Cardfight!! Vanguard: Heiwa

-Part 4

Izuru and Ban stood side by side in front of the closed doors of a bookstore located in Chibuya, close to where Ban lived, ready to start their girl-gathering operation using Izuru has the bait. To make things easier, Rio helped them by choosing their clothes after her brother annoyed her enough to make her give up and accept to help.

On one hand, Izuru kept his usual turtleneck and trench combo, even sneaking his belt phone case back to his person when Rio wasn't looking, but as a Rio-added bonus, he also wore a white scarf.

And on the other hand, to give off a more intelectual feel to those around him, Ban wore a white shirt and red tie combo with his sleeves rolled up, much against Rio's desires, with the shirt being tucked into his jeans unlike how he was used to.

"You ever wonder how we never get hot from wearing so much hot clothing in the middle of May?" Izuru asked, flicking his glasses up to release the stereotypical glare.

"Yo, you did the thing! And who cares? Aslong as we get some hot babes out of it, it works. I might actually start liking this. Huh, who knew not keeping your top buttons undone could be this stylish. I miss the time when girls were into the big muscleheads that kept their pecks showing."

"I'm pretty sure that when that was a thing, it was our parents trying to pull these dumb stunts." Izuru replied, flicking his glasses once again.

"You're gonna do that alot, aren't you?"

"It's a small price to pay for not being lonely. But why are we starting in a bookstore? I'm pretty sure the girls that come to bookstores aren't the type of girls you're into."

"That's where you're wrong, mon amie Izuru. You see, girls these days are all about the boy on boy stuff and I've rummaged Rio's own stash enough to know that the dudes in that stuff all dress in a good way. The characters from 'Prince of Darkness' Onii-chan' have a truly exquisite dressing style."

"You can use words like 'exquisite' and speak french but still can't solve a basic equation? That's the whole reason why we should be studying and not doing this dumb crap."

"But you want your free stuff, don't you?"

"That's why we should be studying after getting my free stuff and not doing this dumb crap. But I can understand the point you're trying to make. Most of the girls into boy on boy action are very attractive. I happen to know a few from the older days."

"Putting tgis bit aside, what the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"My brother's ex was deep into the yaoi shit. She was a hardcore fujoshi that read that shit in her work place of all places. She might have been as flat as my wallet but at least she had good looks."

"You dumbass, there's more to a woman than her looks!"

"I can say that I know and end this dumb argument here or I can continue it and wait for you to act like one of those hat-tipping internet gentlemen. Damn, visual novels didn't prepare me for this." Izuru sighed.

"Fair enough, fair enough. So here's the job." Ban pulled Izuru closer and began whispering. "We go in, we buy stuff and they'll keep it here until we come to pick up later, I know the owner. I'd choose to come here after we're done but there's a special sale on some merch I want and I need to buy it before horny teenagers worse than me get their dirty hands on them. I'll monopolize all of the Yotsuba merch and no one will stop me."

"Yotsuba? This is why I diss your taste three times a day." Izuru whispered back.

"What are you, a Miku simp?"

"She isn't even the best character in the story, little less the best girl. It's Ichika or nothing in this house, player. We appreciate the onee-sans around these parts."