"No! Nobody helped at all." Yuya eagerly explained, "What rules of dueling? Why have I never heard of them? And didn't Reira find that himself?"
"You think it was just a coincidence that he found it? Why couldn't anyone else find it? Ray's birth was the same. If someone had been able to subdue Z-ARC, the power of the rules wouldn't have intervened.
"Haven't you noticed that Ray existed entirely to Imprison Z-ARC? Her existence, her past, everything about her made her nothing more than a tool for dealing with Z-ARC."
"No way! How can you say that about our hero?"
An uproar swept through the crowd!!!
"What? Impossible!" Hearing this outrageous claim from somewhere in a basement, Declan Akaba stomped his feet in fury.
Spit flew everywhere...
"I'm not saying Leo Akaba treated his daughter badly. I'm saying that certain unavoidable factors turned Ray into a tool for Imprison, discarded once she'd served her purpose."
"Oh, and her counterparts shared the same fate. Once they'd fulfilled their intended roles, they were gone."
"Damn you! Stop talking!"
"They all worked hard to save this world. I won't let you talk about them like that!"
"Yuzu..." Whenever Yuya thought of his childhood friend, the girl who had disappeared, his heart ached unbearably.
"You bastard! You're trying to brush aside everything Ray and Reira did and deny their achievements. What exactly are you trying to do?" Yusho finally found something to seize on and immediately went on the offensive, stirring the crowd into outrage.
"Exactly! Why should we listen to you?"
"All we care about is the outcome. As long as it turned out well, that's enough."
"Why are you rejecting entertainment dueling? Why are you targeting Yuya and the others?"
"Heh..."
Tetsuhiro calmly faced everyone's condemnation.
``` [Ding!!!]
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