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On her way to the hair curler Mai pets
a creamy blond cat named after a boy she once knew.
The TV set is always on in the background, fending off
any wafts of loneliness threatening to reach her even in the bathroom but
she can't not step out and retrace her steps
to the living room when she
hears the anchor drum the words 'Seto Kaiba' and 'entrepreneur' and 'held hostage'.
She thought Kaiba was broke? Or so they say.
No one can be sure with Seto Kaiba.
Sixteen hundred miles away Katsuya
(not the cat, the mechanic) also thinks
how funny it is that for once the roles are reversed
between older and younger brother. He sets
the grease gun on a shelf and wonders for a minute
if the bastard is alright. is this a joke
replies Otogi in a text
but when Yugi calls everyone
something is up - what are we going to do?
No one has an answer for him.
No one
at the Greenpeace meeting
believes Anzu had no idea
that Kaiba Corporation had revived its armament business
(you knew him though,
you went to highschool with him)
but it should come as no surprise that even Seto Kaiba
should, one day, hang up his own ballerina shoes.
Honda had always complained that KC only released one good game.
And Rishid quietly lowers the volume of the radio when he hears
the news, the name scorched in Arabic,
for he knows
the mere memory of the man is a trigger to
Master Malik, we're running late-
but how late exactly is it to act
to search and rescue
Kaiba's relations with the Diet haven't always been harmonious
and Japan loves oil more than card games...
Isis wished she could help.
Isono wished
he hadn't let his employer station him in Japan with
Mokuba
replays the tape for the third time, unsure yet whether he'll
hand it over to the media this time,
maybe he could edit out the
gritty bits
Mokuba eighteen years old
tries to do weigh his brother's wishes (don't give them what they want)
and his dignity
but the latter is what biographers are for.
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