Kuuga City.

A city that leads the fight against fossil fuels through its massive usage of wind based-energy through the vast amounts of wind turbines across the landscape, and a city drowned in crime factions, who climbed to power through their money, their violence, and their beloved Duel Monsters.

Many names grew to be urban myths, duelists who fought for the yakuza on the city.

One of said names was Deadhand, a girl called Shinohara Raiden, a girl who just spent a whole hour doing things that'll get this story cancelled if I narrate them while thinking of Tour Guide. Way to start your saturday.

Can we make Bishbaalkin-kun the protagonist now?

Anyway.

Raiden happily walked down to the bottom floor of her house. This little wannabe neet was too lazy to be bothered with dressing clothes, so she only hugged her precious Tour Guide bodypillow as some sort of cover.

"Breakfast with Tour Guide-chan, breakfast with Tour Guide-chan, breakfast with Tour Guide-!"

But as she happily strolled into the kitchen, she came face to face with someone.

A tall man with black hair, with the sleeves of his shirt rolled up neatly. He had a pink apron with Farfa from the Burning Abyss series, and was holding a frying pan and a spatula. He'd be wearing his bussin' drippy blazer jacket if he wasn't cooking.

Their focused gazes met.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING NAKED, YOU DAMN WANNABE SHUT-IN?!"

That happened.

About half a hour later, they met again at the kitchen, to eat the breakfast he cooked. Raiden finally got her clothes on, fixed her hair and got her make done.

Time for some explanation!

That lovely man was Sugimura Shohei, a high ranking member of the Doujima Family. He also did the cooking, cleaning, dish washing, ironing clothes, shopping, even changing lightbulbs, basically anything that counted as chores because the only thing stopping Raiden from becoming a complete shut-in was the debt she had to pay through dueling.

He also multitasked as Raiden's caretaker. It was his idea to have her repay the debt by becoming a duelist for the Doujima.

"I forgot you were coming today... Oi, wait a sec... No I didn't! Why are you here, it's weekend, I don't got anything scheduled for today!" Raiden cried. Screw the mafia, Tour Guide exists.

"The three sects are having an assembly today. You're coming with, being Deadhand and all. That and we're going to do the groceries after it and you're not escaping it today." Shohei explained.

"This stinks, I had an entire weekend of Tour Guide-chan action planned..." Raiden cried, resting her head on the table.

"Trying to end your turn empty handed with BA on Drueling Brook isn't an action plan, you wannabe shut-in." Shohei deadpanned.

"You're so mean Shohei..." She sniffed. "You guys keep putting together these assemblies all the time to boot... How's an honest Deadhand supposed to enjoy her free time with all these meetings happening at the last second? What are you guys even discussing there for those to happen in this quantity?!"

"Talking about business. You'd know if you didn't slept through most of them."

"S-shut up! Ah man, why do I have to go too?! I just want to stay home and intake my weekly BA copium..."

"Now you can not do that and do something actually useful. You're welcome." Shohei sighed. "Eat your greens."

"No way, they stink! Who even eats veggies in the morning?!" Raiden cried.

"You child... Eat your greens or I'm revoking your Fanbox funding!"

"SHOHEI YOU'RE SO MEAN!"

Bishbaalkin-kun for protagonist please.

Anyway, the burning (abyss) desire to not summon Infernity Archfiend thirty times in a turn and setting three omni negates for game aside, Shohei and Raiden soon drove out to the meeting place of the three sects of the Doujima family. Sadly for Shohei, he had to yell for Raiden to wake up when they got there.

The meeting place was an old and abandoned cargo ship out in the city's port, because the yakuza can't just afford a room apparently. You say better safe than sorry, I say no one thought ahead.

Inside the cargo ship, three groups made out of tne or so members of each sect met. Everyone was packing a nice suit, except Raiden and another woman. She could always invest in a proper suit, but the BA deck is an even better investment.

"This is so boring..." Raiden sighed.

"Shut up. It's about to start." Shohei replied.

The first to step up was the other woman that didn't wear a full on suit. She had long white hair, and an eyepatch on her right eye, and underneath a nice and long white blazer, she wore a black, very low neck, shirt. Like goddamn, low neck enough for this narrator to see some very nice stuff.

Yes, the extra details in description are needed, this is a potential waifu, read a book.

"Hajime Yua, head of Susanoo."

The first sect: Susanoo. This sect handled all businesses related to combat, ranging from protection businesses, to having some dudes teach someone owning money a lesson or two. They also handled the dueling side of things. Raiden wasn't part of it since Shohei was her guardian.

The next to step up was Shohei himself.

"Sugimura Shohei, head of Tsukuyomi."

The second sect: Tsukuyomi. This sect, lead by Shohei himself, handled all the nighttime businesses, such as bars, cabarets, and other entertainment focused businesses. He also handled some of the, for the lack of a better word, illegal trades, mainly that of vehicles.

And yes, he owned strip clubs, grow up.

The final one to step up was a man in a nice suit, with light purple hair that had a few dark blue streaks, combed to the side.

"Kawakami Neiru, standing in for the head of Amaterasu."

The third sect: Amaterasu. They handled all the daytime businesses, such as cover-up companies that gathered funds for the Doujima family. They also handled the rest of illegal trades. With so much money under their thumb, they were the most powerful of the sects. Their actual leader never came to one of these meetings, so their second in command Kawakami Neiru came in their place.

"First order of business for today. Amaterasu has acquired the rest of this port. While that is positive, there's an unwelcome negative part with it." Neiru explained, looking over at Shohei. "Honami Yujiro's son has been snooping around this area for two weeks now. I trust that he won't pose any sort of issue like his father."

"Honami Yuujin won't pose any sort of problems to the Doujima family. He's just a dumb kid, unable to cope with his loss. Give it some time, and he'll move on after tiring himself out." Shohei said.

"So you're still one to prefer to wait things out before cutting the problem at the base? I'm amazed at how you manage to keep her in your sect." Yua siged. "Shinohara-chan, have you reconsidered my offer?"

"E-eh? M-me? Ah, right, I'll stay by Shohei's side. But thanks anyway, Hajime-san!" Raiden waved.

"Stop trying to get Deadhand to join you, Yua." Shohei scoffed.

"Not this again." Neiru sighed.

"Susanoo's the battle sect, Deadhand is one of the Doujima's family's prime duelists, it only makes sense to want her in my sect." The white haired explained. "Besides, my businesses don't keep me away form home for nights at an end, so I am an even more capable guardian to her than you."

"Shut up, you da-!"

"Tsukuyomi, Susanoo, leave your bickering for another day, or for when I'm not around to see you two act like children."

"You still like to run your mouth alot, Kawakami. You're still only a representive of that idle idiot who refuses to come around." Yua said.

"And that still puts me in the same level as you two, when you compare Amaterasu to your sects." Neiru replied, fixing his tie. "Moving on to more important problems. December's appproaching, so funding will come puring in like a storm. Don't go using it all on unneeded things."

After that dragged out meeting ended, and by dragged out I mean dragged out enough for Raiden to go take a nap in the car and return, only four people were left behind inside the cargo ship. 

Two of them were Shohei and Raiden, and the other two were Neiru and a girl with yellow eyes and red hair, tied into a braid behind her back with two bangs on the front, and two piercings on her right ear. And yes, she also wore a suit, under a black trench coat.

'Wha-! That red hair, those cute bangs, and those thighs big enough to crush my head like a watermelon- IT'S LIKE SOMEONE MADE TOUR GUIDE-CHAN REAL!' Raiden thought. 

She was staring the girl with one of those weird stares, so much so that Shohei had to move her head to the side to free her for that transe.

The girl didn't seem to care at all. Her eyes looked tired, she looked like she had small eyebags growing. But to hell with that, Raiden liked that too.

This why Bishbaalkin-kun should be the protagonist.

"Thanks for agreeing to keep her in these stormy times, Tsukuyomi. I have better things to do than babysit some unwanted child." Neiru sighed.

"No problem. It's the least I can do." Shohei said, his eye twitching slightly. "But did your parents never teach you any manners?"

"I used the manners they taught me on them."

Shrugging, Neiru left the three to do whatever the hell they wanted and pissed off out of there.

"That guy..." He sighed and looked at the girl. "My name is Sugimura Shohei, and I'll be your guardian for now. You'll be living with her for the next few weeks."

"E-eh?" Raiden looked at the two and bowed. "M-m-my name is Shinohara Raiden, nice to meet you!" 'TOUR GUIDE-CHAN IS GOING TO LIVE WITH ME!'

"Hijiri Nagi. Sorry for the inconvenience." The red haired girl bowed.

"It's not one at all." Shohei chuckled. "I spend most of time working, so you'll have to make do with her. She's the ultimate lazy ass shut-in, but if you yell at her enough, she'll get around to do some chores."

"Ah?! Who're you calling an ultimate lazy ass shut-in?!" Raiden pouted.

"I'm not lying. And you need to start pulling your weight around the house, you're not living mostly alone now!"

"Hai..." She nodded. 'I got Tour Guide-chan, but at what price...'

"I'll cook for you, The Ultimate Lazy Ass Shut-in-san." Nagi said, sneakly poking Raine's cheek.

"C-C-C-CALL ME RAIDEN!" She exclaimed, looking away, red as a beet. The simping is big for anything that resembles Tour Guide in this one.

"You... How about we go get some food? I know a burger place who makes these Hungry Burger-looking burgers, it's actually shocking how similar those things look- I mean they're even bigger than most burgers!" Shohei said. He was unexpectedly excited about burgers.

"Free food?! Hell yeah!!" Raiden yelled, throwing her arms in the air.

"Hell yeah." Nagi raised her fist a little. She tried to follow along Raiden's excitment, but her voice was too monotone.

With the pleasantries out of the way, the three finally got out of the cargo ship and began heading down to Shohei's car, but were halted by someone calling out to them.

"Hey, Tsukuyomi!"

The three stopped and looked up at a tower made out of poorly stacked cargo containers, poorly enough to be a danger for public health, where a young man with white hair sat, grinning at the three.

"Your friend?" Nagi asked.

"Wow, you have friends?!" Raiden followed.

"Of course I have friends, dumbass. But that isn't one of them. C'mon the Hungry Burger burgers aren't gonna eat themselves." Shohei sighed.

"I said... HEY, TSUKUYOMI!"

Fed up with Shohei's ignorance, the guy started jumping down from container to container, using the poor stacking skills of the poor bastard who made the tower to his advantage, and demonstrating some honestly cool parkour moves, until he reached the ground.

The doors from a container next to the tower opened, out of which came some of the guys from his crew.

"You aren't going to ignore a friend just like that, are you?" He cackled.

"So he is a friend." Nagi pointed out.

"So you do have friends." Raiden nodded.

"You two are ignoring the problem." Shohei deadpanned.

"Yes, that container tower does seem a health hazard." The red haired girl nodded.

"That isn't it either." He deadpanned again, and looked at the one calling out to him. "You're... That guy from Yua's band of savages, right? That guy she imported from one of the Koreas."

"The name's Taek-jin Park, from the Susanoo sect. I'm one of the best in the crew. And yes. I came from the North one."

"I see... So, Hungry Burger burgers?" Shohei asked, looking back at the girls.

"I'm not done, jackass." Park scoffed. "I don't supposed you're willing to hand over the Tsukuyomi title for free, so I came to duel you for it. That Hajime doesn't know shit about what she's doing. She doesn't seem to want to get out of her old ways. For me, that got tiresome ages ago. Leading the combat sect means shit when you don't use it to its full potential. Making money out of it? Who gives a shit? Money is only the fruit harvested from a much more powerful seed: power."

"Is that what you want?" Nagi asked.

"I lost track of things in the money watermelon part..." Raiden weeped.

"Isn't that what everyone wantd? That's just part of who we are as humans. So I'll become Tsukuyomi, overtake Susanoo after it, and then get rid of Amaterasu for good. Thought I might aswell tell you now before you start begging for an answer after I'm done with you. So, you in for a challenge?"

"I don't get anything out of it. Learn some business skills before trying-"

"Couldn't cope with the fact your yakuza life got your poor daughter killed, so you went ahead and tried to fix the past by taking in that gambler Shinohara's kid, huh? You call it giving the Doujima a mighty weapon, I call it not being able to accept how much of a fuck up you are. And now look at you, taking care of another. At this rate, you might aswell just reform Tsukuyomi into an orphanage for daughters with shitty dads. I'm sure yours would have ended up there if you took the bullet for her." He laughed, passing from one side to the other. "Maybe that rilled you up enough to rethink my challenge?"

"Shohei..." Raiden muttered, looking at the man.

Though she expected to see a man boiling with overwhelming rage, she only saw the same Shohei she always saw during these sect meetings, the same man with a stern and serious expression in his face.

"No, but I'll take whatever shots I got at getting Yua's bickering off my back." Shohei answered, equipping his duel disk. "Duel."

"Eh, that's the spirit! Let's dance, Tsukuyomi!" Park grinned, putting his disk on. "Duel!"

[Sugimura Shohei (8000) versus Taek-jin Park (8000)]

"Seems like the dice prefered you. How will you start things up, Daddyman?"

"I summon Buzzsaw Shark, in attack mode. From my hand, I activate Abyss Shark's effect. I special summon him in attack mode, and then I add a level 3, 4 or 5 Fish from my deck to my hand. I add Crystal Shark. Crystal Shark's effect. I halve Buzzsaw Shark's attack in order to special summon him in attack mode. Crystal and Abyss Shark's shared effect. From my hand, I activate White Stingray's effect. I discard Silent Angler to special summon it in attack mode. Then I activate the spell White Mirror. I special summon Silent Angler from my graveyard in attack mode, then add another Silent Angler from my deck to my hand. Now- White Stingray and Silent Angler, overlay!"

"Here it comes..." Park grinned.

The number 4 shined dark blue in the back of Shohei's left hand.

"Xyz Summon! Number 4: Stealth Kragen!"

"Stealth Kragen's effect. The attritube of all face-up monsters on the field becomes Water. Silent Angler's effect from hand, I special summon him in attack mode. Buzzsaw Shark's effect. I target Silent Angler, then special summon a level 4 Fish from my deck with a different name, with his effects negated until the end of turn. I special summon Lantern Shark. Silent Angler and Lanter Shark, overlay! Xyz Summon! Bahamut Shark!"

"Bahamut Shark's effect. I detach one of his materials and special summon a Rank 3 or lower Water Xyz. Xyz Summon! Toadly Awesome!"

"And then, Abyss Shark and Crystal Shark, overlay! Xyz Summon! Nafil Asylum Heth Knight!"

"That's all. Turn end." Shohei declared.

Shohei
Hand: 0
LP: 80000
EMZ: Number 4: Stealth Kragen
XXXXO
OOOO

Park
Hand: 5
LP: 8000
OOOOO
OOOOO

"Quite the set up you made for yourself, Daddyman. I'll break it faster than you broke your little family. Draw! Eh, nice. I'll start by activating Cybernetic Horizon!"

"Go ahead."

"I send Cyberdark Edge from hand and Attachment Cyberm from my deck to the grave to grab Cyberdark Cannon from the deck, then ditch Cyber End Dragon from the extra deck. Now that that's set up, I ditch Cyberdark Cannon to grab Cyberdark Chimera, then ditch Cyberdark Claw to grab Cyberdark Realm! I activate Cyberdark Realm, which let's me grab Cyberdark Horn! For my normal summon, I summon Cyberdark Chimera! Cyberdark Realm's effect, I normal summon Cyberdark Horn in addition to my normal summon! Horn's effect, he equips Attachment Cybern from the grave and gets his power, while Cyber gives him an extra 600 and a few extra skills. Chimera's effect. I ditch Invasion to grab Power Bond from the deck. Fun fact, Chimera let's me fuse by banishing shit from the grave aswell. Now I'll activate this fusion spell! Power Bond!"

"Toadally Awesome's effect. I send Silent Angler to the graveyard to negate Power Bond, destroy it, and then set it on my field."

"You dumbass, that was the goal! It leaves me perfectly open to use this other fusion spell, Overload Fusion! I banish Chimera and Horn from the field, aswell as Cannon, Claw and Edge from the grave! Fussion Summon! The dark dragon who tears away at machines and dragons, Cyberdarkness Dragon!"

"Cyberdarkness Dragon's effect, I-!"

"Stealth Kragen's effect. Once per turn, during the main phase, I destroy one Water monster you control and brun you for half its attack while on the field. I'll destroy that thing." Shohei said, pointing at Cyberdarkness Dragon.

"Eh, it's fine. (8000>>7000) It only goes to show how gullible you are, little Daddyman. I always keep an ace up my sleeve for terrible fathers like you! I activate Monster Reborn to bring back my Cyberdarkness Dragon! Maybe should have waited before eating my Power Bond with your pathetic excuse of a monster."

Shohei briefly flinched.

(Media - Rules of Nature)

"Oho, that got something out of you? Then get ready for more! Cyberdarkness Dragon can use his effect whenver he's special summond in general, so even a revive will trigger his effect! With his effect, I equip-!"

"Nafil Asylum Heth Knight's effect." Shohei spoke up. "I detach two of its materials to attach a card from my extra deck to him. Then, I attach that thing aswell."

"What the-?! That weird looking ship as an effect like that?!" Park grit his teeth. "Eh, minor... I'll just outplay you next turn! Turn end!"

Shohei
Hand: 0
LP: 8000
EMZ: Number 4: Stealth Kragen
XXXOO
OOXOO

 Park
Hand: 0
LP: 7000
OOOOO
OOXOO

"Draw. From my hand, I activate Abyss Shark's effect. I special summon him, and add Silent Angler from deck to hand. Then, I special summon him with his own effect. Silent Angler, Abyss Shark, overlay. Xyz Summon. Bahamut Shark. Bahamut Shark's skill. I detach an overlay unit to Xyz summon Toadally Awesome."

"Then, you die. Chaos Xyz Change!"

"W-WHAT?!"

"Using Nafil Asylum Heth Knight, CXyz: Nafil Asylum Chaos Knight!"

"Nafil Asylum Chaos Knight's effect! I detach one of his overlay units to Xyz summon a Number monster from my extra deck, whose number is between 101 and 107, using Chaos Knight!"

"Wait... A... A second Number?!"

The number 101 shined white on the back of Shohei's right hand.

"Xyz Summon! Number C101: Silent Honor DARK!"

"Battle. Stealth Kragen attacks."

"Tch! (7000>>5100)"

"Toadally Awesome."

"Dammit...! (5100>>2900)"

"The other Toadally Awesome."

"DAMMIT! (2900>>700) I WAS SUPPOSED TO WIN THIS WITH AN ULTIMATE OVERKILL, NOT GET THROWN INTO THE LOSING SIDE BY SOME FROGS!"

"They're toads, read the name. Silent Honor DARK, attack. Glacial Thunderbolt - SILENT ERADICATION!"

"Stop... STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! (700>0)"

Shohei swung his hand down, making a mighty white thunderbolt strike Park down with great power and fury.

People say cool guys don't look at explosions, which would probably make Shohei uncool.

Because instead of looking away and leaving, Shohei walked towards the blinding light of his final attack directly.

As he walked past it, he reached for the inside of the lighting, and ripped Park out of it, holding his entire body up thanks to a strong grip on his neck.

"It's not always about the grieving, kid. It's about doing what's right for an innocent child. You'd know something about if you weren't such a brat." Shohei coldly whispered.

Shohei slammed Park into the container at the base of the tower, with so much strength that Park probably broke a bone or two with it. It was even powerful enough to make the tower start tumbling down, and the containers crashing into the others behind the tower.

It was loud enough to make Raiden hide behind Nagi as the two covered their ears.

"Go back to Yua and be a good kid. Or else I'll finish what a started. Is that fine with you?" The leader of Tsukuyomi asked with a glare.

Park immediately began nodding. He was trying to break free from Shohei's iron grip, the lack of air was about to catch up with him.

"Good."

Shohei dropped that ungrateful bastard on the ground, where he began coughing loudly after almost seeing the great Horakhty on the other side, and headed back to Raiden and Nagi.

After a long and awkward silence-filled lunch at the burger place Shohei recommended, Shohei drove the two girls back to Raiden's house. Nagi dozed off on the back seat soon after they got on the road, so Raiden joined Shohei on the front to not have to look at her.

Yeah, she forgot there was a mirror on the front, she didn't think too much about this plan.

"So... Toads and burgers, am I right or what?" Raiden said, in a very poor attempt to raise the mood. "Sorry..."

"It's fine." Shohei replied, keeping his eyes on the road. "It feels like something I should have told you by now."

"N-no no, it's fine, really! It's a personal matter, I don't want you feel force to talk about or anything!"

"Eh, thanks, Raiden." He smiled. 

Raiden smiled aswell and looked back at the road, while ignoring the mirror giving her straight view to a sleeping Nagi in the back.

"Before all of this yakuza crap got big in Kuuga, I was a married man and a father, working on some shitty office from nine to five... But I wanted to feel free, to feel like I could do something, so me and some old friends decided to join the yakuza. We were dumb guys, not even halfway through our twenties. It was fun in at he start, but I blew it on an important deal, and... My Misaki paid the price. My wife didn't handle things to well and, well, you can guess what she did. She'd be your age by now... I wonder if you two could have become friends if I hadn't gotten into this life." Shohei chuckled.

"I'd be a goner if it weren't for you..." Raiden chuckled too.

"Yeah... Please don't think I took you to try and replace Misaki. I did what I did because I can't accept the Doujima dragging innocents into their problems. So aslong as I'm around, I won't let innocent lives pay the price for what we do... Not again. That's why I became Tsukuyomi."

"Yeah... If there's anyone who can do it, it's you, Shohei." She said, bumping his shoulder with her fist.

"You're goddamn right." Shohei smirked.

"...so, toads and burgers?"

"I got Stealth Kragen from the previous Tsukuyomi. You'd think I'd hold that card, or my Silent Honors ARK and DARK in high regard, but my most precious card will forever be Toadally Awesome. That's the card Misaki most loved. I still can't figure it out to this day why." He laughed. "She also used to make hamburger steaks with her mom all the time. Yeah, still in primary school, but she knew how to cook more than you."

"Wha- Hey, I can cook!"

"You know how to make cup ramen, and you broke two of my electric kettles before figuring it out. How does one even break a kettle while warming water?"

"It takes great skill to pour the water into the cup without spilling it on yourself!"

"You spilled it on yourself seven times by now."

"T-that's besides the point!"

The rest of the way home, the two kept bickering while Nagi napped in the back. When they got home and woke Nagi up, Shohei showed Nagi around, before leaving to go handle his duties as  Tsukuyomi. Raiden did the responsible thing of going to her room and spend the rest of the day looking at Tour Guide lewds.

Please go touch some of that grass that looks greener instead.

Yes, the pun was necessary.

It was now the evening, past dinner time. After the two girls had some cup ramen that Raiden prepared like the pro she talked herself to be, Nagi went to take a bath, while Raiden went to her room to look up handless BA combos.

She really needs to find a way to keep the name Deadhand.

And after that proved to be the biggest bust of her life, she just turned her laptop off and fell on her bed.

"Tour Guide-chan, heeeeeeeelp..." Raiden weeped.

"Can I come in?"

"Eh?"

Raiden sat up, but the sight of Nagi only in a towel made her turn red right away. She was so paralyzed she couldn't even try to look away or scream.

"Y-yes..." She nodded.

Nagi entered the room and sat next to her on the bed.

The two stayed silent without looking at each other, but the second Raiden grew a pair of The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Modes to look at the next best person after Tour Guide, Nagi looked back at her.

"You're Deadhand, aren't you?"

"H-hai!"

"I see. That makes us cut from the same cloth then."

"Eh?"

"I got involved in this yakuza mess without desiring it too, just under different circumstances." Nagi revealed, looking back at the ground.

"W-well, I heard it happens to tons of people in Kuuga... It's what they get for staying in a city driven by crime, I guess." Raiden said, looking at the ground too.

"Did you ever thought about becoming free of it all?"

"O-of course I did... It sounds silly, but my dream is to build my very own Burning Abyss deck. Sadly, I can't get my hand empty by the time the turn ends and I got a reputation to keep with my Deadhand title... I'm telling you, I'm cursed..."

"Then... Let's become free, the two of us."

"E-eh?!" Raiden asked, looking at Nagi. "W-wha- What do you mean with that?!"

"Become Tsukuyomi."

"I-i know that you can duel the sect heads for the titles, b-but I'm not in no way or shape cut out to become one of them!! B-besides, I can't take away Shohei's job just like that... And let's be real, even being Tsukuyomi, there's no way my father's debt would be erased...!"

"You've been dragged to those sect meetings, haven't you? Do you know why they are happening this often?"

"N-now that you mention it... Honestly, no..."

"There's a power struggle in the Doujima family." Nagi said, looking back at Raiden.

"T-there's a what?"

"A power struggle. The head of the Doujima died one month ago. The family has been lead by the three sects. Amaterasu only hasn't become the new head since that'd force Susanoo and Tsukuyomi to unite and overthrow it, which would then cause an all out civil war among the family. That's why they keep meeting all the time, throwing data at the other to show which sect is the mightiest one."

"Is that why I have to keep getting up early on the weekends...?" Raiden sweatdropped. "Wait, where does that leave you?"

"The Doujima's previous head was my father. He didn't leave any legal children behind, so I'm being used as a bargain chip for the sects. After a sect grows enough to beat the other two by itself and take control of the Doujima, they'll just drop my body in the ocean or something. I heard Sugimura-san exchanged many of his businesses to obtain me."

"S-shohei didn't do it because of power or anything of the sort! That's the type of guy Shohei is, someone who protects the innocent from this life!!" Raiden exclaimed.

"I know. I could hear you talk in the car."

"T-then you know that- Hmph!"

Suddenly, Nagi pushed Raiden onto the bed and looked down on her. Despite such an aggressive move, she didn't show any ill intent in her tired eyes. The only dangerous thing to come out of it was Raiden's heart skipping a beat. Nagi having her face so close to hers didn't help either.

'She doesn't have red eyes like Tour Guide-chan, but she has these cute tired eyes... I'm gonna have a stroke, Tour Guide-chan heeeeeeeeeeelp...'

"I... Don't want to die. So... Save both of us, Shinohara Raiden. Become Tsukuyomi, and then... The head of the Doujima family."

"I-i... I..."

"Think about it." Nagi muttered.

After almost letting her towel come loose, Nagi got off Raiden and went to her room. Now that she was finally alone, Raiden released all of that pent up fustration created by Nagi's accidental teasing in the form of her burnt braincells leaving her ears in the form of steam.

"I think my lifespan just got cut up in half..." Raiden weeped, sat up, and hugged her bodypillow. "Forgive me Tour Guide-chan for I have sinned..."

Falling back on the bed, Raiden looked at the ceiling.

"Can I really... Beat Shohei?"