Kakegurui: Ten Consecutive Guaranteed Hits

Volume 1 Chapter 37: Has the Gacha Pool Been Covertly Changed?

A crisp sound, like marbles colliding, echoed from the black box in Kiyohei's hands.

He propped up his head with one hand and lazily shook the box in his other hand.

Kuroki sat upright in front of him, like a hunting dog searching for prey, ears perked, eyes fixed on the black box in Kiyohei's hand.

Kiyohei tapped the box on the table and asked aloud, "Odd or even?"

"Even!" Kuroki hesitated for a moment before giving an answer.

Kiyohei opened the box, revealing a die inside, with the number "4" facing up.

"Hmm... You guessed right."

Kuroki let out a relaxed sigh, taking a 10,000 bill yen from Kiyohei's hand.

Even though Kuroki had lost to Kiyohei yesterday—or rather, it couldn't be called a loss, in any case, he hadn't won.

Kiyohei had expected this guy to either cause trouble for him or keep his distance after yesterday's game. However, he was surprised to find out that Kuroki had a thick-skinned attitude. After Kiyohei returned to the classroom in the afternoon, Kuroki had approached him and candidly admitted to cheating, apologized to Kiyohei, and asked Kiyohei to "overlook the past." He even hoped Kiyohei, as an "adult," wouldn't bother him.

When Kiyohei heard all this, he really wanted to ask, "What does this guy think of me?" If he didn't cause Kiyohei trouble, he'd probably start praying.

Kiyohei and Kuroki didn't really have any grudges against each other, and Kiyohei hadn't suffered any losses. Since Kuroki had taken the initiative to reconcile, Kiyohei just agreed without thinking much about it. Having more friends is always better than having more enemies.

At this private academy, Hyakkaou Private Academy, gambling was the main pastime for students during break times. After Kuroki repeatedly emphasized that he wouldn't cheat, Kiyohei agreed to continue gambling with him.

Their game was simple: guessing whether the roll of dice would result in an odd or even number, and the wager was 10,000 Yen each time.

The dice Kiyohei used were ordinary ones he had taken from a casino, and the black box was just a regular plastic container with no mechanisms.

To show his sincerity, Kuroki even gave Kiyohei the chance to roll the dice, allowing Kiyohei to guess odd or even.

If Kiyohei cheated, he would easily lose horribly.

It could be said that Kuroki's sincerity was substantial.

Kiyohei didn't cheat and had no intention of cheating. Kuroki's gambling request aligned with his interests. Kiyohei took this opportunity to study the functionality of the gacha pool system.

Kuroki wasn't giving Kiyohei such a significant level of trust without a reason; he had his own motives.

Yesterday, even under the circumstances of Kuroki and Kumagai cheating, they hadn't managed to gain anything from Kiyohei.

In their post-game analysis, Kumagai told Kuroki that Kiyohei was a hidden gambling expert who had already seen through their collaboration. The two of them were just showing off in front of an audience.

Kumagai had also warned Kuroki, advising him not to bother Kiyohei, or he might end up suffering a loss himself.

Kuroki only half-believed Kumagai's words; he decided to verify the other half himself.

His intent in seeking a gambling match with Kiyohei was all about verification. The odd-or-even dice game was also his idea.

After all, in a random event like guessing odd or even with dice, without external interference, the more rounds played, the closer the results would get to a 50-50 split.

From yesterday afternoon until this morning, Kiyohei and Kuroki had already played over seventy rounds. However, what made Kuroki regretful was that their winning percentages maintained at a 40-60 split—Kuroki at 40, Kiyohei at 60.

He had already lost over 100,000 Yen to Kiyohei.

Kuroki's eyes remained fixed on Kiyohei's hand, tightly gripping it. He was confident that he hadn't detected any signs of cheating from Kiyohei, and Kiyohei hadn't used any special dice-rolling techniques. He had simply shaken the dice container.

Why had he lost so many times? How had Kiyohei achieved this? Was it really due to Kiyohei's luck being better?

After pondering for a while, Kuroki still couldn't find an answer.

Of course, he wasn't aware that Kiyohei had a system mechanism that guaranteed a "10-consecutive draw with a guaranteed rare" result. In fact, excluding the guaranteed draws, their winning rate was basically around 50-50.

"Do you want to continue?" Despite losing this round, Kiyohei showed no signs of emotional disturbance and continued asking Kuroki.

Kiyohei was well aware that as long as the game continued, he would eventually come out on top. The outcome of a single round didn't mean much.

"Let's call it quits here," Kuroki quickly suggested.

From the start, he had intended to test Kiyohei. However, the test hadn't yielded results, and he had ended up losing over 100,000 Yen.

He didn't have much starting capital to begin with, and it was nearing the time to pay the "tribute," so it wasn't wise to continue losing money like this.

Before he could gather information about Kiyohei's background, he had become a "livestock" due to not being able to pay.

He could consider this lost 100,000 Yen a lesson learned. After all, why hadn't he listened to Kumagai's advice to not gamble with Kiyohei? It was better to retreat before losing even more.

Given the chance, it would be easy to win back this money from others.

"Alright then." Kiyohei put down the dice somewhat regretfully, stretched lazily, and stood up from his seat.

Through experimentation, Kiyohei had confirmed his suspicions about the "guaranteed rare on 10-consecutive draws" mechanism. As he had anticipated, when the guaranteed draw count was reached, the game would guarantee a victory.

One pleasant surprise was that he had autonomous control over when to activate and deactivate the gacha pool. This meant that when he had accumulated the tenth draw for a guaranteed rare, he could close the system's gacha pool, making it no longer synchronized with reality.

It was akin to having accumulated a guaranteed rare opportunity in a game, but not being interested in the featured characters. He could continue accumulating draw tokens and use them when his favorite characters were featured.

He could save this guaranteed rare opportunity and use it during a crucial round.

When the opponent believed they had the upper hand and proactively increased the stakes, that would be the moment for Kiyohei to use his guaranteed rare opportunity.

Of course, when the gacha pool was closed, even if he won the gamble, he wouldn't receive draw tokens.

The feeling of mastering this cause-and-effect mechanism was truly wonderful. Kiyohei believed that if he used this ability skillfully, becoming the world's richest person was just a matter of time.

However, Kiyohei's regret was that this mechanism only worked in face-to-face gambling.

Whether it was spending money on in-game gacha draws or online gambling websites, the "guaranteed rare system" wouldn't activate. He couldn't use this guaranteed rare system to pick out stocks that would undoubtedly skyrocket.

Kiyohei had been mentally prepared for this limitation. If the "guaranteed rare system" worked for these types of gambling mechanisms, his system would have been activated long ago.

Kiyohei was quite satisfied with many aspects of the system, but there was one aspect that made him want to curse—it was the system's drop rates.

It was okay not to receive items when he lost a gamble. However, when he won and got items, they were all N and R, not even a single SR!?

Come on, after over forty draws, even in a game, he would have at least pulled one SR by now!

Kiyohei even suspected that the drop rates of this system had been secretly adjusted.

Unfortunately, he had no way to prove this or complain to the system's developers. He could only attribute it to his own bad luck.

Ironically, on the gambling table, Kuroki thought Kiyohei's luck was exceptional. Meanwhile, on the other side, Kiyohei believed his luck was extremely bad.

Truly a situation that made people sigh.