"Ah..."
Tenjo Hikari finally realized.
No wonder he hadn't seen the Spirit of the Divine Soldier from Dark World until now; the Divine Soldier was absorbed?
Solving a lingering question in his mind was a good thing.
In any case, Judai said that he decided to go on adventures and travel with Yubel to the Dimension, partly to create a new history of living together with Yubel, and partly to search for traces, help the weak, and so on.
Enacting heroic deeds in reality.
Tenjo Hikari definitely supports this.
As time passed, because Aiko collided the boat with the "seal" of Duel Academy Island, external humans' memory and cognition of the Academy began to be readjusted, and the seal on Academy Island started to gradually fade away.
The transparent walls slowly turned into air, students one by one awakened, and under Judai and other professors' leadership, the spirits were also gradually repelled, defeated, and even killed by the students.
Some chose to duel with students during "crossfire," joining some students' decks, while the remaining spirits were controlled by the school, likely to be sent to Kaiba Company in the future, which would be out of the school's concern.
The students started to awaken gradually, and teachers returned to their posts. Tierra also took five or six days to repeatedly iterate and create a device that could shield from darkness influence remotely.
Once installed on the Duel Disk, it can basically shield from memory modification and the like, although it won't make you completely immune to all abilities. If darkness really hits you with mental attacks, you'll still faint, but at least widespread "stage effects" are no longer a worry.
With everything seemingly over, the warm sunlight once again shone on the island, students could attend classes normally every day, and after school, everyone seemed to have forgotten the previous perils, more focused on their performance in this "event."
Some boasted about how many spirits they defeated, others joked about who didn't perform well.
In these numerous discussions, besides Ed and Judai who fought on the front line, only Serena and Ruri had relatively high voices.
Because this time, Tenjo Hikari was mostly investigating and collecting in secret, so he didn't have much performance, whereas the two young girls, one who came to "fight" for she wouldn't miss a brawl, the other worried about Serena running around and making Tenjo Hikari concerned, always acted together.
Perhaps due to this opportunity to duel with Spirit, Ruri quickly learned Spirit Power in various battles, relying on talent for Spirit Adaptability beyond normal understanding, and a mind far superior to Serena, quickly emerged, saving many classmates along the way, and making quite a splash.
Serena didn't mind either; always desiring fatherly love but treated as a pawn by Akaba Leo, she had no friends apart from Tenjo Hikari and several seniors from the Fusion Department. Hardly having someone who looked exactly like her, yet so "frail," a sister, she was too happy to be upset.
Moreover, she and Ruri have genuine "life-and-death" friendship, having been fugitives together in S Dimension, teamed up for adventure in this incident, almost counting as comrades-in-arms, their relationship gets better and better, naturally no room for "jealousy."
Lately, she often bragged about Ruri's experiences to classmates she knew a bit, making Ruri a bit embarrassed instead.
After awakening, Professor Paladin washed away his "sins," but still felt very embarrassed. He practically stayed behind closed doors during this period, and Professor Cronos understood him, if he were the one to suffer such an ordeal, he'd have no heart for teaching, wishing to find a hole to crawl into.
However, considering this was also a sacrifice for the school, Professor Cronos didn't plan to deduct his score — not just him, after this incident, he could judge, the remaining professors were almost all caring teachers for the academy and students, trustworthy in character regardless of teaching skill.
That is to say, after this semester ends, all professors can return to their schools to continue overseeing the development of various branches.
Professor Moushou suffered the most injuries and was in a coma due to being slashed with a sword, but compared to the reclusive Professor Paladin, he showed much more ease. Despite being caught in undeserved disaster himself, he wasn't bothered at all, laughing heartily, patting Professor Paladin's door, embracing Paladin's shoulder and calling him a brother.
In a sense, they too were life-and-death brothers.
Only Professor Moushou could call Paladin out at such a time—anyone else might be unbearable, but when Professor Moushou visited, Paladin had to open the door.
And once out, he naturally becomes familiar with the second outing, coming out anyway.
After all, jokes aside, everyone knows the specific inner truth, no one really blames Professor Paladin.
In this atmosphere, the students gradually regained their smiles, Paladin almost single-handedly brought vitality and smiles back to the students post-major event.
Within a few days, the school slowly starting to recover sound and laughter, as if the previous events had never happened.
Only the school's higher-ups remained busy, communicating and reporting with Kaiba Company during this time.