Chapter Summaries

After defeating Chazz Princeton, Yūki celebrated his rewards and considered how to use his Spellcaster Deck. At the Friendly Match closing ceremony, Jaden and Bastion learned that the special grand prize would be a kiss from Duel Academy’s “Miss Duel Academy.”

• Chazz Princeton left the arena after losing to Yūki, threatening to challenge him again.
• Yūki received 15,000 Duel Coins, 6% Soul Power, and access to the [Armed Dragon] pack.
• Silent Magician appeared beside Yūki, and he praised her decisive attack before she returned to her card.
• Yūki reflected on his Deck’s Spellcaster combinations and considered summoning [Snowstorm Princess] in a future duel.
• Professor Crowler announced the closing ceremony’s Special Goodwill Grand Prize, and Bastion told Jaden and Yūki that it was a kiss from the school’s “Miss Duel Academy.”

Principal Ichise fled Duel Academy to avoid the special grand prize, leaving Principal Samejima to accept it alone. The prize turned out to be a kiss from Auntie Tami, which Samejima welcomed while Yūki watched in disbelief.

• Principal Ichise accused Samejima of plotting to humiliate him and ordered the North Campus students to leave for the Arctic Ocean.
• Ichise and the North Campus students boarded their mechanical whale submarine and departed without attending the banquet.
• Principal Samejima took Ichise’s place as the recipient of the special grand prize.
• Auntie Tami appeared as Miss Duel Academy, horrifying Jaden, Syrus, Chazz, Bastion, and the other students.
• Samejima praised Tami’s beauty and received a large lipstick kiss on his bald head.
• Yūki admired Samejima’s mental fortitude as Samejima celebrated the kiss.

After the Friendly Match, Yūki anticipated the Seven Stars’ arrival as a chance to obtain powerful cards, but Principal Samejima summoned him with news from Kaiba Corporation. The chapter ended with Yūki realizing the invitation to test a new Virtual Duelist System fulfilled Mokuba Kaiba’s earlier promise.

• Yūki reflected that the Seven Stars would soon target Duel Academy and looked forward to collecting their exclusive cards and rewards.
• Principal Samejima summoned Yūki to his office, where Yūki found him in high spirits after the Friendly Match drove Ichise away and brought him closer to Auntie Tami.
• Samejima told Yūki that Kaiba Corporation had invited him to Domino City to test its newly developed Virtual Duelist System.
• Yūki remembered Mokuba Kaiba promising to invite him to test a new system and realized Kaiba Corporation had developed it sooner than expected.

Yūki realized the Kaiba Corporation’s Virtual Duelist System might let him unlock Archetype Packs by beating AI versions of famous duelists, so he eagerly accepted an invitation to test it. A futuristic antigravity jet picked him up at Duel Academy and carried him toward Kaiba Corporation Headquarters, where Mokuba was waiting.

• Samejima told Yūki that the Kaiba Corporation wanted him to travel to Domino City and test a secret new system, and Yūki accepted enthusiastically.
• Yūki asked Samejima to confirm his participation, and Samejima issued him a special leave permit and said a private jet would pick him up that afternoon.
• An antigravity aircraft bearing the Kaiba Corporation’s logo descended over Duel Academy, astonishing the students watching from the plaza.
• Kaiba Corporation staff welcomed Yūki aboard, and he waved goodbye to Jaden before boarding.
• The aircraft departed Duel Academy and headed for Kaiba Corporation Headquarters in Domino City.

Yūki arrived at Kaiba Corporation, where Mokuba teased him about his brutal televised duel against Chazz before escorting him to the company’s new system testing facility. The chapter left Yūki inspecting the enormous, futuristic facility.

• Yūki arrived at Kaiba Corporation aboard its antigravity private jet and greeted Mokuba Kaiba on the helipad.
• Mokuba teased Yūki about defeating Chazz Princeton on a nationally broadcast Friendly Match, and Yūki insisted he had acted out of kindness.
• Mokuba led Yūki through security to Kaiba Corporation’s confidential Central Research and Development Level.
• Yūki entered the vast new system testing facility and marveled at its futuristic equipment.

Mokuba Kaiba gave Yūki a prototype glove that transformed into a Duel Disk, then prepared him for a test at Kaiba Corporation’s Venue Zero. Seto Kaiba chose Marik’s data as Yūki’s first opponent because Yūki specialized in Lava Golem.

• Mokuba showed Yūki the Superpower Particles glove and explained how it transformed into a Duel Disk.
• Yūki tried the glove, admired its transformation, and eagerly accepted Mokuba’s offer to test the system.
• Mokuba went to the observation room and told Seto Kaiba that Venue Zero was ready for testing.
• Seto Kaiba ordered Mokuba to use Marik’s data as Yūki’s opponent.

Seto Kaiba ordered the virtual dueling system to recreate Marik Ishtar, insisting it had to withstand Marik’s Deck before it could reproduce Yugi’s power. During the first live test, Yūki watched the system materialize a sinister opponent and realized it was Dark Marik.

• Mokuba warned Seto that testing the system against Marik could overload Venue Zero, but Seto told him the system had to handle Marik before it could recreate Yugi.
• Mokuba activated the underground tablets at maximum Psychic Energy output and retrieved Marik’s core files.
• Technicians fitted Yūki with a High-Energy Impact Defense Device and warned him about the physical and psychic backlash from the test.
• The system passed its checks and used the ancient tablet array to reconstruct its opponent through Psychic Energy.
• Yūki sensed overwhelming malice, and Silent Magician and Summoned Skull warned him of danger.
• A sinister virtual figure appeared across the arena, and Yūki recognized him as Dark Marik.

Yūki faced a Dark Marik AI in the Kaiba Corporation’s first live-person Dueling Field test, while Seto Kaiba refused Mokuba’s concerns about the dangerous Psychic Energy levels. After realizing victory might unlock a God Card Archetype Pack, Yūki lost his apprehension and prepared to duel.

• Mokuba Kaiba warned Seto Kaiba that the system’s Psychic Energy output had exceeded ninety-five percent and that Dark Marik’s reconstructed personality had activated The Winged Dragon of Ra’s divine code.
• Seto Kaiba dismissed Mokuba’s concerns and insisted Yūki had to prove himself against the Dark Marik AI before Kaiba would trust the system with Yugi’s Deck.
• Yūki worried that Dark Marik might summon The Winged Dragon of Ra using the ancient invocation, though he questioned whether the virtual AI could truly awaken the God Card.
• Yūki realized defeating the Dark Marik AI might unlock an exclusive God Card Archetype Pack, including powerful cards associated with The Winged Dragon of Ra.
• Yūki’s fear vanished as he focused on the potential reward and prepared to take on Dark Marik.

Yūki’s Spirit Partners warned him that Dark Marik’s AI carried a chaotic, unnatural aura, and Yūki realized it had been assembled from psychic energy and code. He chose his Evil HERO Deck over his risky Exchange of the Spirit Deck, while Dark Marik activated his Duel Disk and declared the Shadow Game begun.

• Summoned Skull, Snowstorm Princess, and Silent Magician warned Yūki about Dark Marik’s unnatural presence and the danger in his Deck.
• Yūki recognized that Dark Marik was a dueling AI built from psychic energy, historical Deck data, and personality algorithms.
• Yūki abandoned his plan to use the Exchange of the Spirit Deck because Dark Marik could exploit its vulnerabilities with The Winged Dragon of Ra.
• Yūki inserted his Evil HERO Deck into his Duel Disk and called on Jaden to lend him the Supreme King’s power.
• Dark Marik unfolded his Duel Disk, mocked Yūki, and announced that the Shadow Game had begun.

Dark Marik began the duel against Yūki by using Graceful Charity to stock his Graveyard and building a heavily defended field with Card of Safe Return. Yūki prepared to face the strategy with his Evil HERO Deck while Seto and Mokuba Kaiba watched from above.

• Dark Marik won the first turn and activated Graceful Charity, drawing three cards and discarding two monsters to the Graveyard.
• Yūki reflected that he had wisely switched to his Evil HERO Deck rather than bring his Exchange of the Spirit Deck against Dark Marik’s Graveyard strategy.
• Dark Marik set a face-down monster and two back-row cards, then activated Card of Safe Return and ended his turn.
• Mokuba Kaiba recognized Dark Marik’s familiar Graveyard-focused defensive strategy, while Seto Kaiba wondered how Yūki would break through it.