Chapter 46 – 32-3. Royal Casino.
A short break after the first game.
As if exhausted, Allen sits down on her chair and quenches her throat with a glass of high-quality water prepared by Maros.
“Brother Allen. Are you okay?”
“Uh, it’s okay. Didn’t you guys feel something strange?”
Throwing her head back, Allen speaks weakly and asks Maros and Welton.
“Strange. What do you mean?”
“Dealer bastard. Something’s strange. Obviously I won the first round and the second round, but even though I took the chance, I was reversed. Isn’t there something suspicious?
“Isn’t it just because you lack skills?”
I couldn’t say anything at Welton’s blunt words.
To be honest, it’s true that my skills are lacking… But anyway, in blackjack. It’s also a double blackjack at the same time as the split starting with the third board. Isn’t it almost the same as the lottery odds?
Does it make sense to lose by a margin of one or two oddities after that?
“Well, to be honest, it was amazing. Split-double blackjack with only two chips left. Do you think it’s possible? Again…”
The Maros guy ardently expressed my feelings, as if he had at least noticed, but he wasn’t particularly helpful.
“Come to think of it…”
‘Why? Did you find out something?”
Welton, who had been quietly listening to the story, brought out his words with a nuance of…
“I’m not sure.”
“Tell me something. If you do well… I’ll give you a reward later.”
“The dealer sitting over there was beating the table strangely.
“You’re knocking?”
‘What bullshit, all of a sudden?’
“I looked closely at the dealer’s hand movements. When he was losing, he was fine, but when he was winning, he was tapping his fingers on the table.”
“Knock on the table?”
“Huh? Did you? I’m not going to lose to Allen.”
Maros, who received a stinging glare, blurted out his words.
‘What difference does knocking on the table make? Is there something?’
I sprayed it with mana for a while and looked at it, but I couldn’t feel any trace of magic. Rather, I didn’t feel it. Let’s try it first I don’t think the answer will come out even if I just roll my head.
“Let’s start the second game quickly.”
“Come on. I was going to start anyway.”
The second game was catching the thief, which Pamela trained me hard to dig into one thing.
“Hmm. Compared to the previous game, the tension is less.”
“The mouth… This game is a one-shot.”
“It’s single. Do you think you’re confident?”
“…”
“It’s too bad to think that the game ended in vain.”
‘I’m crazy. I haven’t figured out anything yet, and I’m losing more than anything, but if I keep going like this, I’ll lose again.’
I couldn’t. Allen decided to cheat.
‘Because it’s okay if I don’t get caught.’
Feeling suspicious, but unconvinced, Allen opens a new trump card and takes out two Jokers, imprinting them in everyone’s eyes as if to show off.
“I think I’d better leave out the color. It suits the loser’s desperate face so well, the black-and-white Joker.”
‘Fuckin’… Yeah. Let’s try it.’
The number of newly opened trump cards is 54. As Daos said, Allen gathered the 312 cards she had used for color jokers and blackjacks in her hand and burned them all.
A faint mana was carved into the black-and-white joker by taking advantage of the gap where the eyes were taken away by the colorful flames and acrid smoke.
“You’re a boy who likes showmanship. Then explain the rules.”
Daos, who had a nonchalant expression, asked me to explain the rules of the game.
“The rules are the same as the existing thief catcher, but different. You can play only when there are 4 or more cards of the same number, J, K, Q, A.”
“Is that the end?”
“Yes. It’s over.”
“It’s simple. Then let’s start quickly.”
53 cards, including one black and white joker, were handed out, and the game proceeded with me receiving 27 cards and Daos receiving 26 cards.
****
Along with the many cards on the table, there were only six cards left in Daos’ hand and seven cards in Allen’s hand.
“It’s a fun way to catch a thief. Oh, it’s finally here.”
After drawing one card from Allen’s hand, Daos puts out four cards with the same number of 8, leaving only an A card and a number 2 card left.
“Now, it’s your turn, Bocchan.”
‘You don’t tap your fingers. Above all, the black-and-white Joker engraved with mana is in the dealer’s hand, so how can it be so convenient?’
I picked up one of Allen’s four cards.
As expected, thanks to the faint mana engraving, Allen pulls out a heart A, not a black and white joker, and puts it down on the table along with the three cards he has in hand.
“I’m done too.”
“You’re lucky. I don’t know if this is me losing.”
Now there are only five cards left.
You have three cards in your hand and two cards in the dealer’s hand.
To be precise, the card in Allen’s hand is the number 2 card. They were clubs, spades and diamonds. If so, even a child knew that the cards in the hand of the dealer Daos were the Heart 2 and the Joker.
‘Why are you so anxious even though it’s an easy situation?’
Sudden thought. The flow is definitely on my side. Even though I was leading, something was uneasy.
“Would you like to draw?”
“What?”
“As you and your poor brain know, I now have 2 hearts and a joker.”
Allen was quite taken aback by Daos’ sudden action of putting a picture of a card on the table, and the onlookers whispered about what he was doing, and some protested against Daos.
“Ignoring the nagging of the onlookers, how about adding a rule to the game?”
“Add. What’s the reason for all of a sudden?”
“It’s only five cards, so you don’t want to waste time, do you?”
“Ho … My baby. I admit one of the cans.
Allen, who was quite taken aback by the sudden action, whether he was intoxicated or calculated, soon revealed his card like Daos.
On the table where the dealer Daos is sitting, there are two hearts and a black and white joker. Allen’s table shows two cards of clubs, spades, and diamonds, and when they reveal all the trump cards in their hands, people start to complain about what the hell is going on.
“What the fuck! What kind of bullshit is this!!!”
“Daos! I bet several hundred gold on you!!!”
“If you lose today, you will die too, Daos!!!”
‘I was wondering why, but they all seem to be angry with Daos.’
However, despite repeated death threats, Daos began to talk about the customers who bet on him with a calm face as if their voices were not being heard.
“Let me make you a suggestion.”
“What suggestions?”
“Now it’s my turn to draw, but if it’s the other way around, it’ll be the boy’s victory, right? It’s a 50% chance.”
“So?”
“Oh, what I want to say is simple. If you accept the offer, I will hand over my turn. And I will let you draw as many as three times.”
“Are you confident?”
“Yes. I’m confident. Instead, if I can’t draw a 2 heart card within 3 tries, how about my victory?”
Not a bad deal… No, rather, I suddenly became curious about the condition of Daos’s head who proposed this kind of deal.
Three chances. 50% chance. No matter who sees it, if you don’t accept this offer, you’re an idiot.
By the way… My heart has been stuffy since before. It felt uncomfortable, as if someone had squeezed my heart.
“How do you accept it?”
It is not the laughter of the pursued. It is not the urgency of the pursued. It’s just that the guy is enticing.
With a delicious and large piece of meat in front of my eyes, they only invited me into the cage, teasing and comforting me.
‘Don’t bet on a match just because you’re holding the winning flag~ No matter how hungry you are and you can’t judge, you have to be careful, right? A beast of prey doesn’t give out its food easily, right?’
‘Now I know what Pamela Sense meant…’
Obviously had an advantage. And an offer you can’t refuse. No, luck came right into the mouth of its own accord… But Allen’s decision was like this.
“Okay. I’ll decline the offer.”
“Yes? No, not in the future. To be honest, an opportunity like this never comes easily, and you can’t get it even if you try hard. Are you just throwing away three chances? If you lose in this game, you will definitely regret it. Will.”
Daos, with a smile telling him not to regret, proposes to Allen again. But Allen’s answer is already out there.
‘I came to rob it, but I was rather caught… I’m glad I found out even now.’
Allen picks up three open cards on an old round table. And then…
“The tongue is fucking shiny.
