Red-haired Twin-tailed Loli. So this was the kind of Lord of Searing Flames she was.
Kira pondered.
He was already mostly certain. Grandpa Mutou had said that ever since Saya met that Twin-tailed Loli, her illness seemed to have naturally gotten better. That was probably the work of the Lord of Searing Flames—or rather, Uria.
The Sacred Beasts were quite experienced when it came to health management. Chancellor Kagemaru from the original work undoubtedly had the most to say on that matter.
In the arc where the Three Phantasm Beasts appeared in the anime, it all began because Chancellor Kagemaru of Duel Academy had grown old and frail. Afflicted with an incurable illness, he could only cling to life through life support equipment.
But after obtaining the Card of Phantasm, the old man in the Life Support Pod returned to his prime in the blink of an eye. Every illness in his body vanished instantly, and he was revived on the spot at full strength, brimming with vitality and even stronger than he had been at his peak.
This was also one of the Sacred Beasts' incidental abilities. Those who obtained Sacred Beast cards could almost be said to become ageless, immune to disease, and eternally undying.
Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration. It was not true "immortality," since longevity did not come without a price.
When Kagemaru wielded the Sacred Beasts in the anime, he used them to absorb the Life Force of other Duel Monsters spirits, draining the monsters' lives and converting them into his own energy. That was how he purged every illness from his body and transformed from a sickly old man on the brink of death back into a man in his prime.
So the Sacred Beasts' power did not create lifespan from