Izumo and Kotetsu were bored out of their minds. Suddenly, Kotetsu had an idea.

"Hey, Izumo!" he said, waving a hand in front of his friends glazing eyes. "Lets play a game of Tic Tac Toe!"

Izumo was suddenly jolted back into reality. "Cool! I'm game!"

They readied their board.

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l__l__l__l
l__l__l__l
l__l__l__l

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After three hours, the game was about to end.

The game board looked like this:

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l_xl_ol_xl
l_xl_xl_ol
l_ol_xl_ol

Kotetsu refused to lose. So he drew a squiggly line to connect the x's. "Hah! Tic Tac Toe, FOUR in a row!" he crowed.

Izumo frowned disapprovingly. "You know you can't do that!"

Kotetsu pouted. "Says who?"

Izumo held up a paper-bound book the size of an Encyclopaedia Brittanica. "Says the Official Book of Tic Tac Toe!"