The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“Oof, ahahaha! It’s heavy!”

I put the boxes of gold coins that filled the suite one by one into my subspace.

“Ugh… you fiend!”

Bahamut tore at her hair and shed tears of blood.

It’s not a figurative expression, but real tears of blood.

As her hand kept getting worse, she tried to steal a peek at my hand with magic but was blocked by Jade, and the drops of blood mixed with her tears flowed out.

“If I’m a fiend, are you a sucker?”

What she lost wasn’t simply gold coins.

I deliberately exhausted my gold coins and then, through an ‘agreement’, asked if I should replenish my gold coins or end the bet.

When she first heard my words, Bahamut didn’t understand and boasted that she was fine, so I should bring the gold coins.

However, she soon realized that my words meant the opposite and her expression distorted.

“You little punk who’d even suck the gall out of a flea.”

I demanded dragon’s blood and scales if she wanted to continue the bet.

If I could obtain dragon byproducts, I didn’t care about throwing away gold coins.

Bahamut, who was angry from continuously losing, rebuked my demand, saying she would give blood, scales, and even pieces of her claws, so don’t play tricks.

Since she came out like that, I also felt sorry.

I filled not just one, but three bags with the gold coins I looted from the Count’s mansion.

I’ve really become too softhearted.

“Heh, I won’t suck out a flea’s gall. Why would I suck out something so useless? Unless it’s a dragon’s liver.”

When I smirked and mocked her, Bahamut gritted her teeth and said.

“Again, let’s play one more round! I think I can win this time! Huh? Just one more round!”

It was the typical appearance of a gambling addict.

She still hadn’t noticed the fact that I had been cheating.

The discernment of a dragon is nothing much.

Well, even Precia, who has superhuman dynamic visual acuity, didn’t notice.

It must have been difficult for a dragon who roughly handles things with magic to notice.

Moreover, I continuously changed my shuffling method.

“Hey, at least wipe the blood in your eyes before speaking. If you want to win with magic, go to a casino. There will be plenty of suckers who fall for magic there.”

At my words, she flared up.

“Hey! In the end, my magic never worked even once!”

“Tsk tsk! Speak accurately. You broke through Jade’s magic defense about two out of three times, didn’t you?”

Unless it’s later when the power of the Sage of the Winter Tree has fully settled, no matter how skilled Jade is, he can’t block all the magic of Bahamut, who is renowned as the Purple Dragon.

No, it would be nearly impossible to block everything even later.

“It’s not working if I get caught all three out of three times!”

She just got caught using magic, lost the corresponding game, and paid a penalty.

“Anyway, the bet is over. Ninth rule of the bet, chips are not returned. Oh my, I want to give you a handshake, but I can’t. What a pity.”

Bahamut trembled at my teabagging.

Seeing that, Precia anxiously poked my side.

That’s understandable since the opponent was a dragon.

“It’s fine. Rather, Bahamut would like me doing this, right?”

“I don’t like it!”

Bahamut shouted angrily, but contrary to her words, her expression was the opposite.

“Haah… haah… gulp!”

Her eyes were bloodshot, crazed with gambling.

But at the same time, she was enjoying the gambling pleasure I had given her, the anger of being one-sidedly beaten, and the freshness of the passionate emotions surging for the first time in a very long while.

Money wasn’t important to her.

Only a brief amusement that could make her forget her boredom was important.

“It certainly looks dangerous.”

If I satisfy her too much, I might get kidnapped.

Of course, Bahamut wouldn’t do that, but judging from her current expression, I should be cautious.

As if she noticed the meaning of my gaze, Bahamut came to her senses and washed her face to change her expression.

“Ah, sorry. I was definitely too excited. It’s been so long since I’ve felt such surging emotions that I couldn’t control myself… But wouldn’t one more round be okay?”

As she remained persistent till the end, I put away the playing cards and the table altogether.

“Tsk! Winning and running away, what a coward.”

“You’re satisfied to some extent, aren’t you? Let’s do the final bet after a good sleep.”

At my words, Bahamut clenched her fist.

“Fine. I’ll at least win the final bet as a Chaturanga master with 1,300 years of experience.”

Do as you please. I feel like I’m going to die of fatigue from staying up all night.

After Bahamut left, I fell asleep right away on the bed without even washing up.

When I woke up from a deep sleep and opened my eyes, it was pitch dark outside the window.

I slept when dawn broke, but it’s already night. How many hours did I sleep?

“Are you awake?”

Gilbert, who was polishing a shield I hadn’t seen before, smiled innocently and greeted me.

Silua was sleeping soundly on the bed because it was night.

“Yawn~! Yeah, what’s that shield?”

“Ah, Purple Dragon-nim left this as the price for the agreement. It had some dust on it, so I was polishing it.”

It seems she really took it out from the warehouse where it was stuffed.

At Gilbert’s answer, I stretched and said.

“Well done. That shield is yours, so take it.”

“What?!”

“It’s a reward for following me well. It’s also to commemorate awakening to swordsmanship, and it’s your birthday soon, right? I’ll give it to you as a birthday present.”

“B-But this precious thing…”

Although it was heavily covered in dust, it was a shield that could be classified as a treasure at a glance.

The magic on it was only at the level of supporting subspace storage, sturdiness, and durability.

But at a glance, it was clear that it was a shield carefully made by a skilled dwarf.

It looked to be of even better quality than Gilbert’s sword.

I laughed and hit Gilbert’s back hard.

“Reward and punishment must be clear. You’ve done well so far. I’ll be counting on you in the future too.”

At my words of praise, Gilbert sniffled and had tears in his eyes.

“Young Master!”

“Don’t cling to me, it’s disgusting.”

I stopped him from trying to hug me tightly and looked around.

“But where are Precia and Jade?”

“Ah, the two of them went out saying they would try betting with Purple Dragon-nim.”

It seems they got interested after seeing Bahamut and me betting.

But it was unexpected that even Precia challenged her. Is it because she’s a main character in the founding mythology?

“Really? Gosh, my whole body aches after staying up for a bit. I’ll go wash up and come back.”

Since it was a well-equipped inn that even operated a suite room, there were shower facilities.

I quickly washed up and came out, and my companions had already returned.

“You seem to have had a hard time. I heard you were betting, how was it? Did you win a bit?”

At my question, the two of them shook their heads in unison.

“No, we lost everything. We lost both the bet Purple Dragon proposed and the bet we proposed.”

Jade plopped down on the sofa as if exhausted and sighed.

Precia staggered with a dazed expression as if her energy had been drained.

“What was the bet? Did you have a magic duel with Bahamut or something?”

In the novel, the content of the bet was to fight against Bahamut all day and endure.

“Mine was similar. It was a bet where I had to dismantle the magic formula Bahamut composed, and conversely, a bet where Bahamut had to implement the conditional formula I proposed.”

The content of the bet was different, perhaps because the time period was different.

“You used your head a bit. It would have been profitable whether you won or lost.”

Jade grinned.

“Yes, I learned a lot. To be honest, thanks to that, I feel like I’ve gained a clue to advance one step further.”

As expected of the protagonist. He’s the kind of guy who grabs an opportunity even when falling backward.

“If I hadn’t followed Yuan, I wouldn’t have had this opportunity. I’m grateful.”

“What’s there to thank me for? You should be thanking Bahamut. What about Precia?”

At my question, Jade shrugged his shoulders.

“According to Bahamut, she had a duel with an ancient knight in an imaginary world created with magic, but she lost the first bet.”

Precia lost?

Did the illusion of one of the top ten swordsmen of the past appear or something?

No, no matter what, can Bahamut, who is ignorant of swordsmanship, create an illusion strong enough to defeat Precia?

“Precia requested a rematch as the second bet. Bahamut said Precia won this time, but she couldn’t accept it herself and admitted defeat with a frustrated expression. She’s been like that since then.”

Precia was sitting on the bed, immersed in meditation.

“Really? Well, I don’t know what kind of duel it was, but she must have something to sort out on her own. Don’t bother her unnecessarily.”

Precia encounters opportunities more often than Jade.

If an outsider interferes carelessly and she misses an epiphany, it would be troublesome.

“But where’s Bahamut?”

When Bahamut wasn’t with them even though I thought she would come together, Jade smiled bitterly.

“She was upset that you sucked her to the bone yesterday, so she went to the casino.”

Oh no, a disaster has befallen the casino. Well, it’s none of my business.

Speak of the devil, Bahamut barged in through the window.

She was really looking forward to betting with me, so she shouted energetically.

“Yahoo! It’s betting time!”

“Did you enjoy the casino?”

When I asked playfully, Bahamut lightly clicked her tongue.

“No, it wasn’t very fun. Is it because the casino couldn’t block my magic?”

“Then why don’t you seal your magic yourself and try it? It might be quite fun then.”

At my suggestion, Bahamut pondered for a moment and shook her head.

“Hmm… no. Something’s missing. When I was playing with you, I felt like my insides were being scraped. It’s a feeling of being upset but also having something flickering in my hand, you know?”

A true gambler is not someone who is good at hand tricks.

A true gambler is someone who sits at the gambling table, scrapes the opponent’s insides, and makes them voluntarily participate in betting even in a losing situation.

In that sense, the tongue is more important than the hands.

In that aspect, I could be considered a first-class gambler.

“Well, I did fill up what I lost yesterday by going around casinos and getting it from stupid nobles. But the more I think about it, the more upset I get. Tell me the truth. You’re actually a great mage that I don’t know about, right? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.”

While playing the game, she was too excited to even notice that she was being fooled, but after a day passed, she seemed to have felt something strange.

But it’s too late now.

If she confronts me while exposing the tricks I used, I might respond, but I had no intention of going along with such absurd speculations.

“If I were such an incredible great mage that I could deceive even a dragon, I’d be conquering the world, not doing this here. Don’t make such nonsensical jokes. Come on, let’s start the final bet quickly.”

World conquest, I said it myself, but it might be more fun than I thought.

Bahamut looked at me with suspicious eyes and snapped her fingers.

Then the room disappeared, and a space like a colosseum appeared.

A huge chessboard-like thing appeared between her and me.

“This is… not spatial movement but illusion-type magic, right?”

“Correct. We’re actually still inside the inn room.”

She sat on the throne at the end of the colosseum and summoned sixteen Chaturanga magic soldiers.

“Now, come at me!”

Bahamut declared arrogantly.