III dropped to his knees, his expression dazed. His already somewhat delicate, feminine features now wore an unforgettable look, as though he had been thoroughly played with. He sat there blankly.
He felt terrible. Absolutely terrible.
The simple Xyz Dimension boy had learned a great deal from this brief duel today—many things he might not often have had the chance to experience in his own dimension.
Monster Absorption would have been one thing. When his Atlantean Giant had been stolen, he had nearly shed tears of grievance and indignation—especially in the Xyz Dimension, where ace monsters were so heavily emphasized in head-on clashes, making Tamashii's importance to a duelist all the more self-evident. Infuriating as it was, Monster Absorption was not entirely unheard of in their dimension either, though it was generally regarded as a despicable and crooked tactic.
After all, even "Number" included treacherous things like Big Eye. So even in a wholesome dimension like ZEXAL, Monster Absorption was evidently something every Yu-Gi-Oh! era had to sample. Its place in that dimension was probably like the wicked demonic arts of the Unorthodox Path in martial arts fiction: you could not deny that it worked, but it was still a sinister method scorned by the righteous sects.
But if Monster Absorption was at least a trick of the Unorthodox Path that he had heard of before, then dumping crap onto the opponent's Field to achieve some unspeakable goal was truly novel to a simple Xyz Dimension resident.
In any case, III felt both strange and helpless. His invincible Atlantean Giant had worked in tandem with an insider, giving its own Master a complete, seamless setup.
Oh, and by the way, in this combination, his Atlantean Giant was the "outside," while the insider was the "inside." The moment his Atlantean Giant