Author's Note: Now for the conclusion to Mizuki versus Tobias! And a two chapter in one day kind of deal.
Chapter Twenty-Five: End of Quarantine
Everyone watching the duel could only stare in amazement as the darkness solidified as tentacles and pulled Mizuki to her feet. Her eyes opened and revealed the emerald green eyes to be wild and fiery, though now they reflected something more. "What…what is this?"
Mizuki's lips curled into a big grin and she placed two fingers on the top of her deck. "I'm back Tobias, and I feel fantastic! Now come on and end your turn so I can show you what a real duelist is capable of!"
The boy genius gulped and selected two of the cards in his hand then placed them into his duel disk. "E…end turn."
"Okay! I'll give you a taste of a real duelist's skill, and show you the gap of power and skill between us! Draw!"
The darkness swirled around her as she drew, and without a moment's hesitation she played her drawn card. "Magic card activate, Blank Rune! This magic card can be played with the effect of any Rune Symbol that has been successfully activated in this duel, so I'll use Fehu's effect to draw two cards!"
She slid two more cards off her deck, and then snapped up one of them. "Another magic card, this time it's Rune Chant! This card lets me pick up a Rune Symbol from the grave and add it to my hand, so here's my choice!"
A card popped out of her grave and she flipped it around, revealing it to be none other than the card she had just copied. "Rune Symbol-Fehu, so I draw two brand new cards!"
Tobias gulped, suddenly afraid of her as she burned through her cards and managed to restore her hand. "Impressive…"
"It's more than impressive. Now, I summon Rune Alchemist (1300/200) to the field!" Her newest white robed monster held beakers in his hands, each of which was glowing with a blue inner light.
"When Rune Alchemist is summoned I draw three cards, and for each Rune Symbol amongst them I gain five hundred life points." She drew once, twice, and then a third time. Smirking she spun them around to show them to Tobias.
"All three are Rune Symbols, so I gain fifteen hundred life points!" Light flowed from the three cards and into her duel disk, pumping her life points back up and undoing much of the damage she had previously taken. (MLP: 2000)
Mizuki then folded up two of the cards she had drawn and placed them into her cemetery. "After I've drawn the three just like Graceful Charity I have to pick two and discard them, but the two have to be from the drawn cards. So I'll just save this one and I'll be fine."
She grinned and turned her eyes towards the depressed looking group of peasants on Tobias' field. "Rune Alchemist, attack and destroy Oppressed People! Put them out of their misery!"
Tobias shook his head to refocus himself and then declared his response. "I chain your attack with my face down card, Torture Decree. This negates one attack on any servant of my kingdom and forces the opponent to discard one card off their deck for each level of the attacker."
Rune Alchemist lowered the bottle he had been prepared to throw at the miniature mob and then began to look depressed. Mizuki flashed him a smile and then counted three cards off her deck which she placed into the grave. "Got some decent cards from me Tobias, nice move."
"Yes, I suppose it was, but yours was just as impressive. Which leads me to wonder, where did you get this burst of energy? And why are you suddenly so happy? What the hell is wrong with you?" Mizuki closed her eyes for a moment, smiling brightly, and then she opened her eyes again.
"Oh it's not much, I just remembered that I've had tougher battles than against you, and though you've clearly improved and gotten a better deck I know I can beat you. And somehow…somehow I feel like I know that as a duelist I shouldn't lose to you, and I shouldn't get angry about it either. I don't like to duel angry." Tobias raised an eyebrow, feeling as if that was familiar. It sounded much like Shiro's stance on dueling.
"In other words I just accepted the fact that this is just a duel, no matter what the potential outcome is. So let's just enjoy this duel and forget about what comes after it until it's done. What do you say Tobias?" Tobias stared at her blankly and then burst out laughing.
"You'd either have to be an idiot or crazy to think that I'd forget about what's riding on this duel. I happen to know that you're no idiot, so it looks like you've lost a few bolts in that head of yours!" Mizuki sighed and shook her head, disappointed in Tobias.
"Fine, if that's the way you want to look at it I won't change your mind. But until you start just relaxing and enjoying the duel you'll never beat me. One card face down, then that's all." One card appeared behind Rune Alchemist, acting as a form of defense for her relatively weak monster.
Tobias drew from his deck harshly, looking fierce as he made his move. "I won't be beaten by some little girl who thinks she's better than me and likes to preach about how to duel! Duchess of Fire (1500/900) in attack mode!"
A beautiful red-haired woman wearing a flowing blue dress appeared on the field and offered a bow to both Mizuki and Tobias. "I hope you're ready to burn, because Duchess of Fire attacks Rune Alchemist!"
To Mizuki's surprise the woman opened up her mouth and then belched out a long stream of flame which headed straight for her alchemist. "Not so fast, my monsters don't go under to a bit of heat that easily. Rune Symbol-Tiwaz negates your attack and gives me your monster's attack points as life!"
A wall of archaic symbols appeared between the fire and alchemist. The wall of symbols absorbed the flame and then flew away, pouring into Mizuki's duel disk. "Heh, looks like you've helped me undo the damage your revolution caused." (MLP: 3500)
Tobias smirked and to Mizuki's surprise Duchess of Fire burped and a ball of fire shot out of her mouth. The fireball then flew and hit alchemist in the chest, incinerating him. "What the heck was that Tobias?"
"Oh that? That was Duchess of Fire's special ability. If she attacks she automatically destroys one monster in play after resolution. And that means your field is empty!" Mizuki gulped as the triple mob picked up their crude weapons and charged her.
They slammed their weapons into her, but to Tobias' surprise tendrils of darkness rose up around her and began blocking them. Then the tendrils whipped out and smacked the monsters away. "Looks like the darkness protects me Tobias, because I respect it and know that it's not necessarily a bad thing like people make it out to be. It just depends on how you view it." (MLP: 1500)
"You're preaching again Mizuki. Didn't you know there's a tax on preaching in my kingdom? Activate Decree of Taxation, giving me all life points you've lost this turn!" He laughed as his own life points soared; undoing all of the damage Mizuki had done to him so far. (TLP: 4400)
When it was obvious that there was nothing else to be done that turn, Tobias inserted one of his cards into his disk and then smirked at Mizuki. "My turn is over, and for all your preaching about relaxing making you able to beat me it seems I hold the lead."
Mizuki drew, choosing to ignore Tobias' comment. "Alright Tobias, I'm going to burn done that Duchess of yours in one clean stroke. Rune Symbol-Wunjo activates, special summoning Rune Berserker (2000/1200) to the field!"
The muscular blonde man with tattoos of runes all over his body took to the field, his muscles rippling. "I'll next activate Rune Symbol-Hagalaz which will destroy your face down trap card!"
Tobias motioned to the set card and it moved into a face-up position. "I'm afraid that's not possible, because my card is a continuous trap called Defend the People. As long as it is in play my three key monsters cannot be targeted and as long as they remain this card cannot be destroyed!"
"I see, it's the perfect defense for your three monster group, since I can't kill them without killing that trap and can't kill that trap without killing them. Pretty effective, but not without its flaws. For instance, I can still attack Duchess of Fire!" Rune Berserker ran forwards and slammed his fist into the Duchess' stomach, doubling her over. She coughed, and fire leapt from her lips and covered her, burning her to ash. (TLP: 3900)
Mizuki made a slashing motion with her hand, looking surprisingly confident in herself. "Turn End!"
Tobias drew and placed a card onto his duel disk. A man in a blue uniform wielding a large axe appeared and offered him a bow. The three monster groups cowered away from him. "Elite Guard-Axeman (1800/1500) is here."
He paused for effect and then glanced at his triple mob. "Of course in order to defend the people sacrifices must be made. So I offer my Axeman as a tribute to Defend the People in order to keep it in play."
The mob of peasants descended on him, literally ripping him limb from limb. Once their orgy of death was finished they planted his head on one of their pitchforks and screamed their triumph to the sky. "Looks like they're eager for another revolution. What do you think Mizuki?"
Mizuki shrugged, looking nonchalant about the whole thing. "I think you're a psychotic freak, but I'm not exactly a professional in that field. So hey, don't take my word for it. Seek a second opinion if you'd like."
"Ha! I like that about you Mizuki, you're willing to make a witty crack even when your livelihood and your deck is on the line. But no worries from me, I'm certain I'm not crazy. And if I was…." Again he paused for dramatic effect, smirking devilishly.
"Then the only one who'd have to worry about it would be you! Activate magic card, Trap Well! I'm sure from last time you remember its effect." Mizuki nodded and waited as Tobias sought out his chosen trap card, placed it into his hand, and then reshuffled.
"Although I can't set that card yet, I will set this card face down. Go ahead Mizuki, your time is running short. I can feel another revolution coming on, and so can my three monsters." Mizuki rolled her eyes, bored with his revolution jokes already.
"Tobias, you really have no sense of humor. Has anybody ever told you that before?" Tobias' left eye twitched at the comment, and she saw the corner of his lips curve upwards into a sneer.
"Yes…in fact I have. Now shut up and take your turn, I came to duel and get what I want, not carry out witty banter." Mizuki put a hand to her mouth and gasped in obviously fake surprise.
"Tobias, I'm sorry I didn't realize. I mean, I'd honestly love to have a battle of wits with you, but it appears obvious from your previous comments that you're unarmed." Tobias' eye continued to twitch, this time faster and more violently than before.
"W…what did you just say? Are you saying that I'm stupid! Is that what you're saying!" Mizuki grinned and lightly smacked the side of her head as if she had just remembered something.
"Oh I'm sorry again Tobias! I shouldn't be so open about those things. I forgot that you were sensitive about being an idiot. Honest mistake, really." Her opponent's right eye joined the left in twitching violently and now his hands were shaking.
"Nobody…nobody and I mean nobody calls Tobias Emerlo stupid! NOBODY!" Mizuki's grin broadened and she placed her hands on her hips. Then she flashed him a wink, catching him by surprise.
"Then I guess I should inform you that my real name isn't Mizuki, it's Nobody. Or at least it has to be from what you just said, doesn't it?" Tobias slammed his foot against the ground, his entire body shaking and his face red.
"This isn't The Odyssey! That kind of crap isn't funny here so shut up and take your turn! I was just going to get information from you, but now that you've insulted my intelligence I'll kill you once this duel is done! I'll kill you!" Mizuki's reaction was far from what he had expected. Instead of fear or anger, she burst out laughing.
"Sorry Tobias, but I have a hard time being impressed by incompetence. I mean, you made an entire deck designed to defeat Shiro and you couldn't manage it? All you managed was a tie when you had every advantage possible. Plus didn't I kick your butt at the beginning of the semester? Have you even won a single duel the whole year?" Tobias looked completely flummoxed, barely able to figure out how to respond.
Instead of his normal thought out answer, he replied rather clumsily. "I…I won a few! I beat Janice even, I beat all the people you saw working here in a Darkness Game! And most of them are Ra Yellow or Obelisk Blue!"
Mizuki rolled her eyes. "I can tell that's not true. You probably got most of them to work with you just by offering them rare cards to pump up their decks with. Or am I wrong?"
"N…not true! Err…well I did beat Janice!" Mizuki grinned and then drew to start her turn, finally ready to get back into the duel.
When she saw the card her eyes floated closed and she began to hum. "It is the eleventh turn, and now the time has come to divine your fortune and your fate. Are you prepared to know the future Tobias Emerlo?"
Tobias watched as seven cards appeared face down on her field, representing a seven card lay-out. "A seven card lay-out eh? That's impressive…if I wasn't prepared with a trap!"
Mizuki's eyes flew open as all of her cards burst into flame the moment Tobias' face down card activated. "I reveal Conflagration, which removes all cards in our cemeteries from the game the moment my opponent targets cards in the grave. Meaning your Rune Symbols are gone, and your Rune Lay-out fails!"
She frowned, surprise that he had managed to stop her Rune Lay-out from succeeding. "Still, I'm not out yet. I play Rune Symbol-Laguz, which lets me select up to three cards from my hand or deck and remove them from play."
After a quick search through her deck she found the cards she wanted and watched as they faded away. "During my standby phase I'll gain seven hundred life points for each one of them, making a total of twenty-one hundred."
With one last look at the last card in her hand she made her choice. "I end my turn."
Tobias drew and smirked at whatever he saw. "I'm sure by now you realize the trap I searched for with Trap Well, so I'll just set it face down and tell you ahead of time that it's Huge Revolution."
His card appeared face down behind his trio of monsters. "Now during my first main phase in order to keep Defend the People in play I must sacrifice a monster. So first I summon Sangan (1000/600)."
A furball with big eyes and clawed hands appeared on the field. "Then I sacrifice him as upkeep, getting to add a monster with fifteen hundred or less attack points from my deck to my hand."
The mob ripped Sangan apart, leaving no trace but a little blood of the demonic furry. Then Tobias added a card to his hand from his deck, grinning the whole time. "Thanks to Sangan I'll be able to have upkeep for next turn. And of course since you can't activate traps the turn you set them, I end my turn."
Mizuki drew and let out a sigh of satisfaction as her body was suffused by light from the three cards she had removed from the game. "I gain twenty-one hundred life points thanks to Laguz." (MLP: 3600)
Without another thought on the matter she placed her drawn card into her duel disk. "Rune Symbol-Kenaz grants me twelve hundred life points, boosting me up even further." (MLP: 4800)
"That's all I can do for my turn, so I end."
Tobias smirked as he immediately after drawing slammed his selected monster onto his disk. A pale woman with a black dress on appeared. "Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1300) is my next offering to Defend the People!"
The witch became another victim of the violent mob, the third so far in the duel outside of Mizuki herself. "Of course when she goes from the field to the grave I get to add a monster with less than fifteen hundred defense to my hand."
He quickly chose his card, and then tapped a finger against his chin. "They've been getting blood, but I feel that it's not enough. They'll only be satisfied with lots of it, so it's time for another revolt. Go, Huge Revolution!"
The rabble rampaged over Mizuki's field, thrashing Rune Berserker and the single card in Mizuki's hand, leaving her field and hand completely blank and open to attack. "I'm ready for you Tobias, so let's do this."
"Ready for me are you? Let's find out shall we? People Running About, Oppressed People, and United Resistance all attack together!" The huge mob charged in, and once again even though they tried their best to beat Mizuki down with their weapons they couldn't hurt her thanks to the darkness.
"I may not have been able to inflict damage on your body, but the life point damage is all too real. You couldn't stop that now could you?" Mizuki frowned, knowing that he was right. But at least she still had life points left over. (MLP: 2800)
"I'm still holding in there, so this duel is far from done." Tobias sneered and plugged the card he had drawn that turn into his duel disk.
"Maybe you are, and maybe the duel isn't done yet, but I'll bring it closer to the end. Revolutionary Assault activates during the turn Huge Revolution has been played and gives my three monsters an additional attack!" Mizuki's eyes widened as far as they could go as the monsters mobbed her again, bludgeoning her with their weapons.
Once the three monsters drew back Mizuki shook herself off, feeling a bit depleted. Still, she was happy at the challenge. "This is a good duel; maybe you aren't as completely incompetent as I previously thought." (MLP: 800)
"That's right; I'll prove to you just how strong I am. Let's see you recover again like you did last time Mizuki. I'm going to crush you next turn, life point gain or no life point gain! Turn End!" Mizuki grinned and drew a card from her deck, her confidence never wavering.
As soon as she had drawn she started gaining life points. "Just like last turn I gain twenty-one hundred life points. Of course that's not enough to recover what I took last turn, but it's pretty good." (MLP: 2900)
Once her life points stopped rising she held up her drawn card. "Blank Rune activates, and this time I'll use it as Rune Symbol-Sowilo's effect to draw one card and gain five hundred life points." (MLP: 3400)
She drew once and then fire suddenly surrounded her and she gritted her teeth, the shadows barely holding it off. "At any point in time I can return the cards I removed from the game to my hand with Laguz. But I take one thousand damage for each one." (MLP: 400)
Now with four cards in hand Mizuki seemed even more confident and she was smiling brightly. "This is the last turn Tobias, the turn I've been planning for a little while now. I'll start off by playing Rune Symbol-Thurisaz to destroy United Resistance!"
Her card shattered as soon as it appeared and Tobias raised an eyebrow, looking a bit surprised. "Are you forgetful or something? Defend the People protects my three monsters from being targeted."
"Yep, I know, I just needed to activate Thurisaz. Next I play Rune Symbol-Perthro, which removes my draw phase for two turns and then on the third I draw four cards." Tobias narrowed his eyes, not quite sure what she was getting at.
"Third in the line is Rune Symbol-Berkano lets me special summon a monster from your cemetery to my field, so I choose Sangan (1000/600) in defense mode!" The evil fluffy critter dropped down onto her field and immediately curled into a defensive ball.
"Last but not least I activate Rune Symbol-Ansuz, which lets me view the top five cards of my deck and rearrange their order. You remember this card from our last duel don't you?" Tobias scowled as he did indeed recognize. Although last time she had used it to arrange his deck and the damage that resulted was enough to finish him off.
Suddenly he realized what was happening. But he was too late as Mizuki closed her eyes and started humming. Just as before seven cards appeared on her field face down. "No…another Rune Lay-Out!"
"That's right Tobias; the divination of your future is inevitable. And I'm here to divine the future of not just you, but your oppressive kingdom that you desire!" The first of them appeared, showing its form to Tobias.
"Laguz in standard position. A dream or an obsession is revealed, your desire for the Xanadu Equation." Next the second card moved into face-up position, and it too was in standard.
"Sowilo cannot be reversed, therefore it tells us that a time has come when someone has the chance to succeed and gain victory or power in life. It tells us that within this turn one of us will have what we want and become the winner of the duel." Tobias shivered, feeling afraid for himself. He never liked these readings, especially not when she did them.
"Thurisaz is in standard next, implying that there will be a cleansing fire. Thurisaz is telling us that someone's pain or suffering in this duel will be lost. But which of us is suffering and must be cleansed, that is the question isn't it?" Tobias gulped, his first thought going to himself as a plague upon Mizuki.
"Berkano is also in standard and it implies that a new beginning is here for us. Once one of us has been cleansed by the fire and gained victory a new opening will be available to us. Either freedom from your assaults, or the power of the Xanadu Equation." At this Tobias licked his lips, hoping desperately that it was the latter.
"Kenaz is reversed, telling us that one of the two us will be hurt by the victory of the other. Either my increased suffering at your hands, or your suffering by failing to achieve victory." Here again Tobias felt afraid, his thoughts shifting to what would happen if he failed to get what he wanted. He could be arrested or worse.
"Perthro is reversed as well. Thus one of us will become stagnate and unable to move on in life following the victory and cleansing of the other. Either you or I will suffer and stagnate when this duel ends. Which shall it be? One last piece of the fortune remains." Even though the two duelists couldn't see them, all the duelists watching were seeing it with baited breath.
Last but not least the final of the seven cards in the lay-out moved face up. It was the last Rune Symbol that she had played. "Ansuz is in standard. In standard position in this arrangement Ansuz mentions true vision. It tells us that the one with true vision will be the victor."
Mizuki's eyes snapped open and a bright burst of light moved to cover each of her seven cards. They then began to spin around her in a bright circle. "Fear for yourself Tobias, because this is the end! Ansuz has given us the answer to who will win, it is the one with true vision. And that person is me!"
He jerked back as red light covered his body, dropping him to his knees. "What is this?"
"First for this Rune Lay-Out we each must draw a card, and whoever has the highest level card takes damage. If it's a magic or trap it's considered to be level zero." Both of them drew at the same time and then held up their cards.
Tobias held up People Running About and Mizuki held up Rune Fencer. "Since I won the draw, you take five hundred damage for the total level of our drawn monsters!"
He screamed as the red aura around him constricted, dealing him damage and pushing him to his hands and knees. "Damn you…" (TLP: 900)
Suddenly a pair of dice appeared in the air, one black and the other white. The white floated above Mizuki's head and Tobias had the black one. "Now we each roll a die, and whoever wins gets a pick of two special effects."
Their die bounced across the ground, Tobias holding his breath as he watched. Mizuki on the other hand grinned and waited patiently until both came to a rest. "Looks like I've gotten a five and you've gotten a four. So I get to pick little Tobias."
One of the giant holographic cards spinning around Mizuki started glowing brighter than the others and shot a blast of light out of it, striking Tobias. "I get to pick any effect of the seven cards in the lay-out and use it. So I use Ansuz's merkstave effect to arrange the top of your deck."
Five cards flew off of Tobias' deck and into Mizuki's hands. She rearranged them and then sent them flying back to his deck. "Now what? Is that all?"
"Nope, that's not all. Now is the final part of this divination. The part where each of us draws three cards, and for each card of the same type we take five hundred damage. So if all three cards are different we take no damage, but if all three are the same we take fifteen hundred. Get it? First draw!" Tobias gulped, realizing that she had just sealed his fate even as they drew.
Tobias held up Prince of Blades, while Mizuki held up her continuous magic card Merkstave. "So far nothing, but that was just the first draw. Let's try again Tobias."
Again they drew at the same time. This time Mizuki held up Rune Centurion and Tobias held out Mirror Force. "One last go shall we Tobias? Draw!"
The moment he saw the border of the card Tobias understood, even though he had known since she explained the effect. Mizuki held up her card, grinning. "Rune Curse-Death is a trap, so I take no damage. What about you Tobias?"
Blankly he held up the card, looking terribly depressed. "The card I've drawn is Huge Revolution….a trap card. Which means I take one thousand damage…doesn't it?"
"Yes, and that means the truth of the vision was revealed! This duel is over, and you are the one who will suffer and stagnate while I will be cleansed and given a new beginning. This duel is over Tobias!" He slumped to the ground as the darkness faded his life points now nothing but a memory. (TLP: 0)
As soon as the Darkness Game ended Mizuki toppled over, sitting down hard on her butt. "Hoo boy am I exhausted! That right there was fun, but let's not do it again until I'm ready."
Tobias grimaced and held up a card, causing his duel disk to shudder. "Fold Your Hand activates from my deck when Ultimate Ante would destroy my deck. Ultimate Ante is negated but…the Punishment Game isn't."
Mizuki waved her hand at him as if shooing off a fly. "Yeah yeah, let's figure that stuff out later. Guys…I just want to sleep now and then we can deal with it."
Without another word she curled up into a ball and went to sleep.
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The sun crept up over the edge of Duelist Academy and shone down on the students as they went about their business for the day. It raced across the tree tops, taunted students at the beach, and headed towards its intended destination. It had a sleepy girl to wake up.
Mizuki Mitsuhiro rolled over when the sun shone into her room and pulled her pillow up to shield her eyes. "No…not right now sun, I'm sleepy. Come back tomorrow, or maybe tonight at the very least."
"I really don't think the sun is going to listen to you, let alone come out at night. Kind of a silly thought isn't it?" Mizuki bolted upright, dropping the pillow and searching for the source of the voice that she recognized to be Shiro. Seeing him and the others there with him she wrapped the sheet around her and pushed up against the wall.
"What the heck are all of you doing in my room? Heck…how did I get in my room and why am I here?" The entire group was there and they all grinned. Shiro, Sanzo, Vlad towering in the back, Enzeru, Aya, Kane, and even Harrison standing in the corner looking annoyed as usual. The only one missing was Janice, but that didn't surprise Mizuki.
Sanzo smiled gently at her. "Vlad carried you here once we got him into the room. We all figured that you'd be more comfortable sleeping in your own bed."
"What happened to Janice and Tobias? What happened to the Paranormal Suppression Squad? Are they at the door just waiting or something?" Again the group (sans Harrison) grinned at her.
Vlad grinned broadly and clapped a hand on Sanzo's back, nearly sending the handsome teen toppling over. "No little one, the Paranormal Suppression Squad was made to understand what had happened. Apparently Janice confessed that she initiated the Darkness Game at behest of Tobias. The two of them are in custody right now and all charges on you have been dropped."
Mizuki looked up at the big man, her eyes filled with worry. "What's going to happen to them?"
This time Enzeru spoke, looking happy that she was awake and safe. "Don't worry about it. Both of them are minors and a minor can only take minimal charges for a Darkness Game. Janice will go free because Tobias used a Punishment Game on her. Tobias will also probably get off Scott free for being a minor and for being an Emerlo."
Aya laughed and slung an arm around her brother's neck. "He's being nice. Tobias will get a punishment, but only from his parents. He was extradited to America for his trial, and those guys may go lenient on him but you can bet his parents won't be happy."
Kane flopped down on Janice's empty bed, looking supremely relaxed. "Well after all that hard work I'm just glad it's all done. No clue if that jerk will even come back, but he'd deserve it if he didn't."
Shiro narrowed his eyes at his best friend and proceeded to hurl a pillow at the other Osiris Red, knocking him flat on his back. "What hard work? All you did was help your siblings shut off the lights and cameras. We did the real work dueling those tough duelists!"
Sanzo rolled his eyes at Shiro. "This coming from the guy who tried to take credit for the whole thing, even though he only dueled one person."
Shiro immediately responded by grabbing another pillow and slinging it at the Hero Saint, who dodged and grabbed up another pillow. "I will defend myself Shiro, so watch out!"
Harrison finally spoke for the first time since Mizuki had woken up. "Humph, how completely immature. But that's to be expected from you two."
He closed his eyes and reached up to smugly adjust his glasses only in time to get a pillow straight to the face. He jerked backwards, his glasses askew and surprise evident in his eyes. "Who did that?"
Mizuki grinned and hefted her second pillow. "I did. Care to do something about it?"
Harrison huffed and returned his glasses to their appropriate position. "Don't be silly Rising Star. I'm above that sort of thing. I'm a Wilhelm; I don't stoop to pillow fights. I only came because Vlad insisted."
Immediately a second pillow hit him in the face, this one knocking his glasses clean off. Mizuki grinned and folded her hands behind her head, listening to everyone's laughter at the look on Harrison's face. "Awww, I didn't realize the Dark Prince of Duelist Academy was just a big softie. You cared the whole time didn't you?"
Harrison picked up his glasses and put them back on. Then he slung the pillow that had hit him at Mizuki, which she caught just before it hit her. "The Dark Prince is not a softie!"
Another pillow hit him, this time in the side of the head. He turned and glared at Shiro, who was now without a pillow and apparently pretending to be innocent. "Softie."
The Dark Prince reached for the first pillow that had hit him and so began Duelist Academy's deadliest battle yet. The Day of the Pillow Fight.
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Author's Note: Well, there was the conclusion. But four chapters remain before the end of the first year and the conclusion of the first season. But don't worry, after that there will be another season. I dedicate this second chapter of the day to Nick, who is proud to have been born today.
Next Time: The school year is ending. It has been an exciting year, and a dangerous one. Friendships have been made and broken. Amazing duels have been fought. But none of that can change the fact that the Strongman of Duelist Academy is leaving, and his legacy must be taken up. A new Kaiser must be decided, and the two candidates will battle with everything they have to gain that title. Harrison versus Sanzo, the school's strongest students in battle!
See it all in, Roar! Battle of the Kaiser!