“Sometimes, it feels like I don’t really have any options either.”
CHAIN-LINK EVENT
WARNING: this Event is part of an Event Chain! You've lost all control over your own actions and must now sit back while
someone else takes the wheel. Enjoy the ride while it lasts, and hope that you did things right before taking the plunge!
As Rika brings in a thirty foot ball, it's finally revealed what death ball is. However, outside of organizing the ball, Imani didn't put much thought into the competition as a whole and suggests the girls should just figure out what they need to do. Feeling that the ball has "a mind of it's own", the girls thought that getting the ball under control is the most logical condition to determine who wins.
The event itself is presented in two ways – The actual contest in the present and an interview with older versions of the contestants recounting their experiences for a documentary. In the present, the initial reactions of the girls are shown, with Futaba, Rin, Yumi and Otoha being scared of the ball, whereas Uta is excited and Tsuneyo is completely calm. These impressions are somewhat mirrored in the interview where Futaba, Rin, Yumi and Otoha have varying degrees of negative feelings towards it, whereas Uta enjoyed the entire experience and tries to get death ball unbanned, as it was outlawed and mostly erased from history years after the occurrence due to the destruction and chaos it caused, and Tsuneyo doesn't see it as a big deal.
The actual contest is presented in flashbacks, portraying it like a war zone or a kaiju attack as the ball runs wild, the field gets engulfed in flames, and the girls are either trying to escape the ball, stop it, or are caught in its wake. At the end, Tsuneyo is the one who manages to get the ball under control by lifting it up and throwing it far into the sky.
When asked what allowed her to lift up a 2,000lbs ball without issues, Tsuneyo named her husband as the source of her strength, but when the producer notes how she wasn't married at the time, she claims it might've been a secret back then.