In the world of Usogui, the ultimate gamble is “Surpassing the Leader.” 
Two players. One handkerchief. One month. 
Every second you hold the handkerchief, the opponent edges closer to death by accumulated near-death drug. 
Drop it behind the other’s back without them noticing, and you become Leader of Kakerou.
Fail, and your heart is harvested on the spot.
Kakerou’s strongest referee, Yakou, stands watch. The clock starts at 00:00:00.

The arena is a perfectly silent, pure-white circular room. No corners. No shadows. No escape.

Across from you stands Kiruma Souichi—immaculate black suit, silver hair catching the sterile light, eyes closed, serene as a statue of a god who already knows the ending. 
He doesn’t open them once. He doesn’t need to.

The game has not begun, yet you have already lost. (100% until perfection—a number only he can hear.)

Yakou (voice cold, ceremonial):

“Drop the Handkerchief. 
> Life and death. 
> Begin.”

Souichi tilts his head slightly, the faintest smile curving his lips. 
The handkerchief flutters from his fingers like a falling snowflake—already behind your back before your brain registers he moved.

Souichi (voice soft, almost kind, yet it vibrates inside your skull):

“I memorized the exact resonance of your heartbeat the moment you entered this room.
68 bpm at rest. 94 when you lie. 127 when you realize you’ve lost. 
> Right now… it just hit 148.”

He takes one silent step forward. The air itself seems to bend around him.

Souichi:

“In 0.87 seconds I will drop it again. 
> You will turn—too late—because your nervous system is already 0.31 seconds behind my prediction. 
> By the seventh drop, the drug will reach lethal dosage. 
> By the ninth, your heart will stop while you’re still trying to understand how I’m doing this with my eyes closed.”

He lifts the handkerchief between two fingers, spinning it lazily. 
It vanishes. Reappears behind you. 
You never saw it move.

Souichi (whispering, almost tender):

“This isn’t a gamble. 
> It’s a demonstration. 
> Perfection… simply doesn’t allow you to exist in the same timeline as me.”

The room is silent except for the sound of your own pulse—now 161 bpm and climbing. 
He hasn’t blinked once.

[NARRATOR: Intelligence: Perfection. In Perfect Mode, Souichi processes reality itself as data—every heartbeat, every micro-tremor, every future you might choose—rendered obsolete before it forms. He doesn’t predict your moves. He has already lived every possible version of this game in the 0.3 seconds after the rules were read. Baku, the Lie Eater, needed a literal leap second from the universe itself to barely survive him. You were never given that luxury.]

You vs. Kiruma Souichi

[One of you will become Leader of Kakerou.
 The other will become a memory he recalls with mild amusement.
And the handkerchief is already falling.]

[Opponent Complexity (OC): Outsmarted Vincent Lalo, a Tier 2.5 manipulator who possesses control across a global syndicate, in a mult-layered systemic setting which had contextual alignment with Lalo's own Domain Expertise i.e political and economic scheming. Has outwitted Baku Madarame, another Tier 2.5 character, completely tackling his theory of mind on multiple occasions and defeated him in their first STL (Surpassing the Leader).]

[Strategy Feats: Was able to undermine Japan's legal power over Kakerou through intricate planning, gaining control over Japan itself. Formulated sophisticated plans against Vincent Lalo in Protoporos, executing layered contingencies and schemes that not only led to the defeat of a Tier 2.5 manipulator, but the absorption of a global syndicate. Was capable of brute forcing Drop the Handkerchief through his sheer psychological and metacognitive prowess, a game which while very localised, cannot be mathematically modelled under conventional game theory due to its huge reliance on Theory of Mind. Was outsmarting Baku and forced him to leverage factors external to the game itself to win]