episode_0169

Gamblers stopped gambling and flocked to Hocheonan’s board as the large board suddenly unfolded.

Sajeok also planned to burn off the first cigarette and join the group.

‘Is it entertainment?’

To gamblers, the reason why the game was open was not very important. For gamblers, the money of those who are rich is a daily occurrence.

‘I don’t know if you want to check or prove that person’s gambling skills, but… he doesn’t seem to be making a fuss.’

It was inevitable that he would be defeated by the gamblers surrounding the game. Sajeok truly thought so. When gambling, you often rely on luck, and if you live as a gambler for a long time, you often experience extreme luck or extreme bad luck.

The more mature a gambler is, the less likely he or she will be disappointed or have high expectations due to the element of luck. Smoking tobacco inside the gambling hall was just unlucky.

‘hmm?’

All of the gamblers got up from their seats to watch Hocheonan’s game, but there was someone who stayed there, and that was Cheongseo.

The private approached Cheongseo and spoke.

“No, brother. It’s unbecoming of you to not watch such a large event. I don’t know what happened, but did the Blue Book of the World just send that big plate? If not, I will eat it…”

Sajeok spoke to Cheongseo and then closed his mouth. This was because Cheongseo suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Sajeok’s arm.

Cheongseo looked up at Sajeok without saying a word, but Sajeok was able to fully read the emotions in Cheongseo’s eyes.

fear.

The private secretary could not understand what had made Cheongseo like this.

“You were lucky.”

“No, what do you mean? Are you talking about something that won’t be caught when those gamblers are caught?”

The privateer frowned. Now that he had seen that all the gamblers who had been arrested had become strange, he thought it was a good thing he had not been caught, but in fact, Sajeok’s pride was hurt by the government officials who had left him alone.

Why did he capture all the famous gamblers in Luoyang and then leave him alone? Doesn’t it seem like it was left behind because it was a small trivial matter? You take people who have less reputation than me and are worse at gambling, and then leave me behind?

“Don’t get along with that guy.”

Sajeok looked down at the forearm held by Cheongseo. I was applying so much force that my forearms were aching. Sajeok, who could indirectly sense how much fear Cheongseo was feeling through the strength of his grip, swallowed dry saliva.

“No, what is that guy…?”

Cheongseo kept his mouth shut and shook his head left and right. Looking at Cheongseo who couldn’t open his mouth, Sajeok took Cheongseo’s hand away. I don’t know what the situation was, but it seemed like there was some connection between him and Cheongseo, or rather the abnormal condition of the gamblers who had been taken away.

“Here you go!”

“Don’t worry, brothers. I don’t know what exactly that guy did to make you guys like that, but I need to get a taste of that guy too. When I get the chance, I pay back my grudges to my brothers.”

Baaa!!

“Ugh!”

With a clear sound, the gambler rolled around on the floor, holding his forehead. The gamblers who were surprised to see this protested.

“You’re catching people!”

“Isn’t this too harsh!”

Ho Cheon-an turned a deaf ear to the gamblers’ protests.

“With a stake of a few dozen gold coins, it couldn’t have been cheaper than this, right?”

“Are you okay? Please look!”

When the gamblers helped the fallen gambler up and saw that there was a thumb-sized lump bulging in the exact center of his forehead.

“Phew..!”

“Big..!”

Seeing the gamblers barely suppressing their laughter, the gambler with a red face shook off the helpers around him and disappeared. Embarrassment more intense than pain!

After a burst of laughter, the gamblers noticed. Just now, seeing the gambler being robbed and humiliated in an instant made me think that I shouldn’t attack him recklessly.

Still, it didn’t take long for a second challenger to appear.

“This time I will take on the challenge!”

The second gambler also chose to lose and lost instantly.

Sigh!

“Evil!”

The third gambler applied for a challenge to the Daesangsawi Committee.

Sigh!

“Ugh!”

When the third gambler started rolling on the floor, the mood of the gamblers also changed.

“The opposition committee unilaterally…”

“Is something like that possible?”

And as the fourth and fifth gamblers who additionally challenged were destroyed in an instant, there were no more gamblers willing to stand in front of Hocheonan.

The black cat frowned as he looked at the gamblers who were making noise and hesitating. I came to visit the gambling house where the best gamblers in Luoyang gather… but is there not a single person capable of eliciting a response from Ho Tian-an?

At that moment when I was so sluggish.

“Now, let’s play a game with me!”

The private secretary broke through the gamblers and stood in front of Hocheonan.

“It looks like you’re gambling a bit. Still, they are quite capable, but they win so easily.”

“If you’re going to do it, just lay a board down.”

Ho Cheon-an was not interested in what the historical records said. Ho Cheon-an just wanted to end it quickly and get out of this situation.

Although Ho Cheon-an was blatantly rude, he waved his glass and continued the conversation without paying any attention to personal matters.

“It looks like he has something to do with the gamblers being taken to the government office a few days ago, so let’s make a bet…”

“Are you not going to do it? If you’re not going to do it, get out.”

The private’s eyebrows twitched. Looking at such a historical site, Ho Cheon-an also chuckled.

“If you get into a game where you can win dozens of gold coins, you should be very grateful. How dare you put conditions on it?”

“….good.”

The private man gritted his teeth and put down the glass and dice. It was true that it was the private position to be in an infinitely advantageous situation. So, I decided that after winning all the gold coins, I would ask a question as a condition of opening the game again.

Although he had no intention of doing anything roughly from the beginning, Sajeok was completely motivated and clenched his fists.

“Twenty-five home appliances. The sport is rough. Who goes first?”

“Do it yourself first.”

Sajeok immediately started talking without saying a word.

“Oh, the private story is finally coming out.”

“The best slut in Luoyang finally…”

“That arrogant guy! I need to flatten the bridge of my nose!”

Has the right person finally emerged? The black cat’s eyes twinkled and he focused on Ho Cheon-an’s reaction. What is Hu Cheonan’s gambling technique that Black Cat sees the most? It was Yabawi. When Dang Do-gyeong came to Rongin Gaekjan, we had a rough game for an hour every day.

There were many shortcomings compared to Hocheonan’s yabawisul, which was playing with the supreme expert Dang Do-gyeong on an hourly basis, but it seemed to be on a different level from the gamblers who had just appeared.

Heukmyo understood the situation through the words that the private secretary had picked up earlier.

‘Did you say that Hyuk Kirin’s brother gathered gamblers to deal with Ho Cheon-an? A lot of gamblers were mobilized at that time and there seems to have been some problems since then.’

Heukmyo analyzed the current situation by connecting what happened in the imperial palace, which he heard about through Hyuk Kirin. If all the gamblers said to be in Luoyang were mobilized at that time, it also explains why only the chaff remains now.

‘Then is this person our only hope?’

I immediately understood why the historic site remained. Because he’s an expert at Yabawi. Since the imperial family organized the matter directly, it would have been carried out through the internal affairs department or alumni, and Ho Cheon-an’s gambling skills would have also been analyzed.

‘As a gambler, my senior’s main sport is obviously dirty.’

Along with Dang Do-gyeong, a transcendental master of Dangga, and Yeo Il-ye, a transcendental master of Jeomchang, Yabawi in front of Hwanggeumga completely fooled numerous audiences. If you have come across that information, it is common sense to assume that you have no chance of winning against Yabawi.

Therefore, gamblers whose main sport was gambling were left alone no matter how good their skills were.

‘In the end, is that the only person in this gambling hall who can bring out Senior Ho’s sincerity?’

With everyone’s expectant gaze, Sajeok’s yabawijutsu reached its peak and finally stopped.

“Of course! Yabawi, a historic site, is always top-notch!”

“Starting from the middle, you will be mesmerized!”

The gamblers who admired the rock formations of the historical site exclaimed in admiration. The Yabawi of the historical site had such power. Even though you know in your head that it is not enough to focus on the dice, at some point you are distracted by Sajeok’s passionate gestures, and instead of focusing on the whereabouts of the dice, you focus even more on Sajeok who is mixing the glasses.

Hyeok Kirin muttered without realizing it.

“You look alike.”

“Definitely yes.”

Black Cat also agreed with Hyuk Kirin’s assessment. The Yabawi Rock at the historical site had a different feel from the Yabawi Rock at Hocheonan, but the direction was similar. Yabawi in Hocheonan is full of tension. The speed control and the dice constantly passing through the squares make it impossible for people to let go of their tension.

Hocheonan’s Yabawi takes advantage of the fact that even though he understands that he is pointing to the moon with his hand, he has no choice but to look at the outstretched hand. Ho Cheon-an makes bold moves over and over again while setting a bait that is bound to be caught.

Hyeok Kirin, who was seeing real gambling for the first time, could not tell because he lacked understanding of gambling, but Heukmyo felt it intuitively when he saw the shabby hands of the historical site. This was a level of skill comparable to the rough tricks that Ho Cheon-an usually shows.

If there is a level to gambling, at least as far as this Yabawi is concerned, the historical site and Hocheonan were on the same level.

Because the black cat also missed Yabawi, a historical site.

‘I don’t know how big the difference in skills and skills will be between the two, but… at least someone who can compete with Senior Ho has appeared.’

The black cat focused all of its attention on Ho Cheon-an, which had been focused on the private enemy. Now, the true appearance of Hocheonan that Black Cat wanted to see could be revealed.

When the cheers and noise around him died down, Ho Cheon-an threw an appliance and spoke in an angry tone.

“Left.”

The private’s expression hardened. Ho Cheon-an half-heartedly reached out and knocked over the left cup, which contained dice.

“No…?”

“Is it a coincidence? Did you really see it?”

Gamblers were in a panic. This was because they were gamblers who well understood the meaning of the first round of Yabawi. Did Sajeok save his moves, or did Ho Cheon-an see through all of Sajeok’s moves?

“I think I’ve shown you everything, so next time I attack, I’ll hit 20 home appliances and finish it off, so do your best.”

At Ho Cheon-an’s declaration, fire sparkled in the private’s eyes. Yabawi had cruder rules compared to other types of gambling. You can bet as many as you want, ten or twenty. In most other types of gambling, each party can control the stake through a betting process, but this was not the case in Yabawi.

“He’s a guy who just lives his mouth. Don’t forget that what you just said also applies to you.”

Ho Cheon-an snorted and rolled the dice in the glass in the center. To start, Ho Cheon-an raised his glass high to confirm that the dice were in the center, then held the center and left glasses with one hand and switched their positions.

Then, he held the center glass and the glass on the right with one hand and rolled them halfway.

“End.”

“I, I…!”

“Are you crazy?”

Some gamblers became exasperated with Ho Cheon-an’s cup-mixing, which had not even a trace of sincerity. What is that? Even the spacing between the glasses was uneven and they were placed crookedly front, back, left and right. There is no rule to place your glasses neatly, but since it is something that people do in front of you, there is some basic courtesy!

However, the private secretary who should have felt the most insulted did not express his anger.

Sajeok was staring at the glass without moving anything.

‘It was definitely there.’

It was like a chimney that he didn’t want to admit because he mixed it up in such a half-hearted way, but there was definitely a blind spot in Hocheonan’s hand movements.

There was a blind spot that would not have occurred if the two glasses had not been held with one hand. If the movement had been fast, it would have been a simple gap that could not be called a square, but by slowly mixing the glass with one hand, the gap was completed into a square.

The center and left glasses were mixed, and the center and right glasses were mixed. Both of those two actions resulted in squares, so the dice could have been in any of the three places.

The private said as he put down three home appliances.

“It is on the left.”

Ho Cheon-an just shrugged his shoulders and gestured, and Sajeok looked at Ho Cheon-an’s attitude and grabbed the glass on his left.

Ho Cheon-an’s flirtatious attitude was something that was not to be found fault with in the gambling world. As long as it is not directly harming the other person or swearing at them, most psychological provocations or pressures are allowed in gambling circles.

Mixing the glass with one hand was really the bare minimum. And it was also a useless, dead card. The more you show your sincerity, the more you will be able to solve Yabawi with just one hand. Since the first round was passed with only that dead hand, it could be said that Sajeok was defeated in the battle of numbers.

The historic site was hung on the left as a sign of confirmation. Creating a square and using that square to perfectly shuffle the hand are two different things. It was necessary to make sure whether Ho Cheon-an was someone who could only create blind spots or someone who had the ability to utilize those squares.

If Ho Cheon-an could not move the dice in the glass, the dice should have been on the left.

“No?”

“Do you really mean it was moved?”

The gamblers opened their eyes wide in surprise. This was because there really were no dice in the glass on the left. In the half-hearted movement of clumsily turning the glass with one hand, the dice actually went back and forth between the glasses.

Absurd skills! Ho Cheon-an had defeated five gamblers so far, but the sloppy skills he showed just now were truly on a different level.

The private secretary had no choice but to admit that Ho Cheon-an had skills equal to or greater than his own.

‘It’s going to be a long game.’

Sajeok thought so and held his glass. In order to understand the level of the opponent, I showed moderate skill in the first game, but decided to go full force from this game.

“Chahaaap!”

With such passionate spirit that even those listening were energized, the glass in the private hall began to move.

The movement is so hot that it feels as if your hands and glass are on fire!

‘It’s like playing with fire.’

The black cat felt like an acrobatic troupe presenting a spectacular spectacle by spinning torches. Is this a level that top gambling companies can showcase? The cup that Sajeok was mixing now contained something that went beyond sleazy techniques.

When a martial arts expert puts his soul into his martial arts, it is called martial spirit.

Then, this Yabawi, which the historical site now shows, contained a demonic spirit!

The movement of a private enemy that even absorbs the gaze of the black cat who decided to only watch Ho Cheon-an’s reaction! The black cat was so engrossed in his movements that he even forgot that he had to find the dice in the cup. I was absorbed in the lightness of the dance moves and focused on the passion I could see at my fingertips.

widely!

‘this…’

The black cat smiled bitterly. I was just absorbed and watched until the moment the glass stopped. The black cat felt a bit of admiration for the historical enemy’s movements and turned his gaze back to Hocheonan.

“Ohhh!”

“Is this the handiwork of Luoyang’s greatest slut!”

“That guy can’t help something like this!”

“You are the best slut!”

Sajeok smiled with satisfaction at the reactions of those around him and took his hand away from the glass. Somehow, today was a day when technology worked well. In fact, it was quite possible. When was the last time you met such a high-level slut?

‘That guy recently wasn’t a bad opponent, but it’s still different from the feeling of a match between main players.’

Ho Cheon-an did not show even the slightest bit of agitation, but Sa-jeok was confident. At least there was no sign that he was tracking the dice with his eyes, and even though there was no sign of that, he was cautious and did his best. You arrogant guy, are you going to finish this game once and for all? The words you say will strangle you.

The private secretary was certain that Ho Cheon-an had not figured out the location of the dice, and he was certain that Ho Cheon-an would not be able to place a high stake as he had said in advance. There was no way a gambler like that would make unreasonable moves without any certainty.

In the end, Ho Cheon-an’s face will only be ruined. It was a moment when Sajeok smiled while thinking that.

“Twenty home appliances. Center.”

A cold voice that immediately brings down the heated atmosphere.

Ho Cheon-an struck down the central cup that the private secretary’s hand had just fallen from.

There was a dice in the cup.

The gamblers who were crazy about Sajeok’s vulgarity quickly silenced themselves, and Sajeok was shocked.

and.

Bah!

A clear sound echoed in the cool atmosphere.