"You!"
"You again!"
Kira seemed to hear a gloomy voice sound by his ear.
He raised an eyebrow, sizing up the blond foreign youth before him, but noticed the man’s mouth wasn’t moving at all.
Kira’s gaze shifted past the man to the mass of familiar black mist behind him. The darkness had coalesced, and within it there seemed to be a pair of icy eyes staring back.
"Let me guess," Kira asked calmly. "Tragoedia?"
"Duel King, Fujiki Kira. What a troublesome fellow," the voice within the darkness hissed. "Why must you always stand in my way?"
"Funny, I was just about to ask you the same thing," Kira said lightly. "The world’s so big—why do you always like to loiter around me?"
Tragoedia: "..."
"I’m serious. That’s really my question," Kira said matter-of-factly. "What draws you here? Why are you here?"
The little crayfish didn’t answer. He turned to David and growled in a low voice by his ear: "Kill him."
"Heh, finally."
David’s lips curled in a cold smile as he unfurled his Duel Disk.
"I was just wondering when I’d get the chance to try the Duel King..."
"Fine. In the end, a duel says it all."
Kira likewise opened his Duel Disk.
"Then I’ll ask you after we’re done."
"Duel!" x2
[Kira, LP 4000]
[David, LP 4000]
"I’ll go first. Draw!" David said.
An eerie grin twisted his face—sinister, a hint of perversion—one look and you’d think of Marik back in the day.
A warped psyche, and a great gift for face-acting.
In fact, David really was that kind of person.
In the manga, David and Reggie Mackenzie were Tragoedia’s most capable right and left hands, his favorite two puppets.
And unlike Reggie. Reggie would do anything to survive, didn’t mind hurting others in the process, but she didn’t take pleasure in it. She hated Shadow Duels and always wanted to escape Tragoedia’s control, but had no chance.
David was the opposite.
He was twisted to begin with and didn’t resist being Tragoedia’s puppet. He enjoyed the darkness—especially watching opponents struggle in it, inch by inch swallowed.
If Marik’s dark personality still existed, they’d have plenty to talk about.
"Activate the Spell Card ’Graceful Charity.’ Draw three, then discard two from my hand."
David slowly drew another card from his hand.
"First, I’ll summon this guy.
"In Defense Position, ’Quantity’!" (manga card)
David’s manga monster was a small robot with a spherical head, dropping into a crouched guard on the field.
[Quantity, DEF 400]
"Then I’ll set a card to my back row and end my turn."
The mist of the Shadow Duel coiled, making the already night-shrouded crags even hazier.
Ending his turn, David looked at Kira with a sinister yet oddly expectant expression. Some twisted voice in his heart seemed to murmur to itself.
"Heh, the Duel King is a rare bait you don’t meet every day."
He licked his lips.
"If I could consign a soul like that to the darkness..."
"Heh heh... heh heh heh heh..."
"My turn. Draw."
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