# Chapter 239: Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder!
Yūga Hōzumi's unconsciousness lasted longer than anyone had expected.
Everyone had been worried initially, but upon hearing Yūga Hōzumi's faint snores, they all relaxed.
"He's truly been too tired these past few months; let him get some good sleep," Serena said from beside the bed.
"Then we'll leave him to you," Sugihara Yo said, raising an eyebrow meaningfully.
"Exactly. We've just won a great victory, and there's a mountain of tasks waiting for us to rebuild Heartland City," Bruno said, then turned and left.
The others also smiled, turned, and departed, leaving only Serena alone in the infirmary.
Serena's face flushed. She wanted to follow them out, but seeing Yūga Hōzumi on the bed, she gritted her teeth and stayed.
Serena went to Yūga Hōzumi's bedside and sat down, resting her chin on her hand as she watched Yūga Hōzumi, who was sound asleep on the bed.
"You really did it, huh? You pulled the situation back from the brink of collapse and now you've even managed to turn the tables."
"Truly worthy of being the one who represents hope and miracle."
Serena gazed at the peacefully sleeping Yūga Hōzumi, her heart filled with emotion.
Just then, perhaps having slept in one position for too long, he groaned slightly, feeling uncomfortable, and then rolled over, turning his back to Serena.
Serena: ...
"Looks like he's sleeping soundly," Serena chuckled helplessly. "Is he dreaming?"
"Anaconda... good... that it's dead! Time to pop the champagne!" Yūga Hōzumi mumbled incoherently in his sleep.
Serena: ...
Am I... in love with an idiot?
Serena thought helplessly, looking at Yūga Hōzumi's back.
However, her body was honest, helping Yūga Hōzumi pull up the blanket that had been dislodged when he rolled over.
...
Yūga Hōzumi slept for three full days. In the early hours of the third day, when Yūga Hōzumi woke up hungry, he opened his eyes to see Serena sleeping on another bed next to him.
Yūga Hōzumi didn't think much of it. After tiptoeing out of the infirmary, Yūga Hōzumi immediately snuck into the hospital's kitchen.
It turned out that even the Strongest Duelist, who could even create his own draws, couldn't endure three days without food.
Yūga Hōzumi found a pot of ingredients in the kitchen and stewed them all together. When people are ravenously hungry, they're fearless even in the face of pandas and Siberian tigers, so naturally, it wasn't the time to consider how it tasted.
But just as the food was cooked and Yūga Hōzumi was about to eat directly from the pot, the hospital kitchen's power suddenly went out!
Yūga Hōzumi stared blankly at the darkened surroundings. A power outage?
According to the memories of his original body, ever since Heartland City's energy technology breakthrough five years ago, there had never been a power outage, even during the most brutal war, the rear's electricity supply had never failed.
And now that they'd won, the power went out?
Worried that something had gone wrong, Yūga Hōzumi put down the pot and rushed out of the hospital's main entrance.
He found that, apart from the outpatient building and inpatient area, which had their own power supply, the entire street had lost power.
However, to the hospital's East Side, a towering light pillar illuminated Heartland City's night sky as if it were day.
"Which direction is that?" Yūga Hōzumi frowned. "The Card Factory?"
"What in the world is going on? Can't I get a moment of peace?" Yūga Hōzumi slapped his forehead, a pained expression on his face, and ran towards the light pillar.
His intuition told him this had nothing to do with the enemy; it was most likely some spectacle created by their own people.
When Yūga Hōzumi arrived at the Card Factory, enduring the increasingly blinding light, he realized things weren't simple.
This light pillar was not only dazzlingly bright but also contained terrifying energy. The roof of the Card Factory, barely a month old, had a hole ripped directly through it by the light pillar.
After Yūga Hōzumi stepped inside, he discovered that what was even harder to believe was that the latest Card Maker Machine in the center of the Factory, sent by Kiryu from the Synchro Dimension, was the very origin of this light pillar.
At this moment, the machine was clearly operating under an extreme overload; Yūga Hōzumi could already smell the scent of burning circuits.
But next to this machine, Sugihara Yo, who had transformed into his Barian form, was actually still injecting energy into it!
"Are you insane? We won, and you're celebrating by blowing up the Orion District?" Yūga Hōzumi exclaimed.
"Less talk, come lend a hand if you don't want all our efforts to be for nothing!" Sugihara Yo, upon hearing Yūga Hōzumi's voice, immediately urged him on as if he'd found a savior.
"What in the world are you doing?!" Yūga Hōzumi asked helplessly, but seeing Sugihara Yo's expression, he seemed to be working on something very important. So, Yūga Hōzumi gripped the Emperor's Key, transformed into his ZEXAL form, approached, and poured all the meager energy the Emperor's Key had managed to accumulate over the past few days into the machine.
But how much energy could the Emperor's Key accumulate while Yūga Hōzumi slept for three days? Within minutes, Yūga Hōzumi ran out of energy and reverted from his ZEXAL form.
"Can you even do this?! That's all you've got?" Sugihara Yo glared at Yūga Hōzumi beside him, his eyes wide.
"If you can't say anything useful, don't say anything at all!" Yūga Hōzumi retorted unceremoniously, facing Sugihara Yo's skepticism.
But just as the two were arguing, the light pillar before them suddenly expanded, and the immense energy directly blasted them out of the Card Factory.
Afterward, this brilliant light pillar pierced through the night sky and slowly vanished into the air.
Immediately after, a violent explosion echoed within the Card Factory.
Seeing this, Sugihara Yo immediately grew anxious, transforming into his Barian form again before rushing into the center of the explosion.
"Holy crap! Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Yūga Hōzumi struggled to his feet, trying to stop him, but having not eaten and having used his last bit of strength on his transformation earlier, how could he possibly stop Sugihara Yo? He could only watch helplessly as Sugihara Yo dashed into the Card Factory.
Fortunately, not long after, Sugihara Yo ran out, clutching a small black box, a look of relieved gratitude on his face.
"That was close! Luckily, this machine has a safety feature, or all our previous efforts would have been in vain."
"What happened?" Just then, Kaito and others, having heard the commotion, also arrived.
"Ask him, I don't know anything," Yūga Hōzumi said, pointing directly at Sugihara Yo.
But Sugihara Yo ignored them, opened the small black box, took a glance, and then burst into hearty laughter. He shoved it into Yūga Hōzumi's arms, then continued to laugh and shout, "It's a success! It's a success!"
Yūga Hōzumi: ???
Three large question marks appeared over Yūga Hōzumi's head. What was going on? Did Nash modify his brain when he modified his body?
But when Yūga Hōzumi saw clearly what was inside the small box, he also couldn't keep his composure.
"Holy crap, that's awesome!"
Although Yūga Hōzumi wasn't uneducated, at this moment, in this situation, no words from any book could express Yūga Hōzumi's feelings as perfectly and simply as those four.
The reason was simple: the small box Sugihara Yo handed him contained only one card—Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder.
(end of chapter)