After beating Yuriko I was just wandering down the hallways as people mingled about between classes, as while this school was mainly focused on gambling it was still ultimately a school and thus people still had to do their studies for the first half of the day with the second half focused on the gambling for the school, we came here around 11AM and now it was already 1PM so everyone was gambling in the various rooms while the teachers were in the lounge as they did their work and gambled with each other, though not as extreme as the students.
Soon enough I would see men and women with tags around their necks marking them as 'House pets' people that are in debt and have no money whatsoever and still need to pay off their debts to lose the name tags, if they remove them at school without a good reason then there are punishments in order and most would be the doubling of their current debt.
Now neither I nor Celestia were announced to the student body that we were coming so I got strange looks from gamblers and house pets alike as I was wearing rather casual clothes in a uniform based academy.
But what was more annoying was the feeling I was being followed, but not wanting to turn back and look at the rather 'strange' woman that was following me that the students were steering clear of like she was the plague in their eyes.
Now if I had to guess she must be someone on the student council as they are the only ones that know about me and Celestia specifically, and I doubt she was casually watching me and Yuriko's match from a distance because I peaked her curiosity, I think it might be my inherit 'crazy girl attractor' getting her to focus on me so hard, something that made my old life hell and this one, while not difficult, annoying to have to deal with as a whole.
Seeing some stairs I headed upstairs before continuing upwards until I saw the door to the rooftop area of the school as I headed through the door.
I was kind of expecting there to be a gambling den up here, but surprisingly no, it was completely deserted.
Then again it might not be to good of a place to gamble as it is spring and rain falls do happen after all.
So sighing I turned to look towards the door with a blank, dull look in my eyes, "You know, I don't really appreciate having someone following me along with clear malicious intent." I say as the strange woman with a crazed look in her eye as I see her spinning a real, yes real, revolver in her hand.
"I wouldn't say that, but I would really enjoy if you played a game with me…." She said before licking her gun with a crazed look in her eye.
'…. I really don't want to play with her, but based upon the context clues I get, whatever we play will be something dangerous, real question is how can I play this without her getting killed, even if that's what she so desires….' I thought to myself before pulling out my phone to make a call.
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"Well it only seems fair that you get to decide our game this time Kirari." Celestia suggested to which Kirari nodded.
"Then how about we play a game I do enjoy to play with people I find worthy of my time." She said before reaching into her jacket pocket before pulling out a large sized pack of cards.
"Playing a game with Tarot Cards? Now that's something rare for me to see." Celestia said with a surprised look as she saw the deck of cards that made up of just twenty one tarot cards.
All the cards were laid out and Kirari went onto explain the game that she likes to call the 'Tarot Cards of Fate'
"Rules are simple, each of us picks three cards, each card has a number associated with their tarot card number, if its face side up you get those points, but if it's reversed when you reveal it then you lose that amount of points, and whoever has the most points at the end of the round wins, and who wins the most points total out of all three rounds wins the game, though the sole exception is 'The Fool' as it will be this decks joker which if drawn face up automatically wins you the round, but reversed then you lose the match." She said explaining the rules overall while Celestia looked over the cards.
"What an interesting game, I can say I haven't played something like it before, however…." She said letting go of the card in her hand which revealed to be 'Death' as she looked at Kirari with a dark look over shadowing her eyes.
"The one thing I hate is when someone is obviously trying to cheat against me in a game of gambling." She said with a squint in her eyes, as all is fair in cheating during gambling, but that's when you don't get called out for your cheat in the first place, when you do you either need to do a different game or remove the cheat from play entirely or else the game won't continue.
"What are you talking about?! Our president wouldn't-" Sayaka began to shout out only for Kirari to hold up her hand while keeping eye contact with Celestia.
"So this game has been rigged is what your saying? Then I'll be honest that I have no idea that it was rigged from the start, but question is, can you prove there's a cheat going on with this deck? Because it would be quite rude to just call that out without any substantial evidence to your claim." Kirari said after putting down her hand before clasping them together as she rested her chin on top of them.
"Then let's bet on it, think of it as the side dish before the main course, though even with a side dish, I plan on going all in." Celestia said as she decided to bet her newly earned 600+ million yen on showing her this game was completely rigged from the start.
"Merely a side dish? Then I'd hate to ask what that match you had with Kaede was like, but sure, I'll take you up on this bet with my own 600 million yen in return, but you need to really convince me that theirs a cheat in my personal game, which might I ask how are you going to prove?" She asked to which Celestia kept up her professional smile.
"That's easy, I'm going to guess each card is with 100% accuracy with them all shuffled by you as I show you each card and what they are before I lay them all out to bare if I'm wrong on even one, I lose everything." Celestia setting the bet with absolute confidence in her voice.
Question is, how does she even know the game was rigged to begin with?