Come to My Room Tonight

To be fair, the girl before him was indeed exceptionally beautiful.

She wore a gothic dress as deep as night, as though it had been tailored from the dark satin of the night sky. Her skin was flawless and white as fresh snow, touched with a faint blush, so pale it seemed she had never seen sunlight. Her long hair was black as midnight, reaching her waist and adorned with intricate braids and delicate ornaments. Her petite figure resembled an exquisite doll; every gesture carried both the cold allure and mystery of gothic style, as well as a young girl's innocence and liveliness.

The first impression she gave was one of utterly flawless beauty. No wonder she had caused a sensation throughout the dormitory on her very first day. Yet there was something unreal about that beauty.

Because Kira could tell at a glance that she was not human.

He remembered this storyline now. Since it had only been a single filler episode in the one-hundred-and-eighty-episode Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, he had barely remembered it before. It was not until he saw this girl face-to-face, together with Aunt Tomei's missing-person notice on the Student Terminal, that it came back to him somewhat.

The girl's name was Alice—her True Name, indeed. But she was not human, nor could she even be considered a card spirit. She was something rare even throughout the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! series: a Puppet Spirit.

Of course, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, it was not only cards that could possess spirits. Card spirits were merely the most common and powerful. All sorts of other spiritual objects could potentially house spirits as well.

Alice's true body was the doll in the Duel Academy School Store, a doll said to possess Supernatural Power. She had originally existed to protect duelists, serving a role