Gamble Fish 31

Chapter 31

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Mizuhara: Wow!! Amazing!!
Mizuhara: There are more presents from girls on your desk today!!
Title: Fight 31 Three-Game Dice Battle

Mizuhara: It must be nice to be so popular, Tomu!!
Mizuhara: Your popularity has gone way up since you won the billiards match.

Mizuhara: Hey, hey. Can I have one of them?
Mizuhara: I mean, you have so many...
Tomu: Sure.

Mizuhara: Yay!! Heh heh heh. Then I'll take the biggest one.
Mizuhara: I wonder what's in it.
Abidani: Wait.

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Abidani: That present is for Shirasagi!!
Title: Fight 31 Three-Game Dice Battle

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Students: Wah wah!! I-it's Abidani!!!
Students: Abidani's here!!

Tomu: Why are you here? Are you teaching our class today?
Abidani: Heh heh heh heh...
Abidani: If you want take a class from me, then join my "seminar".

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Students: S-seminar...? The "Abidani Seminar"!!?
Students: So it isn't just a rumor!?
Students: So those "Bad Kids" are really there...!?

Abidani: C'mon, open it.
Abidani: Apparently it's from my seminar students.

Tomu: Hmph...It's not a bomb, is it?
Mizuhara: B-be careful, Tomu!!

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Tomu: A die...So it's a dice game.
Tomu: That certainly is an orthodox choice of game.

Abidani: You'll be playing for double the amount of the billiards match.
Abidani: Will you accept this 9.6 million yen match?

Tomu: Can you give me some specifics? What game is it? What rules will we be playing by?
Text right of Abidani: Heh...
Abidani: I don't know.

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Abidani: All I am is an observer.
Abidani: The game and its rules will be decided by three of my seminar students.

Mizuhara: Three!?

Abidani: Both sides will make a team of three people.
Abidani: It won't be tournament style. Each person will play a game. That's 3 games total.
Abidani: The team that wins 2 games first, wins!!

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Tomu: A team match, huh?
Tomu: So even if I win, if my teammates lose, I lose.

Abidani: Precisely!!

Students: No way...
Students: That means it doesn't matter how good Shirasagi-kun is at gambling!!
Students: Who will his teammates be!?
Students: There's no one who will be willing to take on the Abidani Seminar!!

Abidani: The game will take place in a month at the school festival!!
Abidani: The main event for Shishidou Academy's anniversary will be...
Abidani: a gamble fight between the "Abidani Seminar" and "Team Shirasagi"!!

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Abidani: The game and its rules will be announced just before the match.

Abidani: If you lose, you're going to wish you had left the school.
Abidani: You'll be getting a scholarship to my Abidani Seminar. Heh heh heh...

Mizuhara: Th-that's crazy!! If he doesn't know the rules until just before the match, he can't come up with a strategy!!
Mizuhara: He won't know what criteria to use to choose his teammates!!

Tomu: Heh heh...

Tomu: An unseen enemy and unseen rules...
Tomu: A match full of uncertain factors.

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Tomu: That's the ultimate situation for a gambler.
Tomu: I'll be glad to take them on!!

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Students: Ohh! Shirasagi accepted!!
Mizuhara: Tomu...
Text above crowd: Ohhh

Tomu: But...only on one condition.
Abidani: What is it?

Tomu: You know where my father is, don't you?
Tomu: If I win, let me confirm that he's alive.

Tomu: If anything's happened to him...
Tomu: you and this academy aren't going to get off lightly.

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Abidani: Heh heh heh...Fine. I'll let you meet him.
Abidani: But that's only in the unlikely event that you defeat my seminar students!!

Students: Th-then it's decided!!
Students: Next will be a three-game team dice match.
Students: They'll be wagering 9.6 million yen!!
Students: And an opportunity to meet his missing father!!

Mizuhara: Th-that's going to be a difficult match...

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Mizuhara: Kyah!!!?

Students: Kyaaaaah!!!

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Students: B-buuuugs!!!
Students: Eeee!!
Students: Noo! It's in my skirt!!!

Abidani: Wah ha ha ha!! That's a gift from my seminar students!!
Abidani: Only my students have such good taste!!

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Abidani: Prepare yourself, Shirasagi!!
Abidani: Those three are far more unpleasant than these bugs.

Abidani: If you have time to worry about your father, than search for some excellent teammates as if your life depended on it.
Abidani: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

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SFX: Kiiiin Kohhhn

Natsumi: Dragonflies...
Natsumi: flying in the sunset...

Mizuhara: Enough with the bugs...
Tomu: Heh heh...
Mizuhara: It was a pain spending the whole day exterminating them and disinfecting the place...

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Natsumi: I'm glad I'm in a different classroom.
Tomu: This was the start of their psychological warfare.

Tomu: They're really just ominous unknown opponents...
Tomu: but by spreading fear and discomfort before the match, they can get you to lose your presence of mind.

Tomu: It won't work on me, but it's quite effective on most people.
Mizuhara: Yeah, that's right.
Mizuhara: You need to gather teammates, but everyone's too scared.

Tomu: In the worst case...
Tomu: I won't be able to gather 3 people and I'll have to forfeit.

Natsumi: Don't worry!!
Natsumi: If it comes to that, Mushroom-senpai and I will join you!!

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Mizuhara: D-don't joke like that!!!
Mizuhara: I'm not going to fight against the Abidani Seminar!!!
Natsumi: You're just a scaredy-mushroom!!

Natsumi: Leave it to me, Tomu-senpai!!
Natsumi: As the president of the Shirasagi Fan Club, I'll do my best!!!

Tomu: Thanks... I appreciate the sentiment, but I have to be careful about who I choose.
Tomu: In any case, I can't predict what's going to happen.

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Tomu: The representative games that use dice...
Tomu: are Sugoroku, backgammon, Cee-lo, craps, and the Liar Game.
Tomu: There's also a good possibility it will be some unknown game I've never heard of.
Tomu: In that case, I'll have to instantly determine the essence of the game and come up with a way to certain victory.

Tomu: There are plenty of students in this school who are smart.
Tomu: But I doubt many of them have the strength of heart needed to stand up to the Abidani Seminar...
Tomu: But I won't know until I try recruiting.

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Tsukiyono: There's at least one here.

Tsukiyono: If you need a plan involving cheating, leave it to me.
Tsukiyono: I can teach you trick dice techniques from around the world.
Tsukiyono: And you've seen for yourself I have the guts to do this.

Mizuhara: Th-that voice is...!!?

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Tsukiyono: It looks like it's my turn!
Tomu: Tsukiyono!!