Wolf Game IF

**Wolf Game IF** (狼ゲームIF lit. *Ookami Geemu IF*) is an event story that details The Wolf Game but with a different series of events triggered by a different character becoming the Wolf. The event period for this story ran from **September 6, 2020** to **September 16, 2020**.

***It is highly recommended that the main story (either* Wolf Game Another *or* Wolf Game*) be completed before playing/reading this event as it contains spoilers for the mastermind.***

## Featured Characters

* Kou Niimura
* Rintarou Mori
* Shouma Akamura
* Takuya Tsuchiya
* Takeo Kojima

## Chapter 1

**Another Beginning (もう一つの始まり)**

The scene opens in a bar lounge called the Play Room. The protagonist, Yukinari, introduces himself and explains that he and 15 others have been made to participate in a death game called "The Wolf Game". It's day one of the game and all of the participants have pulled their respective cards. Yukinari is a Sheep this round. Much like the start of the main story, all of the members are in disbelief that they've been brought there to play the game, and Rintarou asks who the Wolf is. There's an awkward silence before Misaki suggests that they get a grasp on their situation and Miho proposes they move locations. In-line with the main story, they split up to search the building and find no exits, then separate to do their own things.

In the hallway, Yukinari finds that he's feeling thirsty and decides to get some water from the kitchen. When he arrives, he finds that Misaki, Takuya, and Takeo are already inside watching Takuya prepare food. Misaki is taking down a memo of some advice Takuya is offering when Yukinari asks what they're doing. Takuya explains that Misaki had asked him for help with cooking, but she ended up taking the opportunity to learn from him instead. Takeo asks what's on the menu, but Takuya mentions that Takeo's supposed to be guarding the Armory. Takeo explains that he got a little hungry and decided to take a short break, but it's okay that he isn't in the Armory because Osamu was passing by and agreed to take his place. Takuya reprimands him for it, and Takeo decides to head back to the Armory.

After a brief conversation, Yukinari gets his water and leaves the kitchen so he won't be in the way of their cooking. Several minutes later, Yukinari is exhausted from exploring, but for fear of being attacked by the Wolf while he's resting, he chooses instead to walk around to wake himself up. He arrives at the Play Room to find Satoru and Shouma at the bar. It's revealed that Shouma is coaching Satoru on how to break ice using an ice pick, but Satoru finds he's unable to do it because of his dislike of blood and sharp objects.

Shouma notices Yukinari standing in the room and asks if he's there for a drink too, which Yukinari denies. Satoru explains that he's taking a break, and it's okay that he isn't guarding the Armory because Takeo and Osamu are watching over it. Shouma brings up the fact that there's likely no point in guarding the Armory when you can find weapons anywhere if you look, referencing the ice pick in the Play Room and possibly knives in the kitchen. A few moments later, Rintarou wanders into the room and falls asleep on the sofa, completely ignoring the others.

Shouma commends Rintarou for having the courage to sleep out in the open despite a Wolf on the loose, and Satoru suggests that Rintarou could be the Wolf himself. Shouma figures if that were the case, he'd at least pretend to be afraid. Yukinari attempts to wake Rintarou up to no avail, and Shouma assures him that he and Satoru will carry him to a bed after they've had their drinks. Moments later, Yukinari leaves the room. In the hall, Yukinari decides to head to the Shower Room to wash his face when he hears a loud noise coming from the kitchen, causing him to rush over.

## Chapter 2

**The First Murder (最初の殺人)**

Rushing into the kitchen, Yukinari asks if Takuya and Misaki are okay. Misaki explains that she was trying to get plates from a high shelf and her foot slipped, causing the plates to go crashing to the floor. She's about to go get tools to clean the shattered plates when she realizes the fall had caused her to twist her ankle. Takuya offers to clean up for her and urges her to relax, telling Yukinari to escort her. He brings her to her bed so she can rest up, and decides to lie down on his own bed, ultimately falling asleep despite trying not to.

Meanwhile, in the Play Room, Satoru has gotten his fill of drinking and plans to head back to the Armory. Remembering Rintarou, he asks Shouma to help him, only for Shouma to ask if Satoru thought he was serious about carrying Rintarou to his bed. Satoru realizes that Shouma plans to leave Rintarou for dead, but Shouma manages to convince Satoru that leaving Rintarou on the sofa is their best course of action in the grand scheme of things. Once Satoru has been convinced, they both leave the room and Rintarou behind.

Late that night, a scream is heard from one of the lower floors, and the people in the Common Room head to the scene. In front of the kitchen, they find a terrified Misaki, and inside, they find Shouma's body against the wall with something impaled into the left side of his chest. The other participants appear on the scene and it's confirmed that Shouma is dead. After some banter about Takeo's legitimacy as a police officer, they all agree to split up and search for clues to figure out who the Wolf is during the Wolf Trial.

## Chapter 3

**Scene Investigation (現場探索)**

Yukinari decides to begin his investigation with the corpse, but hesitates. Aori tells him to move so she can take a look at the body herself, and she remarks that at a glance, there aren't any external wounds on the body except for the one on his chest. Takeo interrupts to reprimand her about touching the body, urging her to leave it to himself and Satoru. Satoru, however, is feeling nauseous across the room, and Aori suggests that while he's not feeling well, she be allowed to do a bit of examining herself. Takeo reluctantly agrees, and while sifting through Shouma's pockets, Aori finds a scrap of paper.

Reading the paper aloud, it's revealed to be a listed time schedule of upcoming dates with various girls. Aori determines that the memo isn't related to the case, and while Yukinari agrees that it seems unrelated, he thinks it'd be better to keep it in mind anyway. Their next order of business is the weapon. Based on the location and the amount of bleeding, Aori conjectures that he was stabbed in the heart. With how it's embedded, they're unable to tell exactly what the weapon is, which prompts Aori to suggest that their only course of action is to remove it.

Takeo is against her pulling the weapon out, stating that it'll dirty up the crime scene and Satoru hasn't had a chance to perform an autopsy yet. He insists that they wait until after Satoru's done an autopsy before removing the weapon, which Aori agrees to. Yukinari thinks to himself that he needs to move his investigation elsewhere for the time being when Maki comes up to him and asks how the investigation is coming. She takes photographs of his disquieted expression and explains that she plans to conduct an interview regarding the case at a later time. Yukinari agrees to assist her, but tells her to also investigate before they part ways.

For the next part of his investigation, Yukinari decides to look through Shouma's belongings, and heads to the Common Room to find them.

## Chapter 4

**Belongings Inspection (遺品調査)**

When Yukinari arrives at the Common Room, he finds Kou and Yuuto already there having a conversation. He overhears Yuuto mention finding a hidden camera and inquires directly as to what they're discussing. Yuuto is about to tell Yukinari when Kou stops him, stating that Yukinari might be the mastermind. Yuuto shoos Yukinari away, and Yukinari decides to go back to doing what he originally came there to do. Sifting through Shouma's bag, he finds what are implied to be condoms. Rintarou comes into the room as he finds them and mistakes them for balloons. After the situation is resolved, Yukinari goes back to checking the contents of Shouma's bag. Among his belongings, he finds a handwritten note that appears to be a suicide note where Shouma declares himself to be the Wolf.

Yukinari entertains that Shouma might not have been killed, but Rintarou mentions that there's something odd and un-Shouma-like about the note. Yukinari agrees, feeling as though Shouma wouldn't be the sort of person to declare himself the Wolf, nor does he seem like he would commit suicide, but Rintarou figures they'd all only just met and you can never tell what kind of person someone is. Yukinari decides that if his investigation is to continue, he'll need to take another look at the corpse, and heads back to the kitchen.

## Chapter 5

**A Bad Feeling (違和感)**

Back in the kitchen, Yukinari finds Takuya and Osamu. Takeo and the others seem to have gone off elsewhere. Takuya and Osamu are talking to each other about using the current situation as a learning experience for their respective interests (acting for Takuya, writing for Osamu) when they notice Yukinari and Rintarou in the room with them. Yukinari shows them the suicide note he found and they begin to talk about the penmanship used in the note. Rintarou thinks that it'd be helpful if they could verify whether or not it's really Shouma's handwriting, and they ask if there's any other source they could use as a comparison. Yukinari recalls that they found a memo earlier in Shouma's pocket just as Aori walks into the room, and he asks if she still has it with her.

She offers up the note and they compare the two writings side by side, noting that the penmanship looks exactly the same. Aori suggests that someone could just forge his handwriting, but Osamu doesn't believe that to be the case. He mentions that he has an eye for identifying penmanship due to one of his hobbies and is certain that both notes were written by the same person. Rintarou considers that Osamu might be the Wolf himself and is trying to deceive them, but Takuya thinks that the Wolf would make the note sound more like Shouma if they wanted to forge it. Osamu thinks that in his despair, Shouma might've gone to the kitchen to stab himself with a kitchen knife, but Takuya doesn't believe a kitchen knife was used, stating that there aren't any missing.

At the same moment, Aori extracts the weapon from Shouma's body and Yukinari identifies it as the ice pick from the Play Room. Yukinari thinks that there are too many strange facts to the case for it to have been suicide, but his thoughts are interrupted by the alarm signifying that time is up. Merry appears to tell them that the Wolf Trial is starting and guides them to the trial room.

## Chapter 6

**First Wolf Trial 1 (第一回 狼裁判➀)**

All of the participants gather for the Wolf Trial, and Merry briefly explains the rules. Rintarou kicks the discussion off with a retelling of the facts of the case. The night before, they discovered Shouma's body in the kitchen. Kou provides that the corpse had been stabbed once in the chest, and at the time of the discovery, Misaki's scream is what led them to the scene. Before they get into the discussion about who killed Shouma, Yukinari presents the memo from Shouma's pocket and the suicide note from his bag to the others. Ritsu remarks that the note doesn't sound like Shouma, which Chie agrees with, but Osamu assures them that the writer of both notes is the same. Ritsu thinks that someone could've wanted to make it look like a suicide, but Aori suspects that if someone wanted to forge Shouma's suicide note, they would've made it sound more like him. This leads them to infer that the likelihood of Shouma writing the suicide note himself is high.

They set the suicide note aside and Aori suggests that they talk about the weapon. Satoru mistakenly refers to it as a knife-like blade, which Aori corrects and states that the weapon was actually an ice pick. Yukinari mentions that it was the same one from the Play Room, which prompts Miho to recall that while searching the Play Room, she found various bloodstains on the floor. Maki, who was examining the Play Room with her, corroborates that statement. She mentions that the stains were recent, so it can be inferred that they were from Shouma's body.

Yuuto finds it odd that there would be bloodstains in the Play Room when his body was found in the kitchen, and Kou states that the likelihood of Shouma committing suicide would be low, finding it unthinkable that Shouma would stab himself in the heart with an ice pick in the Play Room and then walk to the kitchen after. This leads him to believe that after Shouma was killed in the Play Room, his body was carried to the kitchen. Takeo asks why they would do such a thing, and Satoru suggests that the Play Room being the scene of the crime would be inconvenient for the killer. This thought leads him to question if Rintarou is the culprit. Rintarou is silent, and Kou asks Satoru what his reasoning is for suspecting him.

Satoru explains that the night before, Rintarou was sleeping on the sofa in the Play Room, but Yukinari recalls that Satoru and Shouma were supposed to have carried him to his bed. Satoru says that that was the original plan, but at Shouma's insistence, they left him there instead. When Yukinari asks why, he gets defensive about the reason and redirects the conversation back to the fact that the only remaining people in the room when he left were Shouma and Rintarou.

Ritsu asks Rintarou if he's the culprit and is met with silence.

## Chapter 7

**First Wolf Trial 2 (第一回 狼裁判➁)**

Ritsu demands Rintarou to say something, but he's not really sure what he can say. He tells her that he was asleep the whole time, so if something had happened, he'd have no idea. However, he thinks that if Shouma was killed in the Play Room, it would've been after Rintarou had already moved rooms. During the night, he woke up from the cold and moved to the sofa in the Garden Room. Ritsu doesn't believe his testimony and asks if he has anybody to confirm his alibi, but he tells her that he didn't run into anyone the night before.

Ritsu and Chie find his story suspicious, but Misaki interjects to mention that she saw Rintarou in the Garden Room last night. Afraid that he would catch a cold, she brought him a blanket and covered him with it. Kou asks Misaki what she was doing going to the Garden Room at that time of night in the first place, and she explains that she went to the kitchen to get some water. On her way back, she heard Rintarou sleeping in the Garden Room and tried to wake him, but he wouldn't wake up. This is what prompted her to bring him a blanket from one of the beds. Miho mentions that she heard Misaki walking about the night before and was wondering why, but with her testimony, it makes sense.

Under the condition that Misaki's testimony is the truth, Kou infers that at that time, Shouma's body wasn't yet in the kitchen, which Misaki confirms. This means that someone other than Rintarou would've also had an opportunity to kill Shouma in the Play Room. Takeo realizes this means they haven't narrowed the suspects down at all, and asks if anybody else saw suspicious activity during the night. Nobody has a response, and Takuya states that everyone was tired, so they were all sleeping soundly.

Yuuto jumps back into the conversation, still thinking that the suicide note is suspicious. He's sure that the Wolf is the one that wrote it, but Osamu once again states that the handwriting between the memo from Shouma's pocket and the suicide note are a match. This leads him to think that Shouma is the only one who could've written it. Yukinari thinks to himself that Shouma didn't commit suicide, made obvious from the fact that his body went from the Play Room to the kitchen. But in that situation, the fact that Shouma wrote a suicide note would be odd. On the other hand, the penmanship between the memo and the suicide note are the same, which leads him to wonder why Shouma would write the suicide note if he was killed.

Yukinari comes to a realization and suggests that the reason Shouma might've had the suicide note was because he'd written it for someone else. Kou figures that Yukinari believes Shouma was really the Wolf this time, causing the others to be confused since Shouma was the victim. Yukinari begins to explain his reasoning, starting with the fact that Shouma was the one who pulled the Wolf card. As the Wolf, Shouma came up with a plan in which he'd kill a Sheep then plant the suicide note to make it seem like suicide. This would explain why the handwriting on the memo and the suicide note were the same. However, as Shouma was trying to kill the Sheep, they retaliated and ended up killing him instead. Afraid that they would be suspected of being the Wolf, they decided to keep quiet about it the entire time.

Kou mentions that Yukinari's deduction doesn't explain why the body was carried from the Play Room to the kitchen. He doesn't have an answer, saying that they'd have to ask the person themselves to find out. After a round of telling Yukinari he's unreliable, the others agree that Shouma being the Wolf makes sense. Kou calls Merry out to ask whether the escape door will still open if they choose a Wolf that's already dead, which they confirm that it will. The others are ready to pick Shouma and end the trial, but Kou ruminates over the remaining mystery of why the body was moved. Takuya figures that the Sheep was in a panic, so there probably wasn't a significant reason for it. Ritsu then calls out to the person that killed Shouma to reveal themselves and explain, but nobody responds.

The others suspect as much, as they *did* kill Shouma, so they leave it be and prepare to pick Shouma as the Wolf. Rintarou then mentions that it's a shame the note he picked up wasn't related to the case.

## Chapter 8

**First Wolf Trial 3 (第一回 狼裁判➂)**

The others ask Rintarou what he's talking about, to which he replies that he picked up the note from the kitchen after the discovery. Takeo asks why he didn't mention it sooner, and he thought it didn't have anything to do with the murder. The memo he picked up has various notes about cooking procedure and ingredients, and Takeo writes it off as just notes on cooking. As they're about to get back to voting, they note that Osamu is staring intently at the memo. He then states that the handwriting on the cooking notes is the same as that of Shouma's suicide note. The others are shocked at this revelation, but note the similarities themselves.

This leads Chie to question whether Shouma also wrote the cooking notes, but Yukinari knows that he didn't because he saw the person who actually wrote it. He points out that Misaki is the one that wrote the cooking notes, and Takuya recalls seeing her write it too. Ritsu asks why her notes have the same handwriting as Shouma's papers, and Kou explains that it means Misaki was the one that wrote all of them. He deduces that their entire basis was incorrect, and conjectures that Misaki was likely the one that pulled the Wolf card. After killing Shouma, she wrote the suicide note and then placed it in Shouma's bag. She also wrote the memo that was found on his body. As part of her plan, the group would come to the conclusion that Shouma was the Wolf and planned to use the suicide note in his own plan, which would clear up the discrepancies in the note's tone.

The others are in disbelief that Misaki would do such a thing, and while Yukinari doesn't think Kou's reasoning is wrong, he can't believe Misaki would plan something so horrible either. Kou suggests that they reconsider and pick Misaki as the Wolf. Though many are hesitant, there are no objections until Yukinari speaks up. Rintarou wonders if he's planning to defend the Wolf, but the mention of defending someone causes Yukinari to come to another realization. He doesn't believe that Misaki would have been able to carry out that plan on her own, which leads him to suspect that she might be trying to cover for someone else and is staying silent as a result. He then hesitates because they'd all only just met each other, and it wouldn't make sense for her to be covering for someone else at the risk of her own life.

Kou prods at Yukinari to say something, and he voices that he thinks she might be covering for someone else out loud. Takeo, echoing Yukinari's hesitation, states that they'd all only just met and she'd be executed for the crime. Undeterred, Yukinari thinks that if she had an accomplice, then it would cover for the inconsistencies. He mentions that there's a big difference between Shouma's and Misaki's statures, and if she were alone, it'd be a struggle for her to carry his body. He also recalls that she'd injured her leg the previous night and asks Takuya to confirm that he saw it happen. He questions the others if it would make sense for Misaki, whose leg was injured, to be able to carry Shouma's corpse from the Play Room to the kitchen, and punctuates that it would be impossible.

Yuuto thinks that saying it's impossible is too much as she's still able to walk and could just be pretending to be injured. Yukinari doesn't think so, but Misaki interrupts, thanking him for trying to defend her but ultimately admitting that she killed Shouma. With her confession, the others are convinced, and while Yukinari still tries to refute it, Rintarou stops him and tells him that with her confession, any other discussion would be a waste of time. He figures Kou thinks so too, and asks as much, but Kou is silent in thought. He, however, has no objections to executing Misaki and believes there's no need to discuss further.

Everyone agrees to vote Misaki, and the Wolf Trial ends with Misaki's execution.

## Chapter 9

**The Truth (真相)**

Misaki's execution completes the Wolf Trial, and their vote turns out to be correct. Several hours later, Rintarou enters into a hidden room in the building and greets his older sister, Misaki. It's revealed that Rintarou is the one that came up with the plan, and while Misaki did pull a Wolf card, there was a second Wolf card distributed in the first round (the other going to Shouma).

The scene changes to a flashback from before Shouma is killed. Misaki is walking along the hallway looking for Rintarou so she can tell him that she pulled the Wolf card, her leg still in pain. In the Play Room, Rintarou is sleeping soundly on the sofa when Shouma walks up to him with the ice pick. He hesitates on killing Rintarou, but considers that this wouldn't be the first time he's been involved with killing someone, thinking back to the classmate he used to bully in middle school. He reasons that killing one more person wouldn't hurt since he's doing it to survive, and figures it's not his fault, it's theirs for creating the opening. At the moment when he's about to kill Rintarou, Misaki comes into the room and yells for Rintarou to wake up.

Rintarou awakens and hits Shouma, stunning him long enough for Rintarou to take the ice pick and stab him, killing him in the process. Rintarou and Misaki discuss their game plan for the Wolf Trial, including that they would get Misaki executed so she could spend the rest of the game in the hidden room. Misaki thinks doing so would make it harder for them to work together during the game, but Rintarou reasons that with her leg injury, her chances of being targeted would be high from then on, so it would be safer for her if she spent the whole game hidden. Rintarou then has her hand over the cooking notes she took while also directing her to write the memo and suicide note as he instructed. In the mean time, he would carry the body elsewhere because leaving it in the Play Room would make him suspicious.

They note that the body is bleeding, so Misaki offers to grab a blanket to wrap the body in to prevent the blood from dripping on the way. He tells her that he'll clean the bloodstains left in the Play Room. She asks him if he's really okay, and he assures her that he is, and that he'd prepared himself in case he had to kill someone. However, in truth, killing Shouma had shaken him up and left an impression on him, which made him unable to completely wipe away all of the bloodstains in the Play Room and made him suspicious in the trial. It was only with Misaki working in tandem with him during the trial that they were able to convince everyone else that he'd moved to the Garden Room.

According to the plan, they were able to steer the conversation in the right direction and get Misaki executed, allowing her to hide out for the rest of the game.

## Chapter 10

**Another Conclusion (もう一つの結末)**

In the hidden room, Rintarou tells his sister that he's going to go back and join the others. Before he leaves, he asks about the surveillance camera, which Misaki confirms shows that the others are fast asleep. Rintarou leaves the room and puts on his fake smiling face in order to deceive the others, but Kou appears next to him and catches him in the act. He reveals that he'd hacked all of the surveillance cameras in the building and played a recording of everyone sleeping. Yuuto explains that he'd found the hidden cameras by happenstance and as a result, they decided to lay a trap for the mastermind.

Rintarou attempts to play dumb, but the other participants are also present and witnessed him leaving the hidden room. Rintarou is silent as they question him, and Takuya asks how Kou knew it was Rintarou. Kou states that it was thanks to Yukinari's deduction about Misaki possibly covering for someone else, which led him to continue down that train of thought and ask who her partner would be. Thinking back to the discussions during the trial, he found that it could only be the person that her testimony relieved of suspicion. Her being the sole witness to his alibi coupled with the cooking notes that he revealed at the end of the trial despite Shouma having already been pinned as the wolf made him suspect that her being executed was part of their plan as well. After the trial ended, he tailed Rintarou and confirmed his theory.

Yukinari asks Rintarou why he would have them play the Wolf Game, to which Rintarou breaks down and explains that he wanted to take revenge on them for the part they played in his parents' deaths. He pulls a pistol out and points it at everyone, but Misaki comes out of the hidden room and tells him to stop. The others discover that they're brother and sister, and saying their names causes Maki to recall the case they were involved in five years prior. Misaki then proceeds to explain the entire situation to everyone. Rintarou narrates that they told everyone everything, and that he doesn't remember very well what happened after, only that The Wolf Game they'd conjured up as a revenge plot had ended in failure.

Several days later, Rintarou has just finished explaining the details of the case to Soushirou in a police interrogation room. Soushirou tells him that thanks to Maki, everyone knows about the case and asks if Rintarou wants to see the articles. Rintarou figures there's no point because she likely just twisted the details to make the story more interesting, but Soushirou explains that all of the information in her articles are exact matches to what Rintarou told him during the retelling of the story. He also explains that as a result of her articles, she's getting bashed quite a bit. Rintarou asks why she would do such a thing, and Soushirou admits that hearing Rintarou's story had moved him, and it likely did the same for Maki and her readers too.

Tsubaki enters the room to tell Soushirou that a lawyer wants to meet Rintarou, which he assumes is one being appointed to Rintarou by the government. Tsubaki tells him that it's actually Miho, and again, Rintarou asks why she would do that. According to what she told Tsubaki, Miho can't forgive him for his crimes, but as atonement for her own past, as well as to help them with their reparations, she wants to be their lawyer. She then promises that she'll protect his sister. Soushirou reveals to him that Misaki had taken all the blame for the case, and suggests that it would be best for them if Rintarou just went along with Miho's instructions. Rintarou tells Tsubaki to tell Miho that he's entrusting his sister to her, and Tsubaki leaves the room to deliver the message.

Once she's gone, Soushirou mentions that, had Rintarou killed the other participants, they would've all lost the opportunity to reflect and atone for their actions. He doesn't want Rintarou to think that everything is fine because he killed Shouma, who's now lost his chance to repent for his sins. Rintarou tells Soushirou that he'll carry that for the rest of his life and atone before breaking down into tears.

In a narrated message from Rintarou to his sister, he tells her that he has neither anger nor hate left in his heart, only regret and guilt. However, he vows to become a strong person so that he can support her, and won't run from hardship, believing that together, they can overcome anything. Though the future isn't as he'd envisioned, this is the conclusion to his Wolf Game.