Hello everyone and welcome back to Stand Up, the LRIG for its first 2017 update! I hope you enjoy this next chapter!
Uemura Household
As the late afternoon began to draw over Hitoe's home, the Selector in question along with both of her parents, Aichi and Sakuya were seated in the living area of the small house. Her friend from childhood days that the two of them had spent together in Aomori was looking down at the floor with an unhappy expression present on her face. At some point during the walk over to the house of her closest friend, she had slowly but surely regained the memories of everything that happened between them and all of the things that she had said against both Aichi and her parents, for believing that none of them understood of what Hitoe was going through and that they deserved to suffer for it.
Now that she had the time to recollect her thoughts on everything that she had said during her time in Reverse however, she felt guilty for even saying such things in the first place and Hitoe herself could see that it was taking its toll on one of her closest friends. Both her mother and father looked on to Sakuya, noticing her initial upset expression as well.
"Is something wrong Sakuya?" the mother murmured.
"Listen... I..." the Selector began "I need to apologize to all of you."
"For what exactly?" asked Aichi.
(Selector Infected Wixoss OST: Hitoe)
"It's just that... ever since Hitoe left Aomori, I haven't been myself," she answered as she looked up to face them "I've thought of and even said horrible things about you when I know that you're really nothing like what I had initially imagined on that day. I was... I was just really worried for Hitoe's sake knowing how nervous she can be."
"Sakuya..." Midoriko breathed, hearing the conversation from her card, not that Hitoe's parents could hear her at this moment.
Sakuya took a deep breath to try and calm herself as she continued on with her explanation, briefly wiping away a tear that trickled down her left cheek as she decided to continue with her explanation.
"But I think I understand now..." she continued "This is something that Hitoe has to deal with and that I can't just worry about keeping her sheltered from everything around her. Today, I've seen that she's making progress to overcoming her anxiety and whilst I can still visit once in a while..." She then looked over to Aichi, pausing briefly in her speech as she did so. "I think my best friend is in capable hands."
The Royal Paladin user smiled warmly, understanding how Sakuya was feeling at this moment and feeling somewhat thankful that his efforts in aiding Hitoe over the past three days had not gone to waste.
"Sakuya, do not feel guilty about that day and what may have transpired after it," Hitoe's father spoke as he rose from the chair he was sitting on "What matters now is that the two of you have managed to reunite and that your friendship from those last few years have not changed at all."
"Thanks for understanding," the Selector replied as she looked over to Hitoe "So you said you've got more friends around here. Is there a chance I could meet them before I have to go back to Aomori tonight?"
"T... There's no need to worry," Hitoe replied as she looked out of the front window.
Sakuya and Aichi then looked out to see Ruko waving to the three of them with Kai standing beside her, his usual expression being present on his face as he gazed towards the front window of the house. As the three occupants looked back to Hitoe's parents for a brief moment, her mother kindly nodded in response as they went over to the front door to allow them to enter.
"Hitoe, how are you doing?" asked Ruko as she then looked over to Sakuya, the two of them meeting each other at last for the first time.
"Um... Ruko, this is my friend from Aomori, Sakuya," Hitoe explained "Sakuya, this is Ruko."
"Hitoe's told me a lot about you," said Sakuya as she offered one hand to the Selector who shook it gently in response "It's nice to finally meet each other in person."
"The same goes to you," she replied as she looked back to Kai who had joined them in the hallway "Um... I guess she and Aichi told you about Kai already."
Sakuya then looked up to Kai as did Midoriko from the card that she held, both of them taking note of his serious and yet somewhat neutral expression. Before she had become reversed, the Selector had previously heard about the Kagero user through rumor across various Selectors that she had encountered in her initial bid to make her wish come true, whatever that may have been.
(End Music)
"So you're Kai that I've heard about," she said as she briefly looked back towards the living space to make sure that Hitoe's parents weren't listening in on the topic she wished to address "I'm guessing you already know everything that's really going on."
"Naturally," he replied as he looked down at the card containing Midoriko, recognizing her appearance from Hatsu's previous battle with Naoki "I assume that you are the true Midoriko and Hitoe's previous LRIG."
"Yes," the green LRIG answered "If only I'd been a little braver and told Hitoe the truth before Yuzuki found out for herself, we wouldn't still be in this mess. I'm just glad you kept her safe from Akira the first time the two of you met." She then looked over to Ruko who had held out Tama and Yuki's LRIG cards before her.
"Ru's found Midoriko again!" the girl of white cheered out loud.
"It has been a while," Midoriko greeted as she then looked over to Yuki, her expression dropping a little as her gaze trailed upon the girl of black.
"It's okay Midoriko," said Ruko "We can trust Yuki now. She was just a little... misguided then."
"I see..." the LRIG replied.
She was still bewildered on how she came to Ruko's possession in the first place, not knowing the full story as to why and knowing that she and Ulith were mostly responsible for previously tainting Hitoe's wish in the first place. But if the Selector was willing to trust her even after that, there had to be a good reason as to why. Aichi and Hitoe smiled warmly, seeing that Sakuya was managing to befriend more of their group much more easily, now that she was beginning to understand everything that was going on around her and the danger that lay within the Selector Battles before them.
Apartment Blocks
(Cardfight! Vanguard Unreleased Soundtrack: Unsettling)
A long walk later back to the building, Kamui had eventually returned back to the apartment blocks, still feeling in a rather bad mood from what had transpired between him and Amika in their battle as of recently. He was frustrated for not only being unsuccessful in his efforts to try and get the Selector to abandon her efforts to claim whatever wish she was after, knowing full well of the consequences from what Aichi and Kai already knew, but for being somewhat duped in a case of partial mistaken identity in regards to Kiyoi and Remember's actual identities, the thought of which still made his head feel rather dizzy. At the same time though, when Amika had told him what exactly her wish was in the first place and the state that her family was in as of now, he didn't know what to think.
With her mother's life on the line, regardless of whether she wished to participate or not, a part of him still felt hesitant to object to what she intended to do, despite having knowledge on what would happen. As he came up the stairs towards one of the topmost floors, he saw Ren and Naoki at the top with Hatsu, confused as to why they were conversing with her as he had not met the grandmother of Ruko beforehand. Hurrying up the stairs, he eventually joined the two cardfighters and the elderly woman who looked over to him out of curiousity, having met the Nova Grappler user in person for the first time today.
"Kamui, is everything alright?" asked Naoki.
"No..." he muttered "I found Amika... but we ended up battling each other. I should be glad that her wish is safe, but...!"
"You feel otherwise?"
Kamui blinked for a moment before looking over to Hatsu, having not met her the previous day unlike the others beside him at this very moment.
"Who are you anyway?" he asked.
"I'm Ru-chan's grandmother, Hatsu," she answered "And you must be Kamui from what she told me last night."
"Right..."
Upon hearing the mention of Ruko, he inwardly gasped as he suddenly remembered something that had slipped his mind in the midst of his earlier frustration. Naoki looked at the Nova Grappler user, unsure of why he was acting this way at this very moment.
"I... I remember now!" he gasped "Didn't Ruko say she was having issues with her brother 'cause of her mom or something?!"
"So you have been told about it I see," said Hatsu "Is something wrong?"
"Well, her mom's gone over to our world!" Kamui exclaimed "And if my hunch is right, she's finishing what Remember started!"
As Ruko's grandmother gasped in shock along with Naoki, Ren said nothing in response but knew deep down that this was not good news at all. If the person that Kamui intially thought was Kiyoi was capable of taking away his units and marking him to prevent any additional copies of the stolen cards being used against her, there was no telling if Miyako would be just as equally dangerous, not aware of her previous cardfight with Gaillard. Although he wasn't showing it in his expression, his mind immediately flashed over to Tetsu and Asaka, knowing that they would be keeping Foo Fighter together in his absence and as such were in just as much danger as the Nova Grappler user was at the time he had encountered Remember.
"Hold up... don't you mean Kiyoi?" asked Naoki, now confused from the fact that Kamui had seemingly addressed Kiyoi by that name instead.
"Look, long story short," Kamui replied "Piruluk is really Kiyoi whose body is being used by her old LRIG Remember who's the one I actually fought back home."
"There, that wasn't so hard for a catch-up, wasn't it?" Ren mused, back in his usual cheerful demanor rather quickly.
"Try getting criticized by her for a start," he huffed in response "I swear, I thought Kai had a bigger attitude problem when we first started off as Q4. Not that he's anything like that since Aichi knocked his sorry reversed self for a round or two."
The hallway immediately fell silent as Hatsu turned away from the three cardfighters, having gone deep into thought about everything in regards to Miyako and what little new information that Kamui had learned from following Akira and Ulith earlier in the day. Ren looked over to her, wondering if was thinking on the exact same subject that had them thinking since yesterday.
(End Music)
"I assume you are thinking about Miyako, aren't you," he said.
"Indeed. I have been thinking about everything you have told me... and if Kamui's findings are only serving to confirm my worst fears," she spoke "I believe it may trace back to beyond the supposed incident of six years ago."
"So... what is it?" Naoki asked once again.
"I believe it may concern the name of the one you said was behind this crisis alongside these 'Star-vaders'," Hatsu answered as she closed her eyes "The person that you called... Mayu."
Mayu's Domain: Photon's Lab
Meanwhile in the lower levels of the lab that belonged to the current commander of the Star-vaders, Miyako flexed her metal hand as sparks briefly crackled across it, indicating that she had been using it for whatever purpose that she or Mayu had in mind at this moment. Behind her, several units that were easily recognizable as some of the Liberators from Gaillard's stolen deck were shackled by the Cyberoids that were marching beside them, escorting them to the 'Pit' where Takuto along the Raizer maintenance crew and pilots were now imprisoned within. Although the woman's eyes were mostly hidden by the shadow of her coat's hood, her lips however showed that she was not within the best of moods at this current moment.
After briefly clenching her metallic fist, she immediately loosened her grip as she heard several footsteps approach her from behind. Turning around, Miyako could see that it was Mayu who was approaching her at this very moment. Her expression seemed much more calmer compared to the previous day when she had learned that Remember had been unaware that Kamui still had his Beast Deity deck on hand when she had teleported him to the world outside of her domain. Kneeling down for a brief moment, Miyako opened her arms wide as she gently embraced the mastermind of the Selector Battles who returned it as well.
"It has been too long since I had last shared this within that accursed world," the older woman spoke.
"All in good time, my old friend," Mayu replied in a more gentle tone as she broke away from the embrace "What news do you bring?"
"I have successfully summoned most of the units from Gaillard's deck to your domain," Miyako answered "However, for whatever reason, I cannot find the presence of those that wield the Bluish Flames."
"That is because they no longer exist within this time."
The two of them turned around to see that Photon had now joined them within the premises of his lab with Ulith walking closely behind, keeping a calm and collected smirk from beneath her lips. The Cyberoid commander stopped in his footsteps along with the cruel demanored Selector as Miyako walked towards them from behind Mayu, stopping at a short distance from each other.
"Explain then, if you would Photon," she spoke with a hint of bitterness to her voice.
"The warriors named Percival and Aglovale along with several affliated with them, were once part of a group known in Cray's myth as Blaze Paladin," he answered "However, they were lost to the confines of history, until a certain individual brought them to our time, when we had captured the Swordsman of Light."
"Who you then promptly lost along with your fortress and all the technology you had of manipulating time to an alternate Dragonic Overlord of all things," Ulith interjected with a hint of snark to her usual tone "And considering that your little 'experiment' was disarmed by Sendou's new 'girlfriend' recently, your track record has hardly improved in that regard, 'commander'."
As she closed her eyes upon finishing her sentence, a few seconds later, she felt the sharp tip of metal pointed at her head between her eyebrows. Keeping her calm and collected appearance, Ulith reopened her eyes to see that Miyako had pointed the middle finger of her metallic hand right in the same spot she could feel the metal digging into her skin as the woman pushed slightly further on that point.
"That was only the first step in purging this world and Midoriko's case was also to serve as a reminder to those who dare defy my friend," she spoke "You would be wise to remember that."
Ulith simply smirked back in response as Miyako pulled back her metallic hand from the cruel demanored Selector's face, leaving a somewhat indented mark in the skin on her forehead that wasn't to the extent that would be a wound that could bleed.
"Regardless, Percival and his allies are one-of-a-kind units in the 'other' world, so keeping their cards will at least prevent Gaillard or anyone else from somehow using them against us," Mayu continued as she turned away from the group from the moment "I want the two of you and Futase to head back there immediately. The time has come to make my presence there known."
Miyako nodded in response and turned to Ulith who said nothing in reply to her, but kept her usual calm demanor in the face of the older woman's more serious gaze. The two of them then left the premises of the lab together, in search of Futase to inform her of the mastermind's most recent orders and the task that they would have to set out to accomplish. When it was just her, Photon and the working Cyberoids in the lab alone, Mayu tapped her foot on the floor panel that she was standing on. Then in an instant, it immediately descended from the floor she was currently on to an even lower level beneath the lab, one that was shrouded in darkness as evidenced by the lack of light all around her.
When the floor panel came to a stop, she took a step out into the dark space before her and held out her hands, causing a dark red cloud to manifest in front of her before a black image appeared in the very center along with the head of the figure that was displayed in front of her. It was one that displayed another Link Joker unit that was familiar to her and very few who had been in its presence before and recognized its appearance. It was the one that was called by most as the 'Clown', but to Mayu herself and those who served under it, it went by another name.
"What brings my presence to you, Mayu?" it asked.
"Tell me more of this... one who summoned Blaze Paladin to that altered history," she spoke "Which unit was it?"
"We believe it is the Sage of Guidance, Zenon," it answered "But as of the failed invasion of 'that' Earth, no cardfighter was detected possessing his card. What interest is he to you?"
"Chaos Breaker," she continued "I assume that Photon still has that 'disused' weapon on Cray's surface?"
The Clown moved closer to the 'portal' that it was speaking through to Mayu with, intrigued by her suggestion at this moment and the news that she had to offer thus far in regards to progress within the Selector Battles themselves.
"I believe I may have a solution to Miyako's small... 'dillema'."
Vanguard World: Card Capital
Meanwhile as dusk had only just began to settle over the city, Misaki had been sitting on a bench to the side of Card Capital, talking to Ratie after she had previously closed up the store just a few minutes earlier and saying goodbye to Miwa who had left on his way. She could see that the former Quatre Knight's expression was one of utter worry as she could easily tell, but she wasn't prepared to hear about what had happened halfway across their world earlier in the day.
"What was it that Neve told you?" the Oracle Think Tank and Genesis user asked.
"Gaillard... he was defeated by some woman called Miyako," Ratie answered "And he's not just lost his units to her... she somehow has access to his prison!"
(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Nikushimi)
Misaki blinked in confusion for a brief moment, seemingly caught off guard by the sudden news of Gaillard fighting within his Holy Prominence Prison once again when it was clear to her some time ago that the Quatre Knights had lost their powers the moment Aichi had returned back to Earth from the moon. The fact that an individual such as Miyako was now wielding those same powers as her own and had taken his units was proving to be all the more troubling considering the recent events that had taken place as of this instance. The sightings of this 'Kiyoi' from Jun and Miwa to Kamui's sudden disappearance and now the news of Gaillard losing his units were certainly disturbing, but the question that remained was what was the link that had tied them all together and why.
"Is there any other news about Gaillard's condition?" she asked once again.
"Neve said he had someone from the Euro League who's keeping watch over him until he recovers from his injuries," said Ratie as she then paused for a moment "He's... not the first person to come to mind, but he says that Leon trusts him well enough on his own accord. I think his name was Jaime if I remembered right."
"I see..." murmured Misaki.
As the clerk of Card Capital took into account this new information that the two of them had learned over the course of the day, the sky above them began to grow much darker just as the sun disappeared over the city's horizon. When it had done so, as she began to rise up from the bench that she and Ratie had been sitting on, the sound of fast paced footsteps immediately caught her attention as she looked out to the street in front of the entrance to Card Capital, just in time to see the edge of a shadowed figure rush on past. Ratie immediately hopped up from the bench and came alongside her to see that her friend's expression had tensed up in suspicion, wondering who exactly had just hurried on to wherever it was.
"Misakin?" she pondered.
Misaki didn't answer as she watched the figure disappear down another street, wondering what exactly that they were in a hurry for. But that alone wasn't what had made her suspicious at this moment, it was the direction of where that particular streets and several others in the same general direction was leading to and with all of the strange events that had transpired, she knew that this wasn't the time to second guess that something was about to happen very soon in correlation to those same events.
"Let's go, Ratie," she spoke as she hurried out into the empty street, followed closely behind by the former Quatre Knight.
As the two of them headed off in the direction that the Oracle Think Tank and Genesis user had suspected the passerby figure had hurried to for the presumed destination in mind, Ratie couldn't help but ponder on everything that the two of them had learned so far. It was shocking enough that Gaillard of all of the Quatre Knights would lose to someone they didn't know about, but for him to be injured by his own prison was enough to keep her worried sick about him. Eventually, after several minutes of rushing across various streets, the two of them had reached the destination that Misaki had presumed the figure had been hurrying off to. The tall building was already recognizable to the two of them, having visited it on seperate occasions of their own.
"Foo Fighter..." Ratie murmured as she turned to her companion for a moment before looking ahead, gasping for a moment "There they are!"
Misaki then looked ahead just in time to see what appeared to be the figure from earlier who was seemingly about to enter throught the front doors to Foo Fighter's main building. Turning around, the person in question stepped out from the shadow cast by the overhanging roof whose multitude of lights were not turned on for whatever reason. Emerging from the small blanket of darkness was none other than the Selector Futase who kept her gaze upon Misaki and Ratie with her only visible eye as she approached the two of them.
(End Music)
"It appears that I have acquired unwanted attention," she murmured "But this way, we finally meet in person, Tokura Misaki."
"Who are you?" asked Misaki.
"My name is Futase," the Selector answered "And by order of my companions... I cannot allow you to pass."
"There's more in there?" pondered Ratie.
"That is correct," she replied as she began to reach into her pocket, eventually bringing out what appeared to be a deck suited towards the game of Vanguard, unlike her usual Wixoss deck that she used in Selector Battles back in her own world. "I may only be dealing with a minor inconvenience, but 'she' has particular interest in you as well, Tokura."
Misaki said nothing in response as she reached into her pocket and pulled out the case that contained her Genesis deck, removing the cards from within it shortly afterwards in preparation for what appeared to be an inevitable cardfight.
"Before we begin, there is something I need to ask," she spoke "Do you know of a person named Kiyoi?"
"You must mean Remember..." Futase murmured "I see that she has taken full advantage of the body she now possesses. No doubt I see why Katsuragi has taken an interest in pursuing her."
"Then... you know where Kamui has disappeared to!" Misaki muttered.
The Selector said nothing more as she then brushed the large portion of hair covering the left side of her face away in that same direction, revealing the metal and the red lens covering over her left eye as it shone in the moonlight for a brief moment. Before Misaki or Ratie could even ask what they were just witnessing, the lens suddenly emitted a blinding red glow as two solid transparent red surfaces appeared in front of each of the two combatants, indicating that Futase had summoned these as the tables necessary to conduct their cardfight. The Oracle Think Tank and Genesis user couldn't help but feel somewhat unnerved when she had recognized the design of these tables, stirring up some rather unsettling memories within her mind.
Taking out the frontmost card from her deck and setting it down on the idented Vanguard circle, she placed her deck on the far top right corner away from it to prepare herself for the fight as Futase did the same. As the two of them drew their starting hands, Ratie watched on nervously as everything around them suddenly seemed to grow even darker through an aura that appeared all around them. She then looked back to Misaki, hoping she would be able to overcome Futase and find out more answers as to what was really going on around them.
"Stand Up, Vanguard!" both of them called out as they turned their starting Vanguards face up. Two columns of light appeared in front of their respective tables, one that was bright green and the other being dark red.
The first unit to emerge was Misaki's Genesis unit, Regalia of Prayer, Pray Angel. She had bright green eyes and brownish grey hair and was dressed in a set of white robes with a purple hue to them. In addition to wielding a small weapon of some kind, she also had feathed wings attached to her back and a metallic halo that hovered above her head.
Regalia of Prayer, Pray Angel/Grade 0/Boost/POW: 5000/SLD: 10000/Genesis/United Sanctuary/Angel
The other one that emerged was a small white draconic unit with several bits of red littered all over its body, including the nails for its claws and feet as well as the top half of its face and a large portion of its wings. Its purple eyes glowed omniously as it stared at Pray Angel, but what was more disturbing about this unit was the black ring adorned with several red lines that went around its neck.
Micro-hole Dracokid/Grade 0/Boost/POW: 4000/SLD: 10000/Link Joker/Star Gate/Cyber Dragon
"Link Joker..." Misaki murmured.
"Ride, Gravity Ball Dragon!"
(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Chikara ni Obareru mono tachi)
Futase's declaration immediately caught her attention as a dark aura surrounded the small unit before the shadow grew in size and as it disappeared to reveal the newly changed unit, it appeared that the first unit had undergone quite the change as well. As a dark red aura surrounded it, Ratie looked on toward the unit with a hint of nervousness.
"Blaster Blade said that Link Joker would be accepted by Cray..." she murmured "But... this one still feels malicious..."
"Ride, Shiny Angel!"
The former Quatre Knight then looked over to Misaki's side of the field to see Shiny Angel appear in the place of Pray Angel, who immediately reappeared in the space behind the Grade 1 Genesis unit.
"Attack!" she called as Shiny Angel charged up a sphere of energy in the palm of her right hand.
As Futase remained silent and motionless to indicate a 'no guard', Misaki revealed the top card of her deck to be Regalia of Foredoom, Lot Angel. It glowed brightly to indicate that she had managed to activate its trigger effect as she immediately drew 1 card from her deck after concealing the card in her hand. Shiny Angel then hurled the sphere of energy at Gravity Ball Dragon who remained motionless as it exploded into it upon impact. As the smoke cleared, the first card in Futase's damage zone revealed itself to be Barrier Star-Vader, Promethium, showing that she had not managed to get a trigger in this moment. Misaki kept a close eye on the Selector as she drew her next card, pondering on the situation before her.
"She's not exhibiting any signs of Reverse, just like Kourin then..." she murmured to herself "Aichi said that Blaster Blade believes that Link Joker would be accepted peacefully one day. And yet, this uneasiness..."
Futase then looked over the cards in her hand as she contemplated the situation at hand. Gazing over to the card at her far left with her left eye, she closed her eyes as she took out the centermost card from her hand.
"Ride, Gravity Collapse Dragon!" she called.
A dark aura enveloped Gravity Ball Dragon as it grew in size once again, emerging as an even larger Cyber Dragon with a large wingspan and a huge black ring with several red lines and multiple triangular points on the edge that circled behind its back. A dark red aura enveloped the dragon as it powered up from its own effects.
Gravity Collapse Dragon/POW: 9000 - 10000
"Lock!"
A pair of black rings encircled Pray Angel before they closed in on her, trapping the unit in a black sphere as they circled around it. The card on Misaki's table turned face down as sparks began flying off of it. She then looked ahead to see that two more Link Joker units that were unfamiliar to her appear behind and to the left of Gravity Collapse Dragon. The one that was behind the Cyber Dragon had a pair of black wings with red markings on them and wielded a neon green whip with sparks crackling across the length of it. The other was much more humanoid, being mostly clad in white armour and wielding a large firearm that it carried behind its shoulder.
Flash Gun Star-vader, Osmium/Grade 2/Intercept/POW: 9000/SLD: 5000/Link Joker/Star Gate/Cyberoid
Star-vader, Volt Line/Grade 1/Boost/POW: 7000/SLD: 5000/Link Joker/Star Gate/Cyber Fairy
"Osmium attacks!" Futase called.
The Cyberoid to the Selector's far left brought forward its firearm in front of it and began charging up the weapon as a purple glow began to illuminate the large barrel. Misaki however was prepared to counter this offense.
"Guard!" she called as Lot Angel appeared in front of Shiny Angel "And Soul Charge!"
As the noise of the build-up in Osmium's weapon died down along with the glow inside of it, Gravity Collapse Dragon growled as it flapped its large wings and took flight into the air. Futase then turned over the top card of her deck, revealing it to be Recollection Star-vader, Tellurium as it glowed brightly for a short instance.
"Heal Trigger," she spoke as she picked up Promethium's card from her damage zone and moved it straight to her drop zone.
Gravity Collapse Dragon held out its claws in front of itself as a black orb with several sparks emitting from it began to generate and grow in size. Then with a mighty roar, it hurled the orb right into Shiny Angel as it exploded upon contact. Misaki shielded her face from the impact of the blast as Regalia of Fate, Norn flew past her and entered her damage zone. Then as she looked ahead to see the smoke clearing, Volt Line's green whip suddenly pierced through the grey smog and wrapped around the sphere that was keeping Pray Angel locked before green sparks began flying off of the whip onto its target. The Cyber Fairy then pulled back its weapon with a single mighty tug as Misaki looked back at Futase, wondering what was going on.
"Volt Line's skill," the Selector spoke "Since Gravity Collapse's attack was successful, Pray Angel is Omega Locked. If you had allowed Osmium's attack to go through, the same skill would have applied."
"So even if Misakin's turn ends..." Ratie murmured as she looked over to her field Futase's deck must be full of them and as long as she keeps boosting her Vanguard with Volt Line, Misakin will have to guard to keep her units under a normal Lock.
Misaki stood up Shiny Angel's card as she looked over what was available in her hand to try and counterattack with at the present moment. Looking back to Futase, who kept her gaze with both her visible eye and the lens covering over the left side of her face upon her, she knew there was much that she had to ask about whilst she still had an opportunity.
"I can see that you don't appear to be reversed, even with Link Joker," she spoke "But, the fact that you know of Kamui's whereabouts has caught my attention. Where is he now?"
"He is within my world," the Selector replied "From what I last saw, he was with other companions that you were familiar with."
(End Music)
"You mean... you're from the same world that Aichi went to?!" asked Ratie "But then... why are you even here?!"
Futase looked down at the ground for a moment, hiding her expression for a brief instance before closing her eyes and facing the two cardfighters once again, knowing that they were demanding an answer from her.
"I have been sent here with many more, to carry out the orders of the one who governs the game in my world," she spoke "I will defeat you, just as Remember and Miyako have done to Kamui and Gaillard. Then, your units will belong to 'her' and that will be all to it."
Misaki narrowed her eyes upon learning of this new information, now seeing that Futase was involved with all of the strange events that had been going on in her world as of late and that all of them were connected in one way or another, just as she had initially expected. But that in turn had also served to raise even more questions. Was Kamui safe in that other world, even if he was with Aichi and the others as the Selector had claimed to had last seen him and just who was this 'one that governed the game' in that same world and why did she seek interest in taking her units? All the while, she knew that she now could not afford to lose this cardfight to avoid falling prey to the last question in mind and if what she said was true, she also had to stop these other companions she spoke off who were possibly within Foo Fighter, conducting fights of their own to achieve the same objective.
As Ratie watched on from she was standing, outside of the field's boundary that was indicated by the dark aura surrounding the three people inside of it, a new observer was watching closely from beside the front gate of Foo Fighter's premises. He was smartly dressed in a black suit with a white undershirt and a black tie and wore a pair of white gloves along with a pair of bespectacled glasses that had a string coming down from the right hand side. He had purple eyes and pale greyish turqoise coloured hair that was wavy near the front with a strand that came down across the middle of his face and the very back was tied up in a long strand neatly by a black coloured bow of some kind. He eyed the fight closely with his gaze falling upon Futase in particular, having beared some kind of interest to him in the first place.
"I've found one," he spoke quietly, seemingly to someone who was not present with him at the moment.
"Do not lose sight of her," a voice echoed as a small white flash emitted from the blue gem like earring that was present on his right ear "With any luck, she will lead us to the others."
And there we go! As Kamui, Naoki and Ren learn a little more about Miyako from Hatsu along with suspicions of a possible link to the past, Mayu sends her associates of the outside world to the world of Vanguard to continue with their task of capturing units there for her. As Futase with a Link Joker deck in hand confronts Misaki after grabbing her attention, a familiar onlooker secretly observes the fight for someone's greater agenda. Who will triumph and is everything this night all as it appears? Find out next time on Stand Up, the LRIG as by then, we reach the midway point of the third arc! Please share your thoughts and criticisms and I'll see you all next time! Until then!
Card of the Chapter:
Star-vader, Volt Line
Grade 1
Boost
SLD: 5000
POW: 7000
Clan: Link Joker
Nation: Star Gate
Race: Cyber Fairy
Unit Type: Normal Unit
[AUTO](RG): When an attack hits a Vanguard during the battle this unit boosted, choose one of your opponent's Locked cards and that card cannot be unlocked during his or her's next End Phase.
