The game will now commence.
"The game"?
What game?
What "game" do they mean?
Where… did everyone go?
Shinagawa Station was empty too.
Shit.
I'm trippin' hard.
The game is Fortunes.
Test your luck by drawing ten fortunes.
FORTUNES
To win, decipher the meaning of the fortunes and survive to the end.
However, only one draw is allowed per person.
There is a one-minute time limit per draw.
Game start.
Is there some sort of festival today?
The announcement mentioned "survive to the end."
Does that mean
we die if we're wrong?
No way.
Sounds fun to me.
He's on drugs.
Here goes!
Seventeen.
Let's see…
Seventeen!
First draw. Begin.
"Great luck."
"Everything you do will go well."
-Check it out! -Nice one!
Right?
We don't know whether that's good yet.
Maybe nothing happens with "great luck."
Okay, then let's keep drawing.
What?
We're doing this?
I wanna try.
Go ahead.
Twenty-one.
Second draw. Begin.
"Good luck."
"Wishes gradually come true. Marriage prospects are good."
"Study hard with peace of mind. West is unlucky."
There's a math problem.
May we see?
Should we solve it?
-Your answer, please. -Fifteen.
-Fifteen? -Fifteen.
Isn't it 18?
-It's five. -Fourteen!
-Which one? -Come on. There's no time!
Ten more seconds.
The answer is 18!
-I said 15. -That's totally wrong.
The answer is 15.
Told you.
-See? -Sorry.
If you answer incorrectly,
the difference will determine the number of flaming arrows.
Please be careful.
Flaming arrows?
What the hell?
Please.
Forty-five.
Forty-five…
Third draw. Begin.
"Moderate luck."
And the problem?
"How many people does it take for there to be at least a 50% chance
that two share the same birthday?"
"One, 23."
"Two, 78."
"Three, 183."
"Four, 365."
I've got no idea.
It's a probability problem.
It's probably more than 100.
It's probably 183, right?
I think it's 23.
Yeah, 23.
Maybe it's 183?
Twenty seconds left.
Okay.
The answer is
number two, 78.
What? Why?
I took the middle ground!
-Please! -The answer is number one, 23 people.
-See? -Difference, 55.
I'm sorry!
Fourth draw. Begin.
"How long does it take for blood pumped from the heart
to make one round trip through the entire body?"
"One, five seconds."
"Two, 30 seconds."
"Three, 80 seconds."
Number three, 80 seconds!
The answer is number two, 30 seconds.
Difference, 50.
"Fifty zoo animals flipped over sequentially."
"What was the lion's number in the sequence?"
Is that it?
A riddle?
Forty-seventh!
The answer is 17th.
Why?
"Lion" flipped upside down is "No. 17."
What the hell?
Difference, 30.
"The Roman numeral I is one, V is five, and X is ten."
"What does L equal?"
One hundred!
The answer is 50.
Sorry!
Difference, 50.
Difference, 55.
Eighth draw. Begin.
Now I remember.
-Arisu, live on for us. -Karube!
That's right.
I won a bunch of games here.
All right!
I'm gonna draw "great luck"!
You can do it!
Ninth draw. Begin.
"Minor luck."
I'm toast if it's a thinking problem.
At least it's not "bad luck." What's the problem?
Let's see…
"Milk is made from nutrients in a cow's blood."
"How many liters of blood are needed to make one liter of milk?"
Huh?
Anyone know?
Who the hell would know that?
I don't know.
-Twenty seconds left. -Answer!
Don't rush her. It makes it hard to think.
There's no time! Hurry!
I don't know stuff like this!
Guess a number!
Ten seconds left.
The answer is…
two liters.
The answer is 450 liters.
450 liters?
That much?
It's one liter of milk!
-I'm sorry! -Difference, 448.
No way!
I'm sorry!
Never mind! Help me with this!
Shit!
It's too freakin' hot!
Now then…
This is gonna hurt.
Sorry about this.
-Huh? -You okay?
Don't pass out!
All right.
You know first aid?
Only 'cause I can't see a doctor without getting arrested.
That should do it. You okay?
-I'm burning up! -The tenth draw's next.
The last one, right?
We'll win if you draw.
Please.
Got it.
I can't take it anymore!
Tenth draw. Begin.
NUMBER 58 EXTREME BAD LUCK
Look at you.
Well done.
-Sorry. -What's the problem?
"What is the world population in billions?"
Huh?
I heard the world's population increases by 80 million each year.
It was about 7.88 billion a few years ago.
A wrong answer means hundreds of millions of arrows.
No way that's possible.
Twenty seconds left.
Ten seconds left.
7.9 billion.
The answer is eight billion.
-Seriously? -Off by 100 million.
That's impossible! Where would that many arrows even…
No way.
A hundred million arrows.
What are we gonna do?
What do we do?
Think.
Decipher the meaning of the fortunes…
"Study hard with peace of mind. West is unlucky."
DIRECTIONAL FORTUNE CHART
WEST
Direction.
Huh?
What?
Could the fortune directions tell us how to escape?
-I threw mine away! -What's your direction?
"West is unlucky."
The arrows came from that way.
Anyone have a compass?
-Who the hell would? -Mine says northeast is unlucky.
-Arrows came from that way! -Mine says north is unlucky.
Southeast is unlucky for me.
-Mine says east. -Mine is southwest.
-Mine is south. -It's blank on my fortune.
What does "great luck" say?
I said I threw it away!
-Huh? -What?!
The arrows!
Take cover!
Northwest.
-What? -It's the only one missing.
The "great luck" fortune was northwest. That might be how we escape.
-Come on! Hurry! -Hurry!
Stop.
Now what? There's nothing here!
There must be something.
There's a well!
It's full of dirt!
The entrance had a long, steep stairway.
So what?!
That means
within this compound,
there must be…
a tunnel!
Here it comes.
What the hell?
How do we even survive that?
-Some help here! -Okay!
It's too late.
A tunnel.
-Get in! -Hurry!
Come on! Hurry!
This way.
Game cleared.
We made it.
PROCEED 17 KM NORTHEAST THE "GAME" STARTS AT SUNDOWN TOMORROW
Another game?
And if we refuse to go?
Yeah, let's just not go.
But if we don't go, then…
There's no escaping the games.
So this means…
Yeah.
We've been here before.
Big Sister!
"Big Sister"?
Found something good.
Here.
-What's this? -A cane.
Thought it might help you walk.
Thanks.
It's so shiny.
Yeah, glam gal style.
Hey, Arisu. I found tons of stuff.
Wow. That's great.
-There's food too. -Great.
His eyes gave me chills.
Like a creepy feeling he wasn't human.
That man…
I think I met him too.
For real?
About two years ago,
I… went and did this.
You poor thing.
I was found unconscious, but I survived.
But I was
still broken from all the bullying.
I continued being a recluse. Nothing changed for me.
And then…
He gave you that card.
Yeah.
I think I met him before coming here too.
Where?
It's kind of embarrassing.
I was invited to this healing circle…
"Healing circle"?
For housewives with family problems.
Those kinds of groups exist.
It was almost like he hypnotized me.
So this guy is the Joker?
We beat all the face cards at their respective games,
but we never battled the Joker.
So does that mean we're up against the Joker now?
Most likely.
The only thing I know is we have something in common.
We've all been here before.
Right.
I'm starting to remember.
I once played games here too.
I had a heart attack while supervising club activities
at the school I worked at.
I was attacked by a stalker.
For me, it was the Shibuya meteorite.
But the games…
I don't wanna remember them.
Arisu, have you also been here before?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
He came here of his own free will to get his wife back?
You poor thing.
-You've never known love, have you? -Huh?
A husband's duty is to cherish his wife.
But what are the odds of finding his wife here?
Well, I'd say about 5%.
-There's zero chance. -Quiet!
And we might all die in the next game.
"GAME" ARENA THIS WAY
Man, this is creepy.
There are other participants?
The game is Zombie Hunt.
Zombies?
Here are the rules.
Each of you will be dealt seven cards.
Use your cards to play one-on-one games
at the special tables throughout the facility.
Play cards of the same suit from your hand.
The player with the higher hand wins.
The winner takes one card from the loser.
The higher hand wins.
Easy-peasy.
Where do the zombies come in?
This game has three kinds of special cards.
The first is…
Zombie cards.
Now I see.
Only one person per team will be dealt a Zombie card.
The Zombie beats all other cards, no matter how high they are.
The loser gets infected…
and a Zombie card is added to their hand.
The card that prevents zombies from multiplying is
the Shotgun card.
You can kill a zombie with this card.
Each player will have one Shotgun card.
You can use it to kill a zombie even if their Zombie card isn't on the table.
So zombies risk getting killed.
The Shotgun card disappears after one use.
It has no effect on humans.
For those who want a peaceful resolution, there's the Vaccine card.
Vaccine cards will be randomly distributed.
Playing the Vaccine card nullifies a Zombie card on the table…
and turns the zombie back into a human.
However, you cannot use the Vaccine card on yourself.
Use these two cards to prevent zombies from multiplying.
The game ends after 20 rounds.
If you run out of number cards during the 20 rounds,
it's game over.
Whichever side, zombies or humans, has more members at the end wins.
LARGER SIDE AFTER 20 ROUNDS WINS HUMANS / ZOMBIES
It's game over for the side with fewer members.
Each team will enter the game via one of the four entrances.
There are other teams?
There is also one zombie on each of the other teams.
So just four?
Game start.
Please take your cards.
No Zombie, please.
First round. Begin.
Please choose an opponent by touching them,
and then head to a game table.
Please place your cards.
The numbers on the cards aren't that important.
After 20 rounds, all we need is to have at least one number card.
Open.
My bad.
Shit.
We might want to avoid playing other teams.
Why not just play among ourselves and share number cards?
You're right.
Second round. Begin.
The special cards are a problem, especially the Zombie card.
Open.
I win.
-Sorry. -It's okay.
Kinda cramped here.
There are game tables in the basement.
-Let's set up base there. -Yeah, looks roomy.
The humans win if the zombies are prevented from multiplying for 20 turns.
There's a zombie on our team, right?
Whoever it is probably won't tell anyone.
Why not?
Because if they're exposed, they might get killed by a Shotgun card.
Right.
Third round. Begin.
Another team!
-Touch them! -Okay.
Hey there.
Open.
To keep zombies from multiplying,
we need to find the players who were randomly dealt Vaccine cards.
That will be our key to victory.
I win.
There doesn't seem to be a Vaccine card on our team.
That means there's a good chance a player on another team has one.
Usagi.
Please choose an opponent by touching them.
Can I ask you something?
What?
I'm looking for a woman named Usagi.
Have you seen her?
She has hair about this long and is about 160 centimeters tall.
There were tons of women like that.
I see.
But check this out.
This Joker stage seems to be a tournament.
Even if you find her, you might have to kill each other.
A tournament?
We can't choose the games we play, and once we get to an arena,
we meet up with players who survived other arenas.
I think he's right.
It's way different from when I first came here.
We could choose which games to play.
That's right.
There will only be a few players left by the end of the tournament.
Those who survive will likely…
Have to kill each other.
Whoa.
Please choose an opponent by touching them.
Please place your cards.
You've… been infected by a zombie, haven't you?
What?
You haven't looked me in the eye since you sat down.
If you wanted to work together and share number cards, you'd make eye contact.
Well…
On top of that,
you've been playing against the same girl this whole time.
But you suddenly chose me for this round.
So I figured you turned her into a zombie and then split up.
Zombies only win if they infect enough players.
Making more zombies here isn't a good idea.
Zombies get shot.
But there's no such risk if you're human.
Everyone on this team still has a Shotgun card.
Someone might kill you the moment you're exposed.
Listen.
We'll cure you once we find a Vaccine card.
Stay with us for now.
Open.
Zombies might already be multiplying.
They're zombies?
What should we do with them?
We need to find Vaccine cards.
Hey.
Don't overthink it. We should just kill them.
We can't simply shoot them.
We have to prevent zombification.
Any ideas?
There is one way.
A way to defend against Zombie cards
without killing each other.
-What is it? -Careful.
She's not from our team.
She might be a zombie.
We form a group that promises to use the Vaccine card to cure each other.
Even if one of our members turns into a zombie,
we'll make sure to cure them.
Then we'll have them tell us who infected them
and threaten to shoot whoever that is.
That will scare other zombies away from our group.
A pact to use Vaccine cards to cure each other?
Will it last?
Let's say…
you're a zombie.
Here.
And say you also have a Vaccine card.
Then suppose you reveal that you're a zombie
and say you'll promise to use your Vaccine card on him
if he becomes a zombie.
See what I'm getting at?
What?
You've confessed to being a zombie.
It's like saying, "Kill me anytime."
You mean forming an alliance by using yourself as a hostage?
Exactly.
You'll keep your promise because you don't want to die.
You're saying, "You can kill me if I don't keep it."
The zombie willingly becomes a hostage for the humans.
And this promise is made with multiple people.
We create a trust-based group.
We promise to use this vaccine to cure anyone who turns into a zombie.
But there's only one Vaccine card.
We have to persuade other Vaccine cardholders to join us.
Are there enough to go around?
None of us know the total number of Vaccine cards.
We just have to trick all the other players into believing
that we have enough to save everyone.
Do that, and zombies won't come near us,
and we can win the game by increasing our numbers.
Okay, but is there really anyone with both a Zombie and a Vaccine card?
That would be me.
Huh?
That's why you approached us?
Yeah, to make my sales pitch.
What's your name?
Rei.
We'll share the Vaccine card…
This "barricade of trust" strategy
must first be communicated to the other teams.
Zombies will be too scared to come near us.
Because if they use their Zombie card on us,
they will be exposed and risk getting shot.
We can win if we grow our numbers with this barricade strategy.
Okay.
Count me in.
There's a group in the basement promising to use Vaccine cards on each other.
Even if you use a Zombie card, the Vaccine card will cure them.
That group is trouble.
They keep each other updated on zombies who came to infect them.
So if you zombify one of them,
they'll tell the others, and you'll get killed.
Don't tell anyone else,
but I heard a zombie tried to turn someone from that group,
got exposed, and ended up being killed.
For real?
That group promised to cure each other with Vaccine cards if they're zombified.
It might be safer to join them at this point.
They're bad news.
Will this barricade of trust really work?
You'll see.
We'll gather in the basement and work it out there.
Okay, Miyano.
I have a Vaccine card.
That makes you the third one.
Next.
We'll try to play games among our group, sharing number cards as we go.
In short, we'll lose on purpose to those with fewer cards.
And the winner will take a lower-number card from the loser.
And zombies will only play each other.
That way, we won't have to kill each other to stop the spread.
And no one runs out of number cards.
We'll get more players who have Vaccine cards if we keep this up.
It's already the 11th round.
Maybe we should join that basement group.
I heard they gathered Vaccine cards.
Who knows if it's true?
We won't get any more Vaccine cards.
We don't even know how many there are.
Simply threatening zombies isn't enough.
There's a way to increase our odds of survival.
How?
Reduce the number of zombies.
I get it.
This dude turned into a zombie.
Put him in there.
Do you remember who turned you?
Yeah.
We'll kill 'em.
Hey,
would you do it?
We'll guarantee you vaccine priority.
Please place your cards.
Open.
You said you wanted out too!
Are you gonna shoot me, a blood brother?!
No, stop!
Kazuya, you…
It had to be done.
This is a game.
Nice work!
You're not some law-abiding chump.
Take note, everyone.
Everyone who was zombified has info on the other zombies.
Get info from the other teams too.
How?
Threaten them with a Shotgun card.
They'll talk.
I like your style. Let's keep it up, eh?
Tell me who the zombies are, and we'll give you vaccine priority.
Okay! I'll tell you the ones I know!
We're dead if they find out we're zombies.
We have to hide.
Listen.
We'll trap them and turn them.
At this point, anyone will do!
-Come on. -Right.
Open.
This is not good.
Yeah.
Don't you care?
The barricade of trust is holding up.
The zombies on the other teams will retaliate.
It's starting to feel like a real game.
Subtitle translation by: Jason Franzman