133 — Camping (3)

Rurin and Sereina shout in unison again.

Well, it’s true that it’s fair as they say.

If they pulled any nonsense, I’d immediately intervene. So, with a mind to see how funny the changes were, and seeing the four raised arms in front of me, I just nodded, finding it too troublesome to argue further.

Besides, no matter how much they changed it, the basic board is still BuruO-bul.

Elena was made the banker from the beginning, also known as the game’s manager.

Since she helped with cooking earlier, she gets a different privilege than the dragons. Blessings to the good.

“Then let’s decide the order with rock-paper-scissors.”

Sereina and Rurin nod simultaneously. Maybe because I’ve used it so often, the two dragons are already familiar with rock-paper-scissors.

The loud “rock-paper-scissors” echoed from the three of us, and soon the result was out. Funny enough, Rurin chose scissors. Sereina chose scissors. I chose scissors. So, it was a tie from the first round.

But Rurin pushed Sereina’s scissor-shaped hand with her own scissors and stood up proudly, shouting.

“I won!”

“Ugh, is she crazy!”

The united front formed when changing the game’s rules was short-lived, ending just like that.

It was the moment when the war between the two started again.

Rurin began to explain something nonsensical to me, ignoring Sereina’s anger.

“My scissors beat her Red scissors easily. Don’t you think so too? Black is above Red!”

No, it’s not.

Then Rurin stared intently at my hand. She looked at my scissors once and then at her own scissors again.

She kept looking back and forth between the scissors and then, after pondering for a while, she spoke.

“With your scissors….”

She didn’t finish her sentence and grabbed my hand. Then she continued reluctantly.

“It’s a tie.”

After all that pondering, it ended in a tie.

The rock-paper-scissors happening in Rurin’s brain is quite a spectacle.

“What are you doing, you two?”

At the right moment, Sereina interrupted. She pulled Rurin’s hair and muttered with an exasperated expression. I removed Sereina’s hand from Rurin’s hair and spoke.

“I told you not to touch Rurin’s hair.”

“Then should I touch your hair!”

Sereina eventually exploded and shook my head, and I calmly accepted her anger for a moment. Then I shrugged once and spoke.

“Enough, let’s do it again.”

Eventually, in the next rock-paper-scissors, Rurin chose paper. And since Sereina and I chose rock, Rurin became first place.

This time, Sereina nonsensically claimed that her rock beat paper.

I thought they really were dragons of the same level and stopped the nonsense.

So, Rurin is first place.

Rurin has strong luck in these things. I’ve lost a few bets ridiculously because of her strong luck.

It won’t be like that this time, right? Maybe not in rock-paper-scissors, but in the actual game.

Let’s see if I can test Rurin’s mysterious strong luck.

With that thought, I continued playing rock-paper-scissors with Sereina. And I accidentally won.

So, the order of rolling the dice is Rurin first, then me, and finally Sereina.

“Why! Whyyyy!”

Sereina, who didn’t like losing from the start, yanked her hair and rebelled.

“It’s obvious! Hehehe. You’re last place, of course.”

“Ridiculous. You two are like a scam couple. Didn’t you plan this?”

Sereina, unable to accept it, looked at me and Rurin alternately and started to act out again, but this time Rurin nodded with a satisfied smile.

Not a mischievous laugh like “Hehehe”, but a giggly “Hehehe” while twisting her body.

What should I say?

It seems she reacted to the word ‘couple’. I turned my head away.

It’s best to pretend I didn’t see or hear such things. That’s life.

“Alright, anyway, let’s start. It’s your turn, Rurin.”

“Got it. I will win. Hehe. I’ll be first place and do nothing but laze around!”

Rurin shouted her strong desire to do nothing, glanced at me and Sereina with a devilish smile, and then casually threw the dice over her head.

The dice that left Rurin’s hand went up to the ceiling and then rolled to the floor.

The number on the face of the stopped dice was 6. She was first in rock-paper-scissors and now rolled a 6. Rurin definitely seems to be blessed with luck.

She didn’t use manipulation or mana, but it’s like a 100% successful claw machine, and she has often won bets showing performances beyond my imagination.

“One, two, three, four, five, six!”

Before changing various things on the board game, Rurin and Sereina had already roughly played the game once, so they both knew the basic gameplay well enough. Rurin naturally moved her piece six spaces.

The BuruO-bul board game has famous cities of the world written on it. If you land on one of those spaces, you can buy that city, and if you land on your owned space again, you can start building on it.

If another player lands on your owned space, they have to pay a toll, and the toll increases significantly depending on the types and number of buildings on that land.

And the game’s winner is determined by who bankrupts first from not being able to pay the toll.

Rurin glanced at Sereina teasingly. The two dragons are instinctively a species that only feel satisfied when they win against each other, so this can’t be helped.

“Fool.”

But Sereina just dismissed Rurin’s provocation with a single word as if it was amusing. Something was off. Sereina’s mocking smile suggested there was something Rurin had overlooked.

“Who’s the fool!”

“Your memory.”

When Sereina shook her head, Rurin jumped towards Sereina’s chest.

With a thud!

As a result of that charge, Rurin’s kick landed squarely on Sereina’s body with a rough sound.

The two dragons began to actually fight, causing a commotion.

If they were dragons, they should be fighting with mana, but instead, they’re having a brawl that looks undignified.

It was a complete mess, a total chaos.

Elena tried to intervene in panic, but it was useless. There are few beings in this world who can stop dragons.

“Ladies, it would be best if you stop. You’re both asking for trouble.”

Speaking sternly, Rurin detached herself from Sereina and started shaking her head vigorously.

“Why would I ask for trouble? I don’t need that nonsense!”

Rurin spoke firmly with an expression like she was rejecting a free service.

“Oh, really?”

“Uh, Rurin…”

“To buy the land, you need 20,000 Linds. And if you land on it again, you can start building a hotel….”

“Huh?”

Before Elena could finish her explanation, Rurin furrowed her brow, made a strange sound, and then looked like she realized something, turning teary-eyed.

Sereina had a look that said, “See?”

“I told you, you’re a fool. When did you set your land price so high, saying it should be worth that much?”

“Ughhhhh!”

Rurin started to get angry with a look of realization. Even if she looked at me tearily, it was entirely her own fault, and no one could help her.

Games are solitary.

Winning and losing are also solitary.

Rurin looked up at me and trembled, but there was nothing I could do.

The initial capital in the game, the banknotes issued by the BuruO-bul bank, were 10,000 Linds.

20,000 Linds is double that amount. You get paid 5,000 Linds as a salary each time you complete a lap, so you’d have to go around two more times to buy that land.

Assuming no loss of assets along the way.

So, if the land price is that high, the difficulty of the game naturally becomes very hard.

A hardcore level game.

“Then is it my turn?”

The rules apply to everyone, so as Sereina said, it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit hard. It’s fair.

Rurin, unable to buy the land and because she set the price herself, just looked at the cave ceiling with a blank face, unable to get angry.

Anyway, this moment is my dream. Even if the bet hanging there is really nothing, I didn’t want to lose.

Washing dishes and building a house.

In the latter case, using mana, it’s no big deal.

Even so, I rolled the dice with the thought of wanting to win.

A dream is a dream only if you win it.

I rolled the dice seriously. The rolling dice stopped precisely in front of Rurin’s feet.

Rurin and Sereina shot intense gazes at the stopped number. For some reason, even Elena, unlike with Rurin.

And the number was 2.

I still don’t have much luck in these types of games. Just a 2, sigh.

That place, originally Busan, had been changed to <Hilltop Restaurant>. Hilltop Restaurant is none other than my restaurant.

I can’t predict the price. Because Rurin and Sereina set it.

Expensive? Cheap? At that crossroads, Sereina chuckled. It seemed like there was something to it.

I couldn’t read Rurin’s expression. It was subtle. So I looked at Elena with a tense expression. In the end, Elena holds the answer.

“Here, Mr. El.”

Elena showed the price of the <Hilltop Restaurant> land card she was holding.