Card Game 6

Here's another problem. Although Kuro have remembered all cards in each player's possession, if they took a card, their card taken, or they shuffled their cards in their hands, Kuro must resets and re-form his memory, in the likely way their cards ordered in.

This requires an inhuman levels of visual acuity and an active minds at least until the end of game. This may not be physically exhausting game, but it would be mentally exhausting., at the same time, this was but a daily occurrence for Kuro in his 2nd life.

Ayame lightly tapped Kuro's shoulder as she asked. "Kuro, it's your turn. Pick up from my card."

Kuro responded weakly. "Oh, my bad. It's been a while I played like this… in my mind, that I dazed."

Kuro took a card from Ayame's hand an heart of 7. This way, Maou has no pairs of card unless he took Kuro's heart of 9.

The game unfolded as the players got used to it and some have began using psychological strategy.

Korone lifted up the card, as to hides her mouth. "Okayu~♡ take this one! If you do so, I'll get our dinners alone while you're resting!

In contrast, Okayu smiled lightly. "Really, Korone? Thank you."

Then, the cat took exactly the card the dog was pointing out.

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Korone then started panicking. "You idjiot!! You were supposed to take the other card!!"

'I guess her reverse-psychological tactic lost against Okayu's desire to lay around and wait for food.'

Currently the players who have joker in their possession is Korone.

And the card taking continued. Kuro have long since lost the heart of 7 and what remained was queen of spades.

But this was good.

"Alright I am done. Good game."

Kuro threw the card to the table as he took another queen from Ayame's hand.

Kuro patted Ayame's head out of reflex then stood up. "Call me when the game is done. I'm going outside for a bit. Oh by the way, Maou is going to win the next turn bye."

"I knew it! Kuro was cheating the game!" Someone said it but Kuro's mind was a bit tired that he didn't bother figuring out who said it.

"If you guys figured out how I cheated, I'll cancel my wins."

With a step even a ghost would pale in, Kuro slowly walked outside, then climbed at the top of the tree for the clearer view of scenery. Although it was nothing but a trees, it still looked great.

Even after living her for 3 or so years, Kuro wasn't tired of this view. "Oh, Ayame-chan! Did you actually won first!?"

Kuro saw Ayame who also climbed up, and view the scenery. "Yep. You said that Maou-san will win the next turn, it made me think about something. I took a 7 card, from you right? It coincidentally rotated a circle and returned to me after some turn. So I thought that how Maou-san'll win."

Kuro got ahead of her thinking. "By taking 7 from you, right?"

Ayame lightly giggled as she looks at the setting sun. "Yep! And, I think I know how you cheated! When Maou-san was allowed to join in our game, Kuro memorised the entire card order, at the same time, you complained about the special rule for the final time because you didn't want to cheat this way, right? Because… it's mentally tolling? If so, are you okay?"

Kuro widened his eyes at her sentences he didn't expect for someone… "Thank you, Ayame-chan I am fi- ugh, my head… I think I need to rest at someone's lap and..l since no one else here, Ayame-chan! Can I lay down in your lap!?"

Kuro suddenly felt cringy with his terrible acting. He was but a 5 years olds. Is it necessary to act like this?

"It's okay."

"O-oh… thank you…"

As Kuro laid on the silver-haired Oni's laps, the conversation began from Kuro again. "But, don't you think it's pointless to remember the cards order beforehand? You see? I shuffled the cards."

As the silver hairs gently fluttered in the air, The Oni lightly mocked Kuro. "I saw you changing the way you shuffled the cards! You stopped from show-offing that cool way of shuffling and changed to different way!"

"Sho-show off…" Kuro shivered.

Ayame then opened her mouth and lightly smacked her left palm with her right fist. "Now that I think anout it, no one did what Maou-san did in the match after you won the game! So this is what about it."

Kuro began to get curious. "Did he do something?"

Ayame nodded. "Yes. After you declared that he will win, he seems to figured out something and began shuffling the cards in his hand at high-speed even I can't follow at. So you've remembered the cards everyone has."

"… should I cancel my victory?"

Ayame shook her head, disagreeing with what Kuro said. "There's no need to do that. You want something from us that you've spent this much effort to win, right?"

Kuro stared at the air above. "Yeah that's right. I want these 2 to stay with us."

The Oni tilted her head as she began thinking. "Hmm… I don't what's the reason is, but since you want that, isn't it fine?"

Serene atmosphere continued for a bit then, Kuro finally opened his mouth. "Thank you, for looking at me."

Ayame wides her eyes a bit before smiling again. "Loo-… you're welcome."

*yawn* *yawn*

The warmth light showered both Kuro and Ayame as not only Kuro who was laying in her lap tiredly, but also Ayame began to get drowsy and finally, fell asleep.

*swish*

An arrow flew toward both Kuro and Ayame but it was stopped by the hand of someone. "Good grief. Are you guys supposedly sleeping here so defencelessly? Key, and the only one."

It was Maou, no, Treiner. It seems that his control over disguise magic was so great that unlike Ayame, his horn won't get revealed once he release some part of his power. Or rather, the power he is releasing wasn't enough to undo his disguise magic.

Treiner's movement began to spear-throwing motion and like that, he threw the arrows. As arrows broke the sound barrier, huge sound was released in the atmosphere but it didn't reach toward Kuro's sides as the sound was suppressed under Treiner's control.

Botan also arrived at the top of tree. "How considerate of you, bored demon king."

Maou slightly laughed "Haha… these guys will make this world much interesting so I can't let these guys dies. Besides…, I don't think that ambush will endanger their life."

Eventually, everyone arrived at the top, as they saw both Kuro and Ayame slightly snoring under the great view of the sun crossing the horizon.