Immediately before ~Gandor Family~

  • Japanese Title: 「直前」~ガンドールファミリー~
  • Translator: Janice

Berga: "Yo, why's the marking for Ace of Spades1 so huge? Change."
Luck: "It's an old custom of England. A good number of businesses were obliged to provide a special design for the largest card (in a Poker set), usually featuring a company's trademark or symbol. Change."
Berga: "I see. What now, all of those Kings look the same. Are they triplet or something?"
Luck: "I heard that the King of Diamonds was modeled after Julius Caesar2."
Berga: "Who the hell is Caesar? And then this guy, the Jack's face pisses me off somehow... oh yeah, doesn't he look like that intruder we finished off last time?"
Luck: "How would I know? His face was like minced meat (by the time I arrived) because of you... No, I'm out. I don't think I can win against a Three-Card3."
Berga: "... huh? How did you know I had trips3?"
Luck: "... are you seriously asking me that?"
Keith: "... ..." (flip cards)
Berga: "Ah."
Luck: "Five-Card4..."
Berga: "Damn it! Yo big bro, can we stop using Jokers in Poker?"
Luck: "The God of Death sure likes to keep Keith-bro5 company..."
Keith: "... ..."
Berga: "Idiot, shouldn't it be the other way around? Big bro is a fan of the Death God instead!"
Luck: "Is that so... oh, seems like the Death God's real favorite is here."
Keith: "... ..."

Jogi: "Ah... Boss, you're all here."
Berga: "Okay, now sit."
Luck: "Mr. Jogi... would you like to play some Poker?"
Jogi: "H-huh..."
Keith: "... ..."
Jogi: "By the way, there were lots of policemen hanging around the hat store this morning... did something happen?"
Luck: "Ahh, I'll talk about that later... since it had something to do with you as well."

footnote

1 See Ace of Spades (external link) for more details.
2 A military and political leader from Ancient Rome, who remains one of the most influential men in world history today.
3 See Three of a kind (external link) for more details.
4 Five identical cards in a set. Keith wins the game automatically because it's a five-card game. (The maximum number had already been reached)
5 Berga and Luck's petname for Keith, equivalent to Brother Keith in English. The original text is 「キー兄」, pronounced as kee-nee: kee is taken from the "Kei" sound of Keith's name while nee is an abbreviated form of "Nii-san" aka. 「兄さん」, which means "older brother" in Japanese.

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