I still can't get my head around how or why Smile knew that red, blue, and gray would exit together here.

The color scheme of this exit area also conspicuously resembles the weird "game world" where the vermin lords met with Tobi. Is that really a coincidence?

Gee, Three must have used magic to make them all disappear!

Wait, the story is over? We don't get a resolution to what happens to Levine and Ezra?

Just a reminder that Shalhia's earnings multiplied with each death in the game. Assuming Smile held their end of the contract, Three is comically rich at this point.

How long did this game last? 7 years? 10?

@339597 My guess is that they spend time in an elevator or long hallway before they get to this exit which gives enough time for either a worker or a machine to identify which contestants are leaving and update the signage and drop the needed items.

Well....on the subject of knowing who will leave together and by what exit.... We know seeing the future is a thing in this world. A person's future is determined by actions taken in the present so its constantly changing but...if you could see a desired outcome and made sure that a series of actions in the present lead to that outcome you could be quite sure of who would leave together and by what exit.

amazing. Perfect time to re-read tobi's story!

@Tuesday the rewards are probably dispensed while the players are in the elevator, during the trip they could easily send the rewards and alter the signage via automated pneumatic tubes. Or one single person is still alive who is in charge of the rewards.

This does give the slight possibility that since it was his elevator Indu and Bindy saw Levin's cash reward. So she could have taken it for herself. But it's more likely the identification system saw Levin was not in the elevator.

I assume if we don't see a pair of corpses in the next two pages that Erza and Levin have their fate unknown so they can successfully escape and reappear at a later time.

Thank you Three, I don't blame Shalhia from just being done with all this death game nonsense and ignoring the rewards so glad you're picking up the slack.

@Joe
Almost 8 years ago: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_1100
Yep, I feel older now.

Three is being pragmatic, good on him. I wish more characters in stories I read were.

Smile didn't need to know they would exit together. The elevator ride from the game area to the exit probably took some time.

As expected, Smile left one last chance for betrayal. If they had brought Levin, he would have stolen all three moneys before Shalhia had a chance to reject them.

Three has destroyed all evidence. Probably ate that up or something.

I am glad and relieved it's over. Like someone else pointed out, it's been almost SEVEN YEARS.

Time for a re-read.

I was straight up terrified that Tobi's entire reason for joining the games was about to be invalidated by Shahlia's sense of morality. Way to go, Three.

I have mixed feelings here. On the one hand it is nice to move on.

On the other hand, we really need to see what happens with Levin and Green first. Logically, leaving Levin with Green means most likely neither one is getting out. Levin can't leave through the elevators because Green can't leave with him, and Green has no chance of killing Levin himself. I see a few outs: Infinite-ghoul might kill Levin in the maze with Green making it to the elevator on his own, or one/both of them finds the employee hatch, or Green bargains with Infinite-ghoul to kill Levin in exchange for taking him up in Green's elevator, since he doesn't count as a player. Sure, the ghoul COULD die and respawn in the world, but since his respawns apparently happen near where he died, that means might not be able to get out without assistance.