"All the rooms are the same. What are you?"
There is only one correct answer.
From choices one to 25,
choose the one you think is the answer and send it.
It is called Human Pillar Stopwatch.
"Water in."
Look at the rising water level to see the amount of time you have.
At around 25 minutes,
the water level will cover the nose and mouth of the person inside.
Isn't this clever?
I'll send the answer after 25 minutes,
after I see the water drown you.
Wait, in that case...
I'll make him die in 25 minutes.
A teammate is going to be drowned and die.
Under such an extreme condition,
how calm can they stay to construct a theory?
In the room's corner?
The letters A and O.
The symbol is what they changed from the symbol that represents an angle.
In other words,
calculating a certain angle of this triangular room
is the breakthrough to solving the question,
"All the rooms are the same. What are you?"
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...
The room we're in is an isosceles triangle.
Let's call the room in front "1 ", and this room "2".
The triangle we get after putting them together, "3",
is also an isosceles triangle.
That means, the angle that we have to calculate is...
thirty-six degrees?
You're right!
Hearing x and y only makes my hives break and makes me feel sick!
It's okay. It's simple...
I have just over 10 minutes until the crucial 25th minute.
Did you just wish that natural selection would kill Zero?
Yes, I do wish that it would.
I got an idea.
I want to fly in the sky.
Why?
Choose a number from one to 25.
What?
This is Russian roulette!
I need to get him to usurp the right to answer.
That is, I have to make him want to answer the question himself.
Just say a number!
Just a moment.
Or will you say nothing and wait to die?
I can see the way to arrive at 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?
Are you out of your mind because you're cornered?
"ZERO -The Bravest Money Game."
Indeed, I am cornered,
but to solve the question Zaizen had set,
Mr Suezaki, your unexpected...
I mean, we need a flash of your ground-breaking idea.
What?
So you have to understand why the angle there is 36 degrees.
Me?
Your idea might help us arrive at something related to the answer.
No way...
How can he possibly understand?
He dropped out of high school on the very first day.
He is right this time.
You can understand.
It's just that you have never experienced
how it feels to understand math so far.
Oh.
Okay.
The sum of the interior angles,
that is, the three angles of a triangle,
is 180 degrees, and it applies to all triangles.
Do you understand?
Well... That's a fact, right?
That's not going to work.
But we're running out of time.
What's next?
I'll tell you the most basic thing.
Draw a line in the middle of a circle.
Okay.
Do you know what the angle of the straight line is?
Don't make a fool of me!
It's half of 360 degrees, that is, 180 degrees.
Then, again, the sum of a triangle's interior angles...
I told you, I don't get it!
Well... Have you got something like a handkerchief?
Have I got something so chic?
No.
The 1,000 yen note will do.
1,000 yen?
Fold it in half, then diagonally to make a triangle.
Fold it in half...
One has to solve a problem with reason to understand something.
A complicatedly intertwined piece of thread
has to be untangled in the correct order, one by one.
I will now prove to you
that the sum of a triangle's interior angles is 180 degrees.
Okay.
First, fold the biggest angle to the longest, bottom edge.
- Like this? - Yes.
Then, fold the left angle to the biggest angle.
And?
Lastly, fold the right angle to the biggest angle as well.
If you put the angles of a triangle together,
how many degrees does it come to?
180 degrees!
Awesome! What is this? Magic?
There is no trick at all.
No matter which triangle, if you put its three angles together,
it becomes 180 degrees.
If you understand this,
then it's easy to know why the angle is 36 degrees.
Seriously?
Now, look at the plan of the room that Seigi drew just now.
Let's represent the angle of the corner with the AO mark with x...
"x"? Oh, I feel sick! I feel itchy!
I messed up.
Seeing or hearing symbols is enough
to make him feel sick or break out in hives.
I told you, it's impossible.
Be patient. Calm down.
Forget the water for now.
This is a classroom,
where reason dominates.
If he can solve it with reason,
I'm sure he will really understand.
All right, then. Let's say the angle...
is Seigi.
What?
This idiot?
Yes. Please write "Seigi" at the angle there.
Seigi...
Then, the angle opposite is "Seigi" too,
because as you've counted, two sides of the room
have the same number of paneling and it's an isosceles triangle.
Seigi.
Now we have two Seigi and the remaining angle.
Let's say it's you.
Me...
Sakura.
"Seigi, Seigi, Sakura."
What do the three add up to?
180 degrees.
And the angle next to you, the one of the other triangle is me.
Zero.
What is the sum of you and me?
It's a straight line, so it's 180 degrees.
Yes.
So, either one Zero or two Seigi
plus you add up to 180 degrees, right?
Oh, indeed!
The sum of either of you and me is 180 degrees.
In other words,
the size of one Zero is equal to two Seigi.
That is,
the Zero next to you can be replaced by two Seigi.
Hang on a minute.
Hey, the angle there is you.
Yeah? That angle.
That angle is you too. Yeah?
And I'm here. This angle.
Yeah. I see...
Two Seigi.
Yes, indeed!
And the smaller triangle is also an isosceles triangle,
so the angle next to the two Seigi is also...
Two Seigi!
"Two Seigi," okay.
Lastly, it's the largest triangle you get
by combining the two triangles.
It's also an isosceles triangle,
so the angle next to the two Seigi is also...
Double Seigi!
I see! Two Seigi...
We're calculating the degree of one Seigi,
and the sum of the three angles of the triangle is
two plus two plus one, that is, five Seigi.
Two plus one.
One, two, three, four, five. Five Seigi.
Now it's a question for you.
What's the sum of a triangle's interior angles?
180 degrees.
Let's divide 180 degrees with five Seigi.
Five Seigi?
It's 180 divided by 5.
180 divided by 5...
5... 5 times 3.
5... 30.
5 times 6?
5 times 6... 30.
So, what is one Seigi?
It's... 36.
36 degrees!
Seigi, you are 36 degrees?
I know how many degrees you are!
Yes, this is the value of the angle, x, that we need to calculate.
He helped the idiot solve it.
Amazing!
You're amazing, Teacher!
Are you okay?
Yes, I am. But it's really amazing!
It's the first time that math impressed me so much!
Now, you understand why it's 36 degrees,
think about it again.
"All the rooms are the same. What are you?"
What is the only correct answer?
I feel like I can solve it now after I got the answer!
That's the spirit.
Mr Suezaki, your idea
might help us arrive at something that is related to the answer.
You can count on me!
Give me that!
What are you doing?
Shut up. I'll think, so let me see the choices.
My life is saved!
Anyway, the risk of
letting the younger brother send an absurd answer is gone.
Now, I only have to come up with the answer,
then I can get the elder brother to send it.
Shirube?
Hello?
I'm thinking, so be quiet.
Okay.
It was a compliment.
What?
When I said you looked most stupid.
You don't make sense.
I'm sleepy.
Are you sleepy?
No, not under this situation.
Maybe there isn't as much oxygen here now?
What?
Hey, apologize.
What?
Don't ask me what.
You said it was impossible
for me to understand why the angle was 36 degrees, didn't you?
And you agreed with me.
Shut up. Don't look down on me.
Then...
Are you telling me to respect you?
Again?
You guys are scum.
Why can't I look down on you?
Wait.
It starts again.
Have you ever thought about how scum feels?
No!
You disgust me.
They're shunned by people just because they're stupid
and they don't belong anywhere!
People call the police when they're only walking!
That's why they can only get on with their lives together,
and I am protecting my underlings like this.
Excuse me.
Don't justify your laziness in your favour.
You have never thought about
how people judge me and mum because you are a gangster, right?
This is the hatred in the bottom of Seigi's heart?
But I had no other choice, I did it for money!
And who used the money I got to go to college?
You think you are important?
You robbed the money from others by blackmailing or swindling, right?
Money is money.
That's what you do too.
"LT" or something? Money game?
It's like what I do.
Don't lump me in with you. I am different from you.
You...
I'll kill you someday.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, Teacher.
I wasted time on our stupid fight.
Just wait, I'll get an idea.
Each team gets 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.
This is bad.
The amount of time left for people in the tank
is four minutes.
I'll die...
If the countdown to mass murder starts...
"All the rooms are the same..."
we'll feel even more cornered...
Answer it now! Just choose anything!
We hold on to the choices we see to distract ourselves from the torture.
"Your choice is no. 22, life" Though we aren't sure,
we still choose something that looks like the answer.
Please!
"Yes" And indeed...
"Answer sent." the multiple choice is yet a trap.
It makes you stop thinking.
"ROOM G. Life."
Room G has answered.
My condolences.
What are you doing?
I don't want to die!
The first team answered incorrectly.
I know what you did.
You tried to use the idiot, right?
I've made up my mind.
I'll punish you for upsetting me.
I want to see you suffer for a long time,
so I won't press send until the last moment.
Think with all your might until time is up.
"ROOM E. Sea."
Send it! Hurry up!
"You chose no. 6, sea" Press send!
"Answer sent." Send it! Now!
"No. 1, people" I'll send it. Okay?
"Answer sent." Okay...
Okay, I sent it.
Hurry UP!
"You chose no. 24, Earth."
Is it correct?
This is ridiculous!
Pillar Stopwatches,
if you want to say anything,
you'd better do it before your mouth gets covered.
But it just occurred to me
that you've got a sketchbook to write down your last words.
Lucky you!
What is this 36 degrees about?
Tell me, Teacher!
I never knew that not understanding something can be so frustrating!
Darn!
I've never felt anything like this before!
Shirube?
Show me the choices.
Oh, sorry, Yuki got the tablet.
He's there.
Why? Yuki?
Yuki, are you sleeping?
Hey!
Yuki?
Wake up! Yuki?
Hey!
Wake up!
Hey, Yuki! Wake up!
Okay, next.
Choice number 20.
All the rooms are the same, you are ships.
Ships?
Yes, if it means people float on water.
I think it means they sink.
Hey!
I want diamond.
Diamond?
Number 21?
Why?
Diamond is strong and hard,
so even if its part-time job boss exploits it,
or the boss abuses his power,
it still won't be hurt a bit.
Chikara?
If...
If I'll be born again,
if I can have a next life,
I want to be a diamond!
Your last words?
Shut up!
Okay, we'll choose that.
We'll choose diamond, okay?
All the rooms are the same,
Chikara is a diamond.
Thank you.
Hey, is it okay to choose like that?
But...
What's the point of thinking?
Don't worry,
Zero is in one of the rooms.
I'm sure that his answer will be correct.
Zero will save your life.
Right?
My bosom friend!
"You chose no. 21, diamond."
"Yes."
"Please send the answer."
"Answer sent."
"Your answer, diamond, is..."
What?
There are two teams left.
As expected, it's the two of them.
It's the crawling worms'...
fight-or-flight response?
They should naturally be able to do it.
Well, don't say so.
The question is
whether they can overcome the barrier of the choices or not.
"All the rooms are the same. What are you?"
It is 36 degrees, so what?
Are you okay, Teacher?
Have you got any idea?
Well, it isn't exactly an idea, but I've been thinking...
About what?
Why is the angle 36 degrees in the first place?
What?
Hey, I thought you had understood. What now?
I forgot.
This doesn't work. We're back to where we started.
He only crammed in the knowledge.
36 degrees...
Thirty-six.
Three and six.
That's right, Teacher,
it's three and six!
Three plus six is nine.
Kabu! It's Kabu, Teacher!
- Kabu? - Yes.
It's Oicho-Kabu, the gambling game gangsters play with Hanafuda cards.
3 plus 6 is 9,
we call it Kabu of three and six!
Then, "kabu" is the Japanese name of turnip.
Turnip?
This is his ground-breaking idea?
Like the pickle you cut from the top.
From the top?
A flash of an idea.
Isn't our room just like a slice of it?
Speaking of which, why is it a glass ceiling?
Birds?
It's here. Choice number 8 is turnip.
You see?
Gangsters aren't that bad!
And the meaning of the angle being 36 degrees...
That's right!
Right, Teacher?
You are turnips!
The "you" probably refers to the whole picture
that you see from above, like putting turnip slices together.
Whole picture?
So it's the round turnip?
Yes.
If all the rooms are the same,
that means they all have
an entrance on the side furthest from the 36 degree angle.
So, if we put the angle there in the center,
and put all the large isosceles triangles
we get from combining the two smaller ones together...
360 degrees divided by 36 equals 10,
so that gives us ten rooms.
In other words, this is a decagon.
And the shape it forms when a flying bird sees it from above...
is probably the answer.
That's the answer. Please, make it in time!
Yuki!
We're running out of time, open the door!
Sorry, I fell asleep.
Don't be ridiculous.
I apologized, didn't I?
You did it on purpose. I couldn't open the door!
The door?
Yes. I couldn't turn the doorknob.
That's impossible.
You lied, didn't you?
Lie? Why would I?
To buy time.
Buy time?
That doesn't matter.
But...
If you want a ring,
see if what I'm going to say is among the choices.
Okay.
A tip of our room is 36 degrees, when ten of it are put together,
they form a shape if you look from the sky.
"You are..."
It's a star.
"Star."
It's here.
Star is a choice!
It's choice number 17.
That's it.
It's the answer.
The 36 degree angle is the center,
our room is a large isosceles triangle
formed by two smaller isosceles triangles.
When ten of them are put together, they form a decagon.
The shape they form is...
It is...
A star.
Now I'll get 100 billion yen!
Now...
I'll surely get my second ring.
I'll send the answer after 25 minutes.
After I see the water drowns you.
"Star."
No, wait.
Wait!
What a surprise. I had no idea that you would stop me.
Show me the choices.
- I won't send it, of course. - What?
I've decided right at the beginning.
Just show me.
Just send it!
I've made up my mind.
I'll send the answer after you are drowned.
What do you mean?
You want to start a revolution?
I want to assassinate the future king.
This is the real revolution. Just kidding.
Show me the choices.
No.
- Hey! - Give me that.
"Your choice is no. 17, star."
"Answer sent."
Thank goodness!
What?
Why?
Idiots.
Things are getting interesting,
Mineko.
Is that so?
Yes, it has gotten really interesting,
including your reaction,
because you don't approve of Zero.
How nasty you are, my lord.
Only one team has the right to answer the question now.
What is it? What's wrong?
Star isn't the correct answer?
No. Something is bothering me.
So, it's turnip?
- It isn't turnip. - No?
Star is still a possible answer, it's just...
Please show me the choices.
- You just want to live, right? - No!
Give me that!
They're here!
- I knew it! - You know what?
Star isn't the only shape that 10 rooms can form.
What?
Besides star, another thing is also in a shape that they can form.
Don't panic. I can't panic.
Which one?
You can't hold out for long!
You can't answer even if you know what it is!
No. He'll die!
Why do you want to do?
What else?
I'll save Teacher's life. Out of my way!
Hey!
Is money or someone's life more important?
You don't even know something so simple?
No!
Please don't.
But you'll die!
Everyone's life is in our hands.
We're the only room left.
We can't afford to fail!
I have to answer correctly!
Or the other people will die!
Teacher...
All the rooms are the same, including the size and shape.
But a star...
If it's a star,
the directions of neighboring rooms are opposite alternatively.
They're series of mirror images.
If the rooms are the same in the real sense...
A star won't work.
So the correct answer is a series of rooms that aren't mirror images.
It is the shape that they form, which you see from above.
"Triangle Maze, answer choices."
"Windmill."
That's it!
Number 16!
"Windmill."
We are a windmill.
Okay!
Have mercy on me!
"You chose no. 16, windmill."
"Yes."
"Answer sent."
I'll go offline.
Room C has answered.
"ROOM C. Windmill."
"Windmill"
I'll go offline.
Room C has answered.
"Windmill."
Yes!
We did it, Teacher! It's correct! We made it!
Teacher?
Twenty-six minutes after the game started,
we got a correct answer,
so we've stopped pouring water into all the tanks.
We'll start to drain the water now.
"Drain water."
Teacher!
Drain the water faster!
Darn!
Ouch!
Teacher, wait for me!
I'll break it soon!
Don't die!
Chikara.
It was Zero.
It must be Zero.
Hey! Hey!
Chikara?
Chikara!
Is he dead?
This time...
I'll save your life.
Hey! Lower the tank now!
Chikara!
He knows what he should do now, and he does it.
Sometimes it seems reckless,
but when it is over, it's obvious that
it was what he should have done at that time.
When he almost reaches his limit, he still has
the mental power and wit to make the best decision.
Teacher!
Out of my way.
It isn't beating.
What?
I tell you, it doesn't mean that I approve of him.
It's awfully hypocritical.
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten...
And the bond,
friendship...
Live.
Seigi...
He has the power to sow the seeds and let them sprout.
Live!
If Zero gets the one billion yen...
Live!
And the power,
will our world change, then?
I said, live!
In nature,
humans are absolutely weak, that's exactly why they evolved,
and survived.
They thrust an approaching difficult situation back,
come up from behind, and win miraculously.
And it is always
the mutant that saves them.
I know, Mineko.
I know the reason
why you suggested that the man isn't a suitable successor.
Because you are worried that the man will be
a threat to me one day, right?
Are you afraid of the man?
Three, four, five...
Chikara!
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
11,12,13,14...
Live!
17, 18, 19, 20, 21...
Chikara!
Thank goodness!
He came back to life?
I was joking about the assassination and revolution.
What are you talking about?
It can't be a joke...
Who sent the wrong answer?
Oh, I wanted the ring.
Can you sit up?
Are you okay, Shirube?
I knew I was right to choose you.
Because I'm an idiot?
In every sense.
Teacher!
Mr Suezaki, you saved my life?
No.
Congratulations on your survival.
The three people in Room C got the correct answer,
so I'll present you with the rings as the rules say.
Where is the other guy?
It's my younger brother. I'll take it for him.
I did it. It's my second ring.
You finally got your first ring.
Your phoney goodness was splendidly well acted.
But it's the wrong way to do things around here.
"Triangle Maze."
Are you okay?
Zero!
I knew it was you.
Hiroshi, you played this game too?
Zero, you're wet.
Zero, you...
You solved it as the Human Pillar Stopwatch?
- Zero! - Zero.
I'm glad that you're okay.
Chikara, you too?
My bosom friend!
It's gross to feel your wet clothes on mine.
Why not?
So, where is Sunao?
Shirube asked him to join, so Sunao went with him.
Shirube?
Shirube played this game too?
It's yours.
Okay.
You aren't honest.
But I now know very well.
That you didn't kill my crayfish.
I wonder how much you understand.
What?
About scientific facts.
The jerk looked down on me.
What?
I was surprised.
Your brother told me.
I was surprised too.
His phoney goodness...
No...
I'm just not convinced that I have to owe you one.
Thank you.
What was that?
Say nothing.
Didn't you try to kill him too?
Who knows?
But you got a ring.
What happened?
Whatever.
Sentiments won't bring you a penny.
If you want to conquer the kingdom quickly,
stay cool and overthrow the superior ones.
I know.
But Shirube won't fall into my trap again.
So next time, it'll be him.
Oden?
But it's so hot.
Kingsmart.
It's Zaizen Group's convenience store franchise.
Somehow I feel sorry for the fish paste cake and kelp,
after having been put in a tank.
Actually, I want to ask you guys something regarding that.
Oh, you mean which oden ingredient is the king?
- It's the egg, of course. - I agree.
No, egg isn't the king, it is god.
That isn't what I want to ask.
I want to ask why you were put in the tank.
Why?
Because I got the biggest number when I rolled the dice.
But Shirube was put there because he got an odd number.
Zero, and you?
I rolled the smallest number.
What is going on?
The only possibility is...
the moment we entered the room,
they had already chosen the person to go into the tank.
It's you.
You got one, the smallest number.
Go inside the circle.
They just looked at the number the person rolled,
and simply stated what it meant,
to make it look like we were chosen randomly.
That's why both Zero and Shirube were in the tank.
So they think that I am capable,
like Zero and Shirube, right?
You're a happy simpleton.
And Sunao,
why was Shirube's answer wrong?
I don't think he can't solve a question I can.
It's because I sent the wrong answer.
What?
- What? - What?
Because that guy, Yuki, said something weird.
A person wants to destroy friendship and lives at the same time.
He'll make full use of the most frightening game in history here.
You surpass everyone else in cruelty.
This is thrilling.
Okay, my kitten.
Looking forward.
Yay!
"Number of rings gained so far."
"Number of rings gained."
Welcome to The Anchor!
It's a game to test your friendship.
Let's defeat Zaizen together.
I have to protect my friends.
It's all your fault!
I'll take you with me when I die!
This is exactly what The Anchor is about!