Chapter 93.1 - Top Secret and Thousand Blade Festival [10] – part 1 (1/2)

93. Top Secret and Thousand Blade Festival [10] – part 1

I gained a huge victory over the president, and quickly cleaned up the cards on the desk.

「But this is… No way…」

She was trembling with an『unbelievable』expression.

I guess she never imagined that the match would end with such a result.

(Well, it’s no wonder…)

The president had prepared three cheats for this fight.

The first was “stacking” the deck.

Before the game started – I checked the deck to see if it was a gimmick card.

(Perhaps the president was confident that I wouldn’t find out, but…)

Just going through the deck for a little while makes it apparent. All the cards in the deck were lined up with『Three Number Skips』.

It was precisely – 1, 4, 7, 10, K.

(Instead of allowing yourself to get a good hand, it’s a “disordering stack” which doesn’t allow the other person to get a good hand.)

It is difficult to even make One Pair, let alone a Straight, with a deck that is lined up with three number skips.

And letting me have the first turn was part of the strategy.

In the first game, some cards will be opened up.

The cards which form a pair, she will casually slip into the bottom of the deck

Then the president prepared two more different cheats.

『False Shuffle』which does not change the order of the cards, but simply makes the deck look like it was shuffled.

『Bottom Deal』which pretends to give out the top card but distributes the bottom card.

(I’m sure she has been practicing a lot for this day.)

She executed two very high level cheats.

Normally, even one pair is difficult to get in a deck of『stacking』.

But a combo of『False Shuffle』and『Bottom Deal』will guarantee the president a hand of more than one pair.

(It’s a great strategy that’s plain but carries less risk of failure…)

If I had faced her squarely, 9 out of 10 times will end in the president’s victory.

But her strategy collapsed easily with one move from me.

Yes, it was the riffle shuffle.

This type of stacking is strong against normal shuffles that do not change the order of cards greatly.

However, it is powerless against the riffle shuffle that breaks the line of cards.

The president tried to make full use of False Shuffle and Bottom Deal with the broken stacking, but it failed without the tactical foundation of stacking.

「Well then, president. The victory belongs to me. So can I have your gin?」

After winning Poker of Cheats with the president, I made a request for her gin, the winner’s right.

However,

「W-Wait a minute!」

Unexpectedly, or should I say as expected, the president didn’t give it to me.

「Allen-kun! What kind of cheat did you use?! Onee-chan won’t get angry if you tell me now, so just be honest!」

「No, like I said, I haven’t done anything that can be called a cheat.」

「Lies! It’s not possible that a Royal Straight Flush will be come out twice in a row!」

She seemed to be convinced that I cheated.

「A-Ahaha… Well, let’s put that aside for now.」

It’s not a good idea to reveal your hand to the public.

And the act I did is a little different from cheating.

It is more appropriate to call it a “skill”.

「No! I’ll never give you my gin until you confess!」

The president said something so childlike and turned away.

「Haa… Is that so…」

I stood up from the chair and observed her body, mainly around the pockets of her uniform.