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“Are you just in the habit of interrupting elders!? By the way, I worked together with your father when you were still in diapers!”
“Here we go again!”
“In general, she might be mistaken once. It's nothing. But! At the same time, she doesn’t have the right to come to the same person more than twice. If she makes another mistake with the same person for a second time, she has to take him away eventually. For every mistake, one hundred points are automatically taken from her. And the condition for my punishment was as such: through the right actions, she must score a trillion points. So far she has 1250 points. Despite the fact that 1500 years have passed. But she has a chance! Did you get the parallel?
“No, for sure, it’s very cruel and sly of you to treat her like this. But I haven’t noticed the parallels yet…”
“Maybe a round, after all?”
“Deal the cards.”
Devil dealt five cards, took four, and opened the fifth next to the deck.
“Wait, are all the cards you take from the deck aces and sevens again?”
“No, today I want to win honestly.”
“Wow! Cripes! Maybe you fell in love yourself by some chance?”
“In your dreams! Though, who knows... Do I look like a fool or something?”
“There are some similarities,” his interlocutor answered, pretending to be looking at him seriously, searching for similarities.
“Bridge is all well but we met today not because of it,” Devil reminded. “Come on, they are people now, and in a deep coma. What can we do? We can leave them there even when they fix their flaws. Thus, they will be punished, but still together, and my girl,” he nodded in the direction where his subordinate had gone, “can have some fun with the bodies they occupy. And all is well! The lovers are together,” here he rolled his eyes dramatically, “and the guilty are punished, so the others know what to expect and, if anything, we can rehabilitate them. Idiots all around, you know! Whatever you ask, it’s better to do everything yourself than to explain to them! And this one is quite clever. Yours is no slouch either! Look how she noosed him! So, there’s something in her…”
“Okay. Let it be so.”
“Who would doubt that!”
“Why were you messing me about? You could tell what you had in mind right away!”
“But what if you had a better idea!”
The answer was the surprised and at the same time mocking glance of the wise eyes.
“Nevermind. Is it a deal then?”