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# Chapter 686: Hayato Kobayashi and Friday
Compared to the tense and exciting parachuting process, the step of waiting to land after pulling the parachute was relatively calm and steady. After all, flying from a low place to a high place is difficult, but descending from a high place to a low place is much easier.
Especially the biggest problem with high-altitude parachuting—the turbulent airflow that causes the parachute to deviate from the intended landing spot—was resolved by the spirits around everyone in various ways. For example, Marik came up with the ingenious "Lava Golem Flame Propulsion," which is self-explanatory.
After a long while, as their altitude decreased, Hayato's feet were already over a lush grassland. He landed on the ground, buffered his landing by running dozens of steps forward, and successfully landed on the Island. Yugi and the others also successfully landed right after him.
But then, Hayato suddenly noticed that the five flight attendants who had jumped out of the Airplane with them earlier were not acting together with them. Instead, they had intentionally changed their gliding path by adjusting the parachute's airflow, flying towards the other side of the Island.
"Hey! You're going the wrong way, we're over here!" Joey was a little confused watching the five flight attendants fly towards the other half of the Island, but he still raised his head and shouted loudly into the air.
Just now, while gliding in the air, he had also overlooked the general appearance of the Island. Although Joey couldn't see very clearly due to the thin mist covering the Island and the dense vegetation on it, he could confirm that there seemed to be no sign of human existence on the Island.
This meant that it was unlikely the five flight attendants were changing direction to seek help because they saw the existence of Human Civilization.
Although Joey didn't understand, Tristan was the first to react to their idea. He patted Joey's shoulder: "Alright, Joey, save your strength. The Subordinates simply don't want to stay with us."
"Huh?" Joey was also stunned upon hearing this. "Why? The Airplane crashed, shouldn't we survivors stick together and help each other out? Group action would be safer, right? As long as we wait for rescue—"
"It is indeed safer, after all, with multiple people acting together, at least you can look out for each other. But don't forget, for the same gains, if there are more people, the resources allocated per person will be less," Hayato said without raising his head, still fiddling with his Duel Disk.
"Ultimately, because we are Pegasus's guests and they are Pegasus's Subordinates, this solid barrier between ranks is also one of the reasons why the Subordinates don't want to act with us," Marik said with a sneer, a contemptuous expression on his face. "Are they afraid that we big shots plan to continue sitting back and enjoying the fruits of their labor, so they plan to stay as far away from us as possible?"
"Um, I've been looking at my mobile phone since just now," Because of Yugi's voice, Joey turned to look at him, only to find a helpless expression on Yugi's face. "Probably because this place is too remote, there's absolutely no signal on my phone. We probably can't even send out a distress signal. We can only call for help if a passing ship comes by."
"In that case, doesn't that mean we can only be saved by luck?" Téa said with a worried look upon hearing this. "If no ship passes by this area, won't we be unable to return to Human Society for decades, just like Robinson in *Robinson Crusoe*?!"
"There's such a good thing? If we're Robinson, where do we pick up Friday?" Hayato finally raised his head upon hearing this, but casually made a joke. "Relax, relax, let me see where it was. Ah, found it."
As he spoke, Hayato actually took a thin, square item from his Duel Disk. It looked like a remote control based on its size.
"What is this?"
Seeing Yugi's curiosity, Hayato said proudly, "This is a small item I specifically asked Keipei to install in my Duel Disk. It's specially prepared for situations like this. As long as there's a satellite in the sky, it can transmit location information anytime, anywhere."
"I've already used this thing to send a distress signal directly to KaibaCorp Headquarters. Although I don't have a receiving device and don't know if Keipei has received the message, they can't possibly be unaware of an airplane crash like this. They'll quickly notice the distress signal and location information I sent."
"Speaking of which, it's all because you suddenly disappeared last time, Brother-in-law, making everyone think you were dead," Marik said, looking at Hayato. "Since we've sent the signal, we just need to ensure our own safety until rescue arrives. I was planning to come here for a vacation, but unexpectedly it turned into Wilderness Survival."
Although they called it Wilderness Survival, their current situation was actually much better than the situation in that "food program." After all, they only needed to "survive" and not "challenge" the Wilderness. They didn't need to cross long distances; they only needed to ensure drinking water, food intake, and safe residence. It shouldn't take too long.
Before escaping the Airplane by parachute, Hayato had already considered the situation they would face at this moment and specifically had everyone carry supplies below the weight limit when distributing the parachute packs. This further reduced the difficulty of their survival. The Subordinates who also carried supplies probably chose to leave because they didn't want Hayato and the others to share their food and drink.
Although Hayato and the others' luggage was placed in the Cargo Hold before departure, because there was a Passage to the Cargo Hold in the Rear Half of the Cabin, they also brought their respective important items in order to retrieve the parachute packs, which were also in the Cargo Hold.
Among these, the backpack Marik carried was the most important.
"I'm suddenly a little grateful for this pile of messy things Rishid stuffed into my backpack," Marik said sincerely, taking out anti-inflammatory medicine, hemostatic bandages, compressed food, a portable tent, and other important supplies that usually seemed useless but appeared incredibly precious at this moment.
Because of Hayato's prior instructions, everyone else's packages also specifically carried supplies consisting mostly of drinking water and food. Even Téa had replaced the contents of her package with the medical kit that hadn't been used up on the Airplane, so there was no situation like in some novels where people stranded in the Wilderness brought a large amount of cosmetics and change of clothes.
After all, although Téa was indeed well-endowed, she wasn't brainless. She knew how to distinguish between important and urgent matters. Actually, her grades were those of a top student that Joey and Tristan, those two academic failures, couldn't even match combined. Sometimes, when test results came out, her score could even be ten or even nine times Joey's.
After tallying everyone's current supplies, Hayato calculated that, based on the normal food intake required to maintain stamina, even without obtaining additional food on the Island, they could persist for at least five days. However, just in case, they could also obtain food that wasn't too difficult to find, such as coconuts or wild rabbits, to further extend their survival time.
Drinking water was even simpler. Although water resources weren't abundant at the moment, for them, a group of Duelists who didn't lack supernatural power, the difficulty of distilling seawater using plastic bottles to obtain purified water wasn't very high.
However, the issue of residence needed to be resolved. After all, currently, the only available shelter was a small tent carried by Marik that could accommodate a maximum of three people, but there were six of them. They needed to find a place on this Island that could provide shelter from rain before it rained.
But just as Hayato and Yugi were discussing which direction to go to find a Shelter, suddenly, both of them simultaneously felt a strange power.
"!"
Marik and Joey's reactions were slightly slower than Hayato and Yugi's, but almost immediately after Hayato and Yugi simultaneously looked in one direction, they also sensed a power sweep over all of them like a radar.
"What was that?" Joey looked at Yugi, asking, as Yugi and Hayato seemed to have noticed the anomaly earlier than he did. But after Yugi, who had been looking towards the Jungle, withdrew his line of sight, he just shook his head with a helpless expression.
"I'm not too sure. That power just now was very strange. It wasn't like the other dark powers I've felt before," Yugi didn't know how to describe the strange existence he felt, his face showing a conflicted expression. He pointed a finger at the Millennium Puzzle on his chest. "But, The Other Yugi said that even if that power isn't a dark power, it's absolutely not unrelated."
"Even The Other Yugi says that?" Joey also nodded. "I have a similar feeling. Although it doesn't have the sense of oppression from the Dark Games I've experienced before, I just feel uncomfortable."
"It's like someone is holding an ice pick to stab into your butt, and even though they haven't stabbed yet, you're already trembling from the cold feeling."
"What kind of weird analogy is that? Although it's surprisingly apt," Marik ranted, turning his head to look at Tristan and Téa. "Do you guys feel anything uncomfortable?"
"Huh? Doesn't seem like it?" Tristan saw that Hayato and the other three all had expressions indicating they felt something, but he just looked himself up and down, confirming everything was normal before saying, "Aside from Joey the idiot suddenly jumping up and startling me just now, causing my heart to beat a little fast, I don't feel anything."
"I'm the same," Téa also said she felt completely normal, looking at Yugi. "Seems like, only you guys, Yugi, can feel that special thing. Is it because you're Duelists?"
Joey shook his head: "There's no standard for being a Duelist. If you count it, Téa and Tristan can also be considered Duelists."
As he spoke, Joey turned to look at Hayato, Yugi, and Marik, examining them from head to toe, and noticed something different: "Right, Yugi, Hayato, and Marik, you all have Millennium Items on you. Could that power be coming from a Millennium Item?"
"Like the Millennium Key or Millennium Scale that we haven't seen yet?"
Joey also knew about the existence of the Millennium Items and how they might be greatly related to The Other Yugi regaining his memory. As someone who always kept his friend's wish in his heart, he immediately associated it with the Millennium Key and Millennium Scale he hadn't seen yet.
That an academic failure who couldn't even remember knowledge from textbooks could remember such strange terms that he had only heard from Ishizu once shows how much Joey cared about this matter.
But Marik shook his head, rejecting Joey's conjecture: "Unfortunately, the Millennium Key and Millennium Scale, like the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace, are Millennium Items guarded by the Tomb Keepers. However, it's not the Ishtar Family that my Older Sister belongs to, but another branch of the Tomb Keepers. There's no possibility of them being lost in a place like this."
"Furthermore, this power is completely different from the power of the Millennium Items. At least it's not that dark."
As he spoke, Marik also pointed at Joey and joked, "More importantly, you, who can also feel that power, don't have a Millennium Item on you. Or are you saying you think you're actually a Millennium Dice or some other item?"
"In that case, wouldn't Grandpa Solomon be the Millennium Hostage?" Hayato also laughed and chimed in, while speaking, he took out a card from his person. "The reason we can feel that power is probably because of them."
After Hayato took out the card, the **Ojama** Three Brothers, monsters that the few of them were quite familiar with, appeared beside Hayato. Moreover, they were in a materialized state that even Tristan and Téa could see directly.
Through the power of spirits with a higher awakening level, or with the blessing of items like the Millennium Items, card spirits, which can generally only be seen by a very small number of people with the ability to see spirits, known as "Duel Spirit Users," can materialize and appear like they do during a duel, visible to ordinary people. This operation was something they had long grown accustomed to.
But upon closer inspection, Yugi was the first to discover the difference: "Hmm? Could this be?"
Yugi, not entirely sure of his conjecture, took out a golden box. Before Marik could rant about why he carried such a heavy box to hold his Deck, Yugi took out a card from it.
Immediately, the figure of **Mystical Elf**, a monster that often appeared in the Deck but was usually just cannon fodder, appeared before Yugi. At first, Mystical Elf thought it was in a duel, drawing its sword lazily and holding it weakly, as if having seen through its destiny as mere cannon fodder and starting to give up.
But the next moment, Mystical Elf noticed something was wrong. It examined its materialized body up and down with a slight astonishment, looking puzzled.
"This sign is... card spirit materialization?" Joey and Marik couldn't help but widen their eyes, looking at Mystical Elf before Yugi. Hayato's Ojama Brothers had appeared quite a number of times, so they didn't pay too much attention, but they knew about Yugi's Mystical Elf. Although it had a spirit, it was far from being able to materialize and manifest.
However, on the other hand, the Millennium Puzzle on Yugi's chest wasn't glowing, indicating that Yugi wasn't providing additional power support. A card spirit that originally wasn't at the level of materialization had materialized and appeared. Immediately, the two recalled having seen a similar phenomenon once before.
"If I remember correctly, there was a similar sign during the KC Cup. We've unexpectedly found something interesting, Yugi," Hayato turned his head to look towards the Jungle, his gaze seemingly wanting to penetrate all obstructions to look towards the Center of the Island and find the source of that power. "Alright, let's go, Friday!"
"There's no such thing!"
Compared to the tense and exciting parachuting process, the step of waiting to land after pulling the parachute was relatively calm and steady. After all, flying from a low place to a high place is difficult, but descending from a high place to a low place is much easier.
Especially the biggest problem with high-altitude parachuting—the turbulent airflow that causes the parachute to deviate from the intended landing spot—was resolved by the spirits around everyone in various ways. For example, Marik came up with the ingenious "Lava Golem Flame Propulsion," which is self-explanatory.
After a long while, as their altitude decreased, Hayato's feet were already over a lush grassland. He landed on the ground, buffered his landing by running dozens of steps forward, and successfully landed on the Island. Yugi and the others also successfully landed right after him.
But then, Hayato suddenly noticed that the five flight attendants who had jumped out of the Airplane with them earlier were not acting together with them. Instead, they had intentionally changed their gliding path by adjusting the parachute's airflow, flying towards the other side of the Island.
"Hey! You're going the wrong way, we're over here!" Joey was a little confused watching the five flight attendants fly towards the other half of the Island, but he still raised his head and shouted loudly into the air.
Just now, while gliding in the air, he had also overlooked the general appearance of the Island. Although Joey couldn't see very clearly due to the thin mist covering the Island and the dense vegetation on it, he could confirm that there seemed to be no sign of human existence on the Island.
This meant that it was unlikely the five flight attendants were changing direction to seek help because they saw the existence of Human Civilization.
Although Joey didn't understand, Tristan was the first to react to their idea. He patted Joey's shoulder: "Alright, Joey, save your strength. The Subordinates simply don't want to stay with us."
"Huh?" Joey was also stunned upon hearing this. "Why? The Airplane crashed, shouldn't we survivors stick together and help each other out? Group action would be safer, right? As long as we wait for rescue—"
"It is indeed safer, after all, with multiple people acting together, at least you can look out for each other. But don't forget, for the same gains, if there are more people, the resources allocated per person will be less," Hayato said without raising his head, still fiddling with his Duel Disk.
"Ultimately, because we are Pegasus's guests and they are Pegasus's Subordinates, this solid barrier between ranks is also one of the reasons why the Subordinates don't want to act with us," Marik said with a sneer, a contemptuous expression on his face. "Are they afraid that we big shots plan to continue sitting back and enjoying the fruits of their labor, so they plan to stay as far away from us as possible?"
"Um, I've been looking at my mobile phone since just now," Because of Yugi's voice, Joey turned to look at him, only to find a helpless expression on Yugi's face. "Probably because this place is too remote, there's absolutely no signal on my phone. We probably can't even send out a distress signal. We can only call for help if a passing ship comes by."
"In that case, doesn't that mean we can only be saved by luck?" Téa said with a worried look upon hearing this. "If no ship passes by this area, won't we be unable to return to Human Society for decades, just like Robinson in *Robinson Crusoe*?!"
"There's such a good thing? If we're Robinson, where do we pick up Friday?" Hayato finally raised his head upon hearing this, but casually made a joke. "Relax, relax, let me see where it was. Ah, found it."
As he spoke, Hayato actually took a thin, square item from his Duel Disk. It looked like a remote control based on its size.
"What is this?"
Seeing Yugi's curiosity, Hayato said proudly, "This is a small item I specifically asked Keipei to install in my Duel Disk. It's specially prepared for situations like this. As long as there's a satellite in the sky, it can transmit location information anytime, anywhere."
"I've already used this thing to send a distress signal directly to KaibaCorp Headquarters. Although I don't have a receiving device and don't know if Keipei has received the message, they can't possibly be unaware of an airplane crash like this. They'll quickly notice the distress signal and location information I sent."
"Speaking of which, it's all because you suddenly disappeared last time, Brother-in-law, making everyone think you were dead," Marik said, looking at Hayato. "Since we've sent the signal, we just need to ensure our own safety until rescue arrives. I was planning to come here for a vacation, but unexpectedly it turned into Wilderness Survival."
Although they called it Wilderness Survival, their current situation was actually much better than the situation in that "food program." After all, they only needed to "survive" and not "challenge" the Wilderness. They didn't need to cross long distances; they only needed to ensure drinking water, food intake, and safe residence. It shouldn't take too long.
Before escaping the Airplane by parachute, Hayato had already considered the situation they would face at this moment and specifically had everyone carry supplies below the weight limit when distributing the parachute packs. This further reduced the difficulty of their survival. The Subordinates who also carried supplies probably chose to leave because they didn't want Hayato and the others to share their food and drink.
Although Hayato and the others' luggage was placed in the Cargo Hold before departure, because there was a Passage to the Cargo Hold in the Rear Half of the Cabin, they also brought their respective important items in order to retrieve the parachute packs, which were also in the Cargo Hold.
Among these, the backpack Marik carried was the most important.
"I'm suddenly a little grateful for this pile of messy things Rishid stuffed into my backpack," Marik said sincerely, taking out anti-inflammatory medicine, hemostatic bandages, compressed food, a portable tent, and other important supplies that usually seemed useless but appeared incredibly precious at this moment.
Because of Hayato's prior instructions, everyone else's packages also specifically carried supplies consisting mostly of drinking water and food. Even Téa had replaced the contents of her package with the medical kit that hadn't been used up on the Airplane, so there was no situation like in some novels where people stranded in the Wilderness brought a large amount of cosmetics and change of clothes.
After all, although Téa was indeed well-endowed, she wasn't brainless. She knew how to distinguish between important and urgent matters. Actually, her grades were those of a top student that Joey and Tristan, those two academic failures, couldn't even match combined. Sometimes, when test results came out, her score could even be ten or even nine times Joey's.
After tallying everyone's current supplies, Hayato calculated that, based on the normal food intake required to maintain stamina, even without obtaining additional food on the Island, they could persist for at least five days. However, just in case, they could also obtain food that wasn't too difficult to find, such as coconuts or wild rabbits, to further extend their survival time.
Drinking water was even simpler. Although water resources weren't abundant at the moment, for them, a group of Duelists who didn't lack supernatural power, the difficulty of distilling seawater using plastic bottles to obtain purified water wasn't very high.
However, the issue of residence needed to be resolved. After all, currently, the only available shelter was a small tent carried by Marik that could accommodate a maximum of three people, but there were six of them. They needed to find a place on this Island that could provide shelter from rain before it rained.
But just as Hayato and Yugi were discussing which direction to go to find a Shelter, suddenly, both of them simultaneously felt a strange power.
"!"
Marik and Joey's reactions were slightly slower than Hayato and Yugi's, but almost immediately after Hayato and Yugi simultaneously looked in one direction, they also sensed a power sweep over all of them like a radar.
"What was that?" Joey looked at Yugi, asking, as Yugi and Hayato seemed to have noticed the anomaly earlier than he did. But after Yugi, who had been looking towards the Jungle, withdrew his line of sight, he just shook his head with a helpless expression.
"I'm not too sure. That power just now was very strange. It wasn't like the other dark powers I've felt before," Yugi didn't know how to describe the strange existence he felt, his face showing a conflicted expression. He pointed a finger at the Millennium Puzzle on his chest. "But, The Other Yugi said that even if that power isn't a dark power, it's absolutely not unrelated."
"Even The Other Yugi says that?" Joey also nodded. "I have a similar feeling. Although it doesn't have the sense of oppression from the Dark Games I've experienced before, I just feel uncomfortable."
"It's like someone is holding an ice pick to stab into your butt, and even though they haven't stabbed yet, you're already trembling from the cold feeling."
"What kind of weird analogy is that? Although it's surprisingly apt," Marik ranted, turning his head to look at Tristan and Téa. "Do you guys feel anything uncomfortable?"
"Huh? Doesn't seem like it?" Tristan saw that Hayato and the other three all had expressions indicating they felt something, but he just looked himself up and down, confirming everything was normal before saying, "Aside from Joey the idiot suddenly jumping up and startling me just now, causing my heart to beat a little fast, I don't feel anything."
"I'm the same," Téa also said she felt completely normal, looking at Yugi. "Seems like, only you guys, Yugi, can feel that special thing. Is it because you're Duelists?"
Joey shook his head: "There's no standard for being a Duelist. If you count it, Téa and Tristan can also be considered Duelists."
As he spoke, Joey turned to look at Hayato, Yugi, and Marik, examining them from head to toe, and noticed something different: "Right, Yugi, Hayato, and Marik, you all have Millennium Items on you. Could that power be coming from a Millennium Item?"
"Like the Millennium Key or Millennium Scale that we haven't seen yet?"
Joey also knew about the existence of the Millennium Items and how they might be greatly related to The Other Yugi regaining his memory. As someone who always kept his friend's wish in his heart, he immediately associated it with the Millennium Key and Millennium Scale he hadn't seen yet.
That an academic failure who couldn't even remember knowledge from textbooks could remember such strange terms that he had only heard from Ishizu once shows how much Joey cared about this matter.
But Marik shook his head, rejecting Joey's conjecture: "Unfortunately, the Millennium Key and Millennium Scale, like the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace, are Millennium Items guarded by the Tomb Keepers. However, it's not the Ishtar Family that my Older Sister belongs to, but another branch of the Tomb Keepers. There's no possibility of them being lost in a place like this."
"Furthermore, this power is completely different from the power of the Millennium Items. At least it's not that dark."
As he spoke, Marik also pointed at Joey and joked, "More importantly, you, who can also feel that power, don't have a Millennium Item on you. Or are you saying you think you're actually a Millennium Dice or some other item?"
"In that case, wouldn't Grandpa Solomon be the Millennium Hostage?" Hayato also laughed and chimed in, while speaking, he took out a card from his person. "The reason we can feel that power is probably because of them."
After Hayato took out the card, the **Ojama** Three Brothers, monsters that the few of them were quite familiar with, appeared beside Hayato. Moreover, they were in a materialized state that even Tristan and Téa could see directly.
Through the power of spirits with a higher awakening level, or with the blessing of items like the Millennium Items, card spirits, which can generally only be seen by a very small number of people with the ability to see spirits, known as "Duel Spirit Users," can materialize and appear like they do during a duel, visible to ordinary people. This operation was something they had long grown accustomed to.
But upon closer inspection, Yugi was the first to discover the difference: "Hmm? Could this be?"
Yugi, not entirely sure of his conjecture, took out a golden box. Before Marik could rant about why he carried such a heavy box to hold his Deck, Yugi took out a card from it.
Immediately, the figure of **Mystical Elf**, a monster that often appeared in the Deck but was usually just cannon fodder, appeared before Yugi. At first, Mystical Elf thought it was in a duel, drawing its sword lazily and holding it weakly, as if having seen through its destiny as mere cannon fodder and starting to give up.
But the next moment, Mystical Elf noticed something was wrong. It examined its materialized body up and down with a slight astonishment, looking puzzled.
"This sign is... card spirit materialization?" Joey and Marik couldn't help but widen their eyes, looking at Mystical Elf before Yugi. Hayato's Ojama Brothers had appeared quite a number of times, so they didn't pay too much attention, but they knew about Yugi's Mystical Elf. Although it had a spirit, it was far from being able to materialize and manifest.
However, on the other hand, the Millennium Puzzle on Yugi's chest wasn't glowing, indicating that Yugi wasn't providing additional power support. A card spirit that originally wasn't at the level of materialization had materialized and appeared. Immediately, the two recalled having seen a similar phenomenon once before.
"If I remember correctly, there was a similar sign during the KC Cup. We've unexpectedly found something interesting, Yugi," Hayato turned his head to look towards the Jungle, his gaze seemingly wanting to penetrate all obstructions to look towards the Center of the Island and find the source of that power. "Alright, let's go, Friday!"
"There's no such thing!"
