duel 1. ( text )

[puzzlingly]

[ There are no Duel Disks here, no one seems to have heard anything about Duel Monsters either... If Kaiba was here, he'd be already throwing a fit, and he'd be trying to make disks out of thin air and selling them to everyone.

...

Atem would be the first in line, but you didn't hear that coming from him.

Anyway, since this place doesn't seem to know about fun, he might as well ask the most important of questions. ]

wht do people do for fun hear?

[ Good Osiris, Atem, you shouldn't have fallen asleep during Yuugi's classes, stop playing games and go back to school... Mahaad would be so mortified to see this... ]

here*

[ ... phew. ]

Comments

[jocoeur]

hmm.

( wow you sure are serious aren't you atem.
akira is really just being a little shit, but since it seems that important to you, then... )

you're right. I should be listening to the master instead of making assumptions.
maybe this is, as they might say, the technique of invoking the spirit of the deck?

[puzzlingly]

[ You have no idea... He likes you a lot already, dude, whether you're mocking him or not! Not that he will say it for now. ]

something like it! spirit. heart. there is no difference.
you must always believe in the heart of the cards and trust them. always.

[jocoeur]

( for akira's part, he's mostly having fun with the possibilities. but as the conversation goes on, it's getting easier to see just how important this game might be to his new game buddy... )

the heart of the cards...

( as a phantom thief, he's used to stealing hearts. changing them. but believing in the heart of the cards... this would be new territory. )

all right, then.
in that case, i'll be looking forward to learning from both you, and the cards.

[puzzlingly]