The interior of Avilat’s gambling house was as opulent as it looked.
Gold threads adorned the closed windows, with a green flag symbolizing the neutral zone flying below.
The dealers milling around looked very familiar…… just like the ones I had seen in the ga.
We exchanged our gold coins and headed inside.
There is a rule that you have to place bets and play using Imperial chips, which is the only currency available here.
Our mission here is, to put it simply, the Neutral Zone. To stop things that shouldn’t be happening, even if they are outside the law.
For example, the illegal auction of slaves and the oppression of a race.
To search for them, we were issued fake identities. Of course, the story with the coachman is a moot point, but you have to be careful here anyway.
I clicked my tongue as Paracelsus looked at the masked n and won around him and felt a sense of dreariness. He sighed and scratched his head.
His mask, by the way, ca off.
I wondered if he was conscious of his unpleasant appearance.
“…… You’re a good man, Hagan{sic}, but you choose to co to this rotten place for a mission. …I’m sure you’re not the only one.”
“Shut up. Commoner.”
I returned Paracelsus’s sarcasm with a modicum of sarcasm, then smirked.
The reason?
It was obvious.
It’s because the unit itself, Paracelsus, and this place don’t exactly go together.
‘Paracelsus’ luck is twofold, and I’m pretty sure he was born to be in a place like this.’
At my age, I’m used to having a Luck stat of 2, but this guy is different.
Paracelsus blossoms a hidden trait in the second half.
That is.
“Ha… I can’t help it, I’ve co this far, I might as well gamble.”
[a gambling addict] and.
“Uh…? Isn’t this machine broken? Why are my chips already gone?”
[The harms of gambling] / [Campaign against gambling addiction].
Thanks to the addictive nature of a ga called …….
It’s a crazy combination that leaves you speechless, and in the second half of the ga, Paracelsus is unable to collect any gold coins at all, despite his skill.
There is no explanation for this.
This is the gambling house of Avilat.
You’ll make a killing here.
‘I can see his future.’
There are good reasons for bringing him here earlier in his life. To familiarize him with the area, for example.
As for Leon, I brought him along just to take all the work off his plate. As for Eleanor, well, I was afraid she might run out of money.
For Talia, I was afraid she’d kill if I didn’t bring her.
I don’t know what else, but I have an ominous, terrifying premonition that I won’t be able to handle that last one.
Damn it.
Why am I like this…….
No, no, no. Let’s just play the ga for now.
It’s best to stimulate the brain’s central nervous system at tis like this.
“Let’s get started, then.”
I took Talia, Leone, and Eleanor with as we slowly made our way inside.
In the anti, Paracelsus had already lost half of the seventy gold coins he had brought with him. How could he be in such terrible shape?
You almost wonder if he’s been conspiring with soone behind the scenes.
“Parakelsus-ssi seems to be… a bit under the weather, and I’d advise against going near him for a while.”
Leon said that bluntly, and then sat down with an innocent look on his face as if he didn’t know anything.
It’s a place where you play sip and savor, and if you get the right answer, you win the amount you bet. {TN: Craps table}
“Do you want to play odd or even?”
Leon was dressed in a black suit and a black lion mask, but he chose the black hole like it was nothing.
“How much do you want to bet?”
“I’ll bet everything I have.”
“……? Paracelsus the man said, and here’s another lamb who doesn’t know what the world is…….”
Eleanor was stunned. She hadn’t planned on playing the ga in the first place; she had simply followed my suggestion.
She had recently ntioned that the top of the Rivalin family had had their carriage hijacked on the way to the academy and had lost so of their goods, and that they had ended up here.
Well, no wonder they’re biting. {The other gamblers}
For reference, she’s a fox mask, and Zitri is a yellow canary mask.
I’m a white cat, for so reason. Talia is a white jaguar, as if to match .
……It looks like I’m getting beaten up for so reason, but whatever.
‘How co they all have the sa tinnitus from everything they ate…….’ {1}
That was the mont.
“Ho, it’s the hall!”
“……? Hey, it’s just that I got lucky this ti, not that kind of gambling…….”
A question mark appeared on Eleanor’s face. Leon paused for a mont, but his face remained expressionless.
“In pairs this ti.”
“And what are your bets?”
“I’ll go all in this ti.”
“……what. That guy.”
At this point, I’m scared.
Have I ever seen Leon gamble before?
At least I haven’t.
Talia grabs my sleeve, her eyes darting around anxiously.
“Nox… are you sure this is okay? If you lose everything like that…….”
“Yay, mate!”
Just like that, Leon had matched all seven shots in a row.
This guy is crazy.
I sincerely think so, and I’m pretty sure that Leon’s hidden traits include things like [Gambling Genius]. I’m sure there’s sothing like [betting genius] hidden in there.
I’ve been collecting all these crazy things, and this is the result…….
“Master, you should never learn by watching.”
“Zitri. We’ve co this far, just give up.”
Zitri, was not adjusting to the atmosphere at all.
But like a good boy, I shrugged it off and started walking towards the place where I could win the most money on my bets.
There it was, a ga commonly found in traditional fantasy settings.
Poker, that is.
* * *
“Straight!”
“Fl-flush!”
“What, a two pair wipes out 500 chips?! Are you out of your mind! What kind of family do you co from that would invest like this without any concept of…….”
Needless to say, I was undefeated in poker.
I ca here with only 50 gold coins, and now I have 4700 gold coins.
With such an overwhelming rate of return, I’m tempted to live here for a few days. At this rate, I might even be able to stop the war with my money.
Such a sweet temptation tugged at my brain, but I managed to escape.
In the first place, there is only one large-scale gambling house, Avilat, and if I continue to win money like this, I will be blacklisted and hunted down at any mont.
……Of course, there are still a lot of resentful eyes staring at now, and I don’t know when a sword will be drawn on .
It’s ti to get out of this place…….
…….
…….
“I’m all in this ti.”
I decided to play just one last hand, really one last hand.
After all, isn’t the amount you have too vague?
4700…….
I can get to 5,000 if I save up a little more.
Is that it?
If I hold out a little longer, I can get to 10,000!
“Young Master…? Your hands are shaking.”
“Nox…… are you okay?”
Jitri and Talia’s gazes turn to .
However, I didn’t pay them any mind and continued to place my bets…….
Eventually, I win.
The chips in my hand are worth 10,000 gold coins when converted to gold.
To give you an idea of the magnitude of this sum, it’s roughly the sa as the profit I recently made from selling 15% of my monster materials to Eleanor.
Eleanor gritted her teeth and said, “But I won’t gamble!”
A voice is heard shouting.
…On that subject, she plays one of Leon’s gas of dice and loses, and we all know it.
She only borrowed two chips to bet.
Either way, they’re dishonest.
“Co on, let’s get going.”
I say, and look at Leon, who has now won over 3,000 chips, and Paracelsus, who has borrowed from him and lost another 400 or so chips.
Then it happened.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a man stop us.
“You’re a lucky bunch. ……except for that one gentleman.”
“Why not ? You’re a… scamr, aren’t you? Talk to straight. Before I cut you down.”
Paracelsus drew his sword and raised it, so I stopped him and quietly handed him a few chips behind his back. He cald down a bit.
“Since you have so much money, I would like to invite you to an auction where you can purchase so interesting items. Would you be interested?”
The man in black said.
‘This is the real start of Chapter Two.’
I was convinced. This is the main story.
The beginning of the second chapter.
{TN: Why say it three tis???}
“I’d be willing to take a listen, but…….”
I nodded, and the man in the suit seed to see it coming. He smiled at , the kind of smile that cos with being a young master of a noble family.
Have you ever seen such an asshole?
He continued to demand.
“First of all, before you can enter the auction hall, you need to pay one thousand gold coins to raise your mbership level…….”
“Cut the bullshit.”
This ti, I barged in as Paracelsus.
If you ask why, the reason is simple. What brought us here?
Because the Eldain Academy had our backs, demanding that we uncover the corruption. In other words, we already had.
“You don’t recognize a VIP, do you want to walk out of here with your wrists shackled?”
We had a VIP card.
If you’re asking why I played the ga anyway, first of all.
Because I felt like I needed to distract them.
And secondly, because there’s so good stuff in this dirty auction house. Especially since the artifacts you get here can be used quite a bit later in the ga, so it’s definitely worth grabbing.
“……Oops, sorry. I didn’t recognize the VIP…….”
The man quickly bent his back to 90 degrees. However, he lifted his head for a mont to look at Paracelsus, as if he were wondering.
“Uh… By the way, are you a VIP, too? You were losing so much money earlier…….”
“I only lost on purpose.”
Paracelsus said nonchalantly, as if he didn’t know when he’d lost money. The man gave a look of disbelief and led us to the underground auction house.
And there.
We could witness.
countless rare artifacts and slaves of other races.
It was almost sinful to look at, especially when elves, dwarves, and others were half-naked and branded with magic so that they could not escape.
“This is…….”
Talia rhyd, and Eleanor picked up.
“There’s so stuff stolen from us over there.”
…Although I was surprised at another point.
But that was , too, so there’s nothing more to say.
I turn my gaze.
It lingers on a spot in the dimly lit underground auction house, for it is one of the Masterpiece units I have been searching for.
A boy with fierce-looking brown hair.
He has another one of the [Genius] traits, [Genius of Command], making him one of those characters that becos an all-rounder in the late ga.
Our gazes et for a mont.
His black eyes stare at intently.
Then his head turns completely around with an expression of disbelief.
“……that asshole.”
I mutter to myself.
I’m going to have to pick him up and roll him around for a while. Fixing the head first is the whole point of an introduction to assholeology.
“Have a seat, then.”
As soon as we heard the voice, the five of us took our seats.
The auction was about to begin.
{1} : Spent 30 min looking up what this tinnitus phrase is and couldn’t figure it out, any help would be appreciated.
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