◈ 439. [Side Story] Gamble Club (3)
Shuffle-
Small and delicate fingers shuffle the cards.
Scarlett, the N-class hero of the girl in front of you, is a tajja.
Unlike the gamblers of other gamble clubs, she does not use magic or skills for her skills.
pure workmanship.
Since she was born in a circus troupe, she says she has always lived with cards.
A fake that dazzles the opponent with every trivial look and gesture. Finger skills trained to the limit and overwhelming psychological warfare.
It is a monster among monsters that has been fought alone with only pure skills when other gamblers fight with each cheat skill.
Like this, in the game, only the setting was fun, but it was an opponent who didn’t see much. But now.
‘It’s the worst challenge.’
I broke into a cold sweat watching her share their cards after the shuffle.
This lady does not cheat. If the victim is unaware of it, it is not a scam. That’s how sophisticated her skills are.
In fact, you don’t even need to use technology. Basic poker skills – I’m going to kick myself with just a natural kick.
Since I don’t use magic or skills, I can’t overturn the board by catching the fraud like the previous gamblers.
However, if I quietly play 1-on-1 poker, my defeat is obvious.
ruler.
Then how am I going to defeat this girl?
“What are you thinking so deeply about, Your Highness?”
Scarlett smiled as she passed the card.
“Please stop doing that and focus on the game with me. Even though I look young, there are many people who have a lifelong wish to play cards with me at least once in the place where I live.”
“Were you an idol?”
“Whoops. There is no end to embarrassing nicknames. The flower of the underground poker room, the mascot of the house… … Everyone loved me very much.” After
distributing
their cards, Scarlett whispered softly.
“Then they were all eaten by me.”
“… .”
Now, without even flinching, she was exuding the speculation worthy of a winner.
Picking up the card she gave me, I grinned.
“Then where… Shall we see if we can catch and eat me too?”
***
I was robbed.
“… No, I play too well.”
It’s ridiculous, so she mumbles, but Scarlett smiles and quietly shuffles the cards.
She’s crushing me with an honest skill gap without using any tajja skills.
My colleagues in front of me were beaten, and it seems that I decided to fight with the straight attack method rather than risk getting my tail stepped on while using ‘technique’ for no reason.
It was a very accurate decision.
I had Damian observe the plate in the next room.
If you see her win by playing with her hands, throw it down immediately.
But Damian couldn’t sense anything from her. In other words, she is playing poker normally.
Even so, it overwhelmingly beats me.
“… .”
Before I knew it, I had 10 chips left in my hand. 90 were stolen.
Scarlett glanced at the pile of chips on her table and mischievously licked her lips. I laughed dejectedly.
Poker in this world has rules similar to Texas Hold’em on Earth.
With two hand cards and five common cards, five cards out of a total of seven cards are used to create as strong a hand as possible to compete.
However, the five common cards are not revealed from the beginning.
First three chapters open. Afterwards, each additional card is revealed, and each time it is revealed, you choose whether to continue the game or give up and pass the stake to the opponent.
This is where your skills are judged.
You should be able to give up your stake without hesitation if you think you are at a disadvantage by looking at your hand and calculating the odds.
That way you can win the whole game.
In short, it is a game where you have to play well to win in the end.
I was immature in this part. Even with a suitable hand, she overdosed on bluffing and was crushed by Scarlett who finished the calculation like a knife.
As a result, there are only 10 chips left in the hand. I asked her
indirectly
as she shuffled the cards in an amazingly smooth motion.
“Why did you choose the life of a gambler?”
“It’s not something I chose.”
Finishing the shuffle, Scarlett answered nonchalantly.
“There was no such thing as a choice for a commoner girl born into a circus troupe. I had to do something because I had to act as a human being to earn a living.”
“… .”
“Fortunately, the card chose me.”
It’s not that you chose the card, it’s that the card chose you.
I asked her one more time.
“If you were given a chance to choose your life. Are you going to choose a card then?”
“… .”
Scarlett paused for a moment before saying,
“Yes.”
He looked down at his card and replied.
“Okay Miss Scarlett.”
I smiled faintly and threw my hand forward.
“From now on, I hope you give me a very good hand so that I can win unconditionally.”
“Whoops, can I do that even if I want to give it to you like that? Everything will be decided by Your Highness’ luck.”
But from that plate.
Suddenly, my cards started sticking like crazy.
“Diamond Flush.”
“full house.”
“Ace of four cards.”
Suddenly, an absurd genealogy card was attached to me, and I took almost all of her chips in an instant.
The tide turned and I had 190 chips. 10 Scarlets.
“… how?”
Scarlett looked at me with wide eyes as if she couldn’t believe the situation.
“How did you do it now… ?”
“well.”
I grinned and held out the last deck of cards.
“I am lucky today.”
10 of spades JQK A.
Royal straight flush.
Best hand in poker. In real life, there is nothing to see.
I threw my hand forward and brought her last remaining chip in front of me. Scarlett is now opening her small mouth.
“… This can’t be real.”
“no.”
Standing up, I made a clear decision.
“Surely this is a reality you created.”
A moment ago, I spoke to Scarlett.
– From now on, I hope you give me a very good hand so that I can win unconditionally.
While saying this, I used the [Mystic Eye of Command].
Scarlett, suffering from conditional mental control, showed off her skills as a tazza without regret, shedding cards every time she shuffled, and handed me the strongest combination.
Make the combination you want with the first card package you catch and hand it to your opponent?
It’s a first-class hitter, so it’s possible.
I used the [Mystic Eye of Command], believing that Scarlett’s skills would be enough, and she faithfully lived up to my expectations.
“You are very capable, Scarlett.”
I tapped her on the shoulder and went outside.
“So it’s easy to use.”
Even if you find out the truth later, I hope you don’t call it petty.
Isn’t that what a gambling board is anyway? A battle between how to deceive and how not to be deceived.
‘Surely, Scarlett is very strong as a Tazza.’
Other gamblers who use a fair amount of tricks will easily be smashed.
But in the end, she has no magical talent. In other words, there is no means to counter this side’s magic.
No matter how good her gambling skills are, she is still an N-class hero. I don’t know if I became a name and built a reputation only with my hands at the gambling board –
this is a battlefield.
Fighting in front of real magic is, so to speak, a fight of a different genre. It was a daunting battle for her from the start.
‘But it could be very useful for other purposes.’
Thinking, I came out of the guest room and pulled my head out.
“So, where is the last person?”
***
Last round.
The venue is the gymnasium. The opponent is the SR grade hero Violet.
“… .”
Violet, who was sitting at a table in the gymnasium with a nervous expression on her face, jumped up when she saw me.
I sat in front of her with a leisurely motion.
Violet stammered with a pale face.
“My colleagues… ?”
“It turned into a chip.”
Speaking calmly, I smiled.
“Everyone looked at me so easily. yes?”
“… .”
“To play with your hands in front of the imperial family. Aren’t they all worth their lives? Or were you that confident in your own skills?”
Violet gently bit her lip. I giggled.
“So Miss Violet. How are you going to fight me? Your skills have already been destroyed by me.”
“Kuh… .”
“It’s okay to run away without your tail. would you give up here? Do it to fold. Then I will spare your life.”
When I was being sarcastic, Violet gritted her teeth.
“right… Do not be ridiculous.”
“hmm?”
“Don’t be ridiculous, son of a prince! Can you come all the way here and fold!”
Violet, who threw her fedora to the floor, spat out ferociously.
“Siipal! I’ve seen enough rolls in all sorts of dirty back alleys! A gun was pointed at the head and stabbed in the stomach! They say they’ve won this far by playing poker while slurping sundae!”
You finally hear the real tone.
The way I used to be formal was all so awkward that it didn’t suit me.
When she was really cornered, Violet finally spoke her real tone, not a fake one.
“It’s a life-or-death game anyway! If you can’t do a good job here, it’s the same as losing your guts in the middle of winter!”
It was a very cheap and sloppy tone that didn’t match the purple hair dyed to look aristocratic.
“I’ve lived this far, even though I’ve been through all sorts of bullshit from gunshots and knives! Mafia bosses, arena champions, and serial killers all died and crawled all the way here to survive!”
I like it.
“Can’t you tell me you’re a prince?!”
keying!
With her purple eyes shining, a phantom realm – the [Violet Zone] was deployed throughout the area.
smart too. Did you learn anything when you hung out with me yesterday?
Chow ah-!
Her phantasmagoric realm developed only out of the way where I was.
The entire manor house was covered by her phantom realm, but I was carefully controlling the area around me so that the phantom realm didn’t touch.
“Hoo.”
I was really amazed
“What are you doing? Violet.”
“… My magic doesn’t work around you, but it works outside of it!”
[Indomitable Commander] has a skill effective radius.
It does not provide nullification of mental state abnormalities to allies outside the radius.
The manor house must have been at the mercy of Violet’s magic tricks by now.
Violet gasped for breath as if it was getting out of hand after expanding this much territory.
“While I’m holding you back, use phantom magic to save my comrades… … Rob your gold bars! I will run out!”
“Yes, yes. You should have written it like this long ago.”
I nodded.
“Your skills are too precious to waste on gambling.”
“what… ?”
“Above all, I know for sure. Violet.”
I clicked my fingers and clicked my tongue briefly. right!
“To not know when to fold and bet again with a losing hand. Besides, even in this situation, trying to save your friends… … .”
As soon as I snapped my fingers,
Pee-Ying-
Pug!
A bullet made of rubber that flew from the side of the manor house hit Violet’s forehead.
It was Damian who shot him.
Damian’s [clairvoyance] is not dazzled by phantom magic. He had ordered rubber bullets to be shot in advance in case of an emergency.
Violet couldn’t even scream and collapsed on the floor, then fainted and the phantom magic area disappeared and was released.
I clicked my tongue as I looked down at Violet, who had collapsed with foam at the corners of her mouth.
“As expected, you don’t fit in as a gambler.”
So I’ll put it to good use.
