Chapter 160

"Blast it all!"

He had drawn the Joker. We won again.

The man who had been acting so composed and weighty dropped the pretense the instant he lost, immediately swearing. The hand gripping the card was trembling outright.

I laughed at them all without restraint.

"Ha ha ha! Undefeated! My wife has done it again! What a pity for all of you! Ha ha ha!"

In one hour, Emily had won a total of eighty gold.

"That should be enough, I think. Shall we head off?"

"Yes!"

We linked arms and headed for the exit in high spirits.

"Emily, that was absolutely extraordinary. Even after paying back what we borrowed from the doorman, that's seventy-eight gold remaining!"

"The luck was on our side tonight."

"Hmm? What's that over there?"

We stopped in front of a peculiar machine.

[CHALLENGE! JACKPOT! TONIGHT'S JACKPOT — IT'S MINE!]

I read the game description, written…