Clatter-!
The LEDs around the pachinko machine flashed with dazzling visual effects, its speakers blared stirring music, and the scantily clad AKB idol Ami Miyamae smiled sweetly on its slot-machine screen, her cleavage half exposed.
An astonishing number of little steel balls poured from the payout chute like an unstoppable tide!
Amid the shifting lights, the sunglasses-wearing face of the man seated at the pachinko machine flickered between light and shadow. On the floor behind him were stacks of boxes brimming with steel balls, each bearing a "Big win" sign.
The girl in a cheongsam, who had been kneeling on the floor and attending to him with great care, now looked as though she had seen a ghost.
How was this possible?!
She had witnessed with her own eyes how this rich playboy had performed a miraculous comeback from the brink with only two or three steel balls left.
Uchiha Naruto sent several more steel balls into the machine in succession, every one landing precisely in the hidden winning pocket.
Steel balls gushed from the payout chute like a flash flood. Even the tray could not hold them all, and they began spilling over.
They struck the floor tiles, polished enough to reflect a person's image, with crisp clinks and clatters.
"Sir, sir, the steel balls are spilling out!"
The girl in the cheongsam reminded him repeatedly, but seeing his utterly unconcerned expression, she could only kneel on the floor and gather them up with a pang.
Each one was worth a hundred yen.
Uchiha Naruto was beginning to lose interest, too.
It had indeed been quite entertaining at first, but once he began cheating with Magnet Release, the operations became mechanical and repetitive. Although he was winning nonstop, the results held no surprises, and it became boring.
Playing pachinko