Gamble Scramble! A Game of Cat and Mouse!

[Fox]

Strolling through the huge onsen and looking around, Zoe sighed a big sigh of relief. She’d managed to give Dandy and Billy the slip. Not that she didn’t love their company, but they were more than a little suffocating. Zoe grinned wolfishly. Besides, she had plans. Gambling plans! She’d promised Billy that she wouldn’t use any of their savings to gamble, so that they could get off on the right foot in their new life. So, that meant that she’d just have to scrounge up some extra funds from somewhere else!

The important thing to do was not get caught. Mostly because she still had a busted leg. Zoe glanced down at the cast and grimaced. That was gonna limit her escape options. Fortunately for her, she’d gotten pretty good with these crutches. They were like arm extenders. She only needed three limbs anyway to get around. She shuffled through the doors of the casino, making sure to look appropriately pathetic and disabled.

Her eyes wandered from person to person, looking for a good mark. She wanted cash, so it would have to be some rich idiot who had money to burn. She knew the type, so it wasn’t hard to recognize them when she saw them. And- ah! Perfect. Zoe smirked, her eyes landing on a dork in a suit, swaying unsteadily on his feet. He was drunk, perfect. Odds were that he wouldn’t even remember he had cash on him.

Zoe ambled toward him, rushing slightly to make it look like she was in a hurry. With how he was swaying, he bumped into her without Zoe actually having to do much. As he did, her hands slid into his jacket and snipped his wallet, palming it into the makeshift pocket in the front of her shirt. She just as quickly stumbled away on her crutches.

“O-Oh! I’m sorry, sir!”

“Thassss right... who’re you…?”

His gaze slid over her like oil for a moment before turning back to his buddies and forgetting that she ever existed. Or, more likely, probably thinking that she was beneath him as soon as he saw the lion ears and tail. Zoe scowled. Gosh, she hated people like him. He was the sort that deserved to get pickpocketed. Shaking her head, Zoe shuffled away to a remote corner of the casino to get a look at her score.

“Man, it’s just too easy.”

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[Smiley]

"Ensign, are you sure you should be ignoring your duties?"

A young recruit spoke in an almost hushed, worried yet scared manner, the average-sized man looking down towards the diminutive woman walking in front of him, a small jacket with the kanji of "Justice" written boldly on it, a sign of any commissioned officer. Her peculiarly-styled hair bounced lightly, a light blue with green tips, bouncing and waving freely in the air as she walked. 

The girl slightly raised her head and turned it to face the marine, though her pace did not slow down. She did not say anything, though the pressure that her silence and calm face put on the already scared recruit was enough to silence him. 

She took a deep breath, to keep herself calm and from blowing up in public, knowing well that if it happened again, she'd likely be scolded again. And getting scolded is annoying. No, she'd remain calm, go to the Casino's restaurant and scarf down some food. The drunks may be annoying sure, but they were tolerable. 

..And easy to rob, apparently. One of her eyes opened a slight bit more, the deep, scarlet red of her eye gleaming in the strong lights of the casino, following the seemingly injured girl who had slipped away from the drunk with his wallet. Not that she was against teaching those degenerates a lesson, but it was still a crime. Thievery is punishable, after all. 

...

"Freeze. Drop the wallet and get on the ground." The tiny woman demanded with the same calm, cold look to her face, even as she held her favorite rifle pointed directly at the girl, with her ironsights aimed directly at her. Her finger wasn't on the trigger though, so she had time to actually obey the order. 

Though someone that cold shouldn't be tested.

[Fox]

Zoe dug through the wallet, counting the bills inside, tallying up the money in her head. Hm. Not bad, not bad. That’d get her a buy-in at a high stakes poker table. Zoe tossed the wallet into a planter with some leafy overly tropical plant growing in it. She was about to move on to the slots when a voice called out to her. Zoe glanced over to see a tiny woman pointing a riddle at her. Man, that was a little overkill, wasn’t it? Using a bit of sleight of hand, Zoe put the money away and smiled at the Marine.

“What wallet, ma’am?”

Zoe held up two empty hands. It was probably too late to recover from this, given that the girl had mentioned the wallet. Hm… but Zoe was pretty sure that she’d been slick about it, so maybe there was a chance that this lady was just acting on some racist or classist impulse. Zoe was used to that sort of thing too. Finger wasn’t on the trigger… Hm. Should she make a break for it? Her mobility wasn’t what it was without her leg being broken, but she’d been practicing some interesting movements with the crutches.

“I’m not sure what you mean. P-Please don’t shoot, ah-hah… As you can see, I can’t… really… move that well.”

Ever the actor, Zoe was confident in her nervous and innocent portrayal of a confused and scared bystander. She hoped her excuse for not getting on the ground would work here. If the lady got close to inspect her or check where she’d thrown the wallet, that would be her chance. She kept up the nervous smile, smirking on the inside.

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