Day 1: April Fools

If there is one thing you need to know in order to survive in a battlefield, that is the others. Your allies. Your enemies. What they can and what they cannot do. And when instead of guns the warriors are using cards that cause even more damage than those, knowing the others was more important than anything.

Kurosaki Shun knew that well. Experience had taught him so. Akaba Reiji, while ha had never been in an actual battlefield, he was preparing for the greatest of all wars for the last three years and knew this just as well.

Therefore, nobody had argued when the two had insisted to show all the Lancers the duels from the Battle Royale.

Actually, Reiji had. Shun didn't want those kids to see his humiliating defeat in the hands of Shiun'in Sora. But they had watched the video anyway. Besides, Shun wasn't capable of arguing while he was – finally! – at the hospital.

He shouldn't be surprised at all when the wishes for a quick recovery came in.

Except one thing.

The weird white package that he has currently holding in his hands, trying to figure out what it was. He turned it around. He tapped it a bit. Wooden. This was getting more and more suspicious. Call him paranoid, but there was no way he trusts mysterious packages from unknown senders, even though the enemy knew thousands of better ways to erase him from existence.

The only sound in his private room was the clock ticking. Wait. That was wrong. He never actually cared, but wasn't the clock digital…?

Scratch! "COOKOUT! COOKOUT! COOKOUT!". Tap! And it closed.

Shun nearly dropped the package. Whatever it was that popped up, it had ripped the wrapping paper to reveal… a cookout clock?

Yes, it was a wooden happy-housewife styled cookout clock, with a miniature of Raid Raptors – Singing Lanius instead of the classic canary bird. And there was a note on it writing "Happy April Fools!".

That was why he was against showing that video. Whoever of the Lancers had sent this, they had a horrible sense of humor.

Even though the fact that everybody would see his most embarashing cards in action hadn't even crossed Shun's mind.