"Ugh.I didn't think I drank THAT much last night." Kaiji said, holding his head. A glimmer of light on the ground catches his eye. "Is this stained glass?" Kaiji knocks on the ground while he slowly picks himself up. Kaiji peers over the side of the stained glass cylinder and begins to sweat.

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Kaiji gulped "Where the hell am I?"

"So you're the legendary gambler, the one they call The Ultimate Survivor. Kaiji Ito."

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Kaiji turned around towards the voice and shouted. "Who are you? Is this another Teiai plot?"

A hooded figure emerges from the shadows.

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"You know, I'm a bit of a gambler myself. The Gambler of Fate." The mysterious man removes his hood revealing his face. "The name's Luxord."

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Luxord approaches Kaiji. "I have heard a lot about you Kaiji, and I am impressed." Luxord smirks, "I have been looking for a worthy opponent for a long time."

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"I challenge you to a game of luck." Luxord said while pulling out a deck of cards with the heartless insignia on the back from his sleeve. "I like to live dangerously, Kaiji. We will bet our lives"

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"why would I agree to that!?" Kaiji looks at the cards in Luxords hand with a shocked expression. "Bet my life on a card game?" Kaiji asked, trying to keep his composure.

"Ah, you may have noticed that you don't have much of a choice" Luxord stated while sweeping his glance across the stained glass cylinder they were on.

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'Shit! I guess I don't have a choice.' Kaiji thought to himself and sighed. "I accept"

Luxord grinned "Then let the game begin."

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"You see, we are going to play a game of pure chance." Luxord flashed a hand of blank cards. "I am going to hide inside one of these cards and you have to find me." He condensed the hand into a single stack. "You get one chance." Luxord smiled "Got it?"

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"What kind of card game is that?" Kaiji scoffed.

Luxord smugly grinned "Ever heard of 52 card pick up!?" Luxord then exploded into a confetti of cards, all landing face down on the stained glass floor.

"But I'm only picking up one." Kaiji stated with that face he makes when exasperated.

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The situation finally dawned on Kaiji "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" he yelled, falling to his knees. 'Shit! Is this really a 1 in 52 chance!?' Kaiji tries to calm himself 'No. There is no way he would play fair. If he can hide inside a card, why couldn't he move from card to card? No way this smug jackass would leave his life up to chance.' Kaiji tries to think and just steadily frustrated himself

"Over here. Over here." Luxord's voice emites from all around, taunting Kaiji.

Kaiji grits his teeth. 'There has to be a way I can win.' Kaiji picks himself back up.

"Where'd I go?" "Over here!" "Pick a card!" The voices surround Kaiji. He loses his focus again at the relentless cacophony of taunts. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"

"You don't have a glimmer of hope left!"

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A sudden revelation hit Kaiji. "That's it!" Kaiji began walking around the entire arena, closely examining the top of each card."Ha!" Kaiji chuckles and finally places his hand on one of the cards.

Kaiji had a realization. With the light emitting from the bottom of the stained glass, the intricate design on the back of the cards leaving a third of the backing to be white, and the fact that every other card was blank. Kaiji realized that if the light hit just right it would just slightly reveal the other side of the card in the white corner of the back.

"Luxord? More like Cuck Lord!" Kaiji dramatically flips over the card revealing the cuck lord himself!

"Ha. You… you play the game quite well" Luxord struggles to say as he begins to disintegrate.

Kaiji had done it! He survived the poorly named 52 card gamble!

"Wow, what an impressive showing!"

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Kaiji turns pale and slowly turns to the new voice.

"It seems you have turned my little Organization XIII into an Organization XII, and Organization XII just does not have the same ring to it." The mysterious silver haired man in a black cloak approaches Kaiji.

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"Who… who are you?" Kaiji stammers out.

The man answers, "I am Xemnas, the Superior of the Nobodies."

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"Relax, you won this silly little game. I'm not here to rob you of that victory. On the contrary!" Xemnas vanishes and reappears behind Kaiji "I want you to join me."

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Shocked, Kaiji responded "And why would I ever do that?"

"Kaiji, I have seen your life. Barely scraping by, whether it's with your money or with your life. You are a nobody already. A nobody full of wasted potential! Do you really want to go back to your miserable existence full of debt you lead?"

'Fuck, he's right. I still have a huge debt to pay! And those cloaks are really nice.' Kaiji contemplates for a moment. "Okay, if I get one of those cloaks and I never have to worry about a debt again, I'll join you."

Xemnas smiles. "Of course my dear friend Kaiji, or should I say Jaxiik. Let's go make this official"

And so Kaiji, now known as Jaxiik, becomes a member of Organization XIII. Being the ultimate survivor that he is, Sora is never able to defeat Jaxiik. Sora, of course being a literal child, has never actually learned how to gamble and ends up racking up a huge debt to Jaxiik until he is completely ruined financially. Because of this Xemnas ends up succeeding in whatever the hell he's even doing in these games.

Great job Kaiji.

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