He was horrified by the twenty-one in his hand, but on the surface, he just shrugged, trying his best to keep his face calm, and apart from Baron Lavende, the other onlookers had already begun to congratulate him.
In the second round, Xia De saw that the opponent's first two cards totaled 11, and the third card directly exceeded 21 points, so he gave up drawing more cards when his two cards totaled 16.
The expression on Baron Lavende's face was already off.
In the third round, Xia De couldn't remember what cards the opponent had, but when he saw that his face-up card was a King, he was once again horrified and almost couldn't resist checking his surroundings.
Because the face-up card was a "King", he didn't touch the face-down card again. Baron Lavende, however, didn't have the luck to draw a King and Queen, nor the luck to draw 21 points, and lost again.
In the fourth round, Xia De's face-up card was a Queen...
"Are you cheating?"
Even he couldn't help but ask the voice in his head.
"The Ring術士's 'other self' cannot interfere with reality."
"But you are not the usual case."
"I am special because of you. I cannot directly interfere with reality. And even if I could, why would I interfere with a card game?"
The murmuring voice in his mind replied, still so pleasant to the ear. Xia De also thought the other party wasn't that bored, so he believed what she said, but Baron Lavende obviously didn't believe Xia De.
He was gasping for air, and amidst the excited discussions of the people at the table, he looked at the Queen on the table. After a long while, he asked to re-examine Baron Lavende's deck. After the inspection, he had someone else shuffle for the fifth round. Mr. Kandra, the original shuffler who was suspected, was very unhappy about this and stood under the grape arbor sulking.
"Detective, I don't care if you're lucky or something else, at least this time I won."
Just holding two cards, Baron Lavende said, revealing the "King" face-down card.
Cards that have just been used cannot be re-entered into the game, at least not in this round. So Xia De's deck could no longer have a "King" or "Queen", thus unless he got 21 points, he couldn't win this round.
Xia De's face-up card was sun 13, and the revealed face-down card was flower 13. People immediately exclaimed excitedly, not because the young Detective finally lost, but because the flower 13 in Baron Lavende's deck was a special rule card, 【Northern City · Atek City】.
According to the rules, Xia De could roll a dice, and if the dice roll was 20 points, he could draw another card. In the current state, if it wasn't 20 points, he would indeed lose this round.
Xia De certainly wouldn't use his 【relic】 dice of fate to play this kind of game. He picked up the one Baron Lavende had just used; this was his first time touching an ivory item.
The surrounding people immediately held their breath. Xia De didn't understand their excitement, after all, even if the dice roll wasn't 20, he was still leading four to one in the third round.
With a gentle toss, the white ivory dice spun on the stone table. People involuntarily stretched their necks, and when the number 20 stopped facing up, Xia De was truly worried that Baron Lavende on his left would have a heart attack from being too excited.
"This game will be talked about by us until the end of this year."
Sir Lavende, with his pretty mustache, said tremblingly:
"I've never rolled a 20 after getting this card."
Xia De shrugged, not questioning the other party's bad luck. He took his next card, and without turning it over, he already knew the result in his heart:
"If this card is an 8 of any suit, I'll have 21 points and win, but this kind of luck is absolutely not right."
Using the faint light of the candelabra on the stone table, he tilted his head and glanced at it from below. After a moment of hesitation, he observed his opponent Baron Lavende's expression, making sure he wouldn't suddenly have a cerebral hemorrhage, before flipping over the sun 8.
Perhaps this game could be talked about by the Ring術士 players present until next year.
"You really didn't interfere with the game?"
He asked softly again, and then it was as if a woman was murmuring in his ear. This phenomenon was very strange, because there was clearly no such space behind him:
"Even if I had such an ability, why would I do something so boring?"
"But the current situation is clearly not normal!"
He thought to himself while smiling and accepting people's congratulations. Ring術士 probably all excelled at this kind of multitasking.
"You can ponder, what could possibly cause such abnormal luck?"
Xia De almost immediately got the answer. It was too obvious. He hadn't experienced much since coming to this world:
"The dice of fate? A 20 rolled, a good thing that will inevitably happen because of it? But why did my rhode cards luck improve? What's the connection? Moreover, the meaning of the dice needs to manifest clearly before me; this is just a guess right now."
Xia De's victory also meant that Baron Lavende won two out of three games. Although he didn't win his first game, he did win this rhode cards game.
Although Baron Lavende was quite annoyed by Xia De's final sun 8, he gracefully honored the agreement, giving Xia De the rhode cards 【ancient fairy tale - match girl】 with special rules and a special card face, and giving Sir Solar 20 pounds in cash.
This Baron actually brought so much cash to an outdoor banquet.
Although Baron Lavende lost, he had no negative views of Xia De. On the contrary, he enthusiastically shook Xia De's hand and invited him to play rhode cards together sometime, which Xia De, of course, perfunctorily agreed to.
"This card, I spent a lot of effort to win it."
As the Baron handed the match girl to Xia De, he glanced at Baron Lavende. Baron Lavende was the card's previous owner, and Baron Lavende was clearly trying to annoy him on purpose.
"You must take good care of it. I hope to see it in your hands next time we play cards together. Hamilton Detective, if you don't want to keep this card and want to sell it, you must contact me first. I will acquire it even if I have to borrow money... Of course, rhode cards enthusiasts like us would never casually sell special cards."
As he spoke, he also glanced at Baron Lavende, clearly warning him that if he took the card from Xia De, his reputation might be at stake.
The mustachioed Baron, who was receiving congratulations from his friends under the grape arbor, looked up slightly:
"Of course, Xia De, you must take good care of this card."
His relationship with Xia De shouldn't have been good enough to call him by his first name directly, and this sentence indicated that Xia De would temporarily serve as the card's custodian for a period of time.
"Of course, I will take good care of it."
Xia De tucked the card into his portable notepad and put the notepad back into his coat pocket.
Baron Lavende, of course, wouldn't discuss the 【ancient fairy tale - match girl】 with Xia De at the banquet, but he did want to invite Xia De to spend the rest of the banquet together after this game.
Unfortunately, Xia De was still thinking about Doctor Schneider and could only politely decline the Baron and his friends. After leaving the grape arbor, he walked along the path the doctor had just taken, pondering his inexplicable good luck.