Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

As he spoke, Baron glanced at the rearview mirror and noticed a hint of regret on Marufuji Ryo's face. Keeping his eyes on the road ahead, he casually added, "Also, although there wasn't much time for you to chase after your idols, I still managed to get some souvenirs from those guys..."

Marufuji didn't quite hear what Baron said after that. After he picked up a piece of cardboard that Baron had placed in front of the tour guide's seat, all he could see was the cardboard.

The cardboard itself wasn't made of any special material; it was just an ordinary piece of cardboard. The incomplete color printing on the other side suggested it was something someone had casually torn from the packaging of something and cut into the square shape in his hand. What truly captured Marufuji Ryo's attention were the words written on the cardboard with a marker.

"A fantastic duel! (^ω^) Looking forward to your future — Pegasus J. Crawford"

"zsbd——Kobayashi Hayato"

"Go for it, kid—Yugi Muto!"

"Hmph, my little sister is much more obedient—Katsuya Jonouchi"

Noticing Ryo Marufuji's expression, Baron said with a hint of pride, "Although we were on opposing sides before, we can still be considered as connections. I saw you trying to get autographs from Hayato Kobayashi and the others at the buffet restaurant, but you didn't succeed. Now I've made your dream come true, so don't thank me too much."

"No, what I meant was why you're signing on this kind of cardboard? And the words before the signature seem a bit meaningless." Holding the cardboard sign, Marufuji Ryo, who was usually overly serious, rarely complained like a child, but the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up and a smile appeared on his face.

"But thank you very much, Mr. Baron."

Baron smiled slightly upon hearing this, but then Marufuji Ryo added, "However, I still won't help you hide the matter of kickbacks."

"No, why haven't you taken those unimportant things to heart yet? You should forget about this now that you've taken my benefits. Don't you know that this is an unspoken rule in the adult world?"

"I'm sorry, I can't do it. I'm just a twelve-year-old child."

On the bus carrying the "Electronic Flow" tour group, Baron and Marufuji Ryo's conversation went unnoticed by Hayato and the others. After checking out of their hotel rooms, they were also on their way to their next destination.

As before, Hayato remained in the driver's seat, with Malik in the passenger seat helping him open the map and plan the route. After visiting the ruins of the three-thousand-year-old royal city, they now planned to head to their next destination.

But as soon as Malik opened the electronic map, he froze and said to Hayato, "Brother-in-law, is your map broken?"

"No way, this is something I borrowed from Kaiba... It's not going to break so easily." Hayato turned to look at the tablet in Malik's hand. Instead of displaying the surrounding map information as it normally would, the transparent tablet showed several flashing, pixelated gibberish characters.

"It's really broken? I remember it was fine last night." Hayato couldn't help but glance at Malik. "Wasn't it you who was in charge of the map yesterday? What did you do with it?"

Malik recalled the previous night. He learned from Hayato that Hayato had secretly called his sister, a fact he hadn't remembered. Knowing he'd be in deep trouble when he got back, Malik, feeling dejected, resorted to binge eating, consuming two packs of instant noodles in one go. He vaguely remembered using the electronic map to weigh down the noodle bowl...

“No, I didn’t do anything,” Malik said firmly.

Just as Hayato was looking at Malik with a "Do you think I'd believe that?" look, the garbled characters on the electronic map suddenly started moving and combining together to form a person's portrait—it was none other than Keipai!

"Ah, found him, is that Hayato-kun?" On the tablet, Keihei looked around, seemingly using the scanning camera on the electronic map to observe his surroundings. He quickly found Hayato next to Malik, who was holding the map, waved to him, and said with a smile.

Hayato greeted him, "Long time no see, Naruto."

"Who is Naruto?! It's Keihei, Keihei, Keihei!" Keihei's face turned sour in an instant. He excitedly corrected Hayato, repeating his name three times before saying helplessly, "This electronic map suddenly disappeared before. It was indeed in your hands, Hayato-nii. Luckily, I installed a backdoor on it so I can locate it at any time."

"That's terrible, Keihei! How could you do something like that at your age? It's wrong to hack other people's equipment." Hayato said righteously, looking at Keihei on the electronic map.

Guiping glanced at Hayato and retorted, "Hayato-kun, you have no right to say such things. No, come to think of it, this map originally belonged to me."

"Never mind that, Hayato-kun, I have something important to discuss with you."

Seeing Keipei's somewhat serious expression, Hayato also became serious and said, "Then, does that mean Kaiba has been locked up in some virtual world again?"

"No, why would you think that way, Hayato-kun?" Keihei tilted his head and asked curiously.

“Look, Kaiba was imprisoned once during the Five Elders era, and once during Duel City by Noah. Plus, he was involved in the Memory of the Kings slab not long ago. So, he’s been imprisoned in the virtual world three times in total.” Hayato counted on his fingers. “Especially during the Five Elders era, Keihei, you said the same thing when you came to us to rescue him.”

“Although it is indeed related to my brother, it’s not like that,” Guiping shook his head and denied. “I don’t quite understand what ‘King’s Memory’ is, but a few days ago my brother did suddenly change, as if he suddenly grew up.”

"He used to look down on other Duel Monster cards and only acknowledge the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Suddenly he told me that the Thunder Dragon deck I had just collected was also pretty good. It was as surprising as a chocolate in the refrigerator suddenly disappearing."

Although it sounds a bit strange for Kaiba's younger brother, Keihei, to say that Kaiba has grown up, in some ways the older Kaiba is indeed more mature than the younger Keihei. For example, Kaiba often acts impulsively on a whim, while Keihei is generally able to remain calm and think things through.

The best example is Duel Monsters. Kaiba gets an instant card addiction at the mere mention of playing cards, but Keihei doesn't have that much of an addiction, and he would never do something like lavishly spending money on cards.

"A few days ago... probably after I came back from the world of 'King's Memory'. Also, if the chocolate you mentioned was the one you put in the lab fridge, I think I ate it." Hayato said with a grin, earning a roll of his eyes from Keipai.

"Don't interrupt me to get to the point." Getting back to the main topic, Guiping talked about his experiences over the past two days. "After my brother failed to achieve the expected results in an experiment, he suddenly decided to go to Egypt to find you, Hayato, and Yugi. He didn't tell me what he was going to do. You know he's always been so proactive, I'm used to it."

"However, after he and I arrived in Egypt in his jet, which I still can't quite accept as a matter of taste, he suddenly disappeared on the way!"

"Just vanished without a trace? Did Kaiba get lost?" In the back seat, upon hearing Keipai's words, Jonouchi wore a gloating expression. "How could such a grown man suddenly get lost? Is Kaiba some kind of directionally challenged person?"

Guiping corrected, "No, we didn't get lost. My brother and I were walking on the street one after the other, waiting for the plane to refuel, and then looking for Hayato and you guys. We went out on the street just because my brother was afraid I would be bored and accompanied me. There weren't many people on the street at all."

"But suddenly, my brother was just walking in front of me normally, and then he suddenly disappeared from my sight, as if he had vanished into thin air!"

"Suddenly disappeared? An idea suddenly popped into my head!" Pegasus exclaimed excitedly upon hearing this. "Is there more? Keipai boy? The Kaiba boy thing gave me a lot of card design ideas—!"

Pegasus, who had come to the front, was covered in the mouth by Hayato and pressed back down. He told Jonouchi and Honda to keep an eye on this guy who acted recklessly whenever he had an inspiration, and said to Keihei on the electronic map, "He suddenly disappeared. Keihei, you should have tried to contact Kaiba, but you couldn't get in, right?"

Seeing that Keihei nodded, Hayato continued, "I understand. So, Keihei, your purpose in hacking into this electronic map must be to ask us for help, right? Send us the map, and we'll head over to find you right away."

"Yes, I've already sent the data, Hayato-nii. I'll be waiting for you where you disappeared." Seeing that Hayato understood the purpose of his contact without him having to explain in detail, Keihei quickly pressed something on the other end. Keihei's avatar disappeared on the electronic map and returned to normal, displaying a map of the area around Hayato and his group. At the same time, the destination input was automatically completed, and a red line led from the location to a certain place.

Seeing that Keihei's call seemed to have ended, Hayato smiled and turned back to say, "There's no need to worry about Kaiba's safety, but what if we happen to be there to see him make a fool of himself? Everyone, are you ready?"

"We must set off immediately and mock the seahorse right away!"

Malik quipped, "Why are you so enthusiastic in a place like this, brother-in-law?"

Chapter 869 As long as we don't stop, the road will keep extending.

Rewind to a few tens of minutes earlier, when the Seahorse parked the Blue Eye jet at the airport.

Although the Blue-Eyes Jet was equipped with the Seahorse Group's advanced technology, it still had a considerable amount of fuel inside. However, considering that there were only so many airports in Egypt that could accommodate jets, and that it was unlikely that Hayato and his crew would happen to be right next to an airport, the Seahorse needed to stop at the airport first.

He had it all planned out. The Blue-Eyes jet was equipped with an autopilot system that could be remotely controlled by a computer. He planned to fly the Blue-Eyes jet to Hayato and his group, who were unaware that they had come to Egypt, and then jump out of the plane to scare them. After that, he would let the Blue-Eyes jet, which was fully fueled, fly back to Domino City on its own.

Huh? That kind of move is too dangerous, humans can't do it? What nonsense! The word "can't do" doesn't exist in my dictionary, Seto Kaiba's dictionary. With the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, I can even jump off a plane!

After arranging for the staff of the Egyptian branch of Seahorse Entertainment Group to refuel his beloved Blue Eye Jet and perform basic maintenance, Seahorse noticed that Guiping, who had traveled to Egypt with him on the jet, was looking at a tablet in his hand.

The dazzling numbers on the tablet were data transmitted from the headquarters of Kaiba Entertainment Group in Domino City, concerning Kaiba's previous failed experiment, the "Dragon Wheel," which was essentially a knock-off version of the "D Wheel."

The dense and complex numbers would likely make even adults with relevant expertise dizzy, as if they were reading an incomprehensible book. However, Guiping easily understood the data and manually marked some of the data that had been verified as incorrect through previous experiments. He also corrected and modified some of the data within his capabilities.

When keywords like "Haima Group" and "prodigy" are mentioned, most people can probably only think of Seto Kaiba at first glance, after all, his resume is so dazzling.

He inherited the Hippo Arms Group before he was even an adult, and led the transformed Hippo Entertainment Group to become the pinnacle of the Duel Monsters field through a win-win cooperation with the International Illusion Society. He invented the virtual projection system and extended it to develop cutting-edge products such as dueling platforms and dueling disks.

However, both Kaiba and others who knew Keihei were well aware that this boy, who was only a little over ten years old, was no less talented than his older brother, who always shone brightly in front of others. In the fields of electronic information, his talent was even much greater than Kaiba's.

It's amazing that such two brilliant talents emerged from the small orphanage that adopted the two brothers. Kaiba Gosaburo really struck gold by adopting them. Unfortunately, he squandered his good fortune.

Seeing Keihei engrossed in processing data that even adults found challenging, Kaiba, for some reason, suddenly suggested, "Take a break, Keihei. I'll go for a walk with you."

"Ugh. Ugh, it's all your fault, you got the numbers wrong." Without even looking up, Keihei said subconsciously, then suddenly realized that this wasn't a company employee reporting various matters to him, but his older brother Kaiba speaking to him.

Keihei jerked his head up and scrutinized Seto Kaiba standing in front of him with a critical eye: "To think you can say something like that, instead of just thinking about your own enjoyment and causing me a lot of trouble like before, are you really your brother-in-law?"

For once, he forced a stiff smile onto his lips and gave his younger brother a strained and awkward one. But upon hearing Keiping's words, Kaiba immediately reverted to his usual cold demeanor and haughtily snorted, "Hmph, what kind of weird image do you have of me, Keiping? If you don't want to go, then forget it."

"No, of course I'm going." Guiping grinned, put down his tablet, turned it off, and followed the seahorse, whose back was to him.

After leaving the airport in a private car and arriving at the nearby streets, although it was the first day of the new year, the streets were not deserted. After all, this new year is only the Gregorian calendar new year. For Egyptians who use the Islamic calendar, March 15th of this year is their Islamic calendar new year.

However, it is still a rare statutory holiday, and it is not the annoying holiday that appears to be a holiday but is actually a compensatory holiday in ten or twenty years. It is a real holiday. Many local Egyptians still take advantage of the holiday to accompany their families to stroll around the streets. The number of people going home and those going out cancel each other out, so the number of people on the street is not much different from usual.

"The streets are really lively, but I didn't see many Duel Monsters-related shops." Looking around, Guiping said casually, holding a pita bread he had just bought from the street. This hollow pocket bread was stuffed with Guiping's favorite chocolate-flavored cream, turning a staple food that was almost like a sandwich into a dessert. Guiping took a bite of the pita bread as he walked.

Although Keihei has grown up and is no longer as mischievous as he was when he was a child, and has become very polite and courteous, there are still many people on this street who enjoy snacks while walking. In fact, the greatest pleasure of these street snacks lies in eating them while walking, and Keihei is enjoying the food in his hands like a child, which is quite rare.

"It's probably because the average cost of living here isn't high enough compared to Eurasia and the Americas. With most of the expenses going towards basic needs, even Duel Monsters, which are popular worldwide, would face some difficulties in spreading across this land," Kaiba said casually, glancing at Keihei beside him.

"You really like chocolate, don't you, Keihei? But it's nice to be a normal kid sometimes, and it would be even better if you weren't so picky about food."

"No, everything except celery is negotiable."

The two brothers, Seto Kaiba and Seto Kaiba, walked down the street, chatting casually like normal brothers. If someone familiar with Seto Kaiba were here, they would likely be surprised by the scene, especially by Kaiba's upturned lips, and might even wonder if they had stayed up too late watching the New Year's Eve fireworks and were still not fully awake.

The dreamlike experience in the "King's Memory" world not only allowed Atem to successfully regain his name and destroy the Great Evil God Zok Nellofa, but also changed Seto Kaiba. After witnessing the events that occurred in the world of memories, he, who had always only looked towards the distant future, learned to pause his gaze on what was around him for a moment.

Besides that, he also had some inexplicable insights, but he wasn't in a hurry to figure out those mysterious things, because he knew that the simplest and most effective way to deal with this situation was to find someone to duel with. Any problem could be easily solved by using a duel.

This is also one of the reasons why Kaiba came to find Hayato and Yugi. After all, he once tried to collect data on many duelists to create a Duel Robot just to satisfy his card addiction, but the final result was a complete failure. Even the Duel Robot that he intended to reuse as an entertainment project in Kaiba Park was destroyed by Hayato in a duel because it went berserk.

Although Kaiba had always disdainfully referred to Jonouchi as a "second-rate duelist with a third-rate deck," he had to admit that even a "second-rate duelist" like Jonouchi was not easy to find. It wasn't just anyone who could play cards with him; only a few people could play a round or two, and even fewer could keep up with his enjoyment.

Of course, having fun is one thing, but Hayato using a shady deck to annoy people is another. If he were to play cards with Hayato who plays dirty tricks, Kaiba would rather go to the kids' class at Kaiba Park and stomp on the weak. At least he could summon the invincible Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon normally and have some fun.

Upon further reflection, Yugi Muto wasn't a good choice either. In terms of the appearance rate of trap cards in his deck when playing cards, he wasn't much better than Hayato Kobayashi. And then there was that mediocre Joey Wheeler. Although his courage in facing Blue-Eyes head-on was commendable, his cockroach-like stubbornness that he couldn't be defeated no matter what was done was really annoying.

Sure enough, there's only one other game that's destined to be my opponent!

Kaiba nodded to himself, lost in thought. Meanwhile, Guiping, unaware that his brother had started thinking about playing cards after mentioning Duel Monsters, took another bite of pita bread and looked around, saying, "But it's okay if there are obstacles. I remember your wish, brother. To help you achieve your wish and build Kaiba Parks all over the world, I'll put in my best effort!"

Upon hearing Guiping's words, Kaiba smiled.

Yes, everything we've accumulated over the years has meaning.

Although Egypt is not yet developed, with the help of the Haima Group, one day a Haima Park where children can laugh will be built on this land. Not only in Egypt, but in many other places, as long as we don't stop, the road ahead will continue to extend.

"Bah-"

As he walked along the road, Keihei seemed to trip slightly on the uneven surface. The pita bread he hadn't finished eating slipped from his hand and flew forward because of his loss of balance. However, instead of catching the insignificant pita bread, Kaiba, who seemed nonchalant but was actually looking after his younger brother, immediately reached out to help Keihei up.

But he froze when he had only extended his hand halfway.

Because he actually saw that the pita bread that Guiping had thrown out of his hand had mysteriously stopped in mid-air and did not continue to fly out, and Guiping, who was about to fall, was frozen in a swinging motion trying to regain his balance.

The noisy voices that had been surrounding them fell silent in an instant. Kaiba looked up and saw that the people around him were also frozen in place, just like Guiping.

It was as if, in that instant, the forward flow of time in the entire world was stopped by something, while only Kaiba's own time continued to flow forward. In other words, time stopped?

Instead of immediately investigating what had happened, Kaiba frowned and crouched down to check on Keihei's condition.

After helping Keihei stand up straight, Kaiba noticed that while he was adjusting Keihei's body, he couldn't react to any of his actions. However, he seemed normal otherwise. Kaiba picked up the pita bread that was hovering in the air and put it in Keihei's hand.

Unable to break Keihei's state no matter what he did, Kaiba helplessly looked around, his gaze sweeping over the forbidden crowd, and said, "You cowardly coward, I don't know what's going on, but you're watching me, Seto Kaiba! Whatever your purpose, stand up openly and honestly, or when I find you, you will face my wrath!"

Although he had spoken, Kaiba didn't actually believe that the person who caused all this would really step forward just because of his words. But reality was much simpler than he thought. Just as Kaiba finished speaking, a voice that sounded strangely familiar to him rang out behind him.

"Behind you."

He whirled around, not even bothering to see what was behind him, and swung his fist decisively. Judging from the sudden sound, the seahorse sensed that the person who spoke was standing not far behind him.

But the moment he turned around, the seahorse found that the surrounding environment had changed in an instant, and even with his excellent dynamic vision, he couldn't tell how it had changed. He was standing on the street, but a wall suddenly appeared behind him.

Just a hair's breadth away, Kaiba's full-force punch was about to slam into the wall behind him. Even Kaiba knew that if he were to go head-to-head with his mortal body, it would be the wall that would feel the pain. Luckily, he had learned some techniques from a coach named Kihara Kazuta in Hawaii, and his fist stopped just before it made contact with the wall.

Turning around and putting his hands down, the seahorse found himself inexplicably in what appeared to be an ancient Egyptian tomb. Oil pans filled with burning oil were neatly arranged on the surrounding walls for lighting, allowing the seahorse to clearly see numerous ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved on the stone walls around him.

Even the seahorse, who knew little about ancient history, had some understanding of it through its experiences in the world of memories. The so-called "hieroglyphics" is one of the oldest writing systems in the world, generally inscribed only on temples and various commemorative buildings, and is even sometimes called "the script of the gods." In the world of memories, Atum's name, which was originally inscribed in his own tomb, was written in hieroglyphics.