Gamble Fish 5

Chapter 5

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Students: Good morning.
Students: Morning!!
Students: Good morning.

Mizuhara: Good morning, everyone!!

Title: Fight 05 Magician

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Title: Fight 05 Magician

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Mizuhara: I can't believe that someone would put graffiti on your desk!!

Mizuhara: And I can't believe that there are students in Shishidou Academy who would resort to this kind of spiteful bullying!!
Tomu: I don't mind, Mizuhara.
Tomu: You'll find people who like talking bad about others wherever you go.

Tomu: And it's true that I lost that game yesterday...I really am a "loser".
Tomu: It was my mistake to not realize that they were in cahoots.

Mizuhara: They?
Tomu: That's right...it wasn't just the one.

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Tomu: This is a copy of the dorm registry... Here's the girl who set up our games, Kimura Natsumi.
Text below Natsumi: Kimura Natsumi
Text below Yuka: Tsukiyono Yuka
Tomu: Next to her is the girl who flipped over the card.
Tomu: They're roommates.

Mizuhara: Tsukiyono Yuka...
Tomu: The primary force behind that game was definitely her.

Natsumi: We'll play old maid with just this joker and queen.

Tomu: At first glance, the odds seemed to be 50/50.
Tomu: but she set it up so there were 2 jokers.

Tomu: And my way to counter that was to burn the card.
Tomu: Then the remaining card was definitely a joker.
Tomu: And that meant that the card I chose was the queen and I would win.

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Tomu: But that was part of their plan.
Tomu: She plainly switched out the card right in front of my eyes, and I lost.

Mizuhara: And you didn't even notice her doing it...!!

Mizuhara: Kimura Natsumi...what are you doing here!!?

Natsumi: I'm sorry, Tomu-senpai...

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Tomu: Tsukiyono Yuka used you...?

Mizuhara: Liar!! You gave her that opportunity!!
Natsumi: I'm telling the truth!! I just wanted to be friends with you, senpai...
Natsumi: I asked my roommate, Tsukiyono-san, what I should do...

Natsumi: She said I could get your attention by showing off my better aspects through gambling...
Natsumi: She told me to use playing cards and taught me how to do it.

Natsumi: But I didn't know that Tsukiyono-san would do anything like that!!
Natsumi: Please believe me, senpai!!
Mizuhara: Don't be fooled, Tomu!! She's pretending to be all cute, but she's just a swindler!!

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Natsumi: What do you mean I'm a swindler, you mushroom head!!
Natsumi: Here, I'll give back all the money I won!!!
Mizuhara: Naah!!!

Tomu: Natsumi-chan...
Tomu: Who is she?

Natsumi: Tsukiyono-san?
Natsumi: The truth is...
Natsumi: I don't know that much about her even though I'm her roommate.

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Natsumi: But...there is one rumor. Although I don't know if it's true.
Natsumi: I've heard that her father is a world-famous magician...

Tomu: A magician, huh...? Makes sense.
Tomu: The way she handled the cards wasn't that of an amateur.
Natsumi: And, umm...senpai.

Natsumi: She told me to...
Natsumi: give this to you.

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Yuka: Abidani-sensei...
Yuka: It's Tsukiyono.

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Abidani: It seems you've succeeded in the first round.
Yuka: He doesn't seem anywhere near a worthy opponent.

Abidani: Don't get carried away...you only got this victory because it was a surprise attack.
Abidani: During the real thing, letting your guard down for an instant could be fatal.

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Abidani: Here's a million yen...you can have it.
Abidani: You'll have some leftover even after the six hundred thousand needed for the game with Shirasagi.

Yuka: I don't need it.
Yuka: I'm not doing this for money.

Abidani: I'm telling you to be completely prepared!!

Abidani: Don't underestimate Shirasagi!! Aoto and Kaizuka were overconfident and it came back to bite them in the ass!!
Abidani: Since you're a magician, use that money to get props, or pay someone off, or something!!

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Yuka: Props? Paying people off?

Abidani: Or do something a little grander. You can rig the entire classroom for all I care.
Text above Abidani: Heh heh heh...
Abidani: Setting things up and using tricks is what you magicians do, right?

Yuka: You're horrible!!

Abidani: H-hey?

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Yuka: I'll only let you insult magicians so far.

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Yuka: Using props and setting things up isn't what a magician does.
Yuka: Look!!
Yuka: I have nothing on me at all.

Yuka: These are new cards. You break the seal, sensei.

Abidani: Uh...
Abidani: Yeah...

Yuka: Once you take the jokers out of a new deck, it's lined in order by spades, diamonds, clubs, and hearts.

Yuka: I'll cut the cards and then shuffle them.
Yuka: Watch.

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Yuka: I'll cut them again.

Yuka: Shuffle again.

Yuka: A third time.
Yuka: A fourth time.

Yuka: No matter how often I shuffle the cards...

Yuka: The order of the cards doesn't change.

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Yuka: There's a famous technique known as "Pull Through".
Yuka: There's also the Push Through and Zarrow Shuffle techniques...There are countless techniques for just shuffling.

Yuka: The top card is the King of Hearts.
Yuka: Right?

Yuka: Now I'll deal out cards one at a time.

Yuka: But the king is still on the top...That's known as "second dealing".

Abidani: Uh...

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Yuka: Take this king...
Yuka: and check to see if I've done anything to it and put it face-down on the table.

Abidani: Okay...

Yuka: Now I'll flip it over without touching it.
Yuka: In an instant.

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Abidani: ...Unbelievable.

Yuka: That's the "Mexican Turnover".
Yuka: Do you want to see more?

Yuka: The one-hand top palm.

Yuka: The classic pass.
Yuka: The blind open.

Yuka: The Katakura change.

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Abidani: Ha ha ha!! It's like magic!!
Abidani: You're like a real magician!!

Yuka: My brother was even better...

Abidani: What?
Yuka: Nothing...

Abidani: Anyway, I've now seen what you can really do...
Abidani: When's your game with Shirasagi?

Yuka: I've already sent my challenge...It'll be at 10 PM next Saturday.
Yuka: We'll be playing one of the world's most popular card games.

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Yuka: Many proud people, confident in their skills, have been cast down by this game.
Yuka: It's a game of fate that scoffs at the wisdom of sages.

Yuka: "Black Jack".