Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 3 [Alice Secret]

Chapter 3: The Fracas of Minanohara

Tuesday, 9th June.

During homeroom, I was showing Matsushita and Sakigamiya the rough draft of the English exam I was working on last night. Having access to a thesaurus was very useful, as it allowed me to look up more complicated and obscure vocabulary for A Class to translate.

Of course, I had to keep in my mind I couldn't make my text overly complicated, since it needed to be abide to the syllabus. However, Matsushita and Sakigamiya were impressed by what I had done so far. Similarly, I was also impressed by their start on the Japanese and history exams.

Despite everything we've been through, it felt like E Class was slowly coming together.

The atmosphere had grown brighter as everyone worked hard to study within their respective revision groups. Even the biggest slackers like Mitsuba was putting in effort, and his tutor was Taiga, someone who was more laidback and lenient with this kind of stuff.

However, it also felt like we were losing more people than ever before. Today, neither Nora, Katsumi, or Kouji came to class. Not only that, but Kawaguchi also walked out midway through homeroom again.

Obviously, it was a bad thing if Nora wasn't at school, so I wanted to check up on how he was doing after yesterday. Just like me, Mikitaka was also going to pay him a visit, so we decided to go together to his house.

I was hoping he was taking time off to rest and heal his injuries, rather than avoiding going to school out of fear because of what Machida did to him. Though, if he didn't come in because of that, I don't blame him.

As me and Mikitaka approached his house, we saw Fujimura standing outside. She was leaning underneath the door's canopy while tapping away on her phone. Spotting us draw closer, she looked up from her phone.

"Ah? What are you two doing here?"

Without hesitating, Fujimura questioned us. Mikitaka laughed.

"To do the same thing as you. We're seeing if Takayuki-san's okay!"

"Eee, I already did that yesterday. I'm here because Takayuki-chan offered to help me study today."

It looks like Sakigamiya's plan of getting Fujimura to take the finals seriously was working. Although, I didn't see Suzuki with her.

"Woah, same here! Does that mean we're in the same revision group?"

"Hah?!"

"Hey, I ain't that bad! I'm a changed man, I swear!"

"Mikitaka-san, you're slipping back to your delinquent speech." I pointed out.

"Oh shoot, I mean I'm not that bad! Heh, thanks brother."

Recently, Mikitaka has been referring to me as "brother". His demeanour was much more friendly and accepting than before. It was hard to believe that he used to be the delinquent of delinquents that constantly terrorised others.