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~~Sometime before the Deluxe~~
2:30 AM.
Nao's deck was sprawled across her desk. Nao sat, staring at cards in her hand. "Should I try and use some cards that draw more, maybe?" She yawned, flicking the cards in her hand. " “Colgaflan? Kyohma mentioned it wasn’t bad, but that card doesn’t really synergize well with Varga…” Varga. The name of her avatar. The one she had gained upon joining the Fated Clash. The one she had beat Mondo Kirishima with. The one that… The one Sybilt had mentally polluted. When she looked down, staring at her was the Drekasleif.
“The card is still here…but it did cause a lot of people stress…Is it really okay for me to be using this?” She held it in front of herself as she slumped down onto her desk. “It has a really good control skill, and I don’t even need to counterblast to retire the front-row…but…would Aki really be okay with me using this? What kind of example would I be setting? Would Erika be…” Her thoughts trailed off as she began to fall asleep.
Upon waking, she found herself in an abundant crop field bathed in moonlight.
“W-Where am I…” She gazed around the field, seeing as the crops danced amongst the wind.
She placed her hand on her forehead. “Acha…How have I gotten myself in a situation like this?”
She began to walk around the field. Passing each grain, something began to become familiar to her. “I…I’ve been here before.” She looked up at the full moon in the sky. The fights she’s had. With Akina. And the others, that weren’t hers, but present in her memories. And the one where she had reached her hand to her avatar.
When she looked up, facing her was the subject in question. The Fated One of Unparalleled, Varga Dragres. His scales glimmered in the moonlight, and his one eye visible through the cut in his hat.
“Nao Inabe.” The dragon addressed her.
Nao was a bit surprised. In their initial encounter, where they had both reached out their hands, the dragon had not spoken to her. This was the first time she had heard his voice as well.
“Varga Dragres…are you upset?”
“At what, specifically?”
Nao thought about it, and there was a lot. Losing her first round of the Fated Clash, to her own student at that, and then getting possessed by Sybilt. But, considering she had been possessed, she wondered if it had affected him.
“When I was possessed… were you also…?”
“Yes. Sybilt had mentally polluted me. In my pollution and control, I struck down the Fated One of Time, although she was saved by her loved one, the Fated One of Miracles.” He recounted.
Nao thought about how that similarly paralleled her own life, with the Future Hikari having been possessed originally, then collapsing when Sybilt had left her body, only for Akina to intervene. However, her thoughts were interrupted by Varga speaking again.
“But I do not hold any resentment toward you.” He added. “I have no regrets now, and I will continue to move forward, even using the power of the Malwyrm.” He spoke with a nonchalant and stern tone on the matter.
“If you have any doubts, though…” Varga drew his white sword from its sheath.
“Then…You and I shall overcome your fears together…” He slashed at the ground, and the next thing Nao knew, she found herself at the ruins where the Final Battle of the Destined Showdown was held. Varga now stood behind her… and when she looked across from her, her eyes widened.
Sybilt, with her body in possession, stood across from her. The stood up hair, the corrupted outfit, and as it spoke, sounded the same as it did from back then. It raised its hand at her.
“Nao Inabe! Allow me to take you once more and we can let the world despair in its desires!”
Nao looked in horror as the mimicry of herself stood from across the fight table.
“You should be gone! Akina defeated you! Gabwelius killed you!”
Varga looked down on her, and noted as she changed her stance.
“I don’t care if you’re some ghost, I’m not letting you do that again! And I’m not gonna let you do that to anyone else either! Let’s fight, Sybilt!”
She had somehow found her deck on her and held it at the doppelganger.
Varga noted the resolve she had.
“Very well! I shall make you and your loved ones despair, too!” Sybilt opened its arms out.
The two Naos began to set up on the fight table, both silent as they readied their cards. Nao remembered that Varga was behind her, but decided to say nothing to him as this was also something that had affected him. She then looked at Sybilt.
“Is it going to use the Drekasleif version of my deck against me? I should keep Boulder Axes in my hand if I see them in case then…”
And as Nao performed her mulligan, she chose to keep the units that would power up when leaving the front row.
When both fighters were ready, they set down their first Vanguards.
"Stand Up, Vanguard!”
{Track Insert: Destiny}
“Unison Dragon, Sybilt.” Sybilt had turned over a copy of itself.
“That’s not Ardart…!” Nao was surprised at the Malwyrm’s change of deck, but resolved to continue the fight, even if she had messed up her mulligan in doing so.
“Heated Blade, Ardart!” Nao flipped over her tried and true starter.
“This is what I once was…A Unison Dragon.”
“Sybilt’s past form? There’s another Unison Dragon in Vanguard too… Aundra, I think. Ghry and Aundra. I’ve read into it before…I wonder how similar it is.”
“And this is who I once treasured.” Sybilt stated as they discarded for its ride.
Sybilt then placed a human as its Grade 1 ride, Boy Aspiring to Join the Protectors, Sperod.
The energy generator appeared in its crest zone.
“The friend that I cherished during my time as a Unison Dragon.”
“Similar to that Rideline, a Human and a Dragon in tandem…”
“I activate his skill, revealing a copy of myself from the Ride Deck, and adding an order to my hand.” Sybilt flipped over its copy from the ride deck, showing the transmogrified being.
“Turn end.”
Nao drew for turn, and looked at her hand.
“I kept a bunch of cards that would benefit from me clearing them, but if I don’t know what I’m fighting…”
“I ride Blazembar!” Nao rode as she discarded one of the Boulder Axes she held onto.
“I set the energy generator and energy charge! Then I draw with Ardart, and I also call Koufu! Here I go! Koufu attacks the vanguard!”
“No guard.” The malwyrm replied.
[Dragritter, Shawq - No Trigger]
“Blazembar attacks!”
“I guard with Madowazu.”
[8,000 VS 23,000]
“Drive check!”
[Wicked Beast, Sunegosuri - Critical Trigger]
“Shoot. I missed a trigger there…But I wanted to get cards out of its hand, so that’s fine.”
"Turn end!”
Field Check:
Sybilt:
Back Row: None - None- None
Front Row: None - Boy who Wants to join the Protectors, Sperod - None
Damage: 1
Drop: 2
Soul: 1
Hand: 5
Energy:0
Nao:
Front Row: None - Blazembar Dragon - Battlemonk of Raging Flames, Koufu
Back Row: None - None - None
Damage: 0
Drop: 1
Soul: 1
Hand: 6
Energy:3
“And what became of my precious friend…” Sybilt spoke again as it began its turn, and riding into its Grade 2.
Distorted Heart, Sperod.
“This world…” Sybilt proceeded to call 2 more rearguards to its board, Demonic Dragon Berserker, Bakki to the right, and Stealth Fiend, Shenryi behind the vanguard.
“Attack.” Bakki was the first to attack the Vanguard.
“No guard!”
[Dragritter, Shuura - No Trigger]
“And with what happened with him…I could not stop him.” Sybilt attacked with its Vanguard, boosted by Shenryi, and retired a rearguard, then drew a card.
“28,000?! I can’t guard that…I should have guarded the rearguard first…”
Sybilt revealed the top card of its deck.
[Conduct Spark Dragon - Critical Trigger]
“And a critical too?!”
[Sparkle Rejector Dragon - No Trigger]
[Battle Monk of Raging Flames, Koufuu - No Trigger]
“Turn end.” Sybilt spoke.
“I’m sinking fast! If I don’t do something soon, I won’t be able to live whatever grade 3 turn is coming my way.”
“Stand and draw! Ride, Boulder Axe Dragon! Blazembar calls itself from the soul!”
Nao grimaced at what she had to soulcharge off of Blazembar. Dragveda.
“Just my luck… But it’s just as Dragveda says! Never giving up is the way to open the path forward. I gotta keep going.” “I call another Boulder Axe Dragon! I attack the vanguard with the Vanguard Boulder Axe.”
“No Guard.”
[Gentle Breeze Dragon, Dinobreeze - Heal Trigger]
“Got it! Heal Trigger! The rear Boulder Axe gets 10,000 power!”
[Dragritter, Lateefa - No Trigger]
“The rearguard Boulder Axe continues!” Nao rested the rearguard.
“No Guard.” Sybilt proceeded to take another damage.
[Stealth Dragon, Utsuroi - No Trigger]
“Turn end.”
“I got ahead. But this is one of the turns where it counts…”
Field Check:
Sybilt:
Back Row: None - None- None
Front Row: None - Distorted Heart, Sperod - None
Damage: 3
Drop: 4
Soul: 3
Hand: 6
Energy:3
Nao:
Front Row: None - Boulder Axe Dragon - Boulder Axe Dragon
Back Row: None - Blazembar Dragon - Battlemonk of Raging Flames, Koufu
Damage: 2
Drop: 3
Soul: 2
Hand: 6
Energy:6
“And Sperod passed from this world.” Sybilt spoke again. “Yes…this world…” Sybilt drew its card for turn, then discarded. “Truly disgusts me.” The grade 3 that was revealed earlier was placed onto the vanguard cycle, and behind the doppelganger body appeared the baby Unison Dragon itself. And something began to emerge from it, the grueling sounds disturbing Nao.
[Track Insert: Destined Path]
“Malwyrm, Sybilt!” Sybilt cried out.
The corrupted Unison Dragon had manifested itself behind its possessing self.
“And when I return, I will grant everyone in this world their desires, just as I did on cray! Just like with the tribe of that vile Blest Dragon, and just like I’ve done with many others! Flame Dragons, Humans, and many more! I activate an order!”
Sybilt played the order that it added to its hand earlier.
“Join me, servants!”
Bakki called itself from the drop zone to the left rearguard circle, and Sybilt added 2 more cards to its formation, Shenryi to the back left rearguard, and Desolate Flame Dragon to the right.
“Those I call upon will grant me power! I add a copy of myself to my hand!” Sybilt grabbed a persona ride target off of Desolate Flare.
“And you will all have your desires! With my skill, 2 of my units become mentally polluted!”
The two front row rearguards on Sybilt’s board glowed red.
“It can do it as its own skill too?!” Nao thought about the ability that Sybilt had used to pollute the Destined Ones. Akina’s little sister, her rival from middle school,Taizo’s best friend, just some of the victims of the same ability. Now, she had to face the same ability as a skill manifested in the game she went pro in.
“Any mentally polluted receive a blessing of 5,000 power, and will retire at the end of my turn.”
Sybilt smiled with glee as it let those chosen units reach their desires.
“And now attack!” Bakki was the first unit to swing at the vanguard.
[15,000]
“It didn’t boost? Does that mean…”
“Flare Veil will guard!”
[15,000 VS 20,000]
“Then I will continue!”
“Sunegosuri guards!” Nao played the Critical Trigger to the Guardian Circle.
[13,000 VS 25,000]
“Twin Drive.”
[Dancing Princess of Elegant Flames, Justina - No Trigger]
[Stealth Fiend, Futakuchiyo - Front Trigger]
“The front row gains 10,000 power!”
Nao’s eyes narrowed, now having to deal with an even bigger front row.
“And that rearguard…”
“With my skill! Drive yourselves wild! I stand one unit that’s mentally polluted, and it gets 10,000 power!”
“Continue!” Sybilt waved its hands and attacked with Desolate Flare. “Its skill will grant my desires!” Desolate Flare glowed orange, and in return, Bakki also glowed orange.
“No guard!”
[Twinpulsive Dragon - No Trigger]
“I will make you suffer!” Sybilt swung with its last column that it had restood.
[48,000]
“No guard.” Nao tried to put on a resilient face, despite having to go to 4 this early.
[Damage Check: Flare Veil Dragon - Draw Trigger]
“I draw.”
“I do as well.” Sybilt returned as it moved Shenryi into the soul.
Sybilt’s smile grew wider. “At the end of my turn,all mentally polluted units will retire. Due to my skill, I draw a card, then due to the skills of my orders and rearguard, both front row rearguards return to my hand!”
“Ten cards in the hand?!” Nao thought to herself.
“Doesn’t matter if it’s 5 or 10! I have to do it!”
[Track Insert: Fate’s Turn]
“Stand and draw!”
Nao looked back at Varga behind her, and he nodded in response. As Nao discarded for her ride, and as she grabbed the Grade 3 in her ride deck, Varga in turn unsheathed his blades.
“White Flash and Black Reverberation! It’s time to draw the sword for some dual-wield fighting! Ride! Fated One of Unparalleled, Varga Dragres.”
The dragon spread his wings and took to the open air of the ruins. It pointed one of its swords at the Malwyrm.
“With Boulder axe’s skill, I call it to the other front row rearguard circle!”
Nao looked to one of the cards in her hand. “Rokusei…I held onto this because I thought I would see Shuura on Sybilt’s side…but if I’m not, I should at least try and get a bigger shield out of this!”
“I also call Rokusei!” Nao called to the last open circle on her board. “I then use the energy generator to draw!”
“Prepare yourself! I attack with the left Boulder Axe!”
“Guard!” Sybilt called the front trigger it had just seen.
[23,000 VS 28,000]
Then, they moved the trigger into the soul with its skill.
“With Boulder Axe’s skill, I draw. With Rokusei, I draw another card. Both of these units leave the field. The other Boulder Axe attacks!” Nao rested her last front row rearguard.
“Guard!” This time Sybilt had guarded with a critical and Bakki.
[28,000 VS 33,000]
“I draw with its skill. Now! Blazembar boosts! It cuts off everything in its range! Varga attacks!”
“What is there to cut with no front row?” Sybilt asked with a smirk.
“The only option is you!”
[33,000 VS 13,000]
“No guard!” Sybilt taunted.
“Twin drive!”
[Burning Flail Dragon - Critical Trigger]
“All effects to Varga!”
[Gentle Breeze Dragon, Dinobreeze - Heal Trigger]
“Healing one damage, and giving all the power to the vanguard!”
Varga readied itself, then took off toward the Unison Dragon, and made two swift slashes, one with each blade.
“Is that all?” Sybilt proceeded to its damage check.
[Conduct Spark Dragon - Critical Trigger]
“All effects to myself!”
[Stealth Dragon, Shikintan - Heal Trigger]
“I heal one damage, and give all power to myself!”
“Shoot! I got it to four, but even if I use my divine skill here…”
“Varga restands with drive minus two, and attacks Sybilt!”
[43,000 VS 33,000]
The malwyrm roared at the Fated One, and in response the Unparalleled rebounded against the wall and slashed at the Malwyrm again, only to be stopped by a shield of flames.
“Guard!” Sybilt placed another trigger onto the guardian circle.
[43,000 VS 48,000]
“9…should be enough. I’m at 3 now thanks to that heal. I can live this!”
“Turn end!”
Field Check:
Sybilt:
Back Row: None - None- None
Front Row: None - Malyrm, Sybilt - None
Damage: 4
Drop: 10
Soul: 4
Hand: 6
Energy:3
Nao:
Front Row: None - FOoU, Varga Dragres - None
Back Row: None - Blazembar Dragon - Battlemonk of Raging Flames, Koufu
Damage: 3
Drop: 9
Soul: 2
Hand: 9
Energy:2
“Nao Inabe…You will regret not ending it there!”
{Track Insert: FATAL Finale}
“Persona Ride! Malwyrm, Sybilt!”
[Front Row: +10,000!]
“I call!” Sybilt called Justina to the back right circle.
“And with this unit’s skill, I discard an order from my deck, then I can play it!”
Once again, Sybilt activated Sperod and Sybiltl, Who we Once were.
“Come out again! And I will grant all your wishes!” Sybilt’s eye flashed red as Bakki came back from the drop zone to the right. and called an additional 2 rearguards, Desolate Flare and Dragritter Shawq behind it on the left.
Manifesting to the side of the physical dragon behind Sybilt came the units that it had just called.
“My skill activates!” The 3 new units all glowed red, and their physical forms responded with their eyes glowing red.
“I’ll make them go wild! Prepare yourself, Nao Inabe!” Sybilt rested Desolate Flare and Shawq.
[43,000 VS 13,000]
Desolate Flare roared at Varga, and charged itself at it.
“Varga!” Nao called out to her avatar in worry.
“Don’t worry about me, focus on the fight!” Varga put himself into a defensive stance, and clashed with the opposing dragon.
“No guard!” Nao steeled herself for what was to come.
[Battle Monk of the Raging Flames, Rokusei - No Trigger]
“Prepare yourself! I attack the Vanguard! Step 1! Impact!”
The Malwyrm launched a breath of fire at the Unparalleled One. However, a red shield appeared before it could make contact.
Nao immediately threw a card into the drop zone.
“Perfect Guard!”
[28,000 VS Sentinel]
“Twin Drive!”
[Stealth Dragon, Utsuroi - No Trigger]
[Dragritter, Shawq - No Trigger]
Nao let out a sigh of relief with no triggers having shown up in the Drive Check.
Her relief was cut short when Sybilt replied.
“Did you think this was over? Since I face a Grade 3 Vanguard, with my skill, I can stand two mentally polluted units. Or, one of them can be…”
Nao gasped as Sybilt reached for itself on the Vanguard Circle, and stood itself along with Desolate Flare. Shawq also stood behind the Flame Dragon.
“I normally would get drive -2, but due to my past, I will retain a drive check!
I will not stop until everyone grasps their desires. Step 2! Soar!”
And once again, the Malwyrm attacked.
[38,000 VS 13,000]
“No guard!” Nao cried out.
“Drive check!”
[Dragon King Deity of Resurgence, Dragveda - OVERTRIGGER]
Sybilt laughed with joy as it flipped over the card.
“I get 100 million power, and stand!”
Dragveda appeared behind the Malwyrm, and the two launched an attack that launched the Unparalleled One into the wall.
“This is bad this is bad this is bad…!”
“Damage check!” Nao said in a panic.
[Flare Veil Dragon - Draw Trigger]
“I draw! Varga gets 10,000 power!”
“Step 3! Purgatory!” Sybilt stated as it rested its vanguard for the last time.
[100,038,000 VS 23,000]
“Perfect Guard!” Nao panicked once again, in a hurry, she ditched a grade 3 with no shield value from her hand and discarded it, not checking which card it was.
[100,038,000 VS Sentinel]
“Drive check!”
[Stealth Dragon, Mazowasu - Critical Trigger]
Desolate Flare glowed yellow as the trigger was revealed.
As Varga tried to recover from the impact, another blast was fired, but this time was stopped by the shield once again.
“Attack!” Sybilt rested the restood column.
[63,000 VS 23,000]
“I guard with 3 cards!” Nao guarded with 2 of the triggers she saw revealed last turn, and one she had probably drawn.
[63,000 VS 68,000]
The flame dragon flew at varga once again, only to be stopped by a breeze pushing it away.
“It’s over!”
[38,000 VS 23,000]
“Guard!
[38,000 VS 43,000]
Nao panted as she called 2 more cards, being Burning Flail and Rokusei.
“Tch. Turn end. At the end of my turn, I return 3 units to my hand, and draw another card. But with only one card left in your hand, what can you do?” Sybilt asked the Unparalleled.
“That’s fine! I left just the card I needed!” Nao looked at what she thought was her persona ride. But it was Twinpulsive. In her panic, she discarded the wrong card. She panicked again, and then looked to Varga.
“I don’t want to lose…I can’t lose…So please…”
As she drew her card for her turn, her eyes widened at the draw.
“This is….” In her hand was the Unparalleled Drekasleif. “I never cut it…I was deciding if I wanted to or not, but I never came to a decision.” And as she blankly stared, Varga got up from the crater it was in looked back and called out to her again.
“Are you still doubting yourself?”
Nao didn’t know what to say to her avatar. Seeing the rearguards that Sybilt had also mentally polluted, she was concerned for her avatar as well.
“Nao… “
Varga fully turned himself toward her.
“Do you not want to become unparalleled?”
The two looked at each other for a moment, before Varga spoke again.
“You can only become unparalleled if you use all powers without denying them.”
Nao’s eyes widened at her avatar.
“And that includes that card.”
Nao looked down at the card, and then back at Varga, finally coming to an understanding.
“Regardless of what power I will have, I will always be at your side, as well.”
Nao gave a firm nod, and looked back at the board. “You came at the perfect time. Let’s go, my avatar.” And then, pointing at Sybilt, Nao made a stern declaration. “I’m going to defeat you! And I will use any power necessary to do so! Even if it’s yours!” With Nao’s declaration, two fires alighted in her eyes, and Varga gave a smile as he turned back.
{Track Insert: MONONOFU Overture}
“White Infero, and Black Hellfire!”
She held up the Drekasleif in her hand.
“I shall engulf the power of evil and use it as a basis for invincibility!”
She slammed the card on top of her vanguard.
“Malwyrm Unleashed!”
In response to the state the vanguard was now in, Varga was surrounded by a red energy as his hat flew off. Slashing the energy around him, Varga held his two swords embracing the Malwyrm’s power, roaring throughout the ruins.
Sybilt grit its teeth and retorted at Nao. “You think my power can defeat me? I gave you that card. I can easily defeat you and the Unparalleled one.”
“You’re wrong!” Nao countered. “This power may have been yours at one point, but since you’ve left, this power belongs to me and Varga alone! I’m devouring this power and definitely becoming Unparalleled! Brace yourself! I Call Twinpulsive! With its skill I call Storm Slasher off the top of my deck! I also call Shuura!” Every spot on her board was filled.
Sybilt looked at its hand, and then back at now. “Come! I’ll shoot down your false desire here and now!”
“And I’ll show you how real it is! Koufu boosts! Twinpulsive attacks!”
[36,000]
“No guard!”
[Stealth Fiend, Futakuchiyo - Front Trigger]
Sybilt laughed as another trigger showed up in the damage check.
“All effects to myself! See how futile it is, Nao Inabe?”
“That isn’t going to stop me! Shuura attacks Sybilt!”
[38,000 vs 23,000]
“Guard!” Sybilt called Masowazu and Shawq to the guardian circle.
“Prepare yourself for the Unparalleled Drekasleif! First Stroke! Varga Dragres “Rakshasa” attacks Sybilt! With Varga’s skill!” Two slashes appeared across both players’ boards front row, removing both rearguards.
“Varga gets 10,000 power! Twinpulsive’s skill gives the vanguard 5,000 power! Additionally, Shuura revives from the drop!”
[48,000 VS 23,000]
Varga rebounded from the wall and launched itself at Sybilt, closing in to the Unison Dragon, raised his left blade to slash downward. However, a magic circle appeared in front of Sybilt before the attack connected.
“Perfect Guard!” Sybilt discarded a card from its hand as it placed the Sentinel down.
[58,000 VS Sentinel]
“First check!”
[Storm Slasher Dragon - No Trigger]
“Second check!”
[Sparkle Rejector Dragon - No Trigger]
Sybilt laughed at her drive check. “That’s all you can muster up?”
“It’s far from over! At the end of the battle, “Rakshasa” you should know what happens here!”
Nao paid the cost and restood her vanguard, and suddenly another slash went through both players’ back rows. “Storm Slasher also revives itself, this time behind Varga! Now, Second Stroke! Varga Dragres “Rakshasa” attacks the vanguard!”
[51,000 VS 23,000]
This time Varga raised his right arm and slashed with an upward motion, however, this one was also stopped by another magic shield.
“Perfect guard!” Sybilt called out once again.
[51,000 VS Sentinel]
“Varga and I aren’t going to stop here!” The two colored fires appeared in Nao’s eyes once again, and she swept her right arm to the right.
“May the two evil swords set ablaze! The unparalleled awakens! It’s Divine Skill activates!”
Behind Nao appeared the symbol of the Fated One, however, it shined a bright red, the same as when Sybilt used it. However, the two fires that briefly appeared were white and black, the flames of the Unparalleled.
“I stand Varga! It gets two extra drives! Third stroke! I attack Sybilt with Varga Dragres “Rakshasa!”
[38,000 VS 23,000]
Varga’s roar echoed throughout the ruins, and this time, raising both of his arms, slashed in an X motion onto the Unison Dragon, who roared back in response.
“I won’t let you!” Sybilt cried out, calling 4 normal units to the guard circle.
[38,000 VS 43,000]
The flames of the Unison Dragon appeared to make a makeshift shield, trying to hold off the blades of the Unparalleled, putting the two in a deadlock.
“Something like this isn’t going to stop the Unparalleled!” Nao flipped over the top card of her deck.
[Unparalleled Drekasleif, Varga Dragres “Rakshasa” - No Trigger]
Both Nao and Sybilt looked at the blank. And finally Nao drew the top card of her deck in a fast motion to her eye level. A smirk came to her face. “I got it!”
[Burning Flail Dragon - Critical Trigger]
“Critical Trigger!” Nao exclaimed in joy. “Varga gets 10,000 power! Go!”
[48,000 VS 43,000 - Guard BREAK]
[Sperod and Sybilt, Who We Once Were - No Trigger]
Varga ferociously roared at the Unison Dragon, and slashed the flames away. Then, with a spinning motion, cut the Malwyrm with both of his blades, slashing past it, and staying himself midair.
Both Nao and Varga spoke in unison.
“Forgive me for striking you down.”
And as they uttered that, a red X appeared across the Unison Dragon, before exploding in a ball of flames.
Varga landed to Nao’s side, and Nao looked up to him with a smile. As she looked back to Sybilt, she had already found it had disappeared.
“Wait, where did…”
“That Sybilt…was your fear and doubt. The memories of when you were possessed, manifested into that. Those units were also probably victims that Sybilt remembered, left over in your memories.” Varga answered.
“I see… That explains why it didn’t actually say any unit names outside of itself. But that fight felt real, was I that scared?” Nao said with a chuckle. “Well… Thank you for everything, Varga.” Nao smiled at the dragon.
“Your wish and mine are the same. We will both become Unparalleled, Nao Inabe.” Varga responded as he held his hand out to her. When Nao made contact with it, a white flash appeared, and everything went black.
The next thing she knew, she was awake on her desk, her cards still laid out. In her hand was the same dragon that she saw in her dream. “Heh, I guess the card is still here.” She got up and placed it with her deck. “Thank you…Varga.” As she began to pick up her cards, she noticed some texts on her phone.
Akina Myodo:
“My school festival is today! You’re coming, right?”
Kagetsu Yakumo:
“What time were we meeting up?”
“Time to get going. I’ve gotta set a good example for my disciple.”