Chapter 316

The duel ended, and Manjoume Jun's side won a complete victory.

If there were spectators making sarcastic remarks or Manjoume's relatives pointing fingers when Tenjou Hikari's side was at a disadvantage during the duel, after the tag duel ended, there was nothing left but praise.

Manjoume's uncles and aunts, those family relatives he didn't know at all, and those board members, after the duel, rushed over one by one to Manjoume's side like they were rushing to be reincarnated, constantly praising his growth and his excellence.

One said he was promising at a young age, another said he had long felt Manjoume's future was limitless, and so on.

This left Serena stunned, thinking, weren't the ones who won the duel her master and Senior Judai? Why were there only some reporters and duelist spectators asking about them after the duel ended?

In the spectator stands, a student who looked somewhat thin and weak pinched the armrest of his seat indignantly. After realizing he had pinched the armrest into fragments, he took a deep look at Judai.

Judai seemed to have had some nerve touched and instinctively looked in this direction, but the moment he looked over, there was no one there.

Tenjou Hikari didn't mind that he didn't get much cheering after the duel ended; having to face a bunch of fans every day was more of a headache for him. Besides, before coming, he had already prepared himself: today, here, there was only one protagonist, and that was Manjoume.

Manjoume Thunder!

Compared to that, Tenjou Hikari still wanted to talk to the Labyrinth Brothers more.

After all, not to mention anything else, the Gate Guardian set of Fusion Monsters was very high quality.

The two brothers weren't too surprised by Tenjou Hikari's interest.

They had long heard that Tenjou Hikari was a duelist who was passionate about Fusion, pursued Fusion, and liked to chase after all Fusions, so they didn't mind Tenjou Hikari trying or obtaining the Gate Guardian series of cards.

After all, the two were more of wanderers and traveling tag-team duelists, so they didn't care about such things.

However, what surprised Tenjou Hikari a bit was that the concept of the "Gate Guardian Dimension" did indeed exist, which the Labyrinth Brothers called the "Great Labyrinth Dimension," a peculiar dimension.

But the key was that the coordinates of this dimension were not information they could directly tell Tenjou Hikari.

Because this was a "commercial dimension."

It sounded strange at first, but Tenjou Hikari recalled it and slowly realized.

Although nowadays, for the vast majority of dimensions, Tenjou Hikari could move freely using the dimensional gate as long as he had the coordinates, there were still many specific situations.

The first type, such as the Warrior's Domain or the Magician's Domain, were special dimensions that could not be entered through normal channels and only allowed those who had been recognized to enter.

The second type, dimensions that theoretically everyone could enter but were blocked off by certain forces, such as the "Hall of Light" directly blocked by Kaiba Corporation. Naturally, there would never be only Seto Kaiba in the world who would do such a thing.

It was just that unlike Kaiba, those other dimensions that were specifically blocked or information-blocked were for other purposes.

"Money."

Like the "Great Labyrinth" dimension that the Labyrinth Brothers knew, because its internal structure was a labyrinth, if one couldn't find or walk out of the labyrinth within 24 hours of entering, they would be forcibly driven back to the human world, so it was a dimension very suitable for "making money."

The company that discovered this dimension immediately closed off the news of this dimension, firmly grasped the dimensional coordinates in its hands, and then provided opportunities to everyone. As long as one paid a certain ticket price, they could enter this dimension once. As for whether there would be results or whether one could get cards, it depended on the duelist's own fortune.

"Humans are really boring." Tierra hummed twice after hearing all the content on the side.

Tenjou Hikari smiled awkwardly, while Judai on the side laughed and said to Tierra: "Oh, after all, they spent so much resources to find the dimension... they can't just give it away empty-handed."

Companies that make money through dimensional travel like this are not rare in this world, but there are not many companies that can truly find suitable and reasonable ways to make big money.

Before, Tenjou Hikari had always lived in the academy, and occasionally when he left the academy island, it was to study and work at the Wind and Light Company, so he hadn't come into contact with similar companies.

"The Manjoume Group has cooperation with many such companies," the Labyrinth Brothers explained to Tenjou Hikari and Judai, "Like that Minotaur Company, it can be considered one of the most profitable among these emerging companies."

Minotaur Company, an international company that possesses the "Great Labyrinth" coordinates, is a relatively large dimension. Besides Gate Guardian, there seem to be many other spirits inside. Plus, no matter how hard one tries, one can only stay for 24 hours at a time, so there is no need to worry about not having customers after one ticket, and the money-making is very stable.

Besides Minotaur Company, the Manjoume Group has several other partner companies, all of which are similar businesses.

This is exactly the attempt of the Manjoume Group to invest its ambition into the Duel Monsters world.

After all, although their company has developed new dimensional travel equipment, they are pure newcomers in terms of scouting, exploration, and dueling. If it weren't for Manjoume Thunder appearing out of nowhere and becoming Kaiba's apprentice, they might not even have been able to cooperate with these companies.

"If that young man becomes the new helmsman of the Manjoume Group, there should be more companies cooperating with the Manjoume Group in the future, and then you can travel in some closed dimensions," Mei said to Tenjou Hikari and the others.

Gong looked at Manjoume, who was surrounded by elders and business partners, and added: "However, as a duelist, if you are trapped by money, you won't be able to move forward—"

This was also their experience.

"I hope your friend won't stop because of the group's affairs."

"Haha, you can rest assured about that, Thunder is super amazing," Judai laughed.

Tenjou Hikari also felt that Manjoume would never give up dueling because of such things. After all, the reason he tried to compete with his brothers for the leadership of the group was precisely because he wanted to get closer to his master, Seto Kaiba.

In any case, both sides of this duel were very satisfied.

Although they lost to Yuki Judai again, this time, the Labyrinth Brothers saw the opponent's progress, and their dueling performance was clearly more satisfying to them than the last duel.

For such veteran duelists, whether a duel can satisfy the audience is no longer the first thing to consider, because they themselves are far more "strict" than the audience.

Last time they lost to Judai, it woke them up from the money and people's unbridled praise. This time dueling Judai, it wasn't just wanting to prove themselves, but also wanting to verify themselves—

When they said Judai was in the labyrinth, weren't they also looking for a way out?

After Tenjou Hikari shook hands with the two legendary duelists, he walked toward the duelist spectator area. Serena waved her hands excitedly to cheer and celebrate for the two, and Ruri couldn't help but clap gently.

Tenjou Hikari smiled and waved back at the two, while Judai sat directly in the front seat with a "Ha," saying repeatedly: "So interesting, this duel."

The Wind and Light Company side also kept clapping for Tenjou Hikari.

Naturally, they wouldn't go to Manjoume to get familiar at such a time. Besides, their company's duelist representative was Tenjou Hikari, who was Manjoume Jun's good friend; where was the need to brush their faces at this time?

Before, when Tenjou Hikari was chatting with the Labyrinth Brothers, they didn't go over to disturb Tenjou Hikari. Now, after the duel ended, they immediately gathered to congratulate Tenjou Hikari on his duel first, and then asked Judai if he was interested in appearing in the upcoming duel footage of their Wind and Light Company.

"Ah—is it that one, Fierce Battle! Legendary Duelist 3!" Serena reacted almost immediately and jumped up excitedly.

"3?" Ruri on the side realized a key point.

Serena nodded busily, while telling Ruri about Tenjou Hikari's previous duel footage, and also said that she could go back to the Fusion Department and play it for her later; they were all very famous duels.

Judai naturally wouldn't refuse; this duel was also very happy for him. If more people could see it, that would naturally be even better.

As for the Labyrinth Brothers, the Wind and Light Company had already negotiated with them, so after getting Judai's affirmation, they excitedly prepared to send it to the company's publicity department and started editing the new issue of Legendary Duelists.

And at this time.

"Tenjou." I don't know when, Dinosaur Ryuzaki had already stood beside several people.

Tenjou Hikari stood up and greeted him: "Brother Ryuzaki."

"Oh, oh, oh!! Mr. Dinosaur Ryuzaki, it's the real person!" Judai jumped up excitedly and greeted Dinosaur Ryuzaki.

On the other side, Serena explained to Ruri that this was also a legendary duelist and also her master Tenjou Hikari's "senior."

Dinosaur Ryuzaki pressed his hat slightly, which counted as a response to Judai's words, and then looked at: "Kid, didn't you tell the people in the company before that you wanted to duel with legendary duelists?"

Several people from the Wind and Light Company looked at each other.

Of course they told Dinosaur Ryuzaki about this, but why did Dinosaur Ryuzaki specifically bring it up?

"Yes." Tenjou Hikari nodded, indicating that he indeed had such a plan.

At the beginning, his duel with Dinosaur Ryuzaki earned him a super unfinished version of "The Claw of Hermos." With his duels against Weevil Underwood and the Seto Kaiba from ten years ago, the completion of The Claw of Hermos gradually improved.

Today, after the duel with the Labyrinth Brothers ended, although Tenjou Hikari didn't check his deck, he could know from experience that the completion of his "The Claw of Hermos" must have improved further.

This was a good thing.

If he worked hard to find a few more legendary duelists, maybe he would collect them all!

This was his first "Legendary Dragon," and also the second usable Legendary Dragon; it was still quite exciting.

"Heh..." Dinosaur Ryuzaki's eyes drifted to the side, as if passing through space and seeing some place, "Some time ago, I... through connections, contacted an old friend... friend, I guess."

When he said this, his mood was slightly downcast.

"In short, I asked that person to help me contact and find an opportunity."

He dug into his pocket, flipped out a card, and then threw it toward Tenjou Hikari. Tenjou Hikari hurriedly caught the card and looked down.

On the card was an old gentleman with strange hair, extending both hands and making a "V" sign.

Tenjou Hikari slowly widened his eyes.

"Wow——————" Yuki Judai couldn't help but exclaim longly when he saw the sketch self-portrait on the card.

What, what?

Now even Serena didn't know what happened; she jumped on her feet, looking at the thing in Tenjou Hikari's hand, full of curiosity.

"T-this is, Mr. Muto... Muto Sugoroku's?" Tenjou Hikari asked tentatively.

Muto?

"That's right—" Dinosaur Ryuzaki took a deep breath, "That guy... Yugi's grandfather."

My God!

Tenjou Hikari was excited.

This seemed to be a pass, a "friend certificate" to go to Domino City to visit the legend of legends, the real "living legend," the Duel King Yugi Muto's own grandfather "Muto Sugoroku"!

"Could it be, you asked Mr. Katsuya Jonouchi—" Tenjou Hikari made a connection and suddenly thought.

Dinosaur Ryuzaki didn't deny it.

Duel King Yugi Muto's good brother Katsuya Jonouchi is one of the best duelists in this era, second only to the [True Legend] Seto Kaiba who is still active on the front line, and also a person Dinosaur Ryuzaki once hated to the bone.

Honestly, Dinosaur Ryuzaki once had a period where he had a pretty good relationship with Katsuya Jonouchi. Although his "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" lost to Jonouchi, he didn't hold a grudge at that time and even once reminded Jonouchi to be careful of the psychic duelist's psychic powers and so on. At that time, they weren't enemies and could even laugh and talk.

But later, Dinosaur Ryuzaki listened to his "good brother" Weevil Underwood, joined the Orichalcos faction, dueled Katsuya Jonouchi, and after that, things became very stiff.

After that, Dinosaur Ryuzaki went through many hardships and became the spokesperson for the Wind and Light Company, and then walked to the present, but still had many things he regretted but didn't dare to face.

One was Weevil Underwood, and the other was Katsuya Jonouchi.

The former was regretful because of incorrect friendship, and the latter was regretful because of his own betrayal.

Some time ago, hearing that Tenjou Hikari actually wanted to challenge "legendary duelists," Dinosaur Ryuzaki hesitated for a long time, and finally, without the Wind and Light Company knowing, contacted Jonouchi again.

He had thought about whether the other party would scold him, whether they would hang up directly, whether...

But he didn't expect that the other party didn't "hold a grudge" at all, and was even quite excited after hearing his voice, asking him where he had been all these years and why he hadn't seen him. Upon learning what he wanted to do, they didn't doubt at all whether he wanted to kidnap Muto Sugoroku and chose to help without hesitation.

...Sigh.

He sighed in his heart.

"Kid, this is... an opportunity that was hard to come by." He looked at Tenjou Hikari, his gaze like a scanner, wishing he could imprint everything about Tenjou Hikari, "Old Man Muto has many [legendary] addresses and contact methods. If you really want to challenge, this is the fastest way, and also... don't scare the old man."

Tenjou Hikari heard that Dinosaur Ryuzaki's emotional change was very unnatural. He looked at the card in his hand, looked up at Dinosaur Ryuzaki again, took two deep breaths, and patted his chest.

"Don't worry, Brother Ryuzaki."