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Chapter 839
Shadi's arrival was merely an interlude for everyone; they quickly cast the matter aside and stopped mentioning it. But was it truly that they didn't care, or did they intentionally gloss over it?
The handling of the Millennium Items that Shadi mentioned wasn't the key point; the key point was Atem himself. Shadi was right about one thing: this era is not Atem's era.
His era was three thousand years ago in Ancient Egypt, and it has vanished into the past. Whether it was Mana, Simon, Shada, Seto, or Aknadin, they have all entered the Underworld and are no longer in the world. Atem is the last remnant; this era has no vessel capable of containing him.
Even with Yugi, because of the existence of the Millennium Puzzle, the two coexist as one body with two souls. Perhaps both are quite satisfied with this state now, but it is foreseeable that as Yugi continues to grow up, after he graduates, starts work, and gets married, the state of the two coexisting will become increasingly unstable.
After Shadi brought this up, both Yugi and Atem, being quite intelligent people, thought of this point. However, both are currently maintaining silence and haven't spoken about this aspect. Naturally, the others could only intentionally gloss over the matter and not discuss it, allowing the two to think for themselves.
However, someone did break the somewhat strange atmosphere. From the Corner where Shadi disappeared, several Staff members in uniform casually walked over. When they saw Hayato's party gathered together, they couldn't help but be stunned.
To steal the Queen Nefertari's jewelry from three thousand years ago that was on display here, Exodia O'Brien and Funny Valentine used bribery to buy off the local gang responsible for selling Scenic Area tickets. However, they hadn't bought off the Staff within the Scenic Area.
After all, the manpower of the Scenic Area Staff was too large, making it difficult to avoid problems, unlike a gang where buying off the leader could control the subordinates. Buying off the Staff's leader wasn't very useful; anywhere, even an Elementary School Student could instinctively learn the trick of "reporting others."
For these Staff members, Exodia chose to have the gang members he bought off create some commotion to attract their attention and lure away some of the Staff from the key point locations. It didn't need to take too long; about ten minutes was completely sufficient for him.
In terms of the specific time spent, Exodia indeed didn't miscalculate. He stole Queen Nefertari's jewelry from the guards even faster than the expected time and brought it outside the Museum, just waiting to leave the Scenic Area to complete the deal with Funny Valentine.
What he didn't expect was that Hayato's party would unaccountably appear suddenly from a hidden Passage. The Scenic Area map circulating among the Scenic Area Staff that he had stolen didn't even have this Secret Passage. Furthermore, Hayato's party, who suddenly appeared, were excessively strong and used supernatural power and Duel Monsters to defeat him.
What was even more outrageous was that his employer, Funny Valentine, had lost his life due to greed. Forget whether Nefertari's jewelry was still in his hand; even if he took it out, there was no employer to deliver it to. While finding another buyer might yield a higher reward than Funny Valentine, it also added more trouble. If he wasn't careful, he might even be double-crossed.
If Exodia were currently in a conscious state, all of the above would inevitably become his troubles. However, because his duel with Hayato wasted a lot of time, new troubles had already appeared, and they were even bigger troubles than the previous ones.
"Hey, who are you guys? Why are you in this place!"
Because the Staff usually had some contact with tourists from all over the World, these two Egyptians who discovered the group spoke English that was quite fluent, or at least not heavily accented—after all, it is one of Egypt's mainstream languages nowadays—and asked Hayato's party.
Since this morning, they had learned from their colleagues at the Entrance that ticket sales were abnormally poor today; not a single tourist had come. Winter was supposed to be Egypt's peak tourist season, and they didn't know what the ticket-selling gang was up to. But anyway, they were on a fixed salary, so whether more or fewer tickets were sold was none of their business.
But the question was, if no tourists had bought tickets, why did the two of them see such a large party suddenly appear in the Scenic Area? Especially the man standing among them who was one meter ninety-five tall; he somehow gave them an evil sense of oppression, as if they had encountered a villain among villains.
Moreover, even within the Scenic Area, there were distinctions between completely open zones, restricted development zones, and forbidden open zones. The location where Hayato's party was situated was not a place where tourists could freely enter and exit; it was a forbidden open zone under strict restriction, storing important artifacts that absolutely could not be entered by tourists!
As one of them observed Hayato and the others who weren't moving, he seemed to notice something. His pupil contracted, but he still suppressed his surprise and subtly nudged his colleague with a hidden movement, reminding him to look towards the side of the group. The person who was reminded also glanced in that direction, but saw a deformed and scrapped gun.
Even from the angle where the two of them were standing, the black person who fell to the ground and looked like he had been beaten to death, whose body was covered in mud... had a gun tucked into his waist!
Although they used to rant together while drinking after work about how this job in the Scenic Area, despite paying well, had too many matters and was quite boring, and they truly wished to encounter more interesting and exciting things during work, wasn't this level of excitement a bit too much?!
Unlike a certain beacon of freedom, Egypt also implements a complete gun ban. Although they didn't know the relationship between the standing people and the fallen person, reporting the situation first was definitely the right thing to do!
Immediately, one of the Staff members pulled out the issued intercom and broadcast on all channels: "Intruders detected in Zone 114514, possessing guns. Security Personnel numbers 1919 and 810, report!"
"Huh?! Uh, We, not, bad!" Although the poor student Joey Wheeler couldn't understand what the two Staff members were saying, he could tell that they were communicating with others. He quickly spoke using his extremely limited English vocabulary.
However, Joey Wheeler's skill in "persuasion" was clearly not sufficient. He couldn't dispel the Staff members' vigilance with just three words. On the contrary, his step forward made them even more nervous.
Blocking his colleague who was using the intercom behind him, the other Staff member drew a baton he carried with him and said to Joey Wheeler, "Just stand there, don't approach us another step!"
"If you move again, someone will die!"
When Hayato heard these two speak, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if he had heard their voice somewhere before. After carefully examining their appearance again, he suddenly realized that these two were exactly the same as the two guards he had defeated when he infiltrated the Royal Palace in the Memory World at that time.
"Hoho, you've already noticed the crisis here, right? You know that reporting me, Hayato Kobayashi, carries a fatal crisis, yet you can still lift up the courage to face me, Hayato Kobayashi?" Hayato put his hands on his hips, ignoring the other party's warning, and stepped forward to approach, a wicked smile on his face. "Just with the stick in your hand?"
Although Hayato had no weapon in his hand, as he approached, the Staff member holding the baton inexplicably felt a phantom pain, as if he had been beaten by him.
"Uh, I mean I'll die..." Subconsciously, he took a step back.
"Huh? What are you afraid of?" However, his colleague behind him didn't understand what was wrong with him and warned Hayato and the others, "Although we don't know who you are, since you broke in here carrying guns, you are absolutely not good people. This place stores many valuable artifacts. Even if you take us down, we will never let you take the things away easily!"
"Please wait a moment, sir." Pegasus quickly stopped Hayato, who was showing a face that didn't look like a good person, from continuing to negotiate with the Security Personnel. He stepped forward to substitute for him, pulled out a business card from in one's arms, and said in his rarely fluent English, "My name is Pegasus J. Crawford, President of Industrial Illusions. If you have heard of 'Duel Monsters,' you should know me, right?"
"Please don't be so nervous. We are merely tourists who accidentally wandered in here, not dangerous suspicious individuals."
"Pegasus? The Father of Duel Monsters?" The Security Personnel was also stunned. He reached out and accepted the business card Pegasus handed him, looking at the engraving on the business card, which was made of pure gold by Pegasus, who clearly wasn't short on money. It was indeed Pegasus's name.
Even if he had only heard of Pegasus's name and hadn't seen his appearance, this Security Personnel somewhat believed Pegasus's identity after receiving the business card. Although a simple business card couldn't completely prove the truth of Pegasus's identity, Pegasus's sincere words were very convincing, not just the weight of the gold.
However, just when the group thought they had managed to appease the two Security Personnel, the person who had taken the business card raised his hand again, pointed to the briefcase the group had placed on the ground before, and said, "If it's the famous 'Father of Duel Monsters' Pegasus, I can tentatively believe it. I now believe you 100%."
"But what is in that Box over there? Medicine? Guns? Or perhaps important artifacts stolen from here? I now believe 100% that you are not suspicious individuals, but that's not enough. Please open that Box and prove it to me, so I can believe you an extra 1%, making it 101%."
Upon hearing this, Yugi and Joey Wheeler's inner thoughts sank. Although they were indeed innocent, the only thing they had done wrong was fare evasion, but precisely that Box was the one thing that couldn't be opened. Inside was Nefertari's jewelry that Funny Valentine had hired Exodia O'Brien to steal!
If they opened that Box and let the other party see what was inside, even if they didn't do it, they would have to bear this scapegoat. After all, the other party would absolutely not believe the account that "an American hired that black person on the ground to steal things, but that American just evaporated into thin air"!
Why did they have to notice that Box of all things?!
"Hmm? Are you hesitating? Hesitating to open that Box? So what exactly is in that Box? Please open it." The Security Personnel said with a frown. "Or are your words just now a deception towards us?"
Upon hearing this, Hayato sighed and said, "My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror; All I do is just." As he spoke, he was about to pull out the Millennium Rod from behind him to give these two modern Egyptians a little taste of ancient Egyptian shock.
In the end, it still came to this. He still had to use the Millennium Rod to use brainwashing hypnosis. Hayato was a pure love faction, after all, he really didn't want to take action.
However, just as the Millennium Rod was halfway drawn, Marik reached out and pressed down on Hayato's hand. Facing Hayato's confused gaze, Marik said calmly, "It doesn't matter, I will take action."
"I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but all I got was repeated questioning and suspicion." As he approached the two Security Personnel, Marik casually pulled out a document. "I'm not pretending anymore, I'm coming clean. I'm from the Ishtar Family, I'm coming clean."
"Didn't you just tell us you weren't from the Ishtar Family? You changed your mind too quickly!" Joey Wheeler ranted mercilessly. "And even if you are from the Ishtar Family, what does that have to do with ordinary people?"
Honda also chimed in, "Exactly. Are you saying they'll really ignore us just because you gave them your family name?"
Then, the two of them saw the two Security Personnel, who had just been on vigilance against the group, change their expressions the moment they saw the name on the document in Marik's hand. The one holding the baton quickly put it away, and the other quickly spoke into the intercom, saying, "Situation dispel, everything is normal. It's an Important Figure from the Ishtar Family."
"Huh? Why?!" Joey Wheeler looked at Marik, who had put away the document, and asked in Japanese language that the Security Personnel couldn't understand, "Why are they so afraid just hearing 'Ishtar'?"
Marik shrugged, "I thought you should know. Although the Staff here are government employees, the deterrent power of their leaders and superiors is far less terrifying than the gang factions that are everywhere."
"And unfortunately, although they advocate for seclusion, the Ishtar Tomb Keepers can be considered the largest gang in Egypt."
Hayato looked at the document in Marik's hand again with some surprise. "But what's with that document? Haven't you lifted your wanted criminal status yet?"
"Ah, this," Marik proudly shook the document book in his hand, "I just grabbed it when I was at the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory. It was my father's document from before; he looked quite similar to me when he was young."
"You would actually do petty theft? Marik, you've become such a bad child, you've really disappointed me."
"Brother-in-law, maybe you should stop taking other people's Deck first?"
Thanks to the 500 points from the tip "Pure Love Gang". Thank you.
(End of Chapter)
Shadi's arrival was merely an interlude for everyone; they quickly cast the matter aside and stopped mentioning it. But was it truly that they didn't care, or did they intentionally gloss over it?
The handling of the Millennium Items that Shadi mentioned wasn't the key point; the key point was Atem himself. Shadi was right about one thing: this era is not Atem's era.
His era was three thousand years ago in Ancient Egypt, and it has vanished into the past. Whether it was Mana, Simon, Shada, Seto, or Aknadin, they have all entered the Underworld and are no longer in the world. Atem is the last remnant; this era has no vessel capable of containing him.
Even with Yugi, because of the existence of the Millennium Puzzle, the two coexist as one body with two souls. Perhaps both are quite satisfied with this state now, but it is foreseeable that as Yugi continues to grow up, after he graduates, starts work, and gets married, the state of the two coexisting will become increasingly unstable.
After Shadi brought this up, both Yugi and Atem, being quite intelligent people, thought of this point. However, both are currently maintaining silence and haven't spoken about this aspect. Naturally, the others could only intentionally gloss over the matter and not discuss it, allowing the two to think for themselves.
However, someone did break the somewhat strange atmosphere. From the Corner where Shadi disappeared, several Staff members in uniform casually walked over. When they saw Hayato's party gathered together, they couldn't help but be stunned.
To steal the Queen Nefertari's jewelry from three thousand years ago that was on display here, Exodia O'Brien and Funny Valentine used bribery to buy off the local gang responsible for selling Scenic Area tickets. However, they hadn't bought off the Staff within the Scenic Area.
After all, the manpower of the Scenic Area Staff was too large, making it difficult to avoid problems, unlike a gang where buying off the leader could control the subordinates. Buying off the Staff's leader wasn't very useful; anywhere, even an Elementary School Student could instinctively learn the trick of "reporting others."
For these Staff members, Exodia chose to have the gang members he bought off create some commotion to attract their attention and lure away some of the Staff from the key point locations. It didn't need to take too long; about ten minutes was completely sufficient for him.
In terms of the specific time spent, Exodia indeed didn't miscalculate. He stole Queen Nefertari's jewelry from the guards even faster than the expected time and brought it outside the Museum, just waiting to leave the Scenic Area to complete the deal with Funny Valentine.
What he didn't expect was that Hayato's party would unaccountably appear suddenly from a hidden Passage. The Scenic Area map circulating among the Scenic Area Staff that he had stolen didn't even have this Secret Passage. Furthermore, Hayato's party, who suddenly appeared, were excessively strong and used supernatural power and Duel Monsters to defeat him.
What was even more outrageous was that his employer, Funny Valentine, had lost his life due to greed. Forget whether Nefertari's jewelry was still in his hand; even if he took it out, there was no employer to deliver it to. While finding another buyer might yield a higher reward than Funny Valentine, it also added more trouble. If he wasn't careful, he might even be double-crossed.
If Exodia were currently in a conscious state, all of the above would inevitably become his troubles. However, because his duel with Hayato wasted a lot of time, new troubles had already appeared, and they were even bigger troubles than the previous ones.
"Hey, who are you guys? Why are you in this place!"
Because the Staff usually had some contact with tourists from all over the World, these two Egyptians who discovered the group spoke English that was quite fluent, or at least not heavily accented—after all, it is one of Egypt's mainstream languages nowadays—and asked Hayato's party.
Since this morning, they had learned from their colleagues at the Entrance that ticket sales were abnormally poor today; not a single tourist had come. Winter was supposed to be Egypt's peak tourist season, and they didn't know what the ticket-selling gang was up to. But anyway, they were on a fixed salary, so whether more or fewer tickets were sold was none of their business.
But the question was, if no tourists had bought tickets, why did the two of them see such a large party suddenly appear in the Scenic Area? Especially the man standing among them who was one meter ninety-five tall; he somehow gave them an evil sense of oppression, as if they had encountered a villain among villains.
Moreover, even within the Scenic Area, there were distinctions between completely open zones, restricted development zones, and forbidden open zones. The location where Hayato's party was situated was not a place where tourists could freely enter and exit; it was a forbidden open zone under strict restriction, storing important artifacts that absolutely could not be entered by tourists!
As one of them observed Hayato and the others who weren't moving, he seemed to notice something. His pupil contracted, but he still suppressed his surprise and subtly nudged his colleague with a hidden movement, reminding him to look towards the side of the group. The person who was reminded also glanced in that direction, but saw a deformed and scrapped gun.
Even from the angle where the two of them were standing, the black person who fell to the ground and looked like he had been beaten to death, whose body was covered in mud... had a gun tucked into his waist!
Although they used to rant together while drinking after work about how this job in the Scenic Area, despite paying well, had too many matters and was quite boring, and they truly wished to encounter more interesting and exciting things during work, wasn't this level of excitement a bit too much?!
Unlike a certain beacon of freedom, Egypt also implements a complete gun ban. Although they didn't know the relationship between the standing people and the fallen person, reporting the situation first was definitely the right thing to do!
Immediately, one of the Staff members pulled out the issued intercom and broadcast on all channels: "Intruders detected in Zone 114514, possessing guns. Security Personnel numbers 1919 and 810, report!"
"Huh?! Uh, We, not, bad!" Although the poor student Joey Wheeler couldn't understand what the two Staff members were saying, he could tell that they were communicating with others. He quickly spoke using his extremely limited English vocabulary.
However, Joey Wheeler's skill in "persuasion" was clearly not sufficient. He couldn't dispel the Staff members' vigilance with just three words. On the contrary, his step forward made them even more nervous.
Blocking his colleague who was using the intercom behind him, the other Staff member drew a baton he carried with him and said to Joey Wheeler, "Just stand there, don't approach us another step!"
"If you move again, someone will die!"
When Hayato heard these two speak, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if he had heard their voice somewhere before. After carefully examining their appearance again, he suddenly realized that these two were exactly the same as the two guards he had defeated when he infiltrated the Royal Palace in the Memory World at that time.
"Hoho, you've already noticed the crisis here, right? You know that reporting me, Hayato Kobayashi, carries a fatal crisis, yet you can still lift up the courage to face me, Hayato Kobayashi?" Hayato put his hands on his hips, ignoring the other party's warning, and stepped forward to approach, a wicked smile on his face. "Just with the stick in your hand?"
Although Hayato had no weapon in his hand, as he approached, the Staff member holding the baton inexplicably felt a phantom pain, as if he had been beaten by him.
"Uh, I mean I'll die..." Subconsciously, he took a step back.
"Huh? What are you afraid of?" However, his colleague behind him didn't understand what was wrong with him and warned Hayato and the others, "Although we don't know who you are, since you broke in here carrying guns, you are absolutely not good people. This place stores many valuable artifacts. Even if you take us down, we will never let you take the things away easily!"
"Please wait a moment, sir." Pegasus quickly stopped Hayato, who was showing a face that didn't look like a good person, from continuing to negotiate with the Security Personnel. He stepped forward to substitute for him, pulled out a business card from in one's arms, and said in his rarely fluent English, "My name is Pegasus J. Crawford, President of Industrial Illusions. If you have heard of 'Duel Monsters,' you should know me, right?"
"Please don't be so nervous. We are merely tourists who accidentally wandered in here, not dangerous suspicious individuals."
"Pegasus? The Father of Duel Monsters?" The Security Personnel was also stunned. He reached out and accepted the business card Pegasus handed him, looking at the engraving on the business card, which was made of pure gold by Pegasus, who clearly wasn't short on money. It was indeed Pegasus's name.
Even if he had only heard of Pegasus's name and hadn't seen his appearance, this Security Personnel somewhat believed Pegasus's identity after receiving the business card. Although a simple business card couldn't completely prove the truth of Pegasus's identity, Pegasus's sincere words were very convincing, not just the weight of the gold.
However, just when the group thought they had managed to appease the two Security Personnel, the person who had taken the business card raised his hand again, pointed to the briefcase the group had placed on the ground before, and said, "If it's the famous 'Father of Duel Monsters' Pegasus, I can tentatively believe it. I now believe you 100%."
"But what is in that Box over there? Medicine? Guns? Or perhaps important artifacts stolen from here? I now believe 100% that you are not suspicious individuals, but that's not enough. Please open that Box and prove it to me, so I can believe you an extra 1%, making it 101%."
Upon hearing this, Yugi and Joey Wheeler's inner thoughts sank. Although they were indeed innocent, the only thing they had done wrong was fare evasion, but precisely that Box was the one thing that couldn't be opened. Inside was Nefertari's jewelry that Funny Valentine had hired Exodia O'Brien to steal!
If they opened that Box and let the other party see what was inside, even if they didn't do it, they would have to bear this scapegoat. After all, the other party would absolutely not believe the account that "an American hired that black person on the ground to steal things, but that American just evaporated into thin air"!
Why did they have to notice that Box of all things?!
"Hmm? Are you hesitating? Hesitating to open that Box? So what exactly is in that Box? Please open it." The Security Personnel said with a frown. "Or are your words just now a deception towards us?"
Upon hearing this, Hayato sighed and said, "My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror; All I do is just." As he spoke, he was about to pull out the Millennium Rod from behind him to give these two modern Egyptians a little taste of ancient Egyptian shock.
In the end, it still came to this. He still had to use the Millennium Rod to use brainwashing hypnosis. Hayato was a pure love faction, after all, he really didn't want to take action.
However, just as the Millennium Rod was halfway drawn, Marik reached out and pressed down on Hayato's hand. Facing Hayato's confused gaze, Marik said calmly, "It doesn't matter, I will take action."
"I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but all I got was repeated questioning and suspicion." As he approached the two Security Personnel, Marik casually pulled out a document. "I'm not pretending anymore, I'm coming clean. I'm from the Ishtar Family, I'm coming clean."
"Didn't you just tell us you weren't from the Ishtar Family? You changed your mind too quickly!" Joey Wheeler ranted mercilessly. "And even if you are from the Ishtar Family, what does that have to do with ordinary people?"
Honda also chimed in, "Exactly. Are you saying they'll really ignore us just because you gave them your family name?"
Then, the two of them saw the two Security Personnel, who had just been on vigilance against the group, change their expressions the moment they saw the name on the document in Marik's hand. The one holding the baton quickly put it away, and the other quickly spoke into the intercom, saying, "Situation dispel, everything is normal. It's an Important Figure from the Ishtar Family."
"Huh? Why?!" Joey Wheeler looked at Marik, who had put away the document, and asked in Japanese language that the Security Personnel couldn't understand, "Why are they so afraid just hearing 'Ishtar'?"
Marik shrugged, "I thought you should know. Although the Staff here are government employees, the deterrent power of their leaders and superiors is far less terrifying than the gang factions that are everywhere."
"And unfortunately, although they advocate for seclusion, the Ishtar Tomb Keepers can be considered the largest gang in Egypt."
Hayato looked at the document in Marik's hand again with some surprise. "But what's with that document? Haven't you lifted your wanted criminal status yet?"
"Ah, this," Marik proudly shook the document book in his hand, "I just grabbed it when I was at the Tomb Keepers' Clan Territory. It was my father's document from before; he looked quite similar to me when he was young."
"You would actually do petty theft? Marik, you've become such a bad child, you've really disappointed me."
"Brother-in-law, maybe you should stop taking other people's Deck first?"
Thanks to the 500 points from the tip "Pure Love Gang". Thank you.
(End of Chapter)
