It's a building somewhere.
I am led by the hand...
and walking on a concrete floor.
I'm probably led into a lift.
I'm inside it.
I can feel it rising.
It is rising. The floor is rising.
I am led by the hand again.
The sound of a door opening?
This is...
A big room?
Wind is blowing around me.
Your mask will be taken off.
You'll have precisely 10 seconds to look around after that.
Then you'll return to darkness after 10 seconds,
and you will jump off there after that.
Listen, the first 10 seconds are crucial.
Burn the world you are in now into your memory,
because the view
could be the last thing you see.
What?
"ZERO -The Bravest Money Game" "STAGE 2"
"3 hours ago."
This is ridiculous, event host!
Exactly!
We risked our lives to win and survived,
why are there more people now?
Exactly!
Take this, you grifter!
If you are discontented...
why don't you kill one another to reduce the number of competitors?
Well then,
I will tell you the way to become king.
In Dream Kingdom here,
we've prepared over 20 games in the form of attractions.
You're free to choose whichever one. If you win the game...
you will gain a ring like this.
It is made to wear around your neck.
The first person to get four rings will be given 100-billion yen,
and the right to become Mr Zaizen's successor.
In other words,
you will become a powerful victor in the game of life!
Depending on how hard the game is,
the number of rings you receive will be different.
You get one in "Safety".
Out of my way.
Hey! Don't jump the queue.
Did you mistake this for an amusement park?
How was it?
Couldn't do it.
You're wasting your time trying.
Let's go.
You get two in "Mild".
"Number of participant: One" You go in.
Wait, it says mild, but it seems risky.
And you'll get three rings at a time if it is "Hard".
"Number of participant: One."
All of you, out of my way!
Out of my way...
Don't jump the queue!
- I'm here first! - Don't cut in line!
- Stop fighting! - Get in line!
Guys, calm down!
Wait your turn!
Help!
Hey!
Are you okay?
Zero.
His tongue is ripped out.
Hands off, all of you.
What did you do to him?
We will deal with the loser.
The more rings you can get at a time,
the bigger the risk of being damaged physically and mentally if you lose.
You need to brace yourselves for that.
- We should go to Mild! - Where are the Mild ones?
Wait, calm down!
Hand over your rings.
Don't get all worked up.
Why don't you guys work with us?
What?
We found out after playing,
that getting rings by playing the games is pretty risky
and it's time-consuming too.
So, isn't it quicker to
form a group and take rings from people who have them?
We'll divide the 100-billion yen between us if you'll work with us.
The proposition should be appealing.
I like the sound of it.
I'll do that.
Let go of me!
Please let go of me!
You should hide something so important.
If we have your ring, we'll have three really fast.
We win the trifecta.
No!
What the heck?
That's too mean!
You can't stop them!
You'll only get beaten up.
They've lost all sense of decency.
This is the power of money...
that is, Zaizen's power.
Give it back!
Let's go and help him.
What?
We're chivalrous thieves, after all.
But there are nearly ten of them!
Exactly! How do we help him?
I will follow Zero.
Even if it means...
having to go to hell.
Thank you.
Now, very naturally,
the participants divide into three types.
Three types?
One, someone who only aims to be king,
who attracts people who want to follow him.
It's someone who has that quality.
You...
Hiroshi!
Come with me!
- Let's do it. - Ready, pull!
Ouch!
Darn!
Thank you!
Your ring.
Run!
Your ring!
Hiroshi...
The second type...
are money-grubbers blinded by the 100-billion yen.
They use force to push their way to the king's throne,
and bite off more than they can chew.
A chivalrous thief, huh?
Are you dreaming?
Listen, all of you!
Power talks here.
Everyone who has rings, hand them over to us!
Wait!
Please stop this.
Calm down, everyone.
This is a nightmare the old man makes us have using money's power.
Zero.
Oh.
Is it?
Tell them too, then.
Chivalrous thieves...
are what?
No!
Chivalrous thieves...
Chivalrous thieves are wrong!
Stop!
Run!
Just run away now.
- Hey... - Don't run away.
- Hey! - Stay there!
Tell them too.
The woman said that
we can do whatever we want, and the winner will be king.
Hey!
Wait, you shouldn't use violence.
Well, I don't want to wield this thing either.
Let's just stop this.
And will you give that back to them?
It's been a long time.
Who'd have thought we would meet here, Zero?
Kazuya.
Kazuya Yamaguchi.
It has been 10 years.
Mr Hiroshi, are you okay?
Are you okay?
Zero.
Sorry for causing you trouble.
I am sorry.
Hiroshi? Hiroshi!
Zero.
We'll take the loser with us.
What did you say? Hiroshi is a victim!
There is no victim here.
There are only participants and losers.
Where are you taking him?
- It's no use arguing with them. - But...
We have no medicine anyway.
Kazuya, are you also a participant?
Yeah.
I quit my job. It's a long story.
I worked my way to a pretty good post, but...
Did something happen?
I'll tell you someday.
I want to start a business by myself now,
that's why I'm here.
But I had no idea that I would need this.
What a horrible place it is.
But I'm glad that we meet here.
Me too.
Hello...
Who is this gentleman?
Oh, he's my friend from high school.
- Wow! - What a coincidence!
Excuse me!
We saw what you did just now.
We think we'd better act in a group with someone if possible.
May we join you guys?
- What do you usually do? - I'm a YouTuber.
- What about you guys? - I'm a YouTuber too.
You're all YouTubers? Do you work together?
We have different channels.
The third type...
stays near the king...
to try to receive his favour, to ensure their own safety.
He was the kid that was the first to enter a ring in the iron ball game.
He has already gotten two rings.
Now that it's come to this, though he's a kid,
becoming the shark myself is the normal choice,
even if I have to harden my heart.
You must be hungry.
Work with me and let's fight together.
I will be a shark, but pretend to be his lackey.
Do not give our Master Shirube such rubbish.
Hey! This is food, don't treat it so badly.
You guys...
Come to your senses, Shirube! You're deceived by them.
Look at their faces carefully!
All of them look like typical night-club escorts.
They're sycophants that want to use you,
and seize your rings by force in the end.
They're man-eating sharks.
That's you, old man.
Just so you know, you can't survive here by playing dirty tricks.
What? Dirty tricks?
We've all realized that we haven't got the power to control the world.
Yes, we couldn't get a ring even at Safety,
but Master Shirube entered the Mild attraction alone,
and brought two rings out with him like it was a cinch.
We're out of his league.
So we realized
that "king" refers to someone like Master Shirube.
King, huh?
You say high-sounding things you don't even mean.
- It's gross! - We're protecting him.
From mites like you,
and gangsters like them.
Mite?
Gangster?
Nothing personal.
We only follow the real king.
How dare you!
Master Seigi is the one worthy to be king!
All of you... It's impossible!
You can't be satisfied just being followers.
I mean, "Master Shirube" is still fine,
but "Master Seigi"?
This guy blusters like he's high and mighty,
but he's only a snot-nose who doesn't know anything.
And you are a braggart that is all talk and no action!
Don't fight with your brother, it looks bad.
He never sees me as his brother.
Anyway, my point is, have you got no dignity?
It isn't necessarily the case.
Mr Zaizen!
Though a king is attended to by his subjects,
the king does not know what's in their hearts.
Some pretend to be obedient,
but fully intend to betray the king in the end, like Brutus.
And some are genuinely loyal, but even they are precarious.
I set up a team game,
so that the king of a small group will naturally arise.
His subjects will even risk their lives for the king's decision.
The real king, who can make people do that, will arise.
They are here.
There are two men here who have the potential to be king.
Right here, right now.
Who would that be?
Shirube.
And...
Zero Ukai.
Look.
They give off that smell, that's why they have followers.
Their abilities attracted followers,
and they each have retainers.
- Wait, I have more retainers! - Don't.
The two of you have to engage in battle at some point.
In that case, I will buy the match.
It's 100 yen this time?
It's higher.
The price is 90 yen higher.
Engage in battle...
Shirube and Zero...
at Quarter Jump, which has a survival rate of 25 percent.
"Quarter Jump"?
Also, in this match,
Followers can win a reward.
All those who follow the winner
will get two rings each.
- Yes! - We did it, Mr Sunao!
We'll get two for doing nothing! The 100 billion could be ours!
But we can't say for sure that we'll get them.
You have to do something to win!
Things went well for them.
We got the short end of the stick.
Why?
I said, don't!
Hang on a minute.
I should be allowed to choose
who I must fight, and the game.
It's the event host's special right.
If I must say,
at the preceding iron-ball game,
you looked down on Dream Kingdom, that is, me.
And this is your punishment.
Listen, Shirube.
You'll be disqualified if you refuse to do it.
The bun.
Bun...
You actually want it?
You do?
Survival rate 25 percent? Don't be ridiculous!
How is the preparation?
No problem, sir.
- What is this? - What's going to happen?
Hey!
Why him?
Why not me?
I have more followers and more rings!
Why don't you try to ruin him if you think so?
With your own hand.
Ruin him? What do you mean?
Your name is Shirube, isn't it?
It's Shirube, which means guidepost.
Shirube, why did you come here?
You want to ask why I fight?
That's what I'm asking.
What about you, Zero?
Because I'm angry, I think.
I want to change the world.
Change the world?
Zero Ukai.
You'll play first.
It's a building somewhere.
I am led by the hand and walking on a concrete floor.
I'm probably led into a lift.
I am led by the hand again.
The sound of a door opening?
This is...
A big room?
Wind is blowing around me.
Your mask will be taken off.
You'll have precisely 10 seconds to look around after that.
Then you'll return to darkness after 10 seconds,
and you will jump off from there, after that.
I have to jump with the mask on?
Yes, you will.
Listen, the first 10 seconds are crucial.
Burn the world you are in now into your memory,
because the view
could be the last thing you will see.
What?
What is this?
As you can see,
there is an elevated platform, and only one correct direction.
Hey...
Jumping in the other directions will end in vain,
and you'll hit an iron wall.
You must be joking.
If you jump towards the three "Out" directions, surely you'll...
Fall...
You have a 25 percent chance of survival.
And this...
is Quarter Jump.
Ten seconds have passed.
Wait!
Hey!
Stay still and sit down.
What?
The platform spins to scramble the correct direction I saw.
It spun towards the right for 30 seconds,
then to the left for 20 seconds.
Fifty seconds.
It's impossible. I totally lost the sense of direction.
The only correct answer
is to jump to the safe area in the limited time,
that is, you'll survive.
Are you going to tell me to jump in 10 seconds, like just now?
Go straight to the direction you'll jump from along the studded block.
One meter away from the tip,
there is a one-in-four chance there's ground that lets you live.
Just so you know,
you'll be disqualified for throwing things to check where it's safe.
The only thing that you can throw in the air is your own body.
Your body only.
Regarding Zero and Shirube's match this time,
obviously, the one who falls loses.
Or you'll lose if you don't jump.
If both managed to jump correctly,
the one who used less time before he jumped,
the one who made the quicker decision will win.
It's no laughing matter.
How can you treat human life this way?
Zero! Do your best!
Hurrah, hurrah, Zero!
Calm down.
When there's a question, every time...
The person has something in their minds when they write it.
I have to communicate with them through the question.
What is the person trying to ask?
Or what do they want to say?
Reading and solving it is the shortcut to the answer.
I'll find it, no matter how long it takes.
I will find the reason and proof
that make me sure about the safe direction.
Unfortunately,
you can only spend 10 minutes on each direction.
Ten minutes?
Each direction?
In Quarter Jump, someone will jump, like you, and there's another role.
Four people will be the "voices"
and they'll stand in each direction in this game.
Whether the "voice" stands at the Safe area or Out area,
if they can make you jump towards their direction,
they will get one ring.
Deduce which one of them is standing at the Safe area, and jump.
This is the essence of this game.
In other words,
the "voices" are participants too.
They win if they make me believe them successfully.
Even if they have to lie to me.
The first "voice" is already standing by.
Zero.
Hey...
Zero!
You've got to be kidding.
Zero!
The voice...
Could it be...
Zero.
Hiroshi?
Are you there?
It's Hiroshi. Can you hear me, Zero?
Are you okay?
I'm okay now.
They treated my wounds. It was just a concussion.
But...
Why are you here, Hiroshi?
I volunteered.
If they sent me to an Out area,
then I can tell you not to jump.
It's Mr Hiroshi's voice!
But he's at...
No way...
This is...
Then...
They put me in the Safe area.
I can be useful.
I can finally be useful to you.
Sorry for causing you trouble.
I am sorry.
I've always thought that I was a burden to you.
But I'm useful at last.
Now jump, Zero! Jump towards me!
Let's save both our lives.
Hiroshi...
It's my side. What's the matter? You have to jump.
Hurry up, jump!
If the Shirube boy jumps sooner, you'll lose, Zero.
Jump as soon as you can.
Don't jump!
How can Mr Hiroshi betray us?
That jerk!
I will follow Zero.
Even if it means...
having to go to hell.
Mr Hiroshi, why?
Could you be doubting me?
Am I doubting him?
You think that you can't believe what I say.
Doubt my friend?
No, it's my heart wavering.
My heart's water surface is rippled by wind, so to speak.
So, I have to go deep into the water, where there is no wind.
I'll talk to him what I think at the bottom of my heart.
I do know.
If you're in the Out area,
you would never tell me to jump towards where you are.
I can say for sure.
Even if...
someone is pointing a gun at you and threatens you.
Yes, Zero.
I am your friend. Forever, I swear.
He got totally deceived.
Zero!
How immature are you, my bosom friend?
So...
I know you wouldn't lie to me, so please tell me.
What is it?
Are you really Hiroshi?
Why?
They can't possibly put my friend in the Safe area.
The old man would never allow it.
That's what Zaizen wants you to think.
What?
I was so happy that I was sent to the Safe area after drawing lots,
but one of the men in black said I shouldn't be there,
and was going to make me draw lots again.
Then, Zaizen said,
"Wait, let him go there."
This will be interesting too.
The boy is clever,
so if we put his friend there, he'll surely be suspicious.
Then, he will fall because he can't trust his friend.
"It will be fun too."
Indeed, it wouldn't be strange if the old man thinks so.
Don't play right into the enemy's hands.
Enough of that. Listen to my voice.
Trust me.
This is the best evidence.
Yes, the voice really is Hiroshi's,
but why do I feel that something is wrong?
Of course I trust you,
but...
I need courage to jump.
So let me ask some more.
Zero.
When we were fighting with the bank-transfer scammers,
what was our group's password?
We didn't have one.
Then...
What were the aliases we used when we went to the gang's office?
You're Kitajima, I'm Higashiyama,
Chikara is Nishikawa and Sunao is Nambara.
He answered right away. And he got all of them right!
Not only the voice, but even the memory is real.
I see.
Indeed. You are Hiroshi.
Zero.
All right, then.
I trust you.
Thank goodness!
It'd be awful if you doubt me and jump towards another direction.
I said, Hiroshi is lying to you! He is in the Out area!
Stop, Zero...
Jump!
Jump...
Poor guy.
But he'll only regret for two seconds that he chose wrongly.
The regret he has when he dies will last only a moment.
Jump...
Hang on.
Could this be...
Zero?
What's the matter?
You have less than three minutes.
I would like you to do one last thing.
Yes?
Will you take off your glasses?
What?
What... what is going on?
It isn't me over there!
But he called himself Hiroshi!
Exactly! It was your voice too!
Glasses?
Indeed, he was wearing glasses.
Is he going to ask me to read something?
But I've done some digging and I know his eyesight is 0.3.
"Hiroshi Sajima."
"Relationship with Zero."
"Eyesight: Right 0.3, left 0.3."
"I've taken off my glasses. But is it okay?"
I can't see anything far away if I take them off.
"What should I see?"
I've taken off my glasses.
But is it okay? I can't see anything far away if I take them off.
What should I see?
It's okay.
I just want you to look at
the glasses' temple, where you hook them on your ears.
On the inside,
there are numbers and symbols that represent
the measurements of the frame and lenses.
Please read them to me.
What... I haven't got his glasses!
My glasses are old,
I bought it a long time ago, so they're gone.
Oh?
That's strange.
When I looked just now...
They were all still there.
You seem to have done a lot of research,
but you fail to pay attention to other things, Mr imposter.
Wait, how do you explain my voice, then?
You did some research, right?
You know we're chivalrous thieves who fought with scammers, right?
I did! I did, but...
But you don't think that we would know
something used also by scammers,
that is, the speech synthesis system.
Jump, Zero...
What is this about?
Well, when I regained consciousness,
the men in black were there.
Where are you taking Zero?
Answer my questions if you want to know.
He said it was to help Zero and asked many questions,
like how I met Zero and what we did as chivalrous thieves.
Why do you record our conversation?
You want to save him, right?
Or are you okay with letting him die?
I was half in doubt,
but I was an idiot to obey him and thought it would help Zero.
You are too stupid! You almost ruined our chance to get the rings.
Mr Chikara!
You almost killed Zero.
Sorry.
But...
His life is saved exactly because you are the way you are, Mr Hiroshi.
When he first heard your voice telling him to jump,
this is the first thing Zero said...
I do know.
If you're in the Out area,
you would never tell me to jump towards where you are.
I can say for sure.
Even if...
someone is pointing a gun at you and threatens you.
That about you never changes, that's why he is safe.
Zero is really immature.
No.
He is just stupid.
Yeah.
I am sorry...
I thought you betrayed us, Mr Hiroshi.
What are you talking about? Immature and stupid?
Stop leisurely pretending to be friends.
It would've been so satisfying to see two friends
destroying each other.
But we don't betray our friends. Right, Mr Sunao?
What are you talking about?
What's the matter?
Well, it's no big deal.
I picked this up.
I was going to give it back.
This...
Let's keep quiet about it.
What?
He figured he lost it and has given up.
But...
We will just tell no one.
Well done on seeing through it. There are three more directions.
Don't panic.
I can do it if I rule them out one by one.
Zero.
Zero?
The voice...
Again?
Can you hear me, Zero?
It's me, Kazuya Yamaguchi.
The voice is a friend again...
It's me, Kazuya Yamaguchi.
What a nasty choice of opponent!
It's here. This side is safe.
Kazuya...
Yes, it's me!
Why didn't you refuse to play this murder game?
I refused it, of course!
I said I'd quit if they put me in an Out area.
Of course I would!
I am here to help you, Zero.
I would've refused if this wasn't the Safe area.
I'm not joking. Making you die by lying is the last thing I want.
Why did I save you before, then?
Wait, you shouldn't use violence.
Well, I don't want to wield this thing either.
But will you stop that?
Yes, you did save me, but...
Exactly.
What is it? Do you doubt me?
Zero.
Trust me.
I want to help you, because we're friends!
Friends?
And we aren't just friends.
When I was in high school,
I used to look up to you.
I thought you were amazing
and nobody would be more amazing than you.
I was happy to have such an amazing friend like you.
That's why I want to help you.
Trust me, Zero!
I trust you!
Where you are is safe, right?
Of course! Come on, hurry up!
Okay.
We are friends, right?
Sorry I doubted you.
Yes, he was an amazing guy.
No matter how hard I tried, he always did things better than me.
"First term final exam results"
"1st place: Zero Ukai 2nd place: Kazuya Yamaguchi"
Kazuya.
Zero.
Let's go to our club now.
Sure. Coming.
Ever since I was a student, I've always known that,
but I also know...
his fatal weakness.
Deep down, in his nature, he is...
A perfect idiot.
He can't trample on people's feelings.
Betraying a friend is out of the question.
In other words,
he is an absolute hypocrite.
I will kill your hypocrisy!
There is a fourth type?
Someone who brings his personal grudge to the game.
I'll jump to where you are.
I'll go offline.
What the heck?
Get suspicious, don't think it's simple.
Don't do anything uncalled-for.
Let's swim together, like we did at that time.
It seems that it isn't a lie that you are simple.
Your wickedness is pointless!
Live.