Good News

Saiō Takuma slowly opened his eyes.

"Misuzu," he said. "I hope this is good news."

He raised his head and saw two circular mirrors hanging in midair. Light flickered across their surfaces, and then the image of his younger sister, Saiō Misuchi, appeared.

"Yes," Misuzu said. "But perhaps not the kind you want."

After a brief pause, she spoke before Saiō could continue questioning her.

"The matter of Revolver still hasn't been resolved. The Hanoi Knights have remained active lately, interfering with the Society's operations from every angle and having a considerable impact on us."

Saiō frowned, seemingly irritated.

Misuzu, Aster, everyone in the Society... Lately, he suddenly felt as though everyone around him was useless, as though everything was working against him.

It made him deeply uncomfortable. Ever since he had possessed Saiō Takuma, everything had always gone his way, as if fate itself stood behind him.

But now, fate seemed to have gone somewhere else. It had begun standing by someone else's side and opposing him.

"Then what is the good news?" Saiō asked.

"Prince Ojin, whom you said to keep an eye on," Misuzu said. "The people I sent out have already contacted him. He is very interested in the cards of 'Ultimate D.'

I told him that you are someone connected to the cards of 'Ultimate D.' He has agreed to meet with you and is willing to communicate through a duel."

Saiō's eyes lit up.

At last, some good news.

Just as in the original anime, the ultimate satellite weapon "Sky," recently developed by Prince Ojin's Mizgaru Tseng Country, had caught Saiō's eye—or rather, the eye of the Light of Destruction.

The fragment of the Light of Destruction possessing Saiō did not possess the inherent world-destroying power of the Great Evil God Zorc or Orichalcos's