Into the Void!
It was as if prison bars had risen on both sides of the field, sealing both players' monsters behind iron railings. The pitch-black Evil HERO and the two-headed dragon both had no choice but to crouch beneath the trap's restraints, reverting to Defense Position.
"If it's in Defense Position, Knight of Despair can't attack. No Battle Damage is dealt, so there's naturally no damage to reflect back at me," Judai said.
Yubel gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, "Just how far are you going to reject my love, Judai?"
"You're wrong, Yubel. This isn't love at all." Judai's expression dimmed slightly. "I was wrong. I was still young then. I thought that if I sent you into space, you could receive the right influences and become better. But no matter what, I shouldn't have abandoned you. Whatever the reason, I never should have forgotten you.
"You must have suffered a lot all these years, right?"
That attitude left Yubel stunned instead. In the boy before her, she seemed to briefly see the Prince of old once more, and her heart could not help but stir.
Judai said, "Wanting to protect someone but lacking the power to do so, then gaining power only to be hated—I understand that now.
"But compared to that, what hurts even more is finally gaining the power to protect something, only to lose what you wanted to protect."
Yubel: "!"
They were clearly only calmly spoken words, yet they seemed to carry immense weight. They pierced through the fog of darkness and struck the deepest part of her heart—a soft place she had not even known still remained.
Even those dark eyes briefly regained their clarity.
But it probably lasted only a few seconds.
"No..." Yubel shook her head, her