Spent the whole Saturday at Kaiba Land, and in the evening when little Judai was picked up by his parents to go home, he waved vigorously at Youyu from afar, looking quite reluctant to leave.
It seemed that even though he was "educated intensely" by Youyu in a duel, it didn't affect his admiration for Youyu or his enthusiasm for dueling.
Actually, after getting to know him, Youyu found this little jellyfish head quite adorable, almost making him reluctant to train him.
...Well, just a little bit.
Returning home in the evening, as soon as Youyu opened the door, he smelled the aroma of food wafting from several rooms away down the corridor.
Upon reaching the kitchen, he found that a vampire who had thoroughly immersed herself as a maid was wearing an apron and busily enjoying the kitchen work.
"Ah, Master Youyu, you're back." Quine quickly stood upright and smiled, "Please wait a moment, dinner is almost ready!"
Youyu nodded in satisfaction, showing the value of having a maid.
Soon enough, Quine brought a large table filled with exquisite dishes.
Originally, Youyu thought that a vampire's dinner might be a bit heavy or strange, but it turned out he was overthinking it. The food was not only perfectly normal but also looked, tasted, and smelled great, without anything he could criticize.
Previously unnoticed, this vampire not only caught the eye with her charms but surprisingly also had this hidden talent.
"Master Youyu, how does it taste?"
Youyu tasted the food and nodded slightly, "It's so-so, decent enough."
Quine was very pleased.
Excellent, a huge progress!
Some say to capture a man, you must first capture his stomach.
It might seem like a small step on the path of being a maid, but Quine felt it was a big step towards her ultimate goal!
After all, in such a big house, it was just the two of them.
A lone man and a woman, as long as she persisted, she eventually could...
"Master, this looks delicious!"
The speaker was a cute blond-haired magician who suddenly appeared out of nowhere. At that moment, she was leaning half her body forward over the table, pressing a certain part of herself into the table...
Quine: "..."
"Would you like to try some?" Youyu asked.
"I...can I?" Dark Magician Girl hesitated.
"Of course you can."
Quine stared at the cute blond spirit, instantly triggering some unpleasant memories.
She remembered when she first dueled Youyu, the final blow Youyu used was completed by this Dark Magician Girl.
Moreover, Quine noticed that this spirit girl had materialized her body before the attack, and a burst of "Black Magic" power had almost flattened her...
Thinking about this made Quine feel a faint pain where she had been hit before.
Dark Magician Girl noticed Quine's gaze, turned her head to look at the vampire in the maid outfit, and tilted her head in confusion.
"...Strange." The girl adjusted her magician hat, "Do we seem to have met somewhere before?"
Quine: "..."
The vampire felt completely undone.
Quine silently went to the kitchen and, following Youyu's instructions, brought a bowl for the Dark Magician Girl.
After the meal, the vampire maid cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them in the kitchen. Youyu sat back in the living room, preparing to browse forums and catch up on TV news.
Just at that moment, with a crisp "snap," the lights in the living room and the television screen simultaneously went out without warning.
Youyu froze.
Did it... trip a breaker?
...No, it didn't seem that way.
As a battle-hardened warrior, Youyu had long been sensitive to extraordinary forces. Almost instantly, he sensed something amiss...like a Darkness Game, but different.
Compared to previous bosses like Dark Marik and Dartz, the aura lingering around didn't seem like pure dark power, rather more like a Duel Monster spirit.
And quite a powerful spirit.
Youyu held his breath.
After a few seconds of silence, a sound of some high-speed piercing object ripping through the air, carrying fierce intent, locked directly onto Youyu's direction.
Without needing the master's command, the Dark Magician Girl, already on standby, materialized instantly and cheerfully shouted while forming a circular array to block the Raid from the Dark.
It seemed to be a vine, long and covered with small green thorns.
In the darkness, a silhouette walked out slowly, outlined by the pale moonlight in a devil's form.
No, more accurately, it couldn't even be called a "human" shadow.
It was a devilish being, standing under the moonlight streaming from outside the window, its wide wings projected onto the ground like a bat's spread wings.
She had light red skin, lips with light blue lipstick as if smeared with lip gloss, and sharp fangs. Her green-orange gradient eyes seemed to glow in the darkness, with a bizarre third eye on her forehead, each of the three gazes penetrating anyone's heart.
Yubel, 10th-generation's Guardian, the future spirit.
Though often referred to as Sister Yubel, her gender remains a topic of debate among viewers.
The American version of GX series designates Yubel as a female spirit, while the Japanese version is always recorded as "unknown." Thus, whether Yubel is male or female has been a long-standing debate among card players alike as the gender of a character from another popular series...
...Of course, it's irrelevant now.
In the original animation, Yubel is a spirit that overprotects 10th-generation, loving him to a morbid degree.
To the extent that during his childhood, she greeted every person who won against him in a duel one by one, rendering each of them bedridden and unconscious...
If it were just that, it would be fine.
The key issue is, when this spread, no one dared to duel 10th-generation anymore.
Since then, our little Judai had no one to duel with!
That's even crueler than being critiqued while playing chess!
Thus it's no surprise later 10th-generation relied on the Kaiba Group's strength, directly sealed Yubel's card into a satellite, and sent it flying into the sky to align with the sun...
From another angle, it could be understood as this yandere spirit being dumped by the young 10th-generation, laying the foundation for the GX other dimension arc's large-scale disaster, "Yandere destroys the cosmos..."
Because, until now, Youyu hadn't sensed the spirit's power or noticed any abnormal mental state in little Judai during their interactions. So, Youyu assumed that Sister Yubel had already ascended to the sky.
However, it seemed she hadn't.
Perhaps Yubel's card was just brought to Judai by his father who returned from a business trip abroad, and Judai hadn't yet added this card to his deck — the animation mentioned that only when Judai placed the card in his deck during a duel would the opponent end up comatose.
So, it seemed Yubel might have just arrived by Judai's side and hadn't stirred much trouble, hence Judai hadn't noticed her presence yet.
For now, having completely educated little Judai through dueling repeatedly, Youyu naturally became one of Yubel's early targets...
"Surprising."
Yubel spoke slowly — using an unmistakably feminine tone, seemingly carrying an inexplicable magnetic force.
Her three eyes sized up the Dark Magician Girl protecting Youyu.
"Duel King Youyu, do you have a spirit by your side?" she chuckled, "Quite a cute little spirit girl."
She paused, narrowing her eyes, her gaze emanating from her unique pupils resembling a demon's.
"However... with just this level, can't protect your beloved master~" Yubel chuckled lightly.
The Dark Magician Girl became angry, raising her hand and launching a magical light bullet. But Yubel just casually raised her palm, catching it effortlessly, as if catching a baseball thrown by a school kid.
Yubel showed a contemptuous expression, as if to say, is this it?
The next moment, her expression changed slightly, sidestepping two steps, the wide wing on her left side shielding like a plate. Exactly at that instant, a beam of white light pierced through the darkness like Shooting Star, hitting her wing, shaking Yubel's body, making her step back two steps.
Yubel's wing was smoking, seemingly in pain. She turned her head in surprise, immediately spotting another tall and slender mage girl that mysteriously appeared, holding a magic staff, saying nothing but staring at her with hostile eyes.
Yubel seemed quite taken aback.
A second spirit!?