There are three parties.
Perhaps, you're the first one. Instead of being able to go the unmarked exit door, you get dragged by the TALOS through the door marked "TRASH DISPOSAL". With a cold mechanical arm wrapped around your throat, its incredible strength will drag you, willingly or not, through the door and close it shut behind it. It takes you to a new hallway and it goes through an open set of stairs down. As soon as it pulls you down enough steps, the electronic door to the stairway closes shut. Once you reach the bottom of the stairs, it finally lets go but in the tight corridor, there's no way to get past the hulking machine. Try as you might, but it'll push you back, forcing you to walk down the long tight passage. Should you struggle, it won't hesitate to grab onto you and throw you. It will continue to do so until you finally go past thick metal doors and land on a long conveyor belt. It walks onto the belt with you and slams the doors shut. As soon as you get on, the belt begins to slowly move towards a large block that rises all the way to the ceiling and then falls back down with a deafening crash. It rises then falls. Rises then falls and there's no way you can escape. You can't go through the TALOS. You can't go to your sides, not with the walls extending up so far that no normal human could ever climb it). And you can't go behind you as the heavy block will surely crush you. Just what can you do?
Perhaps, you're the second one. Instead of the TALOS grabbing you, it traps you in the Development Room. The flames from the electrical fire are hot and suffocating. It moves surprisingly fast and begins to move closer and closer. If the flames don't get to you first, the smoke will and no amount of banging on the doors or pleading will get the exits to open. Instead, the previously closed shutters of the windows go up and you can look out to see that the room you're in is positioned high up to overlook a deep diagonal area. Near the centre, you can see four conveyor belts, all leading towards their own falling blocks and then converging in the centre to a black void that goes nowhere but down. You can also see a balcony right outside the room, directly linked to the unmarked door. There, you may see a familiar test subject, standing right before you.
Perhaps, you're the third one. Rather than on a conveyor belt leading to a gruesome death or in a burning room that'd burn you to a crisp, you're on the balcony. When you were forced out of that Development Room, it took you on a path that forced you to stand in front of a different room. You pass by the now-closed set of stairs (the ones that lead the TALOS and one of your fellow test subjects to the belt) and find yourself standing in front a similar but different Development Room with someone inside. Directly in front of one of the windows and on the railing are two round sensors, similar to the ones you've seen on various doors. Above each sensor reads one of the two characters that you are now responsible for.
All at once, a robotic voice speaks out from everyone's bracelets.
"Attention, test subjects. You have now entered a new Decision Game. Please listen carefully to the rules as your lives will depend on them. Some of you are on a conveyor belt. Should you not move, you will have approximately ninety seconds before you are crushed beneath the trash compactor. Calhoun recommends staying where you are instead of running towards it like, in his words, "a complete idiot." For some others, you are trapped inside the Development Room. You will either perish in the flames or die from smoke inhalation. There is no time estimate for your death. Now, the rest are somewhere on the balcony and you will see two sensors in front of you. Calhoun would like to congratulate you for being the "lucky ones" as you will decide the fate of your fellow test subjects.
"You four will decide who will live and who will die. Decide who you want to spare by placing your hand on the sensor. Should you choose someone on the belt, it will come to a stop and they will be allowed back up to where you are. Should you choose someone in the room, the doors will open and they will escape to join you on the balcony. Should you choose neither of them, then you will die.
"You have ninety seconds. Ninety seconds to decide who will live and who will die. Make your choice."
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[...Okay, they're probably not going to get any help from him, Akira figures.]
[But no, there's nothing. Even trying to wedge his knife (now bent in places from the repeated attacks on TALOS-kun's ankle) between the door and the wall, there's no purchase. Akira kicks the door out of frustration, but he doubts it'll dislodge anything.]
[And indeed, if nothing works, he'll nyoom back to Kokichi and quickly shake his head.]
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[ when akira comes back and shakes his head, kokichi doesn't find himself surprised. of course it wouldn't be that easy. he heard what his bracelet just said, after all. shit, this is really how it's going to be, huh? he might just die like this? and the person akira (he can't see airi) also has to consider is... ]
[ ... he raises his other hand and writes 'も' on the glass with his finger. "mo". how is momota? ]
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[But they're friends. He got conflicting stories from Momota and Akamatsu, but Momota was confident that Ouma wouldn't have voted for them. And he was right. A-Team was the only bunch of people who didn't cast one of their votes on D. They're worried about each other, Akira assumes, and to put him and Airi in the middle of that...]
[Akira turns back to Kokichi, and says something again. Louder this time. Hopefully he can be heard through the glass.]
What do you want me to do?
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[ what makes kaito different from miu or gonta? why can't he sacrifice kaito to save himself? again, it's complicated. the situations are nothing alike and plus, after the incident in the hanger and kaito indirectly making him think that his plan failed, that they both died for nothing... even kokichi has a conscience. that's why he went off the deep end after gonta died, right? ]
[ but he's not going to make the choice for akira or airi. maybe it's selfish, but this affects them just as much it affects him or kaito, right? he'll forfeit his say for once. ]
... do what you want.
[ he lowers his hand and shirt from his mouth this time, so akira can at least try to read his lips if he can't hear him. instead, he does his classic pose and puts his hands behind his head, a stupid move to make while in the danger of dying of smoke inhalation. it's fine. he just has to look death in the eye again, right? and keep on lying. ]
Nishishi... I-I'm a Supreme Leader. Life-or-death situations... don't scare me.
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You're full of shit!
[Akira's raising his voice, though it's mostly to ensure Ouma can hear him, rather than because he's especially frustrated. (Which, I mean, his emotions are running a bit hot right now, but why wouldn't they be?) When they first met, the few things Ouma told him after contemplating the plot of Battle Royale was that A. he was a liar, and B. he might have died before coming here. Talking like a toku villain is a pretty weak smokescreen (ha ha) after claims like that.]
You're obviously scared, you idiot! Give me a real answer!
[Plus, Akira refuses to just let anyone roll over and die. This is too serious of a situation for that level of bullshittery.]
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Stop talking to me and make your choice!
[ his demeanour changes instantly. has he dropped the fake persona? ]
Don't bullshit me and say that my thoughts are going to completely sway you one way or another. This affects you just as much as it affects me or Momota-chan, so hurry up, stop wasting your time on me, and pick already! Or just roll over and die for all I care!
[ he then falls into a coughing fit, sucking in polluted air to yell all that. he puts a hand to his mouth again. he wonders if this is what kaito feels like every time he coughs. ]
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[Akira doesn't yell back. In fact, he seems more at ease now that he's gotten a response that sounds like what a real human would say. Kokichi really does want them to make the choice, he wasn't just bullshitting on that part.]
[So Akira straightens up, and nods, with a serious expression sliding back onto his face.]
Got it.
[And with that he turns his back on Kokichi Ouma, in the burning room, and moves back to the other end of the balcony. Elsewhere, Kaito Momota is having his own coughing fit and falling unconscious on the conveyor belt.]