Chapter 51

Isaac Dinklage.

Tension had been flying in the air for the second minute. The Joker pierced me with his gaze. I even felt a little uneasy. I even got another two percent of my mental stability against mental attacks. The silence dragged on, I realized that my back was already wet with sweat and drops were running down my chin.

- Well? he asked nervously.

But my nerves are beating too.

- Let's open up! - I said and we laid out our cards on the table.

- A-ah-ah-ah! How is this possible?! - shouted the Joker. - D-d-twenty-third time in a row! How do you manage to win so many times? I checked you, you have no cards in your sleeves, even on a lie detector I checked it all the same clean! KA-A-A-AK ?! - I feel a little more and he will tear his hair out.

And while he swears the whole planet and even me, I feel good at heart.

As it turned out, the Joker had been at large for over a month. When he found out that I was alive and well, he was going to visit me, but then Harley ruined all his plans. In general, they quarreled, Harley even gave him in the face a couple of times ... or a couple of dozen times. In general, she drove off in an unknown direction. And he became depressed. Until his new assistant Doggie, a huge bully in a dog suit, informed him that a message had been transmitted over the police communications that I had been taken prisoner by Killer-Frost. And this "cold uninteresting bitch", he once wanted to nail down, but all hands did not reach. And I seemed to him the only funny cop with a sense of humor. In general, our pale-skinned and green-haired "friend" rushed to save me.

And how he figured out where the Killer-Frost base is, I can't imagine, and there was no time. As soon as we arrived at his base, he immediately sat me down at the table opposite and offered to play cards.

The degree of my fucking can not be calculated at that time. That is, he came this way and it was only in order to recoup the last time?

All the same, I was convinced that he is crazy or insane ... In general, it is difficult to determine. But for the first time I am glad that he is what he is. And you never know what could happen to me there at my beloved "snow queen".

By the way, he even forgot to ask why I didn't want him to kill Lincoln. But I'm better off. I don't want to give him a tip on her. Maybe I will still have a chance to lure her into my harem?

For all the time of our games, I managed to gain experience so that, firstly, to get one more level, then get ten more points to luck, 5 to intuition, and I now have "Schuller" at the twentieth level.

The Joker brought me out of deep thoughtfulness.

- So! Let's play again, only now, instead of your fingers, you put life!

- Joker, maybe fate itself punishes you for cheating? I squinted.

- But where do you think I'm cheating? he asked, spitting at the top of his lungs. - I'm the one losing.

- Destiny loves balance! - raised his finger up and continued broadcasting - After all, for my victories, I did not receive anything. And you would also receive my fingers as a gift and a sign of your superiority for your victory. I said with a smile.

The Joker sat down and began to think, thinking something up in his head.

- Okay! What do you want?

- Well, I think it will be fair if you turn over to me all the "uninteresting" criminals of Gotham. That is, their addresses, attendance passwords. In general, everything you know about them. But this is for those 23 victories of mine. And for this new game, you ... will voluntarily sit in Arkham.

- What ?! - and the clown put the barrel to my forehead. - What would I go there myself? Yes it is ... - but then spontaneously changed anger to mercy. -... fair. I agree. - and sat down at the table.

Attention!

You have received an assignment.

"The arrest of the century"

You have a unique opportunity to put a psychopath behind bars without victims and without a single shot. To do this, you just need to beat him at cards.

Reward:

+ 3000 experience,

increased relationship with the Goddess Fortune + 500

+ 5 to luck

+ 5 free points.

Penalty for failure / refusal: Brand of a loser or - 10,000 relationships with the Joker and Goddess Fortune.

Accept the assignment?

Well no.

And where do you think I'm going ...