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Half an hour later...
On the still-petrified ground, White Yaksha, Black Rabbit, Kudou Asuka, Kasugabe Yō, and the others stood facing one another in silence, their expressions both strange and bizarre, complicated beyond measure.
Sakamaki Izayoi was silent as well, though his expression was not particularly complicated. He was simply gloating.
And the target of that gloating was none other than a certain useless rich brat.
"Why... why..."
Luos, stripped nearly naked with only a pair of shorts left on him, lay sprawled on the ground, examining the ten gold coins used for the game over and over, trying to find out whether they had been tampered with.
Yet every time he checked them, Luos grew a little more desperate.
"Why?! Why do I keep losing?!"
Before the utterly unwilling Luos, a pile of items had accumulated in front of Noah.
Among them were the Scythe Sword capable of slaying gods, Hermes' Boots that allowed one to fly, and even Hades' Invisibility Helmet. The vast majority of the many Divine Artifacts once possessed by the hero Perseus were all here.
Besides those, there were other things as well.
There was a Divine Artifact shaped like a flaming bow.
There were stacks of IOUs filled with Luos's name.
Even the clothes Luos had been wearing until just now were here, piled together with all sorts of miscellaneous items.
And all of it was Noah's spoils of war.
Noah happily counted his spoils as he looked at the nearly stripped Luos with a teasing smile and shrugged.
"Tell me, young master, do you still want to gamble?"