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

- Part 6

After all was said and done, our group managed to raise 249,000 private points for the auction. Akihiro's group had raised 160,000 private points while Mitsuba's group had raised 171,000 private points.

"Huh... this is strange."

Mikitaka, who had been placed in charge of their group's finance, turned to me.

"What is it?"

"Our auction fund... it suddenly spiked."

"What do you mean?"

Mikitaka showed me the number on his device. It had jumped from 171,000 points to 215,000 points. A huge 44,000 sum had just been anonymously deposited to their account.

"...that's a lot of points."

"Normally, I'd be happy, but... this feels wrong."

"In what way?"

"It's really suspicious. There's no way someone would just casually donate to our group 44k like this... it either has to be a scam, or somebody made some kind of mistake here."

From their perspective, it makes sense. Mitsuba's group hasn't been in contact with anyone except from mine and Akihiro's groups, but neither of us had tipped that amount to them.

It had to be one of the other six groups, but none of them had a motive for doing so. In the first place, it would be foolish to give up that amount of money in a challenge about buying things. Unless a deal had been made, then it was unlikely to be one of them.

"...perhaps this is the bonus you got from the last challenge?"

When I suggested that, Mikitaka clicked his fingers.

"Brother, you genius! That makes total sense! They said the remaining private points would be transferred over to our group, so this must be it!"

The worry on Mikitaka's face disappeared and he grinned stunningly once again.

"Our group is filthy rich, I can't wait to see the excitement on my best friend's face when he sees how much bank we're packing for the auction! Takayuki-san is going to be so proud of us!"

"You really like Nora-san, huh?"

"Please, who doesn't? You can't hate Takayuki-san, he's just too cute!"

"...well, I can think of one person."

"Machida isn't a person. He's barnacle scum pretending to be human."

I thought I could see Mikitaka's eyes glow dark red as a demonic shadow fell over his face.

"Ah... you don't like him, do you?"

"After what he did to my best friend? Of course not. Don't tell me, after spending three days living together with that guy, you've come to like him..."

Mikitaka shuffled away from me. I shook my head.

"Nah. I don't like Machida-san either."

"That's a relief. For a moment, I thought you lost your way, brother!"

"My way?"

"The way of loving Takayuki-san! Don't think I didn't notice your lecherous gaze fall on him multiple times yesterday. I get it man, he was looking like a real snack when cooking. I'm so glad to have finally found a person who understands the charm of my best friend!"

"...I'm going to check out the auction."

"But brother, we could spend the hour discussing how cute, kind, innocent, wonderful, and sexy Takayuki-san is! We can even talk about large his phallus is if you want! Please, wait!"