< Chapter 15 - Intersection #2 >
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Gail Bayer.
27 years old.
The eldest son of the Counts of Bayer. The next Count of Bayer.
As the successor to Count Bayer, one of the Ten Swordsmen, he has been a master swordsman since childhood.
There were many reasons why Gale was still single despite the fact that other eldest sons of the counts would have had two or three children by now, but in fact, the other reasons were just nominal, and the reason why he did not marry and lived alone was actually for one reason.
Adelia Chase.
24 years old.
The second and eldest daughter among the two sons of the Count Chase family.
A genius magician who joined the Royal Magic Guard of the Kingdom of Seilun at the age of nineteen and rose to the position of captain in just five years, at the young age of 24.
“It’s been a while, Miss Adelia.”
“It’s been a long time, Prince Gale.”
Although he omitted his armor because he was not going to the battlefield, Gale was practically a knight’s uniform in other aspects, except for the outer coat.
And Adelia.
As expected of Cordelia’s older sister, she was a peerless beauty and, like her mother, had dark blonde hair.
It was the same uniform as the Royal Magic Corps emblem, but it was a luxurious and splendid outfit with gold thread embroidery on a black battle uniform that fit the body perfectly.
“Although the reason we met like this isn’t very good… Still, it’s good to see you in good health.”
“me too.”
Adelia, who had always been smiling kindly to Gail, responded a little coldly and then let out a sigh of excitement again before speaking.
“You’ve probably heard the gist of it already, but let me repeat: the plan is simple. First, we’ll run day and night to reach the County of Hresvelg—specifically, near the northern border.”
“Then use tracking magic?”
Adelia nodded as Gail asked as he climbed onto his horse.
“You probably have the ring your father gave you, so you can just track it down.”
“What is the tracking range?”
“It’s fairly large, but it’s only about the size of a small fiefdom. If it were as large as the County of Hresvelg, you’d only be able to explore a small part of it.”
“Still, you are dependable. As expected from Miss Adelia.”
“Huh. It’s not really something to be praised for, is it?”
Adelia, who was excited, gathered her hair into a ponytail and adjusted the reins.
“Anyway, let’s go. I’ll take the lead.”
“I’m more familiar with the local geography, so I’ll take the lead. Everyone! I’ll be back!”
Despite Adelia’s sharp attitude, Gail smiled brightly and replied, then suddenly greeted those who had come to see her off and started riding first.
“Hey!”
As Gale was a great horseman, he looked quite cool as he ran ahead, but it seemed like it wasn’t for Adelia.
He looked at Gale, who was walking ahead with a displeased expression, then turned around with a sigh.
“I’ll be back.”
She spoke coldly and spurred her horse on, following behind Gale. No, judging by her momentum, it seemed like they were racing rather than accompanying each other.
And those who are left behind.
Among them, Maia and Dahlia naturally looked at each other and smiled awkwardly without saying who would go first.
“It’ll be okay, right?”
“Ah… is that right?”
Gail Bayer and Adelia Chase.
With a vague sense of foreboding, Maia and Dahlia looked at the two people who had already advanced far into the distance.
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Someone said.
“You know what casinos and fancy buffets have in common? In the end, the casino wins.”
That’s exactly it.
Just as no matter how much you eat at a fancy buffet to try to get your money’s worth, all you’ll end up with is a stomachache, no matter how hard you try at a casino, in the end, you’ll lose money.
“Of course, that’s an average, and overall, it’s just the casinos that make money, but there are definitely a few who make a lot of money, whether small or huge.”
Otherwise, no one would go to the casino.
“So you’re one of those minorities?”
“The minority that always wins. I’m banned from three Las Vegas casinos.”
I was in the process of stopping by a nearby hotel to change clothes before going to the casino.
Cordelia, who was adjusting the hem of her beautiful red dress, blinked at Uther’s words.
“No trespassing list?”
“Oh, it’s a kind of blacklist. If you get on it, you can’t even enter.”
As Uther spoke with a hint of pride, Cordelia stopped adjusting her skirt, stroked her chin, then clenched her fists and said.
“As expected! He was a conman! He was a gambler! Am I right? Yes?”
“No, I didn’t cheat. I just got rejected because I was too good at gambling.”
“Fuck, what the hell are you? How can you keep picking on me when you don’t even cheat?”
“It’s been a while since I’ve heard from you, but it feels good to hear from you.”
“Don’t change the subject.”
“Well, then turn around for now.”
“Are you all dressed?”
“Oh, you’re all dressed up too.”
“You… Mr. Woo, didn’t I tell you not to look back in advance?”
“I just turned around. Come closer. I’ll tighten the strap on your back.”
“That’s what Dahlia did.”
“Dahlia isn’t here right now.”
As Uther had said, Cordelia went closer to Uther and turned her back to him, and Uther continued talking while tightening the laces of her dress one by one.
“Do you know what card counting is?”
“I don’t know.”
“···It’s literally counting cards. You remember all the cards that have been revealed and guess what cards are not yet revealed. Then, based on that, you calculate the probability for each situation and make the optimal choice.”
“It sounds difficult, but if you do that, you can definitely win?”
“No, even if you do that, the odds of winning are only slightly over 50%. In modern casinos, various techniques to nullify card counting have been developed, so it doesn’t work well. They’ve all done it.”
As soon as Uther finished tying all the laces of her dress, Cordelia spun around, looked around, and then picked up the tie to put around Uther’s neck.
“Then why are you on the blacklist? Did you commit fraud? Don’t move and stay still.”
“Card counting is the basics, and there are a few other skills as well. And basically, you play the game with the dealer, right? Unlike machines, people leak a lot of information even when they’re just sitting still.”
And in fact, Yuder’s specialty was poker games like Texas Hold’em.
“So, you were a professional poker player?”
“well?”
Cordelia pouts at Uther’s evasive answer and intentionally tightens his tie.
“Ugh! Hey!”
“Okay, I’ll tie it up again.”
As expected of a talented Cordelia, she quickly tied his tie again nicely.
“I don’t know about anything else, but I think you’re the best at this.”
“Are you good at other things too?”
Cordelia was excited, but the corners of her mouth went up, perhaps because she felt happy because of the compliment.
“Anyway, are you confident about this?”
“I’m sure of it. This isn’t a modern casino with all the security measures in place.”
“Smiling is evil.”
“You’ll soon love this smile, miss.”
“That would be very true.”
Anyway, Cordelia felt somewhat relieved to see her confident appearance.
“Anyway, should we go and earn some money now?”
“Yes, Dad. I only trust you.”
“Daddy will make our princess rich today.”
“The kids are excited.”
“Let’s stop here.”
“okay.”
The two people who had just stopped at an appropriate place looked at each other, took a deep breath, and then left the dorm together.
And two hours later.
“Blackjack.”
The dealer who had been dealing with Yuder’s dealer’s expression turned pale, and Yuder looked back at the coins piled up in front of him with a soft smile.
‘It’s almost time to come.’
After observing for an hour and following for an hour, it was time for the store to start applying the brakes.
‘You’re coming, after all.’
A large man wearing a fancy suit was approaching with brisk strides.
I will always say things like, “Just follow along and get out,” wrapped up in polite language.
‘Hey, should I back off now?’
If you just exchange the coins you have now, it would be worth about 1.5 times the price of Red Wind.
‘Okay, let’s stop here.’
Yuder, who had made up his mind, turned his head towards the giant and smiled brightly.
But the giant, without even looking at Yuder’s smile, continued walking, and stopped in a place Yuder never expected.
‘what?’
Yuder blinked without realizing it, got up from his seat, and looked at the place where the giant had stopped.
It was a place with a roulette wheel, and now that I look at it, it seems like almost half of the casino’s customers were there, which is a bit of an exaggeration.
“I’d like to exchange some money. This is a tip.”
After handing the dealer a coin, Yuder stood up and walked towards the roulette.
And that was the moment.
“Whoa!”
“Ohhhhh!”
“You got it right again!”
“This is awesome!”
There was a thunderous roar of admiration. It was such an enthusiastic response that it made me wonder why I had never heard it before.
And at the center of all this excitement is a stunningly beautiful girl in a red dress with long brown hair.
“Cordelia?”
Uther said his real name without realizing it, and Cordelia, who was squealing in delight, turned to Uther with a bright face and hugged him tightly.
“I got it again! This is awesome!”
What could it be? What on earth did you get?
And what is this flow?
After pushing Cordelia aside, Uder looked at the roulette wheel, and soon he could see a mountain of coins piled up in front of Cordelia. At first glance, it looked like it was twice as much as Uder had won – no, three times as much.
“Huh… little brother?”
Because according to their real identities, the two were siblings.
Cordelia, who came to her senses at Uther’s words, straightened her shoulders and said.
“Oppa, oppa. I’m totally awesome, awesome.”
Judging by the flow, even Uther could tell that Cordelia had hit the jackpot at roulette.
But how?
“Wow, you are truly an amazing lady. You earned that much just by matching red and black, not just numbers.”
A man watching right next to him spoke as if it was his own story, and other onlookers nearby added their comments one by one.
“I’ve only seen it 10 times in a row.”
“I saw it 12 times in a row?”
“That’s exactly 17 in a row!”
“17 in a row?!”
The last one was Uther.
Cordelia was completely satisfied with the look on his face, completely shocked and truly dumbfounded.
“That’s right! 17 in a row!”
Guess whether the square the roulette stops on is red or black.
The probability is 1/2.
So the dividend was the lowest at 1x, but if it was 17 consecutive times, it would be a different story.
‘If the dividend is 1x, it is effectively doubled, so 2 to the power of 17······.’
131,072 times.
Even if it started with the cheapest coin, a single copper coin, it would have to multiply by 130,000 to reach a terrifying amount, so it was natural that a mountain of coins would pile up in front of Cordelia.
But if you think about it the other way around, the probability of winning 17 games in a row is also 1 in 2 to the power of 17.
That is, 1 in 130,000.
“Uh, how?”
Since my awakening in my past life in the Pleiades – no, in my entire life, this life or my past life, I have never been so surprised as I am now.
Cordelia smiled brightly again at Uther’s face, which seemed to have witnessed the mystery of the universe, and spoke in a triumphant tone.
“By feeling.”
“By feeling?”
“By feeling.”
I have a feeling it’ll be red this time.
This time black.
This time, black.
I think it’s red this time?
“Is it a real beast······.”
“Can you hear everything?”
But Cordelia didn’t hit Yuder’s back, perhaps because she was in a good mood. She didn’t even ask.
“Ah, anyway! Let’s end it here.”
“Why? The more money you have, the better.”
“Let’s finish it. Now is the perfect time.”
Cordelia pouted her lips at Uther’s remark, and the onlookers around her began to boo.
But Uder didn’t care.
“Let’s stop here.”
As Uther spoke strongly, Cordelia looked thoughtful for a moment and then nodded.
“Okay, let’s go.”
“iced coffee!”
“Miss, do you want to play one more round?”
“Just one more round!”
Onlookers around shouted loudly, and a large man who appeared to be a casino employee also tried to make some kind of move.
Now that I look at it, it seems like they weren’t trying to stop the game, but to somehow keep it going.
‘Because I’ll lose it someday.’
Anyone would think that 17 consecutive wins was a miracle.
“I’m sorry, I’m strict. Hehe.”
Cordelia responded to the onlookers with a cute smile, then exchanged the coins and left the casino with Uther.
Although Yuder was very nervous that they might not be able to exchange their money or prevent them from leaving, the amount of money they had won was not enough to break the casino, so they ended up receiving a strong request to come back tomorrow and an invitation to the auction house.
‘Anyway, this is what you’re saying: spend some money.’
Because the slave auction house, the general auction house, and even this casino all belonged to the Viscount Bern, who was called the King of Langewurst.
‘Anyway, it’s not bad. Since I have an invitation to the auction house, participating in the auction will be natural.’
As Uther let his worries go and slumped his shoulders, Cordelia looked up at the sky with a cheerful face and said.
“It’s a beautiful night.”
It can’t be helped.
Even by the standards of two people from 12 families, they earned a huge amount of money in just two hours.
“Wow, we’re rich now. The casino was a fun place. It was a place full of dreams and hopes.”
“Hey, it’s funny that I’m saying this now, but casinos are all about gambling, right? You should just go there with the intention of spending money and having fun. If you go there with the intention of making money, it’s usually a place where you’ll end up ruined.”
“Hey, it was a nice place, why.”
“No gambling, no gambling. Gamblers are out. Got it? It’s a broken engagement! A broken engagement!”
The two people’s positions were completely opposite to before and after going to the casino.
And Cordelia reacted similarly to Uther two hours ago.
“Hey, you don’t trust me, big sister?”
“please.”
“Okay, okay. Anyway, I’m excited. The Red Wind is mine now.”
Cordelia, who used to grumble that buying things with money was not a good idea, had a complete change of heart.
Uther said, grabbing Cordelia’s wrist tightly again.
“I’m telling you this out of concern, but you have to think that today was a truly miraculously lucky day. Okay? Okay?”
“Caesar, Cesar, Cordelia, do it again… Okay, okay. I’ll stop here. I know that. Days like this don’t come often.”
“Haa… Just don’t do anything that will get you removed from the family register.”
“Yes, Dad.”
Cordelia, who answered nicely, took the lead, and Uther followed closely behind her, being careful of any possible robbers.
Cordelia smiled bashfully at the sight of Uther, as if she was worried, and then said while tying her long hair into a ponytail.
“By the way, Yuder, when are you going to the auction house?”
“It opens tomorrow, so you won’t have to wait long.”
“Aren’t there any good deals besides the Red Wind? We’re rich now.”
In the original, neither Eugene nor Cordelia had a chance to properly participate in the auction house.
Cordelia was busy chasing the Devil’s Hand throughout the early part of the scenario, and when Uther’s scenario began in earnest, the entire North was in chaos due to the barbarian invasion.
‘Not to mention the Red Wind that was caught in the auction house.’
Moreover, it was an auction house one month before the current auction house’s Red Wind scenario began.
In short, it meant an unknown place for both Uther and Cordelia.
“I suddenly feel excited.”
“Right? Aren’t you excited about what’s going to happen? It’s like going to a new town and visiting a weapons store.”
What could there be?
Could I possibly get a jackpot item?
“I’m looking forward to tomorrow. I’ll meet the Red Wind and go to the auction house.”
“I know.”
Isn’t there something you really need?
And the next evening.
“And then it actually happened.”
“You’re lucky.”
Cordelia in front, and Uther in back.
An unexpected encounter awaited the two.
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