54 – The Board Game
A game horse made of carrots. The demon king wanted a donkey, and I suggested making carrots, so I became a model of a horse shaved with a donkey.
“It looks like a mule, not a donkey.”
I don’t know what the difference is between the two, but she seems to like the carrot-cut mule quite a bit. A smile bloomed on her face as she turned around.
Everything is ready. The demon king was excited like a child in a hot air balloon on the verge of taking flight. Neither did I.
Because you can watch the children’s excitement mixed with joy right next to you. I think I know the feelings of parents who spend expensive money to buy toys for their children. They are not buying toys. It was to buy the smiling faces of children.
*
“Let’s shuffle the cards first.”
I shuffled the Golden Key cards that she and I made in half. The demon king couldn’t help but marvel when he saw that the deck of cards was divided into two and shuffled on the floor.
“Whoa, whoa. You.”
“Ah, no big deal.”
“I want to try too.”
She rushes in, wide-eyed, and yanks away her deck of cards. Cute, cute, beginners will follow? 20 Years of shuffling skills can be seen as Jaws…
-Awesome!
??
The demon lord followed the same shuffle I did just once.
“This feels good.”
And after adding a few more times, isn’t it more neat than me? If left as it is, it must have been a card spring, but at any rate, he was ready to shoot with his other hand with his arms wide open. As expected, the Demon King was full of talent.
*
“Su, how do we decide the order?”
The demon king, holding three dice, was full of greed and asked.
“By throwing dice. The person with the higher number throws.”
“Yes.”
“Just throw one.”
“Okay.”
The demon king put down two and rolled one onto the board. If you throw it too hard and get stuck in the wall again, it will be difficult to remove it. I told you in advance to throw it lightly.
-Soowook
-Degur
Demon King got 1, I got 6.
“Okay. I’ll let you throw first.”
‘…If you want to do that kind of favor, do it before the dice roll.’
-Soowook
The dice that came out arrived at 5. Doppler Village.
“Now, if you pay money and buy a certificate, it will become my village.”
I showed the demon lord the certificate from Doppler Village that said 2000 gold and put my money in the bank.
“This is my village now.”
“You, you have succeeded!”
“Sure. I can do anything I want.”
“Can I go out to play sometime? Aren’t you going to get paid? Hee hee.”
“Did you do a lot of good things?”
“Of course not. Just today, did you water the cabbage at dawn and drive out the wicked intruder?”
“Good job. Didn’t you do anything bad?”
“… Ugh… Rice, it’s nothing, I opened Little Farm early in the morning before you woke up and took out 50 large potatoes in your warehouse… Didn’t Golden Carrot Juice sell cheap? Lol.”
“If you step on this village, you will get 1000 gold. Know how to avoid it. If you don’t want to look like a beggar.”
*
“Is there a Khan you want to go to?”
“I am the golden key.”
She glanced at the pile of golden key cards she had turned upside down earlier and answered.
The nearest golden key from the starting point is 4 spaces. I wanted her die to roll a 4. And, if possible, a happy card. I also wanted to draw a birthday card I made.
“Yap!”
-Soowook
-Degur
…
One block. She arrived at Nebed, her most idyllic village.
“It’s Neved!”
“Are you going to buy it? The certificate of Nebed is 500 gold.”
“Yes. I want to live.”
She put the five 100 gold bills she was holding tightly into the bank. She laid her deed and donkey building on her.
“Is this my town now?”
“Yes.”
“Is it mine?”
“Yes.”
“Hee hee. Now secretly…”
She gave up her words and handed her the dice.
-Soowook
-Degur
The dice are 6.
I reached the golden key in the eleventh slot.
“I envy you…”
“You should be able to arrive soon.”
“Isn’t it? Lol…”
After moving my words to the golden key slot, I looked at the upside down card.
“Ah.”
It was a birthday card I wrote.
I just wanted her to pick this one first.
“… That’s ten thousand gold.”
The birthday card is 100,000 gold, but I lied.
“Em… Only gold!?”
The big demon king’s red eyes and mouth were wide open. Apparently, the amount of gold that the puppeteer Demon King spent on his lucky card seemed to be much smaller.
“What kind of card is that?”
“…”
She didn’t want to let her know her effect beforehand. It was feared that her joy when she was later pulled would fade.
-Chellarak
I pretended not to hear her and quickly put the card she had just drawn into the deck and shuffled it.
“Ah! You! What are you doing!”
The eyes of the Demon King of Fairness were burning red.
Taaang!
…
No. As for this birthday card for her, she has to draw first. Even if it is riddled with some accusations.
“Oh, sorry. I accidentally didn’t show it and mixed it up.”
“…Really? Only the gold card was drawn.”
She asked, squinting her eyes from which her red light leaked.
“…Yes.”
“… I trust you. Because you don’t lie.”
*
-Soowook
-Degur
“Wow.”
Since then, 1 came out twice in a row, and now it is in the third column.
‘… Does that make sense?’
Odds of 1 in 216.
“Still, cheer up. Next time another 1 comes up, it’s a golden key.”
“Eh. That’s right.”
However.
-Soowook
-Degur
“… uuu…”
2…
Why should I…
You got 1 three times in a row… You only need one more.
Falling in love with me who went out for a while, she still can’t get out of her first row. The longed-for golden key also skipped right in front of her nose.
…
“… It’s okay. There are times like that. We still have a lot of time, so let’s take it slow.”
“… Yes!”
-Soowook
-Degur
The scale of the dice I threw is 6. Again, it’s a golden key.
The higher squares keep appearing. I’m always unlucky in games like this, so why am I doing so well today? Maybe it’s because I’m in a one-on-one situation with her who is less fortunate than me.
“…”
I checked the card that was turned upside down while watching her stare at my game piece ahead with eyes of envy.
… Another lucky card. I’d rather have a misfortune card.
I can’t even mix them anymore. I had no choice but to show the contents to the Great Demon King of Misfortune and said.
“ That’s it.”
“Chu, congratulations.”
– Clap clap clap
The demon king claps with a half-smile. Unlike me at the end of the 4 rows, her face in the first row still looked bitter.
“This time, definitely.”
-Soowook
-Degur
…
‘Ha ha.’
The scale of the dice thrown by the demon king was 3. It was the highest dice that had ever been released, but her character, who advanced a total of 8 squares, arrived at an uninhabited island.
“… Alas.”
She already told her the rules of her deserted island when she explained her rules to her, so she couldn’t let her escape with her other lies. Now she has to be stuck in there for three turns.
…
Even in this narrow circle, she was isolated.
“Gwa, it’s okay. If you get a 1, you can leave the deserted island, right? I’m good at coming out, so I can leave right away.”
-Soowook
2
-Soowook
3
-Soowook
2
So she didn’t come out until I returned to her first seat after my round-the-world trip and received her bonus money. She ended up filling the third turn.
“… hehehe. Because it’s been three times now. You can leave.”
And the demon king slowly and little by little rotated the board.
“Oh. I stepped on the Duprim you bought.”
“…”
Anyway, while she was making porridge, she received several lucky cards and even the cost of completing the round-the-world trip. She doesn’t have to accept 3,000 gold of her blood. But if you look at it, it will make a fuss again.
“Here, 3,000 gold…”
“Uh…”
The difference between her and me just kept widening. The words of the game are getting farther and farther away.
*
“Ooh, whoa!”
Finally.
Finally, the demon king stepped on the golden key!
The demon king laughs before he even checks what kind of card it is.
“Congratulations…”
Before she could say anything, she shut up. If it was her luck, there was a high chance that it wasn’t a lucky card.
“… Whoa.”
Taking a deep breath, the demon king reached out her white hand for her overturned bundle of golden keys. It was no different from the tension in the movie Tazza, where hands are tied on a checkerboard and cards are flipped over.
-Hwiik
…
“… Hey.”
…
She showed me the card.
It’s a misfortune card. Of the crooked handwriting she wrote. What the f*ck, I was trampled on by a Brachiosaurus, but the relief money is only 300 gold. Well, she wouldn’t hurt much if it was her.
The demon king’s banknotes that were handed out at the beginning. I didn’t have a supply, but I lost 300 more gold here.
*
After that, the demon king stepped on the golden key slot several more times, but only drew misfortune cards in succession. He is abducted by aliens, a sack of dinosaur dolls taken by bandits, and a lid of mayonnaise is lost. The punishments she wrote were pouring down like a demon. Only over her head.
…
Whether it was playing rock, paper, scissors or oak barrel roulette, the devil’s luck was terribly bad.
“…”
I wish the demon king at least used hallucination magic like he did with his iron fist. I’d be happy to take it. But she didn’t.
“It’s my turn. I’ll roll it.”
The demon king took the dice.
It’s a game she made at best because she wanted to make her laugh. It seems that the goddess of luck in this world only showed her disproving that she hates her a lot.
… Only once.
The winner has already been decided. This money gap is not a gap that can be physically bridged. Still, I wish her good things happened to her at least once.
-Soowook
-Degur
“Four squares. One, two, three… Oh, it’s a golden key.”
Is it because I kept drawing bad luck cards? Now she wasn’t as excited as when she first arrived at the golden key compartment.
‘… A lucky card please.’
– Whirik…
She turned her card over.
“What? Yellow? A lucky card?!”
‘Oh.’
I unknowingly clenched her fists. It seems she has finally found her lucky card.
“…”
The demon king who reads fortune cards with wide eyes. Then his mouth opened gradually, and the large mouth grew to its limit.
“This, this card is strange.”
“Look at me.”
…!
She showed me the card she had just drawn. It was a birthday card I wrote. The moment she saw it, it felt like an electric current was flowing through her body. Unlike her with her dumbfounded expression, I know the value of this luck.
“Congratulations.”
“This is 100,000 gold?”
“This is a jackpot card I wrote. Wow, I really wanted to pick one, but you pulled it.”
“Is it really 100,000 gold?”
“Real hundred thousand gold.”
“Ooh, whoa…”
She is staring at her birthday card with sparkling eyes. It’s her luck She earned by throwing her dice herself.
“…But you know.”
She asks if she can’t even guess the amount of 100,000 gold, still having a bewildered look on her face.
“What is your birthday?”
“… What?”
“What is your birthday present, 100,000 gold?”
“…”
Apart from her brilliant mind, her knowledge was broken in places like weathered stone steps. Maybe she never celebrated the day she was born.
“I mean a gift to celebrate the day of one’s birth.”
“Is that your birthday?”
“Yes.”
“…”
It was obvious what the demon king was thinking. I put in her birthday card for nothing. She reminded her of a missing part of herself. She couldn’t believe she didn’t know her birthday. She just said she was like a golden eater or something.
“… Then.”
“Huh?”
-Tuktuk
She said, pointing to her own paper crane.
“I want to make the day he turns into a game my birthday. Then give me a gift.”
“…Just do it another day.”
“…Why?”
“…”
“No. No country can concede just this time. My birthday has already been decided.”
Ha ha.
*
“So good?”
She won’t let go of her birthday gift card from her hand that I made for her.
“Yes. I like it so much lol. I feel good! I’ll give you a shot. I will give you 200 gold.”
… She received 100,000 gold… She is always cheesy in strange parts.
“Congratulations. Then, since I received the money, I should put the card back in and mix it up.”
“Poetry, I hate it. If I put it in now, I don’t think I’ll be able to pull it out again.”
…
That may be true. Because of her bad luck. She added a bit of exaggeration, and the card she drew now might be the best thing in her life.
“Then take it for now.”
“Yes. Lol.”
Her next turn. Will the fortune that was blocked be broken now? She arrived in the Serhan region.
“What? Isn’t this a big city?”
“Right. Are you going to live?”
“Yes. I wanted to go here.”
Her hand stopped as she held out Serhan’s deed to her, who had just jumped ahead.
“Have you ever actually been there?”
“…Yes.”
… I see. I didn’t ask why.
Well, that’s a good thing. A goal that made the game. It’s definitely fulfilling her goal of letting her go where she hasn’t been before.
Shortly after I did her three laps, she finally completed her round-the-world trip.
“Wow! I’m finally back.”
“Good job. You’re doing well for the first time.”
It’s a mouth-watering bullsh*t.
“Uh-huh. I think so too.”
She showed me her birthday card that she had pulled out earlier and smiled.
Her gold was almost depleted and she was about to go bankrupt if she paid her tolls one more time, but her birthday card was drawn and her game continued.
It’s my turn.
-Soowook
-Degur
The scale of the dice is 5. I, who was in the third column of the first row, entered the deserted island for the first time.
“What? You went to a deserted island.”
“Yes.”
“…”
Now, winning or losing the game was pretty good. I hope she spins fast and eats her lucky card while I’m stuck like this.
Having just completed her first round-the-world trip, she is now in the second slot. A roll of 2 takes you to the 4th slot of the first row, the Golden Key slot.
-Gulp
“Do you want to throw…?”
She suddenly looks quite serious. I don’t know why, but it seems the most desperate so far.
‘… Please. 2.’
I wanted the dice to come up with a 2. Since this is what I wish for, I wonder if I can neutralize her bad luck.
-Soowook
-Degur
…
Was earnestness weak?
Contrary to my expectations, the dice came out with a 6.
It’s the first time she’s picked a 6. She, who was in her second compartment, also ended up on an uninhabited island.
…
“…It’s a waste…”
“Wow!”
… Huh?
She smiled and moved the donkey from her second compartment to the deserted island at once. Didn’t you want the golden key slot?
“…Why do you like it?”
“hehehe. I am with you.”
… What’s so good about not being able to go out?
…
The two of them are locked up together.
Like in this tower.
Unlike before, when she was alone on a deserted island, she didn’t look bitter at all.