Gamble Fish 39

Chapter 39

01

Announcer: Yoizame managed to do what no one thought possible and made a stack of 6 dice!!!
Text: Ohhh!
Announcer: Multiplying that by the top dice's number of 6 gives him a total of 36 points!!

Yoizame: Heh heh heh...!!
Title: Fight 39: Seize Victory Together

02

Natsumi: I-I don't believe it. What kind of technique was that!?
Tomu: So this is what he meant by stacking up 6 dice with a cup that could only fit a stack of 5!

Tomu: First, he made a stack of 5 in the cup like normal, and then he slammed the cup down on the table.
Tomu: This caused the 6th dice to fly up into the air and land on the stack. And he even managed to get a 6!!

Mizuhara: Th-that isn't fair!! Isn't that against the rules!?
Mizuhara: Didn't the rules say you had to put all the dice in the cup...?

Right margin: What is Mizuhara going to do about Yoizame's secret technique, the "Grasshopper"!?

03

Abidani: Nope. It's true that it's against the rules to put the 5 dice in the cup on top of another die you put on the table...
Abidani: but Yoizame put them on top of the table.
Abidani: As the witness, I deem this technique legal!!
Mizuhara: Uuh...

Yoizame: If you don't like it, then why don't you try it yourself, Mushroom Head!?
Yoizame: I gave you 10 minutes to practice, didn't I? Heh heh heh heh...

Crowd: It's over!! Mushroom Mizuhara can't copy that!!
Mizuhara: Uuh...gh...
Crowd: He can't even get a stack of 5, much less one of 6!!

04

Mizuhara: It's over...I'm screwed...
Mizuhara: My ass is going to be shredded by Yoizame's knife...!!!
SFX: Tremble tremble

Tomu: Mizuhara!!
Text: Ah!!

Mizuhara: Tomu!!
Tomu: Don't stop focusing now. This is where things truly begin.

Tomu: Yoizame.
Tomu: You said the score is calculated by the number on top of the top-most die multiplied by the number of dice stacked, right?
Yoizame: Yeah, what of it?

05

Tomu: Hypothetically, if it were diagonal like this...
Tomu: and there were 2 sides of the dice "on top", then it would be fair to say that the sum of those two numbers would be used, right?

Yoizame: Huh!?

Mizuhara: T-Tomu?

Tomu: You can't say it's absolutely impossible.
Tomu: In my example, it would be "3+5" which is 8!! Since it's a stack of 5, that would be 40. He could come back and win!!

06

Crowd: That's ridiculous!!
Crowd: There's no way the dice is going to sit diagonally!!
Crowd: Has the great tactician Shirasagi finally lost his mind!?

Yoizame: Interesting!! I'd like to see you try to pull that one off!
SFX: Tchk
Yoizame: Of course, there's no cheating allowed. My conditions are that it can't be supported by any strings, glue, air pressure, or anything like that, and it has to stay like that for a full minute without moving.

Yoizame: Oh, and, if he fails, that mushroom isn't the only one that'll undergo the penalty...
SFX: Lick
Yoizame: I'll give you an ass hole that will make it so you'll never be constipated again, too. Got it!?

Tomu: ...Fine.
Mizuhara: Tomu!!!

07

Tomu: Lend me your ear, Mizuhara.
Mizuhara: O-okay.

SFX: Shove

Abidani: I won't let you give him any advice, Shirasagi!!
Abidani: This is a 1-on-1 match!!

Tomu: I'm not giving him advice. I'm merely encouraging him.
SFX: Nudge

Tomu: Do your best, Mushroom!!
Tomu: I'm sure you can turn this around!!

08

Tomu: We can seize victory...
Tomu: together!!

SFX: Squeeze...

Mizuhara: ...Tomu...!!

Yoizame: Fools...!! The sides and corners of casino dice are shaved to right angles to ensure that their odds are exactly 1/6.
Yoizame: As long as you're not in zero gravity, it's absolutely impossible for them to sit diagonally!!

09

Abidani: Okay, begin!!
Mizuhara: O-okay.

SFX: Place place

Crowd: He only set 5!!
SFX: Chatter...
Crowd: The only way he can beat Yoizame's 36 points is by having the top die sit diagonally...!

Mizuhara: I understand, Tomu...I'll try it.
SFX: Swoosh swoosh
Mizuhara: No!! I'll make sure I pull it off!!

10

Mizuhara: You told me before...
Mizuhara: that the most important thing in gambling is having the courage to bet on yourself!!

Mizuhara: Watch me as I show you all of my courage!!!
SFX: Hit

Natsumi: Mushroom-senpai, be careful!!
Natsumi: If you don't stack up all 5 of them, there's no way you can make it!!

SFX: Hit!!

11

Mizuhara: That's right. I won't give up!!
Mizuhara: I have my own dreams for the future!!!
Mizuhara: I'll graduate from Shishidou and then go to Tokyo U!!
Mizuhara: I'll become a bureaucrat and work for the sake of my country.
Mizuhara: I'll retire with enough retirement money to build a mansion with a pool.
Mizuhara: And inside that mansion...

12

Mizuhara: I'll hire real maids!!!
Mizuhara: I'll have them do all sorts of things with real frill and aprons!!
Mizuhara: I can't give up now if I want that dream to come true!!!

13

SFX: Slide

Crowd: Ohh!! He did it!!
Crowd: He at least got all 5 in the cup!!
Crowd: He seemed oddly intense and driven. What was that all about!?
SFX: Pant pant gasp gasp

Yoizame: Heh heh...The question is whether they collapsed inside the cup or not.

Mizuhara: I-I'll remove the cup...
SFX: Pant pant

Natsumi: I-I can't watch...!!

14

SFX: Lift...
SFX: Tremble tremble

Crowd: They hasn't collapsed!! Did he manage to stack all 5!?
Text: Ohhh!!
Crowd: And while practicing he only managed 3!!

Yoizame: Ha ha ha!! I guess you pulled off a miracle!!
Yoizame: But it isn't enough!
Yoizame: It's impossible to have the dice sit diagonally without cheating!!

Tomu: You're right.
Yoizame: What!?

Tomu: A casino dice with right angle edges won't sit diagonally.
Tomu: I told you that what I showed you before was just a hypothetical situation, didn't I?

15

Tomu: What you confirmed for me was that...
Tomu: "If the top die sits diagonally and 2 faces are on top at once, the sum of the faces will be used."

Tomu: Mizuhara, go slowly.
Mizuhara: O-okay.

SFX: Gulp...

SFX: Tremble...

Crowd: Ah...!?
Crowd: Ahh!!!?

16

Yoizame: Whaaaaaaaat!!!?

Crowd: Th-there are 2 dice on top!!
Crowd: They aren't falling off!?
Text: Ohh!
Crowd: How did he get them to stack like that!!?

17

Tomu: This shouldn't be a problem.
Tomu: The rules never said you couldn't have two dice on top and no glues or strings were used.
Tomu: The top dice are sitting diagonally and 2 faces are on top at once.
Tomu: It's exactly the situation you confirmed for me.
[TN: In Japanese, you don't specify if a noun is singular or plural so the exact same wording worked for both situations.]

Yoizame: Y-you set me up for this, Shirasagi!!
Yoizame: You told him to do this in a way I didn't notice, didn't you!!?

Natsumi: Wh-when did you tell Mushroom-senpai about this!?

Mizuhara: Tomu gave me a hint...

Mizuhara: He called me "Mushroom".
Mizuhara: He never called me that before even once so I realized it had to be some kind of sign.

18

Mizuhara: Right after that, he gave me the keywords "seize victory" and "together".
Mizuhara: I thought about his hypothetical diagonal situation...
Mizuhara: and I figured it out from there.

Mizuhara: First off, I was able to do this because of my practice letting me make a stack of 3.

Mizuhara: I just took the other 2 into the cup as well. They would naturally be side by side on my side of the cup.

Mizuhara: Then I just grabbed the entire leather cup and lifted both of the dice together!!

Mizuhara: Afterwards, I just had to slowly bring them over the 3rd dice and place them on top.
Mizuhara: It's a cheap trick that only works with the pliable leather cups used for Dice Stacking!!!

19

Tomu: I thought of this tactic in the 10 minutes of practice time...
Tomu: that Mizuhara went as for as bowing down to you to gain.

Yoizame: Fuck...!! But this isn't over!!
Yoizame: That mushroom doesn't have any control over what numbers he got with those dice!!

Mizuhara: Exactly...This was a gamble...
SFX: Tremble tremble
Mizuhara: If the sum of the numbers is 8 or less, I lose. If it's 9, we draw and go into another round.
Mizuhara: If it's 10 or more, I win!!

Tomu: That's right...Can you feel it, Mizuhara!?

Tomu: You're getting dizzy...
Tomu: You have goose bumps all over your body!!

Tomu: This is the intoxication of having your life riding on the bet...
SFX: Tremble
SFX: Pant pant

20

Tomu: This is gambling!!!
Mizuhara: Yeeeeessss!!!!
Text: Embrace danger and live an extreme life!! That's what these games are about; that's what gambling is about!!