With this duel over, Hikaru returned to the Fusion Dimension's base and played with friends for another day. Yusei and the others also finally took this chance to properly rest.
The news Hikaru brought back was very meaningful for Yusei too.
By now, he'd understood all the City Hall team's members.
Two Xyz Dimension people, two Fusion Dimension people, and uniquely no Synchro Dimension member.
Was this reasonable?
Clearly unreasonable.
The City Hall team, symbolizing their Synchro Dimension's strongest force in the City, actually had no local person. This was unreasonable no matter how you looked at it.
City Hall wasn't lacking in strong duelists. On the contrary, under Rex Goodwin's control, excellent duelist resources from the entire world were transparent. Setting aside other things, now even Jack was a City Hall member. By reason, they could just use Jack's identity alone to call up a batch of duelists and filter from them.
But they didn't.
City Hall from the start never chose a Synchro Dimension native!
From the root, Goodwin never considered Synchro Dimension humans!
This point was actually easy to distinguish.
Because, since Hikaru said their world's Zane had even directly met the Negative Crimson Dragon, that meant for the Crimson Dragon, humans from any dimension didn't matter. If they could support him, that was enough.
Even for people like Zane and Misawa, who didn't meet the One God vessel standard, he could casually bestow outstanding cards and power.
The current One God, even with just half, this power was unquestionable.
But.
Yusei knew clearly.
The real "chosen one" wasn't anyone on the City Hall team.
But Goodwin.
Process of elimination.
There were no others left.
Of all currently participating teams, Yusei had basically figured out their general philosophy, faith, and the gods behind them.
So without a doubt, Goodwin was absolutely the existence representing the Crimson Dragon's other will.
And in this situation, Goodwin's team had no Synchro Dimension person!
How was his thinking supposed to be?
Could it be.
Yusei grew somewhat heavy.
But regardless, Hikaru's days had lightened up.
Though he still occasionally helped Team 5D's rotate, most of the time he could completely relax and properly enjoy the vacation he'd won.
Even more, when Hikaru returned to Team 5D's laboratory, he was surprised to find that in the drawer there was suddenly a whole deck's worth of cards.
"Oh, this comes with Synchro power." Tierra beside him suddenly grew interested. "Your part-time job finally paid wages. Hurry and see what it is."
Hikaru was also very interested. He was curious what kind of cards the Crimson Dragon would give him.
A whole deck, close to forty cards, a very large number. Flipping through casually, at a glance, they were basically all Psychic-Type monster cards.
What made him somewhat excited was that this deck actually had a whole set of Noh-P.U.N.K. lower monsters. Though only one of each, it was very complete.
But the Crimson Dragon seemed not to have given P.U.N.K. Spell and Trap Cards. In the Extra Deck, there was only one "Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Rising Carp" that looked somewhat lacking.
But getting hold of this kind of deck he'd never heard news about before was definitely good news.
On the side, Hikaru couldn't help marveling. As expected of the Crimson Dragon. Whether it was the Crimson Dragon that pulled him here or the Crimson Dragon that gave Misawa and the others power, they could casually provide a whole Synchro series deck.
The name "Synchro One God" truly lived up to its reputation.
"Huh?"
What's this card?
Serene Psychic Sorceress?
Hikaru blinked and carefully looked at this card's effect.
When Synchro Summoned, you can pay 1000 LP to activate. Set 1 Teleport Normal or Quick-Play Spell Card from your Deck, Graveyard, or even banished state face-down on your field?
Hikaru was somewhat surprised.
Even setting aside its second effect: "When this Synchro Summoned card is sent to the Graveyard, target 1 card on the opponent's field to activate (if you control a Psychic-Type Fusion Monster or Synchro Monster, this effect can target two cards). Return that card to the hand."
This effect was still very powerful.
Because this effect could directly search Teleport Fusion or Parallel Teleport!
The former was a Quick-Play Fusion that could directly use monsters in the Graveyard for Fusion. The latter was Psychic-Type's Metamorphosis. Though definitely not as powerful as Metamorphosis, compared to Metamorphosis, this card could be directly searched.
Besides this, Hikaru saw other related Psychic-Type support monsters. For example Mind Procedure, which could also search Teleport, and the Synchro Monster Silent Psychic Magician.
Oh.
"The cards sent are really many, and they're all system-type cards that can coordinate with each other."
Hikaru nodded.
Setting aside other things, this Serene Psychic Sorceress was quite worth adding to his occasionally used Myutant deck.
Even more.
Hikaru searched out the cards he was making. Sure enough, Absolute Axon Kicker, which hadn't been completed before, was already complete!
Clearly, while Hikaru had been busy working, the Crimson Dragon had unobtrusively directly helped him complete this card.
Cleanup, figuring out the situation of people who shouldn't exist in this dimension, looked like it could be confirmed as done. After all, the Crimson Dragon had even paid wages.
Current Hikaru didn't even have A-Boss's work. Truly free of worries.
If so, he really could rest a bit.
Thinking carefully, it was normal. What came next should be left to the people of this world itself.
The ending of the Synchro World should be decided by Synchro Dimension people themselves.
Now, he should completely shift into a support position.
Also, Hikaru could focus on researching the Branded Dimension and go to other dimensions to complete recent matters.
But before that, Hikaru still needed to briefly summarize the recent situation.
First was the Vampire Empire. If before, Tierra still had to strain to handle the Vampire Empire's broken state, after Tierra defeated Sophia and completely returned to the "Creator Star God" state, she no longer needed that much trouble.
After spending some time in serious correction, the Vampire Empire dimension's collapse phenomenon had been directly stopped by Tierra.
Now, forget ordinary residents of the Vampire Empire. Even the Vampire Young Lady, when seeing Tierra, would respectfully bow and call her "Her Majesty Tierra," along with some pious prayers.
This wasn't exaggeration, nor the Vampire Empire residents flattering Tierra. It was heartfelt respect and worship.
Just like the spirits of the Star War Dimension incomparably worshipped Visas.
Spirits were pure, straightforward beings. For them, Tierra, who'd saved the Vampire Dimension, was their genuine god. And Hikaru, naturally, was the god's vessel, their "messiah." No amount of respect was too much.
What was more exciting for them.
With Tierra completely healed, the Vampire Empire's originally collapsing, shrinking situation wasn't just completely healed. It was slowly re-expanding, recovering toward the original size!
This made them revere her even more than simple protection!
Even now, in the Vampire Empire there were quite a few spirits truly willing to become Tierra's believers and evolve toward the direction Tierra controlled.
For example, the situation in the Frightfur dimension.
With the Vampire Empire's completion, the Frightfur Sanctuary and the Fluffal dimension, under Tierra's efforts, slowly connected more closely. Not only that, because the Earthbound Servants commonly borrowed the Frightfur series' appearances to act in the outside world, the Frightfur dimension's power grew extremely fast. Because of this, the spirits in these dimensions could more rapidly evolve toward the Frightfur direction.
By current look, it seemed brand-new Frightfur were about to evolve soon.
But.
Tierra didn't like these vampires or demons evolving in the direction she controlled by their own initiative.
Whether Shaddoll, "Infernoid," or "Mekk-Knight," she didn't want spirits evolving in these directions.
Though she could accept making more Mekk-Knight monster cards, she really wasn't ready to see a Naamah or Lilith in front of her asking this or that.
Compared to this, evolving according to original possibilities, letting whatever could appear appear, was more interesting.
She'd long stopped caring whether it was machine or life, because in her eyes, the "spirit" life form was more interesting than machinery or flesh. Because of this, the universe she wanted to build this time was also to be designed in this colorful and very wondrous direction.
Another reason was that Hikaru's Fusion was inclusive, full of possibilities. Limiting the possibilities would be boring too.
These worlds used for assistance and experimentation gave Tierra plenty of experience. Because of this, Hikaru had more confidence in separating the Branded Dimension.
But what worried Hikaru more was that the Branded Dimension was still too chaotic. Because of the Engraving Dragon of All Things' power, that dimension was in utter chaos and mixed together. Every time Hikaru went to investigate again, he'd find a worse situation.
The good news was Tierra told Hikaru she now had an easier method to return the Branded Dimension to normal.
That was locking "pivot points."
By locking different dimensions' different "support points" within the same dimension, then summarizing, using these support points as starting points, forcibly separate the multiple dimensions again.
Even for the same world's different futures, actually, because spirits weren't the original story, there were still many differences. If she could precisely grasp these differences, current Tierra could achieve more detailed separation.
For now, because of the Engraving Dragon of All Things' power, Tierra couldn't directly scan the entire dimension. But under the Resistance and Dark Flame's investigation, she could gradually catch some "pivot point" possibilities.
As for other things, Hikaru really had no extra matters to attend to.
Vacation, start!
Of course, that said, Hikaru still had to pay attention to Team 5D's side.
Even though the work was done, Yusei and the others were still Hikaru's friends. He couldn't just dust off and leave. That wasn't Hikaru's style.
Like this, Hikaru took a few days off. He watched Yusei and the others defeat another two teams, occasionally helped them tune machines, test D-Wheels, and sometimes joined them in "endgame" reviews. Though life was still busy, compared to before when daily pressure was maxed out, and he had to research how to take out Leo Akaba, deal with Darkness, and find E-Ra, it was really so much easier.
Also, with no troublemakers and no need to worry about other dimension people, plus having defeated E-Ra, making companions more "like-minded," Team 5D's atmosphere during daily efforts was more relaxed and beautiful. Communication with other teams also grew more convincing and admirable.
In this atmosphere, Team 5D's record grew better and better. Hikaru also grew freer and freer.
About another week passed.
"What?" Hikaru was helping Yusei and the others tune a machine. He suddenly raised his head from the machine, somewhat surprised.
Today, Yusei and the others had defeated their last opponent before facing "Team New World" and "Team Ragnarok." Not only did they let out a huge sigh of relief, under this long journey of effort, they finally truly felt the possibility of completing their hopes.
Just in this situation, Crow suddenly came to find Hikaru.
Because someone wanted to challenge him.
This left Hikaru puzzled.
But after listening, he found it very interesting. He crawled out from among the various machines, called out to Yusei, and told him where he'd gotten to.
Because.
Crow told him that while watching duel data, members of another team had contacted their team, wanting to duel with people on their team.
And that team was the long-withdrawn "Base Dimension Exchange Team"!
Just before leaving, Yuya Sakaki felt somewhat regretful, so through Reiji Akaba, he contacted Team 5D's.
Normally, duel invitations from withdrawn teams like theirs could be directly ignored by other teams. But Crow took a look, recalled Hikaru's earlier duel with the Pendulum Dimension, and instantly understood the context.
Definitely someone wanted to challenge Hikaru, and maybe someone with bewilderment emotions about dueling!
In this situation, if they just withdrew and left in a daze, it would definitely become a heart knot. Then it would obstruct the dueling path, and this and that, finally becoming a lifetime regret.
That wouldn't do!
Crow remembered that many on that team were kids about the same age as Yuto and Rin. If they got stuck on the dueling path without even taking two steps, wouldn't that be a shame?
So he decisively chose to go ask Hikaru whether he had the interest and time.
Hikaru probably hesitated for less than half a second.
Maybe shorter.
He wasn't hesitating. He was surprised.
There was such a good thing!?
"I'll go right away."
"Hey hey hey, don't rush. Set a time!"