South America: Serra Residence

Within the large mansion like estate of the Serra family, Miyako was on her own within a darkened room as she gazed at the cracked gem of her metallic hand. With her inability to communicate with Mayu or even return back to her for the time being, she would reluctantly have to make the best of her situation with the owner of the estate. She cursed silently in regards to her former son Ayumu, for his 'incompetence' in carrying out her plans and for inadvertently placing her in the situation that she had found herself within now.

Despite this however, she sensed that there was still some power that had been lost from her after the damage the stone itself had sustained and felt that she wasn't completely as powerless as she had initially thought. Opening up her metallic hand and flexing for a brief moment, sparks began crackling as a red eerie fog of some kind manifested in the air above the floor in front of her. Eventually, some of the mist cleared away to reveal a view similar to that of when Mayu herself would see from one of the windows of her White Room, observing the outside world through the card of an LRIG held by their Selector.

Narrowing her eyes, despite the success of managing to ensure that this power was still in effect despite the damage to the gemstone, the first two people she could see from within the image displayed were both her daughter Ruko and the person who she had initially planned to make her own to further her schemes and continue his role in Chaos Breaker's vision, Kai Toshiki.

"They survived after all..." she quietly murmured, standing up slowly from her seat as the vision expanded to reveal Kamui and Kiyoi in the two's presence as well, as they were sailing on Leon's yacht with the aid of Jillian and Sharlene to Signapore to pick up Christopher Lo "These humans are certainly more persistent than I imagined."

"So your damaged hand isn't completely useless to you now."

The woman turned her immediate sharp gaze towards a somewhat intrusive Serra who had entered the darkened room without warning as he slowly and calmly walked into what would have been her unnerving presence. He stopped just a little before the General of Mayu as he then looked towards the 'viewpoint' that she had summoned earlier, his gazed focused on Kai and Ruko.

"The harbinger of Reverse and your own daughter," he spoke "To think it was possible that our two worlds and the Planet Cray had more in common through these inner workings."

"I would ill advise you to not refer to her as my daughter in my presence," she replied with a hint of venom "Her failure to fulfil our original Grand Design with Ut'ulls' resurrection has left no meaning for her own existence."

"And yet, she possesses the two special LRIGs you've told me about," the former Quatre Knight interjected in his calm mannerism "If someone like Kai Toshiki could defeat you in that other world, certainly you would consider the measures you would plan to take against her."

"That will come, when I deem the time as right," Miyako answered as she waved her metallic hand once to close the viewing portal she had summoned earlier "For now, recovering my full power with the resources Morris has promised me comes as my first priority."

Serra simply nodded once with a calm smile to acknowledge that they would not personally take any drastic action against Kai or Ruko until the woman had deemed herself fit and ready to commit to a plan when necessary. As she passed him and exited through the open doorway to find his butler Morris, the man simply turned his earlier smile into a deeper sneer.

"You certainly have been busy... Chaos Breaker," he mused to himself "I wonder if I will see 'him' again soon."


Singapore

Later that bright afternoon within the island state city that was Singapore, all seemed nearly peaceful amongst the coastal roads as one notable individual was strolling along the pathway towards his destination in mind. The building that was the Singapore Institute of Technology, or S.I.T. for short, much like the name of the team that he had led in the Asia Circuit two years ago. He had pinkish coloured hair, blue eyes and a blue coloured hoodie as he walked the city streets, pondering over the details of the messages he had received recently since Kai and Kamui's return to this world.

So Aichi's newer friends somehow managed to build a teleporter nearly a year ago without us knowing and they need my help to fix it he murmured in his thoughts, recalling his earlier disbelief and later intrigue from when Tetsu had contacted him about the scenario they were faced with This should be an interesting challenge.

His curiosity on the whole subject had piqued quite the interest from him and as such, he was all too willing to help out both the Dark Irregulars user and Neve in assisting them in any way he could in repairing the pad itself, in the hopes of getting Kai's group back to the other world as well as ensuring that Ruko and Kiyoi could both make it home safely. Although the mention of her name had left him suspicious at first, given Remember's use of her body in regards to Kamui's initial disappearance, the later details he received had managed to clear up the matter for him, despite the initial confusion at first.

"Well, I hope I won't keep Lee waiting at the institute campus with my tools for too long," he said to himself "I can't imagine his frustration if he's busy stopping Ali from hitting on nearby girls again."

Suddenly, a loud noise boomed from the distance as the ground shook violently for a brief instance followed by a large column of bright orange fire bursting high into the air. Startled by the sudden commotion, Christopher could only stare at the fiery blaze in the distance as it continued to soar upwards for several more seconds before disappearing into thin air.

"That came from..." he breathed as he realized where exactly the column of flames had erupted from before his expression turned to sudden dread "Ali! Lee!"

(Selector Infected Wixoss OST: Run!)

Wasting no time in hesitating for even a single moment, the leader of SIT Genius immediately broke into a run down the city's coastal streets, passing by several fountains along the way including one that Futase had sat beside the previous night. Eventually, he turned away from the coast and down a few of the city's inner streets, trying to find a quicker path towards the institute to find his friends and pray that they were unharmed. After a few minutes of rushing through as many streets as possible with the minimal risk of running into large crowds, Christopher eventually arrived at the front area of SIT itself.

When he did so, he could only gasp at the sight that was laid out before him. Numerous cardfighters were on the ground, each of them bearing a Mark of Penalty on their right hands and many blank cards that were scattered out in front of them as they were scrambling them back together. All of them were agonized in one way or another, angry and upset from losing their units to the very people who had defeated them earlier in the day.

"This is...!" he breathed as he stared at both the mark and the blank cards of one of the fighters "Didn't Tetsu say something like this happen to the rest of Foo Fighter after Ren left with Aichi?!"

Hearing another rumble from nearby, he looked ahead towards the front doors of the institute to find two bright purple flashes at the small grounds area near them. Believing he would get another understanding from what was really going on around the campus and what was happening to the cardfighters here, he immediately made a run towards them, eventually coming close enough to find that the glows were actually boundaries as looking through them, he could see his two teammates within their along with several of their units having seemingly materialized within there. And from he could tell, they were in a middle of cardfight against two opponents that seemed strange to him. One of them had black hair with a pair of glasses over his yellowish coloured eyes and the other had blue eyes with pale-ish red hair that had a small hint of yellow.

"Ali! Lee!" cried Christopher.

Both of his friends upon hearing their companion call out to them immediately looked outside the boundary of the battlefields they were part of respectively, noticing his worried and somewhat panicked expression.

"Chris!" they called back.

"What's going on?!" he asked "Why are all of those fighters like that?!"

"Our opponents did that to them earlier after beating them!" Lee replied "Before we could check on them, they roped us into a fight right away!"

"Quite frankly, these girls aren't my types," Ali interjected, which only served to gain him a small glare from his teammate "But right now, we've just got to fight our way out of this!"

Christopher then walked over to the purple coloured boundaries, trying to make out their assailants through the bright glow that mostly obscured the other half of the fields. Their respective opponents were two people who had more or less had been long prepared for this sudden invasion of the institute premises, to strip more cardfighters of their units for Mayu, even if Miyako was not present in the White Room to summon them there. There was Futase, whose solemn expression was hidden from the sight of Ali as Photon stood as her current Vanguard alongside Dust Tail Unicorn and Neon. Ulith on the other hand, seemed to be slowly relishing within her patience, thinking of the agony and pain that would soon befall her opponent as her current Vanguard was a soulless manifestation of her own LRIG self, in the form known to Selectors and other WIXOSS players as Ulith, Ashen River Enma.

"That first one's definitely using Link Joker..." he murmured to himself "But what exactly is that other Vanguard?"

"Get over here!"

Without warning, a sudden noise caught Christopher's attention as an orange coloured beam of some kind immediately shot towards and ensnared his wrist, catching him off guard as he stared at the coil he was now tethered to. Then before he had time to assess his situation, he felt himself being dragged across the institute premises as he was forced to break into a run to keep up with the speed that his capturer was reeling him in at. Eventually as he felt the pull on the tether begin to loosen up, he slowed down to a stop as the Great Nature user saw that not only was some distance from his companions, he was now face to face with the Selector who had brought him here.

It was Akira, who had no issue with her scar being visible to her captured prey and now wielded a small black and white coloured bracelet on her left wrist with a small jewel embedded on it, from where the tether itself had sprouted from. She had her usual sneer plastered on her face which had left Christopher rather unnerved as he looked at her, wondering why she had snared him like that.

"Are you with the people fighting my friends now?!" he demanded.

"And what if I am?" she asked in a playful, yet sinister tone.

"What's going on?! Why are all of those fighters like that?!"

The Selector simply scoffed in response as she eventually released the Great Nature user from her tether, just as a bright purple light suddenly encircled the two of them as she immediately leaped over to the far side. Once Christopher realized that this was the same boundry that Ulith and Futase had used to force both Ali and Lee into fighting them respectively, he knew that reluctantly, there was only going to be one way out of this situation. A dark red table, similar to the ones used in the fields summoned by those who used Link Joker or reversed units during the outbreak of Reverse in his world, manifested in front of both him and Akira.

"So the only way out of here is to fight you?" he asked.

"That's right, lun-lun!" a familiar voiced echoed out.

Blinking for a moment, he could only watch as Akira fished out Milulun's card from her pocket and revealed the LRIG herself to him. She waved at him in her usual energetic manner, smiling brightly as she did so.

(End Music)

"Nice to meet you lun!" the blue LRIG greeted "Though I would not advise angering Aki-lun as she can be quite the cranky one!"

"Aki-lun...?" Christopher pondered, blinking in confusion.

"Milulun!" Akira snapped "How many times have I told you not to greet our opponents like that?!"

"Well excuse me for being friendly...!" the blue LRIG pouted "And you're not even using my cards in that deck you call a 'revenge' one."

Taking no notice of her LRIG at all, the Selector immediately stuffed the card back into her dark purple hoodie before grabbing out a Vanguard deck out of the other pockets, immediately setting her starting Vanguard on the Vanguard circle. With the only option available to him being right in front of him, Christopher immediately set down his starting Vanguard as well as prepared his starting hand. Akira quietly giggled to herself as she gazed at the cards that formed her opening hand as the two of them then reached out for their starting Vanguards.

"Stand up, (Aki) Vanguard!"

Two bright white glows manifested in front of their respective tables as the units that they had chosen began to slowly manifest themselves as part of their image onto the battleground that the Selector had created. The first to emerge was a yellow coloured mole creature with two tools wielded in its upper paws.

"Gardening Mole!"

Gardening Mole/Grade 0/Boost/SLD: 10000/POW: 5000/Zoo/Great Nature/High Beast

Akira simply smirked as her starting Vanguard, not being Milulun as the LRIG herself had previously complained about, materialized herself onto the field. It was the LRIG form of Hanayo, depicted as Level 0 with blank eyes and a vacant expression. The Selector herself had already known about the actual LRIG's presence in Yuzuki's body, but wasn't concerned about this minute detail in the slightest.

Hanayo Zero/Grade 0/Boost/SLD: 10000/POW: 5000/Dragon Empire/?/Human;LRIG

Christopher could only stare at the 'unit' that was before him, wondering what she was and what exactly she was capable of doing in this cardfight. Looking to Akira's table, he could see that the clan box of the card Hanayo Zero was blank, but otherwise bore the red colour that represented the Dragon Empire nation. Suddenly, her deck surrounded itself in a bright orangish coloured glow as a single card slid out from there and set itself face down to the right of her deck, where the bind zone would otherwise be.

"A card bound itself from the deck...?" he breathed in shock.

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about that for now," Akira sneered playfully, bringing his attention back to her "Just worry about surviving until then. Assuming you can even beat me before it gets unleashed."

The Great Nature gritted his teeth, knowing that for a fact that if she was with the same people that had effortlessly taken out all of the other fighters that were on the institute campus, this was bound to be a difficult fight for him.


...

"Great Daikaiser attacks your Vanguard!"

Meanwhile further away from the institute in a different part of the city, a small group of people had gathered around a table within the somewhat spacious card shop. And with the reputation that one of the fighters participating had from his many achievements, who could blame them for wanting to get a close enough view of the action that was going on. The fighter in question had blonde hair and silver coloured eyes and wore a grey coloured shirt along with a pair of trousers and a red coloured coat. Around his neck hung a pendant of some kind, a keepsake from a very close companion of his, one that had planned to meet soon after the day had come to an end.

Opposite him was a young boy who had just finished placing a sixth card in his damage zone and leaped down from the table to talk to him.

"Thank you very much Mitsusada-san!" he said, bowing once in respect "I guess loading my deck with more Draw Triggers backfired on me, huh."

"There's nothing wrong with thinking the way you did," Mitsusada kindly replied as he gather up his cards "Your Vanguard already gains a Critical with its own skill and you chose tailor your trigger lineup on a defensive front. Just keep in mind that the more Draw Triggers you choose to invest into, the more Shield you sacrifice to guard with."

Smiling brightly, feeling better from the advice that the fighter otherwise known as either 'Emperor' or 'Koutei' and the leader of Team Caesar himself, the younger fighter shook his hand before heading off to a nearby table, looking to reconstruct his deck. As he looked across the rest of the shop, he felt happy knowing the positive atmosphere of the fighters that came around this portion of Singapore was not just a good thing for the game of Vanguard, but for themselves in building new bonds and learning more about the game and the people around them. Sadly, the sentiment didn't last for very long however as the door opened up before everyone else gasped, causing him to turn around.

He gasped briefly as he noticed the various patches and stitches that the new girl at the door had endured as she stumbled into the shop, several cards spilling out of her skirt pocket as she fell to the floor, panting as she did so. All of the cards were blank, much like those who had been affected by Mayu's troupe, leading everyone in the shop to wonder what had happened to her.

"Are you alright...?!" Mitsusada called in worry as he knelt down to help her pick up the blank cards "What happened?!"

"... SIT premises..." she groaned, barely able to remain conscious "My units... gone..."

She then passed out, leading him to only stare at her in worry, wondering how it was that she had ended up in such a condition and why her cards were just blank as they were, wondering if the fact her units were 'gone' related to this.

"Look at her hand!" one of the other fighters in the shop called.

The Dimension Police user then gazed at the Mark of Penalty that was on the unconscious fighter's right hand, wondering how it had gotten there in the first place and if it had anything to do with the blank cards that had dropped out of her pocket. It was clear that despite the apparent danger that was seemingly present from her condition alone, the only way for him to get the answers to the questions that now spiralled through his troubled mind was to head to SIT itself and confront the source of this madness himself, before anyone else within Signapore could lose their units.


(Selector Spread Wixoss OST: Battle ~ Consternation)

Back on the distant part of the institute grounds, Akira and Christopher were still within the earlier stages of the cardfight that had started, with both of them at Grade 2 and the Great Nature user leading two damage to three. The giant panda that wielded a large globe for a weapon known as Geograph Giant stood as the Vanguard for him whilst Hanayo Two stood as the Selector's sole offence for the time being. Now that game had advanced this far, Akira felt it was time for her to start moving things along a little further as the card that was bound from her deck at the start of the fight glowed orange briefly as she drew her next card.

"Ride!" she called "Hanayo Three, Blazing Flame Dance!"

The imaged Hanayo vanished in a blaze of flames that covered over her for a brief moment before a blinding red light dispelled the heat, revealing her in one of her various Level 3 forms as a Grade 3 Vanguard now. The ends of her dress and her shoulder pads seemed to resemble that of flower petals as her blank gaze turned upon Christopher and Geograph Giant.

Hanayo Three, Blazing Flame Dance/Grade 3/Twin Drive!/SLD: 0/POW: 10000/Dragon Empire/?/Human;LRIG

"Skill activated!" Akira declared as she turned over the Hanayo One in her damage zone face down before pointing to another unit on her opponent's field, sneering as she did so "Burn in hell, Binoculus Tiger!"

A pillar of fire suddenly erupted underneath the tiger that carried a pair of oversized binoculus on its back, incinerating the High Beast in an instant as the card moved to Christopher's Drop Zone, joining Gardening Mole and Silver Wolf. Despite being somewhat unnerved with the surprise that Hanayo's power could be used alongside that of Kagero, he felt that he was still in with a fighting chance.

If Hanayo's only power is retiring my rear-guards, just like those Kagero units, then I have nothing to fear! he muttered in his thoughts If I keep getting them off the board after my skills, Akira won't be able to gain as much benefit!

"Call!" Akira declared as Chain-attack Sutherland and Demonic Dragon Mage, Mahoraga appeared onto the battlefield as the cards themselves were placed into her right column "Hanayo attacks your Vanguard!"

The Hanayo on the battlefield emotionlessly raised her right hand as a fireball materialized within her palm before she effortlessly hurled it towards Geograph Giant as it grew in size the closer it came to the panda High Beast.

"Guard!" Christopher called as he placed down the card Triangle Cobra on his Guardian Circle.

"Twin Drive!"

The Selector immediately revealed the first card that was shown from her Twin Drive as Gattling Claw Dragon.

"Draw Trigger! I give the power to Sutherland!"

After drawing her single card as Chain-attack Sutherland and the dragon he sat atop of powered up from the trigger effect, she immediately conducted her second check, revealing Embodiment of Spear, Tahr.

"Critical Trigger!" she gleefully cheered, cackling madly as she added the card to her hand "All effects go to Sutherland!"

Chain-attack Sutherland/POW: 8000 - 18000/Critical: 1 - 2

Triangle Cobra appeared in front of Geograph Giant, manifesting a green circle in front of it with its temporary presence just long enough for it to deflect the attack from the copied LRIG. After the serpent unit vanished from Christopher's side of the field, the panda High Beast was immediately fired upon by Sutherland's firearm as it was showered in fiery hot bullets. As it thrashed and cried in pain, the Great Nature user's next two damage was Coiling Duckbill and Dictionary Goat.

"Heal Trigger!" he called "I recover one damage!"

"Keh! So you reduced the damage to just one this time!" Akira replied "But, the countdown to your demise is near and I can personally ship your units to Ulith-chan!"

End of Turn 5

Akira vs Christopher

Hand - 5 : 4

Soul - 4 : 1

Damage - 3 : 3

Bind Zone - 1 (face-down) : 0

Front Rows : EMPTY - Hanayo Three, Blazing Flame Dance (VG) - Chain-attack Sutherland : EMPTY - Geograph Giant (VG) - EMPTY

Back Rows : EMPTY - EMPTY - Demonic Dragon Mage, Mahoraga : EMPTY - EMPTY - EMPTY

Christopher stared down at his almost empty board, having expected that something like this would happen as a result of facing against a clan that specialized in removing his rear-guards with ease. Looking to his drop zone, his confidence returned to him, knowing that Akira had pretty much done exactly what he intended for her to do in the early game.

That earlier Gattling Claw Dragon was annoying... he muttered in his thoughts But now that Hanayo is at Grade 3, the battle can now begin!

Akira simply gazed at the Great Nature user, noting that she had not expected him to recover his lost confidence that quickly since the fight had begun. Then again, she knew that this was to be expected, given that this was indeed the world of Vanguard fighters. The same world that Kai Toshiki, the person responsible for her earlier humiliation in her first run of the Selector Battles, had come from.

Flashback

Last night back in her own world, Akira had been approached by Ulith once again within the room of her apartment, wondering what it was that she was wanting to talk to her about. The cruel demanored Selector had been all too willing to spare some of the details of her initial mission in stealing units for her 'boss' by marking cardfighters within the world that Kai had come from, whilst keeping any mention of Mayu herself sealed within her lips. Needless to say, upon hearing that she was telling her this information, Akira had immediately jumped to a single conclusion on why she had approached her like this.

"Are you saying... you want Aki-lovely's help there?" she breathed.

"That is correct," Ulith replied calmly as she joined the Selector on her bed "Given your disappointment in my marking of Sendou Aichi being off-limits for your agenda, I felt this offer was necessary to quench your thirst."

"The world that bastard Kai came from...!"

Akira began chuckling darkly to herself as her smile began to deepen, which was even enough for her LRIG Milulun to silently ponder in concern as she watched on from the card laid on the girl's desk.

"How many of them are there...?" she sneered as she brought out a knife from her pocket before flinging it straight into the wall where it had struck a photo displaying Kai's head "Aki-lovely will crush them all for you and your... boss as you say."

"Plenty," Ulith answered with a smile as she wrapped an arm around the Selector's shoulder, making her lightly blush for a brief moment "But there is a catch."

Akira simply turned to the person she admired deeply, wondering what exactly this catch was that she was bringing up.

"Milulun's power will be useless in that world, as Spells do not exist in Vanguard," she explained "But, having an alive LRIG will not be necessary to initiate a cardfight. So I ask you, what kind of deck would you wield as your own in that world?"

The Selector playfully began pondering over what potential options she could use for her Vanguard deck, thinking over different colours and how they would translate over with their stratagems to the six nations that Cray's units wielded. Upon thinking about that, an image of Dragonic Overlord came to mind, realizing that her actions in that world would get Kai's attention if the word of him being there now was true. She still had a grudge with the Kagero commander for its criticisms of her lack of respect for the units of Kagero and now, she felt she could kill two birds with one stone.

"Anything that can let me use Kagero," she answered, her focus returning back to the photo of Kai that her knife had pierced "He's not the only one I wish to smite at once."

(End Music)

Present

As her reminiscence of last night's events came to an end, Akira watched on with a confident smile as Christopher drew his next card, not even concerned in the slightest with what he was going to throw her way. As he gazed over the cards in his hand, his attention returned back to the card that was bound face-down from the Selector's deck since the start of the fight. A part of him was concerned about what this had meant and why the pulses of orange glows had grown stronger at the start of each of her new turns. Deciding to worry about focusing on the fight as it was now, he took ahold of one of the cards in his hand and placed it down on top of Geograph Giant.

"Ride!" he declared "Magic Scientist, Tester Fox!"

(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Shouri no Michisuji ha)

As Geograph Giant vanished from his side of the field, an explosion of smoke erupted for a brief instance as a bipedal orangish fox dressed in a dark green uniform of and holding a stick that certain instructors or teachers would wield along with a vial of some kind. It smiled as it entered the battlefield with its red eyes partially covered over by a pair of glasses.

Magic Scientist, Tester Fox/Grade 3/Twin Drive!/SLD: 0/POW: 11000/Zoo/Great Nature/Warbeast

With the conditions having already been fulfilled, Christopher held his open right hand over the top of Tester Fox's card.

"Seek Mate!" he declared.

A golden aura soared up to the dome shaped roof of the battlefield's boundary and caused a bright flash as the four cards that were in the Great Nature user's drop zone flew up and rearranged themselves on top of his deck. A file of light then scanned through his deck, bringing to his open hand the appropriate card to complete his current action.

"Illusion Scientist, Researcher Fox!" he announced before throwing the card onto the Vanguard circle beside Tester Fox's own "Legion!"

As the Legion symbol flashed to all who were present, a white coloured bipedal fox who wore a red coloured uniform in a similar style to Tester Fox's own and wielded a vial in his own claw much like the latter appeared alongside the Legion leader, ready to fight alongside it.

Magic Scientist, Tester Fox and Illusion Scientist, Researcher Fox/POW: 20000

"Tsk! That skill Ishida used...!" Akira hissed, recalling her battle with the Narukami user briefly.

"Call!"

As soon as Christopher made the announcement known, a second Geograph Giant, two Coiling Duckbills and another Researcher Fox appeared onto his rear-guard, filling up his board with the exception of the one empty circle that was behind his Legion. But even at the expense of all of the cards that he had held just moments ago, he wasn't concerned in the slightest against what aggressiveness Hanayo had coupled with Kagero's speciality.

"I don't know why you are doing this, but I won't let you get away with it!" he called as he started his Battle Phase "With a boost from my first Duckbill, Geograph attacks!"

Geograph Giant hurled its large globe onto the ground of the battlefield as it came rolling over towards the manifested Hanayo, who emotionlessly remained in place as Embodiment of Spear, Tahr suddenly appeared and smashed the projectile in an instant.

"Guard," Akira responded as she placed the card into her drop zone "Do you really think dropping your hand like that's going to change anything? Goosey-goosey-goosebumps!"

"My Legion attacks!" Christopher continued as he rested Tester Fox and Researcher Fox's card "Skill activated! My rear-guard Researcher Fox gains 4000 power!"

The Legion-Mate Researcher Fox then hurled the vial that it wielded at the one that was on the left column of the Great Nature user, increasing its power with a glowing green aura.

Illusion Scientist, Researcher Fox (RG)/POW: 9000 - 13000

Akira smugly shrug her shoulders to declare that she had no intention of guarding the attack, confident that it would only deal her significant damage that wouldn't be enough to end the fight right away.

"Twin Drive!" he declared as he revealed his first card as Cable Sheep before the second card glowed, revealing it as Ruler Chameleon "Critical Trigger! I give Critical to my Legion and power to my rear-guard Researcher Fox!"

The legioned pair then immediately brought out a multitude of different coloured vials from their uniforms into their claws before hurling them straight at the battlefield's manifestation of Hanayo, forcing her to cover her face as the vials exploded upon hitting the ground in front of her. Akira simply smirked as she damage checked immediately, revealing Hanayo Two followed by Perdition Dancer, Agafia.

"Oh, Aki-lovely's got a Heal Trigger from that Critical attack like you!" she said in a playful, yet snide manner "Power to Hanayo and recover one damage!"

Immediately after she did so, the other Researcher Fox waged its attack as it hurled another vial at the imaged LRIG, exploding on contact with the ground and knocking her back as Seal Dragon, Rinocross entered the Selector's damage zone.

"Turn end," Christopher spoke as the rear-guard Researcher Fox vanished in an explosion of smoke "With Researcher Fox's skill, I add another Tester Fox to my hand. With my two Duckbills' skills given to Researcher Fox and my Legion skill, draw three cards, move Researcher Fox to the bottom of my deck and turn over one card in my damage zone."

(End Music)

End of Turn 6

Akira vs Christopher

Hand - 4 : 6

Soul - 4 : 2

Damage - 5 : 3

Bind Zone - 1 (face-down) : 0

Front Rows : EMPTY - Hanayo Three, Blazing Flame Dance (VG) - Chain-attack Sutherland : EMPTY - Magic Scientist, Tester Fox and Illusion Scientist, Researcher Fox (VG) - Geograph Giant

Back Rows : EMPTY - EMPTY - Demonic Dragon Mage, Mahoraga : Coiling Duckbill - EMPTY - Coiling Duckbill

Shortly after the battlefield had fallen silent, Akira began cackling to herself once again as the Great Nature user could only stare at her, wondering what it was that she had planned to do next as she drew her next card.

"You're all gonna get it!" she declared "You, every fighter in this god forsaken dump of a world and Kai Toshiki! There's nothing you can do to stop Ulith-chan's plans for you all!"

"Ulith-chan...?" he pondered "Is she one of the people fighting Lee and Ali?!"

"That's right!" the Selector replied as she picked out the next card from her hand "You people made a mistake crossing mine and her paths in my world and now, you're gonna suffer for it! Ride!"

(Cardfight! Vanguard G NEXT Unreleased Soundtrack: Saori/Dumjid Fight)*

A large column of fire suddenly erupted onto the battlefield, forcing Christropher to shield his face from the intense heat as the pillar dispersed to reveal the newly changed form of Hanayo, now as one of her Level 4 forms. Her dress resembled that of rose petals and her headdress had several flowers attached on the sides. With her blank stare once more, she cracked out her green coloured thorn whip as the flames around her eventually died down for Akira to announce the name of this particular form.

"Hanayo Four, Hundred-Fire Profusion!"

Hanayo Four, Hundred-Fire Profusion/Grade 4/Twin Drive!/SLD: 0/POW: 13000/Dragon Empire/?/Human;LRIG

"So this is Grade 4...!" he breathed.

The Selector sneered as she watched the Great Nature user ponder on how such a power could exist within the game he knew and what exactly he was going to do to stand against it this turn.

"It seems that this revenge deck is too much for Chris-Chris here to handle," she murmured to herself confidently "Honestly against this power, I wonder how Kai even managed to humiliate me in the first place."

"Yeah, it's just Hanayo mashed with counterfeit Kagero units," Milulun muttered from her coat pocket in a pouty tone "Just what's so special about that?"

Ignoring the blue LRIG who was still feeling sore about not being able to be used in battle from Vanguard's lack of Spells, Akira continued on with her turn as she refocused her attention on Christopher before taking out another card from her hand and calling it to her back row.

"Call Mahoraga!" she announced as a second copy of the Demonic Dragon Mage joined the first one on the battlefield. "Hanayo's skill! I retire one rear-guard and use the same skill again!"

As two cards in the Selector's damage zone turned face down along with Gattling Claw Dragon and another Hanayo Four being discarded from what was left of her hand, the Hanayo on the battlefield raised her whip high into the air as she swirled it around very fast until the tip of it eventually caught fire. The imaged LRIG then swiftly made a slashing motion with her whip, sending a wave of flames that immediately engulfed the Great Nature user's entire right column as Geograph Giant and the Coiling Duckbill there screamed in pain before being incinerated in an instant.

"Berserk Dragon!" Akira continued as the final two face up cards in her damage zone turned face down before pointing to Christopher's only remaining rear-guard "Retire Duckbill!"

The two headed dragon manifested onto the battlefield before it roared loudly and unleashed two streams of hot fire at the remaining Coiling Duckbill, leading it to meet the same fate as all of his other rear-guards this turn. Each of the two Mahoragas and Sutherland gained a bright red aura to them as they were seemingly getting stronger from the onslaught that the Selector had gone through this turn.

Demonic Dragon Mage, Mahoraga/POW: 5000 - 20000

Chain-attack Sutherland/POW: 8000 - 17000

"You'll now understand what it's like to be on the receiving end, as will Kai once I find him!" she gleefully declared as she rested Hanayo's card to signal her immediate attack.

"Ruler Chameleon!" Christopher called as the reptile High Beast appeared in front of Tester Fox and Research Fox in an effort to protect them.

Akira then immediately conducted her Twin Drive revealing a second Perdition Dancer, Agafia as her first check.

"Another Heal Trigger!" she said in sinister delight "Power to Berserk Dragon and I recover 1 damage! Second check!"

After revealing her second card as another Chain-attack Sutherland, the imaged Hanayo began swirling her whip again at a faster speed as more fire began to gather up before she lashed it out at Ruler Chameleon, retiring it right out of the fight in a large explosion as Christopher was forced to shield his face from the large impact. He knew now that somehow, the damage that these imaged units were dealing out in this space was somehow real and that there were too many unanswered questions as to what was really going on that he didn't know from what she was saying yet.

"What's going to happen if you steal enough units?!" he demanded "And why do you have the interest in Kai Toshiki anyway?!"

"Keh," she scoffed "For your first question, don't know and don't even care."

"What?"

"This is just a job for my Ulith-chan, the one who imagine is fighting your glasses friend," she answered "But for your other question, my real target in this world is none other than Kai Toshiki for humiliating me back in my world! Once I find him and Dragonic Overlord, both of them are going to get what they deserve!"

Although the reason behind why the units of fighters were being taken along with the marks that were on their hands was still a mystery that even she seemingly didn't know, let alone care about in the first place, things were beginning to make some kind of sense for Christopher. Akira was from the other world that Aichi and the others had travelled to in search of Kai before the latter had recently returned and she was harbouring some kind of vicious grudge against him for something that happened between them, unaware that it was primarily because of him tainting her wish without him even being aware of it.

"Berserk Dragon attacks your Vanguard!" the Selector declared as the two headed dragon recieved the large power boost from Mahoraga before unleashing a pair of fireballs at Tester Fox and Researcher Fox.

"Guard!" Christopher called as he revealed three cards from his hand "Triangle Cobra, Gardening Mole, Geograph Giant!"

The three Great Nature units then appeared all at once in front of the Legioned pair, forming a large green circle in front of them to deflect the attack with the greatest of ease through their combined efforts.

"Sutherland!"

Upon hearing Akira's command, the dragon he rode atop of took flight and Sutherland himself them began firing a barrage of fiery bullets towards Tester Fox and Researcher Fox as they were struck down in an instant with nothing being called to guard against it. A single card named Fortune-bringing Cat landed in Christopher's damage zone, leaving him to let out a sigh of relief.

"Draw Trigger!" he announced "I draw 1 card!" Good, I kept myself to four damage and my Perfect Guard is still here if I need it!

"Well, it seems you get to live for one more turn," the Selector sneered as the red auras from around Sutherland and her two Mahoragas died down, signalling the end of her turn.

She then gazed over to the bound face down card that still remained as it was beside her deck, now faintly glowing at a faster pace with a small but somewhat noticeable fiery orange coloured aura. Her smile deepened as she knew what exactly this particular card was and with Hanayo now at Grade 4 which accounted for the stronger pulses emitting from the card, things were now seeming desperate for her opponent.

"Just a little longer," she said to herself "Next turn... I'm about to go on a rampage."

As Christopher watched her gloating in what she was assuming would be her victory on the next turn, he couldn't help but feel somewhat unnerved by the stronger beats emitting from her face down bound card, wondering what it was she was intending to unleash.

Keep calm! he mentally told himself She may be back down to four damage, but she only has two cards in her hand! I'll finish it now before she can play that card!

(End Music)


Back within one of the other boundaries across the institute grounds, Lee could only stare at Ulith as she stood her lone Vanguard back up, the one depicting the very same LRIG form that Miyako had previously used to defeat Gaillard. That form was indeed the one that was titled Ulith, Infinite Enma and he already had a tough time trying to guard against it from the previous turn, not helped by the fact that she went along with her preferred speciality of deck destruction through units that were Devil SIGNI and Quintet Walls to speed up the process of building up her Drop Zone.

Things had seemingly looked up for him after he had managed to ride a new School Hunter, Leo-pald which had managed to reclaim some of attack advantage lost from most of the cards he had to use to Guard against Infinite Enma. But now it was the cruel demanored Selector's turn again and much like Akira at this very moment, she too also had a card bound face down from her deck since the beginning of the fight, leading him to wonder what exactly it was.

"You actually managed to make a comeback by riding another Grade 3," she said in a cooly, yet calm manner "Then again, I wouldn't expect anything less of the heir to the Lee family in this world."

"What are you saying?" Lee asked, feeling unnerved that she was bringing up his family name into this debate.

"I keep myself informed of all my opponents," Ulith continued "I know everything about them, not just from fighting or battling them, but from the way they tick. It is through there... where I can smash all of their brilliance, as yours will be."

The companion to Christopher clenched his teeth, knowing that both his opponent and this fight were not proving to be very easy and now with her turn coming up, who knew what surprises she had in store.

"I Stand my true self," she began "And... I seal my Draw Phase for this turn!"

As Lee's eyes widened in shock as to the sudden declaration, the bound card suddenly gained a creeping black aura that flowed down from it and onto the floor of the battlefield like smoke. He gazed around in confusion, wondering if that card was somehow causing all of this to happen, including the 'sealing' of Ulith's Draw Phase as she had declared, just as she picked it up herself.

"Sweet despair... twisted appearance...! Manifest yourself in all of your warped beauty and ugliness and bring an endless nightmare to those before you! Limit Override!"

She then slammed the card down on top of Ulith, Infinite Enma as a blinding bright purple glow emitted from the copied Ulith on the battlefield, changing her appearance as a dark puprle aura covered over the left half of her body as the light continued to glow brighter and brighter. Lee was forced to shield his eyes from the blinding brightness as he struggled to make out what it was from the glow in front of him before a sinister cackle followed by a sudden image of a creepy pair of red eyes and a twisted smile became engraved into his mind. Suddenly, he froze right on the spot as the light continued to consume everything on that battlefield, leading him to somehow tremble in fear before what was before him as everything then slowly faded to white.

"W... What is that...?!" he breathed as he too faded from sight on the battlefield.


And there we go! As Miyako contemplates on her next move from Serra's residence, Christoper Lo heads to SIT to meet up with the rest of SIT Genius and to pick up his tools he believes will be neccessary in his efforts to try and repair the gateway back in Japan. But upon arriving at the campus, not only does he find Ali and Lee roped into fights by Futase and Ulith, but he too gets ambushed and forced into a fight by Akira who mercilessly mows down his rear-guards with a Hanayo deck backed by Kagero units in her efforts to search for Kai. Meanwhile, Mitsusada also catches wind of what has been happening at SIT and heads off to confront the source of the problem himself. What will unfold? What is that technique Ulith unleashed that has Lee frozen in terror?

Find out next time on Stand Up, the LRIG! Please share your thoughts and criticisms and I'll see you next time! A quick warning to those who haven't participated yet, round 1 of the poll to determine Kiyoi's deck later on in the Arc will close when the next chapter is posted and the top 3 voted will move on to round 2. Other than that, I'll see you around soon!

*This first plays in Turn 31 when Dumjid rides Dragonic Blademaster "Kouen".


Re-Adapted Cards debuting this Chapter:

Hanayo Zero

Grade 0

Ability: Boost

Shield: 10000

Power: 5000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dragon Empire

Clan: Dragon Empire

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[AUTO]: When a Grade 1 card that does not have "Hanayo" in its name rides this unit, call this card to (RG).

[AUTO]: When a Grade 1 card with "Hanayo" in its card name rides over this unit, search your deck for up to one Grade 2 or higher card with "Hanayo" in its card name, reveal it and add it to your hand. Then shuffle your deck.

Hanayo One

Grade 1

Ability: Boost

Shield: 5000

Power: 7000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dragon Empire

Clan: Dragon Empire

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[CONT](VG): If you have a card named "Hanayo Zero" in your soul, this unit gets [Power]+1000.

[AUTO](RG): [Choose a Grade 3 or greater card from your hand and discard it] When this unit is placed on (RG), you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one Grade 3 card with "Hanayo" in its card name, reveal it to your opponent and add it to your hand. Then shuffle your deck.

Hanayo Two

Grade 2

Ability: Intercept

Shield: 5000

Power: 9000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dragon Empire

Clan: Dragon Empire

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[CONT]: (VG) If there is a Grade 1 card with "Hanayo" in its card name in the soul, this unit gets [Power]+1000.

Hanayo Three, Blazing Flame Dance

Grade 3

Ability: Twin Drive!

Shield: 0

Power: 10000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dragon Empire

Clan: Dragon Empire

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[AUTO](VG): [Counter Blast (1)]: When this unit is placed on (VG), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose 1 of your opponent's rear-guards with 10000 or less power and retire it.

Hanayo Four, Hundred-Fire Profusion

Grade 4

Ability: Twin Drive!

Shield: 0

Power: 13000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dragon Empire

Clan: Dragon Empire

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[CONT](Hand): If you do not have a Grade 3 Vanguard with "Hanayo" in its card name, you cannot Ride this unit.

[ACT](VG): [Counter Blast (1) & Choose a card from your hand and discard it] Choose one of your opponent's rear-guards and retire it.

Ulith, Ashen River Enma

Grade 3

Ability: Twin Drive!

Shield: 0

Power: 10000

Critical: 1

Nation: Dark Zone

Clan: Dark Zone

Race: Human/LRIG

Unit Type: Normal Unit

[AUTO](VG): [Counter Blast (1)]: When this unit is placed on (VG), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose up to 1 Devil from your Drop Zone and put it into your hand.