"Hey, you heard about the Dragon Mage?" Asked one teenager for another as they walk the streets under the night sky of New Domino City, both with Duel Disks on their wrists.
"No, what is it?" Replied the second teenager.
"Are you serious. Everyone talks about it at the Duel Academy." The first teenager said surprised.
"I don't really listen to the sounds of the corridor." Retorted the second teenager.
"No problem, I'll explain to you. It all started with cops pursuing a person who broke into their premises. Nobody knows why he came in, all we know is that the cops chasing him ended up in an alley with several broken bones and their Duel Disk destroyed. Little is known about what happened to them. Other than they said that the one who did this to them needed only a magician and a dragon to beat them, and the sentence he told them at the beginning of the duel. From this moment, every night, many people, all over the city suffers the same fate. With the same sentence before the duels." Says the first teenager, telling the beginning of the story.
"What was this sentence?" Asked the second teenager.
"What do you see beyond the monster?" Said a voice from behind them.
The two teens turn around to see a person they can not identify in black with a hooded poncho hiding his face the same color on one arm, an active Black Duel Disk which all that they could even be blue and red glow, while two cables related to the Duel Disk cling to theirs.
A few minutes later, we could hear the two teenagers screaming in fear and pain as they finished on the ground with their destroyed Duel Disk while the duelist who faced them still stands with a dragon behind him. can not distinguish a purple form with red eyes.
The next day at the Duel Academy, a student had just finished an exercise while the majority of the class is still working on it, he is 16 years old with brown hair tied at the neck, blue eyes, and wears the uniform of the Duel Academy.
When he is about to give it back to the teacher, the loudspeakers snap in and the director starts talking to cross them.
"Kyu Yamai, come to my office now and take your things with you." The director said as the student put his stuff in order to make it clear to those in the class who did not know him that the director was addressing him.
"I hope it's for the fireworks show in the dueling arenas last month." Kyu said to himself as he walks down the halls of the academy toward the director's office.
Once in the director's office, he finds him with a young woman with short hair, blue hair and golden eyes, wearing a white blouse under a gray-blue jacket that ends in the abdomen in front of a belt. brown, but falls behind her white skirt in the back, accompanied by brown heels and blue earrings.
"Hello. Nice to meet you, Mr. Yamai. My name is Mina Simington. My employer, Rex Goodwin would like to see you as soon as possible." Said the young woman posing and revealing the reason for her presence.
"But I have the class of the day to finish and then..." Kyu said before the headmaster spoke.
"That's why I'm finishing your day today." Says the director.
"What?! But I will be late for others!" Kyu said.
"It must be important if the city security chief wants to see you. So go ahead and do not worry about classes." Says the director.
"Good if you insist. I follow you." Kyu said resigning herself to accepting the offer.
Kyu and Mina leave the principal's office and enter the backseat of a black car in which a driver is waiting for them.
The car drove to a building where Mina guided Kyu into the building and they took an elevator leading to an office behind which sat a tall, pale-skinned man with long gray hair that reached the bottom of his back and a section of which was tied in a ponytail. He wore a dark gray suit and trousers over a collar shirt on which the geoglyph of the condor was decorated.
In front of the desk is a small, clown-like man with lipstick, two red lines vertically above his eyes and spiky purple hair, wearing a red coat with a black collar and gold borders, under a white shirt lined with gold, gloves and boots black and gold.
"Hello, Mr. Yamai." Greeted the tall man.
"Good morning, Mr. Goodwin. I can know why you had me come. Because if it's for the riots caused by the fireworks in the dual academy, the thing is, I lost to a bet." Kyu said.
"It's not for that. I am surprised that you managed to get him into this school. It's for another reason." Goodwin replied.
"Then why bring me here?" Asked Kyu winner in response Goodwin who nodded to the little men who took out a tablet to give with a record on Kyu.
"Kyu Yamai. Date of birth: unknown Approximate age: 16 years old. Parent: unknown." The little man said before Kyu interrupted him.
"Where do you come from?" Kyu asked.
"Kyu Yamai did not exist until a year ago. Date of appearance of this Dragon Mage. And there is no information about you by the medical record done by the Duel Academy on your arrival." The little man said.
"You accuse me of taking a false identity or being that dueling attacking people at night." Kyu said frowning.
In response Goodwin out of his office a the same Duel Disk that uses the Dragon Mage.
"We found in last night's Duels history that we provided the Kaiba Corp, we were able to know the Duel Record used by the Dragon Mage during his Duels and to locate him. In your apartment." Goodwin explained.
"You'll do what? Arrest me?" Kyu asked, dropping her mask.
"We want to know why you do that and who you are." The little man asked.
"A year ago, I woke up in one of the many streets of the city, without any memory. Just the name I use, my knowledge of Duel and my Deck and Disc's Duel. I don't know anything about me. I entered a local police to find information about me, without success. And with what I did to the cops, I knew that I could not continue to look for information about myself in the open... So I decided to do what I do as a Dragon Mage in the hope that someone would recognize my cards." Kyu explained.
"I see. I have a proposition for you." Goodwin said, getting up to look at the window behind his desk.
"What is it?" Kyu asked.
"That you were taking part in the Fortune Cup, which will take place in a week. If you succeed in Duels, you win or lose, I undertake to conduct all possible research to discover your past. You have my word." Goodwin said, before giving him a look.
"I... I accept." Kyu said hesitantly at the announcement of what he will get if he succeeds his market share.
Upon the agreement of Kyu's response, Goodwin turned around and took Kyu's Duel Record to give him his invitation to participate in the Fortune Cup.
"So you have a week to prepare yourself. Lazard, can you take him home?" Goodwin said, giving an order to the little man calling him by his name.
The latter obeyed while accompanying Kyu inside the car and on the way, he noticed that he tries to avoid his look.
"What's the matter? I scare you." Lazard asked.
"A little. I am coulrophobic." Kyu replied.
"It must be weird to scare and sometimes traumatize people with monsters -which we know are pretty powerful and scary- while you're afraid of something so innocent and fun." Lazard said, slightly mocking Kyu.
"My philosophy is that when you want to make it feel, you have to know how to feel it first." Kyu retorted as he stowed his Duel Disk in his school bag before the car stopped suddenly.
"What's going on?" Lazard asked the driver.
"The Black Rose Witch." Answered simply, the driver.
Kyu immediately left the car to see the road in front of the deserted car because of a shock wave that spread the other cars. And a girl of a similar size to Kyu wearing a kind of cape with a black hood, a red dress with black gloves exposing his fingers, a white mask with features above and below the eyes, Long burgundy hair and a standard Red Duel Disk with purple gems, a Synchro Monster card on a monster slot. Behind her is a Dragon whose body seems to smolder with red rose petals and has a tentacle like brambles.
Kyu began to walk towards the girl as new shock waves were felt. However, the shock waves do not move back, as if his body did not feel it. The girl made her dragon create a diversion allowing her to disappear from the sight of all.
"What made you do something like that! You could have been killed!" Lazard shouted as he approached Kyu.
"I feel like I know her..." Kyu said simply, giving Lazard unknowingly information that could be useful to his boss.