At the end of the school day, for the first time the history of Heiwa Academy's existence, student council activities ceased at the same time as classes ended. It seems that, in her anger, Aimi managed to speedrun the day's paperwork during lunchtime, all while eating her lunch. Without having anyone that she could steal food from, she had extra time in her hands.

Even so, she still headed for the council room after classes ended to make sure nothing had popped up at the very last second. Minami joined her along the way.

"Honestly, what's gotten into you today? I've known for ages and I never saw you have an semblance of a work ethic." Minami sighed, throwing herself on the couch. "That Rulling Douchebag gets so unbearable the closer we get to winter... Well, more unbearable than usual, I guess." She deadpanned.

"I'm fine. It doesn't hurt to make sure no council work is left for the next day. This is standard practise." Aimi explained, looking through the already filled out form on her desk.

"Liar! You guys never finished anything on time for the past year!"

That one there was a violation and I personally wouldn't have it but allow it.

"You're just all pissy about that Izu-kun thing, aren't you? Geez, you two are like kids." Minami sighed, facepalming. "Why can't you two just put your Fuji-sized prides aside and actually be adults for once?"

"You're the younger from among us so you're the kid. You're also the shorter one." Aimi replied with a blunt stare.

"WE HAVE THE SAME HEIGHT AND YOU KNOW IT!"

Minami opened the soda she bought on the way here and sat back down, sighing again.

"I'm not angry about it... He left the council on his own! And the fact I got more work done without him than with him here only proves I was right about him not being needed the council... So who cares?!"

"I thought I was the tsundere of the group but I guess I was wrong." Minami sweatdropped. "Whenever you're ready to admit you only came here to see if he was here and try to mend things, go for it. I'm going home. That weird but cool show Chika-senpai watches with the cute guy in the blue armour is starting soon and I wanna be there for it. Bye bye."

"Hm."

Aimi looked at Minami leaving the council room, and then around at the empty room. She just ended up sighing and leaving too, muttering under her breath.

"This is stupid..."

She left the student council room and headed down to the lockers at the school's entrance. Soon enough, she left the school, and crossed paths with someone as she walked out.

The two shared a glance, but soon puffed out their chest sin superiority and looked away.

"The council's doing great without you. I don't even need to find a new a secretary." Aimi bluntly said, but thought the exact opposite. 'What the hell, me?! Why would you think that's an okay thing to say?!'

'Eh?! She really doesn't need me anymore?' He thought. "Glad to hear. Means I can't avoid doing pity work for it and spend my lunch breaks with my new bro. He's the King." Izuru scoffed, but also thought the opposite. 'WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY THAT?! NOW SHE'S NEVER TAKING YOU BACK FOR REAL?!'

'Eh?! He already found a replacement?!' "Good for you." She pouted. 'AIMI!'

"Indeed." He pouted. 'IZURU!'

The two just kept standing there. drowning in their silence, pride, and quite frankly, outright awful word choices, even though they were free to walk away at any time.

But both reaching their breaking point soon.

"I'm-"

Just as Aimi was about to take the first move, Izuru took out a meatbun he didn't eat during lunch and shoved it on Aimi's mouth, to which she replied by happily munching on it.

"I'm... Sorry for the Babu thing. I really need to stop letting anything throw my ego over the limit." Izuru admitted, rubbing the back of his head.

"Bahbuh?" Aimi asked.

"I'm still figuring out a name for the bike, give me a break. And don't eat with your mouth full, that's nasty! I'll... Start leaving the bike outside school and not let my ego be over the top again. Being on a bike again just rushed in alot of nostalgia I never thought I'd get to feel again. So if you don't mind... I'd like to have my position as student council secretary reinstated. It's weird to only feel overworked by gacha games and not by gacha games plus student council obligations- Oh god, did I actually say that?"

"Hmmm?!" Aimi's eyes lit up and she quickly finished that poor meatbun's entire career. You monster. "Ahem... And I will... Try to be less violent towards you. Just because you do something stupid, it doesn't mean that the best choice is to hurt you on your kneecaps. So if you're okay with it... I'd be happy to reinstate your position in the council."

Izuru and Aimi looked at each other, smiling their confidant smiles, but Aimi rapidly lost her as her eyes became filled with despair.

There was a little thing she forgot to mention.

"I lied to the council about today's paperwork and said I finished it all today when I left most of it for tomorrow." She admitted.

Izuru blinked twice, but then laughed.

"Ow well! Just another day in the student council! That's a problem for the us tomorrow!"

"Indeed!"

The them of tomorrow hate these two idiots.

"Wait, we have a King?!" Aimi asked. She's only touching the subjecting now.

"I know, right?! It's like, so much stuff happened ever since we started high school and he only entered our lives now?! Where was he when I was going around cucking Endo- I mean fighting Endo?!"

"It's like the universe is only making him relevant for some reason..." Aimi wondered.

Huh, guys, the Kaido chapter isn't this one, so hold the fourth wall breaks for then, thank you.

"I know... So, wanna go grab a bite? I'll pay." Izuru suggested.

You're broke.

"Sure!" Aimi replied.

You clearly have your friends and food placed in different importance tiers.

Just as the two were about to walk away, a car stopped in front of them. It was a beautiful red model of a convetible, one of those cars that doesn't have a roof and makes people without garages suffer on rainy days. The type of car that seemed expensive, unless the driver was one hell of a bargainer.

Or the type of guy to yell at the seller until he shrunk down the price a ton. And there was only one- well, two- man in Japan capable of such amazing deed!

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! GET IN LOSER, WE'RE GONNA GO VISIT A FAMILIAR OF MINE, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Izuru stared at Taira.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"Get in loser, we're going card shopping!"

"Huh, do I have to waste money?"

"It's fre-"

Izuru closed the passenger's door.

"LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Aimi could only watch the two drive away in pure and utter confusion. Not because of what just happened, but because Izuru seemed to have forgotten his bike.

Taira drove Izuru all the way to the back alley behind a rather familiar family diner that was relatively close to Heiwa, where the two patiently waited.

And waited.

And waited...

Until Izuru had enough of it

"Ah, geez! I know card games are important in today's society and all, but if you're gonna drag me into some shady, drug deal-looking exchange of pieces of shiny cardboard, then can we at least order something first?! I can smell the food they're making thanks to their stupid kitchen having it's stupid backdoor pointed at the stupid us!"

"In this specific diner... You eat for free if you have a certain someone with you." Taira grinned.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, the backdoor was kicked open, and a man carrying some hot food in paper bags walked out of the kitchen, looking at the two.

Oh yeah, and he was yelling.

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ONLY I CAN CALL MY STUPID KITCHEN, MY STUPID BACKDOOR AND MY STUPID SON STUPID, STUPID! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! WHO'RE YOU CALLING STUPID, OLD MAN?!" Taira asked.

"...eh...? There's... THERE'S TWO OF THEM?!" Izuru was quaking in the realization.

Taira isn't the only Ansei in the world.

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THE ANSEI FAMILY IS EVERYWHERE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The two screeched.

"This old guy smelling like food is my dad Fubuki! He's the one who told me to bring you here after hearing about your story!" Taira explained.

"R-really? Wait, how does he know it?!"

"I told him."

"Taira, what the fuck?!"

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SHUT UP AND EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Fubuki screamed, slamming one of the paper bags on Izuru's face.

"Hey watch- Ooooh, a katsu pork bento!" Izuru popped open that bad boy and digged in. "This slaps!"

"Of course it does, I slapped my bag of rice before making it!"

"Get on with it, old man!" Taira screeched. "I'm wasting precious free time away from work, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"SHUT UP, YOU WUSS!" Fubuki screeched even louder, and whacked Taira with a rolled up rice magazine. "I KNOW YOU'RE STILL TRYING TO AVOID HINATA AT HOME, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! IN MY DAY, IF YOUR MOM HAD WANTED, I'D MAKE ALL THE BAIES SHE WANTED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHUT UP! DON'T GO SAYING DISGUSTING STUFF LIKE THAT!"

"WILL BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP AND GET TO THE POINT?! YOU'RE WASTING PRECIOU GACHA FARMING TIME! REEEEE!" Izuru forced himself into the argument with his own screams. He didn't even noticed he did the Ansei sound.

"AH?! YOU THINK YOUR GACHA IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS, REEEEEEEEE?!" Taira asked.

"SHUT UP AND LET ME GET TO THE POINT, DUMBASS!" Fubuki demanded.

After the three stopped yelling, only after Fubuki's business partner Raijin appeared to tell them to shut up since they clients could hear them from inside, Fubuki tooked a card from his dirty apron and held it up.

"NO MAN SHOULD EVER LOSE THEIR BELOVED-!"

"FUBUKI, SHUT UP!" Raijin yelled from the diner.

"Tch, stupid redhead." Fubuki clicked his tongue. "Listen up! No man should ever lose their beloved card! I understand how you feel, having lost your precious card, a beloved part of yourself! Years ago, on the night I first met Taira's mom before the many nights of giving her my Blaster Dark Revenger Abyss-"

"STOP DRAGGING MOM INTO THIS!"

"Me and Raijin were opening a stand in a big festival in town! My apron was filled with carrots, so I stashed away my precious card on our stand's sign! AND THEN THAT IRA WENT AND STOLE MY SIGN AND CARD, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"FUBUKI!"

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, HE STOLE YOUR VANQUISHER TOO, I KNOW YOU ALSO HID IT IN THE SIGN!" Fubuki yelled. The caps lock button is going into strike after this part. "Anyway! I understand your feelings, and I will help you cope with them! Taira has told me about you, and I've seen you around at the diner alot too, so I arrived at a conclusion! You aren't just a filthy protagonist, you're a filthy protagonist slayer protagonist!!!"

"AH?!" Taira screeched.

Izuru lost track of the convo midway through Fubuki's speech.

"If that glutton Takami or that stupid Takanori ever try something, or that Sawada tries to return to the spotlight, if there's anyone bound to slay their filthy protagonist asses, then it's you! Your soul is a burning soul worthy of this!"

Fubuki extended his hand at Izuru, and offered him his card.

"TAKE A PIECE OF MY BURNING SOUL WITH YOU! FROM NOW ON, YOU TOO ARE AN ANSEI AT MY EYES!"

Izuru picked up the card, but now looked even more confused than before.

"Huh... Where's the rest?" He asked.

"Eh? What rest?" Fubuki asked.

"Taira gave me a whole deck last time, I thought that was an Ansei thing... I mean, don't get me wrong, this Raging Form Dragon looks awesome, but still!"

"Oh, huh... Yeah I kinda only got that card this morning. I opened a pack on my way here and got lucky." Fubuki shrugged.

"AH?! YOU SHITTY OLD MAN, YOU DESTROYED THE HYPE OF THE MOMENT!"

"THOSE ARE THE SCREAMS OF OUR FAMILY! YOU TRULY ARE AN ANSEI AT HEART!" Fubuki exclaimed.

"Reeeeeeeeeee, you're gonna need this!"

Taira fetched a coaster- a card, from his pocket, and gave it to Izuru, who just stared blankly at Taira.

"Oi oi, keep your coasters to yourself." Izuru deadpanned.

"You're gonna need a high paying job to build the rest of the deck fast, so use that shiny Tetra Drive as a coaster after you get a job in one of those pretty boy host clubs or something! TRUE ANSEI WILL DO EVERYTHING TO COMPLETE THE DECK OF THE DREAMS!"

"I SECOND IT!" Fubuki declared.

"...Taira, take me back to Heiwa..."

"Eh? Why?"

"I forgot about my bike there."

The two Ansei and the one temporary Ansei stared blankly at each other, and then the three yelled loud enough to get Raijin to pay them another visit and threaten them with a soup ladle.

But nonetheless, Izuru returned to Heiwa and hopped on his beautiful and beloved bike, and drove back to his home in Ikebukuro.

It was now the evening, and while Izuru waited for the stew he was cooking for dinner to finish cooking, he laid down on the couch, staring up at his new card and gushing about it.

"So cooooooooooool! These golden details around the borders are so pretty, and his name is written in gold too!! This golden clan emblem on the corner is so fantastic too!! AND THE CLAN NAME WRITTEN ON THE TOP IN GOLD IS AMAZING TOO! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, FORGET VALEOS, THIS CARD IS SO GOLDEN!"

And much to her annoyance, Ibuki had to listen through all of that while finishing up some research for a shcool project. She was sitting at the dinner table, looking up the play "Fiddler on the Roof" on her laptop. And of course, she wans't having any of that gushing.

"For the love- Will you give it a rest?! If you want me to stop skipping school then don't go and be an annoying prick while I'm trying to focus on my studies!" Ibuki complained.

"But Ibuki, look at it! Raging Form is coooooooooooooool! Such cool red cape, such cool flames swirling around him, such chad pose and chad axe! Forget Claret, all my homies hate Claret!"

"All my homies should break your legs." The white haired grunted. "Did the rest of the deck come included?"

"Ha ha! Nope!" Izuru cried. "But that's fine! I called a buddy of an old buddy of mine and he got me a few jobs in his industry on the weekend! It's high paying too, so I'll have this bad boy built and fully blinged out in no time!"

Ibuki looked back at the cheerful Izuru and sighed. She sacked out her wallet, which she kept on her shirt's chest pocket, and took out a few 5000 yen bills, which he offered to Izuru.

"This should be enough. Go on, go get your cards."

"...eh...?" Izuru blinked.

"Don't 'Eh?' me, you crackhead. Call this an advanced thank you gift for not kicking me out of the house. And as an apology for the... Camping thing." Ibuki looked away.

Despite the appeal of free money in large sums seeming very hot, holding Raging Form in his hands made Izuru gain a new sense of worth.

"I refuse!"

"AH?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU REFUSE?! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"

"It's true that you tried to dunk some deer turds on my tent, and it's true that I almost considered allowing it because it was Risei's, but your money is yours! I will make this deck with my own money, which I will earn through a very questionable line of work! Besides, winter's almost here and we don't have a kotatsu, so save up your money for us to buy on! Ibuki Nino, I truly thank thee for the offer, but this Raging Goal will be achieved through my own two hands!"

Izuru flicked his card into the air, caught it with a cheap trickshot, and then tossed it into his apron's pocket, because a full day of Fubuki's apron wasn't enough for the poor card.

"That is my grindset!" He declared, striking a smirk only someone as dellusional as him could make.

Ibuki could only stare at him in shock. After all the time the two had spent together, he was finally not being one of the biggest scum on Earth. Her jaw was dropped, and she couldn't muster not even one single word.

However, she still could think.

'He said no... He actually said no... Is that job that good for him to say no to free cards...? You... You... YOU SHITFACE, I WON'T LET YOU REJECT MY KINDNESS! I'LL RUIN THAT JOB NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES!' Ibuki thought, breaking away from her shocked look to grin.

Nice going Ibuki, the only one to beat a scumbag is by out-scumbag-ing him. You go girl!