The Hero and a Match (Gambling)

Well back on topic, theres no choice but to do something about the hero whod lost his temper.

Even so, I heard that Hero-sama attempted to bring Meat to his room though?

Eh!? No no, doesnt that sound weird!? I just wanted to hear her story since she had black hair.

Really it sounds suspicious theres a rumor that the hero proposed to a little girl.

T-theres a reason for no, its nothing.

Nn? So there was a reason?

Perhaps, did Haku-san tell him to feel around and investigate the relationship between me and Rokuko?

Thatd explain his slightly strained conduct. That he confessed so calmly, that he said he wouldnt leave Rokuko here, and that he broke my table.

Right, this hero was under Haku-sans control. It just doesnt look like it. Hes probably here to find a reason to bring Rokuko to the imperial capital. Her reception well, I can picture Haku-san rolling out the red carpet. With a house of sweets, making an entire room out of melon rolls with melon rolls filling the room.

And since I have to see the hero off safely due to my promise with Haku-san, I cant afford to start a fight with him. Was his training for this purpose?

Alright, lets repel him. However, not by injuring him.

Understood. Then shall we have a match?

Huh? A match? A match!

Hero Wataru took the bait.

As you wish, I accept! Well, naturally not a fight to the death, the plaza in front of the cave seems like a good place, what time? Im good immediately after this though.

Wait wait wait. Theres no way that I would challenge Hero-sama in a fight of combat prowess, this. This.

I showed him a die. A generic six-sided die.

A six-sided die A TRPG!? No way, there are rule books too!?

I dont understand what youre saying, your thoughts are skipping around too much.

Tabletop role-playing game, TRPG for short. Theres no way that exists in this world.

Well, when it comes to amusement, maybe I should go and popularize it?

Its ordinary gambling. Well prepare equal amount of chips and victory will be decided by struggling for them. Towers and dice, cee-lo, even cho-han are fine. Do you know the rules? [1]

A while back, I read about them in manga. I dont know towers and dice though.

You roll the dice, taking the amount of chips that there are pips on the faces. You do this three times back to back, with the person with the most chips in the end winning. Its that kind of thing. In short, roll them three times, the person with the highest total of pips wins.

Its easy to understand. Sounds good.

Then, are you fine with using this for the match?

Yes.

Wataru nodded. He appeared strangely self-confident.

What will we do about dice? Use the ones prepared by the inn?

No, Ive obtained some myself. I went to some lengths to get them after all.

Wataru took some dice out from his luggage. Probably spoils he picked up from our dungeon.

Then, lets let these decide our victory or defeat. Lie detecting magic tools if I win ah, no. Five hundred additional gold.

Then I will take Rokuko-san to the imperial capital if I win. And that child as well.

When he said that child and nominated her, Meat glared at the hero. Her eyes were saying that shed absolutely never follow him.

Dont worry, I wont let him take you. And as for Rokuko

Oi oi, I cant bet my employer at my own convenience. Shes different from my slave.

Ueh!? W-what about her being your partner?

Huh? I think youre confusing me with someone else.

To the last, Ill be obstinate in saying that Im a different person than Narikin. To begin with, I cant make her the bets wager!

You just accepted the match, you cant back out now.

Eeeh!? T-then umm, uhh that child, and reducing the table reimbursement

Well thats fine. I dont know how Meat is worth five hundred gold though.

And of course, what we were using were the crystal-type dice golems made by me, the trick dice.

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And so its my win. Thank you for the five hundred gold.

Competing for the one hundred chips, I won after this and that.

But the hero has some strong luck, always rolling fives and sixes in the three rolls. What level of trick was that? I examined the dice midway, but it was just that he kept throwing fours, fives, and sixes.

Even so, sometimes I won, sometimes I lost, purposely repeating this over and over. Losing a little, winning a lot, until I took away all of his chips.

Well, you were close.

O-one more time!

Ehh, cant be helped~. Then Ill double down and go for one thousand. Im fine taking installments if you cant afford it you know?

Guh no, please wait a moment I have a bad feeling about it, lets go with mutually betting one hundred gold each.

Understood, one hundred gold.

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Ah~. I lost. And it was a pretty big loss~. Unfortunately, I lost one hundred of the gold coins so you only need to pay nine hundred gold coins now. Congratulations!

Y-yeah.

Struggling for the hundred chips a second time, somehow or another it was my overwhelming defeat.

As before, the hero always rolled fives and sixes in his three dice rolls. He really might be doing some kind of trick. This time, I only won one or two times so it was a major loss for me.

Well our match should be satisfied with this, how about lets stop?

No! Please wait. Ill definitely save that child next time!

Eh? Then are you fine wagering fourteen hundred gold coins? She still has a gold debt so I dont want to get rid of her.

Its fine, lets do it!

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I started to feel sorry for him so lets forgive him with this.

Well then, you need to pay a total of twenty-three hundred gold coins.

Umm, didnt you cheat!? I dont know how but wasnt that obvious cheating!?

Hero Wataru is falsely accusing me.

Why do you think I cheated? You supplied the dice and we both properly examined them.

What percent chance do you think there is for ones and sixes to mutually appear all three times!?

Im sure that Hero-sama always got five or above twice the previous times, what chances were that? If you think about it, you might understand my hand as well? [2]

I have the unique skill [Super Luck: Lv 1] that I received from Kami-sama to surpass that ah, are you a summoned Japanese after all!?

So Hero Wataru had a skill like that huh I wouldnt have won honestly huh.

Rather, as expected of a hero to have such a cheat skill other than Translation-san. Bad Luck-san taught me about his hand even though I didnt ask for it. [3]

Its limited to only when Im protecting comrades. To the extent that its stronger than yours.

S-so there was that kind of mechanism.

I tried to say something with a deep meaning. Whaaat, I didnt fix my victory when I didnt wager Meat earlier, so Im not wrong.

And weeell, thats enough, no more. You understand?

Excuse me, as expected, twenty-three hundred gold coins is a bit

Pay it properly. You decided to wager it yourself.

For him to be seventeen when he was summoned, he should be twenty years old now. Hes an adult by Japanese standards, so lets have him pay it punctually Seeing how that would be two billion three hundred million yen, how many lifetimes will it take? Well, an S-Rank Adventurer-sama could probably earn enough to pay it off if they persevered.

Im fine with installments. Pay it off with one hundred gold a month for a year and eleven months. Youll be able to pay it back before two years are over. Easy, right?

Ueeeh if I werent an S-Rank that would be an unreasonably absurd and huge payment plan

Then Ill pardon the interest out of consideration of Haku-san. I wont even say something like to become a slave for collateral, so be thankful.

Yes, thank you very much

I dont know how much S-Rank adventurers can earn in a month, but he just said itd be unreasonable if he werent an S-Rank right? Ill believe you, Hero-sama.

Writing up a contract as well to make sure, he would pay me one hundred gold coins per month for twenty-three months. Do your best with the S-Rank commissions that pay huge sums. If you want, Im sure Haku-san could introduce you work that pays quite a lot!

Ah, come to think of it I didnt include the nuisance fees.

The heros eyes teared up.

Footnotes:

Cee-lo is this. Cho-han is this. Cant find a link for towers and dice

Hand as in tactics, means, etc.

Again, hand as in tactics, ability, means, etc. And Bad Luck-san? First time Kehmas used it, referring to Watarus [Super Luck: Lv 1].