Chapter 456

At this time.

The White Dragon airship suspended in the air began to operate again the moment the first ray of sunlight was projected by the sun.

Accompanied by the roar of the airship, the bird-beast-type spirits staying on the airship were startled and flapped their wings on the spot. When they came to their senses, they returned to the airship and looked at the cabin expectantly.

Tenjou Hikari stretched fiercely.

After adjusting his deck last night, he immediately went to sleep, ensuring he would be full of spirit and energy today.

Similarly, Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu was also full of fighting spirit, staring at Tenjou Hikari with burning eyes.

One after another, spectators and staff began to walk in.

They checked the equipment, confirmed the safety, and started the device, connecting all the viewing equipment in the world.

Just as everyone was preparing for the duel in a flurry, a soft sound suddenly erupted from the center of the airship.

In the center of the airship, a circular device slowly opened, and a figure rose from inside the ship. Accompanied by his ascent, the surroundings of the entire airship changed into a strange scene. Blue patterns filled all the space, and even the sky was replaced, as if the airship had suddenly arrived in reality, arrived in Neo Domino City.

"President!?" "Master!" "Wow, it's Mr. Kaiba—"

Tenjou Hikari watched Seto Kaiba gradually appear from the cabin, then jump onto the dueling field, step on the dueling field, and look around.

Countless cameras were aimed at him.

"Duelists of the whole world!!"

He suddenly spoke, declaring.

"I ask you, why do you duel at all!"

His left hand raised a circular Duel Disk with a technology style that was completely different from the Duel Disks currently used by students, emitting a faint blue light.

Everyone's eyes were drawn 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 interpret him as a person.

However, these titles had no meaning to him.

Because, to him, he only had one title—Seto Kaiba.

"The moment a person is born into this world, the soul resides in the container of the flesh."

"In other words, the flesh is the prison of the soul, a prison that cannot be escaped until death!"

He held his palm in front, looking forward, and on all the machines that could play videos and broadcast screens, 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 those we protect, we fight with people who hold different philosophies, and through the foolish mutual slaughter of war, the history of fighting continues to repeat."

Chima Lingwang, who was watching the live stream, couldn't help but grip the armrest tightly, crushing the armrest of the chair.

Seto Kaiba's face gradually turned cold, and he continued: "Ironically, even the victor cannot escape from the prison!

But—

Gentlemen!

Thanks to the exploration of dimensions, through dueling, our souls have been liberated!"

"We left the prison, left the world where we grew up, and arrived in infinite possibilities!

National borders, autonomy, thoughts, languages, transcending all languages, rushing toward a brand-new future!

This is the possibility of dimensional travel!"

"Now—"

He raised his left hand: "Reside the soul of battle in the Duel Disk, use cards as weapons, and collide your souls with all spirits and all dimensional duelists!"

After he finished this long speech, he slowly looked at the two duelists: "Now, I announce, the GX Grand Prix final, begins.

Dance, fight, duel!!

The noble and infinite soul of the duelist! Show it to everyone!"

While speaking, he also waved his hand, and two cabin doors suddenly opened from both sides of the airship. From the cabin doors, two prototype machines whooshed out. Tenjou Hikari and Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu hurriedly caught the machines flying toward them, and then couldn't help but whisper.

"This is the special Duel Disk newly 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, now, it is handed over to you."

While speaking, he strode away from the center, stood in the opposite audience area, and watched the duel calmly.

Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu excitedly swapped the Duel Disk, put the old Duel Disk into his schoolbag, and Tenjou Hikari, after looking at it, hadn't even reacted before the Duel Disk was taken away by Tiera, and then replaced with the new model.

Don't say, this style is indeed the future style that Tiera likes.

After installing the Duel Disk, the Duel Disk automatically rotated, the cards were automatically shuffled along with the activation of the Duel Disk, and the various positions of the Duel Disk lit up with blue light, looking very gorgeous.

"Feels good—" Tenjou Hikari was happy.

In the original work, Seto Kaiba liked to tinker with this kind of new machine very much, from the Duel Disk in Duelist Kingdom to the later Duel Tower, the projection Duel Disk in the theatrical version, etc. He himself liked to take out new things at critical moments of such large-scale events, so Tenjou Hikari was not surprised.

And after the two installed the Duel Disk, the blue grid began to emerge outward with them as the center.

"Duel!" x2.

Almost instinctively, the two shouted at the same time.

Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu Jun, LP: 4000.

Tenjou Hikari, LP: 4000.

"I won the rock-paper-scissors yesterday, so I'll go first, Tenjou." Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu said with a light smile.

"Hmm." Tenjou Hikari nodded.

There was no need to fight hard at this time.

"Thinking back to when I returned to the academy, it was also the end of the semester, and it was also a practical duel. The object of the first duel happened to be you." Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu looked at the hand cards, carefully examining them, "At that time, because of my own dignity, all I thought about was proving myself.

So, in that duel, I was miserably 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!

A true duelist always only pursues their own front. My soul is looking at the road ahead, so I don't need that kind of boring behavior."

He looked at Tenjou Hikari, and there seemed to be thunder and lightning in his eyes: "I am myself, I don't need to prove anything to anyone!

I only need to prove to myself that the path I am walking is not wrong!"

Tenjou Hikari heard this and gently raised his fist to look at him.

Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu smiled lightly: "Then, without any extra emotions, without being influenced by anything, let's have a good showdown, Tenjou!"

"Come on, Lightning." Tenjou Hikari was also ready.

"My turn, draw! Activate the Magic Card, Magical Mallet. This card can return this card and the cards in the hand to the deck, and then redraw the same number of cards—" He selected the 3 cards in his hand, inserted them into the Duel Disk, then reshuffled, and redrew 4 cards. After seeing two Ojama monsters, he didn't have any emotional changes, but showed Magical Mallet again, "Once more, Magical Mallet!"

Re-insert into the deck, redraw cards—

Tenjou Hikari watched Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu operate like this twice.

"Good." This time, Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu didn't draw Magical Mallet, 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!"

At the start, it was multiple reshuffles!

After he drew three cards from the deck, he immediately discarded two of them: "The effect of the discarded Ojama Magic, add one of each of the three Ojama brothers from the deck to the hand!"

In this way, his hand cards expanded instantly: "Then, activate the Magic Card Ojama Ride! Send one of each Ojama Yellow, Ojama Green, and Ojama Black from the hand to the graveyard, and Special Summon up to 3 Machine-Type Union monsters of Level 4 or lower from the deck!"

"What a convenient Special Summoning method—" Johan exclaimed.

"Are you going for XYZ right from the start?" Misawa Daichi instantly understood his intention.

(End of chapter)