Collecting The Male Leads' First Nights - Chapter 88
Translator: Miki
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Chapter 88
Swoosh- tak, tak.
After the dizzying juggling show, she dribbled the five cups between her legs 700 times. Meanwhile, Sylvia glanced at the people, who couldn’t take their eyes off her with their mouths open. Someone even poured a cup of juice over their chin.
‘I’m bored!’
She now put the five cups into the basket that had been hung on the wall three hundred times in a dunk before receiving them back. She hit a spike as she jumped, and at the same time, moved to the other side and blocked it about a hundred times, opening a new horizon for the shell game.
When her eccentricity was coming to an end, the bell that announced that one minute had passed rang.
Ding!
As soon as the bell rang, the five cups lined up on the table. She inwardly shouted, ‘Skill usage over,’ with an arrogant look on her face, then raised her chin and lowered her eyes to look down at the baron. Then, she raised the corner of one side of her mouth to a grin.
“What do you think? Try to guess which of the cups contains the marble.”
“…”
“Excuse me, Sir?”
When Sylvia called the sweating baron back, his legs shook anxiously, and he let out a deep sigh. Then, he shook his head and stepped back.
“…Ah, ahhh!! It’s a monster! I said to bring a human, who told you to bring a monster!”
His face turned pale, and he circled backward, tripping over the chair. He had lost the will to choose which cup had the marble because of Sylvia’s crazy hand movements. It was as she had intended.
‘It was troublesome because there was a chance that he might get lucky and get it right if he tried to choose a cup, so I’m glad I scared him.’
The people in the house looked dumbfounded, wondering what they had just seen. They were so surprised that they even had hiccups.
As the baron was about to crawl away, the big guys crossed their arms with him and brought him back to Sylvia. One of them fixed the hammer and smiled wickedly at her.
“Dealer, should I smash his hand?”
“Hm…”
‘I didn’t intend to cut his hand from the beginning, but should I make fun of him for a bit?’
Sylvia walked forward with a relaxed attitude and sat down at the table. As she tilted her head, pretending to hesitate with her index finger in her mouth, the baron’s face turned white, and he soon started begging with a desperate face.
“No, right? You’re not cutting my hand off, right? Just let me go this time…!”
“But can I break my promise in front of everyone here? When it comes to gambling, it’s very important to keep one’s trust.”
Sylvia grinned, and the baron struggled with his body being held by the big guys. Suddenly, he spoke politely.
“I apologize. I apologize for saying this was like the countryside. I didn’t know there was such a great person…!”
Sylvia pretended to be surprised by the baron’s polite words and waved her hand.
“There’s no need to apologize. I’ll cut off your hand as promised.”
“… Money! I’ll give you all the money I won here. Please let me go!”
Sylvia looked at Luca, who was in the corner, dazed, and he nodded hurriedly. Judging by his uncharacteristic stupid expression, Luca seemed to be quite shocked by her possessed hand movements.
Sylvia didn’t actually intend to commit the cruel act of cutting his hand off, so she decided to stop joking. She, who was sitting at the table, stood up and walked to the front of the gambler who was being held by the big guys. Then, she wiped her hands on her pants and held them out to him.
“Alright. Then, if you give me all the money back, I’ll save your wrist.”
“Oh my! Thank you!”
As she reached out her hand, the big guys released the gambler. Sweating, he clasped Sylvia’s hand and thanked her again.
‘Haha, this is fun.’
For some reason, Sylvia was itching to say something cool in this situation. In the end, she couldn’t hold it in.
“Just remember this one thing. There are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies in gambling.”
“What?”
Hearing Sylvia’s words, the gambler tilted his head.
‘It sounded cool when I heard it in the movie…’
Sylvia gulped and looked at him, then roughly answered,
“J-just remember that.”
“Oh my, I understand!”
The baron, who had gone to the exchange counter and returned all the chips he had acquired, staggered away from the house with the help of a servant. While she was looking at his back, Luca, who had come to his senses, approached her applauding, with a thrilled look on his face.
Looking around, everyone was looking at her in awe. Some of the gamblers avoided her gaze, fearing that they would be in the same position as the baron.
“Bravo! Perfect. As expected, my eyes weren’t wrong. You really are a perfect woman.”
“Well… It was fortunate that things turned out the way I thought they would.”
As Luca raised his thumb, a message appeared in front of her eyes.
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[Quest completed successfully! Received Luca’s Friendship +20 and 3,000 Gold as a reward.]
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Then, another message appeared.
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[Sylvia scolded the gambler who had come to play from the capital. Public evaluation changed from 〈Righteous Citizen 1〉 to 〈Celebrity of Our Proud Village〉.]
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Oh? What was that?
She hastily opened the status window and looked at the public evaluation explanation.
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[〈Celebrity of Our Proud Village〉
– Sylvia is now the pride of the village. With Sylvia, the village’s tourism revenue rises.
– Always get a 10% discount when you go to a store.
– Get a 10% chance of getting noticed after becoming famous in the village.]
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‘Wow, I can’t believe I always get 10% off at the store. It’s amazing!’
She had no interest in the fact that tourism revenue would go up or that she would now get the attention of the villagers, but the 10% discount in shops was a huge reward. Did this also apply to the secret shop? Sylvia smiled brightly as Luca squeezed her shoulders. His hands trembled with excitement.
“Sylvia, I was so worried when you brought up cutting your hand off. So I was thinking of turning the table upside down in case it was needed. Aah… I knew it was an unfounded worry. Once again, you really are… a great woman…”
Luca looked at her with languid eyes, then grabbed her ponytail and kissed her.
She was looking at Luca with eyes that saw something the big guys next to them couldn’t see. His words didn’t seem to be a lie, although when she glanced at him earlier, his face was filled with worry, something she had never seen.
‘Was he really worried about me? Come to think of it, our friendship had already risen to 60 points. It must have become 80 after rising 20 points just now. I’ll be able to target him sooner or later.’
The thrilled Luca kissed her hair and whispered secretly to go somewhere people couldn’t see them. Sylvia nodded, and he wrapped his shoulders around her and took her to the office inside the gambling house. At first glance, his white face turned red. Did he fall madly in love with her because she won back all the money the gambler took?
He opened the door and let her into the office first, then followed her inside.
There was no one but Sylvia and Luca in the neatly organized office. The fact that they were alone in this enclosed space made the corners of her mouth rise without her realizing it.
‘Is he going to give it to me? There’s no one here, so it’s obviously sex. I mean, what else would he want to do in an enclosed space? I might die from skinship! If I think of the quest description, it said the skill might become complete if our friendship reaches 100, so I have to take care of myself until then…’
Recalling the pain of her hand burning for a moment, she quickly slapped her cheek and calmed down. And she saved the game just in case.
‘I don’t know when I’ll die when I’m with him, so I should always be careful.’
As she was sitting on the red velvet sofa in the office, Luca sat right next to her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer to him. The smell of musk mixed with the smell of cigarettes from the house was wrapped around his body. His golden eyes, enveloped with bright red eyelashes, were even more beautiful from the side, making her dazed.
“Sylvia… I came to a place where we could be alone because I have something to talk about…”
“Talk… Talk about what?”
‘Judging by the atmosphere, I think he will at least kiss me. But I could still die, so I’m not that into it.’
Sylvia was already putting the cart before the horse when the person she was going to do it with didn’t even think about it, so she turned around and made eye contact with him.
“I realized it when I saw you defeat the gambler in such a cool way earlier. You really are someone I need.”
“Ah…”
Sylvia’s heart beat wildly at those words, which were like a love confession. If it wasn’t for the poison, it would be the right time to roll around with Luca… It was a pity.
Unaware of Sylvia’s cunning thoughts, Luca gently wrapped his hands around hers and gazed at her with melancholic eyes.
“That’s why…”
“Yes, yes…”
What was he going to say? Sylvia looked at him expectantly. He blushed even more, as if embarrassed.
“… Will you stay with me forever?”
“What? Asking me to stay with you forever…”
‘Oh my, oh my. Isn’t this too fast? I can’t believe he asked that. I can’t get married, I have something to do first…’
Sylvia was taken aback by Luca’s sudden confession. It had to start with sex, but since he suddenly talked about marriage, she didn’t know how to react.
Luca asked her to wait a moment, then began to rummage through the dresser in the corner of the office. Then, he took out a thick file sheet and carefully put it down on the table.
Sylvia tried to fake a smile and gazed at the paperwork as if it was nothing. And soon, the corners of her mouth, which had been creeping up, froze. It was because the title of the document was strange.
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Mak_lp
Thank you so much for the chapter!❤
ShiroxSora
This novel is all over the place but I’m loving it!!
Thank you for the translations!! It’s so fluent and easy to read and really suits the FL so well🎉💕💕