
Bingo!
Rook?
Are you okay, Rook?
Yeah!
I knew you’d remember!
We made that puzzle together.
I had a feeling...
I made that puzzle...
What?!
Hey, you! How do you and Jin--
J-I-N!
Jin remembered a piece of his past.
No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t jog his memories!
Jin, you wished for all puzzlers in the world to be annihilated.
I’ll make that dream come true, Jin.
Cut the crap!
Jin would never say something like that!
What? Are you saying that Jin loved puzzles?
That’s right! Jin loved puzzles more than anyone.
Yeah?
Sure enough, you don’t know anything about Jin.
Wha--?!
Come on, Jin. Let’s go.
Wait! Hey! Where’re you going?!
Care to join us?
I’ll tell you about the true Jin.
Why does a mere girl have access to a private jet?
It would seem that a
powerful underground organization is backing her.
What’s with this massive ship?!
That is the Republic of Amgine’s coat of arms.
So this ship belongs to the Republic of Amgine?
Relax. I can move around freely on this ship.
My contract says so.
Jin loved puzzles!
That’s your assertion, right?
Yeah.
This is the truth.
What the heck?
Who are all of these people?
Puzzlers who have been defeated by
Master Brains and will never play puzzles again.
Master Brains...?
Jin, he doesn’t know anything!
Right now, Master Brains are hunting puzzlers around the world.
All to realize Jin’s ideal world!
The guys!
What... are they...?
We annihilate puzzlers
with their beloved puzzles.
Isn’t that right, Jin?
Just you watch.
Behold the terror of the puzzles you despised.
I have some good news for you!
Apparently Kaito Daimon successfully freed a puzzle.
I figured.
Hurray!
Ana! Hurray!
Now for some BAD NEWS!
Crap! Run for it!
What the--?
Run!
Ow, ow, ow...
Iwashimizu!
Jerk! What’s your game?
Welcome to my puzzle!
The cubes present will serve as your hint.
Fill all of the holes on the puzzle board with cubes!
The seven colors include: Red, blue,
yellow, purple, orange, green and black!
You have a ten-minute time limit.
Once ten minutes pass,
I’ll send an electric current across the floor that’ll do this...
Shuddup, ya confused yapper!
I can solve this puzzle by myself.
Let the other two go free.
Gammon Sakanoue!
$750,000.
You givin’ that to me?
Cubik Galois!
$650,000.
Ana Gram!
$900,000.
Huh?
Punk! What’re you goin’ on about?
They’re the bounties placed on you Phi-Brain children.
What?! I’m the lowest?
Yay! I, Ana, am the highest!
Gimme!
Why am I lower than Ana?
Number 1! Number 1! Number 1!
Together, you reach a total of $2,300,000.
According to my contract, that is how much Enigma will pay
if I defeat you.
For the record, Kaito Daimon has a $10,000,000 bounty!
What?! $10,000,000?!
That right? Talk about a juicy job.
$10,000,000! $10,000,000!
Goodness gracious.
If possible, I had wanted to take down Kaito Daimon myself.
Compared to $10,000,000,
I’m practically volunteering my time to kill you three.
What was that?! Don’t be stupid!
I swear that I’ll crush your sorry ass!
I’ll prove that I’m worth a flipping $20,000,000!
Hey, punk! Are you even listening?!
Try to put up a decent fight, $750,000!
Now then... Puzzle time, start!
This puzzle is ruled by a color code.
Once I decipher that code, victory is as good as mine!
Is this a...
number game with colors?!
If that’s the case, there are over 26 million possible combinations.
I’ll never solve that in ten minutes!
Just what I’d expect of $750,000.
Declaring defeat already?
Shuddup, ya confused yapper!
Damn it! How the hell am I supposed to solve this?
This is incredibly difficult...
I cannot find so much as a hint or clue.
Guys...
Jin, watch careful.
And then remember.
Dredge up your hatred for puzzles.
C’mon, hurry! $650,000 and $900,000,
why don’t you help him out?
Honestly, even if the three of you worked together,
you couldn’t solve a puzzle created by this Master Brain!
Jeez! What is a Master Brain anyway?!
Those who made a pledge to Jin Makata
and surpass the Phi-Brain!
Sheeit! There’s Jin Makata’s name again!
In his hatred for puzzles and puzzlers,
he wanted to eliminate the Phi-Brain children
since you serve as their figureheads.
That was Jin Makata’s logic.
See?
Gammon, we’re in trouble if you don’t make a breakthrough.
I know that!
Q-taro, what do you make of this puzzle?
I stink at artsy puzzles like this.
Oh, yeah! How about Ana?
Huh?
Ana!
I, Ana, think...
that I like this box the best!
He’s no help...
Oh, ouch! Done already, $750,000?
Jerk! Quit callin’ me by my bounty!
In three minutes,
a toasty $2,300,000 will fall into my lap!
Shuddup!
You’re toast! Toast!
I’ll make you drop that freakin’ annoying laugh in three minutes!
Go ahead and try, $750,000!
These colors must mean something.
If only I knew what...
I, Ana, figured it out!
What?!
“Aka” is “red.”
Dumbass!
What’re you talkin’ about when I’m busy tryin’ to think?!
Wait! Isn’t he saying that we should spell the colors in English?
“Aka” is “red.”
“Kiiro” is “yellow.”
If you consider how many letters is in each
word when spelled in English...
the colors turn into numbers!
That’s what you meant, isn’t it, Ana?
Come again?
In which case, this is...!
A magic square!
So I’ve gotta add the numbers across
each column and row so they come to the same total,
then plug those blocks into the puzzle.
Let’s hurry, Gammon!
Yeah!
Impossible! Have they figured out my puzzle’s code?!
Time’s up!
You put up a good fight, but it’s been ten minutes!
Gammon, we’re out of time!
Not to worry!
Throw that block over to me!
Hurry!
Gammon!
Booyah!
This is the last one!
Im... Impossible!
I won!
Yay! Gammon won! Gammon won!
Gammon won! Gammon won!
He solved that difficult of a puzzle completely in his head?
Impossible...!
I can’t believe I lost to a mere $750,000 bounty.
Gammon won! Gammon won!
But I couldn’t have won by myself...!
They did it!
Whatcha think? We won!
Indeed.
But...!
How terrifying...
Maybe puzzles aren’t meant to exist after all.
Jin...?
See? I told you!
Even without his memories,
Jin’s hatred for puzzles hasn’t changed.
Jin!
However, it’s true that you won this round.
Very well. I’ll let you keep Jin.
Why don’t you work your butts off...
to get Jin’s memories back?
Is that right?
Even in England, new assassins appeared under Jin’s name...
The POG’s digital library also contained data warning about him.
After thinking about it,
I’ve realized I don’t know everything about Jin.
Could you tell me?
What happened in Jin’s past?
In preparation for his fight with Count Pythagoras,
Jin traveled across the world.
During which time,
he had a “blank year” that even I don’t know about.
No one knows how exactly Jin spent that year.
At last, it has begun!
This is our battle.
As the contract states, henceforth
I would like you to do your utmost to defeat Kaito Daimon.
This will also bring you closer to realizing Jin’s dream.
I’m going to Root Gakuen.
Why?!
Because I want to.
Goodness gracious.
You’re such an unruly kitten.
Look up to the sky!
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
No, it’s a flying puzzle!
You coward! Get down here so I can solve you!
Ah, it really came down.
What?!
Takeda, please go solve it!
Next time, “Even So, I Believe in Him.”
Even So, I Believe in Him
There's no puzzle I can't solve!
Takeda! Takeda! Takeda, where are you going?!
Fin Art: Akeru Otsuki