Uma Musume: From Being Knocked Ten Meters Away

Chapter 288 Slamming the Back of the Golden Ship
While Yasui Makoto was on the phone with Alimee, on the other side of the mansion, in a large bedroom.

The "pillow fight" proposed by the Golden Ship was a great success, and the entire bedroom had become a battlefield filled with flying down feathers.

The battlefield was still filled with the lingering smoke of the great battle.

Two feathers had somehow appeared in the white bangs of the Northern Black Horse. She was sitting on the edge of the mattress, straightening the collar of her yukata, which had been pulled askew.

Wang Ziding huddled in the corner, also wearing a bathrobe with a small white flag stuck in the collar, hugging a pillow embroidered with a four-leaf clover pattern, staring blankly at the center of the bedroom.

In the center of the bedroom, the Gold Master and Zhongshan Qingdian, each waving a large pillow, were chasing the gold ship all over the room, making the wooden floor creak and groan under their feet.

Leaning against the windowsill, Meng Zhilu held a book, a small white flag pinned to one temple of her narrow-rimmed glasses.

"Hey you guys, keep it down, don't flip the mattress over."

She called out to the Gold Masters meaninglessly, shook her head helplessly, took a bag of dried bananas from the snack bag on the windowsill, and handed it to the person next to her.

"Hey sis, want some dried bananas?"

She was leisurely tidying up the blankets and feathers that had been flung to the windowsill, a small white flag tucked into her braid. Golden Journey looked over and waved with a smile:
"No need, you can ask Xiao Bei and Xiao Dingxiang."

Meng Zhilu nodded, and just as he looked at Beibu Xuanju and Wang Ziding, a loud voice suddenly came from the center of the bedroom.

"What are you afraid of the mattress being overturned?"

The golden ship suddenly came to a stop, clutching a large, fluffy velvet pillow in each hand, and laughed triumphantly with its hands on its hips:
"Back when I was doing a dormitory study tour, I even broke the wallpaper in the dorm once, and nothing happened, right? Hahaha... Ouch!"

"It's now!"

With excited shouts, Zhongshan Celebration pounced like a hungry tiger, knocking the golden ship to the ground by the waist.

Then, while waving the pillow in his hand and hitting the stern of the golden ship, he turned around and shouted:
"Master! I've caught her!"

"Great, I'll cover your lollipops for the celebration next week, now..."

With veins bulging on his forehead, his long golden hair and yukata covered in goose feathers, carrying a pillow in one hand and rolling up his sleeve in the other, the goldsmith squinted as he walked step by step toward the golden ship that had been thrown to the ground:
"It's time to settle the score with that guy for the sneak attack!"

Struggling on the ground, the golden ship shouted defiantly:
"Hey! Master, let's talk this out... And Dream Journey! You actually schemed against me! I won't let you get away with this!"

"Excuse me."

Shrugging indifferently, Dream Journey pointed to the small white flag pinned to the temple of his glasses:

"I surrendered long ago."

Then, amidst the wails of the golden ship and the triumphant shouts of the goldsmith, she slowly turned the pages of her book.

After a while.

The wailing and cathartic shouts had long since disappeared, and the feathers scattered everywhere from the "pillow fight" had all been cleaned up.

The former participants sat around in the center of the bedroom, each with a black dice cup, which they shook vigorously.

This is a game called "Liar's Dice," also known as Deceptive Dice or Liar's Dice.

The game involves each person having five dice. After shaking them together in a dice cup, each person can only see the number on their own dice.

Then, starting with the dealer or the first player randomly chosen, players take turns guessing how many dice are rolled in total.

For example, if you see that your dice have three twos and two fives, you can guess that there are three twos in the game. You can also pretend that you have other dice and guess five twos or even more.

You can guess other numbers too.

Then it was the other players' turn to guess in turn.

When one player reveals their guess, the next player can choose to "believe" or "not believe".

If the next player "believes," their guess of the number or number must be greater than the previous player's. If they "don't believe," everyone opens the dice cup to check if the dice rolls match the previous player's guess.

If the conditions are met, the player who chose "Do not believe" loses; if the conditions are not met, the previous player loses.

This kind of game is common in bars, and since many of the horse racing girls present were not old enough to drink, the stakes were changed to lollipops.

The one providing the stakes was, of course, Zhongshan Celebration, which proposed this game.

She was also the bookmaker in the first round.

Zhongshan Qingdian shook the dice cup, making a rattling sound, and then slammed it heavily to the ground with a "thud".

Without even glancing at what was in her dice cup, her eyes darted around, a sly smile playing on her lips, and she spoke first:
“I guess there are… 15 sixes in the whole room.” With that, he swept his gaze defiantly over the crowd.

"Hey, hey," the golden ship suddenly complained, "It's a celebration, and you've already guessed it's so big. How are we supposed to play?"

There are 7 people participating in this game, which means there are 35 dice.

Zhongshan Qingdian not only didn't check his dice rolls, but also guessed nearly half the possible numbers, and even guessed the highest number, six.

It's really hard to predict what will happen to players after that, whether they increase the number of players or the points they add.

However, one of the rules of this game is that if no one guesses "one", then the number "one" can substitute for any other number.

In other words, out of 35 dice, there don't actually need to be 17 sixes. As long as there are 7 or 8 sixes, plus the same number of ones, it counts as Zhongshan Celebration guessing correctly.

The latter scenario is significantly more likely than the former.

"So, Ah Chuan, are you questioning me?"

Faced with the dissatisfaction of the Golden Ship, Zhongshan Celebration did not panic; instead, he confidently pressed the dice cup:

"Then I'll start. If I lose..."

"Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute!"

The golden ship immediately waved its hand:
"I didn't say I didn't believe it, it's not my turn yet... Anyway, Xiao Dingxiang is next, if she believes it, I have nothing to say."

Upon hearing this, all eyes turned to Wang Ziding.

Swallowing nervously, Wang Ziding carefully examined the dice in her dice cup.

Her dice had four fours and one six.

She thought about it and realized that since the senior from Zhongshan Celebration had seen the number of dice before saying there were 15 sixes, she could actually question it.

The problem is that the senior hasn't seen it before. If the senior has a very good luck or a high skill level and rolls a large number like five sixes, then it's really hard to say.

After all, according to the game rules, if you roll 5 identical dice, you'll count 1 extra one in the final calculation.

After hesitating for a moment, she bit her lip and whispered, "I believe it, I guess... 16 fours."

After speaking, a hint of unease flickered in his eyes as he secretly observed the reactions of the others before looking at the Northern Black Steed.

Wang Ziding's next target is the Northern Black Steed. After hearing Wang Ziding's guess, she glanced at her dice cup.

There are three ones, one three, and one six inside.

After thinking for a moment, she felt that, aside from the seniors of the Zhongshan celebration, Wang Ziding should have quite a few fourth-generation relatives, and she said excitedly:
"Then I guess 17 fours."

Then, looking expectantly towards the dream journey.

(End of this chapter)