The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 144



Chapter 144 – Family Request – 5

“What did you do? Say it again.”

“That is… … .”

Andrei, the leader of the Kingdom of Heaven, put down the magical tool in his hand and asked. The subordinate who had come to report was drooping and sweating profusely.

“A rich guy came looking for me, so I pretended to lose a little like I usually do, and then tried to take it all away… … .”

“Did you do it?”

As Andrei asked in a way that was like catching the tail of a horse, the bewilderment and deepening look on the subordinate’s face deepened. The subordinate seemed to be at a loss, then closed his eyes tightly and shouted.

“Hey, we lost everything! And all the kids who attacked us!”

Now all that was left was to wait for the outburst of anger and shouting. With that thought in mind, he closed his eyes tightly and waited for the next words, but Andrei did not show the reaction his subordinate expected.

I just thought about it for a moment and then opened my mouth.

“All our kids were robbed? So you’ve never lost before?”

“That’s not it. The odds of winning against the customers are about 5 to 5, as they keep winning and losing. However, if our kids see that and try to play again, they’re in a tough spot. It doesn’t matter if they’re the dealer or the customer. One time, I had all my kids sit down as the dealer and the customer, except for that guy, and we still lost.”

“We even had our kids sit as dealers, but they got robbed… … What about the mana detector?”

“Nothing detected.”

“Hmm, right. If the detector had reacted, this report wouldn’t have come up. That was a pointless question.”

Andrei, who had been deep in thought and tapping the desk, gestured.

“It looks like he came here on purpose. Don’t do any more work and just let him go play with the customers. Those guys are like natural disasters. If we don’t bother him anymore, he’ll play by himself and go away on his own. If he comes back again, just give him some excuse and blacklist him so he can’t come back.”

“Yes! I understand!”

“Wait a minute. At least we need to find out who that guy is. Did anything come out?”

The subordinate, who had been greeting me more politely than usual because he thought I was alive, bowed again in a hurry.

“I did some research before coming up here. Her name is Mira Crate. She’s the youngest son of the Crate family. I’m sure of it.”

“Mummy Crate? That would be a different story. I thought this was some kind of natural disaster, but it wasn’t. Hey, tell the kids to stall for time until I’m ready. Make sure they can’t run away, no matter what. Well, I don’t think he’ll want to go anyway.”

The subordinate’s eyes became dazed.

“Why?”

“That guy Mira Crate, he didn’t seem to care at all when he was playing with our kids. He won games that were set up so they couldn’t win, and he robbed our kids.”

“Yes.”

“But you say the odds are 5 to 5 for the customers? Why would someone who can distinguish between the customers and our kids so thoroughly win against us? It’s obvious that they’ll be suspicious. If you keep losing and winning at a moderate level, they won’t be suspicious. In my opinion, if it had been 7 to 3, I would have thought they were trying to get a sucker with beginner’s luck and lost interest.”

The reason why the report was immediately sent to Andrei was because all the employees who rushed at Mira Crate were destroyed, without a single one left. The subordinate who knew this nodded obediently.

“We can tell our kids apart, but if the guests only win against our kids in a 5v5 match, there must be another intention. It can’t be helped. That’s why I told them to stop working and just let them go since they seemed determined to rob us. But if it’s Mira Crate, it’s a different story.”

Andrei’s face was distorted evilly.

“Those guys who went to that girl, they haven’t come back yet?”

“Yes. I haven’t received any calls.”

“It’s obvious. That girl is attached to Crate. Her family heard about it, but since they can’t find fault with the loan itself, they sent their younger brother to resolve it in another way. I heard he’s quite capable.”

In fact, if the rumors were true, they would be quite a lot. But Andrei believed that rumors, as is often the case, were often filled with exaggeration.

It was a rumor that made no sense.

“Why would Mira Crate come all the way here and do something like that? Is it just to threaten me to crawl out? I bet that b*tch has told me who ordered her to destroy the carriage and what the original orders were. If she goes at me like this, she knows I won’t back down.”

All of the men he had sent were either dead or imprisoned somewhere. Either way, it didn’t matter to Andrei.

“If it was only one or two, I would have been skeptical, but since all the circumstances match up, it’s definitely true. There’s no other way to explain it. What if the kids we sent to Io were to return late and Mira Crater happened to come and destroy all of our kids? If I’m going to bet on the probability of that happening, I’d rather bet on the world ending right now.”

“As expected, you are my brother!”

“If you understand, then get ready. Since you want to see me so badly, I have to give you what you want.”

Andrey sat up, smiling happily.

“I’ll also show you how cruel the outside world is.”

“Would you mind for a moment?”

“It’s not okay, so wait.”

“Yes. I will ask you again as soon as I finish.”

The man who looked like the manager bowed his head deeply and took two steps back. I looked down at the seven teacups in front of me again.

I never thought there would be a scam in this world, and I didn’t know it would happen in this luxurious building, but I had no intention of avoiding it since it was a scam that came from over there.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been so blatantly robbing Andrei’s men, but they’ve come up with a seven-cup game. The stakes are obviously much higher than if you play with three cups.

If you guess correctly, you basically get seven times the amount of money you won, but if you guessed correctly on the number of dice inside, you could get an additional six times, increasing the total bet to forty-two times.

Of course, if even one of them is wrong, both will be considered failures, so the risk is overwhelmingly high.

It looked quite interesting, so I accepted, but the mixing guy’s sleight of hand was a sleight of hand, and since the teacup itself was a magical tool, the positions of the dice could be changed at will, so it was safe to say that it was absolutely impossible to win using normal methods.

“Here it is. The dice shows 4.”

“Hey, no way. There’s absolutely no such thing— Huh?!”

In a normal way, that is.

The man leisurely picked up his teacup, but when he saw the dice with the number 4 on top, just as I had said, he gasped in shock. Shouts like a conflagration erupted from the surroundings.

That would be it. The dice that had just been put in and shuffled were in that guy’s sleeve. It was clear to see him fiddling with his sleeve to make sure the dice were in there.

“Absolutely not?”

“T-T, T-T, I guess I slipped up. You got it right. Congratulations.”

The man gritted his teeth at my laughter and congratulated me with a congratulatory message that was not even a little sincere. He also knew that I had rigged the game in some way. Of course, since the dice were up his sleeve.

But the moment you claim it’s a scam, you’re going to get a backlash, so you’re holding back. They did everything, from putting the dice in to shuffling them to opening them, and you’re saying I committed the scam? That’s ridiculous.

I released the mana link as soon as the teacup covered the dice, causing them to disappear. Still, the mana detector that had set me as an exception to detection did not go off.

“Now that it’s over, tell me. What happened?”

When I asked openly and clearly showing that I was annoyed, the man’s words and actions became more polite.

“Andrey would like to meet you.”

‘You came earlier than I thought.’

Somehow, from about halfway through, there were a lot of guys who started to blatantly avoid me, but then suddenly started to attack me. Was it because Andrei told them to do so? I guess I achieved my goal, but I pretended not to know and asked back.

“Why me?”

“As you all know, Lord Andrei was a gambling enthusiast before becoming the master of the Kingdom of Heaven. He says he was curious after seeing the skills of his guests. Instead of playing with those small-timers, he wanted to play with himself on a bigger scale. If you meet Lord Andrei, you might get what you want. What do you think?”

‘You noticed, didn’t you?’

The last sentence convinced me. He realized that I had been robbing my subordinates to meet him. Then he must have guessed why I came here, but I wondered how it would turn out.

“Okay, then.”

Of course, there is no reason for me not to meet you. As I got up from my seat, the porter I hired on the spot swept up 42 chips representing platinum coins and took them away. One platinum coin became 42 coins.

I took out one of the chips and threw it at the man who was still absentmindedly putting away his teacups.

“It’s a tip. Take it.”

“Oh, thank you… … .”

The guy took it with a dumbfounded look on his face.

After telling the human he hired as a porter to take care of it properly if he wanted to get paid properly, he followed the manager to the innermost corridor. People lined up on both sides.

“This way.”

The manager stopped in front of a door that looked perfectly soundproofed at first glance, and as if that wasn’t enough, it had a soundproof barrier. It was obvious why he had brought me here.

As we went inside, a man with a face almost identical to the one described was sitting there.

Even though he had a thick beard, he had a pretty face and was dressed neatly in a suit, so his first impression wasn’t that bad. He seemed to be a finger or two taller than me.

If we were to express it in romance novel terms, it would be something like a wild horse type of man. Of course, I’m not sure if that expression is actually used.

“You are Mira Crate. I am Andrei.”

Andrei said and picked up his glass. The woman in revealing clothes standing next to him poured him a drink.

“Why are we introducing ourselves when we already know each other? You probably figured out why I came here, didn’t you?”

“That’s right. I know that Io Brant has joined you, and that you came here on a carriage business.”

“I’m glad I don’t have to explain myself. I’m just asking, but you didn’t put this together for a good reason, did you?”

Inside the room, there were a lot of that guy’s men, openly armed with swords, swarming around. Some of them were even seen preparing to use magic. Andrei took a sip of his drink and laughed lightly.

“You wouldn’t have brought it here for no reason?”

I tried to open the door with magic. It wouldn’t open because it was locked from the outside. I was glad they weren’t as bad as I thought.

“That’s right. If they were kids who were left there with good intentions, I would have been embarrassed after beating them up.”

I slowly raised my mana without the other side noticing.

“Your boss will probably never come back if he gets caught, so the position of the master will be empty. Is there anyone who wants to take his place and become the master here?”

“Here! Me!”

The woman who had been clinging to Andrei raised her hand. Judging from the expressions on their faces, it seemed as if they were openly trying to play a joke. Laughter spread across the faces of the subordinates as well.

-Kwaaang!

Suddenly, the entire room shook and blood and flesh splattered.

Andrei’s arms and legs were cut off by Mana’s blade, and the storm that swept through the room slammed his men into the wall so hard that it cracked. The bodies that were stuck in the wall fell to the floor a step later.

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“… … .”

The smile disappeared from the face of the only woman who survived intact. As if she couldn’t properly judge the situation, she simply kept wiping the red blood soaking through her clothes and skin with her palm.

I approached Andrei, who was crouching with only his head and torso left, used healing magic, and picked him up by the back of his neck. I was planning on taking him away like this and then putting him on, since it would be annoying if he resisted for no reason.

As he passed the woman, he stopped for a moment and spoke.

“I told you to do whatever you want, so do it well.”

I made it that way because you said you wanted to do it, so I’m sure you’ll do well.

“I didn’t know you would be captured like this.”

“I also brought a healing wizard. I thought that one limb each would not be enough. You can use them as much as you want and then send them back.”

“You really are the best little sister. I think you could give me a kiss for free right now.”

“Before I confiscate and burn all the erotic novels, why don’t you finish cleaning up over there like you promised?”