Lua x Ruka, LP 0
Quintet Magician's Judgment tore apart the sky. As the Light Pillar wrapped in five elements came crashing down, Copy Lua instinctively shielded his sister beneath him, yet the shockwave still flung them away like fallen leaves. They crashed separately into a transparent barrier wall at the edge of the field. Ruka's back scraped spiderweb cracks across the transparent screen, while Copy Lua's Duel Disk burst with blinding electrical sparks as it fell.
Copy Lua felt dizzy and disoriented. Pain like a dislocated joint shot through his left arm, and even that pain felt no different from that of a real person. Through his blurred vision, he heard his sister's faint cough from ten meters away, making his heavy eyelashes suddenly tremble. He saw Ruka lying facedown on the ground, electric sparks crackling over her body.
"Ruka."
Lua's fingernails dug into the cracks in the ground. His right leg was twisted unnaturally, but he continued dragging himself forward on muscle memory. He seemed to have no strength left to support himself, yet he still struggled to crawl toward Ruka. Just like every time his sister had awakened from a nightmare in the past, he had always been there first. The wreckage of his Duel Disk let out a mournful whine as he moved, and the red characters "LP=0" on its display reflected in his eyes.
"Lua."
Part of Ruka's left eye had been destroyed, exposing the mechanical structure beneath. The mechanical framework of her face seemed to have caved in from the heavy blow, while Electric Snakes constantly flickered through the ruptured sections.
Watching Lua struggle to crawl toward her, her memories flashed back to when they were six. Lua had crossed the Sports Field through a torrential downpour and carried her, feverish, back