Adrien's eyes went wide. "No way!", he laughed. Forgetting all about the disappointment of one second before, he cackled as he played the seven of coins to capture the five and two. "I don't know how this is even happening", he laughed as he stacked his loot onto his pile.

"Let me show you, then", Val smiled. He spun around to show the last card in his hand: the seven of clubs.

Adrien laughed again, this time in wild disbelief. "You were setting it up for yourself!".

Val placed the seven of clubs onto the table and sighed. "I suspected you had the seven of coins, but when you played the king, I thought you had no way of turning the table towards it... And I even had two different ways to make it to seven, and yet... Well played, Adrien", he smiled.

Adrien chuckled. "Thank you", he said. "When you picked up the three, I was sure I'd blown it... I wondered if you had the seven of clubs, but -- actually, now that I think about it, I should have considered that you could be doing the same thing as me".