"Who did you bond with that made you capable of Xyz, Sakaki Yuuya?"
Akaba Reiji stared at the monitors in his control room, remembering his own words to the Pendulum user. It's not like he needed Yuuya to answer. He had already figured it had been with the Xyz Duelist that Kurosaki had called 'Yuuto'.
Yuuto. A duelist who looked like Yuuya. He had already known about Serena and Hiiragi Yuzu having lookalikes in the other dimensions, but he had not been aware that the same had applied to Sakaki Yuuya. Just what was so important about those two?
The boy had been willing to strike him for Yuzu. His bond with that girl had enabled him to discover Pendulum Fusion. And because of his bond with this Yuuto character, Xyz Pendulum.
He looked over the footage of the Synchro Duelist taking on three Obelisk Force members by himself and defeating them. "So in theory, a bond with someone who uses true Synchro can pave the path for Pendulum Synchro..." Reiji suddenly had an epiphany. "Of course."
Pressing a button on his control panel, he called for Nakajima to bring him the results of the tests they did on Yuuto, Serena, and Shun's duel disks. All they had to do was cross over, not to Academia, but to Synchro. He almost laughed at the simplicity of it. Form bonds, make allies, defeat Academia and his father.
He leaned forward and tented his fingers to rest his chin on. Bonds, hm? He was a prodigy, yet he couldn't help but admire the boy who had started with nothing become even more powerful than he was. All Akaba Reiji could do was follow Sakaki Yuuya's footsteps. That was his bond with him.