Chapter 318 – 318. Casino Sabiya (4)
“Perhaps you’ve been hurt.”
After dinner, as soon as we returned to the hotel room, Eunhyun suddenly opened her mouth.
Lily’s hand stopped while making coffee for Eunhyeon and Erin.
“It’s because you’ve been hurt… ?”
“How did you come to set foot in this casino?”
“…”
Lily had a hunch that it was none other than her father’s story.
“Why… Are you trying to tell me now?”
“Because you seem to have calmed down somewhat.”
Entering the inside of the casino, Lily’s expression, which had not been good for a long time, was stabilizing before she knew it.
Since Eunhyeon and Erin showed a calm and restrained figure, different from the maniac obsessed with gambling that their father showed, she was in the process of finding psychological stability.
“I wanted to tell you a story when I was judging reason as calmly as possible. This is your father’s work, and it is the beginning of what you went through.”
This is because I wanted to listen to the entire process of the case and make a reasonable and correct judgment.
Until now, Lily was so lost in her sorrow and anger that it was difficult for her to make the right decision.
That’s why she brought up her story now.
“Either way, I will support and help Lily with her choices. But there shouldn’t be any regrets at the end. From now on, I want you to listen to your father’s story and think carefully about what you want to do yourself.”
“… All right. Master.”
Lily nodded her head with her stern expression.
Soon, after drinking the coffee she got from Lily, Eunhyun started talking.
“This, Lily, is the memory of the thug you turned into a disabled person, embodied based on the memories that existed in the head of the thug.”
Right!
[Eunhyeon’s unique ability]
[Realization of the past world]
With a cheerful sound, the surrounding environment is distorted as if paint was released into water.
“This…”
The world started to change completely.
In an instant, the space they were in changed from the hotel room to the inside of the casino they were in earlier.
However, the atmosphere was different from the casinos I had been to before.
“Is something different?”
“The scene in front of us now is the casino five years ago, when Lily’s father used to go in and out. It goes without saying that the atmosphere and arrangement of some of the facilities are different.”
“Amazing…”
Erin and Lily, who were experiencing a scene they had never seen before, looked around with curious expressions on their faces.
“Ah…”
Lily let out a sigh when she found her father five years ago playing at a poker table similar to the one Eunhyeon played.
-Shit… Shit!
Seeing my father lose all of his chips and bang his fist on the table, the tantrum in my heart that had calmed down was about to rise again.
Perfect
As if the video had stopped playing, the world that had been moving in succession stopped when Eunhyun snapped her fingers.
The world that is changing completely is a manor with a restaurant run by Lily’s parents when she was a child.
“This is how your father got his foot in this casino.”
In the memory of the head of the gangster that Lily made into a disabled person, there were many victims like her father at the time.
Not only this dukedom, but also spread rumors to the surrounding villages and small territories.
-Really? That you can make that much money by not working and just playing games and winning?
The existence of a method in which each person stakes, and the winner monopolizes all the stakes of the losers through a game with set rules.
The initial stage is the process of imprinting in your head that you can easily get a lot of money without having to work hard all day to make your bones fall out.
And through the regular operation of the carriages that take them to the casino, it creates an environment that makes gambling easy for not only the residents of the dukedom, but also the people in neighboring territories or villages.
“As a result, enticed by the fact that you can make a lot of money without working, many people can’t resist the temptation and have created an environment where they can easily come to the casino by carriage operated by this organization.”
“Yes… That’s right.”
When Lily saw and heard firsthand some of the reasons and how her father got involved in gambling, she hardened her expression.
“The result is the worst of selling the family into slavery with a large amount of debt due to the evils of gambling addiction…”
“Hyunah, there is one thing I don’t understand…”
Glancing at Lily, Erin seemed to be contemplating whether or not she should ask this question.
“Are you okay. Erin. You don’t have to look at me.”
Lily gave permission for such a girl and stared at Eun-hyeon.
She, too, had a rough idea of what questions Erin would ask.
Thinking that it would be more comfortable for Erin to ask herself than for Erin, she opened her mouth.
“My father… Why am I addicted to gambling?”
“It’s a bit complicated. I mean being a person It is a creature with endless greed.”
Eunhyun continued her words with a bitter expression on her face.
“Erin, how much did you win at roulette today?”
“Umm, I didn’t count, but about 900 gold coins?”
To be exact, 9 platinum coins.
Realizing how good Erin’s luck was, Eunhyeon smiled bitterly.
“At first, Lily’s father must have won a lot too.”
The technique of deliberately losing to a newcomer who has just entered the gambling table and increasing the size of his capital is the foundation of the foundations for drowning that novice in the swamp of addiction.
– Heh heh heh… All these gold coins are my money!
The expression full of madness is already stained with greed, paralyzing reason in the head.
“And in the end, she loses all her winnings.”
– My money! My help!
The illusion of the screaming father disappeared, and Eun-hyeon asked Erin and Lily.
“If the two of them could have just given up at this point, why couldn’t this person give up? Is that a question?”
“… Yes.”
“That’s right.”
“This point is an important crossroads between whether people become addicted to gambling or not. Erin.”
“Huh?”
While thinking about how Erin could explain it in an easy-to-understand way, Eunhyeon came up with an example and asked Erin.
“Do you remember the story of the ‘sausage’ I told you about?”
“Ah, yes. I don’t remember.”
“… Sausage?”
Erin nodded her head, but since Lily had never heard of it, she tilted her head.
“Let’s say you, Erin, have 10 sausages for dinner tonight.”
“Somehow, the example from before was strange…”
Erin, who was very suspicious of Eun-hyeon’s example, narrowed her eyes and looked at her Eun-hyeon, but it didn’t last long.
“Anyway, so?”
“But Alvin took 5 of the sausages from your side dish. How do you feel then?”
“I am very angry. I’ll find my sausage again, even if it means hitting her brother.”
“…”
Erin gave her immediate answer as if it were natural, and Lily looked at her speechless.
Seeing Erin give her the expected answer, Eunhyun smiled.
“Why? You had zero sausages until dinner started.”
“Yeah. It’s mine from the time I received it. Isn’t that obvious?”
“… Ah.”
Hearing Erin’s answer, Lily let out a small sigh, as if realizing something about her.
“Is it a difference in perspective?”
“That is correct.”
“… Point of view?”
Erin didn’t seem to understand what Lily said at the time.
“Erin, let’s take gambling as an example again. Let’s say you earned 100 gold coins with 10 gold coins, but you keep playing and lose 50 gold coins, and you only have 40 gold coins left. How much did you lose?”
“It’s 50 gold coins.”
“… No. Erin.”
Lily shook her head, denying Erin’s words.
“Erin is not lost. She can assume that she started with 10 gold coins and made a profit with 40.”
“… Ah! Is that so?”
Erin, who belatedly understood her words, opened her eyes wide and nodded her head.
“As a result, compared to the beginning, I gained 30 gold coins, but since there is a point in time when I had 100 gold coins, people’s heads perceive it as a ‘loss’.”
And in order to make up for the loss, she becomes even more diligent, indulging in a gamble to recover her losses.
“In the beginning, I want to touch big money, and I started gambling because I was curious about it. But the reason she can’t stop gambling is that the huge amount of money she lost here is deeply embedded in her head.”
-You! That can’t be! This is the price you have to pay the supplier!
-Noisy! If you pick… If you pick it up, you can make up for it and give it back!
Lily recalled her father’s words about how he shook off her mother’s hand without remorse as she ransacked her family.
At that time, my father was really scared.
A frightening figure that became worse day by day, losing reason and not being able to judge properly.
“The reason many gambling addicts can’t get out of here is to get back the money they lost here. It is often referred to as ‘pre-existence’.”
“The original mind…”
The desire to earn big money comfortably has disappeared at this point.
Just to get back your lost money, you will make a foolish choice to drive yourself to ruin.
Because it is fueled by a false hope created by someone, it is caught in the illusion that this time it can be recovered, that this time it can be successful, it cannot escape to the outside world.
“The casino side made good use of this psychology of people.”
“That word…”
“Think carefully. Where does the money to run such a luxurious and large facility come from?”
“Is the casino operating on the money lost by those who gambled?”
“Yes. Even though they take commissions in the name of game fees, that’s different for each game. In particular, a game between players and players is fine, but in the case of a game played between a player and a dealer, such as Erin’s roulette, when the player wins, the casino has to prepare the winnings.”
“Ah… Then the money I won at roulette today is the same as a loss on the casino side.”
Erin recalled the look on the female dealer’s face, who grew more and more teary-eyed every time she won a game.
Somehow, a feeling of sorry pricked her heart.
“I mean, in any game, the casino side has a structure that does not necessarily cause damage to their side, and there is a means to ensure that the game turns in their favor.”
The part corresponding to this is the card shuffling and hand technique that the female player showed when Eun-hyeon played poker at the casino.
Tazza’s skill of manipulating the card she wants to return to the opponent she wants is not a skill that can be mastered so easily.
“Probably, not only Lily’s father, but also various people from other estates and villages created a structure that made them inevitably lose money in this casino, and further stimulated their psychology so that they could not get out of the swamp of gambling.”
Ultimately extorting the victim’s property and putting them in huge debt due to their gambling addiction is just the beginning.
They enslaved their entire families and sold them in the market, taking the profits intact.
It is literally the ‘human market’ itself that tries to change the human body itself into gold coins.
“Lily.”
“… Yes.”
“This is all that this casino has done by bewitching your father and many other people to come here.”
And now, this casino is plotting something else by bewitching the people of the surrounding estates and villages with similar means.
“What do you want to do?”
Eunhyun, who finished all the explanations, asked Lily.
Erin also quietly held her breath and waited for Lily’s choice.
Lily closed her eyes tightly, clenching her fists to calm her trembling hands.
This place, these people, is the only clue to the mother’s whereabouts as she is destroying her family.
After making up her mind, her eyes opened and she stared at Eun-hyeon in front of her.
“I want to destroy everything. A place like this shouldn’t exist.”
Her eyes strongly insist that there should not be another victim like herself.
Her master smiled as he received the gaze of his familiar staring at him with her straight eyes.
“Okay.”
