"You could say that." Oh, it was memorable alright. Kaiji would never let himself forget how that had gone. Even if he wanted to, the signs of it were literally right on his face.
When Vlad turned his card over and it was in fact the Slave, Kaiji squeezed his eyes shut and shakily turned the Emperor face-up. He reopened his eyes as if to confirm that the cards hadn't changed in the last few seconds, then closed them again. The way he responded wasn't the look of someone who had just lost a friendly game of something, but rather that of someone who knew that he was going to have something terrible happen to him in a matter of seconds.
When no piercing sound came, no tingling sensation was felt, no pain or anything was experienced, he seemed slightly confused but on the whole relieved. Kaiji continued to look flustered but no longer terrified and gave his stitched-on left ear a bit of a nervous scratch as if testing to see if it was still there and there was nothing on it. Well Vlad had won, Kaiji wasn't going to lose any body parts, and he had probably just made a total ass of himself.
How did Vlad figure that out so easily, anyway? Kaiji's opponent from the last time he did this listed some of the things that Kaiji did without noticing, maybe he had slipped back into those habits again. With a mixture of memories and the present effecting his performance, it was difficult to say how effectively he would handle a no-risk game like this.
It wasn't like the last time he had done this at all.
He needed to force himself to be more focused even if he wasn't going to pocket a fortune today.
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When Vlad turned his card over and it was in fact the Slave, Kaiji squeezed his eyes shut and shakily turned the Emperor face-up. He reopened his eyes as if to confirm that the cards hadn't changed in the last few seconds, then closed them again. The way he responded wasn't the look of someone who had just lost a friendly game of something, but rather that of someone who knew that he was going to have something terrible happen to him in a matter of seconds.
When no piercing sound came, no tingling sensation was felt, no pain or anything was experienced, he seemed slightly confused but on the whole relieved. Kaiji continued to look flustered but no longer terrified and gave his stitched-on left ear a bit of a nervous scratch as if testing to see if it was still there and there was nothing on it. Well Vlad had won, Kaiji wasn't going to lose any body parts, and he had probably just made a total ass of himself.
How did Vlad figure that out so easily, anyway? Kaiji's opponent from the last time he did this listed some of the things that Kaiji did without noticing, maybe he had slipped back into those habits again. With a mixture of memories and the present effecting his performance, it was difficult to say how effectively he would handle a no-risk game like this.
It wasn't like the last time he had done this at all.
He needed to force himself to be more focused even if he wasn't going to pocket a fortune today.