episode_0086

“I’ll bet.”

My younger sister, unexpectedly, adapted quickly to this pressure.

No, rather than adapting, perhaps she was overconfident, thinking she could gain all this wealth if she won just once, so she came forward instead of Victor.

“What, you’re going to play the game instead of your husband?”

“Don’t talk about my husband like that. Can’t you see he’s jinxed because he can’t play skilled gambling? There’s no way I can entrust my money to someone else.”

“……”

Her husband, who was listening, must have been deeply disappointed, but upon closer inspection, my younger sister had more collateral on the line, so it was indeed right for her to play herself.

“Alright, then I’ll throw without any more idle talk, okay?”

“Hurry up… because I’ve completely got the feel now.”

Her eyes slightly glazed over, perhaps heightened by the mindset that she would definitely win.

“I’ve been here quite a bit, so I know, my intuition has gotten much better, you know? I’ve already got a feel for whether I’ll win this round or not. Heheheh.”

My younger sister seemed a little crazy for some reason, but anyway, she grabbed the dice and rolled them.

This time, it wasn’t an inflated 2x bet, but another round worth 8 billion dollars, commensurate with the value.

Click! Clatter, clatter, clatter…

This time too, the cheap dice that rolled clatteringly and performed well landed on 10.

It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t a one-shot win again.

It seems I’m not on the lucky side, as 7 and 12 perfectly avoided me.

At that, the dealer immediately handed the dice to Soeun.

My younger sister, holding the dice, trembled, showing her fair forearms.

Gulp!

Saying she saw a future where she would win, it seemed hard to hide the surging tension inside her, so she stood with an awkward, hesitant movement, unable to even sit down, as if she might wet herself.

After gathering her breath and blowing it fully onto the dice,

“……It’s here♡”

She clasped her hands together as if praying, then threw.

The dice that rolled onto the table with a unique posture─

A perfect 7, made from 4 and 3.

Everyone held their breath.

After holding their breath and checking the dice with their eyes for several seconds, they burst into cheers.

As the win went over in one shot again, perhaps their blood circulated too well, driving them crazy, they stood up, even forgetting to sit down, as if watching a World Cup final penalty shootout.

“I did it, I won it all in one go…!”

More than anything, the one who couldn’t control her excitement was Soeun, trembling all over while standing.

On the other hand, Victor was ambiguous.

After seeing the 7 and clenching his fist, happy as if he had achieved victory himself, he looked displeased, perhaps having remembered his own rights in this game where only a fraction of his share was involved.

If it was his wife’s face he had just seen, he would know how she would react.

‘Life, hah…….’

Conversely, I let out a sigh at this result.

Gambling truly doesn’t go my way, I vowed inwardly that this would be the last time I ever touched it.

“It’s over, hehehehe, it’s all over! Hey, you! It’s all mine now, so hurry up and gather those things!”

Even though she frequently went to the Philippines, she couldn’t even say that one thing in English, repeatedly shouting “Mine! Mine!” while pointing at the stacked chips.

The dealer, thinking that his side had won and he should bring it quickly, still had a complicated expression, as it was ambiguous whether his ‘owner’ had actually won.

As she tried to sweep the board again, I stopped her at this point.

“Wait… don’t move it.”

I said that after thinking for a moment.

I dissuaded her, not wanting to choose a long, winding road again.

At that, Cha Soeun curled the corners of her lips into a smirk.

“Oppa, what’s wrong? It’s all mine now, isn’t it? After acting tough in every way, if you’re going to act pathetic─”

“That’s not what I mean. I mean we should move them after everything is over, because it’ll be troublesome to move them back and forth now.”

“……? What does that mean?”

Kuku-gu-gu-gu-gung! Ku-gung!

As soon as I finished speaking, Woo Miae gave another signal.

The sound of heavy machinery forklifts, much harsher than before, was so grand, as if it would collapse the entire casino building.

Eventually, forklifts entered one after another in an orderly fashion, in a long procession.

A mountain of gold bars, spread out to distribute the weight, meticulously and diligently stacked to the extent that it now covered the entire casino floor.

At that number, which was now too difficult to count by hand, I neatly summarized it for her.

“It’s 80 tons. If you calculate it by gold alone… there must be 80 tons of gold in this very place right now.”

“Wh-wh-what is this!? Are all these real gold…?”

“Yes, I had a bit of trouble scraping all of it together. Even if it’s money in numbers, it’s hard to have physical assets all at once… so I barely managed to collect this much by today.”

I took out my phone.

With a real-time shared cam, I showed a live video of the gold that ‘hadn’t yet entered the casino’ waiting.

Even accompanied by this country’s police, I showed a spectacular sight of them waiting orderly in the basement.

“If you consider volume, gold is the best, so I scraped it all together and brought it. I had been collecting it since before, but I couldn’t quite achieve the amount I wanted, so some dollars were mixed in.”

“……”

“These are currently in the underground parking lot, but they can’t come up to this floor due to the weight, you know? So, if you want to see them, go down to the basement and look, and now, I’ll just tell you exactly what our goal should be from now on.”

As I said that, I spread out one palm.

I announced the maximum number of games we could play from now on.

“From now on, exactly 5 times for me. If you, Soeun, win 5 times in a row, I’ll really give all of this to you.”

At that, Soeun’s face stiffened.

How such a reality was possible, she gaped, as if she couldn’t believe the capital that surpassed even the chips and gold in front of her.

Now, even Soeun looked at me in horror, as if I were a monster.

“What on earth is this…? How could you accumulate that much…? Did you empty out all the company money you’d collected and buy all the gold in the world or something?!”

“Hey, am I you? This is all my personal assets.”

“P-p-personal assets!?”

As if that was even more absurd, her saliva splattered far.

This too, is a simple story.

If I had grown the company’s money into enormous profits in a short period until now, I invested my personal assets much more aggressively.

Instead of company money, which had many restrictions in various ways, I had much more actively used call options and put options for short-term trading, and it had grown into even more absurd numbers until now.

The reason this was possible was because the history of the era I am living in has never gone wrong (from what I know).

Mobilizing all the future knowledge I had, it was possible because I had invested much more aggressively, almost pouring in my personal assets.

“Alright, enough chitchat, let’s finish this.”

Flinch!

“It’s your turn, so hurry and throw. Because from now on, I’m only going to win once.”

The probability of Soeun winning 5 times in a row from now on.

Even if it’s not a zero probability, it is extremely slim.

Especially, if such a simple 50/50 game, where the victory plan is just pure luck and not a battle of wits, is played consecutively, even more so.

Even Soeun, who had lost her mind, knew that much.

The fact that if she played now, it would be full of only the probability of losing all her assets, the fact that it was truly ‘gambling’ filled with malevolence.

“Don’t be ridiculous… Don’t make me laugh! I won once, so I’ll stop here─”

“Hey, what have you been listening to all this time? We agreed to go until the opponent conceded or all their assets were gone, didn’t we? Even if you joined halfway, you have to follow the rules, right?”

“Fuck, screw you!”

“Whoa, watch your language.”

Even after being warned, she seemed poised to run away.

As if wanting to quickly collect her spoils and leave, she looked back at the gold accumulated as her share, but,

“……”

It was impossible.

With these enormous chips and gold, where on earth, how could she run away?

“Just drop the thought. The judges are all watching from above, you know?”

Furthermore, in this place, there were the power-holders of this country, watching all of this with amusement.

An individual no different from the government itself, possessing strong administrative power, who had the authority to control even entry into the country.

In the end, gathering the VIPs here was for this very purpose.

Right now, the police were deployed, and there was a power-holder of this country who could give orders, so where on earth could she run away?

A desperate stand.

There was no escape.

“You yourself came up here saying you’d play the game, didn’t you? Everyone is waiting, so hurry and throw. Who knows? If you win everything, I might be licking your high heels?”

“……”

“Throw it. If you stall, it’ll get even less interesting.”

As if pushed from behind, Soeun finally prepared to roll the dice she clutched.

Although she was completely unwilling, as the gold came in, the number of my bodyguards and mercenaries also increased, and perhaps realizing that there was no escape other than the dice she held here, she finally gave up.

Ttoro-ro-rok….

How much sweat she had in her grip, the dice were thrown onto the table as if slipping out.

The sum of the numbers on the slightly shiny dice was 9.

Regardless of her earlier ‘feel,’ a simple number that just came out.

“Whew… now, it’s my turn to try….”

As the dice, heated by Soeun’s body temperature, came back to my turn, I shook them with a slight trickle of sweat.

Although it’s said I have 5 lives thanks to my wealth, because that slim chance of an upset might actually happen, even my chest slightly tightened.

The fate of the entire game rested in my hands, a stage.

Biting my lip slightly, I cautiously threw them.

Click… Clatter, clatter, clatter.

Because I rolled them with all my might, the numbers rolled far.

The first die stopped at 2, and the other number was─

“Huuuh…”

5.

“It came out just in time for the end, huh.”

A total of 7.

For the first time, since entering this gamble, for the first time, it yielded the lucky number 7.

“Ah, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…!”

It was all over.

My younger sister, who had slumped onto the floor with all the strength leaving her legs, represented her current feelings.

All the spectators who had only been watching without any risk let out shouts of joy, as if praising the victor, or mocking the loser.

At that violent vibration, even the interior of the building slightly shook.

It was finally over.

The outcome converged to a clean 50/50, and concluded at this probability.

“……”

Victor, beyond being dumbfounded, was deep in thought about something.

“Fuck, fuck…! This makes no sense….”

My younger sister, Cha Soeun, despaired.

After losing everything and despairing, as if belatedly throwing a tantrum, she looked up, her makeup all smeared.

“This is a scam! Hiding your money until the very end─ and bringing all that capital in gold! It makes no sense!”

“The scam was the fraudulent gambling trying to rip me off at the beginning. Besides, you won once, and I won once. It’s a clean 50/50 fight, so what exactly is your complaint?”

As I approached and teased her, Cha Soeun bit her lip hard.

“I, I have money too…! Actually, I also have this much gold, so it’s void! Just one more round. Just one more round!”

“Then bring that money, little sister.”

“……!”

“If you had it, you should’ve brought it. More importantly, the company I just acquired is worth 3 trillion (won), and your disclosed assets aren’t even 3 trillion, are they? Did you discover a gold mine in the Philippines or something?”

A face about to go crazy from anger.

To my arrogant younger sister, I rubbed salt in the wound one more time.

“Ultimately, isn’t this just how a rich casino wins?”

That was the real reason I specifically brought the heavy gold bars.

It was partly to put on a show, but also so they couldn’t back out halfway. And so there would be no excuses later.

So that they couldn’t nitpick and find an excuse to escape, to definitively hold them, I gathered all the audience and capital in one place.

Through overwhelming with money, my victory by a predetermined and honest probability─

“Shoot! Shoot them All!”

While I was teasing my younger sister, there was a sudden English shouting.

Bang! Bang, bang, bang!

In addition, several gunshots rang out.

But this riot, which started so abruptly, ended much faster than expected.

“Ku-euk, Kuaaaak!”

Victor, as if it was a make-or-break situation, who quickly signaled his colleagues and was about to start shooting.

However, before that, he was shot in the hand, and he himself was quickly subdued in return.

The one who fired was neither a mercenary I hired, nor a bodyguard.

‘Is it because they’ve fought drug gangs? These police in this country, they earn their keep, huh?’

It was none other than this country’s police.

Without hesitation more than anyone, they shot the back of Victor’s hand, which had drawn a gun.

“Who the hell are you shooting?!”

At that, Victor was scolding the police who shot him.

However, all the police watched Victor, ready to fire if he attempted any more foolish acts.

“Kya, Kyaaaah!?”

More than anything, the dealer subordinate who was about to initiate action according to Victor’s signal had simply died.

Victor was shot in the hand, but as soon as the subordinates planted in this place showed their armed stance, they were instantly killed with a shot to the head.

Such quick action was possible because they had all been marked in advance.

Soeun, who had slumped down, seeing the corpse bleeding onto the carpet, recoiled her buttocks backwards.

As the tension released, she seemed to have even wet herself, feeling slightly damp.

Anyway, rather than being surprised by this sudden gunshot, I was bewildered.

That my brother-in-law, eventually cornered, would resort to such low-class means.

He was so pathetic, I walked past my sister and approached him.

“Hey, what are you doing? Did you really have to go as far as shooting and drawing blood?”

“My blood, I’m bleeding…!”

“My bodyguards and mercenaries were already spread out, and more importantly─”

Smirk.

“Did you seriously think the police were on your side? Didn’t you see the police downstairs guarding my gold in the video earlier?”

“……!”

“If you’re going to show off, think first before you act. If it were you, between the owner of a small-time casino, and the guy who brought a massive amount of gold bars to put on a show and fill your pockets generously, who would you choose?”

At that, he bit his lip.

He seemed to understand that he was overwhelmed by capital through this massive amount of gold, but,

“D-don’t be ridiculous. Do you think it’ll just end here?!”

After grabbing his hand, which was bleeding profusely from the hole, and stemming the blood,

“How dare you betray me and conspire against me? Do you think I haven’t prepared materials to send those pig bastards in politician masks who’ve been taking my money all this time down in one go!?”

“Hmm…”

After hearing those words, I tilted my head slightly for a moment.

“Thinking about it the other way around, that annoying guy who’s holding weaknesses and shaking them, if he’s cleanly removed on this occasion, don’t you think it would be satisfying?”

“!?”

Whatever it was, it was over.

Cornered, the moment he even fired a gun, his future was decided.

It ended because he tried to mess up the board in a dirty way, but I would make sure to finish it myself.

“Alright, now for the climax.”

I picked up the golden pistol that had fallen to the floor, that had been taken from his possession and immediately dropped.

Since his lifeline had passed over to this side, I tapped his head playfully and asked.

“You, by any chance, have you hidden an immense amount of gold bars like me, or are there any other ‘tasty’ businesses you could bring?”

“……”

“Of course, if you lie just to survive right now, you die. No, even if you tell the truth, if you have absolutely nothing, then you’re just finished here.”

The water had truly risen to his chin.

At this point, Victor made a tearful face.

As if his pretense of toughness ended here, he deeply bowed his body, with blood flowing from his hand.

“Stop… Please, please… Hyung-nim, from now on, I will truly serve you as my hyung-nim!”

“Hmph… So there’s nothing?”

Then die!

Thud!

I struck his head with the butt of the pistol.

In the end, my brother-in-law, who had proclaimed himself the King of the Casino, lost exactly in the way a casino makes money.

After all, in gambling, the one with more money wins.