This tower is full of mystery.
I'm not only playing against Miss Igarashi
but against the Tower of Doors itself.
You realize that in a situation where your life is on the line,
any false move is suicide?
If the alternative is to live without understanding,
wouldn't it be better to go to your death knowing everything?
ABSOLUTE NEUTRALITY
Committee chair!
These election match applications that arrived today...
Something the matter?
Yeah. There's not much movement on the voting board.
The top ten have accumulated 40 percent of the total votes,
but 2,000 votes are scattered among the remaining 60 percent.
I see what you mean.
But there are still lots of election matches to go!
Yeah, true.
And the student council lot probably have a stockpile of votes.
A stockpile?
They have a flock of students
like messenger pigeons, gathering up votes
until the election.
I see!
Those votes aren't reflected in the ranking
as they don't own them directly.
Depending on how these votes move,
the water's going to get a lot choppier from now on.
Sayaka Igarashi.
By far the best grades, not just in middle school
but in the entire academy.
So? Why did you ask to meet with me?
To demand a place on the student council next year?
No, that's not it.
P... please.
Please would you let me be your secretary?
Oh? My secretary?
It's not a bad role,
but wouldn't you rather use your skills elsewhere?
I watched you gamble the other day.
It was masterful.
Extraordinary that you, as an unknown,
should go up against the president.
On top of the actual stakes,
I can't imagine the time, money and energy that went into
just getting to that stage.
That move where it looked like you were throwing it all away,
I'd never be able to take a risk like that.
So, I want to be at your side, where I can watch you.
Please, keep...
Was it really you?
I'm so sorry. Why did I say that?
I understand perfectly. I'll be in touch.
For now, you may leave.
Why did I say such a thing?
It was unbelievably rude.
I don't even know why those words came out of my mouth.
What was I thinking?
You intrigue me.
You're hired.
Every day, starting tomorrow,
you'll be the council secretary.
- Igarashi's going to be secretary? - For real?
Are you disappointed?
You only want to be my secretary?
No, of course not. I'm honored, but...
Good. Then there's no problem.
I look forward to working with you, Sayaka.
Every word the president bestowed on me,
where I was, how I felt,
I remember every detail.
They are cherished memories. And there will be more...
As long as I beat Yumeko.
This question only calls for high school-level math.
The answer is two.
I'm going to win. That's all I have.
The 2nd floor structure is the same.
Now I understand the tower's structure.
If Yumeko's done well,
she may now be on the third floor,
and about to reach the first floor.
But I don't care where Yumeko is.
My focus is on the question in front of me.
This will get me to the 1st floor.
Oh, Igarashi-san!
You've finally joined us. Very confident, taking your time
with each turn leading to possible death.
I could never imitate you.
Don't get distracted.
Each turn lasts five minutes. I must go now.
I won't give up, no matter what.
What?
She's not here.
How come? Has she come down and gone back up already?
No, with the way the tower is built, that's impossible.
Plus the flowers are still here.
We can't win without taking one back. Could I have won?
It's my turn again but Yumeko still hasn't appeared.
Isn't she taking far too long?
Solve the problems without making mistakes,
then descend and go back up as quickly as possible.
That's what I'm focusing on.
But I know the source of my unease.
I have unresolved questions about this tower.
Why did the central door we used to go up, later open onto a wall?
Why do the numbers on the doors change places each time?
I've ignored these mysteries until now.
But what if you can actually move between the top and bottom floors?
If Yumeko used the stairway,
then why are all the lilies still there?
The answer to the central door puzzle is 120.
I'll open it. I have to check this before I can move on.
It's still a wall.
So the central stairway can't be used.
So, where is Yumeko?
Struggling with the problems? No, she of all people...
It's Yumeko's turn.
The outside door displays are changing, too.
They represent angles and their positions relative to each other.
Almost as if...
Here we are.
I finally made it.
Igarashi-san, you got here quickly.
There's just one turn in it.
But I'll soon change that, you'll see.
We have to take these flowers back to the top floor, don't we?
Something the matter?
No, no, no, I'm sorry. It's nothing.
Like you said, let's just have an exciting gamble.
Yes! Let's have an exciting gamble.
Now, please excuse me. It's my turn and I have a problem to solve.
Yes, let's both do our best!
From now on, I won't make a single mistake.
There's simply no way.
Yumeko, you won't catch me up again.
Two moves to checkmate.
The correct answer is two. My confidence is growing.
I feel like I could solve any problem.
There's something I was never happy about.
I hate gambling but somehow ended up infatuated with a gambler.
I want your eyes for me only.
All this time...
But now, from this day on,
I'm going to be the president's number one.
Sayaka. That was fast.
You solved all the problems?
President.
Igarashi-san, you arrived quickly.
You must have got all the answers right.
Igarashi-san, well done on crossing the finish line.
It was a closely fought game either of us could've won.
One mistake, and I would have been the loser.
Igarashi-san, you dropped your lily.
Here you are! Not that you need it now.
Sayaka, wake up.
You lost.
I lost?
Impossible.
I played perfectly.
I thought I'd done everything right.
We both made a mistake on the first turn.
I wasted a move opening the central door.
The following turn, you took the lead.
At that point, I had two choices.
One was to open the floor hatch whose answer was two,
and count on you making a mistake.
The other was to open one of the outside doors.
So the question was which option to take.
You noticed that the numbers on the outside doors changed
after each interval, yes?
And obviously depicted degrees of angles.
Each one shifting clockwise by 60 degrees.
Which gave me an idea.
There's a lovely moon tonight, isn't there?
I thought I might get a better view of it from the top floor,
so I wanted to take a look.
The numbers had rotated twice since we entered the room,
so in round two, the moon would be in the direction of "78."
With much anticipation I opened the door labeled "78."
But what did I find?
The moon had suddenly disappeared.
How could that have happened?
It's quite simple.
What if it wasn't the numbers on the doors that rotated, but us?
The Tower of Doors revolves!
During each interval, the tower rotates exactly 60 degrees.
Yes! The entire tower rotates just for the purposes of this game!
How absurd! How charming! How romantic!
I'm glad you like it.
Wha...?
Now, what's so important about the tower rotating?
Does it have any effect on the game?
Yes! It makes a huge difference.
On the first turn,
the central door opened onto a wall.
What did this mean?
After realizing the tower rotated, I developed a hypothesis.
That the door was impassable because rotation
had caused its position to change.
And that when it rotated, its position changed
but the rest of the tower didn't.
Yes, indeed!
In effect, there are two towers.
The outer tower that rotates, and the inner tower that does not.
The inner tower has door openings on the first and top floor.
On my sixth turn, I climbed the central stairway to the top floor.
That's how I was able to finish the game before you.
It makes no sense!
There's no logic to your story.
Why did you open the outside door?
There was no evidence to suggest it would provide a clue.
More importantly, even if you figured out the tower was rotating,
what if that was just a diversion?
As the president designed it, it's highly probable.
No way!
I didn't even consider that as a possibility.
Why would she build such an intriguing device, then not play with it?
You give me too much credit, Sayaka. Even I'm not that capricious.
But you're right that I had no guarantee.
But that can't be helped.
Yes, that's quite right.
Because this is...
A gamble, after all.
How?
These two understand each other so well.
The game is complete. I shall now announce the result.
In the Tower of Doors game, Yumeko Jabami is victorious.
I know why I lost.
It's because I was too focused on logic.
I was so determined not to lose, to be the president's number one,
that I focused on what I thought would be the fastest options.
Whereas Yumeko attempted to understand the tower as a whole,
and as a result, was able to make the seemingly irrational decision
to open an external door.
Now, it's time for you to pay up, Sayaka Igarashi.
This is a message from the president.
You can choose whichever door you like.
It's time for you to jump.
She says I'm boring, because I'm so logical.
That she doesn't need me anymore.
The president is a person faithful to her own desires.
She's so far beyond me that I'd never understand her depths.
That's why I wanted to be around her.
Finally, someone will jump from the tower I created.
An ordinary person like me...
Of course, I'd never even be on her radar.
At least I have a final opportunity to give her what she wants.
Sayaka, you will die a stranger to me.
The president and I are nothing to each other.
The president...
I find you...
intriguing.
I humbly offer you my love, President.
Why?
We're going to die.
The president's going to die.
A crash mat? Beneath the flowers...
I've never jumped from such a height before!
If I'd known it would be such fun. I'd have done it ages ago.
But why?
Because it's my tower.
So it's my prerogative to jump from it first, no?
What? It's far too dangerous.
Even with a crash mat.
If something had happened, it would have just been my time.
And anyway, I needed to make sure you fell safely.
I did say, didn't I?
If you find the solution, you'll live.
The last door was labeled "5" in braille,
which represented the five floors you could fall from it.
It was the right answer.
From any other door you'd have fallen to your death.
Even I'd prefer not to fall to certain death.
You didn't realize, did you?
You didn't need to think,
you thought you were going to die anyway.
But you knew, as always.
You knew things you hadn't even thought about.
You're rational to the core.
No matter how trivial something is, your mind looks for the meaning in it.
I find you intriguing, Sayaka Igarashi.
Stranger to stranger, I'll make you an offer.
Will you be my secretary?
What do you think? The terms are negotiable.
P... president!
This is crazy.
What was the actual point of that game?
I don't understand, but...
Sayaka, you don't understand me, right?
I feel the same about you.
Someone like you who values and is bound by reason, and who,
even with a mind free of desire and facing death,
still chose reason.
I don't understand you at all. You're my exact opposite.
That's okay.
That's what I like about you.
Yes.
Just as you say.
EPISODE 10 THE LOGICAL GIRL
I don't understand but that's why I love the president.
A place where there's no logic.
A place I can't even begin to imagine. That's the president's world.
You're hired.
Being number one isn't really what I want.
I love her because she's someone I can't comprehend,
so it's enough for me to simply be by her side.
If I could just stay with her forever...
Well, of the two stakes you gambled
you've completed the jump from the tower.
And as for the other...
In the end, we came to an agreement.
It's impossible to stop someone having feelings for another.
Batsubami-san!
This girl says you helped her, too.
See.
Right.
So, we were thinking, and...
No?
That is against the rules.
I'm going to be frank.
Odds are against us, no?
Away games always suck!
And we don't know how many votes the student council controls.
You're right.
At this rate, Kirari will retain the presidency.
That's true.
But I think Terrano's going to make a move soon.
I think you're right. But she can be hard to read, too.
Yeah, yeah. Rock-paper-scissors lotteries.
Votes aren't moving and the games are dull.
Now this could be...
ABSOLUTE NEUTRALITY
Man, I was worried about what would happen back there.
I'm just glad you're safe, Yumeko.
Thank you, Suzuki-san.
Oh my!
BALLOT BOX
100 VOTE AUCTION INVITATION
The 100 Vote Auction will now commence.
This is getting interesting!
They're almost giving away votes!
Come on, forgive me!