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Chapter 135 The Gamble, A Huge Profit
Chapter 126 The Gamble, A Huge Profit
Casinos in the ninja world have always been a peculiar phenomenon.
Logically speaking, gambling tools like dice and cards shouldn't be able to block a ninja's senses at all; they should have become their "ATMs."
However, the casino, like some kind of loophole in the rules, always had powerful figures like Tsunade who could only play by the rules.
Xingyuan Qianshuo once asked Tsunade about this.
The answer is simple: specially made gambling equipment.
Gambling, an ancient form of entertainment, has long since evolved methods to deal with ninjas.
In this seemingly ordinary room, there are hidden sealing talismans under the tatami mats and in the partitions on both sides.
Especially the clinking sound of the dice cup in the dealer's hand—it's just an ambient sound effect; the actual movement of the dice has been completely disrupted by the specially designed cup.
Otherwise, there are quite a few secret techniques in the ninja world that enhance hearing, so it wouldn't be too difficult to discern the numbers.
At this moment, some bald dealers grinned, their withered hands gripping the dice cups and twirling them in dazzling arcs in the air.
"Splash—"
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The gamblers pricked up their ears. The simple sound seemed to possess a kind of bewitching magic.
Even Tsunade was no exception.
"Bang!"
The dice cup landed heavily on the tablecloth like a boulder, and all sounds ceased abruptly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please place your bets," the dealer said with a smile, his gaze sweeping over the crowd, lingering for a moment longer on Tsunade.
The practice of "rolling the dice first, then placing bets" clearly demonstrates the casino's confidence in the effectiveness of its "shielding" mechanism.
This is the most agonizing time for the gamblers.
They held their breath, deep in thought, as if the wild ideas in their minds could truly influence the outcome of the bet.
Tsunade casually picked up a purple chip and tossed it out, her voice brimming with barely suppressed excitement: "One hundred thousand taels, big!"
The atmosphere in the room froze.
Everyone turned to look at this bold and imposing female ninja.
Even for seasoned gamblers, betting 100,000 taels at once is by no means a small amount.
"Could this ninja master possess some secret technique?" A weary-looking gambler had a sudden inspiration.
He then steeled himself, grabbed a green chip, gritted his teeth, and shouted, "Ten thousand taels, bet!"
The other gamblers also realized what was happening and pushed out their large chips, piling them all on the "big" side.
In the blink of an eye, all the chips on the tablecloth converged on the side with the "big" score.
Xingyuan Qianshuo, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.
His current concern is no longer that Tsunade will lose all her money quickly, but rather whether these bandwagon gamblers will become desperate and suddenly turn violent.
Although all these people combined couldn't defeat a single finger of Tsunade, if a conflict were to break out with civilians, they would probably have no choice but to run away.
At this moment, even the bald croupier became nervous.
He took a deep breath and shouted, "Place your bets now! One, two, three, small!"
The dealer secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The gamblers in the room looked dejected.
They dared not vent their anger on the ninja, and could only glare at the first gambler who had called.
The man chuckled sheepishly, raising his hand to touch his greasy hair—he was quite helpless, thinking he had suddenly had a flash of inspiration and was blessed with good fortune.
Tsunade, who lost the most money, didn't care at all, as if the 100,000 taels of chips weren't hers.
Xingyuan Qianshuo felt a cold sweat break out inside: Shadow clone, hurry up and come, or Tsunade will lose everything.
Fortunately, after having her fill of excitement, Tsunade only bet 10,000 ryo on the next two rounds.
She bet big on both of them, and still lost.
The gamblers in the room were convinced that this was a "big jerk" who wouldn't use any ninja techniques or secret methods to guess the numbers.
After losing three rounds in a row, Tsunade felt a little embarrassed and turned to the gambling novice, Chisaku, to "share her experience": "Chisaku, that's how gambling is. There are wins and losses. Sometimes you have to lose several rounds in a row before you can win big once."
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Xingyuan Qianshuo suppressed a laugh and nodded in acceptance.
At that moment, the transformed shadow clone also walked in carrying the chips.
He only exchanged three gold bars, with a total value of 1.08 million taels.
After all, if the verification is successful, these are enough to win money; if it fails, you still have to keep the last two gold bars. You can't go on a mission and not keep any reward, right? That would be too "pitiful".
The shadow clone didn't look at them, but sat down cross-legged in an empty space.
The dealer greeted them with "Welcome" and shook the dice cup again.
"Twenty thousand taels, bet on small!" Tsunade decided to switch sides and try her luck.
"One thousand taels, bet big!"
"Five hundred taels, bet on big!"
"Three hundred taels, bet on small!"
Gamblers placed their bets.
The shadow clone picked up four green chips and tossed them toward the "big" side, calmly saying, "Forty thousand taels, bet on big."
The gamblers in the room glanced at him again—two strange, high-rolling strangers had actually come today.
However, they didn't pay much attention to it, focusing more on whether they could win money.
Xingyuan Qianshuo was also quite looking forward to the outcome of this game.
He wasn't greedy; he only bet twice the amount on the opposite side of Tsunade—
After all, there's still the possibility of the house winning with a "triple", so you can't just bet on a triple.
"Place your bet and leave—open! Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9 o'clock, small!"
"Yay—!" Tsunade cheered with delight, turning to Xingyuan Qianshuo to show off, "Qianshuo, how about that? You made it all back in one go!"
Xingyuan Qianshuo was sweating profusely: What did you earn back? Have you forgotten the 100,000 taels you lost in the first round?
As he congratulated Tsunade, his mind raced:
What's going on? Is my luck even worse than Tsunade's? That can't be—
Fortunately, this was just a stroke of luck for Tsunade.
She then lost five games in a row and gave away another 100,000 taels of silver.
Shadow Clone bet 40,000 taels each round, won five rounds in a row, earning 200,000 taels. After deducting the 40,000 taels lost in the first round, he made a net profit of 160,000 taels.
While winning five hands in a row is not uncommon, it still makes the gamblers in the room wonder whether they should call the bet.
Tsunade gave a soft snort and clapped her hands, as if trying to shake off her bad luck.
After winning once and losing eight times, she felt a little embarrassed to look at Qian Shuo.
Then a thought struck her, and she turned to Qian Shuo and said, "Qian Shuo, help me place my bet this time."
Xingyuan Qianshuo was surprised, thinking to himself: I'm placing a bet? Am I going to play against my own shadow clone? If I win, will it be considered good luck or bad luck?
Tsunade, however, was secretly pleased: If Senshuo bets and he wins, then I win; if he loses, then we're all losers, and Senshuo can't laugh at me anymore.
Xingyuan Qianshuo didn't think much of it and directly picked up a green chip and threw it onto the "Leopard" card.
Losing is fine, after all, it's hard to catch a leopard; winning, on the other hand, is a huge win.
His shadow clone pondered for a moment and then gave up on the game.
"Chisaku, not bad, you have guts!" Tsunade patted Chisaku on the shoulder and praised him.
Tsunade entered the casino looking radiant and completely relaxed, even more at ease than at home.
The dealer, accustomed to this, announced loudly, "Place your bets—three, three, three, a triple!"
"Wow—!" A chorus of envious exclamations rang out among the gamblers.
"Hahaha—!" Tsunade laughed heartily, her chest trembling slightly. "Chisaku, amazing—it seems I've given you all my luck."
Xingyuan Qianshuo was also somewhat surprised.
Although I tried to calmly tell him it was just a coincidence, a thought still flashed through my mind: Could it be that I really have good luck in gambling? Am I the protagonist of destiny?
If you bet on the leopard, the odds are 1 to 24, which means you win back all your losses in one go and even make an extra 40,000 taels.
Tsunade happily collected the chips pushed by the dealer.
She casually picked up a green chip and tossed it to Qian Shuo, saying generously, "Qian Shuo, this is a reward for you."
"Thank you for your generous gift, Lady Tsunade," Hoshino Senju said, playing along.
"Yes, yes." Tsunade nodded smugly.
The dealer's gaze lingered on him for a moment.
Running a casino naturally requires guarding against ninjas using special abilities to cheat.
Similarly, they also have special methods to manipulate points—but such operations often require secret orders from higher-ups at the casino.
Next, Tsunade confidently placed large bets: 40,000 taels, 50,000 taels —
Unfortunately, he lost five consecutive games, sending all the money Qianshuo had won back to the bookmaker.
"Sigh, Chisaku, I've given you all my luck," Tsunade said, shifting the blame. "You can place your bets next time."
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Xingyuan Qianshuo was secretly pleased that Tsunade lost money, but his shadow clone made money, earning another 480,000 taels.
Excluding the one hand that was skipped, Shadow Clone had won ten consecutive hands, attracting the attention of the dealer and gamblers. Two gamblers had already started calling with small amounts of chips and made a few small profits.
Tsunade urged him to continue betting, and he didn't refuse, still placing his green chips on "Leopard".
"Chisaku, it's hard for the leopard to win," Tsunade advised in a senior-like tone.
The dealer uncovered the dice cup: "Four, four, five, big!"
"How was it? Hard to win, huh? You wasted all the luck I gave you."
Tsunade successfully deflected the blame and continued to place her bets in the next round.
Winning and losing, winning and losing, losing and losing ———
The morning passed by in a flash.
Tsunade's chips were dwindling, her bets were getting smaller, and her momentum was waning.
Even though she had Qian Shuo try the "dice-guessing" method a few more times to change his luck, it still failed.
The other gamblers in that cubicle, however, were all beaming and in high spirits—
They placed bets following the shadow clones and made a lot of money.
Such an obvious betting pattern naturally attracted the attention of the dealer.
However, after the dealer reported the incident, the casino's instruction was "normal operation".
Clearly, the casino already knew about Hoshino Senju and Tsunade through its owner—or perhaps the casino itself was being run by the daimyo Minamoto no Mori.
Tsunade seemed oblivious to their reverse betting, focused solely on her own wins and losses, as if each bet was a battle against an invisible force of fate.
Although her momentum had diminished considerably, she remained extremely confident of winning until she lost all her chips.
"Chisaku, don't you still have one chip? Why don't you just place a bet instead of exchanging it? Maybe you can turn the tables," Tsunade said shamelessly.
"Lady Tsunade, is it really possible to turn the tide?" Hoshigen Chisaku asked with a mischievous smile.
"Tch—" Tsunade lightly patted him, without replying.
She immediately got up and left the cubicle.
Xingyuan Qianshuo also turned and left, but the green chip in his hand quietly flew out and landed in the large pile of chips in the shadow clone.
After they left, a sigh echoed through the room.
The gamblers turned to look expectantly at the shadow clone, only to see that he too had stood up.
The shadow clone tossed a purple chip to the dealer and said, "Tip. Please exchange this chip for the Land of Fire's currency, or gold if you prefer."
"Yes, sir." The croupier breathed a sigh of relief—he had lost quite a bit of money in this game today.
This person kept betting against the blonde female ninja, so it was obvious they were in cahoots.
However, he really couldn't figure out how the female ninja cheated. Could that woman be the legendary "gambling master"?
What puzzled him even more was: why would the blonde female ninja deliberately lose more than she wins, allowing this person to make money?
Isn't this unnecessary?
The departure of Xingyuan Qianshuo, Tsunade, and their shadow clones brought a great sense of relief to the casino.
Tsunade lost the 1.8 million taels of silver she had won in exchange for five gold bars;
The Shadow Clone won a total of 3.5 million taels, but surprisingly encountered three leopards in the process, which were all won by the dealer.
After a while, the casino lost 1.7 million taels of silver on them, which wasn't a lot.
The key is that this operation is unsolvable; the casino simply cannot figure out how they cheated.
As for the money won by other gamblers who followed the bet, the casino doesn't care—they are regular customers, and as long as they keep coming, the money will eventually flow back to the casino.
As she left the casino, Tsunade showed no signs of being downcast from losing money; on the contrary, she was radiant.
"It's been so long since I've had this much fun," she said with a smile.
"As long as you're happy," Xingyuan Qianshuo replied.
"Hmm, but Chisaku—" Tsunade turned to look at him, a sly glint in her eyes, "Shouldn't you share half of your earnings with me?"
"Haha, okay." Xingyuan Qianshuo replied with a smile.
He hadn't made any deliberate attempt to hide it, so it was natural for Tsunade to guess.
Even after giving away half, he still made a net profit of 1.75 million taels of silver, equivalent to five gold bars.
"You have to make up for the principal I lost first, and then we'll split the profits equally~" Tsunade added with a slight smile.
"Uh—" Xingyuan Qianshuo was stunned, looking at her speechlessly.
"Hahaha--!"
Upon seeing his expression, Tsunade burst into laughter.
"Alright, that's a total of 2.65 million taels. You can deposit it with me for now."
Tsunade stopped laughing and hugged Chisaku's arm.
Before Xingyuan Qianshuo could be moved, she continued, "Next time we go to the casino, you'll pay for the initial investment."
At this moment, Tsunade was beaming with pride, walking and dreaming: "In the future, the two of us will join forces, win every casino in the world, and then use the winnings to build the biggest gambling city in the ninja world!"
Xingyuan Qianshuo shook his head helplessly: "If we kept doing that, we would have been blacklisted by all the casinos long ago."
"Hmph, let's see who dares." Tsunade frowned slightly and said coldly.
Not letting her into the casino is worse than killing her.
She never caused trouble when she lost money before, and now that she's winning, she naturally won't allow the casino to cheat.
"Let's start with the casinos in Konoha—they've made a lot of money off me."
Tsunade said angrily, as if she was about to immediately return to Konoha and avenge her previous humiliation.
She knew very well that those casinos were backed by high-ranking Konoha families, especially her teacher's Sarutobi clan, who were definitely the largest shareholders.
The two of them walked and talked.
Soon, the shadow clone emerged from the casino, carrying a briefcase, and followed.
Xingyuan Qianshuo beckoned his shadow clone to come forward, took the box, and handed it to Tsunade.
Tsunade happily carried it—this was the first time she had ever won money at a casino.
Although Qian Shuo helped, ultimately, the credit still belongs to her.
Xingyuan Qianshuo released the shadow clone, formed another hand seal to create one, and handed him a storage scroll.
The two shadow clones who were cultivating in the morning used the Flying Thunder God mark he left behind to teleport to the mountains more than ten kilometers away.
They not only mastered large-scale wind and water release techniques, but also experimented with scorching and magnet release techniques, and refined a considerable amount of gold using the Magnet Release: Gold Sand Technique.
As it turns out, this method of gold panning is also very arduous.
In the original work, when Rasa unleashed his gold dust attack, the sky was filled with golden light, as if it were all tiny pieces of gold.
But that was just an effect created to distinguish it from Gaara's "sand manipulation".
The actual gold content in the soil is very low.
Magnetic Escape: Gold Sand is a technique that manipulates minute amounts of gold sand to indirectly move sand particles, creating a large-scale offensive and defensive attack.
Even so, the gold-mining ability of this bloodline limit should not be underestimated. In a gold mining area, it can extract gold more efficiently and on a large scale.
The two shadow clones had already dissipated due to exhaustion of chakra.
Although the amount of gold dust collected was not large, in the spirit of thrift, Xingyuan Qianshuo still planned to send a shadow clone to seal it up and bring it back.
Tsunade saw that Chisaku had created another shadow clone, but she didn't pay any attention to it.
Although his main body did not cultivate, Qian Shuo's ability to continuously improve using shadow clones is commendable.