After that crazy Duel that resulted in both Sora and me enrolling into You Show Duel School, it was to my surprise that everyone was like 'Hey let's celebrate with ice cream thanks to Yuzu mentioning it.' Her father - or rather the principal of the school - got so excited that I was applying for the time being. I played it off casually as Yuzu smacked him with the paper fan and all of us couldn't help but laugh. Secretly I was laughing at this in my mind. I swear everyone but Niles and Yuzu don't ever get excited whenever ice cream is mention. Coming from a place where it's constantly hot everyday ice cream is one sweet treat that I'll always go for. So, all of us decided to go and get some and boy was our check pretty big afterward. Since I wasn't even sure if my card would work, I had enough cash on hand to pay and only barely made even.
So, Yuzu, Ayu and I were walking back to the school after the whole ordeal minus her father - I think he had to take care of something but I wasn't too sure. In Yuzu's hands was a plastic bag carrying some things she had brought from the ice cream parlor. We were walking down of the rivers of Miami City… yeah, I don't get why this place was called that. I also don't get why it's called Miami City if the weather didn't have the mugginess.
"That was some ice cream, who would have thought that place would serve such delicious ice cream?" My mouth was watering when I recalled the flavor, "I'm definitely hitting that place once I get enough cash to go there."
"Though next time, can either or you remind me that I shouldn't mention my craving for ice cream to everyone?" Yuzu asked us when we all recalled how excited the boys were.
"You got it Yuzu! Maybe we can sneak over that parlor some time by ourselves; a girl's day out!"
Ayu giggled a bit. "I'm more worried some of those weird flavors we were sharing."
"You got that right," I groaned when the scents came back in my head, "Smelt and Peanut alongside whatever other crazy combinations the boys had. Why can't the just stick with the basics if they'd get sick afterward?"
All three of us laughed thinking about some of the boys had to regurgitate their stomachs when they ate that flavor. Niles was outright the best. He tried to keep a straight face until Yuya puked in front of him. That would surely be a photo I'd take in a heartbeat.
"Hey, everybody get down," Yuzu whispered once we heard male students talking going by.
The three of us knelt down and listened to the conversation passing us by.
"I mean, it isn't easy to get over losing to a You Show School Student too easily," The first male voice stated to the other one walking with him, "I've never seen Shingo so fired up."
"You know it, when he gets his hands on Yuya it's not going to be pretty." The second one nodded.
"Oh, it's going to be pretty, pretty devastating for Yuya."
"When you put it that way…" Both boys started to laugh and their voices and footsteps fade away.
The three of us exchanged glances at what they said. Obviously, it wasn't anything good; even I could tell that without even meeting the guy.
"Of course it could get pretty devastating for us too if we don't deliver Shingo's lunch."
"Lunch? The hell it is nearly nighttime!" I exclaimed once we knew they couldn't hear us. Just then both Ayu and I realized Yuzu was running off.
"Hey!" We yelled chasing after her. "Wait for us!"
After following those little goons or henchman of this Shingo guy around town, the three of us ended up at the docks by one of the warehouses a sunset began to take over the sky. We weren't by the doors of whatever warehouse he was making his home base, but we were behind some crates by it.
"What are we doing here Yuzu?" I asked as Ayu seemed really nervous.
"Shouldn't we go and warn Yuya?" Ayu asked, still shaking a bit. While she was worried about Yuzu's safety, I could tell it would be dangerous for her to continue onward.
Yuzu didn't reply as she was still looking at the warehouse. She couldn't possibly be thinking about going in there and fighting this Shingo guy by herself, could she?
"Things could get a little dicey you two," Yuzu handed her bag to Ayu, "I need you both to head back to You Show."
With that, she ran off leaving both of us in shock.
"Hey, wait Yuzu!" Ayu tried to call out. Though it was too late as Yuzu ran away.
"Ayu, I'll go and make sure Yuzu's going to be fine. Can I trust you to go back and tell Yuya about this?" I asked her and to my surprise, she gains confidence and nodded before running off.
I ran over to Yuzu, much to her surprise.
"Lowell, go back with Ayu." Yuzu ordered me with her fists clenched, "I have to return the favor."
"Yuzu, I'm not letting you fight this Shingo guy alone." I replied placing a hand on her shoulder, "If you're planning to help Yuya, I don't think getting utterly destroyed by this guy is going to help you. Though if you're still wanting to duel this guy, then please allow me to assist you. I might not know too much about this guy, but rest assure that I will step in if he tries to do anything sneaky; that goes with his goons."
"Thanks, Lowell," She was relieved and we turned to the warehouse doors, "Ready?"
I nodded as we both opened the warehouse doors and saw the goons from before.
"Chew on this!" Yuzu exclaimed.
The brown-headed yellow-bangs guy stopped after taking a bite of his lunch, so by process of elimination, I had to assume this guy was Shingo as in Yugioh logic having too much of a basic design past 5Ds means you're not important. Geez, guess I forgot how plain Shingo is if I assumed he was a one episode villain.
"We heard what you planning Shingo," Both of walked over to them as Yuzu continued, "How you're looking to get some payback on Yuya. Well, I'm not going to let you!"
Shingo seemed to choke on something and had to cough. For some strange reason, I had to crack a joke of some kind for this buffoon of a leader.
"What's wrong? Bit more off than you can chew as you did against Yuya?" I covered my mouth, "I mean from I heard you're supposed to be the smart one but if you can't even eat that lunch of yours correctly then what's the point? I guess you're not the leader but just babysitter to these fools. Oh on another point, you got some of your pie outside of your mouth; might want to clean that up."
"She has a point," One of the henchmen handed Shingo a napkin to wipe it off.
"Nice one Lowell," Yuzu whispered over to me.
"Thanks." I winked back. "I just can't help myself sometimes."
Shingo then… tried to use his charms while throwing up the napkin like he was in some stage performance. What the hell is up with this guy?
"Alright then, what is it that's got the two of you in such a hissy fit about?" He asked so calmly that it was getting off my nerves.
"You can forget your plans with Yuya!" Yuzu caught him off guard as he broke his cool.
"You're in no position to-"
"Excuse me?! You kidnapped Yuya's friends, took his Pendulum cards and forced him to duel you just to what?" I sliced his sentenced with my outburst. "Get your hands on some stupid cards that you could keep? Please, this has been so overused that I can even predict what that's going to happen!"
"Duel me, right now and right here instead!" Yuzu finished off.
"You're on Yuzu," Shingo's face darkened, "And I'll get to you next!"
"Fine then, let's see what you've got. You ready Yuzu?" I asked.
Each of us got to the "respective" sides of the field and both of us heard the warehouse doors close behind us. Yuzu seemed a bit scared as I did on the interior once everything began darker.
"Aw, what's wrong?" I growled once I heard Shingo taunting us, "You look scared. Want to surrender now? We'll see who's crying foul with this is over!" His anger was present in his voice, "Now let's get dueling!"
To our surprise, we heard screaming behind up, stopping the three of us entirely to look and see what was going on. From the fallen, heavily beaten henchman on the ground, coming from the now open warehouse doors was a strange cloaked figure wear a mask and google of some kind. Due to the shadows, I couldn't really tell his appearance but I knew it was somebody new. He casually strolled in like nothing while footsteps from behind us seemed to indicate the other goons went behind Shingo.
"Oh man, now what?" Shingo asked.
"Hope I'm not interrupting," The masked duelist walked in front of both of us.
"And, um, you are?" Yuzu asked, still in the shocked trance as I was.
Taking a closer look was still hard to even figure out how he looked like, but a sharp pain shot through my head my vision changed. A darken landscape appeared with a burning creature above. Everything returned to normal once again thanks to Shingo speaking up.
"...Can't you see we're in the middle of something? We're about to duel." Shingo pointed out.
Suddenly the masked duelist extended his arm out, revealing a duel disk that activated once it was set in place. It was different compared to any of our duel disks, but something was strangely familiar about this.
"Yes, we are," The masked duelist replied.
Looking at my duel disk, which I quickly pulled out, I found it showing a strange message:
Duel Mode Disabled.
"Hey Yuzu, can Duel Mode be disabled?" I asked her and she looked at me like I was crazy.
"No, what are you even-?!" She gasped seeing mine and quickly pulling out her own, reading the same thing, "Hey, what's going on?"
"Forced Duel Mode Activated. Standby." We turned to face Shingo, seeing that his activated without his consent.
"Is this thing broken?" He asked, looking down at the device.
"Forced Duel Mode…" I thought back for a few moments before something clicked in my mind.
Somehow I had registered that this mode wasn't supposed to activate a similar scene played through my head, the only thing missing was me. It wasn't able to finish as I heard the duel startup, grabbing my attention.
"I'll go first," The masked duelist announced, "I place all five of my cards face down. I end my turn."
Shingo and Yuzu seemed very surprised about this, but I wasn't phased by this as other scene appeared in my mind. A dark dragon obeying its master and anger… rage… death-! I shook my head and looked back to the duel at hand. Ugh, I can't dwell on the show at the moment! And I couldn't help but laugh at Shingo's reaction. He should be a comedian or clown if this keeps up… Maybe I can call him Shingo the Clown! I would have done more if he didn't start laughing like a madman.
"I love it! You come in acting so cool and mysterious and you play a move like that?!" Shingo continued to laugh, "No wonder why you're wearing a mask-!"
"This isn't some amateur move," I commented to myself, getting Yuzu's attention.
"Huh? What do you mean?" She asked.
"You see, when somebody plays move like that, it's like somebody needs to either take damage or activate their cards from the Graveyard by using their effects there," I explained quietly, not wanting Shingo to hear it, "I'm all too familiar when identifying them but as what kind of plan his duel is made to play..."
"Lowell?" We gasped as Shingo sent two of the set cards away, making me gasp.
"Though cards." My vision returned to the similar scene of the show, seeing only now Shingo losing and nearly getting impaled before returning to the present, "Oh, I see what he's playing."
"What could this guy be even-Ah!" We both watched the rest of his set cards go to the Graveyard, "Lowell!"
I rolled my eyes at Shingo's comments that I was drowning out for most of that duel. "Shingo's definitely going to regret sending them to the Graveyard…"
Yuzu and I gasped when we felt the cold rush by us, snapping me out of my thoughts. I shivered, rubbing my arms.
"Huh? Why can we actually feel the cold?" Yuzu asked, "Unless this duel is more real than we thought…"
"He's no Psychic duelist like Akiza in 5Ds," I murmured, "So then his duel disk must be able to bring these monsters to real life and if that's the case…"
"Having second thoughts about this Mr. Mystery?" Shingo asked, "You have no face-down on the field and no monsters to protect your precious life points. In the future, maybe you should let Yuzu fight her own battles."
Yuzu worriedly looked over to the masked duelist while I only glanced. "Look, I hate to agree with Shingo, but he happens to have a point here. Why don't you let me-!"
I grabbed Yuzu's shoulder. "Um, remember our duel disks are currently out of commision at the moment. Besides, he'll be just fine."
Yuzu raised one of her eyebrows. "Um, how so?"
"I hate to interrupt your little moment, but we're in the middle of a duel if you recall," Shingo yelled, "And it was just getting good. Now Mobius, attack Mr. Mystery directly! Maybe then he'll see my point."
Shingo's water monster had its icicles grow and I knew if those spells couldn't activate from the Graveyard then our friend was in big trouble. All I needed to is if those spells could work without being on the field.
"I active the spell card The Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil from my Graveyard!" My worries were washed away once our mysterious duelist activated the spell.
"Alright, I knew it!" I cheered for myself, much to everyone else's surprise and before they started asking a question, I informed them, "Sure they are technical in the Graveyard and by normal rules, their effect can't be activated…"
"Unless you activate that card's effect by declaring a direct attack," He revealed the three monsters in his hand. "Since I have three of these spells in the Graveyard, I can summon three monsters to the field."
From the cards came dark horsemen with weird blue flames about them and were sharing the exact same level. Could he be an XYZ duelist like Niles?!
"I think we may have underestimated this guy," One of the guys said.
"I don't know which is more mysterious: who's underneath the mask or the way he plays," Yuzu mentioned but I knew what kind of user he would be.
An XYZ duelist only needs monsters of the same level if he is to summon his great monsters to the field. Niles was the perfect example of that besides the Overlay Unit issue. Could it have been one of Niles' monster's special ability… or was something else at play here? Either way, I knew I couldn't let my guard down. This duelist might share that same trick and I needed to know just how that happened in our duel.
"Fine, so you got three monsters on the field but it doesn't change a single thing. Do you want to know why?" I could only growl at Shingo's words, "'Cause they aren't going to be there for long."
We watched as the first one of the three was destroyed, though it was thankfully in defense mode so our duelist took no damage.
"When Shadow Veil is destroyed it is banished instead of being placed in the Graveyard," The mysterious duelist explained.
"And that's what is going to happen to the rest of your monsters… in due time of course. But for now, I'll throw a face down and end my turn." Shingo did as he said and ended his turn, "You managed to survive this round but you won't survive the next one."
"You know you can't banish all monsters right Shingo? That's not how the game normally works unless you have a spell or monster effect in play," I pointed out.
"It was a figure of speech!" He yelled back.
"I won't need to; I'm ending this now," the duelist ignored the quick exchange.
"...Say what?" Shingo asked.
"If you don't believe me," He drew a card from his deck, "Just watch. And watch closely because there are better ways to learn the truth about someone than by simply seeing their face."
By simply seeing their face? My mind flashed back to my dueling friend before I returned to the battle; the words weighing heavy on my heart.
"You can learn quite a bit more… by seeing the passion of their play." He spoke as a small light flickered in his eyes.
"Passion of their play?" Shingo seemed to be confused as I was, while his henchmen started laughing and making strange comments.
"Passion of their play." I muttered when I thought back to my duel, "What was my passion there? I don't even recall having a true, real reason for playing the duel beside accepting Sora's offer."
"I Overlay my two Level 4 Phantom Knights in order to build the Overlay Network!" Both Yuzu and I gasped when we saw the network being formed.
"It can't be!" Shingo yelled.
"That summoning, its-" Yuzu got cut off by our mysterious duelist.
"It is like me." The mysterious duelist began, "Cloaked in shadows and relentless in its objective. Only its objective is to destroy. I XYZ Summon Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon!"
Appearing from the darkness, the dragon rose up and cried out. Its sound pierced the air as we felt the vibrations all around us.
Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon: Rank 4 DARK Dragon/XYZ/Effect ATK: 2500 DEF: 2000
"XYZ… Summon?" Yuzu stood stupefied at this play.
Even I was just as awed by seeing this creature before my own eyes. Sure unlike the others Extra Deck Summoning was a luxury but to me, it was just so… different. Though maybe I was using the wrong word. Scratch that; I was just more in awe of the dragon than the actual summoned. Even when Shingo shrugged off the summon, he'd soon regret the trash talk when Dark Rebellion used its effect. Affect effects of his dragon taking off and doing real-life damage inside did send shivers down my spine. Yep, I'm more fearful of it harming myself than the summoning itself.
By the time I wasn't scared of this dragon of his, the Duel was over in his victory and Shingo was pretty much at a loss to his record again. For some odd reason, our mysterious duelist decided to pull off his mask. Revealing his identity to everyone, my mind registered his as Yuto. Oh right, Yuya's XYZ Counterpart. I nearly forgot about him.
"Yuya?" Yuzu questioned as she approached… Yuto? Wait for what!?
"I-it was you-!" Oh dear please don't tell me Shingo and Yuzu can't tell that Yuto isn't Yuya…
The goons quickly carried the losing Duelist out without issue, leaving us three alone. Funny enough, it allowed me to kind of process what was going on. How come… I was the only one who sees Yuto as not Yuya?
Weird. I got to see Yuto unmasked looking at me with something strange about his eyes.
Dark spiky hair and purple bangs wearing that ruin, beaten makeshift attire with the broken goggles. Where did she get Yuya from this?! When our eyes met, I felt something familiar but at the same time those words he said… they were also the words he-!
"Yuya, I don't understand," Yuzu began, our trance broke, "How'd you get here so fast? And why are you all dressed up in disguise?"
Yuto wanted to speak or so it seemed to me. Yet when his eyes dwelled on us, something changed in them. Not sure exactly what it was though. Bewilderment? Joy? Odd… he has no reason to feel this way to me. Or Yuzu for that matter. Suddenly Yuzu's bracelet began to glow, to our surprise. It completely enveloped the room before dying down moments later, making Yuto disappear.
"H-Hey Yuzu, where'd he go?" I asked her.
"No idea. Yuya! Hello? Where did you go?" Yuzu called out.
"Yuzu! Lowell!" We both turned to the warehouse's opening and saw both Yuya and Niles run in.
"There you two are; we were worried sick!" Niles exclaimed, "Don't you know how dangerous that was?"
"Are you both okay?" Yuya asked.
"Yeah we're fine, thanks to Yuya," Yuzu pointed at the tomato-head, much to me shaking my head, "He was here."
I didn't blame Yuya for being confused about this since clearly, that figure wasn't Yuya.
"Uh… what do you mean here?" Yuya asked, "Here when?"
"Nevermind; we need to get back and out of this place," Niles looked at both of us before Yuya grabbed Yuzu to get her out of here.
Just as we were walking out, a thought came to mind about this little event. Things are getting really strange around here.
After that strange bit with Yuto coming to save us, Yuzu was completely absorbed by the confusion of a dimensional counterpart. Not that I'd blame her; if that happened to me I would be the same way… if they looked at least somewhat alike. Yuto and Yuya didn't resemble each other at all - though their eye shape may be the exception. Due to how late it was and where her house was located, it was decided she'd spend the night after contacting her father. Not that I wasn't worried one bit. Her father was very grateful I offered to do so.
Passing by the eventful last night without any worry, we arrived at the apartment without incident and I had Yuzu sleep in the guest room for the night. Even managed to find some pajamas she could borrow. She happily fell asleep in that room once I emerged from a hot shower. At least Yuzu was pretty nice as a guest; I couldn't imagine if I could handle any guys sharing the same space. They'd probably never spend a night at my place as long as I had a say.
Once preparations were done so I could just jump into bed to sleep, the choice of staying up was my own. Not because I was sleeping in too much. All I wanted was to go over a few things I've noticed that go alongside the episodes I've seen and witnessed. Summoning from the Extra Deck here seemed like it was uncommon for the most part: only special snowflakes were able to even perform them. That didn't explain why my deck seemed like a regular Synchro Deck and whether I even could perform the other special summonings besides my Synchro Summoning. Hopefully, this won't be a series where I'm regulated to one method. A girl like me will need her sleep if I'm going to figure out just what's going on here. Maybe in the morning, I could piece things together. A drawing should help calm my mind.
The very next day, I cooked up some breakfast. Rather, I just found some frozen meal and threw them into the microwave and toaster. Still came out edible. Good enough for us to not starve ourselves. Yuzu and I were back at the You Show Duel School. Her father and the others were happy to see us in well health. The whole gang was over with us as they wanted to look through my deck.
"I love your deck theme so much!" Ayu smiled while holding Little Magi Girl in her hands, "To think these cute monsters would be used to Synchro Summon more monsters that are so beautiful."
"Yeah, they're nothing like I've ever seen before," Futoshi continued on holding Bestia Robin, "Well, besides for Niles and his Phantomfeit that is."
"But look at this! It is an actual Tuner monster. And a Synchro monster!" She showed off two of my cards.
With them being so thrilled about seeing my cards, I had the perfect opportunity to get a quick question answered. "So, are Extra Deck monsters uncommon for you guys?"
"Yeah. You either have to be a part of LDS or just be very rich to get them," Yuzu replied. "Up until Yuya's Pendulum Summoning, the only Duelists outside of LDS are professional Entertainment Duelists."
"Really?" So, this world was like Duel Monsters. Only now they got Pendulum Summoning that's to Yuya and whatever power granted that new method to be born. "And that includes Ritual Summoning?"
"Anything from Ritual to XYZ is all but-rare. Pendulum Summoning is exclusive to Yuya." Niles decided to clarify, despite me not asking him.
Huh, now that's interesting. Very much unlike Earth, since we have access to all the summoning methods. At least for online games or fanmade projects. Kind of makes a bit of with the whole dimension split thing. The only problem came was the Ritual Aspect. There wasn't a dimension for that? Then again Ritual is often a forgotten summoning method unless people used something like Nekroz. Guess this is going based on the spin-offs following the original. Best bet at the moment.
Niles scoffed at that, sitting across the room looking at his deck. I didn't really understand this guy as he continued to shuffle and look through his deck. Was this really as special as Yuya's Pendulum Summoning? I had the original spell card that brought me here in my hands at the moment while Yuzu was typing on the computer. From what it was currently, all it was now just had the picture of an egg being cracked open and nothing more. I would like to get answers, but until then I had to deal with whatever came our way.
"Don't forget we don't duel the same way," Niles spoke up, "While I use XYZ monsters, she's only capable of Synchro Summoning."
"What? I know how to use Tribute, XYZ, Fusion and Ritual Summoning! As far as I'm aware you've only used XYZ and nothing else." I retorted back.
"Tribute isn't considered a special summoning technique. Ritual requires a Ritual Monster and a Ritual Spell. Fusion requires a Polymerization card and a Fusion Monster. XYZ require two monsters of the same level and an XYZ monster. None of which you have." Niles pointed out to my Deck.
He wasn't wrong; my Deck only mainly consisted of Tuner monsters with few Synchro monsters. But, the way he phrased it all but offended me. Well, maybe except the Tribute Summoning bit. That was my fault. "I just... don't have the cards to perform the other methods and I only tribute in certain situations!"
"Says the girl who doesn't have a monster over Level four." He hissed back. "Can't Tribute any of your Bestia monsters."
I rolled my eyes, choosing to ignore him and return back to sketching. I had bought myself some proper art materials that weren't a napkin and worn down the pencil. That way I had something other than dueling as a pastime. So I took this chance to sketch Yuto's face. Something to ease my nerves a bit while concentrating on a certain aspect. That change in his eyes; it wasn't normal at all. Neither Yuzu nor I truly spoke in regards to him this morning. An unspoken agreement for the time being.
"Hey, Lowell, who are you drawing?" I flinched a bit, startling somewhat by Futoshi looking over my shoulder. "Hey! It is Yuya!"
Honestly, I hadn't completely finished the sketch entirely. Only got the face completed and was just starting out on Yuto's hair. Resembled Yugi Muto's hair but I was trying to get the proportions right. Weirdly, this sketch was looking quite similar to the Pharaoh. At least a tiny bit. Just now wearing some of the other accessories.
"Not quite. I'm trying to recall the details of the mysterious guy Yuzu and I saw last night." I decided to be honest, returning to finishing up a basic outline of the hair.
"Really? Looks like Yuya to me…" Maybe I should lie a bit to keep things out of line down to a minimum.
"On a second thought, maybe it is. I'll see if I can change some things." At least times, I wished I had colored pencils and not just the grayscale pencils for shading.
"...Been a while since I've seen a person running this card. You run a Magical Cylinder?" My eyes widen at Yuya's voice, holding up the worn down trap in his hand. "And a burnt one?"
"Y-Yeah, but it is also for the sentimental value." I reached over and grabbed the card, finger rubbing onto a slightly burnt edge. "I got it from an old friend of mine. He's the one who got me into dueling in the first place."
I was tempted to just say Yu-Gi-Oh's name and just spill the beans. That didn't happen; I didn't want the intestinal crisis being a fictional character to break any of these guys. Then again, I didn't have to lie too much. Just keep out the major world-breaking bits and half-lying would suffice.
"An old friend?" Now, this even Sora's attention away from the lollipop he was currently devouring.
"Yeah, he moved away when I was younger. We traded some cards before he left - I got a Magical Cylinder from that day before he left. In a way, I guess he's the reason I'm still somewhat active in the game. One day, I hope to meet him again." I divulged some information from them. "I just wish the rest of his cards survived the fire."
"Fire!?" I wasn't expecting everyone to reaction to fire.
"My parents aren't exactly keen on the idea that I like dueling. Almost tried to burn my cards one night so I'd lose interest. The only one to survive from that night was Magical Cylinder because it managed to somehow escape the rest of the flames." I could recall those flames clearly, my teary eyes balling the next morning as the ashes only revealed a single surviving card "The deck I'm currently using was hidden away. Got that after years of secretly buying cards and hiding them from my parents."
"Why were your parents against you dueling?" That seemed to intrigue Sora a lot.
"Never got an answer from my parents. They refuse to even talk about that with me." I shook my head. "They couldn't care less about my other interests. One word of Dueling or even the sight of the cards triggers them. Can't have any friends even text message me about the game. Less my parents decide to check my phone and block them from my life."
I paused, taking it into consideration, not just my parents. "In fact, a bunch of my family has a hatred toward Duelings."
"...Is that you moved away?" Yuya looked up at me and I could see the emotions in his eyes.
I paused, unsure how to answer that question. But with everyone looking at me like sad puppies, I regretfully nodded in agreement.
"...Lowell! I'm sorry-!" I cut Yuya off immediately, finger shushing his lips.
"Mind me switching the tune of today? I don't want to have a pity party for my past living situation! I want to learn how to properly perform in an Action Duel. Just like you did yesterday!" I moved to point at Yuya's chest. "If Yuya's Entertainment Dueling was able to reach my heart, I want that same power to reach the hearts of others. Besides, I'm still a newbie to a lot of things… how about today, we get to teach me what it takes to be an Entertainment Duelist?"
The quick little speech of mine actually worked, the dull mood turning into a happy one at once. There was another reason I did this though. I didn't want to think back to my past. I'm not the same girl like back on Earth. Here, I had a fresh start for the life I wanted. And I wouldn't change this for anything in the world.
Revision 10/20/18
Just a couple of minor tweaks for this Chapter. Also decided to give Lowell a bit of backstory drop. Nothing too deep or anything; just something to add. Will this mean anything in the future? Who knows!? Oh, wait I do. Never mind anything I said before!