Akiza’s hunch was right.
The Fortune Cup’s final, the King’s Challenge, between Yusei and Jack, was the climax—a battle meant to awaken all the Signers.
Both sides pulled out every trick they had. Yusei summoned "Stardust Dragon," Jack summoned "Red Dragon Archfiend." As the two aces clashed, all the Signers’ marks began glowing red, and all the holographic attacks became real damage.
And even that wasn’t all. As the top two Signers fought ever more fiercely, things quickly spiraled out of control.
The Crimson Dragon appeared.
At the height of Stardust versus Red Dragon Archfiend, the legendary Crimson Dragon appeared, bursting through the stadium dome, spreading its wings across the sky.
The entire audience was dumbfounded.
What was happening? When was this monster summoned?
And wasn’t the hurricane supposed to be just a hologram? Why did it actually feel cold and hard to breathe...?
As the duel intensified, the audience soon couldn’t see anything at all.
On the track, Yusei and Jack’s Duel Runners shattered through space, leaving the stadium and entering a vast void.
Around them was a scene like an endless starfield; stars twinkled in the great darkness, and in this cosmic vastness, only a long white track remained.
And not just them—the two Signers who should have been watching outside, Luna and Akiza, were transported into the void as well.
But it wasn’t their bodies, more like projections of their consciousness. The Dragon Marks’ power kept them floating alongside Yusei and Jack, as if experiencing the Riding Duel together.
Yusei and Jack’s Duel Runners raced down the track, images flashing through the surrounding dark.
Scenes included the ancient tribe known as the "People of the Stars," worshipping the Crimson Dragon around an altar.
There was also their shared hometown: Satellite.
Huge Nazca lines appeared on Satellite’s ground, burning purple like fire. Finally, the land cracked and everything perished, Satellite becoming a wasteland with no survivors.
"Satellite!"
Yusei exclaimed in shock.
What is this? Satellite’s past—or its future? Are all his childhood friends, everyone he ever knew, doomed to perish along with Satellite?
And those Nazca lines...
In the original story, Yusei and Jack didn’t yet recognize the meaning of those Nazca lines at this point. But the night before, Greiger—who’d become a Dark Signer ahead of schedule—had come to challenge "Director Goodwin," and Yusei and Jack had seen it.
At the end of that duel, those Nazca-like lines had appeared, and with it, a terrifying monster known as an "Earthbound Immortal" was summoned.
Yusei was uneasy. What did the Crimson Dragon mean by showing them these visions?
Was this a warning that Satellite would be destroyed by an Earthbound Immortal?
If it was that Earthbound Immortal, it might well have such power. He knew Earthbound Immortals had destroyed Greiger’s hometown, using countless souls as fuel to resurrect.
Was this Satellite’s destiny?


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