Been listening to Derivakat’s Casino Royale a lot lately and the line “If you wanna play with power then you’re gambling with the king” I know it’s not meant to be about c!Eret but listen-
Eret wants to get Foolish out of LN? But Foosh signed the contract and thus cant leave?
And so Eret agrees to play for Foosh’s freedom? And he
To the point where he has almost nothing left that he could gamble away? So he starts gambling away his throne, his castle, until he offers Quackity his first canon life.
Now this could go one of two ways. One I would consider to be the ‘good ending’ and the other the ‘bad ending’:
BE: Eret ends up trapped by a similar contract, now also working for Q in order to repay his depts.
GE: Eret loses his first life, later loses his second life
Q find the king’s fruitless attempts quite amusing at first, but later becomes bored. Next round, Slime (hes alive and well what are you taking about) hands Q four aces and whispers “This should shut him up” into Q’s ear. Q only chuckles. He’s usually against cheating but is thankful for Slime’s attempt at making the situation better for him. And hey, if this is what it takes Eret to give up, then so be it.
But Eret looks at his cards, smirks at Quackity, and offers his third life.
Q tries to talk him out of it, but it’s too late. The cards are drawn and the bets are set. Such is the way of the Casino. Quackity stares at his cards. It doesn’t matter what hand Eret has. Nothing beats four aces. And Eret just offered up his last life. Quackity slowly raises his eyes to meet those of his opponent. The king sits there, a triumphant smile dancing around his lips. Whatever cards he has, they’re good, Quackity can tell. But they wouldn’t be enough.
Quackity glances back down at his cards. He needs Foolish for his country. But would he really kill Eret over it?
“I yield.” Quackity’s voice sounds strange in his ears. Foolish and Eret erupt into cheers and hug each other.
“ERET!!” Quackity slams his cards down on the table. “LOOK! Four aces! I would have won, I would have taken your last life!! You can’t just gamble your life away!!”
Foolish pipes up “Wait if you had four aces why didn’t you just win?”
“Because-“ it’s Eret’s voice that answers him. Why is Eret talking? “Because Quackity is a good man.” Eret flips his own cards over. That has to be the most horrendous hand Q has ever seen.
“In offering my last life I made sure that Quackity would yield, no matter his cards.”
tldr: Eret defeats Quackity at his own game