Kakegurui: Ten Consecutive Guaranteed Hits

Volume 1 Chapter 54 The Justice of Cheating

"Mikura, did you help Ayanokōji cheat?"

Upon hearing this sentence, Mikura's body stiffened. She mechanically turned around, her face looking very unpleasant, and she instinctively wanted to explain, "Juraku-sama, I..."

Juraku Sachiko held Mikura's chin and didn't let her continue.

"It’s fine for you to help Togakushi Yukimi, since I know you wanted to take back the casino's usage fee. What I didn't expect is that you would help Ayanokōji Kiyohei."

Juraku Sachiko's face had a playful smile.

"I really want to know what he said to you. Not only did you change the answer for him, but you even switched the dice he was throwing. Your actions are so thoughtful that I'm almost jealous... What did he offer you?"

Mikura broke out in a cold sweat. She didn't expect that despite being so far away from the gambling table, she was still able to view everything very clearly.

In addition to feeling frightened, her admiration for Juraku Sachiko became even stronger.

‘Truly, nothing escapes the scrutiny of Juraku-sama…’

Mikura quickly bowed and apologized, "Juraku-sama, I'm very sorry, I shouldn't have acted on my own..."

"No, I'm not blaming you."

Juraku Sachiko patted Mikura's head like a pet cat, and released her from her grasp. She headed straight for the student council's resting room.

Mikura followed behind her, secretly relieved.

Thank goodness, Juraku-sama didn't blame her.

Although it was a bit risky, this time, she had achieved her goal.

Sachiko thought Mikura had been coerced or bribed by Kiyohei, but in fact, this was Mikura's own decision.

...

On the other side, Kiyohei had already boarded the subway and was on his way home.

Sitting on the subway, he was scrolling on his phone. Thinking about Mary's appearance earlier, he couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Did that girl really think he was going to hand victory over to her just like that?

What a joke.

Whether it was the task he had just completed or his true intentions, it was all about keeping Mary away from gambling.

If he wanted to stop her from gambling, he had to make her lose hope and never dare to gamble again.

That was the right way to do it.

If it's too easy to get money, many people won't appreciate it.

Although Kiyohei was also a "nouveau riche," he had accumulated tens of millions of dollars through Bitcoin and stock market winds, just like his name. He always had a "modest" mindset and didn't treat money as just money.

Mary, on the other hand, was different. She hadn't been exposed to society, so she had no concept of the value of money.

If he were to give Mary a victory, allowing her to win the casino and a million yen, this girl would surely become so confident that she wouldn't know what to do with it.

Maybe she'll just start messing around right away, taking her winnings and challenging the Student Council President.

Was he cheating in that game? Of course he does.

Kiyohei had just used his guaranteed opportunity. Without cheating, how could he win this gamble?

Did he really want to rely on that one-quarter chance and hope the Goddess of Victory smiled upon him?

Kiyohei had a clear awareness of his own luck. If his luck were that good, he wouldn't have failed to draw a single SR card.

Perhaps he had used up all his luck on time travel and acquiring system powers.

Kiyohei's method of cheating was simple: he had Mikura use special dice. The dice had their center of gravity shifted towards one end, making it possible to roll specific numbers intentionally.

In magic, there was a term called "Misdirection." As the name suggests, it was about redirecting the audience's attention in the wrong direction. It was a powerful tool for manipulating the audience's attention and one of the magician's most potent weapons.

For example, "Look, a flying saucer!" was the simplest form of misdirection. A magician's hand speed would usually be trained to be very fast, but even the fastest sleight of hand wouldn't work if the audience's attention was firmly locked on.

Skilled magicians could use language or gestures to divert someone's attention elsewhere while they secretly completed their magic performance, just like in this gambling game.

Kiyohei intentionally used words to remind Mary, diverting her attention to the cards. She believed that Mikura's cheating was just about changing a card. To counter this method, she would use the "nail polish" she mentioned to make the cards display two different answers, increasing her chances of winning.

Mikura used two specially modified dice, each biased towards 5 and 2. If Hazanome paid more attention to the dice when she was rolling, she would have noticed that these two numbers were consistently being rolled.

Mary's attention was solely on the cards, thinking about how to carry out the "switcheroo," and she didn't realize that the dice in front of her had been tampered with.

She never suspected that the dice might be problematic.

In reality, Mikura could have ended the game during the third dice roll. To make it appear more realistic, she rolled a few more times, striving for authenticity.

Throughout the entire match, Mary was played by Kiyohei.

From Mary's perspective, this match might have seemed like Kiyohei intentionally letting her win, but she didn't seize this golden opportunity. Besides the bitterness of her failure, she probably felt guilty toward Kiyohei.

Although Kiyohei had good intentions on doing all of this, thinking of the look of disbelief on Mary's face when she lost, he also felt a pang of guilt.

The pain was necessary to make Mary understand the terror of gambling.

He hoped that Mary would wake up soon. If she learned her lesson and stopped risking everything on gambling, Kiyohei would be more than willing to offer her a job as his secretary after high school graduation