Arcade
Five in the afternoon– the sky had just been touched by the faintest wisps of purple. Most students had gone home by now, if not to their respective cram schools. This was not the case for a certain trio who had apparently decided that the best way to spend their waking hours away from school was to head to the game center.
Or maybe not for Kuwahara Jackal who pretty much just gets dragged around everywhere by his supposed friends. "Guys, I have an exam tomorrow. I need to go home."
"No way, man. You're still buying us cake after this," Marui Bunta said, never prying his eyes off the girl he was controlling in some mainstream fighting game.
"What!? Since when did I agree to that!?"
"Yesterday. We were just talking about it after practice. At least, I thought you were there…"
Jackal was pretty sure that he was running errands for the vice-captain that time, and therefore, could not have been there. "Wait, so you guys just carry on conversations with me while I'm not there?"
"Nope. Pretty sure you were there– AW DAMN! WHAT THE HELL!?" Kirihara Akaya cursed as he was defeated by this "Bun-bun" for what seemed to be the hundredth time since they got there. "I only looked away for, what, half a second!? Marui-sempai, you rigged this, didn't you!? That girl is rigged, isn't she!?"
The only sane man in the group ignored that outburst and turned to the redhead. "Hey, come to think of it, you have an exam too!"
"What did you say? I can't hear you over the sound of MY GENIUS!" Marui cheered as he tried to pry his underclassman away from his screen.
And that was when Jackal knew neither of them was going to pass that exam.