Just here to give some food for thought regarding Tsukishima.
Think about it in this way, you get transported into the a game world where everything is moving according to the events of the game.
You know what's gonna happen, the npc's speak the exact same lines they did in the game, their...
The current Narumi Souta is a fusion of 2 personalities:
Butao (the original Narumi Souta, a character from the game world) and
"Disaster" (A player from the OG world)
"Disaster" technically knows Arthur and Risa, (they are all well known players in the video game) but the series seems to imply...
It's been 3 months since the start of the story, based on the novel; Souta took ~2 weeks to reach level 7. Then, another 2-ish weeks to power level Kano to level 7. Along the way, he reached level 8.
After the Kariya duel event, (which takes place 1 month after the start of school) he begun to...