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

SS Shigeru Zenkichi: The Next Trick

The day after the special exam was completed.

Before we broke off for the summer vacation, Zyriot gathered everyone in E Class for a meeting to congratulate us on making it through the special exam and introducing the class to our four new members.

"Hi everyone! It's nice to meet all of you, I'm Yoneda Yui! I hope we can get along well from now on!"

"And I'm Houki Kimi. Please take good care of us."

"Hey. My name is Kamuro Hokyou. I'll be in your care."

"Yo. I'm Handa Kakichi, nice to meet ya."

"Hello, I'm Masamoto Manabe. It's nice to meet all of you. I hope we can all get along."

"Yamaguchi Teruhiko. Teruhiko's fine though. I'm happy to be here."

As expected, Masamoto left the meeting pretty quickly after his introduction. Akihiro tried talking to him, but it was pointless. Once a stuck up elite, always a stuck up elite.

In comparison, the four C Class students banded together, and had Yoneda, the social butterfly, handle most of the talking. Due to their shared interests, she, Houki, and Kamuro quickly got along with the girls in our class.

However, Handa, the only boy, didn't gel well with the delinquents as he was the studious type, so he continued to stick around them.

I don't even have to mention how seamlessly Teruhiko fit in. It was like he was right at home with the rest of us.

"Alright, thank you for attending. Well done everyone, I hope you all have a great summer vacation. Meeting dismissed."

Zyriot clapped his hands, letting everyone disperse. I was starting to make my way out as well, but someone put their hand on my shoulder to stop me.

"Huh? The hell do you want?"

I was half-expecting it to be Zyriot or Kanon, but to my surprise, it was Souichirou. He grunted, with Gentarou, Suehiro, Shouhei, Rokurou, and Teruhiko following behind him.

"Oi, Zenkichi. Mind your attitude."

I sighed. Even though I was their de facto leader since I was the only one with actual brain cells among them, Souichirou liked to use his raw strength as a way to gain authority over me, since he was clearly the most dangerous one amongst all of us.

"Huh? What's got your panties in a twist all of a sudden?"

That much earned me a slap on the cheek from Souichirou. I stumbled back a little from the force, nearly falling over entirely from my crutches going off balance. Gentarou and Shouhei laughed.

"You being a hypocrite, dumbass. Think you can talk smack about being a delinquent in public and get away with it while being one of us? It's either or, not both."

"Why can't I? It's my life, dumbass. I'll say what I want, be what I want. If you got a problem with it, that's on you. Stop being so sensitive."

I rubbed my cheek before spitting at his foot. Souichirou stomped on my wad of phlegm.

"I let you off the hook the first time cuz you were settling your problems with that hilarious arsonist. But this time, you straight up insulted us. All this crap about wanting to becoming better, being forced to go back to being a delinquent... is there something wrong with being one, huh? If you got such a problem with us, why do still act like you're one of us, huh?!"