Chapter 952: Return

Although You Xuan felt he had spent a long time in the 5D’s dimension, in reality only one month had passed. The events here had come one after another, and in the rush, it seemed as if much more time had elapsed.

At this moment, all the turmoil had temporarily subsided; the WRGB opening was still in preparation, and You Xuan figured there would be little to do in the short term, so he decided to take this opportunity to go home and visit.

Yes, back to the GX dimension he came from.

With precise dimensional coordinates and equipment capable of dimensional travel, shuttling between dimensions was not difficult. Especially now that You Xuan had become the Taiyi Emperor, with the entire organization’s resources and technological support from Zone, dimensional travel had become relatively more stable and controllable.

His next dimensional transit brought him back to the hyperspatial facility of Kaiba Corporation—the very starting point of his original journey.

Kyouichi immediately dropped everything and rushed over. When he arrived at the company, You Xuan was undergoing Kaiba Corporation’s routine inspection—to ensure he hadn’t brought back any unknown pathogens from the other world.

After completing the inspection and decontamination, You Xuan stepped out, and Kyouichi hurried forward without delay.

“How was it?” Kyouichi asked eagerly. “What did the other world look like? Did you find your enemy?”

“Hmm, hard to say.”

You Xuan replied.

“As for the enemy, we still haven’t identified its true form, but at least we’re closer than before. I also made some allies—powerful ones. That’s a long story.”

“But overall, that dimension, compared to ours, should be considered the future.”

Kyouichi: “The future?”

“Yes. A future built upon the development of our dimension over many years, where the ‘Moment’ perpetual motion device became the foundation of civilization, giving rise to a world of infinite energy and infinite possibilities.”

“Actual infinite energy?” Kyouichi whistled.

But he wasn’t overly surprised—they had already learned of the perpetual motion concept. The D-Wheel Paradox brought into this dimension already carried one, and Kaiba Corporation’s top team had been working day and night on it recently.

The idea of a world where perpetual motion was universal, where energy was limitless, was thrilling to imagine.

“But don’t get too excited,” You Xuan smiled. “I saw it—even with perpetual motion, humans are still humans.”

What good is infinite energy? Wealth and resources remain in the hands of a tiny few. There are still poor people living in the Satellite District, starving, surviving by scavenging trash.

The birth of Moment proved that many of humanity’s problems cannot be solved by technological advancement or energy development alone.

“I want to see how the research progress on all our projects has been while I was gone,” You Xuan said.

Kyouichi grinned. “I knew you’d say that. I already notified all departments.”

He understood You Xuan—nothing mattered more to this man than cards. The first thing he’d do upon returning would be to check for new cards and ask after his research team’s progress.

You Xuan nodded. “Also, while I was away, did anything new happen on Earth? You know—the kind of things like madmen plotting world destruction, or gods of performance art with dragon heads growing from their crotches?”

He’d only been gone a month, but this was the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, where transcendent beings ran rampant. Anything could have popped up in that time.

“Overall, things are still stable,” Kyouichi said seriously. “But if you’re asking about potential enemies… yes, there are some.”

Kyouichi’s tone turned grave.

“Centered in Domino City, there have been a series of disappearances over the past month.”

You Xuan said: “Disappearances happen every month, even normally.”

Disappearances themselves weren’t strange—even in his former life, in a world without any transcendent forces, they were common. That meant nothing by itself.

Kyouichi nodded. “Individually, they’re not noteworthy. But current clues suggest these disappearances are linked to some form of transcendent power.”

It’s possible a higher-dimensional entity is abducting people for some reason—we just don’t know why yet.”

You Xuan had a faint suspicion about the opponent, but he asked: “Any leads on the enemy’s true identity?”

Kyouichi: “Kaiba Corporation has formed a special investigation team, cooperating with Domino City’s police force. By the way, there’s another crucial investigator—not from the company or the police—but a student from Duel Academy who volunteered to assist us.”

You Xuan: “Who?”

Though he asked, he already knew the answer.

“Your good buddy, Yugi Tenjo,” Kyouichi grinned. “Hard to believe—the Osiris Red student you first introduced to Duel Monsters GX has changed so much.”

Though he joined as a volunteer, he’s now the lead investigator. His inexplicable power has helped immensely—he’s already stronger than the vast majority of Dark Duelists registered in our files.”

You Xuan nodded, unsurprised.

It was only natural. Tenjo now wielded both the power of the King and Ubel—he was at max level, possibly even stronger than in the later episodes of the original anime.

“Tenjo suspects the center of the events lies within your Duel Academy,” Kyouichi said. “He fought several Dark Duelists who call themselves ‘Mr. T.’”

According to Tenjo, their decks were chaotic, without any discernible pattern. They didn’t seem human—they were more like puppets projected by some higher-dimensional entity, pure embodiments of darkness.”

Tenjo defeated them several times and learned the name of the being behind them.”

Before Kyouichi finished, You Xuan interrupted: “Darkness.”

Kyouichi was startled. “You knew?”

You Xuan said: “I had brief contact during the Three Sacred Beasts incident.”

And now he was entering his final semester at Duel Academy—the very arc of the last season of the GX anime. The final boss of that arc was Darkness to begin with, so his emergence was predictable.

But Darkness’s true form hides in other dimensions. Until he fully unleashes his “Human Assimilation Plan,” finding his true body is nearly impossible. For now, all they can do is react and wait.

Still, this boss has always been one of the weakest in Yu-Gi-Oh! history. You Xuan believed Tenjo’s current strength was more than enough to handle him—no need to worry.

In any case, first things first—he’d go see his new cards.

(End of Chapter)