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The Private Jet Hayato and the others were currently on belonged to Pegasus himself. As Staff of a Private Jet, not public transport, logically, after Hayato and the others in the Aircraft Cabin pressed the service button, even if they couldn't provide quick service, the Staff should at least have come out from the Rear Cabin.
Although his family wasn't extremely wealthy, having often benefited from Kaiba the Big Spender and enjoyed the perks provided by the vast enterprise of Dartz, Hayato compared the three and truly felt that Pegasus's Private Jet Crew provided the worst service.
Standing up, Hayato planned to go to the Rear Cabin to see what the Flight Attendants were doing.
It wasn't that he was pushing his luck after taking advantage of Pegasus, trying to use Pegasus's name to act imposing. Although this Private Jet belonged to Pegasus, due to a series of extremely complex reasons, strictly speaking, this Private Jet could only be said to have "once" belonged to Pegasus. If anything, Hayato and Yugi were also owners of this Private Jet.
The matter has to start from when Pegasus was killed by Hayato before. Although Dartz's original intention was to eliminate Pegasus, the person most likely to create troublesome cards, to cut off the hope of the Legendary Dragon defeating him, after Hayato sealed Pegasus's soul, causing his body to become a "living dead" state, Pegasus's existence was regarded as death.
You should know, Pegasus was the only one left in the Crawford Family. His parents had no siblings, and he was the only one of his generation. He wasn't married and had no children. Although he once adopted Tenma Tsukihiro as his adopted son, he didn't leave him the right to inherit the legacy.
This meant that the property business his parents left him, the island where Crawford Castle is located and which was once used to host the Duelist Kingdom, the savings and assets he accumulated throughout his life, and most importantly, the 40% stock of Industrial Illusions, all became ownerless.
However, naturally, although Dartz didn't care much about worldly power, he wouldn't easily let go of the power of Industrial Illusions related to Duel Monsters and Card Spirits. After using certain means, more than half of Pegasus's legacy "after death" was absorbed by Organization Doma and Dartz himself.
However, Dartz himself had only had these things for a few days before Yugi and his group chased him to his home, and then he was directly defeated by Hayato. As a result, even the work of receiving them wasn't completed, and this legacy was taken back by the revived Pegasus.
Just that, during this transfer, Pegasus suffered many losses. For example, his Duel Kingdom Island was severely damaged by the attack of the bomber dispatched by Alister. For example, a lot of his assets were deducted by various taxes during the transfer process. Even about 20% of Industrial Illusions' stock flowed out onto the market.
Now, instead, the 30% stock held by Hayato and Yugi respectively made them the major shareholders of Industrial Illusions, while Pegasus himself only retained 20%.
The Private Jet they were currently on was one of the assets that Pegasus had transferred. Although he got it back from Dartz, it no longer directly belonged to Pegasus himself but was registered under Industrial Illusions' group assets. However, it was just a nominal registration, similar to how some company executives buy cars for themselves under the company's name.
However, Pegasus didn't suffer this loss in vain. With Dartz's death, the large international company Industrial Illusions also collapsed with a bang. Because the domains it crossed were simply too many, companies of all sizes worldwide attempted to get a piece of the pie from its remains, just like when that giant fell in the last century.
Hayato had thought of many possibilities. For example, the Crew Staff might have been negligent because their identities weren't very obvious. For example, perhaps the sensor light was broken, so the Rear Aircraft Cabin didn't receive the signal. Or perhaps the Staff simply didn't notice the call due to temporary oversight.
But, as Hayato opened the door separating the front and Rear Aircraft Cabins, accompanied by the body of a Flight Attendant leaning against the door weakly collapsing and falling, Hayato rejected his previous conjecture. His gaze instantly became serious.
Unlike the front section which had spacious space for passengers to enjoy, the Rear Cabin was where the Crew was located. It included multiple areas such as a storage room, kitchen, tea area, and Crew rest area. The space distribution was relatively narrow and compact, and there were also six Flight Attendants on standby, equal to the number of passengers.
That's how it should have been. However, what Hayato saw was six Crew Staff lying neatly in the narrow aisle that could only fit a meal cart. All of them were pale-faced and had fallen into an unconscious state, and the lights above the aisle were continuously flickering as if they had malfunctioned!
"Th-This is—" Because of Hayato's action, the others were also paying attention to the situation behind. After seeing the scene when the door opened, everyone was greatly surprised, especially Joey Wheeler, who said with an excited look, "What kind of situation is this!?"
The five boys took action together. They weren't in a hurry to go deeper into the Rear Aircraft Cabin. Instead, they moved the six Crew Staff who had fallen by the door to the front section of the Aircraft Cabin, letting them all lie down and rest on the reclining seats. Hayato also observed their situation.
"They have residual dark power on them. Were they damaged by something like a Dark Game?" As a former Millennium Items User, although Marik had given the Millennium Rod for Hayato to use, he himself hadn't lost his sensitivity to dark power because of it. He immediately sensed the strange power surrounding the six Staff.
However, after observing carefully, Marik overturned his conjecture. "No, although the aura of dark power is quite strong, it's just simply surrounding these people. There's fundamentally no trace of it having penetrated their bodies. Rather than being attacked by power like a Dark Game, it's more like—"
"More like, they were approached closely by some existence filled with dark power." Hayato supported the head of a pale-faced, unconscious Flight Attendant, turning his head to the side. He gently tugged at the other person's collar, revealing his neck.
On that person's neck, there were clearly two tight, round hole-shaped wounds. Judging by the marks on the skin and flesh, they weren't left long ago, yet strangely, not even a drop of blood was left behind.
Hayato also had the ability to perceive dark power. In his perception, the place where the dark power was most concentrated on these people was the location of this wound.
Seeing the shape of the wound, Yugi, who was nearby, was also startled. He immediately thought of a legend: "Could it be that these people were—by vampires—"
"Stand Attack! This is Stand Attack!" Hayato said with extreme certainty.
The Private Jet Hayato and the others were currently on belonged to Pegasus himself. As Staff of a Private Jet, not public transport, logically, after Hayato and the others in the Aircraft Cabin pressed the service button, even if they couldn't provide quick service, the Staff should at least have come out from the Rear Cabin.
Although his family wasn't extremely wealthy, having often benefited from Kaiba the Big Spender and enjoyed the perks provided by the vast enterprise of Dartz, Hayato compared the three and truly felt that Pegasus's Private Jet Crew provided the worst service.
Standing up, Hayato planned to go to the Rear Cabin to see what the Flight Attendants were doing.
It wasn't that he was pushing his luck after taking advantage of Pegasus, trying to use Pegasus's name to act imposing. Although this Private Jet belonged to Pegasus, due to a series of extremely complex reasons, strictly speaking, this Private Jet could only be said to have "once" belonged to Pegasus. If anything, Hayato and Yugi were also owners of this Private Jet.
The matter has to start from when Pegasus was killed by Hayato before. Although Dartz's original intention was to eliminate Pegasus, the person most likely to create troublesome cards, to cut off the hope of the Legendary Dragon defeating him, after Hayato sealed Pegasus's soul, causing his body to become a "living dead" state, Pegasus's existence was regarded as death.
You should know, Pegasus was the only one left in the Crawford Family. His parents had no siblings, and he was the only one of his generation. He wasn't married and had no children. Although he once adopted Tenma Tsukihiro as his adopted son, he didn't leave him the right to inherit the legacy.
This meant that the property business his parents left him, the island where Crawford Castle is located and which was once used to host the Duelist Kingdom, the savings and assets he accumulated throughout his life, and most importantly, the 40% stock of Industrial Illusions, all became ownerless.
However, naturally, although Dartz didn't care much about worldly power, he wouldn't easily let go of the power of Industrial Illusions related to Duel Monsters and Card Spirits. After using certain means, more than half of Pegasus's legacy "after death" was absorbed by Organization Doma and Dartz himself.
However, Dartz himself had only had these things for a few days before Yugi and his group chased him to his home, and then he was directly defeated by Hayato. As a result, even the work of receiving them wasn't completed, and this legacy was taken back by the revived Pegasus.
Just that, during this transfer, Pegasus suffered many losses. For example, his Duel Kingdom Island was severely damaged by the attack of the bomber dispatched by Alister. For example, a lot of his assets were deducted by various taxes during the transfer process. Even about 20% of Industrial Illusions' stock flowed out onto the market.
Now, instead, the 30% stock held by Hayato and Yugi respectively made them the major shareholders of Industrial Illusions, while Pegasus himself only retained 20%.
The Private Jet they were currently on was one of the assets that Pegasus had transferred. Although he got it back from Dartz, it no longer directly belonged to Pegasus himself but was registered under Industrial Illusions' group assets. However, it was just a nominal registration, similar to how some company executives buy cars for themselves under the company's name.
However, Pegasus didn't suffer this loss in vain. With Dartz's death, the large international company Industrial Illusions also collapsed with a bang. Because the domains it crossed were simply too many, companies of all sizes worldwide attempted to get a piece of the pie from its remains, just like when that giant fell in the last century.
Hayato had thought of many possibilities. For example, the Crew Staff might have been negligent because their identities weren't very obvious. For example, perhaps the sensor light was broken, so the Rear Aircraft Cabin didn't receive the signal. Or perhaps the Staff simply didn't notice the call due to temporary oversight.
But, as Hayato opened the door separating the front and Rear Aircraft Cabins, accompanied by the body of a Flight Attendant leaning against the door weakly collapsing and falling, Hayato rejected his previous conjecture. His gaze instantly became serious.
Unlike the front section which had spacious space for passengers to enjoy, the Rear Cabin was where the Crew was located. It included multiple areas such as a storage room, kitchen, tea area, and Crew rest area. The space distribution was relatively narrow and compact, and there were also six Flight Attendants on standby, equal to the number of passengers.
That's how it should have been. However, what Hayato saw was six Crew Staff lying neatly in the narrow aisle that could only fit a meal cart. All of them were pale-faced and had fallen into an unconscious state, and the lights above the aisle were continuously flickering as if they had malfunctioned!
"Th-This is—" Because of Hayato's action, the others were also paying attention to the situation behind. After seeing the scene when the door opened, everyone was greatly surprised, especially Joey Wheeler, who said with an excited look, "What kind of situation is this!?"
The five boys took action together. They weren't in a hurry to go deeper into the Rear Aircraft Cabin. Instead, they moved the six Crew Staff who had fallen by the door to the front section of the Aircraft Cabin, letting them all lie down and rest on the reclining seats. Hayato also observed their situation.
"They have residual dark power on them. Were they damaged by something like a Dark Game?" As a former Millennium Items User, although Marik had given the Millennium Rod for Hayato to use, he himself hadn't lost his sensitivity to dark power because of it. He immediately sensed the strange power surrounding the six Staff.
However, after observing carefully, Marik overturned his conjecture. "No, although the aura of dark power is quite strong, it's just simply surrounding these people. There's fundamentally no trace of it having penetrated their bodies. Rather than being attacked by power like a Dark Game, it's more like—"
"More like, they were approached closely by some existence filled with dark power." Hayato supported the head of a pale-faced, unconscious Flight Attendant, turning his head to the side. He gently tugged at the other person's collar, revealing his neck.
On that person's neck, there were clearly two tight, round hole-shaped wounds. Judging by the marks on the skin and flesh, they weren't left long ago, yet strangely, not even a drop of blood was left behind.
Hayato also had the ability to perceive dark power. In his perception, the place where the dark power was most concentrated on these people was the location of this wound.
Seeing the shape of the wound, Yugi, who was nearby, was also startled. He immediately thought of a legend: "Could it be that these people were—by vampires—"
"Stand Attack! This is Stand Attack!" Hayato said with extreme certainty.
