Collecting The Male Leads' First Nights - Chapter 87
Translator: Miki
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Chapter 87
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[Wow! You obtained the achievement 〈First Confession of Love ♥〉!]
[But it doesn’t seem to have any effect…]
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A message appeared. She was disappointed for a moment when she read that it didn’t have any effect. On the other hand, she swallowed a smile that was about to come out.
‘It has no effect… Still, it wouldn’t be just empty words since our friendship is currently at 60 points… Will I succeed in targeting him soon? I feel good. Hehe.’
Even though it was a meaningless confession as the collector of trash she was, she liked it a lot inwardly. However, she kept expressionless and looked at him, trying not to show it. Then, he wrapped his hands around her strangely and looked down at her with puppy eyes. He couldn’t look more pitiful, with his lowered abundant, golden eyelashes and his trembling eyes.
“Sylvia, I’ll just trust you.”
“Of course. Just trust me.”
Sylvia raised her hand and patted his shoulder with a confident expression, then went into the staff dressing room. She tied her hair in a ponytail and wore a bow tie and vest.
She talked confidently in front of Luca, but she was actually nervous. If she failed, she would get -100 points in Luca’s friendship. This was a game that could be saved, but she couldn’t load a save unless she died.
‘If I fail, I can ask Luca to spit in my face and get a dead ending… Even so, dying on purpose is a bit… isn’t it?’
She felt uneasy about rushing a dead ending on purpose, but above all, it would hurt her heart to see her relationship with Luca change into hostility.
When Sylvia came out of the dressing room with a resolute expression, Luca, who was waiting in front of her, explained the rules of the game.
Shell game. In the dictionary, it meant gambling to win money by deceiving others, but in this game, it referred to a simple cup-spinning game. After putting the marble in one of the three cups, the dealer shuffles the cups around frantically and then stops. It was a game to guess correctly which of the three cups contained the marble.
Sylvia’s face lit up after hearing the explanation. It would be perfect if she used the skill 〈Hands Faster than Eyes〉.
‘The skill description already says it’s good to use when gambling or pickpocketing, so it’s perfect.’
Sylvia nodded upon hearing the explanation, but there was a sudden commotion at the table. It was because the gambler in question, Luca’s nuisance, spoke with a confident expression.
“Hahaha! Are there only sloths here? I don’t want someone like this. Bring me the real thing, the real thing!”
“Sir, there are other guests here, so please be a little quiet…”
“Huh? Don’t touch me. I will cut your hand. You have to bring in a dealer so fast that I can’t see with my own eyes. Are there none? There must be such a professional in a place like this! I guess I’ll take all the money from this house, right? Hahaha!”
The gambler trembled with arrogance, as if firmly drunk by the sweet victory he had obtained in succession. Seeing this, Luca sighed deeply and pressed his forehead. He seemed troubled by the fact that no matter how many big men were standing by, he couldn’t drive out the guest who kept winning money without any justification.
Sylvia’s heart ached at the sight of Luca sighing, which was something she rarely saw.
“I’ll end this at once.”
After whispering quietly to Luca, she walked over to the table. After a baton touch with the cold-sweating dealer, she politely greeted the triumphant gambler. Then, she pretended to tidy up her clothes and scanned the gambler at a glance.
He wore comfortable clothes as it was a seaside festival, but the fabric of the clothes was luxurious, and the gold bracelets and gold necklaces hanging from his body sparkled. In addition, it became clear that he was an aristocrat when she quietly listened to the words of his companion, who was standing beside him restlessly.
“Master, I think you should go now.”
“Oh-oh. Just a little more.”
“The Baroness must be waiting…”
‘A baron? Then he is a noble. The person next to him looks like a servant… I’m glad that he doesn’t look particularly strong, even though he seems to have quite a bit of money. I don’t think there’s any risk of my skills being caught.’
Sylvia let out a sigh of relief inwardly before clearing the table. There was a break of about five minutes as the dealer was replaced at the end of one round, so she was able to prepare her mind well.
The gambler, whom she inferred to be a baron, was waiting for the game to be resumed without leaving the table.
‘I don’t think he’s a bad person, but… in order to do the quest, I have to crush this person. Besides, Luca said that he loved me… If I teach this person a lesson, he will live a new life without showing up again at a gambling table. It’s not a bad thing in many ways.’
After taking a moment to recall Luca’s confession of love with a smiling face, Sylvia looked down at the table and hardened her expression again.
At the end of the break, she heard the dealer shuffle cards at the next table. Sylvia greeted the gamblers at the table once with a resolute expression.
“Then, let’s start the game.”
When she announced the start of the game, the baron looked her up and down in confusion.
“What is this? Are you the dealer? I asked to bring someone with fast hands instead of this novice!”
“… Do you want something fast?”
Sylvia asked politely with a calm face. He flinched for a moment, then raised his chin and shouted,
“That’s right. Someone fast. Gambling is supposed to be a lot of fun… Maybe it’s because it’s a rural area, but there are only novice dealers.”
Sylvia snorted at his words and placed both hands on the table with a thud.
“I’m the quick-hand dealer you were looking for, Sir.”
“What? This young lady knows how to bluff. If I win, don’t run away crying!”
“It looks like you’re confident? With that said, I will make a condition. A game with five cups and one marble. And if you can’t get it right, one of your hands gets cut off. What do you think?”
“Huh?”
As Sylvia rolled up her sleeves and raised her hand, everyone in the house fell silent in an instant. The baron also frowned as if to gauge her inner thoughts. Sylvia put a calm expression on her face as she looked at the quiet crowd.
‘Gambling is all about momentum. I know it well because I saw it in a movie… Probably.’
Of course, the momentum is in bluffing. But if it was followed by skill, it wouldn’t be bluffing, but a real thing.
The basis of this game was to spin three cups. So, five cups might seem unfavorable to a gambler at first glance, but that was not the case. It was a very favorable condition for the gambler who needed to see where the marble was going with his eyes, as ordinary dealers found it difficult to turn five cups quickly. On the other hand, ‘cutting off one of his hands’ was a huge price.
Sylvia showed that she was confident in her speed when she presented five cups, and that her confidence was grounded when she put one hand at stake.
‘Now, how do you want to come out?’
As she had expected, the gambler seemed to have complicated thoughts, with his face glowing for a while before turning bluish again. It was he who read the dealer’s hand movements in succession, so he must have excellent dynamic visual acuity and be quite smart. He seemed to be sweating after grasping the authenticity of Sylvia’s words.
He nervously chewed his lips and examined those who looked at him expectantly. And soon spread his chest proudly.
“Alright! Five cups makes it even easier, right? I can’t believe I’m betting my hand. You know that if you lose, you’ll lose your hand too, right?”
“I am aware of this.”
“Then let’s do it. Don’t run away crying later!”
Originally, the more serious the game got, the crazier the endorphins turned. His mind seemed complicated for a moment, but he soon seemed to be immersed in this interesting situation.
As she winked at Luca, he, who was leaning against the wall with his mouth open wide, belatedly came to his senses and beckoned to the big guys. Seeing the look on Luca’s face, she was worried for some reason. The big guys, who had disappeared for a while, soon stood at the corner of the table with an uneasy atmosphere.
Seeing the size of the hammer, the gamblers at the table gulped.
“Someone’s going to die here today…”
“That cute brown-haired girl was sociable and good at running errands. It’s a shame…”
They were sure that Sylvia would be the loser in this game. Apparently, they seemed to think that it was obvious that she was bluffing because she had only been running errands and the baron had been winning the game round after round.
Ding—
A moment later, in the silence, a bell rang to announce the start of the game.
Everyone in the house stopped gambling and focused their attention on the table where hands were at stake. Revealing the five cups on the table once, she confirmed that there was a marble in the middle cup and looked down coldly at the concentrated gamblers.
“Phew…”
She took a deep breath, grabbed the cups, and shouted inwardly,
‘Use 〈Hands Faster than Eyes〉!’
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[The skill 〈Hands Faster than Eyes〉 is applied. You will have 5 minutes of speed that an ordinary person’s eyes can’t keep up with.]
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As the message appeared, everyone’s movements began to look like slow motion in Sylvia’s eyes. She also seemed to hear their breathing sounds at about 0.2x speed.
Sylvia began to mix the five cups with a calm expression. The average dealer makes on average 100 shuffles per minute when playing a shell game. However, Sylvia went on to make 3000 shuffles in just a little over 30 seconds. She also restrained herself because if she shuffled the cups too quickly, they might suspect that she was an alien.
Whoosh- whoosh- whoosh.
Only the sound of Sylvia’s hands cutting through the wind rang through the house. And the faces of the crowd, who glanced at her while shuffling, were astonished and in awe. That was what they looked like.
‘I’m a little bored from shuffling.’
She got bored as she moved her hands back and forth gently, so she threw a cup in the air and started juggling. There was no juggling in a normal shell game because the marble could slip out of the cup, but there was no rule not to do it, so she just did it.
And Sylvia was confident that the cup with the marble would not be found, so she turned her wrist like crazy and did 5000 circles of juggling in the air.
One of the spectators, who was watching her eccentricity with a reluctant expression, spoke to himself.
“… Isn’t that a circus instead of a shell game?”
“Shh…”
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Mak_lp
Thank you translator❤
kayeoffahz
This novel is so funny