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"And I reveal my face down trap, Mirror Force. So, unless you have a counter to that, I win, right?" I say to Mokuba.
"Wow, I thought you were bluffing. You're really good at this," he says, putting his deck up.
"Mokuba, you should never allow someone to win, even if you are teaching them to play." An unknown voice says.
"Seto!" Mokuba yells with much enthusiam.
My blood ran cold. I know I'm just a babysitter, but babysitting for a young, rich CEO adds a certain pressure, expecially considering this is my first time officially meeting him. What do I even say? My hands start shake. Then, on top of that, this situation in which I find myself meeting him is... odd to say the least. I stand up and bow towards him.
"Hello, Mr Kaiba," I say, trying my best to keep calm.
"Tsk." The older Kaiba brother completely ingnores me. In some way, this comforts me and offends me. "Mokuba, I'm disappointed in you. How could you just allow yourself to lose like that?"
"But they won fair and square Seto, honest! It's like they have Joey's luck!" Mokuba pleads to his brother.
Seto glances at me, then returns his focus to Mokuba. I definitely prefer him not recognizing my existance, it's much easier that way. He's quite for an uncormfortably long amount of time. He does eventually speak again.
"Fetch this plebian a duel disk."
"Oh, you're gonna duel? Does that mean there is a reward if they win?"
"Do I look like I live in a bottle?" Seto crosses his arms. "This low-life has nothing of interest to me, so why would I wager anything? I'll win anyway."
"Sure they do!" As soon as he says that, panic drops fast and heavy like a brick to the throat.
"Mokuba..." I whisper pleadingly.
"They have their job, a unique card..."
"Unique card? How come I don’t have it? Nevermind, I accept and when I win, I will take this card."
"What if you lose?" Mokuba says half teasingly.
"Considering that won't happen, they can have whatever they want, now go get that duel disk."
Mokuba smiles widely and nods. "On it!"
Sweat begins to form on my neck and I begin to shake like a newborn calf. I cannot believe Mokuba just tossed me into this. I'm going against the devil without a fiddle. This means we're gonna duel... Like, he actually wants some casual to even attempt a duel? There is absolutely no fucking way. I sure as hell not gonna win. His deck is way too advanced and all of my cards are hand-me-downs from my dad, excluding, like, I don't know, four? He's gonna get my favorite card... Dinkus I'm so sorry.
While lost in thought Mokuba goes and grabs the duel disks and brings them back.
"All right, here you go!" Mokuba hands it to me.
I look at Mokuba, nervous and stunned. "He doesn't really want to duel me, right?"
"I'm completely serious, so hurry up and put it on dweeb."
I do as he says and the battle starts. I go first and draw my cards. I draw Cycroid, Sebek's Blessing, Raging Flame Spirit (my dad's favorite,) Robotic Knight, and the custom card I got to design from winning that local championship last year; Dinkus the Cowboy.
"Oh, swag." I say after drawing. "I play Cycroid and Dinkus the Cowboy in Defense and end my turn."
"What the hell is 'Dinkus the Cowboy?" Seto sounded disgusted with the words that he just said.
"Oh, it's the custom card I got to design because I won the local tournament last year. It's an official card if you look it up in the Pegasus card database."
"I know that. My disk wouldn't have allowed you to play an unofficial card. What does it do?"
"Um... FAFO."
Seto stared, unamused.
Silence.
"...that means Fuck Around, Find Out..." My voice was soft and shaken. I swallowed.
"Tsk." He plays Saggi the Dark Clown in attack mode and plays a card face down and ends his turn.
I think for a moment.
"Wait a damn minute..." I pull a trap card and thought to myself for a moment. I stare at Seto, my plan buzzing around in my head. "You... are not gonna like this.
"Oh *really,* why is that?"
"Watch this." I draw a card and begin my turn. "I play Raging Flame Spirit and Robotic Knight. Then-"
"You can't do that moron."
"Yeah I can. You never specified any rules, therefore, we're going by default Duel Monster rules. Of course if you’d rather set the rules now to better facilitate your win…"
Kaiba stared, glaring deeply. "Whatever, just play."
"I turn my other monsters from defense to attack and I attack Saggi the Dark Clown."
"You fell right into my trap-"
"Nuh-uh"
"Do NOT, interupt me... and yes you have."
"...I- I really haven't though... You've used this tactic in a tournaments before. That face down is the desease trap from your deck, however, Dinkus's special ability is that as long as non of my cards are played face down mode, all trap cards you play affect your side only. Now, Dinkus Attacks Saggi and all the others fixate on your life points witch just so happens to add up to 4000... Your lose."
Uh, oh.
He looked pissed.Beyond pissed. Will I lose my job right here? Over a kids card game? I am sweating bullets. I cannot believe I just did that.
"Wow Seto, they beat you," Mokuba said in awe.
Seto is silent. He looks like he's about to tear me apart and burn me on a stake. Tears start to well in my eyes.
"Am... A-am I fired?" Tears start falling.
"Are you kidding?" Mokuba starts laughing. "No way! Not everyone out thinks Seto.You still get that wish too, isn't that right, Seto?"
"There's no way in hell that just happened." Seto states coldly. "How did you know that would work?"
"W-Well, when I played Dinkus and Cycroid on the board I realized, we hadn't put any official rules down, therefore, we were in default mode. I took a chance and... well, it worked." I avoid any more direct eye contact with Seto.
Seto briskly begins to walk toward me. I think about running for a moment, but I stay still and close my eyes. He hard-core shoulder checks me and continues into another room. Well, I guess it's time to update my resume again. I loot at Mokuba, who is in shock.
"Should I apologize?" I ask nervously.
Mokuba, instead of answering, begins to laugh softly. He shakes his head. "Wow, he hasn't looked that angry since Yugi beat him."
"W-What should I do?"
"Well, first you should think of what are you gonna wish for. Do you have any ideas yet?"
"Um... I think I have a few ideas."
"Wow really?" Mokuba takes my disk and hands it to a gaurd. He jumps over the couch and settles into his seat. He pats beside him."Come on, tell me!"
"Alright..." I walk around and take a seat on the couch. I take a deap breath. "So, I was actually thinking..."