Chapter 4 : Defeat
Utsumi took his time to follow Soma and Hazuki. He was aware of his two opponents, as well as his surroundings. He was in an unknown neighborhood, and he needed to remember his steps, in case he needed to run away. He took notice of the nearest subway station.
Soma and Hazuki went behind a popular restaurant. There was no one there and it was one of their 10 hidden places.
"It's a restaurant, and it needs to be clean every day" said Soma 13 days ago.
"And there's another restaurant right next to this one. Which means the space between them is sure to never be used. We have a good hiding spot,
and it will be easy to come back here and get back to public if we are followed"
"Indeed, Soma. The money is intact." Hazuki took the bag containing 10 million yen. "Now, let's see the serials...OH NO"
Jiro is dashing to the duo! He stopped hiding the second he saw the money.
"UTSUMI!" yelled Hazuki
Soma reached in his vest for the brass knuckles, but was interrupted by a tackle. Utsumi knocked him out with two punches on the ground, along with crushing his head on the ground. He turned his head to Hazuki, running away to the main street.
"COME BACK HERE!" screamed the bodybuilded instructor.
Hazuki was already slow, carrying 10 million yen was too much to ask, Utsumi caught up very quickly. Hazuki tried to hit his opponent with the bag, but Utsumi kicked him before he could finish his swing motion. Hazuki was on the ground, and Utsumi ran away with the bag.
"noooooooOOOOOOOOO" cried Hazuki, quickly getting back on his feet and pursuing Utsumi.
However, Utsumi was too fast. He entered the subway station with his bag. Hazuki was too far away to catch up.
Once in the train station, Utsumi glanced around him. Everyone in the station was looking at him
(Damn, this money bag is weird. It looks exactly like I'm carrying money.)
Jiro stopped to put the money bag inside his own backpack.
"They might be here"
Utsumi looked around him. No homeless man. Great.
He reached a station near a forest in the suburbs of Tokyo. He had hidden the whole 100 million out of town, in his old abandoned house.
Now he had 110 million in his old bedroom.
"I should disappear until day 30...Yes, I'll go to Nagano and cancel all my classes."
Five hours later, Jiro Utsumi took the Shinkansen.
Day 15.
Day 20.
Day 25.
Day 29.
The last day.
Utsumi went to his old childood house and collected his money. He planned to go to his house, probably assieged by homeless man, and fight his way home. Instead, when he saw his apartement, no one was outside.
"Inside, maybe?"
No one was inside, too. Utsumi picked up his mail. Apparently, the money pickup would occur at 6.00 PM.
Two hours later, the door rang. Utsumi opened the door, to see three men wearing masks.
"We're from the Liar Game Offices. The game has reached his deadline, so we have come to retrieve the MONEY"
"Here!"
Utsumi gave his traveling bag, filled with money.
"Well then"
...
"Confirmation complete. Is this all?"
"Well, yeah, I only took 10 million..."
"Huh? That's odd" responded the LGT representative. "There is only 99 990 000 yen. You lost the round."
"...What?"
A cell phone rang. The LGT reprensative picked up the phone.
"...Ok. We have 99 990 000 yen here. Ok." The phone call was very quick.
"This is confirmed, Utsumi-san. Your opponent has 100 010 000 yen, and you have 99 990 000. You lost the round"
"...?"
