Week 23-Day 5 [video]

[cyberdarkscion]

[What comes into view first is a deer’s hindquarters bouncing across the grass as it flees. What does it flee? Or perhaps the question there should be who. The answer to that question comes clear as the Hitomi turns to reveal a sharp-featured face that first looks in the direction the deer ran away in. Then he looks toward the device.

That

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[Video]

[tenpa_tantrum]

[The video shows an eight-year-old with messy dark hair, dressed precociously in a sweater vest with a dress shirt and tie under it.

He looks quite unhappy.]

Hey, don't you dare do anything to that rabbit! It's wrong to hunt animals unless you plan to eat them, I've have you know!

[He shakes his finger at the Hitomi, scowls.]

And I have no idea what you're talking about, but if you're that stupid, you need to go back to school instead of threatening animals!

[Video]

[cyberdarkscion]

[Ryou stares at this child. What on Earth is he talking about?]

They approached me. [From his tone, he considers this suicidal. After all, it's not like he makes pets out of animals or anything. In his experience, sane creatures don't just stroll up to him.]

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[tenpa_tantrum]

Well maybe they're welcoming you to the world! Did you ever think of that!? Huh, huh, mister?

[Yeah, he's not buying your bullshit, you hear?]

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[cyberdarkscion]

Hell Kaiser. [He isn't just going to be called 'mister'. He has a name...not that he lets just anyone use it.]

What is this world, then? [Obviously this isn't where he was. Information is a must.]

[video]

[sternitfortem]

[ Of course Kaiser would show up on a day when Juudai is one of maybe three remaining adults (for a given value of "adult") in the place. Of course. That's just to be expected, really.

Also, there's something subtly wrong with his demeanor. ]

Kaiser! You look... energetic. [ Weren't you in a wheelchair last he saw you, Ryou? ]

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[cyberdarkscion]

Juudai. [Someone he knows. Yet Juudai also looks a bit different from what he remembers. A bit older somehow.]

What do you mean?

[video]

[sternitfortem]

[ Oh, Kaiser, you've definitely been backsliding, from that expression. ]

Well, I mean... The last time I saw you, the doctors were still saying you should take it easy, and you probably shouldn't be on your feet outside of the rehab clinic for another couple months, and...

[ A sudden suspicion enters Juudai's brain; if what someone he talked to had once said was true, which it had seemed to be, then possibly... ]

What's the last thing you remember?

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[cyberdarkscion]

[All of that confuses the everloving hell out of him. What on Earth would he even be in a rehab clinic for? Overload of awesome duels?]

I gave my Genex medal to Rei and left the tournament. No one there was good enough to challenge me. [Except maybe you and you were sort of saving the world at the time.]

[video]

[crystalblessing]

...You're a duelist?

[Very pinged by this, despite not knowing him at all -- in this form, anyway. This will be an experience, won't it?]

[video]

[cyberdarkscion]

Yes, I am. Hell Kaiser. [He eyes this kid. Presuming he's seen some magazine article about the guy who won the Gem Beast deck, the kid looks a bit familiar. Not quite enough to name offhand, just a vague hint of "I've seen someone who looks like him"] And you are?

[video]

[crystalblessing]

I am, too. My name's Johan.

[Slowly and carefully worded:] ...If you really wanna duel someone, I could be your opponent.

[Yeah, sure, the guy's intimidating as all hell, but... hey, it's still a duel.]

[video]

[cyberdarkscion]

[Well, now. This can only be Johan Andersen. Hell Kaiser smiles. It really isn't the kindest smile in the world. He also remembers what Juudai said...and doesn't care.]

Where are you?