"Good morning." Zuzu greeted Varsch as she took her seat next to him in class.

"Could you leave us alone for a while?" Varsch asked all the girls crowded round him. They all moaned and whined and sent jealous glares at Zuzu but left anyway. Varsch let out a long sigh once they were all gone. "I wish someone'd like me for myself instead of my looks." He sighed again. "No one ever seems to want to get to know me."

"I do." Zuzu said, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"Really?" He said, looking up at her in surprise. Zuzu smiled warmly and nodded at him. Varsch smiled back, shyly. Whilst inside he was praising himself on such brilliant acting, he couldn't believe how easy it was to fool this girl. Though on the other hand, anyone who was friends with a clown like Yuya had to be pretty near sighted.

"Hey!"

Speak of the devil, Yuya himself walked up to the two of them and took his seat next to Varsch. Of course he was in a different row of desks so he was a bit further away than the two of them, which Varsch was particularly happy about. However today, he wanted to get as close to Yuya as possible.

"Hi Yuya, I wanted to say I had a fun time yesterday, maybe we could duel again sometime." He said, giving his best smile. And of course Yuya was completely fooled by it.

"I'd love to duel anytime," He laughed. "You're a strong duellist."

"As are you, your pendulum summoning was like nothing I've ever seen before."

"It took Yuya a while to master pendulum summoning, but now it's like his best move." Zuzu said.

The three of them spent the rest of their time discussing pendulum summoning until the teacher entered and began class.

When class finally let out the three of them decided to sit together for lunch. And Zuzu found that she was the one left out this time. Varsch was determined to find out as much about Yuya as he could, and then use it to tear him down. He'd wipe that proud, happy, stupid smile off his face if it was the last thing he did.

"So do you two have any other friends besides me and the kids at your school?" Varsch asked, as they finished off their lunch.

"Yuya…" Zuzu moaned embarrassedly as Yuya continued to scarf down his lunch like a pig, something else that disgusted Varsch, not that he would say so. "Huh…" Zuzu sighed in exasperation. She then turned her attention to Varsch in order to answer his question. "Well not really, there's our friend Gong but he's gone on a trip overseas for a bit, and also Sora but I haven't seen him around for a while." She placed a hand on her chin thoughtfully.

"Yeah…" Yuya said, pausing momentarily in his gorging. "He hasn't even been coming to my house for breakfast… Ah! That's just this weird thing he does!" Yuya exclaimed, noticing how confused Varsch looked by the fact that Sora came over to his house for meals all the time.

"I see." Varsch nodded. "Speaking of food, doesn't it embarrass you that you eat so messily, it's disgusting. No offense."

"Tell me about it." Zuzu groaned. Yuya looked slightly offended but brushed it off with an eye roll.

"No, who cares what other people think."

"So you don't mind how people see you?"

"Well…" Yuya paused, thinking. "I don't want people to see me as a bad person, but I don't mind that they laugh at me now and then, if they're laughing they're happy right?"

"I see…" Varsch mused.

The rest of the day passed normally, Varsch and Zuzu did their work while Yuya slept and got woken by an unwelcome bash on the head from Zuzu's fan. Varsch bid farewell to the two of them at the school gates, deciding to go home today. He was halfway there when he noticed several boys from his school hanging out by the river. He paused and observed them for a few minutes until they eventually noticed they were being watched.

"What are you looking at?!" One of them snapped.

"Isn't he that new kid?" Another whispered. "The one that's friends with Zuzu and that loser Yuya."

Varsch suddenly grew interested when he heard the word loser.

"You guys don't like Yuya?" He asked, voice devoid of all emotion. The group burst out laughing, as if that was the most ridiculous suggestion ever.

"Like him?!"

"You're kidding right?!"

"Who could?" One of them asked when their laughter had died down. "He's cocky, annoying, loud, clumsy." He began endlessly listing things he hated about Yuya.

"We can't see why you want to be friends with him." Someone else said.

"I'm not," Varsch replied, causing them all to grown confused. "At least not really," He elaborated. "Since the moment I met him he's been getting on my nerves, I'm only pretending to be his friend to get close to him, so I can find out his weaknesses and finally wipe that annoying smile off his face."

The group of students took a few minutes to process this new information, they then had a hushed conversation together. Varsch just watched, wondering where this was going. When they finally turned to face him again they all had cruel smirks plastered on their faces.

"You wouldn't need any help would you?" The apparent leader of the group asked. Varsch was taken aback by the question, he'd never had anyone help him break people before. Though perhaps it a bit of help would be of use. He smirked also and shook hands with the guy who'd offered.

"It's a deal,"

"Awesome." The leader smirked, "My name's Nathan by the way."

"And I'm Devin." One of the others said.

"I'm Carter."

"And I'm Robin."

Varsch nodded to each of them. "My name is Varsch." He introduced.

The five of them shook hands, officially sealing their alliance. To take down Yuya Sakaki. Once and for all.