Chapter 2. All Connections Complete! Opening with a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Explosive Combo Short!
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5D's world.
Having defeated Z-ONE and saved the Synchro world, Yusei Fudo had returned to normal life.
Right now, he was in a casual Turbo Duel with his partners Jack Atlas, Akiza Izinski, Crow Hogan, and the others!
"Hm? What's going on?"
"Your data screens look like they're having a problem!"
"It doesn't look like your own duel feed anymore!"
As the judge, Luna was the first to notice that something was wrong!
"Eh? You're right!"
"Yusei! Jack!"
"And Crow Hogan!"
"Hurry and stop the duel!!!"
Akiza's clear, pleasant voice echoed across the entire circuit through the mic!
The three still in the Turbo Duel narrowed their eyes!
In the next second, they all hit the brakes and paused the duel!
Yusei Fudo, Jack Atlas, and Crow Hogan traded glances!
Each of them showed a look of alarm!
Yes!
All of their Turbo Duel data had vanished!
In its place—!
A duel feed none of them had ever seen before!
"This? What does that mean?"
"Would the virtual system glitch?"
Crow Hogan looked completely baffled.
"No, not a glitch!"
"Rather, this got connected to someone else's duel!"
Jack Atlas frowned and pointed out a possible cause.
But he wasn't certain either.
Was this really someone else's duel?
Why were there combo lines they had never seen before!
"No—maybe it's neither!"
"It's possible we've connected to another world."
"Look, that person is using black cards."
"And they don't seem to have Turbo Duel rules."
"...."
Calmly watching a black card flash across the feed, Yusei Fudo spoke!
That uncanny stacking method of summoning!
Everything pointed to the fact that this footage did not belong to a Synchro-world duel.
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ZEXAL world.
In Heartland City, Yuma Tsukumo was dueling with his partners.
The moment every screen connected to some other duel feed!
Yuma Tsukumo!
Reginald "Shark" Kastle!
Kite Tenjo!
Rio Kastle—everyone's eyes snapped to the footage!
Not only them.
The surrounding onlookers all focused their gazes as well!
"What does this mean?
Xyz isn't the meta—Synchro is?"
"Hey, hey!
This guy says most Number Cards are bricks!
Is he joking?"
"No—didn't you notice something off about these feeds?
They don't seem to belong to our world..."
"Whoa!
For real!
Now that you say it, I see it too—lots of these cards, I've never even seen before."
"....."
The lively chatter of the duelists around them also drove Yuma Tsukumo, Reginald Kastle, and the others into silence.
Xyz combo lines kept appearing on the screen!
Synchro explainers!
Card rundowns and other info!
All of it showed that these feeds came from other duel worlds!
Wait a minute!
Maybe—
They were even far beyond their ZEXAL world!
Because as the next clip rolled—
What appeared was information on Pendulum cards.
"Yuma!
A new crisis may be coming!"
"Maybe."
"One from a terrifying world we can't even touch."
"Inside it."
"There are powers beyond even the Number Cards we know."
Astral's voice echoed in Yuma Tsukumo's mind.
Those words drained the color from Yuma's face.
If that was true!
No wonder, in an earlier feed—
Someone had brazenly declared that most Xyz Number Cards were worthless.
Could it be!
There really exists a set of duel rules far beyond what they can comprehend!
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ARC-V world.
In the middle of his duel with Declan Akaba, Yuya Sakaki stopped mid-draw.
Declan Akaba was about to speak—
When he caught, out of the corner of his eye, that the big screen showing their duel had already been replaced!
"Staff!"
"What are you even doing?"
"You can't operate a virtual duel system properly?"
"Get the feed back now!"
Declan barked in anger!
It was a critical moment!
He wanted to see what combo Yuya Sakaki would use to crack his D/D/D!
And now the connection was gone!
How were they supposed to duel?
What was the point of the D/D/D board state he'd worked so hard to build!
"President!"
"It's out of our control!"
"The computer system has automatically switched to playing these strange duel feeds!"
"We can't control it at all!"
But when that "out of control" explanation came back!
Declan Akaba was stunned on the spot!
What did that even mean?
There was actually something even Leo Corporation's security systems couldn't handle?
Uncontrollable?
Could Leo Corporation's security really be compromised to the point they couldn't switch it back?
Then the duel—would have to be terminated!
"Declan Akaba!"
"Maybe this isn't a bad thing for us!"
"Look at the duel feed!"
"There seem to be duel techniques we don't know!"
Yuya Sakaki pointed at the big screen.
His voice trembled as he spoke.
At first—
He'd also thought it was just Leo Corporation's security system malfunctioning from a hacker intrusion.
But when a blue-framed card appeared on the feed—
He fell silent!
And the other duelists around them fell silent too!
Link Summon?
Link Summon?
"A rundown of the most splashable cards in Links?"
"Who even is that?"
"What does any of this even mean?"
Gong Strong, Zuzu Boyle, and the others were already suffering brain overload.
And what were those extra zones for Links supposed to be, anyway?!
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VRAINS world.
In the Connected World of cutting-edge dueling technology—
Even Yusaku Fujiki, with powerful hacking skills, couldn't override the hijacked displays.
Which meant he'd already realized something terrifying.
The one controlling their entire world's network, forcing the playback of these bizarre duel feeds—
Was someone from a duel world even more advanced than theirs!
"Fusions, Xyz, Synchro, Pendulum."
"And duels that also use our Link rules."
"What kind of terrifying level has dueling reached in that world?"
Yusaku Fujiki muttered to himself.
Waves were already surging in his heart.
Faced with the unknown—even Yusaku Fujiki, the duelist who commands the Code Talkers in this world—
Had to gaze seriously at the strange footage before his eyes.
At the same time—
Theodore Hamilton, Skye Zaizen, and the other VRAINS duelists realized it too!
When they looked up at the big screen again!
The short video's title had already appeared!
"One of the must-play decks for diehard Dragon-deck fans!
An explainer on the explosive Blue-Eyes White Dragon combo!"
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