Duke Jespen sighed heavily. He was wearing his camouflage magic tool, and it was the same with Eran in front of him.
Duke Jespen moved his gaze to Eran, who had a pile of gold coins were placed in front of him. Most of them were gold coins belonging to Duke Jespen.
“Look, is it not okay to play one more round?”
“I can’t recommend you to do that, but I can give you one more game.”
And the result…was devastating.
Eran, who relentlessly took the gold coins, turned around and left, his visage fading into the distance. He headed towards the black market, ignoring Duke Jespen, who continued to give him a pitiful look.
“Haahh…”
Duke Jespin looked at his empty wallet, and let out a sigh.
The beginning of this tragic event was quite simple.
It started when he was following behind Shael, and found Eran, who was ga*mbling against Shael. Intrigued by the spectacle, Duke Jespen wanted to compete against Eran in ga*mbling as well.
Therefore, just to be safe, he poured an enormous amount of mana into Shael and created a protective magic circle. Then he cast a magic that would send a signal to Duke Jespen even if it sensed the slightest danger.
Duke Jespen knew very well that Eran wasn’t someone who would come to such a place to do something strange. Thanks to that, he was able to ga*mble with Eran, who had stolen Shael’s money.
And then, he was robbed of all his possessions…a whopping one month’s worth of his allowance!
The truth was, Duke Jespen had live on allowance he received from his wife, Enella. It was a sad situation for a duke of the wealthy Azbel family.
Alas, he had nothing to say in the matter. If he was given authority over the Azbel family’s finances, the Azbel family’s mansion would be filled with Shael and Enella’s dresses.
‘I wanted to buy a dress for Shael…’
However, it was still too early to give up!
Duke Jespen took out a communication magic tool. It was a communication magic tool that connected directly to Enella. Soon, he heard the voice of his lovely wife from the magic tool.
[Jespen?]
Duke Jespen felt nervous without realizing it. But he still mustered up the courage!
‘I absolutely have to buy Shael’s dress today!’
“I used up all my allowance…”
[Crrreet!]
The connection of the communication magic tool cut off before he could even finish talking.
However, Duke Jespen didn’t feel bitter. In fact, he felt scared with the thought having to tell Enella about the use of his allowance in the future.
And so, with a heavy heart, Duke Jespen trudged out of the black market.
* * *
[Eran’s POV]
I extorted quite a lot of money from that proud noblewoman. Still, I didn’t feel sorry. When that woman ga*mbled, she tried to cheat and refused to admits defeat.
And now, she was even secretly following me.
To sum it up in a word, she was a woman who lost her senses.
So I felt no guilt.
Next, I found another money bad.
It was a middle-aged man who seemed to be hidden by some kind of magic tool. The man seemed to be from an aristocratic family as well, judging from how proud and confident he was acting.
Anyways, I managed to extract quite a lot of money, so much so that I couldn’t hide my excitement, probably because I hadn’t done such a thing before.
“Look, is it not okay to play one more round?”
“I can’t recommend you to do that, but I can give you one more game.”
Unsurprisingly, the following game ended in my victory.
This man had a similar atmosphere to the woman earlier. To the point where I wondered if they belonged to the same family. Anyway, it was a good thing for me. Thanks to that, I was able to earn enough money to buy the things I needed on the black market auction.
Anyways, the black market auction was about to begin. Since I was ready, I went to my seat and sat down.
Then a woman sat down right next to me.
“You again?”
“Don’t talk to me.”
It was the money bag from before. She was the woman from whom I had robbed money in ga*mbling and extracted a lot of money as reward.
“You even took my money. Don’t you think it was too much?”
She was right. However, I had Shael, and I didn’t want Shael to talk to other men, so I needed to refrain from talking to other women as well.
“I didn’t take it, I received it as compensation.”
“Ha.”
I hoped the conversation would stop at this point. Unfortunately, contrary to my hopes, the woman continued to talk.
“I see that you are quite an expert at ga*mbling.”
“I am not an expert.”
“I just saw you doing it.”
“You must’ve been hallucinating.”
Even after that, the woman continued to blabber on. So decided to just ignore her.
[The honored visitors of the black market. The auction is going to start soon, so please take your seat.]
Around the time the woman’s voice started hurting my ears, the black market auction began.
The auctioneer started introducing the items one by one. As expected from the black market, most of the items had sketchy backgrounds.
[It is the Potion of Intoxication that greatly increases drunkenness. Not only that, but it contains ingredients that make it impossible to get rid of drunkenness even with magic!]
It would be quite helpful in my plan to to deal with the Crown Prince and the Mage Tower Lord.
I put my hand on the button.
[Number 42, 280,000 gold.]
[Number 72, 300,000 gold!]
Number 72 was me. It was a pretty painful expense, but it was worth it.
[Uh! Number 71, 1.3 Million gold!]
Number 71 was the woman next to me. She was a money bag who threw her money away by ga*mbling.
And the money bag was now trying to buy an item worth 300,000 gold at several times the price.
“Do you want to fight me?”
“No? Because that is something I need.”
“I see.”
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