"NO!" Yugi shouted, banging on the soul room wall. "Not that card!"
The pharaoh had already drawn the dark magician into his hand, even as Yugi was speaking to him.
'Aibou, what is going on?'
"The dark magician!" Yugi shouted, tears streaming down his face. "If you play that card… He'll… he'll…"
The pharaoh paused.
'Yugi, I have the Book of Sacred Arts magic card on the field, as well as Mage Power.' He added. 'Swords of revealing light ends at the end of this turn. It is by the heart of the cards that I drew my most valuable card.'
"And that's why you can't play it!" Yugi argued.
He stared at the table. Kaiba now had two Blue Eyes White Dragons on his field. None of the pharaoh's knights could possibly stand up to its awesome power. He hated to think what injuries would befall them with one blast from the powerful dragon.
"Can't you feel his pain?" he whispered, visions from the Graveyard still haunting him.
'Yugi…'
Yugi could hear Kaiba shouting in the background. He was yelling at the pharaoh to get on with it, to make his move, that he didn't have all day…
"…Pharaoh… Can't you feel his pain?"
The pharaoh held the card of the dark magician in his right hand. The image on the card held such power, but he still didn't understand why. In the back of his mind, he could hear a voice, although it was extremely weak. – 'Pharaoh, my soul is your eternal servant.'
Suddenly, a river of visions flooded through the pharaoh's mind: A loyal priest, bowing at the throne. A noble friend who pushed a young prince out of the way of a deadly cobra. A powerful magician, standing firm against an onslaught of mind-devouring spirits, facing a man that looked like he could have been related to Ryou Bakura. A long lost spell, that a master spirit sorcerer can only cast once, and a massive axe tearing that loyal priest apart.
"Pharaoh! No!"
The pharaoh blinked, mystified by the strange visions. They seemed so familiar, and yet, so distant at the same time.
When he finally regained his senses, he looked down at the table. Somehow, without realizing it, he had set the dark magician in face-up attack mode, equipping him with the spell cards as planned. He played the card his partner had told him not to.
'Aibou…' he whispered. The visions stung his heart. And for the first time, he could feel the pain. He could feel it more strongly than any pain he'd ever felt before. 'What did I just do?'
Yugi rubbed his eyes, the tears burning with just as much fervor.
"… You… you…"
And before Yugi could finish, Kaiba began his turn.
With the swords of revealing light removed from play, Seto Kaiba drew his first card. His laughter was only a devious prelude of what was to come. He played a third Blue Eyes White Dragon on the field, and then merged them into one monster with Polymerization.
The dark magician was strong enough to stand before one dragon. But even with the spell cards behind it, it was not strong enough to stand up to the force of the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
Without even a moment of hesitation, Kaiba attacked, easily defeating the coveted dark magician card. The move was over before it even began.
"… No…" Yugi gasped, crying. His fists banged into the wall, shaking his fragile mind. "No…"
'Aibou…'
The visions of the priest grew more intense, until the pharaoh could no longer even hear his partner crying behind the soul room wall.
"You just… killed the Dark Magician."
He did not need to hear Yugi, though. Visions of inside the Deck assaulted him as well. For the first time, he saw everything… and he remembered.