"What is this place?"
When Nami woke, she found herself trapped in a huge house with many other people.
The house was strange. Numbers covered the walls in rows and columns, enough to make anyone dizzy. Even the floor tiles had numbers on them.
"Nami..."
Hearing someone call her name from behind, Nami spun around and cried out in delight. "Kuina! You're here too! Thank goodness. What's going on?"
Kuina shook her head. "Who knows?"
"Welcome, everyone, to the Number House. The prize for clearing this round is fifty million Beli!"
A man's voice had suddenly come from a monitor on the wall.
"Fifty million? Whoa!"
Nami, who had been flustered a moment ago, jumped up in excitement.
Kuina glanced at her and warned, "But we've all been separated. Don't you think that's strange? This island isn't safe at all, and we don't even know how Ye Chen and the others are doing."
Creeeak.
A hole opened in the wall, and a fly was tossed inside.
"Let's start with a simple warm-up. Whoever eats this fly wins one hundred thousand Beli!"
The man's voice came through the speaker again. It sounded old and utterly devoid of emotion. Kuina spat hard on the floor and sprang up.
She was about to slash the blasted speaker to pieces when a bolt of lightning struck from overhead. Kuina quickly dodged aside.
One unlucky person below her was hit instead. His eyes rolled back, and he died on the spot soon afterward.
The voice from the speaker returned, now stern and cold. "This is Game Island. Whatever you do, you must follow the rules of the game. Breaking them won't do you any good."
Then footage of Ye Chen clearing a round appeared on the wall. "See that? This contestant has just cleared the