Eight men and women were trapped in the Game Mansion.
The Game Master began a game of death.
Question 1 In what year did the Battle of Sekigahara take place? Express your answer with four numerals
Shimomura Shiho couldn't answer the quiz question in the first stage
Shimomura Shiho
and so she became the first victim.
We moved on to the next stage,
where we had to solve a puzzle ring to escape a burning room.
Let me!
Hajime-chan! If you help, poison gas will...
If we can hold our breath for 30 seconds, gas won't be a problem!
Okay, I got it! Go! And once you're out, close the door fast!
Go!
Miyuki! You go first!
Come right after me, Hajime-chan!
I will!
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The Game Mansion Murder Case
The Game Mansion Murder Case!
Um, key...
Crap!
Hot!
Hajime-chan!
What's he doing in there?!
Even though he was the first one to solve the puzzle ring...
Come out! Please!
Hajime-chan! What's wrong?! Answer me!
Hajime-chan!!
Miyuki...
Hajime-chan!!
Why isn't he coming out?!
Takaragi Shigeru
He must've died.
Shimomura Ikuma
He played the hero and got me out of there,
but this is what he gets for letting Mama die!
Hey! You got no right to talk like that after he saved your ass!
I never asked for his help...
What the hell are you doin', you violent whore?!
Man, I made that harder than it had to be...
I dropped the key.
Hajime-chan!
Thanks, Miyuki. You're a lifesaver.
I was so worried!
Glad to see you made it out safe.
Y-Yeah...
The end of the second stage. And we all made it out safely.
Not everyone will survive the third stage.
I've prepared Cup Noodles for everyone. There's hot water, too.
If you eat it all up, you'll get the key out of this room.
Eat it all?
You mean if we don't eat, we won't make it out of here alive?
Sugimoto Jun
Dammit!
Let's do what he says. Here.
Mugibayashi Mika
Come on, you too!
Hajime-chan...
No choice.
However, beware of poison.
One person in this stage will die of it.
W-What?!
One of these cups has poison in it?!
It could be mine.
I-I bet the poison's in mine.
Kikukawa Kozue
Could be. You've got the worst luck I've ever seen.
Whenever you get a fortune, it's always totally negative.
It looks like you're confident you're gonna make it.
Y-Yeah. I always have good luck.
Hajime-chan...
W-Wait! Look at this!
Tropical fish in an abandoned building?
Maybe we're supposed to use them as tasters to see if it's poisoned.
Tasters?
I see!
Mine's okay!
Mine, too!
Me too!
All right! I'm okay, too!
It looks like they're fine.
Yeah.
What?!
Nothin'!
What's wrong? You're not gonna have 'em taste it?
Nah. I don't have an appetite in these circumstances.
If you don't eat, he might kill you!
You can have mine. It's been safety tested.
Thanks.
Okay.
I don't get it, though. All of our cups are safe.
Was that talk about one of us dying from poison just an empty threat?
Aren't you gonna eat? That's already passed the taste test, right?
Y-Yeah. I'll eat it.
Wait a second. Come to think of it, I hope these chopsticks are safe.
The poison could've been put on the chopsticks themselves!
T-True. The Game Master never said anything about poison in the cup.
Even if the chopsticks of the six of us who are already eating are safe...
D-Don't tell me...
The chopsticks were poisoned after all!
If I'd eaten it, I'd be...
There! A key!
This is what he meant by getting it if we ate the whole thing.
What?!
It's true! At the bottom of the cup!
Mine's got one, too!
Me too!
It's open!
Let's go!
Wait! I haven't eaten the noodles...
You escaped the poison set-up, so that should be good enough.
Y-You're right!
We've managed to complete the third stage without any casualties, too.
But there's something fishy about this...
It looks like the members here were randomly chosen from the shuttle bus passengers
on the way back from the amusement park,
but is that really the case?
How long is this damn game of death gonna last?
Maybe until we're all dead?
Don't be morbid.
If we make it out of here, how about celebrating over a bottle of Romanée-Conti?
Do you know Romanée?
That's really expensive wine, right?
Yeah!
Who cares?!
I doubt you even know what Romanée-Conti tastes like.
I hate drinking booze so much, it makes me wanna puke.
I write about it on my blog, too. My fans know that I despise the stuff.
I'm studying to be a sommelier. I'm a collector, too.
I've got a whole case of Romanée-Conti.
Wow! That's impressive!
Hey, Kozue, you're not coming on to that spoiled rich kid, are you?
You watch yourself, too, rich kid.
Kozue's up to her eyeballs in debt.
You're awash in debt, too, remember?
You cried because your gambling debt's so huge, you can't even file bankruptcy!
It's not as big as yours! Shut up!
This Way
He wants us to go in there...
Um... This?
A patient's room. Looks like a private room...
After you're all inside, please shut the door.
It won't open!
And now for the final game.
The final game?
Only one person will survive.
One person?!
A key is hidden somewhere in this room.
Only the person who finds it will be saved.
It'll be game over for everyone else. You'll die in this room.
So, where is the key?
However, please follow the rules of etiquette as you search.
Follow the rules of etiquette as we search? What does that mean?!
I guess he wants us to search without fighting and with good manners?
This is no time to mind your manners! Only one of us is gonna survive!
Anyway, we gotta find the key!
Key! Key! Where is it?!
There's a bathroom.
I see!
I've been holding it all this time! Everybody, get out!
Wha...?! That's a breach of etiquette right there!
I see! Follow the rules of etiquette... This is what he meant!
I did it! I did it, Mama! I found it!
With this, I've won the game!
I'll be the sole survivor!
Key, key...
There's no key in here!
Hey, hasn't that kid been in there a long time?
Do you think he could've found the key in the bathroom?
What's wrong?!
Ikuma!
Hang in there! What happened?!
E-Etiquette...
He's dead.
I don't believe it!
He didn't follow the rules of etiquette. That's why he was killed!
That's got poison needles all over it.
He killed Ikuma!
B-But if it's got that kind of trap,
maybe it means the key really is hidden in here.
That's right.
Wait. Don't you smell something?
Now that you mention it...
What is this?!
K-Knockout gas?
Don't tell me... Poison gas?!
No good! It's not even budging!
D-Dammit! G-Getting dizzy...
S-Son of a bitch! Is this what he meant by all of us dyin' here?!
Hajime-cha...
Hey! Miyuki!
Are the two of us gonna die in a place like this?
I'm sorry... Miyuki.
Sorry I couldn't... protect you...
Hirao Teiou Hospital
Hey, Kindaichi!
Kindaichi!
Kindaichi, are you awake? Somebody called it in.
Missing passengers on the way home from an amusement park found in an abandoned hospital.
That's how we found and rescued you guys.
What about Miyuki?! Where's Miyuki?!
Calm down!
Miyuki!
She's just sleeping off that knockout gas.
Knockout gas?
She isn't hurt. And she'll probably wake up any minute.
Thank god...
We rescued the other four too,
but discovered the bodies of a son and his mother.
What the hell happened in that building?
A game of murder.
We became pawns of the murderous Game Master.
He toyed with our lives in the name of his "game"!
And he killed two people! But he won't get away with this!
Game Master! I swear I'll expose your identity!
I swear it in the name of my grandfather!
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Several things don't add up.
The Game Master said he'd kill all of us,
so why didn't he follow through?
Miyuki and I both thought we'd die from poison gas.
But he just put us under with sleeping gas.
And that's not all.
The last quiz question in the first stage...
Why did Shimomura Shiho suddenly let me escape?
Hirao Teiou Hospital
Takaragi-san, please tell me everything that happened.
I was at that amusement park on business.
They're going to use my game program for a new attraction, see.
My meeting ran long and I got stuck riding the last bus.
I'd never met the other seven people before.
Your game with a serial killer protagonist seems to be a big hit...
Am I a suspect here?
At work, I make games about murderers,
but my games offer more intellectual excitement.
There's no comparison with the cliched random killing game we went through.
I work at a hostess bar,
and Mugi-mama, the sweet owner, invited me to go to the amusement park with her.
The waiter, Sugimoto-kun, tagged along and we stayed there 'til around closing,
but got separated from Mugi-mama at one point.
I couldn't get cell phone service there,
but we'd decided to take the last bus anyway, so figured it was okay.
So Sugimoto-kun and I got on the last bus.
You've got a sizable debt, I hear?
Oh, that? My parent left behind a debt and went off to the Sea of Trees.
Sea of Trees? You mean committed suicide?
That's right. In the beginning, I was just responsible for that,
but then I fell deeper into debt by supporting a boyfriend.
And I couldn't file for bankruptcy...
I only went to the amusement park 'cause Kozue said
she had a free ticket and invited me.
I tell ya, nobody's got worse luck than me.
Sugimoto-san, I hear you're also in debt.
Yeah, although my debt's nothin' compared to Kozue's.
It's a gambling debt so a bankruptcy wouldn't cover it.
I got those amusement park tickets from a customer.
I invited Kozue-chan and Sugimoto ended up tagging along.
Who is the customer that gave you those tickets, Mugibayashi-san?
I don't really know. I'd never seen him before.
I don't even know his name.
I hear you were separated from the other two in the park...
That's right. I lost track of them when I went to the restroom...
I looked all over for them and finally just got on the last bus.
It was pretty crowded and pitch-black on the bus.
I didn't notice Kozue-chan or Sugimoto there.
Did you figure anything out, Kindaichi?
I suspect one of them.
But I don't know what the motive would be.
Hello?
Hey, Kindaichi. I had you-know-who
look into the dead Shimomura mom and son. Here.
I'm relieved to hear that you're all right, Kindaichi-kun.
Akechi-san...
When I heard you went missing at an amusement park, I thought, "Again?!",
but I investigated the murdered Shimomuras, mother and son.
Did you learn anything?
The mother, Shiho, was wealthy and a major shareholder in the amusement park.
With both mother and son dead, her huge inheritance comes into play,
and actually, one person who could possibly inherit it
is included in the members who were forced to participate in that game.
What?!
Thank you, Akechi-san.
I was right.
The killer targeted and murdered Shimomura-san and her son,
who had a huge inheritance.
They came up with a game to make it look like indiscriminate murder.
You mean the Game Master wanted to kill the Shimomuras from the very beginning?
But Shimomura Shiho-san wasn't able to answer the quiz questions.
She was murdered because she was the last person left.
Wasn't that just by chance?
Certainly, with that quiz, somebody would be left behind, unable to answer the questions,
but it would've been impossible to predict whom.
Still, the killer used some kind of trick
to make it so that she alone would be unable to answer and left behind.
But what kind of trick?
Hajime-chan...
There must be a clue at the scene of the crime.
This is where Ikuma-san was stabbed by poison needles, right?
The Game Master said to follow the rules of etiquette then. Something about that...
Etiquette?!
Yeah.
That's right here.
Etiquette is right here? What do you mean?
Yeah, it's hard to understand when I say it like that, right?
Recently, my wife has been really into it, so she told me.
Look, "etiquette" refers to this.
Hajime-chan!
So that's what it was...
This is where Shimomura Shiho was murdered.
The Game Master appeared on that TV and the quiz began.
Huh? That logo was at the amusement park, too, right?
Remember, at that attraction where the zombies come out at you...
Zombie Mansion Comin' at ya Sponsored by TECOT
Oh, yeah! That's right!
Crap. I totally forgot to return...
Hajime-chan?
I see. So that's how it was done...
By using that trick, I can explain everything that happened in this room.
It's all clear to me now.
The reason those two were killed and the tricks that were used!
The killer murdered Shimomura-san and her son, made it look like a random killing,
but was with us the entire time!
Hajime-chan, then...
Yeah.
I've solved all of the mysteries!
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When I found all the tricks that made it look like a coincidence, a firm thread appeared!
And at the end of the thread that tied together the killer and the two victims,
a figure emerged!
Who murdered Shimomura-san and her son at this so-called game of death?
The Game Master is among us!
The Case File of Young Kindaichi Returns! The final episode!
The Game Mansion Murder Case
The Game Mansion Murder Case, File 3!
I've solved all of the mysteries!