In the end, both sides agreed that Gild Tesoro would provide the gambling equipment, and Werther could inspect it. If he found anything wrong with it, he could end the wager immediately.
Werther watched Gild Tesoro's subordinates set up the game with some interest.
Since they were gambling, they needed rules.
Werther and Gild Tesoro would wager against each other. Neither could cheat by using Observation Haki or any similar perception ability. Everything would come down to luck.
If Gild Tesoro lost, he would leave behind the lives of his companions and himself, along with fifty billion Beli.
At first, Gild Tesoro had proposed leaving only the fifty billion Beli if he lost, but Werther had rejected that.
Werther had agreed to gamble with Gild Tesoro only because he had been bored lately and their grudge was not particularly deep. In the past, he would have killed them all by now.
It might have sounded savage, but that was how Werther had always operated. If someone was not his enemy, that was one thing. Once he decided they were, he showed no mercy.
Werther and Gild Tesoro sat facing each other across a square table.
They did not use the enormous iron dice from the original story. Gild Tesoro had pressed for it, but Werther had flatly refused.
To Werther, that sort of gambling was stupid, time-consuming, and utterly pointless.
As for who would shake the dice, Werther thought it over. If they wanted a fair wager, someone relatively neutral would be best.
His gaze swept over the crowd, and he eventually chose Carina.
He knew who Carina was. She was a singer on the surface, but that fox was actually after the Ark Maxim.
As Werther remembered it, after Luffy defeated Gild Tesoro, that fox had indeed sailed away