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"Who's there?!"
Kagurazaka's excited shout was way too loud. The masked duelist immediately turned his head in that direction—and Hikaru Amagi saw him too. His expression shifted, and he quickly hissed, "Tiella, why didn't you warn me?"
"That wasn't part of our agreement," Tiella replied with an indifferent shrug.
Besides, from her perspective, he was just a regular human—an irrelevant bystander. Letting him watch and stir up the mood a little? Harmless fun.
But the masked duelist's eyes lit up the moment he saw Kagurazaka. Flames coiled tighter around his emaciated frame, then launched themselves toward the interloper like a crimson serpent ready to incinerate.
In mere seconds, a massive fire snake coiled around Kagurazaka, trapping him in a vice of scorching energy.
"Stand down, Hikaru Amagi!" the masked duelist barked. "If you want this guy to live, surrender! You plan to lock Uria with Thousand-Eyes Restrict, don't you? Think again—just put your damn—!"
"IMPUDENT."
Before Hikaru could even respond, Tiella's body erupted with a brilliant violet light. In the next instant, both the duelist and Kagurazaka saw her—her temporary, petite, and graceful form shimmered into visibility.
Face cold as ice, Tiella raised her right hand. A beautifully ornate staff materialized in her grip, and dozens of puppet strings of violet light descended from the sky—twisting, threading, wrapping tightly around the flames and Kagurazaka both.
BOOM—
Before the masked duelist could react, Kagurazaka was yanked free, violently flung through the air and landing in a heap at Hikaru's feet.
Still dazed, Kagurazaka had no idea what just happened—only the raw relief of surviving whatever hell that had been.
Tiella's gaze, however, was murder. She glared daggers at the masked man, ready to dismember him on the spot.
If the Duel hadn't still been ongoing, she might've.
Since awakening, Tiella had familiarized herself with the rules of the modern "ritual" that was Duel Monsters. To her, this kind of cheap hostage stunt was the work of treacherous worms.
But not during the rite of ritual combat.
And even though it was Hikaru technically dueling—she had been influencing the match every step of the way. From her perspective, she was just as much a participant. To try and cheat in front of her?
Unforgivable.
"Hikaru Amagi, destroy this bastard already!" she snapped, furious.
Did he have any idea how humiliating it was to be ambushed like this during her first proper public duel with humans?
More importantly—she had been acting all high and mighty around Hikaru, posing like a divine being. And now some mortal punk nearly took a hostage under her nose?
Absolutely disgraceful.
Hikaru gave a nod, his expression dark. He looked across the field. "Then—I Special Summon Thousand-Eyes Restrict in Defense Position. Anything else you'd like to try?"
The masked man was breathing heavily.
His body, already scorched from channeling the Sacred Beast, was now being strangled by Tiella's ethereal threads. He looked like a corpse barely being puppeteered.
Thousand-Eyes Restrict's effect: while it remains face-up on the field, no other monster can attack or change battle position.
No matter Uria's 6000 ATK—if it couldn't attack, it might as well be 0.
"Hmph. Fine. I end my turn."
He still had some options left.
Thousand-Eyes could absorb other monsters, sure—but when absorbing a monster with "?" ATK, the result is always considered 0.
"My turn. Draw!"
"I activate Thousand-Eyes Restrict's effect—Absorb the Sacred Beast!"
The flaming, winged monstrosity roared, but the eating gaze of Thousand-Eyes bound it in place. What should've been a torment turned into a release—Uria let out a haunting, almost grateful cry as it dissolved into the darkness.
Thousand-Eyes Restrict – ATK: 0
"Heh… Next turn, I'll just destroy it and discard another Trap to revive Uria again," the masked man muttered with grim determination.
"It's true," Hikaru replied. "I still can't beat Uria in direct combat. But I don't need to. I'll just have Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem attack you directly."
"Hah! You can't use Thousand-Eyes as Fusion material again, and Flame Swordsman's Domain is gone. What are you gonna do—just wish it into the Graveyard?"
"Easy," Hikaru smirked, holding up a card. "Quick-Play Spell—De-Fusion!"
"!!"
"Target 1 Fusion Monster on the field; return it to the Extra Deck."
He looked down at the masked man, gaze cutting. "Recognize it?"
"Y-You bastard…"
"I return Thousand-Eyes Restrict to the Extra Deck. The absorbed Uria goes to your Graveyard.
Now—take this hit.
Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, direct attack! MEGA IMPACT FIST!!!"
As Hikaru shouted, Tiella raised her staff—and threads of violet energy wrapped around the golem like power conduits.
Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem's punch detonated like a meteor. The masked duelist didn't even flinch—he simply disappeared into the smoke, thrown backwards like a rag doll.
When the dust cleared, he lay crumpled on the ground—completely motionless.
Then—unnaturally, puppet-like—he stood straight up again. His bones cracked with every twitch.
"So this… is your style?" The voice was no longer the same. The cadence, the tone—it wasn't the same person.
"You lay traps, piece by piece… drawing your opponent into a snare. It reeks of Crowler's teaching."
"Who are you?" Hikaru demanded.
"Who I am… is irrelevant."
Sure it is, Hikaru thought, lips twitching.
That voice. That attitude. That aura. Fusion Army.
Who else could it be?
Reiji Akaba.
The man in the mask looked at Tiella. "Darkness. Cold. I see now, Hikaru Amagi—you're not as righteous as you appear."
People see what they want. After glimpsing "Midrash" once, this man had decided Hikaru was the same kind of monster as him.
"You've been standing against us—because you rely on that spirit, haven't you?
It may be powerful. It may be terrifying. But compared to the true Sacred Beasts—it's nothing."
He was confident.
He hadn't shown all his cards. But with his experiments on spirit data, he had discovered ways to steal, clone, and mass-produce.
The Ancient Gear Hounds had been mass-cloned using this same tech. And over the break, he had finally managed to create a copy of Uria.
Only one. Only usable once. And it required a sacrificial host.
But it was enough.
Enough to make him grin from ear to ear.
More valuable than all his cross-dimensional conquests combined.
"How dare you—!" Tiella seethed.
The Sacred Beasts!? Compared to her!?
Just because she took on a smaller form!?
"You think you can compare to me…? That you can copy a Sacred Beast, use it once, and discard it like trash?
Fool."
"This was just a test," the masked man said, beginning to collapse. "Next time… it won't be a foot soldier."
A final warning.
He'd only had one Uria, and today had been a live experiment. But since he'd lost, he had to leave something ominous behind.
With that, the body crumpled, fully unconscious.
He didn't bother recovering the Uria card. It was a disposable product—cracked, unstable, dying.
Hikaru ran over and checked—barely a pulse.
He looked toward the duelist's Deck. It had already burned to ash. The lingering fire atop the debris still shimmered with Uria's wrath.
And there it was—a fractured card lying alone.
Uria, Lord of Searing Flames.
Not like the blank, nameless versions floating around this world. This one had full text. Real stats. Real effects.
But it was cracked nearly beyond recognition.
Hikaru quickly picked it up.
"Hikaru Amagi. Keep that card close," Tiella said, voice frigid. "What an arrogant, ignorant mortal."
"He thought he could copy a Sacred Beast. Use it. Abandon it. No consequences.
How foolish."
She paused, eyes narrowed.
"That card… it retained Uria's consciousness, even briefly. That makes it precious."
Hikaru nodded, slipping the card carefully into his case.
It might look ready to shatter—but who could say? In time… which one would be deemed real? Which would break first?
He never imagined he'd gain a Sacred Beast card this way.
So grim, so serious—and yet, he couldn't help but feel like laughing.