"Sir, I'm concerned for your son—"

"Consider it noted, Takei."

"Mr. Bakura…sir…please reconsider what you're doing."

"Work calls me away."

"I understand that, sir…but you can't uproot him every two years.  He's on the brink of working out some rather disturbing issues."  He pauses.  "I've seen him change.  I've seen that thing take hold of him." 

Mr. Bakura is silent, studying the psychologist with calculating eyes.

"If you'll just allow him enough time to really settle down, I'm sure he'll work up the courage to face his demons…Your son has serious mental issues, Mr. Bakura.  You can't keep ignoring them—"

"—I don't like the things you put in his head.  You convince him that his problem is with me.  My son is very stubborn, Takei.  He's thirsty for attention.  He'll do anything for sympathy."

"On the contrary, Mr. Bakura—Ryou has conditioned himself to show no emotion because he doesn't get enough attention.  He shuts himself off from the world."  He pauses again, shaking his head in bemusement.  "But there's something else—something underneath.  It's like a cancer—a cancer of the psyche.  It's eating away at him.  It demands control of him.  It's unlike anything I've ever seen or read about."

"Again you speak of my son as if he were a medical marvel.  That's one of the problems I have with you.  You convince him his condition is special.  There's nothing special about my son—he's just spoiled."

"Oh, but he is a marvel, Mr. Bakura.  If you only could have seen the way he changed while under hypnotism—"

"Hypnosis, sir, is quite frankly one of the biggest scandals of your field—"

"I beg your pardon?"  The doctor is fuming.  "It is a perfectly credible act, and it has revealed an alarming aspect of your son that, up until this point, could have been explained away as pretense.  One cannot lie while under hypnotism—it is irrefutable evidence that there is some darker force at work in your son, and it needs to be addressed.  His mental health is in serious danger."

Mr. Bakura rolls his eyes.  "I don't have the time for this.  We leave for Domino City on Tuesday."  He straightens himself and turns to leave.  "I will not waste anymore hard-earned money on your crackpot allegations."

As the other man walks away, Takei calls after him, "I'll pray to God for your son."

Mr. Bakura stops in his tracks and turns his head to glare at the doctor.

"I fear no one else can help him now."