Gamble Fish 38

Chapter 38

01

Abidani: The 2nd round of the three-game dice battle will be "Dice Stacking"!!
Abidani: The winner will be determined by the score gotten from the number of dice stacked multiplied by the number on the top die!!
Abidani: Touching the dice directly or using both hands will be considered cheating!!
Mizuhara: Ah wah wah wah...
Yoizame: Heh heh heh heh...
Title: Fight 38: Grasshopper

02

Yoizame: There will be only one round!! The loser will have...
Yoizame: a slit cut in his asshole for each point he lost by!!

Mizuhara: Ha ha ha...Y-you're joking, right?

Crowd: Th-that's gotta just be a threat. Ha ha ha...
Crowd: No!! Yoizame might be serious!!
Crowd: He is the student of Abidani-sensei, the man who cut off Shirasagi's finger with a chainsaw.
SFX: Chatter chatter

Natsumi: Now I'm glad all I had was a strip game...
Tomu: Dice Stacking, huh? ...This isn't good.

03

Tomu: Trickery won't work in a game using physical skill like this.
Tomu: And unlike with the billiards match, we don't have time to prepare any tricks!!
Tomu: This is a hopeless situation...

Tomu: If only we had a little more time to come up with a plan...

Yoizame: You can choose which dice we'll use this time.
Yoizame: Choose whichever ones you like, mushroom head!!

Yoizame: The Las Vegas Casino Dice...
Yoizame: or the 16th Century Witch Dice.

04

Mizuhara: Um...Little question. If I gave up here, would you let me go...?
Yoizame: No way.

Text right of Yoizame: Heh heh...
Yoizame: If you give up, your score will be 0!!
Yoizame: If I then got 30 points, you'd be getting 30 slits.

Mizuhara: Yeah...
Mizuhara: I didn't think you would...
Text left of Mizuhara: Uhh...

Mizuhara: Then...I choose the casino dice.
Mizuhara: And...

Mizuhara: Could I have some time to practice!?
Yoizame: Huh!?

05

Mizuhara: B-b-because I'm a complete amateur and you're an expert.
Mizuhara: Isn't it a bit unfair!?

Tomu: ...Mizuhara!!

Crowd: That's right!! This won't make a good game!!
Crowd: Let him practice.
Crowd: Give the mushroom even a one in a million chance!!

Yoizame: Hmph...Fine, go ahead.
Abidani: ...Yoizame!!

Yoizame: Don't worry, Abidani-sensei!! This is well within what I predicted might happen.
SFX: Chk
SFX: Chk
Yoizame: And going along with another one of their demands will help us out down the line...

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Yoizame: But!! Bow down before me!!
Yoizame: I want to hear you cry like a mushroom!!

Mizuhara: Eh!? B-but mushrooms aren't animals. They don't have a cry...
Text left of Mizuhara: Ha ha...

Yoizame: Are you going to do it or not!?

SFX: Bow
Mizuhara: U-uhh...

Natsumi: Mushroom-senpai...

Mizuhara: M-mush!!!

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Mizuhara: Mush!!
Mizuhara: Mush...
Mizuhara: Mush mush mussssh!!
Mizuhara: Mushrooooom!!!!

Crowd: Wah...That's pathetic. I can't watch.
Crowd: That's just sad...
Crowd: Yoizame's horrible, but Mushroom Mizuhara's doing that a bit too well...

Yoizame: Hya ha ha ha!! Do you have no pride at all!?

08

Yoizame: You rotten mushroom!!!
SFX: Slam!!
Mizuhara: Mush!!!

Yoizame: Fine...10 minutes!!
Yoizame: You can practice for 10 minutes.
Mizuhara: Ugh...
SFX: Turn

Tomu: Mizuhara!!
Natsumi: Mushroom-senpai, are you okay!? How can that guy be so cruel...?

Mizuhara: I'm fine...This is fine...
Mizuhara: I'm glad just knowing it's put my execution off by even 10 minutes. Ha ha ha...

Mizuhara: I don't have time... I have to practice!!

09

Mizuhara: I might be able to figure this out.
Mizuhara: There are some things that are surprisingly easy once you figure out the trick...
SFX: Swoosh swoosh

SFX: Clatter
Mizuhara: Ugh!!

Mizuhara: Don't rush this!! Calm down and concentrate!!
Mizuhara: You have no choice but to prepare yourself for this!!

Mizuhara: I will protect my ass!!!

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SFX: Hit

SFX: Swoosh swoosh

SFX: Hit

SFX: Swoosh swoosh swoosh
Mizuhara: Mutter mutter
Mizuhara: Mutter mutter

Natsumi: M-Mushroom-senpai has such amazing concentration...!!
Tomu: Okay!! That's good, Mizuhara...

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Tomu: Ironically, the cruel penalty Yoizame chose may work in our favor.
SFX: Swoosh swoosh
SFX: Hit
Tomu: With no way out of this, Mizuhara has to get serious.

Natsumi: "A cornered rat will bite a cat"!! When the weak or cornered, they'll turn into monsters to protect themselves!!
Tomu: Exactly!!
Tomu: Mizuhara isn't just helping me this time; his very fate hangs in the balance.

Tomu: Take in that fear...and fight, Mizuhara!!

Tomu: I won't let...
Tomu: your efforts go to waste!!

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Yoizame: Heh heh heh...It's no use!!
Yoizame: What can he do in just 10 minutes!?
SFX: Slide

Abidani: It's enough, Yoizame.

Abidani: With 10 minutes, he can come up with something.
Abidani: That's what a gambler is.

13

SFX: Pant pant pant
Abidani: Stop!! That's 10 minutes!!

Mizuhara: No good...I've gotten the timing down, but I can only stack three...
SFX: Pant pant
Mizuhara: There's no way I can get a stack of 5...

Yoizame: Now then...who goes first?
Mizuhara: Y-you go ahead...
SFX: Pant pant

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Yoizame: Let me tell you one thing first.
Yoizame: A stack of five of these casino dice can just barely fit inside the cup.

Yoizame: So even if you miraculously managed to get a stack of 5...
Yoizame: the highest score you could get would be with a "6" giving you 5 x 6 which is 30 points.

Yoizame: In other words, if I were to get 31 points or more, this game would be over!!
Yoizame: Got that?

Crowd: Ridiculous!? There's no way.
Crowd: Are you planning on cheating!?
Yoizame: Heh heh heh...

SFX: Place place
Yoizame: Let's go.

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SFX: Place!!

Mizuhara: Wha-!? ...He put down a 6th one!!?
Mizuhara: But only 5 should fit in the cup!

Tomu: If you just had to get them in, the 6th one could fit to the side...but even if he put them diagonally, it would be impossible to stack them vertically!! What is he going to do...!?

Yoizame: Heh heh heh...just watch!!
SFX: Swoosh swoosh

SFX: Swoosh swoosh

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SFX: Hit hit hit hit hit

Crowd: Ohh!!
Crowd: He got the first 5 in an instant!!
Text above crowd: Ohh!

Crowd: But what about the 6th one...!!?

SFX: Slam

SFX: Fly

Crowd: Eh!?

Mizuhara: Wha-!!?

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Crowd: It's floating in the air!!!!?
Crowd: The 6th die flew up in the air from the recoil!!!?

Yoizame: The height and angle are ok!! It's a bit to the left!!

SFX: Slide!!

SFX: Lift

SFX: Land

SFX: Wobble wobble

SFX: Stop!!
Abidani: ...Success!!!!

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Yoizame: I call it the "Grasshopper"!!
Yoizame: It's my special technique for getting easy money off the outlaws in the slums!!

Mizuhara: N-no way!! 6 x 6 is 36 points...!!!

Right margin: Mizuhara's ass is screwed!! Next Chapter: The gambler's scheme shines!!