Wixoss World: Apartment Blocks
(Selector Infected Wixoss OST: Trembling Miracle)
Hatsu looked out over the view of the city that was out in front of the edge of Ruko's apartment. From a normal point of view, it seemed that nothing was out of the ordinary for the moment, even with the ever darknening clouds that were slowly lingering over the apartment blocks from where she was standing. Her expression however seemed to tell otherwise. From what one would be able to make out from that alone was that she was deeply concerned, for both her grandaughter and her grandson especially given what had happened over recent events, some of which she was still completely unaware of. Her trail of thought came to a halt when she heard the door swing open from behind her.
Turning around, Hatsu could see that Ruko had indeed managed to return back to the apartment safely with nothing more to endanger her. But that had done very little to lift her spirits, especially when she noticed the somewhat saddened and nervous expression that her granddaughter had on her face as she was currently looking down on the floor.
"Ru-chan, is something the matter?" she asked.
"Grandmother..." the Selector spoke before gulping for a brief moment "I... need to talk to you."
"What's wrong?" Hatsu pondered "Where are Hitoe and the others?"
"They're outside..." Ruko replied as she looked up to face her grandmother "Something happened between us and onii-chan... He believes that whatever I did in the past to cause us to live here along with what I'm about to tell you is entirely my fault."
Hatsu suddenly froze in response, raising a concerned look from the Selector, wondering in panic if she had already arrived too late or if she had said something wrong to derail their conversation immediately.
"You mean... what happened six years ago..." she breathed "He's suddenly putting all of the blame on you?"
"Y... Yes," said Ruko "He told us that he met mother last night and that she revealed the whole truth to him. I tried to get him to explain what he meant, but he wouldn't listen."
Seeing that her granddaughter was almost on the verge of tears from bringing up an abbrieviated summary of the recent confrontation between her and Ayumu, barring any details of the Selector Battles or the strange LRIG that her mother had given him, Hatsu quickly came up to Ruko and gently embraced her as she sniffed for a brief moment. The Selector hugged back in a gentle manner as well, feeling a small waver of relief from being in the warm comfort of her kind grandmother's arms as the tears rolling out from her eyes had immediately dried out within the next minute or so. As this was going on, a single thought of anger had flared off in Hatsu's mind, something that was even rare for her to have come across in recent years.
Miyako... what have you done?!
Eventually, the two family memebers broke apart from the hug and faced each other once more. Ruko briefly rubbed her eyes to check if any more tears had leaked out over the course of their embrace, to which she was able to confirm that there were none.
"There's also something I need to come clean about..." Ruko murmured "I asked Kai and the others to withold it last night to avoid a panic, but with the way onii-chan is now... and the fact that what I want to tell you may be impossible to believe..."
"I understand, Ru-chan," Hatsu replied as the Selector was in the middle of her sentence "Just like I said this morning, if there is anything that you wish to tell me, then I am willing to listen."
Ruko breathed for a moment in partial surprise, having not expected her grandmother to be so willing to listen to her side of the story about her involvement with the Selector Battles, Reverse and the cardfighters from another world. Feeling somewhat reassured from the 'confirmation' that she had needed, she turned around and went back to the door leading to outside the apartment, where she opened it up immediately. Then one by one, Hitoe, Aichi, Kai, Naoki, Leon and Ren entered the living space of the apartment as Hatsu looked over each of them, noticing some of the discomforted expressions on some of them whilst the Kagero, Shadow Paladin and Aqua Force users did their best to maintain a calm demanor in this most tense of scenarios.
"From what Ruko has told me, all of us have much to discuss if I'm correct?" she asked.
"That's correct," Kai replied "It's time for all of us to tell you the truth, for Ruko's sake and so we can find out what really happened six years ago."
"Very well then."
And with that, the group of six along with Ruko each took up a place at the table beside the kitchen space as Hatsu picked up the original family photo that Aichi had accidentally stumbled across on his first visit, when the Selector herself was still absent for good reason.
(End Music)
City Park
Amika hummed to herself as she strolled through the park on her own accord. She seemed to be in a rather good mood from what she had managed to achieve today, at least from her own perspective in her life. She had managed to obtain victory in yet another Selector Battle with the aid of her LRIG Piruluk, still unaware of all of the details that were involved in both sides of the victories and losses that both LRIGs and Selectors would experience on either on or on some occasions, both sides of that spectrum. Curious as to how the blue LRIG herself had been holding up since the previous battle, she dug into the pocket of her shorts and pulled out the single card that contained her.
Piruluk herself seemed to be within her realm of uninterest from what the Selector could tell from her seemingly deadpanned expression. Amika however had gotten used to seeing such a 'usual' look from her LRIG, knowing that she seemed more 'closed off' compared to other LRIGs that she had encountered in her adventures throughout the Selector Battles, including Eldora and Yuzuki whom she had briefly met on the occasions that she had met both Kai and Chiyori.
"Lighten up Piruluk," the Selector said in a cheerful manner "We've managed to get another win that's needed to obtain my wish."
"And yet, that only marks your third win in total to the one we lost to Chiyori," the LRIG spoke in her usual uninterested tone "However, I admit that you have been able to make progress from your last battle with Kai."
"Alright, I get it," Amika replied "Still, you could sympathize with me here a bit when I'm learning from my losses, both in and outside of the Selector Battles. I am the kind that does better when she is praised."
"... Amazing, you are a genius."
"Why the monotone?!" she exclaimed with a sweatdrop to follow on from her outburst.
Then before the Selector could even think of what could happen next, she was immediately greeted by a blinding white light from in front of her. Unable to see properly from both the intense brightness and her right arm being held in front of her face, Amika could barely make out what had just appeared in front of her before the shadow and cry of a figure came out from where she was standing. Raising her arm to try and regain her foresight, Amika looked ahead just in time to see Kamui falling right towards her as both of their heads immediately collided with each other, causing them to fall to the ground and the Selector to drop the card that contained Piruluk to the park floor, just as the bright light faded into nothingness once more.
"Ow..." they muttered as they rubbed the back of their heads, the impact of the Nova Grappler user's landing being much more painful than either of them had anticipated.
Being the first to stand up on her knees, Amika quickly picked up Piruluk's card from the floor before looking over to Kamui to see that he had landed whole on the front side of his body right into the dirt after their heads had briefly collided. Struggling up onto his knees, he turned his head just in time to see the Selector offer out one hand to which he kindly accepted.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Ngh... I've had worse..." he groaned as he stood back up onto his feet "Sorry about your head now."
"Relax, in the end, there's no harm done right?" the Selector said in a somewhat museful tone "Though it's not every day you bump heads with someone that's fallen out of light, in a literal sense of the word."
Both Amika and Kamui immediately then shared both a somewhat awkward laugh and smile as they scratched the backs of their heads. When they had finished, the Nova Grappler user immediately looked to her right hand which held Piruluk's card, immediately recognizing the style of the backing from before as evidenced by the white background and the Wixoss logo printed on it.
That card... he murmured in his thoughts It's the same kind that Kiyoi held. Don't tell me...
"Is something wrong?" Amika asked, noticing his attention directed towards the card she held.
"I've seen that backing before," Kamui replied "Though I've never heard of this... Wi-xoss."
"Wixoss, pronounced wi-cross," the Selector kindly corrected for him "It's a card game that I'm heavily involved with for reasons of my own. By the way, who are you?"
"I'm Katsuragi Kamui!" he answered happily "Though you can call me 'the great Kamui' as well!"
Amika almost sweatdropped for a brief moment upon hearing that he could also be referred to as 'the great Kamui', unsure of how to feel if she were to ever regard to him as that. Regardless of that though, he did seem rather content with her just referring to him by just his regular name. Piruluk however seemed to take no notice of the conversation as her card was currently facing away from him, though she mentally made a reminder of his name if only for the sole fact that he mysteriously appeared out of a bright light, unaware of the circumstances that brought him before her and her Selector.
"Well then, I'm Amika. Hashimoto Amika," Amika greeted "Nice to meet you, Kamui. And this is Piruluk."
She then turned around the LRIG card to face the Nova Grappler user, expecting him to see the card much like any other non-alive LRIG card that non-Selectors would simply see as a simple Level 0 LRIG. Kamui observed the card closely to see that Piruluk had her back turned away from him. Then feeling as if she was somewhat being observed by the cardfighter, the blue LRIG slowly turned around until her frontmost gaze had fallen upon him immediately. What followed next however was a reaction that she had somewhat expected.
(Selector Spread Wixoss OST: Awkward)
"W... What the?!" Kamui gasped after he had witnessed what happened in front of him "T... That girl moved inside that card?!"
"Eh? You can see her?" Amika asked.
"Please tell me my linesight hasn't been messed up from that rough landing!" he exclaimed, still in somewhat of a state of disbelief to what he saw at this very moment.
"'Linesight'?" the Selector pondered.
"I believe he meant to say 'eyesight'," Piruluk interjected with a rather blunt tone "This boy seems to have trouble with various bits of basic grammar."
"Hey! I'm working on it!" Kamui replied as he eventually calmed down from his sudden surprise. "Anyway, you're Piruluk, right?"
The blue LRIG simply gazed up at the Nova Grappler user, still displaying a look of disinterest towards him which led to a somewhat awkward silence between the three of them with only the sound of a breeze and Chiyori excitedly going down the street behind and passing them by briefly to accompany it, not noticing any of them at this very moment. After around half a minute though, Kamui was almost beginning to lose his patience with the lack of a reply from Piruluk who simply gazed to the side, as if she was somewhat ignoring him at this moment. Not wanting anything ugly to erupt between the two of them, Amika looked back at him.
"Don't worry about Piruluk," she said "She's just not exactly the most sociable LRIG you'll find."
"LRIG?" Kamui pondered.
"An LRIG is your avatar in a Wixoss battle," Amika replied "But you will need a whole deck with SIGNI, ARTS and preferably with a few Spells, though I have run into players who just have a full SIGNI deck."
"I got it," he replied, showing that he at least understood her explanation so far. "I'm more experienced in the game of Vanguard, but I guess learning something new couldn't hurt." He then reached into his right pocket to reveal a second deck case that he had on hand this entire time. "Look, see ri... WHAT?!"
Gasping in shock as to what he had pulled out of the deck case, he could see that the frontmost card, Strongest Beast Deity, Ethics Buster Extreme, had transformed into an LRIG card presumably as a result of his arrival into this very world, much like the other five cardfighters' units on their own respective arrivals. Fanning out his deck, he could see that additional ARTS had been added to the deck, his 'starting Vanguard' for this deck had been replaced with Beast Deity, White Tiger and aside from three other units, the rest of his Beast Deity cards had been turned into SIGNI bearing the Silver colour, much like the copied units from Ayumu's counterfeit Dimension Police deck.
"W... What the heck happened to my other Nova Grappler deck?!" he cried before he turned around the cards, revealing that they now also bore the black and white backings to define the two seperate 'decks' they would be split into over the course of a battle.
"Nova Grappler...?" Amika murmured in confusion as she stared at the cards, as did Piruluk from the view available to her from the blue LRIG's card. "I've never seen these before."
"O... Of course...!" Kamui replied, still in a state of panic "These were still supposed to be Vanguard cards before I ended up here!" Did Kiyoi do something to my Beast Deities before sending me off here?!
"Easy there! I'm sure there's a logical explanation for this!" the Selector called, trying her utmost best to calm down the young cardfighter.
Eventually, after taking several deep breaths, Kamui calmed down from his sudden panic, his expression showing that he was still in a state of shock and disbelief.
"I didn't think something like that would happen..." he muttered as he put the cards back into the second deck case that he carried.
(End Music)
"Well, we know that these 'Vanguard' cards you carried had apparently turned into Wixoss cards," said Amika before an idea suddenly popped into her head. "Say, I'm heading over to the local card shop in the city to try and rebuild my deck. Wanna tag along and find a way to work with the 'changes' that happened to that deck of yours?"
"Well, I suppose visiting couldn't hurt if it means I can wrap my head around this 'Wixoss' thing," he said before raising his fist with energy, instantly feeling refreshed after his earlier reactions to the sudden cosmetic changes that happened to his Beast Deity deck "Let's go then!"
"Yeah!"
Leading the way over to the shop, the Selector ran out ahead just a little in front of Kamui to make sure that he wouldn't end up lost within the busy streets they would have to walk through on their journey. Whilst they were doing so, the Nova Grappler user couldn't help but ponder over the situation that he had now found himself in since the cardfight he had with Kiyoi and its rather unfortunate outcome.
If this really is that other world, I'll hopefully find Aichi onii-san in no time! he muttered in his thoughts before briefly looking to the snowflake marking that was still engraved over the top of his right hand Just you wait Kiyoi! This isn't over between us!
Ruko's Apartment
(Cardfight! Vanguard Unreleased Soundtrack: Presence of the Void)
A few minutes had passed by since the entire group had gathered at the table within the apartment's living space as Hatsu slowly took into account everything about the Selector Battles that Ruko had told her about so far. Whilst it was easily noticable that her expression had shown some hint of worry from what her granddaughter and her friends had been caught up in, even she found it somewhat hard to believe on her own. The fact that Ruko had explained that only she, her friends and any other Selectors could see the LRIGs around them had only made her feel even more skeptical in regards to what she was hearing so far. However, that in turn had brought her trail of thought back to the night where the Selector had recieved the deck that had contained Tama from Ayumu himself.
Hatsu recalled on that night that Ruko had suddenly fallen on her back in sudden surprise and shock, to which she did not know why, but she had clearly remembered that her granddaughter tried to ask her if she could hear Tama crying at that point, to which she did not. That alone was enough for her to believe some of the credibility that came from the Selector's explanation of her involvement thus far, but she felt that she needed to hear more of the story, particuarly from Kai and the others if she wanted to fully understand about what was happening. Firstly, she requested for more information about the cardfighters in the room, to which each of the boys in turn explained more about themselves, the world that they came from, the units from the game of Vanguard that they carried within their decks and how each of them came to be involved in the Selector Battles themselves.
When Hatsu had listened closely as to what the boys were telling her, just like before with the beginning of Ruko's explanation of how she came to be involved in the Selector Battles, she initially had a hard time believing the legitimacy of their respective backgrounds, until they showed her the cards that represented the units they spoke of. One by one, each of them revealed Blaster Blade, Dragonic Overlord, Brawler, Big Bang Knuckle Dragon, Blaster Dark Revenger and Blue Wave Dragon, Tetra-drive Dragon out on the table in front of them to which she then inspected the cards herself, now convinced that what they were telling her so far was indeed the truth, given that she never saw these 'LRIGs' or rather units before in her entire experience of Wixoss card game.
After Ruko had explained how she had met both Hitoe and Yuzuki for the first time along with her brief mention of Akira and Ulith. leaving her grandmother feeling somewhat uncomfortable from what she had now been informed about, her aforementioned friend then decided to speak out from her perspective of her own involvement with the Selector Battles when she originally held onto the green LRIG, Midoriko, up to their third loss and what had led to her wish being tainted at that time.
"I see..." Hatsu murmured "From what you are saying... the reason that you remained shut in your home until the day that Ru-chan had found you again..."
"Yes..." Hitoe replied "I was scared... that anything I touched, even related remotely to my friends would just hurt me in some way. It wasn't until Yuzuki became my new LRIG that I tried to do something to remember everything. The day that I was finally able to reconcile with Ruko at that time though... also had the evening that she ran away."
"And from what you are all saying, this was apparently for good reason?"
Ruko nodded grimly in response to her grandmother's answer, knowing that her reason for running away from home was now about to be openly disclosed to her. She looked over to Aichi and Kai who nodded in agreement, showing that they were willing to let her continue in her explanation.
"Shortly after I had gotten Kuro as my new LRIG, I was in a complete state," she began "I felt crushed that everything that me and Tama had worked for to try and save everyone had gone to waste, simply because she didn't want to risk me being turned into an LRIG. At that time, not just because of Reverse suddenly infecting me, I felt angered, believing that she intended to decieve me from the beginning just in order to reverse me. After being caught up in a Selector Battle, even though I didn't have the necessary cards around Kuro back then, I was still able to emerge victorious, with her reversed form."
"But that means...!" Aichi gasped, prompting the Selector to shake her head in response.
"If I had not thought to restrain that power within both Kuro's card and myself then, my first opponent with her along with her LRIG would have been reversed," Ruko answered before looking back to her grandmother "It was only through a few of Kuro's words then along with the stress of what I was plagued with that I made my decision to run away from home, so that I wouldn't end up endangering you and onii-chan. And... I'm the not the only one to have known about Reverse."
(End Music)
Hatsu listened carefully to each of her granddaughter's words carefully so that she could try and fully understand of what she was now explaining to her now. From what she could make out, on the night of her 'disappearance', it was an intentional action that had been made so that the Selector herself could keep her family safe from this 'Reverse' that she had now brought up into the discussion. She then looked over to Kai, having now realized that he had known about this from the beginning and still kept quiet about the whole incident until this very moment.
"Kai, is it true that you have previously known about this Reverse?" she asked.
(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Hontou no Kokoro wo Torimodosu tame)
"It's true," he answered "From where I, Aichi and the others have come from, we've all been acqainted with it in one way or another. They fought against that power whilst I at the time, had accepted it as my own. It wasn't until Aichi had faced me directly that I was able to let go of it and move on. My understanding of what had happened before was more than enough reason for me to ensure that power was removed from Ruko. If we had not defeated Mayu then, then she would have been lost to her clutches forever."
"Kai-kun..." Aichi murmured, worried if bringing up his previous involvement in the Link Joker invasion of their home world would affect Hatsu's trust with him.
"I see..." she murmured as she stood up to look over the group "Naturally, I am initially saddened that deception had to be employed in our previous meetings."
"Darn it..." Naoki groaned to himself Have we already messed up our one chance to try and calm things down?!
"But," Hatsu continued "After hearing everything from all of you, especially Ruko herself, I understand why you did so and as Kai and Aichi still managed to save her through a long struggle, there is no point to me blaming or venting frustration on any of you unlike Ayumu at this very moment." She then looked down towards the LRIG cards on the table, knowing that whilst she could not see or hear them, they however could see and hear her instead. "Kuro, I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with the way you intended to use Ruko after becoming her LRIG. However, things then did not go the way you anticipated, even beyond your control from what I have been told and the fact that you helped my granddaughter in her battle with Ayumu has shown me some reassurance. For that reason, if you can hear me, know that I am willing to give you another chance, just as she has."
Ruko and Hitoe could only let out a sigh of relief, as did Tama, Yuzuki, Aichi and Naoki with the knowledge that the Selector's grandmother did not seem as upset with them about the reveal of everything that had been going on as they originally anticipated. Even Kuro who had normally remained neutral in her expression couldn't help but sympathsize with Hatsu, knowing that a majority of Ruko's time in Reverse was her own fault and yet, the Selector's elder was still willing to forgive her, just like her friends. Whilst Kai's expression had remained somewhat neutral in regards to the scenario with Ren having a more cheerful smile on his face, Leon turned his attention over towards Hatsu.
"Now that you know of the truth," he spoke "The question that remains is what you will do with Ruko and Hitoe now."
"The truth is, like any worried parent," she replied "I would naturally want to remove Ruko by force from the Selector Battles if only so that I could keep her safe. However, if what you say is true and that the world is really in danger, then it would make little sense for me to keep her locked away in her room when she simply wants to help all of you, her friends. That would make me no better than 'her'." She then turned to face Hitoe. "Hitoe."
(End Music)
"Yes?"
"I understand that you're worried about your parents panicking over what all of you have told me today," Hatsu continued "Until we can find a calm and reasonable way to disclose all of this, I will keep quiet about your involvement in this mess until then."
"Y... You're really too kind," the Selector replied, partially out of surprise "But thank you."
Over from her card, even Yuzuki was surprised that Ruko's grandmother had kindly gone out of their way to help keep quiet about her involvement in the Selector Battles from her parents, presumably in the event that Ayumu had somehow encountered them already. She let out of a sigh of relief of her own, happy that things did not turn out badly for neither her Selector or Ruko herself. Once the atmosphere in the room had finally calmed down, Ruko got up from where she was standing and faced her grandmother once more.
"Grandmother," she spoke, bringing her attention back to her "Now that we've explained everything, I have to ask something. Do you know what really happened... six years ago?"
Hatsu's expression immediately went grim as she looked down to the floor of the living space, having known that they were about to touch upon this subject once again. She looked back up to face Ruko, feeling a sense of dread in the air around all of them.
"The truth is..." she began "Aside from the 'alleged' reason why your mother transferred care of you and Ayumu to me, I don't know anything about what actually transpired to cause what happened to happen. However, what I did know until then was that your mother, my daughter, Kominato Miyako, was not the caring parent that Ayumu has now percieved her to be. In the past, she had previously neglected you for reasons unknown to even me, but throughout her life, even as an early teenager, there was a common factor that had she always desired to exhibit around other people."
"Common factor?" Ren pondered.
"And that common factor I believe that she desired to exihibit," Hatsu concluded "... was her ideal, of control. But as for control over who or what, remains a mystery to even me."
"I see..." the Selector murmured, feeling slightly disheartened with knowledge that not even her grandmother knew about the truth from all of those years ago.
That alone had also led to shared looks of concern from Hitoe, Aichi and Naoki as well as the LRIGs from their cards present in the room, aside from Umr who didn't quite have the right expression available to show that she fully understood what was going on. Kai gazed up at Ruko, now taking this new information about her past into account and thinking back to what Ayumu had been raging at her about throughout the previous battle earlier in the day. In turn however, this had led to even more questions that no one, not even Hatsu any idea of how to answer.
Kominato Ayumu... he murmured within his thoughts Certainly, I could sense a hint of displeasure in our first meeting after we had saved Ruko, but before our confrontation today, it seemed rather mild in comparison to now. But that still doesn't explain about that 'clone' LRIG that he recieved from Miyako. Just how did she obtain that in the first place? And why did she give it to him?
"Now then," Hatsu spoke, her tone indicated that she had now calmed down from the earlier tensity of the earlier conversations "If you boys wouldn't mind staying over for a while longer, I would be intrigued to face these 'clans of Cray' as you have called them."
"Oh, so you play Wixoss on a casual basis as well?" Ren murmured "Very well then. Perhaps there is something all of us could learn from this experience."
"Indeed," she replied as she looked to her granddaughter "Ruko, if you could kindly set us up?"
"Yes," the Selector replied as she went into her bedroom to find the necessary playmats needed to set up their 'casual battles'.
All whilst she was doing so, she couldn't help but feel somewhat nostalgic about all of this as evident by her recovered smile. Even though Ayumu wasn't amongst them, she was finally involving herself within the game of Wixoss for the fun of it, just like before prior to the discovery of Hitoe's tainted wish. At the same time, she also couldn't help but wonder what Leon and Naoki had to show off to her, given that she had not seen them battle beforehand. Either way, with her worst fears put back to ease, for now at least, she could finally take the opportunity the enjoy the game of Wixoss as she had wanted to all those weeks ago, with both friends and family with nothing bad to come between them.
Card Luck
(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Kossori Tsuiseki)
"So... you can play SIGNI with equal or less Level to an LRIG, but not when their Levels go over a limit...? SIGNI cannot attack if an LRIG has already attacked... Gah, I'm still lost on all of this!"
Kamui groaned whilst he was seated at an empty table as he tried to make sense of the rules of Wixoss as evidenced by his complete and utter frustration in reading the rule booklet and trying to apply whatever was laid out to his current situation. Amika simply sweatdropped as she watched the cardfighter quietly rant to himself for not immediately adjusting to the rules of this 'new' game for him, especially if he wanted to keep fighting alongside his Beast Deities in the state that they were in. Even Piruluk who had remained uninterested throughout this whole debacle couldn't help but keep a somewhat deadpan expression on her face as she observed the Nova Grappler in his efforts to memorize and understand the rules of Wixoss.
"You seem rather reluctant."
"What was that?!" Kamui huffed as he glared at the blue LRIG.
"You mentioned that you once possessed this deck in the game of 'Vanguard'," she spoke in her usual monotone "Right now, that appears to be hindering your attempts to understand the changes as they are now."
The Nova Grappler user simply sighed, putting down his head on the hard flat surface of the table immediately. Going deep into thought over everything thus far, including the rules of Wixoss in that regard which he was trying so desperately to understand, he suddenly found the answer as to why at the very back of his mind, now causing him to feel like kicking himself for not realizing it sooner.
As much as I hate to admit it, Piruluk's right he muttered within his thoughts Right now, I'm too worried about not getting to grips with my units in their changed states to even understand the rules of the game.
"Say, Kamui?" Amika spoke, bringing his attention up to her "Maybe I should teach you the rules over the course of a game. It might help you to find the flow with your cards again."
"I see," he replied with a confident grin back on his face "It'll just be like working off a blank state, just like the first time I used this deck."
"I believe you meant 'blank slate'."
Kamui simply took no notice of Piruluk's monotoned reply to his incorrect grammar once again and waited for Amika to take her place at the other end of the table, setting herself up with both her Life Cloths and her opening hand. Seeing that her white and black backed cards were seperated from each other, he immediately did the same before instinctively shuffling his main deck and putting it down on the deck zone of the mat he and the Selector had previously been provided with.
"Good to see you've remembered that part," Amika said in reassurance "Now, set up a Level 0 LRIG face down on the LRIG zone and place the top seven cards of your deck face down in your Life Cloth zone without looking at what they are."
"Got it," he replied as he set up his Life Cloths and placed Beast Deity, White Tiger face down on his LRIG zone before drawing his five cards to form his opening hand.
"Right, now you're ready," she spoke.
"Let's go then!" Kamui called as they reached out for their starting LRIGs.
"Open!"
(End Music)
And there we go! As Kamui faces Amika to acqaint himself with the changes to his Beast Deity deck, Hatsu understands everything that has been going on so far from Ruko, Hitoe and the cardfighters' involvement within the Selector Battles as the group learns a vague piece of information about Ruko's mother, Kominato Miyako, still leaving all of them in the dark with very little knowledge about her and the truth to the Selector's past. What will happen next from here? What is also lurking in the shadows of the Selector Battles, waiting to make a move within this world? Find out next time on Stand Up, the LRIG! Please share any thoughts or criticisms you have and I'll see you next chapter! Until then!
