Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 81

Chapter 81

Six, six, six, six, three, one.

“Twenty-eight!”

Wow, look at those numbers!

The spectators were amazed at the number that Dok-bi had created. A number exactly one less than that of Wei Yan-ho. And the dice that showed those numbers were not anything from the other world either.

‘Did he lose on purpose?’

‘Does it look like it?’

“…So it’s true that skilled players can get dice to show any number they want.”

Everyone looked at Dok-bi with admiration.

– But why did he lose on purpose?

That was the incomprehensible part.

Being able to get the dice to show any number you wanted was really amazing, but was there really a need to deliberately lose?

Dok-bi soon resolved that issue.

“The young master won.”

“I must have been lucky.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled brilliantly.

Luck is also skill. With this, the game has returned to the starting point. The young master’s bet is twenty nyang, and mine too. The next round bet is twenty nyang.

“A round and it’s over?”

“That’s right.”

Only then could the spectators understand the situation. The bets had returned to their original state, but unlike the beginning, they had increased from a thousand nyang of silver to two thousand nyang, that is, twenty nyang of gold.

“He’s giving her a way out just to tighten her knot around her neck.”

Having hope and then losing it is harder to bear. Dok-bi has strengthened his determination.

For Dok-bi, who could win when proposed, there was no difference between winning in ten or eleven rounds. But it was obvious which side would feel the most despair after defeat.

“Young Master Wei.”

Jin So-ah, who had once again positioned himself behind Wei Yan-ho, spoke with concern.

“What?”

“…Are you okay?”

At first I just came with a silver nyang.

“You don’t understand the concept of debt properly.”

“Huh?”

Jin So-ah sighed non-stop as he looked at Wei Yan-ho’s innocent face. He felt that he was filling with false hope someone who lived well and ruined his life.

“How about we stop here?”

“We agreed that we couldn’t stop until both pockets had holes.”

“Even so, if you speak it well…”

– No way. You know what kind of a place a gambling joint is?

Wei Yan-ho gently pushed Jin So-ah’s worried head with his finger.

So don’t worry and stay there.

“Young Master…”

Jin So-ah’s eyes wavered.

This gentleman…

Usually, it was someone whose soul seemed more absent than normal, but why did it seem so reliable at times like this?

“Mmm…”

Wei Yan-ho straightened his back.

“If I had resigned earlier, I wouldn’t have gotten that far.”

“Ah, I guess it’s true…”

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head.

“But strangely, I feel like I’m going to win.”

“Head, everybody says that.”

And they all fell into the abyss that way.

The most important thing to take into account in the game was unfounded trust.

So let’s start. The bet on this round is twenty nyang of gold.

Chareu-reu-reuk!

Chareu-reu-reuk!

All the silver nyang that had accumulated in front of Wei Yan-ho and Dok-bi concentrated. One game where they bet everything against the other was beginning.

“I’ll go first.”

“Yes.”

Dok-bi grabbed the dice cube as soon as he heard Wei Yan-ho’s answer.

‘How should this end?’

Dok-bi was completely recovering composure.

‘It wasn’t anything special. I got scared for no reason.’

It was true that he suspected that this complete rookie might have something special, and even if he was actually just a rookie with nothing special, the game was something that, once you started to lose, you could lose without stopping, so he was somewhat tense. But Wei Yan-ho showed complete ignorance about the dice.

Charuk!

Dok-bi threw the dice with confidence into the chalice.

Whak, chhak, chhak, chhak, chhak, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha, chha!

Clean sounds were heard from the cube that moved precisely. For others, that sound looked like the footsteps of a game master about to behead Wei Yan-ho.

‘Poor man.’

If I had seen Dok-bi, I should have fled immediately, so they say that in the game information is life.

Everyone offered their own lessons and interpretations, but Wei Yan-ho stood firm. No, he was not just firm.

“Don’t fall asleep!”

Thud!

Dok-bi threw the cupilete to the ground and shouted.

“That startled me!”

Wei Yan-ho, who was sleeping and woke up, seemed confused.

“You scared me.”

“What the hell are you thinking you can fall asleep even in this situation?”

“…I’m not thinking about anything.”

“Wow.”

Suddenly, Dok-bi felt sorry for playing with such a person. As much as he liked money, the game was supposed to carry the tension of walking along the edge of the knife…

‘Whatever.’

Anyway, this was the end now.

“I’m opening it.”

“Yes.”

Dok-bi looked at Wei Yan-ho with eyes full of murderous intentions, then slowly lifted the cup of dice.

The spectators looked at the scene as if their eyes were coming out.

Six, six, six, six, six, six.

Aaah, perfect score!

“Six-six went out!”

The spectators shouted like crazy enthusiasm and jumped up and down in the same place.

Seeing a six-six in a dice game was never easy. Even if you frequented gambling houses all your life, it was a number that you normally couldn’t see, and now it spread before their eyes.

“Amazing!”

“I’ve seen perfect scores with three dice before, but this is the first time I’ve seen them with six dice!”

“As expected from Dok-bi!”

Dok-bi smiled triumphantly as he listened to the praises.

‘Head.’

A high-level player knows how to win games, but a high-level player must know how to excite the public. This is how your value increases and you can access higher betting games.

Especially for someone like Dok-bi, who worked for the game house, he needed to show these kinds of scenes often so that people would come to the game house after learning about his reputation.

What do you say, you’ll go on?

“Huh?”

Wei Yan-ho’s head bowed to one side.

“Is there any reason not to?”

“The party seems already decided.”

“Well, you never know.”

Anyone would think Wei Yan-ho was being stubborn.

“Young Master!”

Jin So-ah looked at Wei Yan-ho with an expression of urgency. If Wei Yan-ho did not get a six-six, the match would be almost over.

“Do you trust me?”

When Wei Yan-ho asked seriously, Jin So-ah nodded frantically.

If I don’t trust the young master, who would I trust?

“Head.”

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head.

“I’ve never heard anyone say that in my life…”

Usually, anyone with common sense would not try to trust Wei Yan-ho.

“Then I should return that trust.”

Wei Yan-ho stretched out his hand and grabbed the cupilete in front of him. Countless glances fell into his slow movements.

‘Does he seem relaxed?’

– So he wasn’t just a fool after all?

Actually, if I were really a fool, I wouldn’t have gotten ten straight wins in Yin-Yang. So far, it didn’t matter if I lost.

Squeaky.

As Wei Yan-ho gripped the dice cube tightly, the spectators began to tighten.

It didn’t matter how many times I’d lost until then. If I won this round alone, I’d take the whole prize.

“What if that young teacher gets six-six?”

What do you mean, “what’s going on?” They’re playing again.

“Then he has not yet lost.”

A thread of hope was still alive.

But everyone there knew that hope was just another name for despair.

“Head.”

Wei Yan-ho aired a sound of low laughter.

‘Hmm?’

Dok-bi felt a momentary chill from the laughter of Wei Yan-ho.

‘Could it be?’

Have you been waiting till now?

Chareu-reu-reuk!

At that time, Wei Yan-ho’s dice cupilet was shot in the air.

Charuk charuk!

Unlike Dok-bi’s precise movement, Wei Yan-ho’s dice were equally animated.

Deaf noise!

Then he quickly landed on the ground.

Dok-bi stared at the cube of dice.

– It can’t be.

There was no way. Whatever happens, a six-six was not something that could always be achieved. If you could precisely hit the dice numbers you wanted, you would not be a player, but a god.

Even players at that level could succeed once every ten attempts with six-six.

“There’s no way that kid could do it.”

Dok-bi calmed his mind several times.

“Head.”

Wei Yan-ho laughed quietly.

“If I win this round, forty nyang!”

Forty nyang of gold.

Enough money to live your whole life without working.

Wei Yan-ho’s face was criss-crossed because he couldn’t contain his joy.

Who in the world would say he doesn’t like money?

“You can’t win.”

Really?

When Dok-bi poured cold water on him, Wei Yan-ho immediately accepted.

“Open it.”

“Eh…”

Wei Yan-ho looked at the cupilete with somewhat complex eyes. “Dok-bi did not rush it. Any gambler would understand what he should be feeling at that time.”

In cases like this, not rushing the game was an unwritten rule of gambling houses.

“Young Master, you’re all right, aren’t you?”

Jin So-ah ran and stared at Wei Yan-ho’s dice cupilet.

Only six and six.

If it hadn’t been six-six, you couldn’t have won this round.

Jin So-ah was sure that Wei Yan-ho had achieved the sixth. Wasn’t Wei Yan-ho someone with a strange personality, but with undeniable abilities?

“Don’t you trust me?”

“I trust you!”

Jin So-ah extended both arms and praised Wei Yan-ho.

At first glance, it seemed that he had become a kind of leader of a sect.

“Well then!”

Wei Yan-ho smiled and put strength in the hand holding the dice cupilet.

“Should I open it?”

“Yes!”

“Or not?”

“…”

“Do I suppose I should open it?”

“What are you doing?”

Wei Yan-ho spoke in a low tone.

In fact, I’m also human, so I’m getting nervous.

“…That’s right.”

Would it just be ruined?

If the debt was ten nyang of gold, it would be money impossible to pay even by dedicating a lifetime to it. Jin So-ah knew it because he was carrying the huge debt of twenty nyang of gold.

“They’ll probably beat me to death.”

“What?”

My father will try to kill me. My brother will probably try to hang me face down from a tree and turn me into eagle grass.

“Stop talking nonsense and open it up.”

“How cruel!”

Wei Yan-ho smiled confidently and then, without saying another word, lifted the cupilete.

“Ooooooh!”

“Waaaaaah!”

Everyone who saw the dice finally revealed let go of exclamations in unison.

“How can such a thing happen?”

“Could there be such a case?”

Everyone was amazed and looked at the dice. Seeing a six-six in the bets was rare, but possible. But in a round where a six-six came out, that number came back out, one wondered if such a case had ever been given in history.

Oh, my God, six-one!

One, one, one, one, one, one.

All the dice revealed pointed to the one. A rare number had appeared, in a different sense from the six-six.

Wei Yan-ho trembled with the hand holding the dice cupilete and muttered weakly.

“Ah, I’m fucked.”

Jin So-ah foamed through the mouth and collapsed into the place.