Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
Day 3: Fireworks
Sawatari Shingo always had everything he wanted in his life.
He was the son of the senator, he had money, he was a student of LDS and his little fan club always did whatever he wanted them to. But there was this one thing he had learned early. Respect was earned through power.
He himself had never been interested in Fusion, Synchro or XYZ. It wasn't like he underestimated them. He was just not interested. But Pendulum summon… He wanted it. He should be tho only one to have access to those cards. Not the pathetic son of a run-away champion.
So he stole them and then challenged Sakaki Yuya to a duel, only to have them taken back. His deck must have been weak then. He made a Monarch deck after that, but just as he thought that this was a perfect deck, that Black Knight (because now that he thought about it, there is simply no way a guy this gloomy was Sakaki) crushed that deck too.
Akaba Reiji offered him yet another Pendulum deck. And with this he would finally take his revenge. Only that the duel of the first round of the Junior Youth Miami Championship wasn't a revenge match. It turned into something totally different. Something incredible and amazing.
When exactly did he stop thinking "I'm going to win" and started thinking "I'm not going to lose"? There was a difference between the two. The audience had gone wild. They did not care who was going to win. Everybody's smiles were like a new light in his heart, and they filled something that he had not realized it was missing. And his loss was caused by fireworks.
Beautiful fireworks that illuminated the stadium in all the colors of the rainbow, children and adults gawking in awe at the magnificent and unique sight in front of them. A loss it was, but a very spectacular one. And Sawatari Shingo found himself not caring that he was defeated, because the audience's applause was as bright as those fireworks and he felt his chest swell with pride.
Because a match as incredible as that could only and with fireworks. And Sawatari Shingo wanted to see such fireworks again and again and again.