Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 5 [Yukina Sympathy]

- Part 5

That evening, at around midnight, as I was preparing to go to bed on the living room couch, my phone started to ring.

It was from a private number, so I didn't know who was calling.

Even though it was meddlesome for them to call at this hour of the night, considering they withheld their contact details meant there was enough importance to their identity that I had no choice but to answer.

I picked up the phone and answered it, putting it up to my ear without saying a word.

On the other side was static.

Just as I was about to say something, a voice faintly came through on the other side.

"I know you're back."

It seems they were baiting for a response - for me to speak, so they could confirm my identity.

"Prepare your will. Consider that your final warning."

With that, they ended the call.

I closed my eyes and put down my phone before laying on the couch.

"...I don't have the time to worry about that now."

I yawned, mumbling those words to myself.

I drifted off peacefully to sleep on this slightly uncomfortable couch.

...

The following morning, I was awoken to the sound of shouting in the kitchen.

I sat up, rubbing my eyes. In the living room was Anjou-sensei, who was busy opening more packs of P Revive Festival.

As I got up from my slumber, he looked at me and waved good morning.

"Hey, Takanori-san. Kiri wasn't kidding when he said you were sleeping here..."

He chuckled lightly.

After he, Shigaisoshi-sama, and Minamoto got a room each to themselves, I had no other choice but to sleep out here.

"Yeah... well, it's fine. This gets the job done, just about."

It definitely needed a more comfortable cover though.

I heard more shouting in the kitchen. This time, it was a girl's voice, so I assumed it was either Shigaisoshi-sama or Minamoto in there making breakfast or something. I got up to check what all the commotion was about.

When I peered into the kitchen, to my surprise, it was just Kiri and Minamoto. Shigaisoshi-sama was nowhere in sight.

"This is unacceptable!"

"What else do you want me to do?! I'm on the student budget, I can't afford anything fancy like eggs!"

...from the looks of things, it seems Minamoto was confronting Kiri over what was in his pantry and fridge.

Laid out on the countertop were half eaten bags of rice and pasta, and scattered between them were tins of beans. The fridge door was also open, showing that there was only milk, half an onion, and a nearly expired pack of ground pork inside.

Yeah, this definitely wasn't a good look for him... I mean, he didn't even have instant ramen, which was a college staple. How did he live like this?

"All of this food is unfit for BFF-sama... oh, how am I supposed to make her anything edible when all you have is inedible tat!"

It seems Minamoto was having an existential crisis over not being able to make Shigaisoshi-sama any decent food from what Kiri had in his kitchen.

"Huh? There's rice, that's edible! Just slap it in the rice cooker and throw it together with the pork or something!"