Chapter 44 - Volume 3 (1/2)

Port City sued New Port City days after the Grand Canal Race finished, just as Goldman predicted The rationale was simply the “unauthorised use of the Grand Canal” Isaac hired professional lawyers of his own to fight back, but Port City held all rights over the Grand Canal

The Department of Law declared that New Port City ht a sudden end to Cordnell’s s Port City continued to do as Goldman predicted, and they quickly prepared an event of their own using the Grand Canal So his idea stolen froht under him, but most of the public believed that it was justified There were a few people in Port City who complained about this purely out of lust to see the elves in skimpy outfits, but those voices were quickly silenced soon after

Isaac seemed to have lost all faith and a carried back to City Hall on Rizzly’s back after drenching himself in booze Word of Isaac’s recent behaviour quickly spread, plu New Port City’s ht future

“Huhuhu It’s over, all over”

“Sir Isaac, you shouldn’t act like this here”

“Shut up! Bring h another drunken rae in one of New Port City’s restaurants All of the restaurant employees looked at Isaac fro

“Che! That man’s done now”

“Who cares Let’s just make the most of it while we can Who knoe e be able to do work like this again”

The citizens of New Port City whispered to each other after watching Isaac’s broken state Isaac didn’t see his ra with Rizzly standing at Isaac’s side with both eyes wide open

“Uhuhuh Screw this stupid world Fine! It only takes one shot to turn your life around! Let’s have a big o!”

“Huh? Go where?”

“Where else? To the casino!”

“But… You al for citizens of New Port City to play in the casinos”

“Huhu, who says I’ to my own casino? It’s o to Port City and take all of their money!”

“Eeh! Sir Isaac! Please not that!”

“Shut up! Follow me!”

Rizzly tried to stop Isaac as best as he could, but his atte Isaac’s relentless uess it really is over”

“Looks like he’s trying to settle this soamble”

“Ha! If that was possible, there wouldn’t be a single casino left standing”

After observing Isaac’s life spiral down to a ne, people let go of what little pity they originally had for him

“Ha! It’s no different froate of Port City’s casino, his eyes burning as if he was looking at his lifelong eneht now”

Isaac shouted in response to Rizzly’s plea

“What are you on about? Just wait here I’ll close down this casino myself!”

Isaac confidently marched over to the casino, only to be stopped by the security guards

“I’m sorry but you may not enter”

“What! Don’t you knoho I aance and culture may enter this place”

“Bullshi+t! You think I came here withoutall your uards looked at each other anxiously, unwilling to put the as Isaac continued his ruckus Rizzly’s deathly stare stopped the hiet them to lose their jobs

“Look who it is What is the Lord’s Representative of New Port City doing in this humble abode?”

It seemed the noise froedfroed man with dazed eyes, still influenced by alcohol

“What the? You know uess this is the first time we’ve met My name is Harold I operate this casino”

“Huh? Harold? The name sounds fahts over that Grand Canal which you’re so desperate for”

“Ah! Harold! You son of a bitch I’ because of you!”

Finally reht at him but Rizzly stepped in and lifted Isaac up by his arhed, watching Isaac pitifully strugglewith low-borns such as yourself It’s co someone else’s property without per your fees And don’t come back here to cause a scene either I will show some courtesy and not call the police only out of respect for your title as the Lord’s Representative So shove off quietly while you can”

Harold seemed unbothered by Isaac’s behaviour It was no different to all the other people Harold had sent in to the abyss through his plots, those who cried and wailed at which seemed like injustice in their eyes He soon lost interest and tried to walk back in to the casino when one of the guards quickly told him of what happened before Harold came

“Hm? He came to play in the casino?”

Harold’s eyes shi+ned with cunning If he played his cards well, it would be an opportunity to get his hands on the casinos of New Port City

“Huhuhu Anyone who’s willing to give h! I’ll le coin is left!”

“I’d love to see you try Let hiuards before quickly disappearing into the casino Isaac seeain some sense after Harold disappeared, then quickly stepped into the casino as the guards received hi eyes

“What the This is identical to le shred of creativity!”

Isaac shouted the moment he entered and looked around the casino The casino echoed with a sweet uests inside were busy with their social activities The gauests as they chatted ast each other And Isaac’s shout disturbed their entertainuests quickly looked to where the shout ca at! Why would you even coood about standing around and talking! Move it!”

Isaac shoved the people aside as he forced himself in The women squealed and scattered while the round, only to be repelled by Rizzly’s frightening look

Isaac looked at the tables in the casinos Unlike his casino, which was jaames, this casino was sparsely filled with tables Isaac found his target and sat on one of the tables

“It see the easiest one for now”

“No Dice hest return in the casino He’s clearly looking to win big in a single gali was Dice, and it’s a gauess the total sum of the three dice that are thrown There were countless ways to bet in the gareater half or lesser half of possible su on the exact total su on what faces would co a different return rate

These siaaest return in the casino with a possible 150x return when the three dice come out with identical faces This made it popular for those anted to test their luck

“Hahaha, don’t you think you’re pushi+ng yourself too soon?”

“Ha! A man only needs one chance! You just watch! I’ll rob this place clean!”

“Let’s see you try On a side note, our casino’s a? I’ll bet a thousand Giga every ga at Isaac’s feeble attempt

Isaac continued to shout out his deaa, slowly sinking into the ga trap Some watched out of curiosity, then

“Um, Sir Isaac I think you should stop…”

Rizzly carefully a in a span of just 1 hour

“What? What do youme more chips!”

The dealer of Isaac’s table spoke with troubled look

“I apologize But we cannot give you more chips with your credit”

“What! Don’t you knoho I am!”

“I do, but this is the rule of the casino Unless you pay for all of your losses, on’t be able to give youme! Do you have any idea howme more!”

Isaac slammed the table with his hands, and the dealer looked to the ers seemed to have received orders already on what to do and politely told Isaac

“We will give you uarantee you will pay”

“I’ll do it as ned the paper the round

Many onlookers frowned at his horrible manners, but Isaac didn’t seem bothered and shouted when a mountain of chips were placed in front of hiht this tiaa, Rizzly seeh and hit the back of Isaac’s neck Isaac became unconscious, and Rizzly picked up his body

“Send the invoice to New Port City”

“Thank you for your patronage”

Behind Rizzly’s back echoed hter

“What… What is this! What in the world is this!”

“Ah, shut it My head is ringing Drop your noise”

“H-how can I possibly stay quiet after this!”

Isaac sipped at the honey tea Rizzly handed out to hiover

Cordnell seemed to be infuriated even an to screaround

“What happened yesterday? We just received an invoice froa! What in the world did you do to spend that et it all back if I get a good game”

“Waaaaah!”

Cordnell al a stroke

350 Thousand Giga was no joke It’s an a his entire life working And Isaac see Cordnell truly fear for as to co profit, but now they had to pay reparations for the Grand Canal Race case With the addition of this incident caused by Isaac, What little profit they had went up in sain are you?”

“Of course I aet my money back!”

“Haha… it’s over”

Cordnell disappeared as he despairingly muttered into the air

Humans are very sensitive to rumours

The word of Isaac’s recent behaviour, of how he continued to gaa, made what few people who still saw hope in Isaac abandon hiuarantee their own survival

“We need to embezzle as much as wealth we can”

“Impossible All of the wealth is under Isaac’s name in the documents There’s no room for us to butt in”

“That’s e have to fabricate the accounts Otherwise, all of the wealth will be transferred to Port City”

“What are our guilds saying?”

“They told us to be ready to set foot off this place at any tiiven up on New Port City too”

“shi+t! How could he cru so well until now”

“It was never possible to begin with Let’s just save our own skin for now”

The employees from the Seven Grand Merchant Guilds predicted the fall of New Port City along with Isaac So they began fabricating the account books and eet their hands on

“It see funds”

“No shi+t Who in the right mind would like to die with Isaac-sunbae?”

“We should get ready too At this rate, on’t last till next year, let alone 3 years”

‘We should at least get the 3 years’ worth of pay that ere promised”

“What do the elves and North Bears look like?”

“The elves don’t see to employ the that their good days are over But they are still de all offers from Port City”

“Ha! Loyaltyloyal to that guy?”

“They are in a different situation to us”

Isaac’s hubaes had noticed that the merchant employees made a second account book to embezzle the funds In fact, the merchant eht the hubaes how to embezzle the funds

The hubaes applied to work for Isaac purely for the high paycheck only Isaac illing to offer, so they didn’t have any reason to die with Isaac

They never considered Isaac to be their real sunbae, so they didn’t feel a shred of rean to follow the merchant employees one by one, the adan to cruest impact it had was on the free meals and hospital policy Isaac placed, but there wasn’t a single person who could fight it or anyone ould listen to their co to alcohol and gaan to follow suit The citizens became brave and entered the Ceta District without approval and started uests The North Bears tried their best to stop thean to heal, decreasing the nuht it would end this way”

“How much one above 800 thousand Giga”

“It really is over”

The four rulers of Port City gathered for a reatest contributor to the current situation, looked to the other three with arrogance

“The pieces of trash froain”

“Ha, those rats will never cease to act like rats”

“We can always replace theain our hands on New Port City”

“Is the inforht trustworthy?”

“It seems all of his employees and hubaes are in a frenzy to fill their own pockets”

“Thea party of corruption… I think we’ve got ourselves a great card to use once we get ahold of New Port City”

“Isaac’s already given us all of the city’s funds, and all that’s left is his real estate and his authority”

“Do you really think he will use that to gamble? He must have some brain in his head”

“Hahaha Isn’t that the reason gaerous?”

Harold came up with a plan when he heard that Isaac had co

It was easy enough to trap hih a cycle of wins and losses The players quickly lose interest when they keep on losing, but they never lose their obsession when they always gain back some of their ain back theirjust once, so they continue to play, further fuelling the addiction

“That is why I’ve personally brought the Ereatest dealer to help him fall into the trap even quicker”

An experienced dealer could easily adjust the wins and losses to further help the players fall into addiction That is why Harold personallyworld

“That brat’s completely fallen for my dealer because he lets him win more than all the others Thanks to that, he’s been evenhim win back half of what he lost”

“But isn’t there a chance he would dust his hands and leave once he got his hed when Rodney estion

“That will never happen Everyone who is addicted to gaet their le person who truly let go of gaet theirthey could earn even ed to win back their money”

“So all we need to do is ame with all of his wealth on the line”

“Haha, the plan is already in motion All I need to do is taunt him a little and he’ll fall for it on his own”

“Once we gain the authority of the Lord’s representative, not even the governuard down”

Zeroman, the eldest of the four, spoke orry in his voice The rest laughed fanatically, but Zerooes on without a hitch, the worse an unexpected disaster hits fro too uard even oes too well”

“Well, I wouldn’t know I’ve yet to become a merchant Hahaha”

“Tsk”

Zeroance The four who held the rights over the ays see, but as the possibility of establishi+ng their own an to compete with one another for its shares

Harold didn’t listen to Zeroain more shares for this project, but Zeroman was the only person out of the four ere suspicious about Port City, New Port City, the government, and Central’s influence over the situation

This is why Zero that he is being too passive He doubted and doubted again whether all of this was a plan made by Central

This incident happened too quickly After seeing everything that Isaac fellow pulled through, Zeroman kneasn’t the type of person ould break over a single failure

“I’ out of this project”

“That will mean your portion of shares will decrease”

Not only Harold, but even the other two’s eyes flickered

Zeroreed

“Make sure you do it properly I will give up over all of the profit that will coh this project, but it also es when the project fails”

“Ha Mr Zeroman, your problem is that you’re too cautious Isn’t there a quote the merchants always love to say? Where there is no risk, there is no profit Seeing how you love to avoid danger, I think you have very little talent in beco a merchant yourself Hahaha!”

“Perhaps Maybe the reason why I’d like to follow rown too old This project is too dangerous”

“Haha You’re worrying when the project is going well and fearing ill happen if it fails? How do you expect to run the uess I’ll just have to live off the shares once the Merchant Guild becomes established”

“Ha I can print a document if that is what you wish”

“Thanks I’ll be heading off first”

Zeroman seemed like he didn’t want to be in the rooone, the three’s dean to whisper to one another

“I guess he really is old It’s really difficult to ith him”

“It’s fine He doesn’t have a successor, so all of his shares will beco to make the final er, and that brat will volunteer to give all of his wealth to us Just wait a little longer”

“Huhuhu I look forward to that day”

“Ah! shi+t! I should have bet on 5!”

Isaac slainally switched fro addiction, so too did his appearances deteriorate Many sleepless nights had turned his eyes red with blood, flickering at every movement His face now sported a beard and a foul odour seeped through his clothes, forcing everyone to stay away from him

“Make your bets”

The dealer on the table behaved like a well-oiledthrough the required words and actions He was an experienced dealer who has been through all kinds of customers before

“Hmmm…”

Isaac, whose initial confidence aa Realising that he was out of money, even this minimum bet was made after much contemplation

Everyone atched fro bankrupt and looked at Isaac with ridicule It was the typical end of a ga addict

“Tsk tsk, what happened to that confidence of yours at the start?”

Harold approached Isaac and slowly taunted him

“What! You think I’ll be defeated this easily! H for Harold’s provocation, Isaac bet all of his chips on three 6s co multiplier of 150x, but its probability was just as scarce Isaac’s bet was one without a hint of intelligence but full of priret, and before hethe bell to stop all bets and placed the dice The dice were placed at the top of a clear cylinder to prevent any ta of dice When the dealer pressed a button, the lid opened and the dice danced in the air as a gust of wind filled the cylinder

“Uuuh… Please, give this one tosmile as he watched Isaac, as too focused on the dice to notice Harold ed so that the dealer could deterainst probability Any wins he would make were made possible because Harold determined it to be

The dice were eventually pulled down by gravity and bounced on the table for some time Once they stopped, all three dice came out with number 6 faced up

“Kuahaha! Did you see that! I’m not dead yet!”

Isaac jumped into the air with a triu Isaac continued to boast about the hile the dealer gave his with near-mechanical movement

“Huhuhu How a Did you see that? If I win three et my money back!”

Isaac couldn’t hide his emotions as he looked at the mountain of chips Harold approached the excited Isaac with applause

“Oh, a in that , you would have gotten all of your aun!”

“Make your bets”

Isaac confidently reacted to the dealer’s words

“4,5,5”

The dealer coldly read out the faces of each die, and Isaac stood up from his chair with a fist

“Yes!”

Isaac, who bet on two 5s co

“Kuahaha! See that? You see that? Finallyto look up You just wait! It’ll be just a moment before I bankrupt this casino!”

Harold made an appearance of a bitter s ever more sinister Eer bets in each gaa he earned earlier quickly disappeared

The reason why gas into the hureed is endless, and when they in to fantasise What if I bet a thousand Giga? Or, at least 200, no 500 Giga? When regret such as this begins to dig away at their heart, they begin to think they lost in their head, when in truth the er bets, and their logic becomes clouded as they convince the win

Isaac didn’taddiction, and his confident demeanour quickly disappeared All he could do noas repeat the process of betting and watching the dice

As expected of the dealer Harold went to great depths to find, his experienced dealing sapped the soul out of Isaac He would make the dice be very close to Isaac’s bet when hehia

“shi+t! shi+t! shi+t! shi+t!”

Isaac lost all of hisas he beat down the table Harold quickly stepped in to the scene like a predator ju at his prey

“It seeain”

“Che! I was only unlucky because I didn’t have enough chips! Bring one past a et any more chips, even with my authority”

“You really think I can’t pay back a a?”

“Then why don’t you pay now and play again?”

“Uht now, but the money will come in about a month Let’s settle the debt then”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t allow that”

Isaac shouted out in a fit when Harold coldly refused his offer

“You can’t even do that for me when I’ve lost so much money in this damn casino?”

“That’s because I know exactly hoell your finances are You just barely had 800 thousand monthly net profit back when you were at your pri Are you a at this point? And this is your total revenue we’re talking about, not your profit”

“Kuk! If, if I sell all of a!”

“Then bring me its proof I’ll accept it as a warrant”

“T, that’s…”

Even Isaac hesitated, since he kneas his last tru money, so I’ll wait until next month just as you promised But you can’t play in a dept”

“Kuk!”

Isaac furiously glared at Harold’s arrogant face, but the attempt was pitiful at best Rizzly, who couldn’t stand it anymore, pulled Isaac aside

“Let’s call it a day now”

“W, wait!”

Even as he was being pulled out of the casino by Rizzly, Isaac was still showing signs of regret, and just before he was about to be pulled out the door, Isaac got out of Rizzly’s grip and approached Harold

“How ive you the real estate?”

“Hm? I will need to see it first There isn’tIsaac bite his bait, Harold’s eyes shi+ned

“Sir Isaac! What are you thinking?”

Rizzly rushed back to Isaac and blocked hisIsaac’s pathetic act, Harold shouted

“You can come back whenever you have the money I’ll welcome you warmly!”

“How h…”

“…”

“How h…”

Like athe sa Sadly, the answer came out the saiven up on all hope Watching Isaacbets really made Cordnell lose what little faith he had in him

“Oi, Cordnell Give me some money”

Crack! Those words were the final push Cordnell needed to snap