Well, coming to this game world with my own body was surely much nicer compared to that weirdo’s body, and even this gambler guy was talking some shit that wasn’t making any sense for me, but I had no better thing to do.
So I also nodded, and soon he took a strange box from clothes. That box was looking way too ragged the moment he took it out, so I was feeling somewhat uneasy, but he blew a breeze from his mouth, and fuck, the moment he blew, the entire condition of that box got fixed, and it turned into something way too fancy.
While doing it, he gave me a prideful grin, and soon he opened it. Damn, surely it was way too cool to just randomly turn a scrap box into something this luxurious, and the most painful thing in it was that despite having so many overpowered items and skills, neither of them had this kind of ability.
So now making him my slave was really taking effect on my soul, and I also started to pay attention to it, while I could hear Yohan’s cries: ‘Jerk it is because of you that we had to deal with this annoying stuff; otherwise, if you had just followed the storyline, you would have already been in the panties of this barkeeper’s wife!’
Fuck, hearing his words and seeing this poor barkeeper in front of me, my laugh was escaping my lips. Like, how could this creep even say something like this? Well, I knew he was horny, but seriously, he was telling me that if I had followed the storyline, then I would have been inside of this guy’s wife.
But I couldn’t show my real expressions to them, so I only glanced at this poor guy, and while glancing at his side, I saw a strange door that had no entry board in it. Well, now I could understand the reason for no entry in it.
Still, I took a deep breath; rather than falling for his provocation, I calmed my treasure and poor soul while this creep opened that box and pulled out strange cards from that box and began to shuffle them.
Seeing him, I couldn’t help but remember those jerks from casinos, who scam people’s souls in their shuffling and not even leave poor underwear on their body, so without letting him scam me, I spoke in a provoking tone: ‘Brother, I don’t think that gamble would even feel like a gamble if Elder Brother shuffled the cards. Who knows what Brother might pull, so why don’t you let me shuffle the cards so that the younger brother wouldn’t feel bad after losing!’
Hearing my words, he glanced at me, and was stared at me for some time while shuffling those cards, but my instincts of misfortune were choking my throat, as if they were telling me to not let this bastard complete his shuffle.
And there was no way I was going to ignore such major instincts when the stakes were already this high, and I already didn’t have any access to my inventory or stats, so without wasting a single moment, I used my cultivation and pulled the cards out of his hands while shuffling them myself.
And speaking: ‘See, that’s why elders should hear young kids. You see, we are way too impatient, and who knows what would happen if impatience became unbearable, so now I will shuffle the cards, and we will gamble on our accord rather than elders!’
For a few moments, he was way too blank to even react to my speed, and hearing my words, surely his expressions were turning dark, but I wasn’t born yesterday, as I knew this tactic very well—that such kind of old coots always use underhanded methods to win.
First they would create a tense environment around the table and try to take initiatives to take the game under their palm, and most people lose the moment when they blindly trust or get overwhelmed by such coots.
So, instead of letting this coot take things in his hand, I hastily shuffled the cards, and to my surprise, I was feeling a strange kind of energy from these cards, and every time I was shuffling them, their energy was getting familiar to my touch.
Like after a few shuffles, I didn’t have to look at these strange cards to know what kind of wicked image was printed on them, and seeing me proficiently shuffling the cards, this bastard spoke in a sketchy and hasty tone: ‘Brat, leave those cards; let the elder shuffle them, and I feel that we already shuffled them enough, so maybe we should start playing with the cards!’
Hearing his words and looking at these cards, I was sure about one thing: that if we used these cards, then there was no way I was going to win, and I didn’t even have access to my inventory.
So I could only put the cards back on the table while speaking: ‘Elder surely, whatever you say, but I feel it is kind of off that the elder is doing all the work, like the elder brought the cards, the elder brought the gamble, and now the elder is even trying to bring the game also.’
I don’t think it’s fair, so this time, I will decide the rules of our gamble, and I will make sure that Elder wouldn’t have to trouble himself any further!’
Hearing my words, his expression turned somewhat concerned for a few moments before he again turned to the same as before and made excuses and tried to get the upper hand, but after knowing what this bastard was trying to do.
I couldn’t just let myself become a slave of this jerk, and seeing his such nature, I was now sure about what kind of ability he must have given to the protagonist of this game, so rather than letting him mess further.
I stubbornly persuaded and began making rules of our gamble: “Elder, don’t worry, junior will take care of this entire mess for you, and I wouldn’t waste Elder’s precious time any further.” As it will be a single gamble that will decide the fate of the entire thing, and we are going to gamble on ‘Burn the cards!'”
