Kakegurui (2017) s01e12 Episode Script

1 - Naturally - To risk everything on a gamble.
Yumeko? What you said yesterday are you serious? You're up against the student council president.
There's no telling what she might make you do.
Suzui? I see that you're concerned about me.
Thank you very much.
But you see, I'm very sorry, but it's no good.
Such a wondrous feast dangling before me I can't rein myself in.
I don't want to stop you.
I'll watch you gamble from the best seat in the house.
Yumeko's bewitched me.
Hey, you two.
How can you be so nonchalant? You think you have time to chat? What's your game plan? What? My game plan? I mean your gamble with the president.
First, dice that only lands on the number you want.
There's six to a set.
They have various applications.
Next up, playing cards featuring infrared paint.
With this infrared camera, you can see which card is which.
Finally, this happens to be my favorite.
So simple-looking, but mind-blowingly effective.
- It's called the Padlock Beetle-- - Wait.
Don't tell me you're planning to cheat with those things.
Why are you asking such an obvious question? Her opponent's the president, after all.
If we don't at least do this much, it's over.
While I do appreciate your kindness I have absolutely no intention of cheating.
Why not? Because for my long-awaited gamble with the president I have no need for impurities.
I had a feeling you'd say that.
If that's how it's gonna be, let's be sure we're ready.
I guess you're right.
What? You're both coming with me, then? She really talked down to me.
I want to see her go down in humiliating defeat.
Our money's on you, Yumeko-senpai.
Suzui? Mary? Itsuki? Thank you very much.
Welcome, everyone.
The president is waiting.
If you please.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for having us, Kirari.
Let's dispense with the formalities.
Let's get this show on the road, shall we? Because there's no way I can rein myself in.
Not with such a wondrous feast dangling before me.
Ever since I first met you at this academy or maybe even long before that You don't know how long I've waited for this day.
Yumeko Jabami.
Right! All eyes on me! I, Runa Yomozuki, am here to serve as your referee today.
You both look gung-ho.
That's what I like to see.
Let me give you a quick rundown of the rules and let's go.
First, the stakes.
Putting everything on the line means you'll be betting what, specifically? Yumeko, are you enjoying life here? Yes, very much.
An academy where everything is determined by gambling.
Heaven if you win, hell if you lose.
Everyone living with the risk of being reduced to groveling You could never find a place like this anywhere else.
Hyakkao Academy is, so to speak, my utopia.
I'm so glad you like it.
A flower garden isolated from the rules of the outside world.
The one absolute law is survival of the fittest through gambling.
Everyone is forced to live in desperation at this academy, and I love it.
Hyakkao Academy is an aquarium of my own creation.
That's lovely.
I see that you've lavished much love on this academy.
So Let's bet that.
The one who loses this gamble will never set foot in this school again.
- Are you down with that? - Yes.
Yes.
No way.
- Yume-- - President! Hold on a second.
Isn't that too? Hold up.
That doesn't make sense.
The winner won't gain anything.
So, what's the point in playing? Do you really think so? Do we gamble to win in order to gain some advantage? That might be true for someone competent like you.
But for most people, it's a different story.
They gladly take their chances when the odds are against them.
They say that humans are irrational beings, but you rarely see this level of illogical behavior.
Gambling produces nothing.
By doing it, you only lose.
And yet, we still gamble because taking risks is so enjoyable.
Runa, kindly proceed, will you? - Okey-doke.
Itsuki, got any tarot cards? - Why do you ask? We're using them for this gamble.
It's not like we don't have any here.
But you'd feel more comfortable with your own deck, right? Sure, I do have a deck.
But because of what Yumeko said, I left my trick tarot cards at home.
What a frickin' waste! Thank you.
Now, then, let me explain the rules to you.
For better or for worse, today's gamble is sure to change our fate drastically.
- Let's divine the future.
- Here.
The name of this gamble is the Tarot Cards of Fate.
The 22 cards of the Major Arcana, each with different meanings.
Three of us will each select one card.
The cards of the Major Arcana each bear a number from zero to 21.
This will serve as the score.
If it's upright from the perspective of the one who drew it, it'll be positive.
And negative if it's reversed.
If the total of the three cards ends up positive, Yumeko wins.
If negative, I win.
However there's just one special card here, the Fool.
Since this card has no value, it'll be the Joker.
Regardless of the other cards, if the Fool is upright, Yumeko wins.
If it's reversed, I win.
This one card will sway the outcome of this gamble.
There's always the chance to pull off an upset.
Tarot cards can divine the flow of time.
The three cards that we'll be drawing will be the Past, the Present and the Future.
Let's divine it what it is we truly think.
What was the purpose of everything we've done? What kind of end will we be meeting? Let's entrust it all to these cards of fate.
Okay.
Lastly, who's gonna be drawing those three cards of fate? Let's see.
Yumeko will draw the Present, and I shall draw the Past.
No way.
You, draw the Past? I mean And the last card, the Future - You over there, what's your name? - You mean me? I'm Ryota Suzui.
All right, Ryota.
I want you to draw the Future.
- Why do you want me to? - I like that idea.
- Suzui, I ask you to comply, as well.
- Yumeko.
This might very well be the last gamble I ever take part in at Hyakkao Academy.
Yumeko leave the academy? As a result of this gamble, I may have to leave.
I'd like your cooperation as well, Suzui.
That big a role? I can't possibly Wait.
Just like that day All right.
I'll be the one to draw the Future.
It's settled, then.
All right, why don't we get started? With the gamble that will decide our destiny the Tarot Cards of Fate.
All systems go.
Okay, you go first, Yumeko.
- Let's start with the Present.
- All right.
I choose this one.
- You okay with its position, too? - Yes.
All right.
Card open! Only three chances to draw.
If she starts out with a huge negative, it's gonna be hopeless.
The Magician in the upright position.
And your score is plus one point.
One point? For a game you're risking everything on, that's a pretty lame start, huh? No, this is fine.
Since all the cards can be upright or reversed, the expectation value is always zero.
As long as it's positive, she has an edge.
All righty, let's keep moving.
Next up, President.
And you'll be choosing the Past.
Yumeko, do you believe in fatalism? Do you mean fate? I'm talking about the belief that all events are predetermined.
If there were such a thing, it would be romantic, wouldn't it? I feel the same way.
Irreproducible and unscientific.
But it's also unscientific to conclude that fate doesn't exist.
Do you know the record for the number of consecutive blacks in roulette? No.
Twenty-seven times.
Odds of approximately seven billion to one.
I'm sure that roulette dealer must've thought "Oh, this machine must be broken.
" Otherwise, you'd have to think that something was making the balls land on black.
Unless it's something that can't possibly happen, it can happen.
When they beat the odds by the thinnest of margins, people see it as fate.
At the end of the day, fate is merely what comes up when something has happened, and you don't know what to call it.
Yumeko, I wonder what you would call this? It's a reversed World? The score is Minus 21 points! That's our president.
Who knew you'd draw that one? Just how lucky are you, anyway? No way! Minus 21 points at this stage? You've got to be cheat-- Itsuki, did you even hear what the president was saying just now? Just because you're in the hole, you're gonna call her a cheater? Hey, no worries, okay? I'm totally neutral.
I guarantee that there was no cheating involved in the president's selection.
More importantly, the score at this time is minus 20 points.
Are you ready, Ryota Suzui? At this point, the only way for Yumeko to win is for you to draw the Fool.
But you already know that, right? Suzui the only way to win is to draw the Fool Isn't there any kind of clue? Hey.
That's Whoops.
No good.
It's Suzui who's gonna draw the card, remember? I won't say anything, but if it looks like you're coaching him, he's disqualified.
All right, Suzui.
Please draw the Future.
There are twenty cards left.
Out of those twenty, I've got to draw the one and only Fool, upright, no less.
The odds are 40 to one.
I just can't believe I can do it.
Suzui? Please don't worry about me and just draw.
Even if we lose, I'm the one who'll be leaving.
This risk is mine alone.
This pain is mine alone.
All I can do is accept the results calmly.
Yumeko You're wrong.
I told you, I'll be watching from the best seat in the house.
I want to spend more time with you.
This risk is just as much mine.
The question is which card I'm gonna draw.
It looks like those two noticed something.
- Did you hear what he just said? - There's something I'm missing.
Something.
That might be a hint.
Do you see it now? The remaining 20 cards may look like there are no clues at all but, actually, there's something sticking to one of them.
Most likely, it's gloss or something similar.
It wouldn't be there unless it was intentional.
A marked card.
The kind of cheat where you mark a card to draw one in your favor? No and why not? Because no one but the referee, Yomozuki, ever touched those cards.
Except for that one instant In other words, that card The Fool.
Not that Yomozuki wasn't telling the truth.
The president wasn't cheating when she drew that card.
The president marked that card, but she didn't draw it.
I have no idea why the president would do such a thing.
At any rate, the fact remains that that card is the Fool.
If he draws that one, we can win.
He can turn 40 to one odds into 20 to one.
You gonna pick that card? Okay, turn it over.
No.
This isn't it.
This is the one card I can't draw! - What the hell are you doing? - Whoa.
One more word out of you, and I don't know why the president placed that mark on this card.
But there's just one thing I'm sure of.
Whether this card is the Fool or not, which position I should draw it in, the risk I'm taking by drawing this card.
All that It was all provided by you, President.
Taking on risk is the fun part.
Nobody would leave that most crucial task to someone else.
It's my choice to make! I'm gonna decide what risk I'm gonna take.
This is my gamble! Amazing! Yes! That's splendid! Let's just pick at random.
Let's leave it all to chance.
However I insist you do it with your own hand! Now, then let's get our gambling freak on.
Judgment in the upright position! Plus 20 points, so a total of zero points.
Therefore, the Tarot Cards of Fate has ended in a draw.
Neither one of you has to leave the academy.
- Good for you.
And good job, President.
- President! President I'm so glad.
Get a hold of yourself, Sayaka.
Suzui.
Yumeko What were you thinking, senpai? If you'd drawn the Fool, you could've won.
- Why'd you deliberately throw it away? - Well, you know, like I said Sumeragi, what are you talking about? A card marked so blatantly There's no way that was the Fool.
But the Fool was the only card the president touched.
No, she must've been holding two stuck together.
If it was the Fool, there's no way she wouldn't draw it herself.
No! You just don't know, Saotome-senpai, but the president would stoop to that.
She wouldn't.
Are you an idiot? - Do you want to check? - Wouldn't have it any other way.
Hey! What do you think you're doing? It's more fun not to know these kinds of things.
Hey, you! Those are my tarot cards! Who knew it would end in a draw? I think I might really become a fatalist.
I think I might, too.
There must be a more thrilling fate in store for us.
Yumeko, those are some fine underlings you have there.
At this rate Oh, yes.
I'm sure it will be even more entertaining after this.
No.
They aren't my underlings, you know.
What I've found are some amazing friends.
Hey.
Hello? Did you listen to my voicemail? Things were insane over here! Yumeko and the president's gamble Too bad you missed it, huh? It was so much fun.
Yumeko Jabami is even more amazing than I thought.
Even the president might not be able to handle her.
You know Ririka Momobami? Hyakkao Private Academy.
Ever since Yumeko arrived here, her existence caused an untold number of people to change.
Those who rose from house pets to humans.
Those who came to terms with their yearning.
Those who became mired in defeat.
Those who found religion.
Yumeko.
And those who lick their chops before new prey.
As of this moment, I'm going to dissolve the student council.
But Yumeko herself hasn't changed.
Even after hundreds of millions, billions of gambles, she continues to seek it out.
She's not normal.
A gambling freak.
A compulsive gambler.
THE WOMAN WHO'S A COMPULSIVE GAMBLER