Tokyo, but I'm a deceitful scumbag.

Chapter 77 The fox has a 1000% chance of winning!

Hoshino Hideyuki hesitated for five minutes before finally pulling out a card and placing it face down on the table.

Kondo Nozomi put down her phone, yawned, and said, "Finally decided? I was about to fall asleep if you kept going any slower."

"I've made up my mind."

"Then, it's time to reveal the ending."

Kondo Nozomi eagerly drew her King card and placed it face down on the other side: "Don't be nervous, losing is just buying drinks for a month..."

No wonder!

Just wait to lose everything!

Watch as I use this King card to completely crush you, you country bumpkin!

Three, two, one!

The two revealed their cards at the same time!

Yes……

Slave to King!

The one who has nothing has overthrown the one who lacks everything; Hoshino Hideyuki wins!

"Oh ho~"

Hoshino Hideyuki's earlier fear and tension vanished instantly, and he winked at Kondo Nozomi.

And Kondo Nozomi...

I actually lost?

impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Her expression twisted again, but this time it was an inverted V shape.

"Why is it a slave card! You clearly played a citizen card!"

Hideyuki Hoshino tapped the desk with his finger, making a thumping sound.

"Are you a tapeworm that crawls inside my intestines? How can you be so sure that I played the citizen card?"

"I...you...why are you the large intestine..."

"Is it because of the camera you hid in the back?"

Hoshino Hideyuki slowly got up and took a civilian surveillance camera from a flowerpot behind the teacher.

"Every time you pretend to be on your phone, you're actually spying on me through this camera, right? Ugh, how disgusting, you pervert!"

Kondo Nozomi swallowed hard.

"How...how did you know..."

“Let me teach you a lesson. When you lie, you have to maintain a certain image. You went to great lengths to invite me to play cards, but you're afraid I'll refuse, so you only ask me to buy you a drink if I lose. That's not like you.”

"It's like a demon king who wanted to kill the hero one second, and then suddenly claims to be a succubus the next, pinning the hero down and devouring him to gain power. The transition is abrupt and arouses suspicion."

"Secondly, your facial expression management is terrible. When you deliberately let me win in the early stages, you pretended to be anxious, but all you did was frown and read in a flat tone, like a new voice actor. A human face has 42 muscles, but you only moved two. Did the other 40 muscles expire and become unusable?"

"There was only one exception, which was the seventh round. Because I played my cards randomly that round without even looking at them, you didn't see my cards either, so you really panicked and you were sweating."

"From this, I roughly understand your technique."

Ignoring the strange metaphors, Kondo Nozomi gritted her teeth and asked:

"But in the last round, I clearly saw you play the citizen card on the camera..."

"Besides, what makes you so sure I'll play the King in the first round?"

Hideyuki Hoshino smiled with narrowed eyes:

Want to know my technique?

"……think."

But I don't want to tell you~

"you!"

"Keep guessing, you idiot~"

Generally speaking, Hideyuki Hoshino will reveal the truth to the deceived person after he has finished deceiving them, because this will make the deceived person more emotional and the system's reward will be higher.

But looking at Kondo Nozomi's current state, he felt that keeping her hanging on would achieve the same effect.

As for the specific method he used...

it's actually really easy.

Ah, it's not that I used the Seventy-Two Transformations directly, but rather a very conventional cheating technique.

Since we know that the opponent will see the cards from behind, we can simply break off the top left corner of the Citizen card and fold it over the top left corner of the Slave card to deceive the opponent's vision when the cards are revealed.

After the card is dealt with, you can use your thumb to quietly hook the corner of the card back into your palm and take it away without being noticed.

In this way, the high and mighty king could no longer see the starving and freezing slaves, but only the well-dressed citizens, and it was only natural that he would be overthrown.

The next step, predicting whether Nozomi Kondo will play her trump card, shouldn't be too difficult.

To reiterate, Kondo Nozomi has terrible facial expression control and impulsive strategies. As soon as she's certain of victory, she can't help but shake her leg and quickly play her winning hand to secure the win.

Even a cat would know what someone was up to if it saw them approaching with a sack!

Let alone a fox~

Thinking of this, Hoshino Hideyuki's lips curled up again.

Kondo Nozomi's emotions were completely ignited.

"You bastard! You lied to me!"

"Isn't the true way to play King of Glory to overcome luck through deception and daring?"

Hoshino Hideyuki smiled and said:

"On the contrary, Kondo, you cheated right from the start, and you probably think you can win 100%..."

"This purity is way too low! You idiot! If you play cards with me with such a half-baked idea, then from the very beginning, my probability of winning is 1000%!"

"enough!"

Kondo Nozomi screamed and overturned the table.

"You think you're so great just because you won the game? Just you wait! I'll make you regret this!"

They made a complete fool of themselves...

Did my luck slip away because I didn't follow the plan?

Hoshino Hideyuki raised an eyebrow as he glanced at the faint gray aura behind Kondo Nozomi.

Yes, he is now 80% certain that this aura is luck.

Luck, good fortune, good luck—what ephemeral and elusive things they are!

Yet, this ethereal and intangible thing can actually flow among the students of this school.

All it takes is a ceremony...

He glanced at the pocket on Kondo Nozomi's skirt, which contained the red beans she had just used.

Shake the red bean three times, then defeat your opponent in a game where there are winners and losers, and you can steal their good luck... What an amazing lucky charm!

of course.

All of the above are just the fox's guesses.

Further investigation is needed to verify the authenticity of this information.

and so……

Hoshino Hideyuki ignored the impotent rage of Kondo Nozomi, turning to the classroom door and calmly saying:

"Chuchun, have I passed the test?"

Kondo Nozomi was taken aback.

Early spring...

Wait a minute, isn't that the only person in this school with the surname Chuchun?

She turned her head in surprise, and sure enough, at the classroom door, she saw the mushroom-headed, cold-faced girl—the head of the game research club, the daughter of the school's chairman, Haru Satone.

"Minister, what are you doing here...?"

Why are you here?

Of course, it was me, the fox, who found it!

Yes, after Hoshino Hideyuki asked Sakamoto for information yesterday, he immediately went to see him this morning with the completed application.

At first, he thought he would have to use some persuasive skills to convince the other party, after all, his interpersonal relationships at school were somewhat complicated, and he had theoretically joined the Paranormal Phenomena Research Club (although he was a member of the Ghost Club).

Even though the private St. Ho High School doesn't prohibit students from joining two clubs at the same time, most clubs wouldn't welcome someone like him.

Unexpectedly, Haruto Chie didn't say much, only telling him that he only needed to defeat the old members to pass the test.

Therefore, once Hoshino Hideyuki confirmed that Kondo was going to play games with him that night, he immediately sent a private message to the department head asking him to come and witness it.

With such a great opportunity, how could we not take advantage of it?

Back to the present.

Haruto nods to Hoshino Hideyuki and says:

"Yagami, you have proven your talent in the field of games and passed the test."

Kondo Nozomi's eyes widened: "Wait, Captain, what do you mean by this...?"

"That means Yagami is now a member of the Game Research Club."