Heroic Spirit Deck in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 210 - 210

With the puzzle cards taken from the Masked Duo, Kaiba, and Yugi now had the six pieces they needed to advance.

"Kaiba, why do you think Marik lured us here? What's his real motive?" Yugi asked, glancing around the deserted port. Even at this time of day, there were no ships, and the only people present were themselves.

"Hmph. I never trusted Marik from the start," Kaiba said, his voice dripping with disdain.

Half an hour earlier, Marik, through one of his Rare Hunter agents, had sent Yugi and Kaiba a cryptic message during the Battle City tournament: "I have Hoshino in my hands right now. If you want to save her, come to Domino City's port."

The moment he received the message, Yugi rushed to the port without hesitation, calling Jonouchi and Honda on the way.

Kaiba, on the other hand, dismissed the message with a skeptical sneer. But after a moment's hesitation, he, too, made his way to the port, instructing Mokuba to try tracking Hoshino's Duel Disk.

Unfortunately, since Hoshino had been in the Shadow Game dimension at the time, her Duel Disk wasn't emitting a traceable signal. This made Marik's message seem disturbingly credible.

When they arrived at the empty port, they found no sign of Hoshino—only the Rare Hunters' Masked Duo lying in wait. Brimming with frustration, Kaiba had reluctantly teamed up with Yugi to give the Rare Hunters a thorough thrashing—through a duel, of course.

"I can't believe I fell for that. Marik, you're such a dull person..." Even though they'd been tricked, Kaiba didn't consider the trip a waste; after all, they had finally completed their puzzle cards.

"Let's leave. There's nothing more to see here," Kaiba said, turning sharply to leave.

Seeing no sign of Hoshino anywhere, Yugi finally felt relieved. "Looks like it was really just a ploy to lure us here. I should contact Jonouchi and Honda to tell them not to come."

The sudden roar of Blue-Eyes White Dragon shattered the silence.

"?!?" Yugi flinched in surprise.

"It's my phone," Kaiba said calmly, unfazed by the sound, as he reached into his coat pocket to answer.

"T-That was a ringtone...?" Yugi's mouth twitched as he struggled to process what he'd just heard.

"Big Brother, I picked up a signal from Hoshino's Duel Disk!" Mokuba's urgent voice rang through the phone.

"Don't panic, Mokuba. Tell me slowly."

"She's not exactly at the port like Marik said, but she's definitely moving in this direction and is almost here."

"Oh?" Kaiba paused mid-step, intrigued by Mokuba's report.

"What's Marik planning now?" Yugi frowned, unable to decipher Marik's true intentions.

"Who cares what he's planning? We'll figure it out soon enough." Kaiba folded his arms and struck a confident pose, standing tall against the sea breeze.

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"Hoshino-nee, you've been acting strange for a while now," Akasha said, finally voicing her thoughts.

"Strange? Have I?" Hoshino replied curtly.

"Your tone—it's different! It's like..." Akasha trailed off, scratching her head,