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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 7 Chapter 6.7

Yukihime-neesan easily agrees. Or what? Are you so angry that you can’t even make good judgments Yukihime-neesan? No no no, you should calm down, because if you clumsily declare 10 stabs or something here and then the pirate pops up it’ll be embarrassing. That’s exactly what Batako-san wants!

I won’t say it because I’m on the other team, but I’m worried about how angry she is.

And then Yukihime-neesan goes and does it.

「19 stabs.」

….huh?

Yuiga the banker is stunned by this.

「Huh? I’m sorry but just now did you…」

「What, didn’t you hear me? I said 19 stabs.」

Outrageous, that’s outrageous. Everyone was shocked; Lady Ageha sitting next to me, the female camera staff, Haruto who was watching from the other side, and even President Yuiga. (Who I was seriously considering punching him next time I get a chance)

The only person who wasn’t surprised was Batako-san.

「Hmph.」

The corners of her mouth lift up with amusement.

That smile is strangely impressive. The way she had been making fun of her opponent was all just an act, but the expression on her face now was a real smile. That’s how it felt.

President Yuiga, who runs the game as the banker, is confused but proceeds with the conversation.

「Well then, go ahead and stab the barrel with 19 swords.」

While placing her left hand on the barrel, Yukihime-neesan stabs the sword with her right hand into the holes in the barrel one after another. It’s not carefully, it’s not sloppy, she’s just calmly stabbing. Without hesitation she stabs each sword.

It was as if she knew already that the pirate wouldn’t pop up.

And then…

「Well, that’s a success.」

As the stunned President Yuiga said, Yukihime-neesan really successfully stabbed 19 swords.

The black bearded pirate remains in the barrel.

This means the pirate will definitely fly on the 20th stab, the next one.

What this means is that in this game of 《Blackbeard’s crisis》, Yukihime-neesan won a complete victory and is confirmed to be taking 600 coins from our Lady’s Team.

Hey hey! This is a lie right?

No, I really got goosebumps. I thought it was amazing. Even though Yukihime-neesan was on the opposing teamand I was on the team that was being robbed, I honestly thought it was amazing.

「Next is Servant B’s turn.」

「Well, there’s only one, so I’ll stab one.」

This could be seen as one way to deal with the loss of the war, by making the pirate fly in a spectacular fashion.

To do this, Batako-san puts her hand on the barrel and moves the only hole that doesn’t have a sword stuck in it so it was pointed towards her.

「Ah, that’s right.」

With that Batako-san suddenly turned her back on the barrel and Yukihime-neesan and came towards us.

And what did you think she did…

she suddenly hugged me.

「Wai… huh?」

Ah, the smell of citrus and ash…

And then we can see Yukihime-neesan’s expression as she turns into a literal demon.

「Hey, Juugo Yama. Do you know if there is any Nanana collection that could hold something in place?」

「W..what are you asking me all of a sudden?」

「There is or isn’t?」

「There is.」

「Quietly and easily?」

「It’s a gold wedge the size of a ballpoint pen. By stabbing it into the ground it chains an opponent in place.」

「I see, is that so?」

And so Batako-san finally releases me.

「I’ve kept you waiting long enough.」

With a grin and a laugh, Batako-san returned to the table again.

「What was that about?」

「Well, that Servant A is a hopeless womanizer. He called to me and told me to embrace him. He force me to.」

「Sorry, but please don’t lie. Please stop telling such blatant lies.」

No, I really don’t want you to do that to Yukihime-neesan. Look, she’s already staring at me so hard.

「Well, that’s how it is.」

And while Yukihime-neesan was glaring at me, Batako-san stuck out her right and towards the barrel.

And the pirate popped beautifully into the air.

「We have a winner. The winner is Yamato Nadeshiko of Sakura Team.」

The Banker President Yuiga loudly declared this.

「Huh, why?」

…That’s what I was thinking, but Batako-san was the one who said it out loud.

「Um, it’s because the pirate popped up when Servant B-sama stabbed the barrel with the sword.」

「That’s not true, because I haven’t stabbed the sword yet.」

While saying that, Batako-san withdrew her right hand and sure enough there was no sword stuck in the barrel.

For the first time, Yukihime-neesan’s expression changed to surprise.

However her usual expression quickly returned.

「What kind of trick did you play?」

「What do you mean?」

「The pirate popped out and then you pulled the sword out. Is that it?」

Yukihime-neesan must be right. It happened at the moment the doll flew away. The only explanation is that Batako-san stabbed the last sword and then pulled it out quickly so we wouldn’t notice.

「Yo yo, don’t interrupt me.」

「There is no other explanation. After all, you stabbed the last sword.」

The corner of the evil woman’s mouth turned up at the sight of Yamato Nadeshiko thrusting her sword at her.

「Well then, why don’t we ask the person who actually has the sword?」

「…Who’s that?」

Then Batako-san turned towards me.

「Yo, the handsome man with the evil eyes. Put your hand in your left pocket.」

Hearing that, I put my hands in my pocket and opened my eyes at the impossible item I found.

Surprised. I’m surprised. After all, I pulled the last sword out of my pocket.

Yukihime-neesan froze when she saw the sword I took out of my pocket, then Batako-san started talking happily.

「In other words, this is the deal. The pirate should have already popped. However it seems like the mechanism inside the barrel had some problem with it so it wasn’t working properly. It happened to activate when I turned the barrel towards me.」

By this point, even I could understand what was going on here.

Did Yukihime-neesan use the 《Sun God’s Wedge》? No, but the effect of it won’t activate unless the user touches the wedge. But Yukihime-neesan didn’t seem to do that at all…

「Hey you think so too, isn’t that right foreign bro?」

That’s when I noticed the presence of another spectator on the same side of the room as Yukihime-neesan.

Haruto stood there stunned and hurriedly hid the golden wedge he was holding in his right hand behind his back.

So does that mean that Haruto used the 《sun god’s wedge》 to keep the pirate chained up?

Haruto had created chains inside the barrel to tie the pirate down so he wouldn’t fly away, and when Batako-san stabbed the barrel with her sword, he released the chains which sent the pirate flying.

But the barrel on the table was off the ground, and there was no chain to be seen at all…no, maybe that was the trick. When I used 《sun god’s wedge》 once, at the same time that I stabbed it into the ground, a golden chain came out of the ground. But maybe it doesn’t have to be stuck into the ground, it could just be stuck into the wall of a building. Also, the chain could pop out not just from the ground, but in a completely different place like the air, the table, or anywhere else you like.

It’s Yukihime-neesan, there is no doubt that she verified that this plan would work perfectly.

But when did Yukihime-neesan and Haruto have such a meeting? They didn’t decide what game would be played until they arrived here, so they couldn’t have discussed it beforehand. So they were able to anticipate each other’s actions and use of the Nanana collection and declared 19 stabs?

As expected from Haruto and Yukihime-neesan.

If something like this happened to me, there would be no way I wouldn’t lose.

However Batako-san turned it around.

She pretended to stab the barrel with the sword by pointing the last hole in the barrel straight at her, which was Haruto’s blind spot.

She noticed Yukihime-neesan’s and Haruto’s actions, and with the little information I gave her, she saw through them. She even managed to land a counter attack.

Batako-san is a real monster.

Batako-san laughs at Yukihime-neesan, who is shocked and has both hands on the table.

「That’ll be 570 coins. Thank you for giving it to me for free.」

Batako-san patted Yukihime-neesan on the shoulder and whispered, 「He wouldn’t choose you because you are useless.」

Immediately Yukihime-neesan began to tremble. Her eyes that then looked at me… they didn’t have the same usual strong gaze. She had the eyes of a weak little girl.

Yukihime-neesan turned her back and left the robbery room with her head hung in shame.

Sakura Team Coins: 312 -> -258

The Sakura Team, which has fallen into 《debt》 is taking a desperate measure.

It has been confirmed that a request time for Yukihime-neesan’s will be held.