And so without further adieu, this is the last chapter there is before we get down into the some of the stuff that happens during Selector Spread Wixoss. So to answer your question kineke13, I am definitely thinking of including maybe 2 or 3 more clans, I'm not sure which ones I will include until later on into the story. In the meantime, please enjoy.

REVAMP DATE - 7/04/2016


(Selector Infected Wixoss OST: Daily Life ~ Brasted Piano)

Later that night, after a long trek through the city streets, both Kai and Hitoe eventually arrived outside of the Uemura household, Hitoe's home. During their trek, the two of them had deep thoughts over what had happened in the evening. Kai from finding out he had somehow ended up in a place that he was not familiar with and his old Kagero deck somehow coming back into his possession, only it was adapted to the rules of Wixoss with several changes among it. In addition, he still couldn't help but ponder over how he could see LRIGs like Tama who had somehow come into his possession after looking around the tallest building in the city where unbeknowst to him, until his first meeting with Hitoe and Yuzuki, was the place where everything changed for Kominato Ruko along with her sudden disappearance from the group's social life, seemingly because of Iona after she became the Selector's new LRIG.

Hitoe meanwhile was thinking back to how she and Yuzuki first met Kai and shivered slightly at the thought of how Akira had almost had her at her mercy again. Thinking back over the battle, she couldn't help but admire his bravery in the face of the danger that the Selector Battles held. Deep down though, she still was worried for Ruko, but her spirits were slightly lifted after Kai revealed that Tama was now in his current possession and was willing to help both her and Yuzuki find their lost friend. Yuzuki almost had the exact same thoughts as Hitoe, only she had raised curiousity in Kai's Kagero units, wondering how it was possible that the many creatures among the clan, Dragonic Overlord in particular, could manifest themselves as LRIGs to battle for him. During their trek over to the Uemura household, Yuzuki had asked if she could see the card in order to see if she could communicate with it at this point in time.

Kai had then showed the card to her and her curiousity only got deeper when the card that was shown looked like any other LRIG that did not belong to a Selector with nothing more than a still image and the printed text. And yet despite all that, she could still feel a strange presence from the card that maybe he was aware of. If that was indeed the case, then there was something that he was not telling her or Hitoe for the time being. When the Selector and the boy had eventually arrived outside of the steps to the front door, the Selector turned around to Kai who had Tama's card held out in front of him.

"T... Thank you again Kai," she said.

"Don't worry about it," he replied "I can only hope I haven't caused too much trouble for you arriving home late."

"Everything should be fine," said Yuzuki "I'm sure Hitoe's mom will understand if we keep quiet about the Selector Battles."

Kai nodded in response to clarify that he understood, though he felt that if he was going to keep his word in helping the pair find their friend from the next day and presumably onwards, there was still something that he had to ask them about.

"How will I know where to find you tomorrow?" he asked.

"Don't worry Kai!" called Tama, causing him to turn his turn to the LRIG that he held "If Tama can feel Yuzuki nearby, Kai can find Hitoe no problem!"

"I see..." Kai replied as he then began to turn around to begin walking away.

"See you tomorrow Kai!" called Hitoe.

(End Music)

Kai waved a hand back to say goodbye as she went in through the front door. Once the door had closed, he then turned his attention right back to his current dillema. It was late at night, in a city he was completely unfamiliar with, which meant that finding a place to stay for the night was going to be a challenge at this time. As much as he didn't want to stay out in the open, until he could find a better option tomorrow in the daylight, he had to find someplace to sleep. Before he did so, he took out his mobile phone he had to try and get through to Miwa to let him know of his dillema. But when he attempted to make the call, the only reply he recieved was the number not being in service.

Kai just stood there confused at this very moment. The phone had still displayed a full signal and yet, if anyone knew him better than Aichi, it would have to be Miwa. But the question that was brewing in his head was why was his mobile not picking up on his signal, let alone saying that it was not in service? Did something happen to his friend? Immediately, he then shook his head clear of that thought. Just to be sure of himself, he attempted to call through to Foo Fighter Headquarters. As much as the thought of calling a certain 'accomplice' in this scenario sounded less plausible, especially at this time of night, he had to be sure that he could still contact someone that he knew well. But to his disappointment, that number listed under the name Ren, didn't appear to be in service as well.

This was starting to feel very strange for him. Just why couldn't he remain in contact with the people he knew well whilst he was stranded in a city he knew almost nothing about? Then in a mere few moments, something started to click in the back of his head. Flashing back to when he found that his cards had somehow been altered to adapt to Wixoss, he started to remember something that happened to him earlier that day concerning his sudden arrival, being able to picture what had happened back then.

That's right! When I was walking to Card Capital earlier today among a quiet street, a Vanguard Circle suddenly appeared beneath my feet in a blinding flash. After that, I somehow ended up blacking out. Then I woke up outside of this place, eventually finding out my deck had changed. If this place is not as familiar as I thought, then...

"Is Kai alright?" Tama asked, interrupting his thoughts.

"Yeah," he replied as he looked down to the LRIG "Sleeping outside has not been one of my more favourable ideas, but it will be easier to find a place to stay when it hits daylight tomorrow."

Tama nodded, though she had remained unsure of what to make of this answer. Most of the time at night, her card had always been indoors in Ruko's room back at her apartment, but she never had slept inside her card outdoors. Nonetheless, she yawned loudly as she began to drift off to sleep, being tired out from the long day she had been through. Kai noticed this, staring at her briefly before slipping her card back into his blazer pocket. He then began to walk back to the park, having remembered seeing a bench present there that had previously been occupied by both Yuragi and Mako before Hitoe had bumped into him several hours after his first meeting with Tama.

By the time he reached his destination, the moon was already partway in the sky, indicating that it was already very late into the night and the park was very quiet, not a person or Selector for that manner present in the vicinity. Kai then walked over to the empty bench and lay his back down on it, looking up at the night sky above him and thinking about how the day had played out for him. Much had happened since he arrived in this city and he knew that his first battle with Akira would only be the first step that he would have taken into solving the mystery that was before him.

I don't recall of how I came to be in this very city, now having dragged myself into a conflict beyond most peoples' imagination. But what matters for the moment is to keep my word to Tama and reunite her with Kominato Ruko so I can hopefully find some more answers into these Selector Battles.

Kai stared up at the stars in the sky for a few more moments before he slowly closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.


'The White Room'

"So this Kai Toshiki you speak of Ulith, he is now somehow a participant in the Selector Battles?"

"That is right, Mayu."

Deep inside a mysterious large room with a bright white glow to it, known only to LRIGs and those who became Eternal Girls, a conversation of important matters was already taking place. The room was strange in design, with multiple gate like structures appearing in the walls all around the two people that were in their discussion. Ulith was speaking to someone who was sitting on a large throne, colored in an almost negative like hue. The other being, named "Mayu" was conversing with her over the discussion of the day's recent events, particuarly regarding Kai's arrival and sudden entrance into the Selector Battles. What intrigued Mayu the most was how Tama had managed to end up in his possession and that seemed to partially trouble her.

"More importantly, how the hell was Tama able to escape this place into that boy scum's hands?!" exclaimed Ulith.

Mayu as if to answer her question without speaking summoned a brilliant glow from behind her throne, to Ulith's right. There, right in front of her own eyes was someone shackled to a stone slab about two thirds of the height of Mayu's throne. The person in question was clearly male, evidenced by his weak groan. He wore a white shirt with long sleeves and trousers of the same color. The person had white hair with a green striped mark on his forehead and his arms and legs were fastened to the slab by several locks to keep him restrained.

(Cardfight! Vanguard Unreleased Soundtrack: Raul Serra's Theme)*

"Who the hell is this trash?" Ulith asked.

"The person that aided in Tama's escape," answered Mayu "I'm unsure as to how he arrived in this place, but I have taken away most of his powers as a precaution to prevent him from breaking himself free."

The boy weakly opened his golden yellow eyes, his sight eventually coming back to him as he noticed both Ulith and the one who had imprisoned him sitting on the throne that was in front of him. He could still remember it clearly of how he ended up in this situation in the first place with many questions still going across his head as to why this was in the first place.

Flashback

Earlier, the boy had somehow brought himself over into the 'White Room' that he was now within. Whilst traveling back from the Planet Cray to Earth after dealing with the messenger of Link Joker in a long and somewhat desperate struggle, he somehow heard a pleading cry for escape from someplace else. Deciding to investigate, he teleported himself to the source of the noise that he had heard and that was how he came to be in this situation. Walking around his limited path available to him, he eventually came across Tama, who had been feeling down after being denied the chance to return back to Ruko to sort things out with her.

After Iona had completed her contract to become an Eternal Girl and recieve her wish, to become Ruko's LRIG in the first place, she abruptly disappeared from her original card and ended up back in this very domain. When Mayu held her trapped within one of the gates, she desperately pleaded with her to return back to her former Selector in an attempt to try and talk things over with her. Sadly for Tama, it was to no avail as her hostess had left her on her own with nothing else to say to her. The boy then walked over to the gates that Tama were imprisoned inside and looked down at her, noticing her upset expression.

"What's wrong?" he asked. Tama looked up him, unsure of how to answer.

"Tama wants to go back," she answered, partially sobbing. Something then clicked in the boy's head, now recognizing that this was the voice he had been hearing before he arrived at this place.

"I heard your cries before I arrived here," he said "How did you end up like this?" Before Tama could try and answer his question, she turned and suddenly gasped. The boy turned as well and suddenly saw Mayu before him.

"An intruder," she spoke "You will be dealt with swiftly." Before she could do anything else, the boy suddenly held out his arm to the gates surrounding Tama as the green mark glowed brightly on his forehead, brielfy blinding Mayu in the process. The gates suddenly shattered around Tama as she looked up at the boy.

"Run Tama! Quickly!" he called.

Tama although startled and somewhat confused as to what was happening right now, nodded in compliance with the boy's request and got up to her feet. She quickly made a run for the nearest open passageway that she could find whilst she still had a chance to escape the place that she was imprisoned in. When Mayu had regained her line of sight through the brightness that had previously blinded her, she tried to seal the other gates as fast as she could, preventing the boy from joining Tama in her desperate attempt to escape in the result. But Tama was already gone from the 'White Room' by the time the final gate was sealed, the LRIG having just slipped through the closing gap by just a fraction of a second. Mayu turned and glared at the boy, not pleased with his actions at this very moment.

"Just who are you and why did you imprison her?!" he asked.

Rather answering his question however, she held out a hand in front her as a strange dark aura suddenly appeared and surrounded her entire body. A beam from the dark aura suddenly struck the boy in an instant, almost like it was somehow impaling him. As he fell to the ground, before he completely lost consciousness, he suddenly had a terrifying thought cross his mind.

That power... It can't be... Those were the last thoughts he had before he blacked out. When he reawakened, he found himself shackled to the slab that he was now bound to. Mayu stood in front of him, displeased by the recent events that he caused.

"W... Why is 'that' power with you?!" the boy demanded "Don't you realize you're endangering your entire world with it?!"

"That is not of my concern," replied Mayu "What matters is that I will fix the mess that you just caused." She held out her hand as a dark aura suddenly surrounded the boy, causing him great pain. He suddenly felt even weaker as his power was suddenly being drained over to Mayu.

If this world falls into that 'same' chaos, then I must call apon a strong fighter now!

The mark that was on his forehead suddenly glowed even brighter as it ever had done before, only whilst the light wasn't as bright to blind Mayu, it was enough to make her pause in her action at this moment. When the glow eventually subsided, he passed out again from exhausting himself through the use of whatever strength he had leftover. Unbeknowst to him after he had lost consciousness once again, Mayu had taken the opportunity to drain more of his power.

Present

"I see," murmed Ulith "This boy scum just put the 'system' on the brink of collapse! If Kai reunites that LRIG trash with that Selector scum and boots off her LRIG from her possession, then..."

"That is no longer of any concern," spoke Mayu. The Selector just stared at her in confusion as she looked out to one of the open gateways in the 'White Room'. "I have faith in her abilities as Ruko's new LRIG. She will not fall as easily as you may think." Mayu then turned back to Ulith.

"Ulith, I want you to monitor Kai Toshiki, but do not engage him," she spoke "Unless we are certain he will pose a threat to the 'system'."

Ulith nodded before Mayu opened a portal for her to return back to the world that she had lived within, but at the same time was also not the one that Kai was familiar with. As the portal closed, she glanced back at the boy she had imprisoned who weakly glared at her. He held his head down as he went deep into thought.

Kai Toshiki... So you were the one I ended up summoning... Everything is now... in your hands...

(End Music)


Kai's Dreamscape

In the midst of it all, Kai had somehow found himself within a rather dark environment. The city all around him felt the same as the one he had ended up in earlier in the day. Crimson dark colors were present all around the sky and the buildings themselves looked like they were falling into ruin, creating a very gloomy atmosphere that he now stood within. He looked around to see several shadowy figures rush past him, a majority of them looking human like judging from most of the shapes he saw to say the least. Some of them clashed with one another, evidenced by the sound of what appeared to be weapons, some of which appeared to sound as if they were made of metal.

What caught Kai's attention the most however was what he saw on the backs of a few of the shadows that caught his eyes and for one reason or another, it looked and felt rather horrifyingly familiar. As he looked up to the darkened blood red sky, just above the tallest building in the city which seemed to resemble the building that he had traversed earlier to where he met Tama for the first time, the strange black round object with an aura of dark red radiating from it that he could see there had already all but confirmed his suspicions about what was seemingly going on.

It's them! But how is this...?!

Before Kai could finish processing that thought, he heard a disgusting morphing like noise from behind him. He turned around and saw the monstrousity that was now in front him. Whatever it was that he was seeing, it looked almost exactly like Tama having possessed nearly identical features to Ruko's former LRIG, only she was mutated into whatever this monster was that was now in front of him. The Tama lookalike raised her head and looked directly at Kai with a creepy smile. He could only gasp in horror as whatever he had just seen was advancing swiftly towards him, increasing her speed with her stride that she took.


City Park

Kai's eyes suddenly went wide awake as he shot upwards from the park bench, almost sweating from the experience that he had just witnessed as he briefly palmed over his forehead. He panted heavily before taking several deep breaths to regain his usual composure, feeling somewhat unnerved by what he had experienced at this very moment whilst sleeping on the bench since late into the evening. Eventually, he looked up to see that the sun was already beginning to rise partway into the morning sky with the sound of a few birds chirping to accompany said rise.

A nightmare... he thought But, why do I feel it is some sort of premonition? If that's the case...

His thoughts were interrupted as he suddenly heard a rather loud yawn coming from his blazer pocket. He took out Tama's card and turned it around to face him, just in time to see the LRIG waking up from her long sleep. She rubbed her eyes and stretched out her arms wide before looking over to Kai and blinking for a short moment, upon noticing that his gaze had now fallen upon her now that she had woken up from her slumber.

"Good morning," he spoke.

"Mhm!" she called, The LRIG then suddenly noticed his somewhat concerned expression, having been completely unaware of the nightmare that he had just woken up from. "Did Kai sleep well...?"

"Tama, have you ever had what we call a 'bad dream'?" asked Kai.

"Um... Tama doesn't think so..." she pondered, unsure of what to make from his question and leaving a somewhat awkward silence between the two. "Why does Kai ask?"

"It's nothing," he replied, feeling that she wouldn't quite understand the concept in itself, even from her time around Ruko.

(Cardfight! Vanguard OST: Tadayou Kehai)

For now, he felt unwilling to discuss anything about the earlier nightmare and keep any of the details of what he experienced disclosed from her. Tama though unsure of why he almost felt like this, believed him for the moment. Immediately afterwards, she then beamed a wide smile again to try and cheer him up from his current mood, having little success in doing so. Before the two could think of anything else, they suddenly heard a large growling sound coming from somewhere near them. Kai, having realizing what this was, could only close his eyes in embarassment.

"What is it Kai?" asked Tama.

"It appears my stomach has grown rather hungry since my arrival in this place," he answered, realizing he hadn't had anything to eat since arriving in the city. He then got up from the bench and back onto his feet.

"Wait in my pocket until I have caught up on breakfast," he spoke.

"Mhm!" replied Tama.

Kai nodded in response before slipping her card back into his blazer and leaving the park to head back into the city streets in order to find a place to eat.

One hour later...

By the time that he had managed to calm down his stomach, Kai was wandering around a different part of the city that he didn't get the chance to explore earlier. Thinking over the possibility of why he couldn't contact his friends last night, he was relieved to find that his allowance worked in the same currency as where he came from, otherwise he would have been in serious trouble with very little to do about his situation. This portion of the city was slightly more crowded than it was on the streets he explored yesterday, leading up to that one building where he first discovered the changes to his Kagero deck and where he eventually met Tama for the first time, not knowing about who or what Ruko was until he met Yuzuki and Hitoe.

Lots of people were bustling about from different buildings and malls present in the streets he wandered down and much like the previous day, some of the advertisements that he could see from both the occasional posters and electronic billboards were shown to have been advertising the Wixoss card games, one of which even depicted what appeared to be a girl with fair skin, jet black hair and brown eyes. Unbeknowst to him, this was the body of the real Iona Urazoe that Ulith had been in possession of since the Selector's final battle with Ruko or so it would seem. When Kai eventually came to sit down on a nearby bench for a brief rest, a few minutes later, he held out Tama's card in front of him.

"Can you sense Yuzuki from here?" asked Kai. Tama closed her eyes, went deep into thought for a few moments and then nodded.

"Tama can feel Yuzuki and Hitoe nearby!" she called. Before Kai could get up and begin walking, Tama continued, pointing her hand like a compass arrow for the card. "Right over there!" He looked over the many people around on the streets to see Hitoe among them. He got up from the bench and walked over towards her. Hitoe herself looked over in Kai's direction and saw him coming towards her.

"Hello Kai!" she called. Over from her card, Yuzuki saw him and waved. Kai nodded and held out Tama's card before him.

"Did you two manage to find out anything more about Ruko's whereabouts?" he asked. In response however, both Hitoe and Yuzuki shook their heads.

"Sorry Kai," the Selector replied sadly "We looked around earlier this morning, but we couldn't find her anywhere."

"What's more pressing is that I can't track her at all," Yuzuki interjected "I can only assume that Iona must be somehow blocking her Selector Rights from us and I'm also guessing she somehow knows you have Tama in your hands."

Tama's expression dropped as the LRIG could only let out a sad sigh in response, knowing that from the way things had been playing out so far, they weren't getting any closer to finding Ruko.

"I see," said Kai "Since Iona has recently become a new LRIG for Ruko, it may take some time before her new Selector Rights become present." When he had finished speaking, Yuzuki then looked up at him.

"Kai..." she spoke "I hope this doesn't sound troubling to you or anything and I know we don't want to end up facing one another in a Selector Battles thanks to our truce, but I was wondering if Hitoe and I could quickly take a look at your deck?"

Before Hitoe could protest in response to Yuzuki's question in the event that she would not get on Kai's nerves from such a request, he had already brought out his Kagero deck from his pocket and taken it out of the case.

"Here," he said, handing it over to the Selector.

She fanned through the cards that were present before her, seeing the cards that Kai had used against Akira as well a few others that he had not used in battle yet. Yuzuki looked over the many cards of the deck and pondered deep in thought about what she was now seeing before her eyes. A majority of them seemed strange to say the least and she had a feeling that Kai would know the answers as to why this was. After finishing looking over the cards that were within her viewpoint, the LRIG nodded and motioned for Hitoe to return the deck back to Kai, to which she did so.

(End Music)

"Is something wrong?" he asked.

"Not at all when I think about it," replied Yuzuki "I have noticed you seem to lack a Level 4 LRIG and you don't seem to have any Spells in your deck, but knowing your skill, I don't think it really matters." She paused for a moment to think over something before continuing. "When I looked over at the LRIGs you had, I could feel something from them. It felt like they had the Wixoss factors that both Selectors and their LRIGs pick up on over battles, but at the same time, it felt like they weren't LRIGs at all. Then of course, I noticed that despite being different cards, they all have the same LRIG type, Kagero."

Hitoe and Tama could only look at both Yuzuki and Kai in confusion, not quite getting at what she was trying to say to them, but the cardfighter felt as though she was somewhat putting the pieces together to find the answers that both of them were seeking, albeit from different perspectives. The Selector-turned-LRIG then looked up at him with a serious gaze.

"I will ask again like I did last night," she said "How did you obtain those cards?"

Kai now thinking about the conclusion he came down to last night when he couldn't get in contact with either Miwa or Ren and remembering back as to how he ended up in this unfamiliar city, felt it was finally the time that he explained everything he knew to Tama, Hitoe and Yuzuki.

"This may be difficult for you to believe or to accept, much like myself," he spoke "But this world... is not the one I come from."

Hitoe and Tama gasped whilst Yuzuki could only stare up at him in disbelief. She was finding it hard to believe him from the fact that he was just saying that he came from a different world seemingly out of the blue. But then again, if the concept of other worlds was possible, especially with the existence of the 'White Room' that she and Tama had visited on seperate occasions, maybe Kai was teling the truth.

"Go on," she motioned.

"As for your curiousity about my cards," he continued "You're correct in that they aren't exactly 'LRIGs'. The truth is that they exist from a different game that I am more familiar with."

"What game?" asked Tama.

"Cardfight Vanguard," Kai answered "The cards that were unfamiliar to you represented units from a planet similar to the world I have come from along with this world to some extent. That planet is known as Cray."

To Tama, along with Yuzuki and Hitoe, the answers to the mystery behind his cards were beginning to unravel before them. Now that they were beginning to know more about these 'units' he was mentioning, things were starting to sound more clear to them.

"So... those creatures are from this 'Planet Cray'?" the Selector asked.

"I'm not so sure," replied Yuzuki "I mean, he said his cards represented the units from the planet. I'm not sure if his LRIGs would be the actual creatures... Unless..."

"That's what I was curious about myself," said Kai "Normally in the game, the Cardfighters picture themselves on the surface of Cray as astral spirits in the form of Vanguards as on the surface of the planet. I have been wondering if the same effect somehow ended up being vice-versa for the Kagero units becoming my 'LRIGs'..."

"Then the Wixoss factors must be somehow allowing your units' astral spirits to materialize in their true forms!" she gasped.

Hitoe and Tama were surprised from the conclusion that Yuzuki had drawn up. It was strange enough that Kai had come down to the conclusion that he was from another world entirely, but the fact that his cards were actually were from a different game and the units they represented were summoned from Cray to battle for him was something else to take in altogether. At that point, that was when Tama had a question of her own to ask.

"Kai, what is Kagero?" she asked.

"Kagero is one of the clans of Cray," he answered "And it's one that I'm most familiar with. I have used other clans as well. Royal Paladin, Narukami and..." He then paused as he held his head down before continuing. "One other clan." Tama, Yuzuki and Hitoe were confused. Just what was with his brief pause. Then, Hitoe remembered back to when Kai told them about the desire of pursuing his own wish, regardless of who he hurt to obtain it, eventually coming out of it with regret.

"Does it have something to do with that wish you said you once went after?" she asked.

Kai sighed under his breath and grimaced for a brief moment, having hoped to not have to discuss this subject around them. But given how far Yuzuki had already pushed him into answering her question, he knew that there was no avoiding it and he would have to tell them.

"Yes it does," he said "The clan I used to pursue my desire of becoming the strongest Vanguard Fighter was... Link Joker."

(Cardfight! Vanguard Unreleased Soundtrack: Link Joker Theme)*

As the cardfighter finished his sentence, all the memories he had of wielding the clan came rushing back to him. He clenched his teeth upon recalling everything he had been through in the duration of his stay within the power that he chose to wield, known only as Reverse.

"What's Link Joker?" asked Yuzuki.

"Link Joker... was an evil clan," said Kai "It is the avatar of a supernatural presence known as the Void. It has existed for millions of years, bringing ruin apon dozens of worlds, reducing them to nothingness. I knew from firsthand experience that this clan was one I shouldn't have used, but I let my desire to surpass Aichi and Ren at that time get the better of me. As a result, I ended up killing off the person I used to be before I wielded Link Joker as my own."

Yuzuki having listened closely could see now why he was hesitant to reveal this particular bit of information about himself, especially given what he had done over the course of those events. Thinking back over the past events in her own adventures within the Selector Battles, she remembered that in her efforts to try and get across her true feelings to her brother Kazuki, she had to heavily rely on her former LRIG Hanayo to make her wish come true. And in the end, the overall result was betrayal from the LRIG because of Mayu's dominance over the Selector Battles and how she had governed the rules from within her domain, the White Room.

She could see that she was somewhat in 'the same boat' as Kai as the both of them had gone to great lengths to obtain their desires on their own seperate occasions, only she couldn't just spit out her dillema to anyone for one reason, the only person knowing about this being Ruko herself. Her wish overall would have meant jumping into the boundaries of forbidden love and she knew about the heavy backlash she would end up recieving from other people that would result in both her and Kazuki suffering from this. Focusing her attention back to the group's discussion, Yuzuki decided to worry about that topic for a later time, considering she thought that Hitoe and Kai, or at least one of the two would somehow find out eventually.

"I see," she said "So you've been carrying a heavy burden."

"That's right," replied Kai "If Aichi hadn't brought me to my senses back then, then I'm sure that I wouldn't have stood before you as of now."

"So... what exactly happened when you used Link Joker?" asked Hitoe.

"I traveled across my world," he explained "Reversing Cardfighters as if it meant nothing to me, as long as I would surpass both Aichi and Ren. Link Joker in the game is dangerous due to their nature of locking units to gain more of an advantage on the battlefield. Although your world has its own fair share of chaos with the dark nature of the Selector Battles, Eternal Girls and LRIGs, you should be thankful that evil I made so many people back home experience firsthand has not descended here. I wouldn't want to imagine if the Selectors and LRIGs were to face that power whilst also having to not just worry about losing 3 times or becoming trapped within Mayu's twisted vision."

As a harsh breeze whistled across the place from where Kai and Hitoe were standing, a sudden chill ran down her spine, as well as Yuzuki's. Both the Selector and LRIG almost tensed up from hearing everything that he confessed to in his time alongside Link Joker, having not previously expected the weight of recalling such an event, especially if he was practically the cause of it to have been so great.

Over from her card, Tama could only stare up at him. He had just openly admitted that he once almost destroyed his own world with an evil power to fufill his desire of surpassing this Aichi and Ren that he mentioned. Taking that into thought and thinking back to several occasions she had witnessed with Ruko breaking down over the fact that she was slipping into her secret desire of enjoying the Selector Battles, despite the pain that they brought to anyone else in her path, she couldn't help but wonder if a similar scenario to Kai's was already happening because of Iona's influence as Ruko's new LRIG. She held her head down in worry, the thought of the inevitable having already crossed her mind.

(End Music)

"Yuzuki, Hitoe... Kai doesn't think..." she said.

"No way!" Yuzuki interrupted "Ruko wouldn't enter any Selector Battles unless all of her options had been considered! We can't just give up on her like that!"

"Yeah," said Kai "I gave my word that I would return you back to her and I have no intention on going back on that promise."

Tama looked up at the cardfighter to see that he was serious in what he said and could only give out a large smile with the knowledge that he was going to make sure that she and Ruko were reunited with one another.

"Mhm!" she called, having cheered up now. Kai smiled a little before turning his attention back to Hitoe and Yuzuki.

"Do you know a place where I can find the means to possibly adjust my deck for whatever lies ahead?" he asked.

"I know a place where we can find a way to fix up your deck," answered Yuzuki "I've been there with Ruko and Hitoe before." She then looked up at said Selector. "If you would kindly lead the way there?" she asked. Hitoe nodded and turned to Kai.

"Follow me," she said.

Kai nodded in response before the two set out together into the streets, in search of a place that would be necessary for him to make the necessary modifications to his deck for the challenges that would lie ahead in their search for Ruko. Over from a nearby lampost that was beside from where they were previously standing, Ulith who had been sent back to this world to monitor Kai for Mayu had listened in on every bit of their conversation.

So this boy scum is not from this world. And his LRIGs are actually units from a different planet. How interesting...


And there we go! Hope you've enjoyed reading this chapter and if you've watched enough Vanguard, you'll know exactly who Mayu has imprisoned in the 'White Room'. Just to remind everyone now that from this point onwards, the minimum time I have planned for the updates will come in from either two weeks to a month, else I will post a reason as to why they will be running late. Until then, I'll see you in the next chapter and I've already revealed the name for one of Kai's next units over on the Kagero readjustments list (link in my profile, document is now enabled for you to comment). Don't forget to favourite, follow and/or leave a review!

REVAMP NOTE - Aside from adding additional soundtracks, the only changes are expansions to the chapter's paragraphs and slight alterations in a little bit of Kai's dialogue.

*This first plays in Episode 180 when Raul Serra reveals his background to Naoki.

*This first plays in Episode 127 when Kai and Яeverse Takuto begin their fight.