A/N: Taking some creative liberties with how this cast spends hours debating power levels.

Bullshit

By KindredWriter

Summary: Workshopping a method to contend with the mad dog, the cast plays a game of bullshit.

Characters: Kokonoe, Lambda, Noel, Ragna, Rachel, Celica, Kagura, Makoto, Tsubaki, Jin, Jubei, Tager, and Hibiki

Kokonoe dealt the last card and checked her hand. "First thing's first, Azrael. Anyone have ideas?"

"Negative. One ace." Lambda set her card face down.

"Shouldn't his limiters still be on? One two." Noel laid her card upside-down.

"It should..." Ragna glared daggers at Noel who ducked behind her cards sliding his card atop the rest. Despite the obvious sign of a fib, knowing Noel, she probably wasn't. "One three."

"Bullshit." Kagura called and smirked to find a king.

Ragna slammed his cards onto the table. "You cheated, that's bullshit!"

"Name of the game," the colonel smirked, his hands up in the air.

"Just you watch..." Ragna grumbled retrieving the small stack. His eyes widened seeing his hand and faced Noel with a righteous fury. He pulled on her cheeks as she flailed her arms. "You were lying!"

Rachel sighed. "He most likely posses all the threes in the deck. To Azrael," she placed two fours onto the table's center, "he may have freed himself from his limiters. I would think it is within Izanami's power."

"We had a really rough time with Azrael before... Three, fives." Celica set her card.

"We got lucky last time. Bullshit, by the way," Kokonoe said.

"Guess again!" Celica smiled triumphantly when she revealed her fives.

"Mother...!" Kokonoe growled retrieving her pile. She glared daggers at Rachel and the smirk she got in returned made her blood boil.

"Without his limiters, we would've been screwed. If his limiters are removed, there's no telling what could happen with him. One, six." Kagura laid his card down.

"Yeah, you guys came back all banged up." Makoto shuddered recalling what happened to some of the contestants who ran into Azrael early. "Two seveeeeeens."

"One eight." Tsubaki set down, oblivious to Makoto's victorious smirk. "Can't we use his Enchanted Dragonov somehow?"

"We'd run the risk of unleashing his power that way." Kagura said.

Jin scoffed. "What a nuisance. Three nines."

"Settin' two tens here." Jubei said.

Tager set his card after a moment of analysis. "One jack."

"Two queens." Hibiki said.

Tager glared. "Two?"

"Yes. If you want to call it, you may," he implored.

"One king." Kokonoe placed her card.

"H-hey!" Tager gaped.

"You were taking too damn long," she responded.

"One ace." Lambda went.

"Damn, it's impossible to read you..." Ragna grumbled.

"Two t-two's," Noel stuttered under Ragna's harsh glare.

Jubei sighed. "C'mon, son, don't bully the poor girl."

"Yeah yeah..." Ragna tossed two three's down, an action scrutinized by Rachel.

"I do not believe you. Flip." With a bright smile of victory on his face, dismay came over Rachel when he revealed he had set the correct pair and pointed at her with a "ha!". "Bloody hell!" She gathered up the stack. Her gaze fixed on Kokonoe who gave her a wicked grin of her own. Taste of your own medicine, it said.