As Tristan approaches the Mutos' game store, he sees an ambulance parked outside, with its siren emitting a flickering light. Two doctors are carrying a blonde, preteen girl on a stretcher. Who is she? An old man is running behind them. From the worried expression on the aforementioned old man's face, Tristan deduces that he is a close relative of that girl. Yugi and his grandpa are standing outside the shop entrance, with compassionate expressions. Tea is there too. Is she... crying?

'Tea,' the brown haired boy calls out as he approaches. 'What hap...'

'It is too late, Tristan,' Tea bursts into sobs and falls into his arms.

With his eyes widened, Tristan gasps and pats her on the shoulder. 'There there,' he says, genuinely shocked. What does she mean by 'too late'? Is that girl (whatever her name is)... dead?

He turns his eyes to Yugi. 'Yugi, what happened?' he asks, slightly freaking out, with Tea still sobbing in his arms, oblivious.

'Long story,' the shorter boy sighs. 'Nevertheless, don't worry. That girl will most likely be fine after all.'

Tristan turns his eyes back to Tea. 'Did you hear that, girl? She will be fine. Stop being so worried, because you're freaking me out.'

'I know she will be fine, Tristan,' Tea sobs, her voice kinda muffled by her friend's chest. 'But still... IT'S TOO LATE! BOUHOUHOUOUOUOU...'

Tristan raises his eyes to the heavens and sighs, still patting his female friend. 'Women,' he whispers. 'I'll never understand them.'


After their initial surprise, the other four members of the Big Five stand up to greet their new ally.

'We were fortunate to find each other, Mister Ishtar,' Leichter smiles at him.

'No!' Marik smiles back. 'It was not luck. It was Gods. Gods brought us together.'

Silence. The Big Five sweatdrop in a Japanese gag manner. None of them replies to that comment. They prefer not to risk upsetting someone they need so much by disregarding his Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs as nonsense. Let that lunatic believe what he wants; it won't hurt them, as long as he helps them achieve their goal.

'Umm, so...' Leichter awkwardly breaks the silence. 'Tell our partners (gestures to the other four people in the room) what our plan is.'

'As of now, all money and resources of my organization are at your disposal, my dear friends,' Marik closes his eyes, places his hand on his chest and bows politely. 'We will track down stockholders of KaibaCorp and buy their shares. If they don't want to sell, we will force them by any means necessary: We will blackmail them, we will have my goons beat them up, we will kidnap loved ones of theirs. I even have in my ranks people really skilled at computers, people more than capable of hacking the stockholders' accounts.'

The Big Five exchange smiles.

Suddenly, Gansley raises an eyebrow, as if something has just occurred to him. 'Wait a minute. What do you seek to gain from this cooperation, Mister Ishtar?' he asks suspiciously.

Marik chuckles. To the shock of the five businesspeople, he produces a golden rod and strokes it, as if it was his beloved kitten. 'All I want is for you, when you have taken control of KaibaCorp, to organize a duel monsters tournament in Domino City. An event that will attract the best duelists from all over the world, like honey attracts bees.'

The Big Five exchange looks again, chuckle and shrug. Their eyes back to Marik. 'Agreed, Mister Ishtar,' Leichter speaks on behalf of all of them. 'We shall do you this favor.'

Marik lowers his eyes and smiles. He can always control with the Millenium Rod all five of those scumbags if needed. But, for the time being, they seem cooperative, so no need to bother.


Thankfully, Rebecca didn't have anything serious indeed. Just a mild concussion. Doctors said she will stay at the hospital for today, just for precautionary reasons, and then she will be discharged.

Outside the room Rebecca is currently in, Arthur is sleeping on a bench. He didn't want to fall asleep, he wanted to stay close to his granddaughter some more, but, after all that anxiety he has gone through today, now that he has finally been assured his grandchild will be fine, he couldn't combat his tiredness anymore. His old friend, Solomon, is sitting next to him. Tea and Tristan have gone to the hospital canteen to fetch some coffee.

At some point, a young, attractive nurse passes by. Solomon's eyes turn into gag hearts. He can't help groping a little! Because, as wise as he is, as kind as he is, he is still a perv, as most old men in Japanese shows!

'Umm, excuse me, ma'am, may I ask you something?' Solomon draws the aforementioned woman's attention, pretending that he meant to tap her on her back but he missed the target and accidentally touched her butt instead. Ohh, that feels good!

The nurse turns around and glares at him. 'YOU PERVERT,' she yells and, with an almost superhumanly strong slap, causes him to crash on the wall, creating a dent the shape and size of his body in it, in another gag scene.

'Worth it,' the old man whispers with a smile of felicity as he falls on the floor, with a thud and everybody around looking at him.

Arthur didn't wake up despite all the above. He must be really tired!

Meanwhile, in the room, Yugi and Rebecca are chatting, blissfully unaware of that incident. They seem to be getting along great. Rebecca is lying in the bed, with Yugi sitting next to her and holding her hand.

They are getting to know each other, better and better. They are talking about (what else?) cards! They are checking out each other's decks and advising each other as to what modifications to make (what cards to add, what cards to remove etc) in order to enhance their strategies. Little by little, they come to realize that they have much more than love of card games in common. For example, both of them lost their parents at a very young age. Both of them were raised by their respective grandfathers.

They are laughing together. They are having a good time. Until, at some point, Rebecca's face clouds over.

Yugi raises an eyebrow. 'What's wrong?'

'Yugi,' the girl sighs, looking him straight in the eye. 'About the things I said to you when I first woke up...'

'It's okay,' Yugi comforts her with a chuckle. 'I know you were still dazed.'

'Well, I was indeed,' Rebecca admits. 'Even so, I have a vague memory of that kiss and I like it!'

Yugi blushes and gulps anew.

'Please, don't freak out,' Rebecca takes his hands in hers to comfort him. 'I'm not some nutjob who dreams of marriage and kids just because of a kiss. I'm not some dangerous psychopath who is going to stalk you from now on. But I'd like us to... you know... go out together... sometime. I mean, if you want it too. If you don't want to, it's okay, I had a good time with you and...'

Yugi hushes the girl by placing his finger on her lips. 'I'd love it if we went out together,' he smiles.

Rebecca's eyes widen. 'Oh!' Next, her surprised expression is replaced with a childlike smile. 'Ok, then.'

Silence. Awkward silence. The two young people avert their eyes. They feign a sudden surge of heavy interest in looking around the room and examining the medical equipment. Eventually, their eyes accidentally meet again. They try to repress their giggles. Finally, they burst into laughter. Simultaneously! For no reason! They hug each other, now totally relaxed.

'I hope gramps and I will stay around for a little while,' Rebecca whispers.

'Likewise,' Yugi responds.


And so, a few days passed since that eventful day.

Pegasus is standing before a full length mirror, dressed in his usual, red outfit and adjusting his black bowtie. Helicopter sounds are coming from the roofdeck.

'Mister Pegasus, your personal helicopter is ready,' a servant announces.

'Good,' the tycoon responds without enthusiasm.

A half naked Mai, with a blanket wrapped around certain censored parts of her body, approaches and raises an eyebrow. 'Going somewhere, honey?' she asks.

'Yes,' Pegasus nods, still looking at his reflection. 'Ishizu Ishtar, an old partner of mine, wants to see me on my private island.'

Mai gives him a baffled look. 'And why couldn't that Ishizu chick meet you here?'

Pegasus turns around. 'Because, whenever a partner of mine wants to see me for something important, we meet on my private island. This is how I have always worked. So stop being paranoid. It's not like I'm going there to enjoy some secret sexual affair with her or anything.'

Mai's eyes widen. 'No, you misunderstood, I didn't imply that...'

'I know very well what you implied,' Pegasus gives her a stern look.

Mai sighs and lowers her eyes, inwardly admitting that she was jealous for a moment.

Next, she raises her eyes back to her lover. 'I'm sorry. I don't believe that you're that kind of man. Still though, I can't understand why you didn't inform me about that earlier. I mean, you can't just wake up in the morning and be like, Oh, by the way, honey, I have to leave for a few days. Bye. What am I to you? A mistress?'

Pegasus raises his eyes to the ceiling, his fingers crossing his long, white hair. What is he supposed to tell her? About the Millenium Items? About the evil that threatened to destroy the world 3000 years ago and now might surface again? About the three God Cards he created? That two of them have been stolen? That creating those three cards in the first place was the greatest mistake of his life? No, he can't talk to Mai about any of the above. Mai may be a great woman, but she's still a normal woman in the modern world. There are some things she can't understand, or at least she's not ready to understand yet.

His eyes back to Mai. 'Mai, listen. There are some things that I have been doing in a certain way for a long time now. And I shall not change those ways for your sake. If that upsets you, I am sorry, but I cannot do anything about that.'

'BUT, IF I WAS CECELIA, YOU WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME WITH YOU!' Mai snaps.

Her eyes widen. She instantly regrets what she just said.

For a while, Pegasus does not respond. He is just looking at her, silently. Mai can see it in his eyes how much those words hurt him. Nevertheless, he remains a gentleman. Instead of following her into a screaming match, he just says, 'I'll be late unless I leave now. We'll further discuss this when I'm back.'

And, with those words, he exits the room.

Mai drops her body on a cushion. We'll discuss this when I'm back. This is what men say when they don't want to discuss something, not even in a million years. Mai knows a lot about men.

'Where are we going, Max?' the woman wonders out loud, staring at the ceiling, even though nobody is here to hear her.


Mokuba enters his brother's office. It's been a few hours since he last heard from the spirit of this damned artifact he's wearing underneath his clothes. Maybe even an immortal spirit with no physical needs wants to take a break every now and then! Maybe he can now at last spend some time with his big brother.

'Seto? Are you here?' the boy calls out.

Wait, what is that thing on the desk? Can it be... the prototype of the duel disk Seto has been working on?

In any case, next to it, there are some papers. Mokuba has a look at them and... gasps, his eyes bulging in frustration. They are cession documents. His brother gave him all his KaibaCorp shares! Also, there is a letter:

Mokuba,

I want you to know that I'm deeply sorry for all times I treated you in ways you deemed cruel. I know I cannot go back in time and fix my mistakes, but I cannot bear to see the well deserved hatred of me in your eyes anymore. So I wish you a happy life. As of now, everything I possess, everything I have ever earned, be it through honest or dishonest methods, is yours. I kept for myself only an amount of money which I used to buy a retreat somewhere. Doesn't matter where. I will stay there to rediscover myself. Please, don't look for me.

Love, Seto

A moment of silence before the letter's contents sink in.

'SETO, NOOO,' the boy bursts into tears.

Then, all of a sudden, with a glow of the Millenium Ring underneath his clothes, the boy's expression changes, the energy emitted by the artifact evaporating his tears in an instant. Once more, the spirit of the Millenium Ring has taken control.

'MOTHERFUCKER! KAIBACORP IS MINE,' Yami Mokuba exclaims.