Going to the Hospital

The same familiar bus.

The familiar girls' school uniform.

Morishita Ai stepped off the bus, a black shoulder bag hanging from her shoulder—a school bag—her face expressionless.

Akasaka was still waiting at the bus stop, his hands in his pockets.

Before telling Morishita Ai to leave school, he had specifically asked her to bring out the Yu-Gi-Oh! card decks from generations 1 through 6.

He had not forgotten his promise to Yugi Mutou.

But he could not enter the Yu-Gi-Oh! world on his own. He had to wait for the Ankuriboh Yugi Mutou had given him to summon him.

So he had to prepare in advance. At the very least, he needed to have his cards ready. If he ended up there like last time without any cards to play, that would be awkward.

Morishita Ai carried a heavy black bag with a resentful expression, as though it had been filled with lead.

The bag was fifty centimeters long and thirty-five centimeters wide, packed entirely with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. One could only imagine how many cards had been crammed inside—there were definitely over ten thousand.

Morishita Ai unhappily tossed the bag to Akasaka. He hurriedly caught it, terrified that the cards inside might be damaged. He treasured it even more carefully than he would protect his own wife.

Morishita Ai rubbed her slightly sore shoulder and ordered Akasaka, "Massage my shoulder."

"Sure!" Akasaka slung the bag full of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards over his shoulder, then obediently went behind Morishita Ai and massaged both her shoulders.

Only then did Morishita Ai nod in satisfaction. Then her tone suddenly turned sharp. "Why am I ranked so far down? I'm obviously your first wife, aren't I?"

Morishita Ai was clearly still hung up on being ranked eighteenth.

Akasaka was rather embarrassed as well.

That was