Three years ago - when Hayazaka Zero was still a regular person, he was putting heat on the game of his life.
At one point Zero was in the game of the losing leftover tournament method, which was partitioned by the "President Pickled in formalin".
Winning out doesn't matter if you win one, and the earlier you win, the more money you get. The rule that whoever remains to lose until the end pays. Given the risk that the majority of participants will gain, but will have to pay an uninterrupted amount if defeated, that is not the case. Most of the participants are ordinary people, and if they do it once, most of them fall out.
The content of the game varies from time to time. It can be a simple card game that everyone knows about, such as poker or blackjack, or it can be an original game conceived by the humans of a formalin-pickled president.
But a few regulars existed, including zero. They are those who regularize themselves, attracted by the fun of the game itself and the deliciousness with which they have a high chance of getting a lot of money.
Zero had nothing to do with it, and he was one of them. For zero, only a victory or loss that risked your life is the backing of your mind. But this game, if you get used to it, is easy to win, so zero was starting to get tired of it. Anyway, a lot of people challenged this place because it became a life-dong jam, because more than half of them were just unfamiliar first-sighters each time.
At one point, Zero was to play a game with one girl, who was a first-timer. I'm about a late teenager, and I don't look like I'm getting any puffy. He seemed to be the type to lose. I called my name Miho. Worst case scenario, it seemed like this kid would remain a loser.
Zero naturally won, but I was worried about Miho and lectured him on the information he had gained in the game so far and how to win here.
Zero efforts did not bear fruit, and Miho continued to lose well afterwards, finally going on to lose to the final.
The opponent is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens. Zero looked at the girl, Miho's opponent, and wondered. He's emitting an unusual aura, and I don't think he's the kind of person to lose this far. Adorable faces, because at the same time they made me ask for high intelligence.
But as if to trample the eyes of a zero person, the beautiful girl lost, and Miho gained nothing.
In the next game, Zero reunited with the two girls he met last time.
One is that Miho. He decided to join the game again because he didn't get a lot of money because he lost until the finals. For the repayment of the debt his father bore. Reasons to participate more than once are common cases.
The other one was the problem. It was that beautiful girl who lost the final last time.
If it were also to be the payment of all the gold in the winnings, it would obviously be in billions. Most of them are unable to pay, perhaps in exchange for their lives, or pay a price close to it. It is also said to replace human experiments or to be organ trafficked. In fact, I have never seen zero before, such as the fact that the loser in the final participated in the game twice.
Miho won out early this time. The opponent was also that beautiful girl who lost in the final. She continued to lose well afterwards, losing in the final.
There was Miho and that beautiful girl in that next game as well. Miho was able to repay all of his debts, but seemed to have chosen the path of regularization by getting sick of the game itself. She looked thicker in makeup and put money on her clothes. Because I had quite a bit of money in my hands last time.
What bothered me more than that was that girl who just lost. She kept losing again and also lost in the finals.
Zero thinks it's the operation that has a headache when this happens.
In fact, the wins and losses of this game itself are also subject to gambling, which costs money for the game participants to win or lose. Rather, it is the main source of business.
A fair amount of money moves if it is also a battle between regular players, and the game becomes incandescent. But there was a regular who kept losing, and it lacked uplift.
Later, Miho and the girl who kept losing participated in the game many times. Because of the girl who keeps losing, there is no risk at all, the participants have become a game where they can take money, and the spectators have been whitewashed and reduced.
"You always lose on purpose, don't you?"
One day, in front of Zero and the other participants, Miho asked the girl in a tight tone.
"Rich Daoist? Otherwise, you can't keep joining us here, can you? Besides, if it's from the management side, don't you want to turn down your participation? Doesn't that mean you have more power than you can even do?
When I heard Miho's question, Zero told me it was a big deal and leaked a laugh. It was as if people had changed after attending many times.
"Hmm, it's roughly a hit, but I wonder if there's only one incorrect answer. Doesn't mean it's fun."
The beautiful girl with crimson-eyed eyes, always smiling in white, replied with a smile even then.
"This is a fight, isn't it? With the formalin-pickled president and me running the game. Looks like my continued participation in this game will only get in the way of business over there, and I'm trying to drag the great lady over there."
The answer out of the girl's mouth was a substitute beyond zero or Miho's imagination.
"But I'm getting tired of it, and I don't compete in one of these? On the contrary, it feels like making it a winning tournament and asking me what I want if I win. If you lose, it won't happen again."
The operation accepted the request. The girl transformed herself into someone else from before, winning the game, dealing with zero in the final and also beating this lightly.
I don't know what happened between the beautiful girl with the crimson eyes and the organization after the finals. The only thing I found out was that the losing game stopped playing after that.
Zero was distracted by the girl. The same seemed to be true of Miho, who both looked into her, and quickly found out who she was, and they visited her.
Akiko returned to the mansion and the first time we met was zero. He falls asleep on the couch in the living room and reads.
Lilies have been invisible since yesterday. She often vacates the house.
Even in the absence of the Lord, there are several people entering and leaving this mansion. It all seems to be a lily eater.
What Akiko knows is that there are four of them. Zero Hayasaka, Akiko's nominee. Saito Platinum Taro, who has been stuck with Lily lately, has the impression of using it more as a small room than as a diner. A disgusting man named Ip Mountain who claims to be a maggot. And it's a man's costume girl named Mutsuki.
Ye Shan and Platinum Taro also have conversations there, but Happy Moon and I have only had conversations about greeting each other. As soon as Akiko arrived, I stopped seeing her at the mansion. Lily said she went on a boring solo journey.
"I'm surprised Junko said you're from this side of the world. I imagined the opposite."
Speak from scratch. Akiko looked surprised at what she was talking about, but when she was referring to yesterday's conversation, she immediately recalled.
"I thought you just wanted to play with fire or throw yourself away."
"What is it, that? I feel like I'm being ridiculed..."
Hear the words of zero, and muffled Akiko.
"No, that's not what I meant to say. Ladies tend to like to play with fire and chimps. I'm not seriously going to be a back dweller or anything, just to the point of keeping it to play. I thought that was it."
"Huh, really?
"Oh. I don't know how that happens. No, I can speculate, but until then. Socially and humanly, he finds it fascinating to a man like the crumbs at the bottom. But......"
Zero cuts the words, closes the book and wakes himself up.
"If you truly take the words of Junko, it means you're not such a shallow one. It would mean a deeper presence in the business. Not only is he attracted to the dark and violent, but he is the only one who can live there. Like the rest of us in and out of this mansion."
"Nothing strange or nothing? Even my mom found the distorted part on me, so she wanted to play with it a little bit more, so she didn't have to throw it away."
Seeing Akiko spread her masochistic grin, Zero slightly frowns.
"But I'm grateful to my mom. She's also the one who freed me from that boring hut. Ma, it was my mom who raised me in that fancy cabin. But I can't really hate you. It's weird."
I know too much about the outrage of lilies, Akiko. But since Akiko came here, Lily has not imitated Akiko in any way, but on the contrary, she makes various conveniences for Lily. Do that. Sometimes I order you to do this, but there are no uncomfortable orders for Akiko.
Even if you know it's rational and evil, if you treat them nicely, you can't feel it.
"You can know things you never knew before, and you can get to know a lot of people. We can get along. It's great. I thought it would never work for me. This gratitude, you know, to zero? Maybe I don't know, but I want to sue you."
After saying that, Akiko stares at zero. It was also possible to perceive zero that he would be using his powers.
"I want to think of zero as a friend, but zero is a huge rejection of me, right? I knew before I could see zero walls or light with this force, right? I wonder why?
"I don't need friends."
To Akiko's inquiry, he gave a blatantly flashy look, and zero left the room with a sleaze.
"Is it lit? And all the cool poses, too."
He was a slightly laughing Akiko as he watched after the zero left.