Quem disse que eles não eram?
Eles acabaram de ser drogados e acordaram quem sabe onde, seu professor não está em lugar algum e eles enfrentam um cara ressentido de anos atrás. É preciso ficar um pouco perdido.
Claro, ninguém responde a Kitano em primeiro lugar, mas mais uma vez eles estão acordando e assumindo a situação - quem quer ser "aquele cara" em um momento como esse?
Mais tarde, a partir do script :
KITANO
Listen up! Because of folks like
Kuninobu here, this country is
absolutely no good anymore! So the
bigwigs got together and passed
this law. Battle Royale!
We hear a sinister music chord.
KITANO
So, today's lesson is ... you kill
each other off until there's only
one left. Nothing's against the
rules!
Boy #2, Keita Iijima, laughs. He is the class clown.
KITANO
What's funny?
Girl #5, Izumi Kanai, is puzzled. She is in the same gang
as Sasagawa, its only female member.
KANAI
Teacher, I don't understand what
you are saying. This can't possibly
...
KITANO
Actually, your teacher, Hayashida,
deeply opposed the selection of
Class B.
Kitano não lhe deixa a chance de terminar, mas meu palpite é que eles sabiam que era uma coisa, só que não poderiam ser eles que fossem selecionados . Há muitos estudantes no Japão, quais são as chances de que sua classe seja escolhida? Essas coisas só acontecem com outra pessoa.
Mas como uma grande peça de literatura nos lembra, somos todos alguém "outra pessoa".
Isso é confirmado pelo livro , no qual os alunos estão cientes do " Programa ", e um aluno da 3B declara explicitamente que não pode acreditar que a sua classe foi escolhida.
"All right, all right, please be quiet." Sakamochi clapped his hands together several times to get their attention. The clamor suddenly subsided. "Let me explain the situation. The reason why you're all here today then..."
Then he said: ".. .is to kill each other."
Now no one responded. Everyone remained frozen, like figures in a still photograph. But —Shuya noticed — Shogo continued chewing his gum. His expression hadn't changed. But Shuya thought he'd caught a glimpse of a faint grin flash across his face.
Sakamochi continued smiling and resumed, "Your class has been selected for this year's 'Program.' " Someone shrieked. [...]
Every junior high school student in the Republic of Greater East Asia knew what the Program was. It was even covered in school textbooks from the fourth grade on. Here we will quote from the more detailed Republic of Greater East Asia Compact Encyclopedia: [...]
E mais tarde no mesmo capítulo:
Some of his classmates might have been hoping that Kyoichi would provide some adequate rational form of protest. Kill the friends you were hanging out with yesterday? It was impossible. Someone's making a mistake here. Hey rep, can you take care of this one for us?
But Kyoichi completely let them down.
"M-my father is a director of environmental affairs in the prefectural government. How could the class I'm in be selected for th- the Program?..."