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"Asakawa-kun, you really don't understand girls' hearts."

Hoshino's slender, gentle hand slowly caressed Asakawa Riku's abdomen and chest, moving upwards until it finally reached his neck.

Her blonde hair fell loosely, standing out even more against her gentle body temperature.

That fair and lovely face, those bright blue eyes that sparkled, she leaned closer, her lips slowly approaching: "A girl's jealousy can be quite terrifying, you know?"

...

Xingyu didn't know what was wrong with her either.

But Xingyu knew she had already won.

It's true that the young lady won't be able to come up anytime soon; now no one can stop them from being on the rooftop.

Because Xingyu set a trap for the young lady, a trap from which she could never escape.

The previous search took her 8 minutes, which shouldn't have taken that long, but in reality, she did more than one thing downstairs.

She first found a note with a terrible number written on it:

【7】.

The moment Xingyu saw the number, her heart almost stopped. She turned around trembling, but did not see her mistress in the corridor.

Fortunately.

The rules did not stipulate that once she received the numbers, she had to decide on them and go to the rooftop to reveal the cards; she still had a choice.

The number [7] is absolutely not to be selected.

The reason is actually very simple: the number 7 is too small, so small that it is almost impossible to form a qualified hand. The most reasonable hand would be four Aces and a 3.

However, in the first round, the Ace of Spades was consumed, and in the second round, the Ace of Clubs and the Ace of Diamonds were also consumed.

The last card, the Ace of Hearts, was also consumed by the Royal Flush in the third round, leaving the deck with no cards left.

Therefore, [7] becomes a completely useless card at this point, as it cannot form a decent hand with the remaining cards in the deck.

If Asakawa had known the rules beforehand, he shouldn't have written the numbers "7" and "8" consecutively in the random number field. But at the time, he didn't understand the rules of the card combinations, so he didn't think too much about it. Just like Hoshino's question at the time, it's easy to make such a bad "unreasonable number" when you don't know the rules at all.

Although it meets the 6-64 range rule, it is very difficult to form a hand and cannot compete fairly.

However, the young lady said that this was more interesting, and did not impose any further restrictions, but instead allowed Asakawa-kun to do as he pleased.

So... let this card become the lady's "boomerang".

Zashiki-warashi no Autumn: Chapter 45 The Breakthrough 44

Xingyu held the card [7] and came up with a brilliant plan.

In the fourth round, she didn't take the [7] up, but instead deliberately placed it in a relatively conspicuous position so that the young lady could spot it at first glance.

Then, she took the [26] in that round. Although it wasn't a big card, it was more than enough to deal with the [7].

Unfortunately, Miss is no ordinary person and did not fall into the trap so easily. Miss must have noticed that [7] is a useless card.

Therefore, Xingyu lost in the fourth round, losing to Miss's [63].

However, Xingyu has one last chance.

She made two preparations.

She had hidden an important card beforehand—she hid the place where Asakawa-kun had originally hidden in a more secret place, a place only she knew about.

The rules state that you cannot enter the room, but they do not state that "you are not allowed to change the original location where the cards were hidden."

So, in the final round, when only two numbers remained in the school building, the final trap was triggered.

Xingyu immediately rushed downstairs and found the last card before the young lady could.

【29】.

All that was left for the young lady was that useless card [7]. Even if she knew it was useless, what could she do?

She could only search aimlessly in the school building, but found nothing.

This is the absolute trap set by Xingyu. Even if Miss foresaw all of this, she couldn't escape it. The ending was already predetermined.

Because Xingyu had already taken that last valid card.

...

Just like now, Xingyu is about to taste the final fruits of victory.

Just as her lips were about to touch Asakawa Riku's.

"I am back."

A sudden voice interrupted her actions.

Dongyun Sueyue appeared in front of the corridor and walked onto the rooftop.

Asakawa Riku was jolted awake. He quickly took two steps back and shook his head: "We're still in the game...!"

"Is it okay if it's not during the competition?"

Mo Yue smiled and asked in return, seemingly unsurprised by what she had just witnessed, and not even appearing angry.

"...How inappropriate, Miss. Are you still as clueless about the atmosphere as ever?"

Xingyu, however, was somewhat embarrassed and angry, and glared at her with a flushed face.

The young lady arrived much faster than she expected; less than two minutes had passed.

Did she give up and come up with [7] instead of continuing to look for that valid card?

"Shall we reveal the cards? I've found them."

Mo Yue waved the note in her hand, and no one knew what lay behind her mysterious smile.

"In any case, the outcome has already been decided."

Hoshino gritted her teeth, snatched the pen from Asakawa Riku's hand, and scribbled a few words on the note:

“29——红心5梅花5方块5梅花7方块7，5葫芦。”

This is the best solution that can still be formed at the moment. It is already very difficult to form a gourd in the last round.

The hand that is greater than a full house is four of a kind and a straight flush. In the last round, she deliberately chose the 4 of hearts and the 4 of spades, and used up all the 4s. Her last chance for a straight flush, 34567 (25), was cut off by her.

四条的话，剩下的4个7，必须在28以上，剩下的只有Q（40）10（38） 6（34）5（33） 3（31）这五种情况之一。

Or it can be a comparison of the size of the gourds. If there are 3 left over from 10, or more than 30, then the 10 gourd is bigger than the 5 gourd. It must be one of the two situations: 7 pairs (44) or 5 pairs (40).

It can be seen that these numerical requirements are at least 25 or higher.

Unfortunately, Mo Yue was holding a [7].

Seeing Moyue take the pen, Xingyu couldn't help but wonder, "Miss, what's the point of being so stubborn?"

Did it have to end up looking so ugly?

This [7], I can't write anything.

Xingyu quickly calculated the remaining cards in her mind. The two smallest numbers were the 3 of spades and the 3 of hearts. Above that, there were only the 5 of spades, the 5 of diamonds, and the 5 of hearts.

That is, even the smallest five-gourd hand must have 21 points, and even if you manage to make it, it still can't beat her five-gourd hand because the rules stipulate that when three of them are the same, you compare pairs.

Her pair was a pair of 7s, which couldn't beat a pair of 3s...

Even if someone's card is the same as another's, it's the lady who gets punished.

This was already quite a close call, but the last card turned out to be a 7, so even that slim hope was gone, and it would only look bad once it was revealed.

So when Sueyue picked up a pen and started writing on the note, Hoshino was very puzzled as to what she was writing...

A sense of unease lingered in her heart, but she couldn't figure out why.

Until Asakawa Riku announced, the moment the cards were revealed by both sides.

末月：“44——黑桃10梅花10方块10黑桃7红心7，10葫芦。”

星羽：“29——红心5梅花5方块5梅花7方块7，5葫芦……等等！你说什么！”

She looked up in astonishment, her pupils trembling.

Mo Yue's voice, calm to the point of being somewhat indifferent, lazily repeated itself again:

“44——黑桃10梅花10方块10黑桃7红心7，10葫芦。”

"44! How is this possible... how could it be 44!"

Xingyu panicked completely. She reached out and snatched the note from Moyue's hand, holding it up to her eyes to examine it carefully.

是的，那上面的确写着一个大大的【44】，而下面的字迹是【黑桃10梅花10方块10黑桃7红心7，10葫芦】的牌型。

Could it be that the number 7 was altered...? Impossible, the number 7 cannot be simply changed to 44, it's not like changing 2 to 3, which can be done by adding a stroke.

Moreover, there were no signs of the numbers being altered.

"You wrote this yourself! You cheated... Miss!"

Xingyu gritted her teeth and shouted, pointing at Moyue: "The last card is clearly [7], so why is there an extra [44]!"

“I didn’t cheat.” Mo Yue wasn’t angry; she simply replied calmly, “Why are you so sure the last card is [7]? Do you have any evidence that I cheated?”

"Of course!"

Xingyu was about to go downstairs to find that [7] and confront him, but suddenly stopped.

Even if the young lady cheated, she couldn't possibly leave her hands and feet uncovered.

She must have discovered that [7] was a useless card and deliberately replaced it with a valid card, which was exactly greater than Xingyu's [44]. It was obviously written that way on purpose.

[44] It just happens to form the final big hand, a 10-full gourd, just right, without using any duplicate cards. How could there be such a precise coincidence!

Therefore, the original [7] must have been dealt with; it couldn't possibly still be in the same place...

Even if she wanted to look for it, she wouldn't be able to find it.

Hoshino then thought of another method and immediately turned to the bewildered Asakawa Riku, saying, "We can ask Asakawa-kun! He wrote [7], he must remember it!"

However, what followed was a long silence.

Asakawa Riku took a deep breath and said apologetically:

"...Is it possible, is it possible, that I really have forgotten which numbers I wrote down?"

Zashiki-warashi no Aki: Chapter 46 Who?

Asakawa Riku was not lying.

He really forgot.

At first, the two people asked him to write random numbers, so he didn't think much about it and just wrote ten random numbers without trying to memorize them.

Logically speaking, most people wouldn't forget the numbers they wrote down so quickly, but Asakawa Riku was not idle during this period.

He was still racking his brains, trying to calculate the card combinations and the card pool with them.

The complex patterns and numbers, the mind-bending calculations, caused him a lot of trouble, leaving his mind in a state of chaos, and he naturally forgot about what had happened before.

Asakawa Riku is not Shinonome Sugetsuki after all; he doesn't have such a monstrous memory. When the brain is used for new things, old things will naturally be discarded, which is a normal thing.

So, was the last note he wrote [7] or [44]...?

Even he himself wasn't sure.

"This number is indeed my handwriting. I cannot irresponsibly say which side is correct. I apologize."

Asakawa Riku shook his head; facing Hoshino's eager anticipation, that was all he could say.

"Damn it...! Miss, how cunning! Why can't you just let me win fair and square!"

Xingyu was almost in tears, gritting her teeth in anger as she glared back: "Miss has a very good memory. Once she's seen you write, imitating your handwriting won't be difficult for her!"

Mo Yue, however, remained unusually calm, stretched out her arms, and said:

"If you want to cheat and write down new numbers on the spot, you need paper and pen, right? You can search me, but I don't have any of those things with me."

"……OK!"

Xingyu, of course, didn't stand on ceremony and immediately walked over quickly, giving Moyue a thorough pat from head to toe, examining her very carefully.