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Man Of Probabilities - Chapter 52
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It has been a week after Yuki’s shocking revelation and my brave declaration of my plan to save him. My words sounded so reassuring for Yuki but the truth is I do not even know where to start in using the ability of probabilities. What questions and scenarios do I even need to think to stop him from dying?
Probabilities of a natural disaster to occur in the near future? 3% 18% 41% 12%
Probabilities of traffic accidents to occur in the near future? 40% 25% 60% 10%
Probabilities of Yuki falling down the stairs? 8% 23% 49% 16%
Probabilities of Yuki being poisoned? 17% 1% 19% 3%
I spent each day thinking of everything that may cause harm to Yuki but the percentage are all unstable and changing every seconds. This ability seems useless.
“Suzuki-kun are you okay?” Hanae-san, the owner of the flower shop I am working right now asked me.
“I’m sorry for spacing out during work time.” I automatically stand up straight and apologize to my boss.
“No, it is fine. I am just worried about you because it looks like something serious is bothering you.”
“Hanae-san can I ask you a question? You can just ignore it if you don’t want to answer.”
“Sure go ahead and ask me anything.”
“What will you do if the person you love told you that they are going to die soon?”
“That is a very sad question to ask Suzuki-kun.”*sigh* “Well for me\, I think I will cry for the whole day until all my tears dried up and for the next day\, I will dedicate my life for that person to make him realize that being with me is better than dying.”
“Thank you Hanae-san. I think I finally cleared my mind.”
I have asked a lot of questions and saw probabilities but the truth is they were all just an excuse for me dodge the main question that I am too afraid to find the real answers; the details of what will happen to Yuki.
I closed my eyes and take a deep breath before asking the question “Probabilities of Shinobu Naoyuki dying.”
83%
Why does the percentages too high? And why is this stable and unmoving unlike the probabilities I saw earlier, this percentage is unbelievably high and already beyond the 50% safe zone? Is this the same percentage that Yuki was seeing up until now, percentage that shows that it will most likely to happen? Damn it, I think I should keep an eye in these probabilities and be on alert to stop the numbers to go up.
A risky 83% and according to Yuki it goes up continuously as time goes by. If I can just do something and make it go down slowly then it will be good, but how?
As I think deeply, I went out to water the flowers on display in front of the shop and while I am doing the task, I unintentionally heard two high school students talking about something as they buy food from the food stall next to our flower shop.
“Hey, are you also playing the new game?”
“New game? Do you mean the visual novel that is trending now? Why are you asking?”
“Well I just started playing it last night and I am stuck because I keep getting the bad ending. I am just hoping that you can help me if you also play that game.”
“Actually I already finished that game last week.”
“Really? Then can you tell me how can I stop the heroine from dying?”
I paused on what I am doing and listened carefully to their conversation.
“Oh, there is no doubt that you will have a hard time escaping the bad endings. I also got stuck in that part before realizing what I should do.”
“Please tell me.”
“Remember the part of the game when your character started to realize that the heroin may die in the future? Make a save point at that part and then start pursuing the heroine aggressively.”
“But what is the connection of that in preventing her death? She keeps dying from various types of accidents from what I have seen from the bad endings so is there any sense with that?”
“I really do not get it too but what can I do? It is all the developer’s ideas so all we can do is go with the flow of the game.”
“I guess you are right. I will just call you later when I finish the game.”
And then the two students walk away after buying the food and finishing their conversation about a certain game.
I was left thinking about the idea of the game. What if it also works for us in real life? What if by doing something different, I can divert and adjust the probabilities of Yuki’s death from happening?
After my work ended, I bought a pot of flowers and decided to visit Yuki’s place and have a dinner together.
“Yuki I bought something for you, I hope you will like it.” I give him the pot of dandelions which are just starting to bloom. “I originally planned to give you a bouquet of fresh roses but I just realized that it is a little cliché and you may feel bad throwing it after it all dry out and so I end up buying this instead.”
“Thank you. This is the first time that I have receive some flowers so it makes me happy. I promise that I will take care of it.”
“I am glad to hear that. Oh by the way, do you know the meaning of dandelion in the language of flowers? It means happiness and pure love.”
“Pure love?” he is really blushing hard right now.
“Oh and… and the wish! Yes I just remember about the story about how you can make a wish while blowing the dandelions.” It is kind of funny how I get flustered too and start stuttering while trying to change the subject.
“I guess I will be looking forward in seeing these flowers in full bloom and blow them all away hahaha.” He walks outside his balcony and put down the pot in the corner where it is guaranteed to absorb some sunlight during the day.
I started cooking our meal while he is staying on the dining area where he busily sort out some paper works from his clinic.
Everything feels like normal. Everything is working fine as if nothing changes, as if his revelation didn’t happened, as if it was all just a bad dream and it only makes me feel worse. How can I feel at ease if every time I look at him just reminds me of how his life is currently hanging by a thread?
My mind was overwhelmed by so many depressing things and so I accidentally cut my finger by mistake. I instinctively throw the knife away and run towards the sink to wash my bleeding hand and to see how bad my injury was.
Fortunately, it wasn’t that deep. I am just over reacting because I keep thinking about negative thoughts and deaths. I wiped down my wet hand and waited for the bleeding to stop before I continue with my task but out of context, it didn’t stop just like how I expected from a shallow cut.
“Uhm Yuki, can I borrow your medicine kit?” I approached him while hiding my injured hand behind my back.
“What happened?! Are you okay? Did you cut your hands?”
“No need to panic please. It is just a slight cut so it will be fine. I just need a little bandage to patch it up so I can go back in my cooking.”
“Okay, just stay still and relax. I will treat it immediately after I find my medical kit I kept in my room.”
After a few seconds, he is back with his box full of first aid materials. He forced me down to sit as he gently applies the disinfectant before putting a band aid.
His warms hands stay still for a while as he hold my injured hand and as I savour that precious moment, a probability popped out.
Probabilities of Shinobu Naoyuki dying 79%
Huh?! What?! Seriously? It really goes down by 4%.
There is still hope. There is still a way to guarantee his safety and I should find that out.
“Hey Kazuya, why are you smiling like an idiot right now? Are you a turning into a masochist?” Yuki interrupted my inner monologue when squeezed my hand.
“It’s nothing. I am just happy to hold your hand.”
I hold his hands together with my uninjured hand and smiled at him.
“Yuki, want to go to the amusement park next weekend?”
“Sure, but why are you asking me out of the blue?”
“I just feel like going back to the place where we first start dating.”
“Hahaha that is too romantic coming from you.” He squeezed back my hands and smiled at me.
I swear that I will do whatever it takes to protect your smile and the future you failed to see for yourself. I promise even it cost something with the same value from me.