Chapter 265: Ghost

"Brother!"

Kaiba Seto walked out of the building and saw Mokuba waiting outside coming towards him.

"Is it over? Is everything going well?" Mokuba asked anxiously.

"Hmph." Kaiba held his chest high. "That's natural."

"Great."

Mokuba let out a long sigh of relief.

"In this way, our grudge with that guy is finally settled."

"Hmm." Kaiba nodded.

As he said this, he turned around and took a final look at the company building behind him with the huge "Abiak" sign, which happened to be the reverse spelling of "Kaiba," like a reflection, just like an attack launched by the shadow of his past.

But nothing could stop him. The future couldn't, the past even less so.

Everything is over now.

"Hey, I said Fujiki You Xuan would be very helpful." Mokuba laughed.

"Hmph, somewhat useful." Kaiba hummed.

"But I still want to stay here for two more days before going back." Mokuba said. "It's rare to come here, at least bring some specialties back."

Kaiba smiled: "Suit yourself."

"..."

The matter ended, and within this month, the company named "Abiak" was erased from the world by the power of Kaiba Corporation, along with all the traces of the person behind the scenes.

Those AIs manufactured in secret were also all destroyed, without exception. Kaiba Seto personally ensured that the last trace of their existence was eliminated, leaving nothing behind.

A month later, the New Xin Xin Duoma organization was destroyed. Kaiba led people to flatten the Xin Xin Duoma headquarters and sealed the shameless snake of Orichalcos again.

He did what he couldn't do back then, and what Atem did.

The Duel City tournament was successfully held. Kaiba Seto, who hadn't competed publicly for many years, finally made a comeback, fought his way through the new Duel City to win the championship, and won the "Duel King" title that had been vacant for many years, becoming the new generation of Duel King.

The following year, Kaiba Corporation made a huge breakthrough in scientific research. The development of cutting-edge technology proved that the future of the aerospace field is also hidden in the power of Duel Monster cards.

With the help of the power of cards, Kaiba Corporation led the world into the era of the starry sky. Space stations, new types of spacecraft, and even new Duel Cities established on Mars...

And Kaiba Seto, who accomplished all these great achievements, was naturally revered as the greatest person in human history. His contribution was so outstanding that it even overshadowed all the great men of the past, and he is the living legend recognized by the whole world.

The influence of Kaiba Corporation is also growing. Developing to this step, any country, group, or even all of humanity can no longer leave Kaiba technology. While they are pushing the era into a new era, they have also become the water and electricity of all humanity... No, it should even be said that they have become the air they breathe.

Leaving Kaiba Corporation, any agency or group will instantly paralyze, and Kaiba Seto has almost become the pinnacle of the world.

However, after achieving all this, Kaiba sat in the empty space station, looking at everything he has achieved today through the porthole.

This is wrong.

He stood up from his seat and walked towards the endless starry sky.

Everything here, what he possesses, the pinnacle he has reached, none of it is real.

"I don't know what kind of boring trick this is, but it ends here!"

Kaiba said in a deep voice.

In an instant, it was as if white light erupted with him as the center. Even the darkness of the starry sky seemed to be dispelled. The space station he was in, the interstellar city built by the Kaiba Empire, the whole world seemed to be shattered like a mirror.

After the world turned upside down, Kaiba Seto also came to the dark and narrow passage like the one Fujiki You Xuan faced, located in a chaos, leading to the unknown darkness.

Kaiba frowned and also walked forward.

Twisted images also emerged in the mirror-like darkness on both sides.

There was him when he was young, a little person sitting at a big desk, facing a mountain of books and a sea of problems. And his foster father, Gozaburo Kaiba, was standing by with his arms crossed.

"Remember, Seto, a person's future is not given by others, but opened up by one's own hands." Gozaburo said sternly. "You won this opportunity with your own hands, but whether you can reach the end depends on yourself."

Kaiba looked straight ahead and walked past the flashing picture coldly.

Soon new pictures emerged from the side.

"From today on, you will start to contact the company affairs of Kaiba Corporation."

Gozaburo Kaiba leaned in his chair, facing the scorching sun. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Kaiba Seto, who had grown into a teenager in front of him.

"Prove that you are a child of the Kaiba family, don't let me down."

"Yes, Father." Teenage Kaiba said heavily, "I will never let you down."

"..."

Kaiba continued to walk past the picture, still not looking at it even once. The picture twisted rapidly and swept past him, soon disappearing.

Next, as expected, many fragments appeared one after another. The pictures showed Kaiba Seto, Kaiba at various times, various ages, and Gozaburo as his foster father.

But from beginning to end, he didn't look at it even once.

And the last one to appear was the last time this nominal father and son saw each other.

Teenage Kaiba Seto revealed his fangs like a young lion for the first time, a sneer like a winner. All the high-level executives of the board of directors stood behind the teenager, and at some point, only Gozaburo was left at the other end of the table.

It turned out that he had far underestimated this teenager.

He thought he was the one using him; in his eyes, Kaiba was always just a chess piece, but he never expected that he was facing an equally dangerous chess player.

He never dreamed that Kaiba, at only sixteen, could win over all the high-level executives of the company under his nose, hollow out his power, and finally take away his enterprise directly from his hands.

After that, Gozaburo soon died.

There is no doubt that Gozaburo died holding deep hatred for his former foster son, as well as unwillingness for being so dull and failing to detect any abnormalities.

In the end, he firmly believed that he was forced to death by Kaiba Seto, and Kaiba was almost equivalent to the murderer who killed him directly.

Only in this last scene did Kaiba stop, then crossed his arms and sneered.

Just like the teenage Kaiba in the picture, that was the winner's sneer at the loser.

"Why, showing me these, do you want to ask for my thoughts?" Kaiba said coldly. "Then fine, I'll tell the truth. I only saw a stray dog, barking incompetently after losing everything."

As he said this, he turned around and shouted sharply.

"Stop these boring tricks, come out and face me! Gozaburo!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 266 =====