LIAR GAME roots of A #2

Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao's father named her thusly for “honesty”. Nao has more than lived up to her father's wishes--even exceeding them and earning the label of "a foolishly honest girl". This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes 'Liar Game', where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt. However, that doesn't stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.

A collection of short stories by Kaitani Shinobu. 1. **LIAR GAME roots of A** Roots of A is essentially a manga short featuring Akiyama during his senior year of college. In it, Akiyama and four of his classmates are taking a criminal psychology course and given an assignment where they must construct a profile of a person based on a letter they sent. This outcome of the assignment, plus what the professor says afterwards, is what prompts Akiyama to enter grad-school and continue to study psychology. 2. **Nine Darts** (ナインダーツ) 3. **Sansou: Kindan no Senjutsu** (サンソウ～禁断の占術～, Three Phase: The Forbidden Divination) 1 4. **Sansou: Kindan no Senjutsu** (サンソウ～禁断の占術～, Three Phase: The Forbidden Divination) 2 5. **Kaitani Shinobu no Aiken Monogatari** (甲斐谷忍の愛犬物語 , The Tale of Shinobu Kaitani's Dog) 6. **@Lovers** (@ラヴァーズ)