"Ooh! Lucky me!" Yumemite sings in a sing-songy voice as she sweeps the chips to her stack. There's no way she isn't cheating, I thought. I look at the back of the cards- there's nothing on the back of them. I look at the way Yomozuki is shuffling. I know she often uses a special shuffle to spice things up, but it looks like her shuffle is normal. I look around the stage. I take the quickest glance and see it. It.

I pull Yomozuki aside as I whisper to her what I found. She nods. "We will make it fair," she whispers back. Yumemite doesn't hear what she's saying, so when I come back, I make something up for the reason why I talked to her.

"Oh- I just thought the cards looked weird, and she just assured me they're normal, that's all," I reassure Yumemite. Whatever I do, I can't let her know that I know that there's a mirror behind me, just off the stage, that reflects all of my cards to Yumemite.

The only reason why my group saw the mirror was that they're sitting at the very corner of the auditorium. Because they were sitting in the back row, they couldn't shout at me that Yumemite was cheating. We went through hell and back to get six tickets to this show, and the only ones that were available were at the back seat.

"Let's start Round 6!" Yomozuki cries. I can't tell if the mirror is still behind me or not, because she'll know that I know she's cheating if I turn around and look. I was lucky Yumemite was looking at the growd when I first glanced behind me.

I was expecting them to just get rid of the mirror, but when I saw that another lady in an orange jacket was wheeling out a mirror to show me Yumemite's cards, I knew things were about to get interesting.

After receiving and exchanging my cards with Yomozuki, I see that I have a pair of sixes. It isn't a great hand, but Yumemite has a junk hand. When it comes to bet, I try to be timid and bet two chips on top of my six chip bet. Yumemite must have thought I thought she had a good hand, so she raises to a total of 10 chips, including her blind. I call.

"Sounds like you're running out of hands, Kokoro!" Yumemite motions at my stack of chips, which is now down to 7. The crowd laughs. "Just kidding, of course. This is an interesting gamble."

"Quite certainly." I hand her the cards that will ensure her no hand, and she gives me junk cards, too. It doesn't matter, anyways, because I've just won the hand.

We show our cards, and, just as I expected, I win with my pair of sixes.

"Aww man!" Yumemite yells in a cute voice. "I could've won if you gave me that card!" She points at the jack I had in my hand that I didn't switch. If I did switch that card, she would've had a pair of jacks. She doesn't catch on, though, because there's a relatively high 1/3 chance of not switching a card if you have a pair. She also didn't notice because she's an idiot.

This brings the chip counts to Yumemite with 33 and me with 27. Now that is "fair," again, I don't feel bad with using the mirror. The whole student council is one big cheat, so I feel like I'm just giving them a taste of their own medicine.

"It's ti~~~~~me," Yomozuki draws the announcement out for drama, "for Round 7~!" The crowd has a mixed cheering of "KO-KO-RO!" and "YU-ME-MI!" It's time to win this thing.