episode_0724

Soladeen’s Casino. The VIP room of the Golden Mirage was filled with famous nobles you would have seen at least once in the social world.

Avery of the Lumley Counts was one of them.

She, who led the noble ladies under Joy Patran, was sitting at the table in the casino, sweating profusely as she looked at her cards.

Originally, she had no interest in casinos.

I once followed an elder in the family and came here, but I got tired of gambling that didn’t go my way, so I left and haven’t been back since.

It was because of her brother that she was able to enter the VIP room of the casino, which required a certain amount of money to enter.

After being trampled by the young lady of the Aln family last year while trying to get her to do his job, the eldest son of the Lumley family was left broken and willing to lend a hand to all sorts of mischief.

It’s not like Avery’s older brother was a normal person before that, but at least he made an effort to be the eldest son of the Earl family.

But now he wasn’t even making the slightest effort.

He was the epitome of a scumbag, going out every day to drink, buy women, hang out with bad people, gamble away his allowance, and sell his family’s valuables on the black market to make up for the lost money.

How bad must it have been for the adults in the family to shout that the bastard should be cut off?

If the head of the household hadn’t shouted that it would be a problem if his only son died, Lumley’s eldest son would have been buried deep underground by now.

It would have been nice if we had been grateful for this mercy and vowed to change in the future, but the mindset of the trash that fell into the abyss was different.

Instead of being the right person, he stole Lumley’s treasures to prove that he was not wrong, went to the casino, and lost everything.

You don’t have to wonder what happened to him after he became penniless. He was someone who would never appear in this world again anyway.

However, just because one person disappears, it doesn’t mean that the incident he caused never happened.

Lumley’s treasure, dedicated to the casino, is still there.

At first, the adults in Lumley tried to make a deal with the casino.

Even if it meant paying a little more, he thought it was a cheap deal if he could bury the shameful behavior of Lumley’s eldest son and resolve the situation.

However, the casino also knew about Lumley’s plight and proposed an outrageous deal to get a fair share.

Rumley was furious at the declaration, which was essentially the equivalent of selling the pride of his family, and was on the verge of declaring war, but then the evil spirit appeared on Earth and everything was ruined.

Now that the war is over, a long time later, Avery sets foot in the casino to find Lumley’s treasure.

There was no choice, since if I didn’t find it with my own hands, I would have to get engaged to the nobleman introduced by the casino.

You damn adults. It was your fault for taking the Queen’s side, so why should I be responsible?

She knows that marriage is a nobleman’s duty, but there is a limit to it. She wants to avoid an engagement with someone who is physiologically impossible for her, even if it means biting her tongue.

However, Avery’s plan did not work out as expected.

Casinos are basically places created to pick the pockets of those who come there.

Is it possible to extort a large sum of money in this place in a normal way?

Avery, who had tried several times but was unable to even enter the VIP room, was almost frustrated by the wall of reality.

‘What are you doing here?’

At that time, I met a noble person.

“Die.”

“…Isn’t the money already paid a lot?”

“Still, I’d rather die.”

Toby.

The commoner man, who I had been forced to meet at Soul Academy and who I have kept in touch with from time to time, surprisingly had a knack for gambling.

‘Let me help you.’

‘Are you good at gambling?’

‘What do these uneducated mercenaries do every night? Every night, a gambling table opens.’

‘So what? Gambling a lot doesn’t make you any better at it.’

‘Of course, but the gambling that the mercenary leader does is different. The mercenary group’s gambling can’t have one person win big and another person lose big. Then one night’s gambling will affect the next day. You have to make sure that everyone laughs and cries a little and leaves. I learned this method from my father.’

Toby, who said he would help Avery as soon as he heard her story, managed to get into the VIP room in just an hour, something Avery had not been able to do for several days.

Was that all? He was gradually increasing his money by competing closely with the gambling addicts in the VIP room.

‘I can do this because Lady Rumley is by my side. If I were alone, they would have used any means necessary.’

The more I look at him, the more I think he’s a good guy.

He may be blunt and a bit unnecessarily honest, but he has a good personality and his abilities are trustworthy, so if he wanted to, I would want to bring him to our knighthood.

I brought it up quietly last time, and you said that the mercenary group was important, so I gave up.

Because he’s like some arrogant commoner.

“Let’s go strong.”

“Low toupee?”

“That’s okay. Based on the cards that have come out so far, there are almost no cards higher than this.”

When Avery took Toby’s words and held out his chip, the people sitting at the same table thought about it for a while and then threw their cards away one by one.

“I won.”

“Let’s laugh a little and think about the next thing. We still have a long way to go to reach the goal.”

bang!

“Ugh. It stinks. There’s no separate pigsty.”

The girl who frowned and held her nose as soon as she entered was one of the people Avery never wanted to meet.

Lucy Arn. Why is someone who is worshipped like a god in Arn’s territory here!?

“Aha. So that’s why there’s a real pig there?”

She met Avery’s eyes and came over to her side with a playful smile.

Avery, who had often been a plaything at Soul Academy, felt his rage rising at Lucy’s appearance, but somehow managed to suppress his harsh words.

Because the current Lucy was the most powerful person on the continent and should never be turned into an enemy.

Besides, the person next to her is the daughter of the Duke of Partran, the leader of the faction that Avery belongs to.

“Hi. Avery. Long time no see.”

“Hello, Rumley Youngae. I didn’t expect to see you here.”

“It’s been a while. Alun Youngae. Patran Youngae. What brings you two here?”

“You come to the casino to gamble. Then why don’t you come to do something else? Are you stupid?”

“I’m… sorry.”

“Toby. You’ve had a hard time being around this idiot. What did you bring here for? Did you get your money ripped off and get squeezing?”

“I was being a useless rascal. Lady Rumley mercifully accepted my rudeness.”

“You were first? Huh? That’s right. ”

Lucy, who had been looking at Toby with interest, eventually looked down at Avery with a grin.

Although he didn’t say it out loud, the meaning in his eyes was clear.

“Please don’t misunderstand, Youngae.”

“Huh? A mistake? What did I say?”

“…That’s.”

“Hehe. Hehe. Are you shy? You’re cute for a pig~ I want to make a small cage for you in your room.”

When Avery began to tremble in embarrassment, Lucy shouted at her to stop with an exaggerated gesture and took her place next to her.

It looks like Lucy Allen is gambling and Lady Partran is just watching.

Ha. Okay. Let me show you an example. I don’t know how you got here, but I’m not going to let you off easy just because you’re me.

Rather, I will use this casino’s debt to gain an advantage!

Avery, who had made a firm resolution in his heart, once again created a soundproof barrier around him.

“You got it, Toby. Do your best, more than ever.”

“I always do my best.”

“Then do your best even more!”

“Okay, I understand. I’ll try.”

Perhaps the cards answered Avery’s burning desire to win. Of all the cards she had been dealt since she sat down at the table, the best one was in her hand.

K-triple.

Not yet. It’s not time to get excited yet. Triple is the easiest hand to lose.

Avery, who was trying hard to suppress his excitement, almost cheered when he saw K, who came in right after.

K-Pocard!

This is a match made in heaven for me!

Avery tried his best to control his expression and thought about how he could extort money.

“Something is strange.”

Oddly enough, Toby’s expression was not good.

He desperately tried to keep his expression blank, but an indescribable sense of impatience was leaking out from the corners of his mouth.

As if he had just received the worst beating.

“Why is that?”

“That doesn’t make sense. As soon as Young-ae Al-Ren sits down, something like this comes out.”

“If you think you were just lucky.”

“No, that won’t do. Alren Youngae is the owner of good luck. There must be something there.”

Avery was annoyed at Toby for being so sloppy with such a good hand, but on the other hand, he remembered that his prudence had often paid off.

“I’ll just watch the situation for now. Is that okay?”

“Yes, of course.”

After the game started, Avery realized what ominous words Toby had been talking about.

Lucy hummed and continued shoving the chips in.

Like someone who doesn’t know that one chip is worth ten gold coins.

“Alright, Young-ae. You shouldn’t play poker like that.”

However, one nobleman who could not stand to see that stopped Lucy.

“Why are you meddling when it’s not even your money? Do you think you’ll look cool then? That’s too bad. You were born with no chance of looking cool. Don’t you know that when you wake up every morning and look in the mirror?”

Lucy taunted him by saying that he would die if he got scared, and raised the stakes again.

Avery, who saw that, put down the card while others got excited and joined the race.

In conclusion, Toby’s judgment was correct.

“Thank you, gentlemen. You gave me so much money to be considerate of a girl~”

Lucy had the spades A, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in her hand.

“Kuhuhu. It’s okay if you don’t care like this~”

Seeing Lucy smiling as she swept away the chips, Avery and Toby both felt something was wrong, but they couldn’t back down.

There was too much at stake for that.