"Helped a friend get 10,000 yen back from a guy who'd cheated him. Keeping up with Touya. Taught a lesson to some creep who was trying to sell fake stuff for way too much money... a few times, actually," Hikaru said, ticking off each thing with his fingers. "And that's besides it just being fun and a way I've made a ton of friends. So yeah, plenty useful."

"But it's fine, girls aren't as good at it anyway. All of the top players are men. So don't even worry about it."

He didn't entirely believe that, he was mostly trying to annoy her, but... he also wasn't wrong about the top players being men, so there was that.