Yugen, lying in bed, felt drowsily as if someone was calling him. He slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and in the haze, he seemed to see an exquisite face leaning at the bedside, silver hair hanging down, looking at him with tilted eyes.
It was Silent. She remained silent but was poking him with her fingers.
Yugen casually picked up the student terminal beside him and glanced at it, two-thirty in the morning. He yawned long and hard.
"What's going on?"
Silent pointed outside the window and made a gesture.
Yugen suddenly became alert: "Intruder?"
Silent nodded, reaching out to push open the window. Yugen thought for a moment but still casually put on a coat, jumping from the second floor onto the dormitory's lawn.
Indeed, this height from the second floor was now almost equivalent to flat ground for him, long since unnoticed.
Dressed in the school uniform, Silent led the way up front, with Yugen following her through the dense forest, halfway already noticing this direction.
"Red Dormitory?"
In Yugen's heart, he began to recall, based on original impressions, what might happen on this side of the Red Dormitory. In the early GX, it was filled with a lot of episodic entrances, where supernatural intruders often popped up out of nowhere, nothing strange. And most of those episodic entrances didn't have a high presence; Yugen couldn't think of who it might be for a moment.
But when approaching the outskirts of the Red Dormitory, Yugen realized it probably wouldn't be any random episodic villain.
Not that level of power.
Darkness covered the Osiris Red Dormitory. Ordinary people's naked eyes might not be able to see; they'd just feel inexplicably oppressed, hard to breathe, and find it hard to take steps when nearing this area. But in Yugen's view, the Osiris Red Dormitory seemed to have entirely turned into a mass of Black Fog.
He was very sure that even looking at the whole world, such powerful darkness should be rare.
Yugen heightened his alertness, walked forward following that sensed direction. Of course, he wasn't surprised to notice that the source of darkness was at Judai's dormitory.
No surprise. Throughout the Osiris Red Dormitory, or even one might say the whole Duel Academy, there weren't many people more skilled at causing trouble than Judai...
...Yugen himself could also be counted as one.
Upon reaching the door, Silent Magician stretched out her hand to stop Yugen, stepping forward herself to push open the door slowly.
The old dormitory door of Red Dormitory was pushed open, and at this moment it was like opening Pandora's Box. The dark aura instantly reached its peak, rushing out from the room.
A person was standing right in the middle of the room.
Wearing the uniform of the Red Dormitory, back facing the door, staring out the window at some place, pondering something unknown, but that silhouette and jellyfish hairstyle — who else could it be but Judai?
Yet Marufuji Shou, his dorm mate, was still sound asleep in bed, seemingly unaware of anything.
However, Yugen knew that wanting to wake up in this kind of dark pressure should be impossible for ordinary people.
"Judai?"
Yugen paused and frowned.
"No, you're not Judai... right?"
He already had a guess in his heart.
And when "Judai" slowly turned around, Yugen made eye contact with those terrifying golden eyes, verifying his guess.
"Overlord." He said in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"
According to the original story, this shouldn't happen. In the original, Judai was subjected to a huge blow, coming apart from everyone in the Other Dimension, only then did the Overlord take advantage.
But Judai wasn't supposed to be in that state now.
Could it be because they were close to Overlord City, his connection with the Overlord tightened?
Then, while Judai was in night-time sleep, lost consciousness, the Overlord seized the opportunity to reverse using Judai's body as a medium to enter the real world.
That seems to be the only guess available.
But if that's the case, his control over this body must be less than during the animation appearance. After all, Judai was just asleep, not consumed by inner darkness, and even now, he could wake up at any moment.
"The Duelists of this world; it's you, trying to attack my castle, right?"
Expressionless, the Overlord activated his Duel Disc.
"If that's so, let me see for myself. Whether you truly have the capability to do so."
"Unexpectedly meeting the Overlord here in advance... well, although it was a bit ahead of plan."
Yugen also activated the Duel Disc.
"But that's just perfect; it saves us the trouble of going to Overlord City to find you."
The two of them retreated to the open space outside the Red Dormitory.
"Duel!" x2
[Yugen, LP 4000]
[Overlord, LP 4000]
Yugen: "I'm taking the first turn, draw card."
He surmised that the Overlord now should not be as strong as at his appearance in the anime. Judai's heart hasn't fallen into darkness, and in the animation, Overlord's ace Super Fusion was gained only after sacrificing countless creatures, which shouldn't be available now.
The Overlord in front of him merely inhabited Judai's body, although having the Overlord's iconic golden eyes, still wearing the Red Dormitory uniform, lacking that iconic armor. Plus, they're not in the Other Dimension, not in Overlord City, maybe there would be less home-field boosts.
"Activate the Magic Card 'Angel's Charity,' drawing three cards from the deck, then discarding two from hand."
"Next, activate Speed Attack Magic 'Magic Guidebook Organization.' Examine the top three cards of the deck and return them to the deck's top in any preferred order."
Yugen drew three cards in one go, reviewed them, then adjusted the order before returning them to the top of the deck.
"Then set a card face-down, ending the turn."
"My turn, draw card."
The Overlord drew a card, then immediately revealed the drawn card.
"Magic Card 'Pot of Greed,' draw two more cards from the deck."
After replenishing two more cards, the Overlord spoke coldly.
"Duelists of the Other World, let me see the power of your world."
"I Normal Summon 'Elemental Hero Sky Hero.'"
A transparent white spiral raised, the turbo sound spinning; the hero of the sky seemed to ride the Tornado, confidently unfolded arms and landed on the field.
[Elemental Hero Sky Hero, Attack Power 1800]
"Sky Hero's effect, upon successful summon, adds a 'Hero' monster from the deck to hand."
Yugen furrowed his brows.
Hold on, he remembered the Sky Brother's effect in the manga, should have been halving the Attack Power to directly attack. This seems to be the real card effect...
Could it be the Overlord's power affecting Elemental Hero, causing an evolution?
This might not be impossible. The Overlord's level of strength is definitely sufficient to print cards by power; moreover, there had been an instance of causing an Absolute Zero Hero evolution before when Judai exploded with power.
"Sky Hero's effect, adds another Hero to hand from deck."
The Overlord displayed the card retrieved to hand.
"I add 'Elemental Hero Wild Hero' to hand."
Then he slowly drew another card from his hand. As that card was raised, even without activation, the dark spiral was already swirling around.
"Activate Magic Card—
—Dark Fusion!"