The Card Cultivation System
CCS-11S

At the top of the Diamond Shake mountain, there was a young man with clothes that could not be said to be so much torn clothes was sitting on a stone.

Whusssssssh

A huge wind blew at him and finally caused his 'clothes' to disintegrate.

The thing that was previously called the shirt now lives in the form of pieces of cloth.

The young man was not bothered by falling from the rock he was sitting on. He climbed onto the stone and closed his eyes again.

This time there was another big wind beating on him. However, this wind was much bigger than the previous wind, even the previous wind was like a child when compared to the present wind.

This wind entered the young man's body, so that the young man lifted up from where he was sitting and floated several meters above the ground. All of that great wind was now entering his body.

Now there was no more wind surrounding the young man's body, but he was still floating.

A moment later, a strange, indistinguishable voice came out from the young man's mouth.

The voice sounded for a few moments.

After the voice stopped, the young man descended on the stone he had been sitting on.

Not far from the young man was a translucent silhouette of a bird watching the young man.

The bird and the young man were of course Xika and Huo Bing.

The voice that Xika had emitted earlier was the 'language' of the wind.

Xika's pupils turned into a wind symbol for a while, then disappeared. His pupils would turn into a wind symbol every time he used the wind element.

Huo Bing clapped her two wings as if she was clapping her hands while saying,

"Congratulations. You can finally communicate with nature (wind) and have your first element."

Instead of answering thank you, Xika instead said,

"That's the story you're applauding, isn't it? Don't follow me. Strange to see a bird patting its own wings"

"Damn. Praised instead of thanking instead of insulting"

Xika laughed hearing Huo Bing's words.

"Now, try to get used to your element. You should get really used to it before communicating with other elements."

Xika followed Huo Bing's words.

He closed his eyes and felt the wind now flowing in his body.

He tried to pull a little from the wind and put it on his palm.

Now he felt his hands were lighter and more powerful.

He threw his hand into a tree.

Duakkkkkk

The tree was half destroyed.

Xika who witnessed that was speechless at how powerful she was.

This time he tried to coat his feet with the wind.

He felt his feet very light and slowly he lifted up from the ground.

"Wow wow, fly! I'm flying! Huo Bing I'm flying!"

Huo Bing chuckled slightly at Xika who was like a child.

"Good, get used to the wind. When you get used to the wind, you become one with the wind."

Xika who did not understand the words of Huo Bing preferred to be creative with her new strength.

He tried to coat his body with wind in different parts.

Finished trying on different parts of the body, Xika tried to make the shape of the wind lining her body change.

This time the wind lining his hands formed the tip of the spear.

Suddenly Xika was silent.

A memory flashed through his head without being able to prevent it.

"Black Thunder!"

Heat.....  Be ill....

Breath hunting.

"Cyclone Rage!"

My stomach.....

"Meteor!"

Heat.... Heat.....

His view is uncertain.

"Needle from Hell!"

Stiffness.....

"Whirlpool Spear!"

It's hurting...... Heat...... Breathlessness.... Fear.....

"XIKA!!!"

Xika jerks.

"Huh.huh...huh........"

He looked to the left and right. Then realized there was a silhouette of a bird staring at him confused.

"What happened to you?"

"Hu-Huo Bing?"

"It's really me, Huo Bing. What was? What's going on?"

Slowly Xika's breathing began to normalize.

"Sorry old memories. It's okay....."

Hearing that Xika had no interest in talking about it, Huo Bing did not force her.

"Listen, I know we haven't seen each other for a long time, but if you need a storymate, I'm ready to listen."

Xika simply nodded in reply to Huo Bing's words. He walked to the slightly closed part then sat still.

Huo Bing who saw that, gave Xika some time of her own.

"I'll go look around for a second, call me if you need to."

Xika simply replied with a nod. Again.

Huo Bing spread his wings, then he flew.

Now there was Xika who was on the top of that mountain.

He started shuffling the card.

Slowly, memories filled his head. Not bad memories, but good memories. Memories of his childhood.

He still remembers when his mother told him that she had loved the card since she was a baby. He even tried to climb the table to get this card.

Then another memory entered his head.

At that time, he did not want to eat vegetables. Whatever his father and mother offered, he refused. His father promised to teach him to play cards. His father said his eyes were emitting immense happiness at the time.

Then time continued to flow, and finally his father taught him a new game. The game is now his favorite game.

Capsahem.

Her father had never taught her the techniques or strategies in capsah, but as time went on, Xika understood them herself. Xika is challenging her father more and more. The more days Xika is getting good at playing capsah, but he never won against his father.

*"Squeak!" *small Xika said while putting a card on it that reads K and has a heart symbol under it.

*"Come! If you don't walk, I will win"* said Xika who was then convinced she would win. 

His father laughed when he heard his words. Indeed, at this time his father still has 11 cards in his hand while Xika lives one, ordinary people will definitely think Xika will win. And so is Xika. But his father did not panic.

He took out a card with the inscription 2 and a three clover emblem on it.

*"Yahhhhhhhh.." *he heard little Xika's voice disappointed that her father was still able to fight her and the card in her hand was not high enough to fight her father's card. But he regained his spirit because he still hopes on the card that says A which he now holds.

His father smiled, now he took out five cards at once.

"Straight"

Xika looked at her father wide not expecting her father to pull out the sequential combination. Then Xika regained her senses and stared at the card in her father's hand.

Her father who understood Xika's gaze smiled and took out all the remaining cards in his hand. 

"Flush"

*"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" *chanting Xika who is upset about losing again.

"Hehehe"

Xika immediately ran to her mother.

"Mamaaaa...... Papa wicked. Huuuuu......"

"He-hey"

Before being able to continue his words, Xing Taiyang was already stared intently by his wife.

A beautiful memory.

"You brought a card? Wanna play?"

Huo Bing who saw Xika was better to ask her to talk back.

"Sure" replied Xika.

Xika took out 4 joker cards from the pile of cards he was holding, then he started shuffling them.

"You know capsah?" ask Xika.

"You know that too? I thought the game was extinct" Huo Bing replied then laughed loudly.

Xika divides the cards into 4 stacks, each totaling 13 cards.

Xika took one pile. Huo Bing as well.

They play until it gets dark.

"Squeak!" xika said while smiling confidently.

"What?! Shit" said Huo Bing who did not expect the Xika card to stay one.

After taking a look at his cards, Huo Bing sighed.

"Hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Lt's...." Said Huo Bing who was still unwilling to be defeated.

"Hehehehe." said Xika as she placed her final card.

"I can't believe I was defeated by a child less than half my age. I never even won. Hahhhhh." said Huo Bing who still did not accept his thirty-second defeat of thirty-two games.

"Hahahaha. Capsah it's 50% card 50% skill"

"Damn it! I can't believe you got lucky thirty-two times. You must be cheating. That skill you mean must be a way to cheat without being caught. Right?." urged Huo Bing.

"Hahahahaha."

"This time? so that means the previous round you played dirty, right?"

"Hey that's not what I meant!"

But Huo Bing still did not accept it and insisted on saying Xika was playing dirty.

"Hahhhhhhhhhhh..... All right if you don't believe me. I'll show you how I play dirty." challenge Xika who is upset that Huo Bing does not believe.

"All right, I agree!" huo Bing replied that he would not lose.

"Do you shake or me?" ask Xika.

Huo Bing thought for a while then replied.

"Let me go"

Huo Bing started shuffling the cards, then split them.

It is hard to believe, in just 3 rounds Huo Bing lost in a landslide with 13 cards in his hand with 3 cards bearing 2 of them.

Huo Bing was stunned to be unable to speak.

"........."

"seen? I told you, didn't I? I could have chosen a dragon. But I let you put up a little fight. Then destroy!" xika said by emphasizing the word choose.

"Maha.." Xika laughed with satisfaction.

"We better get home, it's getting dark" said Huo Bing who tried to shift the conversation.

"So? No more defense?" xika asked with a smile with her eyebrows raised.

"Hurry up, Goddamn it!" replied Huo Bing who did not answer Xika's words.

Xika climbed onto Huo Bing's back while laughing.

"One more time you laugh I'll drop you!" huo Bing's.

But Xika was still laughing.

During the journey home Huo Bing spent his time hearing the now very annoying laughter.

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Cekih= term in capsah game where the player only has one card in his hand and stay one step away from winning.

Dragon= cards that are in the hands of sequential players all start from 3 - 2. the player immediately wins without a fight.

Capsah has many versions. What I use is my own version, if there is something different please do not protest. If anything less can be asked.