episode_0295

Ho Cheon-an swallowed his saliva as he looked at the unfolded board. Ho Cheon-an was confident enough to beat Bulmyeong, but he opened his mouth, remembering the rough-and-tumble with Master Unjong in Jeomchangpa.

“Are you going to finish it in one piece?”

If you happen to face a single match, you may lose if you are not lucky. Therefore, Hocheonan needed to secure as many editions as possible.

“Well, just do whatever you want.”

“The one who gets 10 wins is the winner.”

Bulmyeong looked at Hu Tian-an with a pitiful expression, but Hu Tian-an shamelessly raised his head. Seeing that, the group shook their heads and sighed.

“Just in case, I’m telling you, the empty stuff…”

“Do not use. I don’t use it.”

Only then did the betting begin!

“If you win, not only will I prepare you a large meal, but I will also include you in future meals without fail. Instead, if you lose, you have to do the cleaning, the laundry, the firewood, the dishes, the laundry… Anyway, you’ll think that’s because we live alone.”

“…good.”

Ho Cheon-an took a breath and grabbed the glass. The group, who had been giving a lukewarm look at Ho Cheon-an’s behavior, also looked at the board with tension.

Everyone in the party knew that Ho Cheon-an’s gambling skills were at the level of success, so they were cautiously expecting Ho Cheon-an to win, but the opponent was also formidable.

Considering the various talents he had shown so far in addition to his status as a wise man, it seemed unlikely that Unmyeong would easily be defeated by Ho Cheon-an. No, it was possible that he could use his wits to defeat Ho Cheon-an.

A battle between two people whose winner cannot be easily predicted. Since Ho Cheon-an’s training life for the next few years was at stake in such a confrontation, attention was bound to be focused.

Ho Cheon-an, who received everyone’s attention, quietly declared.

“I will.”

Pabababak!!

Ho Cheon-an’s hand, which announced the start, literally moved like lightning. Yeo Il-ye, Heukmyo, and Hyuk Kirin, who had seen Yabawi in Hocheonan several times, were surprised.

This is because Ho Cheon-an, whom they have seen so far, has never tried his best from the start.

Like a fisherman throwing bait, Ho Cheon-an, who used to give first strikes to gauge the opponent’s strength, started running as soon as it started.

widely!

“ya…”

Tang So-yeol sees Ho Cheon-an gambling for the first time. Tang Xiaoyeol, who was born with Geomunseong’s eyes and was confident that there was nothing he could not see after realizing the power of insight, was truly impressed.

There was logic in Ho Cheon-an’s hand movements that Tang So-yeol saw.

This is a theory that can obscure even the power of insight exerted by the energy of Geomunseong. Some changes can be seen just by looking at the party elements, but the moment Ho Cheon-an started moving his hands, the table was unable to clearly grasp its reality.

“When an adult or the head of the household said that they had learned it, I thought it would just be like that…but this is truly astounding.”

Tang Xiaoyeol looked at Hu Tianan’s hand movements he had just seen and looked for an appropriate modifier. What should I say about this…? A cartoon that changes a lot? No, it wasn’t such a small change.

Eokjo Changsaeng (億兆蒼生)!

At most, the movement of the hand that turned three glasses could create and blossom into truly infinite changes, so the game ended before Tang So-yeol could understand and grasp the possibility of the changes.

Hocheonan’s Yabawi, which could not even fully contain the supernormal abilities of the geomunji body!

‘It worked.’

Ho Cheon-an controlled the urge to clench his fists. I had a chance to compete with a master from Hyeongyeong, albeit informally, through Yabawi. Reading the will itself? In that case, you just have to keep in mind the scale that it is useless to read it!

Ho Cheon-an, who succeeded in realizing the infinite algebra, looked at the unknown, confident in his victory.

“This.”

And Ho Cheon-an’s face stiffened ever so slightly at the calm, unknown finger pointing.

Tuk.

The glass on the left falls down due to an unknown finger pointing.

Inside was a dice that Unknown had just carved.

“Hehe, honestly, I was surprised. It seems like Sason just… devoted his life to gambling.”

Ho Tian-an quickly erased the expression from his face. Ho Cheon-an internally scolded himself. How dare you show your emotions before the gambling game is over yet! No matter how well the move was performed, it was a structure in which the winner would inevitably be revealed with a probability of 1 in 3.

‘In gambling, the person who respects and embraces the realm of luck ultimately wins. ‘It’s okay to do it once or twice.’

When Bulmyeong made a gesture, a stone of the right size for playing ball flew out and was placed on Bulmyeong’s side.

“I only learned how to eat raw rice by playing at the gambling table, so it is natural that I do not know how to cook rice until it is thick and steam it. There must be a lot of corrections to be made. There must be a lot.”

Sweat ran down Ho Cheon-an’s face at the unusually unfamiliar tone.

However, Ho Cheon-an soon shook his head and shook off the distracting thoughts. Because once the game was over, it was necessary to win.

“Going.”

Once again, Hocheonan’s rock formations unfolded.

Pabababak!

At first glance, it looked similar to the gambling technique from before, but Black Cat noticed the variation that Hocheonan gave. If the previous mixing was just about quantity, this time it feels like they added technique to that quantity.

The strategy of hiding the tree in the forest was similar to before, but this time, it felt like there was added care in placing the tree itself in a place where it would not be easily seen.

widely!

“Central.”

As soon as Ho Cheon-an put down the glass, Bulmyeong opened his mouth. Ho Cheon-an kept his expression silent and raised the glass in the center.

There were also dice in it.

The group looked at Unmyung with surprised eyes. I never thought I would see through Hocheonan’s Yabawi twice in a row. It was a surprising result to be ahead by two points against Ho Cheon-an, who was truly determined and pouring out moves.

“I will go.”

Ho Cheon-an took the glass again.

Unknown chose another glass.

Five rounds passed in an instant.

Three stones were placed in front of Bulmyeong, and two stones were placed in front of Hocheonan. Unknown got it right three times and got it wrong twice.

‘This won’t be easy.’

Ho Cheon-an quietly took the glass from his hand and took a breath. At that time, Unknown opened his mouth.

“Okay, then is it my turn now?”

‘hmm?’

Ho Cheon-an paused for a moment, unable to grasp the intention of Bulmyeong’s words, but soon understood what he meant and asked back.

“Do you mind?”

“Who’s worried about the guy who’s losing? Since I don’t want to talk back later, let’s switch offense and defense five times each.”

What kind of rice cake is this? Ho Cheon-an quickly nodded. It was a gamble that if you did not understand the hand skills and psychology of the slanderer, you would inevitably be attacked over and over again, but once you started to understand the hand skills and psychology of the attacker, the attacker would be at an infinite disadvantage.

Ho Cheon-an took a step back and this time Bul-myeong grabbed the glass. Ho Cheon-an looked at Bulmyeong, who was holding the glass and moving it around, and made a cool decision.

‘I’m sure you must have learned gambling skills somewhere… It seems like you’ve been away from gambling for a very long time!’

Ho Cheon-an nodded, making that decision.

Judging from the way he treats his companions, it seems like he used to chase women around quite a bit when he was young! Since there was no one who skipped drinking and gambling, even among women, he must have learned gambling skills at that time.

“What is it? What are those eerie eyes?”

“Nothing.”

Bulmyeong fidgeted with his glass for a moment, but then he held it tightly.

“Sason.”

“Yes, Sajo.”

“Have you ever heard that if you are not feeling well, your head will suffer?”

“Isn’t it the opposite?”

“It is usually said that if your head is not in good shape, your body will suffer. But that statement fits your situation right now.”

Unknown said this and threw the dice into the air.

“I’m not confident in my speed, so I guess I’m just doing some tricks.”

Flash-blink!

In an instant, two unknown hands disappeared and reappeared. Everyone just blinked and blankly reflected on the situation just now.

Ho Cheon-an quietly broke into a cold sweat.

Ho Cheon-an also enjoyed using the technique of throwing a dice high up and catching it with a glass, but that was only part of the technique. It was easy to attract people’s attention and the psychological inertia to predict hand movements was strong, so it was easy to use the technology.

However, the technique that Unknown had just used…no, the ‘action’ was just fast.

It was so fast that I had no idea which glass the dice had been sucked into.

“Abstention? Say something.”

“….on the left.”

Bulmyeong lifted the cup in the center without saying a word. Looking at that scene, Ho Cheon-an closed his eyes tightly. The disadvantages that I thought I could bear due to my confidence in gambling ended up holding me back.

The point was that the unknown facial expression could not be read.

Normally, I didn’t notice because I felt like I was seeing Unknown’s expression, but that was only possible because Unknown allowed me to feel that way.

If you can’t read the numbers due to overwhelming physical ability, you have to read the psychology, but since you can’t see the eyes and expressions, which can be said to be the window to the mind, how can you see through the psychology of a super expert?

‘But I can’t give up!’

Ho Cheon-an’s eyes lit up. If you keep going like this, you will end up living alone and eating only cold food, so you have to do your best until you don’t even have the strength to struggle!

Ho Cheon-an began to induce an unknown psychology using all the psychological techniques at his disposal.

Like rolling your eyes and looking at a specific glass, pretending not to see. Or that your fingers twitch when you touch a certain glass. When performing a certain movement, he pretends to lose concentration and touches his nose. Or slightly opening and closing your mouth.

Actions that humans have no choice but to give meaning to in some way!

‘Be conscious of the left, left glass! Sajo! I’m conscious of the left glass, but I’m trying never to look there!’

No matter what Hocheonan did, Bulmyeong silently threw his dice into the air and made the next move.

Flash-blink!

Once again, the unknown hand showed overwhelming speed and the falling dice disappeared.

Ho Cheon-an looked at the three glasses quietly placed there and calculated his psychological warfare for the last time.

‘All gestures or actions of the current trend are excluded.’

Although it was a basis for guessing about an unknown psychology, Ho Cheon-an decided that it was right to completely rule it out and start from a blank page.

The reason why the body’s reactions could be used as evidence was because such actions were considered manifestations of the unconscious. However, since Bulmyeong was at a point where he could perfectly control his own body, he could have planned even such a reaction on purpose!

‘The hit rate may be low, but it only predicts the psychology of the trend!’

What is the conclusion made by adding assumption upon assumption?

Expanding your imagination without any basis is just a fantasy. However, Ho Cheon-an added his own experience to that fantasy. The memories of going to a gambling house and staying up all night with a bag of money he had collected during the day began to unfold like a huge drawing paper in Ho Cheon-an’s mind.

On top of that, an unknown training process was added. What was Unmyung thinking in what situation? And what actions did you show as a result of those thoughts?

Ho Cheon-an opened his mouth, confident in his guess, as countless gambling experiences and hitherto unknown actions began to overlap and form a clear shape.

“On the left.”

“Ho, are you sure?”

“Yes.”

Ho Cheon-an looked at Bulmyeong and thought.

‘Sajo clearly saw through the fact that I had induced him to put the dice in the glass on the left.’

And Ho Cheon-an was convinced that because he had seen through that fact, Unknown must have placed the dice on the left side.

because.

‘That’s what happens when I’m wrong! Because I feel the most shame and anger!’

At best, I was excitedly guided to the left, but I wasn’t sure, so I chose the other side. But what if when you open the glass, a dice comes out on the left?

Even though you know you were guided to the left, you put the dice on the left!

If that is wrong, Hocheonan will suffer the most!

Ho Cheon-an chose the left, believing in the viciousness of the sect that even the devil would swear at!

After hearing Ho Cheon-an’s confident cry, Bulmyeong silently knocked down his left cup. Seeing that, the group all swallowed their saliva and watched the result.

This game was the turning point of victory.

Because it was a game that could be used to gauge whether Ho Cheon-an, who was on the defensive, had the power to turn this game over.

“Ah…!”

“Wow!”

The glass fell and the group burst into laughter.

This was because there were dice in the fallen glass.

With this, Bulmyeong had 4 wins and Ho Cheon-an had 3 wins. A game that proved that Ho Cheon-an’s predictions can respond to the extreme harshness shown by Un-myeong.

As a result of this bout, Ho Cheon-an is one point behind, but he has proven that he has the power to catch up, so it is not easy to guess who will win.

“Then I will go.”

“Yes.”

Will Ho Cheon-an be able to maintain the same momentum and successfully turn the tables?

The next edition, which will bring us closer to the answer, has begun.