Yu-Gi-Oh! Your Friends Are Fighting Out of the Underworld

Chapter 395 Code
"Rising Star of Hegemony".

Finally, a calm announcement echoed through the high-speed duel arena.

A pitch-black hurricane seemed to engulf the entire dueling arena, and the black light, like an Ultraman beam, struck the Phantom Wing rider directly.

'boom'

Under the impact, the D-Wheel, which was originally speeding along, seemed to lose all its power. Amidst the dragon's mournful cries and shrieks, the "Phantom Wing" returned to its original form, taking the duelist off the duel's path and plunging into the abyss.

[Yuwu's LP: 4000 → 0]

And when LP reached zero, the game officially came to an end.

[Congratulations, host, on defeating duelist 'Yugo'. You have obtained the following rewards for this duel:]

It's still that timely but perhaps not particularly necessary notification.

Without even bothering to carefully examine the words floating before his eyes, You Ming focused his attention on his opponent.

After casually waving away the spilled energy that should have been absorbed, he simply patted the black dragon lightly.

Meanwhile, the one-eyed black dragon, which had been serving as the mount, changed direction and flew towards the afternoon, following the trajectory of its opponent's fall.

There were no cliffs or precipices, no confluences; it was more like an endless road, and at the end where there seemed to be no light at all, only a giant dragon that looked as if it had lost all its life force lay there.

"Phantom Wing Synchro Dragon"

As one of the Four Heavenly Dragons in the lore, it now appears incredibly weak, but what's even more concerning is the mosaic-like distortion that appears on its body, much like the kind of distortion that would occur in a game with messed-up code.

"So, you really aren't the 'original body' after all."

The moment the words left his mouth, the duelist who had also fallen to the ground stood up.

"Failed to stop..."

Yugo—or rather, the enemy manifesting in the form of Yugo—only glanced at his own body, which had also become blurred.

"I shouldn't have approached you in this way in the first place."

"What was it originally supposed to be like? Could it have been the Overlord Zack, a combination of four heavens?"

He didn't respond, but his golden eyes clearly conveyed a certain truth.

"Is it because Zack hasn't fully matured yet and can't produce the data, or is it that 'it' itself held back?"

Of course, Yugo did not respond to this question either.

His body simply twisted along with the Synchro Dragon, and then vanished from the duelist's sight without leaving a trace, as if he had never existed.

"So what exactly is going on here?"

Just as You Ming was silently gazing in the direction where 'You Wu' had disappeared, she heard her voice in his ear.

Yashiki-warashi—In this silent moment, the little girl in the dress expressed a question:

"Actually, I wanted to ask this before, but the way things are developing now seems a bit strange."

"It should be called 'acceleration.' In essence, someone is constantly rewriting the course of history. Whether it's the 'Heroic Age' we see or the dragon age on the surface before, they are all the result of such rewriting."

"Hey, so are we now chasing after the person who altered the world?"

"Yes, to put it bluntly, we're going to save the world again."

"But what about that guy from before?"

Yugo...

"Well, it's a kind of defense mechanism of the world itself, after all, the things deep inside are not so simple."

Buzzing

At this moment, the world seemed to tremble.

When you look up again, those seemingly endless abysses have vanished, and what appears before you is another vast world. Layer upon layer of doors, city after city.

The towering buildings seemed to float in all directions as if they had no weight, while green things flashed by from time to time.

What are those floating things? Words?

But before she could finish speaking, the floating characters directly formed a physical form.

"Wait, is that the 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon'?"

But before she could see the white figure clearly, she saw it disappear and turn back into that string of characters.

"Wait, it seems to have changed again. This time it's a 'Red-Eyes Black Dragon'."

"After all, image is just the outward appearance of one's true nature."

"What do you mean?"

"It means that it can be whatever it wants."

'Zizzi'

In the very center, something that looks like a card stands and rotates; it seems to exist, yet it is also illusory and ethereal.

"that is……"

"That is the core of the world; if you can control it, you will control the entire world."

"Huh? What did you say?"

Meeting the girl's incredulous gaze, You Ming couldn't help but close his eyes.

As a card game anime, Yu-Gi-Oh! itself rarely mentions this aspect. The original manga and DM at most talked about mythology or magic. The GX era introduced the concept of dimensions, and 5DS introduced the asteroid particle to talk about the basic composition of matter.

If we're talking about the planet itself, the only thing that truly touches on the so-called 'origin' and uses it as the main storyline is Z4, which only briefly touches on that thing.

In the era of oversupply, it was called as follows:

"Source code..."

"You seem to know a lot about this stuff."

Before the words had even finished, another sharp voice echoed.

With a powerful roar of engines, a figure gradually descended from directly above:
"As expected of you, Yu Ming."

"You seem to know me?"

"Of course, even in our time, there are still people who look forward to your arrival, the legendary savior who is all-knowing and all-powerful but has been banished by the world."

"That's such a coincidence, I actually know you too."

When the aircraft finally landed, its tall figure was fully revealed—primarily golden hair, with straight purple hair that looked like mechanical horns in front.

The black and white mask might suggest treachery... well, actually, his character and conduct could indeed be described as treachery:

"Paradocus—who has changed the course of the world time and again, I wonder how many 'aces' you have collected by now?"

A character from the 10th anniversary animated film, a legendary figure who was brutally beaten by three generations of Duel Kings working together.

Of course, he is also a partner of Zone, the final boss in 5DS.

However, compared to his peers who ultimately chose the cradle-crash method, his results were actually more outrageous.

Although there is no evidence, according to him, he witnessed the destruction of countless worlds because of his manipulation of the timeline, and from another perspective, those worlds could be said to have been destroyed by him.

Then the question comes:

"Theoretically speaking, you've destroyed countless worlds. Have you found the ultimate answer to your 'question'?"

(End of this chapter)