第4話

あらすじ

日本語の要約がないため、Englishで表示しています。

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Teenager Yousuke Tateishi and television celebrity Misaki Tachibana arrive at Quindecim. Misaki assumes the bar is part of a hidden-camera program and encourages Yousuke to perform for the audience. Their game is an arcade fighter whose characters resemble them. During the first round, Misaki remembers abusive partners and the struggle to support her children through a public career. Yousuke recalls an emotionally distant childhood and a stepmother whose attempts to connect he rejected. Decim manipulates the controls to intensify frustration, explaining that an arbiter must draw out the darkness of each soul. Once Misaki realizes they may die if they lose, fear overtakes her polished persona. She physically strikes Yousuke unconscious and immediately regrets it, but Decim forces the match to continue. Their final memories reveal that Yousuke died by suicide after withdrawing from his family, while Misaki was killed by an assistant she had mistreated in anger. Yousuke recognizes too late that his stepmother cared for him. Decim sends him to reincarnation and Misaki to the void. The assistant is disturbed by how deliberately Decim engineered the violence, questioning whether desperation created by the test can fairly define a person's entire life.