The SSS Beast King: Rebirth of the Legendary Predator
Chapter 44: Calculated Misstep

Chapter 44: Calculated Misstep

I felt my ability to speak had been stolen, and even with my desperate attempts to fight back, I could not keep my voice. I was mute, and there was no way for me to help Anri.

The majority of people watching this scenario are people who either want to prepare for when it’s their time, or want some entertainment, and what’s better entertainment than watching your fellow species die? It’s something I never understood about humans, how they want the worst for others.

But among these two types, there’s one more. These people don’t even seem to care about those inside the scenario, they are the lowest of the lowest. They do not have the courage to enter The Core and participate in one themselves, and they sit in their rooms all watching people die, laughing like it is something amusing. I would get it if a beast laughed, but it was humans laughing at other humans.

These people are almost like the system’s sidekicks, and what had just happened, is a perfect example of why they don’t leave the house. Because if they do they would be eaten alive by the outside world.

Only one person was doing all the work? How does that bother you in any way, it doesn’t, you just want attention.

The tiebreaker changed this round, maybe because there were too many eliminated in the last round and it didn’t want to shorten the game show to five games and not six. This time they had to choose a number between one and six. Approximately eight people died, I counted them using my skill to how many lost their resistance against it, since [King’s Authority] only works on humans who think of themselves to be lower than me, to fear me, or to look up to me.

[The third and final round will begin shortly.]

How many coins did we have left? If I remember correctly we should have fifteen, which is still the biggest number possible. There has to be something related to how many gold coins you have at the end, then else how would a winner be chosen? But then again, wouldn’t that mean anyone who went for the advantage instantly lost?

But then what other way was there to win? There wasn’t, so far we were on track to win, but this can change, one mistake, is all it takes.

Wait, but wouldn’t it be better to risk a tiebreaker, if the system is trying to save as many people and make the tiebreakers easier than the risk be worth it? It would mean an automatic win, wouldn’t it?

But who says the system still counts those who were part of a tiebreaker? We have no way of communicating with the outside, and they don’t have to be taken out of their rooms to be considered out.

Well, either way, there is no way for me to try it out, as there isn’t even a way for me to deposit coins. So is there even a need for me to try to determine the perfect number? No, but am I going to do it? Of course!

What is the possibility of someone choosing the exact same numbers I did and having the exact coins as me? I already calculated the possibility of someone choosing one in the first round, so now I just have to calculate the four.

Let’s take out the last ten numbers, so now we just have the first ten. Just like before I’ll take out the one and zero so now with this in mind, the possibility of four being chosen is one-tenth. Now again this is for one person, so I have to multiply it by the number of the remaining people, which with the people that died in the last round is one hundred eighty-three.

[The final round has started.]

So the final possibility is twenty-one percent for the number four to be chosen.

Now what is the chance of these two numbers being chosen one after another in different rounds where possibilities change?

Ten percent will be turned into ten hundredths and twenty-one into twenty-one hundredths, if I multiply these two numbers I get twenty-one thousandths, which in probability is two point one percent.

That is the chance of someone having the same amount of coins as me.

Well of course only if this game was luck-based would this have mattered. This only serves as a rough estimate of how many people sit in the same boat as me, which if you are curious is about four.

But this estimate can be far off since I can only calculate with possibility, which isn’t really a factor in this game everyone here thinks and uses a strategy to choose a number.

Now using my strategy from before I have to choose a number bigger than one that is either equal or smaller than five. One is in the game again since with it being a later round, the amount of gold per person lowered. Actually, the perfect number for this round might be five, or something close to it.

Yeah, five is good enough, even if it is a little too much it’s better to be sure. And it’s not like I have any say in this. I only did this so I have a way to see if Anri’s guess is an absolute disaster or not.

For the rest of the time I watched Anri trying to figure out what number to pick. I can say, the faces she was making were hilarious. It was clear she was skeptical, and that she was under a lot of pressure, but I couldn’t help but laugh.

Well, I didn’t laugh since I can’t really create any noise at the moment, but you get it. Also, this didn’t make me part of that awful group from earlier, since unlike them I am a beast and have the right to laugh at humans.

But my tone quickly changed as I soon her get out seven coins. I tried screaming at her but for nothing. This was why I didn’t like entrusting strangers with important tasks, even fighting was more than enough, but seven.

I could have tried to tell her in another way, but I doubt the system would allow it. Damn it, I did all that work for nothing!

I could only watch as those seven coins were deposited. I felt defeated so I just fell to the ground and waited for the system to announce the lowest number or whatever was.

[The final round has ended. The lowest number was... six!]

...Huh?