Akagi Shigeru is on a winning streak (notice that he still has that bag he carries around). For the past 3 months, he has won 20,000,000 yen, 6,000,000 of that from the Kurata gang. Akagi has been driving away customers with his continuous winning, and less customers = less money (street tax) for the gang. Also, less customers = less betting money. The gang has had to spend their money on working expenses (yeah, Akagi is nothing but trouble :P).

(Notice the ‘Zawa Zawa’ in the background. ‘Zawa zawa’ is basically the sound of people talking amongst themselves. It is usually used when people are in disturbed/stirred up situations. For example, people go zawa zawa when some crazy person causes a commotion, like stripping naked in the middle of a street. It became a trademark in Fukumoto mangas because it’s used so much.)

No threat scares Akagi. Seeing that Akagi won’t budge, the gang offers one final match, betting all 20,000,000 yen Akagi has. Akagi accepts the challenge, saying that it’ll be “interesting”. However, the gang has doubts about Akagi’s ‘guessing’ ability and, as important as the match is, they want make sure that Akagi isn’t cheating.

Akagi takes out a 10 yen and a 5 yen coin from his pocket, saying he’ll guess first before the guy rolls the dice. After putting these coins back into his pocket, Akagi will randomly pick out a coin. If he picks a 10 yen coin, his guess will be Even. If he picks out a 5 yen coin, his guess will be Odd (and we get to see Akagi’s handwriting!). Akagi then picks out a coin from his pocket. The guy rolls the dice, and Akagi removes the hand with which he covered the coin.

And of course the bystanders were told to shut up and play with the “Dice is Odd” theory. Then the gang mocks Akagi for being so stubborn and stupid, since he’s the only one who doesn’t agree that the dice came out as ‘Odd’.