#42: Hatred Burning Like No Other

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While Fujiko and Aijou were spending their saturday inside the mall and having their little encounter with Yuri Hayashida from Team Apex, Emon was at Akira's place, training for the upcoming national tournament. Akira was basically Emon's test dummy and was fighting Emon for at least a whole morning. Emon wanted to have a test fighter with every change he did to his deck, even if it was as small as swap a card to have more copies of a card he already had, or as big as replace large part of his deck's way of playing. For Emon, it was what he saw as needed, but for Akira, it was basically being knocked on the head over and over again for hours.

"Alright, I've changed it up. Let's have another round." Emon demanded, placing his deck on the wooden table in Akira's living room.

"What did you change this time... And please tell me you swapped something other than just one card..." Akira grumbled, leaning back against the couch.

"I changed two cards to run more of other cards. Is that enough?"

"You are lying, aren't you?"

"I am. Can we fight now? I have a national tournament to enter and don't have time to waste."

"Yeesh man, you're taking this too seriously. Even more than Ryuuga and he's the team captain, or Fujiko and she is the bossy lady of Spiral Terra. I could mention Hikaru but he can't take things at all serious. Why are you so worked up about it?"

"After everything Hikaru and Ryuuga told us, from what happened at the Con, I haven't been able to think on anything else. I can only think about giving my absolute all in this fight and nothing else."

"Big man Emon, always going over the top for his pals. Alright, I'll have yet another fight you, despite you being using basically the same-" Before Akira finished his sentence, his doorbell rang. Twice. "Deck. The hell is that?"

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"Don't you have abutler to handle that?" Emon asked, putting his five cards down

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"Don't you have abutler to handle that?" Emon asked, putting his five cards down.

"Yeah but he's on vacation until next week. Ah screw it, I'll just do it myself." Akira jumped off the couch and headed towards the front door to his mansion. Opening it, he came face to face with an unexpected guest. "Huh... Hey Emon? Can you come here for a sec?"

"What is it?" Emon asked, approaching the door. When close enough, he was able to see who was on the other side. "You. You are from Apex."

On the outer side of the door stood Apex member Bruno Ghirga. "Yes. My name is Bruno Ghirga and I am not here for any conflict. I wanted to know if we could have a chat, Emon Kiba."

Emon looked at Bruno for a moment, before nodding. "Fine by me. Is that good with you, Akira? This is your place afterall."

"Hm? Yeah, fine by me. I'll go make some tea real quick."

"Ae you sure you can handle that?"

"The chinese just put a leaf on water, how hard can it be?"

"Whatever you say. Follow me, Ghiar- No that's wrong. Ghiaa- That's also wrong. Ghi... Ghi... Bruno. Is that fine?"

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