The Player is a Part-Timer

Chapter 9: Unruly Introduction

"Red... Red... Red! I am disappointed. As a devil, you should know. Every contract contains a catch or two. Small print, which nevertheless changes the ultimate meaning of the pact, changes the outcome of the bet. This applies to oral contracts as well. Not mentioning, he is pretty bad at Poker. Lady Luck must really dislikes him... or favors me in his stead."

It also helped that Gillian had divination skills to cheat and abilities to manipulate probability, chance, and the causality of things. But, oh well! It was not really cheating until someone caught you dirty handed.

"Losers should not complain... Not as if he didn't try to cheat... if he can, I can do it too. Between two cheaters, almost always the one wins with more tricks and hax..."

"You are truly... something else." Rias still doubted this girl managed to beat her brother.

No matter how crafty she was, she was sure, Sirzechs was intelligent enough not to be outsmarted by a human — even if it was Gillian herself.

"Nonetheless, I need to make a call to be sure..." If not until now, she was sure she was not an average human now . "Beating Sona in chess just like that? Beating up Fallen and trained exorcists like they were simple street thugs? Mimicking Kiba's skill? Not speaking about what that Jack figure did before her that night...?" As time passed, more and more mystery started to surface around this newcomer.

Now Rias was sure; Gillian had some kind of sacred gear hiding dormant inside her! Even if the detector Ajuka Beelzebub developed couldn't sense any supernatural activity from her direction, Rias' pureblood devil instinct just screamed — Something was not right with this girl!

"But why do I still want to crack this mystery open?" This bugged her more than anything else. Why did she feel the need to claim her as one of her pieces? To break her resistance and convert her to a loyal servant that serves and strengthens devilkin?

It was all confusing and bothersome! Rias had never encountered this much resistance before!

Until now, she succeeded in everything with minimal effort, everything worked out just fine! Despite their agreement with Sona, this denial...! This constant resistance and mocking attitude from the girl just incited her devil blood to claim her as a prize even more!

Conquer her like a fort, beat her in her own game, and chain her fate to devilkind! Strengthen her people by adding a fine specimen in their ranks!

"So this is how the devils of old felt?" history claimed many of the old Satan faction wanted to dominate to feel satisfaction! Rule over everything in existence as kings! A feeling that until now avoided her. Yet now... she definitely felt something familiar. A strange emptiness she never felt before...!

"Answering your third question: how can I drive the car even though I am not a devil? Well..." Gillian glanced away. "Ever heard of the miraculous device called batteries? It seems, your people as well came up with their own version of storing devil energy. In fact, with my win, your brother will provide me a lifelong supply of devil energy for the car. It is much more environmentally friendly than petrol — of course, that is if devil energy doesn't pollute the environment as well. Does it leave any nasty side product behind? Hmm?"

"Tch! You always have your answer to everything, do you?"

"Everything?" Gillian blinked, confused, then burst out in intense laughter. "Hahahahahahahaha! Please, I doubt even God knows everything."

"Umm... but the Bible..." Asia muttered in herself, looking around, insecure and unsure.

"But one can always try their best to prepare for every possible outcome they can think of!" Gillian continued. "I am just prepared and have different thinking, that's why I look omniscient and usually come out on top..." she slurped the tea elegantly, wiping away a tear of joy.