"Didn't you set a limit on the gambling?" Ayanokoji frowned: "Togakushi Yukimi has been operating the casino for so long; she should know this, right? Didn't she warn you?"
Saotome said softly with great remorse: "We only opened a few days ago, and we've always been playing small stakes of ten or twenty thousand yen. Who would have thought he would come in with one million yen right away..."
Although we wanted to cancel the gambling when he brought it up, he forced us to continue, citing that a casino cannot change its rules on the fly.
If we didn't gamble, he would use the Student Council's authority to shut down our casino."
Mibuomi Aoi... Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had just met him two days ago. He seemed quite friendly. Was he actually doing something like this behind his back?
Ayanokoji asked in confusion: "As the Student Council Accountant, he shouldn't have that kind of authority, right? Doesn't Accounting only handle money?"
Saotome said with difficulty: "There's something you might not know... Miharu Taki Sakura, the Beautification Committee Chairman, is his fiancée. She's specifically in charge of managing casinos."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka paused.
He had just dealt with that Beautification Committee Chairman two days ago to obtain surveillance footage. Although she seemed stern and unapproachable when "collecting rent," she was just following standard procedures and firmly did not want to owe anyone favors.
In Ayanokoji's opinion, she was quite easy to get along with, so he never expected her fiancé to be Mibuomi Aoi.
Well, well... Mibuomi Aoi, this guy, smiles at him on the surface but secretly causes trouble in his casino. This guy really knows how to play.
Did he provoke him somewhere? Or is it that, like Mikura, he wants to be Miss Juraku's dog? And because of same-sex repulsion, he developed hostility towards him?
"Since he came to find trouble with me, then this matter should have been told to me even more."
"No, he wasn't looking for trouble with you!" Seeing that Ayanokoji had misunderstood, Saotome quickly shook her head: "He saw my gambling skills and wanted me to join Zenshoukai."
Zenshoukai?
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had just heard this name from Kurume Laiwei a few days ago.
According to her, this was a mutual aid resistance organization established for the livestock, aiming to resist the Student Council's dictatorial oppression.
But Ayanokoji remembered, wasn't this a secret organization that only "livestock" were invited to? How could it be in contact with Saotome?
If they were to contact anyone, it should be Hanatemari.
By the way... Rumor has it that there is an official member of the Student Council behind Zenshoukai. Could it be that person is Mibuomi Aoi?
"In short, he wanted to invite me to join Zenshoukai, and he also said that if I joined Zenshoukai, he would return the one million I lost.
After I rejected his invitation, he didn't get angry. He even gave me three spots for this banquet, allowing Hanatemari and me to earn money through this gambling event..."
"Speaking of which..." Saotome Meari suddenly said as if just realizing: "Sachiko Juraku seemed to have said that she knew about the matter between Mibuomi Aoi and me, and it seems he asked Sachiko Juraku for these spots.
Is it possible... the entire game was set up by her to make me lose?"
After she finished speaking, without waiting for a reply from Ayanokoji, Saotome Meari already had the answer in her heart.
Isn't this very obvious?
Mikura said she was randomly assigned to this table to be the Dealer, which was clearly a lie.
As Sachiko Juraku's "loyal dog," she must have accepted Sachiko Juraku's instructions to come down and specifically supervise this table.
As a girl who had attended the banquet many times, Inui Chitose's cheating methods must have been well-known among the members of the Beautification Committee.
Mikura might have intentionally made Inui Chitose team up with Saotome, deliberately setting her up.
Their goal was to make Saotome lose all her money, and then when she had no money to pay the tribute and could only become livestock, she would have no choice but to join Zenshoukai.
Speaking of which... Didn't Kurume Laiwei say that she was in contact with the Zenshoukai organization? Is it possible that she was also intentionally arranged at this table?
"Mibuomi Aoi personally guaranteed that as long as I participated in this gambling and won, he would no longer bother us.
No matter what, I've won this gambling now. Next time I operate the casino, I'll definitely be more careful and won't be fooled by such petty tricks..." Saotome Meari personally guaranteed.
After she finished speaking, she hesitantly brought up Hanatemari again: "How about... just because I helped you operate the casino, you let Hanatemari go? I'll return that one million eight hundred thousand to you..."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's eyes were complex; he didn't know how to tell Saotome that Hanatemari had already been thoroughly taken by him...
Just then, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"Yo, Hanatemari, you're already here! I thought I was the only one who came! You're really early!"
"No, I'm not…" Hanatemari explained, her face pale.
That voice was Kurume Laiwei… Why would she be here at this time?
Ayanokoji and Saotome exchanged glances, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
Saotome Meari looked at Ayanokoji with disdain: "Hey… why did you call Kurume Laiwei? You couldn't have been thinking about a threesome, could you? No wonder your bedroom bed is so big…"
Ayanokoji felt extremely wronged: "Heaven knows, I really didn't ask her to come, and I never even told her where I live."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka truly didn't understand how Kurume knew about this place; he had never told her where he lived.
"Then how did she find this place?"
Saotome snorted coldly, pushing Ayanokoji Kiyotaka from behind, out of the bedroom: "I don't care about anything else, just get her out of here quickly. I don't want to see her…"
"Ayanokoji, are you in this room?"
But before Saotome could push Ayanokoji out of the room, Hanatemari failed to stop Kurume, who burst into the bedroom.
Seeing another guest in the room besides Ayanokoji, Kurume's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered a new continent, and she looked at Saotome playfully: "Not just Hanatemari, so Saotome, you're here too. You guys really know how to have fun… What kind of party are you having? Why don't you add me?"
"You're mistaken. They both just came to see me about something today, it's definitely not what you're thinking."
Ayanokoji shook his head, looking at Kurume curiously: "By the way, how did you know about this place? I never told you where I live."
Kurume put her hands on her hips proudly: "Heh heh… You didn't leave school last night, but continued to stay in the school. I guessed you might have booked a room at the hotel, and then I went to ask the Disciplinary Committee, saying I wanted to find you to fulfill the gamble. They readily told me your room number."
The room Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was staying in was under the Student Council's jurisdiction. When he checked in, he showed his student ID, and his information was recorded in the archives, so it was not strange for the Student Council to know.
It's just that this guy is too proactive… Does she really want to fulfill the agreement that badly?
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