Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

No, you understand no matter how you look at it, right?

Seeing that Jaden still had a relaxed expression, Yusei thought to himself.

"However, even if we know that Mr. Pegasus is the target of that mysterious person, it's useless. We still don't know when that person plans to make a move. Moreover, Mr. Pegasus has a long-standing habit of hiding his whereabouts, so we have no idea when or where he will appear."

Jaden frowned in thought, but suddenly his expression changed to one of sudden realization, and he snapped his fingers excitedly: "That's right, although we don't know, there's one person who definitely knows!"

"Don't sleep yet, Pharaoh, let me get something." As he spoke, Jaden opened his backpack, took out the fat cat that was curled up inside, and then took out a portable webcam laptop. "Hmm, who said that only those who stand in the light are heroes? OK, password confirmed."

"Hmm, looks like we're pretty lucky. The nearby cell towers weren't destroyed. But I wonder if Mr. Hayato is online?"

After opening the laptop, Jaden logged into a chat application that Yusei considered quite old, and opened a chat room called "[I Must Duel Immediately]", where several online users were speaking.

[Ones, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands]: If you don't understand, just ask. Why are my [Armed Dragon] and [Dragon of Light and Darkness] gone, while Caesar only lost one [Electronic Terminator Dragon]?

[Ones, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands]: Is that masked man an idiot? Everyone knows that Caesar abandons old friends at the drop of a hat these days. What's with not losing the [Chimera Berserker Dragon] and [Chimera Giant Ship Dragon] except for the [Electronic Terminator Dragon]?

【Ten~Upper Courtyard】: Manjoume-chan, you didn't think all the lit cards had disappeared, so you used 【XYZ】 to challenge him, did you?

【Ten ~ Uesugi】: @【Recasting Ceremony Glory】Asuka, do you know?

[Recasting the Glory of the Ceremony]: Thank you for the invitation. I was there. The audience was laughing loudly. It is said that it was even shortlisted for this year's professional duelist comedy compilation.

【I will always love Element Heroes】: Really? It's such a pity I can't watch the match between Manjoume and Caesar.

【I will always love Elemental HERO】: Oh, right, @【Just got off the Gundam in Zeon】Mr. Hayato, a friend of mine asked me to ask him something: If some jerk wanted to travel back in time to kill Pegasus and destroy the Duel Monsters, which year should he go back to to stop him?

【Ten~Upper House】: Judai-chan, there are no outsiders here. Is the friend you mentioned yourself?

[I will always love Elemental Heroes]: No, I really have a friend who is from the future.

[One, Ten, Hundred, Thousand]: I wouldn't be surprised if anything strange appeared next to you.

[Just got off the Gundam in Zeon]: A time traveler? Let me think. Oh right, it was when Pegasus first held the "Duel Monster Tournament" in Domino City. @[I'll always love Elemental Heroes]

"Got it, the first 'Duel Monster Tournament' in Domino City will do." After getting the necessary information from the chat room, Jaden thanked the ID [Ren Zai Zeon Gangtank] and then looked up the specific time of the first "Duel Monster Tournament".

Yusei asked with some doubt, "Is it really this time? Is the person who gave you this message trustworthy?"

"Don't worry, Yusei, you can always trust Mr. Hayato." After finding the exact time in the notebook, Jaden closed it and put it back in his backpack, then picked up the fat cat "Pharaoh" that was playing with the light spots. "And if I'm not mistaken, we'll meet Mr. Hayato at our destination."

"Ah sneeze!"

The helicopter's vortex kicked up some dust. As Pegasus, who had been corrupted by Kaiba, stepped off the helicopter, Hayato felt a tickle in his nose, sneezed, rubbed his nose, and looked at the clock beside him.

Bekas arrived quite "punctually," saying that if it was going to start at 12 o'clock, he had to be there at 12 o'clock, not wanting to be a minute early.

Subconsciously looking up, Hayato remarked, "The wind is quite noisy today."

Chapter 491 Jonouchi: I haven't gotten on the bus yet!

The midday sun wasn't too harsh because of the clouds. As he listened to Pegasus's introduction of the newly released card series, Hayato looked up at the clouds of various shapes drifting by.

Out of boredom, he even associated the shape of clouds with Duel Monsters.

"This one starts with the right, this one starts with the left, this one is the Azure Lock Dragon Serpent, and this one is Red Dad and the Lazybones."

He murmured to himself.

"This is a kitten, this is a puppy, this is the Heavenly Court, and this is a motorcycle."

"Um!?"

Where did this motorcycle come from?

Hayato suddenly realized that something extraordinary had just swept across the sky. He rubbed his eyes and looked up again, but he couldn't find the long, red motorcycle that he had just seen flying across the sky.

It was probably a motorcycle. Anyway, Hayato saw that it had two wheels. It couldn't be a wheelchair, could it? Not everyone can struggle to get up and race like Electro-Stream in any situation.

Hayato felt he should remember something, but he wasn't exactly a genius with a super memory. At most, he just felt a sense of déjà vu about the motorcycle that had just flown by, but he couldn't recall anything related to it.

However, although he doesn't remember what happened, Hayato has a way of finding out what that motorcycle was.

With a snap of his fingers, [Disruption Yellow], still in his pajamas, found himself being held in the hand of [Dark Knight Gaia], who appeared behind Hayato.

With a powerful "Ora!", [Disruption Yellow] soared into the sky!

—Jaden sat on the back seat of the Yusei that Akane couldn't reach—

"Honestly, they don't listen to us at all."

An elbow strike knocked down a security guard on the rooftop. Judai helped the man lie down, saying, "He'll be fine after resting for about ten minutes."

Behind Jaden, Yusei also knocked down another security guard with a "Crab Rising Punch." However, Yusei, who came from a street thug background, showed no gentleness in helping the other person up, and simply let the other person collapse on the ground.

Having been tricked by Bakura into sneaking up on him and gouging out his eyes, Pegasus is now very careful about his personal safety. His decision not to arrive at the scene early was partly to avoid troublesome questions from reporters, and partly due to this consideration.

The security personnel who arrived early had virtually eliminated all potential dangers, including the rooftop. After all, while ordinary people wouldn't go to the rooftop, there was no guarantee that someone like Spider-Man or Batman might be there posing for a photo.

However, although the security guards on the rooftop where Yusei and Jaden were located had never let their guard down, they were more concerned about whether there were any intruders on the building's exterior walls and the stairs leading to the rooftop. They had no idea that someone would actually come down from the sky on a motorcycle.

Standing on the edge of the rooftop and looking down, Jaden exclaimed, "Wow, there are so many people! It looks really lively."

“The more lively it is, the harder it will be for those present to escape if attacked.” Yusei began to imagine what kind of tragedy would occur if this place were attacked by that masked man. “It is a paradox that the masked man would use a Duel Monster that has evolved to the future to kill the father of Duel Monsters in this era. His goal is to destroy this entire world and spacetime.”

"So we have to stop that person. First, we need to determine the time of that person's attack, and then go back to before that time and evacuate the crowd." Judai said with a rare serious expression, "As long as we change the past, the future will also change, and then the active and passive relationship between us and that masked man will be reversed."

"In order to eliminate the Duel Monster, he needs to 'uphold history' and stop us, while we need to defeat him when he comes to stop us."

The principle sounds simple, but it's difficult for Yusei and Jaden to implement. First of all, they need to control the time precisely, neither too short nor too long.

Going too far into the past could easily trigger too many butterfly effects. Perhaps even the masked man wouldn't need to lift a finger; the world of Duel Monsters would be destroyed by the two of them themselves.

However, if the timing is too close, it may not be enough to have a significant impact on changing the future.

It was precisely to determine this "degree" that Yusei and Jaden appeared at the point when the attack was about to occur, in order to estimate exactly how long it would take to travel through time.

Having witnessed the destructive power of the Duel Monsters that wreaked havoc in Europe during Jaden's timeline, both Jaden and Yusei could imagine that if that masked man were to make his move here, the vast majority of people in the plaza below would not be able to escape and would only meet their end in death.

But they won't, and can't, try to save them, because it would be futile.

They need to stand by and watch as large numbers of innocent people die, and then go back in time to reverse this future.

Just then, they noticed a flash of light on the rooftop opposite, and a giant white motorcycle landed there. Appearing alongside the motorcycle were the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and the Stardust Dragon.

The materialized Duel Monsters were no longer just simple projections. As soon as they appeared in the sky above the central square of the shopping street, they cast several huge shadows, attracting the attention of the crowd on the ground. Even Pegasus couldn't help but raise his head and look in surprise at the several giant dragons circling in the air.

"Wow! The virtual projection system of the Kaiba Group has developed to this level? It's amazing! It feels like there are real Duel Monsters flying in the sky." Muto Sugoroku exclaimed. "And the recreations of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and the Cyber ​​End Dragon are really high."

"However, the other two are dragon monsters that I've never seen before."

The monsters that Muto Sugoroku was referring to were, of course, the Ultimate Jewel God Rainbow Dragon and the Stardust Dragon, two Duel Monsters that would only appear in the future.

Beside Muto Sugoroku, his chief disciple, Jonouchi, gradually shifted his gaze from surprise and suspicion to seriousness.

“No, this is completely wrong, Master Sogoku!” Jonouchi stared intently at the Blue-Eyes White Dragon among the four giant dragons. “That Blue-Eyes feels so abnormal to me. It’s not the same aura that Kaiba’s Blue-Eyes possesses at all. That’s the only thing I can’t be wrong about.”

"That's definitely not the Blue-Eyes that the seahorse possesses, and it's about to attack!"

As Jonouchi had anticipated the meaning behind the head-raising gesture, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon he pointed to indeed began to gather its attack in its mouth, and the other three dragons followed suit, raising their heads one by one.

The first to attack was the Stardust Dragon. High-pressure air was spewed from its mouth, and the Stardust Dragon, which usually kindly protected its companions, was now transformed into a destructive machine. With a single head shake, the sturdy buildings were cut in half by its breath, and a large number of shattered bricks and glass fell from the sky.

The merciless "rain of swords" fell on the crowd who had no time to escape. Many people were decapitated by glass or smashed into mincemeat by heavy building debris before they could even scream.

The other three dragons also launched their attacks, completely engulfing the central square from all directions.

As for their initial target, Pegasus, he was directly suppressed by the half-cut skyscraper in the first wave of attacks. Despite deploying a large force, no amount of manpower could stop the attack of a materialized Duel Monster. Before being killed, Pegasus only had time to utter "Oh! Noooooo!"

After surviving a round of attacks, Hayato and the materialized Gaia beside him pushed away a piece of building debris that had almost crushed him.

Thanks to Hayato's action of throwing [Disruption Yellow] out earlier, he was able to learn from [Disruption Yellow] that a jellyfish head and a crab head had appeared on the roof, and thus realized where the strange feeling he had been feeling came from.

This is clearly the scene where Paradox, the boss who is not the strongest but can be called the bravest in all the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, is about to kill Pegasus. The red motorcycle I saw earlier must be the "D-Wheel," the vehicle and dueling device of Yusei Fudo from the future.

Recalling the impending disaster in his memory, Hayato tried to evacuate the crowd, but it was too late. Four giant dragons appeared in the sky in succession. Two of them might be unfamiliar to others, but Hayato knew them all too well.

Claimed to be a one-of-a-kind card in the world, yet a whole deck of [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon] can be found in DP07 John's pack, along with "Crab Bro" Fudo Yusei's Tamashii, and [Stardust Dragon] with a standard 2500 points of protagonist ace attack power.

If it weren't for the fact that he had just used [Gaia] before, Hayato wouldn't even have been able to complete the card-drawing action before being crushed to death on the spot.

After pushing aside the boulder and seeing the light of day again, Hayato looked around and found that the once bustling commercial street was now completely destroyed and reduced to ruins. Not far away, Yugi and Jonouchi, who seemed to have escaped the destruction, were holding a tattered headscarf with the character "双" (double) engraved on it and crying out in grief:

"Chicken sauce!"

"Double Six Master!!"

A sorrowful scene is always marred by untimely disruptors. A triumphant laugh echoes from a distant rooftop; Hayato turns to see a figure wearing a black and white mask.

"Hahaha, fantastic! With this, the ultimate experiment is complete, and I have accomplished an unprecedented act of saving the world!"

"Who goes there?!" Jonouchi suddenly stood up, glaring angrily at the masked man who was laughing wildly.

Sugoroku Muto was Yugi's grandfather, but also a crucial mentor to Jonouchi. It was Sugoroku's guidance that enabled Jonouchi to grow and improve in the world of Duel Monsters. Now, Sugoroku Muto is dead, and it's highly likely that this laughing madman killed him!

However, his angry questioning within the city went unanswered by the masked man, who continued to laugh maniacally.

"The paradox that the father of Duel Monsters died because of Duel Monsters is now established, and the future will be changed because of it!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

"Um!?"

The masked man's maniacal laughter abruptly ceased. From the rooftop of a tall building not far from him, a giant red dragon appeared out of thin air, circling a motorcycle as it hurtled towards the ground. On the motorcycle, the masked man discovered that Yusei Fudo and Jaden Yuki, whom he had met not long ago, were riding alongside him.

"They actually chased me all the way here? Hmph, but it's too late, I've already killed Pegasus!"

The masked man was unimpressed by the appearance of Yusei and Jaden, but to his surprise, the red dragon "Ultramania Tzolkin" that brought the two of them did not disappear after a short while as previously seen. Instead, it landed on the ground with Yusei's "D-Wheel" and swallowed Yugi and Hayato, who were still alive on the ground, into its mouth before disappearing into a round hole.

Jōnei was left completely bewildered: "I haven't even gotten on the train yet?!"

And in the very next second after the red dragon "Ultramania Zolkin" disappeared, the buildings that had been destroyed by the Stardust Dragon and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon suddenly seemed to reverse time and flew into the air, precisely returning to their previous locations. The corpses of the people who had been killed, however, simply respawned and disappeared like monsters in a video game!

The masked man's expression was distorted beneath the mask. He had a profound understanding of time and space, and he knew perfectly well why this scene was unfolding—wasn't it because the past had been altered?

Clearly, those damned Yusei Fudo and Jaden Yuki took the legendary duelists Yugi Muto and Hayato Kobayashi to an earlier past to change history!

"You dare to stop me again and again? Don't even think about it!" Enraged, the masked man turned around and rode his giant "D-Wheel" again, following the altered trajectory of time and space, jumping back to the past.

————Third Bomb: Bites the Dust————

Domino City Commercial Street Central Plaza, 11:30 AM (30 minutes ago)

"Ooh ooh ooh~~"

Just like half an hour later, the red dragon appeared out of thin air on the rooftop. However, this time the red dragon's flight path collided with the two security personnel on the rooftop. When Yusei's "D-Wheel" flew out from the dragon's head, the security personnel on the rooftop were knocked unconscious by the red dragon "Ultramania Zolkin" without them having to lift a finger.