Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh Vrains...just have a better perspective of it now than I did when I started this fanfiction

This chapter will be...more bizarre than the previous ones but I hope it isn't painful to read through it; I have at least some pride in my works. Thank you for being patient with me and hope you enjoy the third chapter, because we know what those are like in cartoons/anime/and tv shows.


Imagine being able to see the sky and the ground without having to move your head, and imagine a sunset in the sky while a shimmering lights are floating on a rippling lake. This was the kind of tranquility a young hacker felt lying back on a chair with a headset around his forehead while an attractive twentyish woman with pixie short blue hair and green eyes with gray irises was inputting data into a computer with a screen showing Playmaker and his Linkslayer.

Her face looked like a statue while seeing Linkslayer attacking the cyclone duelist, but when its dual blades scratched him depleting the rest of his life points she was livid.

"Come on, Kaito! Countering that attack is such an easy feat! See, I'll do it!"

She moved off her chair and marched to where the duelist was sitting. Then-she removed his helmet and placed it on her head.

She was now on a duel board being attacked by Linkslayer.

"I activate my skill: Wings of Transcendence!" She exclaimed. "When I would take a direct attack I can special summon one wing beast monster up to the number of wing beast monsters in my graveyard. Since I have five I special summon Sirenorca (ATK 2200/1000)."

An aquamarine mermaid with peach face and four tallies all over her face; two on her forehead and one on each cheek, feathery green hair with four green feathery wings, and a transparent white veil around her midriff with a tiara around her waist.

"Now your Linkslayer must attack her."

Linkslayer charged right into the mermaid creating a big bubble from her mouth. The bubble sucked Linkslayer inside where he desperately swung his dual arm blades trying to get free but dissolved into pixels from the crushing weight of the water.

Yusaku: 3600

Since his attack ended his battle phase, it was immediately the cyclone duelists turn. Yusaku may've lost his only monster but he also had Three Strike Barrier facedown. And it would've been useful...if he didn't destroy the continuous spell card.

"I summon Shinobird Crane (ATK 1500)." The humanoid crow showed it's face once again. "I now attack with my crane!"

Shinobird Crane nocked two arrows at Yusaku who could only guard defenselessly against them.

Yusaku: 2100

"Now, Sirenorca, attack Playmaker directly and end this duel!"

The mermaid made a guttural roar before swimming towards Yusaku, lowering her head, and headbutting him off his board. Yusaku was now plummeting towards the city below screaming in terror.

Yusaku: 0

When the duel ended everything around the cyclone duelist just disappeared into code. She watched disappointedly as she didn't get to see the hope of Link Vrains hit the pavement. Instead, she just removed her helmet to see the real lab rat of the experiment lounging on a chair reading a book while doing so. She was peeved.

"You had Playmaker on easy mode and you still couldn't win against him! What do you have to say for yourself?!"

Kaito closed his book and just gazed at her. His response for her was pointing to his back.

"Can you do that thing where you hit me in a flurry on my back like acupuncture? I think it really helps."

She looked at him with furrowed eyebrows and a tinge that usually leads to aneurism in her mind, but she complied with his demand circling behind him and hitting him really fast.

"We've already gone through five decks: Prank Kids, Gravekeeper's, Infernity's, Red Eyes, and now Shinobird's. When are you going to actually put some effort in playing with your deck?"

He was too busy vibrating on the chair to give her a real response. The only way she snapped him out of his relaxation was to get him in an armpit headlock.

"I just don't get any of them!" He cried. "Can't we just go back to a deck that uses ritual summons and tribute summons? Maybe one of those would work for me."

"Moron!" She exclaimed gritting her teeth with that weird buzz saw noise coming out. "We've evolved in Duel Monsters too much to go back to..."

That's when it hit her; a new deck archetype came out that fit that description. She was so deep in thought she let go of her whimpering lab rat.

Just to prove she was right she ran which to Kaito looked like she was flying to her computer seat, somber with people effervescent when it comes to computers, and did a complete web search under the words "Tribute" and "Ritual". She moved through pages faster than something swiping right on a dating carasol before she stopped and scanned a specific page with her eyes.

"I've got it!" She enthused standing upright. "The deck you need is Drytron's!"

She awaited his questions about the deck, but he just went back to lounging in his chair. His behavior really irked her. She sidestepped away from her computer to the right before veering to the left moving behind his chair. Just when he noticed a shadow eclipsing his book with paper instead of screens, she tossed him off the chair where he landed face first with a thump.

While he was writhing in pain in an embarrassing facedown posture, she put on her coat and picked up another for him which she coldly tossed in a way it floated like paper on top of him.

"Put that on or you'll be cold on our way to the mall."


Kaito and Aimi haven't reconciled since he acted brazen and dimwitted doing her test since they never really had a friendship to being with.

Kaito did conform to her rules though: 1. never talk about each other or say hello to each other walking down the streets. 2. the decks were her idea but it was his money that would help her make it. 3. never quit any test even if the outcome is certain; this wasn't a game of Hearts on Trickster Cards where he could just Shoot For The Moon.

Finally, they reached the quaint little card shop with four tables in the back, board games behind the windows, three shelves near the glass counter full of cards that weren't Duel Monster cards, and a spiffy looking elderly man standing in front of binders, sleeves and packs. He noticed Kaito and Aimi the moment they stepped foot.

"Tournaments aren't open until tomorrow. Did you come for packs?"

"Actually, Horio, we would like to look at your binders."

Horio replied with that unfeigned smile he gave customers who knew what they wanted. Although since he was still old he didn't just reach for his heavy binder about the same weight as a vase full of flowers and water by himself; he got his granddaughter working for CO-OP for him. Eri was a cute girl with grape purple hair with a headband on her head, pink sleeveless shirt with black straps on her visible shoulders from her missing collar, teal shorts, and blue eyes.

She was considered a beauty in her school yet whenever she saw Kaito she seemed to be blushing. The way she pushed the binder to him was so slow it was like she wanted to prolong looking at him for as long as she wanted until a certain moody scientist opened the front page, scanning the nine pocket protectors with cards and skimming until she reached the page of light monsters. She was the kind of lady who didn't just grab stuff she didn't want to leave germs on so she pointed to the projectors with cards in them.

"That one! That one! That one! This one! Need the one over there! Please take out that one. That one...eh...why not."

By the time Eri was done pulling out cards a dozen more customers came. There was now a line going and everyone was peeved.

"It's 100 yen for soup today!" One customer shouted.

"Yeah, I told my kid he could go to this place first but now we're going to miss the soup deal!"

Luckily for the enraged customers Eri already finished taking out fifty-five cards and ran them through the cash register.

"Fifty thousand two hundred and sixteen point sixty yen please." She said in a meek tone.

Carrying that amount of cash was just flaunting how much money you have until you lose it. Luckily for the line Kaita had a debit card that could pay that amount with just a tap on the screen. The moment it was paid, Aimi grabbed the cards and walked to one of the four vacant tables. As for Kaito, he did his best to smile at Eri. For a flitting moment she also smiled but then her face return to unsure and timid.

After hearing enough yelling from people in line Kaito left to sit with Aimi who was putting her recently purchased cards in black card protector sleeves she bought with the Shinobird cards the last time they were here. Now, she was going to challenge him with a deck he could never beat.

"A good duelist never plays with a deck they don't know how to use, so I being the better duelist have to walk that small brain of yours through the basics of your archetype. Capeesh?"

"Yes." He said.

She took out her deckbox which was in her coat pocket, cheap paper mats because they could be folded and fit in her pocket unlike those more expensive rubber mats with hot pictures of Duel Monster girls on it, and a calculator with 8080 on it to keep track of both their Life Points.

Kaito lazily shuffled his deck, she shuffled hers very well—they shuffled each other's decks where he split her deck middle on top and top in middle while she shuffled it like his like they were playing Goldfish. When she finished, she rolled a dice.

"Five!" She enthused.

He reached for the dice, but from her pocket she handed him a bottle of disinfectant to rub his hands on.

"Why didn't you ask me to put it on before shuffling your deck?" He asked.

"Because as much as I hate germs, I hate more getting something over my cards. Now rub this on please."

He took a deep breath in before letting the nuzzle spray his hands with disinfectant. Then—he rolled a two.

"I guess I'll start first." She announced. Before just playing a regular game though, she and him took out what looked like 3D glasses but with multiple rectangles over a small yellow rectangle.

After drawing her five cards, she played the first monster:

"I summon Aloof Lupin in Attack Mode (ATK 1700/ DEF 300)."

A fluffy wolf with brown-gray fur on his ridge mixed with fluffy white fur in his underbelly appeared. It's eyes were black with yellow sclera. Between it's ears was an unkempt tuft of his own hair.

"And since he was normal summoned I can banish a monster from my hand which will let me in turn banish a monster of the same type from my deck, so I banish Necroface from my hand to banish...another Necroface from my deck."

Although she didn't play them on her field, Necroface was a porcelain purple doll head with grotesque pink tentacles coming out of several holes in its head and a beating heart replacing it's right eye. She banished two of its copies.

"Now time for the fun part...when Necroface is banished we both banish the top five cards of our decks, but since I banished two that means the number of cards we need to banish is ten."

Like all their playthroughs, she was making him banish cards he never even knew he had...purposefully so he could look at the cards in his deck and think of how to use them, but she also did it for her own advantages.

"When Metaphys Ascension is banished...I can add a Metaphys card from my deck to my hand."

There it was; her big monster. How he loathed it.