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Accompany me for the night

“Well, before we start playing the game, how about we make some adjustments? Let me see, since you raised the topic of working for you, I find that one gold coin is lacking. How about you add the terms that this woman will also accompany me for the night?”

Hearing that, Bobby glanced at Celine and me back and forth before laughing.

“Hahaha. I couldn’t believe that you still think about that kind of thing in this kind of situation. However, that wasn’t up for me to decide. Celine, what do you say?”

“Hmph. As if he could win.”

“Then, you agree?”

“Do as you wish.”

After hearing that, I can also see the notification windows changed. My reward for winning has been adjusted.

「If you guessed correctly, you would earn one gold coin, and Celine will accompany you for a night.」

Seeing that, I now understand that the game reward and punishment are entirely free to decide by the participants if both sides agree. Also, since I am only saying it casually, the terms are pretty loose. Accompanying me for a night can be vastly described. She can only accompany me for a talk or just sleeping. Of course, I could make it specific such as having s*x or getting a bl*wjob. However, my real goal wasn’t all of that but to test the system’s flexibility. Not to mention that I haven’t checked the brothel in this world.

“Alright then, do you have anything else to ask? If not, let’s start the game.”

“I’m ready.”

“Okay, the question is still the same, where is the metal ball, in my right hand, or in my left hand.”

I looked at Bobby’s eye without looking at his arm. For this kind of game, it seemed to be simple, and the chance is 50/50. However, this 50% chance might not be as great as it looks. Even though the chance to win is big, the chance to lose is even bigger. Not to mention, I didn’t know whether cheating is really not allowed or not. For a person like Bobby, I didn’t believe if he didn’t have one or two sleights of hand tricks.

“System, is there a way to cheat inside the game?”

Of course, I didn’t ask it out loud. I learned as I walked back home that I could just ask the system quietly from inside my mind. I got my reply not long after, and it also confirmed my suspicion.

「Cheating is not allowed if you are caught by the other party. If the other party didn’t notice that you were cheating, it wasn’t your fault, and it was allowed.」

Hearing the system answer, now I need to think twice as hard to win this game. After all, my future might be depending on this answer.

Naturally, I saw Bobby put the metal ball in his right hand. However, was that really the truth? He could also be testing me with this game. To see whether I answered based on what I see or not. However, it could also mean many things. He might be testing whether I am someone simple or calculating, whether I trusted him or not.

If I answered that the metal ball was in his right hand right away, it would mean that I trusted him as he is showing the process to me. However, he might trick me and use some trick to make me say the wrong answer.

I looked at Bobby and the system notification once again. The game he invited me to was guessing the ball game. It didn’t specify what kind of ball, and of course, the answer won’t be limited to his hands either. What if the answer is in his pockets or somewhere else? Since I don’t know how much the system can be trusted and how loose the rules are, I need to figure it out slowly. I raised my hands, signaling that I wanted to ask a question, and Bobby nodded at me.

“What is it?”

“I want to ask, the game we’re playing is guess the metal ball game, right? That’s the same ball that you showed me earlier.”

This question is to confirm whether the ball that I need to guess is made up of metal and it was the metal ball that he showed me earlier. If the ball wasn’t made up of metal, there are countless places that he could hide it. Also, I need to make sure whether it was the ball that he showed me earlier. If it wasn’t a ball that he hasn’t shown me, there’s no way I would be able to guess where it was.

Bobby grinned and answered me joyfully. “Of course, it was the metal ball that I showed you earlier.”

“Oh, then can I know whether it was really between your right and left hand?”

This is the last deciding factor before I make my answer. If the metal ball that he means wasn’t between his hand, there’s no point in playing this unfair game. It is also an opportunity for me to try and see whether I could cancel the game when I see that the terms of the game were unfair to me.

Hearing my question, Bobby laughed once more, and this time it was even louder than before.

“Hahaha. I can’t believe that you’re a newcomer. Now I didn’t doubt that you’ve met with the old fraudster, Dominic. After losing some coins to him, it was natural for you to be so guarded. However, I am different than him. What I showed you is done without any tricks. I could play some sleight of hands but trust me, I didn’t do it this time.”

Although I only met with the old man Dominic and Sylvia saved me before I could get into a game with him, it seemed that I had to be wary of him in the future. Based on what Bobby said, he is full of tricks and could make 11 lies out of 10 things he said.

“If you say so. The metal ball is in your right hand.”