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   _{As subtle as his chuckling was, she still caught it and turned even redder than before. Drawing her shoulders up, Madison lowered her eyes to the deck in her hands and felt a few more knots gathering in her stomach.}

   _{”A—All right.” She took in a shallow breath and slowly…}

                                                        _{… slowly…}

   _{lifted the card on the top up. She hardly wanted to flip it and find out it was the wrong card, but she was painfully curious to know. Tilting the corner, she peeked with one eye open and——}

   _{”It’s the card! Look!” She turned the card and let herself grin, “I did it!”}

“I knew you could do it!”

Kaito gave some applause, mirroring her smile. He always enjoyed when magic made others happy, whether he was the on performing the tricks or not.

“Wanna see how it works, now? Or maybe….” He tilted his head, “You want to try guessing the trick’s secret yourself?”