Cardfight!! Vanguard: Bujin

#10: Blacksync Uprise

Izanagi's fight was done.

The nameless teams had an irrelevant fight.

And Tartarus had easily cleaned up the third nameless team.

The last fight of the top 8 between Hanabi and Blacksync was on.

So on in fact that Akafuyu had just returned to his team's room following his fight with Gin.

He walked past his teammates, his team leader glaring daggers at him, took a seat on the couch, and busted out the premium porno mag he had acquired last week.

"What do you have to say for yourself?" Kiru calmly asked.

"Honey I'm home?" Akafuyu questioned.

That's it, Kiru blew a fuse.

The only thing preventing Kiru from shredding Akafuyu like a paper magazine or skinning him was Satoru, who held her back by the back of her collar.

"YOU KEEP SAYING YOU'LL WIN AND THEN YOU JOB AT EVERY CORNER! THE MONKEY'S PAW CAN ONLY CURL SO MUCH BEFORE IT BREAKS AND GETS ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES ON OUR ASSES! YOU THINK WE CAN AFFORD A LAWYER TO DEFEND OUR ASS FROM HYPOTHETICAL ANIMAL PROTECTIOM SERVICES?!"

"What can I say? Luticia is strong. Her new form? Wooey, that is a strong buff. Fuchigami Gin and his Luticia deck are just too strong. And Naustrea? Only someone with absolute skill over a deck makes a call chant for a rear. Fuchigami Gin was resonating with the most important cards of his deck. It was a testament to the bond between card and cardfighter. He and Luticia are simply an exception to everything we thought we knew. I was cooked more than I had accounted for."

"Shut up before I forking vaporize you, you porn addict...!" Kiru growled, smacking Satoru's hand away and then crouching with her hands on her head. "My entire Anti-Hanabi plan went down the drain over some oaf and his concerning love for yakisoba buns!"

"What exactly was the plan here, boss?" Satoru asked, taking a seat on the couch. "I'm pretty sure you never told us you had one."

"It was sacrificing you to Mikazuchi."

"...for real?"

"For real, for real."

"Oh I get it." Akafuyu chuckled. "Man, that plan could have actually worked. If only Luticia wasn't ome of the strongest decks ever made."

"I don't wanna hear a peep from you until the top 4..."

"Thinking of the top 4 already? Good, good. I like the implication of you having a plan in motiom to salvage us." Satoru snickered.

"The plan exists!" Kiru barked, then groaned loudly. "The plan is play like most other teams and not try to bait the opposing team's strongest..."

Kiru got up and fixed her jacket. She had to look like she was a responsible team leader, afterall.

"Ahem. Hanabi is one win ahead of us. One more and we're out. They'll want to wrap this up quickly, so they'll definitely be sending Mikazuchi next. He's their stupid ace in the hole and whatever. Therefore, I'll go fight him. As the best out of the three, I got the best odds of beating him."

"Alot of the plan runs on elbow grease and dice rolls." Satoru pointed out as he took off his shades to clean them.

"You'll get used to it. We don't even have a basic plan for our financial situation. A budget? Who needs that." Akafuyu laughed, then slammed down his magazine on his lap. "We do! And we need more than just betting on you beating that doctor guy!"

"Do you have a better idea?! It's not like we can do the bait and switch considering you lost to a man and his unhealthy yakisoba pan addiction!"

"What if they're doing the bait and switch, huh? What if you go out there and it's Onizuka Masato who comes out?!"