"Of course I know! I just, I just think it's not appropriate to draw the Death card on this occasion..."
Being defeated by Kawai Shouchi, Kimiko Arai seemed a little flustered, and she quickly shouted:
"Do it again! Let me choose again!"
"Uh, Black Miko-sensei, this..." The host on the side was a little embarrassed when he saw this.
Isn't it inappropriate to smoke again or something?
"Haha...I don't care~"
Kawai Souko put the Death Tarot cards back into the deck with a smile, reshuffled them, and spread them out in a fan shape in his hands.
"Teacher Black Miko, please feel free to choose."
"Calm down, be calm..." Looking at the card pile in front of her, Kimiko subconsciously narrowed her eyes and raised her hand to scan back and forth over the many cards.
"Just pick one, just pick one..."
Finally, her hand stopped in front of a certain tarot card.
Just when she was about to choose this tarot card, an audience member in the audience below suddenly spoke in a voice that he thought was quiet:
"It feels like the black miko teacher is completely different from what I imagined... I'm a little disappointed."
The audience's voice was not loud, but not quiet either. It was just enough for half the venue and the two fortune tellers on the stage to hear.
"Huh?!" Kimiko seemed to be shocked when she heard this, and her body trembled subconsciously.
"Guests over there, please be quiet."
Keeping the movements of his hands unchanged, Kawai Suiko turned his head slightly and looked in the direction of the audience.
"Hug, sorry..."
Withdrawing his gaze, Kawai Souko looked in the direction where Kimiko's hand stopped and pulled out the tarot card.
"Teacher Black Miko, is this Tarot card you want to get?"
"Huh? Yes, yes..."
"Then I'll open it."
Gently turn over the tarot card, and on the front is still the skeleton wearing a robe.
Still the god of death.
"Isn't it?!"
Kimiko subconsciously exclaimed, with incredible horror on her face.
"Still the God of Death?! The God of Death twice in a row? How is this possible? I, I..."
Opposite her, Kawai Souko was also a little surprised, but soon she adjusted her expression and said with a smile:
"What a surprise. I didn't expect the black miko teacher to be able to draw out the Shinigami again. Should I say...is this really a choice of fate?"
However, Kimiko could no longer hear her words at this time.
Kimiko's face was extremely pale, and there was a hint of fear in her eyes.
She stood up from her seat and staggered towards the back of the stage, still mumbling.
"This is impossible... could it be... is she... ah... is this my... destiny..."
Just like that, Kimiko Arai left the stage in despair.
Behind her, the host asked in confusion: "Um, where are you going, Black Miko-sensei? The secret meeting has just begun... Teacher?!"
"It seems that Black Miko-sensei is not feeling well. There is nothing we can do..."
On the stage, Kawai Souko shuffled the tarot cards again, turned to look at the audience with a smile.
"Then let's change the original arrangement, and let me do the divination for you next... Everyone, does anyone want to come up and do the divination first?"
"Me! Death-sensei! Please divine for me first!"
"And me! I want it too!"
"Hehehe... don't be in a hurry, come one by one."
The atmosphere in the venue was once again heated up by Kawai Shouko, but on one side of the auditorium below, Mao Lilan said to Karasumaying beside him with some worry:
"Sister Ying, don't you think this is a bit scary? Continuously turning over Death cards and so on..."
"Huh?" Karasuma Ying turned to look at her after hearing this.
"That's the Death Card. Judging from Black Miko-sensei's reaction just now, could it really be fate or something..."
"No, don't worry."
Karasuma Ying smiled and comforted: "In terms of techniques, there are many ways to make people draw the same card continuously."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"For example, for the first Death card, you can actually place the Death card at the bottom of the deck at the beginning, and then quietly insert your fingers or nails under the card to create a gap, so that you can The person shuffling the cards always locks the position of the Grim Reaper during the shuffling phase.
After the shuffling of the cards is completed, just before the opponent makes the action of pointing the cards, with the help of the shield of the right hand that dealt the cards, quickly push out the Death card with his left hand.
In this way, the person who draws the card will mistakenly think that this card is the card she chose, but in fact it was someone else who chose it for her...
What seems like fate is actually just a common magic trick. "
"I see, what about the second time?" Mao Lilan asked curiously.
The second time Kawai Shoko used a fan-shaped method to let Kimiko draw cards, which was completely different from the first time.
"Yes, yes, what about the second time?" Suzuki Sonoko on the other side also asked curiously.
"It's also not difficult."
Smiling slightly, Karasumaying continued to explain to the two of them:
"First, Ms. Arai's eyesight is not good. When she drew cards twice just now, she squinted her eyes and hesitated back and forth.
Coupled with the complex patterns on the back of Ms. Kawai’s tarot cards, this actually affected Ms. Arai’s judgment to a great extent.
Secondly, if you recall carefully, when Ms. Kawai spread the tarot cards in a fan shape, her right hand was actually further toward the center than her left hand.
The relationship between Ms. Arai and Ms. Kawai seems to be not very good. Out of inner disgust, after seeing the movement of Ms. Kawai’s right hand, Ms. Arai will subconsciously give up choosing the cards held by Ms. Kawai’s right hand and look at her. The card on the left.
Third, the lights on the stage, the dazzling lights matched the complicated patterns on the back of the cards, plus Ms. Arai’s blurred vision.
I think that when the cards are drawn for the second time, Ms. Arai may have a hard time distinguishing which one is which among the cards near the middle of the fan shape.
In this way, Ms. Arai's range of choices was further narrowed, leaving only the cards near Ms. Kawai's left hand.
Of course, the most important thing is the audience member who spoke out just now.
The spectator spoke just before Ms. Arai drew the card, attracting her attention, thus giving Ms. Kawai a chance to temporarily change the cards, and finally allowed Ms. Arai to draw the Death card again.
If the first time was a complete magic trick, the second time was a superb psychological suggestion and a little bit of luck. "
"Is that so?"
"ha……"
After listening to Karasumaying's explanation, Mao Lilan and Mao Lilan suddenly showed a...disappointed expression?
"What's wrong?" Karasuma Ying looked at the two of them doubtfully.
"It's nothing. I just suddenly felt a...how should I put it? A feeling of loss, as if my destiny had been revealed..."
"well?"
Next to the three of them, Suzuki Ayako, who was also listening to Karasuma Ying's explanation, turned her head and looked curiously at Qing Shuijing beside her.
"Jingjun, was the divination just like what Xiaoying said?"
"Half." Qing Shuijing replied with a smile.
With her eyesight far exceeding that of ordinary people, she could clearly see everything that happened on the stage just now.
Karasumaying's guess was indeed reasonable, but it was only half correct.
Because there is a Death card, which was indeed drawn by Kimiko Arai herself.
The phone suddenly vibrated, and she took it out and glanced at the content.
[Plan ahead, be ready for action]
Is this the fate of Death?
What a coincidence...
(End of chapter)
