Chapter 78

Slots

Well then, our labor problem is over, Feni the phoenix has hatched, and we have a newly improved inn . The dungeon… is still fine . The riddle area is still peaceful after all .

And so, I thought about what the [Dancing Doll’s Pavilion] is lacking in .

I take pride in our food and sleep being at a level that can’t be found anywhere else .

The reason to come to the inn is the dungeon . Then, in charge of healing is the onsen . It’s a wonderful lineup .

… However, there’s still one thing we lack .

Entertainment .

I’m not talking about an ero district . Though something like that might be necessary, I want to avoid that since there are children (lolis) here . The owner is the owner, and Haku-san said she’d kill me if I taught her something bad .

Well, as for what I want to add, some kind of game corner . Something common to onsen inns .

Though I really want to add table tennis now that I’m thinking about onsens, I decided to put it off since I wouldn’t be able to prepare them without using DP for the ping-pong balls . It’s only good to make it if it can be made with this world’s materials .

So, a game corner huh… well, since there’s no way I could install video games, looks like gambling’s the best bet . First thing I’m going to make is slots . For the outside, there’ll be indicator panels with spinning disks… what was it called again? A drum reel? I’ll make them using golems and install a lever that powers the spin .

There wouldn’t be much on the inside, just the spinning mechanism that would do its best to spin when the lever is lowered and make ‘that’ sound . It doesn’t turn into rotational power directly, the lever would store up power like when you flick a finger, letting it all out when it gets lowered to a certain point .

As for judging when to stop spinning, that was the drum reel golem’s job .

Furthermore, there would be a golem that gives money when it’s a win .

Even if someone disassembled it and asked how it worked, I could just say that I found suitable magic tools to do it . So convenient .

But for the drum reel, it would stop on its own when the rotation slows down, as well as when the button on the side is pressed . Then, it would just barely slip off of the grand prize if it almost landed on it . I’ll be sure to have it occasionally land on it, but it feels like I’m just giving away my profits .

… Unfair? Fraud? This isn’t a charity, this much is natural .

At any rate, I called Ichika up since I finished with the prototype .

It’s special, so let’s leave the reception desk to the newbies . We probably won’t get any visitors anyways .

“Well, this is a slot machine . Ichika, please give it a test play . Here’s five hundred copper coins . ”

“Oooh! So this’s slots huh! Leave it to me~, I’ll pay ya back with double!”

Yep . Even if you doubled it, wouldn’t the money just come from the dungeon’s funds?

“I see I see, so ya put the coin into the hole and pull the lever…”

Kachink, kachink, kachink . She put three copper coins into it and lowered the lever .

Gyurin~ . The drum reel spun vigorously .

“Oooh, it’s turnin’, it’s turnin’! Eeeh, now… this button causes it to stop…”

Pochi, pochi, pochi . When she pressed the button, the drum reel stopped .

“Ooh~… Huh, what’s this mean?”

“It’s a loss . Try again . ”

“Nn, got it~”

Putting more copper coins into it, Ichika gave it another shot . Hmm, it feels a bit plain, maybe I should’ve put more thought into its production?

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“Uoooooooh! Go, go, gooooo n’ get it! —! Aaaah~! Almost!!”

One hour later . Getting small wins over and over, she’d exceeded her starting funds of five hundred coins just once, but now she was down to fifty coins left .

She was going nuts with a force that might be able to destroy the slot machine . Guess I don’t need to work more on its production huh, let’s add more if she gets tired of it .

… Ah, maybe I should make its main body out of iron? Ichika’s clinging onto it hard enough for it to creak .

“Ichika . You should end it soon . ”

“B-but! I-I still have money left! I-I’ll definitely make a turnaround now! Check it out, y’see how it was just about to hit the thousand copper grand prize? I’ll get it next go!”

Yeah, she’s a no good woman . A typical no good human that spends their money on gambling despite going in to debt because of gambling . Pretty hardcore to not learn from her mistakes even though she fell into slavery .

“Yep, it’s unfortunate but that’s impossible . I made it so that it’s not possible . ”

“Wha… t…?”

Ichika hung her head down with a face full of despair . Yep, I didn’t think that I’d see such a horrible face over something like four hundred fifty-six copper .

“… In practice it shouldn’t be so obvious, I’ll have to adjust it a bit more . That was helpful, thanks . ”

“Kuh—… I was gettin’ played… on Goshujin-sama’s palm…? Daaaaaaaamn…!”

“Don’t worry, you don’t have to pay back the money you borrowed . I’d like for you to return the remainder though . ”

“Aaah~…! Kuh—, i-it can’t be helped…—”

Still, that’s an amazing fit . Ichika might be a bit of a special case, but I’ll prepare around three of these . It should be fine to put them into the newly built game room .

However, having just slot machines in the game room might feel dull . Maybe I’ll make some other things too?

“Come to think of it, what other kinds of gambling is there?”

“Nnn~, ya know about dice? The hero made these box things, their faces’re numbered one to six… it’s common to use ’em . ”

I see . So dice huh? It’d be easy to produce them too . Incidentally, though I asked if there were playing cards, they aren’t made here because of poor printing techniques and paper quality in this world . There does seem to be something like metallic plates though… they seem pretty rare and expensive though . They don’t appear to be that popular .

“Basically, all of those are be games of chance . Any that focus on strategy?”

“There’s the arena… and horse racing too . ”

Fumu, that’d be hard for us to reproduce… no, wait a second . Maybe we could race the rats? It might be a good idea to use all of those leftover rats as subordinates . Nowadays they’ve just been acting as surveillance cameras around the dungeon .

… Ah, but maybe it’d be hard to hold a race with our current amount of guests? Let’s put that one on hold .

In this world with little in the way of entertainment, we might become popular if we mass-produced some proper playing cards . Actually, maybe it’d make a good dungeon drop? I already said that we got the massage chair from the dungeon . I’ll say the same for the slot machines .

Alright, let’s put some playing cards in treasure chests . They’ll have to spread around to get popular after all . So, its appearance should be fine if I say that I found it in the dungeon and put it in the game room .

I also set up a table with felt stuck to its top, making it into something that gave the feeling of being something to play on .