Chapter 89: I still want to win
"Pfft, are you sure want to challenge me?" Zhang Cai waved the beer's cup in her hand.
The other sisters had directed their attention toward these two people, expecting the brewing storm that was about to happen.
"One thing you should now about me, I never back on my words," Naruto carelessly shrugged.
"Well, what do you waiting, come here sit on my side!" Zhang Cai patted her previous challenger who had fallen gracefully from the ring of the battle, the person moved away with wobbly gait as the prowess of the beer punched the stronghold of her consciousness.
Naruto walked around the table and seized the spot she prepared for him.
"Shall we get started?" Zhang Cai placed one cup in front of Naruto and she poured the beer.
"Wait, instead of normal drinking's duel, how about we spice the rule a little bit?" the corner of his lips curled upward.
"Um, I don't mind, what do you got?" the shoulder length haired woman wrinkled her eyebrows and donned the mask of interest.
Naruto reached to his pocket and fished out his brown colored wallet, he flipped it open and brought out 1 Yuan coin.
"Let's set the rules like this, each time before we drink, I will flip the coin, and before I reveal what picture the coin show, we choose which side is our champion. The one who got it wrong must drink the beer, and here is the catch, if you got it wrong for a second time, you have to drink the beer twice, also in case you lose again in the next turn, you drink the beer thrice, and so on..."
Zhang Cai frowned, she's not unfamiliar with the flip coin rule but this version Naruto made clearly unseen by her before, it's not exactly genius modification but still clever no matter how you see it.
"Alright, sound exciting, bring it on blonde!" the heroine who feared nothing definitely won't fall out from any challenge.
Naruto just chuckled while shaking his head left and right. The other sisters also abandoned their activity and observed the eve of the fight between a male and female.
Naruto placed the coin atop his forefinger and his thumb nipped the bottom part, in a nick of time, he snapped his thumb and sent the coin up to the air in a straight line. It twirled its side numerous time and landed perfectly on Naruto's back palm as he closed it with his another hand in the instant.
"So, what side you choose, sister Cai?" Naruto flashed his smile.
"Hmm, my horoscope is Taurus and it has a symbol like a head, so I am going to pick head for sure!" the woman cheerfully said.
"Then I have the tail," Naruto lifted his hand and a picture of number 5 appeared on the coin.
Naruto sighed while Zhang Cai laughed in happiness, going on and on about her luck is a god's gift. Without wasting any times, Naruto picked his cup and drank whole the beer. He put it down while closing his eyes, knitting the spot between his eyes as he exhibited the effect of the beer.
"Hey, don't tell me your tolerant is low, don't disappoint this elder sister!" she laughed with 'Mwahaha' like sort of second rate villain or something.
"Don't worry, a man won't bent his head in front of enemy even when he is cripple, I am not going to surrender even I have a low tolerant of alcohol," he smiled in carefree manner.
"Um, good! Then let's continue the battle!"
After 10 round had passed, Naruto lost four times and Zhang Cai lost six, but in the term of how many each of them drink the cup, Naruto never had consecutive lost, thus he only drank once each of the time. As for Zhang Cai, she always and absolutely lost two times, thus she had to drink thrice. The battle was going like this:
N ZC ZC N ZC ZC N ZC ZC N (N: Naruto, ZC: Zhang Cai)
In a sum, Naruto, followed with his loses, only drank four cup of the beer, while Zhang Cai technically had drank nine.
Now the strong and fierce heroine looked dazed with her face brimming in redness, her eyes rippled with blurry colors. Even so, she persisted on continuing the battle until she had her head touched down the table. Naruto shrugged since he didn't have any problem to prolong his inevitable winning.
At this moment, he sent his eyes to Zhao Hongyan and Liu Mingyu, the two women nodded secretly before they went around the table, whispering in the ears of other sister, even Mo Qianni herself.
Naruto looked a bit startle, he wasn't expecting the relationship between the chief and her subordinate is no different than a friend in the outside like this. Now that he remembered where they are currently had a feast, it shouldn't be that much a surprise that she could relate easily with her coworker.
"Sister Cai, why don't we ante up a little bit?"
"Huee?" the lad as if no longer could focus her attention.
"Let's place a betting and we have another 10 round, whoever have call it wrong the most is the one who lose the battle and the winner will take all the money away, get it?" Naruto said in a slow gait.
"Betting... betting..." Zhang Cai mumbled while she hung her head. Her eyelids almost closed many times but she snapped it open in the instant. If she was sobered, she definitely felt something was amiss in this duel. First, she had a very high resistance against the effect of alcohol, gave her five bottle of wines, she swallowed all of it without any worry. Since the beginning of her duel with other sister till the last ten round she had with Naruto, she pretty much just drank four bottle at most, yet she already turned into state like this. Second, Zhang Cai hated gambling or sort, for obvious reason she never placed any betting in the first duel.
"Come on sister Cai, it's all fun for a while but now just getting boring, why we don't put something as a stake to bring the joy back in the game?" Naruto spoke in enticing manner, he is akin to a Multi Level Marketing people.
"Sure... whatever you say," she huffed then rested her cheek on her palm.
"Good! Good! Sisters, why don't you guys also bet, this Bae needs money!" Naruto laughed while crossing his arm.
"Alright, the duel is kinda fun to watch, might as well participate too!" Zhao Hongyan first opened her mouth to speak before the other sisters followed her tone.
"But you won't have all the money, OK?! Just 10% of it!" Mingyu mingled in.
"Eeh, 10%?! So stingy!" Naruto honked his mouth in discontent, his face twisted in ugly manner.
"Tsk, tsk, Mr. Naruto, it's not good to hog everything, and we should grateful for every little thing," Mo Qianni chirped while smiled gracefully like always.
"Tch, fine... if Chief Mo said so..." Naruto looked to the side with red on his face, it's really hard to adapt with the cute face his superior possessed.
"Ooh, Naruto was shy!"
"Hehe, it seems like someone has a crush with our chief!"
"Naruto, remember you have a wife~"
The blonde twitched his eyebrows, he snapped his face toward them.
"Oh, shut up!" despite his angry roar, the sisters in the room didn't have any fear, they just giggled and laughed out loud instead.
"Let's begin, already?! How long this gonna take?!" Zhang Cai patted the table with her cup, slamming it quite hard for multiple times.
The preparation of the bet finally had been set up, the money that had been collected reach to 1000 dollar, such an amount enough to buy a pair of expensive shoes.
"Sister Cai, let's begin the second match! I am going to have a date with that awesome looking watch!" Naruto excitedly poured down the beer into her cup.
"Hmmm..." she barely had any response.
Naruto hurled the coin into the air and caught it with the back of his palm. He picked the head while Zhang Cai picked the tail. They all watched with intense stare at the picture that would be shown by the coin.
It's head!
"Muaaah! I love you my lucky coin~" Naruto introduced his lips surface to the cold iron of the circle thing.
"Eww, that's gross~" they faked a distasteful expression.
"Ha? Is that mean I am drinking?" Zhang Cai doubtfully said, boy her head felt dizzy.
"Yes, yes, sister Cai, your turn to drink now~" Naruto lifted her cup and placed it on her hand, then he pushed it close to her face.
"Sure..." Zhang Cai didn't waste any time, she poured down the beer into her mouth and swallowed it immediately.
*Thud!*
"Next..." she slammed down the cup onto the table and wiped her lips with her wrist.
Naruto curled his mouth to the side, he began the second round, and it still Naruto won, In fact, in this match, Naruto just called wrong three times while the rest bad luck downed upon Zhang Cai. The last drink she gulp, she barely could keep her eyes open, with arm that had lost their power, she even failed to put the cup back on the table and let it fall to the ground instead. Her side of the head stumbled to the top surface of the table and she had eyes turned to whirlpools now...
The rest of the sisters wrinkled their eyebrows and exchange glanced to each other, they knew this betting plan was supposed to help Zhang Cai solved her problem with those debt collector people and they thought Naruto will let her win, but after seeing the outcome of the match, they no longer knew what this blonde had for a plan.
Even Zhao Hongyan and Liu Mingyu unable to hide their confusion.
Naruto sensed the people confused eyes that had been directed to him, he faced all of them then let out a snort.
"What? Even it just a pretending game, I still want to win..."
His response almost made every single person in the room staggered to the floor, What are you, a child?
Naruto exhaled a mouthful of air then grinned toward them.
"The next step of the plan required all of us to lie a little bit, I hope sisters didn't mind about it, oh, Chief Mo too, please forgive me for dragging you into such charade..."
"No, don't mind me, I also want help her but we hardly know what to do..." the cute superior waved her hand.
"Alright, first, you guys need to tell her that she won the match, not me. That means she earned all the money, also she probably won't remember how many share she would have from the bet. Next, I will borrow that money from her, this mean to prevent her in case she wanted to return the money since she hadn't any of it in her hand now. The last step, is that I will repay her back not in a form of another money, but a bunch of grocery and other necessity instead. This way, she wouldn't have a reason to reject them since this things could get expire, thus the money is well spent."
After hearing his plan, everyone as if had a revelation inside their mind. Their eyes widened in elation while iris sparkled in enthusiasm.
"So basically, we didn't help her pay her debt, instead, we help her with her needs?" Zhao Hongyan knitted her forehead and thought deeply.
"Clever! Though technically, we still help her somehow, least she won't have to worry about her health now!" Naruto nodded.
"Since it is your debt to pay, she won't feel any heavy heart or reluctant to accept it..." Mingyu smiled as she finally got the whole plan Naruto had.
Naruto only winked at Mingyu, receiving the blush from the purple-orange streak woman.
"That's a good idea... you have done well, Naruto..." Mo Qianni couldn't hide her admiration inside, her eyes stared at the blonde ahead with full of appreciation.
"Nah... it's nothing..." Naruto scratched his nose in embarrassment.
Several minutes later, the dinner also concluded, everyone went back to their own residence with Zhao Hongyan delivered Zhang Cai home while Naruto rode a cab along with several sister and Liu Mingyu.
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