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"A dice game?" I asked, not understanding.
Although the Crossroads was a place where anything could happen, why were we suddenly playing a dice game? Even though I acknowledged that it was something that Baron Samedi would say, I was dumbfounded. Baron Samedi smiled and pointed to the two dice on my palm.
"Yeah, a dice game. You just need to roll those dice."
"Don't people usually bet on something on this? Are there any rules?"
"The bet has already been placed. There are no rules. You just have to roll the dice."
Clap.
Baron Samedi clapped his hands. An iron table and chairs suddenly appeared as if they had been there all along. Baron Samedi nonchalantly pulled a chair and sat down, crossing his legs.
"Sit. Isn't your back hurting from walking for so long?"
Without hesitation, I sat across from him.
Clink.
I placed the dice on the iron table and rolled them around, checking the markings. Instead of having numbers from 1 to 6 like ordinary dice, they were engraved with numbers from 0 to 5.
The other dice had letters instead of markings. It was writing from a language that I had never seen before.
"...What kind of dice is this?"
"It's a very special dice for the Contract of the Dead. It's very expensive, and can only be bought at the Crossroads."
"How much is it?"
"Whatever the highest bid is, that’s the price."
"Oh..."
I wasn’t sure whether or not it was true, but I pretended to be surprised. Baron Samedi chuckled.
"You're good at pretending to be surprised. It's not your first time here, is it?"
"It is."
"Ah, I guess it wasn’t you back then? Well, anyway. That's not important."
I couldn’t understand what he meant. He smiled as if he was embarrassed and continued speaking.
"Now, it's time to roll the dice. Should I roll, or do you want to?"
Baron Samedi tapped the wrought iron desk with his fingertips. The table sparkled in the red moonlight. I picked up the dice that I had placed on the table.
"I'll roll. You might cheat."
"Haha! How could I cheat when my hands are like this?”
Baron Samedi raised his severed right arm. However, it seemed like Baron Samedi could still cheat with just one hand. Not that I couldn't trust Baron Samedi, but there was reason to be wary of “Baron Samedi with the dice.”
One could see that just by looking at Ogun.
"But you never know."
"Alright. Go ahead...
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