The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

"It's starting!"

"Woah! The owner is having a match with a nobody over such a big stake!"

"I've heard that the boss never lost a battle of dice before, It's a mistake for the kid if he thinks he can win against him."

"At least the kid will learn some lesson."

The crowd mumbled out their inner dwelling, not afraid of what the people they were talking about would respond to that.

The owner of the gambling house smiled hearing his praise while Arthur kept a calm look even with the odds against him. Meanwhile the father who had huge debt looked down at the ground in lost and his daughter prayed to her goddess so that Arthur would win.

"We'll have five plays, the one with the most wins or wins three times will get the girl and the sword… you accept, right?" The boss said with a smile like he's already won the game.

"Yes" Arthur said with a calm look that somehow made the guy whiz in anger.

They both took their dice and put in their cups before knocking on it.

"Eight"

"Sixteen"

Pat!

They said and put the cups down along with its dices. After a while, they lifted it up as the number matching the closest was fifteen, which was Arthur's.

"Hey the kid won his first play."

"Simmer down, it's just the first play, there's still a lot left."

Even through it was his loss, the boss had a smile, "The first one goes to you."

Arthur didn't say anything and started their next play.

"Fourteen"

"Five"

Pat!

Both slammed the cups on the table and revealed the number closest was five, coming to six. Again, it was Arthur's win.

"The Kid won again!"

"Man, does he have great luck or something?"

"This is his second win!"

"If he wins just one more time… then doesn't that mean the owner will lose?"

The boss didn't mind the chatter, instead it helped him actually. He had lost two times but he's smile didn't diminish one bit. Instead it was Arthur who felt a bit disturbed by his smile.

Even though he won two times, he couldn't help but think there was something going on here. But he couldn't find anything, especially with him winning.

"What's wrong? Aren't you going to play?" The boss asked.

"…What are you trying to achieve here?" Arthur asked.

"What do you mean? You're winning here and yet you are questioning me? Are you crazy or what!" The boss said as his eyes landed on the father-daughter duo.

Both of them had hopes at the next play. Thinking that if Arthur won the next match, they both would be freed from their debts.

Both players shook their cups before throwing down again as they said they're numbers, "Nineteen."

"Ten"

They slowly lifted their cups. The crowd already clamoring to see the winning. They knew that this play might be the last play if things went Arthur's way.

Unfortunately, it didn't.

"Wooh! For a second I thought he might have lost it."

"Yeah, the kids winning streak scared me there for a second."

"The boss finally got lucky in this one."

You could guess from the comments that Arthur didn't win this time. It was the boss who won.

The dice had come to twenty, with the bosses being nineteen.

This win wasn't huge. It was something that didn't solidify his stand completely but at least didn't break him.

The boss smiled once more back at the calm Arthur who didn't seem to find anything amiss over here.

'Let's see you staying calm from now on bastard!'

They took their cups and shook with intensity once more. The crowd clamoring around them to take a look at their game. Not knowing if it will be the last one or will it continue.

"Pat!"

"Eight"

"Seven"

Arthur's number made the boss a bit weird. He took a moment before opening his cup and counting that it was seven. Getting himself the second victory in this play.

Arthur didn't say anything and kept on looking, his eyes still calm under the storm brewing within and out in the house. The father and the daughter on the other hand was now at a loss.

At first they didn't think that Arthur would be able to win much less get close to winning. So when he won his second play, they felt hope and cheered him silently. But as they saw the play going on, it became clear to them that last play would tell them their fate. With how the winning streak was going on with the boss, they couldn't feel reassured anymore.

The girl looked at the table before looking back at Arthur, who remained calm. Not the least bit worried about it. She didn't know why but seeing him like that made her calm too.

"Let's do this, Brat!" The boss said, eager to finish the play and show the real winner.

Arthur didn't say anything and played with his cup before they both took some time and slammed it down on the table as they revealed their numbers.

"Two!"

"One"

Again, the owner felt weirded out by the way Arthur called out his number. It felt almost like he had caught up to what the boss was doing under the table.

The boss of this Gambling House is called Rocco Duncan. He wasn't just the owner of this gambling house but actually a sub-leader of a gang.

His gang is called Snake Tails. A notorious gang that had taken its root in the Leonidas Kingdom and has quite a few dealings in the black market.

So even through Rocco gets his fair share of money from doing underhand jobs, this gambling house was his best place to source income. This house racketed out 40% percent of what he gets from his underhanded dealings with the gang. Best thing was that this gambling house of his was his legal way to earn money.

So he needed to maintain the honor and power of this place by beating this blue haired brat in front of him. If he lost then it wouldn't be too bad, but the loss of face would be irredeemable to him.

So when the cup revealed and the crowd cheered on his point two count, Rocco smiled victoriously at Arthur, "Told you kid, nobody has ever beaten me at Dice before."

He saw the hope break on the father and girl's face and couldn't help but feel a bit stingy. But hey this was business, you either win everything or others take everything from you.

Rocco's hands went to take the sword, "Should have walked away when I gave you the chance but no, you had to play the role of hero."

Arthur put his hands on his sword, stopping Rocco, "What are you doing! Are you going back on the bet?"

"I'm not."

"Then why is your hand on the sword?"

"Because it's my sword."

"But I won, so it's my sword now brat!"

"But you cheated."

"Haha, look at you denying your loss like a real lose-"

The boss couldn't finish his words when Arthur lifted the table and showed everyone what was beneath it.

"Look here everyone! The boss of this place is cheating with this technique." Arthur said showing a mechanism with some rocks in it.

The crowd began to look doubtfully at the owner who said, "They are only rocks… they can't do anything."

"Is that so?" Arthur's words paled the boss as Arthur brought some dice.

Using the rocks, he moved the diced from under the table, shocking everyone.

"This isn't just any rocks. This are magnet, something that can be used to cheat on Dice." Arthur showed everyone before kneeling down to the boss, "Tell me, is this how you win all your matches?"