What lay before them was undoubtedly a dark duel, but as Yugen knew, though Ryuzaki might not be the most upright person, apart from being deceived by Dartz in the Orichalcos arc, he was generally a legitimate duelist. He wouldn't normally get involved in such life-or-death duels.
At this moment, both sides seemed to have been dueling for quite some time, their fields empty. Both their life points were low, and they both looked dusty and exhausted, struggling to support their bodies and gasping for breath.
[Ryuzaki, LP 700]
[Fujimoto, LP 300]
The dark duelist Fujimoto gasped for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "As expected of the legendary duelist, to be able to duel to this extent, truly talented."
Then his tone shifted, and he raised his voice: "But, I have sworn to use your soul to T_ribute my deceased brother, so I will not fall here!"
"So I keep telling you, I've never even met that damn 'brother' of yours!" Ryuzaki roared.
To be inexplicably fighting to the death for someone he'd never even heard of, he felt he had never been so utterly defeated in his life.
Yugen fell silent upon hearing this.
Onisuka Genichiro. A very familiar name.
Come to think of it, the guy who blocked his way that night and insisted on dueling him did indeed say he originally intended to challenge Ryuzaki, but changed his mind when he saw Ryuzaki getting beat in a match...
It couldn't be that coincidental, could it?
Just then, a roaring sound came from the sky, followed by rising dust and a sweeping gale. Yugen instinctively raised an arm to shield his face, then looked up to see a white helicopter gliding overhead, descending towards the nearest plaza entrance.
The rotors sliced through the air, creating a turbulent gale, the wind ferocious and powerful, like a giant dragon soaring in the sky. While still in mid-air, the helicopter's cabin door was suddenly pulled open, and a figure leaped down, his coat flapping like a cape in the air.
The newcomer made a spectacular superhero landing, half-crouching as he touched the ground, then stood up with folded arms, his coat fluttering violently in the rotor's Giant Trunade.
Such an exaggerated entrance even attracted the attention of the two who were in their life-or-death duel, and they both looked surprised.
Ryuzaki: "It's you!?"
Fujimoto's face turned pale: "The legendary duelist... Seto Kaiba!?"
Yugen: "..."
Only Kaiba could make an entrance at a dueling arena like a superhero. And being able to jump from such a height and remain unharmed, a superhuman level of physical fitness, was equally baffling.
Could playing cards actually strengthen one's body into a superhuman?
"Brother!"
Mokuba quickly went behind his brother, pointing at Fujimoto in the arena.
"That guy, the sensor shows that he's the source of the dark duel!"
Fujimoto: "..."
At this moment, he really wanted to say, I'm not, I didn't, you've got the wrong person. But this caught-red-handed situation seemed to leave him no room for sophistry.
"This foolish duel ends here."
Kaiba stepped forward, speaking coldly.
"Bullying small fry is no accomplishment. If you want to play, I'll be your opponent."
Ryuzaki raged: "Who are you calling small fry!?"
But Kaiba completely ignored him.
Fujimoto swallowed hard.
Although both were called legendary duelists, challenging Ryuzaki was one thing; facing Seto Kaiba was another.
Even though everyone knew Kaiba's ace was Blue-Eyes White Dragon, it had been many years since his last public duel. People hadn't seen him in action for years, but everyone also knew he had a top-tier research team tirelessly developing new Blue-Eyes support. Who knew how terrifying his card-printing had become now?
"Hmph, ha ha."
Fujimoto decided to stall for a bit.
"Alright, alright, I've also long wanted to experience the power of the Blue-Eyes. But once a dark duel begins, it cannot be stopped, wait until I've dealt with this Ryuzaki fellow first."
"No need."
Kaiba suddenly raised the duel disk in his hand.
Only then did the crowd realize that the duel disk he held was also an unconventional type, but rather some advanced, high-grade product that looked more sophisticated, a high-end custom product not yet released to the market.
This pose and the design of the duel disk suddenly made Yugen realize that this scene also felt familiar.
In the Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions movie, the boss Aigami tried to use his Millennium Item to bypass the duel and directly send Kaiba to another dimension. But at that time, Kaiba also made a similar pose, raising his duel disk, claiming that through the duel disk's amplification of his consciousness, he used the power of technology to neutralize the opponent's psychic abilities.
At this moment, the duel disk in Kaiba's hand looked somewhat similar in design to that one, and it was also emitting some kind of dazzling light.
Fujimoto frowned: "I don't know what you're trying to do, but I told you, once a dark duel begins, it cannot be stopped. Unless...
NANI!?"
The dark duelist's eyes almost popped out in an instant.
What did he see?
The dark duel's barrier... actually melted under that layer of light?
Impossible!
Fujimoto was in disarray.
He was a man who wielded the power of darkness!
They said times had changed, and that mysticism was king, while science had retreated?
Why was something like this still possible?
Yugen also witnessed this scene for the first time, but he remained calm about it.
Although in the Yu-Gi-Oh world, dueling was the only supreme law, it didn't mean that technology was eliminated. For example, in 5D's, the final boss was from a highly technological background, and it proved that science could also materialize Duel Monsters, achieving effects similar to dark duels, and even capable of traversing time to destroy the world.
President Kaiba had suffered enough from supernatural forces eight years ago, and even in DM, he never gave up trying to use technology to unravel mysticism. Now, after eight years, it was normal for him to have made breakthroughs.
"This is the newest type of duel disk developed by Kaiba Corp., capable of greatly amplifying a duelist's mental energy, specifically designed to counter people like you."
Kaiba sneered.
"And, it can also do this."
Even more dazzling blue light erupted from the duel disk. A large amount of data, like flowing azure water, rapidly spread out, quickly occupying the entire area.
The ground beneath everyone's feet, the alley walls on both sides, everything vanished, replaced by a gleaming, ghostly blue dueling arena, with nothing else around.
"Solid Vision Duel Arena, but though it's solid vision, the monsters we summon and their impacts in this duel will gain real substance!"
Such a battle formation and overbearing aura already made Fujimoto feel a little afraid.
Others might not believe it, but he felt like he had stumbled into a scientific dark duel today.