I walked back to my throne looking at the vast palace hall with my wine goblet. Drinking my honeyed wine brought me back down to the peaceful meditative state I was in before Seth arrived in Kaiba's body. The throne room was where I generally spent most of my day and it was my lair where I could enact all my will as Pharoah yet just now I felt like I lost a subset of that will in my confrontation with Seth.I am still upset with Seth, my so-called cousin, and his negligence. I entrusted Seth with all my blessings to protect my young one. Seth was the closest person I could communicate when it came to his well-being. Yet, he with all the competence and overeagerness he showed me, he debacle this moment. "How can I rely on him again when it comes to him keeping my aibou safe".
Since being in the afterlife, I have become increasingly paranoid over my aibou, when I was a spirit of the millenium puzzle and my aibou's other half, I could share a mind link with him and know where he was and sense any kind of disturbance that can harm him.
Ever since my transition to the afterlife, the link we used to sense and communicate with each other has severed. When we were engaged in our ceremonial battle one of the rites was for Yugi to prove that he can fully live on his own. We engaged in a duel that was the most exciting, thrilling, and greatest duel battle of my life. Seeing my aibou plot strategy and showing the duelist he truly evolved made me truly proud. What was difficult about my duel was containing my emotions, I have never been a man of many emotions, often stoic, indifferent, unfeeling and always finding solutions then being lost in emotions for I always believed that emotions were weak. I have had numerous tough battles as a duelist, all my adversaries were intimidating and crafty in their ways but I never let my emotions get in the way of my goals except if came to harm to someone close to me.
My toughest adversary, some would say Zorc but surprisingly no it was not him. My toughest battle was against Dartz, for it was a battle where my aibou was not at my side, his soul was stolen from me and is used to awaken an abomination called Levitan. I was determined to save him. I could not go another day without my aibou, my mind was wandering in the darkness, I did not want to sleep another dream until he was found. Dartz played all the mind games and used my aibou against me but our devotion to each other did not break us down.
My aibou is the only person who can truly make me feel ways I could never feel with another individual. I am a hollow man in some respects but a passionate man in other respects. I have never felt passion for another person except for my aibou, his presence could enlighten the passion out of me, he stirs in me fire and brimstone in my need to protect, honor, and devote my life to him. I'm not sure he knows just how much his graceful presence affects me. We often plotted strategy together during our partnership and that moment of bonding over our strategy guided me through life's darkest night. When we had our duel, I was in euphoria in my duel with the King of Games, like I have done in my previous duels I kept my head and never showed my emotion.
When he played the Monster Reborn card to seal away Slifer the Sky Dragon, that sealed my fate, that duel I was saddened that I lost and will no longer be a protector of my aibou but I was at peace that Yugi was the one who held my fate. I am a man born and anointed to govern, guard, protect and be a demigod to a nation of people but my aibou controlled me like the heart and champion of a Pharoah and I was proud, it was then I knew I met somebody special to my heart.
The way he broke down and cried in front me knowing he won showed me his character, a man of selflessness and pure love in his heart. A love that changes my heart of stone. It was that moment my heart began to burst from my chest when I congratulated him. I kept my emotions in check knowing we were in front of friends, I was known to be the cold and arrogant one but in that moment I was willing to give all my feelings, vulnerabilities and heart to my aibou that moment without a care about our friends and rivals. Our mind link was severed but we knew by looking in each other's eyes we never wanted to part from each other and we gave each other our feelings by the way we looked at each other. Everything happened so drastically, before we knew it the doors opened up granting me access to the afterlife and eternal rest but I would never fully be with my aibou.
I looked out the palace window, it was approaching late afternoon, and my throne room was still unusually quiet. Since being in the afterlife, there was never a moment of grave disturbances everything was centered around festivities which will likely start early evening. I could live without parties and silly drunkenness of my people but it is part of keeping paradise in my realm. I am the Pharoah so I must participate to show good faith and will, yet it was never taken me as a passion of habit. My father enjoys parties and he is quite the valiant host, I may ask him to take my place tonight as host. In this afterlife, I was given the throne even though my father and cousin were previous pharaohs, it was anointed by the Gods that I am hailed as the Divine Grandeur Pharoah meaning that I outrank all pharaohs who came before and after me. It was part of the gift of being the only Pharoah to defend the mortal world 5,000 years after my time. I am considered the truest Pharoah among the gods and the most powerful Pharoah.
My mind is still wandering over my recent talks with Seth and my aibou stays on my mind all the time. I wish I could leave this realm to see him or just glance at his beautiful face but I am not granted permission from the gods except that one time when I willed myself to save him from Diva. As the Divine Grandeur I could not just leave my paradise, I have not yet been initiated into godhood officially by the gods even though I am anointed as one in my afterlife. Mahad and Seth could travel down the mortal world through the power of my blessing and the skills of their own magic. I am no doubt envious but that one brief moment I saved my aibou from Diva was the moment I felt fully invigorated.
My Pharoah!I stopped my meditative train of thought as I saw and heard my eldest advisor Shimon walking down the palace hall and bowed in front of me. This man reminds so much of my aibou's grandfather the mannerisms are strikingly similar."My wondrous Pharoah, we have a good hour until we plan for our evening festivities. We plan to have all the best dancers this evening coming to assert their wonderful beautiful eyes on our divine majesty, my Pharoah.
I looked at Shimon, unimpressed for I knew what he was trying to imply but I went along with it,"Yes Shimon, we are eager to have the beautiful dancers tonight, I also must let you know that Seth has come back from the mortal world. Please plan a banquet in his honor with the other guardians". Though I was still upset with Seth, he was a former pharaoh who I chose to lead after my passing in sealing Zorc and he deserved respect among the Royal Court.
"Shimon, I will retire to my room to change for the upcoming banquet. If anything changes, I will send my father to be the host. I bid you a good afternoon" I took my bow and left my throne room not prepared for another banquet but must attend for the sake of formality.