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

- Part 5

During break time, three unexpected visitors came to E Class.

Approaching Matsushita and Sakigamiya were three A Class students: the two student representatives, Ryouta Hane and Senzaki Kanami, as well as Shimada Kuroshi.

I had no idea why these three were together. It was an extremely unusual combination, as Ryouta and Senzaki were both outstanding model students whereas Shimada was a massive problem child. It was almost like they were babysitting him...

"Yoo-hoo, Matsushita-san, Sakigamiya-san!"

The eccentric Senzaki stretched her arm into the air and waved brightly at the two of them. Ryouta had a pleasant smile on his face, but carried an intense aura. It was like he was elevated by an air of pressure, looking down at the rest of us like royalty.

"Hey, thanks for letting us in."

Ryouta greeted Matsushita, extending a hand towards him. The two boys shook hands, but it was clear who was superior in this situation just from their body language alone.

"No problem..."

Matsushita easily succumbed to Ryouta's imposing pressure, as he shrunk a bit while awkwardly greeting him. In comparison, Ryouta held a confident posture and kept his head upright, maintaining eye contact with Matsushita.

The intense gaze from Ryouta's eyes were akin to an eagle, scouring his prey and examining them thoroughly with broad vision. It looked like he would pounce at any moment, ready to hunt them down and tear them to pieces.

The least threatening looking person here was Senzaki, due to her cute face and bubbly smile. However, I knew not to underestimate her, since her pressure was just as dark as Shimada's, but seemed to linger more subtly like an electromagnetic field.

Her relaxed gaze was comparable to a raven, small but darting. Her quick scan of the class gave off the impression that she was highly intelligent, extremely perceptive, and incredibly fast at thinking.

Meanwhile Shimada, chugging on a bottle of cola, was acting like his usual scruffy self. Like Ryouta, he exuded an air of pressure, but his was one that struck fear. The casual way he flaunted himself made him seemed completely unfit to be an A Class student.

If anything, Shimada looked like he belonged to our class.

Seeing me sitting at the same table as Matsushita and Sakigamiya, he grinned maliciously.

"Yo, Yuuto."

"...Shimada-san."

Sakigamiya looked at Shimada and shuffled away, keeping her distance from him.

"Oh, do you two know each other?" Senzaki said.

"Me and Yuuto go way back."

Since I didn't want him to mention anything about <that> in front of the others, I was forced to play along. I nodded slightly.

"What do you guys need?"

Sakigamiya, who was conscious of the fact A Class were our enemies in this exam, wasn't so amiable in her greeting. She went straight to questioning why they made the long trip here.

"We were wondering if you guys would help us out."

Sakigamiya raised an eyebrow upon hearing Senzaki's reply.

"Huh? You're joking, right? A Class wants help from us?"

"Not all of A Class, just the three of us. See, Ryouta-san and Shimada-san are having a competition on who can score higher in the Japanese, maths, and science finals."