Episode 6

**I Really Can`t Be Friends with a "Murderer"** (やっぱり"人殺し"とは友達になれないって, *Yappari "Hitogoroshi" to wa Tomodachi ni Narenaitte*) is the 6th episode of Tomodachi Game anime series.

## Synopsis

Backed into a corner by Yuuichi's plan, Tenji is forced to confess that he applied to play Tomodachi Game. Yuuichi spells out the traps he set to smoke out the traitor and reveals that he had been manipulating the game from the start. The second game then reaches a breathtakingly unexpected conclusion.

## Summary

Yuuichi reveals he had a plan to set traps and reveal the traitor even before the second game started. After the third period and the bad-mouth that Shiho dated Tenji, Yuuichi and Shiho had decided to work together without the others knowing. They done it without talking much and Yuuichi giving instructions to Shiho with the cards. Tsukino confirms that this was Yuuichi's first trap. She tells Maria to rewatch the footage from the fourth period, where she can see that Yuuichi took two cards and had a pen, but when he came out, he told Shiho he put a blank card. Tenji realizes that while tapping Shiho on the shoulder, he gave her a card with instructions, which she read when she got inside the box. Tenji wonders how Yuuichi could trust her, and Yuuichi reveals he didn't trust her at first, but tested her. His first instruction was for Shiho to use the secret Yuuichi had told her about him, which was that once he didn't take a bath for a week. Knowing that Shiho wrote that bad-mouth, Yuuichi knew that the other bad-mouths were done by the traitor and not by her.

Yuuichi then decided to test Yutori and on the fifth period, he gave her a card, telling her that Shiho is on their side and she must keep pretending to fight her to smoke out the traitor, and on the next period to submit a secret about Shiho that only Yutori knows. During the sixth period, Yutori submitted that Shiho wears men's boxers, but since there was another bix expose, Yuuichi knew that one was from the traitor, which clears Yutori. The bad-mouth was that Tenji lies about his age, which only he or Makoto could have written. Tenji wonders how he kept informing Shiho as he stayed close to her, but then realizes its when he slapped Shiho. Tsukino explains that was the second trap, while it normally wouldn't matter, Yuuichi controlled the order in which people go into voting. And with the special chance, Yuuichi knew that it would be too risky for the traitor to volunteer, thus when Makoto volunteered, it cleared him too and that left Tenji as traitor.

Tenji realizes that the plan Yuuichi proposed of them writing bad-mouths about themselves was also part of his plan and Yuuichi confirms. He explains he knew it had holes, but when he mentioned that their debt won't increase, Tenji didn't back off, which made Yuuichi realize he was betraying them for something different than money. As they still had to finish the game, exposing Tenji could have made him gone wild and write much more bad-mouths. In the last period, Yuuichi asked Tenji to go first and then told everyone else to put blank cards. Tenji feels that doesn't make sense since everyone can write more than one bad-mouth, and this elimination he did, shouldn't work. Tsukino states that was Yuuichi's third trap. Yuuichi confirms, and explains that he also asked them to give him proof of their friendship. As Tenji looks at them, he realizes they are missing their name plates. Since they weren't the traitors, they easily gave their name plates. Maria is impressed that Yuuichi figured that giving the name plate doesn't double the debt. Tsukino guesses he tested it, as before the fourth period he was missing his name tag, likely giving it to Shiho and then taking it back. As in a way he was saying that he won't trust them if they don't give him the name plates, not wanting to be isolated, they all agreed.

Tenji wonders why he left him as last, and if it was some mistake he done, which made him the most suspicious. Yuuichi explains he knows them very well and he became suspicious of Tenji as he didn't act normally during the game. The Tenji he knows is smart and calm, and would always step in to break an argument. However, at the start of the game, he picked a fight with Makoto and blamed him for the bad-mouth, but Makoto couldn't tell secrets about them as they never told any secrets to Makoto. The rest confirm that they avoid telling secrets to Makoto as he has a big mouth and is kinda an idiot. Yuuichi believes that Makoto even wrote a bad-mouth for himself, revealing he took baths with his mother in order to protect Shiho. And when Yutori's secret was revealed, he was just trying to cheer her up, but since he is an idiot, it sounded a bit different. Yuuichi didn't believe Makoto would be able to keep the act and only told him everything in the last period while Tenji was in the room. Tenji realizes that its indeed suspicious when he tried to blame Makoto, who obviously couldn't pull all that.

Manabu states the game isn't over and even though they found the traitor, Shiho is still about to lose. Yuuichi then approaches Manabu and whispers something. Shocked, Tsukino and Maria quickly check it up and confirm to Manabu its true. Manabu then declares the game is over and Yuuichi reached the goal alone. Manabu reveals that Yuuichi wrote a false bad-mouth in the seventh period and had just confirmed it. As such, he gets a penalty and goes one space ahead of Shiho, and clears the game. Yuuichi explains they are likely wondering why Tenji did it, but they should speak with him while Yuuichi plays the third game alone, and decide if they should forgive him or not. Yuuichi explains he had done horrible things in the past which he kept a secret, fearing that if they learned them, they couldn't stay friends. Yuuichi wrote a bad-mouth that Makoto killed a person, but that was a lie as Yuuichi is the one who killed someone. Tsukino is surprised to discover that Yuuichi had send three people to their deaths. Manabu states that the third game is rough and almost impossible to clear alone, and Yuuichi would regret acting like a "hero", but Yuuichi wonders who is going to regret it more. Yuuichi's friends acted as a safety for him to keep living a clean life, but now without them, he can let loose his real him, and destroy Manabu and the management during the third game. Manabu states that Yuuichi is scary and tells his friends that he is a murderer who killed three people. They wonder if it was in an incident, but Manabu denies it. Makoto starts turning against Yuuichi, but Tenji tells him sometimes people have to do things they can't talk about and someone like Makoto, who had a good life can't understand it. As his friends argue, Yuuichi states that if he has to deal with such noise, its better to not have friends. He states that they are only dragging him down and increase his debt. Manabu tells them to say some encouraging words to Yuuichi as he is going into a hellish third game, but no one says anything, making Manabu comment that no one wants to be a friend with a murderer. Yuuichi prepares to jump alone, but Tenji stops him. He turns to Manabu and states he also said a lie which is the bad-mouth of him dating Shiho. Tenji admits he wanted to destroy the fiendship, so that he can keep Yuuichi to himself as he likes him. Maria states that he is making it up, but Tenji is prepared to prove it and heads and kisses Yuuichi, and then jumps down with him.

Tsukino believes that Tenji must still have an objective as this is his second Tomodachi Game.

## Characters

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