Shipping the SDRA2 Cast With Each Other

Yorukei/Yoruko Kabuya x Nikei Yomiuri

"...My hobby is singing, my specialty is fashion, and the high school that I went to before being accepted into Hope's Peak is Rotponjuku Academy." The hostess explained as she sat on the piano stool in the auditorium.

Yoruko had wanted to try learning an instrument, so she had found a book on how to play the piano in the Monocruise's library and borrowed it. When she had finally arrived at the auditorium to start learning to play the large instrument, she had been confronted with Nikei running up to her and demanding an interview to expand the information of the current profiles that Monocrow had in the student handbooks.

"I see, I see..." The journalist murmured as he wrote her answers down. "And what are your likes and your dislikes?" He asked, not looking up from his notepad.

"I like gorgeous and showy things, and I dislike prejudice and stereotypes." She answered, slightly impatient as her mind kept drifting to how much she just wanted to play the piano at the moment.

"Alright, I've got it." Nikei smiled and flipped his notebook back to the first page, putting his pen behind his ear. "Alright, interview over! I have to go now!" He turned on his heels and began running towards the door.

"What are you in such a rush?" Yoruko snickered, finding it funny how big the journalist's mood swings were.

"I need to conduct an experiment upstairs, and I don't need Kokoro to do it!" He exclaimed. "You know how the prize machine in the game room opens when it's given crow cards and stays like that until you take the prize? Well, if you reach in while the prize is still there, then you can grab as many as you want! At least, that's what I think!"

"Pfft, hahaha! That's so childish!" The hostess laughed. "You just want all the prizes for yourself, don't you? I don't think that Sora's gonna be happy about that!"

"If that makes me a child, so be it." The journalist huffed, quickly heading through the door to test his experiment. Yoruko giggled to herself before opening her book and beginning her solo piano lesson.

Half an hour later, Yoruko decided to stop her lesson for the day and pick it up tomorrow. As she carried her book under her arm, she decided that she wanted to check on Nikei and see if his 'experiment' had worked or not. She had a feeling that he had given up and went to his room, but she decided to check the game room just in case. As she opened the door, her eyes widened at what she saw.

Nikei was sitting on the ground with an more than annoyed face, his expression darker than anything she'd ever seen. But the thing that had caught her eye was his right hand, which was deep inside the prize machine. From the way that the journalist was tugging on his hand and trying to wiggle it, she presumed that it was stuck.

"Pfft, ahahahaha!" Yoruko couldn't stop herself as she burst out laughing. "Oh my god, Nikei! Did you seriously get your hand stuck in the prize machine?! How are you going to tell this to the others?!"

"I paid for my hanami dangos, and I am getting my hanami dangos. That's all they need to know." Nikei grumbled. "If you say anything else-"

"As funny as this is, I don't want anyone else getting their hand stuck while trying to perform a stupid experiment. I won't tell them about that, don't worry." The hostess giggled. "Do you need me to get the vaseline or something? Or should I go ask Monocrow to help?"

"N-No! Um..." The journalist's face went red as he frowned and looked away. "I-I think Mikado might have some cooking oil that'll help me slip out. I'll pay him off or give him what he wants to keep quiet, just hurry up and get him."

"Alright! Good luck over there!" Yoruko teased as she turned around, listening to Nikei's hushed obscenities as she walked through the door.

After she explained the situation to him, it took two minutes for Mikado to stop laughing and let Yoruko lead him to the game room. It took another five minutes after the wizard to burst into laughter upon seeing the disgruntled journalist with his hand stuck in the prize machine.

Getting Nikei out of his situation was thankfully short, and Mikado had made Nikei help him around the Monocruise for the day in repayment for freeing him. The journalist had helped hold things in place while Mikado repaired, get miscellaneous items that the wizard asked for, and assisted in cooking, and Mikado and Yoruko never said a word about the incident.

Yoruko knew very well that she had to save her blackmail for when it was necessary.