Chapter 475: Familiarity

Tenjou Hikari followed Crow into a small base. After returning, Crow shouted directly into the interior.

"Everyone, come out! I've brought a guest today!"

Following his voice, several children hiding in the room immediately ran out happily, excitedly surrounding Crow, calling his name, and some even asking for gifts.

Crow smiled, taking cards out of his pocket to give to the children while taking the opportunity to introduce Tenjou Hikari to them.

Although the children were timid, upon learning that he was neither from the Lower City nor the Upper City, but rather an "Otherworlder," they immediately became excited.

After all, the Otherworld was too far away to be as frightening as the Upper City, and the sufficient distance made them curious.

Tenjou Hikari looked at these children with curiosity.

In the original work, Crow had experience adopting children. Whether in 5D's or ARC-V, Crow adopted orphans. Later, Crow even relied on his super-strong riding skills to deliver packages alone, not only supporting the orphans he adopted but even supporting Jack Atlas, who was a freeloader.

"Mr. Crow, you're back?"

"Big Brother Crow!"

Just as Tenjou Hikari was introducing himself to a few children, two people walked out of the room. Tenjou Hikari turned to look; they were acquaintances.

"Yugo, Rin?" Tenjou Hikari was puzzled for a moment upon seeing them. "Why are you here? Didn't you follow Yusei?"

"Ah, that..." Yugo rubbed the back of his head and began to speak bluntly.

After the cross-dimensional Friendship Cup ended, a grand "Fortune Cup" was held in the Synchro Dimension. Whoever could get first place would be able to participate in the final showdown and duel the "King."

Yusei participated in that tournament, but he couldn't take Rin and Yugo, so he entrusted Crow to help look after them.

So that was it.

It was reasonable enough.

But this also derived a problem.

Previously, Tenjou Hikari felt that with Yusei protecting Rin and Yugo in the Synchro Dimension, it wouldn't be a big deal even if they were targeted by the Fusion Army.

One might ask, who could snatch people away under Yusei's protection?

Hmm...

Presumably, only someone like Kiryu could.

Nowadays, it's hard to say for these two.

It's not to say Crow isn't capable.

In a real duel, Crow's strength is absolutely fine. He himself was one of the "Signers" in the original work; it's impossible for him to truly fear the Fusion Army.

But he is indeed not as reassuring as Yusei. After all, the people Crow has to protect have never been just two.

Tenjou Hikari followed Crow to their warehouse, where he saw several Duel Runners. Not only was there Crow's own Blackbird, but also Yugo's white Duel Runner.

Besides that, there was an old police Duel Runner; he didn't know where Crow had gotten it.

Of course, it's even possible it wasn't through legitimate means.

Maybe Crow just swiped it while stealing something one day; that's very normal.

"Sorry, this is the only Duel Runner left." Crow rubbed his neck and apologized.

"It's fine, having one is good enough."

Tenjou Hikari replied.

Although Tiera could hand-craft a vehicle for Tenjou Hikari to use, in reality, it wouldn't work.

Although it looked like an ordinary motorcycle, in reality, every "Duel Runner" was equipped with a "Perpetual Motion Engine"—yes, that's right, in this world, even the trashiest Duel Runner had a perpetual motion engine inside that could provide infinite energy.

The duels of Turbo Duelists generate energy, which is then supplied for people to use.

By the same token, a motorcycle without a perpetual motion engine wouldn't be accepted by others even if it got on the track.

Now that there was finally a Duel Runner, the appearance of the vehicle didn't really matter anymore.

Tiera had plenty of ways to design different images.

"Sorry, the power of this Duel Runner is actually average... No, rather, actually, the Duel Runners here all have problems." Crow rubbed his forehead.

Finding materials to build Duel Runners in the Lower City was already very difficult. His Duel Runner was fine; it was left to him by others. Yugo's vehicle was built by collecting parts with Rin under Yusei's guidance. Originally, if Yusei were still here, they could have adjusted it, but now they didn't even know where Yusei had gone.

"Yusei must have had something important to do, otherwise he definitely would have told us!" Rin and Yugo both firmly believed this.

Tenjou Hikari raised his eyes and pondered for a while.

That is to say...

Actually, the last person known to have had an exchange with Yusei was himself?

"If it's about handling these details, just leave it to me." Tenjou Hikari said to them casually. "I was present when Yusei tuned the Duel Runner last time; I still remember these details."

"Ah! That's great! As expected of you, Brother Tenjou!" Yugo jumped up excitedly. "Come help me fix it quickly—"

Rin directly hammered his waist hard with her elbow and said to him, "Thank him properly!"

Afterwards, she bent over and thanked Tenjou Hikari: "Sorry, Brother Tenjou, I've troubled you."

"It's fine, I also need your help."

Tenjou Hikari took the time to check the problems of the three machines. Because he had experience and Tiera was guiding him from the side, he quickly handled the details, removed some misplaced parts and put them in their proper places, and reassembled the three Duel Runners.

By the time they finished, the sky had already darkened.

Tenjou Hikari looked at the sky; he had no intention of staying and directly wanted to leave.

"Hmm, Tenjou, are you leaving already?"

"I need to familiarize myself with the operation of the Duel Runner." Tenjou Hikari turned the Duel Runner slightly, wobbled, and almost fell off, then shook his head, took a device out of his pocket, and installed it on the Duel Runner.

Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu's preparation was indeed necessary; he didn't know how to drive a motorcycle at all, and forcing himself to drive a Duel Runner was indeed somewhat dangerous.

"So that's how it is... Then, take care on your way." Several people waved goodbye to Tenjou Hikari. Tenjou Hikari thanked them and then turned and left.

"So cool, Brother Tenjou." Yugo was somewhat longing.

Jack, Yusei, Tenjou—everyone had some particularly amazing points that made him very envious and worshipful, wanting to learn.

He never believed the people outside who said Jack betrayed the Lower City, or Yusei betrayed the Lower City, or whatever.

That's why he would never use any "Earthbound Immortal Ground Painting."

"Alright, take advantage of this time, hurry up and test the Duel Runner again!" Yugo rushed out excitedly.

"Eh, this idiot..." Rin had no choice but to shake her head and sigh, but she still honestly followed Yugo.

On the other side, watching everyone leave, Crow looked at his Blackbird.

In a duel, he was confident he wouldn't lose to anyone.

Therefore, he was confident he could duel Shinji and win.

But...

He raised his left hand, looked at his empty arm without any strange patterns, and fell into silence.

A duel has a very basic problem, which is that only if both parties accept can the duel begin.

As Shinji's friend, he didn't want the other party to go down a path of no return. He could believe that the Earthbound Immortal could resurrect others, but he didn't believe that after the Earthbound Immortal devoured a soul, it would honestly preserve it rather than consume it.

Even if the Earthbound Immortal were powerful, once the soul was completely digested, they couldn't possibly resurrect those departed lives.

But!

He had no way to duel Shinji.

Because he didn't have that "qualification."

At that time, Tenjou Hikari interrupted Shinji's words. If he had the qualification, he could have directly dueled Shinji. As it turned out, he could only watch helplessly as Shinji left.

If...

He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, his heart struggling and painful.

Invisibly, it seemed some existence was silently watching him.

On the other side, Tenjou Hikari was starting the Duel Runner, testing it on the track.

His speed wasn't fast. On one hand, he didn't know how to drive a motorcycle; on the other hand, the device Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu prepared also deliberately lowered the speed.

After all, in his view, safety was the most important issue.

Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu believed that with Tenjou Hikari's intelligence, it shouldn't take long to learn how to drive, not to mention that the Duel Runner already had an automatic driving function; this was more to help him start and familiarize himself with the Duel Runner's machine.

But—

The problem came.

That was, this starting speed was "too slow"!

While he was testing the vehicle on the track in the Lower City, a siren lit up behind him.

"Do you need me to help you transport it away first?" Tiera asked.

"No—forget it, it's just as well to familiarize myself with Turbo Duels."

If it were an ordinary security officer, based on Tenjou Hikari's previous understanding, there shouldn't be too much of a problem, and the test would be enough.

And as he moved forward, the police car behind him had already sped up. Despite being the one in pursuit, it easily came to Tenjou Hikari's side, riding parallel to him.

"Hey, kid, you're that Otherworlder who defeated my subordinates, right!"

Hearing the voice, Tenjou Hikari tried hard to look to the side and was surprised to see a burly man with slightly dark skin and thick eyebrows.

Oh my god, Officer Ushio!

Tenjou Hikari shook his head.

Tetsu Ushio, he didn't expect him to be in this dimension too.

It seemed his job in this world was the same as in the original work, also a security officer specifically responsible for arresting residents of the Lower City who infiltrated the Upper City.

In terms of rank, he should be higher than those ordinary security officers.

"Duel Mode, activated."

While Tenjou Hikari was pondering, the other side had already pressed the button on the Duel Runner. The next second, light streamed through the vehicle and the ground, lighting up the entire track, and the perpetual motion engines of the two Duel Runners also began to rotate, emitting beautiful colorful light.

Tenjou Hikari saw that the Duel Mode light had also lit up on his own Duel Runner. He casually took the Duel Disk off his left arm and pressed it onto the vehicle.

That's fine too—

Tenjou Hikari also really needed to familiarize himself with Turbo Duels.

The surrounding track began to deform, and countless light walls lit up on the walls. With the activation of the Duel Runner's Duel Mode, the surrounding environment also changed, and gradually, a circular track appeared on the Duel Runner's display screen.

Ushio sneered and spoke:

"Considering you're an Otherworlder, I'll give you an extra explanation of the Turbo Duel rules!

The Turbo Duel route is a single path; the first person to reach the finish line wins. Of course, the normal duel victory or defeat is also calculated.

If you lose, then I will arrest you directly, and at that time, you'll be deported back to your world—"

Tenjou Hikari nodded: "No problem."

"Then, the person who crosses the first corner first goes first—"

Vroom!

Ushio slammed on the accelerator, dashed, directly overtook Tenjou Hikari, and swerved sharply.

"Ha, what a rookie!" Ushio laughed loudly again.

"Then—"

"Duel!" x2.

Tetsu Ushio, LP: 4000.

Tenjou Hikari, LP: 4000.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 476 =====