After Gender Swapping, I Became the Daughter of a Yandere Mother with Animal Ears—With the Help of My Yandere Mom and Powerful Sister, I'll Live as a Fox Girl - Chapter 62: To the Land of Dreams!

“Lady Mashiro… I have come up with the perfect money-making scheme…”

Spinning around in a bizarre manner as she spoke, Yorikoma had a plan. Honestly, I doubted anything worthwhile could come from her brain, but listening wouldn’t hurt…

“So, what is this perfect way to make money?”

“While swimming in the sea, I kept thinking… how can we escape from this poverty…”

“Eh… you were thinking about that in the sea…”

Yorikoma’s thought process was becoming a concern.

Who thinks about money while at the sea, much less while swimming…

“Yes. And then, I heard the sound of a stone rolling… clink, clonk…”

“Oh… really…”

“The moment the sound hit my eardrums, a current ran through my body… a divine revelation came to me… to go to a gambling house…”

“Rejected.”

“Eeh~! Why?! It’s a good idea! Lady Mashiro, if you hear the sound of those dice, you’ll definitely want to go!!”

“I won’t… Who becomes a gambling addict from hearing dice sounds…”

Listening to her was a waste of time… I had hoped Yorikoma, of all people, could come up with something better than gambling. I haven’t seen the gambling dens here, but they can’t be good.

The idea that the sound of a rolling stone could lead to such a suggestion… Could Yorikoma be a gambler?… No way, that’s ridiculous.

“Just once. Let’s go just once! We’ll definitely win! It’s a divine revelation, you know? It’d be a loss not to go!”

“No, no, no… I don’t understand… What? A divine revelation? If luck was that easy, there’d be no suffering. Plus, where will we get the capital? If you say we’re using it for gambling, Chizuru would be furious, not supportive.”

“Humph. I never planned to borrow money from Chizuru-san. Have you forgotten? I do have a small amount of money. We can use that as the capital.”

Yorikoma proudly pulled out a copper coin, its value unknown to me in this world’s currency system, but I understood that gold, silver, and copper were in descending order of value.

Based on what I’ve learned so far, this copper coin might be worth a few hundred yen at best.

Even if we went to a gambling den, it likely wouldn’t cover the entrance fee.

“Sigh… No way. That’s too small an amount. We might not even be allowed in…”

“We won’t know unless we try! Don’t worry. If it comes down to it, I’ll use my body as collateral.”

“……That’s even worse.”

“Come on, let’s go! It’s not like Lady Mashiro will lose anything~”

My head was shaking back and forth. It was making me nauseous…

“Stop… okay, I get it. We’ll go… just stop shaking me…”

“Yay!”

“Sigh…”

I wasn’t convinced, but leaving Yorikoma to her own devices seemed even scarier.

It was entirely possible she’d end up selling herself or something…

We probably won’t be allowed in, and even if we are, we’ll run out of money quickly. We can just stop then.

“Hehehe… By tomorrow, this copper will turn into a mountain of gold.”

“Yeah, yeah… Keep your fantasies in check…”

“Let’s go! To the land of dreams!”

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“This is… the gambling den?”

“Yes. It must be.”

I’ve never been to a gambling place in Japan, so I didn’t have a clear image, but the building in front of us felt different than expected…

I imagined something more dazzling…

It looked more like a normal shop than anything else.

Though I could hear people’s voices inside, there wasn’t a noisy atmosphere at all.

It felt eerily silent…

“Lady Mashiro, let’s go in!”

“Eh, wait… Are we really going in?”

“Of course. What are you saying after coming all this way?”

“Do you know anything about gambling dens, Yorikoma?”

“Of course. I’m not so foolish as to come to a gambling den without any knowledge.”

I asked because there’s a chance she could be that foolish…

“How much do you know?”

“Don’t be shocked… I know all the winning hands.”

“Just the winning hands?”

“Yes.”

That’s not reassuring. Knowing just the winning hands won’t help much…

And does this world have mahjong? It’s hard to imagine such a complex game occurring naturally…

“Let’s just go in and see.”

“Sigh… No helping it.”

Might as well go in; we’ll likely be heading back soon anyway. Thinking more about it seems pointless.