Youyu got the "Chaos" card deck, while Bakura obtained the stone tablets of the "Three Evil Gods". These two players entering the RPG are upgrading and gearing up during the precious time before PVP officially begins, while the real main character of the story, the Pharaoh, has been busy these days with...
...eating, drinking, and watching palace maidens dance.
Alright, this obviously wasn't what the Pharaoh intended. But there's no choice, according to tradition, the main task for the new Pharaoh during the first two days of his reign is exactly this.
Heaven knows he didn't really want to have fun, but alas, the script doesn't allow it...
Although Yugi is keeping an eye on Bakura's actions also, he can't move if the other side doesn't make the first move. Moreover, this broken game doesn't even have a newbie tutorial, and having been sealed for three thousand years, he's completely forgotten how to be a leader. These past two days, he's been in a confused state like a human-shaped repeater.
Priest: Your Majesty the Pharaoh, these are the six high priests under your command.
Yugi: Nani? There are actually six high priests?
Priest: Your Majesty the Pharaoh, these are our Millennium Items.
Yugi: Nani? There are actually Millennium Items?
Priest: Your Majesty the Pharaoh, this is the Alchemy Crystal we use to summon monsters for battles, the Dueling Disc!
Yugi: Nani? There is actually a Dueling Disc?
Then on the day of the coronation, when seeing the true faces of the six high priests, Yugi was equally taken aback.
Nani? It's actually Kaiba?
Nani? It's actually Ishizu?
Nani? It's actually Grandpa Sugoroku?
"..."
No wonder he's surprised, after crossing over, there are just too many things to process. In the priests, the one holding the Millennium Necklace, Isis, looks exactly like the Gravekeeper Race's Ishizu elder sister, and the priest carrying the Millennium Rod, Set, no matter how you look at it, is President Kaiba.
Additionally, the priest holding the Millennium Key, Simon, just based on that starfish hairstyle inherited by the Muto Family, Yugi could instantly recognize that it was unmistakably Grandpa Sugoroku...
However, he exclaimed "Grandpa" in surprise, which left the other party in a daze, saying Your Majesty the Pharaoh, are you too tired? I am your loyal aide Simon, as well as your father's...
It's strange. Dark Yugi is obviously the son of the former Pharaoh Aknamkanon, but his father Aknamkanon had neither a seafood-styled explosive hairstyle nor purple pupils. Instead, Priest Simon has an identical hairstyle and eye color to his son, like they were carved from the same mold.
It's no wonder that occasionally on the forums, some bored silly players post saying they suspect that Grandpa Sugoroku from three thousand years ago might have had an inexplicable, complicated relationship with the Pharaoh's family, possibly being the neighbor's Old Six...
Of course, these are just the usual silly banter and have nothing to do with the original plot at all.
Though Yugi holds the title of Pharaoh and wields great power, he neither has the three thousand-year-old memories like Bakura, with a perfect strategy in mind, nor has he watched the anime like a cheat player such as Youyu.
Among the players involved in this Darkness Game, it seems only him, the Pharaoh, is completely in the dark about the entire game's process and mode, having to explore everything from scratch.
Now he just barely remembers who the people around him are, can match the priests' names to their faces, but still remains utterly clueless about his own situation and circumstances.
"The Rebirth Story of How I Became Pharaoh in Egypt Without a Cheat System".
At this moment, he is, following the procedure, being escorted within the Royal Capital by the close-body guard Priest Simon and the army led by the guarding Priest Mahad, inspecting the people's situation, to bridge the gap between the new Pharaoh and the people.
But in reality, it's just going through the motions. Many of those enthusiastic people on the road are actually those who have undergone strict vetting, and might even be actors placed there after rigorous rehearsals, solely to make the scene look better when the Pharaoh inspects.
Actually, Yugi doesn't really need to do anything, just responsible for being carried while sitting there is enough, even taking a nap wouldn't be a problem.
At this time, Priest Simon was still chuckling near his ear: "Heheh, Your Majesty the Pharaoh, rest assured, your tomb was personally handled by me, Simon, and the construction craftsmanship is absolutely first-class!"
Yugi's eyelids twitched instantly.
Is it that scary? I'm not even dead yet, and the tomb is already being dug?
And do you have to say something so eerie right in front of the person? Is this the style of Ancient Egypt?
Yugi felt a chill down his spine, but then quickly thought, strictly speaking had he not already been in a tomb once three thousand years ago?
Thinking like this, it didn't seem so hard to accept anymore.
"Uh... uh, thanks." He responded casually.
Priest Simon smiled: "Heheh, there's something you might not know. I have set up the highest level of barriers, the most powerful magic, and traps in your tomb, no matter how many years later, no thief could possibly conquer it, Your Majesty will absolutely rest in peace after death!"
The more Simon talked about it, making it sound darker and darker, Yugi couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat again.
Hey, that's going too far!
However, speaking of the Pharaoh's tomb, he immediately remembered, AIBO had told him about the story that Grandpa Sugoroku often liked to brag about, the story of how Grandpa Sugoroku found the "Millennium Pendant" for his grandson.
According to Grandpa Sugoroku himself, when he was young, he was a world-renowned top player who traversed the north and south, proficient in any game that existed in the world.
One day, he decided to go tomb raiding, to challenge the legendary most difficult Pharaoh's tomb. He endured countless hardships, barely surviving mortal peril, breaking through layers of traps beyond human imagination, and finally conquered that legendary tomb, bringing out the "Millennium Pendant" from it to give to Yugi as a gift...
Thinking of this, Dark Yugi couldn't help but have a face full of black lines.
So the "tomb that can't possibly be conquered" that Priest Simon bragged about...
...was actually conquered by Grandpa himself three thousand years later, huh!
Yugi seemed to suddenly understand.
So it means, my tomb was built by Grandpa, and then it was dug up by Grandpa as well, huh?
...Well, it's fine too.
If Grandpa Sugoroku hadn't dug up the tomb and found the Millennium Pendant to give it to his grandson as a gift, he might never have had the chance to meet AIBO in his lifetime.
Thinking of this, he even felt that Grandpa's tomb-digging move was good, deserving a praise...
"Yugi!"
While thinking about it, he suddenly heard someone shout loudly.
The soldiers in the whole group became vigilant at once, and the loyal Priest Mahad immediately activated his Dueling Disc, in a stance ready to fight if things didn't go well.
"Who are you!? Who would dare be so presumptuous in front of the Pharaoh!?"
Dark Yugi looked towards the source of the sound and was pleasantly surprised to find, behind the crowd not far away, that familiar group of friends whose attire and appearance clashed with others around them, yet made him feel intimately close.
"AIBO!" The Pharaoh, so excited that he ignored the bunch of subordinates beside him, jumped off the cart pulled by the soldiers, "And everyone else!"
Mahad: "!"
The Pharaoh actually has friends I didn't know about?