With that, the duo then began shaking their dice around for a few seconds…
Once both of them stopped, Xanry immediately smiled as he said, “After you, Mr. Crawford! Make your guess!”
Hearing that, Gerald then declared, “Three sixes!”
“I see! Four sixes then!” shouted Xanry in response.
From what Gerald had been able to hear, he knew that Xanry definitely had two sixes. Gerald had two sixes himself, which was why he definitely couldn’t open it.
Regardless, the only way to properly deal with Xanry would be to deliberately lose to him for a few rounds. Allowing Xanry to be smug the first few rounds would definitely make Gerald’s eventual victory much sweeter.
With that in mind, Gerald then shouted, “Five fives!”
Upon hearing that, Xanry couldn’t help but smile as he declared, “Open!”
Since Xanry had chosen to open Gerald’s dice, Gerald naturally had to do so.
Looking at the results, the points of the dice didn’t add up to five fives. Instead, there were only three fives, which meant that Gerald had lost this round.
Of course, the loss was calculated, and Gerald was still perfectly under control of the situation.
Nodding and knowing for a fact—with the aid of his keen hearing—that Xanry had two threes and three fives, Gerald deliberately answered wrongly to let Xanry win again by declaring, “Three fives!”
Gerald himself had the exact opposite digits, with him having two fives and three threes.
Whatever the case was, Xanry then shouted, “Four fours!”
Naturally, it was a number that neither of them had.
To be quite frank, Gerald really wanted to open Xanry’s dice now, but he refrained. After all, he didn’t want Xanry to lose that quickly. In order to make Xanry’s defeat really sting, Gerald was going to allow Xanry to wallow in victory for a few rounds first…
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