第五章　破壊の王アヌビス
Chapter 5: Anubis, King of Destruction

While unconscious, Yugi, fallen face down in the Ring, has wandered about a dark zone and traveled back through time and space.
When he came to, he was standing in a, somehow familiar-looking, stone building. Scanning the stone passageway, rubescently illuminated by flame, he heard a voice coming from somewhere.
“Please forgive me, Lord Aknadin!”
Dark Yugi rushed over to the small window bore into a stone wall. He peers into the room from the small window, which is about thirty centimeters a side.
There was open space enclosed by stone walls, as he expected. In the middle, a muscular half-nude man lies on a bed with his limbs bound, and several men, their entire bodies covered with cloaks, encircle him.
The tall man, his body wrapped in the clothes of a priest, who might be the man referred to as Aknadin, was staring at all a short distance away.
“!!” Dark Yugi unconsciously tried to raise his voice.
The skinny man wearing a hood over his head sported a beard on his chin and the Millennium Eye inserted into his eye.
The half-nude man on the bed pleads with Aknadin again, “I will swear my loyalty to you from now on, Lord Aknadin! So, please don’t do this to me!”
Aknadin speaks heavily, “A body like yours with a strong sense of loyalty is needed for this role…But even with your sense of loyalty, the task shall be so difficult that it may or may not be achievable.”
“W-What on earth are going to do to me!?”
“While King Aknamkanon and I are brothers, the chances are that I will never assume the throne in my lifetime. And that is the reason why I will go through any means to try to make my son, Seto, king. If by any chance my wish goes unanswered in this life, I would like that, thousands of years in the future, Seto’s reincarnation become king.” Aknadin retrieves a pyramid made of crystal inside of a golden case. It was the Pyramid of Light. “Using the power of the eighth Millennium Item made in secret, the Pyramid of Light.”
“T-That is far too big of a task for a mere servant to the priest like myself. There’s no possible way that I can stay alive for thousands of years.”
“That is why I am going to apply a technique. You will become a mummy and be able to keep alive, thousands of years, into the future, from now on. And if my ambition comes to an end, you will carry on my will and accomplish the deed.”
“Please no! I don’t want to linger on in life by turning into some mummy!”
“It has already been decided.”
The half-nude man attempted to loosen his bonds with the might of all the muscles in his body, but he couldn’t break his body, bound to the bed, free. The man’s strong sense of loyalty gave birth to all the more strong rage and resent by being betrayed by his master.
“Why, you!! If you do something like that, Aknadin, I will hold a grudge against you! You better think of the reincarnation of your son, Seto, never becoming king!”
“So…your true colors have shown, after all, have they? It’s true that as long as people are people, accomplishing a mission to overcome a crisis is difficult. But, from now on, you will not be a person.”
“What!?”
“You will become a mummy as a messenger of the Gods…the heart, eyes and brain of a jackal—messenger of the god, Anubis—will be transplanted into your body that will live after all of this. You’ll be a jackal with a heart loyal to me. You will be a human no longer, having been given that body.”
In Ancient Egypt, Anubis was a god with the head of a jackal. It is said that he governs over the making of mummies, accompanies the dead in the next world and maintain these things.
At the time, in Ancient Egypt, jackals were tamed as man’s friend, and because of their prowess, were revered to as gods.
“Aaaaaah! Stop it, please!!”
The cloak-shaped disciples of the priest carried in the bisque jar that contains the heart, eyes and brain of a jackal. One of the disciples held the knife for the surgery which carried a cold gleam.
The task said to be the secret art among secret arts, even amongst the five-thousand years worth of different Egyptian skills, to turn man and jackal into one to make a god and also to make a mummy.
“Should I let this grudge go unsettled? …Gyaaaaah!” The man’s had cut off his final words with his death cry.
Yugi, who had been watching from the small window, turned his eyes away from the overly gruesome scene. That was when he heard a voice from somewhere.
“I end my turn…”
Dark Yugi felt the thick fog clearing up and the vicinity being wrapped in light. Was what he saw up until now a dream? He was still inside the Pyramid of Light.
When Kaiba made his declaration, Dark Yugi, immobile, looked down at the smoke rising from his entire body.
“Don’t even wait on your next turn…You lose by being unable to battle…unless you continue the duel, that is…”
The fallen Yugi heard what Kaiba said while semiconscious. His voice almost seemed to be coming from far away, beyond the sky. Anzu’s words were piled on top of Kaiba’s words.
(Listen! Stop the duel right now! This is a Game of Darkness!)
The image of Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda frantically fighting against the mummy warriors showed up behind Dark Yugi’s closed eyelids.
(Everyone…I understand! Everyone is helping me out! Grrr…I will not lose…For my Partner, who has faith in me…for my friends…and for the promise my Partner made with Mokuba…) Dark Yugi unsteadily rises to his feet. “I told you, Kaiba! That I won’t give up until the very last card!!”
“How unsightly, Yugi! Your Life Points are already down to 200!”
“Even if I only have one Life Point, I will never toss the fight.”
“I’ve never been so ashamed of myself. For recognizing the likes of you as a rival of any kind, that is!” Kaiba stared at the fallen idol, his eyes opened wide. “I feel like I’m seething with rage! I end my turn!”
Kaiba’s manner of speaking was different from how it usually is. Normally, Kaiba would praise Yugi, who never gives up until the very end, but never demean him. Kaiba’s heart as a duelist may have already fallen victim to someone.
“It’s my turn. Draw!” Dark Yugi, drained of his life force, had come to his limits. Drawing his card with a shaky finger, he summoned Big Shield Guardna and ended his turn.
In his next turn, Kaiba had drawn the card Return from the Different Dimension. (It’s here…It’s here at last…The time has come to stand at the apex of Duel Monsters by subduing his Gods with this card.)
He raises his eyes up from the card to have Yugi in his gaze. The man worthy of standing on the apex of all duelists in the world already looked like a losing dog drained of his vitality. He thought that dragging down his unsightly form as soon as possible and standing as the Duel King himself would be his tribute to Yugi.
“I set a reverse card! Our duel is finished!” Kaiba places Return from the Different Dimension in face-down position. “My victory is perfect. You lose! Let’s battle! Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Disperse that eyesore of a barrier monster! Shining Burst!!”
Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon’s attack power was 4500 while Big Shield Guardna’s defense power was 2600. The beam of destruction fired by the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon crushed the Guardna into tiny little pieces.
When the smoke from the explosion cleared, Kaiba stood under Shining Dragon’s majestic light with his arms folded as though he was reigning as king. “Heh heh heh. You’re saved, Yugi. But, how long are you going to keep running away with your defense monsters? Your resistance is futile!!”
Dark Yugi continued the duel. He drew Watapon and Trifler Elf Swordsman through the effect of Pot of Greed. He Special Summoned Watapon though its monster effect and then summoned Trifler Elf Swordsman to end his turn.
It’s hard to believe in victory with both his deck and Life Points running on low. Dark Yugi stood firmly on the Ring, with his iron will alone.
“You imbecile. Heh, line up your small-fry monster barriers all you like, Yugi. Your next turn will be your last turn.”
Right when Kaiba drew his Spear Dragon, he personally had it cut up right down the middle with a guillotine. “The hand-strengthening card I used, Treasured Cards of Life-Whittling, is a card that sends your entire hand to the Cemetery after five turns…But what I just sent to the Cemetry was Spear Dragon…”
“What!? Another Dragon-type card to the Cemetery…”
“That’s right, Yugi. You may have figured that out by now, but you’re entirely too late. Another Dragon-type being in the Cemetery means that Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon’s attack power increases by another 300 points…And Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon’s final special ability is activated!”
“What…!? You mean that, on top of this, it’s still hiding a special ability?”
Despite Kaiba winning overwhelmingly, his tone was indifferent. (—My overwhelming victory…) There was a struggle in Kaiba while he muttered inside his mind. (That will prove that Seto Kaiba is the Duel King…There is no possible way that the Pyramid of Light is a dark card from dark powers…) with his victory in his sights, what Yugi said was brought back up, (…and that there is someone that is taking advantage of me, let alone being able to believe in the powers of darkness! There’s no way that these powers of darkness actually exist in this world! Yes…I’ve already obtained victory in my hands.)
Kaiba yells out as to snap himself out of the doubt in his mind, “Shining Nova!!” The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon rises to the sky and emits radiance like a supernova. “Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon’s final ability, Shining Nova! It’s an ability of absolute destruction which allows it to destroy any card by using itself as a sacrifice!”
That was when a voice sounded in Kaiba’s mind, (That’s right, Seto Kaiba! Fight! By defeating the Pharaoh of Darkness, all of thy wishes will be granted!)
(Who’s speaking to me!? What kind of trick is this!?)
(It’s no trick. Seto Kaiba, you’re the man who is supposed to be the Pharaoh of Light. During King Aknamkanon’s reign, Aknadin the Wise, brothers of the King, deciphered the Millennium Tome of Sorcery and created seven treasures through dark alchemy. And those were the Millennium Items, including the Millennium Puzzle…)
(What!?)
(That is when Aknadin, filled with ambitions for his own son, Seto, to take over the throne, created an eight treasure and entrusted it to me. I was given the Pyramid of Light, counterpart to the Millennium Item, the Millennium Puzzle, turned into a mummy while alive and stored in a sarcophagus.)
(Shut up! What are you talking about!? What does that have to do with me?)
(I was under a spell in order to awaken and assist me when Seto’s reincarnation cropped up in this world…Even after Aknadin’s death, his sentiments were inherited, and left only the sentiments towards making the successor to Seto’s soul the King of Light one day…I continued to search for the possessor of Seto’s soul, carrying the will of Aknadin. And I’ve found him at last. That would be you, Seto Kaiba.)
(Ridiculous! Are you trying to say that I’m the reincarnation of an Ancient Egyptian?)
(Precisely…And the man before you is the Nameless Pharaoh, the Pharaoh of Darkness! Now, defeat the Pharaoh of Darkness! Defeat him to become the King of Light…All you have to do is say “I will become king” in your mind.)
“Shut up!” Kaiba unintentionally yelled in anger to erase the voice in his mind. “I won’t have any part of these ridiculous occult tales! And that goes the same for me having been controlled by the powers of darkness, too!” Although his victory was being guided by dark forces and he was a short time away from his victory, the ludicrousness of himself, spellbound, had motivated the man with high-self esteem.
“Yugi! I’m going to end this petty duel right here!! Pyramid of Light!! Be gone!! The card that will be destroyed by Shining Nova is the Pyramid of Light!” Kaiba picked up the Pyramid of Light card and he personally had it cut up right down the middle.
(He managed to keep in control? Was Kaiba able to change his mortal future himself!?) Yugi had hoped on this. However, there was no change in the walls of light surrounding the Ring.
The Pyramid of Light card, which should have been cut in two, remained intact in the Ring.
“Why isn’t the Pyramid of Light destroyed!?”
‘And after I went through all the trouble to try to make you the King of Light…you were just a weak little brat, after all, weren’t you…’ A voice resonated in the Pyramid of Light that was neither Kaiba nor Dark Yugi.
“What in the hell are you talking about?! Who are you?!”
“My name is Anubis!”
Upon hearing the name, Dark Yugi grew wide eyed. Had that ancient ritual he had looked into in his unconscious world really happen once in the past? Could the man who was treated with those secret arts really have been revived thousands of years in the future?
“I never wanted to make you the King of Light from the very start! I made up my mind when Aknadin betrayed me, that I would use my allotted fate for my own ambitions.”
Dark Yugi remembered the words of malice that the man on the bed spewed. For thousands of years, he continued to sleep, harboring his grudge.
“After the Pharaoh of Light had defeated the Pharaoh of Darkness, I wanted to gorge on Seto, in order to become the Pharaoh of Destruction by destroying the Pharaoh of Light myself!”
The King of Destruction was, in a word, Anubis himself.
The voice settles, lightning emits from the top of the Pyramid of Light and wraps around Kaiba. Dark Yugi was worried that the premonition would come true.
Dark Yugi had not yet been beaten, but he had fallen flat on his face like in the vision. He hadn’t lost, but the premonition might become a reality.
“Kaiba, leave the Ring! It’s dangerous if you stay there!”
“What!?”
Kaiba didn’t have the time to really understand the meaning of what Yugi was saying. When the light settled, an Ancient Egyptian man wrapped in an armor of rugged muscles suddenly appeared behind Kaiba. His set of glowing eyes on his chiseled face, which was concealed in his long hair, were as black as a beast’s. It was the very same man who had the eyes of a jackal grafted in him.
“Behind you!” Dark Yugi called out, but Anubis took hold of Kaiba’s head sooner than Kaiba turned around and lifted him up with a jerk with his burly right arm like a bat.
“Gwaaah!” The Blue Blood of Dueling cast his self-esteem and screamed aloud.
Anubis grips Kaiba’s head, swings him about and sends him flying with emphasis. Kaiba’s body took a mighty bounce in the Ring once and rolled on the artificial grass.
“Kaiba!”
Embedded in Anubis’ chest is the rightside-up crystal Millennium Puzzle, the eighth Millennium Item, the Pyramid of Light.
“Didn’t you take on a mission from Aknadin to make the possessor of his son Seto’s soul?” Dark Yugi approached the mysterious hetromorphic man.
“Hmph, I no longer have that sense of loyalty with my grudge towards Aknadin. In order to beat you up until now, I’ve been using him. However, I no longer have any use for a good-for-nothing that recognizes a Game of Darkness and willingly throws away a duel.” Anubis’ black eyes glittered. “I’ve wanted to see you, Pharaoh of Darkness.”
“So it was you that was behind this duel, was it!?”
“I shall bury you with my own hands. Due to Aknadin, I had the heart of a jackal embedded into me while I was still alive, mummified, and placed in a sarcophagus. Who would entomb someone while they are still alive for the fun of it?! The Nameless Pharaoh, Aknadin, his son Seto, and a bid for power are the cause of all of this. I shall now settle my longstanding grudge! When everything is over, you, along with your vessel, will be sealed in the darkness!”
“A vessel!? My Partner…Yugi, what have you done to him?!”
“He should be getting sent to his doom in the Mind Labyrinth.”
“Partner…” Dark Yugi stared down with grave thoughts. He lifted his head back up and rage unlike any before showed on his face. With his hair bristling with anger, he opens his eyes wide enough to split the edges. “This has nothing to do with my ties to the past!”
“What?!”
“I’m fighting for my Partner and my rival! You’re the last person I’d ever forgive after laying harm on the precious souls of these two duelists!”
The Duel of Darkness started once again. Taking over for Kaiba, Anubis’ Life Points are at 2100 and he has no hand. Dark Yugi’s Life Points are 2100 and has one card in his hand and he only has two cards left in his whole deck.
Dark Yugi’s overwhelming disadvantage was directly passed over from his duel with Kaiba.
“The Pharaoh of Darkness shall be judged under the Pyramid of Light! This duel will be a sacred ritual! And this ritual cannot be stopped!” Anubis sticks out his hand and two cards appear before him with a shine. “When the Pyramid of Light is activated, my sacred beasts of judgment are summoned though their secret Hieratic Text.” A chant from the Ancient Text of the Priests rang throughout the Dome, just like in the Mind Labyrinth. “Come forth, Andro Sphinx! Sphinx Teleia!”
Roaring violently, Andro Sphinx, with the face of a lion and a male body, and Sphinx Teleia, with the face of a lion and a female body, appeared in the Ring. Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia bore their fangs at Dark Yugi, who had drawn a card and set Reverse of Reverse.
“Tch!” Dark Yugi promptly tried to ward off the attacks and dropping in the Ring, but the two beasts didn’t appear to be coming towards him in an assault.
As soon as Dark Yugi dubiously took a look up, Watapon and Trifler Elf Swordsman were protecting Dark Yugi, acting as a barrier and blocking the way. Trifler Elf Swordsman is a monster that cannot be destroyed in a battle with a monster with an attack power of 1900 or higher. That is why, while they are sacred beasts, they are not able to attack.
“So, I see…It may be a Game of Darkness, but it seems that it’s firmly being subject to dueling rules. Since that’s the way the ritual is supposed to be, that isn’t anything surprising, though…”
“Hmph…Then I’ll abide by the control of the rules until I make a dead man of you.” Anubis stretches out his hand, making a face-down card appear. “Sphinx Teleia, bury that inferior with wisdom! Inquiry of Trials!!”
Teleia, who had a kind female face, brought out her sharp claws and mowed the Trifler Elf Swordsman down.
“Gaaaah!!” The Elf’s sword was clawed by its sharp claws, sending it flying into the sky and making it vanish.
“Tch! A monster effect!?”
“Andro Sphinx! Roar of the Sphinx!!”
Andro Sphinx loudly spreads open its jaws, bearing its fangs, and lets out a tremendous roar, “Raaaaaaargh!”
The roar turns into shockwaves and assaults Watapon.
“Wataaah!” Watapon shrieked and was crushed to small pieces.
“Andro Sphinx inflicts damage equal to the attack power of the destroyed monster!”
The shockwaves swept over Dark Yugi as well. “Ghh…” Dark Yugi sinks to his knees. Dark Yugi’s Life Points which were at a mere 200, reduced by another 100.
“So, Pharaoh of Darkness, you survived? It seems that you barely have any Life Points left.”
Dark Yugi stood on unsteady legs, but the look on his face appeared pale. “Grrr…”
“At any case, I’ll deliver the light’s judgment on you, next turn.”
Dark Yugi took a look at the Duel Disk on his arm. He was letting his entire fate ride on single card left in his deck. (This is the very last card…) Dark Yugi pensively looked up and stared at Anubis, standing face-to-face with him, and the triumphant look on his face.
“It’s my turn! I’ll draw my last card!” The last card that Yugi drew was Double Magic. (The only two cards I have in my hand right now are Double Magic and Exchange.)
No monsters were on his field and he only has two Magic cards in his hand. A game-saving counterstrike doesn’t seem likely for Dark Yugi, but the fight hasn’t diminished from Dark Yugi’s eyes. He understood that it seems that he doesn’t remember the cause of this tragedy that has transcended time and space, but himself as the Nameless Pharaoh is very much related in all of it.
(Anubis, who had waited thousands of years in isolation harboring only his grudge, and me, who spent time in my Mind Room harboring isolation, are alike…But that decisive difference is that I have a Partner who calls me his friend…) Dark Yugi looked at Anubis sharply. (I will never give up! I’m going to win to protect my friends!)

***

Around the same time, within the Mind Labyrinth, in the mummy’s grand hall, the other Yugi had fallen into danger. His friends, Jonouchi and Honda, fight to protect the physically inferior Yugi. Picking up clubs that had dropped and swinging at the mummies, the dried mummies break into tiny pieces, but, outclassed and outnumbered, they run out of options when the mummies latch on to them.
“Get the hell off me!” Honda yells.
“Gross!” Jonouchi was at his wits end.
“Honda-kun, Jonouchi-kun!” Yugi stopped in his tracks and looked back.
“Yugi! We’re fine! Hurry! Get to the Pyramid of Light!” Jonouchi shouted while lugging a number of mummies around.
“O-Okay!” Yugi, making use of his small body and agile movements, gets closer to the sarcophagus by passing through one mummy to the other. “Keep it up! Don’t give up, Other Self!”
Although the mummies proved to be a nuisance, he frantically reached the sarcophagus. The mummy was no longer inside the sarcophagus. Having finished reviving, it had been reborn in the real world. However, he sees the monument shaped similarly to the rightside-up pyramid, the Pyramid of Light. The battle in the Duel Ring in the real world could be seen through the ruby that was set in it.
(That ruby and the ruby of the Pyramid of Light that’s in the real world are connected! I’m sure of it! If this gets destroyed, it might have an effect on the crystal Pyramid of Light in the real world too!) Yugi picked up a dagger lying nearby.
“Darn you!” As soon as Yugi screamed, he drove the dagger he picked up on the ruby.
Crash! The ruby inside the monument falls to tiny pieces.
“We did it, Other Self!”

***

A change occurred in the Duel Ring in the Pyramid of Light virtually simultaneously. The ruby in the Pyramid of Light embedded in Anubis’ chest emitted plasma with a crackle.
“Grrr…” Anubis hissed. A purple tip released from the Pyramid reached the Pyramid of Light card. The glow of the gigantic Pyramid of Light slowly grows dimmer.
Dark Yugi had a feeling as if someone was whispering to him in his mind.
(What’s this…!? It feels like the Pyramid of Light’s glow has weakened all of the sudden. The atmosphere surrounding the Game of Darkness is weak. Could it be that my Partner, who disappeared into the Mind Labyrinth, made some sort of attack on the dark forces? That’s it! So, you did it, huh Partner!) Dark Yugi thought of the actions of his other self. He felt the sentiments of his friends, put in a panic, in an attempt to help him out even in the slightest. In order to save his friends he can do nothing but win the duel. (Win…I must win!)
“I activate Double Magic! It discards one Magic card in my hand to select one card from my opponent’s Cemetery and use it as my own!” The Exchange in his hand disappears and Resurrection of the Dead flies. Dark Yugi firmly took the Resurrection of the Dead. “Magic card, Resurrection of the Dead! Lend me your support, Kaiba! Come forth, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!!”
Gwoooosh—!! The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon revives, clad in a refreshing blue shine.
Anubis picked up on an adverse change in dark powers. “What happened to the Pyramid of Light?! What are you doing, Pharaoh?!”
“Shining Nova!!”
“!!”
“Behold! The Pyramid of Light has lost its light!”
Anubis was shocked and confused. “That cannot be!!”
The Pyramid of Light on the field freezes and loses its light. A tremendous radiance gushes forth from the Shining Dragon, which had turned into a shining sphere, towards the Pyramid of Light. The two sphinxes also start to suffer as the power of the Pyramid of Light eases up.
“What?! Andro Sphinx! Sphinx Teleia!”
The Shining Dragon’s radiance reached Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia. The two sphinxes turn into grains of light and disappear as they let out the cries of their demise.

***

Sugoroku, Anzu, Mokuba, and Pegasus, watching from the field outside of the Pyramid of Light, realized a change as well. Lightning surged out from all around the Pyramid’s walls of light.
A fissure ran from the top of the Pyramid towards the bottom and the walls of light flew all over the place in pieces like fragile glassware. The giant Pyramid crumbled away loudly as a shower of light.
The showering pieces of the Pyramid turned into light before reaching the ground and faded away. Along with that, Shining Dragon also concealed itself in order to complete its task.
“Now your Pyramid of Light has collapsed!”

Jonouchi and Honda suddenly emerge out of open space, and rolled onto the field so that they overlap one another. “Aaaah!!”
Sugoroku, Anzu, Mokuba, and Pegasus were right next to them.

Anubis stands still, dumbfounded, at the incident that went beyond his own imagination. “Grr…Damn you, Pharaoh of Darkness…How could you have this much strength!?”
Dark Yugi pensively faced Anubis. “My Partner, my friends, they performed a miracle.”
“However, this is the end! There is no longer a thing you can do now that you’ve lost all of your monsters! Come forth! Sphinx Androgynes!!” As soon as the card on the field turned face-up, the silhouettes of Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia, who should be gone, rose to the surface and overlapped each other into one.
The even larger sphinx, Sphinx Androgynes, whose upper half was the body of a man with the face of a lion and lower half was of a lion, showed its eerie self.
“All monsters resting in the Cemetery! Bestow your power for Sphinx Androgynes!”
The monsters that had been reduced to ghosts, turning into a fierce main stream, stream into Sphinx Androgynes, from the Cemetery. Its attack parameters increase steadily and become 35000. The fur all over Sphinx Androgynes’ body stands on end.
“Awooooooo!” Anubis had called upon a storm along with his cry. “Begone, Pharaoh of Darkness! My mightiest servant, Sphinx Androgynes, is the head of all monsters which serve under the Gods! You will bow before my divine monster! Those who lose all of their monsters are called losers by others!!”
“Heh, I wonder about that!” Anubis looked perplexed at Dark Yugi’s reaction. “There’s a card placed face-down on my field and one on your field that Kaiba left behind. And if my hunch is correct, he probably placed a card face-down to control the three Gods.” Dark Yugi cried out with conviction. “I activate Reverse of Reverse! It can be only be activated when there are no cards in my hand and there are no cards on my field except this one! I can activate an opponent’s reverse card as my own card! And that card is Return from the Different Dimension!” The card on Kaiba’s field stood up and revealed itself to be Return from the Different Dimension. “Gods, descend forth!!”
Gwoooo—!! A distortion is caused in empty space. Energy gushes out in grains of light. The light swirled around to form a white hole. Three giant silhouettes appear inside the vortex of light. The God of Obelisk burlily, The Saint Dragon of Osiris lithely, and the Winged Dragon of Ra luminously, the Three Mythic Gods showed their ferocious selves out of the different dimensional white hole-like vortex of light.
”What?!”
“Let the Wrath of God be realized! Hyper God Energy!!”
As the God of Obelisk spreads both of its arms and The Saint Dragon of Osiris winds around them from the left arm to the right. The Winged Dragon of Ra made its descent with Obelisk holding up its arm so to usher it. Osiris grabs onto Ra, transformed into his Sphere Mode, firmly.
Crkle crkle crkle crkk— When the ground in the front and back of Anubis suddenly cracked, lava spewed out and engulfed Sphinx Androgynes. Anubis, having lost everything, didn’t have any place to run. Obelisk stuck out its chest widely and then spread open both of its arms as far as it could.
“Ultimate Mighty Blow! Infinity God Impact!!” Obelisk winded up hot air and thrusted both of its robust arms ahead of itself. Osiris and Ra are shot out like bullets. The speeding Osiris turns into a red beam of destruction while Ra, in flames, transforms into its Phoenix Mode.
The red and yellow flames, speeding along, form a spiral whorl that rushes into Anubis; the gods had launched a direct attack on Anubis. Anubis’ Life Points become 0.
“Aaaaaaah!!” The rightside-up pyramid, counterpart to the Millennium Puzzle, the Pyramid of Light, was broken into tiny fragments, but the red eye darts out unbroken and rolled onto the field.
Now that Dark Yugi had won, the duel was over. Before he even knew it, Yugi had risen himself to the surface beside Dark Yugi.
(Other Self…)
“Partner…”
The two look and nod at one another. When their two silhouettes lapped over each other into one, Dark Yugi’s stern face turned into Yugi’s gentle one. Yugi had approached Kaiba, collapsed on the field.
“Kaiba-kun, are you okay?”
“Yugi…”
Yugi offered his hand.
“Tch…I don’t need your help…” Kaiba stood up on his own without Yugi’s help because it was the last bit of pride he had left.
It was then that Jonouchi, Honda, Sugoroku, Anzu and Mokuba were all together on the field.
“Yugi!!” Jonouchi cried out, spotting Yugi.
“So you’re back too, aren’t you, Yugi?” Honda stared with teary eyes.
“I am. Jonouchi-kun, Honda-kun, thank you.”
“Yugi!!” Sugoroku comes running, flogging his old body.
“Thank goodness…I’m so glad everyone is safe…” Anzu murmured, full of emotions.
“Brother!” Mokuba ran over to Kaiba. Kaiba had turned his head and tried to move his lips, but a hand jutted from the bottom of the ground and seized the ruby laid out on the ground. What had grabbed the ruby and menacingly rose from the depths of the earth was Anubis, who had turned into an enormous monster.
In the form of the God his name implies, Anubis stared down at everyone with the face of a jackal. The faces of everyone, who were standing still in amazement, were reflected in his beast-specific black eyes.
“And Game of Darkness was supposed to be over already!” Yugi exclaimed.
“That’s impossible! This is the real world!” Kaiba too exclaimed.
The voice of Anubis, having turned into a monster, rang throughout the Dome.
‘I will never give up…Not until I take the two Pharaohs, Light and Dark, with me to a world of darkness!’ Anubis opened his shut eyelids sharply, and his beastly eyes, which were black, were shining crimson. His resentful crimson vigor was flowing in swirls. The beating of his giant jackal heart rang through the Dome.
Crkle crkle crkle crkk! While the ground on the field cracked, Anubis revealed his gigantic body, which falls short of reaching the ceiling.
“Unbelievable!” Pegasus exclaimed.
“Run, for the time being!” Sugoroku voices to everyone.
Everyone tried to escape, but the monster-transformed Anubis waved his powerful arm and the support braces crumble and come caving in.
‘You won’t escape, King of Darkness!’
The fleeing Yugi stopped in his tracks and looked back.
“He’s after me! I’ll go! All of you run away!!” Yugi bolts off towards the giant Anubis.
“No, stop, Yugi!” Not even Anzu’s words reached Yugi’s ears.
“Anubis! Over here!!” Yugi ran to induce Anubis.
‘King of Darkness!’ The giant Anubis gives rapid chase to Yugi.
“That’s it! Over here! Over here!” Yugi was managing to lead himself away from everyone, but he slipped and rolled on the grass. Yugi, fallen on the ground, looked upwards, taken aback.
‘You won’t escape!’ Anubis extends his giant arm with a cry in an attempt to grab Yugi.
“Watch out!!” Jonouchi ran over to Yugi and took Yugi into his arms and rolled across the ground.
“Jonouchi-kun!”
“He’s still coming!”
Crash! Crash! Crash!
Above two, lying on the ground, Anubis’ gigantic foot drew near. In an attempt to crush Yugi and Jonouchi, who were rolling themselves away, Anubis repeatedly stomped his foot.
Yugi and Jonouchi finally found a place to hide in the shadows of the rubble. However, faced with the giant jackal fangs approaching them, they were in a tough predicament.
Kaiba happens to look and the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card slips into his gaze. The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card looked as if it were gleaming.
“Yugi! Take it!!”
Kaiba picked up the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card and threw it to Yugi like a shuriken. Yugi took the card.
“Kaiba-kun!?”
Kaiba stares at Yugi. “I’ve left everything on you!”
Yugi, feeling Kaiba’s will, firmly nodded back.
“Leave this up to me! Stand back, Jonouchi-kun!” Yugi popped from the shadows of the rubble, distancing himself from Jonouchi, and walked towards the giant-transformed Anubis monster.
‘Have you said your prayers, King of Darkness?!’
Yugi, replenishing his courage, staring the Anubis monster down, held up the card. Only Yugi knew that Dark Yugi was right beside him and that Dark Yugi had put firm hand on the hand he was holding the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon with!
(We’ll do this together, right?)
“Right, we’re all together whenever you need us.”
Courage came about Yugi’s heart one-hundredfold.
“You’re the one who should say their prayers, King of Destruction! Come forth! Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!”
A dazzling light arose from the card in Yugi’s hand. The light soars into the Dome’s air above Yugi and Dark Yugi’s head. The mass of light little by little takes form of The Blue-Eyed Dragon of Light—The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon.
“Farewell, King of Destruction! Now our circle of friendship will stretch into one and your evil designs will be crushed!”
“Shining Nova!!” Kaiba and Yugi shouted at the same time.
The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon was wrapped in a supernova-like radiance. The radiance of the Shining Nova reduced the monster-transformed Anubis to cinders. The Anubis monster faded awa and the red eye left in the airspace exploded with a thunderous roar. The Shining Nova also burnt the Shining Dragon to nothing and the light faded away.
Yugi looked at Kaiba perchance. Kaiba dolefully had his eyelids closed. The afterimage of disappeared Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon was burnt into his retinas.