ikinuku tame ni kikonda
生き抜くために着込んだ
In order to survive
kimi dake ga mieru yoroi wa
君だけが見える鎧は
I donned an armour only you could see
mie to gaibun ni obieta
見栄と外聞に怯えた
I stood in fear of appearance and reputation
oroka no hate no genjitsu
愚かの果ての現実
And the realisation of a hopeless end
karada kishimu hodo dakishimete yo
身体軋むほど抱きしめてよ
Hold me tighter until my bones begin to crack
isso kowashitekureyo
いっそ壊してくれよ
Please, just break me apart
kara no ore no naka ni wa mata
殻の俺の中にはまた
Down to my next empty layer
nan no itami mo nai
何の痛みもない
It doesn't hurt at all
And my face gets smaller and smaller
sara ni chippoke na ore no kao da
さらにちっぽけな俺の顔だ
ne
ね
Hey
nige mo kakure mo shinai kara
逃げも隠れもしないから
I won't run or hide
koko kara dashitekure matoryoushika
ここから出してくれマトリョーシカ
So get me out of this Matryoshka
Heisei Financial University
This is your third?
How wonderful!
I want to have lots of children too!
Sensei... how long have you...?
Almost a year and a half, I suppose.
I'm making enough money here to support my family.
My third child is about to be born. Sorry, Yoga.
There's no reason to wait! You should have a few.
Huh? No matter how I consider it, one would be too much to handle!
I don't even have the money for it.
[POISON PILL]
Yes, sir!
Kimimaro!
Poison, eh?
You'll find the money for it somehow.
Even my family is barely making ends meet.
Guess that's how it is, huh?
It certainly is.
I've completed my business model.
[DIRECT]
Victory is mine!
Kimimaro!
[WATCH... WATCH... WATCH]
My stock... sell my stock!
[YOURS]
[MASHYU IS YOURS]
[MINE]
￥50,000,000. Purchase.
Well... shall we head home?
Sorry. I just had to teach today's class no matter what.
It was good exercise for a pregnant lady anyway.
Mezzoflation!
[SCORCHED EARTH]
Scorched Earth!
Whoa!
He really is amazing!
I'll see you later.
Goodbye!
[YOU HAVE GAIN]
Insolvency
[YOU ARE BANKRUPT]
How could I lose like that...?
He hasn't broken any rules.
No matter how you think about it, I was winning, wasn't I?!
No matter how you think about it, there just happened to be an Entre that invested in his stock.
It's a natural result of business activities.
That's bull-
I am terribly sorry, but I'll have to exile you, Ebara-sama.
We spent such a short time together, but thank you ever so much!
Stock?
All assets have 10 stocks assigned to them.
You can sell up to 9 in exchange for cash.
Thank you.
I don't recall doing you any favours.
I simply invested in you. Nothing more, nothing less.
But you did save me there.
If you think about it in a self-centred way, then that's true.
But if you look at it from my position?
Why did I invest in you? For what purpose was it?
Are you seeking a return?
Your wording is a bit off.
At that rate, you would have gone bankrupt.
I wanted to own stock in your asset.
That's why I invested. Our interests were in line.
I'm not interested in receiving anything else in return.
If you say that, "You were in trouble, so I helped you out",
that just makes me sound like a good Samaritan.
Isn't that right?
I wonder what happens to the people who lose...
Well... it depends on the Entre, so I can't really say.
Apparently, after my dad lost, he committed suicide.
Many people do just that.
I wonder if they're trying to avoid troubling those close to them.
He was causing trouble for us...
I had to fight against someone I knew... someone I actually knew.
Ooh, that makes going home even more interesting!
I was an idiot to try and have this conversation with you.
Have you not seen enough evidence to suggest that this would happen?
You have to approach these situations positively!
At present, our member count is over 1,200.
We have about 1/3 of the financial district in our grasp.
Once we pass the 50% mark, we'll even be able to control the financial district!
But if a certain group gets involved...
Leave it be.
There's no point in trying to force an outcome.
When they realise it's to their benefit, everyone else will come flocking to us.
That certain group doesn't really have a solid ideal, anyway.
The ideal that the Starling Guild is pursuing is to change the system of this city.
Eventually, the guild may become the financial district itself.
Are you going to leave the young man in question as is?
Hmm... I wonder what I should do.
Morning! What are you doing?
Oh... well, not really... anything.
Do you know which part we're looking at today?
It's not your fault, but this Business Admin. class bores me to tears...
Ah...
So... picking up where we left off.
We were talking about Jeremy Bensam's Utilitarianism. Does everyone remember?
A 3-year-old second son, Yoshiharu-chan, suffered grave injuries.
Today's News
Afternoon Present
He died shortly after being transferred to a hospital.
Hey, haven't a lot of these kinds of accidents been happening lately?
Yeah...
There was even a child that died in a house fire recently.
Poor thing... It was probably so scared.
Sorry... I have something to do real quick.
Huh? Eh... uh... wai- ah!
Sensei!
Sensei... I had no idea that things would turn out that way...
I'm so sorry.
But I'm relieved that you're all right...
I was worried how I would deal with it if you weren't... and...
Yoga.
Yes?
Are you free this afternoon?
Yeah...
Come with me somewhere.
I'm home!
Welcome back! You're home early, aren't you?
I wanted to take the time for a private lesson today.
Yoga-kun is here.
Sorry to intrude...
Oh! Please enjoy yourself!
It happened suddenly.
Masakaki appeared at my residence and invited me to the financial district.
At first I had no idea what was going on,
but once I got the gist of it, I plunged right in.
Raising a child costs money.
I was against having children, but my wife wanted to, you know?
Maybe it's due to my privileged upbringing, but I don't have much of a business sense.
There's no way you can expect to raise a family on a professor's salary alone,
though I didn't understand that at the time.
The financial district was my answer to that problem.
I fought with all my might... all for my family.
What's your reason for carrying out deals?
I don't know... I'm currently searching for it... my reason for fighting.
Soul-searching, is it?
I guess...
"Having a purpose makes you strong." That line really was a pack of lies.
I lost to someone like you.
Yeah, but can you really say I won?
You did win.
You achieved personal connections with someone like Mikuni Souichirou.
That is your strength.
You should hold your head up high.
And don't forget, if you lose, it's over. Everything is over.
My dad committed suicide... after going bankrupt in the financial district.
I see...
But you know, I understand how your dad felt. I understand it too well.
Doesn't something seem a bit strange?
We're paid Midas Money with our futures as collateral.
Though the term "future" is all together too vague.
I didn't think about it deeply enough.
I was focusing too hard on living the life before my very eyes.
But after going bankrupt, I finally understood the meaning of it all.
Ah...
Sorry, I don't have much to offer you.
Not at all, thank you...
Did you give birth?
What?
Your baby... you said it would be your third...
Come now, are you confusing me with someone else?
Ah, thanks. Yeah, but...
My, whatever happened to you, all of a sudden.
I'm not pregnant.
We don't have any children.
I certainly want some, but I just can't seem to get pregnant.
Well, there's no need to rush!
Are you sure? This guy came home drunk the other night, yelling about,
"Where are my children? Where did everyone go?" in a real panic.
I had no idea what was going on!
Hey, that was the alcohol talking! My mind was really somewhere else.
Weren't you just saying your true feelings?
Stop making things up. I must have been dreaming.
I definitely must have been dreaming...
It's been arranged so that my children never existed in the first place.
All traces of them are gone,
and proof of their birth has even disappeared.
They're just a memory now.
The children I had now exist only in my memories.
The world has been changing like this the entire time.
Beyond our conception, it has been changing little by little.
Getting worse and worse...
I wonder what your father lost.
The fact that you're even here must be some kind of mysterious fortune.
I'm sorry...
It's because I won against you that this...
Certainly, it was the result of losing to you.
But if it would have been you that had lost,
there may have been something similar happening to you instead.
Would you prefer that?
Ah... What should I do?
I don't want to go on torturing people... or to be tortured myself.
I don't want either!
But, all life actually consists of is stealing from others and being stolen from.
Even you had Ikuta stolen from you by another man.
Ah, but she's just... a friend...
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
I knew I should have entered the Starling Guild...
The Starling Guild?
You don't know?
It's the organisation that Mikuni Souichirou is running in the financial district.
He is trying to expand the organisation with the purpose of...
...reducing the effect that the financial district has on this world.
Many Entre are joining as members.
If you join, you lose the opportunity to gain large profits,
but you can also no longer become bankrupt.
I kept my distance from it, but I suppose none of this would have happened if I had joined.
I'm not really holding a grudge against you.
Nor do I have an intention to.
I'm personally responsible for the deals I participated in.
But at the very least, you'd better not lose!
If something happens to you, it will be disastrous.
By now, you're the only other person who has any memory of my children.
Shimada-san, how many kids do you have again?
Huh? W-What's with the sudden question?
Well... I was just thinking that I've never really asked...
Ah, well... I guess I've never really told you either.
This is a good opportunity to say it, so I will, but... I don't have any children.
So... it's just you and your wife?
No, no... I don't have a wife either.
I didn't manage to get married.
I didn't have anyone I was close to.
Sorry, since I never said anything...
Don't worry about it. So, you no longer have any desire to get married?
I'm almost 60 and working at a convenience store late at night.
Do you think there's actually any woman that would marry a guy like me?
I hear a creaking sound.
What is it, Q?
The city itself is creaking.
It feels like many things are reaching their limits.
I simply have to do what I can.
Is that enough?
When buildings lean to the left, they creak. When they lean to the right, they creak.
Therefore, there is not any single correct answer.
As expected from my asset.
I'm your asset...
This city will not be destroyed.
Continually winning deals is hell. Losing is also hell.
If so, it seems to me that continuing to win is the only answer.
Doesn't that make your heart ache?
It doesn't. I have a method fit for avoiding it.
What do you mean?
Mikuni-sama! I have come to escort you.
Come watch.
Mikuni-san's deals sure are popular!
It's because he spends so much money on an extravagant performance.
A black card against a black card, huh?
If you're that unsure, why don't you just quit?
With the size of your fortune, I don't think they'd take your life away, even if you went bankrupt.
Not like that teacher of yours.
But someone may disappear!
Then you have no choice, do you?
You're really starting to piss me off, you know that?
Kikuchi-san, are you sure you won't join our guild?
He's already part of a union.
Well then, allow me to earn some profit.
[OPEN DEAL]
Kakazuzu.
As you wish.
Hurste!
[PACKMAN DEFENCE]
Amazing...
Take a look at his balance sheet.
His money isn't decreasing by much at all.
He looks like he's pinned down,
but he's able to read every movement.
That man's strength is something else.
Hurste is a powerful asset, but it costs too much to maintain.
With those earnings, Kikuchi will lose.
Release a stock to the public!
[YOURS]
[HURSTE IS YOURS]
Yes!
Here we go!
Okay.
Now I can really enjoy this.
A union, huh?
After the stock purchase, Mikuni-san will have 15,100,000,000.
Kikuchi will have 36,900,000,000.
That's more than twice as much.
I wonder how long you can defend against this, young'un.
He's still only losing the same amount.
There you are.
[DIRECT]
Checkmate, old man.
The Packman Defence's counter-attack is frightening, you know!
You overestimated your ability, didn't you, young'un?
Time is almost out... victory is mine.
He's cooking right along. He hasn't wasted a single yen.
Hmph... have you earned enough?
What did you say?
White Knight!
[WHITE KNIGHT]
He's calling out another one! Which one?!
Is it a sleeping beauty?
Make it quick, princess.
She found the main body?
Will I make it?
Princess, come back, quickly!
Now, shall I have you return my money?
Your... your money?!
[DIRECT]
Mikuni!!!
You should be resting, shouldn't you?
[CLOSING]
[YOU LOST]
[YOU HAVE GAIN]
Outstanding! He won with only a 1% advantage!
I wonder how this will effect his reality...
Congratulations.
Yeah.
You were amazing.
You don't look like you're too impressed...
I really did think it was amazing...
...but that doesn't mean that I want to be like you.
It's like I can't convince myself to become that strong...
Then what do you want to become?
I have no idea...
Infuriating, isn't it?
That old man was strong. That was because he had such a large fortune.
But if you go bankrupt with that much money, the influence on the real world is even greater.
Therefore, I cannot allow that to happen to myself.
The true enjoyment of deals isn't just winning or losing.
The key is not winning too much, nor losing too much,
while thinking about the effect it will have on your surroundings...
...and profiting by the smallest amount possible each time.
To accomplish this, you need as much power as I have.
All I have to do is not lose, right?
You'll be fine if you can achieve the power to control your wins and losses.
I'll do it... I'll give it a try.
I don't want to bring pain to those close to me any longer.
mado kara sotto esukeepu shite
I silently escape from my window
yoru no machi ga
and the nighttime city,
RPG ni kawaru
becomes an RPG
yajirushi ni sotte izanawareta
Following an arrow marker, I'm being led
iromeku sekai
to a world brimming with colour
hajimari no aizu hibiiteiru
A sign that something is beginning can be heard
karadajuu koikogareru
and my whole body begins to yearn
kimi ni aitakute hashirinuketeku
I break into a run, wishing to see you
yami wo tobikoete
and break through the darkness
kuraimakkusu nante
It doesn't matter
konakutatte
If we reach a climax
ichi ka bachi ka no kiken na kake datte ii sa
I'd even take a high-stakes bet
ki wo hiite
Anything to get your attention
kimi ni ima hamacchaitainda
I want to think only of you
sekaijuu wo azamuitemo ii
I'd turn my back on the entire world
ima sugu te wo hiite
Take my hand now
A or B ja nai ya
It's not a choice of A or B
rikutsu ja nai ya
It's not something to reason about
sekaijuu no subete no nazo yori
More so than all the mysteries of the world
shiritai kimi no kokoro wo
I want to know your heart