The morning sun spilled gently across the city skyline. Golden rays shone through the gaps between bustling high-rises and onto the streets, draping this former Duel City in a thin veil of gold.
A subordinate department of the Security Maintenance Bureau: the Card Research Institute.
"Officer!"
"Officer Godwin!"
Two researchers passing through the corridor came to attention and saluted.
Kira—or rather, Godwin now—walked past them and casually waved a hand, signaling for them to get on with their work.
In this era, the Security Maintenance Bureau could practically be called the city's highest authority. The previous officer Godwin had controlled nearly all the city's important resources, from politics and economics to scientific research and public welfare.
Furthermore, this institution did not answer to the upper political establishment. Instead, it was essentially controlled in secret by an organization called Iliaster. In the original story, Godwin had appeared to be doing whatever he pleased as the early-stage BOSS, only for it to later be revealed that his actions had never escaped Iliaster's control. He had merely been a puppet. Iliaster's influence had seeped into every aspect of the world, and its control over this era was hardly inferior to that of Doma during the Duel Monsters era.
The organization's true identity was actually a group of Future People from the ruined Future Timeline—Paradox and his companions. They had traveled through time into the past to alter history and established this organization.
Although Godwin was secretly controlled by Iliaster, that was precisely why the Security Maintenance Bureau had become the pinnacle of power in this city.
And one of the benefits of being the head of this institution was that resources that had once been scarce became readily available.
For example, large quantities of Rare Cards.
Ever since the birth of the Perpetual