The VIP room of the Body Casino, which we had entered after inflating our coin holdings to 2772 by means little short of fraud.
We had just been offered a special gamble for VIPs by the dealer.
Russian roulette.
Two participants from among our group.
[Oh, the more you play this game, the more you stand to lose, would you not say?]
[After paying the casino its fee, is it not essentially just a game of passing coins back and forth between yourselves? Except that one of the two is guaranteed to die, of course!]
But in order to achieve our goal, we had to play this gamble no matter what.
I looked at the body parts and organs dangling from the rail.
‘Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae’s body fragments are hanging up there too.’
Through Russian roulette, we had to win at least enough of those… enough that the casino would judge it to be ‘her,’ and reassemble it.
And as expected—
“I’ll volunteer first.”
Someone in our group immediately raised a hand.
Agent Choi, eyes shining.
“Agent-nim!”
“The odds that I’ll ‘really’ die are low, and the odds that I can rescue her are high, right~? If you’re an agent and you can do arithmetic, you have to do it.”
That was true.
‘From what we’ve experienced, when we die in this Segwang Special City subway, we wake up in reality and escape.’
The problem was—
‘…Can we be 100% sure that still applies this time?’
If there was even a one-in-ten-thousand chance that we really died,
then that was the end.
…….
“I’ll go first.”
At that moment, Assistant Manager Eun Haje came forward, brushing off her clothes.
“…!”
“Civilian-nim, wait….”
“No, courage just happens to be my specialty.”
Then she turned toward us and waved the hand fitted with an item.
The hand she had exchanged for.
“Anyway, I originally didn’t have a hand to begin with. So there’s no particular need for…