In the VIP lounge, the former Vice Admiral and Admiral candidate Gion had already taken off the "Justice" coat she'd always worn as a Marine. She stood behind a certain troublesome brat with her eyes shut in misery, saying nothing, her face full of dejection.
She had no choice!
Because...
Earlier, she'd bet on odd or even with the brat twice. In the first game alone, she'd lost chips worth a billion Berries!
And in the second game, with her eyes bloodshot from losing, she'd ignored the advice of her lecherous-looking colleague and bet herself. Naturally, she lost again, handing herself over to the brat in one fell swoop. She'd become a member of the brat's pirate crew and promised to spend twenty years aboard the brat's ship to repay her enormous two-billion-Berry debt!
And that was the main reason she now stood there, miserable, with no choice but to take off her white Marine "Justice" coat.
Of course, at least she probably wouldn't be too lonely.
After all, the brat supposedly had a maid who was formerly a captain in the G-5 Marine Branch. In the future, this female Vice Admiral and that female captain would surely have some things in common.
But for some reason, the other woman wasn't here right now. Maybe, like the other members of the brat's pirate crew, she'd gone off to run wild somewhere else in the city?
Of course, none of that mattered. What mattered was that the brat was now on a winning streak at odd-or-even!
Including the ten billion she'd won from Gion, the Marine Vice Admiral and Admiral candidate, she'd gone on to win six games in a row. She'd even won so much that the Golden City VIP lounge's dealer, who liked to smash his head against the