In this chapter, we learn that the final phase of the game has come to an end, and that all of the players outside the tower have to follow one current player. This means that, if you're a die-hard fan of one of the current players, you'll have to die with them, even if you don't die in the game. But if you follow someone who's not a current player, you won't be able to do so, because they'll go down their follower count after the end of the first phase. This is because, as the narrator points out, a follower's count is the "lifeline" of a player, and it's the only thing that keeps a player alive. So, for example, if ayame's follower drops below 5,000, then she's going to go down with the rest of the team, which means that they're all going to have to leave the game and die with her. The narrator then tells us that if the team loses with rock, what will happen next? If they tie, then they have to read the three-point shoot, and if they lose, they have only one thing left to play with. So the narrator says that if you want to beg for mercy, now is the time to do it, because these guys have been facing death for days, and they've got nothing to lose. If they strip down to their bare chests, he says, they'd have to ask him to kill them, and he'll do it. He'll take off his glasses, because he doesn't want to be seen naked with a girl. He also says that he's in love with ayam