[At that, Manjoume sighs. Somehow, this is even more embarrassing to talk about than the Society of Light, in retrospective.]
Because I had lost a duel that was going to cause me to get demoted to a lower student rank, and didn't want my brothers finding out about it. So I overreacted by trying to leave school using my own methods instead of just paying for someone else to drive the boat or taking the ferry back to the city.
[He knows now how stupid that was, but at the time he had genuinely been afraid of how bad his social standing was going to be at school if he wasn't an Obelisk Blue anymore, and especially how his brothers would take the news.
He wouldn't go back and change it, though. That whole incident is what led to him becoming Manjoume Thunder in the first place.]
They found out anyway a few months later when I was going to be North Academy's representative for the school's duel against Duel Academy. They were... not particularly happy about it.
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Because I had lost a duel that was going to cause me to get demoted to a lower student rank, and didn't want my brothers finding out about it. So I overreacted by trying to leave school using my own methods instead of just paying for someone else to drive the boat or taking the ferry back to the city.
[He knows now how stupid that was, but at the time he had genuinely been afraid of how bad his social standing was going to be at school if he wasn't an Obelisk Blue anymore, and especially how his brothers would take the news.
He wouldn't go back and change it, though. That whole incident is what led to him becoming Manjoume Thunder in the first place.]
They found out anyway a few months later when I was going to be North Academy's representative for the school's duel against Duel Academy. They were... not particularly happy about it.
[To put it lightly.]