[Well, Shuichi will be waiting forever, because the catch would have been obvious if he was paying attention. A killing game where you vote on who lives, and the ones with the most votes are spared...]

Anyway, I met a girl in that game who really wouldn't last one day in that killing game. She was a pretty smart reporter, but she was too unremarkable for anyone to pay attention to her.

[That was sort of a lie. Myriam Scuttlebutt was actually too antisocial to get enough attention. She was wearing a cardboard box on her head, for crying out loud.]

I took pity on the girl, so I did her a little favor... Pulled some strings to get her a one way ticket to that hotel and out of harm's way!

I dunno if there's a mercy option here, but I might do something similar to you if you stick with me.