Vem säger att de inte var?
De blev bara drogade och vaknade upp vem vet var, deras lärare är ingenstans att ses och de möter en avskyvärd kille från år sedan. Man måste vara lite förlorad.
Säker, ingen svarar Kitano i första hand, men återigen vaknar de och tar situationen in - vem vill vara "den killen" på en gång så här?
Senare från manuset :
391.133Kitano lämnar henne inte chansen att avsluta, men min gissning är att de visste att det var en sak, bara att det inte kunde vara de som valdes . Det finns många elever i Japan, vad är oddsen din -klass plockas? Dessa saker händer bara med någon annan.
Men som en stor litteratur påminner oss, är vi alla någons "någon annan".
Dettabekräftasav boken , där eleverna är medvetna om " Program ", och en 3B-student säger uttryckligen att han inte kan tro hans -klass plockades.
"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: [...]
Och senare i samma kapitel:
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?..."