Life hasn't been easy for Atem, making one bad decision after another... though just when he thought that things were finally looking up. Battle City begins! Darkness looms in the horizon; the Shadow Realm is calling and a deal has been struck. His soul is on the line and the man after his life wants to take away everything that matters to him, first.

Prince Atem was born to inherit the throne of Egypt, the powerful empire his father ruled. He had it all. Little did he know, that a great evil was threatening to take everything he holds dear away. When a tragedy occurs, stripping him of what he cares the most, he runs away to forget about his past... but can the past ever truly be forgotten? Lion King based Vaseshipping

After Yugi defeats Atem in the Ceremonial Battle, Atem learns that one of the people he had been looking forward to seeing again in the afterlife won't be there - he'll have to bring her back. Erin is a transfer student at Domino High, but to Atem, she is exactly who he's been looking for. But how can he bring her back to the afterlife when she doesn't even remember her past life?

5,000 years have passed and Mana has awoken to find that Atem is farther away than she expected and that his puzzle has been reassembled by a young boy in Japan. Mana knows that Atem is in great danger and she needs to be there to protect both him and the boy from those that threaten them. The catch, Atem's spirit won't know her and it might be the very thing that kills her.