soul_campaign | Seventh Roll: February 7th, Evening. [Text]

But if you can specialize as much as you say you can, then your deck is still a good example, Bakura-dono.

Is it okay if I take a look, de arimasu?

Sure. [[holds his deck out. He's trusting you to be gentle with them, Keroro]]

[Gentle is his middle name! Especially because these are Bakura's (and not Giroro's), so he'll treat them with care.

He flips through them carefully, reading the descriptions before turning to look at Bakura.]

It's too bad that I can't play with you, de arimasu. I've seen similar things but nothing exactly like it, de arimasu. Ah, if only someone would make up more cards so that I could build my own deck too, de arimasu.

[[Good good. Because if his cards got hurt, the spirit of Yami Yuugi would somehow emerge from them to lecture Keroro about how you treat a deck. And that would just be awkward.]]

Do you think maybe we could make some? I'm pretty familiar with the cards, I'm sure I could reproduce them well enough so we could play!

[Sadly, Keroro is not afraid of lectures and he may get too distracted by trying to figure out Yami Yuugi's hair to listen.]

Well, I think...we could, de arimasu! Especially since Bakura-dono knows them well. Ah, but we'd have to find a good printing company for them, de arimasu. I no longer have the means to make good quality cards on my own, de arimasu.

That shouldn't be too hard to find... right?

With the right connections, it will be easy, de arimasu. I think I know someone who knows someone, de arimasu.

Then I'll have to get started on drawing them out then, ne? Any idea what sort of deck you'd like to play? Or should I just make a bunch of different ones?

Eh? Really? Right now, de arimasu? [He looks really excited when he says this, because he really does want this to be right now.]

I don't know what kind, de arimasu. A strong one? What would a strong one loo-

[But then he catches himself because he's supposed to be cheering Bakura up, not having Bakura entertain him.]

Th-That is...if Bakura-dono wants to, de arimasu? W-Would drawing the cards be fun for you, Bakura-dono?

[[Ssssh, don't ruin the distraction, Keroro. Giving him something to focus on and lose himself in that involves other friends is a perfect one!]]

Just saying 'A strong one' doesn't really help, Keroro-san! [[laughs a bit]] Unless you want to just use a regular beat down deck with high powered monsters, but those almost always lose to more varied ones.

and I don't mind. [[assures with a smile]] It'll be like designing things for D&D only I wouldn't have to carve them after.

Well...I'm not too sure about the game still, so I thought maybe picking something strong would help cover all the bases, de arimasu?

Ah.

Since you're the expert in these cards and you don't mind, if it's not too much trouble, maybe you can pick for me, de arimasu? I can help you with the drawing too, de arimasu. [Actually, he can't, really. But he's offering anyway.]

I'm sure that you would know what a truly good deck is, Bakura-dono.

[He's genuinely interested in knowing, because he's curious about these cards, and more than a little bit excited over the prospect of playing a new game.]

Mmm... [[ponder ponder]] You like mecha, right? Maybe a machine deck... Since really, it's more important to have a theme for your deck that fits your personality, like how Mai-san has an Amazoness deck, and Jounouchi-kun has a deck based on luck, and Yuugi-kun's is a mix of magicians and the unexpected. [[a touch of a fond smile there]]

If it fits your personality would that make it stronger, de arimasu? Ah, maybe then we can put stars in there too, de arimasu. And cleaning, de arimasu. [Keroro might be getting personality and interests mixed up here.]

Are those your friends, de arimasu? Back in your own world?

Un. [[nods]] Jounouchi-kun and Yuugi-kun are my best friends and classmates. [[Yuugi more than Jounouchi, but Bakura wasn't about to rank his friends like that!]] Mai-san we only see at tournaments, but she's all right.

And it does seem to! The more you believe in your deck and the more people believe in you, the better you do with Duel Monsters.

Your best friends, huh. Then it's just like me and Fuyuki-dono. Although Fuyuki-dono and I aren't classmates, de arimasu. We're housemates though, de arimasu.

Belief? That sounds like something from a manga, de arimasu.

It does, sort of! But it works! [[rubs the back of his neck with a small laugh]] I think it has to do with the game being based on real monsters that used to be spirit beasts that people held in their souls.

Kero...that sounds kind of like it would be something occult, de arimasu.

It does, doesn't it? [[a big grin]] There's actually a lot of occult around the game, almost as if it attracts it.

[That grin when talking about the occult really reminded him of Fuyuki. So much so that Keroro gives Bakura a grin in return.]

Even ghosts, de arimasu? If we create the card game here, I wonder if it'll attract ghosts and demons too, de arimasu?

Aaa... [[About that...]] Not really ghosts, so much, I don't think.

And I don't think they would have the same connection here, since this world doesn't have that history or the Items.

Aw...so they'd just be normal cards, de arimasu? And without Sergeant Major Kururu, we couldn't even have any kind of augmented-reality holographs of the monsters themselves, de arimasu.

And I don't have my Duel Disk for those holograms either... though I wonder if there might be someone here who could make them.

Well, those are really just things for selling the game, de arimasu. A truly good card game may not need those, de arimasu. It's all in the rules and the cards, after all, de arimasu.

Un, that's true! The holograms came later, once it's already popular, ne?

Of course, de arimasu. To keep the public's interest, de arimasu.

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