An ordinary duelist. Play your cards right!!

"Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you back out on the dueling circuit then! I haven't been on the dueling scene in quite a few years myself."

At the playful wink and the comment about her 'glowing more than usual, Mai practically beamed. After all, he wasn't wrong.

"Oh yeah, what have you been up to— to keep yourself afloat?" Honestly, Jounouchi couldn't imagine Mai doing anything else but dueling for a living. But he supposed that was naive of him. He'd always known her as a duelist. They met when he was a teen, after all. He had a certain image about the mysterious ways adults worked— especially if they worked the so-called 'fun' jobs.

Now that he's an adult, he knew better.

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"Well, look who decided to come for a visit!"

Mai's smile was warm and wide as she moved to hug the blond, a soft chuckle leaving her.

A sharp grin stretched across his face as he hugged her. When Jounouchi pulled back, he shoved his hands back inside his pockets, relaxed as ever.

"Hey! I was getting my dueling ass in gear. Which means a hiatus. I'll be back in the dueling scene, don't you worry!"

"If you can get Seto to step away from his work for more than five minutes, you'd be a miracle worker!" The teen joked warmly, laughing as he spoke.

"Spending time with you and Seto would be great though! It's about time we all had some fun!"

The idea of spending time with both his friend and his older brother was something of a novelty to him, and one that he would be very much looking forward to.

Now that got a snort of out him. ''You're acting like I'm his therapist or something! Yeah, yeah, smell ya later, kid!"

"Well, it might be considered crazy by Seto's standards, but it's not that abnormal, I guess."

Mokuba wasn't quite sure how to phrase it other than that, but oh well. At the risk of severely disappointing his only living family member, he supposed he may as well just say it anyway.

"Well, damn. That serious, huh?"

Jounouchi weaved his fingers through his hair, letting out a sigh.

"It ain't a bad thing. I mean, it's your life, right? You don't have to follow your brother's footsteps. You still play a pretty important role in the company, so it's not like you're divorcing from it completely. If you decide to wash your hands from the whole thing, your brother can choose someone else to inherit the company."

He shrugged and let his arms hang listlessly to the side.

"There's also pros and cons in running a family business. Maybe if you level with him from that angle, he'd understand."

He knew this was an emotional decision, though. Kaiba built this company for himself and his brother. It wasn't necessarily about money, but power, control, and security.

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"Hey, Jou...? Can I ask you something?"

Jounouchi hummed and shot a quizzical look.

"What's up, man?"

To be completely honest, talking to Mokuba was usually a good time. But he couldn't help but feel puzzled at the fact that Mokuba was asking for permission to ask a question. It might be something big.

His big brother instincts immediately activated.

"And empty words are evil..."

"Why so much grief for me?"

"We will never be here, again."

"We men are wretched things."

"His descent was like nightfall."

"I say no wealth is worth my life!"

"I'd punish you, if I had the power."

"Is he not sacred, even to the gods?"

"Even a fool may be wise after the event."

"There will be killing 'til the score is paid."

"My every impulse bends to what is right."

"You will never be lovelier than you are now."

"And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it."

"The blade, itself, incites to deeds of violence."

"You must endure and not be broken-hearted."

"Death and the strong force of fate are waiting."

"You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter?"

"I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"I promise you I will do everything just as you ask."

"If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also."

"He lacks the sense to see a day behind, a day ahead."

"You wine sack, with a dog's eyes, with a deer's heart."

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men."

"Come, friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so?"

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

"Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."

"Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us."

"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this."

"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun their destiny."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us."

"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions?"

"The lover’s whisper, irresistible… magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery…"

"What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?"

"You’d run no risk of death; you lack the heart to last it out in combat, coward!"

"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move on earth, none is more to be pitied than a man."

"The proud heart feels not terror, nor turns to run... and it is his own courage that kills him."

"Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"You never smile..."

"You are the patient one."

"You've a pretty good nerve."

"There is much evil in the world."

"You are a strange, peculiar man."

"Sorry if I hurt the lad. Provocation."

"What's wrong with my proposition?"

"But I know human nature, my friend."

"I was just so scared I couldn’t scream."

"You console me a little, but only a little."

"Coffee, then. You need some stimulant."

"That is what I never cease to ask myself."

"I have learned to save myself useless emotion."

"I don’t feel as though I’ve got the heart to eat anything."

"Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together by death."

"You mean you saw the man? You can identify the murderer?"

"I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like."

"If you will forgive me for being personal, I do not like your face."

"The blows seem to have been delivered haphazard and at random."

"You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do."

"The more emotional they feel, the less command they have of language."

"I’ll break every bone in your damned body, you dirty little whippersnapper."

"If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."

"He's a ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously."

"It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close."

"If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it… often out of sheer surprise."

"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."