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Chapter 801: Knowing the Script in Advance Comes with a Price
Now that six of the seven Millennium Items have fallen into Bakura's hands, the sole remaining Millennium Necklace absolutely cannot be left unused and wasted.
It should be known that although in Isis's hands the Millennium Necklace seemed to only have the ability to see images of a certain moment in the future, Hayato, who had a somewhat good relationship with Ishizu, knew its true power better than anyone.
Simply by wearing it, one could constantly predict everything happening within a few minutes. If one was a bit more serious, reading what others would do in the next few days was also easy. If one went all out, they could even foresee the future far beyond, though in that case, even the user wouldn't know when the things they saw would actually happen.
At least Hayato was genuinely shocked when Ishizu casually mentioned seeing someone riding a motorcycle flying into the sky and turning into a golden figure in the future.
Although Isis currently couldn't unleash the great power of the Millennium Necklace due to her insufficient aptitude, and even couldn't continue to use it because of her physical condition, having to temporarily hand it over to Malik for safekeeping, Hayato felt that with the boost from the "Stardust Crusaders" that copied "Limiter Removal", even Malik might be able to unleash the Millennium Necklace's power.
Yes, Hayato and the others currently had no way to defeat Bakura. Even if they obtained Dark Yugi's true name, it was somehow in an unusable state. After all, there were no usage instructions for this thing.
But it didn't matter. Wouldn't it be fine to use the Millennium Necklace to see the future where they had already figured out how to use Dark Yugi's true name? Although playing a game and getting stuck on a puzzle part and then watching someone else's strategy video felt like having low purity, Hayato felt his purity was already quite high. Watching a strategy guide wasn't shameful.
However, while Hayato's idea was good, Malik expressed rejection: "I don't want to. You don't know what happened when I used the Millennium Necklace on that Kaiba Seto just now. The risk of using a Millennium Item that isn't suitable for me is too great. If you want to use it, go ahead and use it yourself."
Saying this, Malik carelessly stuffed the Millennium Necklace into Hayato's hand.
He didn't tell Hayato that when he was helping Kaiba awaken the spirit he hadn't seen yet and didn't know if it had successfully awakened, the power of the Millennium Necklace that couldn't be controlled didn't just influence Kaiba; Malik himself was also affected.
When Malik, Kaiba, and the Millennium Necklace achieved a link, that mystical power delved deep into Kaiba's heart and memory to awaken the slumbering spirit. But Malik also consequently saw many images from Kaiba's memory.
For example, the Pyramid of Light that isolated the Three Egyptian Gods, or the Three Egyptian Gods confronting each other atop the towering Island Tower. Malik even saw an image of someone who looked exactly like himself controlling a monster made of lava in battle.
Although these images from Kaiba's memory weren't the main reason Malik lost consciousness, Malik was still greatly impacted by them. He even somewhat suspected if his smart head had been burned out by the power of the Millennium Necklace, otherwise, how could he see such strange images?
As for the Millennium Necklace, if ordinary people couldn't just touch it casually, he would have wanted to get rid of it long ago. He was very resistant to this thing now. However, the images he saw weren't without influence on him either. At least when he saw the "himself" in those images holding the Millennium Rod, he became even more confirmed that *that* thing was more suitable for him.
As for whether Hayato would be affected by using the Millennium Necklace, Malik wasn't worried at all. He also knew the classification of the Millennium Items. Even the strongest "Dark" Millennium Item that Priest Mahad had to seal and suppress with his own mystical power—the Millennium Ring—Hayato could freely control. There was fundamentally no need to worry about using the Millennium Necklace.
Malik's uncooperative attitude wasn't within Hayato's expectation, but he thought about it and felt it made no difference. It was the same whether Malik used it or he used it himself. He had also attempted to use the Millennium Necklace at Ishizu's place before. Although it wasn't as smoothly as using the Millennium Ring, it could still be considered skillfully used.
"If I have to do it, I'll do it." Holding the Millennium Necklace, Hayato didn't wear it around his neck like Ishizu and Isis, the two women, as a collar. Instead, he simply clipped it to the collar of his clothes using a button, considering it worn.
Millennium Items never had a requirement that they must be worn to be used. As long as there was simple contact, or even just being close enough, they could be used. The way Aknadin and a certain unscrupulous Card Printer three thousand years later lost an eyeball can only be described as a flaw in the Millennium Eye's design, as well as a sign that the user's brain wasn't very smart.
Just look at how smart Bakura is. He didn't dig out an eyeball to replace it with gold. Anyway, it can be used by keeping it close to the body, and using it by holding it in the mouth is also the same, it just feels a bit gross.
And before using "Stardust Crusaders", Hayato also informed Dark Yugi and the others of his plan.
"Use the Millennium Necklace to see what we do in the future? That's so like you, Hayato, to think of such a usage!" Joey Wheeler, hearing this, said with pleasant surprise, "I always thought the Millennium Necklace is simply the easiest to use of the seven Millennium Items!"
But Tristan on the side pouted: "Tch, didn't you tell me before, when you made Mai angry, that the Millennium Eye, which can see through a woman's heart, was the easiest to use?"
"Huh? But I remember when we didn't bring a fruit knife during the picnic, didn't Joey Wheeler say the Millennium Rod was the easiest to use?" Téa raised an eyebrow, looking at Joey Wheeler playfully.
Even Yugi added another jab: "Joey Wheeler also told me that the Millennium Puzzle, which is the heaviest and most valuable, was the easiest to use."
"Cough cough, that's not important, what's important is that now we need to help The Other Yugi find a method to use his name." Even Joey Wheeler's cheeks were slightly red as he quickly interrupted the others who were planning to continue teasing him. "But, I remember you said before that because of the Dark Game Bakura created, the Millennium Necklace's ability to predict the future was restricted, right?"
"That's right, but as long as we use this item, there will be no problem," Hayato said, taking out "Stardust Crusaders" again. "This GM Item recorded the power of 'Limiter Removal' that Bakura used on Aknadin when he was still the Great Dark Priest before. Using it to boost the power of the Millennium Necklace will absolutely break through the lock on the future by the dark power."
After introducing it, Hayato wore the "Stardust Crusaders", which had the shape of only the front half of a baseball cap, on his head. He grabbed the brim and flipped it to the side, saying with satisfaction: "Psychic Ectoplasm, the Millennium Necklace, and the power of the GM Item! It truly makes my inner thoughts feel pleasure. I'm so happy right now I want to sing a song, I'm extremely high!"
Wearing a baseball cap and the Millennium Necklace acting as gold ring decorations on his clothes, the JoJo-esque dressed Hayato still spoke in his usual Dio-esque manner, giving off an awkward feeling.
However, Dark Yugi, who had been thinking for a long time on the side, spoke at this moment: "If the Millennium Necklace, after using the power of 'Stardust Crusaders', can see the future, it can indeed solve the predicament we are currently facing. But Hayato, if after using 'Stardust Crusaders', the Millennium Necklace is still blinded from the vision towards the future by darkness..."
"Wasting time and energy is secondary. Yugi, you mean that the precious GM Item will also be wasted as a result, right?" Before winning, consider losing. Hayato had actually thought about Dark Yugi's words in advance, but he smiled proudly, "But Yugi, why did you produce the illusion that the situation would be harmful to us if we failed?"
"A True Duelist can even utilize a card's downside. Aknadin managed to seal the Duel Arena and the Millennium Items because of the power of 'Limiter Removal', but he has also been still unconscious ever since. The same thing will also happen to the Millennium Necklace."
Dark Yugi was also stunned upon hearing this: "You mean, you plan to utilize this negative effect to destroy the Millennium Necklace?"
What kind of unforeseen path is this?!
"Limited to this world, Bakura has his goal in collecting the Millennium Items. But for us, the existence of the Millennium Items is not necessary; they are just great power. And for me, letting others profit is even more uncomfortable than me suffering a loss."
Hayato spread his hands, "Being able to obtain the information we need by seeing the future through the Millennium Necklace, if successful, that would naturally be the best. But even if we fail, we can still destroy the Millennium Necklace, cutting off that guy Bakura's ambition to assemble the Millennium Items in advance."
"Regardless of the situation, it's advantageous to us. This is called win-win. We win twice!"
Hmm? Why does Hayato's idea sound so similar to the Russian anti-terrorism method of "preemptively killing the hostage before the kidnappers kill the hostage"? Presumably, this is the supernatural work of nature.
Although some felt like pointing out that Hayato's understanding of "win-win" seemed a bit problematic, as only he won and the others didn't win at all, the feasibility of his idea was quite high. Everyone felt there was no time to lose, and simply decided to let Hayato use the Millennium Necklace to predict the future right here.
Even if they returned to the Royal City, the defense capabilities that could be deployed there were actually not much different. After all, except for Priest Shimon and Priest Shada, one old and one injured, the combat power that could be deployed had basically all left the city together with Dark Yugi and arrived here. Plus, using the Millennium Necklace to predict the future wouldn't take much time, so there was no need to go to great lengths to find another place.
Pulling down the brim of his hat, Hayato also became serious. He properly held the Millennium Necklace in his hand, closed his eyes, and seriously resonated with it.
Beside Hayato, the others also gathered around, both out of curiosity about whether Hayato could succeed as planned, and also acting as his guard to avoid being disturbed.
Not just Dark Yugi and the few of them, Malik also did not leave after handing the Millennium Necklace to Hayato. Instead, he also brought out Isis, who was in poor physical condition. However, verbally, this guy still tsundere-ly said that he wanted Isis to see the gap between her and others, and see how useless she was.
As for Seto, who was originally bearing the responsibility of commanding the Army, needless to say, he was the one standing closest to Hayato besides Dark Yugi. He took a Duel Arena that hadn't been brought into the Thief Village underground before and summoned his Millennium Stone Spirit Duos as a guard. Seto stood behind Dark Yugi with his back to the others, and no one could see what kind of expression was on his face at this moment.
Kaiba looked at Seto's back, but frowned strangely. He didn't know why, he always felt that although he still disliked Seto somewhat, that kind of dislike had unconsciously changed a bit. Before, it was more of a repulsion akin to that between similar types, but ever since Seto returned from the Thief Village and woke up, Kaiba felt that he was more subconsciously feeling disgust towards the opponent.
Thanks to having tested his synergy with the Millennium Necklace at Ishizu's place once before, although like the Millennium Ring before, the Millennium Necklace from three thousand years ago felt different to Hayato than the one existing three thousand years later, relying on the resonance he had done once before, Hayato still quickly linked his heart with the Millennium Necklace's mystical power.
First, he attempted to predict the future, but the result did not exceed Hayato's expectation. What he saw of the future was completely a patch of darkness; he fundamentally couldn't see anything. It was even worse than before when Isis used it and could barely see a few fragments of images.
This should be unrelated to Hayato's and Isis's synergy with the Millennium Necklace. The main reason was still because of the rapid expansion of dark power now that Bakura had collected six Millennium Items.
If that's the case, then it was time to use "Stardust Crusaders".
The hat on Hayato's head quickly turned from black to white. Specks of starlight sprinkled down and fell onto the Millennium Necklace in Hayato's hand. The Eye of Udjat in the exact center of the golden ring radiated great light. Hayato, with his eyes closed, also felt the powerful mystical power coming from within the Millennium Necklace that was linked to him at this instant!
"I see it, the future is opening its arms to me, the universe is singing to me!" The darkness that previously wrapped around the future was instantly swept away under the boosted power the Millennium Necklace received. Hayato's gaze was cast from this moment towards the future, his entire body radiating light.
But before Hayato could see the image of the future where he wanted to use the Pharaoh's name, he saw instead another image—a hand drawing a short sword from its waist and suddenly stabbing it into its own body. And as his gaze moved upwards, the owner of that hand was actually Seto, whose eyeballs had no whites and were completely pitch-black?!
Suddenly opening his eyes, Hayato looked towards Seto standing behind Dark Yugi in shock: "The enemy was actually you, Seto?!"
However, although Hayato had reacted the moment he saw the image, it was still a bit too late. Seto pushed away the unprepared Dark Yugi in front of him with one motion, and the drawn sharp blade suddenly stabbed into Hayato's chest.
When he raised his head, he also revealed his pitch-black eyeballs and the proud smile on his face to Hayato's eyes: "Truly one step behind, Hayato Kobayashi. I had been waiting for this opportunity, waiting for this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone!"
The sharp blade that stabbed into Hayato's heart area was pulled out. Hayato's strength was drained away in an instant, and he fell down. At the same time, the Millennium Necklace stained with Hayato's blood appeared in Seto's hand!
"Seto?! What are you doing?!"
(End of Chapter)
Now that six of the seven Millennium Items have fallen into Bakura's hands, the sole remaining Millennium Necklace absolutely cannot be left unused and wasted.
It should be known that although in Isis's hands the Millennium Necklace seemed to only have the ability to see images of a certain moment in the future, Hayato, who had a somewhat good relationship with Ishizu, knew its true power better than anyone.
Simply by wearing it, one could constantly predict everything happening within a few minutes. If one was a bit more serious, reading what others would do in the next few days was also easy. If one went all out, they could even foresee the future far beyond, though in that case, even the user wouldn't know when the things they saw would actually happen.
At least Hayato was genuinely shocked when Ishizu casually mentioned seeing someone riding a motorcycle flying into the sky and turning into a golden figure in the future.
Although Isis currently couldn't unleash the great power of the Millennium Necklace due to her insufficient aptitude, and even couldn't continue to use it because of her physical condition, having to temporarily hand it over to Malik for safekeeping, Hayato felt that with the boost from the "Stardust Crusaders" that copied "Limiter Removal", even Malik might be able to unleash the Millennium Necklace's power.
Yes, Hayato and the others currently had no way to defeat Bakura. Even if they obtained Dark Yugi's true name, it was somehow in an unusable state. After all, there were no usage instructions for this thing.
But it didn't matter. Wouldn't it be fine to use the Millennium Necklace to see the future where they had already figured out how to use Dark Yugi's true name? Although playing a game and getting stuck on a puzzle part and then watching someone else's strategy video felt like having low purity, Hayato felt his purity was already quite high. Watching a strategy guide wasn't shameful.
However, while Hayato's idea was good, Malik expressed rejection: "I don't want to. You don't know what happened when I used the Millennium Necklace on that Kaiba Seto just now. The risk of using a Millennium Item that isn't suitable for me is too great. If you want to use it, go ahead and use it yourself."
Saying this, Malik carelessly stuffed the Millennium Necklace into Hayato's hand.
He didn't tell Hayato that when he was helping Kaiba awaken the spirit he hadn't seen yet and didn't know if it had successfully awakened, the power of the Millennium Necklace that couldn't be controlled didn't just influence Kaiba; Malik himself was also affected.
When Malik, Kaiba, and the Millennium Necklace achieved a link, that mystical power delved deep into Kaiba's heart and memory to awaken the slumbering spirit. But Malik also consequently saw many images from Kaiba's memory.
For example, the Pyramid of Light that isolated the Three Egyptian Gods, or the Three Egyptian Gods confronting each other atop the towering Island Tower. Malik even saw an image of someone who looked exactly like himself controlling a monster made of lava in battle.
Although these images from Kaiba's memory weren't the main reason Malik lost consciousness, Malik was still greatly impacted by them. He even somewhat suspected if his smart head had been burned out by the power of the Millennium Necklace, otherwise, how could he see such strange images?
As for the Millennium Necklace, if ordinary people couldn't just touch it casually, he would have wanted to get rid of it long ago. He was very resistant to this thing now. However, the images he saw weren't without influence on him either. At least when he saw the "himself" in those images holding the Millennium Rod, he became even more confirmed that *that* thing was more suitable for him.
As for whether Hayato would be affected by using the Millennium Necklace, Malik wasn't worried at all. He also knew the classification of the Millennium Items. Even the strongest "Dark" Millennium Item that Priest Mahad had to seal and suppress with his own mystical power—the Millennium Ring—Hayato could freely control. There was fundamentally no need to worry about using the Millennium Necklace.
Malik's uncooperative attitude wasn't within Hayato's expectation, but he thought about it and felt it made no difference. It was the same whether Malik used it or he used it himself. He had also attempted to use the Millennium Necklace at Ishizu's place before. Although it wasn't as smoothly as using the Millennium Ring, it could still be considered skillfully used.
"If I have to do it, I'll do it." Holding the Millennium Necklace, Hayato didn't wear it around his neck like Ishizu and Isis, the two women, as a collar. Instead, he simply clipped it to the collar of his clothes using a button, considering it worn.
Millennium Items never had a requirement that they must be worn to be used. As long as there was simple contact, or even just being close enough, they could be used. The way Aknadin and a certain unscrupulous Card Printer three thousand years later lost an eyeball can only be described as a flaw in the Millennium Eye's design, as well as a sign that the user's brain wasn't very smart.
Just look at how smart Bakura is. He didn't dig out an eyeball to replace it with gold. Anyway, it can be used by keeping it close to the body, and using it by holding it in the mouth is also the same, it just feels a bit gross.
And before using "Stardust Crusaders", Hayato also informed Dark Yugi and the others of his plan.
"Use the Millennium Necklace to see what we do in the future? That's so like you, Hayato, to think of such a usage!" Joey Wheeler, hearing this, said with pleasant surprise, "I always thought the Millennium Necklace is simply the easiest to use of the seven Millennium Items!"
But Tristan on the side pouted: "Tch, didn't you tell me before, when you made Mai angry, that the Millennium Eye, which can see through a woman's heart, was the easiest to use?"
"Huh? But I remember when we didn't bring a fruit knife during the picnic, didn't Joey Wheeler say the Millennium Rod was the easiest to use?" Téa raised an eyebrow, looking at Joey Wheeler playfully.
Even Yugi added another jab: "Joey Wheeler also told me that the Millennium Puzzle, which is the heaviest and most valuable, was the easiest to use."
"Cough cough, that's not important, what's important is that now we need to help The Other Yugi find a method to use his name." Even Joey Wheeler's cheeks were slightly red as he quickly interrupted the others who were planning to continue teasing him. "But, I remember you said before that because of the Dark Game Bakura created, the Millennium Necklace's ability to predict the future was restricted, right?"
"That's right, but as long as we use this item, there will be no problem," Hayato said, taking out "Stardust Crusaders" again. "This GM Item recorded the power of 'Limiter Removal' that Bakura used on Aknadin when he was still the Great Dark Priest before. Using it to boost the power of the Millennium Necklace will absolutely break through the lock on the future by the dark power."
After introducing it, Hayato wore the "Stardust Crusaders", which had the shape of only the front half of a baseball cap, on his head. He grabbed the brim and flipped it to the side, saying with satisfaction: "Psychic Ectoplasm, the Millennium Necklace, and the power of the GM Item! It truly makes my inner thoughts feel pleasure. I'm so happy right now I want to sing a song, I'm extremely high!"
Wearing a baseball cap and the Millennium Necklace acting as gold ring decorations on his clothes, the JoJo-esque dressed Hayato still spoke in his usual Dio-esque manner, giving off an awkward feeling.
However, Dark Yugi, who had been thinking for a long time on the side, spoke at this moment: "If the Millennium Necklace, after using the power of 'Stardust Crusaders', can see the future, it can indeed solve the predicament we are currently facing. But Hayato, if after using 'Stardust Crusaders', the Millennium Necklace is still blinded from the vision towards the future by darkness..."
"Wasting time and energy is secondary. Yugi, you mean that the precious GM Item will also be wasted as a result, right?" Before winning, consider losing. Hayato had actually thought about Dark Yugi's words in advance, but he smiled proudly, "But Yugi, why did you produce the illusion that the situation would be harmful to us if we failed?"
"A True Duelist can even utilize a card's downside. Aknadin managed to seal the Duel Arena and the Millennium Items because of the power of 'Limiter Removal', but he has also been still unconscious ever since. The same thing will also happen to the Millennium Necklace."
Dark Yugi was also stunned upon hearing this: "You mean, you plan to utilize this negative effect to destroy the Millennium Necklace?"
What kind of unforeseen path is this?!
"Limited to this world, Bakura has his goal in collecting the Millennium Items. But for us, the existence of the Millennium Items is not necessary; they are just great power. And for me, letting others profit is even more uncomfortable than me suffering a loss."
Hayato spread his hands, "Being able to obtain the information we need by seeing the future through the Millennium Necklace, if successful, that would naturally be the best. But even if we fail, we can still destroy the Millennium Necklace, cutting off that guy Bakura's ambition to assemble the Millennium Items in advance."
"Regardless of the situation, it's advantageous to us. This is called win-win. We win twice!"
Hmm? Why does Hayato's idea sound so similar to the Russian anti-terrorism method of "preemptively killing the hostage before the kidnappers kill the hostage"? Presumably, this is the supernatural work of nature.
Although some felt like pointing out that Hayato's understanding of "win-win" seemed a bit problematic, as only he won and the others didn't win at all, the feasibility of his idea was quite high. Everyone felt there was no time to lose, and simply decided to let Hayato use the Millennium Necklace to predict the future right here.
Even if they returned to the Royal City, the defense capabilities that could be deployed there were actually not much different. After all, except for Priest Shimon and Priest Shada, one old and one injured, the combat power that could be deployed had basically all left the city together with Dark Yugi and arrived here. Plus, using the Millennium Necklace to predict the future wouldn't take much time, so there was no need to go to great lengths to find another place.
Pulling down the brim of his hat, Hayato also became serious. He properly held the Millennium Necklace in his hand, closed his eyes, and seriously resonated with it.
Beside Hayato, the others also gathered around, both out of curiosity about whether Hayato could succeed as planned, and also acting as his guard to avoid being disturbed.
Not just Dark Yugi and the few of them, Malik also did not leave after handing the Millennium Necklace to Hayato. Instead, he also brought out Isis, who was in poor physical condition. However, verbally, this guy still tsundere-ly said that he wanted Isis to see the gap between her and others, and see how useless she was.
As for Seto, who was originally bearing the responsibility of commanding the Army, needless to say, he was the one standing closest to Hayato besides Dark Yugi. He took a Duel Arena that hadn't been brought into the Thief Village underground before and summoned his Millennium Stone Spirit Duos as a guard. Seto stood behind Dark Yugi with his back to the others, and no one could see what kind of expression was on his face at this moment.
Kaiba looked at Seto's back, but frowned strangely. He didn't know why, he always felt that although he still disliked Seto somewhat, that kind of dislike had unconsciously changed a bit. Before, it was more of a repulsion akin to that between similar types, but ever since Seto returned from the Thief Village and woke up, Kaiba felt that he was more subconsciously feeling disgust towards the opponent.
Thanks to having tested his synergy with the Millennium Necklace at Ishizu's place once before, although like the Millennium Ring before, the Millennium Necklace from three thousand years ago felt different to Hayato than the one existing three thousand years later, relying on the resonance he had done once before, Hayato still quickly linked his heart with the Millennium Necklace's mystical power.
First, he attempted to predict the future, but the result did not exceed Hayato's expectation. What he saw of the future was completely a patch of darkness; he fundamentally couldn't see anything. It was even worse than before when Isis used it and could barely see a few fragments of images.
This should be unrelated to Hayato's and Isis's synergy with the Millennium Necklace. The main reason was still because of the rapid expansion of dark power now that Bakura had collected six Millennium Items.
If that's the case, then it was time to use "Stardust Crusaders".
The hat on Hayato's head quickly turned from black to white. Specks of starlight sprinkled down and fell onto the Millennium Necklace in Hayato's hand. The Eye of Udjat in the exact center of the golden ring radiated great light. Hayato, with his eyes closed, also felt the powerful mystical power coming from within the Millennium Necklace that was linked to him at this instant!
"I see it, the future is opening its arms to me, the universe is singing to me!" The darkness that previously wrapped around the future was instantly swept away under the boosted power the Millennium Necklace received. Hayato's gaze was cast from this moment towards the future, his entire body radiating light.
But before Hayato could see the image of the future where he wanted to use the Pharaoh's name, he saw instead another image—a hand drawing a short sword from its waist and suddenly stabbing it into its own body. And as his gaze moved upwards, the owner of that hand was actually Seto, whose eyeballs had no whites and were completely pitch-black?!
Suddenly opening his eyes, Hayato looked towards Seto standing behind Dark Yugi in shock: "The enemy was actually you, Seto?!"
However, although Hayato had reacted the moment he saw the image, it was still a bit too late. Seto pushed away the unprepared Dark Yugi in front of him with one motion, and the drawn sharp blade suddenly stabbed into Hayato's chest.
When he raised his head, he also revealed his pitch-black eyeballs and the proud smile on his face to Hayato's eyes: "Truly one step behind, Hayato Kobayashi. I had been waiting for this opportunity, waiting for this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone!"
The sharp blade that stabbed into Hayato's heart area was pulled out. Hayato's strength was drained away in an instant, and he fell down. At the same time, the Millennium Necklace stained with Hayato's blood appeared in Seto's hand!
"Seto?! What are you doing?!"
(End of Chapter)
