Chapter 473: The Original King and the Reporter
Chapter 473: The Original King and the Reporter
Night has fallen, but this decayed, ancient, fixed world has not remained silent in the dark night. Instead, it has begun to move at high speed.
In front of the largest hospital in the Upper Town, a group of reporters surrounded the hospital gate. Countless lights were shining in front of the gate, and the flashes of light from the cameras were continuous, as if they never stopped at all.
A strong middle-aged man with an elegant appearance and a smile on his face stood with his hands behind his back, facing everyone.
Because there were so many reporters, the police here had to form a human wall to prevent them from shoving microphones into the man's face.
"Captain Godwin, what do you think about the failure of the Public Security Police in the previous duel? I heard that the opponent was a person from another dimension. Is it true that people from other dimensions are really invading our world!?"
"Captain Godwin, it has been half a month since King Jack Atlas lost to Yusei Fudo in the Lucky Cup, and Jack himself has not appeared in public again. There are rumors that you secretly dealt with Jack. Please explain!"
"Sir Godwin, I have reliable information that you have conspired to murder a group of elderly nobles and forced them to fight with you for half a year. May I ask what the situation is now?"
Godwin was not nervous at all. He just smiled and answered the questioners' questions one by one without any hesitation. He seemed very calm.
However, at this moment, a tabloid reporter from an unknown newspaper desperately crawled out from the crowded crowd of reporters, holding out a microphone and pointing it at Godwin.
She was a female reporter wearing thick round-framed glasses and having long straight black hair in the style of Ji.
Godwin was not at all surprised to see her sudden appearance.
He recognized who the other person was at once.
Kali Nagisa is a reporter for a tabloid. She comes from an ordinary family in an upper-class district. She is just a reporter who wants to make a name for herself. There are countless such reporters in this world.
"Um, Commander Godwin, can I ask you something? During the Lucky Cup final, red lights appeared on the hands of Yusei Fudo and Jack Atlas. What was that?" Kali Nagisa asked with all her might.
Godwin's pupils suddenly shrank. He was surprised for the first time and even a little nervous. He switched the positions of his hands behind his back.
This female reporter was the only one who realized and asked this question during such a long period of time.
Can you actually realize the Dragon Seal...
Godwin took a general look at Kali Nagisa.
It seems that she is just an ordinary country girl. Who would have thought that she has such "talent"?
"What's the big deal? It must be the resonance of the duel between two powerful duelists, which then generated the power of spirits or something like that. Isn't that what those humans from the other dimension said?"
"That's right, which newspaper are you from? Get out of here!"
The upper class also has different levels. An ordinary reporter like Carly Zhu has taken up so much time of Godwin, the new "Chief of the Public Security Administration". Will they still ask questions?
I finally got the chance to have Godwin willing to answer reporters' questions, so why would I waste time on questions like this?
"About this question, perhaps you will understand it yourself in the future, so there is no need to explain it." Godwin still gave a little face and responded to Kali Nagisa.
As for the rest, he had no interest in answering.
Especially for the unfounded rumors like "he killed the nobles of the Senate", he had no interest in answering them.
Although, he did kill some boring flies, but these things are completely "non-existent" to ordinary people.
The reason is very simple. Although there is indeed a "Senate" in the upper area, in order to control the city and hide their existence and not become the first target of the rebels, the nobles have only one highest management agency for external publicity, that is, the "Public Security Administration Bureau". He, the head of the Public Security Administration Bureau, is the nominal leader of the city.
For ordinary people, the Senate doesn't even exist. Even for him, who had tried his best to climb to the top, it was only when he became the head of the Public Security Administration that he suddenly realized the existence of a deep government.
Last time, when the F dimension and their S dimension were holding a "Friendship Cup", he took the opportunity to kill everyone in the Senate. Although he handled the aftermath perfectly, the nobles could still find out from clues that he was the mastermind behind the scenes.
However, it's not that he looks down on those nobles.
All he could say was that the nobles had acted exactly as he had expected.
Originally, if a new and strong faction dared to kill the "representative" elected by their nobles, they should have directly launched a heavy blow, demonstrated their strength, and killed them all at once. However, those nobles had not encountered a "ruthless person" like him for a long time, and they didn't know what to do for a while. Some wanted to kill him, some wanted to win him over, and some simply wanted to replace the dead nobles and join them.
After all, even though he had killed the people in the Council of Elders, the nobles still controlled nearly 99% of the assets and capital in the entire city.
……ha.
It's really ridiculous and superficial stuff.
The long period of peace and debauchery made these people unaware that the world was about to change drastically.
But he was not interested in those things. He just wanted to proceed step by step according to his plan.
"Captain Godwin, do you know anything about the people from other dimensions? You have been in the hospital all the time, so you may not be clear. Let me explain it to you..." Another reporter asked this question.
What does he think?
Godwin could only say that of course he knew what had happened. Not only that, he had seen the skeleton horse left behind by his brother follow its new owner - he had seen the horse leave him with his own eyes.
He sees much more clearly.
Not only did he know what the rebels in the lower city were trying to do, he even knew that those powerful nobles had united with forces from other dimensions in order to accumulate strength to confront him head-on, and they thought he knew nothing.
It doesn’t matter whether you die early or late, there are always some people who are particularly anxious.
He glanced at it.
Without anyone noticing, Kali Nagisa managed to bypass the guards and security guards and sneak into the hospital in disguise.
No wonder, he is indeed a special talent with the ability to hide his presence and excellent disguise.
He withdrew his gaze and continued to deal with the reporters casually.
Yeah.
The Dragon Seal and the Dark Seal are bound to meet each other. Since you are curious, just take a look for yourself.
Kali Nagisa sneaked into the hospital.
With her extraordinary and quick disguise ability and excellent figure, she easily disguised herself as a nurse and slipped into the ward.
She really wanted to interview Jack, but before she found the ward, she saw Jack.
At this moment, he was dragging his injured body, walking with difficulty, holding on to the wall.
It looked like half of his body had little feeling left.
really!
Kali Nagisa thought in her heart.
In the final battle between Jack Atlas and Yusei Fudo, that terrifying red light was definitely not an illusion, and the explosion caused by that light must have been real, otherwise how could Jack Atlas' physique not recover in half a month?
But just when she wanted to say something, she saw Jack almost fall down because of his stubbornness, and she was so scared that she hurried to support him.
God have mercy on her, she is a virgin girl and has never been so close to a boy in her life. Besides, Jack is tall and strong, and she doesn't have the strength to support him.
Just when she wanted to teach Jack a lesson, telling him that he should stay in the ward obediently while he was injured, the entire corridor suddenly cooled down, as if the air conditioner in the hospital had suddenly dropped the temperature by dozens of degrees. The air was so cold that she could see white breath.
Some ice spikes rose on the wall, and then the two saw a man in security uniform staggering over and looking at Jack Atlas coldly.
There was a strange black mark on the man's left hand, which looked similar to the red mark on Jack and the others.
Carly Nagisa didn't know what was going on. She only knew that the appearance of this person caused icicles to appear around them, and those icicles were still attacking them. If it weren't for his quick reaction, Jack and herself might have been entangled.
"W-what... a telekinetic duelist?" The cold and fear made her speechless.
Just when she was at a loss, Jack beside her pulled her into his arms. She bumped into Jack with a bang and they looked at each other.
As if something was knocked open, the eyes behind the thick lenses looked deeply into Jack's eyes.
"Come and get the duel disk, draw and place cards for me!!" Jack shouted without hesitation.
Even in his sickly state, he still had the bearing of a "king".
Kali Nagisa's heart was trembling, but she also knew the current situation, so she and Jack each fought on one side, 2V1, against the strange human with black air.
For some reason, she seemed to be learning dueling all over again. Every time she drew a card, she could draw a particularly powerful card. When Jack was in danger, she could even help him as if she had foresight.
"Well done—"
After the duel, Jack praised the lucky reporter a little, then forced himself to leave the hospital.
"You're still a patient, Jack!"
"This city doesn't need a sick king!" He staggered and said, "Damn... Dark Marker... Youxing, those guys will definitely cause trouble for you, where did you go--"
Then, Kali Nagisa finally understood everything.
It's not that Jack hasn't recovered since the Lucky Cup, but he has been forcing himself to fight with different "Dark Seal" puppets with his injured body, and his body has become more and more tattered.
After Jack struggled to run out of the hospital and then fell to the ground again, Carly was helpless and had to use all her strength to lift him into her car and then take him home.
"Really... I've never brought anyone home before!" she huffed.
A sleep, a long-awaited sleep, Jack seemed to be in the galaxy, watching two huge red giants collide with each other in the universe.
That red giant seemed to be the master of the world. With a roar, it could shatter the stars, and with a flick of its tail, the universe could tremble.
Seeing this horrifying scene, he couldn't help but speak out.
"what!"
After a scream, he woke up again and was surprised to find himself in a strange place. He went through the window and saw a tall tower. After a long period of no sleep and rest, his body finally recovered a little after hibernation.
He jumped out of bed and saw Carly sleeping on the table in the living room, but he ignored her.
Kali Nagisa is an "upper class person". Although she is just an ordinary citizen, she is incredibly wealthy compared to the citizens in the downtown area, so she easily found a set of clothes that can cover her face, such as a hat and glasses, and then left Kali's house.
He is very confused now.
Last time, the duel with Kaiba Seto made him realize his own shortcomings, so after that, he returned the Stardust Dragon to Yusei and admitted his mistake.
However, after he lost to Yusei in the Lucky Cup, he fell into confusion.
That is, is there really any meaning for him as a "king" to exist?
Climb up, climb up...but after climbing up, what will exist?
The so-called "king" is nothing but a clown. The upper class is always controlled by the nobles. Even Godwin can't change this.
"Really? You just had a night's rest, why are you just coming out like that?"
A voice sounded, and he turned around and looked. It was the nurse from yesterday - no, it didn't look like a nurse.
She was rubbing her eyes at this moment, looking sleepy and listless.
Jack didn't waste any words and just turned around without having much communication with her.
"Hey, Jack—"
Carly followed him, but Jack didn't respond at all. Carly sighed and didn't chase him closely. She just followed him from a distance.
Jack came to a shop and looked at the screen, which was playing the video of him losing to Seto Kaiba and Yusei Fudo. He clenched his fists, snorted coldly, and turned away.
Youxing has become the new "symbol" of this city. Perhaps now, he should concentrate on finding the "Dark Marker" and look for Youxing at the same time.
Ever since the duel ended, Youxing disappeared and could not be found at all. If they did not have a common enemy, the "Dark Marker", and he occasionally saw Youxing, he would have thought that Youxing had disappeared.
But even so, Youxing did not explain where he was during this period.
Carly followed behind Jack, watching his mood change, but didn't rush to disturb him.
During this period, because Jack lost to Yousei, the upper city's evaluation of him suddenly reversed into two polarities. Many nobles even began to pretend to say bad things like "I knew that Jack was useless" and "I said that people in the lower city were useless." Even Jack's statues and slogans in the playground frequented by children were moved away, leaving only a mess.
Jack sat on a park bench, staring blankly at the sun setting.
He wandered aimlessly around the upper city. People everywhere in the upper city were talking about Yusei's victory over him, which made him think of what Kaiba Seto said when they duelled.
His duel was not pure enough, and his soul was not pure enough.
I thought that by giving up some "benefits" and dueling with Yusei just for the True Crimson Demon Dragon, maybe I could make further progress. However, I didn't expect that in the end, it was Yusei who made the further progress, and the one who lost... was him.
Ugh……
His eyes were dull.
Just at this moment, a child suddenly discovered him.
Despite the disguise, the blond hair, exaggerated figure and height could not be hidden. The child recognized Jack at once. He ran over excitedly and waved at Jack: "KING!"
Jack came back to his senses and looked at the child.
"KING!" the kid cheered, just because Jack looked at him.
Carly gently patted the child's shoulder from behind, and when the child looked over, she said, "Jack is doing a secret job, don't let anyone know! Only you and we know it~"
The child immediately covered his mouth with his hands, nodded excitedly, and said in a low voice as much as possible: "I am a loyal fan of Jack. Everyone says that Jack is a big liar, but I don't believe it. I will always support you!"
——Even though Jack had heard that the child's parent, the nobleman, was saying bad things about him, the child did not feel disgusted at all, but was full of excitement instead.
This little guy really regarded Jack as his idol, as a bridge connecting the lower class and the upper class, and as a great hero - Jack knew that there were many such children in the downtown area, and the two little guys who followed Youxing also regarded him as their idol...
although……
Although a big part of the reason why he became the "KING" was because of the Stardust Dragon he stole from Yusei.
However, children are the most innocent and pure.
Jack looked at him, reached out and touched his head, then left with an expressionless face.
"Jack, you must become the KING!" the child added.
Carly followed Jack all the way until Jack walked up the tower and looked at the sea from afar.
Carly looked over and saw that the sunset looked particularly beautiful on the sea level.
Normally, one might think that Jack came here to see the scenery and relax.
but……
"You can't see the lower town from here," she said suddenly.
Jack's pupils suddenly contracted. He didn't expect that this woman could guess his thoughts.
"You are a reporter who came here specifically to interview me, right? You can report my affairs however you want."
"I won't report anything that denigrates the duelists."
Despite her good family background, Carly always felt that the world was not like this, so she chose a tabloid newspaper instead of trying to make a name for herself.
Jack was silent.
"Two years ago, I came to the upper city from the downtown area, abandoning my hometown and my companions. I lost everything at that time, and in exchange for that, I got a fictitious identity, constantly playing the clown's way to becoming the king.
The path to becoming a foolish duelist who has forgotten who he is."
"Since you understand it so clearly, why don't you start over again?" The silly-looking female reporter walked forward, stood side by side with Jack, looked at the sunset on the sea, and said, "After the duel with Yusei, the old Jack died. Then, you can become the real king, right?"
Jack looked at the horizon, his eyes flashing with the figures of his friends, the figure of Youxing, the dark seal and the dragon seal...
The "teaching duel" between Kaiba Seto flashed past my mind.
That's right, he should have made up his mind to "come back to life" at that time, but he has only thought it through now.
He opened his eyes and threw his hat aside, letting it flutter in the wind, before removing his disguise to reveal his king's coat.
"You're right—"
"I'm not confused anymore, I'm going to go my own way!"
he said firmly.
Now, it's time for me to repay Youxing in return!
He turned around and strode away.
"Wait for me, Jack--" Carly, who had just pretended to be a smart person for a while, suddenly couldn't maintain her image and chased after him anxiously.
"Don't follow me. What I'm about to do is very dangerous."
"Hmm~ You look down on me~ I know, you must be looking for the mark too, right? I have been interviewing about this stuff for a while!
I found an organization that seems to be related to that mark, called...Xanadu."
Paradise on Earth——
At this moment, Tian Chengguang frowned and looked at the distance.
Some upper-class people dressed in well-dressed suits were talking about a lot of random knowledge, inviting the children from the downtown area to try it, and said that as long as they met the requirements, they could get food for free and even go directly to the downtown area without any problem.
Doesn’t this sound like a pyramid scheme?
However, the problem is that in the lower city, as long as there is a slight chance to enter the upper city, countless people will flock to it. What's more, just to do a test and try something as simple as "telekinesis"?
If the ability of telekinesis is really detected, then it won’t be a problem to go directly to the upper city.
This Utopia organization is the largest and most well-known "telekinesis training institution" in Shangcheng District.
At this moment, they were constantly promoting the power of telekinesis and the future of telekinesis duels in a district of the lower city. Because of the appearance of the extradimensional people, telekinesis duelists could use telekinesis to accomplish things that only elves could do. It suddenly became a hot project in the world, with many fans in all aspects. Therefore, some telekinesis training organizations that received investment also had some privileges.
For example, as is the case now, if we take people from the lower city directly to the upper city, no public security police will stop us.
only--
In the eyes of Amagi Hikaru.
When they looked at those children, they were not looking at them as students or juniors, but with an indescribable madness, as if they were not picking students but selecting the "pork" or "chicken" of their choice in a supermarket. This made Amagi Hikaru feel very uncomfortable.
Amagi Hikaru looked down at his left hand.
He had made many plans today and was prepared to meet the Dark Markers, but he didn't expect to run into anyone after a whole day. When he was about to go back and talk to Manjomu about how his speculation was wrong, he unexpectedly ran into these "paradise" super-powered people on the way back to the base.
more importantly--
The dark print glows slightly.
(End of this chapter)