A wry smile came to Yami's face as he was intently looking at the screen and listening to Kaiba's explanation. He even chuckled slightly while looking at certain parts of the display.
"What's so damn funny?!", Kaiba clamored irately, making his face turn scarlet, "Don't you see the frickin' picture there in front of you?! It appears to have been done by the same artist who created the prophecy regarding our needed 'friendship' to defeat Marik! This picture clearly shows my holding the Millennium Rod while summoning Blue-Eyes and Obelisk while you are harnessing the powers of your Millennium Puzzle and Millennium Tauk while summoning the Dark Magician and Ra. We also appear to have another ally on our side who is summoning Osiris as well as something else that I can't see in the picture. It appears we're alongside each other fighting this ogre and this creature is a master of magic. He's not summoning a single monster, but he's using something to hold our monsters back."
"I hear you loud and clear, Kaiba," Yami replied cooly as he allowed himself to become deeper in thought as he read the hieroglyphics on the big screen again and again, "I think it's pretty hilarious that a supercomputer could not break my little cipher."
Tristan, who had been simply listening attentively the whole time, made a spit take with the mouthful of coffee in his mouth when he heard Yami's latest piece of information. Kaiba, having become completely wide-eyed, stood up from his chair and said in a shocked tone, "Your cipher?! Are you trying to tell me that you are the one who came up with the language the supercomputer couldn't figure out?!"
"That is exactly what I'm telling you, Kaiba. I created the cipher so my closest scribes could be more free to discuss the prophecies of the oracles and soothsayers. The world was in danger at the time of someone trying to harness the powers of Obelisk, Osiris, and Ra to conquer and destroy and I wanted the scribes to be able to say what they truly knew of the situation. Many of my scribes were also intelligence specialists. I could rely on them to tell me everything I needed to know about my enemies. There were some things that really needed to be written down though and I obviously could not take any chances at the information being figured out by the enemy, so I created this cipher to protect myself and my people."
"If you created the cipher... That means you can read every word on that screen... Doesn't it...?"
"That's right, Kaiba. Would you like to know what the prophecy says?"
Kaiba gulped and weakly asked in a tone barely audible to Yami, "Do I want to know?"
Yami turned toward Kaiba and grinned as he replied, "Oh, I know you'll want to know this."
"Go ahead, Yugi. Nothing surprises me anymore," Kaiba muttered dejectedly.
In a professor-like tone, Yami began translating, "'In the thirty-first year of Yami, the King, a new protector, the Champion of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, will prove his valor and loyalty by putting aside his wishes for the throne and even putting aside his grudges against those who have caused him true harm. Both will realize some enemies will not always be enemies forever. A new force who will threaten the entire regime with his extreme might can only be defeated by the Divine Triumvirate.'"
"'Divine Triumvirate'? What the Hell?", Kaiba snapped.
"What it means is the 'Champion of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon' and the pharaoh will be joined by another person who they both regarded as an enemy at one time and all three will be in the battle of their lives against a horrendous force."
"Who? Who will be the one we'll have to have helping us out? Will Marik come from the dead? Will Pegasus come from his exile? Will Dark Bakura fight alongside us? Will it be someone else? Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?"
"I will bet whoever this is will have a Millennium Item."
"Well, Marik is dead, Pegasus lost his Millennium Eye to Bakura in that shadow duel, and Bakura is too sick to fight. Sadi was never our enemy. If I'm not mistaken, all the Millennium Items are dispersed between you, Bakura, Sadi, and whoever gets that Millennium Rod."
"As intriguing or puzzling as that may be, what concerns me is why you have Obelisk again and why this other person has Osiris. Am I going to lose these cards? Am I going to lend them out or give them away? Also, why are the God Cards getting pushed back in the prophecy? It makes no sense."
"If it doesn't make sense to you, it surely isn't going to make sense to anyone else."
Tristan picked up his backpack and placed it on his back. Then, Kaiba and Tristan walked down the steel stairs from the upper terminal and met Yami near the door.
"I'm going to go to the locker room and change," Tristan said, "I could let the wind dry my pants while I'm on the road, but I had planned to go see Serenity, so I don't really want to have coffee stained clothing."
"See you later, Tristan," Yami replied with a slight laugh as Tristan walked out of the control room.
"Yugi, I am fairly certain the dive teams are going to secure the Millennium Rod today. Would you mind going up to my private office with me to help supervise the final operations?", Kaiba asked as he tried to regain some of the composure he lost a few minutes ago.
"I don't mind at all. Your teams may need my help if something goes awry."
"These days, I expect anything..."
