Hu Zhen holds the three dice with the index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and tail finger of his right hand, and holds the barnacle in his left hand.

After showing the gamblers the four dice between the four fingers of his right hand, Hu Zhen threw the three dice between the fingers of his right hand into the barnacle with the same skillful technique as ever.

After shaking the barnacle containing the dice vigorously, buckle it to the ground.

And yet—just as the barnacle was about to be caught on the ground, the pot vibrated him, and his tail finger, which was pressed against the bottommost edge of the barnacle, was skillfully hooked inward, and the movement was extremely slight and agile, and no one noticed his little movement.

"Please."

Gamblers threw their money onto paper with "single" or "double" written on it.

"Mamiya." Seeing that the palace had not staked the money for a long time, Ogata turned his head and asked, "This time bet on 'single' or 'double'." ”

"I won't bet this time." However, Mamiya said an answer that made Ogata feel a little puzzled, "This gamble is not interesting. ”

After saying this sentence without a beginning or an end, which made Ogata hear the misty words, Mamiya only put an intriguing smile on his face, and his hands were still crossed into Haori's sleeves, without the slightest intention of asking for money.

The pot vibrates the barnacles that were clasped on the ground.

"One, three, five! Single! Hu Zhen shouted.

Once again, the gambling hall resounded with a strange mixture of wails and cheers.

Looking at the three dice lying quietly on the ground, the intriguing color in the smile on Manomiya's face became a little more intense.

"Bastard!"

Just then, a gambler shouted.

"Why do I always lose today! Isn't there a problem with your dice? ”

Hu Zhen seemed to be accustomed to this kind of scene, and only silently made a "please" action to the 3 dice on the ground, and then said softly:

"If you can't trust me, you can check the dice yourself."

Seeing that Hu Zhendu said this, the gambler immediately walked up respectfully, picked up the 3 dice and examined them carefully.

Several of the gamblers sitting next to the gambler also stood up and examined the dice with him.

However, no matter how many times they checked, they couldn't find anything wrong with the dice.

As a result, they could only return these dice to Hu Zhen with a reluctant face.

The pot vibrates the dice and hands it to the middle basin for a routine inspection.

After the inspection of the middle basin, a new round of gambling began.

Kerakala ......

The sound of dice swaying in barnacles and the breathing of gamblers holding their breath are mixed together.

When the dice shake, the pot shakes the barnacle to the ground.

When the barnacle was about to hit the ground, the butt Zhen probed the tail finger of his right hand, which was pinched at the bottom of the barnacle, towards the barnacle, and hooked it slightly with a slight and agile small movement.

That's when it happened.

Just before the tail finger of Hu Zhen's right hand was withdrawn from the pot-

Ka.

The light of the knife and the sound of the knife being closed appeared almost simultaneously.

"Ahhhhh——!h

The next moment when the sword light and the sound of closing the knife disappeared, the screams of the pot vibrated sounded.

Hu Zhen's right tail finger was dripping with blood, and the barnacle and dice in his right hand were ...... No, barnacles that were cut in half to be exact, and dice falling to the ground.

Barnacles are split in two vertically.

After the barnacles that had been cut in half and the dice in the barnacles fell to the ground, the gamblers in the audience were stunned and wide-eyed.

Their eyes weren't because the barnacles had been cut in half by an unknown person.

It's because there are 6 dice that fell to the ground.

"You're quite sophisticated."

Holding the scabbard with his left hand and pressing his right hand on the handle of the knife, Mamiya, who was still maintaining the posture of collecting the knife, said softly to Hu Zhen, who was still holding his right hand and screaming miserably.

"Before the barnacles are buckled to the ground, quietly replace the dice inside the barnacles with the ones that have been prepared for a long time, so as to manipulate the game."

"You're one of the most powerful guys I've ever seen, and you can replace the dice in a barnacle with just one right tail finger."

At this time, Ogata was looking at the palace beside him with a stunned gaze.

- So fast!

Ogata exclaimed in his heart.

The other gamblers may not have seen what had just happened, but Ogata, who was sitting next to the palace and was also a samurai, knew exactly what had just happened.

Just as he was boredly clasping his hands to his chest, waiting for Hu Zhen to buckle the barnacles to the ground, the corner of his eye noticed that the palace beside him moved.

Originally, he crossed his hands into the Manomiya in the Haori sleeves and stretched his hands out between the sleeves.

Hold the scabbard with your left hand and hold the knife with your right hand.

Pull out the knife out of the sheath, the blade out of the sheath sweeps vertically from the bottom to the top over the barnacle in the hand of the pot Zhen, and then the palace collects the knife and returns it to the sheath.

This series of actions of the Mamiya was so fast that Ogata felt unbelievable.

The sound of the knife light and the sound of the knife being retracted and sheathed appeared almost at the same time.

And the most unbelievable thing for Ogata is that when Mamiya draws his sword, there is no sound.

After the palace revealed the behavior of the pot to shake up the old man, the gamblers' emotions gradually changed from stunned to angry.

"Stinky boy! Dare to play Lao Tzu! ”

One of the gamblers closest to Hu Zhen stood up directly, spread his legs, grabbed Hu Zhen's shoulder with his left hand, and clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it high.

The rest of the gamblers also surrounded Hu Zhen from all directions.

The gamblers now look like a pack of wild wolves about to share their prey.

And yet—before their fists could smash into Hu Zhen's body, a few sword draws and angry shouts overpowered the roars of the gamblers:

"I see who dares to be presumptuous here!"

"Let go of the pot for me!"

"Get out of here! Otherwise, I'll cut whom! ”

……

The owners of these angry shouts are naturally the 4 guards in the gambling hall.

The four guards were now drawing their swords and glaring angrily at the gamblers who were surrounding Hu Zhen.

The bright knives in the hands of these four guards made the gamblers who were originally in a state of rage instantly calm down.

These gamblers are just ordinary people, and they still feel instinctive fear in the face of the bright sword.

"Get out of here!" One of the four guards let out another angry shout.

As soon as this angry shout fell, the gamblers immediately let go of the pot like the torturers who had been pardoned, and then rushed out.

The gambling hall, which was originally lively and full of people, instantly quieted down.

The only gamblers who remain in the present are Ogata and Mamiya, who have been kneeling on the futon from beginning to end.

Four guards from the gambling hall rushed up and surrounded Ogata and Mamiya who were still kneeling on the futon from four directions.

"You bastard!"

One of the guards cast a vicious look at the palace.

"Since you found out that we are out of the old man, don't you just act as if you didn't see it? If you expose it, aren't you asking for hardship?! ”

Even though they were pointed at by the four swords that were clearly dangling, Ogata and Mamiya remained unmoved, and their faces did not change.