his guard and his goaler
7.
'Do you duel in Link VRAINS?' Yuusaku asked a couple of years later, out of the blue. By then they had started moving in that data world, calling themselves the Knights of Hanoi and searching for those AI that could orchestrate the destruction of humanity.
'No,' Ryoken lied. He carried an old-fashioned duel disk anyway, so the lie was believable. 'Why do you ask? Do you?'
'No,' Yuusaku replied. 'But some people from school do.'
And that was all they talked about, but Ryoken wondered. The data from their underlings, simple duellists who duelled and searched for the Cyverse and collected information for them, suggested a certain duo causing problems on several occasions. Unnamed and Unowned: two entirely unoriginal avatar names and yet they were skilled hackers and duellists and had apparently broken through the rumoured tomb. They'd said it was empty but apparently it wasn't; apparently the eyes of Hanoi had been too blind, because the next time one of that duo appeared, it was armed with the Cyverse deck from the puzzle of that tomb. And now Unknown went by the name Playmaker, emissary for revenge and searching for answers regarding the Lost Incident…
They didn't talk about it further, because that would mean prying open the lid of eight years ago, the lid on the secrets he was keeping from one of his only friends… and that, potentially, Yuusaku was keeping from him as well.
But if they were Playmaker and Revolver, they'd eventually meet on the battlefield.