My Level Zero System Chapter 273: Guess Which Hand (3)

Pretending to deliberate, even feigning another peek, ra then pointed to Kain's left hand.

"I choose the left hand!"

For the first ti, ra showed an expression of imnse confidence.

She was sure Kain wouldn't guess this. So...

Empty.

ra's face froze, shocked and shattered from within.

Kain rely gently shook his head with a faint smile.

ra wasn't wrong. It's important to reiterate that.

She abandoned observing Kain's gaze, which ant she discarded a primary clue source that Kain could completely control, preventing him from deceiving and manipulating her again.

Then, ra chose a new direction: Kain's hands. So, how was this clue different from Kain's gaze?

Firstly, it was a very difficult clue to find, as it relied on microscopic observation to spot the minute difference in the two middle fingers of his hands. Secondly, this clue was ford by two elents: not just Kain's hand—a subjective factor—but also the stone—an objective factor. This created a more objective clue: the hand holding the stone would definitely bulge slightly more than the hand not holding the stone.

And to be even more certain, ra intentionally checked and tried to trick Kain using his gaze.

However, all of this was within Kain's predictions.

Because he was the one who pushed her out of the "gaze" shackles into a new one: "the hand."

The hand holding the stone would certainly bulge more than the hand not holding the stone; that's correct. So Kain only needed to make his empty hand appear to bulge more than the hand holding the stone.

If Kain were in ra's position, he wouldn't just compare which hand bulged more; he would also compare the less bulging hand to its basic clenched posture. From that, he could decipher this trap.

ra wasn't wrong; it's just that her opponent was Kain.

"J-just... one... last... ti..." ra managed to utter, pouring all her remaining strength into the words.

Seeing her like this, Kain sighed. How could he bear to "tornt" the most important woman in his life?

But... having co this far, Kain knew ra herself needed this release.

This ti, he really had pushed her a bit too hard.

"Alright, just this once more, then."

ra simply nodded, without confidence or declaration.

Only intense concentration remained.

Although Kain had indeed pushed ra a bit too hard, with each failure, she seed to gain a new understanding.

While she was still far from matching Kain's performance in this ga, a good seed had been sown in ra's heart, ready to break through the soil.

For the fifth round, Kain extended both hands.

But this ti, there was no tell from his eyes, no bulge in his hands; everything was identical.

It seed that this round had reverted to a pure 50/50 ga of chance. ra had nothing to deduce, only randomness.

ra frowned, pondered, and finally relaxed.

She chose the right hand.

Kain's right hand opened, and there was nothing in it.

ra lost again, as if fate were mocking her, denying her a single win, even in a 50/50 choice.

But this ti, she didn't fuss or get angry; she simply leaned back as if a great burden had been lifted.

"Lost again... but... it was really fun." ra said with a smile.

For the first ti, she discovered that even a simple ga could be so interesting. She was frustrated by guessing wrong, she was annoyed by losing, but she couldn't help but jump back in.

It was truly... very ra.

"So... have you always lived in a world like that, Kain?" ra turned to him, asking.

Kain was slightly surprised, then nodded.

Yes, that had always been the world in his eyes.

A world of extre rationality and strategy, where every action and thought operated flawlessly.

But to ra, such a world seed cold and lonely.

Suddenly, Kain shook his head, then leaned back and lay down beside ra.

"I'm not always like that."

"Sotis, I just want to gaze at the sky because it's the sky, not for any other reason."

"And I also just want to lie beside you, because it's you, not for any other reason."

ra's face flushed with embarrassnt. She clutched Kain's arm tightly, burying her face in his shoulder to hide her swirling emotions of both confusion and joy.

However, Kain still kept ra in the dark about the secret of the fifth round.

A round that seed to offer no clues, operating purely by chance with a 50/50 probability.

But that was only true if this round were placed within the first round.

Because... there was nothing random about it.

From rounds one to four, ra was consistently fed ways to win the ga by finding clues, from his gaze to his hands. When the final round began with no clues, ra was lost on what to choose.

Her thought pattern had changed after four rounds, so when there were no clues, whether real or fake, for her to rely on, ra was bewildered.

And her subconscious clung to the only remaining, useful clue.

That was the number of tis Kain had hidden the stone in each hand. In the four rounds, Kain had hidden the stone in his right hand three tis and in his left hand once.

Under such an overwhelming quantity, ra's subconscious... chose the right hand, because she assud Kain would repeat hiding the stone there again.

And this was the "randomness" Kain had intentionally sown from the beginning; the number of tis he hid the stone in each hand was entirely under his control.

ra thought that the goddess of luck was toying with her through probability, but that god was precisely Kain, and he had precisely adjusted the probability in ra's intuition, making it no longer 50/50 for both hands, but 25 for the left and 75 for the right.

"Existence is reasonable."

That was how Kain shaped this world, even from things that seed to be random, like reaction, action, or even choices.