Skills of the Ultimate Gambler (1)

Next couple chapters will follow Hifumi and Celestia, think of it as a mini-arc inside of this more slice of life focused arc on his personal life.

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The next day after the whole Miu Debacle, me and Celestia were both inside of the principals office to see if he would approve of what we were about to do.

"Hmmm…. While I do see the benefits for you Celestia, the school itself can't offer such a large sum for you to use in a gamble of such degree, even if you are certain you could win it all back and then some." Principal Kirigiri said as he rubbed his chin while thinking it over.

But Celestia shook her head, "I'm not asking for any money from the school Principal Kirigiri, I already have the necessary funds needed to do this, I only need the schools permission to go off school grounds for today and possibly even tomorrow if those at Hyakkaou Private Academy demand of me a rematch or something along those lines." She said giving me a sidelong glance to which he noticed making him look at me with a raised eyebrow.

"I know young Hifumi here has money from his various connections but to even have a major stake in making anything at that school you must have plenty of capital, tens to hundreds of millions of yen at that." Which was a fair point to make, any of the richest kids at that school that run it like kings and queens with the teachers only being there because their needed for the school to be called a school.

The school itself was run by the student council who help the wealthy and oppressed the poor while the teachers have to turn a blind eye to it all lest they lose their jobs, the school is the purest form of a Dog Eat Dog society where backstabbing is all the to common there once you begin to falter and lose your money, your friends you 'thought' you had will turn their backs on you, one of the many reasons, besides me knowing I'm now a Danganronpa Character, that I didn't want to go to that school when I received a letter of recommendation to allowed into said school.

"It's alright, I have the spare capital from my success in my mangas along with my other businesses so this won't affect me at all." I said with a wave of my hand.

He thought about it before nodding, "Alright, it's more tamer than if we allowed you to go to any of the Casino's in the country lest you get on the bad side of certain groups." Though I internally grimace as Shinigami appears by us with me only seeing her.

'Doesn't he know that it's more dangerous to piss off a bunch of rich kids with ties to the government and other large areas of influence than those gangs?'

'Maybe, but from what I heard is that the parents don't help the kids if they lose hard since it's to teach them life lessons or something like that, worse of all that any of them that are in deep debt are shipped off to work on fishing boats to pay off the debt and worse for the women is that they have to marry old rich men to get their debts forgiven, you lose to hard and you could end up being a slave basically for your entire life to pay it off if the parents decide to not bail them out of all of it, and sure your not forced to gamble but doing that won't help with building ties with others and you'll be ostracized for not doing something everyone else is already doing.' I say to her through my thoughts as me and Celestia stand up.

"Don't worry Principal Kirigiri, we will be fine as is, all we needed was your okay to do this as the school already knows we would be arriving today in the first place, so we will take our leave." I say as I bow my head while Celestia Curtsy's before we both leave his office.

As we were heading out of the school, Celestia realized something, "Oh Dear, we can't just arrive at such a prestigious school on foot or even worse a city bus." She said to which I chuckled.

"Luckily for you I have a perfect car for such a situation." I said before pulling out a car clicker and clicking it.

*Vrooom*

Soon enough my Rayfield Caliburn, from my time in cyberpunk but toned down to more well match my worlds era for cars, came up to us, as I grinned a bit seeing the look of genuine surprise on her face.

"I think this will do just fine." I say as both the doors slide upwards and open as I get in while she got in the passenger seat next to me.

"Sometimes I forget how rich you are since you don't flaunt it like other rich scions do." She said curiously looking over the interior while we made our way to Hyakkaou Private Academy.

"Ehh, sure I'm rich but most of it is in other things for the company rather than for me, but if I liquidated my assets I'm have right now I could easily buy that European castle you so desire, but I know your the type who would rather earn it yourself than just have it gifted to you." I say as we hit the highway, and luckily at this time of day the roads were quiet.

"Well you are correct, even if I was engaged to the man of my dreams I wouldn't ask him to buy something that I wish to earn with my own hands." She says which makes me raise an eyebrow.

"And what exactly would be the man of your dreams be in the first place?" I ask her which surprisingly I see her get a dreamy look on her face.

"He would be a perfect servant to me, doing everything and anything I wanted with hair as white as snow, eyes red like ruby's and to top it all off he would of course have to be a vampire and he would be the perfect man for me….. haaaa, but sadly it's not meant to be…." She sighs while I'm internally sweating when hearing that.

'Maybe there isn't one that is like that, but since this world is also merged with 'Fate's' world there are Dead Apostles Ancestors out in the world, but they would sooner just kill you and harvest everything your body has to give and toss you to the side and that's if it ends well for you, if not….' I think these thoughts before shaking my head as it's too gruesome to imagine how badly they would torment someone and never allow them to die with all the things they can do to someone.

But I just shake my head, "Maybe not, but you'll just have to look for close enough instead." I say though I remember that Hajime at the end of the second game got white hair and red eyes but that's only after he decides to become the ultimate hope for the survivors at the end does that happen and since it's unlikely that will happen in this world nobody we know would be a close fit for her, at least off the top of my head that is.

"And here we are." I say as we see the academy in all its glory before heading through the gate which the gate guard didn't even question us and let us through, probably due to how fancy my car looked, so we went in and parked it before getting out.

Looking at the school the air seemed oppressive as if we were both being stared down like a fresh piece of meat right in front of some hungry dogs.

But we were undeterred, after all we were the ones that were going to take a bite right out of them.