Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 4 [Ryouta Rival]

- Part 12

Before heading to the hall to show off our items, there was only one more item our group needed to get.

"Yo, Chabashira-sensei."

I headed back to the connecting hallway by myself and called out to my homeroom teacher.

"Takanori-san...? Is something wrong?"

"The last item our group needs to find is a teacher. Mind if I bring you to the hall?"

"Oh... sure, that's fine."

Chabashira-sensei looked hesitant at first, but after grasping the reason why I chose her, she accepted. We crossed over to the boy's side where Matsushita and Machida were waiting for us. Standing behind them was Nora, holding the majority of our stuff.

"Alright, I've got a teacher. Let's go, shall we?"

"About time we completed this damn hunt."

Machida was first to head off to the hall. Me, Matsushita, and Nora followed. Chabashira-sensei surveilled the four of us.

"I wouldn't have imagined you four to be together."

As she was on the girl's side, Chabashira-sensei was unaware of how the boy's groups were formed, and mistakenly assumed we were in the same group.

"We aren't. That guy isn't part of our group."

Machida pointed at Nora. Chabashira-sensei glanced at him.

"You aren't, Nora-san?"

"N-no... I'm part of a different group."

"Why are you with these three then?"

"That... I-I can't tell you. S-sorry, sensei..."

Chabashira-sensei shifted her gaze towards me.

"...you'll see soon enough. As for the other four, they're off somewhere else."

Machida, reaching the hall before all of us, ceremoniously kicked open the double doors with a large smirk on his face. However, that suave confidence dissipated the moment we saw two groups here before us.

Shigeru's group and Shimada's group.

However, for some unknown reason, there was a confrontation between the leaders of these two groups. Standing on each side were each of their respective members, minus Kawaguchi since Shimada ruthlessly kicked him in the face earlier.

You could clearly tell the difference in leadership style based on how the items were divvied up in the group as well. Shigeru's group spread out all the items, having each member hold one or two of them to lessen the burden.

Meanwhile, Shimada didn't let his group members touch the items at all, instead carrying everything by himself and using his own body as a vessel for everything. It was definitive proof he was the one in charge.

"...does this mean we're late?" Matsushita said.

"At best, only for 1st and 2nd place. 3rd place is still up for grabs, and it looks like we'll be the ones to take it." I said.