Chapters 30 – 26. Getting Reserve Slaves.
Now, in the central hallway, the majority of first-year students were checking their grades on the bulletin board.
It was laughable to see the expression on the faces of the school lunches who said things such as grades went up, down, and ruined here and there.
Among them…
“Nonsense…”
“What makes no sense? Huh?”
“Uh, why…”
“You’ll have to give in. Don’t you, Chloe?”
Denying this situation and not wanting to admit it, Chloe clenched her teeth and glared at me with raised eyes.
“If you really want, I can easily teach you my study method.”
“You’re cowardly…! So, you’re not cheating, are you?”
“You’re talking nonsense. If I had committed cheating in the first place, my name wouldn’t be in the first place, right? And our Chloe is only 5th and talks a lot, right?”
“Don’t call me Miss Chloe!! And that tone! It’s really annoying!”
“Yeah~ Now that you know it well, you know who’s on top? I’m specially studying…!”
Chloe cut off Allen’s hand, which was about to put her hand on her head, and a low voice of anger came from her mouth along with a sharp look in her eyes.
‘It looks like a kitten… It won’t be easy to tame.’
Allen touching the rejected hand.
But it was possible.
A game is a game so far. I have experienced, played, read, and watched the media of rice cakes to a certain extent.
To be honest, I don’t know the character Chloe very well. I only know her as one of the villainous daughter’s one-two.
However, as a result of taking a rough look at Chloe’s personality over the past few days. The more a person has this kind of personality, the stronger his ego is.
Even if he admits that he has lost inside, he does not want to admit it easily on the outside, and in the midst of such contradictory conflicts, he eventually keeps his words.
So I didn’t bother provoking it.
I’ll come to you anyway.
“Yes. I’ll admit I lost… But! If I win the next test!”
“Tell me after you win. If you say that and lose the next test, won’t your pride hurt?”
“Uuuuu!!!”
“I’ll teach you from next week, so if you have any weak subjects, tell me then.”
After that, Allen smiled and walked to the classroom.
And the remaining Chloe clenched her fists for a while, trembled in her anger, and looked at Allen’s back and made another promise.
“In the next test, I will definitely flatten that guy’s nose…! I’ll trample him invisibly!”
****
“Allen Mestia. Wake up.”
“Yes.”
“Congratulations. You took first place with excellent grades in this exam. You came in as a substitute in the entrance exam, and now you seem to have come to your senses.”
Our Cordelia picks me up and gives me compliments that I didn’t normally do well and compliments that I did well.
‘You look a little proud, don’t you? Is not it?’
“Thank you, Ms. Cordelia.”
As I sat down with a light thank you, the school lunches sitting in the classroom, sticking to me, looked at me with admiration… This feels pretty good.
‘This is why I have to do well in whatever I do.’
Shortly thereafter, Chloe also praised her high ranking and sat down to thank her, but for some reason, the way she looked at me was so damn good.
‘No matter how fucking crazy you are, you’re in the palm of my hand, Chloe.’
“And Mirai Mirai.”
“Yes, four…!”
Mirai, who looked at me with a look of respect from the side and clapped for me in a simple way, stood up with a startled reply.
“You’ve worked really hard for a transfer student. Get into the top 10 in the next test.”
“Yes, eh…!”
‘I’m surprised. I thought he was a crazy character, but he looks like he’s studying.’
She seemed to see Allen’s disrespectful thoughts and her Mirai again, but in reality she couldn’t study Mirai Mirai.
In fact, the transfer test was also solved with Le Cane’s knowledge, and the result of this test was 11th place because Le Cane secretly cheated on the questions and Allen’s test papers within the scope of Le Cane’s knowledge.
When Mirai sat down, several gazes were directed at Mirai as if they were looking at Allen, but unlike Allen, he was afraid of excessive gaze, so he lowered her head and held her hands together, trembling.
“Don’t be scared.”
“Yes, yes?”
Seeing Mirai tremble in fear even though she hadn’t done anything wrong, Allen reassured her in the same voice as usual and spoke to her.
“Stay confidently. Straighten your back and say, ‘I am this kind of person. You are so amazing. So don’t be scared.’”
Even Allen himself thinks it’s useless.
But she did well, but I hate seeing her shivering with fear… No, she hates it.
I don’t know if it’s a difference in personality. Still, as much as she did well, it’s good that she accepts compliments confidently by being bluffed at this time.
“Yes…!”
It was a slightly creeping voice, but not as frightened as before. Rather, a voice that seemed to give strength.
“Yes. That’s it. No matter what anyone says, you did a good job. So don’t be afraid.”
“Thank you, Mr. Allen…”
“Just call me Allen…But she seems to be good at studying? She doesn’t have to teach me much.”
“Ah…! That, that’s… Lucky…”
In fact, Le Canet didn’t want to cheat. No, she rather had to.
Because Le Canet heard the story of Mirai, her own partner and her dear friend, sharing her dishes with Allen at her restaurant.
She had to get a high score to protect Mirai from that obscene beast that rocked her back and forth with no restraint like a dog in heat.
He was also very worried about the remark that Allen taught him to study, so he had to do everything possible to prevent this man and Mirai from being in the same space.
“What’s luck? What kind of luck do you need for the exam?”
With this opportunity, Allen praises Mirai highly.
However, Mirai was stung by her conscience every time she heard her compliments from the man she liked, and she hesitated and held her head, which she couldn’t lift easily.
‘Uuuuu006 From now on, you won’t need Lecane to help…”
‘Oh, no! Mirai. Were your test scores good? But why…?’
‘I want to study on my own… And become a person I’m not ashamed of…!’
Mirai, who communicated with Le Cane through her mana, made up her firm resolve not to let Le Cane hear of her infidelity that he had done.
‘Next time… I want to be praised for doing well…’
****
After all the classes, Allen met up with Pamela to briefly learn the art of gambling.
“Are our juniors amazing? Are they ranked first in the grade from the first test?”
“So please praise me more.”
“Aren’t you being too arrogant? Do you get hurt?”
Pamela and I were playing catch-the-thief as we chatted with each other with our cards in our hands.
“But am I not good at poker?”
“There’s no way a rookie can beat a competent dealer working at the Royal Casino in a week~?”
“That’s right. Pamela senior.”
“Yeah, why?”
“That… Everything… What kind of games are you good at?”
“Well eh~? I don’t even know what games Daos is good at~?”
Pamela’s easygoing tone seemed to incite people.
“I don’t know what game he’s really good at. He’s good at any game played in a casino. Each dealer has his specialty. Oddly enough, Daos doesn’t do anything particularly well, but there’s nothing he’s particularly bad at~”
I wanted to deal with that motherfucking Daos bastard with my specialty, but… She’s not particularly good at it or bad at it…
“Like I just said, if you think of winning a new dealer, you lose~?”
“I learned from senior Pamela, who is cute, pretty, and lovable, but also has extensive knowledge. Will I lose?”
“It’s flattering~ but it feels good to have a cute junior talk about it.”
“It’s over~”
Pamela says it’s over by tossing matching cards on top of the stack.
“In terms of record, 123 matches, 100 wins and 23 losses?”
“Yes.”
“You’re doing well~ You won more than 10 wins against me. You can proudly talk about it even when you go to gambling halls in other regions~”
Arlen, placing the cards in her hand on her draw pile, began shuffling them in various ways, shuffling them again.
“Still, it’s fortunate that I got to the level of a third-rate dealer in two days~ Because if I can’t do that, I’ll lose~”
“Is that a compliment?”
“Of course, that’s a compliment~ I played games to the point where I got tired of it, so from today until the day after tomorrow. Let’s hone our skills~”
“Yes, got it.”
The technology of gambling was more subtle than I thought. No, should I say simple?
I’m sure you’re taking out the bottom, stop moving! I thought this was a skill…
“Again. If you make a mistake this time, there is a penalty.”
I had to remember and remember.
Remembers all your cards and knows where they are. Handing the opponent a bad hand and giving me a good hand…
Even when shuffling, she had to be natural and aware of all the positions of the cards being shuffled.
After practicing for about 4 hours, her hands were tingling and the skin was thinly cut and slightly bloody.
But now that I’ve gotten used to the intuition and know the tricks, I’m glad I did.
As if my hands were actually convulsing, each of my fingers trembled, and I had no desire to hold the card at all.
“Oh, you did it pretty quickly. I thought it would take two days?”
“Everything, of course…! My hand hurts and I’m going to die…”
“Our cute juniors learn hand skills quickly~? So, this time, instead of 52 cards, shall we use 53 cards with a joker~?”
‘Fuck…’
