Chapter 264: The Expected Life

It's over.

Delta lay on the ground, feeling his body like floating on invisible water, drifting with the waves, slowly sinking in the spray.

What ended was not only this duel, but also his mission, and even his short life.

This was the last, and absolutely the most unforgettable duel of his life.

Fatal four-fold blow, his Darkstorm Dragon was blown away three times in a row, and Five-Headed Dragon was blown away once. The sinister wind on the opposite side seemed to have never stopped throughout the whole process, blowing him until he was numb.

That's fine. The last most fatal, and also the most thorough move that broke his defense, was following up with "Conscription" after blowing it away.

Check the top card of the opponent's Deck, if it's a summonable monster, Special Summon it to your field.

Heh, after the Storm Monarch just blew it back, could it not flip a monster?

NTR from the Deck, do you dare to believe it? What kind of new form of NTR is this?

As everyone knows, the darkest one in the Monarch series should be "Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch." Each Monarch corresponds to a different attribute, and Thestalos corresponds to the dark attribute. The name is even called "Thestalos," and you can tell at a glance that it should be the darkest and most evil one, giving the impression of a king who dominates the abyss.

However, after today, I don't know what others think, but Delta looked at the Storm Monarch on Fujiki You Xuan's field again, and felt that the name of the darkest Monarch should belong to you.

What is Thestalos? His little evil is not even worth mentioning compared to your sinister degree.

Now thinking back to this tortured card game, suddenly feeling that this short journey of sitting in prison is not exactly a portrayal of his own life?

His life is also struggling in a fate that has long been decided, also so short, and also lived in torture.

Especially in the end, when "Darkstorm Dragon" came to Fujiki You Xuan's field and gave him the final blow, he really seemed to see Father in the erupting dragon breath.

As if casting a look of disappointment, resentment, and even disgust.

The moment his vision was drowned in darkness, he seemed to go back in time in a trance.

His birth, being created by Father, gaining intelligence and consciousness, training with his brothers using different decks, and learning and awakening more intelligence during the duel.

Soon, he stood out among his brothers and became the most excellent one.

"Truly worthy of being my son."

Father said that to him at that time.

"Soon, you will become my right-hand man." The man said to him, reaching out and patting his shoulder heavily, "Don't let me down."

"I will never let you down." He promised solemnly.

Of course, this promise seems to have fallen through now.

He also remembers that when other brothers looked at him at that time, most of the eyes were envy, admiration, as if he carried not only Father's expectations but also the hopes of others. Everyone regarded him as a role model, as the most excellent one among them, to act for Father on behalf of all of them.

But it's ironic. Although designed with Kaiba Seto as the prototype, Delta actually never had any ambition for even a moment from beginning to end. No pursuit of power, no pursuit of authority, and no great interest in taking away Kaiba Corporation from Kaiba Seto to achieve revenge and stand at the pinnacle of the world.

He thinks the world is quite good as it is now. The only thing that aroused his interest was the Kaiba Land built by Kaiba Seto.

"..."

"Kaiba Seto is a murderer, the most heinous criminal, robber, thief in history."

The man gathered all the children together, stood on the stage and accused Kaiba Seto of his countless crimes.

"And he is also the most absurd one. Kaiba Corporation was once the world's premier industry, the most cutting-edge technology, the best arms industry."

"But what did this guy do after taking it for himself? Open some White Dragon amusement park, produce roller coasters? Why doesn't he just go sell baby pacifiers?"

All the brothers were filled with righteous indignation, taking turns denouncing him in line with their father's words. Only Delta whispered to himself: "Actually, I think Kaiba Land looks pretty fun."

However, I don't know if this whisper was heard by Father. He raised his eyelids unhappily on the stage: "Did you say anything just now, Delta?"

"Ah no, Father." Delta lowered his head, "I said you are right, Kaiba Seto is an unforgivable villain."

The man nodded, and didn't ask any more questions.

But Delta never told anyone that he actually had a wish of his own in this fleeting life. That is, in his lifetime, he wanted to go to Kaiba Land once.

Delta is such a strange AI. Clearly created for the purpose of revenge, clearly the most excellent one, but at the bottom of his heart, he just wanted to lie flat.

Even if he didn't play anything, just selling balloons in the park, watching children climb up and down the slide, watching young people and children scream and cheer on the White Dragon roller coaster, he felt very comfortable.

Of course, that must be an extravagant hope.

After all, they were in opposing camps. His father and brothers were shouting slogans like "Restore the Empire" over here, each one indignantly denouncing the current dictator for being incompetent and hedonistic. Yet, as the number one general under his father, he not only lacked any will to fight but even wanted to join the opponent to play music and dance together.

What kind of thing is this?

"..."

"Since you don't want to fight, why gamble your life?"

Fujiki You Xuan walked to Delta, who was already lying on the ground and whose body began to decompose into data, and said calmly.

"Even if it's an AI, since you have the consciousness of existence, you should understand the preciousness of 'living', right?"

"Heh, if you are asking if I want to die, of course not."

Delta closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"So that's why you humans don't understand. From the moment of birth, our fate has been decided. Whether this is what I want doesn't matter at all, this is my mission, I exist to fight for Father, that's enough."

Fujiki You Xuan pondered for a while.

"I think it's you who don't understand humans." He said lightly. "There are actually many humans in this world who are like this.

Struggling for the expectations of others, trying everything to become the person they are expected to be, because that is the high hope entrusted from birth, even if that is not what they want."

"Is that so..."

Delta closed his eyes again and smiled tiredly.

"Then perhaps, I am indeed more like a human than I thought."

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter anymore.

He has already tried his best.

He doesn't have to fight anymore.

Delta's body completely decomposed, turning into scattered data and dissipating in the virtual space.

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