Judai's POV, first person

I was chilling out on my bed, trying not to think of everything that went wrong today. All it did was drive me in circle. I felt like a dog chasing its tail. So I pulled out my cards and shuffled through them.

A knock at my door made me jump. I set my cards back into their holster and went to open the door. Asuka stood just outside. Stepping back, I widened the opening so Asuka could come in. Once she was safely in my room, I shut the door.

"I found out that the Crimson Dragon wasn't a part of the Crimson Beast deck," she told me excitedly.

"Yeah, I was told the same thing."

"Marie told you?" she asked, confused.

"Well, no...It was Crimson Witch."

"Anyway, that's not my point. I mean even before it wasn't a part of Marie's deck, it wasn't part of any Crimson Beast deck. Yeah, it might be a Crimson Beast, but it was never a part of that deck. Does that make any sense?"

"No."

"Okay, try imagining it like this. There's a weird Elemental Hero that you found one day that you've never heard of. It is not a part of any Elemental Hero deck ever recorded, but rather seemed to appear out of the blue one day, yet it is definitely an Elemental Hero." I was still confused, but I thought I knew what Asuka was trying to say.

"Are you saying it's possible that this card wasn't made by Industrial Illusions?"

"I'm saying it isn't registered under Industrial Illusions. It's very possible that it was a card that was made by Industrial Illusions, but was never put into production."

Oh, that made sense now.

"And I'm going to see if I can gain permission to enter the restricted section of the library."

"How come?"

"That area contains information about the god cards and a couple of cards that were forbidden for public use. Who knows? Maybe it'll be there. Unfortunately, I can't get into it unless I get permission from the higher-ups."

"They're going to want a reason," I reasoned.

"Yeah, that's the difficult part. I can't just go around telling people about Marie and her dragon. I'd need a good excuse for going into that section, though."

"I'll help you come up with an excuse," I offered.

*TWO HOURS LATER*

"I got nothing," I said, flopping onto a chair.

"Same here," Asuka groaned.

We had tried coming up with a reason that Asuka could use to enter the forbidden section of the library, only to find that it was an impossible task. There wasn't anything we could say that would convince the higher-ups to let Asuka into that area, but there was too much at stake for us to just give up.

I glanced at my alarm clock and saw that it was 7:45. "It's late. I better be going," Asuka sighed, getting to her feet. She was about to let herself out when she suddenly remembered something. "Oh, and your new uniform is coming tomorrow." Oh, yeah. I forgot that I had been wearing the old one ever since I got here. And I never really payed much attention to the other students. Oh well. Guess I was going to see what it looked like tomorrow.