Hikigaya Challenges Kakegurui

Hikigaya did not feel the slightest joy when he received the invitation. His pupils suddenly shrank and he had a bad premonition.

"Momobami Kirari knew about this gambling game from the beginning. Maybe she was watching it from a distance. Would this woman watch the members of the student council fail again and again?"

"Why is she not panicking at all? Nishi-Doin is clearly in dire straits."

"What if her original target was Jabami Yumeko?"

'I missed her.'

Hikigaya Hachiman felt a chill, and when he met Momobami Kirari's gaze, he felt that his clothes were being stripped off piece by piece. His calculations and his thoughts were all seen clearly by Momobami Kirari.

He, Hikigaya Hachiman, was seen through?

The chill began to spread in my heart.

Hikigaya Hachiman is a calculating person. He hates gambling, but he is not aware of the risk of losing. He will not easily step into the battlefield without the certainty of winning.

But now, the woman in front of him has completely exceeded his calculation range. He can't see through her and can't touch her. His previous judgment that Yumeko will win the "Life and Death" began to waver. This is the first time that Hikigaya overturned his judgment.

This is the failure of the mystery novelist!

"Hikigaya-san?"

It wasn't until Momobami Kirari called out again that Hikigaya was pulled out of his self-loop.

"Okay, I'll go in with you."

Hikigaya took a deep breath and strode towards the three women, standing next to Momobami Kirari without any stage fright.

The girl in the bunny sweatshirt saw all this, she smacked her lips and licked her lollipop. Perhaps for her, it was rare for a student like Hikigaya to have no respect for the president when meeting him for the first time.

"President Momoku, Mr. Nishidouin has told us that people related to Jabaku are not allowed to enter."

The two stray cats trembled again and stretched out their hands to block the way, faithfully carrying out the mission assigned to them by Nishidongin.

The so-called president of the president is not their president.

"Hmm? Do you mean you want to stop me?"

But just a condescending cold look was enough to scare the two cats to the ground, where they knelt trembling all over, not daring to block the way anymore.

"I'm sorry to embarrass you, Hikigaya-san. There are always some people who don't follow the rules."

Momobami Kirari said meaningfully.

Hikigaya understood that she was probably referring to Nishidouin who was planning to make trouble inside, or...herself.

"Ah! Hikigaya-kun!" When Jabami Yumeko saw Hikigaya Hachiman coming, she hurriedly trotted out with open arms and threw herself into Hikigaya's arms.

The impact of the soft bullet actually restored some rationality to Hikigaya Hachiman's confused mind.

His face turned red, he coughed, and he put his hand on Jabami Yumeko's forehead, slightly distanced himself from her.

"excuse me."

"President...President?! Why..."

"Things are getting very interesting." Momobami Kirari glanced between the two Jabi and Nishidouin, "The stakes seem to be very high, but things are more likely to go wrong at times like this, so let me be a witness."

"I..."

boom--

Momobami Kirari suddenly reached out and pinched Nishidoin's cheek. Even when facing her subordinates, her cold eyes were as if she wanted to pinch an insignificant insect to death.

"Okay, shut up Nishidouin."

"Now, open the sword pot!"

32 Hikigaya puts on the chains himself

The dealer placed his hand on the pot stiffly: "Then... I open it."

The uneasiness in Hikigaya Hachiman's heart reached its peak at this moment.

What went wrong? If the real-time footage outside the house was not fake, all the details of the gambling game were within my observation. Even Momobami Kirari couldn't cheat under my nose.

Hikigaya Hachiman held his breath and stared intently at the pot that was slowly opened by the dealer.

"He's not here, he's really not here!" Hikigaya Hachiman's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at the result of the sword in the pot with a dull look in his eyes.

The result of the bet overturned all his previous guesses.

The result was that the blade was facing upwards and inserted into the hole of "Nine". According to the rules, Jabami Yumeko had to pay 310 million yen.

Hikigaya strode forward somewhat out of control, grabbed the dealer's hand that had been used to shake the pot, and stared at the magnet engraved into the flesh with a pair of sharp eyes. His reasoning was correct. In the previous gambling game, the dealer must have used the magnet to make the blade fall into the hole behind Fourteen.

But the results presented were contrary to his reasoning.

Feeling the pain, the dealer pulled his hand away, glared at Hikigaya Hachiman fiercely, and announced the result of the bet loudly:

"Ten deaths, nine lives..."

Nishidoin Yuriko looked at the pot in the dealer's hand with confusion.

"It didn't fall on 24. I told the dealer to cheat according to my request, but the sword fell on 10 and 9..."

'Is this luck or...'

She subconsciously turned her gaze towards Momobami Kirari.

"Ms. Yuriko, in the case of life and death, you bet on 5 chips! The total number of chips is 195, and Mr. Jabami loses 115 chips! Ms. Yuriko wins 3 million, and the outcome is determined!"

"..."

This shocking reversal not only shocked Nishitoin Yuriko, but also Jabami Yumeko, whose eyes, which were always full of madness, were filled with some inexplicable colors.

Momobami Kirari put one hand on her waist, her charm and mystery combined at this moment: "Ah, I didn't expect to win. Yuriko, you are really lucky. I am beginning to look at you with new eyes."

"Yeah..."

Nishidoin Yuriko was about to respond to Momobami-san, but she found that he didn't even look at her.

The beautiful eyes with light blue eyeshadow were looking at him sideways. The coldness and scrutiny that was inadvertently revealed made Nishidouin tremble all over.

This is not praise or affirmation at all... Until now, Nishidoin Yuriko still doesn't understand that the reason why she was able to win the bet is that the president must have used some means unknown to her to remotely control the bet.

What could it be?!

Nishidoin felt terrified but also inexplicably angry.

Her specialty gambling was actually controlled remotely by someone, which was simply rubbing her face on the floor.

'Will it be the dealer? No, the dealer dare not betray himself.'

"Could it be the blades? These blades were all made under my personal supervision, there is no possibility that they were swapped."

"What on earth is the president doing..."

Momobami Kirari came to Jabami Yumeko and whispered in her ear: "Compared to this, you are quite regrettable."

"I tried so hard, but I still lost to such a lucky shot."

"Jabami Yumeko~"

Momobami Kirari stretched out her hand and stroked Jabami Yumeko's smooth face. Her index finger stopped at her tender pink lips, and there was a tendency for it to go deeper.

“Is it really luck?”

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman had already raised the croupier's pot and was observing it almost to his face.

After a while, he slowly said:

"I never thought that President Momobami would use the ancient trick of 'Badger'. It's really eye-opening."

Hikigaya Hachiman sighed and threw the pot aside.

The uneasiness in his heart had dissipated, and after carefully looking at the pot used by the dealer, he finally figured out what he had missed.

The level of importance placed on Momobami Kirari has reached an unprecedented level.

What do normal people usually think of when they think of cheating?

The dealer? The gambling tools? The people watching the game? Or are all three of them complementary? Few people would think that the casino itself is a huge cheating tool.

This woman, Momobami Kirari, is truly unfathomable.

'She treated this casino... no, even this school, as her Garden of Eden! All gambling games were under her control.'

After listening to what Hikigaya Hachiman said, Momobami Kirari smiled sweetly, reached out and touched the hairpin on one side, and said ambiguously: "Who knows?"

And Jabami Yumeko reacted instantly after being reminded by Hikigaya.

Her face was red, and her eyes were hazy, as if a misty breath was gushing out: "It turned out to be a badger? This is really inferior to others, and I have to admit defeat, President."

Yumeko Jabami was very conscious of being a loser so she changed her sitting position, kneeling on the wooden floor with her round and elastic buttocks pressed on her calves, and the graceful curve of her upper body slightly leaning forward.

Under the gaze of all the girls, he actually put a piece of Momobami Kirari's index finger into his mouth.

Her soft eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes were as innocent as a naive kitten.

This tactic of retreating to advance actually made Momobami Kirari's body a little tense, but she was a student council president who had seen a lot of storms after all. After letting Jabami Yumeko suck for a while, she pulled her fingers out of Yumeko's mouth without leaving a trace.

He placed his index finger in front of his eyes and looked at the glowing silver thread on it, his eyes actually becoming a little dazed.

She stretched out her other hand, and the girl in the bunny sweatshirt jumped over and put a brand new dog tag into Momobami Kirari's hand.

Momobami Kirari seemed to be stroking some precious treasure, and finally handed the dog tag to Hikigaya Hachiman reluctantly.

"Hikigaya-san, do you want a taste of power?"

Hikigaya Hachiman felt that the dog tag in his hand was a little hot.

"You will personally put a mixed cat identity tag on Jabami Yumeko, and I will make the decision. Nishidouin-san can forgive her 10 million yen debt~"

"Yuriko, here's the question."

"Eh... No, no problem."

Nishidoin Yuriko still looked confused at the moment. As the president of the Traditional Culture Research Association, she didn't even know what a badger was. She accepted the president's request without any resistance. In fact, she didn't dare to accept the money and planned to hand it over to the president as soon as she got it.

"From what I know, Jabami-san probably won't be able to repay the 3 million yen. So please just live as a stray cat in advance."

"Or is it that Hikigaya-san is going to pay off this debt for Jabami-san?"

Hikigaya was silent, and subconsciously looked at Jabami Yumeko with a questioning look.

Although he had no intention of paying off Jabami Yumeko's debt, he still had to go through the necessary procedures. He also understood that Jabami would not care about his choice at all, and even said that if he really paid off Jabami's debt, he would be blamed by her.

The crime is: losing the pleasure of taking the risk of losing in gambling.

Hikigaya Hachiman responded with a cat's meow that combined cuteness, gentleness, and adorableness:

"Meow?"

"..."

Jabami Yumeko, you look so cute but you are really mean.

Hikigaya Hachiman took a deep breath, raised the dog tag high and hung it on Jabami Yumeko.

33 Hikigaya Challenges Momobami Kirari

Jabami Yumeko had no intention of resisting.

On the contrary, she stretched out her swan neck with a blushing face, as if waiting for Hikigaya Hachiman's favor.

This ambiguous posture...

Hikigaya Hachiman tapped his toes on the ground, as if he could feel the strange looks given to him by the women behind him.

"Ah, it's clearly a dog tag, but why does it look like a wedding necklace~" The girl in the bunny sweatshirt licked a lollipop and said bluntly: "Please, both of you, please abide by the school's rules and regulations~"

Hikigaya Hachiman had a gloomy face and hung the mixed cat ID tag around Yumeko's neck in front of everyone.

Jabami Yumeko looked at the metal plate swinging around her neck in surprise. She stuck out her pink tongue like a cat, bent her wrist slightly, and meowed at Hikigaya Hachiman.

Hikigaya Hachiman's heart beat faster and he quickly turned around.

"Okay, we've done what needs to be done. President Momobami, are you going to explain?"

"Badger refers to a trick invented in ancient times when people were gambling on odds and evens. This trick requires first making a small hole in the floor of the casino. Although you have to gamble above it, you can't see it unless you look closely after covering it with a white cloth. This is consistent with the principle of the pot used in 'Life and Death'."

Hikigaya Hachiman picked up the short sword used for gambling on the ground and analyzed calmly: "In Japanese houses, there is a space under the floor, right? Under this floor, the Chizu people lurk. The Chizu people use the light of candles through the white cloth to confirm the side of the dice. Depending on the situation, they will use a needle to poke the dice and get the result the dealer wants."