"Of all the duels…" Yugi cried as he ran back to his soul room. "Why right now?"
They both waited for this duel ever since the trip to the Domino City museum. Isis predicted the great battle between pharaoh and priest, and now, it was finally coming true. If he won, he would gain a portion of his memory. If he lost, he may never know where he came from.
And that is what made Dark Magician's tragic circumstances even more disturbing.
Yugi also knew his partner would fight his hardest. He would put his entire heart and soul into the duel. And that meant he would rely on his greatest monster.
"I… I can't let that happen…" Yugi whispered. "But I can't let the pharaoh down. He needs to win this duel! But… but not at the cost of the Dark Magician's life!"
Although troubled, Yugi knew what he had to do.
'Yugi?' he could hear the pharaoh's voice inside his heart. He must have sensed his fear. 'Is something the matter?'
"I'm sorry, pharaoh." He sighed. "I know your memories are important to you… but you don't know what you're about to do, and I… I need to stop you from doing something you're going to regret…"
He looked down from his mind, onto the duel. It was already well underway. Both decks had grown smaller, and their respective graveyards had grown larger. Seto Kaiba already had one blue eyes white dragon on the field, and from the contented look on his face, another one was probably waiting in his hand. The pharaoh, on the other hand, currently had no monsters on the field besides a queen's knight in defense mode. But swords of revealing light still had two turns in effect.
'What are you talking about, Aibou?' the pharaoh answered worriedly.
"Pharaoh… I…." He answered quickly, anxiously stumbling over his words. "You need to surrender the duel!"
'Why?' he asked, as he drew the next card. It was the king's knight. He summoned it in defense mode as well, allowing him to draw a jack's knight from his deck. He laid a couple of magic cards, and then ended his turn. From across the table, Kaiba laughed at the pharaoh's pathetic attempt at summoning a weak defense.
"Because if you don't… and you keep playing, we're going to lose something more important to you than the duel! Or… or even your memories!" Yugi shouted. "I'm sorry, pharaoh, but I can't let that happen… You have to listen to me!"