Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

26 – Retreat (2)

“It’s nothing.”

A gambling hall full of luxury and pleasure.

Despair was spreading in the place where joy and happiness intersect.

“Ah… ….”

Some students stare dejectedly at the woman sweeping the table full of chips with open arms.

They, who had been on a winning streak at this table until just a moment ago, grabbed their heads when they lost the chips they had earned in an instant.

There.

“I was a beginner who didn’t even know the rules until a while ago… ….”

What heightened their sense of despair was the fact that the short-haired black woman sitting across from her was a beginner who was new to the game even before the first game.

For those who have been playing and researching this game for quite a long time, the shock of losing to the beginner was more than the sense of collapse from losing money.

“Huh.”

Ting.

The woman flicked one of the chips she had earned with her thumb.

She spun around and caught her floating chip with one hand.

She then raised her chin from her seat and looked down at her losers.

“Is this the rule you are talking about?”

She slowly removed the fingers of her hand that held her chip one by one.

It must have been a chip that he threw and caught, but what he held in his palm was not a chip, but a card used in the game.

“If you believe that you can fool my eyes with this level of dexterity, then you are just stupid.”

Suck.

When she opened and closed her hand again, her cards turned into chips.

Students who watched it said, “Oh,” At the sight that seemed to be magic rather than hand play. I was amazed with the sound.

“Get out of here. It’s unpleasant.”

Ting!

The chips flicked with my fingers flew like bullets and hit the brows of those who were cheating in the game.

No, it wasn’t a metaphor, it was really like a bullet.

A little bit of plastic chip, but it was strong enough to put pressure on my forehead and get stuck there.

“As expected, Princess Veronica… ….”

“To cheat in front of the dragon. Are they mindless?”

The woman who kicked out the swindler was Veronica Brehart.

It was foolish to play with her hands in front of her, the princess of her empire.

Because the dragon’s eyes, which were torn vertically, had good eyesight to the point of not missing a single ant crawling on the ground while flying in the sky.

“Tsk, I came out to have fun, but I just lost my mood.”

Veronica tinkered with her winning chips at her cheaters, waiting for her empty spot to be filled.

However, those who tried to confront her who even robbed her pockets of her novice but experienced gambler did not come out easily.

With her chin resting on her vacant seat, Veronica is fiddling with her chips.

Jjallang, jjallang.

A man squeezes through a crowd of onlookers who have no intention of participating, only to watch.

Jjallang, jjallang.

As if showing off the chips he had just won in a gamble, he threw his heavy bag into the air and appeared again and again.

A woman standing next to the sharp-looking man who was looking around pointed to her empty seat, slightly pulling on his sleeve.

“Boss, it’s getting late, so how about we do this last and go home?”

“How many times does your last one repeat? ….”

“This is really the last time.”

His face was familiar to all students.

Apart from those with special status like princesses and saints at the academy, she might be one of the most recognizable people in the top five.

However, the problem is that the famous direction is negative.

“Huh, that’s hard.”

He looked tired, as if he had been a porter for a woman shopping all day.

When I moved my neck, I wondered if it was trying to create a sense of incongruity.

“By the way, is it okay if I just keep watching? If you just watch me play, you won’t be able to enjoy it properly.”

“I enjoy just watching the young boy pick.”

“Is that so?”

Adele Heights.

The man who heard the name of the princess, Veronica, was also on the verge of sitting in her empty seat.

“… ….”

He flinched at the sight of Veronica, who was sitting right across from her.

Because Veronica, one of the magic academy’s strongest swordsman heroines, whom he was so reluctant to meet, was there.

“…… Suddenly tired just go back.”

Adele tried to leave with the thought of not making contact.

“Okay. If that’s the case with you, then let’s go back.”

When Charlotte, who was standing next to her, said that in a somewhat melancholy voice, she let out a deep sigh and sat down in the awkward posture she was about to get up.

* * *

“… ….”

Veronica scanned the man across from her with her narrowed eyes.

Her hands are on the table.

There is no feeling of exchanging glances with the onlookers around.

There is nothing that can be caught by the extremely sensitive hearing that can even hear the sound of breathing.

In other words, there was nothing to catch him as evidence that he was doing something like a swindler.

‘Damn it… ….’

Veronica’s expression was terribly crumpled.

The strength in her hand holding her card made it look as if the card would tear at any moment.

‘If it’s not a trick, wouldn’t this make sense?’

10 Losses in a row.

It’s literally 10 consecutive losses.

Are the damn odds broken?

In common sense, does it make sense to play this many losing hands?

The chips piled up like a mountain are showing the bottom before I know it.

Instead, Adele’s table is right across from the place where that much mountain has piled up.

As her princess, her money was no concern for her, but that mountain of chips, which gave her a visual of how many of her own defeats had been, irritated her eyes.

But it’s okay.

This hand was quite high.

No, to the point of calling it almost impossible to lose.

It is said that bad luck could happen if a hand of this size lands, so it was a highly unlikely hand.

“… ….”

Veronica quietly studied Adele’s expression over her card.

“Um.”

He was still expressionless.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a f*cking machine, it’s not a human, it’s emotionless, it doesn’t matter what card it’s holding, its expression is always the same.

‘But will it be the same after losing?’

Veronica declared, pushing all her chips in.

“All in.”

Action to openly show off the strength of one’s hand.

If you’ve never taken it off before, you probably won’t take it off again.

Even if that guy rolled his tail and ran away, I think it would be exhilarating.

Either way, the moment Veronica twists her lips, saying it’s her victory.

“Good.”

He responded calmly.

His self-confidence in his victory made Veronica flustered for a moment, but even so, it was an obvious fact that his hand was closer to victory.

Wishing that calm face would harden like a stone statue, Veronica threw a card.

Veronica’s hand is a straight flush starting with 3.

It was hard to come out at this level, and it was a high hand, to the point where it was taken for granted to lose all the property.

“What…… ?”

Adele’s hand was enough to make Veronica’s confident expression harden.

She looked at her cards again and again in disbelief with her mouth slightly open and blank eyes, just like the expression she had imagined of the defeated Adele.

“…… Does this make sense?”

Adele’s hand is a royal straight flush.

Definitely the highest hand in this card game.

What does that card mean?

“A royal straight flush.”

Again her defeat.

“I deserved to be able to confidently go all-in.”

Adele’s expression, which had been expressionless like a stone statue throughout the game, completely changed.

She seems to be trying to hide it as much as possible, but to Veronica who has her dragon face, that slightly lifted corner of her mouth was a nasty expression that made her want to punch it.

Contrary to Veronica’s hopes that she would put bewilderment on his expressionless face, she gave him a drunken expression of her perfect victory.

“f*ck… ….”

Veronica’s shoulders trembled at her unbearable humiliation.

“f*ck!”

In her rage, Veronica slams her fist down on her table. The table split in half with a sound.

At that roar, all the gazes of the casino gathered in one place, and a heavy silence fell.

Her table shattered and the dust that had accumulated in it rose up, and by the time the dust had settled, Veronica, breathing heavily, pointed at Adele.

“What kind of trick are you using!”

Adele, who swung her hand and brushed the dust off her face, asked calmly as she sat down.

“Have you ever seen a cheater say he cheated?”

A way of answering a question with a question that inadvertently raises a fist.

However, the reason why Veronica couldn’t swear was because she had a strong heart, but her brilliant eyes showed no sign of cheating.

“The princess will trust your eyes more than my words. If it looked like I was cheating in her eyes…… Yes, it must have been a trick.”

Damn it.

It was a curse word.

If your eyes are clear, you will know my innocence, so the answer was no different than telling me not to criticize you.

If you haven’t seen any signs of cheating, but in a defeated rage, drive him to be a cheater, your own eyes will be the eyes that saw the truth, and you will become a liar, so that proud Veronica can’t argue anymore. It was a mouth-watering word.

“If you have nothing more to say, I will go back.”

Ahead of Veronica, who kept her mouth shut like her mute, Adele swept her chips from between her broken tables and swung around.

She stood there and watched for a long time until Veronica became a dot as Charlotte, who had come with her, walked away.

Then, as if imprinting it in her head, she chewed on Adele’s face and repeated it to herself.

I will not forget.

I will never forget today’s humiliation.

Even though it’s only a game, I won’t forget the face of that guy who gave me defeat.

* * *

“Whoa, I thought I was caught.”

I was scolded trying to soothe my beating heart, thinking that I might have been caught by that sharp eye.

To begin with, as Veronica expected, Adele cheated.

Of course, not the obvious tricks like the ones caught earlier, but tricks using attributes that are a little more difficult to catch.

I didn’t use it to win money.

Because I already have enough money to spend, no matter how much I spend.

This time, given the opportunity, it was just a test to see if anyone would notice his fairy tales.

The conclusion drawn in this way is that other students cannot even doubt it, but at the level of Veronica, who has a sixth sense beyond the five senses, it is at the level of doubt.

‘Enough.’

Veronica has an out-of-the-ordinary sense, so it’s safe to say that most people don’t even feel the signs of fairy tales.

It was a meaningful test to feel that the power of assimilation had increased with a ring carved from Raviel’s magical power amplifying device obtained from the snowy mountain.