Chapter 821: Uninvited

Satellite, deep inside.

The candle wick spasmed in the solidified wax tears, the dim yellow halo like a dying firefly, barely licking the outline of the room. Under the peeling wallpaper, the patterns woven by mold spots were exposed, and the damp cold seeped out from the cracks.

Figures wrapped in black linen hoods sat around a worm-eaten wooden table, the shadows under the hoods were so thick that they almost swallowed their facial features, only withered branch-like hands reached out from the cuffs, casting spider-web-like trembling shadows in the candlelight.

The owner of that hand had a terrifying pattern on the arm part.

A purple-black pattern, thick lines, drawn with an extremely minimalist style, creating a pattern like Nazca lines.

Dark Signer.

People chosen as messengers of the Underworld, spanning five thousand years of fate, are destined to fight with the Signers chosen by the Crimson Dragon. When the Dark Signers win, it will be the moment when the gate of the Underworld is opened and the King of the Underworld reigns over the human world again.

The world of the living will be overturned, the dead will dominate everything, this is the meaning of the existence of the Dark Signers.

"It seems the time is almost here."

Under the flickering candlelight, a Dark Signer said in a deep voice.

He revealed his arm, and the lines of the Dark Mark on his arm were shining with purple light.

"The mark of the gods is craving battle, craving the blood of the Signers."

But a female Dark Signer spoke: "But our people haven't arrived yet, have they? The timing is soon, but it's not now."

Across the candlelight, the blue-haired Dark Signer tapped the table with his knuckles and hummed in a slightly sharp voice: "It doesn't matter."

"What mission of battle, what five-thousand-year fate, none of that matters."

"But if you all remember this well. Yusei Fudo, only that guy... that guy is mine!"

The previous two didn't speak to pick up his words.

The blue-haired Dark Signer then looked at the last person at the end of the long table, the Dark Signer who summoned them and was also the first one here, their leader of the Dark Signers.

"I will deal with Yusei Fudo, I will let him experience the pain a traitor deserves, the despair like a human purgatory. No objections, right?"

But the Dark Signer leader didn't reply.

The blue-haired Dark Signer frowned, walked up, and waved his hand in front of the leader.

"Hey? Still there?"

The leader seemed to have just suddenly come back to his senses, looked up at him.

After a long while, the leader said gloomily: "Suit yourself."

After speaking, the leader stood up, ignored everyone else, and walked straight out the door.

The others looked at his back until he disappeared outside the door. After a while, the blue-haired Dark Signer frowned and said: "Do you guys feel that the boss has been acting weird these past two days?"

No one answered.

"..."

The Dark Signer leader came to a deserted place, walked two more steps, and then knelt on the ground as if he finally couldn't hold on, clutching his head.

"Ugh ahhh..."

He gritted his teeth under the hood, as if his head was splitting with pain.

"No, something is... not right."

The battle between the Signers and the Dark Signers is about to begin again. But something is not right this time.

It's as if some unknown hands have reached into this battle of fate, stirring the future of both sides into chaos.

And the Dark Signer leader vaguely felt that he was at the center of this chaos.

"Get... out of my head!"

"Ahhh—"

New Domino City.

Fujiki You Xuan at this time, or rather Director Goodwin, was coming out of the Arcadia Movement building, walking on the streets of the city.

Izayoi Aki is settled. No matter what, she will definitely attend the Fortune Cup tournament.

The Izayoi Aki in the anime started to change after meeting Yusei and the others. Or more accurately, she was saved.

With Yusei's help, she reconciled with her parents, learned to restrain her power, and even her abilities disappeared directly in the later stages.

According to Divine's test in the anime, Aki's power would increase with her anger and hatred. Since meeting Yusei, the hatred in Aki's heart began to weaken, and the intensity of her power also decreased accordingly.

Finally, her psychokinesis disappeared completely, and she turned back into a normal girl, which should be considered a good result for her. This meant she could finally live the life of an ordinary person.

However, Fujiki You Xuan felt that although such an ending was good, it could be even better.

It's good that Izayoi Aki was saved, but the price was that she became a bit marginalized from the middle of the anime.

Still remember Aki when she first appeared, wearing the title of witch, even the arrogant Jack evaluated her as "extraordinarily strong." She crushed all opponents in the Fortune Cup with a crushing momentum, advanced all the way, and became Yusei's opponent in the Fortune Cup final before challenging Jack.

Aki at that time still felt quite strong.

Fujiki You Xuan always felt that Aki never fully accepted her innate power until the end. Even after being washed white, she only learned to suppress it, so that the power would not lose control at any time she didn't want to activate it.

Even her psychokinesis disappeared directly at the end, and even if she wanted to activate it, she couldn't use it anymore, which to some extent might also be the result of her own subconscious choice.

There's nothing wrong with that, but Fujiki You Xuan felt that she might have been able to become better.

Power itself has no right or wrong. If one must say, Aki's power was just pure physical destruction. And like the former Duel King Atem and Jaden Yuki, they all played with dark games, materialization of inner darkness, etc., which were much more evil than hers.

If Aki could accept her talent, maybe she would have gone further than she originally did.

Fujiki You Xuan was not in a hurry to tell her the truth about Divine, because then she would likely lose the motivation to participate in the Fortune Cup, and might even lose the belief to move forward again.

And coming to the Fortune Cup tournament can not only stimulate her to further awaken, but she will also meet Yusei Fudo in the tournament.

Don't look at Yusei as a cold-faced cool guy when he first appeared, looking ruthless and not talking much, not caring about anything other than himself. But in fact, Yusei is cold on the outside and warm on the inside, and he is also a guy who loves to meddle in other people's business. His ability to talk is no weaker than other generations of Yu-Gi-Oh protagonists.

Through the duel with Yusei, Aki should also be able to reduce her hatred for herself, laying a good foundation for her to enter the next stage.

Then the last Signer left to find is...

Fujiki You Xuan was walking on the street, thinking while walking, when he suddenly heard a childish child's voice coming from behind.

"Leo! Leo wait for me..."

"..."

"Whoa!"

Fujiki You Xuan felt a small body bump into him.

He turned around and saw a little boy with green hair and a blue Duel Disk on his hand bump into him, then sat on the ground with a thud, rubbing his little butt while baring his teeth.

"Ouch ouch ouch..."

Fujiki You Xuan looked down at the child and couldn't help but show a meaningful smile.

Actually uninvited, this is really a coincidence.

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