Chapter Summaries

Kira used Vampire Killer to exploit Segawa’s DARK Attribute monsters, but Segawa destroyed it and summoned Evil Dragon Ananta for a direct attack. Vampire Young Lady survived the attack by boosting her DEF to 10000, and the reflected damage reduced Segawa’s Life Points to zero.

• Kira revived Vampire Killer and used its effect to destroy Segawa’s DARK Attribute Ouroboros in battle.
• Segawa revived Ouroboros, then sacrificed it with Offering to the Snake to destroy Vampire Killer and Kira’s Set card.
• Segawa summoned Lamia and used its effect to search for Evil Dragon Ananta, which gained 2400 ATK and protection from destruction effects.
• When Ananta attacked directly, Kira Special Summoned Vampire Young Lady from his hand and paid 3000 Life Points to raise her DEF to 5000.
• Kira activated Cross Counter Trap’s effect to use Nioh Stance from his hand, doubling Vampire Young Lady’s DEF to 10000.
• Vampire Young Lady repelled Ananta’s attack, reducing Segawa’s Life Points to zero.

Kira defeated Segawa during the Prison Number Seven riot and learned that Segawa had been hired through the Dark Web to release the prisoners and cause a fire. Kira handed Segawa over to Mokuba and appeared ready to investigate who had posted the commission.

• Kira defeated Segawa with a sudden attack using two hand traps and Creation from Nothing to summon Ten Thousand Defense Vampire.
• Segawa recognized Kira as the Duel King after seeing Silent Magician and regretted provoking him.
• Kira questioned Segawa, who explained that he had been hired through the Dark Web to exploit a prison system outage, open a secret passage, free prisoners, and start a fire.
• Segawa said the commission offered extra pay for taking out KaibaCorp Duelists and that the Dark Web recorded the identities of both employers and hired Duelists.
• Kira took Segawa's Deck and handed him to Mokuba for further questioning.

Revolver forced his way into a Dark Web underground market to challenge its manager, Kaibara Ryusuke. Kaibara left a battered boy in custody and went to confront Revolver.

• Revolver arrived at the market where Segawa had taken the job and demanded to speak with its manager.
• After the gatekeeper refused to let him in, Revolver had Jinzo blast the door open and entered the market.
• Kaibara Ryusuke tortured a teenage boy to make him persuade his father to hand over his Dark Duelist club.
• A woman brought Kaibara surveillance footage of Revolver defeating the market's duelists and tearing through its security force.
• Kaibara ordered the woman to watch the boy and went to meet Revolver himself.

Kira forced his way into the Dark Web Market and challenged manager Kaibara Ryusuke to a Duel to learn who commissioned the Prison Number Seven operation. Kira’s opening moves left Kaibara confused, until two discarded Deep Abyss Assassin cards revealed a hidden combo.

• Kira defeated the Dark Web guards and confronted Kaibara Ryusuke, asking about the commission involving Prison Number Seven.
• Kaibara refused to reveal the client’s identity, so Kira challenged him to a Duel and Kaibara accepted.
• Kira activated Pot of Greed, used Take Over 5, and summoned Rapid-Fire Magician before recovering Magical Stone Excavation from his Graveyard.
• Kira discarded two Deep Abyss Assassin cards to activate Magical Stone Excavation, dealing Kaibara 400 damage and recovering a Flip Effect Monster.
• Kira revealed that both discarded cards were Deep Abyss Assassin, and Kaibara suddenly understood the significance of the play.

Kira used an infinite loop with Magical Stone Excavation, Abyss Assassin, and Magician of Rapid Fire to nearly defeat Kaibara Ryusuke on the first turn, but Winged Kuriboh and Ceasefire stopped the damage. Kaibara destroyed Rapid-Fire Magician, only for Kira to revive it with Time Machine, and Kira began the loop again on his next turn.

• Kira explained how the two Abyss Assassins and Magical Stone Excavations could retrieve each other, letting Magician of Rapid Fire deal 400 damage repeatedly.
• Kaibara Ryusuke discarded Winged Kuriboh to prevent effect damage, so Kira stopped the loop, then activated Ceasefire and ended his turn.
• Kaibara Ryusuke activated Legendary Capital—Atlantis, summoned Dark Fortress Whale, and destroyed Magician of Rapid Fire in battle.
• Kira used Time Machine to return Magician of Rapid Fire to the Field, preserving the infinite loop.
• Kira banished Take Over 5 from his Graveyard and Deck to draw a card, then inflicted 400 damage on Kaibara Ryusuke.
• Kira discarded two Deep Abyss Assassins and activated Magical Stone Excavation to begin the loop again.

Kira broke Kaibara Ryusuke’s attempt to stop his combos and used a series of Infinite Loops to overwhelm him. After Kaibara’s Sea Dragon Creator wiped the Field and struck Kira, Kira assembled another loop and reduced Kaibara’s Life Points to zero.

• Kaibara Ryusuke negated Magical Stone Excavation with Magic Jammer, but Kira used Double Gate and Abyss Assassin to raise Dark Crusader’s ATK to infinity.
• Kaibara Ryusuke used Security Orb to switch Dark Crusader to Defense Position, then summoned Sea Dragon Creator, destroyed the other cards on the Field, and attacked Kira directly.
• Kira activated Graceful Charity, revived Magician of Rapid Fire, and used Eyeball Monster, Brain Development Lab, and DNA Surgery to set up another Infinite Loop.
• Kira repeatedly recovered and activated Magical Stone Excavation and Magical Rebirth, dealing 400 damage each time until Kaibara Ryusuke’s Life Points reached zero.

Kira interrogated Dark Web manager Kaibara Ryusuke about the commission involving Prison Number Seven and obtained a hacking program. Mokuba examined it at KaibaCorp and identified its likely author as Siegfried von Schroider.

• Kira ordered Kaibara Ryusuke to release the captive boy, then questioned him about Sagawa Kage's assignment to infiltrate Prison Number Seven.
• Kaibara Ryusuke explained that the client had used a false identity and offered Kira the client's Mobile Storage Device and hacking program.
• Kira took the device and Kaibara Ryusuke's Deck, then returned to KaibaCorp with the evidence.
• Mokuba examined the hacking program and said its creator knew KaibaCorp's systems and was likely Siegfried von Schroider.

Kira and Mokuba went to Zigfried von Schroeder’s secluded mountain villa to confront him over the incident at Prison Number Seven. Zigfried admitted nothing directly but promised that soon Seto Kaiba would have no choice but to face him.

• Kira and Mokuba traveled through the mountains to find Zigfried von Schroeder after Mokuba explained his history with KaibaCorp.
• Kira and Mokuba found Zigfried von Schroeder waiting alone in his villa and Mokuba asked whether he was behind what happened at Prison Number Seven.
• Zigfried von Schroeder complained that Seto Kaiba had not come to confront him.
• Mokuba denied that Seto Kaiba had entered the Duel Monsters industry to crush Zigfried von Schroeder, saying their similar choices had been coincidental.
• Zigfried von Schroeder declared that Seto Kaiba would soon have no choice but to face him.

Mokuba and Kira discovered that Zigfried von Schroeder had vanished from an apparently abandoned mansion, where a Valkyrie spirit attacked them. Zigfried reappeared and challenged Kira to a Duel, then summoned Valkyrie Vierte and declared that his Dark Power made him strong enough to defeat Seto Kaiba.

• Mokuba and Kira found the mansion dark and dusty after Zigfried vanished, leading Mokuba to wonder whether they had seen a ghost.
• A Valkyrie spirit ambushed Kira and Mokuba, but Black Luster Soldier struck her down.
• Zigfried appeared with a Duel Disk and challenged Kira, blaming Seto Kaiba for taking everything from him.
• Kira opened the Duel with Graceful Charity, set a monster and a card, and ended his turn.
• Zigfried summoned Valkyrie Vierte and unleashed his Dark Power, claiming he could now defeat Seto Kaiba.

Kira faced Zigfried von Schroeder, who revealed himself as a Dark Duelist and battled with a Valkyrie deck. Kira threatened an instant-kill combination, but Zigfried stopped it and then summoned more Valkyries, targeting Kira’s Catapult Turtle.

• Zigfried von Schroeder attacked Kira’s face-down Giant Rat, which let Kira Special Summon Catapult Turtle from his Deck.
• Kira summoned Magical Scientist, prompting Zigfried to recognize the threat of its combination with Catapult Turtle and activate Sacred Life Barrier to prevent damage that turn.
• Kira switched Catapult Turtle to Defense Position, Set a card, and ended his turn.
• Zigfried used Magical Stone Excavation to draw three cards, then activated Ride of the Valkyries to Special Summon Valkyrie the First and Valkyrie the Second alongside Valkyrie the Fourth.
• Zigfried activated Valkyrie the Second’s effect to destroy Kira’s Catapult Turtle.

Kira turned back Zigfried’s Valkyrie attack with Ripple Barrier—Wave Force, then used draw and level-reduction effects to summon Catapult Turtle and copy it with Ice Mirror. The chapter ended as Kira challenged Zigfried’s assumption that the card’s restriction had stopped his strategy.

• Zigfried destroyed Kira’s Catapult Turtle, banished it with Valkyrie Erste’s effect, and attacked with his Valkyries.
• Kira activated Ripple Barrier—Wave Force, returning Zigfried’s Attack Position Valkyries to his Deck.
• Zigfried set two cards and ended his turn, relying on Walhalla’s Judgment to stop an attack.
• Kira used Akashic Records and Cost Down, then summoned Catapult Turtle and drew more cards with Card of Compensation.
• Kira activated Ice Mirror to Special Summon a second Catapult Turtle from his Deck, and Zigfried realized its restriction prevented Fusion Deck summons.
• Kira asked Zigfried whether that restriction had really stopped his plan.

Kira used a combination of Spell and Trap Cards to empower his Catapult Turtles and blast Zigfried von Schroeder, but Zigfried survived by recovering Life Points. The duel continued with Zigfried still standing at 1000 Life Points.

• Kira activated Right Hand Shield Left Hand Sword to switch the monsters’ ATK and DEF, then attacked Zigfried with his Catapult Turtles.
• Zigfried used Walhalla's Judgment to negate the attack and end the Battle Phase.
• Kira activated DNA Surgery to make the monsters Machines, then used Limiter Removal to double the Catapult Turtles’ ATK.
• Kira launched one Catapult Turtle at Zigfried, reducing his Life Points from 4000 to 2000, then fired the other for another 2000 damage.
• Zigfried revealed that he had activated White Robe Angel to recover 1000 Life Points when the first shot hit, leaving him alive at 1000 Life Points.

Zigfried explained that he hated Seto Kaiba not for defeating him, but for never acknowledging him as a rival. Kira revived Drowning Mirror Force, and Zigfried began a combo that gave Kira’s Catapult Turtle a Niblung ring and let him draw five cards.

• Zigfried said his family’s business had lost to KaibaCorp, but he could not forgive Seto Kaiba for never truly facing him as an opponent.
• Kira Set a card and used Guidance of the Goddess of Wisdom - Erda to Set Drowning Mirror Force from his Graveyard.
• Zigfried drew, activated Graceful Charity, then used Shallow Grave to Special Summon Catapult Turtle for Kira and Valkyrie - Dritte for himself.
• Zigfried activated Treasures of Niblung and equipped Ring of the Nibeling from his Deck to Kira’s Catapult Turtle.
• Zigfried drew five cards with Treasures of Niblung.

Kira used Catapult Turtle and Machina Fortress to defeat Zigfried despite his traps and attack restrictions. Zigfried lost when Catapult Turtle Tributed itself to escape Fiend's Chain and dealt the final damage.

• Zigfried equipped Ring of the Nibeling to Kira's monster, summoned Valkyrie-Second Sister, and used Ripple Barrier to clear his own Field before bringing out Valkyrie-Brunhilde.
• Zigfried activated Trick of Time Goddess to regain his Battle Phase, attacked Kira directly, and reduced Kira's Life Points to 2200.
• Zigfried used Tyrant's Temper to prevent Kira from attacking, but Kira revived Machina Fortress and Catapult Turtle.
• Zigfried bound Catapult Turtle with Fiend's Chain, but Kira used Inherited Power to raise its ATK by combining it with Machina Fortress.
• Kira Tributed Catapult Turtle as the cost to activate its effect, bypassed Fiend's Chain, and dealt 1750 damage to reduce Zigfried's Life Points to zero.

After Kira defeated Zigfried von Schroeder in a Dark Duel, Mokuba revealed that Kira was the new Duel King, not Seto Kaiba’s subordinate. Zigfried vanished, but Kira and Mokuba found his long-dead corpse in the villa’s bedroom, leaving them uncertain about what had happened.

• Mokuba told Zigfried that Kira was the new Duel King who had defeated Seto Kaiba and saved the world from the God of Orichalcos.
• Zigfried realized he had challenged the Duel King by mistake, lamented that he had not been told Kira was not Kaiba’s man, and vanished.
• Mokuba asked whether the Dark Duel had erased Zigfried, and Kira said he had not intended to take his life.
• Kira and Mokuba followed the stench of decay through the villa and found Zigfried’s deformed corpse lying on a bed.

Mokuba and Kira learned that Zigfried von Schroeder had been dead for at least three months, meaning they had dueled his lingering spirit. Their investigation uncovered a possible supernatural culprit and a visitor to Zigfried’s villa, leaving Kira to pursue the visitor.

• A KaibaCorp investigator reported that Zigfried von Schroeder had died of illness at least three months earlier, and Mokuba realized they had dueled a ghost.
• Kira suspected that someone with great supernatural power had preserved Zigfried’s spirit and enabled him to start a Dark Duel.
• Kira took Zigfried’s rare Valkyrie Deck and prepared to return to Duel Academy while Mokuba planned to ask Zigfried’s brother, Leon Wilson, what he knew.
• A subordinate reported that surveillance footage showed Saito Tatsuya, an ordinary local thug, visiting the villa five days earlier.
• Kira offered to visit Saito and politely ask what he knew about Zigfried’s death.

Kira confronted Card Professor Ted Banias at a Shadow Dragon Group gathering and challenged him to a Duel. Kira used his Amazoness Deck and revealed a strategy that turned his monster’s battle damage against Ted.

• Ryu and the Shadow Dragon Group’s subordinates celebrated their expanding control of the Railway Line, crediting Ted Banias’s supernatural dueling abilities.
• Kira appeared and questioned Ted about his interest in a man who had been dead for three months.
• Ted recognized Kira as the Duel King and challenged him, while Ryu stood down after Ted warned he was no match for Kira.
• Kira and Ted began a Duel with 4000 Life Points each, and Kira summoned Amazoness Swords Woman before setting four cards.
• Ted summoned Plant Lion and attacked Amazoness Swords Woman, but Kira activated Zero Guard to reduce her ATK to 0 and invoke her effect that redirected battle damage to Ted.

Kira used Amazoness Swords Woman, boosted by attack-granting and protection cards, to reduce Ted Banias to 300 Life Points. Ted summoned his ace, Beast King Barbaros, and prepared to drive the swordswoman from the Field.

• Kira used Card of Sacrifice to draw two cards after Amazoness Swords Woman's ATK fell to 0, then restored her ATK at the End Phase.
• Kira equipped Amazoness Swords Woman with Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce and gave her two attacks each turn.
• Ted activated Thorn Wall to destroy Kira's Attack Position monsters, but Kira protected Amazoness Swords Woman with Attack Guidance Armor.
• Amazoness Swords Woman attacked Plant Lion twice, reducing Ted's Life Points from 2100 to 300.
• Ted used Magical Stone Excavation, Double Summon, and two Tributes to Summon Beast King Barbaros.

Ted used Carnivorous Supplement to strengthen Beast King Barbaros and destroy Kira’s Amazoness Swords Woman, but Kira reclaimed the Spell and gave Yubel Dragon Warrior’s effects. Yubel reflected the damage from its battle with Barbaros and defeated Ted.

• Ted summoned Beast King Barbaros and used Carnivorous Supplement to gain Tiger’s ATK and effects, destroying Kira’s Amazoness Swords Woman.
• Kira Special Summoned another Amazoness Swords Woman during Ted’s attack, but Ted negated the summon effect and revived Tiger to destroy her.
• Kira used Emergency Provisions, summoned Magical Scientist and Dragon Warrior, and retrieved Carnivorous Supplement from Ted’s Graveyard with Spider Web.
• Kira Tribute Summoned Yubel and used Carnivorous Supplement to grant it Dragon Warrior’s ATK and Trap-negating effect.
• Yubel attacked Beast King Barbaros, negated Ted’s Sakuretsu Armor, and reflected battle damage to reduce Ted’s Life Points to zero.

After defeating Ted Banias, Kira stopped a violent eruption of dark energy from consuming the room and learned that Ted and Zigfried von Schroeder had been pawns of a hidden power. As Mokuba prepared to investigate Yako, Kira decided to return to Duel Academy.

• Ted Banias unleashed a soul-warping storm after his duel with Kira, and Silent Magician shattered it with silver light.
• Ted collapsed unconscious, leaving Kira unable to question him about the forces behind the duel.
• Kira questioned Ryu and learned that the gang had been hired to disrupt KaibaCorp operations and intercept equipment and Rare Cards.
• Mokuba told Kira that his investigation had uncovered possible financial ties between the matter and Yako's Foundation, and planned to visit its headquarters.
• Kira declined to accompany Mokuba and said he was going back to Duel Academy.