When he saw her from the rally, he could feel how much energy she had stored within when she dueled Jesse Anderson, to him of what he saw about her, she was like a firecracker going off and then using that energy to help others or cooking her special dish.
Right now, he was dueling Hassleberry, another student who used to have a serious crush on her but she kindly rejected him and now they're friends before he noticed Tsuruno smiling at the duel going on before she had the idea of making a pun.
"I'm starting to think that Hassleberry has a 'bone' to pick with Jim because I'm 'digging' this duel." Tsuruno said as Syrus face palmed at her puns while Jesse was trying not to laugh before Jim had a laughing fit at the terrible puns she made while behind the camera, Viper was just shaking his head at the pun she made.
This was the threat to him?
When the duel was over, Tsuruno tried to catch both guys and it ended up as a doggy pile with two fossil loving geeks. "Ow...if you guys don't want me dead, can you get them off...they're really heavy…" She said trying to talk but her lungs are crushed.
Then during the duel with Viper, Tsuruno didn't look too happy at him.
She was beyond pissed and everyone could feel the temperature rising from her, then she had in both hands, flaming bladed fans, this was the threat that took out the Shadow Raiders and the Society of Light.
And right now, she was beyond pissed because of what they had to go through, when she won the duel, they were sent to another dimension where duel monsters came to life and she had to fight them and then she remembered Yubel, who was Jaden's, her best friend when they were both little kids.
"Y...Yubel...Jaden...had an accident...he didn't survive…" Tsuruno explained what happened to Yubel's previous duelist who then started to spit curses at Tsuruno before she spoke of a will Jaden wrote for Tsuruno.
"He...He left me the cards...and he wanted me to send you into space with the designs he thought of...as a last wish...Yubel…" Tsuruno sobbed as Yubel looked at her before she saw the blank eyes Tsuruno had which shocked the students, she was usually happy and now there was the real face she had hidden all the time.
When they went back, Tsuruno was really depressed and she didn't cook for a while, but when she fused with the rumor of Chelation Land, she began to explain why she has been feeling that way to both Axel and Jim.
A duel monster told them that they had to connect with her heart and try to separate her and the rumor, in the end, it worked out and they stopped the rumor.
Jim held onto her hand as she smiled before they found the others and Tsuruno was happy once again.
(Good ending)