Night fell like a heavy curtain, merciless clouds shrouded the entire forest. Exquisite, luxurious furniture was toppled everywhere, the finely decorated living room bore traces of destruction. A cold wind swept through, carrying a biting chill.
Yet, outside, the thunder and lightning had stopped at some point.
The clouds slowly drifted away, gradually revealing the moon buried beneath them. Moonlight shone through the window, casting onto the gentleman kneeling in the living room, stretching his shadow long and thin.
Zigfried Lloyd was in a bad state.
He was someone who had suffered a crushing defeat before. Precisely because he couldn’t accept that loss, he came back from hell for revenge.
The last time he lost, his two greatest rivals were Seto Kaiba and Yugi Muto.
He lost, but couldn’t accept it, so he gave up everything for revenge.
But in the end, this revenge was for nothing.
If someone asked how he felt now, just one word: regret. Deep, deep regret.
He should have used his remaining assets to buy a coffin and bury himself. Instead, he started this so-called revenge. Now look at what happened—though he lost badly before, at least he lost with dignity.
Seto Kaiba had to use all his trump cards to win, with XYZ-Dragon Cannon and Blue-Eyes taking turns, and even the now-banned Chaos Emperor Dragon made its one anime appearance, earning this guy a place in history.
To have such treatment, as the only one in Yu-Gi-Oh! anime to face the full, uncensored Chaos Emperor Dragon, he definitely deserves to be remembered.
But now, after today’s defeat, his mind was filled with nothing but Catapult Turtles.
Even if he closed his eyes, all he saw were turtles.
Zigfried sighed deeply.
They say that when people are dying, they see their life flash before their eyes. But for him, his resentment before death was so strong that, even in his dying moments, all he saw was a swarm of turtles, squeezing out even the life-flash.
He felt that the most tragic thing in life was this.
"You, cough, cough—"
Kneeling on the ground, he might have wanted to curse, but was too weak, forcing a bitter smile.
"Seto Kaiba’s subordinates... to think you’re this strong and unorthodox a duelist. I really shouldn’t have come back. I was destined to lose."
Mokuba felt soft, even knowing this was an enemy, he couldn’t help but feel a little sorry seeing him like this.
"Uh, actually, there’s something you should know..."
"Hmm?" Zigfried looked up with difficulty.
"About Kira."
Mokuba stepped forward, motioning to Kira, a little embarrassed.
"Actually, Kira isn’t my brother’s subordinate, nor does he work for KaibaCorp."
"What?"
Zigfried blinked, confused.
"Kira is this year’s new Duel King. He beat my brother in Duel City, saved the world from the God of Orichalcos, and is the first new Duel King since Yugi retired."
Mokuba explained.
"My brother is out of the country right now, and we happen to be friends, so I asked him to help."
"Duel King!?"
Zigfried stared wide-eyed, as if learning the village just got internet, looking at Kira in shock.
So he hadn’t lost to some KaibaCorp lackey?

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