Chapter 2 Is It Okay Not to Get on This Kind of Ship?

After a long time, a Kaiba Group staff member named "Isono" came to the lounge to inform Hayato that the top eight players had arrived.

After opening the last pack of cards and getting a very useful clearing card, Hayato packed up his deck, walked out of the lounge, and came to the center of the open space of Doshino City Sports Center again.

The open space in the center of the unfinished sports center has not been paved with plastic tracks and lawns, leaving a flat and dusty ground. Since the top eight players have almost arrived, Kaiba ordered his subordinates to turn on the lighting of the sports center where construction has been prioritized. Equipment, eight large lighting facilities illuminate the central open space from all directions.

Hayato, who walked out of the lounge, looked at the center of the open space where many people had gathered and felt happy.

Kaiba, Yugi, Jonouchi, and Tapira, plus the accompanying Ryuuji, Kyoko, Honda, and Hayato himself, these top eight contestants are almost having a class reunion.

In addition to a few of them, Hayato also saw Isis, who kept a distance from the crowd and was dressed in white. As if aware of Hayato's gaze, Isis turned to look at Hayato, smiled and nodded.

In the direction opposite to Isis, Hayato saw Malik wearing a black cloak. Different from him in the original timeline, this time Malik had no idea of ​​concealing his identity and generously took the [Millennium Scepter] 】 Holding it in his hand, he looked at Yugi standing with several people in the city with an unkind expression.

Coupled with the peacock dance joking with Jonouchi, these are the top eight players in Duel City.

"Hmph, with this, all eight contestants are here. Hey, Isono! Put that thing down!" Kaiba saw Hayato's appearance and just glanced at him flatly before ordering.

"What is that thing?" Jonouchi said with some confusion, "Is it something like the scoreboard that Bekas used?"

Jonouchi still remembers the large screen in Bekas Castle that was used to divide the contestants' dueling order during the Duel Kingdom.

Kaiba looked at Jonouchi contemptuously: "Huh, three-legged cat, don't think of me as a bad-sense guy like Becas. Or maybe your stupid brain thinks that this place is suitable for the duel king's status. The duel venue?"

As soon as Kaiba finished speaking, with the roar of the engine, an extremely large airship that could barely accommodate even the spacious Doshino City Sports Center broke through the clouds and descended towards the ground.

Jonouchi was about to retort to Kaiba, but when he saw the huge airship landing from the sky, he was so surprised that he was almost speechless as he had never seen such a big scene before: "Is that the real place of the decisive battle?"

"Duel on an airship?"

"Amazing!"

And Kaiba's loyal subordinate, the referee for the next game in Duel City, the man in black and sunglasses with a big heart that would not move even if the mountain collapsed - Isono picked up a microphone in his hand and was about to do his part. When he started to introduce the landing airship, his vice president Keihei kicked him in the butt and took away the microphone.

"For the players who have gone through the selection process and qualified for the quarterfinals, this airship in front of you is the place for the final battle in Duel City!"

"The person who can defeat all contestants to the end will be named the 'Duel King', and the birth of the king must have a matching venue! That is, this airship!"

"Next, you will parade in the sky more than a thousand meters above the ground, just like a king patrolling his territory, spread the glory of Duel Monsters and the glory of Duel King to the world!"

With Keppei's passionate speech, not only the simple-minded guy Jonouchi, but also Hayato and Yugi began to look forward to the next duel.

As the landing port of the airship opened, Kaiba headed towards the entrance head-on. After showing an ID card in his hand as a demonstration, he walked up the steps. At the same time, the staff also shouted: "Contestant No. 1, Seto Kaiba!"

That ID card was not only held by Kaiba alone, Hayato also had one in his hand. Hayato took it from the staff of Kaiba Group after completing the qualification registration. Hayato walked to the boarding gate after Kaiba and showed his ID card. His one had the word "two" on it.

"Contestant No. 2, Hayato Kobayashi!"

Boarding was proceeding in an orderly manner.

"Contestant No. 3, Malik Isildar!"

"Contestant No. 4, Isis Isildar!"

"Contestant No. 5, Katsuya Jonouchi!"

"Contestant No. 6, Peacock Dance!"

"Contestant No. 7, Yugi Muto!"

"Contestant No. 8, the tapir is good!"

During this period, the four "accompaniments" including Kyoko, Honda, Oga Ryuuji, and Shizuka who wanted to watch their brother's duel, were almost stopped because they did not have an ID card on hand when they followed them onto the airship. Their reason is, "If you don't have an ID card, you are not a contestant and you are not allowed to board the plane."

However, when Keppei said quietly "I don't have an ID card either, do you mean I can't board the plane?", the two staff members responsible for checking the ID cards felt that they had offended the vice president. In panic, he hurriedly ushered Honda and others onto the airship.

In Honda, the four of them followed Keppei onto the airship. Only a few ground staff of the Kaiba Group were left on the ground to deal with matters on the ground after the airship took off. They gathered with everyone at the Doshino City Sports Center. At this moment All were transferred to the airship.

"The duel between the top eight contestants will begin tomorrow. There are plenty of guest rooms reserved in the airship. You can choose your own room to rest."

Seeing Keihei put down the phone and started busy with other things, Hayato smiled and rubbed his spiky head: "Thank you for your hard work, Keihei-san."

"I told you my name is Sabo - ah?" Keppei didn't react for a moment. Hayato actually called his name correctly just now? This is the first time.

"Speaking of which, Kaiba was actually able to obtain such a large airship and was allowed to fly." Looking at the rather spacious interior of the airship, Hayato sighed, "So that guy Kaiba must have given this airship another Some weird names, like Seahorse Boat, Blue Eyes White Boat, etc.?"

"No, my brother's taste is not as bad as you said...probably, probably not that bad?" Keipei immediately wanted to refute what Hayato said, but he recalled the things in the database of the R&D department. In scientific research projects led by Haima, nine out of ten inventions have pretty bad names. "Besides, I named this airship, 'Saint Anno'. What do you think, the name is pretty good, right?"

"What number!?"

Seeing the sudden change in Hayato's expression, Keppei said with some confusion: "Saint Annu, what's wrong?"

"Well..." Hayato looked at the ground from the glass window on the side. After such a short time, the airship had risen for a considerable distance, almost forty or fifty meters from the ground, " Do you think it’s still too late for me to jump off the plane in advance?”