Alright! Chapter 11 is ready in section! Recap: Ryoken visits Kanata in her hospital after she is treated to chemotherapy and she is glad that he is still the good person she knows from childhood, to which Ryoken is not, according to Ryoken himself. Meanwhile, Misaki is panicking because her teacher signs her up to do school community service at the mental hospital, the same mental hospital that Ryoken is in, so Yusaku and Takeru decided to help her out. Ryoken sees them and tries to hide from them by pretending to be working in Chef Opal's kitchen, in which Chef Opal needs an apprentice, but the cat's out of the bed when Yusaku, Ai, and Takeru discovered Ryoken and he tells them about his father's ghost inside his head. Yusaku tries to console him, but Ryoken tells him that he will be fine and tells him, Ai, and Takeru to leave, but Takeru gives Ryoken a really good hard punch in the face for having them go through the Lost Incident 10 years ago, bailing on their duel from episode 84 of VRAINS (But they decided to settle things in episode 115), and for getting Takeru, Aoi, Spectre, Kusanagi, and himself (Along with the rest of the people in Link VRAINS, including Akira and Emma) killed by Lightning and Bowman, leaving Ryoken a black eye on his left eye. Ouch. Oh, and Chef Opal made Ryoken her apprentice, even though Ryoken was only pretending. This time, in this chapter, there will be the slight Datastormshipping moments, in which there will be some Datastormshippers who will be very pleased, so enjoy the next chapter!
DREAM
The blast from the Light Ignis' last attack was powerful that it send Revolver flying through the flower field and knocked him unconscious for a brief moment. He laid there until he heard a voice.
"Revolver! Pull yourself together, Revolver!"
Revolver opens his eyes slightly and he sees Playmaker kneeling down besides him and he and the Dark Ignis are looking at him. Playmaker was giving out a concern look for him.
Revolver gives out a frown because of what happened. "I didn't expect the Light Ignis to destroy itself." He said, very upset and very tired, but then suddenly gives out a smile after saying that. "I let my guard down."
"Revolver! You did well!" The Dark Ignis said, trying to cheer him up. It helped a little bit.
Laying in this flower field brought back some good memories of his childhood and his time with Kanata, before the Lost Incident happened. He really missed those times.
Revolver looks at Playmaker and the Dark Ignis for a moment with the same smile on his face. "When I was young, I'd lay down in a field of flowers and look up at the sky, like how I'm doing now," he explained to them calmly, then he looks back up to the sky. "I'm reminded of those times." And he closed his eyes of his childhood.
Him playing with Kanata, showing her the flower field he had discovered, Kanata playfully turning him into a horse and that he pretended to be a horse as she rode on him through the flower field, laying on the flower field looking up at the sky and how they get super excited about the world and plan to go travel all over the world together when they grow up, all of those happy memories before the Lost Incident even began.
"I had no trouble back then," he said, opening his eyes, "I was just excited about the world that spread before my eyes." After thinking about it, Revolver realizes that this is the first time he had talked about his childhood past in front of Playmaker and the Dark Ignis, but he never mentioned Kanata at all. He guessed he is kind of tired that he kind of forgot about her.
He looked at the young boy and the Ignis one last time, then he feels himself turning into data. It was time.
"I'm leaving before you." He said, then suddenly, he lifted his arm and reaches towards Playmaker. "I leave the rest to you, Playmaker… and Ai." Then he drops his hand to the ground, closed his eyes, and disappears with the same smile on his face.
DREAM ENDED
Ryoken wakes up from his sleep because of that dream. It was morning already. He keeps having that same dream over and over again after the Ignis Warfare has ended, but he never understand why he keeps having that dream of him explaining to Playmaker and the Dark Ignis about his time in the flower field or why he reached his hand towards Playmaker or why he called the Dark Ignis by that dumb name.
He turns his head and sees his ghost father giving him a fatherly smile. The same as always during every morning now. He's kind of getting used to it. "Good morning, son." He said.
Ryoken looks at his ghost father for a moment, then places his arm over his eyes. "Yeah, yeah…"
His ghost father gives him a concern look. "Is something wrong, son? You seem kind of upset."
"I'm fine, father," he told him, "just keep having that same dream over and over again and it still makes me confused."
"I see. A dream that stumps you very much."
Ryoken gives out a tiring sigh and gets out of bed. "Maybe splashing my face with water will help me a bit." He goes to the bathroom, turns on the sink and splashes water on his face. He looks up from the sink and looks at the bathroom mirror. He lift his hand and touches his black eye and winces a bit. "Ugh… How am I supposed to explain to Spectre about the black eye that Soulburner gave me?"
"That was a very nasty punch that young boy gave you. I can understand that he suffered from my experiment 10 years ago, but what is this about bailing on a duel and getting everyone killed?" His ghost father asked.
"Well, Soulburner challenged me to a duel, but I didn't want to because I wanted to team up with Playmaker and the others to fight the Light Ignis, and I don't want to talk about that other part."
"Very well then." And with that, his ghost father disappears back inside Ryoken's head.
After a quick shower and quickly brushing his teeth, because the bathroom is dirty, Ryoken walks out of his bedroom and goes to the lounge where he sees Nobuyuki waving at him.
"Morning, Ryo-Ryo-"
Suddenly, Chef Opal appears and stands in front of Ryoken and behind Nobuyuki, making the two boys surprised by it.
"Apprentice! You are needed in the kitchen immedientlly!" She said, very serious.
Ryoken gives out an annoying sigh. "Chef Opal, we've been over this. I don't want to be your apprentice in cooking. I barely know how to cook."
"No backsies!" She then grabs Ryoken's arm very tight. "We go to kitchen and cook!" And then she drags him to the kitchen, leaving Nobuyuki alone.
"Um… Okay. I'll see you in the cafeteria, I guess…"
Once they are in the kitchen, Chef Opal places Ryoken to stand by the kitchen counter, then she pulls out the chef's hat and places it on his head. "Alright apprentice, I am going to make veggie mush, so I need all of the vegetables in the kitchen you can find. Go go go!"
Ryoken did as Chef Opal said and looks for some vegetables. He found a cucumber, a tomato, asparagus, and some other vegetables in there. He places them on the counter. "Ah. Good apprentice." Chef Opal places them all in one large bowl. "Now, we mash them all!" She grabs a wooden stick, and mashes them in the bowl. Some of the smashed veggie splatter on Ryoken's face and he gags a bit. He moves away from there so he wouldn't get veggies on his face or smell that disgusting food.
He stands there for a while as Chef Opal mashes the veggies into mush, thinking over his dream. Well, he's not sure if that was a dream or if it was a memory. If it was one of his memory after he lost to the Light Ignis, then he would of remembered it right now. So then why would he dream of it all of the sudden if he doesn't remember it?
Soon, Chef Opal is finished smashing the vegetables. "Alright, apprentice, open the window gate!"
Ryoken raises his eyebrow in confusion. "Huh?"
"The iron gate attach to the window and it slides up."
Ryoken looks at the window with the shutters on it. So that what she meant. He goes over there and pulls the shutters up, where all of the mental hospital patients are all waiting, including Tanaka, Nobuyuki, Hirabayashi, Tomo, Osamu, and Chika.
Chef Opal goes to the window where the mental patients are standing with the bowl of veggie mush in her arm and a soup ladle in her hand. "Good morning, my little noochkas! I made veggie mush just for all of you!" All of the patients groaned when she said it.
She pours the veggie mush into each patients' bowls, one by one while Ryoken watches for a bit until his shift is over until lunchtime. Nobuyuki goes up to where Ryoken is standing. "You know, if you cook the food that is really good instead of Opal, then it would of been really good."
"That would be nice, but I'm just an apprentice, according to Chef Opal. Plus I'm not much of a cook. I only make scramble eggs and toast for breakfast and pasta for dinner." He told his friend.
"Doesn't matter if you cook just scramble eggs and toast and pasta, anything is better than veggie mush, meat smoothie, and mushroom surprise."
"You do have a point."
"Apprentice! No talking to the hungry patients!" Chef Opal told him, making the two boys frighten by her loud tone. She pours the veggie mush into Nobuyuki's bowl.
Nobuyuki gags a bit after it was poured. "See you at the table, Ryo-Ryo." And he walks over to the table where Hirabayashi and Chika are sitting.
After giving out the veggie mush to all of the patient, she pours the last bit into a bowl. "Alright, apprentice, you take break until lunchtime. I give you the last veggie mush to munch on." She gives the bowl to Ryoken.
"Gee. Thanks…" He takes the chef hat off his head, then walks out of the kitchen to go to the cafeteria, and goes to the table where Nobuyuki, Hirabayashi, and Chika are sitting and sat down.
"I'm surprised that Chef Opal made you her apprentice, kid." Hirabayashi said. "That basically never happens."
Ryoken makes an annoyed face when Hirabayashi said it. "I try to tell her that I don't want to be her apprentice or cook, but that crazy lady wouldn't listen."
"Then maybe that crazy lady might sign up to this mental hospital and see how she feels when she has to eat her nasty food." Nobuyuki suggested.
The two boys laugh at that idea while Hirabayashi smirked. Chika didn't pay attention on what they said because she was playing on her gaming console.
Soon, instead of eating the veggie mush, Hirabayashi and Nobuyuki talked for a bit while Ryoken is in deep thought about his dream. Nobuyuki notices him being like this. "Hey, Ryo-Ryo, you okay?"
"Huh?" Ryoken snapped out of his deep thoughts and looked at Nobuyuki in confusion. He seems kind of concern about him. "Oh. Sorry, Nobuyuki. I was… just in my thoughts about this dream I have-"
"Dreams you say? That's cool, I'm in!" Tanaka said all of the sudden and is standing there, which kind of frightens Ryoken, Nobuyuki, and Hirabayashi so sudden when Tanaka appeared all of the sudden. Chika looked up from her gaming console when the three were startled, then sees Tanaka as well.
"When the hell did you get here?" Nobuyuki asked, so startled.
"Well, Mizushima, when a mommy and a daddy love each other so much-"
"No! I'm not talking about your parents mistakenly creating you through sex!" He told the idiot blonde man in anger. "I meant why are you here all of the sudden?"
Tanaka pouted for a moment when Nobuyuki interrupt him during his birds and the bees moment, but wipes it off a second. "I was just minding my own business when I overheard you guys a little bit and that's when Kogami said he had a dream last night, so here I am."
Nobuyuki glares at Tanaka for a moment. "So basically, you were stalking us this whole time, right?"
"Maaaybeeee…" Tanaka said, shifting his eyes left and right a bit. Nobuyuki is going to take that as a yes.
"Tanaka, why are you so interested in my dream all of the sudden?" Ryoken asked.
"Whenever people about dreams, either the dreams in sleep or who they want to be in the future, I be interested in what those dreams are. Plus my dream is to become the King of Casinos. Oh wait. That dream already came true."
"No one cares…" Nobuyuki said in annoyance.
"Anyway!" Tanaka pushes Hirabayashi and Chika to end sides of the table so he can sit between them and faces Ryoken. "What is your dream about, Kogami? Is it about you "giving it" to Funakoshi and her sexy busts, then suddenly her cancer spreads over you and you die from it, or was it your white haired friend you were "giving it" to instead?"
Ryoken makes an annoyed face when Tanaka asked him that question. "Okay, first, stop thinking about Kanashi's sensitive parts of her body, you pervert. Second, cancer is not contagious. And third, I am not gay."
"You're right. It was stupid of me to think you're gay, Kogami," Tanaka said, "so I'm gonna say you are bisexual."
Ryoken face palms himself in the face when he said that. "I'm not bisexual either."
"Asexual then?"
"Just ignore him, kid," Hirabayashi told the 18 year old, "it will be a waste of time for him to annoy us."
Ryoken nods in agreement of Hirabayashi's suggestion. "Well, in my dream, I was in my avatar, for this virtual world, and I sort of lost this duel against someone, or something, that is really bad news to me. Then this person, who keeps on bugging me on trying to be my friend and wanting to save me because I saved him from a very bad accident from 10 years ago, kneels on my side. I was laying on a digital flower field, kind of similar to a flower field that I used to go to when I was young, and-"
"Oh! Let me guess. A unicorn showed up and you ride on it and a magical rainbow is formed above your head and pixies and fairies are laughing and giggles all over the place! And you skipped through the flower field and sang a happy little song while you do that and all of other girly stuff you did." Tanaka laughs at the thought of that moment when he said it.
Nobody sitting at the table laughed along with Tanaka. They all just stare at him. Ryoken stares at him with a upset look when Tanaka said those things about his dream. "That's not what happened, Tanaka. Why would say something like that?"
"Oh come on, Kogami! Going to a flower field is for girls! You're a dude. Flowers and dudes don't mix together! Unless you're a girly dude. Are you a girly dude?"
That just made Ryoken more mad. "No. I'm not. I don't do any girly stuff and going to a flower field isn't all unicorns or fairies, or singing, and stuff. I go to the flower field and lay there and watch the sky for a bit. That's it."
"Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it."
Ryoken clutches his hand in anger as Tanaka keeps on mocking him.
"Tanaka, stop it," Nobuyuki told him, "don't try to piss off Ryo-Ryo. You two don't want to get in trouble again like the last time, right?"
Tanaka gulps when Nobuyuki said that. He doesn't care if he gets in trouble again. He just doesn't want to get strangled by Ryoken again.
Ryoken suddenly gets up, his bangs covering his eyes. "Forget it…" He takes the bowl of veggie mush, goes to the trash can, throws the veggie mush in the trash can, and then leaves the cafeteria.
Nobuyuki, Hirabayashi, Tanaka, and Chika watch Ryoken leave. Chika gets up from the table and chases after Ryoken. Nobuyuki glares at Tanaka for a moment. "Nice going."
"What? What did I do?"
Ryoken enters his room, closes the door, and sat on his bed. He buries his face with his hands and sighs in frustration.
His ghost father appears in front of him. "You look very upset, son. Is it because of Tanaka?"
Ryoken lift his face from his hands and looks at his ghost father. "He is such an asshole. He can't just make fun of me just because I go to the flower field when I was young. Maybe it's for the best if I don't tell anyone about my dream with Playmaker and the Dark Ignis in it."
"Maybe your dream is telling you that maybe you want to accept Playmaker's friendship. I'm not sure about the Dark Ignis though, since it might destroy humanity very soon."
"No. That's not it. I refuse to become friends with Playmaker. Or with that stupid Ignis. Even if I continue to have that dream over and over again, I just going to pretend that I don't know about it."
"I see. By the way, when have you started to have that dream?" He asked his son.
"After the Ignis Warfare. When everybody was brought back, including myself. Right before you came and haunted my brain."
"I see, I see. But are you sure you don't want to accept Playmaker's friend-"
"Father… I don't want to talk about this anymore… Just leave me alone…"
There was silence in the room, but after a couple of minutes, his ghost father gave out a sigh. "Alright. I'll leave you in your thoughts, son." And soon, his ghost father disappeared back in Ryoken's mind.
Ryoken places his face back in his hands. He can't take this anymore. His father's ghost still haunting him. Tanaka constantly bullying him like he is still in high school. Chef Opal suddenly hiring him as her apprentice and serving the patients her gross food. Now that dream where he reached towards Playmaker and the Dark Ignis as he dies. When will this nightmare end?
Suddenly, he hears his door opening. He lifted his face up from his hands and sees Chika standing by the door. "If you're here to mock my dream like Tanaka did, then go away. I don't want to talk about it anymore…" He told her, bitterly
Chika doesn't say anything about his dream, she just stares at him for a moment. Then she walks to the bed, sits on it, and then suddenly hugs Ryoken around his waist, surprising him a bit.
Ryoken softens up a bit and looks down at Chika. "You were concern about me when Tanaka started mocking my dream, were you Chika?"
Chika nods her head as a yes. He smiles at the young child, then hugs her back. "Thank you. I need that." Tanaka may be a jerk towards him, but he is glad that he became friends with Nobuyuki, Hirabayashi, and Chika.
Soon lunchtime came and Ryoken is on apprentice duty as Chef Opal cooks meat smoothie with a squishier machine. Soon after lunch was over, including Ryoken's shift, he was sitting in the lounge, along with Nobuyuki, Tomo, who is cuddling Nobuyuki, much annoyance, and Chika while Hirabayashi is trying to fix the TV. Tanaka and Osamu are sitting at the table, playing poker, and Tanaka is on a winning streak. Kamiyama is standing by the door waiting for the community service student, Tanizaki, to come.
The door opens in a sudden rush and Tanizaki comes in. She was panting a lot, so she must of been running. "I'm sorry, Doctor Kamiyama! I have a lot of school work that I had to do in the library, then there was the Health Club, and being the school nurse's assistant! It was really hard! I won't be late again!" She bows down in apology as she said that.
"It's alright, Tanizaki-san, you're not in trouble. It happens to some of the nurses, sometimes," Kamiyama told the female student, "now that you're here, why don't you go ask one of the mental patients if they need any help."
"Y-yes sir!" Tanizaki walks over to where Ryoken, Nobuyuki, Tomo, Chika, and Hirabayashi are at. "Um… Hirabayashi-san, Mizushima-kun, Ohno-san, Etsuko-chan, Kogami-kun? Is there anything you need? I can go do it for you."
"No. I think we're okay, Tanizaki." Ryoken told her.
"Oh…" Tanizaki looks down at the floor, looking very upset.
"Hey, Tanizaki," Tanaka called out to her, which made her turn and looked at him, "if you want to do something useful, then you can start by fixing the TV."
"Tanaka! You can't just force the poor girl to fix the TV! We can handle it ourselves!" Nobuyuki told the blonde man in anger.
"I-it's okay. I'm sure I can fix the TV with some wires." Tanizaki said, kind of a little nervous.
"Actually, you just have to move the TV antennas to get the picture screen back on." Tanaka told her.
"Oh. Well, that's kind of easy to do." Tanizaki smiled in relief, then walks over to the TV.
"When is Kamiyama going to call an actual TV repair man?" Hirabayashi asked, then she walks over to the couch and sits down.
Tanizaki begins to move the antennas on the TV to get the picture up. Chika gets a little bored, so she gets off the couch and walks to her home to play her video games.
The same nurse with the dead-pin face comes inside and walks up to Ryoken. "Kogami, you have a visitor who is here to see you."
Ryoken raises his eyebrow in confusion. 'It could be Spectre who is here to visit me. Or Kanashi.' He thought to himself. He gets up from the couch and goes see his visitor.
Ryoken stops for a moment and is surprised on who his visitor is, and it's not Spectre or Kanashi. His visitor is actually Playmaker. Why is he here?
Playmaker turns and looks at Ryoken, and he gives him a smile. "Hi Revolver."
Ryoken didn't say anything at all. He just stares at Playmaker in confusion.
"Hiya, Revolver-chan!" Oh great… The Dark Ignis is here too. Well, it's inside Playmaker's duel disk, so of course it will be sticking by his side. When is he going to leave or at least like Ryoken kill that stupid Ignis?
"Why are you here?" He asked, he specifically told him to leave him alone, didn't he?
"Cause I want to be here just to visit you." He said, still smiling at him.
He wanted to be here just to visit him? That's not an answer, that's just desperately trying to comfort him.
He sees Playmaker taking off his backpack, and then pulls something out of it. In Playmaker's hand was a small bag. "What's in it?" He asked.
"Some makeup kit."
Ryoken scuffs in annoyance. First Chef Opal hiring him to be her apprentice, then Tanaka mocking him, and now this? "So basically, you came here to torment me by putting makeup on me? Didn't I suffer enough?"
"It's for your black eye," Playmaker told him, then he walks over to a empty table and sat down on it, "come over here."
Ryoken does what he said and sat down at the table. Playmaker pulls some of that rubbing stuff that woman put on their face, dips a tiny bit on his fingers, and rubs the stuff on Ryoken's black eye. Ryoken winces in pain because of his black eye. "Hold still." Playmaker said. And Ryoken did what he said as he hold still, trying not to wince in pain again.
"I'm sorry about Takeru punching you yesterday. He told this one time that if he were to ever meet you in real life, he would punch you pretty hard. I think he still hasn't gotten over the Lost Incident yet."
"Why are you apologizing for what Soulburner did? I deserve it anyway. For not making my move in our duel, for getting him and the others almost killed. He had every right to punch me. And, even if he hasn't gotten over the incident, I still have every right to get punched."
Playmaker didn't argue back when Ryoken deserved to be punched by Soulburner, he just keeps putting that stuff on his black eye.
"You know, Revolver-chan, I don't you ever gotten over the incident like Yusaku-chan did. When do you think you'll get over it?" The Dark Ignis asked, curious.
"When I finally kill you." He said, glaring at the Ignis.
The Dark Ignis gulps in fear when he said that. "I'm just gonna… go back inside the duel disk now…" And so it did.
"Okay. I'm done." Playmaker puts that stuff away and pulls out a pocket mirror from the small bag. Ryoken looks into it and sees his face doesn't have a black eye anymore. "Wow. It's like Soulburner punching me in the eye didn't even happened." Ryoken said as he touches his left eye where the black mark used to be. "Where did you learn how to do it?"
"I used to get bullied a lot when I was a kid at school, so my mom put some her make on my bruises so they wouldn't be shown. She always took care of me, before… she died."
"Your mom died?" Ryoken raises an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Yeah. She committed suicide by hanging herself after my step-father left the city and my little sister was sent away."
Ryoken's eyes widen of what Playmaker just said. "Wait. Little sister?" He couldn't mean…
"Well, technically, she's actually my half-sister. I was actually born from a different father, who left my mom when she was in high school and then she met my step-father and lived with him after my grandparents kicked her out of her home, and then my sister came along, and well, the rest you know. After the Lost Incident, my mom send me to therapy for a bit to help me handle my PTSD, and then a few years came and my sister was acting weird, so my step-father send her away somewhere, I don't remember where exactly, and then he left town, which made my mom very sad and depressed, and then she hanged herself and I was all alone. Well, not anymore. I build Roboppy when I was 13 years old so I can have some company."
He knew it! Chika's half-brother. And Playmaker's little sister. They are one and the same! And worst of it all, Playmaker doesn't even know that Chika is in the same mental hospital that Ryoken is in right now! Not only is the universe punishing him, but it is slightly punishing Playmaker as well.
Playmaker puts the small bag away, and then pulls out a deck of cards, but these aren't any ordinary cards, but Duel Monster cards. "Do you feel like playing for a bit?"
Ryoken stares at this deck for a moment. "You do realize that Link VRAINS is closed, right?"
"I do. But I thought we can duel just for fun. No duel disks, no speed duels, no master duels, no Link VRAINS. Just regular old dueling for fun."
Ryoken keeps on staring at the deck, then he looks at Playmaker. It's been a long time since he played Duel Monsters for fun. So, he gives him a nod as a yes, which doesn't surprise Playmaker at all, he just smiles.
Ryoken and Playmaker started their friendly duel on the floor since the table they were sitting on was round and the mat they are using was squared, but they didn't mind sitting on the floor. Playmaker uses a notepad to calculate their life points. So far, Ryoken only has 2400 while Playmaker has 3000. Ryoken was using his usual Topologic deck while Playmaker uses a bogus deck of his to keep his Link VRAINS identity in secret.
As Playmaker sets his monster down in attack mode, he notices a flower bracelet on Ryoken's wrist and recognizes it. "Bluebells?"
"Huh?" Ryoken looks up in confusion.
"The flower bracelet you're wearing on your wrist. It's a bluebell, isn't it?"
Ryoken looks down to his wrist with the Bluebell bracelet that Kanashi gave him yesterday after her chemo treatment is over. "Oh. Yeah. It is. An old of mine gave it to me yesterday. Bluebells are my favorite flower type."
Playmaker smiles for a bit. "I see. I can understand why Lightning created a flower field in Mirror Link VRAINS just for you when you and him dueled. Plus, you did go to the flower field when you were young."
Ryoken raises an eyebrow in confusion when Playmaker said that. He never told him about him going to the flower field. "How did you know about that?"
"You told me after Lightning's last attack. You told me and Ai that you used to go to the flower field when you were young and you looked up to the sky and said that you didn't have any trouble back then and you were always excited about the world."
The Dark Ignis comes out of Playmaker's duel disk cautiously. "And you called me by my name! So I figured you liked me now!"
Ryoken looks down at the floor and is very confused of what Playmaker and the Dark Ignis said. "So… that dream I keep having over and over again, that actually happened?"
Now it's Playmaker's turn to get confused. "Dream? What dream?"
"After the Ignis Warfare, I keep having these dreams of when you rushed over my side and kneeled beside me and then I told you about how I used to go to the flower field when I was young, and I reached towards you as I'm being turned into data and then I called the Dark Ignis by it's stupid name-"
"Hey! My name isn't stupid! It's very awesome!" The Dark Ignis interrupted for a moment, then Ryoken gives it the death glare, which frightens the Ignis a lot. "Uh… Back to the duel disk!" And so it did.
"Well, anyway, I keep on having this dream every night now. Even when my late father came back and haunts me, I still have those dreams, and I never understand why."
Playmaker looks at Ryoken with a concern look on his face for a moment. "Revolver, do you really… not remember what happened when you… died?" He asked, hesitated when he was about to say "died."
"No. I don't. All I remember is when the Light Ignis pulled out it's move to destroy us and I felt myself turn into data, and then later…"
FLASHBACK
"Revolver-sama? Wake up!" He heard a voice calling out to him, so Revolver slowly opened his eyes and sees Spectre standing there, giving out a concern look.
"Spectre…?" His voice was very tiring. Spectre gives out a sigh of relief. Revolver slowly gets up a bit. "What happened?"
"We were all absorbed by the Light Ignis after we were all defeated, but Playmaker must of stop Bowman and brought us all back." Spectre explained to his leader and friend.
Revolver's eyes widen slightly when Spectre said that. "Playmaker?" He turns his head and sees Playmaker down there, along with Soulburner and Blue Maiden, who were also brought back as well. Then Akira Zaizen and Ghost Girl run towards them.
Revolver keeps on staring at Playmaker for a moment, but then gives out a grin of respect. "Well done, Playmaker."
FLASHBACK ENDED
"After everything was settled in Link VRAINS, me and Spectre logged out immediately before anyone saw us and, well, you know the rest." Playmaker nods in reply. "But, that moment at the flower field, where I told you and the Dark Ignis about my time there…" Ryoken looks down, looking very upset. "I thought it was just a dream…"
"It's alright." Playmaker said with a small smile, which Ryoken looks up and looks at him. "I'm glad I got to tell you about it. And talking about your past, it means I'm getting to know you better. Well, expect the part where you want to kill Ai."
Ryoken stays silent for a moment, but then chuckles a bit.
They resume with their duel and after a couple of minutes later, Playmaker calculated his life points. "Huh. What do you know, Revolver?" He picks up the notepad and shows it to Ryoken. "For the first time, you actually beat me."
Ryoken looks at the notepad. He's right. He did actually beat him. But it's just an ordinary duel. In Link VRAINS, Playmaker would beat Revolver in about 4 turns.
Maybe having Playmaker visiting him for a bit for Duel Monsters won't be so bad. It will be like 10 years ago when they played Duel Monsters when they were kids, before his father even started the Lost Incident.
"Yay! I got the picture on!" Ryoken heard Tanizaki shout in excitement, turns his head around to face the TV. It's now showing the news. He gets up from the floor and goes to the TV and watches it.
The news reports the 5th anniversary of the death of a young girl who died 5 years ago. She has short raven hair and sky blue eyes. The clothes she is wearing is a Den City Academy girls uniform. Instantly, Ryoken recognizes this girl.
Suddenly, Ryoken's whole body starts to shake badly and he is breathing rapidly. Then tears suddenly formed in the corner of his eyes. Everybody around him saw this and they all get concerned about it.
"Hey, Ryo-Ryo? You okay?"
"Kid? You alright?"
"Ryoken?"
"What's wrong, Kogami-kun?!"
All of the voices are surrounding him and he covers his ears to not hear them at all. And then, his vision goes black as he is lost in his own world. A world full of darkness…
Yusaku sees Revolver acting up for no reason at all and that concerns him a lot.
"Ryo-Ryo? You okay?" The man with dark green hair asked very concern.
"Kid? You alright?" The woman with long greenish blonde hair asked, who is also concern about Revolver.
"Ryoken?" A girl around Revolver's age with dark purple hair tied up in a ponytail with a red ribbon called out his real name.
"What's wrong, Kogami-kun?!" Misaki asked as she panics why he is acting like this.
Yusaku then sees Revolver covering his ears, as if he doesn't want to hear these people.
Ai comes out of Yusaku's duel disk, looking a bit worried as well. "What's going on with Revolver? He's acting like… not himself."
"I don't know…" He can't just stand there and do nothing. He has to do something. So, Yusaku walks towards Ryoken. "Re-" He stops for a moment, forgetting that there are people in the mental hospital. He doesn't want to give away Revolver's avatar identity. "Kogami-san? Are you… okay?" He reaches out his hand and touches Revolver's shoulder.
Suddenly, Revolver pushes Yusaku down to the floor, making all the mental patients and Misaki startled he did that.
"Ryo-Ryo!"
"What the hell?!"
"Eeeek!"
"Whoa!"
Kamiyama came in the room. "What's going on here?" He asked.
"New kid is acting nuts!" The man with blonde slick hair shouted as he is pointing at Revolver.
"Kogami-san?" Kamiyama rushes over to Revolver and places his hands on his shoulders. "What's wrong? Why are you like this?"
Revolver didn't say anything. He keeps on breathing rapidly in panic.
Kamiyama pulls something out of his coat. It was a booster shot. He carefully puts it on Revolver's arm and pushes the backside down. Then suddenly, Revolver's breathing slows down and he suddenly becomes drowsy.
Kamiyama grabs hold of Revolver. "It's alright. He's fine. Just something to put him to sleep. I'll be taking him back to his room." He turns to look at Yusaku. "Fujiki-kun, I'm sorry you had to see that. I think it's best if you went home for today. Come back until Kogami-san is stable, okay?"
Yusaku nods his head and Kamiyama takes Revolver back to his room. Yusaku gets up from the floor and picks up all of the stuff from the floor.
"Are you okay, Yusaku?" Ai asked with a worried tone in his voice.
"Yeah. I'm fine," he told his partner, "sorry that I made you worry."
"Um… Fujiki-kun?" Yusaku turns around when his name was called and looks at Misaki, who is frighten of what just happened. "D-do you know why Kogami-kun was acting like that?"
Honestly, he has no idea why Revolver acted like that. It was the first time Yusaku had seen the Knight of Hanoi leader, Revolver, just panic like that. "No. I don't know why he was acting like that."
"Oh…" She looks down at the floor for a moment before looking back at Yusaku. "Do you know Kogami-kun very well? Or did you just met him yesterday when you and Homura-san helped me out?"
Of course Yusaku knows Revolver. He is the leader of the Knights of Hanoi. He is Dr. Kiyoshi Kogami's son. He is the person who saved him 10 years ago. But he can't just say it to Misaki. She'll just panic and faint. "Kogami-san is a customer at my friend's hotdog truck, Cafe Nagi. I often see him a lot."
"Oh. I see. Well, I hope Kogami-kun feels better tomorrow."
"Yeah. Me too." He hoped Revolver will feel better. He doesn't know why that happened. He picks up his backpack and puts it on him. "I'll see you at school, Tanizaki."
"Okay. See you tomorrow, Fujiki-kun."
Soon, Yusaku leaves the hospital.
"Revolver pushed you?" Kusanagi was shocked when Yusaku said that to him and Takeru. Yusaku had just arrive to the Cafe Nagi and tells his friends of what happened at the mental hospital.
"Yeah. It was weird that he is acting like that. I never seen this side of him before." Yusaku looks down at the table, very sad by it. He is very worried about Revolver.
"Were you hurt?"
"No. I'm fine, Kusanagi-san. Don't worry."
Takeru gives Yusaku a confusing look. "I still don't understand why you went to visit Revolver in the first place."
"Well, I feel bad for him. Having a mental illness like that is serious, so I thought visiting him and playing Duel Monsters would cheer him up. Wouldn't you do the same as well, Takeru?"
Takeru makes an angry face. "No way! He waited until 6 months to call the cops to get us out of that facility, he didn't do anything in our duel, which resulted in a no result, and he gets us all killed in Mirror Link VRAINS! Not to mention, he sees the ghost of the same guy who tortured us 10 years ago!"
"Uh… I think that's a bit too harsh on Revolver-chan, Takeru." Ai told the teen.
"I don't care!"
"Takeru, calm down." Yusaku told his friend. Takeru looks at Yusaku, then takes a deep breath as he calmed down for a bit. "But still, I don't know why Revolver was acting like that…"
"Are you talking about Ryoken-sama's breakdown?" They heard a familiar voice and they turned their heads around and sees a man with white hair and blue eyes and he is wearing a fancy attire walking up towards them.
"You're… Spectre."
Spectre gives out a smile and bows to the boys. "It is an honor to meet you in the real world, Playmaker. Oh and of course, Soulburner too."
"Wait. You didn't plan on meeting us in real life?" Ai asked in confusion.
"Ryoken-sama told us not to come near you in the real world and we has what we told him, but with him in the mental hospital for his illness, I am temporary in charge until he is cured."
"That… kind of makes sense."
"Why are you here, Spectre?" Yusaku asked the man.
"I saw the news and they talked about the 5th anniversary of Kaede Tachibana." Spectre explained.
Takeru raises his eyebrow. "Kaede Tachibana?"
"I seen pictures of her in the halls as a memory of her," Yusaku said, "I never met her, but she went to our school 5 years ago before her death."
"Very clever, Playmaker. I'm impressed that you saw those pictures at your school." Spectre said, with a grin.
"Okay, but what does this have to do with Revolver?" Takeru is more confused than ever.
"You see, Kaede Tachibana was known as Razor when Link VRAINS was first introduced, and she was apart of this group that tracks down sneaky hackers and stops them. Ryoken-sama was apart of that group too, before the Knights of Hanoi were created."
Yusaku is surprised to hear that. "He was?"
"Yes. Since you are all are interested, let me tell you all how Ryoken-sama is how he is now."
And so, the boys and the Ignis all listen in to what Spectre is about tell about Revolver's past 5 years ago and Kaede Tachibana.
And that will conclude Chapter 11. And soon I will start Chapter 12 of Father Thy Blood, but this time, it will take place 5 years ago, before Ryoken formed the Knights of Hanoi, before he is called Revolver, he was once called Mystery, and how he grew to hate AIs. So, I will see you soon in Chapter 12.
BTW, REVOLVER'S VISOR BROKE! Just seeing it break at the end of episode 116 and him smiling gracefully as he loses the duel to Soulburner just warms my heart! That means there is still hope for my baby Revolver to have a bright future and for him to accept Yusaku's friendship! I just wish VRAINS would last longer for Spring 2020 instead of it being early!