Chapter 119

The giant that covered the sky stood tall among the clouds, slowly dissipating as the final attack succeeded.

Cronos sat on the ground, gasping for air, and it took a long while before he gradually recovered.

"Mamma mia... I really need to start exercising..." He muttered to himself while climbing up, picking up the box containing the keys, walking to the seal, and carefully picking up the keys one by one to put them back into the box.

"Cro... Cronos..."

"Eek!!" Cronos was startled, nearly dropping the box from his hands. Turning back, he realized that the pale-faced Obaro still had the strength to speak.

No, or was it a final flash of life?

Looking at him like this, even Cronos, who knew nothing about Shadow Duels, knew he was basically near death.

"Heh..."

Cronos had originally wanted to hear what harsh words this guy had to say, but he didn't expect the man to just let out a laugh and then completely lose all reaction. It was as if his life was complete just by being able to scare Cronos in his final moment.

What the—

Was he trying to scare me on purpose?!

He held the box, nervously watching the man.

After a long while, he heard footsteps, and some Kaiba Corporation employees in black suits ran into the forest.

As long as one was on this island, no one could miss that giant towering into the clouds, so upon noticing the situation, these Kaiba Corp members ran here without regard for their own lives.

Fortunately, upon learning that the person here was the acting principal, Cronos, and that he seemed to have defeated an evil duelist, they felt relieved.

A man in a suit wanted to walk over to lift Obaro, but just as he was about to do so, a large amount of black mist suddenly rose from Obaro's body.

The employee was instantly knocked away, hitting the wall.

At this moment, Obaro also seemed to be controlled by someone, floating up into the air.

"Mamma mia..." Seeing this scene, Cronos screamed instinctively.

"Cronos—" A voice emerged from Obaro's body.

Upon hearing this voice, Cronos, who had been very nervous and fearful, immediately stood straight and widened his eyes: "It's you!"

Although he hadn't heard it many times.

But!

Even if he turned to ash, he would recognize this voice.

The voice of Akaba Leo!

"Finally, you finally couldn't help but step onto the stage yourself!"

What?

Hearing Akaba Leo's words, Cronos was a bit slow to react for a moment, but as a teacher and acting principal, he could show weakness in front of anyone, except for Akaba Leo—

He would never admit defeat in front of Akaba Leo.

Therefore, Cronos used the last of his strength to stand straight, facing Obaro directly, and mustered his momentum as much as possible. Scattered black flames ignited on Obaro's body, slowly burning his body, his clothes, and his skin into white ash, while the black flames illuminated the place brightly.

"Please stand further back, Principal Cronos!" A Kaiba Corp employee stood in front of Cronos.

"No need! I'm fine just like this!" Cronos directly declined.

Subsequently, he stared directly at the human figure floating in the air, lowered his voice, and said: "Professor Akaba, where exactly are you now? If you come out and confess now, Kaiba Corporation's judgment of you will be lenient."

"At this point, you still want to lie to me? Cronos."

Akaba Leo's voice came from Obaro's body. He spread his hands and said: "Your current vision is still limited to one dimension, while I have already transcended this realm."

He seemed to still believe that Cronos was another ambitious person competing with him.

"Now that you have taken action yourself, you can certainly disrupt my plans, but—what about your disciples? Without your protection, they are just lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the other dimension."

Cronos's eyebrows knitted together.

"The day I wipe out you and your disciples is not far off, just wait, Cronos!"

After speaking, Obaro fell from the sky, and with a thud, he went completely limp there.

Cronos looked at Obaro's body and remained silent for a long time—

So...

That's it?

Just a simple threat?

He kicked Obaro's body lightly with his foot, and finding that there was truly no movement, he leaned in, picked up Obaro's Duel Disk, and began investigating Obaro along with the Kaiba Corp members.

Inside Obaro's clothes, they found a card emitting black mist.

Darklord Zerato.

His ace card, which also seemed to be the source of his power.

Cronos opened his deck and looked through it for a while, finding that most of the cards had changed from "Darklord" cards to some ordinary Fairy-Type monster cards, such as Goddess of Whim, Wingweaver, and the like.

It looks like it must be that!

Seeing this scene, Cronos immediately realized what type of "Spirit Card" it was.

This was clearly the same situation as Fubuki's.

As a professor at the Duel Academy, he naturally paid attention to the current situation of every student.

At one point, Fubuki Tenjoin felt like he was having a breakdown because no matter what cards he put into his deck, they would turn into Red-Eyes during duels. At that time, he had approved Fubuki's application to go to the [Mountain] dimension with Tenjou Hikari, so he naturally knew about this.

It seems that as long as one wears this Darklord Zerato and puts Fairy-Type cards in the deck, one can use Zerato's power to transform them into Darklord cards?

The Kaiba Corp people tested the Darklord Zerato card with equipment and then handed it to Cronos.

Although Kaiba Corporation acted a bit like the world police in this world, outside of those matters, the company's most important goal was to maintain the normal rights and interests of duelists.

As the winning side, since the losing side not only used dark powers but also committed theft, naturally, everything would be handed over to Cronos after the loss.

Cronos picked up the card. He felt a slight pain in his right hand, but no "inverted cross" appeared like it did on Obaro. Clearly, he was not the "blessed one" Obaro spoke of.

But Cronos couldn't just pretend he didn't know about this.

As the acting principal of the Duel Academy, since someone wanted to steal the Seven Stars keys today, he had to make more decisions beneficial to the school in this world.

The GX Tournament was the most important thing entrusted to him by the principal before he resigned. He certainly didn't want any accidents at such a time, making things worse for the principal, who was already under heavy scrutiny and had a poor reputation.

Therefore, he had to pay attention to both reality and the GX Tournament.

"Mamma mia..." Returning to the principal's office, Cronos sat in the principal's chair, feeling as if all the bones in his body were about to fall apart, and he slumped over the desk.

Too tired.

Mentally and physically, the events of the past month or so were more troublesome than everything he had to be responsible for in the entire previous year.

But he still tried his best to focus, took out a piece of letter paper from his desk, and began drafting a letter. After finishing, he thought for a while, then stuffed the Darklord card and another card into the envelope.

The other card was an extra "compensation" from Kaiba Corporation after his month-long interrogation ended. He planned to send it to Tenjou Hikari along the way.

That's right. He wrote a letter to Tenjou Hikari.

He was spread too thin; he had to stay at the academy and couldn't leave.

Things had come to this; he could only trust his student!

As a teacher, if you can't even trust your own disciple, who else can you trust!?