The order of the game was decided only after the seven participants politely deferred to one another. Shade ended up in the middle, fourth in line. Watching his opponents take off their coats, clad in white shirts and looking eager for action, he found the whole thing rather amusing.
He had played quite a few Rhodes Cards games at banquets, but this was his first time playing a coin-tossing game.
"I wonder what Mia is doing right now."
Whenever he was bored, he thought of his cat, and then suddenly wanted to laugh. His opponents' enthusiastic, deliberately showy manner really resembled a cat desperately acting spoiled and affectionate in the middle of the night because it wanted food:
"The nobles of Huntington really are interesting."
The crowd gathered around, discussing Her Royal Highness the Princess's banquet game.
The first to step forward was the youngest son of Marquis of Helius, twenty-year-old Mr. Migg Helius. The young gentleman wore a white shirt beneath a warm brown vest.
Clutching his coins, he stood before the starting line and allowed a servant to blindfold him. Then, amid everyone's cheers, he waved toward the surroundings before throwing out his first coin:
"Go!"
"Oh!"
He threw with far too much force. The coin flew straight over the tea table and nearly struck the wife of Huntington's mayor, who was seated on another sofa. Everyone burst into laughter. The plump noblewoman laughed as well and softly cursed in an elegant manner. Even Princess Margaret covered her mouth and chuckled, making the atmosphere even livelier.
Blindfolded, Mr. Helius could not see anything, but the laughter told him that he had definitely missed. He therefore held a gold coin in each hand and threw them forward at the same time.
This time, he knew to control his strength,