"Wait, I was about to win this hand!"
The captain tried to stop them, but Chilian had already climbed onto the little blackboard prepared beside them.
Shuangsheng tossed down her cards too. At some point, she had changed into an office-lady outfit that made her look like a teacher. Though she was a little short and looked like a child playing grown-up, she looked fairly convincing, complete with a pair of nonprescription glasses.
She certainly had all the equipment.
"Let's discuss why, with all those resources at your disposal, you still nearly failed to last three hours."
Shuangsheng tapped the blackboard. "First, the sin of pride. You already knew your opponent could control Calamity Beasts, and that you couldn't handle too many of them yourself, yet you never considered running away to buy time. You charged straight in instead! Arrogant! Reckless! If you didn't die, who would?"
"I don't think that's where the arrogance lay," Chilian objected from beside her. As a gu worm, she crawled across the blackboard, leaving writing behind her. "I think the most arrogant part was that she actually believed her Calamity Beasts would never go out of control! She took no precautions whatsoever! That's what caused all her Calamity Beasts to fall and become the Azure Cloud Sect's accomplices!"
Shuangsheng adjusted her glasses. "Exactly. If I remember correctly, the key turning point in this round was what you leaked, Chilian..."
"The Calamity Beast control method!!" Chilian shouted, suddenly turning on the captain. "What the hell were you doing, Captain?! Why did the Azure Cloud Sect know our Calamity Beast control method? Did you surrender ages ago, and that's how you lasted those three years? Did you set this whole thing up to drag us down with you? Talk!"
"Heh." The captain snorted. "I've lived my