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Why Kuzuryu’s final act was done incorrectly

In the king ♦︎ game Kuzuryu is left with the decision of judging the worth of Chishiya’s life by either pressing 0 (letting him live) or 1 (death). Kuzuryu’s ideal was that all life is equal.

He ends up pressing both 0 and 1 at the same time letting fate or luck decide. With that staying true to his ideal of not being able to judge the worth of life/refusing to.

In the live action adaptation he presses 0, letting Chishiya win. When I saw this I was mad. How does that show his ideals when they were to not judge life and then go against it and do so? Isn’t that deciding that Chishiyas life has more value than his.

By leaving it up to chance he crystallizes his ideals and sticks to what he believes in even if it were to cost him his life.

It also goes hand in hand into the ongoing subplot of Chishiyas luck in games even though he doesn’t care if he lives or dies. As if the universe is cursing him to face his emptiness.