"Hey, Yusaku. Were you actually successful in doing the impossible, and actually talk to a girl?" (LinkDataWind-Kusanagi)
You have got to be kidding, Kusanagi.
“You watched the duel in the van. Didn’t you? You know the answer.”
Why the hell did Kusanagi and Ai start this stupid back and forth about him not being able to talk to girls anyway? It’s not like there was any weight to it. Guy, girl, someone in-between or not at all in the gender binary.. beyond Kusanagi and his brother, and… well. Apparently Aoi, now, he went out of his way to go without speaking to others as much as he could get away with – even to his own AI partner hostage.
He did his best to avoid talking to pretty much anyone. So why the hell were girls such a big deal to the two of them?
Besides, they lost. As much as he’d never admit it to them, and he was fighting with himself to avoid admitting it, he already cares for Aoi’s wellbeing. Something wasn’t right with that girl, Knights of Hanoi in her deck or otherwise. Perhaps joining Duel Club wouldn’t be a waste of his time after all.
And that’s more than just talking to her. So Yusaku: 1, Kusanagi and Ai: 0.