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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 4 Chapter 2.7

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“TRANSLATOR:Foxsunes/EDITOR TheNix”

 ｢W..wait, Sansa.｣

 ｢I am the prize this time so let me decide stuff.｣

 ｢Mugu…. Alright then. I’ll go last.｣

  The turns got decided and the sudden death game of an odd version of blackjack began. It was Rou’s turn first, he placed his hand on the cards and started choosing carefully. Eventually he picked a card and slid it towards him using his index finger and turned it around at once. His first card was 4, it wasn’t a bad number.

  It was Nanana’s turn next. Nanana stared at the cards placed in a line for a while and Sansa questioned Nanana. 

 ｢Hey, Nanana. Which card are you planning to pick?｣

  Nanana looked at Sansa with a surprised look. 

 ｢Why are you asking?｣

 ｢Nevermind that, just tell me before you are going to turn the card.｣

  Nanana couldn’t understand why Sansa said that and tilted her head but eventually she picked a card. 

 ｢Alright, this.｣

  Nanana picked a card that was ten cards away from the card Rou had picked. Sansa had a surprised expression on her face after seeing the card Nanana had picked. 

 ｢You really are amazing.｣

 ｢Why though? Should I turn the card now?｣

 ｢Hurry up and turn it over.｣

  Nanana who was tilting her head flipped the card enthusiastically. 

  It was an ace which meant that it was 1 and the audience exclaimed with surprise since she had picked the smallest number already. Worry could be seen on Rou’s face.

  It was Rou’s turn next. He took his time choosing a card like he did with the first card. He brought the card he had chosen close to him and flipped it at once. 

  The number he had picked was 2, it was also a good number. Now the total of Rou was six. 

Nanana’s turn to pick her second card. 

  Nanana picked a card at the end without thinking much. Sansa glanced at it but didn’t say anything this time. 

  The card that she flipped immediately was…

 ｢Yay!｣

  It was A again. The surprise that the audience was experiencing was off the chart. Due to picking As consecutively her total was only 2. 

  Rou’s facial expression changed after seeing it. Rou thought for a while and chose a card. The audience sighed at the card he had flipped. The card that Rou had picked was K it was a grave mistake. Due to this thirteen was added to his total at once and now his total was eighteen, the situation was desperate for him.On the contrary, Nanana was at absolute advantage and the next card she had picked was…

 ｢Alright then, guess I’ll go with the card next to it.｣

  She decided to pick a card right next to where Rou had picked his card from. Sansa looked at that and tapped on Nanana’s shoulder.

 ｢Oi, Nanana. You can just keep quiet and pick the card in the opposite side.｣

 ｢What? But why?｣

 ｢It’s fine, do as I say….Aaah wait, pick a card three cards away from that. It’s a foolproof tactic.｣

  Nanana’s face expressed doubt at what Sansa had told her to do. 

 ｢Eeeh, but this card doesn’t feel right.｣

 ｢Shut up, zip it up. I’ll buy you a custard pudding later.｣

 ｢Sansa, I’ll have you know that I am not an easy woman.｣

  Though she was saying that she flipped the card that Sansa had told her to. As a result she got 10. 

  Obviously Nanana complained about it. 

 ｢Sansa, what’s this!｣

 ｢Calm down, stop pulling me. You are being a nuisance.｣

  Squish

 ｢Stop fondling someone else’s boobs without any hesitation!｣

  Nanana clutched her chest and started growling at Sansa. 

 ｢Grrrrrr!｣

  Sansa pointed towards the table and said, ｢You don’t have to worry anymore, your victory has been secured at this point.｣

  Nanana frowned after she heard Sansa say that. Rou chose his fourth card in front of Nanana and Sansa who were arguing. He flipped the card which was at the fifth position from the end, the number was 9 and Rou had exceeded 21 now so the game ended for Rou, as a result his total score was 3. 

  Currently Nanana’s total was 12 and she would win if the card she chose was a 9 or below. 

 ｢Alright, this then.｣

 ｢Stop, Sansa!｣

  It isn’t clear what Sansa was thinking in an important situation like that, Sansa picked a card and flipped it.

  Everyone in the room looked at the card that was flipped so easily. 

  The card was 9 and it made a total of 21. 

 ｢Oh, that was a close one.｣

  Nanana sat down on the floor after losing the energy that was keeping her playing and Sansa grinned. 

 ｢Well, well. As expected of Nanana-chan. You have amazing luck.｣

 ｢S… stop messing around!｣

 ｢Stop being a nuisance and stay away from me.｣

  Squish

 ｢Stop fondling them, stop fondling them so boldly!｣

  Nanana who was almost in tears drove away Sansa’s grabbing hands. And Rou, who was on the opposite side of the table, put on his best fake smile. 

 ｢Rou Daren, we won this time somehow.｣

 ｢I have lost completely, I’ll let my subordinates carry the money and the prize to you.｣

 ｢Thank you very much.｣

  Sansa lowered her head. Rou said his farewell to the gallery and mixed a couple of jokes in. After that he tried going out of the VIP room but there was someone who approached Rou and that was Nanana. 

 ｢Hey, can I have a handshake?｣

  Nanana extended her hand but Rou kept smiling and he never returned the gesture. 

  Nanana and Sansa went into the luxurious car which they had used to get here. Hao was with them breathing heavily and rubbing the case full of money and they also had a basket along with them that could fit in both arms. It had an injured white fox inside. 

 ｢Hey Sansa, why did you tell me to pick the third card? Why was the card I picked bad?｣

  Nanana shoved her spoon into the custard pudding that Sansa had bought for her. Sansa answered while looking out of the car window. 

 ｢It’s because you are a stupidly lucky person.｣

 ｢What do you mean?｣

 ｢How the hell can you pick three As in a row? You are one hell of a dumb girl with luck.｣

 ｢What? Is that so? How do you know that?｣

 ｢That’s because Rou was cheating.｣

  Nanana was about to drop the pudding that she had scooped due to surprise. 

 ｢What!? You, you can’t be serious!? When!? But there wasn’t any chance of him cheating!｣

 ｢The old man Rou picked randomly was one of his men.｣

 ｢So, it was when he was…｣

 ｢Yeah, he did something while he was shuffling the cards.｣

 ｢But how?｣

 ｢Do you know what a perfect shuffle is?｣

 ｢What’s that?｣

 ｢It’s a shuffle where you divide the cards into two and place those halves next to each other and shuffle.｣

 ｢Oooh, where you divide it into two and them shuffle and make it into one stack.｣

 ｢If you do it eight times, the cards return to their original position before shuffling.｣

 ｢…For real?｣

 ｢In short, if you do a perfect shuffle with freshly opened cards it will return to how it was before being unsealed.｣

 ｢Wha, so that dude who was shuffling it was doing that?｣

 ｢He was pretending to shuffling it normally in between but all of that was just an act and he was only doing a perfect shuffle.｣

 ｢I didn’t notice it at all.｣

 ｢That’s because you were looking at the bills packed in this case at that time.｣

 ｢Oooh, so its like they made me look at the money. Haaa, I see. But does that mean that you weren’t looking at the money since you noticed it?｣

 ｢I saw the money but something was bothering me so I was paying attention to that old man.｣

 ｢What was bothering you?｣

 ｢Rou told the man to shuffle it clean when Rou gave the cards to him.｣

 ｢What does that mean?｣

 ｢it’s probably a code word. Code telling him how to shuffle.｣

 ｢Seriously!?…But doesn’t that mean that he knew beforehand that I was going to change the game? If that isn’t the case then he wouldn’t be able to place one of his subordinates among the audience.｣

 ｢Obviously Rou didn’t know that you were going to change stuff in the middle of the match.｣

 ｢So…｣

 ｢It means that Rou has his subordinates among the audience at all times so he is well prepared for all kinds of situations.｣

 ｢But isn’t that a waste of time and effort since situations like that are very rare?｣

 ｢Rou rules over the casino because he can stay prepared for such situations without brushing them aside as useless. Although he couldn’t win against your luck.｣

 ｢And also against your malice.｣

  Nanana grinned and Sansa poked her. 

 ｢Sansa, I got that but why did Rou-san stop cheating in the middle?｣

 ｢That’s because you picked A twice in a row. He mistook that for you knowing that he was cheating. So he ended the match quickly.｣

 ｢Why?｣

 ｢He thought that you wouldn’t lose if he had continued the match like that. Since if you knew about their trick then it would mean that you know the placement of all the cards. So, all you needed was to pick from the smallest number and if you do that then Rou who had picked 4 first had no chance of winning.｣

 ｢I see, but why did he pick K then?｣

 ｢It’s because he didn’t want the audience to find out that he was cheating. If the flipped cards and the cards on the table matched by the order then the audience would have immediately found out that he was cheating. ｣

 ｢I see. So if I knew about their trick then I would start picking the smallest numbers and the cards I get will prove that he was cheating.｣

 ｢That’s why Rou chose to lose quickly. To make the number of cards you flip little as possible.｣

 ｢Woah, I get it.｣, Nanana exclaimed with surprise after hearing Sansa’s explanation. 

 ｢So the reason you didn’t let me chose the third one was because…｣

 ｢The other party had already raised a white flag so there was no reason behind making things public. It isn’t a good thing to overdo things.｣

  Sansa lied. 

 ｢I see, so that’s how things were. But he is quite amazing that he can lose that easily, I wouldn’t be able to let go of the money and continue cheating.｣

 ｢He knows well that trust is more valuable than money. And it just means that this much isn’t a big sum for Rou.｣

 ｢Rou-san seems amazing.｣

 ｢You are at noticing these things a little too late.｣

 ｢Well, leaving that aside. I hadn’t noticed it…..｣

 ｢Yeah.｣

 ｢I hadn’t noticed that they were cheating.｣

  Nanana said it and pointed at herself with a serious face and Sansa gave a wry smile. 

 ｢That’s why I said that you, who picked only As, have stupidly good luck.｣

  The downside of cheating is that you need to camouflage it so that nobody notices it. Rou had calculated that much and the first card he picked was 4. But Nanana’s luck easily shattered Rou’s calculation. It’s impossible. Nanana’s existence couldn’t be measured with Sansa’s knowledge and experience that she had built up till this day. She had to admit that Ryugajou Nanana was someone who couldn’t be measured with her scale. 

 ｢Nanana, I also want to ask you something. Why did you change the game in the middle? You could have won if you had continued with blackjack, right?｣ 

  Sansa asked and Nanana put on a proud look.

 ｢I thought that as long as we were playing blackjack Rou-san would find a different way to cheat even if I prevented his first trick. I couldn’t win as long as we were playing blackjack by those rules so I thought of winning by a different means. Since, our goal wasn’t to win in blackjack but was to win against Rou-san, right?｣ 

  Sansa was honestly impressed by Nanana’s flexibility.

 ｢I see, you are an amazing person.｣

 ‘She is a girl who can do anything.’ 

 Sansa’s mind recalled what Kakyou Uzuki had said.