(GS3) Field: Umano Underground Slums

[Spectre Diamond]

"Yeah, we'll fight again but now I need to head somewhere." As he headed out of the entrance as he waved to the mysterious man. He then went on to the repaired Oblivion and rided off.

[Skyzlimitz]

Sky then remembered he forgot to ask his name. "Damn it! I was too caught up in fighting! Hopefully the cards will lead us to eachother so we may fight again my friend." Sky said with a smile.
Hikaru +2AP

[Spectre Diamond]

"Zero, punish this fool and end this farce!"

Zero then leaped into the air and sliced the large mecha with the swiftness of his blade and then landed on his knees, sheathing his blade as the mecha exploded into pink motes as the area disintegrated. Returning into its pervious state and the six damage floated into his opponent's damage zone. Sparks erupted on to the woman's gloves as it began to shock her and falling onto the ground in pain. Hikaru then went over to her and grabbed her by the collar.

"Get your dirty hands off me!" She struggles to get out of Hikaru's grip but to no avail he wouldn't let go of her.

"Now since your done struggling. Which..shop...do you plan on taking..next. If you don't talk I can let my buddies here to do the rest of this interrogation" Hikaru said it in a threatening manner as he increased his grip on the girl's collar. The woman not wanting to go through with the interrogation and afraid for what they were going to do to her if she didn't talk. She yielded.

"w-We..Plan on ransacking...Card Capital in a few minutes!..please no more." Hikaru then coldly dropped her onto the ground as he motioned them to not follow the girl.

"You sure it was a good idea to let her go Hikaru?" Tomoda, one of Hikaru's top fighter in the dark vigilantes.

"Its to late to go after her, besides we don't have time for small fry. Come on lets head to card capital."

[Cherry]

Yugure was rather dumbfounded at the information she obtained in Umano. Searching for soldier candidates brought her back to the underground, seeing as their strength wasn't hindered by card game morality. The King of Underground would be an amazing help... except they told her he was in school. The woman questioned how people who prided themselves on a dark vanguard lost to someone still in high school, and then realized these thugs may not be the best to play a game. Then again, they would at least be more useful for actual fights, which will prove valuable enough. Some old friends greeted her, and noted that she acted strangely.

Small talk was becoming less and less her forte.

She wound up spending the day watching the ruffians brawl each other with fists mostly, wits occasionally.

[Jello]

The club was dismissed for the day after a few fights and everybody showing up for Day 1. It was definitely a nice experience, for Haruka definitely. He got to see all of his friends for once without some strange problem going on or everyone picking on Seifer for dating that one girl and his sister. Oh right, he isn't dating his sister. That was a false alarm.

Haruka went to the slums, mostly because this was the area that Hikaru lived in and where Haruka was putting his efforts into. Might as well get familiarized with the area again. Upon entering, brutal fights seemed to be happening. Again. This seemed to faze Haruka just a bit. He found actual fighting somewhat cringey, but Sera was completely undeterred from all of it. Even the ones who were seriously injured or worse.

"Well... here it is." He pocketed his hands, staring around the area for a moment before starting his trek forward.

[Hope]

Isabella had gotten herself along with talking to a few of residents here. It was mostly due to the restoration project that she had started off among the local community. After the club meeting, she decided to ask Haruka-kun if he could accompany her here as she went along and checked on the area's progress. Strangely enough, there was a bunch of fist fights going on and they were getting in the way of her destination so she ended having to roundhouse kick two random nubs... on accident. More or less, they were getting to close to with their little scuffle and she was taught to do attack out of self defense when she felt an immediate danger close by. Maybe they will meet again on better terms, but until then...

There was a small shack with men in suits sitting outside. This was the last day that her bodyguards would be here to secure the turf war for Hikaru, since it was getting far too dangerous for her to send them here. She didn't want to get them too involved. They handed her a paper of data about the restoration project along with some information about the local community. It's needs, population, and all that stuff plus an estimate of the progress for the project.

It was a long way from done. She continued to scan the paper while still being cautious of her surroundings.

[Jello]

Apparently the area that used to be some rough Cardfighting here and there with a bit of cheating here and there with the occasional fist fight, has turned into an all out brawl across factions. Hikaru wasn't kidding considering how many people were simply out cold on the ground. A couple of people acknowledged Haruka's existence, but none of them particularly knew him and that was how Haruka would rather have kept it.

"So Hana, what are we here to do exactly...?" Haruka leaned against a wall of a rundown apartment building in the area. Nearby was a chain fence with holes in it, but it looked more dangerous to crawl through it than not because those wires look razor sharp. With a sigh, he looked up at the sky in order to bring down a bit of anxiety of being here. Haruka hated when people fought. Cardfighting, sure, that was usually to decide something non-violently anyways. But this was just making him uncomfortable.

Hopefully we get out of here soon... There really isn't much here anyways.

Haruka, there is more here than meets the eye. Powerful fighters are here.

Haruka was almost ready to disagree with Overlord on that, not seeing a single fighter Haruka found distinguishable from another. They all seemed like tough brutes, but a few of them looked a bit more thoughtful. Maybe some people here really were strong. But that didn't change his mind altogether.

[Hope]

After scrolling through the information, she thanked the bodyguards and sent them on their way, handing them envelopes containing their paycheck as well. Initially, they offered to escort her as she made her way outside, but she assured them that she was fine by herself. She took the envelope and folded it into her purse. Looking over at Haruka-kun, he seemed very uncomfortable. Not that it was strange, the terrible situation here has escalated so much over they year, but that's the point of the project anyways.

"Well, I had to pay the bodyguards who I sent here to gather information while Hikaru was hospitalized. Its just statistical data that gives me an idea of how the restoration here is going with the current funds that we've earned." She thought about something interesting about the charts that would maybe interest Haruka-kun.

"Umm..." Well she was a bit jealous, but she told him anyways, "Drake raised twice the amount of money as me in the last event because people were betting on whether he was going to cry or not during the game. We didn't get to stay that long, but that must have been hilarious haha."

[Cherry]

Yugure found herself flipping one of the big guys with a couple of others who was causing a disturbance. They kept talking about some turf war that the queen decided to ask Hikaru about later.  They also spoke of a matter with Card Capital, but she stopped listening. Broken pieces of information wasn't going to get her anywhere. However, she thought that maybe she could assist... Earning a favor would be a good way to enlist their help. Voices of doubt were already rising from her Liberators, not finding any of these scoundrels useful in the long run. Shadow Paladin disagreed, mainly because they could be put in the same category.

The soldier looked toward the distance to see Haruka and Hana. While wanting to have a casual meet with them, getting their hands in this would be necessary eventually. ... Still, there was unease in heart beyond that matter. Ignoring the unsettling anxiety, she approached her boyfriend and sister.

[Jello]

I-I do not think you are catching my drift Haruka...

Haruka shrugged, attention now to Hana. She was talking about the bodyguards and some statistics. These kinds of things really make a lot of sense to him because numbers weren't exactly his thing, and all he really wanted was to get out of there. Then she said something about Drake and she had his full undivided attention.

"Really?! Hahahahaha, I bet he did." Haruka was laughing a good deal, actually brightened up by the whole ordeal. Its quite hilarious to believe that people actually bet on that, and even funnier that just that alone allowed it to double over what Hana had managed to make from her Cardfighting. Haruka was interested to hear the details-

W-Wait... Is that...Yukino.

Haruka looked past Hana for a moment to see his girlfriend, Yukino Espoir. The first time since she had disappeared a year ago. He breathed in deep, closed his eyes for a moment and smiled. He was actually, despite the twisted stuff he's found himself in, really happy to see her. Waving he called out.

"Yuuu-kiiii-nooo!" He had always called out to her that way, very syllabic because he thought it sounded cuter that way. Haruka felt a bit scummy doing it now because things were significantly different than they used to be.

[Hope]

Drake is best girl, no doubt about it.

Isabella turned around once she heard Haruka-kun call out her sister's name. She didn't know whether to be excited, or annoyed, but that part of her was taken to the back of her mind along with the rest of her thoughts. As if it was a self defense mechanism, her mind went blank again, enabling her to stay calm within this situation. There was nothing mucb to say, at least at the currebt moment, so she just waved over to Yukino as she approached then.

[Cherry]

"Why are you two-"

The soldier shut her mouth very quickly, realizing they were all just here as companions. They didn't require any necessary business to go where they pleased. She most certainly wasn't their mother. Yugure looked off into the distance, trying to figure out what to say. Unable to get to the two of them yesterday, she thought there would be time to collect thoughts. Just like Satoshi, however, none really came to mind after awhile.

"... Hello..." was muttered. There was a bit of a pause to piece together more. "Haruka... Hana... I'm... very happy to see you both."

She kind of just wanted to run up to Haruka, tackle him down, and roll around kissing him. That imagination made her blush, and had to refrain knowing how much it had annoyed Hana last year. A fingernail was bitten down on unconsciously out of nerves.

[Jello]

Minefield. Ever heard of those? Haruka is on one right now. Except every metric square centimeter has one. And in those mines, there are ten more mines. If Haruka so much as breathes at the wrong angle a little too hard, everything goes straight to purgatory for him.

Play it cool, Haru... Play it cool.

"L-Likewise... I mean, yeah! I'm happy to see you too." Haruka put up a half-forced smile. It's not that he was lying, not at all. He was angry at her, but at the same time still felt those lingering feelings from before. The only issue here stands is that, he was still angry at her. Not only that, but he's spending his evenings with her sister...

...

HER SISTER.

This leads to the disastrous realization that any wrong moves could send him to Hades faster than Blaster Dark Revenger. Haruka was honestly unsure of how to proceed here. Talk too much to Yukino? Hana might kill. Spend too much attention on Hana? Yukino will feel neglected. There is just no realistic way for Haruka make a good decision here.

"What have you been up to, since you got home I mean?" Haruka decided to go with a simple question that even Hana probably wanted to know the answer. Haruka mostly was just interested in that... well, it was selfish, but he was in fact very jealous that on the first day she didn't come see him. That text he got was some consolation, but he still wanted her to come see him.

Which was totally unfair to her because Haruka was spending those days with Hana and doing pretty much the exact opposite of what Yukino would have wanted of him.

Haruka...

There was no consolation for him right now. He was simply trying to get through the evening on two good sides, when they were currently on polar opposites of the spectrum.

[Hope]

Haruka-kun seemed nire unfomfortable thsn ever. That reall wasn't part of the plan so she gabe him a wink and thumbs uo. At least it was the easiest way to convey that he can do anything here, as long as he didn't do too much with Yukino and returned to Hana.

The coping mechanism behind her head kept her feelings seemingly genuine. She acted as she felt no guilt. She normally would, but her mind forcibly blanked it.out. Where was it born from? The absence of much of a guiding figure for the past year.

"Konichwas Yukinoo how are yoooou?"

[Cherry]

"I'd prefer Yugure", she stated. The feeling of discomfort was still prevalent, but she continued on. "I've been... scouting? No... just getting a layout of the city, seeing how things have changed over the year." The word scouting would probably get some inquisitive looks, as would recruiting. Hana seemed fine, yet, Haruka's expression seemed off. An inquiry to give him later in private, she supposed.

"The slums seem more violent."

Thinking back on how bloodthirsty she was and still is, this land of twisted Vanguard is probably a well-suited home for her.