Welcome back everyone! Big thanks to Gentyman and maxtime for reviewing my last chapter, I am happy that what I wrote for Shuzo and Shun was realistic, honestly I was not so sure about this. Also thank you two for giving me advice for university life.
To maxtime: I agree on the Yusei, Aki and Reiji part, that President needs to learn a lesson. The Yuma and Yuri part was since I noticed they did not get as much development as the others, but even I was shocked that it turned out perfectly. About the implying, you will know later.
To Gentyman: A great pleasure to see your review as always. I think Shuzo rarely acts like an adult in the anime so I changed it since the beginning, and the previous chapter solidified it.
I managed to control my hobbies and real life somewhat so I got more time to write this chapter! We are going to go to Heartland to see what is going on through the eyes of Kamishiro Rio and Tenjo Kaito, and…
Warning: I am not kidding when I said this chapter would be very dark. Please do not read this chapter if you are uncomfortable with war crimes, even though this is just a very small piece of how horrible war can be.
Chapter 38: War Crime: Nothing is Exaggerated
"Battle! Antique Gear Chaos Giant, attack Ragna Zero!" The Obelisk Force with blue gem on his mask ordered the large mechanical giant behind it. Chaos Giant curled its left hand into a fist and aimed it at the face of Rio's monster.
"Crush of Darkness!"
She looked on in horror, fearing for her own life.
"No… am I… over…?"
"From the graveyard!" A voice on his left suddenly said. Wise, mature, deep. "I banish Daunting Stance to force you to only attack Abyss Dweller!"
"…Dad…?!" Rio gasped, seeing her father who gave her a sad smile.
"Sorry my dear children, this is all what I can do to all of you…"
"Don't…"
"Don't say it dad!" Ryoga pleaded. "Don't!"
"Last words finished?" Blue heartlessly said. "You want to save your children, good act. Chaos Giant, attack the Defense Position Abyss Dweller!" The megaton punch from the giant's left hand hit the father's monster, destroying it.
"At this moment, due to Antique Armageddon Gear, you take its ATK as damage!" The antique gun rose up and fired at Rio and Ryoga's father, making him yell loudly in defeat and knocking him down face-first, all combined with the laughter of Obelisk Force and the screaming of the Kamishiro siblings…
"I'm sorry… my children… and you… my dear sweetheart…" His final thoughts before the impact with the ground made him lose consciousness.
"NOOOOO!" Ryoga yelled. He and Rio quickly ran to their father's side but Blue cruelly activated his Duel Disk, sealing him in a card. Rio and Ryoga stood still, in complete despair.
Blue took out the card and threw it at the remaining members of the Kamishiro family. Rio looked at it numbly.
The world just seemed to collapse in front of her, everything around her became blackened, they all disappeared. Her body trembling, her hands shaking, suddenly losing all of its strength to grab the card.
A single drop of tear hit the image of her father, blurring the image, the screaming one. Not the usual smile she found on his face anymore. Everything dropped down completely, then suddenly erupted with a single but powerful and sorrowful scream.
"DADDDDDDDDD!"
Rio jotted up, eyes widened in shock, she sweated all over her face and body, clearly visible on her white tank top. She realized she was having a nightmare, or rather, re-experiencing that fateful day when she was nearly defeated by Chaos Giant but her father sacrificed himself for her and her brother Ryoga.
"Still pretty early…" It was only 5.
The girl regained normal breath, wiping the sweat off her face. If this was like normal she would take a bath immediately after waking up, but war stole everyone's normal routine away in addition to their morality. She tidied up the bed then wore her Clover branch white shirt and black pants (which Rio called her "battle clothes" as she would jokingly say to Ryoga). She took out the picture of her family.
"I hope you are still alive… Yuto… Shun… and brother…" Little did she knew, only the former two survived now.
Taking the picture back to her pocket, Kamishiro Rio carefully got out of the room to avoid alerting the other girls and went to the kitchen. The morning-food-making job was the job she voluntarily took in the temple along with Yuto's mother, Allen and several others. She expected to see no one in there, but she was wrong.
"Akio-san?"
"Oh Rio, why are you here? You should not have woken up yet!" The woman greeted Rio, slightly surprised by the girl's unusual appearance.
"I uh…" Rio shuttered. "Just want to get up early, that's all."
Akio easily saw through the obvious lie Rio made but she did not press it, respecting Rio.
"That's it? Whatever…"
"We need to make food for the people here Akio-san." Rio changed the subject.
"Good for me."
Resources are rare in war, especially food, but as of now they were pretty redundant, all thanks to Resistance's counter attacks and ambushes on Academia's smaller bases across Heartland. One base in particular was taken down very brutally, in a way that would make outsiders think it was done by 20 something men, but in reality it was done by just one…
"Thanks to our comrades, we managed to have enough resources for a while." Akio commented.
"There is one more." Rio said. "But should he even wanna be called a comrade by us or not?"
Akio sighed, knowing what Rio meant.
"Yeah… Kaito…"
In an Academia base, the five Osiris Red students were making their last stand, each controlling one Antique Gear Soldier. Their opponent was everything but ordinary since he controlled five dragons. They crumbled in fear, knowing their fates were near.
"Battle! I order five Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon to attack five Antique Gear Soldier!" His signature dragon and four copies all roared at the sky before firing five blasts.
"Semmetsu no Cipher Stream!"
Five explosions, five smokes that combined together to block the view.
Five seconds of loud screaming.
And just five seconds before five cards dropped down near Kaito's Duel Disk.
Kaito emotionlessly looked at them before turning around, seeing three people curling in fear behind him. His killer eyes clearly told them they were about to suffer the same fate as those son of bitches.
Or as they thought.
"Get to the Duel Temple, there is sanctuary there."
The three people, consisting of a father, who was covering his son and his wife, nervously nodded before running away.
"Strange…" Kaito thought while seeing the family running. "Academia cards people for some reason, but why are they keeping them alive? I need to find out…"
He looked around, trying to find some place to do something…
"He's now wanted by Academia, all changed since that day." Rio muttered, taking the cabbage off the old table. "Those Academia dipshits! We should have known they always wanted to get rid of Eisuke-san! They even carded Haruto as well…"
"They went too far like they always have." Akio said as she took the knife to cut the leaves off the cabbage. "But they did not know what they did unleashed darkness from Kaito, turning him into someone they would fear forever." Several days after she, Rio and Allen settled in they heard news of a particular Resistance duelist that hunted down Academia members one by one, scaring them a lot. They were at first glad to hear this, but all stopped when they found out that person was Kaito.
"This may seem wrong to you and all of the people here, but we need to stop Kaito from carding Academia continuously as soon as possible." Rio pointed out the necessary.
"Haizz… can you sure that he will listen to you?" Akio hoped a yes would come out from Rio's mouth but as she expected, there was no answer from the sixteen-year-old girl with blue hair. "Don't you forget we tried to talk him out of it once, but he refused? Don't you forget he even tried to card YOU? Would you still be alive if we did not interfere?"
Rio knew what Akio said was right. Of all the people close to Kaito at Heartland right now, she was the closet, so she naturally thought she had the responsibility to talk to Kaito to make him become the loving person he used to be, the friend to all people, the ace of Clover branch. The scars from the carding of his father and his younger brother completely changed him though; Kaito did not listen, and when Rio tried further, he forced her to duel him and she nearly lost. Luckily, Akio and Allen managed to stop Kaito by force, after that, Kaito stormed off and they did not see him again.
"I know it Akio-san. Kaito has changed a lot, but there is still a chance for him. We need to bring him back somehow, or else he would not be able to look at his family anymore, after all what he has done." Rio reasoned, turning on the gas stove to cook.
"Easier said than done…" Akio mumbled. Next there was silence as they cooked cabbage and rice, getting breakfast ready for all of the people staying in here at the moment.
A knock on the door outside alerted them.
Rio and Akio stopped cooking, grabbing their Duel Disks behind their backs and placing them to their left hands. Usually they would employ guards outside but Academia seemed not to attack this place because they would not think Resistance would hide in such an open place like the temple. With those knockings though, the girls were wrong today.
"Is anyone there? We need help!" A male voice, weak but full of worry. He then knocked the door more.
Rio nervously looked at Akio, who nodded. They both slowly came out of the kitchen and began to walk to the door.
"How can we sure you are not Academia?"
"I have a wife and a daughter. Is that all?" He answered.
"Please let us in! Please…" A voice of a young girl spoke up. This was enough to convince Rio and Akio.
"Wait a second." Rio said and after that, the door opened. They all saw each other now.
"Get in." Rio waved her hand, the family quickly went in, guided by Akio. The girl inspected outside, making sure they were not followed before closing the door.
Akio opened the door of the room on the left and turned on the lights. A typical one in Japan.
"All of you take a rest for a while. We will serve breakfast later. Everything is in here, there is also a bathroom too in case."
"Thank you." The woman thanked Akio.
"No problem." The door then closed, leaving the family inside to rest after a harsh day. She wanted to ask how they got here but since they seemed tired and emotionally destroyed, Akio decided not to.
"How are they Akio-san?" Rio asked.
"Not very good, but they will soon. Come on, let's resume cooking." They returned to their usual routine.
"Everyone!" Rio clapped her hands, signaling the sleeping Resistance to wake up, many were just non-fighters though. "Breakfast!"
All of them quickly woke up, readied themselves quietly and patiently got out of their rooms. They sat in lines in the center room of the temple and took a tray of food each, waiting for having their food delivered. Only Yuto's mother, Rio and three Resistance female members served breakfast for the people in here though since Allen and other male ones took charge of guarding the temple right now.
Six months of war clearly took away a lot of things a Japanese got accustomed to, but the roots, they were still there: patience and order. No one broke the line to get their food first before others. Qualities no other countries' people managed to do, even in peace time.
For the family coming here just recently, Rio set three separate trays and brought them to those members herself. She took great care in the food, especially the one for the daughter.
"Thank you, we are grateful." The mother sincerely thanked Rio for giving her family a place to stay and food to eat. "We haven't eaten anything for several days." She resumed eating roughly and quickly, like her husband and her daughter.
Rio patiently waited until they are done eating. Looking at the family, she felt sad for herself: losing her mother first, then her father, and her brother was now gone in Standard for the mission. She could only hope Ryoga would turn out okay and she would see him again.
"Thank you for the food." The father thanked Rio again.
"You're welcome."
Rio took the trays and got out of the room. Later she and Akio got in, they gave the daughter toys to play with.
"Hey sweetie!" The mother reprimanded her.
"Just let her play, we don't feel anything hard." Akio reassured the mother.
"Hey sweet girl, there are kids about your age in here, would you like to play with them?" Rio told her in a sweet voice.
"Uh…" The girl hesitated. She looked at her parents who nodded.
"Thank mom, dad, thank you uh…" The girl stopped, not knowing Rio and Akio's names.
"My name's Rio, and her name is Akio." Rio told her.
"Thank you Rio-san, Akio-san." She went off the room and played with the kids outside.
What she never knew though was that after she got out, the mother sadly looked at her fading shadow, longingly. As if she hoped her kind daughter would be fine.
"What's wrong?" Rio spoke up, noting the mother's sadness.
"Since my daughter is out now, you want to say something to us right?" The father cut off.
"Uh-right." Akio answered. "We want to know how you got in here."
The father gave a look to his wife, wanting to gain her approval or something. She nodded back.
"Well…" He sighed, mixing with some sorrow in it. "We were prisoners in an Academia's base."
"Prisoners?" Rio gasped. "Why would they keep you three prisoners? They want to card all of us here for their "mission"!"
"At first we did not know why… we were one of the first people being captured… but then many more came." The woman regained her composure, narrating. "At first they captured unceremoniously, but then they mostly kept girls, young woman, mostly under 30…"
Rio and Akio froze, sweating cold sweat, getting a grasp of what Academia might have done to the family and others.
"One day they pulled out several girls, locked the rest in a warehouse. Then what we heard..."
"Were screaming, mad laughter, groaning, pleading to stop…" The husband said, grunting with every word.
"When they got back, they were crying, hugging their bodies, their clothes were ruined…"
"No way…" Akio muttered in shock.
"Then it went on and on, day by day, more girls and woman were brought out… my wife suffered the same fate as well. Whenever any men tried to stop them, they would beat them, and at worst…"
"They would place their Duel Disks on a part of his body and activate the blade, decapitating them…" The husband mumbled. "They took great joy doing this, they smiled cruelly and madly. I was the only lucky one who only lost my testicles…" He nearly sounded like he would cry. The wife, Akio and Rio on the other hand had already been crying in silence.
"Most of the men who were captured would lose hands or legs before being carded, and if they resisted too much those assholes will deem them unworthy of being carded and they will lose their heads. The worst part, they are mostly teenagers like you Rio."
"Those... those Academia heartless piece of ####!" Rio growled, unable to control her anger. "They have gone too far!"
"They are. And surely Akaba Leo loves to brainwash his students into being more animalistic." The husband bitterly said, looking down at where his middle leg used to be. "They have degraded themselves into sociopaths and sadistic murders. Before we were captured, we went to a church to stay for a night, and we saw innocent Heartland people with their necks slit and their eye pockets pulled out or stabbed…"
The teary wife hugged the husband, who hugged her back. Rio and Akio looked away, wiping their tears. This was not just a carding genocide anymore…
This is now a real war with atrocities all over the place…
What a Japanese never wanted to experience again anymore after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were now happening, not caused by America, but by their own Japanese citizen!
"Did…" Rio muttered. "Your… daughter…?"
"No. As we said, we were lucky enough." The mother quickly answered.
"I am sorry. But I want to ask one more question. Who helped you escape?"
"Well… He is…" The husband paused before saying.
"Tenjo Kaito."
"Kaito?!" Rio and Akio let out in shock. "You saw him?"
"Yes. He took out the base alone and freed us." The mother said. "We did not get a chance to thank him though."
"You know where the base is?" Rio pressed.
"The base? It's uh… three miles from here North-West."
"Thank you!" Rio quickly thanked them. "Akio-san, take care of them and the temple, I will go out looking for him!"
"Uh wait!" Akio tried to make her stop but she had ran back to her room, taking necessary equipment and running to the door.
"Rio! Stop! You're not getting out of here! You are alone and this is too reckless and dangerous!"
"She's right Rio!" Allen also agreed. "Stay in here, or I can go help you."
"I have to Allen, Akio-san!" Rio declared. "We need to bring him back! He's a Resistance and he's currently being wanted, he needs a place for safety! Besides we can calm down his bloodlust somehow! I am not going to let this chance loose this time."
"I am going to be fine Allen, you need to be here to protect the Temple." She turned to Allen.
Akio seriously looked at Rio, whose eyes she could read only one thing: Rio was serious this time.
"All right… but be home safe with Kaito."
"Good luck Rio, and don't dare going back here dead or without him." Allen wished her luck and gave her a handshake and a hug.
"I will." Rio promised and ran down the stairs, starting her mission.
Following the family's lead, Rio traveled to the location on foot, it took her nearly an hour to come to the place since she had to avoid Academia and the traps that both they and Resistance placed like WEDs, claymores, magnetic bombs, mines and so on. When she got into the base, what she could see was simply a huge mess. Nearly every barracks, road vehicles, helicopters were destroyed, only smoke flew up from them. Rio instantly realized deep circular holes everywhere, it could only be caused either by bombs or by monsters that attacked using large energy streams, combining with the family's descriptions, the answer was clear.
"Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon…"
Another thing she found disturbed her greatly: on the warehouse on the right laid down some bras, and underpants, some were even in blood…
"All female clothing…"
Rio went to the warehouse used to be the control room and found a computer that miraculously was still working well. She checked the screen and found in there Kaito's info: his appearance, his deck, his monsters, his playstyle, family background.
"Rumor was right… You made quite a new name for you Kaito…" Rio chuckled, humorlessly. Before the war, her friend was the ace of Duel Monsters in high school, right now? A wanted criminal in name only. Professional Duelists like Rio knew how Kaito could be so strong: his experience, his will, and his Deck. Kaito used a Galaxy-Photon deck, focusing on summoning powerful Rank 4 and 8 monsters with a beatdown-disruption tactic; and with the addition of Cipher that he and his father Eisuke created, he could facilitate the control tactic much more efficiently. Few of his opponent could stand for more than two turns against him.
Finding nothing in there anymore, Rio turned off the computer, wiping any trace that she had been there and walked off the ruined warehouse.
Only to meet a Duel Disk on her neck…
Rio gasped, cold sweat all over, she looked to her right.
"Kaito?!"
She waved off his left hand, angrily talking to him.
"What do you think you're doing? Attacking Academia alone? Do you know how much we are worried about you?! You are now wanted! You could be killed anytime!"
"They are dipshits, weaklings. I can take them out alone. See the base? I did it." Kaito said matter-of-factly, seemingly not caring about the fact he was about to kill her earlier. "And why are you here?"
"To bring you back." She answered straight to the point.
"No need to. I wait here to ambush Academia, alone."
"You should stop acting alone Kaito, we need you back. Resistance needs you, we all need you." Rio tried the different approach after calming herself down.
"I don't need you, I don't need Resistance. All I see is I am alone, I will card Academia for carding my father and Haruto."
"You're losing yourself Kaito!" Rio raised her voice, she spoke the next words carefully. "You once told me, told all of us that no matter how bad the war is, we must keep ourselves together, we must keep our humanity, that's what makes us us! We are not Academia don't you remember? You even told us not to act like Shun and you once tried to talk him out of his anger, yet you are doing the exact same thing! And even worse than him!"
"That was before I went through the same thing as he did!" Kaito countered back. "Many comrades lost their lives during the attack Rio! Including my family! With my skills I can take on Academia alone, I don't need your help, I don't need Resistance's help! Get out of my way!"
"Not gonna happen!" Rio stopped Kaito. "I am tired seeing Shun and my brother arguing about this already, and I am not going to see you losing yourself again! You are my friend Kaito, no…"
"You are OUR friends!"
"Stop!" Kaito cut her off. "The moment my family was carded, you are not my friend anymore! Get out! Or I will force you out!" He clicked his Duel Disk, activating it.
"Well enough." Rio activated her own as well.
"I nearly won last time, how do you think you are going to reverse it now?" Kaito whispered dangerously.
"That was when I was not completely clear about bringing you back, but I am now!" Rio told Kaito, who remained still and cold-hearted. "Whatever you are thinking right now, whatever you consider us friends anymore, I am still considering you my friend! We all are! And with the will of us and the fallen, we will bring you back!"
"Friends…" Kaito shrugged. "Ridiculous…"
"Don't you see how many of our friends die…?"
DUEL!
Tenjo Kaito: 4000 [5]
Kamishiro Rio: 4000 [5]
"I take the first turn!" Kaito suddenly declared, shocking Rio. He quickly drew five cards and was glad to find his necessary piece to establish his board, even though his face did not show it.
"He's taking the first turn…? He's not using Cipher Dragon?"
"From my hand, Magic Card Photon Sanctuary activate!" Kaito slid a card to his Duel Disk and right after the card was materialized, two small green spheres appeared and hovered in front of Kaito. "I special summon two Photon Tokens!"
2x Photon Token LIGHT/Thunder/LV4/2000/0
"He's using Photon Sanctuary…" Rio muttered. "Don't tell me you are using…!"
"Right." Kaito simply agreed. "I release the two 2000 ATK Photon Tokens…" The spheres disintegrated. "To special summon this card!"
Kaito slapped down a card to the blade, light particles gathered in front of him, forming into a crescent spear.
"Galaxy lurking in the darkness…" He took the spear and threw it to the sky.
"Become the light of vengeance…" The word hope was replaced by revolution, and now vengeance, the thing Rio took notice instantly.
"The chant… is full of anger…" The rough voice Kaito made indicated that to her.
"And my very servant!" The spear spun around, gathering more particles around it.
"The embodiment of light, now descend!" The light slowly took form, first the arms, then the legs, next the tail, and finally the head.
"Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!"
BOOOOOMMMMMM!
Suddenly, an explosion hit Kaito's ace monster, destroying it. The source was from the outside, probably a Solid Vision missile.
"What the…?!" Kaito gasped. Rio quickly noticed sounds of helicopters, cars, and multiple Chaos Giant flying pretty far from her left, but they were coming close.
"Take cover Kaito! They sent a team! We cannot take them!" Rio quickly grabbed Kaito and went to the warehouse earlier despite his protesting.
"Let me off Rio!"
"Quiet! You want us both to die?" She whispered since Academia was close. They took cover behind the shelves at the corner. Shortly after, Academia was in the base, inspecting it. They remained quiet as they heard them talking.
"He took it out alone."
"Dammit! That Kaito son of a bitch is insanely strong!"
"All the prisoners got escaped!"
"Shit. We lost some treasures to play."
"Treasures? What are they talking about?" Kaito wondered. He noticed Rio was becoming slightly angry.
"Don't worry. We'll find some more to have fun."
"Hey you! Check the warehouse!"
"Shit!" Rio cursed in her mind. She pulled Kaito and herself down more to try to hide them from view further. The Osiris Red got in, checking.
"Hm… nothing's here…?" He went to the computer.
"Shit!" Rio said under her breath.
"What?" Kaito asked.
"If he finds out it is hot, then…" Her heartbeat increased dramatically, and so did Kaito.
The Osiris Red placed his hand on the table, inspecting it.
"Don't…!"
Nothing happened, he went to check the screen.
"DON'T!"
"NOOOO!"
"Hey!"
"What?!"
"Don't waste time checking the warehouse, they would not be here right now!" A Ra Yellow told the low-ranking soldier.
"You're probably right…"
"Go out, scavenge somewhere else and go, and find other Xyz scums to have some fun."
The Osiris Red eventually got out, Kaito and Rio sighed in relief.
"Rio, what does he mean by… having some fun?" Kaito asked, still keeping the low voice. "What are they talking about?"
"You don't want to know." Rio shut him down, her voice slightly cracked.
"I need to know! I will go after them alone, stay out!"
"No! You will only become angrier!"
"I must know!" Kaito declared. He sighed. "Fine if you go with me, but don't stop me."
"I will go with you, but I will stop you."
"Huh!" Kaito chuckled. "Fine."
Kaito and Rio sneakily got out and got in the back of the large truck that was at the last of the convoy, hiding inside it. They kept silence as Academia got off their destroyed base. During the way, they heard some pretty unpleasant things that the drivers said. Kaito still could not believe it however.
"We're near their base. Get out." Rio and Kaito quietly jumped out of the truck and took cover behind the rocks far enough from the door. They peeked out to see them getting into the base. It was not as large as the last one but it was still large, housing several tents, warehouses, a control room and a large yard for vehicles.
"So this is their "another" base… a good place to card Academia…" Kaito whispered, earning a harsh look from Rio that said "don't even think about it."
"The base at the South-East was destroyed, we lost all the goods in there." A guard at the gate said.
"Don't be sad, we did capture prisoners from another Resistance base." Another guard told him.
"It's a good idea that we do not card them immediately, even though it is technically breaking the codes."
"Huh, you are just like the rest, just wait here, we will get turns eventually."
"But we could not do it now, inside they were already doing it."
Kaito got a bad feeling about this. He quickly took out binoculars and saw inside the base, Rio hesitated to pull out her own but she eventually did. At the far left corner, Academia personnel pulled out six young girls, three of them were his friends at the Clover branch. All of them were screaming, pleading the captors to stop but to no avail. One of the female soldier tried to stop them but she was knocked back.
"Shit! Our friends in Clover!" Kaito gasped. Rio sadly looked at him, and then the girls, but she knew she could not do anything for now.
"Don't you tell me what they do to them is…?" A simple nod from Rio told him all.
Kaito watched impatiently as six more Obelisk Force members took each one of the girls and went into the tents. The screaming was loud enough to resonate the entire base, Kaito shrieked.
"No!" He quickly got up but Rio pressed him down again.
"Don't you see what they are doing over there?!"
"I know!" Rio gritted. "But we cannot do anything now!"
Kaito closed his eyes and ears, looking away. He could not believe what he was seeing right now. He realized the reason they kept them alive was… to RAPE them!
They RAPE them!
They RAPE THEM!
THEY RAPE THEM!
Kaito repeated those words in his mind, losing himself in a trance.
Several minutes later the screaming stopped, each one of the girls were tossed out, naked and crying. Their clothes were also being thrown out carelessly as well.
"It's over." The guard at the gate sighed disappointingly.
"Get ready. A convoy is coming."
Three more trucks arrived, carrying more prisoners. An adult man resisted, trying to find a way to get him and others out but the driver stopped him.
"NO! Please don't hurt him!" A female voice, probably his wife.
"Here's a lesson to all of you: Don't try to escape or…" He placed his Duel Disk on his throat.
"No!"
He activated it, the head fell off instantly. Blood spattered everywhere, hitting the truck and the left part of his face. He nonchalantly wiped it.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Kaito and Rio jotted as if he was struck by static electricity, they looked away in disgust.
"Your fate will be much worse."
The wife tried to rush out but she was met with another inactivated Duel Disks to her own throat. She sobbed uncontrollably as she saw her husband's dead body. The rest of the prisoners hugged each other as they cried as well.
"Get rid of this body." The guard ordered. The killer grabbed the head and its former owner and dragged it to the place near Rio and Kaito, who quickly hid themselves.
He went pass the rocks and got to near some kind of hole and tossed the corpse down. After that he got back to the convoy and got in the base.
Kaito took off the binoculars, hands shaking in anger.
No, his body.
And his mind as well…
He went to the place where that son of the bitch disposed of the body earlier.
What Kaito and Rio saw froze them. They would get nightmares for the rest of their lives.
A large hole filled with numerous dead bodies, Duel Disks, dismembered body parts. Some of the bodies lose their heads or have their necks slit. And they swore they saw an infant among the corpses.
"No… no way…!" Kaito snapped, a piece of his heart broke as he felt it.
"They… kill people and dispose them in open space?!"
"Even an infant! This is…" Kaito muttered. "Unacceptable!"
"It is Kaito." Rio murmured, sobbing. "The family you saved earlier told me that…"
He dropped down, unable to accept the reality in front of his eyes. Rio touched his shoulder, trying her best to calm him down. Kaito muttered something, inaudible, losing himself in the boiling rage.
"Rio… I've decided…" His voice became a monotone.
"What?"
"I will eradicate this base! All of those inhuman son of bitches!" He glared at the base with anger visible on his face.
"For this once…" Rio muttered under her breath. "I will let you card them, and I will do it with you. They do not deserve to live." She fiercely looked at the base, eyes fill with murderous rage.
"Good enough…"
The two guards continued chatting, happily smiling at the chance of raping the prisoners. Suddenly, a monster appeared above them and swung its sword, cutting their heads off.
"Good job, Photon Thrasher." Kaito took off the card, making it disappear. They opened the door and silently went near a warehouse. "Don't forget the base is protected by the Real Solid Vision machine in the control room. Unless we destroy it, we cannot destroy the base."
"Magic Card, Photon Spear activate!" A luminous blade appeared and Kaito took it.
"Magic Card, Vision Blade activate." Rio armed herself with an ice blade, but it was just as sharp as any ordinary ones.
They went into tent by tent, warehouse by warehouse, place by place, silently killing any Academia personnel in the way. They were dispatched in cruel ways, fitting for the crimes they committed. Some of them were even killed in their sleep. Male or female, Kaito and Rio did not leave any of them free. Since this base was smaller than the last one, Rio and Kaito did not waste much time remembering the layout and the shifts. They silently went in the base like a gust of wind.
"There was one girl who tried to stop the raping, free her from this spree." Rio reminded Kaito.
"You're strangely humane in this Rio while you basically just killed several girls earlier. Besides we don't know if we can remember her face." He said as he grabbed an Obelisk Force and rammed his head in a piece of iron.
"I just don't want to kill innocent ones." She explained after she stabbed an Obelisk Force in his heart.
They continued massacring the base, dead bodies lay behind them like grass. When there were only two tents, the control room and the warehouse where the prisoners were held, Kaito changed the plan.
He removed Galaxy Spear, then he took out Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and summoned it and Rio also did the same thing with Ragna Zero.
"Hametsu no Photon Stream!" Kaito declared loudly with all of the rage he could gather.
"Funeral Scythe!" Rio ordered her monster to attack.
The two Duel Monsters fired multiple energy streams at the remaining structures but the warehouse, destroying everything. The screaming and the yelling of Academia were heard, Kaito and Rio emotionlessly heard it. When the last members ran out of their hiding places to try to run away, Ragna Zero hovered downwards, arming her scythe. She swiftly went through them, the scythe got blood in it. After that, all of them dropped down.
Rio found a large truck and drove it near the warehouse.
"We're Resistance. Take cover, we are destroying the door." Kaito warned.
"Do it, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!" The dragon fired a blue stream at the door, obliterating it.
"The control room is down, blast the wall Kaito."
"Got it." Kaito ordered Photon Dragon to attack the wall near the corner, destroying it.
Rio and Kaito got in and saw the prisoners inside. Most of them are girls, they also noticed the three girls earlier who were back in their clothes.
"Kaito?" One of Kaito's friends said.
"Yes I am." Kaito told her in a calm and cold voice.
"Get out get out! Get in the bus!" Rio urged. They quickly got inside the truck.
"You know how to drive?" Rio asked a man.
"Yeah!"
"Drive the truck! Get out of here as soon as possible! I entrust our friends to you!"
"How about you?"
"We can take care of ourselves! Go!" Kaito told him. The man drove the truck and got out of the base.
Kaito and Rio went to the corpses of the Academia members they killed earlier. They noticed the female they saw through binoculars earlier who was in pain.
"Please… don't… kill me…" She pleaded.
Rio and Kaito looked at each other, thinking about what to do. Eventually.
"We are not going to kill you, but we will capture you." Rio told her, who simply looked own, accepting her fate.
Suddenly, a purple light absorbed the remaining soldier, turning her into a card. Rio and Kaito took fighting stances and looked forward.
They saw a man in black robes and a mask and two girls in similar clothes. The shorter one had white long hair while the older one had blonde hair. They were wearing Academia Duel Disks like the Obelisk Force squad behind them.
"Congratulations, you just cleared that mess for us!" The masked man said joyfully.
Rio and Kaito paled, knowing who they were.
"Darkness! And…"
"The Tyler Sisters…!"
See, I told you this chapter is not kidding at all. It was so dark and inhumane that Rio decided to lose some of her morality for a while to join force with Kaito.
I know you guys would be mad that I denied Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to appear officially in a duel, but it will soon I promise.
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Trapped
Ambushed by Darkness and the Tyler Sisters, Kaito and Rio must defend themselves against the high-ranking members of Academia. Would this be the end for them?
This is matrixnis, out!