"Gotcha! That was a fun Duel!"

Keen on not wanting to burden his friend by constantly asking him for advice, the duelist had started to wander around his own village and the nearby areas. One place in particular, other than Polis, had caught his attention rather quickly: the great junkyard known as Lipara. He had yet to visit the place, but a few people he overheard in the city had mentioned that there were interesting things if one spent enough time searching, so why not try.

The brunette looked towards one pile; he thought there would be some cards in them so he marched over. Bending down, he started to dig through the pile, in hopes of finding himself something! Then after a few seconds, a sigh came out. Nope, nothing he was interested in. Maybe there were just things like wires and pieces of metal, but that wasn’t anything he wanted.

Phew, that sure exhausting. The brown head took a seat by one of the piles whilst stripping his jacket off of him. From his deck box, he picked out Winged Kuriboh and only grinned. Geez, they weren’t making any progress in finding what they needed. Judai needed to be more precise in digging for things well then—oh? Judai looked at a seemingly younger male.  Wait, he was offering to help? Judai, with a smile stood up. Well, help would be appreciated—if they knew what duel monsters were though.

“Well, help would be nice! But I’m not sure if you know about what I wanted to look for,” he paused momentarily before making eye contact with the male, “You know what Duel Monsters are?”

“My village?” Sion remembered this! Something about a village with a sign! In an odd dream of sorts? “W-..well I think so..umm; doe..s  the Village of Wisdom ring a bell…or is that completely made up?” Sion scratched at the back of his head.

Sion stood there raising an eyebrow as he watched the brunette stutter some, he couldn’t help but chuckle softly, Sion wanted to make sure to become good friends with this boy! He seemed fun to have around.

 “Ah the Village of Wisdom!” That was the village where he met III, also known as the library of scrolls. Judai grinned; he actually knew where the place was. After all, it was close by the other villages so it wouldn’t be too hard to find! He waved his hand a little, denying the fact that it was all made up, “Nah, it’s real. I know where it is actually.”

Well, this was hard to explain! Geez, stop laughing! It’s only making him more flustered, it’s not helping Sion! Well, anyone would want to be friends with Judai unless your name is ‘Manjoume Jun’ or something. In the end, he could only scratch the back of his head and chuckle sheepishly.

“Erm…I was pretty confused before but now I’m completely bewildered, what are you doing here? Better yet what am I doing here, this definitely isn’t my own time is it?” Yusei had confirmed that much as he wandered around earlier. The raven seemed to be nearly stressing some but he was quickly calming down, didn’t seem to be in any danger. 

Despite seeing his companions come and go, Judai would always be rather hyperactive in their presence. Yusei was no exception. The brunette suddenly felt a surge of happiness dancing within him, but of course managed to listen to what Yusei had to say. 

"Well, I'm not quite sure why I'm here and this is not your time for sure Yusei," Judai noted nonchalantly before taking a brief pause. How should he even put this? This world wasn't even the duel monster world so to start with. Well, he could tell the turbo-duelist that, "In fact, this isn't even the duel monster world."

"Yes, it's great seeing you again! Do you know what Village you're suppose to be in?" 

Tenjouin Asuka was currently studying abroad. She was in New York city, of course being a foreigner communicating was a little difficult for her. However, she was brilliant enough to pick up the language quickly as she did know a bit of French since she was quite fond of ballerinas and the French culture in general. 

However, it wasn’t until lately that she felt her head throb in pain. At first it only felt like a headache. Soon, she started to see things and before she knew it… She passed out right on the spot. 

For the very first time in several days, she woke up. It felt almost foreign, the feeling of waking up felt almost groggy, but the previous Obelisk Queen managed herself. Even after graduation, she took a particular fondness to her Academy clothes. But there was her trench coat laying above her waist. With little effort, the blonde managed to sit up. 

One thing though, the place looked so foreign. It was a city as she presumed, but the people didn’t look like duelists. She stood up, still unstable on her foot. Asuka attempted to find her way out of here, she was determined. Despite her determination, the dizziness in her head trapped her once more. The blonde missed a spot and tripped… bumping into another person that is.

Thank god she was still on her feet. The blonde looked at the person and gave them a courteous apology, “I’m sorry about my absentmindedness.” 

Seeing new people around Arcadios was not anything new to Judai, but every time he felt excited by seeing them, especially if they were duelists. After all, the brown head always had a passion for dueling! Sadly, he hasn't gotten the chance to duel anyone yet. It certainly was a pity, but it wasn't horrible or anything; at least he had gotten the chance to meet people who shared the same passion as he did!

However, he suddenly felt a bump on his shoulders. The brunette had no idea who it was, they probably weren't paying attention, but that's alright. Of course, he have turned around to see who it was and much to his surprise, it was Asuka.

His eyes aren't deceiving him now are they? A few months ago Fubuki came along as well, but for some strange reason Judai never seen him again. It was a pity, but he soon got over about wandering why. Of course, the brunette only smiled at the blonde head since he wasn't giving her the cold shoulders anymore.

"Asuka!" He grinned at his friend, the friend he had known for years. It really was great seeing her again after all this time. Judai observed Asuka, she didn't change much except maybe her hair grew longer? Of course, Judai wouldn't know since he never really paid attention to her outer appearance.

” H-Hey, are you hurt ? ” Cheria remembered all the noise she had heard, and took a good look at the boy she had just ran into. The boy’s clothes looked a bit dirtied, he probably had fallen off something or just… fell down on the ground. Whatever it was, he might have been hurt. 

” Let me see your hand for a bit. ” Cheria took the young boy’s hand, and had a look at it. She put her other hand on top of his hand, and other one under it. A small light appeared, and embraced his hand. ” Recover ! ” Cheria spoke to herself in a rather loud voice, and the light disappeared, healing the boy’s hand. It was possible he wasn’t hurt, but as a worker of the an relief organization, she didn’t want to ignore it. Besides… she felt like she had to repay the boy somehow for scaring him.

She took her hands away from his, bowed down once more and then smiled a bit. ” I hope that is enough to make you forget about my behavior just a moment ago. ” She then paused for a bit, and raised her head up, regaining her composure. ” My name is Cheria Barnes. It’s nice to meet you. “

 “Hm?” Judai was curious about why she was asking that… then he remembered, he fell off a tree. Ah, oops! He only blinked innocently in response before a grin came upon his lips, “I-I’m fine!” Then again, his clothes were dirty. Oh dear, someone needed to get their laundry done… if he had the ability to do that.

Eh? Unexpedtecly his hand was taken by the red-headed female. Hm? What’s she doing performing a spe—What?! Was that a spell? Recover was that suppose to—hey, his hand was no longer bruised. Judai hoped that he wasn’t hallucinating or anything. The brunette brought his hand in front of his face, observing it carefully. Huh? None of the scratches were there, even the ones he got from the past… Strange. But hey! That was cool!

“How did you do that?” Judai asked in a curious tone, it was really his nature. Heck, he even went through the process of asking Elesa about the fashion industry and most boys weren’t even into stuff like that! Was she a magician? Just like the girls from the manga he had read about, except she was real!

 “It’s okay!” He grinned radiantly. The girl certainly was polite, he then heard her say her name. Cheria huh? That’s a pretty nice name! Of course, in response Judai pointed his thumb at himself before declaring, “I’m Yuki Judai, but call me Judai! Nice to meet you Cheria!”

“Really? So you’ve gone through something like this?” Oh had he found someone he could relate to? Wow this was just a great day for Yuma wasn’t it?

“Well yeah! Clearly they had no idea what I was talking about otherwise they wouldn’t have looked at me funny!” Yuma huffed and shook his head, a smile coming back quickly on his face getting angry over that was pointless anyway!

“Yeah I don’t know what it is but something about you just screamed duelist to me?” Yuma paused. Did he just call his hair shrimp?…..Was he supposed to be offended or…??

 “Yep,” Judai noted thoughtfully, “But it isn’t anything abnormal though. Like, we come from different worlds on this island apparently,” he closed off with a nod. Heck, he could almost seem smart for a second there. Then again, he really wasn’t that bright especially since he can be a little—okay, very absentminded. However, when it came to duelling he was a little better—much smarter than his regular self.

 “Of course! It’s a pity though,” the brunette took note with a thoughtful nod. He was truly passionate about duelling; he couldn’t imagine what his life would be like without duel monsters. It would be so boring and awful… the thought of it was pure hell, imagine living a life like that.

 “You look like one too! What deck do you play? I play the E-Hero and Neo Spacian deck!” Judai exclaimed happily. He was always proud of his cards, no matter what attack points they had. Ah, they were his comrades after all. Weak or strong, they’re all treated equally.

” Well this is rather… odd. “

After even how long walking and walking, Cheria couldn’t tell where was she. She had traveled all across Windor, Fendel, and Strahta, yes, all of them, but… this place was nothing like any of the places she had ever visited. No, this was quite… different. 

The area she had been wandering through had a whole different atmosphere, it was quite nothing like she had ever seen before. There was something interesting about it. Something perhaps… magical. This wouldn’t be the first time Cheria would encounter something… abnormal, but this was on a whole new level.But that was the least of her worries right now. What mattered was how did she even get here in the first place.

Cheria had a tendency to sometimes go accidentally astray from her group of friends, for example to pick up something like… berries or vegetables, if they happened to grow somewhere on the road, but to think that she would go this far off without noticing it herself would be absurd. Then again… she did get kidnapped once, but she doubted it was the case this time, since there was no reason to.

On another hand, this place she had been wandering in for a while already, seemed like something she could enjoy spending time in, if it wasn’t for the fact that she was, well… lost. The air in the area was quite… relaxing, and so did she naturally, feel a bit relaxed. Well, atleast for a moment, that is.

She heard a rustle, not sure from what direction it came from, but since she heard it, it had to be from somewhere close. Cheria carefully picked up the daggers she was carrying, getting ready to throw them at whatever was coming. She was a bit nervous because she didn’t know what kind of dangers this area held, but she had to fight for herself now. She stood straight and cleared all the uncertainty in her mind, and waited for whatever was going to come.

It may not be the most comfortable place to sleep in, but heck, good enough. At least he cannot worry about people trampling over his face by accident. Well, it wasn’t like it was likely to happen anyways, but still there’s a possibility. Thing with Judai was, he really haven’t been sleeping well in his hut. Funny huh? It’s almost as if he was Tarzan in a sense, well, the fact that he liked sleeping outside more than sleeping on a bed.

However, there was a chance for him to fall off. Yeah, just be careful there. Mmm, a dream about fried shrimp. Delicious, there was a swarm of them—not sure if that’s a nice way to describe it or not but heck; there was a load for him to eat. Physically, he licked his lips and mused some gibberish. What seemed to be really funny and ridiculous was that he started to chomp on air.

“No! Come back!” He called, but what really came out was a slurred talk of his. Judai then shifted, thinking that he was running after his food… The consequences were not beautiful. He woke up from his nap, laying on his back and then groaning in pain.

Ouch, he fell off of a tree with a loud thud. The birds all scooted away from him. Confused, the brunette looked around his surroundings. He wasn’t really sure how he got down here, the last thing he remembered was chasing after fried shrimps. Hm, interesting.

Judai stood up, brushing the dust off his bottom. However, just before he was going to walk away he heard a female call… Show himself? What?! Mildly scared, the duelist raised his two hands and walked outside “showing” himself to the female. Eep! She had a dagger too! Please don’t kill him, he still has to eat!

 “Sorry for disturbing!” Judai apologized abruptly, hoping he could get away from the situation.

It wasn’t that Luka had a knack for getting lost — she found her sense of direction and navigational skills quite exceptional, even. She didn’t think she would be one to easily take the wrong path in the event that she was, in fact, lost. And she had the maturity to admit it, thus finding her way back was never a problem. Given that she was perfectly able to find her way out of a situation and perfectly able to ask for help (which the others of her family didn’t seem to know how to, unfortunately) one would think that Luka would be able to solve these sorts of predicaments just fine…

However.

She was not in Tokyo, Japan nor was she really in any place that was recognizable to her, rather she was in a village inhabited with people living in huts. Trees surrounded her. The GPS systems in her mechanical body were giving her error messages. This place was not on any sort of map her interface could put a name to. No coordinates, no information, no anything…

“Where could this possibly be?” she asked herself. Luka was not one to become frantic during sticky situations, usually the one to calm the others down and think to herself of ways to solve the problem. While her systems were working fine now, despite the lack of information she was able to gain from running them, she had enough common sense to at least look around. If she could not learn from technology, then the next best thing was to explore herself, no?

And so she was off! Exploring new places, learning about different things was a completely different experience than simply running information searches within her programming. Learning was feeling, touching, seeing, hearing, tasting new experiences. Robotic programs wouldn’t leave such lasting impressions like going out into the world would. Thus, Luka found herself roaming the various different huts she had seen in the village she stumbled upon, asking people what their professions were, what they were vending, where she was at…

She ended up at a florists, eventually. And at this particular shop, she particularly went out of her way to examine the contents.

Stupid boy, you’re still thinking about things. It was a memory trip down the road, a memory trip of his past few months on the island. Still, he was questioning about why he was even here in the first place. How did he get here? He stepped in a pool of light and the next thing he remembered was that he was here (well of course by the time he woke up). Feeling like it was yesterday that he had just ventured off to the food merchant with money, trying to get himself some grub because he was hungry.

Once again, he found himself by a food stand. A frail smile came upon his lips while he ruffled through his pocket. Oh? He had some coins; they look like they’re enough for something. Not fried shrimp, but maybe roasted tuna or something. They were things that he could make at Hevia, which was another Arcadios hobby of Judai’s. After he bought his roasted tuna, his pocket was close to being empty. Why did he want to eat this anyways? To be honest, he didn’t even know himself.

Whatever.

He took a bite… It was good! Again, any food is good when you’re hungry and Judai just happens to be a black hole. Where does the food he eats go to anyways? There sure where a lot of shops around town. However, he saw a shop for flowers. The brightness of the flowers caught his eyes, he decided to check up on them. Even if he wasn’t all that into feminine things (as he would like to call them), checking up on them once in a while wasn’t a bad idea!

He hummed whilst looking at the plants in front of his eyes. They were all so beautiful and the fragrance too! Mmm, what a nice smell, it must be a good gift for Johan! Johan huh? The thought pierced him once more before he took a bigger bite on his tuna fish. The brunette picked up a rose and accidently elbowed the person next to him (praise the lord that it wasn’t hard!).

 “Sorry,” Judai apologized hastily, realizing that it was a female. Well, let’s try that again shall we? With the proper honorifics, Sir Judai. “Sorry Miss, you’re not hurt are you?”

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