Betting

Young Cookie in the stadium

**Chapter 58: Betting** is the fifty eight chapter of Furry Fight Chronicles.

## Summary

The chapter starts with a younger Cookie alone in a stadium. She is wondering where her father is, but she realizes that he left. She is met by a raccoon who turns out to be a younger Straws. He asks her if she's lost and she replies that her father left without her. Straws is shocked by the negligence of Cookie's father and tries to find her a bus back home. However, Cookie states that there are no bus drives to the L'Asagne Farm. Straws is shocked upon finding out that Cookie lives in the most famous Combagal training facility of Concatta.

Straws resolves to get Cookie back home. However, he only has enough money to bet on a race, so he suggests that they get someone to give her a ride. Cookie refuses to ask for charity, so she proposes doing bets. Since she's too young to bet, Straws will bet on any of the Raceagals that Cookie will choose and then they will split the winnings. Straws refuses to do as Cookie tells him, but Cookie is adamant that she can easily find out who will win the race by selecting Hayasai.

The race starts with Hayasai being on the last place at the beginning of the race. A smug Straws tells Cookie that he split the bet in two. Her bet is the one with Hayasai and his bet was with Dolly Dore, who is currently on first place. Though he felt confident about his victory, Straws still split the bet to teach Cookie a lesson, confident that his Raceagal will win. He tells Cookie that once his Raceagal wins the race, they will find someone to drive her home. Cookie, unperturbed, tells Straws to focus on the race.

Much to Straws' surprise, Hayasai manages to pull a last second victory by sprinting in the last stretch. Realizing that Cookie does have a genuine talent for betting, Straws once again agrees to bet for Cookie. This time, she tells him to select a Raceagal named Aito Raiden. To his delight, Aito Raiden manages to win the race despite having been on a losing streak before. Straws praises Cookei for her foresight, believing that she is using magic. However, Cookie states that her foresight is just observing facts and then taking the most logical choice.

Cookie and Straws keep betting on Raceagals. Eventually, Cookie gets enough money to get a ride home. Straws insists Cookie should stay to earn more money, but Cookie tells him that she must return home. Straws asks Cookie to tell him who will win the next race. Cookie tells Straws to bet on Yukku-Li, a joke Raceagal who never made it past fourth place. Straws believes that Cookie is testing him, so he uses his logic and chooses to bet everything on Chilli Comet. To Straws' horror, Yukku-Li wins the race after a series of accdidents leave her rivals out of the race. As such, Straws is left with nothing.

As Cookie drives out of the stadium in the past, her present version is driving at the opposite directions. Team Starkiller arrives to the L'Asagne Farm, where Cookie meets with her estranged father. The chapter ends with a flashback of a younger Cookie paying her father money, asking him to let her dye her hair black.

## Continuity

* The chapter implies that Straws became homeless because of a gambling problem.
* Cookie previously tried to use her foresight for horse racing, but she lost due to having lost the foresight she had back then.
* The chapter ends with Cookie asking her father to let her dye her hair black, reflecting the hairstyle that she had as Fortune Cookie.

## Trivia

* This is the first time that Raceagals are introduced.
* Curiously enough, Cookie previously betted on horse racing, which may or may not be a variation of Raceagals.