"Are you sure you're playing that card this round?"
Almost instinctively, Xie Antong said it, then quickly regretted it.
To avoid overthinking, she had deliberately stopped herself from using her brain. The downside was that she often said stupid things.
This sort of thing was part of the game itself. Asking it outright made her seem like she had already fallen behind.
Joy laughed at her question, and there seemed to be immense fury in that laughter.
"Hahahahaha! You're wondering whether I'm bluffing, aren't you? Do you think I can take back a card after I've played it?"
"Are you underestimating me too much and overestimating yourself? What would be the fun in that?!"
Violent divine power enveloped Xie Antong, pinning her immobile in her chair. Seemingly enraged from humiliation, Joy suddenly lunged across the table.
Their hands slammed onto the tabletop. Their right hand gripped an hourglass tightly, squeezing it until it creaked. The fragile hourglass looked as though it could shatter in their hand at any moment.
As they spoke, Joy even tilted their head slightly, glaring at the Arbiter with a hint of threat and snarling,
"Arbiter, why don't you be fair? Once I throw out a card, it's played. No taking it back!"
"In this game, once a card has been placed on the table, naturally there's no taking it back. Don't you agree?"
"It's like a wager. Once you've pushed your chips forward, how can you take them back?"
Arbiter: ...
Joy was unusually frenzied now. Their divine power was not only oppressing Xie Antong; even the Arbiter was being suppressed as though caught in a storm.
What was one supposed to do when a participant in the gamble could directly threaten the referee?
The Arbiter was not bound by the game's rules at the