
(From what we heard... the rules are simple. Nine coffins... If Gin is picked, we lose. If Komaeda is hit, we win. But...)

“Is it really... that simple...?"

(Above all... It's strange that Komaeda, who should be in a coffin, isn't saying anything...)

".........."
Music stops.

(But... It doesn't change what we have to do! We'll discuss it together and find an answer...!!)
Kanna's statement.
Music stops.

"Okay...! Let's take a look at the machine!"

(Alright, then... I'll touch around and see if there's anything else we can control.)
Investigate base of platform.
Music stops.

(This part of the platform... It shows the number of each coffin. So what are these
round lamps beneath the numbers...?)

"Hey, whoa! Don't go casually pressin' that!"

"...Will you tell me about it?"

"Of course! See, these lamps are..."

"Hint...?"

"Yep! This is a game where you and Komaeda
take turns selecting coffins, but..."

"Before each selection, you can get one hint!"

Can Komaeda use that too...?"

"Yes ma'am! And I'm sure he will!"

"And what exactly are these hints?"

"Too bad! Explanation ends here!"

"Just see what happens and think about it!"

(W-What...?!)

"You're good at puzzles, ain'tcha?"
Music stops.

(Urgh! If we can only use it once, I can't choose aimlessly... I want to narrow things down to an extent first. I think we need to discuss after all...)

"Alright...! Let's observe!"

(So he says, but...)

"They all look pretty much the same..."

(The only one we can identify is
Anzu's coffin.)

“That means there's only a one in eight chance that we hit Komaeda."

"There's also the possibility we hit Gin...!"

"Meowww?!"

"That's a problem, woof!! I can't die like this, woof!!"

(Right, but what difference in appearance is there?!)

"Is there not something?! Some way to
see things the eye cannot...!"

(Let me think about it...)

"Hmph... Have you thought of something, Sara Chidouin?"

"How about we use an item?"

"Hmph... It seems you have an idea. Then show it to me! This so-called "item"...!"

(I'll present it to him...)
Show lantern to Alice.
Music stops.

"What...? The lantern?"

"The light of this lantern can reveal things that you can't normally see!"

"But... I thought it was out of battery..."

"We'll use the one I picked up."

"Thinkin' it's the same as your lantern, Sara."

"Thank you very much...!"

"Now, let's try this!"

"The coffins are glowing...!"

"Eh...? Wha...? What's going on outside?!"

(We're not sure of the details either, but... There's something special to these coffins! We might just be able to tell them apart...!)
Music stops.

"The coffins must be made with a special material that glows in the lantern's light..."

"Hey, hey! What's it look like?! How many glowing coffins are there?! Tell me!"

"We saw the coffins glowin' like this when we were off on our own, too!"
Extract statement from Hayasaka.

"The coffins must be made with a special material that glows in the lantern's light... Just for example, I believe some ores like ruby and diamond glow in ultraviolet light."

"Maybe those coffins are made of diamond, too..."
Extract statement from Q-taro.

"We saw the coffins glowin' like this when we were off on our own, too!"

"Never would've guessed the same lantern would be on Floor 5 too..."

"When we used it in the cemetery...
all seven coffins started glowin'!"

(All seven coffins...? This is an important statement...!)
Extract statement from Anzu.

"Hey, hey! What's it look like?! How many glowing coffins are there?! Tell me!"

"W-Well? Do you know...?"

“Five.”

"Really...? Hmm... I see..."

"...So?"

"If there are
five glowing coffins, then, like... what?!"

(This has to be a lead... Let me think about it.)
Conflict Q-taro against Anzu.
Music stops.

"All seven... glowed?"

"Y-Yeah...!"

"Then... Why are only five glowing now?"

"By the way, there exist no other coffins than these!"

(So the seven glowing coffins were reduced to five glowing coffins because...)

"There are
coffins that lost their glow...!"

"Awright, why don't we think about why that is?!"

"I've lost my glow?!"

"Ahem... Don't go addin' pointless statements."

"Ah...! I'll retract it!"

"Maple exploded on top of Anzu's coffin. Is that why...?"

"But... There should be another coffin that's lost its glow too, right?"

"…"

"Is there any other possible cause...?"

(Even little things matter here...)

"Do any of you remember anything unusual that happened to the coffins...?"

"All I can think of is how their peculiar
smell bothers me..."

"Ahh... That's right, Hinako splashed
liquid at me and got my coffin all sticky..."

"Maybe the coffins actually use power to glow? Surely... they
ran out of battery!"

"It's gotta be the explosion's fault, yeah?
The heat of the blast, say..."
Extract statement from Kanna.

"The Dummies also run on battery! It would make sense if their coffins did too!"
Extract statement from Hayasaka.

"All I can think of is how their peculiar
smell bothers me..."

"I feel like staying in this coffin for too long will give my suit a stench... Haha..."
Extract statement from Kurumada.

"It's gotta be the explosion's fault, yeah?
The heat of the blast, say..."

"The impact of the explosion, or the heat... There's a lot that could've done it, ain't there?"
Extract statement from Ranmaru.

"Ahh... That's right, Hinako splashed
liquid at me and got my coffin all sticky..."

"See, Hinako was having me hold her cocoa..."

"And I said "it's hot, carry it yourself."”

"Then she crumpled it up, and splashed it all over my coffin..."

"...I had no choice but to wipe it off myself."

"But... That ain't important, is it?"

(I can't overlook this statement...!)
Conflict Ranmaru with Kurumada.
Music stops.

"Hold on a sec! I wanna hear about what you said!"

"Wha?! Me...?!"

"Yeah, I think it was cocoa, but..."

"Maybe it was actually... a cafe mocha?"

"Whichever it is, that ain't the point!! Ranmaru said the cocoa didn't matter..."

"But both the explosion and the hot cocoa... share the fact of bein' super hot!!"

"Hey, hey! Is that really relevant?!"

"Err... If the heat had an effect, that means..."

"Something
melted...?"

"
Paint...!"

"Maybe there's somethin' like paint on the surface of the coffins that glows from the lantern?"

"The consent form in the classroom...!"

"Whoaaa!! So it was usin' the same paint?!"

"It's not unlikely...!"

"If the paint comes off at high temperatures..."

"Then I can understand why Ranmaru's coffin would have lost its glow!"

"And it's possible that
a certain other coffin lost its glow as well...!"

(Another coffin that stopped glowing...)

"The coffin Keiji was in...! That coffin used a
cremation system meant to grill Keiji alive!"

"Indeed... With enough heat that just touching the lid would burn you!"

"So Mr. Policeman's coffin lost its glow too, meow!"

"I bet the melted paint got under the lid, which is why it got stuck and wouldn't open, meow!!"

"Yet... how strange..."

"Going with this, there's Anzu, Ranmaru, Keiji...
Three coffins would have stopped glowing!"

"Ahh! The numbers don't match up!"
Music stops.

"Umm, well... and also..."

(Good point... I want to clear that up.)

"Understood! Let's discuss it!"

"First up, when I split off from Sara... All seven coffins in the cemetery were glowin'!"

"Hmph... Then someone painted the coffins before we parted from Cubetaro Hamburger!"

"I imagine it had to have been Komaeda... Surely the culprit wouldn't be one of us?"

"I know! Wouldn't it get on their hands or clothes when they applied it? That paint stuff!"

"I don't remember seeing anyone acting questionably in the cemetery..."

"Could there... not be a culprit, meow?"

"Hey, do you think there's a difference between Gin and Komaeda's coffins and the rest...?"

"Got it! The culprit is Maple!"

"Hold up, we sure that old-timer Q-taro is tellin' the truth...?"

"There must be some meaning to them being painted in the first place..."
Extract statement from Ranmaru.

"I know! Wouldn't it get on their hands or clothes when they applied it? That paint stuff!"

"Sara! Check if there's paint on anyone's clothes!"

"...Nope, don't see anything."

"Seriously?! Not even Komaeda?!"

"...I can't see someone inside a coffin."

"O-Oh, right... Dammit...!"
Extract statement from Hinako.

"I imagine it had to have been Komaeda... Surely the culprit wouldn't be one of us?"

"Only Komaeda would get these weird ideas..."

"What kind of intention did he have...? Can't even be bothered to consider it."
Extract statement from Kurumada.

"Hold up, we sure that old-timer Q-taro is tellin' the truth...?"

"If this gets us makin' a misjudgement, we'll be in some real shit...!"
Extract statement from Mai.

"Hey, do you think there's a difference between Gin and Komaeda's coffins and the rest...?"

"Maybe they were stored differently from the coffins in the cemetery, for instance..."
Extract statement from Anzu.

"Got it! The culprit is Maple!"

"See, when we couldn't go down to Floor 4... She was there slapping on the paint!"

"But wasn't the shutter closed so no one could get into the cemetery?"

"Oh yeah, huh!! Sorry!!"
Extract statement from Hayasaka.

"There must be some meaning to them being painted in the first place..."

"I mean, so long as they aren't lit by the lantern, their color isn't even any different."
Extract statement from Gin.

"Could there... not be a culprit, meow?"

"The culprit doesn't exist...!"

"In other words, a ghost, meow! The ghost of the person in that coffin played a trick, woof!"

"Haha..."

"I was joking, meow! Stop treating me like a troublesome kid, woof!"

"I mean, it's a brand new coffin, so of course there wouldn't be a ghost, meow."

"Brand new...?"

"Huh? Big sis Sara, you don't remember, woof?"

"Seaweed head said "Ahh, I can't wait... It's my first time using this fancy new coffin”, meow!"

(Come to think of it...!)
Extract statement from Alice.

"Hmph... Then someone painted the coffins before we parted from Cubetaro Hamburger!"

"It's inconceivable that no one saw such a suspicious act. Thus..."

"It was much, much earlier...!"

"The very beginning! Before the Death Game even begaaaaan!!"

(Before it began...?)

"Don't gawk at me! What I mean is they were
repainted for the Death Game!"

"Surely Komaeda repainted some
old coffins that had been sitting around for some time...!"

(He reused them...?)
Extract statement from Q-taro.

"First up, when I split off from Sara... All seven coffins in the cemetery were glowin'!"

"For the record, there's four unglowin' coffins now..."

"You can tell if you light 'em up, but... It's #2, #4, #5, and #7."
Extract statement from Kanna.

"I don't remember seeing anyone acting questionably in the cemetery..."

"I imagine it would take some time to paint all of the coffins..."
Conflict Gin against Alice.
Music stops.

"Naturally, meow!"

"No wonder there were no suspicious persons...!"

"A new coffin would have been painted
to begin with!"

"So it was coated in paint back when it was made!"

"Like the chocolate on chocolate-covered almonds!!"

"Then even the coffins outside the cemetery...!"

"Yes, Meister said so... That Gin and Komaeda's coffins are both new."

"Both of their coffins glow!"

"Exactly, meow!"

"Then the numbers would add up!"

"It's not two out of seven coffins that no longer glow..."

"It's
four out of nine...!"

"Anzu's, Ranmaru's, Keiji's... and one more coffin ceased to glow!"

(There's just one we can't identify...?)

"But I suspect the last one would be among the cemetery coffins..."

"This is some amazing information, isn't it...?"

"Because it means that Komaeda is
in one of the glowing coffins!"

"Ohh! Then if we pick a glowing coffin...!"

"W... Wait up!!"
Music stops.

"Oh yeah! Then that's no good!"

"Unless we got a way to distinguish Gin and Komaeda, it's still a game of chance!!"

(...One in five. One in five odds... that we hit Komaeda...?)

(If we just miss, that's one thing... But if we hit Gin... Gin dies.)

"Sara... Don'tcha think it's about time we try that hint function?"

"...!"

"We've narrowed it down to five... If we use the hint, we might narrow it down more!"

"...You're right."

"I'll explain how to use it."

"Okay, got it..."

"I'll choose one of the glowing coffins to use a hint on...!"
I pressed the lamp.

"Ohh...!!"

"...Wait, is that it?! What's that tell us?!"

"Calm yourself, Cubetaro Hamburger! That is what we will now consider...!"

"G-Guess you're right..."

"Listen... We can't use another hint..."

"If we don't hit Komaeda, it'll come around to his turn...!"

"We have to prevent that! Gin's life is on the line...!"

"The lamp's color...!"

"Its color?"

"Think back to our searching on this floor! We saw numerous devices with a relation to color!"

"That's true..."

"Then we'll have to discuss what we can determine from the color, meow..."

"Right! If we all join forces... I'm sure we can solve this mystery! Let's uncover...
the secret of the color!""
Music stops.

"The lamp indicates the contents!
Red, for red blood! In other words, there's a
human within!"

"Speakin' of color... there were those three buttons on
Maple's back! Red, blue, and yellow!"

"Come to think of it, I feel like I read a
message involving the colors
red, blue, and yellow..."

"Hey, could it be
gender or somethin'? Lotsa bathrooms in Japan use red for girls, blue for boys, yeah?"

"I don't know if it's relevant, but... There was a colored glow for my
fingerprint scan!"

"I kinda feel like it's gonna be hard to theorize just from the color of the lamp, woof...!!"
Extract statement from Kanna.

"Come to think of it, I feel like I read a
message involving the colors
red, blue, and yellow..."

"Err... I think it was..."

"I'm sorry! I can't remember...! I'm sure I would if I saw it again..."
Extract statement from Alice.

"The lamp indicates the contents!
Red, for red blood! In other words, there's a
human within!"

"True, I feel that may be somewhat forced..."

"But whether or not blood flows through them is a major difference for identifying a doll...!"
Extract statement from Gin.

"I kinda feel like it's gonna be hard to theorize just from the color of the lamp, woof...!!"

"What do we do, woof?! This isn't good, meow..."

(Urgh... Gin's uneasy...)
Extract statement from Mai.

"I don't know if it's relevant, but... There was a colored glow for my
fingerprint scan!"

"Err... and that color was..."

"H-Huh? Sorry... I forgot...!"
Extract statement from Kurumada.

"Hey, could it be
gender or somethin'? Lotsa bathrooms in Japan use red for girls, blue for boys, yeah?"

"That's why I got laughed at for havin' a red backpack as a kid! Pisses me off...!"

"So anyway, the person in coffin #9's a girl! No mistakin' it!"
Extract statement from Ranmaru.

"Speakin' of color... there were those three buttons on
Maple's back! Red, blue, and yellow!"

"Those buttons were linked with emotions, right?!"

"
Red is anger, blue is sadness, yellow is joy..."

"Well?! Any connection with the color of the lamp...?!"

(Emotions and colors...)
Show Note to Kanna.
Music stops.

“Is this what you saw, Kanna?”

"What's that...?"

"We found this note while exploring... Which matches something that was displayed on the
Coffin Control System."

"Ah...! That's right!"

"Ohhh! And since it was on the coffin control screen..."

"The colors would give information about
the contents of the coffins, wouldn't they?!"

(So, the red color of this lamp...!)

"
Red: doll..."

"That means one of the Dummies is in there!"

"Mwahaha...! A good hint!"

"For we've learned that all but Gin Ibushi will be
red!!"

"If we choose
red coffins... we shall avoid hitting Gin Ibushi!"

"…"
Music stops.

"'Zat... really it...?"

"Sara! Remember the coffin control screen again!"

"Specifically... that message in the top-right!"

"
Data Log..."

"Ain't this a record from when the contents of the coffins was
checked...?!"

"Mya...?! We didn't do anything like that, meow!"

"Does it automatically make a record, maybe...?"

"It must be... when
the game started. I'm guessing that note was a printout of this log. And since this says
Game Start: Blue 1, Red 6, Yellow 0..."

"But... but wait...! That would mean those seven..."
Music stops.

"A human among the Dummies...!"

"There's whaaaaat?!"

"So who is that sneaky bastard?!"

"I can't believe somethin' like that...!"

"L-Look, let's calm down for a second!"

"You think we can calm down about this?!"

"Because... that means there's a person who's been lying and pretending to be one of the Dummies!"

"Hell, why would they even do something like that?"

(What should I do...? I don't know what this fact means... But I won't be able to fully trust the Dummies at this rate... In that case...)

"...Understood."
Music stops.

"Let's first make it clear
who the human is...!"
