Usogui - Vol. 26 Ch. 274 - Tempting Coins

[MangaDex]

 

[299792458]

Copying someone else's comment from way back:
Things you should not do if you're not Usogui:
1) Gamble with Leader
That's it.

 

[shinyitzuki1]

"This game wil neveeeeeeeeer end"

^Specifically, you're doomed. HAHAHAHAH

Thanks duwang1

 

[belkrax]

I for one, bid welcome to our new protagonist.

Jokes aside this is getting fun. Even I could see the trap in that game so leader obviously saw it too.

 

[catx3]

@dbpop

This is the last chapter of this batch.

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There were a few suspicious panels/setups in this chapter, but as usual I have no idea what they mean.

1- https://mangadex.org/chapter/644001/12 - Hachina looking at both sides of the table after hearing the game's rules.
2- https://mangadex.org/chapter/644001/18 - The ending seems to emphasize the emptied milk(?) pack.
3- https://mangadex.org/chapter/644001/13 - Hachina's baggage that was prepared beforehand.

Hachina losing on purpose, he probably wants to up the wager somehow, since he doesn't actually want Kidou's money at all. I wonder how he'll manage that one though, with this game that has no rules or referees to enforce the gamble.

 

[saxifraga]

Souichi: leader of Kakeou, seemingly an incredibly versatile and cunning intellectual, proclaims that he will "win and always continue to win"... proceeds to immediately lose within the first move of the game. Lol

I'm sure there's more to it than that, but his initial reaction of confusion (genuine or not) to losing got a chuckle out of me.

 

[Lithe]

I'm beginning to develop a specific reaction to those analogies.

As soon as I read "Humans are like..." I started laughing.

 

[Sinful_egg]

I wasnt sure about this ark at first mainly because of the iffy translation, not that i blame them they must be stressed with the delay. But im really starting to warm up to this arc after re-reading the start of the arc

 

[Ominous]

From leading Kakerou to pushing coins across a napkin.

Souichi has come a long way.

 

[BossCrab]

I'm really interested in this arc. We've been hearing for a while how OP Souichi is and getting to see it in action is pretty exciting. The fact that he's able to think on his feet so quickly having lost such a huge chunk of his memory is impressive. He's able to immediately assess a situation he has no knowledge of and work it to his advantage.

 

[Nine_Gates]

After a bit of thinking, I've solved it. It's quite a simple game. The player whose move makes the situation symmetrical will win. The player whose move breaks the symmetry will lose.

By "symmetrical" I mean a situation where both pairs of coins are the same distance away from each other. The starting setup is asymmetrical. The first player to move has a chance to make it symmetrical by moving their coin on the row of 10 squares so that there's 3 squares between the coins, just like on the short row. So the first player to move wins, assuming they know what they're doing. But if they don't make the perfect move, like leader here, then the advantage switches to the second player.

 

[Sinful_egg]

when can we expect next batch?

 

[299792458]

@sinful_ egg Probably today or tomorrow at the latest. There hasn't been a gap of more than 7 days between batches as far as I know (least since I've been following the updates).