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   _{”I only got it ‘cause I had a great teacher.” She felt her face heat up even more under his praise and applause. Bobbing on the front of her sneakers, she tried hard to contain the ecstatic grin twitching at her face.}

   _{At his question, however, she gave a snort.}

   _{”Yer gonna haffta show me.”}

“Well, I haven’t really taught you much yet, so I don’t think ‘great teacher’ is really correct…”

Kaito politely took the deck back from her and set up the trick a third time. However, rather than having her choose a card, he turned the faces toward himself so that she could look at the back. behind the fanned out cards lay another whose face couldn’t be seen.

“When you say a number and take the cards off, this card makes it so that the one picked isn’t removed and is left at the top,” He smiled at her.

“There are some ways of doing it differently, like giving a choice of more cards or less, or even shuffling the deck, if you can manage to keep the top card where it is. But in general, it’s a pretty simple trick, right?”