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The door knocks, abruptly halting their laughs. Kanade gets up and answers, finding that her housekeeper standing on the other side for at least 14 minutes.
It takes a moment to process how long Mochizuki was awkwardly standing there before she scrambles her slightly dazed mind to a halt
"Ah it's no worry!"
"Apologies, my friends are over for a um buisness meeting..."
Honami looks over her shoulder, noticing 3 girls sitting around a deck of cards she isn't sure if it's a tarot reading until she realises that all the cards are labeled uno.
She walks over too the girls waving at Mafuyu as she inquires
"What food do you all want? I'll make it!"
"Oo fries!!!"
"Cheesecake."
"The ability to feel happiness from hearty intakes of nutrients. I mean mineral water"
"Ah. N-None of those are exactly... Lunches, how about some crispy noodles and all those for sides! And mineral water is going to be served anyway."
Like it was some sort of trigger word Kanade look up slightly at the mention of noodles.
"Noodles?"
"No not cup noodles, crispy noodles a fabled Chinese delicacy"
Honami knows fabled wasn't the right word there. Oh well. As she cooks the noodles she occasionally looks over her shoulder to see the four. Suddenly, a pair of laughs and shouts erupts usual silence of the household
"uno!!!"
"MIZUKI I HOPE YOUR PARACHUTE DOESN'T OPEN!!!!!!!!"
"but I'm not skydiving! ☆~"
"YOUR LUCKY THIS IS A HIGH RISE BECAUSE YOU WILL BE!!!"
"I win!!☆~"
"I HATE YOU!!!!!"
"Jesus it's the second game and your already crashing out. New low."
"YOUR HEAD WILL BE DOWN BE'LOW' ON THE PAVEMENT ONCE I'M DONE WITH YOU TWO!!!"
As Honami finishes up she leaves the noodles too sit and joins the four on a peaceful game of uno. It doesn't seem very peaceful when 40% of the people there are being threatened to be thrown out the window (lucky Kanade locked it). As Kanade deals the cards she periodically gets more and more nervious..
Red 7
Red 3
Red 5
+4
ALL RED!!!
It's not Minori's certain type of terrible luck but it's certainly hers.
Worst bit, Kanade starts with blue.
Wanting to be aggressive, Ena places down a plus 4, aiming to try and make mafuyu feel something, anger. Shockingly, it's working, Mizuki and Honami both placed down an add. Honami's never understood why Emu was so scared of Mafuyu but now she definitely understands.
Mafuyu is weighing her morals. Should she take the 12 card blow for kanade? Or place down her +4 too give to kanade, whose small hands are unable to carry more then 15 cards. She wants too get back at Ena into cursing her into this ethical dilemma, but if she takes the gamble and Kanade miraculously has any sort of plus card then the card will all be directed at Ena, whom foolishly tries to use her cards as a fan, unintentionally revealing that she no longer has any pluses. Should she take the risk and nullify her chances into winning unless she has incredible luck? Or should she take the fall for her saviour, the woman who managed to be light in the everlasting darkness. But is it worth an automatic failure?
The air is tense, Ena and Kanade trying not to shrivel up too the piercing thousand miles stared of Mafuyu's empty eyes into them.
Of course.
Mafuyu owes everything too Kanade. Rain, sun, snow or shine, she will always choose to take the fall for Kanade. With a deep, quiet sigh, mafuyu slowly picks up 12 cards, making sure too stare with intimidation at Ena as too not allow her to cheer for Mafuyu's demise. It's definitely working, but once she breaks eye contact Ena will surely be exploding with amusement at the downfall of a once Almighty winner.
The round continued, Kanade smiling with a little gratitude at Mafuyu's careful decision. But this reaction she could tell that Kanade didn't have a plus, so she can't count on her to destroy the rising madwoman Ena, who was on about 3 cards.
Honami was backed into a corner, blocked by increasing multiplying red cards that aren't even usable right now. Forced to pick up from the infinite pile hopeing to at least change it to red.
"Uno!!!" Ena shouted, a final, snotty smirk on her face.
As one last round as Honami and Mizuki both forced to picked up.
Mafuyu had different plans. Mafuyu looks Ena dead in the eye.
"Swap hands" she whispers.
Ena's smile fades into the spider web on the ceiling of the yoisaki as she begrudgingly hands the singular yellow 5 to mafuyu.
The disgusted expression that Ena expression had is enough to be carved and sculpted as she onlooked the devastating L she just took. Mizuki was obviously laughing like a chicken who crossed the road. And Honami could tell that someones face will soon be cheesecaked and it's certainly not Ena.
"Uno"
Mafuyu tried to hide behind her usual lackluster monotony for that singular word. But everyone could tell this is possibly the most emotion that Mafuyu has ever felt in her whole entire life. It wasn't much, in a liquid measurement, this level of emotion possibly be at most 1ml, equivalent to about one drop of apple juice.
With a slight bit of gusto, Mafuyu places the final yellow card down.
"I win, Ena."