Yu-Gi-Oh! Starting from Duel City.

Chapter 196 All the expenses here are paid by Master Kaiba!

According to the rules of Duel City, the winner of the duel has the right to obtain the most precious card from the loser's deck.

However, neither Yu Rei, Kaiba Seto nor Muto Yugi chose to do this, and none took advantage of this opportunity to get the required cards from the opponents who lost to them.

As a result, Dark Malik, who plans to compete with them in the next semi-finals, will naturally not make any moves to lower his worth.

He neither punished Peacock Dance with the Dark Duel nor took away any rare cards in her deck.

After retrieving the God Card that originally belonged to him - [Wings of the Sun God Dragon], Dark Malik, who maintained his aloof villain character, immediately put down his bold words and disappeared from everyone's sight alone.

"Hmph! In the human heart, there is something that once surpassed the gods and that one must believe in... No matter what kind of opponent I encounter, I, Seto Kaiba, will always obey this belief and fight until the last moment."

"Even the strongest Sun God can't change my mind!"

In the duel just now, Kaiba felt the power of the strongest god card, and had a certain degree of psychological anticipation for the power of Dark Malik and the [Winged Dragon of the Sun God] he held. He looked at Dark Horse In the direction where Riku left, a sound of talking to himself came out of his mouth.

After looking at the current time, he immediately followed the road that his younger brother Keipei had left before and went to where he was.

……

"Kuihei, how is the analysis of the [Wings of the Sun God Dragon] data obtained from Peacock Mai's duel disk now? Is there any progress?"

During the break at the end of the fourth round of eliminations, Seto Kaiba came to the database room where his younger brother Keihei Kaiba was, and asked him about the analysis progress of the God Card while he was sitting in front of the computer, busy working on the keyboard.

It hasn't been a long time since he left just now, so even if there is no result, Kaiba will not be surprised.

"Ah, regarding this, I have connected to the International Fantasy Society's card database and am now analyzing the content..."

Raising his hand to press a button on the keyboard, Keihe Kaiba showed the image of the card he had just scanned from the duel plate of Peacock Dance to his brother who was visiting here.

As Dark Malik said, above the card effect bar showing the Winged Divine Dragon are ancient priestly texts that only specially selected people can understand.

Almost all possibilities were considered, and the peacock dance was only one step away from victory. It was precisely because he could not understand these ancient texts and suffered a so-called cultural disadvantage that he finally made a wedding dress for someone to welcome the peacock dance. The fate of defeat came.

After the duel, she felt deeply powerless. With a frustrated look on her face, Peacock Wu said goodbye to everyone else and locked herself in the room in silence.

Although You Ling, who caught up with Isis, thought about whether to comfort her in person, in the end, considering the differences between men and women, he decided to let the girl who had just lost the game calm down and let Isis comfort her on his behalf. The lost peacock dance.

"Eh? These words...are these?!"

"What's wrong? Brother? Did you find anything?"

Haima, who was accustomed to holding his arms while filling cups, casually glanced at the Katu scene displayed on the big screen with the corner of his eye. While looking at the screen, Haima couldn't help but have a surprised light in his eyes. .

The reason for this, and the reason why he was so shocked, was none other than the card drawing of the Winged Divine Dragon with the strange ancient priestly writing on it.

"How is it possible? I can actually understand these words?! I can understand the content of the words that record the terrifying abilities of [Winged Dragon of the Sun God]..."

Kaiba clearly remembered that during the duel just now, Dark Malik had clearly said that the information recorded on the God Card could only be understood by the chosen one.

It was precisely because Peacock Dance was not selected that he lost to Malik and missed the chance of victory.

But now, Kaiba has realized this key message and discovered the difference between himself and Peacock Dance...

"I remember that a long time ago, Isis, the woman who took the initiative to appear in my field of vision and the game, told us that the image of the duel ceremony engraved on the stone slab of the museum depicts the pharaoh at that time, and a certain A scene of a young priest engaging in a monster duel... And the monster that emerged above the head of the young priest holding a thousand-year-old tin staff is undoubtedly the [Blue Eyes White Dragon] that I am familiar with..."

Recalling the scene when he and Wang Xiang met Isis for the first time in the museum in Tongshino City before the Duel City Competition was held, Kaiba couldn't help but have a look of astonishment in his eyes.

At this moment, Kaiba was shocked by the memory image that suddenly flashed in his mind. He immediately covered his head and squatted on the ground with a look of pain on his face.

What happened to me?
Why can I freely control the power of God even though I don’t have a thousand-year artifact...

Why, I can understand the ancient priestly writings that only the chosen ones can understand...

What is going on with all of this...

Malik, and Isis... what is the situation of these people involved with the Millennium Artifact? !

"Notice! Notice!!! Since the next four contestants for the semi-finals (semi-finals) have been determined, the schedule for today's duel airship has ended..."

"By the way, the next semi-finals will continue tomorrow morning after the duel boat lands at the third duel venue where the destination is...above!"

At this time when Kaiba was affected by the memory of the past, the voice of Isono, the referee, came from the broadcast that was almost everywhere on the ship.

To the people who were free to move around the airship, he informed them of the upcoming schedule.

With the end of the fourth knockout round, everyone once again got free time.

The next competition will be a more severe duel between duelists such as Yu Rei, Kaiba Seto, Muto Yugi, and Malik Isudar.

"The third duel arena, what is that?"

Everyone who gathered in the corridor in front of their respective rooms and was worried about the condition of one of their companions, Peacock Dance, heard what was being broadcast on the radio.

After hearing the key information about the "Third Duel Arena" in Isono's words, Muto Yugi, who returned to his harmless state, couldn't help but murmur to himself in confusion.

So, where did number one and number two go?

"Hey... that's right! Because we are far away from Doshino City now, we will have a duel at a new location next!"

Using his clenched right fist, he hit the palm of his left hand hard. A look of enlightenment suddenly appeared on the face of the yellow-haired boy Jonouchi.

Since he had been focusing on the competition in Duel City before, Jonouchi almost forgot that they were actually moving on an airship against the night.Kaiba didn't tell them where the airship was moving, and they didn't think about it. They just thought that the airship was circling back and forth over Tongshino City just like before.

It was only at this moment that Isono announced the end of today's game and told him the location of the destination that he finally reacted and realized the current situation.

"Is the place where the duel will take place next called the Third Dueling Ground? According to this name, is there a First and Second Dueling Ground?"

As one of the four people who advanced, You Ling is also very interested in the next competition venue.

Although it didn't matter where the duel took place to him, he would naturally not refuse the opportunity to see a new venue for free.

Anyway, now all their expenses are paid for by the rich man Haima, so they don't have to worry about not being able to afford the admission fee.

With this opportunity to fight without having to worry about financial expenses, You Ling would naturally not refuse.

"Speaking of... Yugi, although my duel has come to an end, your path will continue!"

Jonouchi gently hammered the chest of his good friend next to him, pinned his wishes on him, and said to Xiaobiao: "Game, you must advance to the finals!"

"Well, just leave it to me with confidence, Jonouchi!"

Patting his chest seriously, Xiaobiao responded to Jonouchi.

Even if it is to retrieve the lost memory of his "other self", he will do his best to fight in Duel City until the last moment.

No matter he faces any one of Yu Ling, Kaiba, and Malik, he will show his most powerful side and win the duel!

"It's already very late, there's another game in the game, you guys must be all tired, right?"

Standing in the corridor with everyone, Kyoko Masaki, who was my childhood sweetheart, asked my cousin in the crowd with concern.

She had some expectations for Wang Xiang, but she had actually been watching Muto Yugi's figure.

Although she didn’t know much about duels, Kyoko, who witnessed the fate of the losers and was deeply shocked by the process, couldn’t help but tilt her head and sighed deeply: “Speaking of which, in the There are too many people who fell or were injured in this knockout match."

"Well, I am indeed a little tired. After all, a lot of things happened today... I didn't expect that the duel would turn into such a painful thing..."

Shaking his head, Xiao Biao looked at You Ling, who was leaning against the wall, and cast an admiring glance at You Ling, who performed the most brilliantly tonight: "If it weren't for You Ling's help, what happened to Malik just now... It can’t end so easily.”

"...Thank you, You Lingsang!"

Expressing his gratitude in the direction of You Ling, Xiao Biao immediately noticed an important piece of information, "Huh? You Ling... Miss Isis, who has always been by your side, why is she missing?"

"about this……"

"I am here."

Just when You Ling was about to speak, following the sudden voice that sounded in his ears, Xiaobiao and the others immediately saw the figure of Isis walking out of Peacock Dance's room and appearing in their field of vision.

She seemed to have just finished something and just walked out of Peacock Dance's room.

"Mr. You Ling and I are very worried about Miss Peacock Dance's condition, so I just went in to comfort her, and have used secret techniques to put the lady to sleep. Now Miss Shizuka is watching over her, so everyone also You can rest assured now.”

Isis, who had not been with You Ling before, actually went to cast a sleeping spell on Peacock Wu, who was in a somewhat explosive state of mind.

The person who is looking after Mai at the moment is Jonouchi's biological sister Shizuka.

After confirming that there was no problem, Isis withdrew from the room and walked towards the people gathered near the door.

"Is that so? I also want to see Wu's condition, is that okay?"

"of course can."

Nodding slightly, Isis immediately led everyone to the room where Peacock Dance was held.

And everyone also saw Shizuka standing by the bed with a sad look on her face, and Peacock Wu lying on the bed and falling into a coma, frowning slightly.

"elder brother……"

"Huh? What's wrong Shizuka?"

Noticing the crowd of visitors, Shizuka said to her brother Jonouchi, who was close to her: "Even if you always want me to be stronger, brother, I can't stand it anymore."

"Whether it's Tairiang or Wu... they are our companions, and they all became what they are now because of the duel."

Shizuka, who squeezed her palms tightly with a look of sadness on her face, looked at Jonouchi and told her true thoughts, "I finally regained my light, but this is not the world I want to see. ah……"

Previously, Shizuka had been blind for a long time due to eye disease.

It was also because surgery was only available recently that she regained her sight and saw the beautiful scenes of the world.

However, during the time she gained her sight, she saw only negative scenes of her companions falling in duels one by one.

She doesn't have the strong mentality of a duelist like You Ling, nor the leeway of a mature woman like Isis. She is just an ordinary girl, and she cannot bear these uncontrollable sadness and painful emotions at once.

"I'm sorry... Shizuka..."

Seeing his sister covering her face, Jonouchi, who was affected by her emotions and felt equally uncomfortable, could only stand there helplessly and try to say some words of comfort to his sister.

(End of this chapter)