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   _{The seriousness in his face was enough to make her nervous. That, and she hadn’t been paying attention. It was so easy to get caught up in the entertainment of simple card tricks that she had forgotten that she was to learn the trick he was preforming.}

   _{Curling at the ends of her hair with her finger, she kept her eyes glued to his hands. She was going to catch the trick——
                                                                              —— and she missed it.}

   _{He had already drawn the correct card. Face flushed and eyes wide, she have her cheeks a puff. “Dang it. All right, you’re gonna have t’ do that slower.”}

Kaito shuffled the deck a bit, laughing softly.

“Rather than just repeat the trick though….”

He fanned out the same number of cards in the back for her to chose.

“I’ll have you do the second half! After you pick one, I’ll hand the deck over to you. Simply remove the number of cards off the deck based on the number you chose and try summoning the card you picked to the top.”

The magician winked, tilting his head slightly and giving an encouraging grin.

“The magic will do the rest.”