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Couples-AichiXOC and KaiXOC
TaishiXOC and ShinXOC - Sibling. Brother and Sister
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Chapter 2
The dark haired girl breathed deeply, she ran as fast as she could, "Late! Late!" she wheezed out.
She had been late to school and now she was going to be late to Card Capital. Aichi, Morikawa and Izaki had waited for her; the dark haired boy had ended up yelling from the gates of the school for her to hurry her 'pretty' little ass up. Ume had snapped after about ten minutes and screamed at the top of her lungs for him to 'fuck off' and that she would meet them later. Right now, Ume is regretting that. The girl had been determine to finish her math work, embarrassingly, she sucked at math, but she was working so hard to improve.
Clenching her eyes close, the green eyed girl spun around a corner and almost tripped over her feet as she moved to run up the road. Ume breathed a breath of relief upon seeing the sign of Card Capital, "YES! I MADE IT!" she cheered, running into the store and fell against the counter, out of breath, "M-Misaki! I'm dying!" she wheezed out, trying to catch her breath.
Misaki looked up from the new book she is reading, her eyes flashes as she looked at the red faced girl, "Please die outside the store. It will be bad for our repetition." she spoke emotionless. Her eyes then turned back to the book.
"….love you too Misaki." Ume grunted, glaring at the woman. Misaki smirked at her, giving a helpless shrug.
"Ume~ You came to see me again~" a voice sang out and the young dark haired girl lifted her head in time to have a pair of arms wrap around her shoulder and hugged her tightly. Ume yelped in surprise, her body arched as she is smoothed against a brotherly chest, "S-Shin! C-Can't breathe…" she squealed, struggling against Misaki's uncle.
Shin Nitta, he is the man who owns the store. He has messy green hair with large square classes which hides his eyes and pale skin that would burn easily underneath the sun. Most of the time, the man is seen in a high collar shirts with white sweaters and skinny-jeans. Today he wore the exact clothing with an apron over it. Hearing the girls please, the male finally removed his arms from her person and allowed her to stumble back would with a massive grin.
"Do you want to buy more cards today? Or are you just here to watch the Vanguard battles again?" he asked with a goofy smile.
Ume breathed deeply, leaning over with her hands on her knees. She looked at Shin with a small frown and wondered how somebody as thin as he is could give bone-crushing hugs.
Before Ume could even utter a word the sliding doors behind her slid open and she felt a gush of air run up her body, giving her goose bumps. Shivering, the young dark haired turns her head to see an extremely cute little girl appeared. She looked like something straight out of a fairy book with short blonde hair that brushes against her shoulders and makes her bright blue eyes sparkle. Her tiny person is covered in the private school uniform, the dark blue and red school uniform, her hair is covered by a matching cap that had a red bow on the side. Her wide blue eyes looked around the store, looking as if she had just stepped into another world.
Shin's glasses flashes as he notices her, a new costumer appeared above his head, "Hello there little lady~" he sang happily out, making his way to her. The young ten year-old looked up in surprise.
"Thanks for visiting Card Capital, I'm Shin, the manager of this store. So, how can I help you today?" he asked, bending down. The small girl frowns and looks around the store once more, mumbling out soft words.
Ume smiles softly and walks to her, she couches down and the young blonde girl relaxes at seeing a female, "This must be your first time in a card shop. Relax okay. This shop sells TGE. Trading Card Game Products." she explained softly.
The small girl blinks her bright blue eyes with a small troubled frown, "A-ano. What is a trading card game?" she asked confused and Ume simply patted her on the head.
"A trading card game is where you collect cards to play with your friends. This store get's pretty busy once school's out."
"Hey! I know that uniform, you go to that private middle school!" Shin spoke proudly, waving his hand around with a goofy smile, "If I could get you interested in trading card games, it could spread throughout your school!" he spoke happily and Ume ducked her head with a groan.
"All about the money with you Shin!" she snorted to herself and shook her head. Ume looks back at the girl and hums, "Hey. Do you want me to show you around? We girls we'll leave the manager in his money dream." Ume joked, winking at the small blonde who smiled brightly. Strangely the smile reminded her of another smile she loved to see.
"Yes please!" the young girl spoke hopefully.
Ume nods her head; she stands straight and dusts of her skirt, "The staff normally hangs out around the counter. If you need anything you can talk to them. This is Misaki. Don't get scared, her face is always like that." Ume laughed, the little blonde giggled and nodded, especially when Misaki gave them a look and made a soft 'haha'.
"The sleeping one, is the Sis-Cat." Ume explained, reaching out to touch the sleeping black cat who opened his blue eyes and let out a soft 'meow' yawn.
"This is our most popular product. Right now, it is called Cardfight Vanguard!" Shin popped up next to the girl placed a green booster pack in her hands.
The black haired girl sighed while looking at Shin when she felt her school shirt being tugged on lightly, looking down at the little girl who stared at the small area filled with tables that held many students, playing card games.
"Oh…those are the game tables, people come here to compete." Ume explained, turning her body fully and gasped, "Oh Aichi-kun won again. Poor Morikawa, he's never going to win." she sighed, shaking her head.
Tugging on her backpack straps, the girl looked up at Ume with wide blue eyes, "Aichi-kun? You know Aichi?" she asked her voice loud and smooth. Ume returned her gaze to the girl and nodded with light red cheeks, "Hmm, we're friends back at school." she admitted and the little blonde stared up with hard blue eyes, a look of understanding flashes across her face.
"You like him." she stared with her own knowing smile and Ume found herself going red in the face and she tried to stutter out words. Seeing this, the little girl giggled and held her finger to her lips, "I won't tell." she winked back up at Ume and the black haired girl felt as if the ten year is acting very old for her age, it isn't surprising thought she goes to that private school. The same school her younger brother goes to.
Giggling, the little blonde grabbed Ume's hand and dragged her down towards the table where Aichi and Morikawa are battling at.
"Emi!" Aichi gasped upon seeing the little blonde walking towards them.
"You know each other?" Shin asked, looking at the little blond. Ume looked down at Emi, still holding her hand and then back at the bluenette who stared at them with wide eyes, "o-oh…w-well sir…Emi is my l-little sister."
"Sister?" Ume repeated, looking down at Emi who smiled back at her, "Emi….sister…" she mumbled, eyes widening as she stumbled backwards with a black cloud appearing over, "Aichi-kun's sister knows…that…I…" she whispered to herself, wobbling on the spot.
Emi's eyes flashes, she looks at her older brother with a crooked smile, "So you've been getting home late because you've been playing card games." she asked softly, looking down at the cards with wide eyes, she quickly leant over the table and picked up one of the cards and held it up to her face, she frowned and looked up at Ume, "Is this Vanguard?" she questioned and Ume, who had been drowning in her depression, snapped out of it and nodded.
"…I like the pictures." Emi spoke, looking at the other card, "Blaster Blade. This is what you've been up too…" she trailed off and looked at the cards on the mat before turning her head to look at the boy.
"You know what? I think you've changed. Is it really that fun to play?" Emi stared blankly at her brother as he nodded; her eyes looked at the two boys and then the beautiful girl standing next to her. Aichi, is he really coming out of his shell? "Aichi! Will you play again so I can watch?" Emi finally asked, smiling at the surprised bluenette, "It's fun right? So hurry and fight again."
"Err, well…I?" Aichi trailed off, looking at Morikawa who grinned and cheered loudly, throwing his fist into the air.
"Yeah! Come on! This could be my epic comeback!"
The little blonde girl looked between the boys and noticed the happy expression on the bluenette. She noticed this is the first time she had seen Aichi generally happy. The expression on her older brother made her smile brighter, Emi looked around at the other teenagers and sighed, "Thrash him." she encouraged Aichi who smiled brightly and turned to face Morikawa.
"Let's do this! I'll take you and your cheerleaders on!" Morikawa laughed loudly, gathering his cards up, Ume frowned and asked herself if Morikawa really just called her a cheerleaders.
"Stand up! My Avatar!"
~#~#~#~
"Having a good time?" Shin asked, sitting behind the counter on Saturday morning with Sis-Cat snuggled up in his lap. Aichi gently laid his cards out along the table in front of the counter; his blue eyes sparkled as he looked up with a smile.
"Yeah." he nodded happily. Today, instead of his grey uniform he had dressed himself in a pair of skinny-blue jeans with an allow length blue jacket and a red turtle-neck sweater underneath. Shin tilts his head with a mystery smile.
"Ah. Because when you came in, you looked pretty sad like a girl had stood you up."
"W-What!" Aichi squealed, his face turning red and his cards bouncing across the floor. Gasping, the bluenette quickly moved to pick them up, "n-no. I…I thought I had seen Kai, Taishi and Ume is all…" he admitted shyly.
Shin hummed and tilted his head back, "Now you mention it. All three of them I haven't seen recently. Ume hasn't come back in a while, and with Kai, we can't really say with the kid. Taishi never comes in on Fridays anyway so it wasn't a surprise about yesterday." he spoke with a matter-of-fact tone, "why are you so desperate to see them anyway?"
Aichi blinks his bright sparkling eyes and looks down, his face turning a dusty pink colour with a small frown, "…w-well…I-I was h-hoping that…that we all could have a vanguard battle again! Like that day! We all h-had so much fun…" he smiled hopefully, "the first time Kai and I battled, I couldn't help but feel he was holding back because I was new. Since that day, I've had a bunch of other battles and I know the rules pretty well and I'm having a lot of fun now too. Plus, I might just be a little better than I was. So I want to fight Kai again and show him that he doesn't have to take it easy on me."
"I think I just saw a twinkle in your eye!" Shin chuckled, touching his classes lightly, they flashed wickedly in the light, "That is how it is with all new players. You're having so much fun playing you don't even care if you win or lose. You must really love being with the three of them, huh?" the green man commented, watching with a friendly smile when Aichi flushes and ducks his head, "May I see your deck?" he asked, standing up and Sis-Cat squealed loudly and dig his paws into his arm before leaping onto the counter.
The young blue haired boy blinks his eyes and nods his head slowly, "oh…sure…" he mumbles softly and hands his deck out to the taller man. He watches as Shin looks through the deck, his chest tightens with worry when the man swiftly stopped with a troubled frown, "Is…is something w-wrong with my d-deck?" he questioned worriedly.
Shin smiled and shook his head, he hands the deck back with another goofy smile, "here's the plan. Why don't you come back on your way home from school tomorrow? I'll have a surprise waiting for you."
Aichi's lips open a little with disbelief, "R-Really?"
"Yup! But you have to come and get it."
It is Monday afternoon, school has finally let out and Ume walked almost like a zombie down the long road. With her arms stretched out and walking with her legs straight. Her black hair covered her face, hiding her green eyes really helped her spooky appearances. Ume almost ran into something blue. Pulling away with hiss, Ume tilts her head back and allows her short black hair to ruffle backward revealing her green eyes which had black bags underneath, before she could even see who the person is, that person tugged on her nose. Squealing in surprise, Ume throw her arms out, "Oh God! Little Red Riding Hood, what happened to you?" Taishi's amused voice entered the girl's ears.
The little black haired girl glared at the goofy blonde boy, "Thanks." she snorted, slapping the boys hands from her face and rubbed her nose gently, "why are you always so damn happy?" she questioned, obviously not in a good mood.
Ume grunted when Taishi placed his arms over her head and leant on her like a wall, he looked down with a smile, "Ah. Haven't you heard? Everything is made out of rainbows and puppy dog tails." he joked and fake gasping when Ume goggled out a loud 'bullshit' making a clicking sound from his tongue, Taishi shook his head, "Little Red Riding Hood, such language." he purred out, flicking her nose once more. Taishi hummed and rocked her backward until he could clearly see the little girls face, "no but seriously. What's the matter?"
"…Why is God so cruel?" she questioned, her green eyes looking dead. Taishi blinks with a sweat drop on the back of his head, he let out a soft 'wha?'
Ume sniffed and rubbed her eyes, Taishi quickly rubbed her on the back and asked if she was alright, he thought this is serious, "Taishi! I failed my math-test again!" Ume bust out, her eyes widen with tears, the blonde froze and stared blankly at the girl with disbelief.
"You're…you're a cry baby…you know that right?" he asked with a sigh, rubbing the girl on the head.
"Taishi! You're so mean!" Ume shrieked, slapping the boy away from herself. She stepped away with a pout as the blonde laughed and chanced after the sulking girl.
"Come on, Little Red, it's only a test. You can make it up." he chuckled, still clearly amused with the girl. The dark haired girl shook her head with a pout.
"It isn't only a test Taishi! It is math and I suck at math!" she shrieked, tugging on her hair, the blonde simply smirked and shook his head.
"Come on. Card Capital is just a head."
Ume pouts but nods; she trails behind and follows after the taller blonde while grumbling to herself about her test results. God really does hate her. Stupid math. Oh, she really, really hates math. Ume spends nights after nights, endless hours sitting behind math books trying desperately to get better at it, but failing miserably.
"Stupid ass-math" she muttered, looking up with dead eyes at the Card Capital and puffs out her cheeks and enters the store behind Taishi. She stops with confusion upon seeing Misaki and Aichi sitting at a table preparing to play vanguard.
"No way! Shin said all that?" Taishi's voice drawn her attention, turning her head, she looked at the blonde talking with Morikawa. Walking up to them, the dark haired male yelped in surprise at her, "whoa! Ume what happened to you!" he asked, followed by a howl of pain when the shorter female slammed her foot into his, "damn woman!" Morikawa wheezed, hopping around holding his ankle while Taishi burst into laughter.
Ume stared blankly at him before stomping toward Izaki and grabbed him by the arm, "What's going on?" she questioned. The curly brunette blinks his bright amber eyes and looks at the small girl, he held back from commenting on her appearances not wanting to end up like Morikawa.
"Ano. Shin said he had a surprise for Aichi. This turned out be a battle with Misaki. But get this. Misaki has never played the game before!"
Ume blinks her eyes furiously in thought, she had thought Misaki at least played vanguard a few times and it is surprising that she hadn't played the game. Scratching the back of his head, Ume looked back at the two, "yup. That is why he looks so serious." Izaki spoke, crossing his arms over his chest. Taishi hums softly, he walks towards the two with his arms crossed.
"Then what's up with that guy now?" he asked, pointing at Morikawa who is now hunched over with his hands pressed together. Izaki looks at the boy with narrowed eyes and frowns.
"What are you doing?"
"…I can't allow Aichi to get something and I don't….Aichi~ Lose the fight~" Morikawa sang out, his voice hitching as he spoke. Ume growled a little and rammed her foot into his once more and just like before, he began to jump around holding his foot, "UME! THAT HURT!" he shrieked while Taishi lent against the girl with a laugh. He smiled goofy, his eyes sparkles with amusement.
"Little Red Riding Hood, you really are something." he chuckled loudly. Morikawa quickly flipped his legs out and slammed his hands together once more, "Aichi~ Lose the fight~ How dare you hog everything~"
Taishi sighed, he stared at the male, "He really is relentless, isn't he…" he muttered as Ume nodded with a snort.
"He is creepy too." she added, sending hurtful glare at Morikawa, not that she cared of course. She really wasn't in a good mood today.
"So it is this kind of deck…I really need a day off with pay for putting up with Shin's crap." Misaki hisses to herself, her blank eyes looks over at Aichi with annoyances, "let's start." she called out, really wanting to end this game. Aichi quickly nods his head and both began to shovel their cards. Ume winced when Misaki accidentally dropped three of her cards, "Oh. Sorry, let me shuffle my cards again." Misaki says, lifting the cards and began to shovel them once more, "oh...Err…y-yeah…" Aichi mumbled shyly, he then held his deck out to Misaki as she held her deck, "p-please. Cut my d-deck." he spoke gently and Misaki nodded, both of them quickly shuffled the cards and handed the deck back and placed them onto the mat.
Ume watched as both pulled five cards out, she looked between the two with a troubled frown, "Who should I root for?" she sighed to herself, she loved both of them. Yes, she was in love with Aichi, but Misaki was like her amazing older sister. She couldn't root for either. Smiling, she slapped her hands together, "Go for it Misaki. You can do it Aichi-kun." she sang out while the other boys around her sweat dropped. Taishi shrugged, running his hand through is hair.
"Well…that is one way to do it."
"You have to picture it." Aichi spoke softly. Misaki nodded and closed her eyes while both reached out to touch their face-downed cards, "Stand up! My avatar!"
Misaki flipped her card, Ume swore the same blast of light erupted from the card, this time it is green instead of red, "Lozenge Magus!" Misaki said softly, Aichi nodded and flipped his own card and once again a blast of blue erupted from the card.
"Stardust trumpeter!" he called out and Misaki looks up. The lavender head girl takes the top card of her deck.
"I'll take first turn. Okay? I ride the Oracle Guardian, Gemini. And I use the effect of Lozenge Magus to slide her into the rear guard."
"She is such a rookie. Check it out guys!" Izaki laughed before gasping when Misaki looked at them with narrowed eyes.
"Don't make me come over there." Ume looks at the boy and watches as they all stood straight and mutters out a 'I'm sorry ma'am'
The young woman rolls her eyes and looks at Aichi, "It's your turn." she comments emotionless. The bluenette nods his head and takes another card; he places it into his hand and scans them, "Ride! Little sage Marron!" he called out, placing the card down, "and I call Wingal and Flogal. I support Wingal with Flogal and attack your Gemini!"
"I check for a damage trigger." Misaki mutters, lifting the top card of her deck and places it into her damage zone, "Next, I attack Gemini with Marron." Aichi spoke, his eyes burning determine and checks for a drive trigger, he smiles happily as he gets one and boosts Marron's attack points from 8000 to 13000, "try this one. Marron gets a 5000 bonus attack points. Thanks to this trigger card, the damage goes up by one more!" The lavender head woman tilts her head, still looking half bored, "another two damage I believe? Then I can check for two damage triggers. I checking the first card, I got it. Draw trigger."
Aichi frowns, "A draw trigger?" he asked, looking at the woman who nods in agreement.
"It allows me to draw an extra card." Misaki explains and picks up another card and places it within her hand, "Now, checking for another trigger card. Draw trigger again." Aichi watches as Misaki takes another card from her deck, he frowns deeper.
"The ability to draw extra cards? Is that really helpful?" he thought with confusion.
"That's three damage on his first turn." Taishi mumbled as Izaki nodded in agreement, "yeah. That is a great way to start the game." both boys suddenly jump startled when Morikawa pushes between them with narrowed red eyes, "Curses his good luck! He must lose~ Alright!"
Aichi laughs nervously with a sweat drop on the side of his head, he stutters out words, while Misaki looks down in annoyances.
"Ume?" she growls out and the black haired girl grins. She hums and looks at the man with dark eyes; "With pleasure." she purrs and rams her foot straight into Morikawa's once again, Ume then turns back around blankly ignoring the boy's howls of pain.
Misaki nods and turns her attention back to the game; she lifts another card, "My turn now. I ride the Maiden of Libra and I call two, silences Toms." placing three cards on the mat, one of which over her vanguard's card. She then turns one of the silences Toms on its side, "I attack Marron with Silences Tom." Aichi looks down at his cards, "I guard the attack with Flogal." he speaks and moves to use the card when Misaki stopped him, "huh? No that won't work. Silences Tom's skill prevents that. A grade zero card cannot guard against it." she smiles, gently tapping the card, "Too bad, oh, it also adds another damage."
Aichi frowns and almost looks to be in pain. Ume shudders as her ears rings from gun-shots, she rubes them gently, watching the bluenette places two cards in his damage bar, "So there are cards you can't guard against. Misaki may haven't fought before, but she sure knows what she is doing…I need to be more careful."
"What a strong unit…" Taishi mumbled, leaning against Ume once more to gaze at the game. Morikawa, still jumping around holding his foot suddenly stopped and looked at the mat before jumping forward, his fists shaking in excitement.
"You go girl! Destroy that little wimp!"
Misaki glared at him, snapping her head around in annoyances once more, "Get a life! I'm fighting here! Ume!" she called out, but before the young black haired girl could do anything, Morikawa stepped back, "no-no. I'll be good!"
Aichi looks at his damage, he frowns and looks at Misaki's, "At least I'm still in the lead in the way of damage." he thought to himself, looking at his deck and picked up another card.
Ume blinks her eyes at the expression that crossed his face; she smiled lightly knowing that expression, "So he's got Blaster Blade." she thought to herself, watching as the boy places the card over Marron, "Rise my Avatar now! My Blaster Blade!" Ume found her cheeks turning a little pink, whenever Aichi played Vanguard, it looked as if somebody else has taken his place, "You won't be able to hide from this!" he said, flipping two of his damage cards over, "Paying two damage cards, I can retire one of your silences Toms!" he spoke mighty and Misaki placed the card in the drop zone, "Good! That's one down! I call upon Flogal and Gallatin. I use Gallatin to attack your Maiden of Libra!"
"I guard with Godhawk, Ichibyoshi, who proudly disagrees!" she speaks, placing that card into her own drop-slot. Aichi turns his Flogal card to the side, "next I support Blaster Blade with Flogal and attack your vanguard! Drive check!" he speaks and frowns disappointedly at the card before placing it into his hand, "you sure like attacking! Draw trigger! I draw another card thanks to you. Hmm. Big mistake!" Misaki speaks; greatly pleased with the card she had just drawn. Aichi turns his Wingal card next, "I support Wingal with Flogal and attack your silences Tom! Alright! Both Silences Toms are in the drop zone!"
Smirking, Misaki shook her head, "I wouldn't celebrate yet." she says with a mystery glint in her bright blue eyes and picks up another card, "we're just getting started." she says, Aichi gasps in surprises. Ume watches with awe as the card Misaki held up bust with green, glimmering light, a lot like the card Kai had drawn only Kai's card was on fire. Quickly checking to see if anybody else saw, she isn't sure why nobody saw Kai's anyway and just like she thought, nobody saw Misaki's either, "beautiful goddess of radiant light, ride CEO Amaterasu!"
"Whoa! Grade three! I think Aichi's in trouble…" Izaki mumbled softly, his amber eyes sparkled with worry. Morikawa grinned, throwing his arms up with his eyes sparkling, "one of the strongest cards in the game! A grade three!" Taishi tilts his head, he hums with his arms crossed over Ume's head and his head rested against the arms, "gee, you really like grade threes. Don't you." he chuckled, eyeing the boy from the corner of his eye. Morikawa smirks and crosses his arms over his chest, "of cause. They're strong. Like me." The blonde burst into laughter, "Yeah right!"
Blue eyes shimmering, Aichi stared at the card on the mat, "A grade three?" he wondered out loud, "Amaterasu's special ability means I can take the top card of my deck and add it to her soul stack. And now, I can look at the top card of my deck."
Aichi frowns, "I looks at the top of my deck, then I can leave it on top or at the bottom of the deck." she says with a smug look on her face. Aichi pouts in thought, he shook his head.
"How does that e-exactly help you?" he asks softly watching at the lavender head woman lift the card and look at it.
"Oh you'll see." she frowns upon seeing the card, "I don't need this." she says and places it at the bottom of her deck, "I call out two Oracle Guardian, Wiseman and the Oracle Guardian, Red Eye." Misaki says, placing the three cards down on the mat. Aichi watches with narrowed eyes as Misaki turns a card on the side, "I attack Blaster Blade with Wiseman." Aichi gasps and quickly holds a card out, "I guard!" he says and places the card into the drop zone, "now I attack with another Wiseman supported with Gemini!" Aichi quickly picks up the top card of his deck, "I'll do a damage check! Great! It is a heal trigger! As you know Elaine's effect allows me to recover one damage from the bar."
"Uh-uh! You can't!" Misaki says emotionless making the younger boy jump in surprise, "The heal effect only happens if you have more damage than your opponent. As you can see, I have four and you have three." Aichi lets out a sound of frustration and looked at both damage zones.
"Oh no! What a waste!"
"This girl knows more about these cards and rules then us guys. And it's her very first fight."
Misaki looks at them, her eyes soften a little as she spoke, "I spend eight hours a day in this shop watching you guys play. I pretty much had to learn them. And besides, I need to know the rules to help customers."
"I see. So that explains why you're so good at it Misaki." Aichi breathes out and closes his eyes, "But, I still gain an effect from that trigger! Blaster Blades power goes up by 5000!" Misaki looks at the cards; her gaze remained nonchalant.
"I attack Blaster Blade with Amaterasu. You see my vanguard has twin drive. All grade threes have a special ability called twin drive. Instead of drawing one drive trigger, you draw two. First check? No. Second check? No." she says and places the cards into her hand and looks at Aichi with a small smirk, "Why do you look so relieved? Amaterasu has another little ability. If I have at least four cards in my hand, her power goes up by 4000." Aichi's eyes widen before narrowing,
"I see. So that's why your deck has so many draw triggers. You were activating Amaterasu's ability."
Misaki's eyes flashes, cunningly "A bit late for that realization." she says and watches as the boy places another card down into his damage zone.
"I need…to get myself a copy of that grade three!" Morikawa purred out, staring at the card as if it was a big piece of meat. Aichi gulped and draws another card.
"My turn now. I'll have Wingal and Flogal switch places! Then I retire Flogal and call in Gallatin! Gallatin attacks your vanguard!" he calls out and Misaki shrugs with a soft 'whatever' Aichi looked at her damage zone and breathes in deeply, "almost there…Now! I have Flogal support Blaster Blade to attack your Amaterasu!"
Misaki smirks and holds up a card, "I guard! I activate her ability! Now, I send an Oracle to the drop zone to cancel your attack. That attack is over. My card hits the drop zone…"
Aichi breathes deeply, he narrows his eyes down at the card game, "I check for a drive trigger." he says and lifts up the top card of his deck and smiles, "That's an extra 5000 attack points added onto Gallatin. Now I support him with the power of Wingal and attack your vanguard!" he says and frowns when Misaki guards it with the same card, "No way…"
Misaki hums and lifts another card and looks at it, "Let's finish it. I active Amaterasu's special ability and place another card into her soul stack." she spoke and placed another card underneath Amaterasu's card, "I then check the top card. Hmm. That one is useless. I then call magical kid and Coco. Coco is another unit that allows me to take a look at the top card of my deck. Hmm, that can stay." Misaki smiles and looks at her monster cards, "I support Wiseman with the power of Magical kid and attacks Blaster Blade. "She says and ignores Aichi's guards, "I support Wiseman with Gemini, attack." Misaki narrows her eyes, Aichi guards once more, "Amaterasu now has the power of Coco and is now attacking your vanguard."
"Amaterasu?" Aichi repeats to himself and gasps, "I'm out of cards!" Misaki smiles at him.
"Now, for my twin drive." she says and picks up a card, "Let's see. Look, this is it. The purpose of checking the top card of my deck is to set myself up for a drive trigger, so I could use it against you at a time like this. Drive Trigger activated. Amaterasu gains 5000 more attack points and also adds your damage up by one more. Second check. No trigger. But Amaterasu's power is already more than enough. 22000. This is the power of grade three units!"
"So if you're deck doesn't have anything better than a grade two unit, well? You're doomed to fail."
Taishi smiled, "Good game." he commented while Morikawa stared with big red eyes.
"It worked…he lost…" Morikawa mumbled while Izaki looked at him with a frown.
Ume breathed deeply; she closed her eyes with her arms crossed tightly over her chest. She smiles to herself and walks from Taishi; he almost stumbled to the ground once more but is able to stand himself up right. Knowing she would have walked away. Ume made her way towards the depressed Aichi and gently placed her hand upon his shoulder, "Aichi-kun. All you need is grade three cards in your deck. Blaster Blade isn't enough on his own."
"So you lost to Misaki. Did you learn anything?" Shin asked, popping up next to them, he looked down at Aichi who sighs pleasantly.
"Yes, I did. I saw there are still a lot of things I've got to learn. Vanguard is much more complex and more difficult than I thought."
"That is the special thing I wanted you to see with your own eyes. We all started like you, you know. We're all so eager to play in the game, but yet only knowing a bit about it. That's not how you get better. And you're not going to beat Kai that way, are you? Glad you saw it, that is a big step today. If you have questions about cards, I'll be happy to answer for you."
Ume smirked; she crossed her arms once more, "As long as he keeps playing here, right?"
"You caught me Ume."
"Thank you." Aichi bowed down lowly. "Grade threes. And all the cards I've never seen. I want to know more about Vanguard. And get stronger, so the next time I face Kai…."
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