In modern times, there were a small number of things that could things that could be considered "unshakeable truths". That number was three.
First, Mito Koumon would always be victorious in the end.
Secondly, the animation "Sazae-san" would air on television every Sunday.
The last would be that Kugisaki Nobara would go shopping for a very long time.
Therefore, when Fushiguro heard Kugisaki say that "I want to go have a look around Ameyoko-cho", he had already made the mental preparation for a drawn-out resistance. Furthermore, this situation was comparable to the one with Gojou earlier. On a certain Sunday morning, Gojou suddenly suggested "Megumi, shall we go to Shima Spain Village together to play?"
However, unexpectedly, Itadori showed little interest.
Afterall, Itadori could be considered someone who liked watching television after all so he had thought that he would be interested in an iconic tourist attraction in Tokyo such as Ameyoko-cho.
Akihabara since a long time ago."
"You want to buy something right? They only sell stuff like manga, games and appliances though."
"I wanted to sight see. Places like Shibuya and Shinjuku are pretty great and all, but the Akihabara I saw on television has some kind of alternate world feeling, like a theme park."
"There's that kind of feeling?"
Someone who stayed in Tokyo was not able to empathise, but Akihabara was indeed a very unique place.
The atmosphere in front of the train station was already distinctive. Aside from being obviously influenced by the anime and manga culture, the number of advertisements was so dense that it was breathtaking.
The billboards that were full of smiling game characters that could be seen everywhere truly gave people the impression of a theme park.
Other than that, among the crowds of people, one could occasionally see people cosplaying and there were also maids who were focused on handing out flyers on the streets. Then in one second, one might be able to see a rare import car racing down the amazing streets and the next second, the sight of truck transporting a giant robotic model to some unknown location would cross one's eyes.
Would Itadori be able to suppress the curiosity he had of this place? Of course not.
After Fushiguro came up to the fourth floor of the electronic games area which was located in a narrow building, he finally found Itadori.
It was further in from the fighting games sections. After leaving the area which felt like a place where expert players would gather, he came to a place where there were rows of old-fashioned machines that cost fifty yen per round and Itadori was at one of the corners.
And he was in fact, sitting in front of one of the arcade machines that did not seem to have a particularly interesting game.
Itadori pouted, explaining to Fushiguro why he was at this place.
"You're not? I only thought that since we have a couple of hours to kill, it did not seem practical to just wander around outside so since there were so many arcades nearby, it just nice for passing the time.
"At least tell me before you come here, right?"
"I did."
"....."
In the end, the blame laid on himself for not listening to Itadori properly. Feeling awkward about it, Fushiguro quickly changed the topic.
"Besides, what game is this that you're playing?"
"No matter how you look, you would know it's "Fighting! Corporate Warriors: Workplace Chaos", right?"
"No matter how I look, I really can't tell it's "Fighting! Corporate Warriors: Workplace Chaos"."
"Actually, this is also the first time I've seen this game so I'm not too sure what it's about."
The game that Itadori chose felt so boring that it could be considered a miracle.
first character in the character selection list? Ah, but those characters tend to be easier to control so it should be alright for a newbie like you."
"Didn't you say this was your first time seeing this game?"
"Actually before you came here, I have already finished the third stage of the one-player mode."
"So I actually selected a small fry character, huh."
And like this, the two started their battle within the game.
"Take that! Have a good look of the sure win combo that I came up with in fifteen minutes!"
"Your training time sure is short."
From the start of the battle, Itadori continuously used the simple move "Name Card Shuriken" to keep on the offense.
The Chief Oozaki that was controlled by Fushiguro jumped to dodge President Yamada's shuriken that were flying towards him at an equidistance, and at the same time, he kept drawing closer to his opponent. Just when one thought he would use a heavy kick on the President after closing the distance, he actually thew the President a distance away and continued to thrash the other party at the edge of the screen.
"Eh, wait, Fushiguro, are you using the game's loophole? This is a loophole, right?!"
Fushiguro continuously used a light punch, a light punch and a medium strength kick. Then, once the moderate kick technique landed its low, the overtime gauge became full and he activated his special move "Overtime Fists of Fury" and finished the battle.
It was obvious who won and who lost.
"Are you kidding?! Fushiguro, why do you know how to use those skills? Are you actually good at this game?"
"The button pressing method for the skills are on the screen."
"You're cheating!"
"You're actually bad at games, aren't you?"
"As if, I won't lose as long as I know how to activate the skills! One more round! One more!"
"Are you serious, you actually threw a few coins in…."
After Itadori challenged Fushiguro for around an hour, he still had more losses than victories.
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The two of them went down to the first floor where the claw machines were, and after buying some soda at the vending machines, they felt a strange sense of emptiness that was beyond compare.
The expressions on their faces were that of a feeling of loss after a withdrawal from getting fired up.
"Sigh—why did I spend a thousand yen on such a crappy game…."
Fushiguro looked at the despondent Itadori and felt that the other party was really silly from the bottom of his heart.
"If you had enough fun, let's get out of here. Sure, arcades are pretty good at passing the time but they also eat up your purse."
"You're right about that….Ah!"
"What? Don't tell me you found another crappy game. I'm not playing along with you this time."
"No, look over there, look over there, quickly!"
Fushiguro squinted and followed the direction where Itadori was pointing.
After that, his eyes widened in surprise.
"…That's Gojou-sensei?"
"Right? That's sensei alright."
Positioned at the end of their line of sight was truly Gojou Satoru himself.
If they thought about it carefully, Gojou was the only person in this world who would be dressed in all black and enter a dimly lit arcade centre with a black blindfold.
store? Those kinds of stores exist."
"This is Akihabara, of course they do."
"I see. Ah, Sensei is getting one."
"I really do not want to see a teacher I know turning a five hundred per play capsule toy machine…Besides, what kind of capsule toy is that?"
"It should be key rings of various kinds of mushrooms. They look pretty realistic."
"If they cost five hundred yen per play, wouldn't it be better to just buy actual mushrooms from the supermarket?"
"Ah, ku ku ku, teenagers are teenagers after all ,how youthful."
Eighty percent of his laughter came from how comical it looked.
Twenty percent came from the relief he felt.
Gojou held the group photo of Itadori and Fushiguro with angel wings that they took with a maid and laughed on the spot for quite a while.
[T/N: The group photo had the message: Megumi-sama ❤ ❤ , please come back soon!!"