The Casino School

Episode 20's

"Yamaa! Let's go first!" pamit Kuro then goes out with Fuji. Tama waved her hand until the door of the room was completely closed. The two children had already made an agreement with Yuuji and his flock to go to the gamezone. Sunday, he said.

The room was quiet. Just a faint sound from outside, the disciples were joking or footsteps in the hallway of the dorm room. From behind the window of the room precisely in the front yard of the dormitory, Yuuji's loud voice sounded up to this 4th floor. They were very happy and could not wait to go to a place full of all kinds of toys. Tama watched from the glass, watching the five children walk out the gate of the dormitory after greeting the guard. Engraved a wry smile on Tama's lips, the young man refused to leave on the grounds of wanting to study. Tama wants to spend time with the envelope Jaken gave her.

He sat in his study chair. Grabbing the drawer and opening it, slightly take out a few items until it reaches the desired object. Put the other items back in the drawer and put the envelope on the study table.

At the lower right end of the envelope are inscribed strip symbols and morse cipher points which if all are read into the J-A-K-E-N letter order.

"Anciently" Tama commented. Slowly open the envelope and pull out a letter that has been folded 2x. On the top side of the first fold is the inscription 'the morse temple is not ancient', which Jaken can already guess Tama's comments about the password.

Tama gave a small laugh, then opened the letter and read it. The beginning section has a formal greeting as in the official letter usually, although there is no other stamp. But it was clear this was from Jaken personally. Like the important letters that Jaken often gives first when playing as a spy.

There was nothing strange before Jaken mentioned about the year-end gambling event. It is clearly written there if Jaken invites Tama to participate and invite his five friends. Below is a barcode that Tama can scan to print Jaken's VVIP invitation.

Actually, end-of-year events like this are common. But if Jaken invites himself, that's a lot of possibilities. Not a good thing of course. What did Jaken really do?

Tama peeked at every corner of the paper, who knew there was another sign of Jaken's letter. But there is no. All clean. It was as if Jaken's letter was declaring war on him.

Rushing Tama went to the teacher's room and printed out the invitation from the barcode. The teachers didn't pay attention to him. Just give 6 pieces of VVIP cards shiny red-black color and let Tama budge in front of the printing table.

In Tama's hands it's real. It is not just an invitation from the elite. But this is an invitation to challenge!

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Yuuji and Kuro have spent over 50 dollars to buy coins in the gamezone. Collect coupons that can be exchanged for cute objects or snacks. But the truth is, they just want to stack hundreds of coupons as a match event. Who gets more coupons, then he is entitled to be treated steak.

Meanwhile Kenji, Hiro, and Fuji just follow them. Sometimes they split up and play by themselves. Fuji eventually escapes to the food court. Fuji is bidding and lives at one of the tables after ordering ramen and fruit juice which is quite expensive here. While waiting for his food so, he spent time to open his social media account.

His thumb moved from the bottom up on the phone screen. Scroll, scroll, and scrolling homepage. Nothing is exciting. Only his friends' posts are less interesting. If remembered, Fuji only added a few people as friends.

The boredom starts to attack. If the ramen didn't come, Fuji would have chosen to lay his head on the table and sleep. The arrival of her order was delivered by one of the female waitresses.

"Good to enjoy the meal" said the waiter before leaving Fuji. Tossed something familiar. His head looked at the woman's back. Observing from head to waist.

Blonde mane to the bottom of the butt. Medium body posture, slightly plump even though wrapped in work uniforms. A walk known to Fuji. Curiosity rushes into Fuji's heart, prompting him to call the servant before it is really far away.

"Rossie?"

The woman stopped, slowly looking back with a smile on her lips. Both of Fuji's eyes opened, a second later he got up from the chair and ran up to the waiter. Both of his hands pulled and clasped the body into a hug.

The incident was watched by people in poetry. Some are mumbling, shooting, or letting, some consider this one of the drama footage and are recording so they look for the location of the camera and director.

"Finally meet," said Fuji slowly. Full of longing, he hugged the woman as tightly as possible. Making the figure of 'Rossie' is difficult to move. He glanced at his co-workers at the stand, but they chose silence and pretended to be blind.

"Fu-fuji..," she called out as she pushed slowly on Fuji's body. The young man immediately took off and invited him to sit on the chair he had used before.

"You work here?" fuji asked as he turned to the ramen stand that became a place to dig for money. The woman was embarrassed.

Just once hearing his voice, Fuji was already convinced that he was the figure he had been looking for all this time. A woman who once filled her days and her heart, but then turned away because of someone else. She is Rosalina.

Rosalina, Fuji's ex-boyfriend from Junior High to Rosalina, attended High School. With Fuji being younger by a year, their relationship seemed normal, even with couple goals. They are also described as Bonnie and Clyde because they are a famous gambling couple among Junior High school children. Unfortunately their relationship ran aground as Rosalina joined Jaken. This makes their relationship difficult. Plus when Jaken evicted Fuji from the official order by using Rosalina. It's the final sign of their story and must bury the chance to get back together. But after getting rid of Rosalina for revenge and heartache, Fuji realizes that she can't lie if her love is only for Rosalina. Longing to smolder over time, guilt lashes itself with loneliness. In the end Fuji managed to find Rosalina, the beloved girl here, in an unexpected way. Maybe it's called a soul mate.

"Why don't you call me?" ask Fuji while stroking Rosalina's cheek gently.

"Make what?" rosalina asked quietly, lowering Fuji's hand from her face. Although trying to answer ketus and did not care, but Fuji could feel that Rosalina difficulties and needed her help.

Fuji knows that Rosalina will not accept her help because some past conflicts have made her shameless.

But Fuji himself is no longer concerned with all the problems they have ever had. As long as there's Rosalina, Fuji doesn't care. The past is the past. In front of him was someone who had actually been wanted long ago. Rosalina who used to be, not Rosalina who became Jaken's puppet. She knew Rosalina was trying to be a hedonic girl who loved money like her image in school, but it wasn't the real Rosalina. Fuji is more knowledgeable about Rosalina's true nature. This is just a mask for the sake of popularity that Rosalina has always dreamed of.

Now Rosalina fell and was destroyed. Fuji did so on the grounds that Rosalina wanted to return. But without realizing it, Fuji had already exerted his supreme ego to take away everything Rosalina had and only wanted Rosalina to nest in her sometimes gold. Guilt continues to torment her to this day.

"Come on, stay at my house, huh? I'm calling my parents." Fuji immediately grabbed his cellphone which had been next to the ramen bowl. But Rosalina restrained and pulled the phone.

"Don't" said Rosalina, rejecting Fuji's invitation.

"I want to try living alone. Let me be independent, Fuji." A very impossible sentence Rosalina made. Fuji always indulges Rosalina by giving her whatever she needs. As a gambling partner since middle first, Fuji rarely gives Rosalina a chance to intervene— unless Rosalina continues to whine and has understood the plot. Not wanting to see his lover fight alone to get something, even up to high school even Rosalina took the easy way to win because she was used to being spoiled. And now it's time for Rosalina to walk on her own cane.

Fuji shook for the next second, then smiled faintly and nodded his head in understanding. After that Rosalina returned Fuji's phone.

"Attent. Can you type your contacts again there?" ask Fuji. Rosalina gave a small nod, then tapped on the phone screen. When the screen lit up, he looked at the Fuji lock screen with a photo wallpaper of the two of them at Junior High. Very old photos taken when first dating in 2nd grade Junior High.

"I look innocent there," Rosalina commented with a wry smile. Fuji nods and helps Rosalina to unlock the same key pattern they used to be dating. That's the pattern Rosalina made. After that Rosalina typed in her number and social account. After checking the contact, he returned Fuji's phone. Fuji put down his phone and stared fixedly at Rosalina.

"Now it's still plain, too" replied Fuji. The two simply looked at each other, then turned the other way when an employee at the Rosalina cafe came, asking Rosalina to return to work.

"I work first. See you next time" said Rosalina and left Fuji. Fuji just looked at Rosalina who was away, then looked back at the already cooling ramen bowl. Well, yeah already. Eat cold ramen.

Long enough for Fuji to devour his food, Kenji and Hiro followed and sat down on the next and opposite seats. They took a short break after walking a little far away. Behind there was a duo of idiots carrying a lot of goods and small pritilan as coupon exchange gifts. Without feeling guilty, they put everything on the table and barbarians walked to each stand to find food.

"Fucking kids, '" Fuji commented before gulping down his juice. Hiro let out a heavy sigh, Kenji just shrugged both shoulders and went to follow his two friends who were already busy again, as if not feeling tired despite having circled the gamezone that wide.

Hiro soon followed to order food. At their departure, Fuji's phone rang. A message came in with the name Rosalina. Fuji immediately opened the message. Her smile expanded as she read the sentence on her phone screen.

"𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚓𝚊𝚔𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛 𝚕𝚊𝚐𝚒 𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚜. 𝙺𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚞 𝚖𝚊𝚞 𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚐, 𝚊𝚔𝚞 𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚐𝚞 𝚍𝚒 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚗."

Without babibu, Fuji pays for his food and seeks out his four friends to go home first. No one protested, Fuji immediately cappus to the parking lot with the spirit of 45.

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