For fifteen years, I've been trapped in that persona…if I wanted to, I could write an entire book from another's perspective on all the crappy things that 'I' did. Heh, I'd probably get an award for most humorous story.

I can't say that everything was a pain in the ass, heck most of it was pretty good. Heh, I'll admit that it was an interesting time to watch the academy...especially the students.

Hmm? You want to know what I am exactly? Well…that's actually a good question.

You could call me a second spirit, maybe a hidden soul…

…but how about you call me something that has to do with my new title?

A demon.

What's that? You don't believe that I'm a demon? So does the guy I'm currently facing…but we'll see how long it takes to change both yours and his tune.

There are two kinds of people in this world of ours; those who fight fear and those fight out of fear! We'll soon see which of us is which!

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Chapter 37

Charging Wrath

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Was it all a dream?

No, it couldn't have been that real, and it wouldn't explain the mysterious crack in the dorm room wall. And yet, there was something wrong with this entire scene. Something that was bugging Yae when she was watching 'Garu' eat his breakfast.

This stare of course didn't go unnoticed by the now red haired duelist, "…Yae, may I ask why exactly you're starring at me?"

"Uh, oh well," Yae's face went as red as the ninja duelist's hair when she realize that 'Garu' had caught her staring at him. "I was just wondering about well…"

"Go on," 'Garu' chuckled resting his head on his hand, his face having a large grin on it.

"Well…why exactly did you change so much last night?" Yae asked bluntly earning herself a raised eyebrow from 'Garu'.

Not only had 'Garu's hair changed, but so did his clothes this morning. He was dressed in a black vest with a red trim to it (that was made out of a spare uniform jacket) while underneath it was a black, baggy shirt with matching pants. Wrapped around his waist and neck were a pair of white cloths with black tassels on them that moved as 'Garu' looked down at the attire. "What? I think it stands out."

"Yeah, but, why the red hair?" Yae pointed out gesturing towards the changed duelist's hair, earning a confused look from the youth once more.

"Well…there are two kinds of people in the world, Yae," 'Garu' chuckled rubbing the back of his head with a small smirk on his face. "Those who stay left behind in the past and those who run to the future! I'd like to think that I run to the future."

Yae sighed, she honestly couldn't believe that this was Garu she was talking to, although it seemed like dying his hair would be something that he'd do…but, even though the face was same, she couldn't believe that it was him. There was something, but, it was something about him that she couldn't put her finger on…

'Garu' placed the empty bowl he was eating from on the table with a slightly loud slam, surprisingly; 'Garu' had simply gotten a single bowl of cereal that morning. "Anyway, if this interrogation if over, I have someone I have to meet. So I'll see ya later!"

"Um…yeah, sure," Yae sighed lowering her head slightly, still drained from last night.

'Garu' made his way out of the red dorm, his arms stretched in the air as he took in a long, deep breath of fresh air into his lungs. "Ah, what a day, what a day!"

"…about time you made it out of there," A cold, yet suave voice stated getting 'Garu' to look to the side. Standing at the entrance was none other than Talo himself, only he was reading a book that had a strange title to it that 'Garu' couldn't see. "I know spending time with the ladies is important, but still…"

"Heh, hey, you don't have to keep up a front with 'friends'," 'Garu' retorted wagging his finger at Talo. It was true, even though the ritual last night was successful, and Lucian was able to pull the wool over everyone who wasn't a Saint of Sin's eyes, there would be that memory, only it would be a dream to them.

But that still didn't mean that 'Garu' didn't have to keep up this façade that he was the same as before, even if his hair and style did change.

"Whatever," Talo sighed, snapping the book shut. Talo didn't want to be the one to get the newest addition to the Saints, but this was a non negotiable agreement that had to be held. Densui wasn't permitted near 'Garu', at least not at the Red Dorm thanks to the drunken duelist's actions earlier in the year; it would cast too much suspicion on the two.

As for Fomalhaut, as Pride, he didn't want anything to do with the red dorms completely. Madoka had a manicure scheduled for the day, and Kazuki was nursing his wounds thanks to the beating he had gotten before hand.

So the task of leading 'Garu' to Lucian had fallen onto Talo, needless to say, he only met this 'Garu' the previous night, but he just didn't like the guy at all. "Now then, we should probably hurry if we want to meet with Lucian," Talo said coldly before walking away, expecting 'Garu' to follow him.

"Heh, sure, but what's this all about?" 'Garu' asked pocketing his hands into his pants. "I mean, it's like my first day out in the world so I should be living it up!"

"Do you think I want to be here?" Talo questioned, keeping his head forward, he couldn't much less care to look at the guy for another reason other than the guy's personality. "I don't so come on and hurry up!"

"Yeesh, there's no need to yell," 'Garu' huffed crossing his arms.

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"Ooohhh…"

Cain lifted his head up, his hair was a complete mess and his uniform was falling off his body. Throw in the fact that his head was killing him, and you caught the Alchemic Duelist on a bad morning, "Damn it!" Grabbing his head, Cain lowered his torso to his messy room's floor. "Ugh…what did I do last night?"

However, the more he tried to remember, the more Cain's head felt like someone was stepping on it with cleats repeatedly. It was something important, but it was disappearing quickly into the recesses of his mind, all he could remember about last night that it had to do something with the damn monkey…

"…why…why can't I remember?" Cain asked to himself as he stood up, allowing his uniform coat to slide off of his body. 'I need answers…but first I need a shower and maybe something to eat…'

A few minutes later, Cain was standing outside the Obelisk Blue dorms, a piece of toast being munched in his mouth as he adjusted his blue uniform. 'Now then…how am I going to do this? I could try Ami, but…' Cain looked at the cell phone he had gotten over his summer, and of course he had Ami's number in it, but the phone displayed that she had hers off. 'She's probably having her morning classes…'

Unlike a lot of the other students, Cain wasn't required to go to those morning classes because of his performance last year or something like that; hell he didn't know or care. It wasn't like he was the second best duelist in the school or anything.

Cain thought about meeting with Mustang or Vergil, they probably would remember what had happened because they had that meeting before everything went blurry. But, like his sister, Vergil had morning classes as well (he was the number one rookie duelist, so he was constantly studying and keeping up his attendance record).

…and Cain didn't want to deal with Mustang this early in the morning…

But that didn't mean that Cain had other headaches to attend to, and speaking of...

"I'm just saying that you could at least tell me where we're going."

"…and I keep telling you that you'll see when we get there."

"Aw you're too boring!"

…Cain could already see the walking, red haired monkey now…

'Wait a minute…' Cain thought as he still munched on the toast that he kept in his mouth, he noticed quite a few things off about the monkey that was once considered as his pupil. For one, his hair was red! '…was it always red? I thought it was blue…'

His clothes, his posture, heck, even the fact that he was near the blue dorm was something different. Then there was that guy, the guy that Mustang pulled up on his computer yesterday, that Talo Krys guy. '…two guys with red hair, that's not a good sign.'

That's when it hit Cain.

So, from a safe distant, Cain followed the two red haired duelists, trying to keep count of how many people he actually saw had red hair at the academy. 'Is it actually becoming a trend to dye your hair red at the academy?'

"Huh?" 'Garu' questioned stopping in his tracks to turn around, nothing was there behind them though with the exception of some trees, the Blue Dorm and a discarded piece of toast that had a few bite marks in it.

"What's wrong?" Talo asked, actually taking the time to turn around to face 'Garu', still however, he held onto the book he was reading. "Why are you stopping?"

"Ah…it's nothing," 'Garu' stated shaking his head before he continued to follow Talo, the bored look returning to his face.

As soon as the two were back on the trail, Cain popped his head from behind the tree he had hidden at the last second. Sighing loudly at the fact that his toast was ruined, Cain narrowed his eyes towards the duo of duelists that were walking away. 'Great…looks like I don't have much of a choice in the matter now, breakfast is over with and I've got some questions that need to be answered.'

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Meanwhile, in the school a pair of Obelisk Blue students skipped their class, standing in the hallways. The first was a young man with long black hair that was combed over his right eye with a glint to his teeth that suggested that he had bleached them everyday of his life. "So, you check the ratings lately?"

The other Obelisk Blue was a short girl with long, green hair that was tied back to almost her waist while she was wearing a longer skirt with black leggings. "Yeah, and surprise, surprise, Mustang's still on top…that perverted bastard…"

"Well, I can see that someone still has a bad memory here," the shiny toothed blue chuckled only to have his collar pulled down by the green haired girl. "Ah, ah, ah! S-Sorry Chisame! Please!"

"Yeesh, Kyouya," The green haired Obelisk Blue, Chisame sighed before she pushed the Blue Student Kyouya backwards into the ground. "Grow a backbone, why don't you?"

Kyouya jumped back to his feet, adjusting his hair back over his right eye, and with a bright gleam of his teeth, the blue student was back to one hundred percent, "Trust me, I have a backbone, but thanks to you and your scare tactics," A long shiver crept up Kyouya's back, when he remembered all the times he was hit by the anger that his little friend had hit him with. "…uh, anyway, you hear about what's going on with the Atlantic Academy?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Chisame asked tilting her head to the side slightly.

"You're kidding!" Kyouya was taken back, he would've figured that Chisame would've at least heard of the Rush for the Treasure Tournament…but then again, Chisame never did look on the Academy's sister link, nor did she read the newspaper. So with a flick of his hair, Kyouya smirked at his small friend. "Heh…I should've expected that. You were never one for listening to the news…always left in the dust of information."

"Oh shut up!" Chisame shouted throwing her arms to her sides. "Now tell me what the hell you're talking about."

Kyouya just crossed his arms over his chest, a snide smirk on his face.

"Well?" Chisame asked blinking in confusion.

"…you told me to shut up," Kyouya replied smiling with a glint on his teeth. "Then you told me tell you what I was getting at…as much as I would like to fulfill both of those requests, I can't do both…"

"But you sure can tell me why though," Chisame growled with a slap to her forehead, not noticing that a familiar black cloaked person that had several red clouds embroidered on it was walking through the halls behind her. "So come on and…what's up with you now?"

"Ah, ah," Kyouya was pointing towards the cloaked man, who was coming closer and closer until he was standing right next to Chisame.

Chisame finally noticed Lucian standing next to her, looking at the two weird duelists for a few seconds. "…hello."

"…uh, hi," Chisame replied as she waved at Lucian.

"You two should get back to class," Lucian replied before he turned away from the two blues to walk down the halls once more.

"Huh…" Chisame muttered as she watched Lucian walk away. "Was that a student teacher?"

"Are you that dense, Chisame?" Kyouya asked with a question mark appearing over his head. "That wasn't a teacher that was the phantom that everyone's been talking about!"

"Phantom?" Now Chisame was even more confused, especially since the guy was clearly alive and not a phantom. "You mean that cosplayer?"

"…yeah, we'll go with that," Kyouya sighed, knowing that was probably the best he was going to get from Chisame. "Anyway, here's the low down. Students all over the island have been seeing the cloaked phantom; at first people thought it was nothing more than a specter created by the stress of their schoolwork…"

"However, when the cloaked specter was found talking to four students, people actually found that he was real…however when these four students were questioned on the matter, they all just denied that they even came in contact with this cloaked specter…although, since he technically talked to you, that amounts to five students...six if you count me."

"And that means…" Chisame sighed.

Kyouya pulled a small camera from his coat's pocket, spinning it in his fingers before he struck an over-dramatic pose. "And that means…this is the best opportunity to get the scoop on this phantom!"

"…so I take it we're not going to take the phantom's advice and go back to class?" Chisame moaned with a slap to her forehead.

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"…you're late…"

Having waited at the side of the Duel Academy's main building, Lucian had finally arrived to see 'Garu' and Talo leaning up against the building. Talo crossed his arms at Lucian, and began to sport an uncharacteristic scowl on his face. "…now look, I brought the red haired goon just like you wanted, but, I had someone to meet after this, and I didn't need you to be late."

"It was only by two minutes," Lucian pointed out with a droplet of sweat rolling down the side of his head.

"Two minutes of me missing out on working on my ideals," Talo sighed walking past Lucian. "And the headache is now your problem."

"…my apologies," Lucian replied reaching into his cloak, all the while keeping his eyes focused at 'Garu'. "You may leave Talo."

"I don't need your permission," Talo sighed as he walked away into the woods; apparently it was a shortcut to get to his meeting. "See you at the next meeting."

"Heh, what's his deal?" 'Garu' asked placing his arms behind his head, keeping the smirk on his face.

"He's a perfect gentleman to all ladies," Lucian explained before he lifted up a single deck of duel monster cards that was in a red deck case. "…but enough about that, here."

Lucian tossed the deck case towards 'Garu', only to have the red haired duelist catch the deck case in his right hand. "Oh, ho, ho, what do we have here?" 'Garu' slowly snapped the deck case open, fanning out the cards in front of him. "…heh, heh, should I ask why you're being so generous?"

"Don't take it the wrong way," Lucian stated crossing his arms as he began to walk away with 'Garu' following him, his eyes still glued to the cards. "If I have to give up some of my riches to get the real treasure in the end, then I must. Now come."

"Man, you guys like to drag people everywhere don't ya?" 'Garu' asked tilting his head slightly.

SNAP!

Garu turned his head to the side, looking at the corner of the wall with one of his eyebrows cocked up slightly. "Hmm?"

"What's the hold up?" Lucian asked stopping in his tracks, he even had an appointment to keep and he himself didn't want to be late.

"Uh, sorry, I'm probably just a little paranoid," 'Garu' answered before returning to his cards. "Still getting used to this ya know!"

"…must be a side effect," Lucian muttered before the two continued on their way…

…unaware of the two blue students popping their heads from the side of the building, one of them spinning the camera on the top of his fingers. "Man, I'm good! That shot will get on the front page!" Kyouya's eyes went starry as he hugged the camera close to his chest. "And I can just see the headline now! 'Phantom Ghost Gets Cloak Pulled Off! Secret Meetings with Students'!"

Chisame sighed as she rubbed the side of her head. "Okay, two things. One, that title stinks worse than your gym socks. And two, you're only a part of the newspaper club, and you're on the rumor section. I highly doubt this is going on the front page…"

"And that's when you're right, my dear Chisame," Kyouya snickered when he snapped the camera back into his grip. "What we need to do is get another good shot! We can't just stand around and let the story end there! We need to get another shot and we'll have to find out what is going on between the Phantom and these duelists! We may have stumbled on the story of our lifetime!"

"You always say that," Chisame growled rubbing the side of her head. "And we always get into trouble because of that saying!"

"Ah, what's the worse that can happen?" Kyouya asked crossing his arms over his chest. "Not like we're breaking any school rules…"

"Then how about I break your legs then instead?" That new voice caused both Kyouya and Chisame to jump in the air, almost making Kyouya to drop his camera to the ground.

Standing with his arms crossed as the two panting blues, Cain's eyes narrowed down on the two. "What the hell do you two think you're doing?"

"What's the worse that can happen?" Chisame spat out with venom in her voice as she glared at Kyouya. "How about we get attacked by one of the most angry duelists on the entire island!?"

"Well…I didn't expect that!" Kyouya shouted back.

"Shut up!" Cain roared, making the two blues shiver slightly.

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Meanwhile…

Rae Turner was alone in the library, his finger running across the several titles that sat on the several shelves in the expansive library. His eyes may have been trailing the covers, but his mind was set on something else…

…mainly the freedom from his family…or to be specific the tradition.

"Kara, I may not know what caused this slight change," Rae slapped his next card onto his duel disk, creating several embers to fly around his body. "But know this…as long as you hold that deck, you'll never fully change…you'll be chained by the destiny that our parents had left upon you and Volcan…"

The embers all crashed together, forming into what appeared to be a large butterfly that was completely made of flames (1500/1500 + 200/200). "…I however, will never be bound by that! And this is my freedom, Blazewing Butterfly!"

"B-Brother? W-What are you…" Kara asked as Rae lifted his next card up.

"The time to talk is over…" Rae stated filling the card into his duel disk.

Rae turned his eyes away from the bookshelves and turned to his belt, at the deck holster that his held his insectoid deck. The key to his freedom as it were. He had put his heart into creating the deck of insects; basing it off of an old video he had watched when he was younger, one that concerned another insect duelist…

…however, where that duelist had failed miserably by cheating in this game, Rae had succeeded in creating an effective strategy. Calculating the very balance of monsters, spell, and trap cards, Rae had put everything he had into the deck of cards.

But there was still doubt in his mind.

It was true that Rae was able to defeat Kara; the life point loss he had anticipated was larger than he had first thought. And this was his younger sister Kara, the girl who was shy and had trouble speaking out in front of large groups and certain people. If she was able to pull that off…

…then Volcan would beat the snot out of his deck…

But that wouldn't stop Rae, not until he had shattered all of the binds that held him to his family's shadow. In fact, since the duel with Kara, Professor Satoshi wanted to recommend Rae for a dorm change earlier than the next promotion exam. If he played his cards right, then he'd get his dream fulfilled…

"I'm surprised to see that you're here, Mr. Turner."

"…I believe you owe me an answer then," Rae sighed turning away from the books, only to see Lucian and…was that 'Garu' with him? Why would 'Garu' be with this mysterious guy, and why in the world was his hair red? "Specifically, why you called me out here?"

"…you owe that to our red haired friend here," Lucian explained taking a step to the side, his arms crossed over his chest to allow Rae to look at 'Garu'. "He informed me about your duel with that yellow student…I happen to know that you're no ordinary Red duelist."

"And, what of it?" Rae didn't want to waste too much time, and if it involved the red haired 'Garu', then it was nothing more than a waste of time itself.

"Well, allow me to introduce myself," Lucian stated holding up one of his hand that held onto a small business card in his fingers to Rae. "My name is Lucian Walker, representative to PDLA, or also known as the Pro Duelist League Association."

Rae's eyes snapped wide opened as he pulled the card away from Lucian's hand. "W-What!?"

The card was the real deal; Lucian was a part of the PDLA.

Now, what was the PDLA you may ask? Currently it was most successful duelist representative company. Getting several potential duelists contracted into the pro leagues, any duelist worth their salt would give anything just to even get noticed by them.

And apparently, Rae knew who they were exactly. Lucian coughed a few times getting Rae's attention. "I see that you know what that means…well, I'm actually interested in these dueling skills of yours that my red haired friend had told me about."

Rae's eyes widened even more; this was his chance to actually further his plans. If he could get into the pro leagues, earlier than his older brother did, then Rae could prove that he was better than his family's expectations. "And?"

"And, I would like to see these skills myself," Lucian answered reaching into his cloak once more, this time holding up two duel disk that he had kept strapped up in his cloak in case he needed to duel. "If I like what I see, I can probably get you in. All you have to do is duel…"

"I'm sure I can take you," Rae replied snatching one of the duel disks from Lucian's hands. 'And the moment I win, I'm going to be free from the shackles of my family!'

"Oh, you're not dueling me," Lucian stated holding up the second duel disk to 'Garu'. "My red haired friend will be your opponent…"

"Heh, I've been looking forward to duel you ever since I saw ya beat down that weakling!" 'Garu' laughed without a moment's hesitation to slip the duel disk onto his arm. "I can already feel my duelist blood boiling!"

'…he wants me to duel the idiot?' Rae thought before fitting the duel disk on his arm. He'd seen how 'Garu' had dueled before with his ninjas, but Rae had expected that Lucian would want to experience his dueling skills first hand…but either way, if he could defeat some lousy ninjas, then he'd be able to get into the PDLA easily!

"What's the matter Rae?" 'Garu' snickered shuffling the deck of cards he already held. "You afraid that I'm going to trounce you? There are two kinds of people in this world of ours, those who fight to get ahead and those who get left in the duelist dust! Are you going to be left behind?"

That did it, now Rae's mind was cleared up, if 'Garu' was giving him advice, well, that was just insulting. Rae strapped the duel disk onto his arm, activating the device as the deck of cards was fitted into it, "I'm going to prove that I'll leave you in the duelist dust Garu!"

"Uh, uh, uh," 'Garu' chuckled, his finger wagged at Rae disapprovingly before his life point counter lit up on his duel disk. "The name's not 'Garu', my name's Kiri Hito! But call me Hito." (HLP: 8000)

A cricket chirped a few times since Hito had introduced his new name into the world. Even sweatdrops began to roll down the sides of Rae and even Lucian's head as the same thought appeared in both of their heads. 'Kiri Hito? What kind of name is that supposed to be?!'

After he regained his composure, Rae held his hand up towards…Hito, "Hold on a moment," Slowly fitting his deck into his duel disk, Rae crossed his arms. "How exactly are we going to duel in here? This is a library if you have failed to notice." (RLP: 8000)

"I've already taken care of that," Lucian stated turning towards one of the large bookshelves, placing his hands on the shelves. "First off, we've made sure to pick a time to meet with you when the librarian is on break…we're the only ones in this whole library. Secondly, how about you two duel on the top of the shelves to give you more room?"

"What?" Rae questioned, that was not only dangerous, but how in the world would Lucian expect the two to get up there anyway?

"Yo! What are still doing down there?"

Rae's attention was drawn to the top of the bookshelves, his eyes widened at the sight of Hito standing on top of the bookcase. "W-what the? How'd you get up there so fast?"

"The same way you will," Lucian stated before running towards the surprised Rae, his cloak snapping wildly in the air.

Rae's eyes closed for a mere moment, and when he opened them, he found that he was standing on top of the bookcases. Standing a few book cases in front of him was none other than Hito, holding up his opening hand of five cards. "Wh-what the?"

"You're welcome," Lucian, who stood at the side of the two duelists, said with his cloak billowing slightly in the nonexistent wind over the hundreds of book shelves. "And I hope you don't mind, but I'll act as referee here…"

"Go right ahead," Hito chuckled waving his hand up in the air. "I don't need cheap tricks to beat him. Heck, if he played like when he faced Kara, I'll have him beat in no time! Heh!"

Rae's eye twitched slightly, this red haired freak started to get under his skin, "Then you won't mind if I go first!" With a sixth snap, Rae looked over his cards. Already his plan was coming to fruition. "And for me, I'll just set a monster face down, and call it a turn."

Just as the face down card appeared over the bookshelves, Hito couldn't help but laugh loudly in the air. "HA! If that's all you've got, then this will be even easier than I thought! Draw!"

Extending his arm out, Hito's face slowly curved into a large sadistic smile. "And, what a draw it is! I summon Mad Demon in attack mode!"

"Mad what?" Rae questioned before confetti and several streamers popped into the air before Hito, but as the party favors fell to the ground, they weren't the only things that landed on the book shelves.

The creature the Hito summoned, it definitely wasn't one of the ninjas that Rae had seen him used before. In fact, it wasn't even a warrior! I was a jester like demon with wild red hair streaming from its shadowed head (with the exception of its yellow glowing eyes). The demons arms were skinny, while its hands were huge thanks to the gloves it wore.

To top it off, the demon had a large skull floating where its stomach was, in between its chest and waist…which was lined with teeth.

The demon cackled loudly as its arms were thrown to its sides (1800/0).

"What the? But I thought you used ninjas?" Rae interjected, his eyes narrowed down at the demon.

The Mad Demon followed Hito's body, wagging its clawed finger in sync with its duelist. "That may have been true, but, that was nothing more than a fad deck!" Hito then threw his fist forward, making the Mad Demon jump into the air. "But now's not the time for teaching! Its time for dueling! Mad Demon! Attack his face down monster!"

With another cackle, the Mad Demon's second mouth chomped down on the skull until all that remained were several sharp shards of the skull. Then in a powerful burst, the shards flew into the face down card, stabbing it until the card shattered into a large cricket like monster (1200/1300). The remaining skull shards sliced right through the insect, making it screech in pain before it was no more.

"Now its time for a lesson," Hito stated as the Mad Demon landed on the top of the bookshelves, another skull appearing at its stomach. "You see, when my demon attacks a monster with a lower defense than its attack, the damage gets sent to you!"

"A trample effect?" Rae questioned looking at his duel disk, watching as the life point counter began to drop. "Grr…fine! But you're not the only one with an effect!" (RLP: 7500)

That's when a card began to spin around in front of Rae, displaying that face down monster that the Mad Demon had destroyed only moments ago. "You see, that face down monster was known as Howling Insect. A rather weak card I'll admit, but its effect makes up for that. Because with it, I can now special summon another insect from my deck…as long as it has less thank fifteen hundred attack points."

The card shattered, this time into the large, light green grasshopper known as the Pinch Hopper (1000/1200). "I assume you remember this monster from my previous duel?"

"Yeah, that card managed to help you out," Hito admitted as a face down card appeared behind the Mad Demon. "And basically gave the entire match to you…"

Fingering his next card, Rae immediately snapped the piece of cardboard into his fingers. At the sight of it, Rae merely held it up to Hito and Lucian's faces. "And it looks like its going to do the same once more! Because I just drew Insect Imitation! And I think you know what that means!"

"Great," Hito sighed with a shake to his head.

As the spell card appeared behind it, the Pinch Hopper's body began to bulge and make cracking noises until its back opened up to allow two extremely large green scythe like claws to erupt from its back…

"Oh man, that's still gross…" Hito spat out with tongue hanging out.

"Deal with it!" Then peeling the rest of the grasshopper's body away, a new insect, this one resembling a very large green mantis with four scythe like claws protruding from its body (2350/1000). "My spell allows me to tribute an insect from my side of the field in order to special summon one from my deck with exactly one level higher than the tributed monster…so since my Pinch Hopper was level four, my level five Grasschopper counts!"

That's when the Pinch Hopper's card appeared in front of Rae, spinning around like a spinning door. "And don't forget about my Pinch Hopper, I can use its normal effect to special summon an insect from my hand…"

The spinning card shattered, forming into several spores that flew into the air. "And I think I'll go with something a little different today! I special summon Metal Armored Bug!"

In an almost impossible feat, an extremely large steel armored pill bug appeared on the field, its many green eyes staring hungrily at Hito…who didn't seemed worried at all about the large bug (28000/1500).

"And I'm not done! Not by a long shot!" Rae shouted as a card popped out of his graveyard slot, showing it to be his Howling Insect card. "If you remember, I can remove my Howling Insect from the graveyard in order to special summon…"

Slithering amongst the many books, the blue and green armored centipede raised its head up over the shelves, its red eyes glaring at Hito (1900/400). "…Aztekipede, the Worm Warrior! And I still have my normal summon! So I summon Insect Knight in attack mode!"

Leaping from the tall ceiling was a humanoid insect with buzzing wings appearing on its back as the insect drew its curved sword and round shield (1900/1500). "Heh, my Insect Rush has appeared!"

'…an interesting strategy to say the least,' Lucian thought, looking at the four powerful insects that had overloaded the entire field. 'But still…this duel isn't for that, its determined for two reasons, one being if Hito can actually wield the deck I've chosen for him, and if this Turner character is actually worth becoming my protégé…let alone the pro leagues.'

Rae kept his eyes on the remaining two cards in his hand, a spell and a trap card. He had an army out on the field, but that still made him caution that face down card that Hito had left. 'Hmm…I can't gather anything from this deck, I've only seen one card. And a card like that wouldn't even belong in a Ninja deck nonetheless. That means I can't gather what his face down card is…'

'…even if he is still using his Ninja deck and that Mad Demon is just a random card to throw off opponents, that no guarantee that his face down card is a random card such as Negate Attack, or even worse, Mirror Force. I can't take such a…'

"Heh, are you worried?"

Rae snapped out of his train of thoughts, looking at the cocky look on Hito's face. Hito had to work on his poker face, because that just made Rae fit the remaining two cards in his hand into his duel disk. "I end my turn…"

"And I activate my trap card!"

"What?!" Rae shouted as Hito's face down card flipped up, showing several demons that resembled the Mad Demon, throwing many cream pies in the faces of several famous warriors. "…what the hell is that?"

"Its call my Mad Demon Pranks!" Hito explained drawing a fifth card into his hand, as he did, several holograms appeared over his head, displaying five cards that he held. "It's an insane card, it forces me to show you every card inn my hand!"

Rae was confused why Hito would use such a card, but, he had to mentally slap himself for falling for a bluff like that. At the moment though, Rae scanned the cards. Pot of Greed (which was just drawn), Thunder Crash (what was that doing there?), a weird monster that went by the name of Mad Demon Swordsman – Nero, a trap card known as Scrap-Iron Scarecrow, and another trap, one that he had never seen before.

Just then, a rather large cream pie flew directly into Rae's face, making him growl as he pulled the pie off of his face. "…what the hell?" (RLP: 7000)

"You didn't, heh, think that," Hito snickered as he clapped his hands a few times. "A trap card like that wouldn't have a backlash?"

"I had my suspicions," Rae replied shaking his head free from the cream that was covering his face at the moment. "But I didn't expect something so ridiculous!"

"Ridiculous? Perhaps, but if it inflicts five hundred points of damage to ya during each of my stand by phases," Hito countered with a pound to his chest. "Then it's worth it!"

"Your cards just keep getting weirder and weirder," Rae pointed out as two of the cards that were over Hito's head floated over the bookshelves.

"Maybe so, but they're the reason how I'm winning," Hito retorted with his arms crossed. "I'll end my turn with two face down cards…"

"Then its my move!" Rae snapped, pulling his next card into his hand. "And I activate the spell card I just drew, Antlion's Vengeance!"

The spell card only appeared for a second, melting into millions and millions grains of sand that filled up the maze that was library. In between the two duelists, a large whirlpool of sand appeared in between the two. Hito looked at the card, blinking a few times. "Uh, okay…what is this exactly?"

"You'll find out!" Rae shouted as his face down card flipped up, showing a trap card that had several duel monster cards lit on fire. "I activate my trap card, Multiple Destruction! Now we discard all cards in our hands, and then draw five new cards…"

"Heh, thanks," Hito fitting the cards into his graveyard slot, only to pull five more cards from his disk. "I needed the boost…"

"Don't forget," Rae chuckled pulling his own five cards from his deck. "Thanks to your own trap, you've got to reveal what cards you just drew."

"Fine by me," Hito snickered as the five cards appeared over his head.

Rae's eyes followed the cards as they fanned out over his opponent's head, Premature Burial, a second Mad Demon Tricks, the trap card Call of the Haunted, the trap card Hot as Hell (that was a new one as well…) and…

"W-What is that supposed to be?" Rae questioned looking at the last card that Hito had drawn; it was a demonic warrior, named… "I...its blank?"

"What the matter?" Honzou asked looking up at the very card that Rae was looking at. "Oh…him? Huh, hey Lucian, what's up with this card?"

"…I dunno," Lucian replied bluntly, making both Rae and Hito fall face first into the top of the bookshelves with two loud booms.

Truth be told, Lucian knew exactly what the card was capable of, but, there was one thing he knew about cards. Cursed cards didn't bode well when you didn't know how to use them; in fact it was more than likely that the card itself wasn't cursed. But rather, it was home to an actual duel spirit, a bored one at that.

Of course, neither duelist knew this, if the newest Saint of Sin played the card, Lucian would explain that the card was simply a special promo that came with the duel disk and would only show its effect and name when it's placed on the disk.

"Whatever!" Rae shouted as he jumped to his feet, holding up his five cards all the while. "Now then…I don't have any monsters that I want to summon this turn…so; we'll just go right into the battle phase! Aztekipede, strike down that Mad Demon!"

The large centipede charged from the sand, wrapping around the Mad Demon, however…

"I activate the effect of my Mad Demon!" Hito roared before the Mad Demon crouched down with its arms crossed over his chest. "When my demon is attacked while in attack mode, he switches to defense mode!"

"What!" Rae shouted before Aztekipede tightened its body to fully wrap around the Mad Demon, crushing the demon into dust. "Damn it…he saved himself from my Aztekipede monster effect…"

"Right…" Hito chuckled, however that when the sane began to shift around in front of him. "Hmm? What's this?"

Before Hito could really get a good look what had happened, two large pincers erupted from the holographic sand, grappling around his waist. "W-What the?!"

"It's the effect of my spell card," Rae shouted before electricity began to surge from the pincers. "Whenever a monster is destroyed, the player who lost the monster loses eight hundred points!"

"Huh? They lose what now?" Hito asked before the electricity surged through his body, making him shout out in pain and causing his red hair to frizz outwards. "AAAHHHH!!" (HLP: 7200)

"Humph…I'd like to see you get out from this," Rae stated as the last three insects roared loudly.

The pincers receded back into the sand, making Hito fall to his knee with a large sneer on his face. "Heh…at least you've got good taste in taking down an opponent…just like when you managed to crush Kara easily…however, I'm not so easily defeated!"

Hito's face down card flipped up, this one showing a red overcoat silver haired man standing back to back with a blue overcoat, silver haired man. "I activate my trap card, Brothers in Blood! This trap card can only be activated when you destroy a monster I control. I can now special summon a level four monster from my deck with the same attribute and type as the destroyed monster!"

Hito fanned out the deck of cards in his hand, a decimating smile crawling onto his face. Selecting a card from his deck, Hito slapped the card on his duel disk horizontally. "And here's my choice! My shield! My Mad Demon – Credo!"

A dark orb appeared on the field, spinning around until it formed into another demon monster that resembled that of the original Mad Demon, with its jester like body and the skull in between its chest and waist. Only this one had long green hair and with blades of its claws (0/500). The demon crouched down on top of the bookshelf, its large arms crossing its chest. "My life points will be safe for a while now…"

"Did you forget?" Rae stated throwing his arm to the side. "I've still got a few attacks! Only one more will destroy your monster, leaving my Grasschopper and Metal Armored Bug to attack you directly!"

"If you're so confident…" Hito chuckled with his arms crossed. "Then go ahead and attack…"

"Fine! Insect Knight!" Rae snarled as the insectoid warrior jumped into the air. "Cleave that demon right in two!"

The Insect Knight spun in the air before it brought its sword down onto the crouching demon, making it fall into two pieces that fell into the sand. "Heh, thank goodness he was in defense mode, my life points are safe…"

"Or so you think!" Rae interjected, as the sand began to whip around once more, releasing the two pincers around Hito's torso once more. "Don't forget that my Antlion's Vengeance is still out on the field! Now thanks to it, you'll lose another eight hundred points!"

Electricity surged through the pincers once more, coursing through Hito's body once more. "A-AAHAAHHH!" (HLP: 6400)

"Heh, any other tricks you want to try?" Rae questioned as the pincers were drawn back into the sand.

"More than you know," Hito growled getting to his feet once more, this time catching a card that popped out of his deck. "I activate the effect of Credo! When he's destroyed as a result of battle, I can special summon another Credo from my deck!"

"What?" Rae growled rather loudly with his teeth barring.

"You heard me!" Hito chuckled as a second Mad Demon – Credo leapt in front of him, its arms crossed once more over its chest (0/500). "And just to let you know, I've still got one more Mad Demon – Credo in my deck, so I'll be safe from your direct attacks…"

"Be safe from this!" Rae roared as the Grasschopper lifted up its four scythe-like arms. "Grasschopper, slice and dice that horrible demon!"

With a loud hiss, the Grasschopper brought down its several scythe-like arms down on the chuckling demon, cutting the demon across the chest in an 'X' shape, shattering the demon backwards. "And don't forget so soon, since another monster of your bit the dust, my Antlion comes back out to play some more!"

"Great…I really hate this…" Hito growled as the pincers appeared around once more around his chest, charging a powerful energy through his veins once more. "AAAHH! IT'S MURDER ON MY HAIR!" (HLP: 5600)

"…I would think that the duel would be more important than your hair," Lucian sighed flicking some hair away from his eyes.

"Nothing's more important than hair!" Hito roared, getting back his energy rather suddenly.

Rae chuckled at the sight of his silly opponent, if his opponent was like this, and then his ticket to the pro league was assured. "Not that I don't mind watching humorous fights…but we've got a duel right here."

Hito quickly straightened his hair before his deck popped out another card into his hand. "How right you are, Rae…" Slapping the card onto his duel disk, the third Mad Demon – Credo landed on the top of the bookcases, its arms covering its chest (0/500). "…and what better way to continue it than with my third and final Credo to defend me?"

"How about me defeating it!" Rae countered with his hand raised up towards the demon. "Metal Armored Bug! Destroy that monster now!"

Simply charging over the many bookcases on its strong legs, the large bug tackled the remaining Mad Demon – Credo into the air, shattering it upon impact. "Well…damn it…"

"Damn it is right," Rae chuckled as the pincers erupted from the sand once more. "Cause the fun is going to continue with my spell card!"

Just as the pincers clamped onto Hito's waist, the red haired duelist began to tear up slightly. "Awe man…not again…"

"AAAAHHH!" (HLP: 4800)

"You'd think after a while a scream like that would get annoying," Rae chuckled lifting two of his cards up into his duel disk. The cards appeared behind his four insects, glowing for a few seconds. "But it just keeps getting funnier and funnier…"

'Not bad…his strategy can counter delay tactics rather nicely,' Lucian thought to himself, watching as Hito got back up to his feet. 'However, he's missed on real big detail in his strategy…I wonder if our newest recruit can see that?'

"Draw…" Hito growled, the moment he added the card to his hand, a strange spell card appeared over his head showing a large warped city with many demons dancing in the street.

"Too bad, the only monster you've got is that no name," Rae stated, however, he kept his eyes on the cards that Hito held, fully aware of the Premature Burial card.

"Yes…but don't you forget," Hito growled as his trap card glowed brightly. "Thanks to my Mad Demon Pranks, you take another five hundred points!"

The trap card shot out a small cream pie towards Rae, who merely took a step to the side, dodging the pie but still feeling the after effects, "Heh, have you just resorted to having your trap do your dirty work?" (RLP: 6500)

"You wish! Face down card, revel yourself!" Hito chuckled as his face down card began to flip upwards, showing the Pot of Greed spell he had last turn. "Thanks to this little guy, I get two new cards!"

Rae was silent as Hito pulled the top two cards, and smirked as the cards were revealed. "Ha! Still no monsters!"

"Oh, I think I have a monster alright," Hito replied as his graveyard began to glow with a dark light. "In fact, I'll summon him right now!"

"But, that monster, I may not be able to see its text," Rae protested holding his hand up towards the monster. "But I can clearly see its level, and that it's a level eight monster!"

"True…but that's why I'm activating Credo's final effect!" Hito roared as the three cards popped out of his graveyard. "When all three copies of Credo are in the graveyard, by simply removing the cards from play, I can normal summon any fiend-type monster in my hand without tribute!"

"W-What!?" Rae shouted before a powerful purple aura erupted from underneath Hito's feet.

The aura began to wrap around the newest saint's body, forming into bulky armored that fitted itself onto the wrathful duelist's body. An insidious smirk appeared on Hito's face as his red hair shifted back into a curved black helmet. A pair of ebony skulls latched themselves onto Hito's shoulders as several bat like wings erupted from his back (2800/1800). "Aw yeah! Feel the power, the power of the Mad Demon Knight – Bianco Angelos!"

Even Lucian himself was taken back a little bit, but he had to remember that he was atop of the bookcases, if he took a step back, he'd fall to the ground at a good distance. '…I don't believe it…he, he fused with the monster itself!'

"Humph, you're all but flash!" Rae shouted as Hito lifted up another card from his hand. "Your monster's attack is the same as my Metal Armored Bug!"

'And I've got my two face down cards to make sure my Antlion's Vengeance won't hurt me even if my trap fails…'

"Well then…I'll activate the spell card, Premature Burial!" Hito announced as a bright red light emerged in front of his feet, allowing the Mad Demon to reappear in front of the Mad Demon Duelist (1800/0), cackling loudly. "Sure, eight hundred points is costly to bring back my Mad Demon, but it's worth it…" (HLP: 4000)

"Heh…still not good enough," Rae stated as he looked down at his duel disk, his eyes trailed over the card he had slapped onto it. At most, Hito could only destroy one of his monsters this turn…but thanks to his trap card, that won't be happening!

"Then let's change things up shall we?" Hito suggested as his field card slot opened up. "I active the field spell card, Crazy Town!"

"…crazy town?" Rae questioned before the ground began to shake.

Above the many book cases, several large buildings erupted from the top, twisting and turning in the air until it looked like the entire library was now a city that sat atop of the library. "…in this place, all Mad Demons can go nuts! And as such Bianco Angelos and Mad Demon gain three hundred attack and defense points!"

Hito began to glow in a dark neon light since he was technically Bianco Angelos (2800/1800 + 300/300) as did the Mad Demon (1800/0 + 300/300). "Of course that means now I can go on my counter attack! Bianco Angelos! Let's lead off the attack against that Metal Armored Bug!"

"Heh…you just walked right into my trap!" Rae laughed out loud pushing the button on his disk as Hito leapt into the air. "Huh?"

In Hito's hands appeared a powerful sword of pure black flames that erupted into the air, getting closer and closer to the bug.

"Activate! Damn it! Activate!" Rae shouted however it was too late, Bianco Angelos landed on top of the Metal Armored Bug, stabbing the black flame weapon into bug's back. "What's going on!?"

Flames erupted from the cracks in the Metal Armored Bug's armor, making the insect screech in pain as it was burnt to a crisp. (RLP: 6200)

"Why didn't my trap card activate!?" Rae shouted as his Rare Metal Bug disappeared in the air. "What did you do?"

Hito landed back on the top of the bookcases with his arms crossed. "Allow me to tell you a tale of Bianco Angelos. He was once a powerful demon general known for his impressive strategic abilities and ruthlessness. He commanded hordes and hordes of demons, each of which was powerful enough to kill fifty humans without even breaking a sweat!"

"Bianco Angelos was so strong that he pitted his army against the very hells of Ha Des. However, before Bianco Angelos could lead his army, he was defeated in one on one combat with an infamous demon slayer, so his army dispersed. This very demon slayer then went on to attack Ha Des himself…no one knows if either one of them were killed or if they destroyed each other."

"But contrary to belief, Bianco Angelos wasn't dead. Rumor has it that he was still in the depths of hell, gathering his forces once more, only this time to conquer the human world. As such, he as the ability to foresee traps and go around them, even use them to his advantage if the situation arises. In game terms, as long as I have another Dark monster on the field, you can't activate spell or trap cards during the battle phase at all!"

"What?!" Rae shouted before two pincers wrapped around his body's waist. "No!"

"Huh?" Hito questioned as electricity surged through the pincers into Rae's body, making his duel disk smoke up. "Why'd you get zapped?" (RLP: 5400)

"B-Because," Rae panted as the two pincers withdrew themselves back into the sand. "My spell's a double edged sword. We both take damage when our monsters get destroyed…"

"Heh…then this just got more interesting!" Hito chuckled as the Mad Demon stepped in front of him. "Mad Demon! Since Bianco Angelos had his fun, it's only fair that you get a piece of the fun! Attack Aztekipede!"

Like the last time, the Mad Demon leapt into the air, the skull that was in between its chest and waist, sending the shards flying into the centipede's armor. The shards sliced right through the armor as if it was nothing more than butter, making the insect cry out in pain before it shattered into millions of shards itself. (RLP: 5200)

"And don't forget Rae!" Hito chuckled as he threw his hand towards his opponent. "Thanks to your own spell card, you lose an additional eight hundred points!"

Rae scowled as the pincers reappeared around his stomach, sending another powerful jolt of energy into his body. Cringing in pain, Rae's duel disk began to click as his life points began to fall. (RLP: 4400)

"And would you look at that," Hito chuckled as the pincers retracted back into the holographic sand. "Our life points are almost the same…"

"Y-Yeah…but," Rae growled narrowing his eyes down at Hito. "They won't be for too long!"

"Big words," Hito stated holding up another card from his hand, only to fit it into his duel disk. "But let's see if you can hold those words yourself?"

"If that's what you want," Rae snarled snapping off his next into his hand. "Then I'll be more than happy to oblige!"

Rae drew a card, his eyes turning back to Hito.

"And I'll start by showing you some of my own cards in my hand," said Rae as he flipped the card he just drew around. "Mainly the one I just drew, which is known as the Golden Ladybug!"

A golden light engulfed Rae's body, making the Turner duelist smirk widely. "And if I keep the card revealed to you for the rest of my turn, I gain five hundred life points." (RLP: 4900)

"Humph, nothing short of a delay tactic," Hito sneered to the side with his eyes rolling slightly.

"I'm not done," Rae replied. "Grasschopper! Attack the Mad Demon!"

The large Grasschopper hopped forward, bringing down the many scythe-like arms down on the suddenly crouching Mad Demon. Hito wagged his finger at Rae as the demon was struck down. "Tsk, tsk…did you forget already that thanks to my Mad Demon's special ability, he switches to defense mode?"

"No, but you forgot that my Antlion's Vengeance is still out on the field!" Rae pointed out as the pincers shot out from the holographic sand. "So you'll take more life point damage than from my attack if your demon didn't have that annoying ability."

Once more, electricity began to surge through the holographic pincers, coursing through Hito's body, making his duel disk cackle with energy. However, Rae couldn't help but notice the look on Hito's face, showing that it wasn't a look of pain…

…but rather it was a look that Rae had never seen in another duelist's eyes…

…the same look of that of a murderer that had found his prey…

"Heh, heh, heh," Hito chuckled as the pincers pulled away from his body. "I have to admit…when I saw you through that fool's eyes, I didn't think that you were that good of a duelist…" (HLP: 3200)

"But now, I want to…destroy you!"

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Card Stats

Antlion's Vengeance / Continuous Spell / Effect: When a monster is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, that monster's owner receives 800 points of damage.

Image: A set of pincers erupting from a desert with a large explosion overhead.

This card was first used in Yugioh 5Ds by the duelist Uryu and his Power-Insect deck. All creativity for this card belong to the writers of the show.

Mad Demon – Credo / Dark / LV. 2 / ATK: 0 / DEF: 500 / Fiend/Effect: When this card is destroyed as a result of battle, you may special summon one 'Mad Demon – Credo' from your deck to your side of the field. When there are three 'Mad Demon – Credo' in your graveyard, during your next main phase, you may remove all three from your graveyard to normal summon one Fiend-Type monster from your hand without tribute (if you already normal summoned, you cannot activate this effect).

Description: A small jester like demon with wild green hair over his shadowed face with skinny arms and legs with large hooked hands with silver blades at them. At its stomach is a large skull that separates its chest and waist.

Mad Demon Knight – Bianco Angelos / Dark / LV. 8 / ATK: 2800 / DEF: 1800 / Fiend/Effect: This card cannot be special summoned. As long as is card is face up on the field and you control only DARK monsters on your side of the field (besides this card), during both player's turns, your opponent cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards until after the Battle Phase.

Description: A large muscular dark armored demon with several bat like wings, at his shoulders are pair of ebony skulls as shoulder pads with a long black cape at his back. Meanwhile at his side is a long broadsword.

Crazy Town / Field Spell / Effect: ?? This effect can only be used once per turn. Increase the attack and defense of all face up 'Mad Demon' monsters by 300 points.

Image: A large warped city with many demons dancing in the streets.

Brothers In Blood / Trap / Effect: This card can only be activated when a monster on your side of the field is destroyed as a result of battle. Special summon one level four or lower monster from your deck with the same attribute and type as the monster that was destroyed.

Image: A red overcoat silver haired man with a blue overcoat, silver haired man standing back to back.

Mad Demon Pranks / Continuous Trap / Effect: As long as this card is face up on the field, you must show your opponent your hand. During your standby phase, you may inflict 500 points of damage to your opponent's life points.

Image: Many Mad Demons throwing cream pies into the faces of some famous warriors.

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Duelist Profile

And now for something completely different, at the end of each chapter from now on, we'll be going over one of the duelists and their deck in a profile constructed at the end of the chapter…

First up!

Name: Rae Turner

Deck: Insect Release Deck

Bio: Older sibling to Kara Turner, younger sibling to Volcan Turner, Rae was left in the midst in the shadow of his family's reputation. Being born to the Turner family, one of the few Duelist Families in the world, Rae was supposed to receive one of the two decks that his parents had used. How Rae didn't receive the deck while Kara did is a touchy topic that Rae or Kara will not disclose so easily…

Desperate to release the grip of his family's shadow, Rae created his Insect Release deck after watching a few of the duels of an infamous insect duelist. The insect duelist he watched was a cheater and a disgrace to the game, but Rae did have to admit that the character did know how to make such creatures from weaklings to strong beasts…

That's when his decision was made…Rae would focus his own deck, creating after that infamous duelist's, only he wouldn't need to cheat.

Rae's deck consists on combos, rush and delivering a quick blow to his opponent's life points. Not only do his monsters have unique effects, but Rae can manipulate his opponent's moves against themselves with his tactics. From what we can see, his deck has many heavy hitters, and he doesn't seem to have a problem getting them out.

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Hito: Heh…heh, ha, ha, ha! This day keeps getting better and better!

Rae: Wh-what is he? No matter what I do, he just keeps getting back up!

Lucian: Soon this will be all over…

Rae: If that's the case…then I'll just have to bring out the big guns!

As the duel between Hito and Rae heats up, the demons grow restless and thirst for the conclusion to the duel…too bad they'll have to wait till next time – Chapter 38: Demon's Wrath

Hito: …heh…most entertaining…