Epilogue
In the histories that follow, we know that both Kings Yugi and Atemu lived very long, happy lives, always together and working to improve relations between their kingdom and the underwater kingdom Kings Seto and Joey reigned over. Sadly, following the deaths of the human Kings, their heir, Queen Rebecca, was murdered by poison (likely by a supporter of the now-deceased "Big Five") and the kingdom by the sea went into chaos. In that time, the merpeople lost all contact with the humans who still remembered Atemu's idea of how to arrange meetings. When the kingdom on land finally gained peace once more and chose one of Yugi's cousins, the young prince Leon, to rule, the High Court of the merpeople realized that the people they needed to forge peace with humans were dead. Yet the adopted children and descendants of Ryou and Bakura never lost hope. They always returned to the surface of the water near Atemu and Yugi's old balcony, splashing in an attempt to gain contact with humans. The royalty that possibly might've seen them simply said they were seeing things. Maybe they were. But I entreat you to go back to that white marble palace by the sea and look for the room that is named for the merprince Yugi fell in love with. Step out onto the balcony and revel in the peaceful sea ambience the innocent King Yugi found a fondness for…and if you hear a splash and see an odd stranger swimming in the water only to disappear the instant you look back, run to the beach below the balcony. Maybe you'll finally be able to prove or disprove the existence of merpeople where I cannot.