【92 - Dormageddon and Dokindam! Return to the Asteroid Colony!】
"So, you done with your turn?" Heidi asked.
Urobach stared.
'He won't be caught by surprise if Heidi ends this now!' Sinan thought to Jacob who agreed.
'Go for it.'
Sinan jumped in, "I choose five!" Crunch! His shields and table formed.
"Sinan!?" Heidi turned.
'This is your moment, Heidi,' Sinan was thinking. 'But he's got one shield left. I'll at least clear the way if I can't win.' While it was the truth, Sinan couldn't forget Urobach using his religion to mess with his head.
"What the fuck…?" Urobach hadn't been told about their duel hijacking ability for whatever reason.
"I cast It's Coming from the Future so it's a Miracle! I draw three then get to cast Dragon's Sign! Zardiclica, Hybrid Winds Dragon comes out!" Wings of gold-ruby-sapphire spread majestically. "Ex-life, I shieldify." A new blue rectangle expanded. "Then I recast Dragon's Sign, this time to bring out Dynabolt, Explosive Emperor Dragon!" The black nebulous dragon emerged next. "Attack and Double Magibomber 6! I get to bring out…" He drew before each play. "Bolshack Superhero and… yes! Rosia, Final Dragon Ruler! I equip him with Gaiheart to make him a speed attacker!" He swished his arm, "Dynabolt, final break!"
Glass raced out of sight.
"Strikeback! Ningyo stops Rosia from attacking this turn!" A hologram of the octopus lady flew through the gold soldier, freezing him. Urobach calmed somewhat. "No parallel invasion."
'He knows about my Redzone Buster,' Sinan thought.
Jacob replied, 'Which means he has been in contact with Gaigen, but Gaigen is withholding info… Okay, I'm starting to see what's going on here.'
"Finish it, Heidi!" Sinan said.
"Gladly."
"You stupid fucking kids…" Urobach ignited black and they froze. He didn't teleport, just stood there burning and smirking. "You've got new powers after finally uniting, but you can't do anything if I just leave, right?" He looked between their anxious faces. "I thought not. I wanted to win, but if this duel already isn't fair there's no shame in shooting your ships full of holes instead. I should just go…" The flames surged.
"Wait!" Heidi reached out.
Urobach's grin looked especially malevolent under the writhing blackness. "You know what to do…"
"I pass my turn," Heidi hung her head.
"Good girl." His fire dispersed. "To deal me a killing blow your final attack has to be very fast. Let's not pretend I don't know your plan. Sinan could've managed it after surprising me, too bad you couldn't make a final attack, right!? HAHAHA! My turn!" Urobach pulled dramatically from his deck. "I summon Dorhakabra! I Big Bang Liberate!"
The brown dome ripped apart, exposing the stars. The meteoric titan was many times larger than Dokindam. Larger shrine gates converged, sealing all Heidi's and Sinan's creatures. So soon after his liberation, each of Dokindam's limbs was crushed by a dozen flying shrine gates. He struggled before lowering his head and falling still. While this was all happening, three figures had launched upwards, two red glows and one yellow, curving overhead and falling to interrupt the duel. Urobach hadn't noticed them.
"Dormageddon, with this attack we destroy Aurellia's hero, and in the name of the Gatekeepers, bring Armageddon to yet another world!"
"Heidi!" Mars's shout jolted her. "As strong as we are, an attack from Dormageddon might-!"
"KILL HEIDI! TODOMEDA!"
She didn't have time to react. An enormous plume of lava, layered with shimmering maroon and blue, washed over her zones and swept her away.
The chosens were horrified.
Jacob was in disbelief, "Did that Heidi just…?"
The lava dispersed without cooling. It floated apart, like glowing blobs in a lava lamp.
Another Sinan and two Heidis manifested tables and shields, Urobach was suddenly duelling four opponents. His head snapped around. He could see through their visors and recognise the same glowing auras.
"Kill him, quick!" The first Sinan yelled.
"Shit!" A reversed Heidi swore, she was without "Help Me! Malt". "I have to charge and pass turn."
"No Dragon's Sign, I pass!" The other Sinan said.
"Clones…?" Urobach looked cornered, he'd flee at any moment. He erupted, "Did I kill Heidi or not!?"
Yet another Heidi couldn't attack, so she tried to stump him further, "Heidi is more of an idea, you know. Or a brand, like soda." Urobach stared right at her - that worked. "Pass!"
The turn jumped all the way back to the first Sinan.
"Rosia attacks and rev change! Miradante Future! Todomeda!"
VZZZZZZZZ!
A beam surged from the horn of the golden pegasus, carrying their desperate hopes.
On the spaceship containing Jacob, he stood horrified with Amira and Kanoa at either side. Left of theirs was the fullest ship, a reversed team of four chosens who were last to volunteer for Jacob's plan. The only Heidi still on a ship was there, also shocked, surreally so, wondering if she'd just witnessed her own death. Continuing left around the ring of ships was a group of three, and another, then a group of two - an Amira and Kanoa curiously holding hands to comfort each other.
"I see her!" A Heidi in space spoke up. "Her suit's melted away, but…"
"Is she alive?" Jacob leaned over the panel.
Lying back, her hair fluttered delicately. Her suit was torn, helmet reduced to a few shards, her skin marked all up the side of her face. Still, Mars' warm glow hadn't left. The redness was protecting her.
"I think she's just unconscious!" The Heidi speaking grabbed hold of her arm, swung her around, held on and then began boosting them back toward the ships.
"Seems our power can shield you all from space in your human forms," Mercury said.
"Good," Jacob said, "but where's-?"
A Sinan caught sight of Urobach first. Floating off towards the moon, he'd managed to escape after all. Sinan surged with yellow and exploded into a giant Supernova Venus. Its huge gold and spectral body lit up the void. Venus flew and swiped, Urobach burned away in time. Venus spun and chased him to his next location. Urobach had been increasingly surprised by their powers, but he continued to teleport around them, not yet leaving entirely.
Meanwhile, within the satellite, Gaigen watched everything via the monitors. He saw Venus charging up a solar beam in its mouth.
"Let's see if my invention can still be useful…" He input a command, the steel drum hummed to life. A satellite dish fired an invisible wave.
Jacob and that Sinan's team sensed trouble, the others all catching on a moment later. Venus dissolved into sparks, leaving a bare Sinan choking in space. His eyes bulged, body swelled, and he bled from multiple places. He didn't freeze or rupture - he struggled, and just before Jacob could think to beam him back, he died.
Jacob vomited, such a TV reaction.
The ground rushed up and he felt Kanoa grab him.
"Jacob!"
"Are you okay?" Amira shouted.
Jacob stared ahead, eyes glazed, sick hanging off his chin. The two with him hadn't been forced to witness the play-by-play of that Sinan's death. In the two-person ship, the Kanoa and Amira were very pale, crushing each other's hands without noticing. The Heidi carrying her injured clone back had stopped to clutch her helmet, panting in horror.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Gaigen was tapping his chin. "I should next aim for the unconscious Heidi since her suit's gone." He started typing but then Urobach appeared beside him, wrapping his hands around his neck.
"How much haven't you told me!?"
Gaigen struggled, clawing at Urobach's hands then whacking at his chest. "Lest you want Pluto to torture you more, let go!" He did and Gaigen grasped his bare neck, bending at the middle to catch his breath.
By the time he ran around Urobach to his monitor, everyone had already been beamed back onto the ships. He watched all five shoot off into space where it was unlikely they'd be found.
Telepathy was rather complicated. From what they knew of the lieutenants, Urobach had a one-way access to their minds. In their case, each chosen had a two-way link to their phoenix, and each separate group of four were inter-linked and also connected to Jacob. Through Jacob other teams could hear each other, like an echo, or peering through a connecting room from the threshold.
The injured Heidi was alive but comatose, and visibly marked by Dormageddon. They'd lost the Sinan that transformed, bringing their numbers down to an even twenty.
Through a cloaking function they could keep the ships from getting tracked. Their fleet of five flew until Aurellia was the size of a marble, then they slowed and adjusted course somewhat.
Nobody was speaking. Jacob was leaning back in the pilot seat, glazed eyes staring up.
One of the Heidi's put a hand on her chest. "My heart's on the wrong side of my body… What have we done?"
Another Heidi shot up, tearing a hole in the hallway with a fearsome kick. The ship alarmed, the other two Heidis jumped into action, holding her while she thrashed and swore.
"Heidi! Please!" It was looking into the face of another Sinan that made her stop and calm down. Her eyes were very wide, then they lowered to the floor.
Jacob pressed a few keys and the alarm stopped. He stood, walked over to the unconscious Heidi. She was lying on their couch with Amira sitting by her. "Which ship did she come from?" He closed his eyes for a moment to pin-point her fellows. "The left-most." His words psychically carried to them, "Your group is Team A. That makes you guys Kanoa-A, and so on."
"Why's that group Team A when you travelled back here?" the Heidi from his ship asked. Jacob turned to her. "Something made us come back reversed, but I'm not a weird clone!"
"Sorry," Jacob couldn't help his thoughts. He looked at their strange faces and decided to push forward anyway. "Sorry, but we have to do this. That ship is Team A. The… the Heidi who lost her version of Sinan right now, she's in Team B. This ship can be Team C. As for the remaining ships…"
Everyone in all the ships were listening, two of which still held four chosens. He thought it was bad being around the others before, now it was literally five times worse…
"The ship beside us is Team D. The one flying on the right is Team E."
Jacob walked back to his seat and with an exhausted sigh, collapsed into it. Those around him began to process their new identities.
Ship A carried Kanoa-A, Amira-A and Sinan-A.
Ship B held only Kanoa-B and Amira-B, who'd reignited their attraction with alone time and seeking comfort.
Ship C led from the middle, carrying seven passengers including Jacob. Also all of Team C, who were reversed, and Heidi-B who they'd beamed aboard with the unconscious Heidi-A.
Ship D was also reversed, it and Ship E were both carrying its original four passengers.
Jacob leaned forward, deeply rubbing his eyes.
"We lost Venus too…" Mars spoke from Heidi-B.
"I'm still here," Venus comforted from Sinan-C. "We can focus on the mission."
Team B was traumatised by Sinan-B's death, due to their direct connection to his mind. Jacob was shocked by it and now felt drained, but was handling it better because he was still connected to four other Sinans. Thinking too deeply into that was bound to upset all of them, Jacob was refusing to open that can of worms. He didn't have another shred of mental energy at that point, so he leaned back and closed his eyes. The others chatted and pondered.
The respite couldn't last for long. Thirty minutes later, though it felt like ten, the ship beeped with a new message. Jacob ignored it. Kanoa-C reached over to open it and read.
"I don't believe it. Neptune and Drache der'Zen aren't done with us yet! After they saw that Mercury's tests worked they came up with more ideas for us!"
"What are they?" Heidi-C stepped over.
"Most of us should focus on destroying Urobach's weapon. We don't know why he hasn't used it, or if he has and the Gatekeeper stopped him. We still can't risk it."
"Then let's fly back while we talk." Heidi-C pushed in for the controls. Jacob finally opened his eyes and sat up.
The other ships in their small fleet followed as their paths curved the other way.
"Drache der'Zen thinks that with the Proof, Neptune can teleport us to a few more locations they came up with." Kanoa-C scrolled with his finger. "Also, he says someone should go through the vortex to meet the Gableons."
"We have five ships now and I can beam everyone between them as needed," Mercury said. "If the majority of us make up a direct offensive, we could spare individuals to investigate the other locations."
"Guess we're drawing straws," Jacob muttered, not ready to resume thinking just yet.
"The first location listed is the Asteroid Colony where the lieutenants came from," Kanoa-C said.
"Who knows how Neptune found that…" Amira-C commented.
"I'll go."
Sinan-C wasn't spooked that a version of him had died, like the others probably would've been. He couldn't process that his replicas were truly him. Either way, he hadn't stopped wanting to be decisive.
Jacob nodded to him and Kanoa continued reading off the short list.
Sinan-C was beamed into a ship of his own. He sat waiting, fighting his nerves. Blue energy seeped into the wiring and gaps then - flash!
Suddenly the space was new, the constellations different. A solid mass was visible by tiny, turning lights. Sinan didn't know what else to do so set the ship on a straight path towards it.
Soon enough, he received a transmission.
"Identify yourself."
Sinan picked up the talkie. "Um, hi. Uhhh..."
"You are flying an unregistered spacecraft. Identify yourself at once!"
"I'm Sinan."
At least they spoke English and not some alien garble. Maybe the language was a multiversal constant. That would make sense, seeing as Sinan didn't know what English was even named after.
"Sinan, we're taking you in. Do not resist. If you raise weapons we will fire on sight."
So Sinan waited until two floating dots swerved close then out of sight. The ship shuddered. A panel lit up saying 'tractor beam detected'. Sinan was no longer mentally linked to the others after crossing dimensions. He missed Jacob's guidance.
"You're doing fine," Venus comforted.
So Sinan kept reassuring himself as the ship was carried without his control. He recalled his dead clone at that moment, the last thing he wanted was to provoke these guys into firing. The spinning asteroid was getting larger, blotting out more of the stars. They approached a hanger, passing through a laser forcefield. The ship was set down and Sinan stumbled out of the chair because he'd not deployed the landing gear.
"Cooperate with your arrest or we will shoot," the voice from his monitor said.
Sinan figured he should, for now. He got up and crossed the slanting floor. He pressed buttons, the ramp extended and the doors opened. He went to the middle of the wide control room, knelt down, put his hands behind his head and waited.
Gunmen in grey suits rolled in, pointing what looked like sophisticated water guns.
"Where's your comrade?" A man yelled.
"I'm alone."
"Our scan detected a second lifeform, where is he?"
Sinan blinked dumbly. Through clear visors he could see their monochrome eyes. The man speaking to him had irises the shade of coral.
"I should be alone. I swear."
The other men ran through the rooms to investigate. Sinan was handcuffed and pulled up, then pushed to the door. Sinan walked down the ramp and looked around at a wide steel room. He'd seen from the outside that the hangar was connected to a ginormous colony dome. Since no guns were on him, when he was halfway across the space he decided to change on a whim.
Supernova Venus Ia Saint Mother exploded and roared in the chaos.
Laser shots fired, but they were no more painful than hits he'd taken in the creature world. Venus, in all its glory, tore through the back like it was cardboard, crawled through and teared into the rooms beyond. There was a crescendo of crashes, screaming and cussing.
Then Venus was soaring freely under a metal dome, over an alien metropolis. It was entirely utilitarian, lacking any form of design or colour. Traffic and pedestrians stalled, everyone staring upwards. Venus flew far enough away before shrinking down into an alley.
Sinan's yellow glow receded and he turned. It was ashen and filthy here. Looking up at the tall buildings, he wondered how anyone could find their way around. That was when a child stepped out from behind a metal construct of unknown purpose.
"Are you an angel?"
Sinan stared at her alien fuschia eyes.
She waved a hand, "Come follow me."
This couldn't be a trick, surely. Sinan didn't mind children, so he followed.
She led him down a few backstreets. A siren rang and an emergency broadcast appeared on the dome itself. They had to cover their ears. Officials stated a fugitive of unknown origins had infiltrated their society. Sinan and the girl hurried faster. They glimpsed pedestrians on the main roads gossiping or hurrying home.
Eventually they reached an apartment building and the child led Sinan straight to her poverty-stricken parents.
"Mumma, he's the alien!"
The mother ignored the hand tugging her apron. "What? Your eyes, so detailed..."
Sinan resisted the urge to fidget. He raised his hand and made it glow. "Sorry about this. I need to know where the generals are."
"Dear! Get in here…"
Destroying the meteorite would be the surest way to stop the invasions, though even if Venus grew to mountain-size it would take too long. Looking at the innocent family before him, Sinan realised his mission here wouldn't be straight-forward.
'Maybe if we destroyed their portal technology… No, they'd rebuild it eventually.' Venus was pondering in his mind. 'If we destroy the institution where they train Generals, maybe…' The only info they had was Henka's stories, so Venus decided, 'Let's hear these people out, first.'
Sinan pulled out a chair at their marked up table.
There was much explaining on both sides.
The child described Sinan as a gold angel descending before taking human form. Once upon a time Sinan had believed he was a godly emissary of Solvus, one of his beloved children, and now he could take the form of an actual angel. Since Venus knew his mind, he quickly snubbed the momentary narcissism.
Sinan accepted a glass of water. "So this reaping is an almost-guaranteed execution and the punishment for all crimes? And if you get caught harbouring me that will be your fate - even the kid's?"
The woman nodded. This was completely normal to her.
"Surely that's taking things too far?"
"Our people don't care about children. Or the elderly, disabled, unwell, or anyone for that matter."
The father went into a coughing fit, drawing Sinan's attention.
"S-sorry… I work in the undergrounds, keeping the ancient engines going."
Sinan paused for a beat. "You feel no loyalty to your rulers at all, do you?"
"None. In fact, we hope you're here to invade us. It couldn't be any worse, right? I want a better life for her." At that the child ran into her mother's arms.
Sinan focused. "Please tell me where the generals are."
"The Gatekeepers aren't always listening, but once they are there'll be trouble."
Venus was flying over the city once more. For whatever reason nobody engaged them for a couple minutes. Then ahead, an eighty-foot tall mecha raced across the street, aiming a cannon. A familiar blast disturbed Venus, devolving it into Sinan, his arms flailing as he plummeted, gouging a line down the road.
"Finally! Finally, my revenge is here!"
Sinan looked up, bitumen chunks rolling off him. In the middle of the mecha was a woman with a bowtie and lime-green eyes. She cackled, and the sound was as hard on the ears as her annoying, stringy voice.
"That's right! It's me, Urusai!"
"Who?"
"It was me all along! I was out of commision, but Gaigen beamed me onto one of your ships while Urobach distracted you! Now I'm back with this perfect body! Kettou da, chosen!"
Sinan didn't have time for a card game. He looked around before simply firing a sunbeam through her chest. Her face froze and the mecha tilted backwards, taking out a building. Sinan tried transforming again, his aura pulsed. He started running instead.
"Good aim," Venus said. "Give me a minute and we'll be in the air again."
"Do you think a Gatekeeper might actually cross over to fight us?"
"I don't know, but we cannot underestimate their generals."
"True. Apparently Urobach was just a weak general. Still, if a Gatekeeper crosses over they might destroy this asteroid by accident… I don't like the idea of killing everybody here but is that what it takes to protect countless alien worlds?" The child and her parents flashed in his mind. "Gah, what's the right call!" He gripped his head with both hands, still running.
Before the road ended Venus's powers were back, they changed, sailing up into the air once more. The distant mansion certainly looked grand enough to be the institution for generals. Venus's keen eyes noticed a line of people teleporting onto its roof. Venus charged up a sunbeam. A man slowly raised his arm.
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The transition was so sudden that Venus barely noticed the voidfire.
Suddenly they were in a purple realm surrounded by spongy cliffs of jagged onyx. The spikes repeated infinitely, the horizon's distance unknowable in all directions.
'What the…?'
Venus lowered until it was hovering above the flat peaks. Three generals in grey uniforms surrounded Venus in a distant triangle.
A fourth, an aged man with wispy hair stood closer. "In the time you've been parading about our city we've identified your kaijudo energy. Our scientists are gathering the technology to negate your powers as we speak."
Venus fired a sunbeam. A slit of blackfire opened, the attack was redirected, hitting Venus's back. Venus dropped, claws chipping away crystal to keep from falling to the bottom many kilometres below.
"My name is Head General Bailey," the man continued. He stepped closer, not even having removed his hands from his pockets. "One hundred generals remain stationed in the colony and all of us can take Gatekeeper powers further than you can imagine."
A woman general laughed next, appearing atop a near pillar. "We just happened to act first. Our tech could defeat you right away, but fighting you is more fun, right?"
The other pair blazed to two other close pillars.
Bailey raised a gloved hand and snapped his fingers. Suddenly a hundred black portals opened around Venus. Spooked, Venus shot upwards.
Another man raised his arm. A decagon spawned, half of Venus's size, composed of onyx spikes. It launched, turning slowly. With no time to dodge Venus fired another sunbeam. The object slowed but continued turning with its advance. Then Venus saw someone jettison up with black fire shooting from his foot. A tsunami of cold black crashed into Venus who sped toward the ground.
"Spatial warping," Bailey spoke casually.
Light refracted, but it was actually space itself, and suddenly half of the tsunami was also hitting Venus from the other direction. There was a mighty crunching and as the fire dispersed the phoenix had cracks all over its body.
The woman laughed, "No way. Did he actually think he could accomplish anything with such meagre power?"
Venus started to fall, dissolving, then it was Sinan plummeting.
"Don't… underestimate me!" Sinan punched the speeding wall of onyx. Light surged between the spikes, tunnelling up. The General who'd summoned the decagon widened his eyes before sunlight scorched him to a screaming death.
"Tch! You'll pay for that!" The woman swung her gloved palm.
Onyx spikes were propelled by black fire like missiles.
While falling, Venus reformed, tore out an onyx chunk and it cracked from light energy within. He threw it to the woman and missed. She laughed while preparing an oncoming death swarm, "Where are you aiming!?"
Venus clawed across the glassy wall, tearing out more chunks and throwing them past the others. Sinan was told to do it.
Space warped again and Venus was in the air, surrounded by sharp missiles from all directions.
'We can sense Kaijudo energy, which these guys aren't using, but even so…'
Glorious wings spread then wrapped Venus protectively. Countless portal slits opened, polka-dotting the space, ripping holes through Venus's defence. Even unable to see, Venus could sense the chunks through the redirecting portals.
Venus fired off three sunbeams. The woman and other man burned away.
The other man had teleported but still taken too much damage. Charred, he fell forward and died.
On the other hand, Bailey was even faster than Amira, to the point he only left flecks of black from instant teleporting. After the missiles flew off course, Venus was able to fly a path through on its damaged wings.
Venus flew up until it was level with Bailey's perch. The old man seemed unbothered by his comrades' deaths.
"Impressive battle wisdom, I'm guessing you merged with the phoenix. Alright then, how about we duel?"
Sinan dissolved until he was standing on the opposite ledge. They faced each other in the weird dimension of purple and gleaming black. Tables cut from onyx formed as they took out their decks, shields expanding.
The general charged light-nature, Sinan responded with light-water.
Bailey's card shone green. "I cast Huge Blueprint! I reveal my top four cards and take any creatures with cost seven or more to my hand."
"Playing with a high-cost deck?" Venus wondered.
"What I can sense is that, like me, he's a duelist who predominantly uses light," Sinan said.
Sure enough, four cards floated up: Perfect, Domination Elemental, Welkius, Assault Gate Elemental, Mzalmi=Bugo First, Connected Summit, Genmu Emperor, Infinity Dragon. All floated into his hand.
Sinan slowly charged fire-light and ended.
"I cast Galaxy Charger! I reveal three more cards, Welkius and Mzalmi=Bugo are added to my hand." A copy of Huge Blueprint slid under his deck. "I gain mana, turn end."
Sinan frowned at his hand. 'He'll have five mana next turn! I have to keep up…' He reluctantly charged with Dragon's Sign. "I also cast Galaxy Charger!" Rafululu, Rosia and Miradante Super Future went into his hand, then he joined his opponent on four mana.
Bailey charged his fifth mana - this was it.
"I cast Faerie Power!" The green glow surprised Sinan. "I boost… Huge Blueprint. I cast another Huge Blueprint, I add two Achernar and Stegoro Kaiser to my hand." One card was a spell so it lingered in the air before sliding under his deck. "Turn end."
Sinan didn't move for a moment. "All those high-cost cards, I thought he must use Dragon's Sign like me, but he didn't play it."
"Did you notice the card that just went to the bottom of his deck?" Venus's voice turned ominous, "He's using Heaven's Gate."
"Heaven's Gate…" A memory flashed, Sinan still living in his skyscraper. He remembered seeing Heaven's Gate when first perusing the future options Jupiter had brought over from the islands.
"It's like Dragon's Sign but costs six. It can only bring out light blockers, but it can bring out two creatures and they can be up to cost nine."
Bailey smirked.
Sinan switched to his thoughts, 'Not only is it a shield trigger, but he uses Welkius which can bring out another blocker for free, including another copy of itself. And I saw a new dispector I've never seen. He's holding nine cards, if he swarms his field with blockers that powerful I don't know what we'll be able to do…'
'We'll play it careful.' Venus's warmth was the encouragement he needed. 'You can do this, I believe in you.'
『AN: Last update for the year of 2023! Annoying that I had to cut another duel midway to keep my usual chapter length. I could do the whole 'skip a scene and show it as a flashback later' to keep the duels all in one piece, but I can't be bothered. Enough is going on without me throwing in that confusion as well. The final quarter will be better composed, at any rate. So I'm going out for a New Years partay with friends tonight! I slept too early, so Imma buy energy drinks and try not to get trashed before everyone else this time. Thanks to Acuma for reviewing the last quarter and for duel help! Thanks to Convergence for reviewing 81 and 82!』
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