Enough with the Raging Form player that got a girlfriend. That loser got enough screentime for one volume and is about to enter complete copium status when Raging Fall gets revealed.

Let's take a look at the daily life of a different type of loser born from the same womb.

It was thursday, around seven or so in the morning, in a bedroom of an apartment near the Minato ward.

Because of the sound of rustling clothes, Ryuuga woke up from the deep sleep someone overworked to the bone had whenever a day off appeared on the schedule.

Half awake and half asleep, he sat up and put on his reading glasses.

"Homura...? What are you doing... Today's saturday, right?" Ryuuga asked.

The sound came from Homura getting dressed for work. Queue a line about Homura being a hot teacher.

"It's thursday, you sleepyhead. Go back to sleep, I'll leave breakfast for you." Homura sighed.

"For real...? Come on, take the day off! They can get someone else to go teach those ungrateful Hagiwara brats!"

"Yeah, that would be nice, but I like my job. Besides, it's midterm preparation season, so I can yell at those brats all I want!" Homura laughed, taking a seat next to Ryuuga. "Besides... I have a surprise for you when I get back." She whispered.

Ryuuga's eyes went wide open wwhen he heard that. He even let out a silly chuckle.

"Heh, heheh, heheheh..."

"Oi, you're thinking about nasty things, aren't you?" Homura asked, raising a brow.

"N-no...?"

With a really flat look of someone who knew Ryuuga's inns and outs, Homura unbuttoned her shirt and opened it.

And then the silly chuckle returned.

"Heh, heheh, hehe- Dammit!"

"Hai, hai, go back to sleep. I'll try to not make much noise in the kitchen."

After giving her huband a kiss, Homura got out of bed and left the room to go make breakfast, before eventually leaving for work.

"Love you!"

"Love you too!" Ryuuga replied, tossing his glassess away and laying back down with his hands behind his head. "Oh yeah, my day off... No Maxios, no Kurakuya, no whoever's managing the United Santuary, no Ryuzaki, no paperwork... Life's good."

And then two branch managers using a borrowed Civic took it personally.

With the latest remix of Haruka Mirai blasting from his phone, Ryuuga walked out of his bedroom, doing some stupid dance to celebrate the day off. He slid from the hallway into the living room, where he showed to no one how he was the worst dancer in the entire series.

To make it worse, he even had a dumb song for an occasion like this.

"Day off, I finally got a day off, suck it, suck it, day off! Kurakuya can eat shit tofu, Maxios can eat a pipe, Taira can go drink shit beer, I got a day-!"

"Oi, shut up!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, WHO GOES THERE?!"

Thankfully, the man staying in Ryuuga and Homura's guest room agreed that the song was shit and yelled at Ryuuga to shut up.

This lovely lad is Jerome Abbacchio, an italian mangaka known for his work 'Voyager', a best seller that sold better than popular titles without being raised to normiehood, such as Demon Your Story Is Boring, My Hero Don't Trust the French and Attack on Your Protag Dies and Becomes a Seagull. Its first anime adaptation also ended recently, in a first season whose only rival to be anime of the year was a boys love show adapted from a light novel Homura's sister writes.

And I guess a joke about the italian format comes here.

"What are you doing at this ungodly hour?!" Abbacchio asked.

"S-singing my day off song! And it's only ten in the morning! Ah, we let you take the guest room while they fixed your pipe system, you knew what you signed up for!"

"I signed up to not hear Joe and Yuri, and your stupid song is on the same level of being a hearing killer as them!"

"Ack!"

Oh yeah, Abacchio won that one for sure.

Anyway, after the two got dressed, they sat down on the couch to eat the breakfast Homura left for them. Ryuuga turned on the TV to see what was sone, but after seeing Ryuzaki on the news, he immediately changed to the V-Tuber channel.

"Was that Ryuzaki?" Abbacchio asked.

"Yeah. Some guy downloaded a metric fuckton of porn to the servers of his Vanguardriver thing and the whole thing had to be turned off for the time being. It's been off for almost a week or so. Honestly, it's whatever. I like the feeling of sleeves in my hand and not being scared of a holographic gear falling on my head." Ryuuga shrugged.

"Just what macabre thing did your Domain end up being?"

"I wish that question had a simple answer." The redhead sighed. "So how have sales been? Everyone online's talking about how good the first season was."

"Oh, that? Yeah, I got paid a bunch of money." Abbacchio shrugged.

"And yet, you didn't go to a hotel..."

"There's a simple reason for that, honestly." He replied, putting his hand on Ryuuga's shoulder. "Familia."

"You have too much hair to say that!"

That's when they started hearing the sound of plates being thrown and breaking from the outside. Ryuuga's expression went from normal to scared shitless.

"What's that all about?" Abbacchio asked, looking at the door.

"I forgot... I told Taira to come meet us here..."

The two put down their food and rushed outside, where they came face to face with an image both disturbing and too hilarious to be real.

In the dirt area next to the apartments, where Ryuuga and his neighbour Kaido used to park their cars and hold big parties, Taira was being chased by a yelling Kaido, who flinged plates at him. For some reason, only Kaido's car was there.

"RYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGAAAAAAAA, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEEE, OH MY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Taira yelled.

"YOU ORANGED HAIRED BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!" Kaido screamed.

"What are those idiots doing?" Abbacchio asked with a heavy sweatdroped.

"It's a long story..." Ryuuga sighed.

"Hey Ryuuga, hey Abbacchio."

That came from the super cute pink haired girl standing in front of the other apartment's door with a cup of italian coffee. It was Emma, Kaido's girlfriend since his first year at GEN, and the person Kaido was trying to get married with for the past five or so years. She was really adamant on only getting married after both finished college, and in a true pro gamer move, Kaido threw himself at med school.

Ryuuga and Abbacchio looked at Emma, whose soft and flowery personality felt much better to be next to than Kaido's arrogant and boastful attitude, and waved at her.

"Hi Emma." The two said.

"RYUUGA, WHAT THE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! HELP ME!" Taira cried.

"HOW DARE YOU?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW MUCH MONEY I BURNED ON YOUR BRANCH MANAGER CAMPAIGN?! I INVESTED SO MUCH IN IT THAT THE VANGUARD ASSOCIATION CAN REBOOT THE GAME A SECOND TIME! AND THEN YOU GO AND LET COCYTUS R'S SHIT SKILL BE GREENLIT?! I THOUGHT WE HAD AN AGREEMENT!" Kaido shouted, throwing some more plates at Taira.

"I SAID I WAS SORRY! RYUZAKI SIGNED THE PAPERS TO GIVE THE GRANBLUE SUPPORT TO B-KUN'S TEAM WHILE I WASN'T LOOKING! I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!" The protag slayer said with an ungodly screech.

"Is the Clan Collection design that skewed this round?" Abbacchio asked, looking at Ryuuga.

"Yeah. Thank god I got to throw Dark Iregs to A-kun's team, or else I think the Iregs stands would come for my car."

"Yikes. What about Great Nature?"

"That's Maxios' problem."

Having ran out of plates to throw, Kaido picked up the speed and tackled Taira to the ground. Holding the branch manager's hands behind his back, Kaido took out a special relic his grandmother have given him: a slipper, or as it is known throughout the world, La Chancla.

"THIS IS ONE IS THE FIRST OF MANY! I SWEAR, IF THAT BRIT MAKES ME USE COCYTUS R, I'LL SUE YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU OWN!"

"BUT I DON'T OWN ANYTHING THAT SPECIAL!"

"Hey, wanna see a cool trick?" Ryuuga asked with a sleazy grin. "Hey Kaido! I saw Takanori talking to Ryuzaki the other day, bet he asked him to give Granblue to B-kun this year!"

"I KNEW THAT MOMCON WAS INVOLVED! DAD TOLD ME HE WASN'T, BUT I KNEW ONLY HE COULD ASK FOR SUCH A THING!"

Now with a new target in his sights, Kaido got off Taira and stored his special slipper away. Taira was able to let out a sigh of relief, for he would live for another day... But hey, there's always Volumes 5 & 6.

"Don't give me ideas, Narrator." Kaido scoffed. "Also, what is this Reeee-spewing idiot doing here?" He asked, looking up at Ryuuga and Abbacchio.

"We're gonna go meet Hikaru and Aijou at Shibuya. Wanna come with us?" Ryuuga replied.

"I would love to but I have other-"

That's when Kaido's phone began ringing. He pulled it out his pocket, and upon seeing the number, lost all the livelyhood in his eyes.

"Plans..."

He then picked up the call.

"Hello... Yup, it's me... Yeah... Give me twenty minutes... Yeah, I'll meet you at the piano shop... Oh, Kurosaki's coming too? I see... You saw Anastasia around the area? Yeah, I know her name is Rossiya, let me have this... Okay... Yeah... Yup... Sure, we can go drink after this, I don't go other plans... He's coming too? Good, I can slap him with the piano newsletter for the Granblue support.... No, don't worry about it, it's between me and that momcon... Yup... Ahuh... Got it..."

Upon ending the call, Kaido sighed.

"I fucking hate pianos."

"Tell Kishou-kun I said hi!" Emma giggled.

"I'm gonna tell him alot of things, alright... You idiots have fun. Kick my dad in the nuts if you see him on the streets."

"Got it." Ryuuga nodded.

"Roger." Abbacchio saluted.

Now that Kaido had returned to his apartment to finish breakfast and get ready for a day filled with the fun of dwelling on whether or not buying a piano is a good idea, Taira felt safe enough to get back up.

"Holy reeeeeee, I saw my protag slayer life flashing through my ideas... I-i think I used Zarzan at some point?"

"Did that Takanori guy really asked Ryuzaki to hand Granblue to the bad design team?" The italian asked.

"Hell if I know, blaming things on Takanori makes dealing with Kaido alot easier when you figure out the right timing." Ryuuga shrugged.

"There's a bad timing?"

"We... We don't talk about that." Taira spoke up with a shiver. "You two sons of reeeeeeeee ready? Coach called me earlier, he and Aijou are at the station in Shibuya already."

"Shit, already?! I barelly had time to eat..." Ryuuga sighed.

"Speaking of time, where's your car?" Taira asked.

"It's at the mechanic, one of the wheels got stuck or something."

"And here I thought you had finally hit someone." Abbacchio snicked.

"OI! THAT'S FUN AND GAMES UNTIL A GUY CALLED MARIO GETS HIT WITH THE CAR!"

Onto the next stop, the train station at Shibuya, where Ryuuga, Abbacchio and Taira met with the rest of the guys (and girl) they were gonna spend the day with it.

One was the man, the myth, the scienticfic legend who was also a V-Tuber on the side when not giving his girlfriend with his soy sauce, the legendary coach Hikaru from that one part with Ban.

The other was Fukai Aijou, a voice actress who had a massive boost in popularity thanks to Voyager's success. She could ara ara me, just saying. Oh yeah, she's also the wife of that Ichigo guy that Izuru and Yumi cooked with at the start of the volume. Man, how times flies.

"COACH, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Taira cried.

"LET'S GO CHAMP! I RAISED THAT MAN! I WAS THERE WHEN HE GOT INTO A LOVING RELATIONSHIP BEFORE RYUUGA!" Hikaru yelled, throwing himself onto Taira's arms.

"I'm going to kick you in the chopstick..." Ryuuga sweatdropped, taking a cigar from his pocket. "How's it going, Ai-"

"Go die in a ditch, you good for nothing." Aijou said with an empty stare.

"A-ack!"

"What did you do this time?" Abbacchio asked.

"I-i asked her to teach me how to properly fold clothes the other day... I was kinda crappy at-"

"Kinda crappy?! You folded clothes so bad that you made a crane out of a skirt instead of folding it! AND SKRITS ARE THE EASIEST THINGS TO FOLD! HOW DARE YOU LIE TO ME, GO DIE!"

Yeah, those two had this thing where Aijou ended up teaching Ryuuga do something really basic that he said he was only kind of bad at and then have some post traumatic stress after it. It started with tennis, then it went on to cooking, cleaning, singing, among other things. The worst time was when teaching him how to dance for his wedding. He stepped on her more times than a human should by accident.

"C'mon, c'mon, no need to sweat about it now, big tiddy joker!" Hikaru laughed, placing his hands on Aijou's shoulders.

"You need a new nickname for her." Abbacchio sweatdropped.

"True, I can't go around calling one of my besto frendos' wife that while being married myself, and it's not like we're in high school for her to be the Joker anymore. At least yours is an easy one, Agachabro!"

"I'm going to kill you." The italian scoffed.

"Do that after ending Voyager, reeeeeeee! Me and Hinata can't wait for you to end your twenty five years for the finale, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"You're focusing on the wrong thing!" Ryuuga deadpanned, and then sighed. "So, how about we go to Hanae's for lunch? Homura told be they were running a promotion on the Moe~Moe Ramen-kun!"

"Is that an actual item?" Taira asked.

"Didn't you two morrons get thrown out of there last year?" Abbacchio asked, looking at Ryuuga and Hikaru.

"That's because Hanae thought we were up to something, but if we go there with a girl who's married and a guy who's only dating, then she can't say we're doing weird things!"

"I think it's because you guys went to a maid cafe while having wives." Taira pointed out.

"We're also in our early twenties, let us live a little!" Ryuuga exclaimed. "It's not a maid cafe that's gonna change how much I love Homura or how weird Hikaru is to Strelzia!"

"Yeah, what besto fren- Hey! There's nothing weird about wanting to give your wife's lasagna your soy sauce!"

"You've been saying that since Hagiwara, coach..." The orange haired sweatdropped.

"Besides, it was at that cafe that mine and Homura's love blossomed, so it isn't weird!"

"It's also the place where you, Kaido and the others got beaten up by a cute maid, so let's go!" Aijou cheered.

"I think now you're the one focusing on the wrong thing..." The Dark Zone branch manager sweatdropped.

Now with a plan made, the group of five walked out of the station and started heading for the maid cafe that Hanae, one of Risei's nine daughters, owned. And honestly, that could have been it. Nothing bad seemed to be in the way, so the two branch managers could have just enjoyed their day off.

But then Aijou mentioned something.

"Oh yeah, are you guys going to the Tokisada Inn on the weekend?"

"Tokisada Inn? Isn't that where Izuru drowned Valeos?" Taira asked.

"What's happening at the inn on the weekend?" Ryuuga asked.

"The Vanguard Association is holding an insect themed event there. They're even gonna make this big Gredora statue there for it, and Maxios-san asked me to be present since I voiced Gredora in that one booster set ad."

"Insect event? Nah, that's Maxios pro- Wait, the whole association is in it?!" The redhead asked.

"Wait a sec... I think I remember him mentioning something about that the other day... THAT BASTARD, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THAT'S WHEN HE TOLD US WE COULD HAVE THE DAY OFF IF WE WANTED!"

"That damn tree hugging furry tricked us!"

"But if he said you could take the day off, then what's the big deal? Just go help out later." Hikaru shrugged.

"He's got a point for once. Let's go eat that moe ramen or whatever." Abbacchio sweatdropped.

"You guys don't get it! If we skip on this, then Maxios will use it to shove more paperwork our way! And screw that, we're too lazy for paperwork!"

"YEAH, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! IT'S TIME THAT BUG FUCKER LEARNS HIS LESSON, REEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"But how are you gonna make it to the inn at this time of the day?" Aijou asked. "You'd have to get a train first, and even then, you'd still have to walk most of the way there."

"Not quite... There's a second path to the inn, that just happens to match with the mountain range!" Ryuuga exclaimed, looking back at his friends with a wide grin. "We'll just drive there!"

Solid idea, only hammered down by the fact Taira, Abbacchio and Aijou didn't own a car, the fact that Hikaru had left his at home, and the other fact that Ryuuga's was at the auto repair shop.

"WE DON'T HAVE A CAR, REEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"Then we'll go get mine!"

With the plans to eat some ramen at Hanae's maid cafe thrown out the window, the group instead went to the auto repair shop that was taking care of Ryuuga's car.

The Kiba Auto.

When they got there, they were met by a girl that was sitting on top of a pile of tires, and by a boy only slightly younger than her, who was cleaning his hands with an old rag.

"TAKUMI-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! ICHIKA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" Ryuuga yelled as his group got to the shop.

"Yo, Ryuuga-san!" The boy waved. He was named Takumi, because of course, this is a drifting special.

"Hm? Ryuuga-san? What's up?" The girl asked. Her name was Ichika.

"Oh howdy there, Emomon's bro who never got mentioned until now and Emomon's sister who sold that pack before!" Hikaru waved.

"You..." Abbacchio tried to grab a random wrench to smack Hikaru, but Aijou stopped him.

"You two! Where's Emon?!" Ryuuga asked.

"Big bro went to meet with that Joshu guy he's friend with." Ichika replied.

"Yeah, we're handling the shop today. Came to check on the old Toronado? I keep telling you you should sell it and buy a GT-R." Takumi laughed.

"Why? Taro's old FC still beats your dusty GT-R seven ways to sunday." Ichika whistled.

"OI, ICHIKA!"

"Yeah, I'm here for the car! Is she ready?!"

"You call your car a she?" Taira asked.

"All cars are female, that's why we driving bros call them our babies!"

"Eheh, you bet! One of the right wheels was dying out, so I replaced it this morning and it's running more smoothly than before!" Ichika grinned.

"ICHIKA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN, YOU'RE THE BEST! I'LL NAME BY FIRSTBORN AFTER YOU!"

"P-please don't."

Thankfully, Ryuuga and Homura's first child was a girl.

"Your baby is right there, Ryuuga-san!" Takumi said, pointing at that beautiful red car. "The keys are on the table next to it."

But it wasn't an AE86 so we call it a piece of shit.

"I'll drive!" Abbacchio exclaimed.

"THE HELL YOU ARE!" Ryuuga yelled.

Ryuuga rushed to the table, where he grabbed his keys, but noticed the two cans of beer and the katana that were also on the table.

Taira, Aijou, Hikaru and Abbachcio shared a glance amongst themselves, and all arrived at the same thought.

"RYUUGA, NO-!"

To late, he stabbed the bottom of the beers with the sword that Emon's siblings shouldn't have taken from his office and shugged down on the two cans like he was in college all over again.

"ALRIGHT, GET IN THE CAR!"

"NO WAY!"

"I SAID GET IN THE CAR!"

And get in the car they did. Abbbacchio, Hikaru and Aijou got stuffed in the back, while Taira and Ryuuga sat at the front. With a twist of the key and a hard stomp on the gas pedal, the old Toronado's engine roared, and Ryuuga drove out of there.

"He forgot the bill..." Ichika sweatdropped.

"Screw the bill, how are we gonna explain Emon the beer smudge on his katana?!" Takumi asked.

But that's their problem.

Changing scenarios to the mountain range that Ryuuga talked about earlier, two dudes were casually driving uphill in a Civic that they borrowed from a friend. They were Maxios Blade, the Zoo branch manager, and Kurakuya, the chinese food-loving branch manager of Star Gate. Maxios was the one driving.

They were also the thing Ryuuga and Taira most disliked about their job.

"That could be considered a dick move on your behalf, Maxios." Kurakuya pointed out. "You should have reminded them about the event."

"I know, I know, but those two still have a long way to go until they're full fledged branch managers! You'll see, in a few years, they'll thank me for all the hardships I put them through!" Maxios defended himself. 

"Karma won't be your friend. I heard that they started to take down the scaffolding around the Gredora statue. Steel pipes too. Not enough to kill someone, but enough to be a minor inconvinience."

"Dude... There's nothing they can do about it. Let's be honest. What's the worst thing that could happen? They start trying to get there before..."

It was then that Maxios noticed the red car on his rear view mirror.

"Holy crap, they're doing it..."

"Told you."

"Ack- Shut up, man! If it's a race they want, it's a race they'll get! Backlion's Civic, don't betray me now!" He exclaimed, slamming his foot on the gas pedal.

And the battle was on!

(Media - Save Me)

Some miles behind the Civic, the old Toronado darted through the road with an impressive speed. Inside the car, Aijou, Hikaru and Abbacchio were yelling for dear life, while Taira held to the handle above his door.

Ryuuga was just chilling.

'Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes! What an amazing entry speed!' Taira thought, gritting his teeth.

On a curve up ahead, Maxios drove past it like a normal person, but Ryuuga turned the wheel and pulled the handbreak, throwing the car into a sick drift. Because Ryuuga started doing the curve ahead of time, he had time for something else.

He let go of the wheel, and searched his chest pocket for his pack of cigars, too nonchalantly for someone in the middle of a drift.

"WHA-WHA-WHA-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, RYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGA?!" Taira yelled for dear life.

"Gimme a minute, just grabbing a quick smoke, nothing special." Ryuuga said, lighting up the cigar.

"Well then... I'm gonna die without giving my wife the chopstick..." Hikaru said. He was smiling, but dying inside.

"B-BUT YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DRIFT!" Aijou screamed.

And indeed he was. With no one maning the wheel, the car had shifted lanes was getting too close too the guard rail. Only one or two inches away from an accident.

But even with no one with the hands on the wheel, the car started getting back to its lane.

Ryuuga exhaled some smoke and pulled out the car's ash tray. He looked ahead to Maxios and Kurakuya's car and sighed.

"Hmm... Guess it's a race they want then."

"NO ONE SAID THAT!" Abbacchio shouted.

Throwing some ash into the tray, Ryuuga returned his cigar to his mouth and grabbed the wheel. Shifting the gear into the fith right before slamming the gas pedal, the old Toronado blasted through the road with great speed.

"Now, time to get serious."

"W-WHAT?! WHY CAN'T YOU DRIVE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Going back to the Civic, Maxios was sweating bullets at the sight of the fast approaching Toronado. Kurakuya was having a jolly good time seeing Maxios pay for his actions.

"I told you."

"S-shut it, dude! I knew Sawada drove like a mad man, but this is outright stupid! I'm almost going over the speed limit, how's he getting to us so fast?!"

Maxios looked up at the rear view mirror, and to his shock, his opponent was right behind him. While he talked with Kurakuya, Ryuuga turned the miles between the two into less than two meters!

"Wha-what the hell?!"

"Physics work funny in the heat of the moment."

On the Toronado, Ryuuga grinned while briefly looking at his rear view mirror.

"Aijou! There's a three lane spot up ahead, isn't there?!"

"Y-YES! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!" Aijou asked, holding her phone with a map app opened.

"I'm going to make the impossible possible, and make that Maxios guy eat shit!"

"BUT I'M TOO FUNNY AND HOT TO DIE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!" Hikaru cried.

And in fact, there was a section up ahead were the two lanes shifted into three!

In that special bit of the mountain range, the drivers could perform one last game changing move to gain the upper hand for the rest of the race! To someone driving downhill, it wasn't much, since there was a second three lane section near the end, but for someone going uphill, taking the three lane section was the difference between winning and losing!

And then, they got to the blessed three lane road!

"Hold your asses and your loved ones!" Ryuuga called, harshly pulling the handbrake.

On the other hand, Maxios kept his focus on the rear view mirror. The second he saw Ryuuga started to move to the left and drift on the two lines next to him, he knew what he had to do! He started moving to the left, to block out Ryuuga's winning chance!

"Eat that, Sawada! This battle's mine!" Maxios exclaimed.

"No one ever told you, right?" Kurakuya asked.

"T-tell me what?!"

"What Sawada-kun did while he was in college."

"H-huh?! Oi, Kurakuya, now's not the time for the weird shadow guy thing!"

"He delivered tofu... Alongside your nephew. Both of which were taught in the drifting arts by Kumi from Bottom Gear."

"Y-YUUTO?!"

"So it would seem. While your nephew drove downhill with great speed to get back to bed, Sawada-kun drove uphill to quickly return to his girlfriend. What I'm trying to say is that..."

Maxios' eyes widenned.

Ryuuga was no more by his left!

"You started a battle you could never hope to win."

During the time Maxios took to block his path, Ryuuga slowed down just enough to get in between Maxios and the curve, and quickly started speeding past him!

From second to third, then third to fourth, then fourth to fifth, Ryuuga changed the gear like his life depended on it, and then slammed his right side wheels into the gutter!

Using all the momentum he had built up, and the tightness of the curve along with the gutters, the old Toronado was slingshoted forward with great speed after the curve ended!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT! EAT THAT, MAXIOS!" Ryuuga shouted.

"S-SHIT!" Maxios yelled. "Wait... Doesn't he know this road?! Isn't there a tight right after this big left?! There's no space to slow down! He's gonna crash at this rate!"

"Did you forget what I told you?" Kurakuya smiled.

In that quick time frame, the Toronado shifted completly!

"I-INERTIA DRIFT?!"

"The words you're looking for are kansei dorifto."

Sadly for the two veteran branch managers, they lost the battle. With Ryuuga taking the three lane and then doing the tight curve perfectly, he had taken the upper hand, and drifting the rest of the curves until the inn would make him get there much faster than the two.

By the time Maxios and Kurakuya arrived and parked the borrowed Civic in front of the inn, Ryuuga was waiting for them by his car. Aijou and Taira seemed to be throwing up in the grass behind the car, while Hikaru called his loved ones and Abbacchio either called his editor or his lawyer.

"How do you like them apples, you Zoo idiot?!" Ryuuga asked with a loud laughed.

"Tch, you're gonna get a ticket one of this days!" Maxios replied.

"Not if no one is looking." Kurakuya chuckled.

"Yeah I'll get a ticket! A quick shield ticket!" He laughed.

"You... Sawada, I'm your elder, don't talk like-!"

In would seem that, in Maxios' rant, he smacked the scaffolding of the Gredora statue. Since the statue was finished and the scaffolding had started to be taken down, it was very loose.

Loose enough for it crumble with a smack and fall on top of Maxios.

Thankfully for him, the steel pipes of the scaffolding weren't heavy enough to hurt, and there weren't that many of them.

"Ow..."

"I told you. Karma."

"Shut up, Kurakuya..."

"Alrght, let's eat some inn food! Maxios the loser will pay for it!" Ryuuga yelled.

And so, the gang walked into the inn and headed for the restaurant, where they crossed paths with the last person they thought.

"SAKATE?!" The five yelled.

Yes. Sakate was working there as a mentor to new chefs. They walked in on him while he was teaching how to make perfect rice balls.

"Hm? Well, if it isn't Ryuuga-kun and friends! What brings you to- I SAW THAT RICE BALL, IT SUCK LIKE YO MOTHER, TRY AGAIN! DON'T GO CHEAP ON THE MSG, UNCLE SAKATE WILL SMACK YOU LIKE HE SMACKS THE RICE BAG EVERY MORNING!" Sakate yelled to one of his students.

"Dude... You're not showing them how to make rice balls if you keep doing that." Taira pointed out, staring at Sakate's hands.

He was touching the rice a bit too much.

"Yeah... It's been a while since auntie Taiga left. Besides, my assistant isn't helping me, even though I got him a get out of school card to come help me!"

Ryuuga and gang looked back. Sakate's helper was Izuru, who was too busy flirting with Ibuki to help. Sakate got her a get out of school card too.

"Izuru?! The hell are you doing here?!" Ryuuga asked.

"Who's that girl?" Aijou asked.

"I'm Ibuki. I'm his girlfriend." Ibuki waved.

"YOU'RE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Maxios, Abbacchio and Izuru asked.

Maxios and Kurakuya got there in the meanwhile.

"Wait, I get why we're surprised, but why are you surprised too?!" Abbacchio asked.

"I'm still having a hard time believing I have a girlfriend." Izuru sweatdropped.

"Nevermind that! Sawada, our fight isn't over yet!" Maxios called out, taking out his deck.

"So, you wanna get wrecked in a card game too, huh? How many times am I gonna have to teach you, old man?!" Ryuuga replied, taking out his deck with a sleazy grin. "And I got Ryuzaki to print the Steam Maidens I chose early too... Elul-chan, you're so cute!"

"What are you on about, darling...?"

Ryuuga's eyes widenned and his butthole clenched shut. He tried to look back, but Homura locked him in a headlock before he could. She smiled, but her closed eyes looked pissed as hell.

"You said it wasn't your idea to make Steam Maidens." Homura calmly said. Calmly.

Calmly.

"H-HOMURAAAAAAAAA?! W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

"I came to meet with Ibuki-chan to talk about the rent situation, but I never thought I'd come across you here."

"Really? I thought Homu-chan just ended up here as a closing gag to the special." Hikaru hummed.

"Huh? What are you talking about? Are the chemical fumes at the lab finally making your brain rot?" Aijou asked.

"Nah nah, don't worry about-"

Then they heard something snap. It sounded too much like a bone.

"S-SOMETHING SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPED!" Hikaru and Taira yelled.

Indeed, it looks like a closing gag for the special.