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Chapter 906 [Ferry to the Underworld]
Although he had started traveling and come to Egypt to produce the cards that had been determined to be Crystal Beast, after the incident with Tenma Yexing, Pegasus now had no heart to continue the travel.
What Kaiba said before about dissecting Tenma Yexing was just said casually and wasn't serious. After all, just as Alister said when persuading him, he was the world's only living being existing after a fusion of a human and a spirit. In the end, Kaiba only drew a tube of his blood.
Of course, the losses Tenma Yexing caused Kaiba were not fully compensated by just this tube of blood. Not to mention other concessions on business cooperation, after Keipei provided the specific monetary losses for the damaged Central Building and Surrounding Area, Pegasus didn't even bargain once and paid off that astronomical figure of compensation in one go.
However, the one who paid wasn't Industrial Illusions, but Pegasus himself. After all, currently, the one holding the most stock in Industrial Illusions is Hayato with 40%, followed by Yugi with 30%. Pegasus's 20% stock can only be considered the third Shareholder, so he can't squander freely like before when he had 100% controlling stake in Industrial Illusions.
But actually, even without Industrial Illusions, just Pegasus's Family savings are enough for him to blow up a few more buildings of the same specification, even if each building had one of those "Arc Reactors" that accounted for the most money in this compensation.
Although the one who actively detonated the Arc Reactor and blew up the building was Keipei, tracing the reason can still be blamed on Tenma Yexing. Therefore, Keipei also accepted the stack of checks given by Pegasus with peace of mind. Kaiba? Kaiba has always been indifferent; he cares about other matters.
As for Yugi and Hayato, even Pegasus, who was thick-skinned enough to take an energy cannon, was somewhat embarrassed. After all, it was he who had actively invited them to accompany him on this trip from the start, but he interrupted the trip after staying in Egypt for less than a week.
---Although actually, for Yugi and the others who had been to the World within the King's Memory Stone Slab and spent several days within it, their trip to Egypt had actually already lasted for a long time. It's just that Pegasus didn't know.
But no matter what, Pegasus felt that since he was the organizer of the trip, even though he needed to leave first now, he still had to fulfill his responsibility and help arrange Hayato and Yugi's subsequent journey.
And after hearing about Dark Yugi, which is Atem's, plan, Pegasus couldn't help but feel some regret. It was both because, as his goal was global travel to collect material, he couldn't personally see the tablet that could make the Pharaoh's Soul return to the Underworld, and also because Atem, who possessed excellent talent, was leaving this World.
Besides the regret, Pegasus generously bought a Ship for Hayato and the others to use on their subsequent journey. Speaking of which, it was also a Coincidence that this Ship was surprisingly from the Egyptian Branch under Anacis Shipping.
Although the first impression it gives people seems like a Country with only Desert, actually, there are quite a lot of waterways within Egypt's borders. Not to mention that it is also, no matter how you look at it, the location of the Suez Canal, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. For the global shipping industry, Egypt has a quite important strategic status. It is also reasonable and logical for Anacis Shipping to set up a branch here.
"Ancient Egyptians believed that ships were transportation tools that sent people and Pharaohs who returned to the side of the Gods, from the Real World to the Realm of the Dead." Sitting by a Round Table placed on the Deck of the Ship, Honda drew a Card from Joey Wheeler's side deck and said, "The design prototype of this card seems like it originated from this."
"Ferry to the Underworld, huh?" Joey Wheeler also learned information about this card he had never used, which he carried on his body, for the first time from someone else. Listening to Honda's introduction, he said, letting his thoughts wander, "Speaking of which, it seems like it's not just Ancient Egypt. Ancient Greece also seems like it has a saying about a ferry to the Underworld. Do the Northern European Vikings also have a custom of sending away the corpse of the dead with a Ship?"
"It's just like how a world-ending flood appears in most global mythology. That's quite normal." Hayato paused and said casually, "And actually, that flood really did happen. The world-ending flood that reached the level of a cleanse, stirred up by the mad King of Atlantis ten thousand years ago."
"Dartz, huh? That's truly amazing. But I wasn't talking about him, I was talking about you who defeated him." Alister walked towards the few of them, carrying a plate of dish, and placed the plate containing the dish on the table. "This Ship is surprisingly equipped with a nice restaurant. It simply is an opportunity for me to show off my signature move!"
"Have a taste. Although it was originally French cuisine, it's my personally quite proud Italian confit chicken."
"Confit chicken?" Hayato raised an eyebrow and smelled the aroma of the dish Alister brought over. "This aroma is white wine?"
"Although beef, lamb, and pork in Italian cuisine are generally paired with red wine, relatively light chicken as expected, still needs to be paired with white wine." Honda seems like he also has considerable tasting ability and smelled carefully. "And the smell of olive oil, is it a specialty from Florence?"
"Experts, huh?" Alister looked unexpectedly at Honda and Hayato. He also realized later and remembered that when he was still in Doma before, he had investigated the background of a few people. Tristan Taylor is the future inheritor of a famous Japanese automobile group, and Hayato Kobayashi has a Mother who works at Industrial Illusions and a Diplomat Father. None of them come from ordinary Family.
"I removed most of the characteristics of French cuisine, replacing them with the characteristics of Italian cuisine, but kept a part, because only this way will you know that you are eating a dish modified from French cuisine." Puffing out his chest, Alister said proudly. It looked like he was deliberately showing off.
"Huh? It's surprisingly not just simple roast chicken?" Joey Wheeler, who hadn't bothered to smell it carefully at all but had directly taken a chicken leg and put it in his mouth, was stunned for a moment. He didn't feel at all where this dish was complicated. Too lazy to think about those things, he thought for a moment, then buried his head and continued eating the chicken leg.
Looking at Joey Wheeler wasting something good like a pig chewing on a peony, Alister also couldn't help but sighed. Looking at the plate of confit chicken on the Round Table, he said, "I'm not bragging, but if I were to give it an evaluation, this dish could get a full 2 stars!"
"Only 2 stars? What kind of evaluation standard is that?"
Alister thought for a moment and said, "Because in my eyes, many dishes are fundamentally not up to standard, not even worth one star. And the highest standard in my heart is probably 6 stars. For example, barbecue that can give people the aura of a demon King, and so on."
Joey Wheeler ranted, "Listening to that, it feels like it's not as good as a hamburger that can even absorb all the Monsters on the Opponent's Field."
"Heh, you should just keep eating." Alister glanced at Joey Wheeler and said disdainfully, then looked towards the other side of the Round Table. "Compared to those things..."
"What's with this guy, Kaiba Seto?"
Only to see beside Yugi, who was also sitting by the Round Table, Kaiba was staring intently at Yugi, his eyes not even blinking once. That sharp gaze made Yugi feel uncomfortable all over and sit stiffly in his seat, not taking a single bite even though Alister had already served several signature dishes.
And beside Yugi, Keipei, who had long been used to Kaiba's behavior, composedly comforted Téa: "Older Sister Téa, don't worry. Based on my experience, Brother is 90%, maybe even 100%, likely just having an urge to duel and wants to duel someone."
Bakura heard Keipei's words, swallowed the cream puff in his mouth, then put down his fork and said with curiosity: "Why, when you say it, Keipei-chan, does Kaiba sound like an addict?"
"That's quite normal. After all, when Brother was watching a duel before, his interest in dueling was piqued by Brother Hayato's Predaplant. And then he discovered that Brother Hayato's Deck as expected, still is as broken as ever. With no one he can have a satisfying duel with, it's quite normal for Brother to have an urge to duel flare up." In the end, Keipei added, "Duelists are like this."
"Don't talk nonsense, Keipei. We're not like that guy Kaiba, okay? I'm going to become the number one Duelist in the World, Woman---"
"Kachitoritai mono mo nai!"
Joey Wheeler hadn't finished speaking a sentence when music that made people want to start running immediately came from the mobile phone in his pants pocket. He confusedly flipped open his mobile phone and saw that it was Kujaku Mai calling.
"Oh, it's Mai. Happy New Year."
"Mm-hmm, of course I remember. I remember every word you said clearly."
"Did you see the news? No, that guy Kaiba didn't have any losses. Pegasus is super rich and compensated everything directly. See? We're on the Ship Pegasus bought now. But that guy had something to do and went back to America first."
"The dishes on the table? Hehe, it was made by someone you absolutely wouldn't be able to guess. I won't tell you yet, do you want to guess?"
Watching Joey Wheeler raise his mobile phone and continuously display the view of the two shores that could be seen on the Deck towards Kujaku Mai on the other end of the call, Honda got goosebumps and thought to himself: 'What a mushy couple. Good thing they aren't my Fathers, otherwise it would be embarrassing.'
'However, if it were me and Shizuka, hehehe.'
"Bang!"
"Joey Wheeler! Why did you suddenly hit me!" "Because I always have the feeling that you're thinking about Shizuka. My intuition accuracy rate is 1000%!" "Damn it, Shizuka is a Woman who could become my girlfriend!" "How can a guy like you have such a narrow mind!" "Do you have the qualification to say something like that when you already have Mai-chan!"
Honda and Joey Wheeler, this pair of buddies who were uneasy if they didn't fight, started arguing again in just a few words. And while Téa and Keipei had their attention transferred by the two and went to break up the fight, and when only Hayato and Keipei remained by the Round Table, Kaiba finally stopped being silent.
"I hear that you're going to the so-called place of sunset, to find a so-called Millennium Stone Tablet, is that right?" Looking at Yugi, Kaiba said with a gloomy expression, "Making souls return to the Underworld and such, it's all just nonsensical rambling about Gods. But I don't care about those things."
"What's important is, are you trying to escape, Yugi? Carrying a record stronger than mine, you just want to escape to the so-called 'Underworld', a place like that where no one can find you. Are you fearing being surpassed by me, Yugi!"
Kaiba has always been a perfectionist, in every aspect. And within the domain of Duel Monsters, his goal from beginning to end has always been to become the strongest, surpassing everyone. This means that although currently the person at the apex of Duel Monsters is Hayato, for Kaiba to achieve his goal, he must defeat everyone stronger than him for it to be considered completely finished.
Otherwise, even if one day Kaiba has already defeated Hayato and reached the apex of the Duel King position, but hasn't defeated Yugi, even if the general public believes Kaiba is already the strongest player in the domain of Duel Monsters, Kaiba himself will not be satisfied and still will be obsessed with defeating Yugi.
And if Yugi, i.e., Atem, returns to the Underworld, Kaiba will never be able to achieve his goal. This is what annoys him the most. It's not like Keipei said, that his urge to duel flared up.
At most just a little bit, just that much.
"Kaiba," Yugi heard Kaiba's words and said somewhat helplessly, "The Other Me he---"
"I wasn't talking to you, Mutou Yuugi. From beginning to end, the only opponent in my eyes is The Other Yugi. Make him come out!" Glaring fiercely at Yugi, Kaiba still doesn't accept even now the fact that The Other Yugi is the soul of Pharaoh Atem from three thousand years ago. Even if he could accept the concept that Mutou Yuugi can switch to another personality during a duel.
While speaking, Kaiba stood up. After walking to one end of the Deck, he suddenly turned around and, with sharp movement, raised his Duel Disk and said, "That kind of escape idea, it seems like the current you are no longer qualified to be my chase target. Then here, I will defeat you, Yugi!"
"Now my chance of winning is greater. After defeating you, I will also be one step closer to Hayato Kobayashi and substitute you to become the person closest to him!"
"Ugh, why am I getting sick from the local food from eating Egyptian cuisine, and even seasickness..."
Covering his stomach, Marik, who got a bad stomach from eating on the Snack Street, walked onto the Deck palely. He just happened to hear Kaiba's words and was stunned for a moment. "Did I hear something explosive? Should I tell Older Sister that Brother-in-law seems like he's been targeted by the Contact List?"
And Yugi heard Kaiba's words. Finding it a bit difficult, he couldn't make up his mind and asked Atem within the Millennium Puzzle: 'The Other Me'.
'Kaiba, his acting is too terrible, isn't it? Aibo, you also saw through his idea, right?' Atem within the Millennium Puzzle shook his head helplessly. 'Even if he just said it directly, that he wants to duel me, he just had to use this fierce appearance to challenge me.'
'Aibo'
Although Atem's words weren't finished, but Yugi, who had mutual understanding with him, knowing his idea, nodded and silently thought in his heart: 'Okay, I'll leave it to you, The Other Me.'
On the Millennium Puzzle, radiance shined. In the blink of an eye, Yugi's temperament had a drastic change. Atem and Yugi exchanged positions.
At the same time, within the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi said to himself the second half of the sentence that wasn't heard by Atem:
'Enjoy the duel to your heart's content. This is the sole thing I can help you with.'
Although he had started traveling and come to Egypt to produce the cards that had been determined to be Crystal Beast, after the incident with Tenma Yexing, Pegasus now had no heart to continue the travel.
What Kaiba said before about dissecting Tenma Yexing was just said casually and wasn't serious. After all, just as Alister said when persuading him, he was the world's only living being existing after a fusion of a human and a spirit. In the end, Kaiba only drew a tube of his blood.
Of course, the losses Tenma Yexing caused Kaiba were not fully compensated by just this tube of blood. Not to mention other concessions on business cooperation, after Keipei provided the specific monetary losses for the damaged Central Building and Surrounding Area, Pegasus didn't even bargain once and paid off that astronomical figure of compensation in one go.
However, the one who paid wasn't Industrial Illusions, but Pegasus himself. After all, currently, the one holding the most stock in Industrial Illusions is Hayato with 40%, followed by Yugi with 30%. Pegasus's 20% stock can only be considered the third Shareholder, so he can't squander freely like before when he had 100% controlling stake in Industrial Illusions.
But actually, even without Industrial Illusions, just Pegasus's Family savings are enough for him to blow up a few more buildings of the same specification, even if each building had one of those "Arc Reactors" that accounted for the most money in this compensation.
Although the one who actively detonated the Arc Reactor and blew up the building was Keipei, tracing the reason can still be blamed on Tenma Yexing. Therefore, Keipei also accepted the stack of checks given by Pegasus with peace of mind. Kaiba? Kaiba has always been indifferent; he cares about other matters.
As for Yugi and Hayato, even Pegasus, who was thick-skinned enough to take an energy cannon, was somewhat embarrassed. After all, it was he who had actively invited them to accompany him on this trip from the start, but he interrupted the trip after staying in Egypt for less than a week.
---Although actually, for Yugi and the others who had been to the World within the King's Memory Stone Slab and spent several days within it, their trip to Egypt had actually already lasted for a long time. It's just that Pegasus didn't know.
But no matter what, Pegasus felt that since he was the organizer of the trip, even though he needed to leave first now, he still had to fulfill his responsibility and help arrange Hayato and Yugi's subsequent journey.
And after hearing about Dark Yugi, which is Atem's, plan, Pegasus couldn't help but feel some regret. It was both because, as his goal was global travel to collect material, he couldn't personally see the tablet that could make the Pharaoh's Soul return to the Underworld, and also because Atem, who possessed excellent talent, was leaving this World.
Besides the regret, Pegasus generously bought a Ship for Hayato and the others to use on their subsequent journey. Speaking of which, it was also a Coincidence that this Ship was surprisingly from the Egyptian Branch under Anacis Shipping.
Although the first impression it gives people seems like a Country with only Desert, actually, there are quite a lot of waterways within Egypt's borders. Not to mention that it is also, no matter how you look at it, the location of the Suez Canal, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. For the global shipping industry, Egypt has a quite important strategic status. It is also reasonable and logical for Anacis Shipping to set up a branch here.
"Ancient Egyptians believed that ships were transportation tools that sent people and Pharaohs who returned to the side of the Gods, from the Real World to the Realm of the Dead." Sitting by a Round Table placed on the Deck of the Ship, Honda drew a Card from Joey Wheeler's side deck and said, "The design prototype of this card seems like it originated from this."
"Ferry to the Underworld, huh?" Joey Wheeler also learned information about this card he had never used, which he carried on his body, for the first time from someone else. Listening to Honda's introduction, he said, letting his thoughts wander, "Speaking of which, it seems like it's not just Ancient Egypt. Ancient Greece also seems like it has a saying about a ferry to the Underworld. Do the Northern European Vikings also have a custom of sending away the corpse of the dead with a Ship?"
"It's just like how a world-ending flood appears in most global mythology. That's quite normal." Hayato paused and said casually, "And actually, that flood really did happen. The world-ending flood that reached the level of a cleanse, stirred up by the mad King of Atlantis ten thousand years ago."
"Dartz, huh? That's truly amazing. But I wasn't talking about him, I was talking about you who defeated him." Alister walked towards the few of them, carrying a plate of dish, and placed the plate containing the dish on the table. "This Ship is surprisingly equipped with a nice restaurant. It simply is an opportunity for me to show off my signature move!"
"Have a taste. Although it was originally French cuisine, it's my personally quite proud Italian confit chicken."
"Confit chicken?" Hayato raised an eyebrow and smelled the aroma of the dish Alister brought over. "This aroma is white wine?"
"Although beef, lamb, and pork in Italian cuisine are generally paired with red wine, relatively light chicken as expected, still needs to be paired with white wine." Honda seems like he also has considerable tasting ability and smelled carefully. "And the smell of olive oil, is it a specialty from Florence?"
"Experts, huh?" Alister looked unexpectedly at Honda and Hayato. He also realized later and remembered that when he was still in Doma before, he had investigated the background of a few people. Tristan Taylor is the future inheritor of a famous Japanese automobile group, and Hayato Kobayashi has a Mother who works at Industrial Illusions and a Diplomat Father. None of them come from ordinary Family.
"I removed most of the characteristics of French cuisine, replacing them with the characteristics of Italian cuisine, but kept a part, because only this way will you know that you are eating a dish modified from French cuisine." Puffing out his chest, Alister said proudly. It looked like he was deliberately showing off.
"Huh? It's surprisingly not just simple roast chicken?" Joey Wheeler, who hadn't bothered to smell it carefully at all but had directly taken a chicken leg and put it in his mouth, was stunned for a moment. He didn't feel at all where this dish was complicated. Too lazy to think about those things, he thought for a moment, then buried his head and continued eating the chicken leg.
Looking at Joey Wheeler wasting something good like a pig chewing on a peony, Alister also couldn't help but sighed. Looking at the plate of confit chicken on the Round Table, he said, "I'm not bragging, but if I were to give it an evaluation, this dish could get a full 2 stars!"
"Only 2 stars? What kind of evaluation standard is that?"
Alister thought for a moment and said, "Because in my eyes, many dishes are fundamentally not up to standard, not even worth one star. And the highest standard in my heart is probably 6 stars. For example, barbecue that can give people the aura of a demon King, and so on."
Joey Wheeler ranted, "Listening to that, it feels like it's not as good as a hamburger that can even absorb all the Monsters on the Opponent's Field."
"Heh, you should just keep eating." Alister glanced at Joey Wheeler and said disdainfully, then looked towards the other side of the Round Table. "Compared to those things..."
"What's with this guy, Kaiba Seto?"
Only to see beside Yugi, who was also sitting by the Round Table, Kaiba was staring intently at Yugi, his eyes not even blinking once. That sharp gaze made Yugi feel uncomfortable all over and sit stiffly in his seat, not taking a single bite even though Alister had already served several signature dishes.
And beside Yugi, Keipei, who had long been used to Kaiba's behavior, composedly comforted Téa: "Older Sister Téa, don't worry. Based on my experience, Brother is 90%, maybe even 100%, likely just having an urge to duel and wants to duel someone."
Bakura heard Keipei's words, swallowed the cream puff in his mouth, then put down his fork and said with curiosity: "Why, when you say it, Keipei-chan, does Kaiba sound like an addict?"
"That's quite normal. After all, when Brother was watching a duel before, his interest in dueling was piqued by Brother Hayato's Predaplant. And then he discovered that Brother Hayato's Deck as expected, still is as broken as ever. With no one he can have a satisfying duel with, it's quite normal for Brother to have an urge to duel flare up." In the end, Keipei added, "Duelists are like this."
"Don't talk nonsense, Keipei. We're not like that guy Kaiba, okay? I'm going to become the number one Duelist in the World, Woman---"
"Kachitoritai mono mo nai!"
Joey Wheeler hadn't finished speaking a sentence when music that made people want to start running immediately came from the mobile phone in his pants pocket. He confusedly flipped open his mobile phone and saw that it was Kujaku Mai calling.
"Oh, it's Mai. Happy New Year."
"Mm-hmm, of course I remember. I remember every word you said clearly."
"Did you see the news? No, that guy Kaiba didn't have any losses. Pegasus is super rich and compensated everything directly. See? We're on the Ship Pegasus bought now. But that guy had something to do and went back to America first."
"The dishes on the table? Hehe, it was made by someone you absolutely wouldn't be able to guess. I won't tell you yet, do you want to guess?"
Watching Joey Wheeler raise his mobile phone and continuously display the view of the two shores that could be seen on the Deck towards Kujaku Mai on the other end of the call, Honda got goosebumps and thought to himself: 'What a mushy couple. Good thing they aren't my Fathers, otherwise it would be embarrassing.'
'However, if it were me and Shizuka, hehehe.'
"Bang!"
"Joey Wheeler! Why did you suddenly hit me!" "Because I always have the feeling that you're thinking about Shizuka. My intuition accuracy rate is 1000%!" "Damn it, Shizuka is a Woman who could become my girlfriend!" "How can a guy like you have such a narrow mind!" "Do you have the qualification to say something like that when you already have Mai-chan!"
Honda and Joey Wheeler, this pair of buddies who were uneasy if they didn't fight, started arguing again in just a few words. And while Téa and Keipei had their attention transferred by the two and went to break up the fight, and when only Hayato and Keipei remained by the Round Table, Kaiba finally stopped being silent.
"I hear that you're going to the so-called place of sunset, to find a so-called Millennium Stone Tablet, is that right?" Looking at Yugi, Kaiba said with a gloomy expression, "Making souls return to the Underworld and such, it's all just nonsensical rambling about Gods. But I don't care about those things."
"What's important is, are you trying to escape, Yugi? Carrying a record stronger than mine, you just want to escape to the so-called 'Underworld', a place like that where no one can find you. Are you fearing being surpassed by me, Yugi!"
Kaiba has always been a perfectionist, in every aspect. And within the domain of Duel Monsters, his goal from beginning to end has always been to become the strongest, surpassing everyone. This means that although currently the person at the apex of Duel Monsters is Hayato, for Kaiba to achieve his goal, he must defeat everyone stronger than him for it to be considered completely finished.
Otherwise, even if one day Kaiba has already defeated Hayato and reached the apex of the Duel King position, but hasn't defeated Yugi, even if the general public believes Kaiba is already the strongest player in the domain of Duel Monsters, Kaiba himself will not be satisfied and still will be obsessed with defeating Yugi.
And if Yugi, i.e., Atem, returns to the Underworld, Kaiba will never be able to achieve his goal. This is what annoys him the most. It's not like Keipei said, that his urge to duel flared up.
At most just a little bit, just that much.
"Kaiba," Yugi heard Kaiba's words and said somewhat helplessly, "The Other Me he---"
"I wasn't talking to you, Mutou Yuugi. From beginning to end, the only opponent in my eyes is The Other Yugi. Make him come out!" Glaring fiercely at Yugi, Kaiba still doesn't accept even now the fact that The Other Yugi is the soul of Pharaoh Atem from three thousand years ago. Even if he could accept the concept that Mutou Yuugi can switch to another personality during a duel.
While speaking, Kaiba stood up. After walking to one end of the Deck, he suddenly turned around and, with sharp movement, raised his Duel Disk and said, "That kind of escape idea, it seems like the current you are no longer qualified to be my chase target. Then here, I will defeat you, Yugi!"
"Now my chance of winning is greater. After defeating you, I will also be one step closer to Hayato Kobayashi and substitute you to become the person closest to him!"
"Ugh, why am I getting sick from the local food from eating Egyptian cuisine, and even seasickness..."
Covering his stomach, Marik, who got a bad stomach from eating on the Snack Street, walked onto the Deck palely. He just happened to hear Kaiba's words and was stunned for a moment. "Did I hear something explosive? Should I tell Older Sister that Brother-in-law seems like he's been targeted by the Contact List?"
And Yugi heard Kaiba's words. Finding it a bit difficult, he couldn't make up his mind and asked Atem within the Millennium Puzzle: 'The Other Me'.
'Kaiba, his acting is too terrible, isn't it? Aibo, you also saw through his idea, right?' Atem within the Millennium Puzzle shook his head helplessly. 'Even if he just said it directly, that he wants to duel me, he just had to use this fierce appearance to challenge me.'
'Aibo'
Although Atem's words weren't finished, but Yugi, who had mutual understanding with him, knowing his idea, nodded and silently thought in his heart: 'Okay, I'll leave it to you, The Other Me.'
On the Millennium Puzzle, radiance shined. In the blink of an eye, Yugi's temperament had a drastic change. Atem and Yugi exchanged positions.
At the same time, within the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi said to himself the second half of the sentence that wasn't heard by Atem:
'Enjoy the duel to your heart's content. This is the sole thing I can help you with.'
