"Eh? Eh? Eh?"
"So, so amazing!"
"You can even paste skills onto other people, Natsuki-kun must be a super amazing player, right?"
"…"
The player clasped her hands in front of her chest, her small face slightly tilted upwards, her eyes sparkling, her tone full of admiration, and her gaze reverent.
Because of what happened last night, she had originally planned to just behave and muddle through the instance with the group, but now she had quietly changed her mind.
This high school boy in front of her was not only handsome and kind, but also super amazing, definitely not an ordinary player!
Even a new player who had only recently joined the game knew how powerful it was to bestow skills upon others. After all, she didn't even have a single trash skill right now.
So… I'm taking this guy, not even Jesus can stop me!
Seeing the player become incredibly enthusiastic again, Kaguya crossed her arms over her chest, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.
Yukino and Mitsui, on the other hand, had calm expressions, as if they didn't care at all.
Hayasaka smiled faintly, twirling a strand of hair around her finger.
Only secretary Chika was oblivious, nodding in agreement beside them, feeling a sense of pride as she said:
"Of course, the President is super amazing."
"Cough…" Natsuki humbly said, "Actually, I'm just average."
The passerby player looked at him with a face full of adoration: "An average player isn't as amazing as Natsuki!"
It must be said, although this girl was a bit fawning, her upturned head and face full of admiration were indeed quite satisfying.
"Enough with the chatter." Kaguya bit her lip, unable to resist speaking, "It's time to act quickly."
Natsuki nodded and said: "Everyone go find a target first, then come back and transform."
Chika clenched her fists, her voice clear as she said: "Let's go!"
"…"
Simply gathering information was naturally not dangerous. Once they finished, the group returned to the dormitory and closed the door.
A moment later, the door quietly opened.
Natsuki and his group had completely changed their appearance, becoming pale ghostly employees.
"Let's go to the casino."
Natsuki waved his hand and led the way.
Without a word along the way, the group quickly arrived at the casino.
This casino was not only open to employees but also served guests from outside the park. According to the rules Mitsui had inquired about, the casino was actually open twenty-four hours a day, though there were very few guests at night.
Natsuki and the others were currently using their transformation skills, disguised as evil spirits, so entering the casino naturally didn't arouse any suspicion.
After wandering around the casino for a bit, Natsuki quickly arrived at a roulette table.
The gambling method on the table was actually very simple and required no thought. The roulette wheel had 37 numbers evenly distributed from 0 to 36. When the wheel spun, a small ball would roll inside, and eventually, the ball would land in a small slot corresponding to a certain number. This was the "winning number."
On the densely packed squares of the gambling table were numbers. Before the wheel spun, players had to choose their favorite number and place their chips in the corresponding square. Finally, if they guessed the winning number, they could make a profit; if they guessed wrong, they naturally had to accept their bad luck.
Of course, the game seemed fair and entirely dependent on luck, but anyone who knew a little about casino insider information knew that a place like a casino could never be truly fair. There must be some kind of manipulation involved, it's just that ordinary people don't know the inside story.
"All in."
Natsuki sat down at the gambling table, then took out all the sin coins he had and placed his bet directly.
The girls followed behind him, placing the same amount of bets.
Facing this situation, the beautiful dealer was quite calm.
Although Natsuki and Kaguya and the others were many, each person had very few sin coins, averaging no more than ten. Together, it was just that much, completely disregarded.
Then… Time Stop activated!
With three seconds of Time Stop, Natsuki could truly do whatever he wanted, getting whatever number he desired.
There was no surprise in the outcome. In front of Time Stop, Natsuki could truly do whatever he wanted in the casino.
With a soft 'clink', the small ball landed in the slot where everyone had placed their bets.
"Whew…"
Seeing the final result, the passerby player's eyes immediately lit up, and she couldn't help but quietly breathe a sigh of relief, followed by a racing heart, both surprised and delighted.
The odds for roulette were 1 to 35. She had bet five sin coins, which immediately multiplied by thirty-five, about to become two hundred sin coins. Even capitalists couldn't make money this exaggeratedly, could they?
No wonder gambling makes people unable to stop…
The passerby player clutched her chest, suddenly noticing a blind spot.
"Wait, why are everyone's expressions so calm?"
The passerby player secretly looked at Kaguya and the others, only to see that everyone's expression was very indifferent, without any surprise or excitement, as if winning was a matter of course.
What kind of players had she… encountered?
Could ordinary experienced players really achieve this so easily?
"Let's go."
Natsuki took the sin coins that had multiplied thirty-five times, then stood up and left without hesitation.
The dealer's face clearly showed alertness. If they continued to gamble, she would probably call the thugs over immediately. For now, it was better to play it safe… Anyway, there were many gambling methods in the casino, so there was no need to rush.
Kaguya and the others took their sin coins and followed him out.
Next, the girls followed Natsuki, continuing to stroll around the casino, occasionally placing a bet, and also controlling the win rate and multiplier. Each time they played, they won at most a little over a hundred sin coins, secretly accumulating small amounts—with roulette's 35-to-1 odds, they could reach tens of thousands in just three rounds, but if they really won tens of thousands of sin coins in one go, the casino would likely disregard all rules and clear the place to apprehend them.
Even so, Natsuki and the others' gambler-like luck still attracted the attention of the casino's thugs.
"President, someone is watching us."
Hayasaka leaned close to Natsuki's ear and whispered a reminder.
"That's normal." Natsuki said calmly, without changing his expression, "We'll win one more round, complete the side quest, and then we'll leave."
"…"
A moment later.
Without any surprise, Natsuki led the girls to win over a hundred more sin coins.
The game quickly popped up a notification:
[Side Quest: Legend of the Gambler, completed. You have won a total of over one thousand sin coins in the park's casino.]
[Side Quest: Daydreamer, completed. Your single-day income exceeded one thousand.]
[After the player clears the instance, side quest rewards will be issued together.]
"It's really completed?"
The passerby player still felt a bit unreal.
"It's, it's too easy, isn't it?"
As a player who had already cleared two instances, the passerby player had a deep understanding of the danger and horror of instances, so her only goal was to carefully complete the main quest and return to reality, with absolutely no interest in side quests.
But at this moment, two seemingly super difficult side quests were completed as easily as eating and drinking, only requiring following Natsuki and placing bets, which was even easier than high school math problems.
Is this the joy of clinging to a powerful figure?
Let the joy come even more fiercely!
"Ryoko-chan, don't space out." Chika's soft reminder suddenly came from her ear, "We need to go."
"I-I know…"
The passerby player snapped back to reality, quickly hugged her money bag, and immediately became nervous again.
The reason was simple: four or five thugs had already surrounded them, their eyes filled with undisguised malice.
Clearly, if it weren't for the casino's superficial rules, these thugs would have already rushed over and directly apprehended Natsuki and the others on the grounds of cheating with money.
"To the restroom."
Natsuki said calmly and walked towards the restroom.
The passerby player quickly nodded and followed with small, quick steps.
The thugs behind them no longer concealed their ill intent and directly followed.
Natsuki entered the restroom, grabbed an evil spirit inside with a backhand, threw it out, and then said:
"Everyone, come in."
The girls didn't hesitate and quickly entered the restroom.
"Kaguya."
Natsuki closed the door with a backhand and then blocked the restroom door with his body.
"Leave it to me."
Kaguya responded, quickly went to a window, took out a tool, and violently removed the wire mesh from the window.
Bang!
The door was violently impacted, and dust from the ceiling fell rustling.
"Open the door!"
A fierce voice sounded outside the door.
"Don't think hiding inside will help!"
"Come out obediently now and hand over the sin coins, and you'll suffer less!"
"A bunch of dog-toting lowlifes, do you really think you can walk out of the casino with the money?"
"…"
Seeing that the door wouldn't open, the thugs outside became even more violent. Before long, the entire door cracked with a snap and shattered directly.
A group of thugs rushed into the restroom like fiends, only to find the entire restroom empty.
"Where did they go?"
"The window is open; they must have run out through the window."
"Hurry and chase them; those dog-toting lowlifes definitely haven't run far!"
"…"
Some short-tempered thugs even directly smashed through the wall, ignoring the dust on their heads, and then rushed out through the opening in the wall, beginning a violent pursuit.
A moment later.
Natsuki and Kaguya and the others had returned to their original appearances and walked out of the casino as if nothing had happened.
Facing the fierce stares of the thugs at the casino entrance, the passerby player nervously lowered her head.
Dangerous!
The most dangerous place is truly too dangerous!
They had clearly removed the window, but instead of escaping through it, they hid in a nearby cubicle. They could have been discovered at any moment!
Although they got away with it, what if they had failed?
Facing so many thugs, the outcome would surely have been tragic.
The player clutched her chest, her heart still pounding.
"Ryoko-chan, don't panic." Chika walked alongside the passerby player and whispered, "The more you panic, the more likely you are to be suspected. You must stay calm now."
"…How can I possibly stay calm!"
Chika continued:
"It's like forgetting to wear underwear to school one day. At such times, you absolutely cannot keep clutching your skirt; that would only make people suspicious."
The player couldn't help but retort:
"No one forgets to wear underwear to school, and if you don't clutch your skirt, aren't you worried about flashing everyone!"
Despite her complaints, the player took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and finally passed through the casino's main entrance without incident.
"Hoo…"
The player clutched her chest and involuntarily let out a long sigh of relief.
So dangerous.
And… so exciting!
The Green Tea Girl looked at Natsuki's figure ahead, her eyes sparkling.
If her previous admiration was merely a pretense, it was now gradually transforming into genuine admiration.
Natsuki casually said:
"There are too many sin coins. Carrying them all on us makes it easy to be discovered. Let's go back first and hide the sin coins."
Naturally, the girls had no objections to this suggestion. So they returned to the dormitory together, leaving only a few sin coins for emergencies and hiding the rest.
After hiding the coins, the group left the dormitory, ready to begin today's dog-toting work.
On the way to the studio, Natsuki suddenly saw a group of fierce thugs surrounding several dog-toting evil spirits, beating them with weapons.
"Hey, it's those people we transformed into and imitated." Chika couldn't help but whisper, "It feels… a bit pitiful."
Those dog-toting evil spirits knew nothing and were surrounded and beaten by thugs, ordered to hand over the sin coins they had just won at the casino. It could be said to be a true undeserved disaster.
Hayasaka softly said beside them:
"If we're talking about pity, the truly pitiful ones should be those who were deceived, right?"
Kaguya softly said:
"Dog-toting lowlifes with no achievements would have been gone long ago. The fact that they've lasted until now means each of their hands is stained with sin. They are not worthy of pity at all."
"Wrong." Natsuki corrected him, "They only look like humans, but they are actually evil spirits."
"…"
Chika was no longer a novice player, so she naturally understood the principle that those who are pitiful must have something hateful about them. Therefore, she felt little guilt or self-reproach.
Ultimately, in the sin park, no creature is clean and innocent; even a dog is a man-eating evil dog.
Then, it was naturally working hours.
Natsuki and the girls went their separate ways, entering their respective studios to begin a day of dog-toting life.
Tap, tap, tap.
In the dim and stuffy studio, all the dog-toting lowlifes had already taken their seats, beginning their daily routine of deception.
Natsuki, bored, opened the chat software on his desktop and randomly selected a victim.
"Hello, I am Rex Lapis. I am currently stranded in another world and have no Mora for food. If you sponsor me ten sin coins, when I return to Teyvat, you can choose any of the Liyue Qixing."
He had just sent it casually, but after a short while, the other side actually replied:
"Can I really choose freely?"
"That's right."
"Can I have all of them?"
"…"
I didn't realize you were so greedy!
Natsuki: "Yes, but you must first sign a contract with me."
"How do I sign?"
"Hello, you need to pay a contract signing fee first."
"…"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A mouth suddenly opened above Natsuki's computer, and more than a dozen sin coins clattered down.
Did he actually succeed in deceiving them?
Was Hayasaka not just complaining out of boredom yesterday, but speaking the truth?
Natsuki couldn't help but sigh.
Sometimes, the difference in intelligence between people is greater than that between people and pigs. The ancients truly did not deceive me.
"You… so fast?"
The kidney-deficient older brother sitting next to Natsuki turned his head, his face full of shock.
"Want to learn?" Natsuki looked over, "I'll teach you."
"…"