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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 6 Chapter 5.4

And so the 2nd throw starts.

「Kii, Kii, Kyaaa!」

The result is that Tensai threw a rock, and Haruto also threw a rock.

Another tie.

What a surprise, I didn’t expect a series of ties! So the next round will be a game of rock paper scissors with each player betting all three coins.

The climax came quickly. It’s going to be an unexpected winner takes all game of rock paper scissors.

The next player to win, whether in tears or laughter, gets to take all three of his or her opponent’s coins.

And so the fateful third match.

「Ki, Ki, Kyaaa!」

「Hey now, are you serious?」

I couldn’t help but let out my cry of shock when I saw their outstretched hands.

The rock that Tensai was holding out, was also produced by Haruto.

This was the third time in a row that both players threw the same thing.

「Hmph, this is getting weird」, Tensai pouts.

In this case the number of coins bet should increase to four… but since the two of them currently only have three coins, this is actually the upper limit of the number of coins that can be bet.

In other words, from here on out it’s a sudden death overtime game where the bet will not increase further. The first person to win a match will win the whole battle.

That’s what I thought, but then an unexpected situation occurred.

「Huuuuuuuuh!?」, I said.

「Whaaaaaat!?」, said Tensai.

「Kishaaaaaa!」, said the gorokuma on patrol who was next to me.

There are two of them, and when one screeched, so did the other.

This was all because Haruto suddenly started taking off his pants.

「H..hey you! What are you doing?!」

Tensai turns a bright shade of red and turns. Haruto (who was wearing boxer shorts) smiles as he neatly folds his pants.

「I don’t have any more coins to bet so I thought I’d add cloths instead.」

「Why would you do that!?」

「That’s a strange thing to ask me. Since ancient times, Japan has played a traditional form of rock paper scissors known as 《Yakyuuken》. (TN: A rock paper scissors game that is played with several people in which the loser is rotated out for a new player. The game evolved to have the loser remove an item of clothing.) I was just thinking that I should follow the rules of the locals. This is Yamato spirit!」.

It’s strange to hear someone from another country talk incorrectly about Japan like this is common sense. I mean, why are you taking your pants off?

「N..no way, you…「

Tensai now understands the intentions of Haruto’s actions and turns red, but Haruto laughs fearlessly.

「From now on, if there is a tie why don’t we bet cloths instead of coins?」

「Don’t be dumb! Who would do that?!」

Tensai directly rejects the unexpected proposal. Of course she would.

「You are admitting defeat then?」

Ping

And then Tensai reacted to Haruto’s casual remark.

「What was that?」

「Either way, we can’t leave this battle area unless someone wins the game. If you don’t want to continue the game, just surrender and admit defeat.」

It’s true that under the rules of the first stage a player may not leave the battle area until a winner has been decided.

「Do you want me to admit defeat?」

「That wouldn’t be a problem Miss. Detective. You have already earned 10 coins. Even if you lose here, all you lose is the extra coins. If you like, I’ll even give you the title of ‘The Inferior Being’, which is a very fitting title indeed!」

Haruto let’s out an evil laugh.

Tensai’s face changes at the obviously provocative attitude.

「Do you think I run away from the bad guys?」

「Ahh it’s always the people who call themselves great detectives that are all talk. When the situation calls for them, they’ll say something smart and run away. Just like hyenas whose only ability is to swarm and scavenge for dead animals.」

Haruto continues to provoke Tensai in a smarmy way while striking some cool poses. BY the way, this man is only in boxer shorts.

「All right, if you want to take it that far, let me show you the power of a true detective.」

And as expected, Tensai is provoked by Haruto.

Gorokuma, the referee, who was watching the situation silently agreed to the ruling, as if to say ‘Well, it’s OK as long as there is consent’.

Somehow a yakyuuken rule was added to the rulebook and the game continued.

「Why?」

That’s my true feeling. I was really surprised because I didn’t expect Haruto to show such blatant hatred towards the great detective. As expected, he is a man with great pride in his bloodline. He’s different from a certain bastard who hates his family business.

So before the competition resumes, it’s time to strip.

Haruto has already taken off his pants and Tensai takes off her shoes.

「It’s basically a death sentence for a girl who doesn’t want to play yakyuuken to take off her shoes.」

Haruto who is provoking with fake Japanese knowledge, is enjoying this situation.

And then the fourth rock paper scissors throw begins.

「Kii, Kii, Kyaaa!」

The two of them vocalized along with gorokuma’s shouting.

「Hey now, hey now. What’s going on?」

This was a response to another tie made with a grin on Haruto’s face. Tensai had said it with an expression of agony on her face.

Another tie. This is the fourth time in a row.

It’s obvious when it gets to this point. This is absolutely strange.

Tensai silently takes off her socks.

Haruto, who has already taken off his jacket, grins at Tensai.

「Now then detective. Can you figure out the trick?」

Tensai’s cheeks twitched at those words.

Haruto’s words were also a declaration that Haruto intended to continuously tie her.

This is truly a declaration of war against the great detective.

Now that we’re here, we can finally see what Haruto has been doing. The actual goal of Haruto D. Polnareff (AKA Ishvald Kornahl) is to strip the great detective of her cloths by continuously getting ties and crush her through shame.

It’s apparent that he really hates great detectives.

Is Tensai going to be ok?

I couldn’t help but worry, but those worries quickly disappeared.

「Well isn’t this interesting?」

The child detective that just took off her socks grinned.

I remembered that the self-proclaimed great detective who was named Ikkyu Tensai, whom Haruto was picking a fight with, was not going to go down so easily.

And now the fifth throw of rock paper scissors begins.

This is when Tensai finally struck.

「Kii, Kii, Kyaa!」

Gasp

The result of the throw was a tie of rocks. However, there was a strange action at the moment when Tensai threw her hand.

It was a quick opening and closing of the hand while swinging it down.

In other words, she tried to play paper but ended up playing rock. It was a feint so to speak.

Why did she do a feint in a game of rock paper scissors? As a spectator I couldn’t understand it at all, but it worked.

For some reason Haruto was late in throwing his hand.

However, they ended up finishing the throw at almost the same time so it wasn’t a late move. However, unlike in the past throws, there was a definite felt like his movements was slow.

What does that mean?

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Currently, the only remaining clothing left on Tensai is a hat, jacket, shirt, skirt, bra, and panties.

Tensai choose to take off her jacket next.

While taking off her clothes, she thinks about what Haruto did earlier when he was taking off his clothes in front of her.

Haruto declared that he would cause continuous ties.

There is no doubt that the Nanana collection is involved in this.

The question is what kind of ability is Haruto using?

The feint he just used narrowed down some of the possibilities.

Seeing that Haruto had slightly delayed his throw as a result, Tensai erased some of the possibilities she had in her mind.

What Tensai was thinking is that most likely it was some kind of force that was reading her thoughts in advance.

However, this idea has now been ruled out.

If her thoughts were being read, he would have figured out that she was making a feint in the first place, so there would be no reason he would be so slow.

For the same reason, it is difficult to imagine that some kind of power is being used before the game of rock paper scissors begins.

In other words, if he is doing something it will be during or after the ‘rock paper scissors’ chant.

So how does this guy see through her moves?

Tensai decided to take the next step.