I think the best thing to do is to go read this manga having only read the synopsis and enter this roller-coaster of a story.

I don't want to get too deep into the details of 'Akumu no Elevator' or the characters themselves but I just want to say that this really makes you think. Or at least, that's what it did to me.

Whenever I hear about those terrifying situations that some people get inserted in and the way they come out as changed people, I get incredibly terrified because it makes me wonder if I would have made the same choices if I were in their place. Would we hold on to our morals and ethics tightly to the very end even if we see no other option but to let them go to survive?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I don't think the writer just wanted to come up with an exciting thriller just for the heck of it. So this is as close as I could get to actually talking about the story without crossing into Spoiler Land but I hope whoever's read the manga would understand:

One of the characters could have cut the losses and stopped things from spiraling out of control but that person's hesitation caused everything to get even more complicated, although doing The Right Thing could have made it better, this manga shows that people rarely do what's seen as right when it comes to saving their behinds and coming out clean.