Herm Edwards says it best: Why not? The story will keep going for as long as it can.
While Luna slowly regained her strength from her extenuating match with Crow, he and Yusei were trying to make sense of what the girl had revealed to them. They decided it would be best to have Luna explain all this duel spirit world business.
"Okay Luna," Yusei requested, "what's this about a connection with the world of duel spirits?" He and Crow each got down on one knee in order to communicate better with the girl.
"Well," she began to say, "It all started back when I was three years old. At that age, everyone had billed me as a dueling prodigy. But one day, after a duel, I fell into a coma and didn't come out of it for a month."
"Whoa, whoa, back up," Crow halted. "You were in a coma as a child?"
"Yes, I was," the girl calmly replied.
"I am SO relieved that didn't happen here," the Blackwing duelist apologized.
"Anyhow, while I was in that coma," Luna continued, "my mind was transported to the Duel Monsters Spirit World. The resident spirits of this world looked after me and treated me as one of their own. All the while, Ancient Fairy Dragon kept watch over everyone and everything in this world. Right before I left, I made a promise to Ancient Fairy and all the spirits that I'd protect them from any evil that would threaten them. Then I came out of that coma, completely and totally fine."
"Seems a little farfetched, don't you think so, Yusei?" Crow questioned his friend. "I mean, I buy the coma part. But all this about spirits and an Ancient Fairy Dragon, I'm not sure that's possible."
"You have a point there," he responded to Crow's stance on the story, "but I think it could be plausible. After all, this girl showed me that anything is possible when she braved the seedy landscape of the Satellite to find me."
"Whatever floats your boat, man," Crow said, shrugging his shoulders. "I think I should be getting back to the Satellite. The kids might be wondering where I am." He waved farewell to Yusei and Luna, gathered up his disguise, and walked off to find a boat going to the Satellite.
Yusei lifted the girl up off the ground and carried her to his runner, so that they could return to the Tops.
The runner was parked outside and the black-haired man carefully brought Luna back inside. He placed her on the living room couch and folded up his jacket for Luna to use as a pillow.
"How do you feel?" Yusei questioned the girl in a soothing voice.
"I'll get my strength back in no time," she answered softly.
"I was impressed on how well you wielded Stardust Dragon against Crow," he complimented the girl. "He's a tough duelist to defeat. But you kept your composure throughout the duel."
"Yeah, well, I was inspired by how you stood against Jack," Luna answered back. "I did my best to make sure Stardust stayed on the field as long as it did." She reached into her pocket, pulled out her deck, retrieved the dragon card from the stack, and held it out for Yusei to take back.
"As long as you managed to win," he stated as he took the card from Luna, "that's all you needed to do." The two stayed quiet until a pattering of footsteps broke the silence.
"Guys, have you seen this?" Leo interrupted waving a section of the day's newspaper in his hands.
"What are you talking about?" his sister questioned, slightly irritated.
"This," the male twin pointed out as he placed the newspaper on a table, opened to an ad about Jack Atlas.
The ad read that the champion of New Domino City was going to hand-select a duelist for him to take on a later date to be announced that night. The match itself would be televised worldwide, so everyone could see. To find who would be dueling against Jack, they'd have to tune into a news conference on television.
"Looks like Jack wants to make his revenge against you for all to see," Luna said to Yusei after looking up from the newspaper.
"Whatever he wants to have happen, I'll be ready for him," Yusei replied.
When the sun had set on the horizon, the twins switched on their flat-screen television to New Domino's all-dueling channel, a network specifically devoted to covering all duels in the city and beyond. The first image on the screen was Jack shoving reporters and security personnel out of the way to get to the podium.
"Alright, let's get this show on the road," Atlas commanded at the media in attendance.
"Jack," one reporter spoke up, "in your last duel, when it looked like you were going to lose, the cameras showed you smiling and snickering about something. Can you explain that?"
"The great Jack Atlas does not laugh about anything when it looks like he might lose," the champ referred to himself in third person. "I managed to win. That's the most important thing."
"Perhaps my duel against him has affected his mentality," Yusei hypothesized for the twins.
"Yes, but what could you have found so humorous in a dire situation in front of millions of people?" the same reporter asked again.
"I'm telling you right now what I do every single week!" Jack answered in an annoyed voice while slamming his fist on the podium. "Every single week I put my heart and soul into this! I don't go out there and laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me.I don't want to go out there and get in embarrassed during a duel in front of everybody."
"I retract my question," the reporter answered.
"Anybody else want to question my work ethic?" Jack quizzed the rest of the media. "No? Then let's move on. Regarding the ad I sent out to everybody in the city, I know who I want to duel."
Yusei and the twins leaned closer to the television in anticipation.
"Yusei Fudo," Atlas said as the camera zoomed in on him, "if you're watching this, I'm making my challenge to you public. We will throw down this coming Saturday. And believe me, victory will be mine." Jack walked away from the podium, continuing to push people out of the way.
Luna and Leo looked at Yusei to see how he'd respond to Jack's challenge.
"If you want to throw down, Jack," Luna's savior stated, "then so be it."
Now Jack and Yusei will fight each other again. One note: Jack's news conference is reminiscent to that of Derek Anderson's following the Cardinals' defeat on Monday Night Football. It's just about word for word in one paragraph. It truly is amazing. Anyhow, keep the reviews coming and be on the lookout for Part XII. Maybe I'll put in another football reference.
