Yu-Gi-Oh! Heroes

"Did a dark duel really take place here?"

"That...that's just a legend!"

"Oh? There are seven thousand-year-old artifacts in total!"

Maeda Hayato's suspicion, Marufuji Sho's panic, and Yuki Judai's curiosity.

Faced with the patterns engraved on the stone slab, the three people responded completely differently.

"Hey...what is that?"

As if he noticed something out of the corner of his eye, Yuki Judai shone the flashlight on the wall on the other side.

There, hanging was a half-length portrait of a man.

The man in the photo has long brown hair.

Judging from his appearance, he is 70% similar to Asuka and is undoubtedly a handsome man.

It seems that this man is Asuka's brother who disappeared in the old school building.

"Ah~~~!"

Just when Yugi Judai was about to continue exploring, a sharp female scream came from behind them.

"Brother...could that voice just now be?"

Hearing the shouts, Marufuji Sho couldn't help but look at Yuki Judai inquiringly.

"…It's Asuka!"

"Let's go and have a look!"

After saying this, Yuki Judai immediately ran towards the direction where the voice came from.

"Ah! Yusei that guy! Could it be that he has lost his beastly nature and killed Asuka..." Marufuji Sho, who was running on the road, couldn't help but have a bold idea in his mind.

"Sho! What are you thinking about in your little head!"

"How could Yusei do something like that!?"

Hearing the guess from Marufuji Sho, Yuki Judai couldn't help but show a speechless expression on his face. As the eldest brother of this kid, he felt quite embarrassed at the moment.

In this way, the three of them quickened their pace and came to the hall on the first floor of the old school building.

The scream just now came from nearby.

Yuki Judai shone the flashlight around and soon found a card that had fallen to the ground.

"This is... [Electronic Star]... It's the card Asuka used!"

Yuki Judai squatted down and picked up the monster card that fell to the ground and belonged to Asuka.

Looking at the monster card in his hand, Yuki Judai couldn't help but frown.

Could it be true that as Marufuji Sho said, Asuka was given by Yusei...

No, no!

How can this be?

There must be something wrong.

"The sound seems to come from over there!"

Just when Yuki Judai was struggling with his thoughts alone, Hayato suddenly pointed to the corridor on the other side and spoke.

That direction seemed to lead to the basement of the old school building.

"There's no time to waste here! Let's go check it out! If we're any later, Asuka might be in danger!"

Standing up from the ground, Yuki Judai took the lead and ran towards the basement.

Seeing this, Marufuji Sho and Hayato followed closely behind him.

The group quickened their pace, walked through the long and winding corridor, and soon arrived at the basement.

"What the hell! What's going on here..."

"I never thought there would be a place like this in the basement of the old school building!"

What appeared before Yuki Judai and the other two was an extremely vast open space.

And around them, there were large numbers of huge stone slabs engraved with mysterious patterns scattered around.

Obviously, this is a secret place where evil rituals were once performed!

Rather than describing this as the basement of an old school building, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a secret place where some evil rituals were performed.

120 This is... an unprecedented path!

In the darkness, Youxing opened his eyes.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Youxing stood up from the cold ground and began to look around at the scenery.

"What's going on...wasn't I just at the old school building?"

"Where exactly is this place?"

After waking up from a coma, Youxing found himself in an extremely unfamiliar place.

It was obvious that he was not near the old school building now, but was in a magnificent dark hall.

The hall was shrouded in endless darkness, and the specific furnishings could not be seen clearly.

From where Youxing was, he could only vaguely see the huge stone pillars supporting the ceiling around him.

Out of caution, Youxing did not choose to explore the surroundings immediately, but began to think calmly about his next plan.

In such a vast space, there might be other people.

If you act on your own, you will inevitably alert the enemy.

Without knowing the current situation, such reckless behavior of randomly exploring the surroundings is tantamount to suicide!

"I remember... I seemed to be hit by a beam of light... and then I passed out..."

"When I woke up, I found myself in this strange place..."

"What the hell? Isn't that guy called Titan a fake dark duelist?"

"I clearly didn't look directly at the 'Millennium Brick' in his hand, so why did I still fall for it...? Is there some other secret to his hypnosis?"

Yusei propped his chin up with his hand and began to recall what had happened before this.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Yusei."

Just as Youxing began to think about his next move, a vague and chaotic voice of someone suddenly came from the darkness in front of him.

Hearing someone calling him, Youxing subconsciously wanted to respond.

But at this moment, the alarm bells in my mind began to ring wildly.

It seemed to be reminding him not to respond to that voice, otherwise everything would change.

A feeling suddenly arose in Youxing's heart.

Once you actively respond to this voice, something terrible and irreversible will happen.

Don’t listen, don’t listen, the monk is chanting sutras!

Having made a decision in his heart, Youxing decisively chose to ignore the voice.

"..."

There was no response from Youxing, and the owner of the voice seemed to show little surprise.

"If you don't come over, then I will."

In the darkness, there was the sound of metal stepping on the floor.

Before Youxing could react, a terrifying figure with an intimidating presence appeared in front of him.

A man wearing a black horned helmet, a demon mask on his face, a red cloak behind him, and covered in red and black alien armor all over his body, walked out of the darkness to Youxing with his hands behind his back and confronted him head-on at close range.

Compared to Youxing, who is nearly 1.8 meters tall, the man's body appears much taller.

Looking at the other person's face covered with an evil ghost mask, Youxing's heart began to beat wildly uncontrollably, and his hair stood up instinctively.

He truly felt the presence of "pressure" from this mysterious man.

"who are you?"

Under the impact of the pressure, Youxing couldn't help but lower his body slightly.

He raised his head with great effort and asked the man in front of him.

"Me? Just an insignificant passerby."

In response to Youxing's question, the man simply spoke.

From the moment he emerged from the darkness, he deliberately kept a certain distance between himself and Youxing.

It is about the length of a desk, which is the so-called "social distance".

It's neither too distant nor too intimate.

"Huh...? A passerby?" Looking at the scary man who called himself a "passerby", Youxing couldn't help but make a puzzled sound. Come on! Big brother! No matter how you look at it, you give people the feeling of the final boss...

Even Youxing, who had experienced Shura Purgatory, couldn't help but feel inferior to the man in terms of momentum.

If this kind of existence is also considered a "passerby", then what a terrifying existence the "protagonist" here must be!

"Do you know... why you are here?" Without paying attention to Youxing's complaints about him, the man asked Youxing this question and then turned his head to look to the side.

Following his line of sight, Youxing could vaguely see the existence of a balcony, and outside the balcony was endless darkness.

Feeling the cool breeze passing by him, Youxing suddenly realized something. In this dark hall, it seemed that there were only two of them at this moment.

"I just remember that I seemed to be illuminated by the light of the 'Millennium Bricks', and then I fainted..."

You Xing hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to answer the man's question honestly. He had a vague premonition that his lies would be exposed in front of the man in front of him...

"Where do you think this place is?" the man asked a new question.

"This... should be my dream." Recalling his previous experience of dueling in the dream world, Youxing said uncertainly. If it was not a dream, it would be difficult to explain why he appeared in this place.

"I see, that's what you think."

After hearing Yusei's answer, the man just nodded slightly.

Because the mask covered his face, Yusei couldn't tell the man's emotions.

From the moment they met, the man seemed to be calm and indifferent.

In response to Youxing's answer, he just nodded slightly without making any meaningful comments.

What on earth is this guy planning to do?

As if he had finished asking the question, the man put his hands behind his back and walked towards the balcony.

Youxing hesitated for a moment, but finally followed the man and came to the balcony with him.

Leaving the dark room, I did not escape the bondage of darkness.

Even outside, all Youxing could see was endless darkness.

And in the darkness, the roar of wild beasts could be heard from time to time, as if in that mysterious darkness, there were countless terrifying monsters lurking.

"here……"

The man pointed to the darkness in front of him and said, "There are countless possibilities."

"The reason why you are here and the reason why you meet me is all because of fate."

"You need my help now."

"So, we met here."

The man turned around, stared at Yusei in front of him and spoke.

"Next... just leave it to me..."

After saying this, the man gently placed his hand on Yusei's shoulder.