Gamble Fish 32

Chapter 32

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Students: The school festival starts tomorrow!!
Students: What I want to see is the three-game dice battle between "Team Shirasagi" and the "Abidani Seminar" being held that night!!
Students: Officially, it's just a game, but it's actually a gamble fight with 9.6 million yen on the line.
Title: Fight 32 Team Shirasagi

Students: There are publicity posters in the hall!!
Students: Really!! Let's go see them!!

Students: I wonder if Shirasagi is really in trouble this time.
Students: He's up against the Abidani Seminar after all.
Students: And I heard he hasn't found a 3rd member for his team yet.
Students: I wonder what's going to happen.

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Text at top: Shishidou Academy Anniversary Festival Special Event
Text at bottom: "Team Shirasagi" vs. "Abidani Seminar" Three-Game Dice Battle

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Mizuhara: What are you going to do, Tomu!?
Mizuhara: No one except for Tsukiyono has answered your recruiting call!!

Tomu: The difficulty of finding members is based on their resolve.
Tomu: If they join me, they have to take on Abidani.
Tomu: Without a good reason or goal, no one's going to do it...

Mizuhara: And I even made a flier for you...

Mizuhara: Maybe my drawing had the opposite effect...
Top of flier: Take out the Abidani Seminar!!!
[TN: Japanese for "seminar" is pronounced the same as the word for "cicada".]
Cicada Abidani: Mihhhn Mihhhn
Text at bottom of flier: We're looking for members to join Team Shirasagi!!
Box at bottom of flier: Contact Mizuhara from 2-A if you are interested.

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Yuka: You don't need to worry!!

Yuka: Everyone knows you're not just a gambler trying to make money.
Yuka: And...there are people who have questions about why a perverted teacher like Abidani gets to do what he pleases in this academy!!

Yuka: I can't be the only one who wants to...
Yuka: borrow your courage and power to take on his authority head on!!

Tomu: Tsukiyono...
Tomu: Hearing you say that is reassuring.

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Mizuhara: By the way, what's in that box, Na-chan?
Natsumi: It's Tsukiyono's collection of crooked dice!!
Yuka: Heh heh...In other words, they're cheating dice.

Yuka: In this game, our opponents will be preparing the dice...
Yuka: so, to keep them from cheating, we need to have at least a basic knowledge of this.

Mizuhara: Cheating dice?
Mizuhara: They just look like normal dice to me...
Yuka: Heh heh...

Yuka: That's why you can use them to cheat. For example, this one is a "Flat".
Yuka: It looks like a proper cube, but one side is actually slightly longer.
Yuka: It tends to get 1 and 6 more than anything else.

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Yuka: This is the famous "Tops".
Yuka: It looks normal and free of tricks...
Yuka: but if you turn it around, it's exactly the same. In other words, there are only three different numbers on it.

Tomu: I see...The fact that the human eye can only see three sides at one time is a blind spot.
Yuka: If you use it properly, you can give yourself a perfect advantage in craps and Cee-lo.

Yuka: There's also the "Juiced" which has a magnet inside it,
Yuka: the "Loaded" that has a piece of lead in it, and the "Edge Work" which has one corner rounded off.
Yuka: There are countless types, but the basics of using them are the same.
Yuka: It's all about the timing of switching it out with the real one and then retrieving it.

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Yuka: But as long as I'm here, I won't let things go the way they want them to!!
Yuka: And if they show an opening, I'll take them down with my own cheating!!

Mizuhara: Wow!! That's a magician for you!!
Natsumi: With you here, I'm not worried no matter who we have to face!!
Yuka: Heh heh heh...

Yuka: But they have had a month to prepare.
Yuka: There's a possibility they'll use a type of dice I'm unfamiliar with.

Tomu: And since we don't know what game we'll be playing, you can't help but worry.
Tomu: But the biggest problem is finding our third member...

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Natsumi: Oh, oh!!
Natsumi: I can be your third member, senpai!!
Tomu: I appreciate the thought...

Tomu: but I have to refuse this time.
Tomu: This isn't a simple battle that can be won through feelings alone.

Natsumi: No way!! Are you saying you don't think I can win!?
Mizuhara: Well, yeah.
Mizuhara: Without some kind of special ability like Tsukiyono has, you can't win a battle like this.
Text above Mizuhara: Ha ha ha

Natsumi: I have an ability!!

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Natsumi: I have the power my feelings for you give me.
Natsumi: With that power...I won't lose to anyone!!

Yuka: W-wait a second!! I have that power, too...
Megumi: Um...

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Megumi: Is this where you're accepting people for Team Shirasagi...?

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Megumi: Um...I saw this flier...
Megumi: And if you haven't found a third member yet, would you interview me...?

Mizuhara: O-of course. We'd be glad to!!
Yuka: Come in, come in!!
Megumi: O-okay.

Tomu: I'm Shirasagi...Thanks for coming.
Megumi: N-nice to meet you!!
Text above Megumi: Doki!

Natsumi: Wh-who are you?

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Megumi: I'm Akino Megumi from 1-C.
Megumi: I wanted to come by earlier...
Megumi: but I was afraid of the Abidani Seminar and I couldn't work up the resolve...

Yuka: First Year Akino... Are you in the craft club?
Megumi: Eh!? You've heard of me!?

Yuka: You often win contests in craft magazines, right?
Yuka: I like to knit to train my fingers so I read those magazines.

Tomu: I see...Do you have any abilities beyond knitting?
Tomu: Something that would be useful in a gamble fight against the Abidani Seminar.

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Natsumi: Th-that's right, that's right!!
Natsumi: If you don't have any abilities, you can't join Team Shirasagi!!
Mizuhara: How can you say that when you don't have any...?

Megumi: Leave it to me!! I'm really good at crafts and knitting.
Text above Natsumi: Kwah!!
Natsumi: That has nothing to do with the match!
Natsumi: If you're just coming by to look, then leave and go knit a sweater or something!!

Megumi: No, that's not what I meant...
Megumi: Mizuhara-san was it? What's your birthday?
Mizuhara: Eh?
Mizuhara: Heisei 5, November 20th...
[TN: Heisei 5 is 1993.]

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Megumi: "51120", is it?
Megumi: That squared is "2613254400". Its square root is "226.097324..."

Natsumi: Eh?

Megumi: In sewing you use numerical formulas more than you would think. For example, to find the circumference of a waist or to make a pattern.
Megumi: It seems that ability developed unusually well in me...
Megumi: I can do any 5 digit calculation in my head instantly.

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Mizuhara: R-really!?
Mizuhara: Then what's 339 x 747?
Megumi: "275643". Breaking that into prime numbers gets you "3 to the 4th x 41 x 83"
Mizuhara: ...Th-that's right!!

Natsumi: Prime numbers?
Mizuhara: They're numbers that can only be evenly divided by 1 and themselves!!
Mizuhara: How can you be a Shishidou student and not know that!?

Natsumi: S-so what!??
Natsumi: That has nothing to do with a dice match!!

Tomu: Wait...What are the odds of getting the same thing 5 times in a row when rolling a die?
Megumi: 1 over 6 to the 5th is 1 over 7776.
Megumi: Which is 0.01286%.

Tomu: What are the odds of getting a 7 and an 11 if you roll two dice?
Megumi: 22.2%
Tomu: What are the odds of getting a one digit number 3 times in a row with a 12 sided die?
Megumi: About 42.2%.

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Tomu: I can use this...
Tomu: Calculating probability is one of the basics of gambling.

Yuka: Since the rules will only be revealed right before the match starts, having a human computer will be quite useful!!
Mizuhara: That's an amazing ability!!

Tomu: I just have on question. Why do you want to take part in this match?
Tomu: Why are you taking on the Abidani Seminar to support me?
Tomu: And don't tell me it's just curiosity.

Megumi: W-well, um...

Natsumi: You can't say!?
Natsumi: That seems awfully suspicious!!

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Megumi: I...
Megumi: need money!!

Megumi: My dream is to become a knit designer in the future!!
Megumi: To do so I want to study clothing in the home of fashion, Paris...

Megumi: But my parents keep telling me to go to medical school so I can continue the family business.
Tomu: So you want to use the Shirasagi Bank to get the funds to study abroad.
Tomu: So how much do you need?

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Megumi: I need money to get there, for tuition, and living expenses...
Megumi: And I'd like to do some shopping.
Text right of Megumi: Eh heh
Megumi: All told, about 3 million yen.

Natsumi: Ohh. I see you're treating us like you're Gokijima while putting on that cute face!!
Natsumi: Senpai!! We don't need someone who's after money like her...
Tomu: Fine.
Natsumi: Huh!!?

Tomu: Wanting a third of the 9.6 million riding on this is a fair demand.
Tomu: Of course this is only if we win and you succeed.
Megumi: Th-thank you so much!!!
Natsumi: Wha...?

Natsumi: You're horrible, senpai!! So you cast me aside and then take on this knitting woman!?
Natsumi: And you got so much help from me last time!!

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Tomu: If you feel like I used you, I apologize.
Tomu: But I'm choosing her this time.

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Natsumi: What the hell!? I hate gamblers.
Natsumi: I hate you, Tomu-senpai!!!

Megumi: A-ah wah wah.
Megumi: I'm sorry. This horrible thing was all my fault...