"Ugh..."
Faker staggered back two steps, his gaze unfocused.
How could this be? He... had lost?
Even with Barian power, even after obtaining monsters on the level of Phantasm God: Heart of the Earth and Phantasm Spiral Dragon: Heart of the Earth Dragon, he had still lost?
The Gold Sarcophagus. Right, that Gold Sarcophagus.
He looked at the Gold Sarcophagus floating on Kira's Field. From the very beginning, he had sensed that this sarcophagus was anything but ordinary. It was far more than a simple Continuous Spell; it contained extraordinary power.
Faker was still an outsider and did not know much about the connection between the Gold Sarcophagus and Yugi Mutou. But the KaibaCorp employees around them all understood by now that this Gold Sarcophagus represented the Gold Sarcophagus of Parting Ways—the one Yugi Mutou had used in the Ritual of the Duel to send off the legendary Pharaoh at the very end.
The monsters Kira used, all wearing the Gold Sarcophagus as a disguise, were clearly new forms of Yugi's old monsters as well.
Word had already spread within KaibaCorp that Fujiki Kira might have some connection to Yugi Mutou, the previous generation's Duel King. At the very least, judging from this Deck, perhaps he had inherited not only the title of king, but Yugi's legacy as well.
Naturally, plenty of people disagreed. Some felt that Kira played far too many Decks, switching to a new one every so often, and that he did not even primarily use this Gold Sarcophagus Deck.
On top of that, Kira was already a world-renowned research expert. Many of the famous Decks and important spirit-related archetypes in the world today had been developed under his guidance. Some old Decks that had once been declared hopeless and discarded by the times had also been