Chapter 395: Routine, but Effective

Loren looked up, his expression dazed. When the white light blasted over his body, he felt pain at first, and his footsteps even seemed unable to stand steady.

But soon he couldn't even feel the pain.

It was as if with the loss of vitality, his senses also drifted away. He felt his body was like a puppet, all the strings were snapped by that strike just now, his body couldn't be controlled and fell backward, like falling in an endless void, like Lucifer's fall from heaven for nine days and nine nights...

Then he fell into an embrace.

Loren raised his head with some difficulty, and saw that it was none other than that card most special to him, Exclusive News Photographer.

That spirit that was like the incarnation of his father, the card that had protected him all along.

"Dad..." Loren said softly.

The photographer nodded at him.

The duel had just ended, and while everyone's attention was still on the field, Fujiki You Xuan suddenly spoke to the adjudicator who had been silent opposite: "You should be able to rest easy now, right?"

The adjudicator, who had been looking at the movement on the field with a calm face from beginning to end, glanced toward his direction.

"Oh?" He said calmly, "My last musketeer has also failed, why do you say I can rest easy?"

"This is exactly your plan, isn't it." Fujiki You Xuan smiled, "In fact, whether it's your musketeer or the enemy, anyway, no matter who loses, the soul is the same for you...

After all, the Xin Xin Duoma Three Musketeers were originally high-quality duelist souls, sooner or later they were going to be eaten, right?"

Pausing, Fujiki You Xuan narrowed his eyes.

"And besides, as the true murderer who killed his father and his compatriots... isn't it normal to feel at ease?"

Everyone was shocked to hear this. Even Kaiba's always indifferent expression couldn't help but move, frowning as he looked over here.

But if you want to talk about shock, it should be comparable to Loren himself.

Loren, who had already closed his eyes in the photographer's arms and whose consciousness had almost left him, opened his eyes wide upon hearing this, and actually relied on his will to stand up forcibly again.

In the shrinking green light, he stared dead at the adjudicator with wide eyes.

"You... what did you say?"

But the adjudicator didn't cast his gaze toward him, but only looked at Fujiki You Xuan with interest.

"How did you know?"

Asking this was equivalent to admitting it.

But with his status, and at this point, there was no reason to deny it.

"As for that, who knows?" Fujiki You Xuan didn't say anything more.

Because in fact, he didn't know at all, he was just guessing randomly.

The Three Musketeers of the past, or Sher who had been encountered before, were all in the same background format. A past full of deep hatred, having the motivation to pursue power for revenge, and working for Xin Xin Duoma. But in the end, everyone discovered that the one who created their tragic past was not someone else, but the very object they were working for.

It's an old routine, nothing fresh.

Of course, the Great Snake might have no creativity, and secondly, he felt that the reason why routines are routines is because they are effective. Why do you need something new? Isn't it enough if it works?

So Fujiki You Xuan guessed it randomly and actually didn't guess wrong.

"It was you... it was you!?"

Loren widened his eyes and glared at the adjudicator in disbelief.

"Ah, yes."

The adjudicator nodded, admitting it generously.

"As a Xin Xin Duoma Musketeer, one needs to have very massive darkness in their heart, as well as the motivation to drive this darkness." He said calmly, "It's too slow for such darkness to form naturally, and the efficiency is too low.

By comparison, it's far better for me to personally select the seeds with the most potential, and then cultivate them with my own hands."

"That... that was also you?"

"Yes." The adjudicator said in a casual tone, "It was me who spread the virus, which spread in your hometown and destroyed that place.

It was also me who infected your father, and it was also me who deliberately let him die in front of you..."

"You... you..."

Whether it was from anger or the loss of vitality, Loren looked like he couldn't speak anymore.

But in fact, it was already a miracle that he could stand and question him until now. Normally, after losing the duel, his soul should have been extracted by the Orichalcos seal long ago; if he hadn't been stimulated by hearing Fujiki You Xuan's question, he should have been like that too.

He was now relying on an incredible obsession, using anger and will to resist the power of the seal.

"Oh, by the way. Regarding the news that 'Kaiba Corp is conducting secret inhumane experiments' and 'Kaiba Corp is developing biological weapons', that was also released by me."

The adjudicator smiled lightly.

"It was me who arranged for an informant to reveal the clues to your father, and it was me who kept releasing bait to let him follow the clues and investigate.

He thought he was digging deep for justice and fairness, but in fact, he was just moving forward along the breadcrumbs I threw, just like a puppet.

Even including the fact that he found out incredible secrets at the end and brought about his own death, it was just performing to the finale that had been written long ago."

The adjudicator said nonchalantly, his tone like narrating a trivial matter.

Even Mokuba couldn't help but be annoyed: "To actually say we are researching biological weapons..."

Since Gozaburo died, Kaiba Corp had stopped any form of weapon development and went all out to transform into researching new card-printing technology, let alone any biological weapons.

However, Fujiki You Xuan thought about it and felt that this statement might not be entirely wrong.

If you have to say it, if a powerful enough Shadow Duelist uses supernatural power to materialize the power of an entire virus deck, it might really be used as a biological weapon.

After all, the power of cards is all-encompassing, and everything in the world can be sealed in cards. So strictly speaking, if you say Kaiba is building something, it can be related...

"Ahhhhh!"

Loren was out of anger. Veins bulged on his forehead, and he roared as he tried to rush toward the adjudicator. The Exclusive News Photographer behind him hurriedly stepped forward to try to stop him, but was also affected by the materialized anger radiating from his master's body. Green light radiated from him, and the photographer instantly turned dark, the green light of Orichalcos reflected in his eyes, as if anger erupted from within his body.

"Kill you, kill you—"

He tried to punch in anger, but was blocked by the green light barrier he had activated himself, and could only helplessly keep hitting that layer of barrier. At this moment, the barrier had almost shrunk to his face, and the suction from the sky was getting stronger and stronger.

"Very good, very good, the angrier you are, the more the darkness in your heart expands."

The adjudicator nodded with satisfaction.

"Become my sacrifice and disappear into the darkness forever."

Loren finally used up his last bit of strength.

An angry soul was extracted from his body, followed the green light into mid-air, and disappeared without a trace.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 396 =====