Codename: Ghost - An Arknights OC Fanfiction.

A Night Together 2/2

"Okay, did you get all that?" Exusiai says, finally finishing her not so brief explanation of the arrangement of the deck of poker cards to him.

"Yeah, I think I got everything" He says back while quickly shuffling and going through some of the cards on the table and recalling which came after which to make sure he absolutely understood and remembered everything that she explained.

"Well, let's play now!" She exclaimed excitedly as her hands swiftly picked up all the cards on the table onto the palm of her hand in one sweeping motion. This impressed Ghost, as his eyes widened a little in admiration. Noticing this, she couldn't help but make a smug face and raised her eyebrows in a boasting manner, before smoothly shuffling the deck of cards without hardly even a stutter in her hands' movements.

"You're really good at this! That's cool."

"Heh, the amount of time I've went out partying has prepared me for this very moment," She said as she then flicked the cards one by one from her palm onto the table, quickly distributing the cards evenly amongst them with still a smug look on her face,

"Heheh, how was that? Cool, right?"

"Well, it's cool, I guess, but..." With a sly voice he said to her as he lifted a couple of the cards on the table in front of him and pointed out that the some of the cards' edges were a little rugged now,

"...Well, everyone makes mistakes, don't they? Y'know let's just get the game going." She quickly swept her small mistake under the rug and finally starts the game by picking up one card from her deck and putting it face down in the middle of the table,

"Come on, take one card and put it here. Remember, the card with the lowest value loses!" She said, staring straight into his face with another smug face. She was probably going for a look to put him off his game, but he was only visibly confused by her doing so. Nevertheless, he slowly took a card out from his deck and put it right in front of hers facing downwards,

In a swift motion, she immediately flipped both of the cards the very moment he lifted his fingers from his. She took a quick glance and a deviant smile quickly surfaced on her face, as she slowly looked up to his face.

"You lost~"

"...There's statistically only a 50/50 way to win or lose in this game. I don't think that's really something to be that proud of.."

"Come on, act a little more upset! You're kinda spoiling the mood here a little."For a moment, he looked at her, contemplating. Before suddenly slamming the table,

"DAMMMMNN YOU!" He shouted in accordance to his slamming hand, in a voice that sounded painfully forced. He then awkwardly looked at her.

"Is that how I should be reacting? I saw Blaze slamming the table the other day when she was playing cards with some other operators, I thought that'd be a good example to follow." She looked back at him with a clear baffled expression.

"...Yeah, I think she was playing something else entirely there, not this game. Anyways, now choose, Truth or Dare?"

"....Truth....?" He said without much thinking,

"Ohoh...truth, eh?" She then kneaded her chin, considering which out of the endless possibilities of questions she could ask him right now. She then seemed to have got an idea, as she suddenly perked up and looked at him,

"Hey, do you really think I look....Beautiful," She asked him, her face filled with anticipation, 

"...What brought this up?"

"Hey, you remember when we first met?"

"Yeah, I do. We met when you were fighting thugs."

"You remember how suddenly you just blurted I looked...beautiful?"