Seeing Yamato Inaho walking towards him, the male student appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was in a panic.
When she reached the male student, he could no longer hold back. He stood up and ran, wanting to escape the room and dispose of the "weapon" on him first!
He had thought Yamato Inaho was very delicate and definitely wouldn't be able to stop him.
But he never expected Yamato Inaho to snort coldly and block his path.
"Hmph, trying to escape?"
Yamato Inaho grabbed his arm, spread her legs, and actually pulled his arm, performing a back throw that slammed him hard onto the ground!
He fell hard. The male student lay on the ground gasping, unable to move.
Yamato Inaho kicked his wrist, and one die fell from his hand, and another one dropped from his wrist.
Yamato Inaho picked up the die that had fallen from his palm and understood after just a few tosses.
"This die was filled with mercury. To get any number you want, you just need to flick it a few times on the desired side before rolling, and the mercury will flow to the opposite side of that face. No matter what number you want, this die can roll it."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka squatted in front of him: "No wonder you didn't want to use a dice cup. You were worried that the mercury inside the dice would shift its center of gravity from constantly colliding in the dice cup, right?"
The evidence was conclusive, but he still wanted to deny it.
The male student gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't cheat. That die was just on me. The game hasn't even started yet. How can you determine that I cheated!?"
"You won't admit it, huh? I don't mind, but aren't you from Zenshoukai? If you keep denying it, I don't mind asking Mibuomi Aoi to be the referee for our game, you know?"
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka "kindly" reminded him: "I advise you to admit it. Otherwise, if Mibuomi Aoi is called over, it won't look good for him."
For members of Zenshoukai, the last thing they wanted was Mibuomi Aoi's scolding; they didn't want to cause trouble for Mibuomi Aoi.
The male student's expression was very conflicted, but in the end, he sighed unwillingly.
"I admit it... I cheated." The male student closed his eyes, his face filled with despair.
The game ended before it even began.
Cheating is not forbidden at Private Hyakkaou Academy; if you're not caught, it's not considered cheating. But if you are caught, the gamble will be forfeited immediately.
For a 10 million yen gamble, even if Mibuomi Aoi would bear four-fifths of it, he still had to repay one-fifth himself.
For him, even 100,000 yen was difficult to repay, let alone 2 million yen.
If he had known this, he would have preferred to compete fairly. Why did he cheat in such a simple dice game?
After losing the game, the male student finally regretted it, but it was too late.
The male student dejectedly offered the 10 million yen and left the Cooking Room crestfallen.
More than the 10 million yen he lost, he should now be thinking about how to face Mibuomi Aoi.
"In that case, I'll take my leave as well." Yamato Inaho finished her work and didn't linger.
"Aren't you interested in Captain Dragonfly? Why don't you stay a little longer?" Ayanokoji Kiyotaka tried to persuade her to stay.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka still had some things he wanted to inquire about from her and wanted to keep her for a bit longer.
Yamato Inaho smiled and shook her head: "I won't stay any longer. I'll be back tomorrow anyway."
Even Yamato Inaho could tell that someone was definitely targeting Ayanokoji, so she might come back here tomorrow.
"That's true..."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka saw Yamato Inaho off, then sat across from Meari, smiling as he asked, "Meari, you've figured out Mibuomi Aoi's scheme, haven't you?"
"Yes, I know," Saotome Meari nodded heavily, saying bitterly, "The Martin Gale Strategy, Mibuomi Aoi wants to use that trick again!"
The Martin Gale Strategy refers to a gambling strategy where every time you lose money in a game, you double the amount lost and continue doing so. As long as you win once, you can win back all the previously lost money in one go, plus the initial bet amount.
Mibuomi Aoi had once used this trick in the "Three-Color Dice" game operated by Meari, winning 1 million yen from Meari, forcing her to participate in a matching party.
If she hadn't met Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, she might have truly been swindled by Mibuomi Aoi and reduced to livestock.
She didn't expect Mibuomi Aoi to use this trick again when dealing with Ayanokoji, which infuriated Meari, but she also felt helpless.
"This time he used a 10 million yen stake, next time he'll use 20 million yen, and the time after that, he'll use 40 million yen..."
"He has unlimited gambling funds in his hands, and he has dozens of livestock under him who qualify for Formal Matches. We have no way to refuse his challenges..."
Saotome Meari said worriedly, "Ayanokoji, what should we do? As long as we lose once, he'll gain the upper hand! Does it mean that the only way is for you to join Zenshoukai, or hand over the patent for Landlord to him, before he'll give up?"
"What if we just keep winning?" Ayanokoji smiled, saying indifferently, "As long as I can keep winning, Mibuomi Aoi will just be a money-sending boy, constantly giving me money."
"How can you keep winning!" Meari stamped her foot anxiously: "Gambling always has wins and losses. This time that person cheated, which gave you an opportunity. Dice rolling is purely based on luck. This time luck was on your side, but next time you might lose!"
Seeing Meari so worried about him, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka instead smiled and patted her head, comforting her as if he didn't care at all: "Trust me, I really can keep winning."
As long as Mibuomi Aoi maintains this frequency of one challenge per day, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka can fully prepare a "safety net" during the intervals to maintain his winning streak.
Although Ayanokoji confidently emphasized that he wouldn't lose, Meari didn't believe him at all.
She thought for a moment and said tactfully, "Ayanokoji... even if you're very confident, you'll get tired of playing dice all the time, right? I happen to have a new game with a very high win rate. How about you play this next time they come to challenge?"
This was Meari's good intention, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka couldn't refuse. He nodded and said, "Sure..."
Anyway, he could win no matter what he played. Since Meari was willing to offer him advice, there was no harm in agreeing.
"Alright then, let me teach you!" Meari's eyes lit up. She picked up a pen and paper and moved closer to Ayanokoji Kiyotaka: "The rules of this game are like this..."
Friday afternoon in the Cooking Room.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka sat in a seat, waiting for the "challenger" sent by Mibuomi Aoi, while looking at the data of this week's casino operations on the laptop in front of him.
In just one week, not counting the data from the Cooking Room, the weekly turnover of the Chemistry Preparation Room alone reached 700,000 yen, with 500 members, basically always full.
On the ranking list, the person who played the most games played over 200 matches, averaging over 40 matches per day, which was quite a lot.
Unfortunately, on the spending leaderboard, the most gambling money won by a single person was only 4 million yen.
Not many people were willing to "spend a fortune" at the casino, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's Cooking Room saw no customers all day.
Is Mibuomi Aoi causing trouble behind the scenes, preventing wealthy people from gambling at our casino?
Otherwise, it shouldn't be like this...
Although the weekly turnover of these two casinos was less than a fraction of what Ayanokoji won from Mibuomi Aoi, Ayanokoji was still very displeased.
Always passively waiting for his people to come and cause trouble for him, shouldn't he also "return the favor"?
As Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was pondering this, the door to the Cooking Room was pushed open from the outside.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka thought it was the person coming to challenge today. He looked up and was startled.
The person who came today was Mibuomi Aoi.
The main character himself showed up.
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