For those not reading the novel, this did not appear there. Essentially, after the tournament, the novel did a straight Time Skip to the next arc, the manga may be doing things differently here, which is nice (It was pretty abrupt, the tournament was the end of the 1st arc, and the 2nd arc starts with a bunch of stuff already done.)
I lost hope on this getting scanlated and ended up binging the wn. Looking forward to this catching up in a decade because I've lost track of what cards are what after the last set of rank ups
I wonder if her jealousy thing is sort of a (unconcious?) test given how...serious? she look when he gave his answer about the name.
Like she feels envious of others, but also wish for actual weight/seriousness behind getting the same thing.
From the RAW
Didn't expect that Haruhi and Terra Formars reference.
Ohhh, the clingy mentally unstable big booba oni is here. And it's been a while since i read the wn on shosetu/ kakuyomu, time to binge read it again since this series is actually good read, highly recommended.