Normal text is Isis thinking and italic text is Seto thinking.
Affect-ion
Seto Kaiba
Master of your technology
Living for the present
Yet bound to the past—
Inheritor
Of Set's soul;
High Priest.
Isis Ishtar
Master of your superstitions
Born in the present
But living in the past—
Protector
Of some "Pharaoh";
"Gravekeeper."
Stubbornly blind
Even when I show you your past
You turn your head
Rather than face the truth.
You refuse to listen,
Refuse to see;
You mock your past
Though it echoes your present.
Blindly stubborn
Even when I tell you I don't care
You continue to speak of destiny
As though this is "truth."
You refuse to stop,
Refuse to shut up;
You show me my "past"
As if it could explain my present.
Your words
Are always meant to hurt me
(Though they don't)
And I wonder if you really hate me that much
For showing you the truth
But I don't care
Because you need to know
And I must be the one to tell you.
Your actions
Are always meant to embarrass me
(But they fail)
And I wonder if you really scorn me that much
For showing you the truth
But it doesn't matter
Because why should I care
If you're too stupid to accept it?
I meant to win that duel—
I knew I would
For that was the future I had seen.
Everything in that duel happened
As I had seen it
Until you summoned your Dragon
And your destiny overcame mine.
I won that duel—
I knew I would
Because my future is my own.
You dueled very well
Better than I had guessed
But then I summoned my Blue-Eyes
And my strategy beat your "destiny."
How can you be so strong
As to defeat fate?
How can your actions
Give me so much hope?
Of course I was pleased
To have defeated your "fate"
But why was I also glad
To have shown you hope?
When we spoke again
Our conversation
Followed its normal course:
My certainty
Answered by your disdainful insults
Until we spoke of
My brother…
When we spoke again
We exchanged the usual claims
Walking the by-now familiar path:
Your foolish certainty
Countered by my insults
Until the conversation turned
To your brother…
And then something about you changed:
You started when I told you
How much I would have done for Malik
And you looked so uncertain
But you came to the Pharaoh's aid—
You saved my brother.
And then I realized something about you:
I saw that you cared for Malik
Just as much as I cared for Mokuba
And I wanted to help you
So I gave that card to Yuugi—
Did you know I did that for you?
For the second time, your actions
Had given me hope;
Once again
I saw a bright future
In something you did.
Perhaps you are not as cold-hearted
As I had assumed…
Once again, your words
Had reached something inside of me;
For the second time
I heard a truth I believed
In something you said.
Maybe you are not as unlike me
As I had thought…