01: Jeri. 8500 Yen. Wearing: Shirt, skirt, socks, bra and panties.

02: Rika. 7400 Yen. Wearing: Shirt, jeans, socks, bra and panties.

03: Kenta. 1600 Yen. Wearing: Jeans, boxers.

04: Takato. 6950 Yen. Wearing: Jeans, boxers

After quickly shuffling the deck, Jeri softly tossed the cards.

Rika frowned; having the King of Hearts and Three of Diamonds meant that she had no options. (Rika: 7300) (Pot: 100)

The Five and Three of Clubs, Kenta mused, was a pretty good hand. (Kenta: 1400) (Pot: 300)

Takato supposed that he could've gotten worse, though he doubted the viability of the Eight of Hearts and Seven of Clubs.

Jeri winced as her hand, Two of Clubs and Eight of Spades, was awful.

"Fold," Rika groaned.

"Check," Kenta grinned. With Rika out of the game, his primary course to the main goal became much easier.

"Check," Despite his better judgment, Takato deemed the risk well worth the reward.

"Fold," Jeri added her cards to the discarded pile, and after burning a card, she turned over the Three of Hearts, Ten of Diamonds and Six of Clubs.

"What?!" Kenta excitedly thought, his eyes darting between the Three in his hand, and the Three on the table, which didn't escape any of them. "No... WAY!"

"If it's not too much to ask, could you hurry up?" Takato inquired, slightly annoyed.

"Sure, 500," Kenta grinned. (Kenta: 900) (Pot: 800)

"Call," All Takato needed was a nine, and he'd won... (Takato: 6450) (Pot: 1300)

Burning a card, Jeri placed the King of Clubs.

"Just one more!" Takato and Kenta thought, almost trembling with anticipation; Takato knew that the next card would decide everything.

"300," Kenta smirked. No matter how unlikely it was for another Club to come along, it was absolutely worth it. There was too much riding on this hand, for him to lose. (Kenta: 600) (Pot: 1600)

"Call," Takato grinned. (Takato: 6150) (Pot: 1900)

Jeri removed another card, and this time she put the Nine of Clubs, the exact card that both of them needed.

"300" Kenta grinned. (Kenta: 300) (Pot: 2200)

"Call," Takato returned his smirk. "Straight, Six-Ten." (Takato: 5850) (Pot: 2500)

"Sorry, man," Kenta laughed, much to Takato's bewilderment. "King-high Flush."

"So who wins?" Suzie innocently asked, while Lopmon studied the game with what seemed like a vested interest, startling Jeri, Takato, Kazu, Ryo and Kenta, and earning a disapproving look from Henry.

"How do you keep getting in here?" Rika asked. "I'm pretty sure that Renamon, or someone would've noticed you sneaking in."

Suzie frowned in confusion at the question. "I... Don't know, actually." She admitted.

"Wait, what?!" Henry exclaimed, before an explanation crossed his mind. "Lopmon, do you know anything about this?"

"No, Henry, though I'll gladly try and find out, if I got a pizza," She hopefully offered, steepling her paws, her ears raised in eager anticipation. Everyone shuddered mildly as they mentally correlated Lopmon with pizza, the memory of Lopmon's over-indulgement of the delicacy still fresh in their minds, despite the incident being over a year ago.

"I think Suzie's already told you, 'no', Lopmon," Henry sternly told the rabbit. "You got off incredibly easy last time, in more than one way. Don't push your luck."

"But why not?" Lopmon exclaimed.

"Remember what dad said?" Suzie interjected. "Afterwards, I mean? 'When you're paying for the pizzas, with money that you've earned through legitimate means, and get sufficient exercise to burn off the calories, you can have as many as you can stomach. Until then, HANDS OFF THE PHONE!" She repeated, in her best imitation of Janyu's exact tone and pitch.

"I suppose..." Lopmon moped.

"Let's go, Lopmon." Suzie snatched up her partner, and left the room, leaving the others to carry on, as they had before she appeared out of nowhere.

"So, who does win?" Ryo asked, trying to change the subject away from the inexplicable event.

"Kenta does; Flushes beat Straights." Rika and Takato replied simultaneously, as he took off his pants, revealing his soft-grey boxers. (Kenta: 2800)

01: Jeri. 8500 Yen. Wearing: Shirt, skirt, socks, bra and panties.

02: Rika. 7300 Yen. Wearing: Shirt, jeans, socks, bra and panties.

03: Kenta. 2800 Yen. Wearing: Jeans, boxers.

04: Takato. 5850 Yen. Wearing: Boxers