"Oho? Well, you have a long way to climb to reach his throne, o'princess of darkness."
Wait what who why? Gabby almost fell out of her chair in her haste to turn and look at who had just come in. It was...Jun, right? Yeah, the second in command as it were. And the girl who had actually brought Gabby to the registration desk for the duel team.
She wasn't sure how to feel about her. She seemed friendly but she also seemed to be friendly to everyone and something about that was almost too suspicious.
But it wasn't as though Gabriela could afford to turn down any friends at this moment.
Of course Jun had interrupted them at a rather awkward moment.
“But, um, not at an arena or anything like that. Maybe at CoffeeCards? Or at one of our dorms?”
"D-Dorms?" Gabriela said, with a nervous waver in her voice. As in their rooms? Why? Melissa seemed to be moving rather quickly through all...no, this didn't mean anything. It just meant she wanted to spend more time with her. Alone. In a bedroom.
"Yes, CoffeeCards that sounds, erm, a fitting stage for us to have our duel. After all I cannot be seen dominating a subject so publicly, right? Ahaha...ha."
To Jun, Gabriela nodded firmly. "Maybe not as long as you might think. My powers are much greater than you give me credit for! I would say I'm only a step or two behind in fact!" Why? Why was she digging herself a deeper hole. Sure, she had to be good to earn her place here, but did she really have to be the best?
Thinking back on her roots, and the way she had entered the school, she thought perhaps she really did. After all why would they bother with her if she wasn't that way?
Her eyes turned back to the duel just as she heard the name of that dreadful card. "Graceful Skull Dice"
She frowned. "Is he really going to rely on something like that?" She said. She didn't care much about the card he summoned, despite the crowd reaction, as she didn't really know of its value. Even if she did it would only confuse her even more why he would use a card that gave the duel to chance. There was a clear bitterness in her voice when she followed it with, "A tactic like that is the absolute worst."