Prologue

[…] If somebody finds this video, this diary entry, please take it as a warning. This is not a joke. I'm not a coward. I'm not somebody who falls for the stupid tricks death can offer. I've seen what I had to see in this life and I can't bear it anymore. I can't stay here… This world is too horrible now that I've seen the truth. [pause] I'm scared; scared of all the choices I've made, all the horrible things I've done. I hope God can forgive me for what I've done; I had no choice but to do it. My classmates and I were thrown into this horrible game. Just speaking of it makes my heart race, my hands shake. I feel like dying, just to erase those memories.

[deep breath] It's called Battle Royale. Nobody knows of it. They told us only the high-end of the government knows of it and that all the rest are ignorant. I read the book that talked about it; I never thought it was real. They had to let the author release it since he was the winner of the 1999 Battle Royale game. They managed to let the book pass as an innocent story, the imagination of the author. My classmates and I were thrown into this game with one rule: kill one another until one survives, the one with the strongest will to live. I'm the only one who managed to survive, the only one who got out of this perverted game. The prize is not even worth it. After all you've done in this sick game, the only thing you want to do is crawl in a hole and die. The loss of humanity, the loss of your friends and dear ones. This is all too much [rasp breathing] I can't take this anymore. They have me under surveillance. They don't want me to record this but I'll hide it. The world needs to know the truth. [whispers] This game exists. Beware of it. Any class can get chosen as long as it is a secondary 3-5 class. The horrors you will go through. We were lucky I guess. They change the rules at every game; the setting, the weapons, the hours to kill everything. It changes each year. They called that an experiment. We managed to have the option of a "normal game," if this can be called a normal game. We were lucky. We had the same game as the one stated in the book. But beware! They could chose to add new rules, and remove other rules, I won't know.

[long pause] I'm scared. It's the only thing I can do. I need people to discover how sick humans really are. If you ever end up in this game, do not trust anybody. Whatever rules they put in there, do not trust anybody. In the end, you almost can't trust yourself. [short pause] I … I think, I'm ready to go. Good bye world. [click]

[Video excerpt recovered by Agent Ren Sakamochi from the 2009 Battle Royale terminated winner]