Who Let Him Play Yugioh? (Re-Upload)

”Silent, do you think mine is big enough?”

Silent Magician stood next to Kira, tilting her head and gesturing.

Big, sure. But ugly as hell.

Kira nodded, satisfied.

”Ugly is good.”

Right now, he looked like that fierce, Orichalcos god emissary he’d pummeled in Mirage City in the Spirit World—huge and menacing.

When Kira first came to the Spirit World, he realized that every card he held corresponded to a skill there. As long as you had enough cards, you could do anything.

For example, the Spell Card ”Hero Mask” he was using now allowed him to disguise himself.

Two days ago, the mission card he’d taken from that god emissary updated with new content—a map appeared, pointing to a location.

The card text was just a bunch of hieroglyphs Kira couldn’t read.

But that was fine—the big boss of the Spirit World, Black Luster Soldier, could understand it and told him that the card holder was to gather at the indicated place.

The mission was to find something called the ”Sealing Device.”

Kira immediately thought of the info he’d seen at Mokuba’s place a few days earlier.

The Sealing Device—the upside-down pyramid that looked like the Millennium Puzzle.

So…could it actually be the Millennium Puzzle?

Kira had a bold idea.

He took the mission card and disguised himself as a god emissary to infiltrate the team and investigate.

As he walked, Silent gestured beside him.

”You think it’s dangerous if I’m exposed?” Kira asked.

Silent nodded repeatedly.

At first, communication with Silent was tough, but over time it got easier. Now, he could pretty much understand her every gesture.

”No worries, that’s just Plan A,” Kira said. ”Plan A is to blend in and get information.”

Silent tilted her head.

What about Plan B?

”Plan B is—if my cover’s blown, just beat them up and ask my questions directly.”

”…”

Silent was silenced by his airtight plan and had nothing to say.

The mission card was quite smart; as he walked, the map updated, guiding him along winding paths to the destination—a kind of mystical GPS.

He soon reached the designated spot.

It was a grove of tall, twisted trees, shadows thick among the branches, swallowing all light. The air was heavy with damp earth and a strange, rotten smell.

Through the underbrush, Kira soon found three figures gathered together.

Well, not people—they weren’t human. He couldn’t tell what cards they were, but they seemed to be Beast or Beast-Warrior types. Dark bronze, muscular bodies, covered in scars and tattoos, wild fur—fitting Kira’s stereotype of beastmen.

Noticing his approach, the three stood up warily, each showing their mission card.

Kira got the hint and did the same. The three nodded and sat down again.

Kira joined them.

Good—Plan A was going well so far.

”The guide should be here soon,” said Beastman A. ”We’re all old friends, working for the great god. No need to be nervous.”

Oh, so they know each other?

Kira decided to just listen for now—if the god emissary he was impersonating knew them, talking too much would be dangerous.

Luckily, one of the beastmen asked the very question Kira was most interested in.

”I heard the church finally has a lead on the ’Sealing Device’? What is it? Why does even the all-powerful god need it?”

Beastman A’s eyes gleamed.

”I heard a bit from a friend high in the organization. But…” He lowered his voice. ”Are you sure you want to know?”

That made Beastman B nervous. ”If it’s not for us to know, then forget it. I know not to pry.”

Beastman A laughed. ”It’s fine. We’re all brothers here—just don’t spread it.”

He lowered his voice. ”You all know, right? What our great god has shown is just the tip of the iceberg.

The true form is still asleep, waiting to be awakened.”

Beastmen B and C nodded.

”But rumor is, it isn’t sleeping by choice. It was attacked.” Beastman A whispered. ”Years ago, a lord of evil gods led the three wicked gods of the sky, earth, and sun to ambush our god when it was weak, severely injuring it…”

Kira: ”…”

If he guessed right, that ”lord of evil gods” was the Pharaoh, Atem?

The three wicked gods—those were the Egyptian God Cards?

Hmm.

Makes sense. Their side calls Orichalcos’ Leviathan the true god, so the three Egyptian gods are ”evil gods” to them.

But honestly, the one who ambushed first was Doma, wasn’t it? The Egyptian God Cards didn’t even get to fight. After Yugi won them, Doma’s henchmen just broke in, skipped the dueling, and attacked Yugi’s grandpa to steal the cards.

And the business about ”attacking while the god was weak” was a bit off, too.

Back then, the revived Orichalcos had absorbed thousands of souls, and even drained the God Cards’ energy—it was at a historic peak.

The God Cards, on the other hand, were drained and couldn’t even be summoned. In the end, Atem had to push himself to bring them out for one last fight.

So really, it was the Orichalcos that was at full power, and the God Cards that were running on empty.

But the minion’s retelling made it sound like the Pharaoh was the one sneaking around.

”Anyway, our god lost that battle. But the lord of evil gods realized our god was immortal and couldn’t be destroyed.

So he used some powerful artifact to seal our god. Our mission is to find that artifact and break the seal, so our god can return and bring ultimate darkness to all worlds!”

”That would be…” said Beastman B.

”Exactly, the ’Sealing Device’.” Beastman A nodded, then scratched his head. ”Of course, that’s just what I heard—who knows if it’s true.”

Kira fell into thought, recalling the old plot.

In DM, it was said that the Orichalcos God was the planet’s dark side. As long as darkness exists, it would return.

Atem’s answer was to seal all the world’s darkness inside himself.

The more Kira thought about it, the more it seemed that New Doma was desperately searching through all the spirit worlds for one thing—

Could it really be the Millennium Puzzle?