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7th Turn: Video | July 31th

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

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

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.]

It does.

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

That's not how you win things.

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.

I know that

But he didn't die

He was taken away.

Back to the point in his life where he's just killing himself and erasing everything that made him up as himself for good. I don't know about you, but I'd call that quite a death indeed.

[[There's a bit of a pause]]

If it was, you wouldn't still be trying to finish him the rest of the way back home.

[[Another pause]]

Were you erased as well?

[The first reply comes quickly.]

That's business. There's a difference between that and what he and I had.

[The second pause takes a lot longer, mostly because Bakura keeps staring at the black against white words as his mind runs blank in response to that question. What was he supposed to say to that? That it had been worse? That not everybody had been given the privilege of choosing their own fate? To quit with the bullshit questions because he's still obviously here and never lost his memories? -but that's not true, isn't it, he isn't the same that he has been all those years ago back when he had died, far from it, far far from it, twisted, grown and having become something entirely else, a part of- He jerks his head into an irritated shake, and grits his teeth.

Whatever! It didn't matter what had happened to him because he had taken it and made it himself, his powers, his skills-! He is no victim!

Without thinking he starts to hammer in that that's none of Ryou's damn business, but then he stops and erases the text before it sends. No, nothing that defensive.]

What makes you think that?

Then it wouldn't be enough.

Your history was tied to his. Everything he did was because of you, wasn't it? Because of what happened then.

Sadly that doesn't matter, now, does it? 'All because of me'? Oh please. You really should leave the detective playing to your friend.

[[a slight pause. This time of confusion]]

I thought that's what the grudge of 3000 years was... You mean someone else caused that instead....?

[Oh boy. That's exactly why he never bothered to try and establish any relationship with the brat while they were still forced to share a body. Like hell he'd have had the patience to explain things to him over and over again.]

Of course somebody else did!! Are you really that stupid as to think that I'd go blaming a guy for something I did?! That I'd kill everybody of my home village and keep torturing their souls for fun?! That I kept stealing souls just to play with them?! That I killed myself and locked my soul into one of the golden trinkets that contain the bones of my family for fun?!

[[a pause as he winces.]]

I didn't mean that... I meant what caused the game to continue. I know he did all those things, but he wouldn't erase himself from history for that...

No. He did it to avoid having to pay the prize for playing with the powers they did.

Oh

I had thought it had been because of you. That you'd pushed his had so he had to when you fought him.

[[The heroic sacrifice against the unbeatable foe. Wasn't that how these things went?]]

Ha! I wish! But trust me, if it had been against me then he wouldn't have had any damn time to do any of the heroic shit that you're undoubtedly fantasizing about just right now. I was already dead when it happened. I was never a hero, but I did fight against that asshole and his priests because they were messing with those damn doors and I even almost made it. 'sadly became the last sacrifice needed to undo the seal, tho.

[Well, maybe that's pushing it. But the brat loves these kind of tales and Bakura's not above encouraging him to ride that hobbyhorse to its fullest if it serves him.]

[[And chasing that distraction! Because some of this was new information! ~~unless the mun is being an airhead again~~]]

Doors? The ones that the Items are key to...? He was doing something to release that power?

[[Maybe that's why he was so grumpy that people were looking into the Items....]]

Greed can ruin a lot of things, doesn't it? You've got all the power but the only thing you can think about is how you can get more. It's the same debacle as what killed that Blue Eyes White Dragon girl.

[[Another pause]]

There was a girl who had a Blue Eyes....?

There was. She got killed for it.

[[a pause]]

So that someone else could have it?

[[What was it about those dragons that caused so many death games...?]]

Yeah. They really loved doing that. There were several temples that they used just to store those captured souls and to always have them available to their beck and call.

[[Another pause, longer this time as all the scraps of things he'd heard start falling together and things start making a hideous amount of sense.]]

That's what Pegasus found to make Duel Monsters from, isn't it? The dark games played now don't even come close to how they used to be, do they...

I'd assume so. Keep in mind, I was still locked into that damn Ring back when he found it. But the evidence speaks for it. Are you still wondering why my and the Pharaoh's games are on such different levels than anybody else's?

The only others I know anything about were Pegasus's. His always seemed a lot like yours, stealing people's souls.

But I guess that's just what the Items do....

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