Chapter 100

The Hero and a Match (Gambling)

Well back on topic, there’s no choice but to do something about the hero who’d lost his temper .

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

“Eh!? No no, doesn’t that sound weird!? I just wanted to hear her story since she had black hair . ”

“Really… it sounds suspicious… there’s a rumor that the hero proposed to a little girl . ”

“T-there’s a reason for… no, it’s nothing . ”

Nn? So there was a reason?

… …

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

That’d explain his slightly strained conduct . That he confessed so calmly, that he said he wouldn’t leave Rokuko here, and that he broke my table .

Right, this hero was under Haku-san’s control . It just doesn’t look like it . He’s 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 can’t afford to start a fight with him . Was his training for this purpose?

Alright, let’s 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? I’m good immediately after this though . ”

“Wait wait wait . There’s 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 don’t understand what you’re saying, your thoughts are skipping around too much . ”

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

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

“It’s ordinary gambling . We’ll 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 don’t 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 . It’s that kind of thing . In short, roll them three times, the person with the highest total of pips wins . ”

“It’s 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, I’ve 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, let’s let these decide our victory or defeat . Lie detecting magic tools if I win… ah, right . And 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 she’d absolutely never follow him .

Don’t worry, I won’t let him take you . And as for Rokuko—

“Oi oi, I can’t bet my employer at my own convenience . She’s different from my slave . ”

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

“Huh? I think you’re confusing me with someone else . ”

To the last, I’ll be obstinate in saying that I’m a different person than Narikin . To begin with, I can’t make her the bet’s wager!

“You just accepted the match, you can’t back out now . ”

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

“… Well that’s fine . I don’t 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 .

*

“And so it’s 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, can’t be helped~ . Then I’ll double down and go for one thousand . I’m fine taking installments if you can’t afford it you know?”

“Guh—… no, please wait a moment… I have a bad feeling about it, let’s go with mutually betting one hundred gold each . ”

“Understood, one hundred gold . ”

*

“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 let’s stop?”

“No! Please wait . I’ll definitely save that child next time!”

“Eh? Then are you fine wagering fourteen hundred gold coins? She still has a gold debt so I don’t want to get rid of her . ”

“It’s fine, let’s do it!”

*

I started to feel sorry for him so let’s forgive him with this .

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

“… … Umm, didn’t you cheat!? I don’t know how but wasn’t 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!?”

“I’m 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 wouldn’t 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 didn’t ask for it . [3]

“It’s limited to only when I’m protecting comrades . To the extent that it’s stronger than yours . ”

“S-so there was that kind of mechanism . ”

I tried to say something with a deep meaning . Whaaat, I didn’t fix my victory when I didn’t wager Meat earlier, so I’m not wrong .

“And weeell, that’s 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 . He’s an adult by Japanese standards, so let’s 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 .

“I’m fine with installments . Pay it off with one hundred gold a month for a year and eleven months . You’ll be able to pay it back before two years are over . Easy, right?”

“Ueeeh… if I weren’t an S-Rank that would be an unreasonably absurd and huge payment plan…”

“Then I’ll pardon the interest out of consideration of Haku-san . I won’t even say something like to become a slave for collateral, so be thankful . ”

“… Yes, thank you very much…”

I don’t know how much S-Rank adventurers can earn in a month, but he just said it’d be unreasonable if he weren’t an S-Rank right? I’ll 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, I’m sure Haku-san could introduce you work that pays quite a lot!

“Ah, come to think of it I didn’t include the nuisance fees . ”

The hero’s eyes teared up .