The dimensional passage opened. Stepping into it felt like being tossed into a blender running at full speed. Falling through it was like a dead leaf spinning in a whirlpool, rising and sinking with the raging current, utterly helpless.
A moment later, Seto Kaiba landed firmly on solid ground. He crouched slightly as the tails of his trench coat slowly settled behind him.
President Kaiba had fought countless battles and seen every kind of grand spectacle. Though he was fighting on enemy territory today, completely unaware of what arrangements or traps awaited him, he had no fear.
Whatever schemes they had, he only needed to crush them with absolute power. That had always been his creed.
Darkness surrounded him, so thick he could barely see his hand before his face. But he paid it no mind and simply walked forward into it.
He had clearly entered alongside Kira and the others, yet he was alone when he landed. There was not a single person in sight.
"Picking us off one by one?" Kaiba sneered. "If that is your plan, you are going to be disappointed. I never intended to stick together from the start. Even if all of you joined forces against me, it would make no difference."
He raised his Duel Disk, and a surging torrent of translucent blue light burst forth from his hand. The domineering shockwave swept outward, its blue radiance driving away all darkness.
"No matter what you are plotting," Kaiba said coldly, "you will ultimately have to defeat the cards in my hand."
Yet when the darkness dispersed and the light illuminated the area, what appeared before him was far beyond his expectations. It was neither a deadly trap nor a cunning enemy.
The one standing there was actually a girl?
She had dreamlike blue