Chapter 751: A favor

"Mr. Yugi?"

Hearing this, Marik and his sister both looked toward the source of the voice. For a moment, the light shining in from the doorway felt exceptionally dazzling, and they instinctively raised their arms to shield their faces. But when the light faded and they looked again, they saw the doorway was empty. Where was there any sign of Yugi?

Both of them looked at Fujiki You Xuan in confusion. Fujiki You Xuan didn't say a word; he simply walked straight out the door and looked around. Not only was there no shadow of the person he had just seen, but several Gravekeepers nearby were casting strange looks in their direction.

Logically, if someone had appeared here just now, they certainly wouldn't have escaped these people's notice. Fujiki You Xuan felt that seeing Yugi at the door could only be a hallucination by any reasonable standard.

Yet, he didn't take it to heart. He smiled toward the empty space and said, as if to himself, "Thanks, Mr. Yugi."

Everyone was puzzled. Marik stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "Did Muto Yugi... just come here?"

Fujiki You Xuan shook his head. "I don't know. Maybe I just saw wrong."

Saying this, he turned and walked back into the room.

Marik looked around again, feeling that there really was no one there. Feeling even more confused, he also turned and went back inside.

At this moment, on a high spot not far away, a thin but upright figure stood. As he looked toward them from afar, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but lift slightly, and he said:

"You're welcome."

After matters were settled, Fujiki You Xuan declined the warm invitation from Marik and his sister to stay for a few more days, and the next morning, he headed home.

However, he didn't return directly to Duel Academy, but instead went to Kaiba Corp first. It was just that, despite having fought side-by-side just yesterday, he didn't get to see the President today.

When he asked Mokuba, he was told that the President seemed to have flown abroad in a hurry to work on some top-secret development project.

Fujiki You Xuan didn't ask further; this was all too normal. Seto Kaiba could almost be called the number one person in Earth's technology right now. Whether it was biomedicine or aerospace physics, there was no field where Seto Kaiba's shadow was absent.

As long as any subject had to do with card games, President Kaiba was definitely a key developer—and as everyone knew, in this world, everything had to do with card games.

But Fujiki You Xuan hadn't come to find President Kaiba in the first place. His main purpose for this trip was to borrow Kaiba Corp's equipment to test the danger coefficient of the three Wicked God cards he had just harvested.

Of course, since they were things from the mystical side, they could only be used as a reference. They were definitely dangerous, but he needed help testing whether he could control them. Back then, when Kaiba Corp obtained the Egyptian God cards, they collected a massive amount of data and performed many tests. Now, ten years later, technology had undergone earth-shaking changes, and their technical prowess was even more incomparable to the past.

This process took about a week. During this time, Fujiki You Xuan also followed his usual practice and browsed the Kaiba family warehouse again.

Although rumors outside said that Kaiba Corp's card inventory had everything, in fact, even their inventory was fluid and not completely static.

Sometimes, rare cards that had been out of print were reacquired; sometimes, rare cards were reprinted; and sometimes, they were simply cards fresh from their own production line that had just been released or weren't intended for release at all.

Fujiki You Xuan had already developed the good habit of coming to check regularly, and from time to time, he would have new gains.

Of course, it was no longer a "free ride." After all, he, Fujiki You Xuan, was now the King of Games, a person with status and standing, unlike when he first started and was penniless. Now, he didn't lack the small change for a few cards, and constantly getting things for free didn't look good on his reputation.

The current test results for the Wicked God cards were still optimistic.

Perhaps the three Wicked Gods were already in a sealed state, and when Kaiba obtained the Egyptian God test data back then, the three Egyptian Gods were at their peak; the power of the Wicked Gods now was naturally worlds apart.

Not to mention that the Wicked Gods, who were already in a sealed state, had suffered heavy damage this time, being beaten up in turns by Judai, Kaiba, and Fujiki You Xuan, making their already precarious state even worse.

In a state of severe weakness, they might still be able to drive a few ordinary card designers crazy like the Egyptian Gods did back then, but they couldn't backfire on a duelist of Fujiki You Xuan's strength level anymore.

However, a Wicked God was still a Wicked God. Fujiki You Xuan still didn't let his guard down. He kept these three brothers by his side for now, but he would still need to be careful and vigilant when using them in the future.

After being busy for a while, there was one thing Fujiki You Xuan had overlooked: final exams.

Another semester had flashed by. When Fujiki You Xuan returned to the academy, he was surprised to learn that he seemed to have missed the final exams entirely.

Of course, it wasn't a big deal. The Chancellor and the teachers had long since tacitly accepted Fujiki You Xuan's special status. Although he was still a student of the academy in name, as the King of Games, he was basically equivalent to the face of Duel Academy.

Not only that, even Chancellor Sheppard often tacitly accepted that Fujiki You Xuan was the academy's actual highest authority.

If one were to ask the Board of Directors, they would probably feel the same way.

So, under these circumstances, absolutely no one had notified Fujiki You Xuan that the time for final exams had arrived. Fujiki You Xuan really hadn't skipped them on purpose; if he had remembered this, he probably would have gone.

Well, it was no big deal. If he skipped them, he skipped them; it didn't have much impact.

After the final exams ended, the entire academy immediately became much quieter. Many students left the school right after the exams, and most of those who remained in school stayed in their dorms and rarely went out.

Fujiki You Xuan stood on the rooftop of the highest teaching building, looking down at the rolling forest in the distance and the sea further away.

The rooftop was rarely visited, and even more so after the final exams. But Fujiki You Xuan had liked to come here from time to time in the past because this was the highest point of the entire academy's architecture. Standing here gave one the feeling of having the entire island in one's grasp.

Sometimes, this helped him clear his mind to think about what he had experienced recently, what he would face next, and the gains and losses of the past.

"In the blink of an eye, it's been almost three years."

Fujiki You Xuan muttered.

It was the last semester. After this semester, he would graduate.

!

He had successfully dealt with all his opponents so far. According to the original work, the final boss of the last semester was Darkness. This guy had already awakened just like in the original work; Fujiki You Xuan already knew this, having crossed paths with Darkness's lackeys before.

Darkness's dueling level in the anime was average, but that transcendent performance of erasing the existence of everyone on the planet was still very formidable, and one couldn't be careless.

Looking back on these three years, Fujiki You Xuan felt he had made huge progress and gained a lot, yet vaguely, it seemed he had also lost a lot.

At this moment, the door to the stairwell behind him opened, and someone poked their head out.

"Fujiki You Xuan?" Judai asked in surprise. "Why are you in my private spot?"

"Judai? Your private spot?"

Fujiki You Xuan looked at the rooftop under his feet.

"Haha, yeah. Every time I want to skip class and have some quiet time, I always come here to lie down." Judai laughed. "Although there are no classes now, I've already gotten used to this place. If I don't come for a few days, I feel uncomfortable."

"Is that so? Then you've come at the right time. I have something I need your help with." Fujiki You Xuan smiled.

Judai waved his hand. "No problem!"

Fujiki You Xuan said, "I haven't even told you what it is yet."

Judai laughed. "Your business is my business. What's there to talk about between us?"

"Haha, then I'll thank you in advance. Actually, it's nothing special."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled.

"I just want to borrow your Yubel for a bit."

"Eh?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 752 =====