Cardfight!! Vanguard: Bujin

#8: Before the Day

Friday came to an end.

One week remained until Ragnarøk.

Yeah, we're moving ahead one week, those three idiots weren't up to much that wasn't the usual in the two weeks until the big day.

But unlike the aforementioned idiots, someone was yet to sign up for Tokyo's First Winter Stage, because her two previous attempts at getting someone went nowhere.

And speaking of her, she was now walking out of a building in the campus of her university in Sumida, stretching her arms up as she mentally checked out of the purgatory she spent her last two hours on.

"That exam was the worst, so I think I earned myself a new model kit and some good Sapporo. I'm getting the premium stuff tonight!"

Nanami Rita, commonly known as Card Killer Kiru, local alcoholic girlfail with an ever-growing student debt.

"Not if you wanna eat rice and tea until June. You're drinking the cheap stuff we have at home until it runs out. It's budget friendly."

Waiting for her, her teammate and crappy landlord, the local porno mag collector expert and a guru of all things Kidani, Kagami Akafuyu.

They had no more classes today, so they began making theit way to the campus' exit.

"What got a stick up your butt? Live a little, Akafuyu!"

"Ragnarøk's in a week and we still got no one to fill in the last slot. Have you found anyone yet?"

"Absolutely not." Kiru admitted. "Those nerds in the engineering department are too scared to talk to me. What about you? Any luck?"

"What do you think?" Akafuyu rhetorically asked.

"I think we gotta print more flyers then."

"Are you gonna pay for them?"

"Printing paper? In this economy?! Do I look rich to you?!" The short girl exclaimed.

"And I do?!" The collector replied.

"You own a place in this housing economy!"

"Through borderline nepotism!"

The two sighed.

"Maybe if we touched our student loan money a bit..." Kiru hummed to herself.

"We? What we? Spend your money recklessly yourself. Mine is getting saved up for future investments." Akafuyu said.

"You call your muddy magazines that?! Gross." The green haired girl stuck her tongue out, but sighed again afterwards. "I don't get it. How the hell is finding a team member that hard? Harui built her team in five minutes!"

"And we built two thirds of ours in two, what's your point?" He asked.

"Fair..." She scratched the back of her head. "Hm... Oh! How about Whatshername from your class?"

"Which one?"

"The purple haired one."

"I meant which class, idiot!"

"Fork if I know! Management? That or something similar."

"You're not making this any clearer."

"Shut up and let me think. Let's see... The... The, the, the... The purple haired one!"

"You already said that!"

"Because that's all I know, you average pervert!" Kiru barked. "The purple haired one with the quiet bossy vibes and the cool coat and the purple hair that turns white after some point!"