7th Turn: Video | July 31th

[feelsgoodinyou]

[The video starts with an evil laugh and gleaming eyes in sinister shadows before Bakura leans forward with a grin that’s full of bared teeth. The evil spirit has spent the last days searching the city near and far for the souls of two certain multi-color-haired midgets just to return with his hands empty. He had went all the way to make sure that it was no fluke and now he had certainty of the result. Malicious killing intend is dancing in both his eyes and his voice, twisting them more away from his nice counterpart than ever as he intones a mocking chant.]

The king is dead, the king is dead, long live the king~! Isn’t that how it’s said? [He laughs derisively before he shakes his head with a haughty tsk.]

All those things, all those times …and now that! Having it end like that feels almost too easy! [His smile drops into a discontent frown that turns his eyes hard before he tsks again and shakes his head as he brushes whatever thought he had aside with a wave of his hand.

The expression he presents the network with again seconds later is that of a winner, amused and cruel. ] No more games, dear Death City, for the main actor’s dead and the rest of the story’s already settled! [He feels betrayed.]

Both the main actor and the secondary cast have been removed. [He'd wanted some more time.]

So I’m going to end the game-! [It should have been personal!!]

The only thing is.. What’s the gamemaster left to do once the game’s won and over? [The frown is back at those last words. For a moment Bakura seems honestly troubled, then he shakes his head again with a mumbled curse and ends the connection. Atem has been much more than just an enemy to him.

No amount of public gloating can replace killing him with his own hands.]

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[shiromadoushi]

Is it really a victory, having it be like this?

[[A rare moment of insight? Maybe.]]

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[feelsgoodinyou]

Does it matter? He's dead and I'm still alive. [Figuratively speaking. It's probably also for the best that Ryou can't see his face right now because it's betraying what he really feels on that matter far too much to anybody who can read it.]

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[shiromadoushi]

It does.

He cheated. He left the game before it was over.

That's not how you win things.

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[feelsgoodinyou]

Well, that's life for you kiddo. People die at the most impossible times and from the most idiotic things and nobody ever bothers to ask if it suits you or not.

In the end it's always the survivor that writes your history.

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[itaidakimasu]

...I can't tell whether I should be saying congratulations or give my sympathies.

{Her voice is thoughtful; no pity or condemnation or anything else.}

I'd say, 'start a new game', but with you that could be very dangerous or unhelpful advice.

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[feelsgoodinyou]

[Bakura makes a very spiteful noise at the back of his throat at the suggestion of just starting a new game even as his lips twitch into an ill-boding smile.]

'Start a new game'? Che, if it were that meaningless it wouldn't have been any different than the ones I played with all those countless unlucky fools before! [No, it had been much, much, much more personal than that!]

Besides, just what exactly makes you think that I'm going to pass up on my spoils? The thing that he and I have been playing about for over three-thousand years? [The last words are purred and full of malice that seems to say that she couldn't even imagine what that really meant.]

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[itaidakimasu]

You say that like the spoils are still here. Or like you're the type to be satisfied with a purely technical win by default.

{Her voice is still calm and a little curious; they've Resonated, after all. She knows he's the type to leave his opponent in the most dire of conditions. He had been bad enough over a day-old grudge in Australia. But over three-thousand years? No way was he counting this a proper win.}

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[feelsgoodinyou]

I'm not! [The answer comes fast, almost too quickly and snapped in a sharper note than what he has been using just now. For a moment he just bristles at her, hands clenching and unclenching unconsciously as he fumes at the very idea that he could be satisfied with something like that. Then something in his look shifts and his whole expression softens down into something smoother and nicer, like the curls of a poisonous snake.]

As for the spoils... of course they are. If anything, you could say that they've grown with the introduction of this and other worlds.

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[fujigglephysics]

[Brow raise because dude, what the heck.]

You continue living as one would. Isn't that how it usually goes?

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[feelsgoodinyou]

I think I'm ruining that phrase by being already dead. But thanks for trying.

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[fujigglephysics]

How so? You still look well and haven't lost all your color, so you don't look the part at all.

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[feelsgoodinyou]

[He lets out a small haughty laugh at that comment.]

Keh~ I'm sure the guy whose body I've stolen will appreciate hearing that. It has taken me a long time to find one that compatible even though it's performance leaves to be desired in many areas.

[Mainly muscle power. Gods, and stamina too, even when Bakura is apt at getting the maximum out of the material he has.]

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[pirateninja]

[Oh, Morgan remembers this guy from the last time she talked to him. She doesn't look disturbed despite the evil laughter and crazy grin, more just puzzled because she never met the others from his world.]

...Uh, what are you even talking about?

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[feelsgoodinyou]

Past history. My dearest enemy got sent home so that he can continue stabbing his heart and slitting his stomach.

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[pirateninja]

If he's doing that to himself, he doesn't sound like much of an enemy.

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[feelsgoodinyou]

Oh, the reward was worth it at that time. Unfortunately for him that didn't end the game, though.

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[huntressing]

That's quite a theatrical way to put it.

[ To put it lightly, right.. but she's getting some vague idea of what's going on for him to say it, although she doesn't know any of the people personally involved. ]

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[feelsgoodinyou]

Hey, a centuries-long battle between kings ended. It deserves a little flare as it goes out. [Even if the end is as whimsical as this.]

[huntressing]

I wouldn't exactly deny that. Crushing enemies is always worthy of some gloating or at least some spectacle. [ Because she's.. totally.. sane too.. okay, maybe not entirely all the time. ]

But it seems rather sad to do it like this. It would've been better if it was noticable even outside of this single broadcast.

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[deadlydelicacy]

Or the King is dead, The King is dead, long live the Queen. Depending on the monarch and time period and heirs available. [She sounds amused because he sounds half disappointed to have 'won' whatever game he's won. Or like someone quit halfway through and he's trying to make things come together for his victory.]

I believe you generally start a new game.

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[feelsgoodinyou]

I would, but there's nothing left to gamble about once the debt of this one is cashed in. That and I doubt that I'll find an opponent as infuriatingly tenacious as this one again.

[He sighs and laughs under his breath, sounding a lot like a man who just returned from the burial of his lifelong arch-nemesis.]

There's no heir left either, nor any family. [Well, none where there hadn't already been made any preparations to be taken care of and whom he knows of having escaped triggering those. Let's just say that the side of the game he's part of tends to be quite throughout.]

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[deadlydelicacy]

I suppose you have to find a new game then or suffer the boredom.

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[Nanami is just staring into the mirror looking tired, she didn't really think this through when she turned on the video function. A couple of times it looks like she means to say something but she doesn't. After all the Pharaoh, or Atem meant completely different things to them.]

[feelsgoodinyou]

[It takes a while before Bakura finally replies and when he does all he has for her are a roll of his eyes and an annoyed scowl.]

If you have something to say then just say it.

[morecowbell]

[She closes her eyes for a moment breathing in deeply. When she opens them again her expression is more neutral and serious with an underlying coldness to it. She exhales looking at him directly.]

Are you up for a mission?