Hikigaya Challenges Kakegurui

A beautification committee member wearing a red bra said, "This is the ESP prop card. Arrange it in the wireframe on the table so that the camera can capture it."

"No part of the body other than hands and cards should be shown in the camera."

Hikigaya slowly sat down in his seat, observing his surroundings with a cold and obscure look.

The monitoring room exudes a dark and damp atmosphere due to lack of light all year round.

In Hikigaya Hachiman's observation range, there is no other cheating tool except the camera in front of him. In other words, if Ikushima wants to cheat, he can only use the camera in front of him.

For example, the simplest method of flipping the content of the screen, or someone else arranged to transmit information in a room that you can't see...

Which one it is still remains to be explored.

Hikigaya Hachiman calmed down a little and looked at the ESP card in front of him.

'To win this game, you must first prevent the other party from cheating.'

'Then there was the tacit understanding between each other.'

Hikigaya thought about it and slowly turned over the ESP card.

The numbers marked on it are not traditional poker numbers, but graphics.

[Pentagram, circle, cross, wave, square]

Hikigaya stroked his chin, his eyes flickering.

"Could it be these graphics?"

'If my reasoning is correct...'

'It doesn't matter how it's placed, it doesn't matter what the tacit understanding between each other is, this gamble...'

"Hey, Hikigaya, hurry up. It's useless to think so much."

Hikigaya heard the urging voices of the beautification committee members from behind. They came to Hikigaya in coquettish poses, trying to expose the tender white flesh on their chests as much as possible to interfere with Hikigaya's sight.

Hikigaya inhaled the scent of an expensive perfume.

This made Hikigaya Hachiman's mind waver. If it was this kind of trick, it would indeed interfere with his thinking.

If this was a bet that required a lot of calculations to win, Hikigaya admitted that he had fallen for it.

But unfortunately, he preferred the fresh body fragrance of Jabami Yumeko. Moreover, before they interfered with him, he had already seen through the nature of this gambling game.

Hikigaya Hachiman calmly placed the cards neatly under the camera in the order he first saw them.

"What we need to do now is to pass our reasoning to Jabaka through this camera."

Hikigaya nodded, slowly stretched out his right hand and pressed it on the card with the wave pattern printed on it.

another side.

Jabami Yumeko was slightly startled when she saw Hikigaya's left hand. She smiled and waved at the screen.

Her smile was so bright that Sheng Zhima was stunned.

"Can the situation here be transmitted to the room where Hikigaya-kun is?"

"Of course, although he can't hear our voices, he can see the whole picture of us here."

"I see. I understand." Jabami nodded demurely.

"Now that you understand, let's load the bullets first." After fiddling with the table for a while, Seishima took out a gun that looked the same as his usual revolver and threw it in front of Jabaka.

Then he pulled out a tray filled with yellow-orange bullets and placed it on the table.

Jabaka touched the revolver in his hand with a confused look. The cold touch and the delicate gun body told Jabaka its identity.

This is undoubtedly a real gun.

Jabami Yumeko was a little surprised and curious. She looked at the bullets on the table and asked, "Ikushima-san, although Japan does not ban guns, if you casually hold a revolver like you and have so many bullets, it must not be through formal channels."

"what?"

Ikushima touched his own happy beans nonchalantly: "Are you stupid, Mengzi? How could you possibly go through the formal channels?"

"It's okay to tell you this, my father is Nakashima Tsuyoshi, the second-ranked boss of the Yakuza organization in the Tokyo area."

"It's easy to just get a few guns and bullets~"

"That's it."

Yumeko nodded thoughtfully, opening the magazine of her revolver with her mouth slightly open.

After all, she was just a young girl who was addicted to taking care of her sister and gambling every day, so it was understandable that she didn't know about guns. But as a member of the Hyakuma family, it was her first time seeing a gun, which was a bit shameful.

"Yumeko, there's no need to tell the other person how many bullets you have loaded. But, let me tell you first—"

Sheng Zhima licked the tongue stud at the corner of her mouth. The cold touch gradually made her feel overwhelmed. She couldn't help but stretch out ○○ and slowly wrap the bullet.

He stared at Jakugumi with both eyes and made the ○○○ gesture.

Finally, pinch the bullet between the index finger and thumb and rub it downwards on the tongue stud to create a silvery-white thread.

"I can load six rounds!"

"That is to say, this game has changed from a simple probability of getting hurt to a game of [Death or Alive]~ Yumeko!"

"It's finally here, the card sequence that will cost you your life!"

Sheng Zhima was screaming crazily.

Jakobaki looked calm as she placed the wall under the table so that no one could see her movements.

Hikigaya looked at the two people in front of the camera with a normal expression.

Finally, after Jabaka threw the gun under the table where no one could see it, Ikushimabo hurriedly called the two people standing next to Hikigaya.

"Hey, let Hikigaya turn over the cards now."

"clear."

The beautification committee member raised the corner of his mouth and subconsciously looked in the direction of Hikigaya Hachiman.

She couldn't wait to enjoy Hikigaya's horrified expression.

Just like their former boyfriends.

But soon, Hikigaya Hachiman's expression disappointed them. There was no trace of emotion on his face.

It was as if Yumeko Jabami's safety had nothing to do with him.

She subconsciously asked, "Hey, you, aren't you worried about Snake?"

"What's there to worry about? It's not me who's in danger of life." Hikigaya said nonchalantly, "Besides, this matter has nothing to do with you."

"Tie Mei—you damn scumbag!" The beautification committee member blushed and wished he could teach Hikigaya Hachiman a lesson on the spot.

But thinking of the consequences of disturbing Shima, she suppressed her anger.

Hikigaya Hachiman looked calm as he flipped open his own arrangement.

[Pentagram, circle, cross, wave, square]

In another room, Ikushima laughed and turned over the two people's cards one by one.

Sheng Zhima: [five-pointed star, circle, cross, square, wave]

Snake: [cross, five-pointed star, circle, wave, square]

"Hahaha! Mengzi~ I got one more correct answer than you~" Sheng Zhimawang couldn't help drooling and immediately reached his hand under the table to grope around.

Finally, he took out the gun with trembling hands.

"What? Do you really have a tacit understanding between you? Forget it, you should be prepared~ Mengzi~"

79 Jabami Yumeko is a sadist? !

"Mengzi~ Stop struggling so hard."

Ikushima was panting heavily, his chest rising and falling violently. He loaded the magazine and pointed the cold muzzle of the gun at Jabami Yumeko.

However, as the one whose life was threatened, Jakuku showed no fear and stared calmly at the muzzle of the gun.

"Ishima-san, I don't recommend you pull the trigger of this gun."

"Because... this is my pistol~"

"Look carefully at the muzzle of the gun. I put three lipsticks and three bullets in it out of the six bullets."

"That is to say, there is a 50% chance that the gun will explode and injure you."

"This is something you have to bear unilaterally..."

Before Yumeko could finish her words, Sheng Zhimawang pointed the gun at Yumeko again with lightning speed and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Pa tower.

The crisp sound echoed in the interrogation room.

But no bullet was fired.

"Tsk, it's empty." Sheng Zhimo curled his lips in dissatisfaction.

Jakuku closed his eyes with a normal expression: "I was just kidding you, I didn't even pretend."

"Huh? Is this true?!"

"Yumeko, you're so boring."

Sheng Zhima sat back in his seat with dissatisfaction and casually threw the gun back under the table.

This scene was seen by Hikigaya Hachiman through the surveillance camera, which made him more certain of his guess.

"This guy, Shimamo, entered the game with the intention of losing the bet from the beginning."

To say why.

Hikigaya lowered his eyes and stared at the ESP card with a wave symbol on the table.

In other words, no matter what ESP cards Hikigaya Hachiman places, and what the final outcome is, Ikushima will choose to point the gun without bullets at Jabaka.

This is a death game in which Shima is seeking death unilaterally.

'She wanted to find an executioner to kill her, and Jabba was her target.'

"If it's Jaguar, it should be discovered by now."

...

"Ishima-san, why did you propose this bet to me?"

"Huh? Is there any need to explain this? Of course it's for excitement, excitement! This kind of feeling that you can't normally experience is really unstoppable, Mengzi!"

After the blush, Sheng Zhima's face looked a little lost.

He murmured, "No, Mengzi. In this academy, if I only gamble for money, it will be meaningless to me, no matter how much I win or lose. Money can't stimulate my dopamine secretion at all."

"Only...only..."

Halfway through his speech, Sheng Zhima Wang suddenly stuck out his tongue and pulled open his left eye which was covered with a blindfold.

From Hikigaya's perspective, he couldn't see what exactly happened, but he could clearly see that Jabaka's calm face had undergone some subtle changes.

Surprise? Sympathy? And a little... fear?

"I have no vision in my left eye. Why do you think that is, Yumeko?"

"It was seized by the guildmaster as a gambling stake!"

"From that day on, I realized that only a gamble that costs my body can make me excited! Mengzi, as a fellow human, you can understand my feelings, right?"

"That's why I must enjoy you before the president plays you to pieces!"

"Ah~Sbarasi~My brain is starting to go numb. I finally understand why people like gambling."

"Feeling pain and chasing death, this is the gamble I'm taking in my life!"

Jabami Yumeko had a cold face. This time, she did not go crazy with Ikushima: "I'm sorry, no. And, Ikushima-san, you really did something extremely boring."

The second round of gambling began immediately, and Sheng Zhima Wang once again loaded 6 bullets into the pistol in front of everyone.