Yugi was still trying to work out how to phrase her
letter when she got home from school. She had been attempting to think about it
all day, but returning the stolen games hadn’t helped her steadily increasing
fame amongst the student population. Instead she was more popular than she had
been this morning.
“Oooh, post!” Jou grinned, pouncing on a letter
addressed to him and tossing Yugi a couple of envelopes. Yugi was about to open
her post when Jou let out a delighted whoop and spun her around the shop until
she was dizzy.
“Jonouchi, I would appreciate it if you didn’t
make Yugi sick.” Ojiisan scolded, his tone only half serious as Jou swiftly let
go and Yugi stumbled slightly before leaning on one of the glass cases.
“Sorry, but you remember that application I put
in for ‘Get the Million?’ You know, that game show that’s really popular right
now?” He asked, a huge smile on his face.
“How could we forget?” Ojiisan asked, “You
coloured it in with every colouring pencil we own and a few I didn’t think we did.”
“Well I’m on. They’re letting me play!” Jou
crowed, “I’m recording at the end of the week!”
“That’s great.” Yugi smiled at him, still dizzy
but pleased for her friend and able to sense Oneesan’s pleasure at Jou’s good
luck too.
As Jou started babbling about everything he was
going to do with the money when he got it, Yugi started restocking the shelves.
The store looked like it had been busy over the course of the day. Monster
Fighter hadn’t been the only thing to fly off the shelves by the looks of it.
In fact it continued to be busy right up until
about five minutes before closing when one of the other teens in their year,
one Yugi had returned a game to earlier in the day, entered the shop looking
nervous.
“Imori-kun? Right?” Yugi asked, curious about
the package in his hands.
“Ye...yeah.” Imori nodded, “You’re Mutou-kun?”
“That’s right.” Yugi encouraged, “What’ve you
got there?”
“I wanted to...” He put the package on the
counter, letting them all look at it. It looked like a jar and a box, tied with
string and with a piece of paper with kanji attached, “Well you know games,
right?” Yugi nodded, “I was hoping you could tell me what this is and maybe we
could have a gam...”
“No.” Ojiisan’s firm and unyielding denial
confused Yugi, who turned to her grandfather to find that he was glowering at
the package.
“Ojiisan?” Jou asked, confused.
“I’ve heard about this.” Ojiisan explained,
“This is an ancient game called Dragon Cards and you must not break this seal!”
“Why?” Yugi asked, confused considering that he
didn’t discourage Oneesan’s game and they were certainly dangerous.
“Because they were created by a Taoist master
as a test for his students. Their final test. They use the energies of the
heaven and nature. The cards are currently in balance, the dark energies of the
cards are balanced by the light energies of the seal.”
Yugi blinked, wondering if her relationship
with Oneesan was something similar.
“If this seal gets broken, it will create a
warped power and disaster would fall upon you and anyone around you.” Ojiisan
warned, “In fact I’ve heard rumour that these Dragon Cards once ruined
countries. You must never, ever break this seal.”
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