Chapter 28

After having a good lunch in the restaurant and paying the bill, Yuriko and Takeru continued with their date. But different from earlier, Takeru still had a slightly red face as he kept remembering Yuriko's words from earlier

"What is it, Takeru? Still thinking about what I said before?"

"… Maybe"

"Fufu. Don't think too much about it…"

"Because you were joking?"

"…"

Yuriko simply stayed quiet at Takeru's question, they looked at each other as Takeru waited for Yuriko's answer…

"Oh look! The arcade is right over there! Let's see if they got any new prizes!"

Yuriko pointed at the arcade and then walked towards there at a fast pace

"Oi! Don't go changing subjects like that, Yuriko-baka! I won't forget about it this easily!"

Takeru angrily said that, as he chased after Yuriko. Once inside the arcade the two began playing on all the arcade machines either with or against each other, they were having a lot of fun playing together that Takeru forgot about Yuriko changing subjects earlier

And right now, the two were having a match against each other in a fighting game, and Takeru was surprisingly winning as Yuriko's character was almost without health. But Yuriko began putting more pressure on Takeru's character as she began playing more aggressively, to the point that Takeru's character had already lost half of its remaining health bar, but now his special bar was full

Takeru then did the obvious thing and activated the super, but then Yuriko did the impossible and parried all of the special attacks, and then countered with her character's special attack, defeating Takeru in an impressive manner

"…"

"Fufu! It appears that I won again, Takeru"

Yuriko inclined to the side to look at Takeru, and he also inclined but all he did was pout in anger towards Yuriko, but seeing that only made Yuriko more amused

"Wanna go for another match, Takeru?"

"No…"

"And what if I say I'll anything that you ask me to do if you win?"

"… … …"

Takeru looked at Yuriko again as he thought about it, then he began to blush while he looked away from her

"Sure…"

"Great! Ah! And also the same applies to you if I win, okay?"

"Fine, but I'll win this time for sure!"

"Fufu! Of course, you will"

Yuriko would prefer to win, but she didn't mind if Takeru won either, since she knew that he most likely ask her to let him pamper her

"So what game will it be?"

"I have the perfect choice"

Takeru said that in a prideful way, and they both made their way to the rhythm game arcade machine from the last time they came, but…

"… *Shocked*"

"Oh my…"

The place where the arcade machine would be was instead occupied by a sign saying that the arcade machine was being changed for a new one with a new game of the same franchise

"Fufu! It appears that your plan was over before it even started, Takkun"

"… *Pouts his cheeks*"

"…"

Yuriko did her best to hold back her urge to laugh in amusement at Takeru's reaction, and after quickly calming herself down, Yuriko spoke up again

"Do you have any other game in mind, Takeru?"

"… That one?…"

Takeru pointed at the arcade machine of a flying combat game

"That one? I never really played it before…"

"Then let's go have a match in that!"

Hearing that Yuriko hasn't played that game, made him immediately make up his mind about having a match on that game

"…Okay" <Well, I only played that game on my brother's console, but for Takeru to be that confident, he must have played it before>

Takeru never played that game at all, so he was about to have a horrible surprise

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Some minutes earlier

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As Yuriko and Takeru were having their matches, two guys entered the arcade, and those guys were…

"C'mon man, get over it already. It has already been a month since Yuriko rejected you and kicked our asses"

"Only you can say that! When you're always getting rejected by all the girls, since ever!"

"Hey! That's low, do you know how much time I had to spend to learn how to get over the rejections of my confessions in a day? 2 months! 2 months of getting constantly rejected by the girls every day!"

"And do you know how hard it hurts to have your heart broken by getting rejected and beaten up by the girl you loved, and was somewhat close to!?"

It was Daichi and Yamada, as the two were arguing over their unsuccessful love life

"Alright, alright, forget it. Let's not talk about that, at least for now, because I heard that the arcade received a limited amount of scale figure from a character I really like from a gacha game I play"

"Who's the character?"

"The super-battleship Mikasa, an Ultra rare shipgirl. That I would love even more… If. I. Had. One. In. game!" (A/N Notes: don't think too much about this, that's just me referencing stuff from my other stories because I can)

Yamada only got common characters in all of his pulls in the gacha game during the event that had ended some time ago

"Okay… So what do you need me for?"

"I need your help to get enough tickets to buy her as soon as possible before someone else gets it"

"… *Sigh* Fine, I'll help you with that"

"Great! Now let's start grinding!"

The two then went on to play as many arcade games as they could, especially the ones that had the chance of giving them the biggest amount of tickets in one go… … … Their luck was just like their love life… Absolutely garbage

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Some time later

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"Dangit!!!"

Yamada was on his fours, as he cried from his horrible gacha luck, so far they managed to only make about half of the needed tickets, mostly thanks to Daichi after he pulled himself and Yamada away from the machines based on luck. But they still needed to get more tickets, and quickly

"So what do we play now, the arcade machine that gave us the most tickets were the shooter one, but the difficulty is so high…"

"No, there's another arcade machine that gives a lot of tickets with a pretty decent difficulty"

"Then let's go play on that one"

"Yeah, let's go!"

The two made their way to the arcade machine in question, with Yamada leading the way, as he went to where the machine was located, he eventually found himself seeing the last thing he wanted to see together with Daichi as he was about to turn a corner…

Yuriko

And worst of all, she was with a boy that Yamada was pretty sure he saw somewhere before

"Hey, why did you stop, man?"

"Nothing, the arcade machine appears to be occupied, so let's go play something else as we wait for them to leave"

Yamada tried to take Daichi away from there, since he knew if Daichi found out that Yuriko was at the arcade with a boy, Daichi would become useless and unreliable to get any tickets for him. So he began trying to push Daichi away from there, but as I said before… His luck was as good as his number of relationships with girls… 0

"Then Takeru…"

"Huh!?"

Daichi who was familiar with that voice quickly got away from Yamada's push and went to where the owner of the voice was at

"Yur- !?!?!?"

Then just as he turned from the corner Daichi saw… Yuriko kissing Takeru on the lips

"Ah… Ah… Aaaaaahhh…"

Daichi fell to his knees as he felt like his should was leaving his body from the amount of shock he received from seeing Yuriko kissing another boy. Then Yuriko parted her kiss from Takeru and hugged him, pressing his face against her chest

"… !"

Then Daichi saw Yuriko turn her head towards him, and the happy smiling face that she had when she was looking at Takeru disappeared and was changed by a face filled with disgust and hatred, then he clearly saw her sigh in annoyance, before she stopped hugging Takeru and walked somewhere else while holding hands with him, and with a gentle smile back to her face as she looked at Takeru

"…"

Daichi was now pale and looked lifeless

"Oi, dude! Don't leave me now! I still need you to get me half of the remaining tickets!"

Yamada began shaking Daichi to bring him back to his senses, as he also grabbed Daichi's fleeing soul and tried to put it back in. But none of that worked, and now Daichi was out of the game

"Fucc! Alright! Time to give my all, and get those remaining tickets by myself!"

Yamada then abandoned the shocked Daichi there, and rushed to the arcade machine of aerial combat, and began playing it. Then as Yamada was playing the game, Daichi came back to his senses

"*Gasp* Huh!? Wha? ! That's right, I need to talk with Yuriko!"

Forgetting why he was even here, Daichi went on to search for Yuriko to ask her what was that he had just seen and ask her to forgive him