#458 - The body is but a prison for the soul
At this moment.
The White Dragon, suspended in the air, began to operate again the instant the sun cast its first ray of light.
Accompanied by the roar of the spaceship, the bird and beast-type spirits staying on the ship fluttered in place twice in surprise. When they recovered, they returned to the ship and looked expectantly at the cabin.
Tenjoin Hikari stretched hard.
After adjusting his deck last night, he immediately went to sleep, striving to be full of energy and strength today.
Similarly, Manjoume also had a face full of fighting spirit, staring intently at Tenjoin Hikari.
One after another, spectators and staff also began to walk in.
They checked the equipment, confirmed its safety, and started the device, connecting all the world's viewing equipment.
Just as everyone was preparing for the duel in full swing, a soft sound suddenly came from the very center of the spaceship.
In the very center of the spaceship, a circular device slowly opened, and a figure rose from inside the ship. As he rose, strange scenes changed around the entire spaceship. Blue lines filled all the space, and even the sky was replaced, as if the spaceship had suddenly come to reality, to Domino City.
"President!?" "Master!" "Wow, it's Kaiba-sensei——"
Tenjoin Hikari watched as Kaiba Seto gradually appeared from the cabin, then jumped onto the duel field, stepped on the duel field, and looked around.
Countless cameras were aimed at him.
"All duelists in the world!!"
He suddenly spoke, declaring.
"I ask you, what do you duel for?!"
He raised his left hand, and the circular duel disk, with a full sense of technology, completely different from the duel disks currently used by students, emitted a faint blue light.
Everyone's attention turned to him.
One of the strongest duelists known in this world, the president of the largest company in this world, the most genius scientist known in this world, the initiator of dimensional exploration in this world...
Countless titles were on his head, and countless titles could not诠释 him himself.
However, these titles were meaningless to him.
Because, for him, he only had one title——Kaiba Seto.
"From the moment a person is born into this world, a soul dwells in the vessel of the flesh."
"In other words, the flesh is the prison of the soul, a prison from which it cannot escape until death!"
He held his palm forward, looking at the front. On all the machines that could play videos and broadcast images, his face was revealed: "Is your enemy your relative? Is your enemy someone else!? Is your enemy someone from another dimension!?"
"We should fight for the people we protect. We fight with people who hold different beliefs. Through the foolish mutual slaughter of war, the history of battle is constantly repeated."
Akaba Reiji, who was watching the live broadcast, couldn't help but grip the armrest, crushing the armrest of the chair.
Kaiba Seto's face gradually cooled down, and he continued: "Ironically, even the victor cannot escape from prison!
But gentlemen!
Due to the exploration of dimensions, through dueling, our souls are liberated!"
"We leave the prison, leave the world we grew up in, and come to infinite possibilities!
Borders, autonomy, thought, language, transcend all words, and advance towards a brand new future!
This is the possibility of dimensional travel!"
"Now——"
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and two hatches suddenly opened on both sides of the spaceship. From the hatches, two prototype machines ejected with a whoosh. Tenjoin Hikari and Manjoume quickly caught the machines flying towards them, and then couldn't help but exclaim.
"This is the latest special duel disk developed by Kaiba Corporation. Even in different dimensions and different worlds, it can maximize the power of the duelist and can withstand the power of Synchro and Xyz. Their projections are more realistic than the original ones, and the virtual images are almost 1:1 restored.
Although it is a prototype, it is now handed over to you."
As he spoke, he strode away from the center and stood in the opposite audience seat, calmly watching the duel.
Manjoume excitedly changed the duel disk, put the old duel disk into his schoolbag, and after Tenjoin Hikari looked at it, before he could react, the duel disk had already been taken away by Tierra, and then replaced with the new one.
Needless to say, this style is indeed the kind of future style that Tierra likes.
After installing the duel disk, the duel disk automatically rotated, and the cards automatically shuffled with the start of the duel disk, and the positions of the duel disk lit up with blue light, which looked very gorgeous.
"Feels good——" Tenjoin Hikari rejoiced.
In the original work, Kaiba Seto was very fond of tinkering with this new type of machine, from the duel disk in Duelist Kingdom to the later Duel Tower, the projection duel disk in the movie version, etc., etc. He himself likes to take out new things at the key moments of this kind of large-scale event, so Tenjoin Hikari was not surprised.
After the two of them installed the duel disks, blue grids began to emerge outward with them as the center.
"Duel!" X2
Almost instinctively, the two shouted at the same time.
Manjoume Jun, LP: 4000
Tenjoin Hikari, LP: 4000
"I won the rock-paper-scissors yesterday, so I'll go first, Tenjoin." Manjoume said with a chuckle.
"Yeah." Tenjoin Hikari nodded.
There was no need to force it at this time.
"Thinking back to the beginning, I returned to the academy, also at the end of the term, also a practical duel. The first dueling opponent happened to be you." Manjoume looked at his hand cards, carefully examining them, "At that time, because of my own dignity, I only thought about proving myself.
Therefore, in that duel, I was completely defeated by you——
Later, I thought about it for a long time, whether there were other possibilities in that duel, until before, I suddenly realized.
It doesn't matter!
The real duelist, what he pursues, is always only his own front. My soul is looking at the road ahead, so I don't need that kind of boring behavior."
He looked at Tenjoin Hikari, and there seemed to be thunderbolts in his eyes: "I am myself, I don't need to prove myself to anyone!
I only need to prove to myself that the path I am walking is not wrong!"
Hearing this, Tenjoin Hikari gently raised his fist and looked at him.
Manjoume chuckled: "Then, without any extra emotion, without being affected by anything, let's have a good match, Tenjoin!"
"Come on, Lightning." Tenjoin Hikari was also ready.
"My turn, draw! Activate the magic card, Card Destruction, this card can return this card and the cards in my hand to the deck, and then redraw the same number of cards——" He selected 3 cards in his hand, put them into the duel disk, then reshuffled, and then redrew 4 cards. After seeing two Ojama monsters, he didn't change his emotions, but lit up Card Destruction again, "One more time, Card Destruction!"
Reshuffling the deck and redrawing cards—Tenjoin Hikari watched Manjoume operate like this twice.
"Good." This time, Manjoume didn't draw Card Destruction, but he had already drawn the cards he wanted——Ojama Magic and Graceful Charity!
"Activate the magic card, Graceful Charity, draw three cards, and then discard two cards!"
From the beginning, there were multiple reshuffles!
After drawing three cards from his deck, he immediately discarded two of them: "The effect of the discarded Ojama Magic, add one each of the Ojama Brothers from the deck to my hand!"
In this way, his hand cards instantly expanded: "Then, activate the magic card Ojama Ride! Send one each of Ojama Yellow, Ojama Green, and Ojama Black from my hand to the graveyard, and special summon up to 3 Level 4 or lower Machine-Type Union monsters from the deck!"
"What a convenient special summon method——" Johan exclaimed.
"Is he going to Xyz from the start?" Misawa Daichi, who was watching, instantly understood his intention.
