During your own Main Phase, you can inflict 300 damage to your opponent's Life Points for each card on the field. The turn this effect is activated, you cannot attack. This effect can only be used once per turn.
It's an extremely powerful effect.
At first glance it looks pretty ordinary, but in reality, this card's effect is outrageously strong. In the "Master Duel" format that Tenjo Hikari is especially fond of, the final form of the manga-version Red Dragon can, during the Main Phase, Special Summon as many Evil God Tokens to both fields as possible in equal numbers. As long as you do a bit of setup, you can instantly kill the opponent in a single shot. It's a very high-quality FTK component.
Of course, in this world "Red Dragon" is obviously not a card just anyone can use, so the practical value of this card isn't actually that high. But even so, this kind of simple and efficient burn component is already quite good.
All in all, Tenjo Hikari was still very satisfied with this card.
Thud, clang—one dull sound after another rang out. Tenjo Hikari glanced toward the break room and put away what he had in his hands.
Kurosaki Shun had already learned everything from Kurosaki Ruri.
At first, he didn't believe it, even suspected that his little sister had been brainwashed.
But as Kurosaki Ruri talked, and as he recalled the process of their Duel, he gradually began to believe.
Other things might be able to deceive people, but your performance in a Duel is absolutely impossible to fake. To a Duelist, to someone with a will of steel who advances his Rank-Up through his own resolve, everything that happens in a Duel is something you can put your faith in.
It was just that, previously, he had been too hostile toward Fusion Duelists, so even though Tenjo Hikari had repeatedly stated he meant no harm, Shun was instinctively unable to trust him.
Once everything came to light, Kurosaki Shun even found out from Ruri that she had sent letters home before, but Shun had already secretly left the Xyz Dimension long ago, so there was simply no way to find him.
This point could be corroborated by Tenjo Kaito.
Kurosaki Shun might not trust Tenjo Hikari, but the Tenjo Kaito from his own world—his character was someone Shun absolutely trusted.
With information that could be verified like this, Ruri had even less reason to lie to her own brother; and with the two other "Ruri"s beside them talking about recent matches, he gradually understood what they were doing.
Turns out they were participating in the WRGP.
Even so, Kurosaki Shun was still extremely displeased, because from her tone he could hear Kurosaki Ruri's admiration for Tenjo Hikari.
Clearly, as her older brother, he had never been someone Ruri respected that much—
Kurosaki Shun walked up to Tenjo Hikari, his back straight, like his soul itself—unyielding even if it breaks.
Only, the moment he opened his mouth…
"I am deeply sorry!"
He bent at the waist and bowed to Tenjo Hikari, offering a formal apology.
"And I am deeply grateful that you rescued Ruri!"
He shouted the first line, then immediately followed with the second.
"Uh, no, no, there's no need, really no need." Tenjo Hikari waved both hands, indicating there was no need to be so ceremonial.
But to Kurosaki Shun, no amount of ceremony would be too much.
Shun even went so far as to say that as long as it wasn't something that harmed his compatriots, Tenjo Hikari could demand whatever he wished of him, and even if he ended up turned into a card for having offended Hikari, he wouldn't mind.
"Onii-chan!!" Ruri, beside them, was very unhappy.
She'd clearly already told him not to cause trouble for Brother Hikari.
He still had a lot to do in this Dimension—he had to search for his own friends. Where would he find the time to waste it on Shun—
Right now Ruri felt a strange, inexplicable embarrassment.
That embarrassment was probably similar to a school parents' meeting where your own family starts spouting nonsense in front of your friends' parents—awkward and mortifying, making you want to crawl into a hole in the ground.
"There's no need to be that serious…" Tenjo Hikari shook his head.
"But I do have some things I'm really curious about, something I especially hope you can help me with."
Kurosaki Shun became wary.
Clearly, even though he was very grateful to Tenjo Hikari, he would still judge Hikari's request. If it was something unjust, he would absolutely not agree like he'd just declared.
"I want to know what exactly happened in the Xyz Dimension." Tenjo Hikari looked at Kurosaki Shun, his tone serious. "You know, right? In the Xyz Dimension there are two missing Fusion Duelists, they—
They're my senior Marufuji Ryo and my friend Mitsuzawa Daichi. What kind of incident did they encounter? Why did they disappear—
What really happened… this is extremely important to me!"
What actually happened to Marufuji Ryo and Mitsuzawa Daichi in the Xyz Dimension was extremely important to Tenjo Hikari, and it was something that had greatly puzzled him all this time.
How did those two end up so bizarrely unlucky?
"Marufuji Ryo and Mitsuzawa Daichi, huh…" The wariness on Kurosaki Shun's face gradually melted away, and then he began to carefully choose his words.
"Where Marufuji Ryo is exactly, I don't know. But… Mitsuzawa Daichi—he's currently on the City Hall Team, on the same team as me."
The City Hall Team.
Isn't that the team Marufuji Shou thinks "Caesar" is on?
"He's lost his memory." Kurosaki Shun thought for a moment, then still chose to tell the truth. "It seems that because of the forced Dimensional Teleportation, he suffered severe trauma. Right now he's been taken in and looked after by City's president, Goodwin, and works in Goodwin's City Hall.
Whenever anything about his past is brought up, he appears to be in extreme pain, so we haven't been able to try to awaken his memories.
However—
When he's Dueling or watching a Duel, that condition can be slightly alleviated, and he can even recall a few things."
Tenjo Hikari's brows knitted tightly.
From the sound of it, Mitsuzawa's condition didn't seem very good.
Memory loss?
He feels pain the moment he tries to remember?
Is that his body's own instinctive self-protection mechanism, or… some other factor?
Tenjo Hikari hadn't forgotten what Yusei had told him before.
Yusei had investigated almost everywhere in this world and hadn't found any trace of Marufuji Ryo and Mitsuzawa Daichi. Either they were deliberately hiding their information, or there was some extremely high-level existence covering up their presence.
Goodwin—
That guy definitely had additional schemes.
"What about the other person? Polari—that person on your team with you!"
Tenjo Hikari hurriedly followed up.
"No idea." Kurosaki Shun silently shook his head.
Even though from appearances he also felt that person did resemble Marufuji Ryo somewhat, whether in their Duel style or their aura, they were completely different.
That Polari had this inexplicable feeling of being a "native of the Synchro Dimension."
So he just treated Polari as someone with a similar build to Marufuji Ryo, nothing more.
And more importantly, he had no way to talk with that person.
"Eh, why?" Ruri interjected. "Aren't you on the same team as him, Onii-chan?"
"That…" Shun's tone was especially gentle and patient with his little sister. "Goodwin calls himself president, but that doesn't mean he really controls everyone in City. The City Hall Team, as the Government Team, he can shove three people in there—that's already his limit. The remaining slot was a Duelist recommended by the Nobles, and normally, that Duelist lives in the Noble Area."
Deliberately separated!?
Tenjo Hikari's frown tightened even further.
Goodwin…
Not only did he deliberately impose isolated separation between each team, he even made that kind of arrangement within the same team?
What exactly did he want to do?
Tenjo Hikari pondered.
He didn't believe the Nobles could still stand up against Goodwin—that was absolutely impossible. The Nobles had already "died" twice over; even if Goodwin was as "kind" as a nuclear bomb, the remaining noble power definitely wasn't as vast as it once was. So the situation now was either Goodwin intended it that way and allowed the Nobles to do this, or this was how he arranged things from the beginning—
Either way, it meant Goodwin definitely had his own plan.
He took a deep breath.
This wasn't just something he had to tell the comrades from the Fusion Dimension; later he had to discuss it with Yusei as well.
Seeing that Tenjo Hikari had finished thinking, Kurosaki Shun finally finished preparing what he wanted to say.
And this was also something both Tenjo Hikari and Ruri were incredibly curious about.
What had happened to the Xyz Dimension?
"The Xyz Dimension…"
"All the chaos stems from that guy."
"That Goddess of Despair…"
When he mentioned this name, the expression on Kurosaki Shun's face twisted into something more savage than when he saw the Fusion Army.
"E'rah!"