Me: HEY GUYS!
Wooju: Last episode was just sad…
Tara: Remind me…
Me: Oh yeah! You were sleeping!
Wooju: Naoki and Shingo lost to middle schoolers.
Tara: Ohhhhhhhhh… That's just sad…
Episode 11
Ai's POV
"So, who's the munchkin?" Naoki asked.
"What's that?" Rekka threatened, "It's not like there's anything good about being a giant!" Rekka stomped on Naoki's foot… Ow…
"OW!" Naoki cried.
"Rekka, that's improper behavior in front of your classmates," Korin entered the pink room of cuteness.
"Oh, he's just exaggerating the pain!" Rekka smiled, "Being an idol, I don't have that kind of physical strength! Tee-hee!"
"R-Right…"
"Oh, he was just putting on an act!" Emi sighed.
"It's… no act…" Naoki muttered through his pain. Emi and Mai must be really gullible.
"Well, even if it did hurt, you can't just insult a lady and get away with it!" Sakura scolded him.
"Korin, who is this girl?" Naoki asked after he recovered.
"You don't know?"
"Like I'd know who this brat is?!"
"Naoki! Rekka is not a brat!" Sakura interrupted. (Wooju: But I don't like Ultra Rare!)
"You really don't know, Ishida?" Shingo inquired, "This is Rekka Tatsunagi. She's part of Ultra-Rare!"
"Ultra-Rare?! I think I've heard the name somewhere…"
"We're in the same club, so how could you forget?!"
"Idiot," I muttered.
"Ultra-Rare is a three-person idol group. There's Suiko, the easygoing space cadet! Korin, the cool beauty! And Rekka, they feisty one! Their debut song was 'Miracle Trigger I'm Sure Tomorrow Will be Ultra-Rare!' That song was paired with 'Stand Up, Dream.' And that's not all. (Me: God! Why do you're rants have to be so long Shingo!) They also act as the Vanguard National Tournament's official supporting idols along with Miss Ai's group, Cardfight Secret, who were the performers!"
"What he said! Nice to meet you!" Rekka smiled.
"Wait… Ai was in an idol group?" Naoki asked.
"You forgot already?" I facepalmed, "I announced it a while ago…"
"Are you a fan?" Naoki asked Shingo.
"No. I just want to know about everything that relates to Mr. Sendou and Miss Ai. I happened to learn about them through an extension of that."
"Rekka is doing her best to balance being a student and an idol," Emi smiled, "She really is a wonderful girl!"
"Oh, that's not true," Rekka replied. Oh boy, another act…
"You don't have to be modest, Rekka," Mai encouraged.
"Aw, I'm just doing my best because I really love it!"
"Men are so simple…" Korin joined me and Misaki, "They'll fall in love with even an obviously cutesy act like that."
"Isn't that part of your job?" Misaki asked.
"True, it goes with the job!" I swear Korin had sparkles radiating off of her…
"Am I the only one seeing sparkles?" I asked.
"No, I see them too," Misaki assured me.
"Still despite being split up between the middle school and high school divisions, what are the odds of two idols going to the same school?" Shingo pondered, "Could Suiko be going to this school, too?!"
"Of course not!" Korin answered.
"Yes, right… I would know if she were…" (Me: Is it just me, or did that sound stalkerish…)
So, since the middles school has two wins one loss, and the high school has one win two losses, courtesy of Shingo and Naoki, Aichi was up against Rekka! Again, Emily is too lazy to illustrate cardfights, so yeah…
-Magical Time Skip Brought to You by Flying Mint Bunny-
(Wooju: England. Emily, was that necessary? Me: I had to, sorry…)
Aichi won! Thank god, I was starting to get annoyed with all her overdone idol acts.
"Aw, I lost!" Rekka sighed.
"Calling Blaster Blade one more time is what decided the fight," Misaki stated.
"Rekka wasn't able to defend herself against it," Korin agreed.
"I'm moved!" Naoki said while tearing up, "Vanguard really is interesting!"
"Here," Sakura handed him a handkerchief.
"That was the best! I knew you could do it, Mr. Sendou!" Shingo praised.
"Says the one who cheered for Rekka," I muttered.
"You were really cool Rekka," Mai complimented.
"You too, Aichi!" Emi smiled.
"Well, thanks!" Aichi replied.
"You don't care if she speaks casually to Aichi?" Naoki asked.
"Getting bugged about something as trivial as that is petty of you, Ishida," Shingo replied, "Everything is trivial in front of Rekka's cuteness."
"Yeah, yeah," I sighed, "Just don't get too carried away while you fanboy over Rekka, kay?"
"Even though Shingo claims to be such a fan of Aichi, he didn't know Emi was Aichi's sister," Misaki sighed.
"The idiocy of men," I explained as she and Korin nodded.
"Rekka, I really enjoyed our match," Aichi smiled.
"I don't like losing," Rekka complained, "but I had fun, too!"
"I had a good time too!" Naoki said, "And I was able to find ne fight friends…"
"That's right!" Mai agreed.
"Just keep working and you'll be an expert cardfighter in no time!" I encouraged Sakura.
"Yes m'am!" Sakura saluted.
"Don't do that. It reminds me too much of a certain group of people." I remembered Morikawa and Kamui as Sakura tilted her head in confusion.
I'll skip the rest of the episode because it's mainly Shingo fanboying over Rekka.
Me: That Shingo…
Wooju: Again. It's sad…
Tara: *Nods* and I didn't get that reference you made in the chapter.
Me: You don't have to.
Wooju: I did!