When setting up the wager, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka knew that Hagen would violate the agreement. Negotiating with an evil person, no number of lives would be enough.
Evil people like him, who kill without remorse, have no moral integrity and would not hesitate to tear up a wager, especially when he held the upper hand in this gamble.
He would absolutely demand both his life and his money.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka established this gamble on the premise that Hagen would violate the wager.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka didn't know he would be kidnapped beforehand. He only came out today to meet Ayari's parents and hadn't prepared much.
His original contingencies were rendered useless by Hagen's astonishing individual qualities and the professor's caution. All ways he could have informed the outside world of his location had disappeared.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's inbox contained many item cards. These items could be materialized into reality.
However, most of these items were food, snacks, various poker cards and dice for gambling, and various medical supplies like alcohol and bandages—all sorts of miscellaneous things.
The system seemed to have no intention of turning Ayanokoji Kiyotaka into a killing machine. Among these items, there was no lethal weapon.
Forget about weapons like pistols and crowbars; there weren't even slightly lethal items like scissors or kitchen knives. The most lethal items were only everyday objects like nail clippers, razor blades, and lighters.
Putting nail clippers aside, razor blades could kill people, but only through close-range throat-slitting.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka didn't believe he could silently approach Hagen and instantly kill him by slitting his throat with a blade.
Therefore, he didn't act rashly when he gained freedom earlier.
Although he had cards... he wasn't God of Gamblers Ko Chun, nor was he Ryo Saeba from City Hunter, so he couldn't achieve the superb technique of killing with playing cards.
These cards also had no magic; throwing them wouldn't make people dizzy.
Magic tricks were possible, but killing was truly not.
The only items in his inventory related to combat were various R-card foods that provided buffs.
These item bonuses were very high. If he had prepared well and used the items at hand, it might have been possible to take down Hagen.
But before, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka thought the gun Ikishima Midari held contained a live round, believing that if he just stalled Hagen for a few seconds, she could deliver a fatal blow. In his urgency, he didn't use the items, and there wasn't enough time to use them before he rushed forward.
This was also where Ikishima Midari and Ayanokoji's cooperation went wrong. If she had hinted to Ayanokoji that her gun did not contain a live round, perhaps Ayanokoji could have thought of a better method.
But now, if Ayanokoji wanted to turn the tables, he had to rely on the system, and only on the system's guaranteed mechanism.
As long as it was a mutually recognized gamble, under the guaranteed mechanism, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka would definitely win—this was the system's absolute mechanism.
However, the system was merely an executor of wagers; it had no likes or dislikes. The system's guarantee would only bring you victory, but things might not necessarily develop in the direction you hoped.
For example, if Ayanokoji Kiyotaka wanted to bet with someone on the color of the skirt worn by the next girl passing by an intersection, Ayanokoji guesses red, and the other person guesses blue.
It's possible that the system would make the next girl suddenly feel inspired to visit a clothing store and change into a red outfit, or it might suddenly create an accident, causing the skirt on the next girl to be stained red with blood.
If Ayanokoji were discussing a gamble with Ikishima Midari in the van, betting that there would be police checking vehicles along the road and discovering their tracks.
To ensure Ayanokoji's victory, the system might suddenly change Hagen's mind, causing him to shoot and kill both of them on the road beforehand, and then the police, hearing the gunshots, would rush over...
If they bet that the van would suddenly encounter an accident on the road, and Hagen also died in the crash, it's also possible that Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Ikishima Midari would both die on the spot as collateral...
The system will bring you victory, but it might also harm you and others in the process of achieving that victory.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka couldn't predict such things.
Therefore, if Ayanokoji Kiyotaka wanted to take down Hagen, he had to find an opportunity, an opportunity where only he was in danger, capable of incapacitating him in one go.
What should he bet on for him to agree?
What should he bet on to reasonably use the system's rules to take him down?
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka saw Hagen's greed for money and remembered Ikishima Midari's repeated emphasis on Russian Roulette.
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