Shibou Yuugi de Meshi wo Kuu. - Vol. 3 Ch. 17

[MangaDex]

 

[Astriasa]

Since 'likeability' is important in this game, I wonder if vengeance also plays into that. People love to see characters get revenge on those who mistreated them after all.

 

[Chaosrunewiz]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[ivedraZz]

Tftc

 

[Lightbrand]

What points?

 

[ScryedParadox]

Page 4 "My agent"
Goddamn, the people in this world give no damn about their survival. They literally just have agents like idol managers setting them up for death game gigs.
Also, the girl wants money quick, that's fine and all but if the reward money is consistent, we already established on the first one that the prize is about over 1 million yen, so 10k USD.

She looks like she could still be a high school girl, maybe a college girl because y'know, manga, can't really tell the age of a person by how they look, but we have context clues here of her going to school.

Just get a freaking part time job.

I mean, with the aforementioned 70% survival rate as a baseline. For 20k USD, she's looking at a 49% survival rate. 30K USD, 34-35% survival rate.
Let's assume she wants 100K USD baseline, that's 10 games in a row. She's already looking at a 2-3% survival rate.

Just go work and shove your money into the S&P500 or something, or some stocks with consistent dividends.
Less stress, less trauma, less chance of dying.

 

[NARESH4444]

Page 4 "My agent"
Goddamn, the people in this world give no damn about their survival. They literally just have agents like idol managers setting them up for death game gigs.
Also, the girl wants money quick, that's fine and all but if the reward money is consistent, we already established on the first one that the prize is about over 1 million yen, so 10k USD.

She looks like she could still be a high school girl, maybe a college girl because y'know, manga, can't really tell the age of a person by how they look, but we have context clues here of her going to school.

Just get a freaking part time job.

I mean, with the aforementioned 70% survival rate as a baseline. For 20k USD, she's looking at a 49% survival rate. 30K USD, 34-35% survival rate.
Let's assume she wants 100K USD baseline, that's 10 games in a row. She's already looking at a 2-3% survival rate.

Just go work and shove your money into the S&P500 or something, or some stocks with consistent dividends.
Less stress, less trauma, less chance of dying.

Something that would be best given as class education to teens about not being a drug dealer nor a prostitute.

Safe,stable,steady income over a slightly longer period(and with long term costs kept minimum)is definitely better then a major risk for a major reward in the short term.

 

[ItzUhMe]

Points from..?

• Saving her
• Revenging her
• Slice N Dice the wolf

We'll see..

 

[solamente]

Page 4 "My agent"
Goddamn, the people in this world give no damn about their survival. They literally just have agents like idol managers setting them up for death game gigs.
Also, the girl wants money quick, that's fine and all but if the reward money is consistent, we already established on the first one that the prize is about over 1 million yen, so 10k USD.

She looks like she could still be a high school girl, maybe a college girl because y'know, manga, can't really tell the age of a person by how they look, but we have context clues here of her going to school.

Just get a freaking part time job.

I mean, with the aforementioned 70% survival rate as a baseline. For 20k USD, she's looking at a 49% survival rate. 30K USD, 34-35% survival rate.
Let's assume she wants 100K USD baseline, that's 10 games in a row. She's already looking at a 2-3% survival rate.

Just go work and shove your money into the S&P500 or something, or some stocks with consistent dividends.
Less stress, less trauma, less chance of dying.

When you lay it out like that, it's interesting because we should be able to use the survival rate to infer the minimum payoff needed for it to make sense (e.g the alternatives of getting a past time job or investing) - you can just treat it as the inverse of having a life insurance policy. As you've said, it doesn't really make sense. Leaving weirder motives aside, if we take the assumption this is a future Japan, we could be left with some interesting implications depending on what we go with. For instance, one way to make all this line up is an extreme deflationary spiral - stock markets in recession, high unemployment, cash suddenly becomes valuable (note that in this chapter, glasses-girl says "I'll go to a less expensive country and live frugally"). Notably, it seems it's all mostly young women or teenagers involved - so, they've got very little capital to begin with and few employment opportunities. Also note, we haven't met any mothers yet, and I don't think we've seen anyone who's married.

Now here's one idea: that foam stuffing method would be astonishingly useful in a military context. I think we could even safely assume that was the original use. She can survive her legs being destroyed in a landmine. So, in this world, all of a sudden, injured human combatants are no longer a liability (i.e long hospital stays as opposed to a quick burial). Missing limbs and disabilities stop mattering. In that case, we can infer two changes in strategy/policy: 1) you can always be sent back to the frontlines perpetually, 2) there's no reason for your enemies to favour disabling weapons over immediately lethal ones. Already this is so distinct from our world that it's hard to predict what consequences this sort of thing will have. I'll do a reread and see if I can pick up on any extra details we got.

 

[D1slopconsumer]

One difference between the novel and the manga here is that the novel refers to the “points” as “brownie points”

In other words she’s trying to make herself more likeable and entertaining to both the other girls and the spectators