Yubel.
Although it only had one eye, Yugen recognized its identity the moment he saw it.
"Oh, it also has only one eye!"
The eye popped out, looking very excited.
"What a coincidence, nice to meet you!"
But Yubel's eye glanced at it, seemingly not finding anything special, and quickly lost interest.
"Hey, what do you mean!" The eye immediately showed a look of anger, "We're all eyes, why look down on me?"
But Yugen and Yubel tacitly ignored it.
Yugen quickly inspected the opponent. As expected, it was not the real body, but just speaking to him momentarily through the residual power left in Kobra's body.
Yugen, with one hand on his hip, smiled and said, "What? Why not come and talk to me face to face? Don't worry, I'm not a bad guy, I won't eat you."
Yubel laughed.
"Hehe, you're an interesting kid."
Then she restrained her smile, speaking softly.
"Don't worry, I will, sooner or later." Yubel said, "I've been watching you for a long time, you're interesting, you're on my list.
Just not now... not yet."
"Oh?" Yugen asked, "Since you already have this intention, what are you waiting for? Why don't you come over now, and we can talk about life..."
"Hahaha, it's funny, but I'll pass. I can see you're different, you have powers that many others don't. Even I have to be careful."
Yubel smiled.
"As you can see, I'm not in good condition right now. But don't worry, I'll come to you soon. After all..."
As she spoke, the eye suddenly became sharp, and her tone turned colder.
"...you took away my most important thing."
Yugen: "?"
Huh?
He frowned slightly.
Wait, isn't this our first meeting?
What did I take from you... what?
But Yubel had no intention of continuing on this topic, shifting the conversation.
"However, thank you for your gift." She glanced at the unconscious Kobra on the ground, saying blandly, "Even though you broke my toy, which is somewhat annoying, and I will indeed seek you out for this later.
But surprisingly, you made this guy's inner darkness swell more than double during the duel. Hehe, I had quite a feast..."
Despite having only one eye, she made a strange sound, as if licking her lips with her tongue.
Yugen was also magnanimous: "You're welcome."
Yubel paused, then that eye slightly squinted.
Because she suddenly had a strange illusion.
Could this guy have intentionally stirred Kobra's inner darkness during the duel to help her accelerate rebirth?
No, impossible. She didn't know him at all; what reason would he have to help her?
After a brief silence, Yubel's eye examined Yugen from top to bottom.
"Your heart also harbors unimaginable vast darkness. Well, this is normal, the stronger the duelist, the stronger the hidden inner darkness."
Yubel chuckled twice again.
"I can't wait to thoroughly taste it. How does the darkness in the heart of a king taste..."
"Sure." Yugen nodded generously, "Then I'll keep that inner darkness to properly treat you when the time comes."
Yubel was immediately stumped.
This kind of hospitality left her at a loss.
Ah, is he really this polite?
Should she thank him now?
Yubel pondered stiffly for two seconds.
Then snorted.
"See you then."
With that, the eye disassembled, turning into a black fog and dispersed.
"Really cunning, not even in Kobra's lab."
Yugen muttered to himself.
"Always causing trouble."
The eye blinked twice behind him, asking: "Is that... the real mastermind behind the scenes?"
"Yes." Yugen replied.
The eye glanced at the unconscious Kobra on the ground.
"And this one... was just being used?"
"Sort of."
"So now we just wait for her to recover and come after us?" the eye asked.
"Not necessarily."
Yugen shook his head.
"She's incomplete now, and most of the time should be following Kobra. From her revival state just now, with her current power level, she probably can't be too far from Kobra."
What Yugen didn't mention was that Kobra originally planned for all students to wear devices on their wrists, absorbing their Duel Energy to revive Yubel. With Kobra's technology, Yubel absorbing Duel Energy shouldn't be able to move too far away either.
Now, Yubel has at most the energy level to materialize one arm, the only way to move over long distances is to attach to a host. Currently, she's likely still hiding somewhere on this island.
Like in the animation, Yubel didn't fully revive until Kobra was defeated by Judai and sent the entire academy to the Other Dimension. At that time, she chose to possess a first-year Ra-Yellow student.
The Yellow Dormitory freshman Ghana Marden, the sole child of Duel Academy's Instructor Napoleon, experienced family breakdown and parental divorce during childhood, subsequently living with his mother. Outwardly introverted, not easily revealing his true thoughts, he harbors years of resentment towards his parents deep down.
This resentment bred darkness within him, allowing Yubel to take advantage and control him as her host before fully reviving.
Yugen even suspects Yubel should be like in the animation, in the glass vessel in Kobra's laboratory.
But maybe she sensed Yugen's approach, maybe it was Sixth Sense indicating danger, and therefore distanced early from Kobra.
Now probably still hiding near this abandoned experimental facility, somewhere on this island.
Yugen glanced around the dense forest surrounding him.
Hmm, although guessing this way, finding an extraordinary spirit on such a vast island feels indeed harder than finding a human intruder.
"Leave it to us, boss."
At this point, Mina from the Black Scorpion stepped forward, volunteering.
The other members of the Black Scorpion appeared one by one behind her, performing the Black Scorpion formation pose.
"No evil can escape the eyes of the Black Scorpion Thief Gang!"
"Trust us boss, we'll never let any intruder in our realm off!"
Yugen pondered for a moment.
Indeed, there are not many spirits on hand that can maintain physical form for a long time, capable of working independently far from him. Usually silent, acting as his personal guard, the best fit for reconnaissance work seems to be them.
"Okay, you guys be careful too." Yugen nodded, "Just find her trail, try to avoid direct confrontation. You're no match for her."
Zarug mumbled something softly, seemingly feeling the boss's words, though true, were a bit hurtful.
However, Zik patted his chest, "Don't worry boss, I'm confident about running away!"
After all, he's known as "Zik the Running Fast."
Yet these words immediately drew disdain from his teammates.
Is that something to be proud of?