Kaiji sixth episode

Who can down high-flying Kaiji? No-one, it seems. But with that little thing called time looming over them all, they need to make haste and collect the necessary number of stars to make their getaway from the vessel cruising the waters of hell.

Reminds me of my times playing Super Mario Bros. 3 at that card stage.

The narrator's voice acquires a poignant tone at this point

Funai is a natural-born chieftain

Soulless people might want to take a swipe at Kaiji too.

In the final throes of the troubling night, Funai happily sallies by before Kaiji, before casually taking a seat beside him as though nothing had happened. The very man responsible for Kaiji's despondency is right alongside him and he does nothing! I thought had been fuming at Funai's going back on his word. But Kaiji does lash out at him as expected. Funai repeats the same behaviour as in their first encounter: he spews  more clues to Kaiji about the current state of affairs on the ship. He tells Kaiji to heed to his knowledge of the scarce number of cards remaining on the floor, before waving a cocked finger to a static set of downcast people at the other side of the hall. They are those who had quit earlier than expected, and won't play any longer. Rather, they are just waiting until time's up and then they'll try to buy stars from those who have spares. This means the number of potential contenders are all the more reduced. This crippling side of reality plays on Kaiji's mind and Funai tries to cash in on it by urging him to trade some of his cards for an extra star pendant. The scene is kind of hilarious for this gloomy context. Funai attempts to kindly talk Kaiji into accepting the deal by waving a star in front of him as Kaiji puckers his face in an effort to keep his self control! He grinds his teeth and shuts his eyelids furiously while Funai sings the praises of stuffing the star into his pocket and ditching his wimpy teammates. All this is too much for Kaiji and he abruptly shoves Funai off, knocking him butt-first on the floor and scattering his stars. Funai gets to his feet and fitfully picks up his precious stars, all the while telling Kaiji what a bitch of a man he is and that he will never win in life due to his soft attitude regarding loyalty and faithfulness to remaining part of a team.

In quick succession Kaiji assembles the other two members and entrusts them with all the money he had on him. From what I could tell, he fears falling prey to some temptation suggesting he should leave his friends stranded. Both parties agree that Kaiji should not be left with monetary resources so Andou and Furuhata pocket the damning bills without further ado. Kaiji is still the appointed leader, but now he can't afford to make decisions on his own without consulting with the other members.

What Kaiji just did couldn't be described as something short of noble. He had just got away from disaster by the skin of his teeth and now his neverending faith in his homies compells him to leave them with the remainder of his funds. Since the only way to succeed is for them to work and act as a team, it might be reasonable for Kaiji to treat possesssions not as his own, but as belonging to the whole group. As long as this leads to victory, it's fine. But I'd have mighty reservations about placing valuables in other people's trust, let alone if I hadly knew them.

The black suit's all seeing eye didn't catch anyone cheating, so it never happened.