Human beings cannot live without consuming.
Once one accepts such a sinful existence,
and cannot help but go on living,
at the very least, we should live for someone else.
Isn't that a natural train of thought?
I completely agree with you,
but to actually achieve that through action...
I don't think it's that simple.
Everyone holds feelings of consideration toward others.
We've seen an example of this with a recent trend.
There was a chain of donation funds that were created anonymously, right?
I feel that if you conduct philanthropy from a position that seems you're looking down on others,
you cannot communicate your true intentions.
Sennoza Kou, 29 years-old.
Deal history, out of 57 deals: 56 wins, 1 loss.
His present fortune rests at ￥9,870,000,000.
His next deal is scheduled for Thursday of next week.
His opponent, Yoga Kimimaro.
I am conducting investment in my future.
I think it's enough to think of it that way.
Against that kid.
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
Mashyu, find it's Entre!
Okay!
Do it now!
We've taken the asset down, but...
We'll still have to find the Entre.
Guess so.
You worthless...
There he is!
Ah... crap...
[DIRECT]
Fine... do as you please.
I'll be taking no more than the amount I used.
Oh!
[CLOSING] [YOU HAVE GAIN]
We did it!
Yeah.
Quite the accomplishment.
What do you mean?
Searching out your opponent.
Thinking up a strategy.
I was thinking that it was just a pain in the ass, but...
...you can definitely see the results.
Results are the reason we're doing it.
How do you feel?
Feel?
You said before that it was a matter of how you feel.
How does it feel to keep winning?
There's no way I'd feel good about it.
But today you seemed so fired up!
I thought I'd hate being in a fight where I couldn't let loose.
But I started to catch on pretty quickly.
When you win, you feel...
...great.
Stop saying that stuff...
Why?
The reason I exist is to help you win in the first place.
Ah, that's true.
What the hell are you saying?
I actually forget that every once in a while.
If I had that bear-looking asset from today instead, I would probably feel differently.
How so?
Ah, nothing...
What?
You're staring too much.
I'm not really looking at anything...
He said that assets are the personification of an Entre's future, didn't he?
Are you Yoga-kun?
Huh?
This is your asset?
Are those cup noodles good?
Huh?
You're really cute. The curve of your horns is so charming!
Hey...
Oh, Sennoza.
I'm matched up with you for my next deal.
I hear you're strong.
That's not...
Hey, I want you to listen to me without passing judgement...
You know that there is a way to "pass" on deals, don't you?
If you pay a set amount to the bank here... or something like that.
I don't know how much, though.
Half of your personal fortune.
That much?!
How about... if I shoulder that debt for you?
What do you mean?
It's as I said, how would you like to avoid doing the deal?
W-Wait a second!
If that's how you feel, why not just pay to pass yourself?
Half of my fortune is a bit much.
But half of your fortune is nothing that I can't afford.
Stay calm.
All I want is to have a nice, relaxed talk.
So what you've been saying... means you've even researched my finances?
Not only you. I research my opponent every time, and I always ask to pass.
Though no one has ever accepted.
Why do that?
No matter how well you achieve balance in a deal,
there is no way to avoid having some effect on reality.
If so, don't you think that the best solution is to not do it?
I won't ask for your answer immediately.
If you make a decision, contact me.
Well then...
Creepy...
Wonderful...
Although, that guy...
What is it?
Well, I feel like I've seen him somewhere.
Ahh!
Recognised as a representative of many non-profit organisations,
his activities began by making donations of vaccines to developing countries,
and have spread from there to include many other areas.
He takes a soft stance despite his high position, and his beautiful looks stir one's motherly instinct.
He's even been called the "Prince of Volunteers".
He really is creepy...
Yoga-kun? You're Yoga Kimimaro-kun right?
Yes?
Hurry up and get in!
Your aunt has...
Huh?
I'll tell you the details in the car. Hurry and get in!
Uh...
Hey... what are you locking it for?!
I apologise. I lied.
You won't get anything for kidnapping a low-class guy like me.
I'll take you back as soon as we're done talking.
If you have somewhere you want to get dropped off, just tell me.
Except the financial district, of course.
You're...
I'm also an Entre. I'm researching the financial district.
No matter what you ask me, all I have are questions myself.
That's fine.
I only want to talk.
To tell you the truth, I'm having trouble deciding how to interpret Mikuni Souichirou's interest in you.
If you separate the types of people in the financial district, there are only two.
Those that have been sucked in, and those that haven't.
You haven't been sucked in yet.
I don't believe I have yet, either.
Nor has Mikuni.
Even being as deeply immersed as we are,
I'm trying to think of a way to use him assertively.
But doing so is a dangerous bet.
A bet?
In order to stabilise the economy,
there's no doubt that he intends to use up his own future.
What I don't understand is just how aware he is of what he is doing.
I can't imagine that a man who's so knowledgeable and strategic wouldn't realise it.
I don't understand a single thing you're saying.
To put it simply, we'll be in danger if we don't destroy the financial district.
This country's future... perhaps the future of something even broader...
I would like you to cooperate with me.
Cooperate? Is it even possible to destroy the financial district anyway?
The systems and groups that make up that city...
...if we take them out one by one... in other words...
You mean...
Exactly, groups like the Starling Guild.
Hang on. The guild is keeping the effects of deals to a minimum, aren't they?
Even with the Bashou Pharmaceutical incident...
Certainly, by transferring the bad debt following a clash between two tycoons,
they did manage to unnaturally prevent a large loss from the bankruptcy.
But that doesn't mean he's trying to throw his future away.
That was nothing more than a stop-gap measure.
Mikuni managed to protect the lives of 10,000 people,
but the large amount of Midas Money that he invested...
No one knows just how much of his future was taken.
I don't understand anything you're saying.
Then... what about you?
Hey...
What do you, yourself, think?
M-Me? B-But I just entered the guild recently, and...
A-Anyway, are you sure it's all right to be telling me all these things?
I think you're wonderful.
You have the eyes of someone who's still able to think of something other than money.
Think about it carefully... I don't care when you give me an answer.
More homework, huh?
Homework?
I was told the same thing by my next opponent.
Sennoza Kou.
Huh?
Mikuni is also keeping an eye on him.
He's also been invited to the Starling Guild, but has turned it down.
You know, no matter how I think about it, you're the same.
Appearing out of nowhere... you and Mikuni-san. If I had to choose who I believe- Ahh!
What? What's going on?!
We're being followed.
Run for it!
You're calling for me over something like this again?
I'm just so used to it.
That's because the people who use this service are always being chased by trouble.
Trouble... I bet.
Even I...
Ah... what should I do about my van?
If I think about how you all must feel now,
being told to think only of tomorrow,
Politicians Get to work on our poverty problem!
D R R E A F S O T R I M C
Don't toss labourers to the curb!
Life Home and Job Security!
you would probably think me an idiot for saying such a thing.
But you know, if you only think of what you need to do now to survive,
the desire to act just doesn't come gushing forth.
Don't you feel the same?
Go ahead and ask Sennoza as well.
Huh?
He's also someone struggling with how he believes reality and the financial district should be.
You came all the way out here for me! Have you decided?
I'm still thinking about that matter.
I thought I might just talk with you a bit.
Okay.
I was on my way back to the office, so let's talk there.
It's true that, currently, you hear people saying that the economy is doing well.
But... the truth is as you saw it just a while ago.
Politicians Get to work on our poverty problem!
D R R E A F S O T R I M C
Don't toss labourers to the curb!
Life Home and Job Security!
The financial gap is widening without ease.
The large sums of money being injected into this country from the other world...
...are destroying the economy's balance.
And the cause is the Starling Guild?
They control deals from within, and reduce the effect on reality as much as possible...
...but every time they make a move,
the world seems to get more and more blocked up.
If all that is left is a future with no possibility,
there's no reason for the present to exist.
You've heard that city is built upon people's futures taken in collateral, right?
I've seen the effects of that on reality myself.
I see. So have I.
I have something I want you to see.
These are from the countries that I've sent vaccines to.
Every year I receive these from the children.
They say it's because they have nothing to give me in return.
I see.
The theme of the pictures is all the same.
Have you more or less figured it out?
Isn't it all over the place? Some of cities, some of people...
It seems like futures to me. The image of countries developing past poverty...
What one wants to become in the future.
Really...
I lost a deal once.
It wasn't that great of a loss, but a loss is a loss.
When I returned to reality, I realised just how many of these pictures...
...had their contents changed.
You mean that...
They disappeared. Along with the future they'd painted.
When you participate in a deal, one side will certainly lose something.
If it can be avoided, that is what's best.
But if you really must fight, you must replace the most important possibility to you with another.
Sorry to take so long...
More calls about your insurance?
When I tell them to get lost and cancel my contract...
You're better off cancelling the contract?
If you look at it in the long term, I'm probably making a mistake.
I've been saving with them since I was young,
but things haven't been going well lately,
and to tell you the truth, I want the account money.
You're lucky to still be able to worry about old age.
Even as old as I am, I'm barely scraping by day to day.
Pitiful, isn't it?
What's wrong with that?
Sure is simple.
Besides, you decided how you felt from the beginning.
Hey, in general, how do you...
My feelings or whatever?
When it comes to not fighting, how am I supposed to feel?
Anyway, that guy, he's really just as I told you, right?
Wonderful.
There's no reason to look at me like that.
You came here because you thought you'd be able to meet with me, right?
That's...
You felt like you might want to meet with me, but might not, am I right?
You sure are carefree to be able to go out on a date the day before a deal.
What do you mean, "date"?
We're on a "date".
Huh?
What's a date?
It's about the deal...
Have you requested a pass?
That's how he always does things.
So, what do you intend to do?
I can't decide.
I've had Sennoza come to me, asking for the same thing.
But there was no way he'd be able to shoulder half of my fortune.
Then the one person that he'd lost to was...
I thought that his way of thinking was quite intriguing...
...merely as a course of action.
But that's where he's limited.
Limited...?
The future is just a continuation of the present.
If you lose your present, the future no longer exists.
But, If all that is left is a future with no possibility-
"There's no reason for the present to exist," was it?
He told me the same thing.
However, that is a theory for someone with power.
Logic that only someone with the flexibility to observe things from afar can develop.
Those who are truly powerless are...
...day... by day... living each moment preciously.
Sennoza has probably...
...lived his life without ever feeling his freedom restricted.
The man has probably lost his sensitivity to the scent of blood that pollutes the air around money.
Blood?
The place and time that you use it...
While you're making decisions about these things, there's always blood flowing around money.
I expect you would understand as well.
Do as you please for tomorrow's deal.
But as long as you are in this city, you can never truly escape.
Fight... and win. That is the most tried and true method in this world. This is what I believe.
Don't worry about it!
Hey, are you listening to me?
There's no scent...
What?
I don't understand what the scent of blood is supposed to be...
There isn't any smell to this at all.
Really?
But it has many different flavours.
I thought that you'd accept my proposition.
I originally intended to, but...
But what?
I don't know.
I see.
If all that is left is a future with no possibility,
there's no reason for the present to exist.
You have the eyes of someone who's still able to think of something other than money.
Fight... and win. That is the most tried and true method in this world. This is what I believe.
I understand how you feel, but if you've decided, you'd better give it your all.
[OPEN DEAL]
Kimimaro!
How foolish.
Karyuma!
[ANGEL]
Mashyu!
He's strong... there's nothing weak about him...
I don't think I'll hold up...
[ANGEL]
M-Mashyu!
Mashyu...
[ANGEL]
Mashyu!
Hey, Mashyu, Mashyu, Mashyu!
Don't worry... I'll heal up in no time...
Mashyu...
I think there's no choice but to take him head on...
You may be able to finish him off with a flation...
Mashyu... that's impossible...
I understand... how you feel.
You don't want to win, do you?
It's fine. I kind of feel the same way.
You're wrong, Mashyu. I don't want to win, but... I don't want to lose either.
More than the future... more than anything...
I'm most afraid of losing what's close to me.
Let's go, Mashyu.
[ANGEL]
Yo!
Um... I just checked by your office, but...
Yeah, I decided to vacate!
I'll start over with a select few of my staff.
It hit you... that hard?
Huh?
Let's go over there for a bit.
I can't believe you came at me with two mezzoflations from that state...
I'm sorry...
There's no need for you to apologise!
I was also desperate at the time.
But... winning like that...
If that fight had gone on, I would have surely lost the ability to control the outcome as well.
If you look at it that way, you made the most appropriate decision under the circumstances.
I might have been underestimating you.
Because I saw something of myself in you.
I think you're someone who can fight your way out of that city.
Hey... the pictures that were hanging up in your office...
You want to know?
No.
Yoga-kun!
I'm moving everything to a nearby facility.
From here on out, we'll have to rely solely on donations and fund-raising campaigns...
...since I can't give as much support as before.
But you know? It's much better than having to rely on that money.
Hand that over to your charming asset.
Tell her it's a present from me.
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