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

- Part 8

After discussing the exams with Nora, we agreed that we were going to have to rework them.

We spent two hours cutting questions and making new ones before parting ways for the night, since we had school tomorrow.

However, I had one more thing to take care of this evening.

I took the train to Megiddo Blue and waited outside the dormitories for a certain person.

I was sitting on a bench, playing on my phone, when I heard her voice.

"Huh... you're the Masterpiece?"

I looked up, meeting eye to eye with the person I called out here— Oshita Saori.

"Look at how the mighty have fallen."

I ignored her rude comment and put away my phone.

"Sorry for calling you out here so late tonight."

"I didn't want to miss my chance to laugh at your face. Ha."

Oshita dryly fake laughed at me.

"Very funny..."

"I'm a comedian, I know. So, what stupid reason did you call me out here for then?"

She was certainly a hostile person. This was the first time we met, yet she acted as if she hated my guts.

"I wanted to talk to you about something private in person."

If I called or messaged her about it, a trace of our conversation would be left behind, risking someone finding out about it.

"I wonder what that could be."

Oshita rolled her eyes and sat down next to me with discontent.

"I'd like to go sleep soon, so please get on with it."

As if to show how tired she was, Oshita rudely yawned in my face.

"It's about the knife attacks. I heard from Rinbayashi-san that you also experienced one like I did."

"Oh? And here I thought you wanted to talk about my crooked family or something."

Oshita seemed to become a bit less hostile when the topic I wanted to talk about steered away from what she thought it was going to be.

"Yeah, I did. A guy in some chuuni mask tried attacking me on my way home at night."

"Sounds about right... what happened in your scuffle then?"

"He jumped out at me from a bush and started swinging like a spastic. I considered fighting back, but I figured that was probably what he wanted, so instead I kept running away from him until I entered a public space with a lot of people. At that point, he gave up for obvious reasons and fled."

Unlike me, Oshita opted for a more evasive approach to Nakajima.

"Smart thinking. I would've done the same thing if my circumstances were different."

"What was your attack like?"

"It happened while I was with someone else, so I had no choice but to fight back so he wouldn't go and target them. I got as far as restraining him and getting him to drop the knife, but he managed to escape before the police could arrive."

"God, that is pathetic. You really aren't all that you're made out to be. I can't believe I used to look up to you..."

"...what's that supposed to mean?"

Oshita was getting on my nerves a little now. Honesty is a virtue, but too much of it is a sin.

"First of all, you fought him? Rookie mistake. The reason he probably attacked us in the first place is to get a read on our movements for the next time he tries to kill us. Revealing what you're capable of is just going to make you the prime target, since he already knows what it's like to fight against you."