It is called Human Pillar Stopwatch.
The so-called water clock.
Water will be poured in when the game starts,
so look at the rising water level to see the amount of time you have.
Wait a second! If you do that...
Well then, the extremely hard, distressing Triangle Battle...
starts now!
"Water in."
My life is at risk again.
Not only our own lives,
they're so mean that they make us
put other participants' lives at risk too.
What the heck is this?
All rooms are the same. What are you?
"1 hour ago."
In the next game,
I will team up with Zero and fight.
Zero.
Sorry, I promised him.
What?
The number of participants is three, the other one is...
This guy.
Even more surprised...
"The night before."
"Triangle Maze Get one ring per person."
We need three people to play it.
I'll ask the last person, so follow me.
Who will it be?
The comrade that got this ring with me.
Comrade?
To make sure that I get a ring,
naturally, I have to play safe and get the necessary chess pieces.
Do you know what you're talking about?
Don't look down on me, kids,
even the dull pawn that can move only one square at a time,
when it goes to the enemy's camp,
can get turned over to be the almighty promoted pawn!
Please join me!
What the heck?
He can't possibly go play a Mild game to get just one ring.
Please consider it!
Please. I know.
I'll give you one more, so please!
I'm full now.
What?
- Leave if you understand. - And don't come again!
- Just go! - My buns!
Hey, you! Handle food with care!
You'll really team up with the shark sucker?
- There is a reason. - What?
But as I'm playing the game,
I'll do my best to get the 100 billion.
I'll start a revolution.
Revolution?
I'll provide a guidepost to an era without one.
Why is he here, then?
When I was worrying about where to find the last person,
he suddenly said he wanted to join me.
Of course, I told him that you'd be on the same team.
Right?
I'm disgusted by how hypocritical you are...
but I want a ring.
Is Zero going to be okay?
Worry about us instead of him.
How are we going to get rings without Zero?
Isn't that the game that Zero's team is going to play?
"Triangle Maze Three more vacancies."
Let's try to play games on our own occasionally.
Why say that out of the blue?
We tried to kill ourselves once.
If we make some desperate efforts, maybe it will work out.
Indeed, even if we can't get 100 billion yen,
we can get a ring.
No... This is different from flirting or going to parties.
Why do you mention that?
But flirting with girls at parties is actually more difficult
if we team up.
What the heck?
You think you're the only handsome one?
I'll show you that you don't have to be handsome to get a ring.
No need to mention the not handsome bit.
"Triangle Maze."
Will you play it too?
Why don't we team up?
Of course he won't play.
I will.
- What? - What?
We have a deal. Who else are we going to choose?
That guy.
What?
It's got curtains here too.
The building is covered by a sheet even on the outside.
Are you scared?
Maybe it's under construction.
This is where you'll play the game.
A triangular room?
The walls won't move to crush us, will it?
Surveillance camera?
Are you watching us, Zaizen?
At least there's a window on the ceiling.
Another door?
Another triangular room.
It's bigger than the last room.
There are dice at a corner of the room?
You'll each roll a dice before the game starts.
Three.
Three and six.
It's you.
The person who got one, the smallest number,
will go inside this circle.
Yes, facing this way.
Excuse me.
Hey, what are you doing?
Wait...
Well then, we'll leave now.
Hey, don't go yet...
You'll hear the game instruction soon.
Wait until then.
- Excuse me! - Hey, not so fast!
Hey! Hey!
Open the door!
You're unlucky.
I'm the unlucky one!
It's you.
You'll go inside the circle.
What...
What are you doing?
It hurts...
Hey... What are you doing?
You'll hear the game instructions soon.
This is fun.
Of all people,
both Zero and Shirube are the ones bound there.
My lord...
It's just by chance. I didn't instruct them to do so.
Frankly,
isn't it risky to let Zero Ukai get the 100 billion yen?
Why do you think so?
He is not suitable to take over our group.
I can't understand the way he works at all,
and I don't think it will do us any good.
Someone once said...
humans can survive in the world not because they are strong.
They're naturally weak,
that's exactly why they evolved and survived.
Thrust an approaching difficult situation back...
come up from behind, and win miraculously.
It is always...
the mutant that saves them.
In other words, my lord, you're saying that he is the mutant?
This is fun as well.
The more difficult it is to understand someone,
the more interesting they get.
Sorry, my lord.
"Triangle Maze."
Welcome to the Triangle Maze.
I'll give you the instructions.
Each person and each group, pay close attention.
This game is a competition between teams of three.
Whether it's three or five or ten or twenty,
I won't tell you how many teams there are.
All teams have walked through the same corridors and doors
into the same triangular rooms.
And you're listening to me under the same condition.
This is the starting point of this game.
There are other participants being bound besides me.
The game is very simple.
You simply have to answer the only question that I'm going to ask.
Look at the tablet in the room next to yours.
- Is there a tablet? - Not when we came in.
It was probably placed there after we came into this room.
After you switch it on,
you'll see the only question that you have to answer.
This is the only question?
Maybe you think that the question is vague,
but there is only one correct answer.
- Give it back! - From choice 1 to 25,
choose the one you think is the answer and send it.
One to 25? That's too many.
"Choices of answer."
Use the sketchbook and pen to organize your thoughts.
You have 30 minutes.
Only the first team that answers the question correctly
will be given three rings in total, one for each member.
To help you get an idea how much time you've got left,
we've prepared a stopwatch in each room.
Stopwatch?
This one.
What?
What the heck is this?
It is called Human Pillar Stopwatch.
The so-called water clock.
Water will be poured in when the game starts,
so look at the rising water level to see the amount of time you have.
Wait a second!
But naturally, you don't have to look,
because the person in the tank will start making noise and be an alarm.
The height and body build will make a difference,
but at around 25 minutes,
the water level will cover the nose and mouth of the person inside.
In other words, after 25 minutes, the person inside will...
So after the unnecessary struggle has reached its climax
and you can't hear their voice,
it's safe to say that you only have a few minutes left.
Isn't this clever?
This is ridiculous! What Human Pillar Stopwatch?
Stop playing with people's lives!
Hey! Do you hear me?
Hey!
Don't worry.
The question is hard, so as a very special measure,
the moment that one team gives a correct answer,
water will stop being poured into all tanks.
In other words, it'll be fine
if one team gives the correct answer in 25 minutes.
However, each team will get only one chance to send an answer,
so if you fail once, then you can only wait...
for another team to answer the question correctly.
Well then, the extremely hard, distressing Triangle Battle...
Starts now!
"Water in."
What the heck?
Don't just stand and watch! Solve the question!
"ZERO, The Bravest Money Game."
Hey! Show me the question!
Wait, I'm thinking now.
If you don't show Zero the question, we'll...
Whatever!
The question is... It's quicker if I write it.
Here.
"All rooms are the same. What are you?"
This is the question?
Really?
I know. It's like a riddle and you don't know what it means.
I can't do anything with this alone.
I know. There are choices, but...
What are the choices?
I can't remember them at a glance. There are 25 of them, after all.
We have 30 minutes...
No, it's 25 minutes.
Even if we guess them one by one,
the average amount of time we can spend on each choice is...
One minute.
What a talkative alarm.
Shut up for a bit. I'm thinking.
Oh, just give me that!
Why?
Why? We can't start if you don't show Zero the choices.
"All rooms are the same. What are you?"
I'll show him if necessary.
What?
I'll send the answer of this team.
After 25 minutes.
- Twenty-five minutes? - Yes.
I'll send the answer after 25 minutes,
after I see the water drown you.
Wait, in that case...
How fast you'll get at the correct answer won't matter.
What nonsense are you talking about? You're joking, right?
Because I'll make it in time in the 30 minutes we have.
No, it'll be too late!
What will be?
I'll get a ring if I answer it correctly in 30 minutes.
I'll let him die in 25 minutes.
What are you talking about?
Did you come here with me and Zero to do that?
I've changed my mind.
Only one person can get the 1 billion,
of course I want to have fewer competitors.
And I told you Zero is the shark needed to get the 1 billion!
I can't let him die when I can use him.
- Let go. - Shark?
Give me the tablet.
- What? - What?
I'll get the correct answer to get a ring,
but I'll only send it after he dies.
What?
You only want to get a ring in this game, right?
Still, there are things that you shouldn't do!
Look who's talking, gangster!
I'm talking about humanity!
But it's okay to commit fraud?
But...
He has taken the whole sum already.
What?
Including the 50 million I should pay you with.
Don't talk about that now.
Now is the time that we should talk about this.
You want to take revenge on him as well, don't you?
Yes, maybe, but...
Right?
Hang on a minute!
But what if Zero won't think about it for us in this case?
What?
Isn't it?
He might help if he'll be safe after getting the answer,
but he'll die even if he answers it correctly.
Would normal people think in this case?
Think about it when the time comes.
Right?
I will think.
If he sends the wrong answer,
I'll die no matter how long it takes.
I have to think, don't I?
To find the exit from this hell.
You will think?
Do I have a choice?
We'll work as one, then.
What does it say about our morality?
Just do it!
We can't waste five minutes on something so stupid.
The water is cold.
I'll wet myself.
Don't, or there'll be more water.
But when I hear the splashing sound, I can't help myself!
Just wait. Though Zero is here, we'll do what we can too.
Why are you just lying there, handsome?
Someone is going to die here,
Don't you think you should do something about it?
There are some choices,
maybe we can do something too.
Let's think from scratch.
What?
First, choice number one.
"All rooms are the same. You are... people?"
It's people! People can't breathe under water!
So this is the correct answer?
Does anyone put the correct answer as number one?
On hold. Choice number two.
Are you trying them in order?
A teammate is going to drown and die.
Under such an extreme condition,
how calm can they stay to construct a theory?
This is the highlight of this game.
Both the brains came together, and now, the water clock.
Instead of friends,
they have to put their lives in their enemies' hands.
This situation is horrible.
You didn't expect this too, my lord?
Actually, I haven't finished the story I've just told you.
You haven't finished the story? You mean the mutant?
Yes.
It's said that in the natural world,
humans survived because while mutation occurred,
natural selection also happened at the same time.
Natural selection?
If nature puts the species at risk,
the unnecessary genes
are not inherited by the offspring, and disappear.
Natural selection...
Did you just wish that natural selection will kill Zero?
Yes, I do wish that it would happen.
Good, you are honest.
But only God knows what will happen.
One will mutate...
one will be eliminated by natural selection.
Well, to me, the result is everything,
so I don't make any unnecessary prediction.
This is the question.
"All rooms are the same. What are you?"
And here are the choices.
I got it. It's enough.
Is it too easy for you, Shirube?
Tell us if you need anything. We'll do it.
Yeah, tell us if you need anything.
Go to the room next door then.
Report to me at once if anything draws your attention.
- Okay. - I'll go too.
You'll stay.
But...
What should I do? Tell me to do anything.
Time is passing when we're talking.
Do you know why I chose you?
What?
Because you look most stupid.
Is that so?
All right, where should we start?
Say it if there's anything we can do.
After all, you can't move a step away from there.
Should I read you the choices one by one?
But before that, please let me apologize.
What?
Please forgive my stupid brother for going astray!
Of course he won't.
Be quiet!
Really, it's fine. It's more important to...
He has always been like this.
What are you talking about?
I just remembered.
When we were little, I caught some crayfish in the summer,
but you put them in the tank and killed them!
Don't talk about that now.
I didn't kill them.
Give me a break!
You filled the tank with water, didn't you?
Yes, I did. What's wrong with that?
Listen, the water level is just right
if it just covers the crayfish's back.
You've seen crayfish rising from the water surface like this too.
They still haven't shown me the 25 choices.
You've seen them doing that too, right?
There are numerous answers depending on the interpretation.
And I said you're wrong...
And the triangular rooms that are the same for all teams.
I see!
I don't have to look at the choices!
Why did you suddenly say that?
You don't want to think about the answer now?
It isn't like that.
To get the correct answer, it is actually better if I don't see them.
But the answer is among them, obviously you should look.
The one who set the question gave us choices because he is nasty.
To give us the wrong idea or make us answer it wrong,
he put answers that look right near the correct answer
or put wrong answers that make the correct one seem wrong.
So we can't try to choose the correct answer.
The harder we try, the easier we'll be tricked by the confusing answers
and the higher the risk of making a mistake.
What will we do, then?
Solve the question without looking at the choices.
On top of that, instead of our hunch,
we'll choose based on something grounded.
It's the only way that we won't be confused by the needless choices.
In other words, we can think about the choices as the last step.
Until then, we have to come up with something like the answer,
or it's out of the question.
But trying to solve it without looking at the choices
is a wild-goose chase.
I have a clue.
It's the triangular room.
It is the biggest clue itself.
This room is the clue?
All rooms are the same. The question actually says that.
We should first think about it based on this triangular room.
You aren't talking nonsense?
Nonsense?
You'll die anyway, so you might have just said some nonsense.
What? If he suspects that, I have no other way to convince him.
Yes... About the crayfish that died in the tank.
What?
About him killing them?
Seigi, you said you didn't kill them and I believe you.
Based on the scientific fact
that crayfish breathe with gills, like fish.
So you want me to believe you too?
Can you? Based on scientific facts.
Fine.
Hey, wait!
We'll look at the choices later. Please look around the room again.
Don't miss the slightest clue.
All right.
Hey.
Me too?
What the heck?
This is bad.
I've been at the mercy of the brothers for 10 minutes.
We're running out of time.
No, I can't find anything.
Don't say that. Keep searching.
Hey.
If we can't answer the question...
not only will we not get a ring,
you'll die too.
No.
Isn't it frustrating?
Mr. Suezaki?
But it's true.
Even if you can't get a ring, if you can survive,
you can be my shark again in the next game.
I've got an idea.
If I use this to hit and break the tank,
maybe I can save your life.
Just wait. I'll break the tank now.
Don't! We'll be disqualified.
What is this?
What is it?
Something is written on the floor in the corner.
It looks something like letters or a picture.
It's a circle and a tip.
Oh, it's pencil. Something like a pencil's tip is drawn here.
I have seen this somewhere.
It's this one.
In the room's corner?
Yes. It's AO.
AO?
Just say whatever AO reminds you of.
Hurry up, or you'll die!
Somehow seeing the symbol makes me feel sick!
Aren't you going to break the tank?
But we'll be disqualified.
My body's getting itchy.
I was a fool for getting my hopes up.
Just tell me what AO is.
The first thing comes to mind is a circuit diagram.
Circuit diagram?
AO is short for Analogue Output.
Among the choices, the only one related to electricity is thunder.
"You are thunder?"
What else?
Chemical symbols. Ag is silver, Au is gold,
Ac is actinium, but...
Diamond.
"You are diamonds"?
No, AO isn't a chemical symbol.
What else?
Only AO entrance exam.
Stop talking about that!
What's wrong?
He doesn't like symbols.
He feels sick and get hives just by opening a textbook.
My genetic make-up is special.
I'm not bragging, but I quit high school after a day.
Symbol? They aren't alphabets?
It's always only symbols that give me hives.
The AO is a symbol?
In that case, what it indicates is...
If it is a symbol...
Just go to check the other corners to see if there's another symbol.
No.
What about corners in the other room?
AO...
Only that corner has the symbol.
In that case, as I thought, it's...
But I know the answer now.
What?
Give it!
What? Give it back!
Shut up! I know the answer, so I'll do it.
See? I knew it would be here.
The answer is...
Sea!
Sea?
Why?
As we thought, that's two letters of the alphabet.
The letters A and O,
that means, blue. Blue reminds you of...
The sea!
You think it's the English alphabet?
"You are the sea."
We are the sea. Aren't we born from Mother Sea?
"You chose: Number 6, sea. Is it correct?"
Okay, I'll send it. Go!
Wait a second!
The symbol isn't AO.
How pleasant this is!
The right to answer can decide his fate,
but his enemy has it in his hand.
And he's telling his enemy
how to get the correct answer without hiding anything.
I really can't understand that guy, Zero.
How is Shirube doing?
What are you doing?
Sorry, I knocked it over.
Please step away for a bit.
What symbol is this?
Oh, right.
I'll show Shirube.
This is drawn in the corner there.
I got it now, so please don't block my sight.
Okay.
It seems that he didn't tell his teammates anything.
He probably used the rings as bait and is using them as he wishes.
He found the correct answer in his mind,
and built a theory to approach it.
A proud, lonely king.
I feel the aura of the real king from him.
The more I compare someone else to him, the more I feel that.
Choice number 10.
"All rooms are the same. You are cat food?"
This is too insulting!
Cat food... Chicken breast?
It sounds reasonable when a handsome guys says it.
So it's "you are chicken breast"?
No! Cats eat fish!
It isn't convincing, but "you are fish"?
Look! Fish is one of the choices! Choice number 13!
The correct answer is 13?
The water has reached through my underwear.
Stop! Stop!
Are they idiots?
"Back."
It isn't sea, is it?
If blue is correct, Earth would be one of the choices too.
I see.
Sorry.
If I had sent the wrong answer, everything would be over.
That's a way too.
He is aware of the worst option,
that is, to send the wrong answer on purpose.
Please! Will you just keep quiet?
All right. Fine.
Someone like me can't possibly know the answer.
This is bad. I can now only rely on this guy.
Don't you want to know what that is if not the letters A and O?
It's the breakthrough that will get us rings.
Mr. Suezaki, you discovered it and you're splendid.
Yeah, that's true.
You want to know, right?
You might get the correct answer.
I don't have to get it right.
Hey.
If you do anything uncalled-for, I'll stop you this time.
- What the heck? - My discovery...
Mr. Suezaki, the answer is in your mind.
In my mind?
I'll take it out now. Please draw a triangle.
Triangle?
Yes, in a shape as close to this room as possible.
Then, draw a curve at the corner.
Not that symbol?
Please draw a curve, like a closing parenthesis.
Yes, that's it. Have you seen it before?
A beak?
No, in your primary school maths lessons.
It's the thing drawn to calculate the angle.
That's right! The "A" is the curve drawn at the triangle's corner,
and the "O" is the symbol of degree.
The symbol is what they changed from the symbol that represents an angle.
No wonder I felt sick the moment I saw it.
In other words,
calculating a certain angle of this triangular room
is the breakthrough to solving the question,
"All rooms are the same. What are you?"
I've looked everywhere, but there is no protractor or ruler.
How do we calculate angles?
Is that so?
Maybe it's blue and the answer is sea or Earth?
No.
What I need for calculating an angle is the length of the sides.
Could this be...
There is a way.
Count the number of paneling on both sides.
- Paneling? - Yes.
Count the short panels below the walls first.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten,
11,12,13,14,15,16,17,
18,19,20,21.
I knew it.
What do you know?
- In other words... - What?
The room we're in is an isosceles triangle.
What is that...
In other words...
Wait, I don't get it at all!
Please count the paneling in the other room too.
Me?
Please.
I don't get it at all!
One, two, three, four...
We've finally started to walk the path to get the only right answer.
- I've counted. - How many of them?
The long sides, where the doors are, have got 21,
the shorter side has got...
Thirteen.
How do you know?
Look at the diagram Seigi drew.
You drew it?
Shut up. I'm thinking.
We're now in a room in that shape,
that is, one of the two isosceles triangles put together.
Let's call the other triangle as room 1, and this room 2,
the triangle we get after putting them together, 3,
which is also an isosceles triangle.
That means, the angle that we have to calculate is...
36 degrees?
You're right!
So?
Shut up. That means the angle is 36 degrees.
I see. Is that your hunch?
Of course not!
The opposite sides of an isosceles triangle have the same length,
and the opposite angles are the same.
It's always the case...
no matter what the isosceles triangle is like.
Whether it's thick or thin, it's the same.
So the two acute angles of our room are the same,
because it's an isosceles triangle.
Let's say, X is the angle that we'll calculate...
Stop talking!
I can't do calculation or maths at all!
I can't listen for a second.
Hearing X and Y only makes my hives break and makes me feel sick!
It's okay. It's simple...
We've finally arrived here, but...
I only have over 10 minutes to the crucial 25th minute.
My lord.
Room C seems to have arrived at the solution,
Thirty-six degrees.
Room I will be a matter of time.
I see. That means they are excellent.
As crawling worms, both are excellent in their own way.
In other words, both of them mutated?
Now is the time to see through that.
Ordinary people stop here.
They will never climb over to the next barrier...
and stay as crawling worms forever.
There are 21 and 13 panels, but what does that mean?
You didn't tell me what the AO was too.
I got an idea.
I want to fly in the sky.
What? Why?
What do you know?
It's a waste of time to explain it to you.
Please, Shirube...
Hey, please tell me something.
In a room that is an isosceles triangle,
the angle is 36 degrees.
The fact that we've found
is probably an important key to solving the difficult question,
"What are you?"
It is 36 degrees, so what?
But it stops here.
You haven't said anything for a while. Is it okay?
It's 36 degrees, so what? What does 36 degrees mean to us?
I can't connect it to what's ahead.
Think carefully.
Would Zaizen give us a question that can be solved with just maths?
Now, come here.
He did that without batting an eye.
Not only the 25 choices that cause us to make a mistake,
but it's even nastier, something more outrageous.
The problem isn't straightforward and I have to take a leap in ideas.
Almost 20 minutes have passed.
It's over now.
We have 30 minutes. There are over 10 minutes.
But you'll die before that.
I can't help it. You can't come up with the right answer.
You'll kill me anyway even if I get it.
Do something. It's because you said you'd kill him.
Stop it! I didn't put him in the tank.
Don't hit your elder brother!
How dare you, jerk!
You beat me first!
There they go again.
You drowned my crayfish!
How many times do they have to repeat that?
You keep taking away what I care about!
You're much worse for defaulting on the 50 million you borrowed!
I would've paid you back if Zero hadn't take it!
That's why I'll kill him!
Cut it out! We're running out of time.
How shameful!
What the heck are you doing?
Money and academic background?
In the end, it's about inside or outside a tank.
It is so obvious.
Doesn't that make you worry, looking down on people?
You've got nothing, but you're too proud, jerk!
How can someone like you
get the 1 billion yen and be the king that leads people?
It's more fundamental than the rings.
He said something uncalled-for again.
I don't want the ring, then.
What?
I'll send the answer now.
But we don't know the answer.
Choose a number from 1 to 25.
What?
I'll send it.
You might get it right, even if it's just a guess.
The probability is 1 to 25, though.
How could you? You can't do it by hit or miss!
This is Russian roulette!
If you choose the number,
even if you die, you can rest in peace.
Don't be irresponsible.
I need to get him to take over the right to answer.
That is, I have to make him want to answer the question himself.
Like that time.
Blue reminds you of...
The sea!
That being said, it shouldn't be an unexpected wrong answer,
it has to be correct.
Unexpected?
If I hit and break the tank with this,
maybe I can save your life.
What is this?
I have to try. It's all or nothing!
Just say a number!
Just a moment.
Or will you wait to die silently?
I can see the way to get the correct answer.
What?
He tells you to wait!
And Mr. Suezaki...
it is to help you understand why the angle is 36 degrees.
What are you talking about?
To solve the question Zaizen set,
Mr. Suezaki, your unexpected...
I mean, we need a flash of your ground-breaking idea.
What?
I'm afraid that man will become a threat to me someday.
I know Zero will get it right.
Is money or someone's life more important?
You don't even know something so simple?
No! Everyone's life is at risk.
I have to give the correct answer!