In the stands, Yusho Sakaki could no longer bear to watch. He demanded, "How is this supposed to bring people smiles? What's the point of bullying a child? Let me be your opponent."
"Hahaha..."
But when the friends around him saw him put in his place, they burst into delighted laughter, as though some restraint had been broken.
"Ha, ha, gahahaha..."
"He smiled! Reira finally smiled! Z-ARC's evil soul has been destroyed!" An astonished cry came from the observation room high above.
As everyone's attention was drawn away...
A large electronic eye opened on the band around Tetsuhiro's right wrist.
"Master, I've finally touched the power of this world's Duel rules. Please do more things that fall outside the established boundaries."
"Excellent!" Tetsuhiro secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could take control of it, he could...
At the same time, Yuya suddenly froze, trembling inside as a flood of memories that were not his own surged through him.
He shouted, "I remember now! In the beginning, Z-ARC was just like me. All he wanted was to bring everyone smiles! But the spectators in the stands weren't satisfied. They kept demanding more intense, more brutal Duels. That was what let negative emotions corrupt Z-ARC and set him on the path to destruction!"
"We..."
Hearing this heartfelt confession, Reira actually teared up and began crying in his stroller in the observation room above!
"Oh, give me a break. Stop blaming everyone else for everything." Unable to listen any longer, Tetsuhiro snapped, "Whatever Z-ARC was like before, even if he was a hero, that doesn't change the atrocities he committed by destroying the world and slaughtering civilians. Can one little memory, one excuse, erase all the harm he did to the world?"
"So you expect Shun Kurosaki, Kaito, and