Meeting Ryuzaki Again

"Leader Revolver!"

"Hello, leader!"

"."

Disguised beneath an alias, Kira walked straight through the club. The Hanoi Knights he passed all greeted him.

He pushed open the door to a room and saw a huge stack of documents piled atop a desk. Papers rustled and a pen scratched behind the stack, yet strangely, not a single person was visible.

It was not until Kira walked around the pile of documents to the back of the desk that he discovered a cat lying sprawled over it.

Yes, that was right. Even in the supernatural world of Dark Duelists, this was an exceedingly bizarre sight. A cat was hunched over a desk, working amid an ocean of paperwork, and it even looked remarkably diligent.

This was Pharaoh, that gluttonous, lazy cat from Duel Academy. Yet few knew that inside the cat's belly resided what might have been the greatest Alchemist in the history of this world.

And right now, this alchemist cat was working for Kira.

"No humanity, meow!"

Upon seeing Kira enter, Professor Daitokuji's ghostly apparition swiftly materialized behind the cat, denouncing Kira for exploiting feline labor.

"I've already become a cat, and I still have to work overtime like this."

Kira spoke with a perfectly serious expression.

"Strictly speaking, Professor Daitokuji, you never left the Seven Stars Organization. Now that the Seven Stars have been absorbed by the Hanoi Knights, you should count as one of our high-ranking officials."

"Is it too late for me to apply to leave the organization now?"

Daitokuji complained while the cat's paws continued scribbling furiously.

"Does the Seven Stars even allow members to quit?"

Daitokuji: "."

Of course, he had not possessed Pharaoh. He had merely used a minor alchemical technique to temporarily borrow the cat's body. Normally, Pharaoh was still Pharaoh; Daitokuji was