Looking at the deadlock, Shin suggested, "Hakari-senpai, this stalemate isn't going anywhere. How about this: let's both go all out and show our abilities, then decide the winner in one final round."
"Of course, this time we'll both write our bets on paper to avoid influencing each other. If it's still a draw, I'll consider myself the loser."
Kinji squeezed the small steel ball in his hand and said, "I'm really being looked down upon."
Kirara took paper and a pen, handed them to the two, and began shaking the dice again.
While Kirara was still shaking the cup, Shin had already finished writing on his paper, which made Kinji's eyes narrow.
Thump!
The dice cup was placed on the table again.
Kinji lowered his head to write his answer, but as he let go, the three dice quickly slid into his clothes through his sleeve.
'Change the result... Let's test our reaction speeds. The brain takes about 0.2 seconds to react. Can you react in the instant the dice cup is opened and I change the numbers?'
(Personal Headcanon: Hakari's Cursed Technique allows him to swap small steel balls with gambling tools within a certain range at will, and manipulate the steel balls by transforming them into various gambling tools. Of course, this is a relatively weak application.)
The dice cup was lifted, and the three dice inside were 4, 5, and 6—exactly the three numbers Kinji had produced in the final 0.2 seconds. This made him breathe a sigh of relief, and he couldn't help but look forward to the scene of him cleaning up those Higher-Ups.
He threw the note in his hand onto the table and said, "I won. It seems my luck is a cut above."
Kirara glanced at the number on Kinji's note and her pupils shook in shock. Just as he wanted to warn Kinji, Shin also threw his note onto the table.
(Kirara will be addressed as a female.)
"I'm sorry, Hakari-senpai, but I won this round."
Shin's note clearly and unmistakably had the numbers four, five, and six written on it.
Only then did Kirara warn, "Kinji, what you wrote is... three sevens."
Kinji stood up abruptly and grabbed the note. On it, three large 7s were clearly written, and he was certain that this was his own handwriting.
He crumpled the note into a ball and sighed helplessly, "Ah... I've been played. I didn't expect that this time, instead of swapping the dice numbers, you swapped my note. No, this isn't an ordinary swap. This is... twisting reality itself. I lost."
Kinji was a man who stood by his bets. After losing to Shin, he immediately converted everyone's chips in the casino into money and then threw them, along with their money, out of the casino.
After packing up their belongings, Kinji and Kirara, along with Satoru and Shin, took a portal back to Jujutsu High.
As soon as they arrived at Jujutsu High, Kiyotaka hurried up to Shin and Satoru and said anxiously, "Gojo-san, Kagura-san, something has happened in Hokkaido. A massive Barrier has suddenly appeared there, covering the entire island of Hokkaido. Special Grade Sorcerer Tsukumo Yuki has already set off for Hokkaido. But Master Tengen has already... departed, so it should be impossible for such a large-scale Barrier to be deployed in Japan now."
Shin frowned and thought to himself, 'Something isn't right. Hokkaido isn't even within the range of Tengen's Barrier. Even if Kenjaku has fully mastered Tengen's Barrier techniques, he shouldn't be able to deploy a Barrier across the entire Hokkaido region.'
Satoru shrugged indifferently, "Hasn't Yuki already gone? Just let her go and investigate. Anyway, even if she dies, Shin can resurrect her, so it doesn't matter. Stay calm."
That was indeed the logic. If Yuki could handle it, she would resolve it herself, and if she couldn't, she would just die—it wasn't a big problem.
However, Shin's Command Block resurrection did have some conditions: a part of the resurrected person's body or soul must exist within the range of the Command Block. Of course, if they died within the range of the Command Block, there were no requirements.
Right now, Shin had a finger of everyone he knew inside his Ender Chest.
Although Kiyotaka remained very anxious, he could not influence the thoughts of these two Special Grade Sorcerers, so he could only hand the detailed information about the incident to them and temporarily withdraw.
Kinji asked at this moment, "How about I go there with Kirara? We might be able to help a little."
"No need. If Yuki can't handle it alone, you two won't be of much use either. We still don't know what the goal of those Cursed Spirits is, so let's stay put for now."