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Things were going strangely.
Obviously the picture I wanted was for everyone except Rin and Renee to be attacked by monsters and get in trouble…….
My mistake in not creating a barrier between the mazes was exposed.
“Is that your intention?”
“No… ….”
From Rin to Rene, the game was taking a back seat and harassing people with the corpses of monsters.
It was even more spectacle when I listened to their conversation through the artifact.
“You’d better declare that you’re giving up.”
“Otherwise you will get sick!”
“That can’t be! How much money is at stake in this gamble!”
10,000 Euros as a participation fee. In addition, I paid 50,000 Yuran for the cost of the second stage challenge.
Now, even though I’m somewhat wealthy, it felt like a painful expense.
But Lynn and Rene didn’t care about other people’s money.
“I can’t put into words! Take it off.”
“Wait?!”
“Please stay still if you don’t want to get hurt.”
They stripped off the clothes of the other challengers, then bound their hands and feet with tentacle corpses and restrained them from moving.
Then the man’s blindfold was removed.
It’s against the rules, but I didn’t take it off of my own will, so I decided to watch it first.
“What, what are you trying to do?”
“The sin of holding on like a maverick even though I’ve been told many times to give up.”
“I have to give the mace of condemnation… !”
“If you harm me, the management will not stand still!”
Chalpak-! Click-!
Rin banging her own palm with her tentacles.
Renee was showing off her clothes, which she had stripped off her challenger.
“I don’t know what you intend to do, but stop it now!”
“If you don’t give up until the end, you have no choice but to leave the casino in your pants.”
“Are you trying to melt my clothes? Stop right now! It’s a suit made by the now-deceased artisans of the royal capital, piece by piece!”
“If you don’t like your clothes, you can shout surrender.”
“I can’t… ….”
Chiiik-!
A coat that melts as it touches the slime on its tentacles.
The owner of the coat sobbed with his eyes wide open.
“No!!”
“Next is the shirt.”
“That shirt was carefully made with the yarn spun by the Flyey silkworms I bought for 3000 gold coins… !”
Chiiik-!
The clothes in which money and effort were invested instantly became liquid and fell to the floor.
His eyes were red and bloodshot, and a scream erupted from his mouth.
“You crazy b*tches! Rather kill me!”
“Finally, pants.”
“No! That’s not enough!!”
Chiiik-!
“Quaaagh!!”
After the scene where even the pants melted, I turned off the artifact.
I don’t know where I went wrong.
I never taught Lynn and Rene to intimidate me like this.
What happened in Uran while I was at the academy?
As I was shaking my head at the sudden question, I heard Prach’s words.
[It is said that people in love resemble each other, so what they do has become exactly the same as you.]
‘It sounds strange. I can’t do anything without blood or tears like that.’
[I want to hear the secret of how to be so shameless.]
‘Because it’s real.’
While arguing with Prach.
Another incident was happening outside, so it was mentioned from the mouth of the presenter who was holding a telescope.
“They seem to have found a new scapegoat.”
“Again? This is already the 4th time…… Ah.”
There are a total of 6 participants in Stage 2.
Three of them had already been slain by Rin and Renee.
And among the three people who were sacrificed earlier, there was no target for me.
In other words, the scapegoat they found this time…….
“There it is!”
“Catch!”
“What, what?!”
When I turned on the artifact again, a loud sound echoed through the situation room.
Did you say your name was Kashan?
The last remaining middle-aged man of the Red Scale Tribe is being chased by Rin and Rene.
“Somehow, I thought it was too easy. Is it an obstruction from the casino side… !”
“No.”
“We are here simply to drop the other contestants.”
“Could it be that you guys were also challengers?”
“Yes.”
“Huh! It is a clear violation of the rules to act like this after stepping into another challenger’s labyrinth… !”
“You sound the same as everyone else.”
“Since when did that rule exist? In the ladder climb, I dropped one of the other contestants, but there was no sanction.”
It seems that 9 people should have survived in the first stage.
But it seems that Renée’s tricks resulted in a dropout.
I didn’t know that either.
When I turned my eyes to the presenter, he deliberately avoided my gaze.
They asked me if I was a person, and I drew myself as an evil bystander.
Anyone who was involved in this operation was an accomplice, and there was no need to feel guilty.
We are the rules, and this gamble was conceived from the beginning to defeat the red lizard.
Perhaps the person René dropped was a member of the red scale tribe called Seris.
“Even though I didn’t order them, they were doing things that were helpful to the plan in their own way.”
Lin and Rene looked proud.
Even though it still seems to be fiercely pursuing Kashan, it distances itself appropriately.
I’m sure they’re going to take it to the final stage as planned.
It wasn’t too far from our destination, the deepest part of the maze, so we could see them even without artifacts.
“Then I’ll go out to meet you soon.”
“Yes.”
“King!”
I waved my hand to go, but Chaos mistook it for a signal to come here.
The chaos that jumped onto his lap was wagging his tail wildly.
It was ambiguous to tell him to go down, so he slowly stroked his head with a wry smile.
“Ehchu!”
As I was looking at the maze situation, Soji accidentally touched Chaos’s nose.
‘That’s a sensitive place!’ He said, weakly biting my finger, but soon began to lick it apologetically.
As I watched the chaos of giving bottles and giving medicines, I laughed without realizing it.
“I definitely think I have as much luck as people.”
[That’s a very strange word. Did you know that there are no humans except for Rin and Rewen?]
“…… Is that so?”
Recalling the relationships we have made so far, the proportion of pure humans was small.
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Except for the two people Prach mentioned, all of them were heterogeneous.
Princess Charlotte was excluded because she is a pseudo-succubus queen.
Anyway, it was a bit of a mess to be proud of being human.
“Then my reputation was good.”
[Can’t you feel that your conscience is gradually disappearing?]
I was watching the results of the 2nd stage that finally ended while letting it go in one ear.
Rin and Rene were suddenly fighting over Kashan, who was struggling to breathe.
“Ha~! If Renee-sama hadn’t stumbled at the crossroads, she would have been able to catch her…….”
“What? Are you saying it’s my fault now?”
“But isn’t it true? Don’t you remember being slow because you couldn’t control your speed and forced yourself to turn?”
“Then you too slowed down to untangle the tentacles in the middle!”
“Still, I haven’t turned around like anyone else.”
“Are you done?!”
Two people bickering over trivial things as usual.
However, having been together for so long, I could see that I didn’t really fight.
Feeling that there was another ulterior motive amidst the quarrel, I looked around with one corner of my mouth raised.
“It’s fun.”
Anyway, I don’t think it’s my turn in this plan.
***
“Everyone had a hard time escaping the maze. All three of you passed, so it’s okay to remove the blindfold.”
“Whoa… !”
Kashan threw off the black cloth.
I frowned at the light I hadn’t seen in a long time, but I was quickly adapting.
As soon as the adaptation was over, he tried to argue with those who were chasing him, but they were fighting each other as if they didn’t care about Kashan.
The momentum was so strong that it was difficult for a third party to intervene.
It was surprising that they had a pincer attack, even for a moment, in a verbal fight to the extent that the word dog-won-won came to mind.
“Everyone? It’s nice to see you in high spirits, but could you please stop the fight for smooth progress?”
“Hey!”
“Ehh… !”
The fight between the two women came to an end with the moderator’s intervention.
In the end, Kashan’s anger ended without even being able to do it.
But he didn’t care at all. Rather, the corner of his mouth twitched.
‘It’s not a bad situation.’
In the next stage, the remaining three must fight each other.
If the two women do a pincer attack like they did in stage 2, Kashan will be at an overwhelming disadvantage.
That’s why the feud between the two was a perfect opportunity for him.
‘The fact that they followed me running with all their might even with my eyesight blocked means that those two are also talented.’
Kashan had a skill called qi sense.
It’s a skill that allowed me to pass through the maze effortlessly even though I couldn’t see in front of me.
Women who are giving each other stinging glances must have similar skills.
There is no doubt about his ability.
‘Then what I have to do has been decided.’
Conciliate them and make them side with you or fight each other.
Kashan, who was rolling his head hard, smiled viciously from a position invisible to the two.
“First of all, I will give you a break before entering the next stage. I’ll be back in 10 minutes, so you can rest well for the next gamble in the meantime.”
Then Kashan’s longed-for opportunity came.
His steps were infinitely light as he approached Rene and Rin.
He didn’t even know he was going into the jaws of a tiger…….