LET'S GO GAMBLING! [OPM]

Let's go gambling!

Yes, I am using the term "credits" or something alike to refer to currency in this book, Yen sucks ass to convert from Euro.

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Kenshin scratched his head, his forehead covered in medical gauze to prevent his stitches from getting infected. He was fresh out of the hospital, still feeling sore on every inch of his body. Thankfully they provided him with spare clothes, ones that he had to pay for but the convenience was nice enough.

He bought the same set of clothes he had on before, the same colour, the same brand. After that genuinely traumatic event, Kenshin was finally home. And oh boy he never thought he'd love to see the sight of his small apartment again!

The lack of elevators was painful on his sore body, but he managed to push through just fine. Gingerly sitting himself down on his bed, the floating, blue, holographic screen once again appeared in front of his face. His miserable stats couldn't disappoint him more if they tried. But at least his luck was excellent, and his charisma wasn't too bad. 

Considering that Kenshin knew damn well how painfully average he was, seeing that F on so many of his stats didn't discourage him too badly. It would seem that the F-rank was that of an average human. At least the status window regarded him as somewhat appealing. Or maybe it referred to his social skills... nah.

But he didn't care much about that, his interest was somewhere else. Where had this ability come from? There was no pop-up window detailing how or why he got it, no special announcement or a companion to guide him through it, his best theory was simply that he always had this power and just awoke it. 

While that was an interesting thought, he eyed the N/A and EX+ ranks next to his two abilities. He supposed that was either a rarity or strength of said ability. But that couldn't be right. His status thingamabob was worthless in combat as far as he was aware. So his consensus was that it was a rarity rank.

It was the best theory he had. Going by the fact Compulsive Gambler ability was non-applicable in its rarity, he summarized that it was this specific ability that he was born with. Or... gained that skill later on. He didn't know or care about the proper terminology. How he never knew he had this power was beyond him, but how to use it felt almost... instinctual now that he was aware he had it. 

"Let's see how well this works..." he commented as he fished out his wallet, which thank God didn't get lost or obliterated in the fish attack, and brought out a single, virtually worthless bill of 5 credits.

Kenshin activated his gambling power through sheer instinct, and his precious money disappeared from his hand. He nearly jumped out of his skin when a fucking slot machine manifested itself out of thin air in front of him. It let out several beeps and boops, like those you'd see in a casino, and beckoned him to pull the comically large lever next to the three slots. 

"...Oh boy..."

And so Kenshin did just that. He pulled the lever. The mysterious slot machine sprung to life, spinning its three slots at such a speed he couldn't even tell what he was looking at. The slots spun and spun until suddenly, all three stopped and perfectly lined up one single picture.

"...Is that a-"

He didn't get to finish his sentence as the slot machine poofed out of existence and in its place was a...

"Grucci Bag..."

More of a purse than anything, it was from that very expensive, somewhat luxurious brand of female accessories that just about any woman wanted. It was utterly worthless to him.

...Hold up, he can sell it-

"Wait a damn minute..." Kenshin muttered under his breath, a moment of HALLELUJAH passing over him.

He picked up the precious purse from the ground and held it for only a moment before it disappeared. In its place, you guessed it, a fucking slot machine.

"Sometimes, my genius, it's almost frightening..."

The slots spun and Kenshin eagerly awaited his prize. If he can just re-spin whatever he got, he pretty much had an infinite money glitch. Got something useless? Re-spin. What a broken ability. There was one worry he forgot about though... just what is the limit on the size or mass of any given prize?

POOF!

"...Ouch."

He groaned against a colourful wall of rubber, his back tightly pressed against the wall as his healing wounds flared in pain. His room was probably a mess as a fucking bouncy castle materialised itself out of thin air. 

"This sucks..."

In the blink of an eye, it was gone. And Kenshin slid down to the floor with a pained grunt. This ability would be the end of him very quickly if his EX+ luck somehow gave him a fucking cruise ship or something. Thankfully, that didn't happen.

The slot machine poofed out of existence again, and in its place was a literal stack of cash. Kenshin found himself moving with surprising agility when he saw what he got. A literal pile of cash, neatly held together in groups of ten stacks. So there were fifteen ten stack piles of cash. That's... words. 

Anyway.

MONEY!

If they were all legit that is. He sure hoped they were considered each bill was 100 credits, so he had made a LOT of money. But... GAMBLING!

This gave him a shit ton of tries to test his luck, but that didn't mean he was going to throw away every damn bill he got. Naw! For now, he started with two at once. Which, honestly, might have been a stupid decision if fate decided to give him another goddamn bouncy castle. 

But to hell with it, gambling is one hell of a high!

Kenshin went from item to item, gambling them again and again for a chance to get something good. Most of the time the old-school slot machine would appear, but one time, it was a pachinko machine! CRAZY! The prizes didn't seem to differ much from machine to machine, from game to game, it was mostly random shit that was actually kind of valuable enough to give him better and better odds each time he re-spun the prizes.

"What."

After what could've been several hours, Kenshin found himself staring at three golden tickets. They heavily resembled those children would fight for in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory movie. Large. Rectangular. And very fancy. The eye-catching part was not the golden finish though, it was the text they displayed in glowing, rainbow text.

[+INCREASE+]

That was all it said. 

Kenshin had no idea what it was. It was obviously a ticket, no shit. But what did it do? Once more, there was no description for it and his "system", if it could even be called as such, offered to help whatsoever. 

It was clearly something valuable because regular old tickets, even ones made of golden paper, didn't just emit light on their own. The colourful light of the text was even moving, like some of those RGB lights kids put up in their room.

"...Hmm," he hummed under his breath as his status screen appeared again, Perfect Self was only really useful for keeping track of his so-far nonexistent gains.

Kenshin looked between the tickets and the screen, maybe this is how he increases his stats? That would be neat, and useful! He held one of the tickets up and tried to touch the floating window panel, and it actually did something!

By something I mean it made the ticket disappear.

"...Ain't no way," he quickly brought up the rest of his tickets and repeated the same action he did the first time.

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>[Name]

Kenshin

>[Age]

Irrelevant, legal.

>[Ability List]

Compulsive Gambler [N/A]

-In combat: roll a d20, the higher the number, the greater the critical strike, however, low numbers run the risk of the attack outright missing.

-Out of combat: play a variety of minigames at the cost of currency or items, each giving special rewards. The greater the risk, the greater the possible reward~

Perfect Self [EX+]

-View and edit personal attributes portraying to one's physique and even luck.

>[ATTRIBUTES]

Strength: F-

Stamina: F-

Speed: F-

Charm: C -> B+

Ability: B

Luck: EX+

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The rank of his charm attribute changed from C to B+, skipping C+, B- and B. While the apparent increase in his "appearance" was nice, he had no idea if it actually did that. Hell, charm could literally mean just him being able to talk his way out of things, which wasn't that useful at all. 

Still, it doesn't hurt to stay positive-

"Woah!" 

Okay, he spoke too soon. There was an actually physical difference now. His pants felt tighter.

Tugging on his pants, Kenshin whistled when he saw the results. His painfully average everything was previously evident even in his manhood. Five and a half inches was average! And that's exactly what he was. Or should I say, used to be. Kenshin's dick looked to have grown to at least seven and a half inches. It was thicker too. 

"Very nice," he commented and pushed the feeling of sudden happiness at having a bigger cock out of his mind.

"Here's to hoping I don't get crushed by a bouncy castle again..."

And he kept on gambling, hoping his EX+ luck would give him more attribute upgrades. He's definitely maxing out his charm first.

"Luck, don't fail me now."

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