Episode 3

**There's No Way I'd Believe That** (さすがにそれは信じられないって, *Sasuga ni Sore wa Shinjirarenaitte*) is the 3rd episode of Tomodachi Game anime series.

## Synopsis

Dark secrets are exposed as the second game, Bad-Mouth Sugoroku, continues. Yutori is devastated when a traumatic episode from her past is revealed, leading her to suspect the only other person who knew—Shiho. As debts increase, the five friends are driven further apart. With no one else to turn to, Yutori clings to Yuuichi for help, and Yuuichi pledges his support.

## Summary

On the 5th period, there is only one submission, but Manabu states its doozy one. Manabu then reads that Yutori engaged in compensated dating in junior high. Hearing that, Yutori starts to scream and cry, asking Shiho why she wrote it as she was the only one who knew it. Makoto realizes that must mean she sold her body to adult men, and for someone who isn't a virgin, she looks quite innocent. Tenji gets angry and hits Makoto, telling him to stop talking. Tenji then asks Yuuichi to look after Yutori and keep her company. The god votes place Yutori first and the rest as fifth, making her move 5 spaces, while the rest one space each. Manabu reveals the current positions with Shiho leading with 13 spaces and Tenji being last with 5 spaces. He reminds them that when someone reaches the goal, the game will end, but the goal person will get everyone's debt, which at the moment its 5.5 million yen.

Yutori tells Yuuichi that she really needed the money and the bullying she gets now is not even comparable to the one she had in her junior high. No one helped her and the only thing that stopped the bullying was she giving money to the bullies, which made them be nice to her. As she needed money, she ended up going on a paid date with an adult man. At first they were only going out to various places and dinner, but soon he started to want she to cosplay and take pictures of her in various outfits. The man then wanted to touch her and she agreed, but got scared partway and ran away. The gods don't believe her story, but Yutori insists its true and that she is still a virgin and doesn't want Yuuichi to abandon her. Maria asks Tsukino if a girl's virginity is important and she states the only people who get upset about it are virgins themselves. She is half-joking, but explains that those who believe they are not dirty, see people who can't live pure and righteous lives, as filth and trash, as they can't forgive the smallest mistake in others. Whatever he believes or forgives Yutori, will depend on how aware he is on his own impurity. Yuuichi tells Yutori that it doesn't matter if he believes her or not, but no matter her past, he will not leave her. He then whispers something to Yutori, which makes the rest believe it was a love confession. Tsukino states that Yutori wasn't even fazed and forgave her, so he must be aware of his impurity and something must had happened in his past. Yutori is ready to continue, but wishes to stay close to Yuuichi and away from Shiho.

Tenji wonders if Shiho knew about Yutori and she confirms, but explains she didn't knew everything. Shorty after they entered high school, she saw Yutori surrounded by students from another school. She beat them up and took Yutori, but one of the boys told her that Yutori isn't worth protecting and will do anything for money. Worried, she asked Yutori and she revealed she did compensated dating. Shiho didn't want to dig deeper and promised she will never tell anyone. Shiho states she will never break a promise to a friend and Tenji believes her, as she was always like that. As the things got quite messy between the friends, Tsukino figures there must be indeed someone who tries to destroy their friendship and that may be why that person even started the Tomodachi Game. Maria guesses that Makoto is the most suspicious, as he doesn't need the money and is jealous of the relationship between Shiho and Yuuichi. The second most suspicious is Tenji, who knew that Shiho likes Yuuichi and that Shiho had plastic surgery. Tsukino states that there should be one even more suspicious and thinking about it, Maria realizes its Shiho, who knew all the secrets so far and could even bad-mouth herself. While they can't scratch out Yuuichi yet, Yutori seems the most unlikely one.

A distorted voice states it wishes the friends to break even more as that's why it stole the money. Earlier, during an independent study, after collecting the money, Shiho is ready to go and hand them to the teacher. However, a student informs her that another teacher calls her to the media room. As that is the opposite direction of where she needs to take the money, she decides to lock them in her locker. Makoto asks another student if he can copy his homework. The student suggests asking Yuuichi, but Makoto explains he has been working more lately and is tired and sleeps right now. Taking the homework, Makoto then sits on his desk and starts copying it. The person with the distorted voice then heads towards the locker, but bumps into Yutori, causing her to drop her stuff. As paper spreads, Yutori realizes the person must have seen whats on it and explains she is drawing manga, wanting to become a pro one day. While she explains it and gathers her things, the person manages to get the money. Yutori then notices her pen made a small cut under the person's eye, but the person states it would be fine and no one will notice.

Tenji then looks at Makoto getting excited about the nasty face he has and wonders if he lost interest in Shiho due to the plastic surgery. He comments that she did had surgery, but it wasn't cosmetic, but to cover a facial scar she got in junior high. Tenji then reveals he knows every secret as he has been secretly watching Shiho and knows where she keeps her locker spare key. He gifted her an anti-theft alarm key chain, which actually has a listening device, making him able to hear every personal conversation, including the one with Yutori about her compensated dating. Tenji has a cut under his eye, but since its close to his glasses, barely anyone noticed. Tenji intends to break all of Shiho's relationships with the rest and when everyone leaves her and she is alone, he plans on telling her sweat things to see how she will react.

## Characters

* Manabu
* Yutori Kokorogi
* Shiho Sawaragi
* Tenji Mikasa
* Makoto Shibe
* Yuuichi Katagiri
* Maria Mizuse
* Tsukino