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Day 2: Egao + Day 4: Yusalad

Four different dimensions. Four boys with the same face. Yuzu had seen all of them. She had talked with all of them. She had touched all of them. She had seen all of them duel. And she had seen the smiles of all of them.

Thinking back to her first duel against Masumi, she couldn't help but wonder how could she have been so blind. How could she ever confuse those four totally different people.

Yuzu knew Yuya ever since they were little kids. Their parents were family friends. Especially after Yuya's father disappeared, the two families, the single father with his only daughter and the lone mother with her only son had gotten even closer. Yuzu was always there for Yuya. And she knew his smiles very well.

Yuya had many smiles. The fake smile he was putting on as a mask for the sake of shielding himself from his pain, so painfully fake that Yuzu was tempted to hit him with her fan just to drop it. The happy smile he had during his entertainment duels when the crowd went wild, not caring who is going to win, and it makes her heart flutter happily because this was the duel that Yuya always wanted and it made him feel like he was a little closer to his father. And then there was his sincere smile, the one he had when he returned to her the Polymerization card, telling her that with this she was trying to change herself into a different Yuzu and the silent promise that he would back her up all the way through.

Yuzu had only known Ute for less than a month. Even that would be wrong. She only had a few brief encounters with him, and it was only during the last one when she had learned his name. She may disagree with Sawatari Shingo on pretty much everything, but it was him who had described Ute the best. The Black Knight. Because that's what he was. Ute was like a shadow, a phantom, a ghost, appearing in an instance from the dark and disappearing like he was never there. The spirit of a fallen rebel who had died gloriously on the battlefield and yet refused to stay dead. So he haunted his enemies like his Phantom Knights, a silent shadow, a dark guardian.

Ute's smile was full of nostalgia. Nostalgia for the times when this phantom knight was still alive, when he and everybody else could laugh in broad daylight without being afraid to be seen by the Academia. And at the same time his smile was so much like Yuya's sincere smile. Full of confidence for their friends, but Ute's smile was also full of pain, nostalgia and… hope. Hope for a world where nobody would have to get hurt, because this phantom knight would not lay to rest until that wish becomes a reality.

The third Yuya was the only one Yuzu hoped she would never encounter in her life ever again. She didn't know his name. She didn't want to know if she wanted to know his name or not. She had only met him once. But that didn't matter. What did matter was what happened during that meeting. The dusk-to-dawn cat-and-mouse game, with her being the desperate mouse that was trying to get away. Because what else could that person be but a feline? A predator with keen senses, his step as silent as the snow on the Action Field they fought on, playful like a kitten and powerful like a panther.

His eyes were cold. His grin showed his fangs. Everything about him was neat yet felt terribly wrong, the unmistakable march of an Academia soldier in his step, with an air of laziness like a sleepy and hungry lion that was staring down at its pathetic prey deciding whether it was worth hunting or not. And as he took that decision, his smile widened, a barely suppressed, almost teasing chuckle inside his throat, and his eyes widened frighteningly, full of mad glee and excitement for the new round of Hunting Games. She didn't want to know his name. But she had to learn it, so she could tell Kurosaki and Ute and Hugo who took their friends away.

Hugo… Just like everyone else, Yuzu herself had thought that the Synchro biker was the Pawn of Fusion who had kidnapped Ruri. She certainly never expected to find herself stuck with said biker in a different dimension, clinging on his for dear life because she had never been on a motorcycle before nor she wanted to spend that first time being chased by a whole bunch of crazy policemen. And this dork over here was laughing because "YES! I am finally back at the City!". Yuzu was tempted to whack him with her fan just like she did with Yuya.

Hugo's smile spoke volumes of what kind of person he was. A wide grin full of confidence, happiness and stupidity, a guy slow in the head who was looking at everything with a positive outlook and enjoyed the right here and now. It was the smile of someone who thought simply and had his goals set straight. Get back Rin. Settle the score with Ute. Kick the asses of as many of those turning-people-into-cards bastards as possible while he's at it. And after that, he would simple follow Clear Wing Synchro Dragon wherever it wanted to go, just like always. His smile was totally different from Yuya's, but just like his it was infectious, and made her want to grin like an idiot too.

Now, if only they could get away from the police.