Chapter 121 The Death of Marufuji Ryo and the Birth of Hell Caesar
After the duel between Ryo Marufuji and Banjome was over, it was the turn of Asuka Tenjoin and Gojou... Daichi Misawa.
Duel Monsters is such a cruel game. When someone walks by on the stage, the audience will naturally begin to look forward to what kind of exciting duel the next contestant will have after a brief recollection, whether it is Marufuji Ryo as the winner.
Glory, or the unyielding purpose of being a loser.
There is a saying in "Hamlet", "Some people have insomnia, some people are sleeping soundly, and the world goes round and round like this", which couldn't be more appropriate, or you can use Lu Xun's sentence "The joys and sorrows between people are not the same."
On the contrary, I just think they are noisy."
Sho Marufuji was the one who thought they were noisy. Before Marufuji Ryo's duel was completed, he couldn't bear to see the duel of his once-admired brother turn into that, so he ran away from the academy and ran into the jungle outside.
, disappeared without a trace.
As for Judai, it was not until after Marufuji Ryo's duel that he suddenly noticed that Marufuji Sho was missing.
"Hey? Why did Xiang run away? Isn't the first round not over yet?"
"I thought Judai you had noticed, but you just thought the duel was more important, so you didn't pursue me. Is it simply because you didn't notice?" Misawa finished complaining and spread his hands helplessly, "I can't even reach the end of the universe.
I don’t know where he is, how can I possibly know why Marufuji suddenly left?”
"What are you talking about? Even if a duel is important in my heart, how can a duel be as important as friends?" Judai frowned and said seriously, "There must be some reason for Xiang's sudden departure. This is the time.
It’s time for the heroes to appear!”
"'hero'......"
Hearing Judai's words, Asuka couldn't help but recall the words of the "Darkness" who controlled Fubuki during the duel between Judai and Fubuki who transformed into "Darkness" in the crater when the "Seven Stars" invaded Duel Academy Island not long ago.
Subconsciously muttering to himself: "Do you want to help others and become a hero, or do you just want to become a hero and help others..."
"No, it's nothing." Noticing Judai looking at her, Asuka shook her head and said it was nothing, "Anyway, Judai, go find Marufuji first. It's not your style to leave him alone."
"But isn't it going to be a duel between Asuka and Si Zai next?"
Looking at Judai, Asuka confidently pointed her thumb at herself: "Don't make it sound like I can't win without you watching. I'm very strong, and I will win even if my opponent is Six Paths."
"Okay, go find your little follower quickly, otherwise you really won't be able to catch up with the last scene of me defeating Nanami." Asuka said, gently pushing Judai's back, motioning for him to go find him quickly.
Sho Marufuji.
Misawa's eyes looked as if they were dead: "You said my last name incorrectly three times in a row, and you set a new record..."
"Don't worry about those details, Yakumo...cough, I mean 'No.3'! Not only Asuka, I will also cheer for you, although I don't know if I will get back here in time."
Patting Misawa on the shoulder, Judai gave him a thumbs up, "I'm looking forward to facing off against Caesar, Fubuki, and Asuka in the next few rounds, and I'm also looking forward to another duel with you. So, keep up the good work.
Ah, 'No.3'!"
Saying that, he waved his hand to Asuka, and Judai hurriedly ran out to look for Marufuji Sho.
Putting a hand on his shoulder that Judai had patted just now, Misawa watched Judai go away and slowly smiled: "Oh, even though you still can't call me my name, are you still looking forward to my performance? In that case
, I can’t let my friends down either.”
"That's what I want to say as well. I won't give up the opportunity to advance and duel with Judai again, Kudo Rinne."
"Don't call people by the wrong name before the game when you're making harsh remarks, you guys! And that one sounds like she's about to become a woman!" Even Misawa couldn't help but go crazy and complained.
.
However, there was a circle around them due to the eviction of the Wanzhangmu boys and the temporary departure of Judai and others. The students who were further away could not hear their conversation clearly in the noisy venue, and only thought that the two of them
He was speaking harshly like other people, without ruining the atmosphere.
Maeda Hayato, who left the duel between Bankome and Marufuji in the second half of the duel and went to the canteen to buy something to eat and drink, arrived late. He looked at Misawa and Asuka, who were facing each other, and there was no trace of them.
Judai and Marufuji Sho were a little confused: "Is the duel between Banjomu and Caesar over? Where did Judai and the others go?"
Seeing that Maeda was back, Misawa and Asuka were not in a hurry to go on stage immediately. Instead, they briefly explained to him the departure of Sho Marufuji, who did not know when Marufuji arrived after leaving the duel.
Nearby, he heard the explanations of the two people clearly and turned to look outside.
He was not very interested in the duel between Asuka and Misawa, so he left the scene with admiration and a little fear in the eyes of the students around him. And not far behind him, a man who had just finished the duel with him stood there.
The people who had always cared about him also left.
When Wan Jangmu walked out of the shadow of defeat and cheered up, he returned to his seat and found that Misawa and Asuka, who were about to play, had left. Why, even Judai had disappeared, leaving only Maeda Hayato with a silly smile.
Sitting on the empty seats around him, he held two duel breads and said to him: "When I'm in a bad mood, I'm used to eating something I like. Do you want some, Wan Zhangme-san? Auntie Domei today
There’s a discount on the duel bread there.”
"I don't care about things like duel bread. It's too cheap. Especially the jellyfish head. I don't know what's so delicious about just egg bread." Although I have tried it several times, because of Judai, I don't know how delicious it is.
I have never tasted golden eggs in Wan Zhang Mu, so I feel like I can’t eat grapes and say grapes are sour.
Even though he said this, Wan Zhangmu still glanced at the few buns that Maeda picked randomly. He reached out and took out one of them, tore open the package, took a bite and said, "I was thinking about eating some ramen after winning.
Yes, tsk, we actually lost, it must be because of the sudden gust of wind just now."
"One day, I will seek revenge on you for this defeat, Caesar!"
Watching Asuka and Misawa on the field, Banjomu didn't pay any attention to what he was eating, but Maeda on the side could see clearly - the filling of the duel bread in Banjomu's hand was a golden egg.
————The dividing line of God’s drawing————
Two flowers bloomed, one on each side. When Asuka Tenjoin and Daichi Misawa used a program to decide to attack first and then attack after a rare decision by Professor Kuronos on the duel field, they came to Marufuji on a coast of the island.
Xiang sat on the beach, looking confusedly at the endless waves crashing onto the land.
The waves sparkled in the sunlight, but his eyes were just lifeless.
"What exactly is going on......"
Recalling the Marufuji Ryo I saw in the duel field, he was arrogant, cold and did not take his opponent seriously, as if he was stepping on the "respect" and "respect" he had always followed in the past.
, which made Sho Marufuji feel scared from the bottom of his heart.
"Brother, he is not like that——"
"The duel field is an important place for duelists to fight with dignity, burn their souls, and strive for victory." A voice suddenly sounded behind him. Sho Marufuji turned around, only to see Ryo Marufuji's face.
Show up, “rather than be a place to, satisfy your personal expectations.”
"Brother, brother!?" Looking at his brother in front of him in surprise, Sho Marufuji discovered that Marufuji Ryo had actually taken off his Obelisk-Blue dormitory uniform, which was the representative of the elite, and only wore
The lining stood on the beach, looking down at himself indifferently, "Why did you come to me?"
"Your place? It's full of excess self-awareness as always." The corner of his mouth curled up, and Ryo Marufuji looked at Sho Marufuji with contempt as if he were looking at ants, "I just want to find a place to deal with this unknown thing.
Just clothes."
"After thinking about some things, I suddenly felt that I was too stupid in the past, clinging to that boring respect and dignity, just like the empty 'superiority' represented by this dress."
Raising his hand and looking at the drooping Obelisk-Blue uniform, Marufuji's eyes were full of disgust and disdain: "Fake excellence, but when it comes to duels that require hard power, you can only show boring
The elite consciousness completely does not know that the only thing that really matters is victory, the only thing that can be respected is victory, the only thing worthy of respect is victory, and only the winner can retain dignity."
Throwing the clothes in his hands onto the beach in front of him without any hesitation, Ryo Marufuji threw away his past attachments along with the corners of his mouth in a cheerful smile: "The weak me in the past is dead."
"This is no longer needed."
Seeing that the blue dormitory uniform that he had been asking for was easily abandoned by the brother that he had always admired but could not catch up with, Marufuji Sho's heart was shocked. I don't know where he got the courage to suddenly stand up and catch it.
The blue dormitory uniform that almost fell into the rising sea water: "It's not like that!"
Although his body was wet from the action of catching the clothes and was stained with a lot of gravel, Sho Marufuji didn't pay attention to that. He hugged the uniform abandoned by Marufuji and glared at Marufuji.
Liang said: "The brother I know and admire is not that kind of person and would never say such a thing!"
Seeing Marufuji Xiang looking directly at him without fear, seeing the disappointment in his eyes besides anger, Marufuji Ryo didn't change his expression and just said contemptuously: "I don't want to be cheated by anyone."
Please, just say that to a guy who cares about admiring others, being disappointed about himself, and getting angry because of himself."
"In the final analysis, there is the farthest distance between longing and understanding. From the beginning, the Ryo Marufuji you admired did not exist. What you saw was just an empty shell bound by everything you taught and learned.
It wasn't until the desire for victory ignited the desire in my heart that I was born." After a pause, Ryo Marufuji sneered, "And what you admire is an empty shell named 'Ryo Marufuji', or is it someone else?
A phantom that you filled with your own expectations?"
"You are a person who only thinks about yourself."
Marufuji Ryo's speech stunned Marufuji Sho. He clutched the uniform in his arms, as if he could bring back Marufuji Ryo, who used to wear that uniform and was admired by him. After a long while, he trembled.
Then he asked: "Then who do you think you are now?"
"Didn't I have a nickname in the academy? 'Caesar', I like this title very much. 'I come, I see, I conquer' 'Caesar'." Ryo Marufuji glanced at the man in Sho Marufuji's arms.
uniform, he sneered, "I have tasted the hell of losers, and when I come back from it, I will be called 'Hell Caesar'."
Marufuji Ryo, no, "Hell Caesar" decided on his new name, as if he really just came to throw away a piece of clothing, turned around without hesitation: "Boring guy, just hugging the thing you have
Let the phantom of longing drown in fantasy."
Sho Marufuji was left staring blankly at his leaving figure, his already depressed mood getting worse. He didn't get up on the beach for a long time, until a wave came over and made him wet all over.
His glasses also fell on the beach, making it difficult for him to see ahead.
"Oh~ you are so heartless, 'Caesar'."
Before Caesar had gone far, as he disappeared from Sho Marufuji's sight, a voice reached his ears before the speaker himself appeared.
Without turning his head, Caesar recognized the person just by hearing the voice. He stopped and said, "Aren't you going to watch your sister's duel, Fubuki?"
"I am very confident in my sister's strength. She can win the duel without me as my brother watching her. Besides, she might prefer someone else to watch her duel than me, my brother."
Come on." He walked out of the woods, took off his blue dormitory uniform as he was leaving, and put back on the Hawaiian flower shirt that would definitely be lectured by Teacher Ayukawa Emi again. Fubuki spread his hands helplessly, "My lovely sister.
I have grown up to the age where I want to talk about marriage."
Seeing Caesar turn around, Fubuki also put away the smile on his face little by little: "The other reason is that I am more worried about my friend's condition than my sister's duel."
"What's wrong with you, Ryo?"
"Me? It couldn't be better. Can't you see, Fubuki?" Opening his arms, Caesar smiled, "I have shed my mortal body and sublimated into my true self."
"Now I feel... kale kale da!"
"Really, it feels good... So, can you answer me an honest question, Caesar?" Fubuki looked at the cheerful smile on Caesar's face, took a deep breath, and his eyes became
sharpened,
"...Is it possible that you have also been exposed to darkness?"
Anyone who looks at Ryo Marufuji's current expression and compares it with that of him in the past would have to guess whether he suffers from a disease such as schizophrenia, but for Tenjoin Fubuki, he has another guess.
That cheerful smile, that completely different expression from the past, he couldn't help but think of the friend who fell into the embrace of darkness in front of him, and himself who was unable to wake up from the power of darkness.
——Could it be said that Liang was also controlled by the power of "Darkness"?
