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Things didn't go quite right during that duel with Sawatari Shingo, not that Sakaki Yuuya knew it at the time. All he knew was that his hesitation to duel the way he always had, to jump and bounce around for the sake of others and to freely grasp at each Action Card he saw, had cost him his monster, launched him into the water, and then he was blasted right out again.

Then he had slammed into the wall of the bridge (the one pillar he'd been trying to get to, high and tall and covered in chains, where Yuuzu and the others were in danger of falling from), there was a sudden white-hot pain in his chest, and everything had gone black.

He found himself waking up in an empty arena, duel field gone, nothing working, no one answering when he called for them. With LDS being so empty and dark (why was it the middle of the night, why had no one woken him up, or at least moved him from the arena?), it took forever to find the front entrance-the automatic doors didn't respond to his presence.

Pushing at them to try to force them open resulted in his hand going through the door.

Several minutes of disbelief and staring at windows only to see no reflection in the glass whatsoever, as well as repeatedly shoving his hands through solid objects was what it took to convince Sakaki Yuuya that he was dead. Several hours was what it took for him to attempt leaving LDS grounds, to at least try to check up on Yuuzu and the others (were they okay? please let them be okay. even if he failed to protect them, please let them be okay) only to find that he couldn't. He was rooted there.

And he was still there when the school was full again, and Sawatari Shingo was there, attending classes like nothing had changed, and he found the new state of affairs in the world.

Those Pendulum Cards that his cards had become, had turned into in a blank of time that Yuuya still couldn't remember, never saw the origins of? They were no longer his. They were Shingo's now. Why had they appeared out of nowhere? Claims that LDS was in the middle of developing new cards began to surface, a new type of card that would lead the world into a new era of dueling began to surface. The method had already been programmed into the system in order to test them-but only a few prototype cards had been made. And those had been stolen. Whether it had been by the runaway former Duel Champion, or his coward of a boy, the point was that Yuuya had cards that were not his, that were clearly stolen, and used in a vain attempt to raise himself up from the average duelist he had been before, if LDS was to be believed. And why wouldn't they be? The most prestigious and advanced school in the world, headed by one of the wealthiest of companies...it would be believable, that they wanted to further the art of dueling, and it was believable that a cheating cowardly son of a runaway coward would attempt to take advantage of this, somehow, whether it was through his father (that would explain his disappearance, wouldn't it?), or his own means.

The ghost, still stuck on the grounds of his death for lingering reasons still yet unknown to him, was forced to watch as the world changed around him. Sakaki Yuuya became known as a cheat, a cowardly son of a coward, who had followed in his father's footsteps and disappeared rather than face a loss or the consequences of his actions. Slowly, his presence in the dueling scene was being erased from history.

Sawatari Shingo was becoming known as the heroic son of the esteemed mayor, the one who finally recovered the cards and exposed the Sakaki boy for the cheat he was, the hero who was gifted the Pendulum Cards in gratefulness for his actions, and who would be the new ace of the soon-to-be Pendulum Summoning class, a unique class that would be taught by LDS alone, and the herald of a new era of dueling. His future in the dueling world would be bright, already a mark made that would never fade.

The ghost could only watch this happen unseen and unheard, for what was a ghost to do?