[Blind bet, blind play, leave everything to luck, how about it?]

[After all, it’s not our lives on the line. It’s their lives; what’s the harm in betting them?]

Pleasure seemed to have completely forgotten Death’s earlier warning to him, and simply started playing.

As he spoke, he very ceremoniously pushed all twenty-five hourglasses forward at once, as if staking them in a single move.

Xie Antong stared at him in shock. She didn’t expect this Pleasure to blow up like this at a moment like this.

“You... are you going to treat Death’s chips so frivolously?”

[So what? He’s locked in that tortoise little box now, he can’t interfere with me anyway. With an opportunity like this, how could I pass it up?]

Only now did Pleasure truly bare his fangs, his features even taking on a slightly ferocious look as he toyed with the hourglass in his hand.

Those fangs were aimed not only at Xie Antong, but at Death!

His strength was inferior to Death’s. A chance like this, where Death could be manipulated at will—this might never come again!

Holding chips made up of all of Death’s lives, if he could truly gamble them all at once, regardless of win or loss, he was certain his power would surge!

In fact, his five cards were face-down on the table; he flicked one out casually without looking, already betting his first round.

A complete blind guess!

Xie Antong watched Pleasure, and only then realized she was facing an “invincible” being!

Because this guy didn’t need to care about winning or losing, didn’t care about Death’s lives!

All the thoughts that had been consuming her energy, restricting her—on the other side, none of that mattered.

She had originally wanted him to think, to deduce the exact rules of the game, but he clearly had no intention of figuring the rules out!

Seeing Xie Antong’s expression, Pleasure smiled even more widely, spread his hands, and explained:

[Little girl, don’t make that face. Honestly, don’t you think I’m helping you?]

[Normally, even if I did nothing—if I just sat here wasting time—I could drain you to death.]

[But now I chose to go all in at once, to play a big game and give you a direct chance to win.]

[After all, right now none of us know the rules, so wins and losses are fair. If this were a proper game, you wouldn’t even be my opponent.]

Xie Antong clenched the cards in her hand and lowered her head, silent, as if truly considering the feasibility.

Meanwhile, without needing her to think, the roaring voices around them had already shown everyone’s choices.

“I’ll be honest, why not just gamble? The odds are the same, it’s actually not bad!”

“Really, I think this might be the best chance. If we win, we could directly slay the God of Death!”

“If Death dies, don’t we become immortal?”

The chattering from both sides seemed to affect Xie Antong; she closed her eyes and calmed herself.

......

At the same time, inside the black box beside them.

“You seem to have suddenly become quiet. From what we generally know about you, you usually talk a lot, don’t you?”

In the deathly calm, Death spoke faintly to the empty space before him.

“Oh? It seems you know a lot about me.”

[Not bad...]

Since the conversation had been opened, Lu Ce continued chatting:

“By the way, are you really comfortable handing all your life and possessions over to that guy?”

“Do you really think he’ll treat you well, and not squander your life like gamble chips?”

[Death]:......

After a long silence, he suddenly said:

[No, of course he won’t treat me well. He’ll toy with it, enjoying the sensation of being able to squander my energy at will.]

[Maybe he’ll even try to smash the chips that hold my life, or bet them all at once on a completely unknown gamble.]

“Oh?”

On the other side, Jealousy on Pleasure’s right cheek kept twisting, while the handsome purple visage on his left raised an eyebrow slightly.

[But that’s his nature. I know—when I put him on the gambling table, I was very clear about how he would act.]

[Yet he will still win, without a doubt! I know him well.]

Lu Ce:......

After those words, feeling the silence opposite him, Death’s mouth curled into a faint, not-quite-visible smile.

After a while, Lu Ce spoke again suddenly:

“Don’t you think it’s getting kind of hot?”

“It’s so hot... wait! Isn’t there something wrong with your black flames!!!”

[Death]: ?

“What?”

Does his black flame have other properties? What madness is this guy spouting!

“So hot...”

......

“All right!”

Outside, Xie Antong inhaled deeply, as if she had finally made a difficult decision.

She gathered all the chips in front of her and pushed them forward in a single motion.

“Since that’s the case, then...”

“Uh, you two, wait a second, are you serious?” At that moment, the Arbitrator finally couldn’t hold back.

“Didn’t you see the basic betting rules I sent to your game pages?”

“In the first two rounds, you cannot make heavy bets that would directly make subsequent rounds impossible to continue.”

“And, Miss Blank, you only have twenty-four chips left to bet with. Chips that have already started eroding cannot be bet.”

[You tell him, right?] Pleasure opened his mouth in great displeasure, [Do your job as judge. Do you need me to remind you of all this?]

Of course he knew the rules; he was just watching Xie Antong’s reaction.

Her unaware behavior proved her mind was in chaos.

A person whose entire talent rests in strategy and “omniscience”—her thinking had locked... hehe.

“All right, my bad. I forgot this might be part of your game,” the Arbitrator bowed his head and stepped back two paces.

“From now on, I will not give any further explanations about the game. Please pay attention to your game pages.”

“What?” Xie Antong shot up, frowning, “You mean you won’t explain things that might affect the game’s direction?”

[Of course not!] Pleasure jumped in with a laugh, [As long as the game has clear win and loss conditions.]

[After all, if you misunderstood, that’s part of your gaming ability~.]

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