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**Chapter 707: Temptation of Going Home, Sister Chapter - Resistance to Going Home**
From the location where the Elder and his men had attacked Hayato and his group earlier, they could already see the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory hidden in the Desert from afar. But as the saying goes, 'looks can be deceiving,' and they actually still had a considerable distance to travel to get there.
However, led by the Elder's Guards who had "defected," Hayato and his group entered a Secret Passage. This allowed them to bypass the complex terrain and reach the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory directly, saving a lot of time. Naturally, this secret passage was unknown to Marik, who had left the Tomb Keepers years ago and didn't have much experience traveling outside.
Walking out of the Underground Secret Passage, which was only slightly taller than a person, the view before Hayato suddenly opened up. As far as the eye could see were ancient buildings of a unified style; it was precisely the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory, a legacy of three thousand years ago!
"Amazing~" Following Hayato out of the Secret Passage were Joey Wheeler and Tristan. Instead of observing from afar, they had arrived within the Gravekeeper's Tribal Land. The two of them couldn't help but exclaim in admiration for the unique charm of the place, "The Tomb Keepers, who have existed since three thousand years ago, are truly remarkable."
"Me too, just walking on the passages between these buildings, me can feel the inspiration in me brains continuously gushing out." Pegasus, whose initial goal was to gather material, was also quite interested in the scenery within the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory. "Ah, me brains are trembling~"
That ancient and heavy sense of history was perfectly suited for the Gemstone Cards he intended to design. If it weren't for the fact that ever since they walked out of the Secret Passage, there had been people walking out from both sides of the path to stare at their group, he probably would have long since gone up to the side of those Houses to touch the weathered rock walls that clearly showed signs of age and feel the traces of the years up close.
"Is it just me, Yugi?" Téa turned her head to look at Yugi, who was walking alongside her, and Ranted, "Why do I feel like Pegasus has become more and more perverted ever since he was revived after the Doma incident last time?"
"Uh, maybe it's because after dying again, Mr. Pegasus has completely let loose?" Because of the Tomb Keepers' people watching from both sides of the path, Yugi scratched his cheek slightly unnaturally as a cover-up, answering Téa.
Because they needed to walk through the Secret Passage before and didn't need to continue riding camels, at this moment Dark Yugi had already returned to the **Millennium Puzzle** and returned the body to Yugi Mutou.
"Huh? Why did you say 'again'?"
"Uh, it's nothing, don't worry about it, Téa."
Yugi told Téa not to worry about it, and Téa naturally didn't press further with questions. Instead, she looked ahead and said, feeling a bit confused, "This is our first time coming to the Tomb Keepers' place, right? Are we going somewhere specific now?"
Hayato, who was walking at the front, heard this and explained, "Ishizu specifically told me before we set off to keep an eye on Marik, and if we arrived at the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory together, to have him go home for a bit."
"Even if I didn't find a detailed map of the Tomb Keepers' from that Old Man's brains, just by seeing that house over there, even someone coming here for the first time could guess that's Marik's home." As he spoke, Hayato reached out and pointed towards a two-story house not far away that had a sign hanging on it, "It clearly says 'Patriarch's House' in four characters on it."
Looking in the direction of Hayato's finger, Tristan scratched his head, feeling a bit confused, "'Patriarch's House'? Where are those characters? But I did see a sign with something drawn on it that looked like graffiti."
Just as Tristan said, although there was indeed a two-story house built in the most conspicuous location within the Gravekeeper's Tribal Land, and a tablet was indeed hanging on it, the characters written on the tablet were fundamentally just a bunch of illegible hieroglyphs. Neither Tristan, Joey Wheeler, nor Téa could understand what they meant.
Actually, even Pegasus was the same. After seeing the tablet with the text inscribed on it, he recalled briefly and said, "Those text are very similar to the text me inscribed when me created the **Three Egyptian Gods Cards** at that time."
"At that time, when me created the **Three Egyptian Gods** based on the images on the tablet, struggling to recreate the power of a God using ordinary means, me thought of inscribing the ancient script from the tablet that couldn't be deciphered into the Cards as well, and me attempted it once and was successful, successfully creating two of the Cards."
He paused for a moment, Pegasus looked at Hayato, and continued, "However, when creating the third Card, perhaps because the power it represented was too great, even the method of transcribing the text couldn't fully contain its power, causing it to have special use conditions."
"【拉】吗？" Hayato recalled the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text that would automatically appear in the originally blank Description Zone of **The Winged Dragon of Ra's** Card when it was used. According to the concept, no matter who it was, they had to chant those text before they could possess the power to control Ra. However, Hayato seemed to have never really chanted that passage of text properly. "So it was Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text."
Although he hadn't really chanted it much, that didn't mean Hayato didn't have the ability to chant those text. As for Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text, Hayato acted as if he was born with the talent to understand and chant it just by looking at it; Hayato himself found this very strange.
This kind of text, where the chanting method itself represented the meaning, had long been lost. Besides Hayato, the only people who had the ability to chant those text were Dark Yugi, who was originally the Pharaoh from three thousand years ago and had lost his memories, and Marik and Ishizu, the brother and Older Sister who had learned this lost text through the Tomb Keepers' education, just these three.
Perhaps Grandpa Solomon Muto could also be counted; he had also shown the ability to read Ancient Script Hieratic Text before, but he could only read the general meaning and couldn't chant the specific pronunciation, barely counting as half a person.
"This feeling is as if Harry Potter naturally uses Parseltongue when talking to snakes; I subconsciously chanted the translation." Hayato scratched his head and said, looking back, "Speaking of which, where did Marik run off to?"
Hearing Hayato's words, everyone made the same movement almost simultaneously --- turned around and looked at Marik, who was standing at the very last of the group, shuffling his feet and stalling for as much time as possible.
"Oh my, the weather today is really quite nice, not a single cloud in the sky."
Whistling, Marik still stubbornly continued moving at a snail's pace. But Hayato didn't have the patience to wait for him to slowly shuffle over. He directly reached out and grabbed his ear, "Alright, stop wasting time there! What's so good about a day with a big sun? Hurry up and go home for a bit, Ishizu specifically instructed me about this."
"Ow~ Gentle, gentle! Brother-in-law, can't you be a little more decisive? If this keeps up and you marry Older Sister, you're going to become Henpecked!"
"I told you, who's your Brother-in-law?!"
Without being obstructed by any Gravekeeper's people, Hayato brought Marik to the destination. Standing before the house, he reached out and pushed open the door.
And as soon as they entered the door, they saw a man who was entirely golden standing inside the house, looking at Hayato and Marik who were standing at the doorway, and said with a serious face, "So you still know how to come back, Marik."
Seeing the man's face, Marik widened his eyes, took a deep breath and shouted loudly:
"Ghost!!!"
(End of Chapter)
From the location where the Elder and his men had attacked Hayato and his group earlier, they could already see the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory hidden in the Desert from afar. But as the saying goes, 'looks can be deceiving,' and they actually still had a considerable distance to travel to get there.
However, led by the Elder's Guards who had "defected," Hayato and his group entered a Secret Passage. This allowed them to bypass the complex terrain and reach the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory directly, saving a lot of time. Naturally, this secret passage was unknown to Marik, who had left the Tomb Keepers years ago and didn't have much experience traveling outside.
Walking out of the Underground Secret Passage, which was only slightly taller than a person, the view before Hayato suddenly opened up. As far as the eye could see were ancient buildings of a unified style; it was precisely the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory, a legacy of three thousand years ago!
"Amazing~" Following Hayato out of the Secret Passage were Joey Wheeler and Tristan. Instead of observing from afar, they had arrived within the Gravekeeper's Tribal Land. The two of them couldn't help but exclaim in admiration for the unique charm of the place, "The Tomb Keepers, who have existed since three thousand years ago, are truly remarkable."
"Me too, just walking on the passages between these buildings, me can feel the inspiration in me brains continuously gushing out." Pegasus, whose initial goal was to gather material, was also quite interested in the scenery within the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory. "Ah, me brains are trembling~"
That ancient and heavy sense of history was perfectly suited for the Gemstone Cards he intended to design. If it weren't for the fact that ever since they walked out of the Secret Passage, there had been people walking out from both sides of the path to stare at their group, he probably would have long since gone up to the side of those Houses to touch the weathered rock walls that clearly showed signs of age and feel the traces of the years up close.
"Is it just me, Yugi?" Téa turned her head to look at Yugi, who was walking alongside her, and Ranted, "Why do I feel like Pegasus has become more and more perverted ever since he was revived after the Doma incident last time?"
"Uh, maybe it's because after dying again, Mr. Pegasus has completely let loose?" Because of the Tomb Keepers' people watching from both sides of the path, Yugi scratched his cheek slightly unnaturally as a cover-up, answering Téa.
Because they needed to walk through the Secret Passage before and didn't need to continue riding camels, at this moment Dark Yugi had already returned to the **Millennium Puzzle** and returned the body to Yugi Mutou.
"Huh? Why did you say 'again'?"
"Uh, it's nothing, don't worry about it, Téa."
Yugi told Téa not to worry about it, and Téa naturally didn't press further with questions. Instead, she looked ahead and said, feeling a bit confused, "This is our first time coming to the Tomb Keepers' place, right? Are we going somewhere specific now?"
Hayato, who was walking at the front, heard this and explained, "Ishizu specifically told me before we set off to keep an eye on Marik, and if we arrived at the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory together, to have him go home for a bit."
"Even if I didn't find a detailed map of the Tomb Keepers' from that Old Man's brains, just by seeing that house over there, even someone coming here for the first time could guess that's Marik's home." As he spoke, Hayato reached out and pointed towards a two-story house not far away that had a sign hanging on it, "It clearly says 'Patriarch's House' in four characters on it."
Looking in the direction of Hayato's finger, Tristan scratched his head, feeling a bit confused, "'Patriarch's House'? Where are those characters? But I did see a sign with something drawn on it that looked like graffiti."
Just as Tristan said, although there was indeed a two-story house built in the most conspicuous location within the Gravekeeper's Tribal Land, and a tablet was indeed hanging on it, the characters written on the tablet were fundamentally just a bunch of illegible hieroglyphs. Neither Tristan, Joey Wheeler, nor Téa could understand what they meant.
Actually, even Pegasus was the same. After seeing the tablet with the text inscribed on it, he recalled briefly and said, "Those text are very similar to the text me inscribed when me created the **Three Egyptian Gods Cards** at that time."
"At that time, when me created the **Three Egyptian Gods** based on the images on the tablet, struggling to recreate the power of a God using ordinary means, me thought of inscribing the ancient script from the tablet that couldn't be deciphered into the Cards as well, and me attempted it once and was successful, successfully creating two of the Cards."
He paused for a moment, Pegasus looked at Hayato, and continued, "However, when creating the third Card, perhaps because the power it represented was too great, even the method of transcribing the text couldn't fully contain its power, causing it to have special use conditions."
"【拉】吗？" Hayato recalled the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text that would automatically appear in the originally blank Description Zone of **The Winged Dragon of Ra's** Card when it was used. According to the concept, no matter who it was, they had to chant those text before they could possess the power to control Ra. However, Hayato seemed to have never really chanted that passage of text properly. "So it was Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text."
Although he hadn't really chanted it much, that didn't mean Hayato didn't have the ability to chant those text. As for Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text, Hayato acted as if he was born with the talent to understand and chant it just by looking at it; Hayato himself found this very strange.
This kind of text, where the chanting method itself represented the meaning, had long been lost. Besides Hayato, the only people who had the ability to chant those text were Dark Yugi, who was originally the Pharaoh from three thousand years ago and had lost his memories, and Marik and Ishizu, the brother and Older Sister who had learned this lost text through the Tomb Keepers' education, just these three.
Perhaps Grandpa Solomon Muto could also be counted; he had also shown the ability to read Ancient Script Hieratic Text before, but he could only read the general meaning and couldn't chant the specific pronunciation, barely counting as half a person.
"This feeling is as if Harry Potter naturally uses Parseltongue when talking to snakes; I subconsciously chanted the translation." Hayato scratched his head and said, looking back, "Speaking of which, where did Marik run off to?"
Hearing Hayato's words, everyone made the same movement almost simultaneously --- turned around and looked at Marik, who was standing at the very last of the group, shuffling his feet and stalling for as much time as possible.
"Oh my, the weather today is really quite nice, not a single cloud in the sky."
Whistling, Marik still stubbornly continued moving at a snail's pace. But Hayato didn't have the patience to wait for him to slowly shuffle over. He directly reached out and grabbed his ear, "Alright, stop wasting time there! What's so good about a day with a big sun? Hurry up and go home for a bit, Ishizu specifically instructed me about this."
"Ow~ Gentle, gentle! Brother-in-law, can't you be a little more decisive? If this keeps up and you marry Older Sister, you're going to become Henpecked!"
"I told you, who's your Brother-in-law?!"
Without being obstructed by any Gravekeeper's people, Hayato brought Marik to the destination. Standing before the house, he reached out and pushed open the door.
And as soon as they entered the door, they saw a man who was entirely golden standing inside the house, looking at Hayato and Marik who were standing at the doorway, and said with a serious face, "So you still know how to come back, Marik."
Seeing the man's face, Marik widened his eyes, took a deep breath and shouted loudly:
"Ghost!!!"
(End of Chapter)
