As night fell, the moon quietly crept onto the branches.
After dinner, Sephiroth and the other three tidied up the villa.
After taking their showers, they found themselves with nothing to do.
Sephiroth and Boa Hancock walked into the bedroom together, planning to play Poker and spend some time alone.
However...
Mari Gorud and Sandersonia barged in.
The green - haired girl tilted her head and looked at them in confusion:
"What game are you playing to pass the time?"
"Poker."
"This looks so much fun! Take us along!" Mari Gorud said with a big smile.
"This..."
Sephiroth looked hesitant, but Boa Hancock clapped her hands and said happily:
"Sure! Sure! Come and help me take on Sephiroth. He's always picking on me 'cause I don't know how to play.
Later, the three of us will team up and bully him together."
"Alas! Fine! I knew it would be like this..."
The silver - haired young man sighed softly and was about to agree, but then he seemed to think of something and said proudly:
"No! Let's not play Poker. Let's play Mahjong!"
"Mahjong?" x3
"Yes, Mahjong..."
As he spoke, Sephiroth took out a box of Mahjong tiles and poured them out.
"How do you play Mahjong?" the orange - haired girl asked in confusion.
"There are four secrets to Mahjong: touch (feel the tile to identify it without looking), chow (form a sequence with the discarded tile), pong (take a discarded tile to form a triplet), and declare a winning hand (when someone else discards a tile)..."
As Sephiroth said this, he placed his hand in front of Mari Gorud.
"The first technique, touch! With it, you can tell what tile it is by the texture without looking. For example, this Two Circles. Watch my technique."
The three girls looked up. They saw him gently touching the Two Circles tile. First, he traced the edge. Then, he slowly slid his hand to the middle, passing over the pattern.
"When touching the tiles, you must be careful and feel with your heart. Only then can you know what you've touched..."
As he spoke, the silver - haired young man placed a One Bamboo tile on the table.
"Forget it. I'll give you a tile to practice with."
Hearing this, the three Boa sisters nodded repeatedly, picked up the One Bamboo tile, and carefully felt the texture of the Mahjong tile.
"So, are you familiar with the texture of this tile?"
"Almost."
"Not yet."
"Let me touch it more carefully."
To help the three girls get familiar with how to play Mahjong, Sephiroth spared no effort in teaching them, so that they fully understood the rules of Mahjong.
Then the four of them started a fierce Mahjong battle, going back and forth...
Sephiroth: "One Bamboo!"
Boa Hancock: "I'll chow!"
Sandersonia: "I'll chow!"
Mari Gorud: "I'll chow!"
Sephiroth: "..."
The three girls were smart and quick - learners. They soon mastered all the Mahjong skills. Moreover, they jointly decided to take down the silver - haired boy's arrogance.
However...
"I've got a winning hand!"
...
"I've got a winning hand again!"
Sephiroth grinned at the three girls whose pretty faces flushed from losing in a row. He was over the moon.
You little chicks! How dare you team up against me! Luckily, I've got some aces up my sleeve. Watch me beat you in all sorts of ways!
That night, the four of them pulled an all - nighter playing Mahjong. They didn't quit until the break of dawn and then crashed out...