"Hurry up and draw!" Yumemi placed the card back on the table, looking at Ayanokouji Kiyohira with a look of facing a formidable enemy.
For her, this was a critical moment. If Ayanokouji Kiyohira still didn't draw the Joker for two consecutive rounds, then Ayanokoji would have essentially "zeroed" her.
The money lost was secondary; what was important was, where would she put her face!
It was she who proposed the game, but she herself was being suppressed.
Forget about the concert, she might not even have a place in school afterward!
At least let her win one round!
Ayanokouji Kiyohira did not know Yumemi's thoughts; he just extended his hand again, preparing to draw a card.
This time, when his outstretched hand hovered over Yumemi's hand of cards, she no longer wore a poker face, but instead, her fingers trembled, and she stared intently at the cards with a flustered expression.
Every time Ayanokouji Kiyohira's finger brushed over a card, she appeared extremely flustered and fearful, as if Ayanokouji Kiyohira's finger was not gliding over cards, but her skin.
"Hey... Yumemi, what's with that reaction? Can't you calm down?" Ayanokoji helplessly withdrew his hand. "You're acting like I'm bullying you."
Upon hearing this, Yumemi put away her mournful face and revealed a triumphant expression: "How about it? If I do this, you won't be able to guess which card is the Joker from my reaction, right?"
"This is something I learned from an idol senior. How about it, very useful, right?"
If you are full of flaws, then you have no flaws.
Yumemi used this method.
She didn't know how Ayanokouji Kiyohira detected the Joker's position, but she thought it must have been her expression that wasn't in place and gave it away. So, she simply stopped pretending to be a cold face and did the opposite.
If you cannot determine where you are exposed, then reveal enough distractions so that the other party doesn't know which one to pick.
This was an effective method, and now Ayanokouji Kiyohira was stumped by her performance.
When Yumemi's body conveyed too much information, Ayanokouji Kiyohira, on the contrary, didn't know which card to choose.
Forget it, no need to think any more.
Unless necessary, do not add entities; anyway, no matter what, what he had to do in the end was draw a card, and he could only draw from these three cards, so just draw the card and be done with it.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira didn't think too much and simply randomly drew a card from Yumemi's hand.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira's luck wasn't very good.
This time, he drew the Joker.
Yumemi, who had just been flustered and scared, instantly regained her vitality and confidently said, "Now it's my turn. Watch me settle this in this round!"
Ayanokouji Kiyohira now only had three cards in his hand. Ayanokouji Kiyohira didn't shuffle the cards under the table like Yumemi, but instead, in front of her, he hid the Joker at the very top of his hand.
"You draw." Ayanokouji Kiyohira didn't shuffle again; he just separated the three cards in his hand like that, letting Yumemi draw.
It seemed like Ayanokouji Kiyohira placed the card on the top layer, but in reality, he secretly used a shuffling trick, pulling the bottom card up at the moment of closing the deck, replacing the first card.
If Yumemi thought the first card was the Joker and put it aside to draw other cards, then she would fall into Ayanokouji Kiyohira's trap.
Gambling in this school, Ayanokouji Kiyohira didn't rely solely on the system.
He was naturally gifted, and in these few months, he had now mastered many gambling techniques and was no longer the novice he was when he first entered the school.
Even without the system's guaranteed mechanism, he was confident he could draw with Meari in terms of gambling.
He was already adept at this little trick of switching cards, and he believed Yumemi shouldn't be able to tell that he had switched cards.
But to Ayanokouji Kiyohira's surprise, Yumemi didn't draw the second or first card; instead, she directly drew the first card and paired it with the cards in her hand.
Then, she extended her hand again, her finger hovering in front of Ayanokouji Kiyohira, beginning to hesitate between the two cards.
Yumemi had been straightforward just now, but now she was indecisive. Did she notice his technique just now? Or did she analyze it and think he couldn't possibly reveal the Joker so directly, deciding to take a gamble?
Yumemi was thinking, and Ayanokouji Kiyohira was also thinking. He subconsciously rubbed the cards in his hand and suddenly noticed a faint pink mark on his finger, which he hadn't noticed before.
Light pink, speaking of which, Yumemi's outfit was light pink, and her matching nail polish was also light pink.
Could it be that...
Ayanokouji Kiyohira subconsciously tilted his hand of cards towards himself. Sure enough, he saw a faint pink mark on the back of the "Joker."
Yumemi had just deliberately pretended to organize her hand of cards by putting her hand under the gambling table. In reality, she was secretly wiping a little nail polish from her finger onto the back of the Joker, and then covering the marked side!
After he drew the Joker, no matter how he shuffled, she already knew the Joker's position!
She was now deliberately feigning a difficult expression, but in reality, she already knew which card was the Joker; she was just trying to create a tense and exciting atmosphere!
Making marks on cards with nail polish definitely counts as cheating.
"Hey, Yumemi, you..."
Ayanokouji Kiyohira was about to speak, but Yumemi also knew what Ayanokoji wanted to say, so she didn't even give him a chance to speak, directly skipping over the "Joker" and drawing the other card, pairing it with the cards in her hand.
Yumemi threw the two cards in her hand onto the gambling table, a happy smile appearing on her face. She cheered excitedly, directly declaring the result.
"Yay, the second round is Yumemi's great victory!"
"Hey..."
"Ayanokoji, did you want to say something just now? If you lose, you lose. You can't make excuses and go back on your word, okay?" Yumemi deliberately winked at Ayanokoji.
She was hinting to Ayanokoji that she had already declared victory, and even if he said she cheated, she wouldn't admit it.
"...Nothing." Ayanokouji Kiyohira thought for a moment and didn't make a fuss, just shaking his head speechlessly.
...Forget it.
Yumemi wanted to win even if she cheated. Seeing how hard she tried, he would let her win once.
It was good to let Yumemi win; Ayanokoji was also curious what game Yumemi wanted to play in the third round.
Yumemi was actually secretly relieved. If Ayanokouji Kiyohira really kept nagging about it, she would have a reason to convince the judge who was the audience, but then she would look very disheveled.
Even if she won, it wouldn't be very convincing.
Yumemi was also very guilty and quickly took control of the situation, announcing the name of the third game segment.
"Now, I and this lucky audience member are tied. The next third round of the game will be when we decide our winner!"
The name of this game is—[Doki Doki Heartbeat Stare]!"
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