p style="line-height: 200%;"Location: Okishima Island, Seto Inland Sea, Japan. The Republic of Greater East Asia./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"emTime: 13:46/em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"emDate: May 26 2013 /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em Takami stared intensely at the screens. The flashing lights made his eyes ache. Waiting made his fingers tremble. He was impatient, wanting the game to end. To go home and just sleep in his own bed. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em /em"Seven are left, including those three." He called to the soldiers, who were betting on the unfortunate students surrounding them./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada lounged in the recliner, eating another bag of seaweed chips./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" The elderly Kitano fell asleep on the couch a few hours prior, but was shoved by his dominant colleague, Tahara, on the floor. Tahara took over the couch; the deeply sleeping Kitano made no sound./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Yamada, Kitano's bet's still good. Maybe he's gonna win this time." Tahara crossed his legs and looked up at the pattern on the ceiling./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nah. He never does. He didn't technically bet."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm gonna make him put money in the pot anyway, it's his job." /p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Then does that mean it's not yours. You just won't admit you're going to to lose."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Whatever you say, Tahara. You're the Colonel. I'm just the private. Whatever.."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada continued to eat his chips./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Hey, gimme one!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nah. You don't deserve one for shoving Kitano on the ground. I'm surprised that didn't wake him up. Maybe you killed him."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nonsense!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Check his pulse and I'll give you the whole bag. Just leave me alone."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Fine."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" It turned out, Kitano was fine. Tahara's touch awoke him and he reclaimed his spot on the couch before falling asleep once more./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Give me the bag." Tahara demanded./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada tossed the bag across the room. "Once you respect your elders, we can talk about bets. Okay?"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" em"/emYou were okay yesterday. And now, this?"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada stayed quiet./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "We've got some close icons on the radar.. Not the normal ones! Look!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada lifted himself out of his seat, but Tahara raced past him./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Never mind, boys. It was nothing. Sit back down. We have to make this go by a little faster..."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "And then what? Those two in the cave are gonna sit there forever! How about we move them out?" Tahara butted in. /p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm not in control. Let them figure it out. All I have to do is watch. Sit back down, Tahara."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "We have to let them go! Forbid the cave zone. emNow!/em"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm not in control."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Press the button or I'll press it for you!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Tahara, sit down!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Tahara would not budge from his stance./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" He ran towards the button and pressed it./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" emTwo different male and female students died instead of his targets. They were Ayuki Saito (Male Student #10 ) and Ai Ibaraki (Female Student #3) /em emThe system chose them for two reasons and two reasons only. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em First, they survived longer than both of their predicted placements, and of course, normally, the government wouldn't stand for it. Second, they were in the same zone. Takami also tried to keep Utsumi and Greystone to up at least the third spot. Perhaps, he wanted them to survive. It's feasible that it was also for his personal gain to keep Hudson alive longer. In doing so, her parents would have to suffer overseas to see how far she would have made it before dropping dead. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em De facto, Reader, I have no idea. /em/p
p style="text-align: center; line-height: 200%;" align="center"em4/em emStudents Remaining/ememspan style="font-family: 'Bodoni Ornaments','serif';" br /span/em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"emTime: 13:46/em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"emDate: May 26 2013 /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em Takami stared intensely at the screens. The flashing lights made his eyes ache. Waiting made his fingers tremble. He was impatient, wanting the game to end. To go home and just sleep in his own bed. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em /em"Seven are left, including those three." He called to the soldiers, who were betting on the unfortunate students surrounding them./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada lounged in the recliner, eating another bag of seaweed chips./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" The elderly Kitano fell asleep on the couch a few hours prior, but was shoved by his dominant colleague, Tahara, on the floor. Tahara took over the couch; the deeply sleeping Kitano made no sound./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Yamada, Kitano's bet's still good. Maybe he's gonna win this time." Tahara crossed his legs and looked up at the pattern on the ceiling./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nah. He never does. He didn't technically bet."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm gonna make him put money in the pot anyway, it's his job." /p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Then does that mean it's not yours. You just won't admit you're going to to lose."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Whatever you say, Tahara. You're the Colonel. I'm just the private. Whatever.."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada continued to eat his chips./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Hey, gimme one!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nah. You don't deserve one for shoving Kitano on the ground. I'm surprised that didn't wake him up. Maybe you killed him."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Nonsense!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Check his pulse and I'll give you the whole bag. Just leave me alone."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Fine."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" It turned out, Kitano was fine. Tahara's touch awoke him and he reclaimed his spot on the couch before falling asleep once more./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Give me the bag." Tahara demanded./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada tossed the bag across the room. "Once you respect your elders, we can talk about bets. Okay?"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" em"/emYou were okay yesterday. And now, this?"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada stayed quiet./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "We've got some close icons on the radar.. Not the normal ones! Look!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Yamada lifted himself out of his seat, but Tahara raced past him./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Never mind, boys. It was nothing. Sit back down. We have to make this go by a little faster..."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "And then what? Those two in the cave are gonna sit there forever! How about we move them out?" Tahara butted in. /p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm not in control. Let them figure it out. All I have to do is watch. Sit back down, Tahara."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "We have to let them go! Forbid the cave zone. emNow!/em"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "I'm not in control."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Press the button or I'll press it for you!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" "Tahara, sit down!"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;" Tahara would not budge from his stance./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" He ran towards the button and pressed it./p
p style="line-height: 200%;" emTwo different male and female students died instead of his targets. They were Ayuki Saito (Male Student #10 ) and Ai Ibaraki (Female Student #3) /em emThe system chose them for two reasons and two reasons only. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em First, they survived longer than both of their predicted placements, and of course, normally, the government wouldn't stand for it. Second, they were in the same zone. Takami also tried to keep Utsumi and Greystone to up at least the third spot. Perhaps, he wanted them to survive. It's feasible that it was also for his personal gain to keep Hudson alive longer. In doing so, her parents would have to suffer overseas to see how far she would have made it before dropping dead. /em/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"em De facto, Reader, I have no idea. /em/p
p style="text-align: center; line-height: 200%;" align="center"em4/em emStudents Remaining/ememspan style="font-family: 'Bodoni Ornaments','serif';" br /span/em/p