Chapter 110

Thud.

Ogre Number 3 went down.

"The winner has been decided. It's Ogre Number 3!"

The announcer called the result.

"Oh my! My lady, you bet five thousand gold, so — huh? You're about to receive two hundred and fifty thousand gold?!"

Janice clapped her hands, delighted. I put on a dazed, bewildered expression.

"Ha ha ha ha ha, c-c-congratulations."

Count Lincol's lips trembled even as he laughed.

Laughing even as he loses money.

They say the true mark of a first-rate man is laughing through hardship, but I couldn't exactly call Count Lincol first-rate, so let's just call him a fool instead.

Seeing that I'd bet on Number 3, Count Lincol had ordered it doped — using the little button mounted on the seat wall.

Under normal circumstances, Number 3 should have lost. But we'd already swapped the drug, and Number 3 had won instead.

I let out a…