"Dika? Are you there?"
Diwein turned around and called out his subordinate's name. But his voice sank into the darkness like a stone into the sea, without the slightest response.
Diwein took two steps back, his back bumping into another subordinate. This one was still there, but he had also realized something was wrong and began warily scanning both sides.
The extinguished lights flickered once.
The next moment, it was as though a gust of chilling wind had swept past. Diwein instinctively raised an arm before his face, his eyelids briefly closing. But in that single blink, when he turned back around, the subordinate who had been behind him a second ago had vanished as well.
Diwein was horrified.
Both men had disappeared in an instant. From the lights going out to the first man's disappearance, no more than two seconds had passed.
Making someone vanish soundlessly at his side within two seconds was something that, even as a Psychic Duelist, he doubted he could accomplish against several Ordinary People, let alone several psychic duelists.
And if the first man's disappearance could be explained by them being ambushed without warning, then the second man had truly vanished right before his eyes. It felt as though the Grim Reaper had snatched the man away from right in front of him.
Diwein was deeply shaken. His Duel Disk had long since unfolded as he warily surveyed the area.
The next moment, he seemed to sense something.
"Over there!"
He shouted, drawing a card from the Top of Deck without even looking and swiftly inserting it into his Duel Disk.
"Spell Card, Fireball, activate!"
The image of a green card projected into the air, and a fireball immediately shot out from the Spell Card. The flames carved a dazzling trail through the darkness,