Losing Streak

Shoutout to Bruh_Vista and Equinoxes for beta-reading and providing extensive feedback for this chapter!

IMPORTANT: Please read Author's Notes.

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"And that's Blackjack!"

"You don't have to call out 'Blackjack' EVERY time you win!" Shuri exclaimed with a voice brimming with exhaustion, exasperation, irritation, and defeat.

"Where's the fun in that?" Marie sputtered as she released an offended gasp. "Now, do you want to add another deck to the mix or do you want to run two more games parallelly?"

Shuri slinked back into her chair as her eyes glossed over the enormous card deck laid out before her. It had tripled in size, encompassing at least twelve standard decks, and both Marie and she were playing five hands simultaneously. Probability-wise, Shuri should have increased odds of victory, and yet she lost!

"Impossible..."

"Counting cards isn't hard, you know," Marie explained.