Chen Yi adjusted the flow of time in the Digital World to 1,000 times its normal rate.
Not much time had passed in Yu-Gi-Oh! World, but a hundred years had already gone by in the Digital World.
A cat-shaped stone statue constantly changed hands among merchants and collectors.
These people usually died before reaching two hundred years of age, yet they possessed the freedom the cat-shaped stone statue desired most.
It could clearly have been like the other stone statues, yet a voice always reminded it that it had to find true freedom.
In the thousandth year, quite a few stone chips fell from the cat-shaped statue.
The stone statue suddenly realized it could walk.
Overjoyed, it waited for its owner to relax before finding an opportunity to leave.
After leaving, it came into contact with an entirely new world.
But soon, it felt unhappy again.
Why could birds fly and fish swim?
They were all freer than it was.
Was the freedom it sought found in these creatures?
If it could do the same things, would it be free?
Then it did, but it still failed to find freedom.
In the second thousand years, the cat-shaped stone statue was caught in the aftermath of someone's battle and buried underground.
It had finally gained the ability to move, only to lose its freedom once again.
In the third and fourth thousand years, due to movements in the Earth's crust, the cat-shaped stone statue emerged from underground once more.
It had thought it would be thrilled, but it was not.
Instead, it felt a sense of salvation.
"Perhaps freedom is not movement, flight, swimming, or scenery. Perhaps it is something deeper."
Over the time that followed, it witnessed everything in the world.
It suddenly realized that no one was