After a long time, a Kaiba Group staff member named "Isono" came to the lounge to inform Hayato that the top eight contestants 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, exposing a dusty flat ground. Since the top eight players have almost arrived, Haima ordered his subordinates to turn on the lighting of the sports center that has been completed.
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 Oga, 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 and nodded with a smile.
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]
] He took it in his hand and looked at the game 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, just glanced at him flatly, and ordered. p>
"What is that thing?" Jonouchi said with some confusion, "Is it something like the scoreboard that Becas 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 with disdain: "Hmph, three-legged cat, don't think of me as a bad-tempered guy like Becas. Or maybe your stupid brain thinks that this place is suitable for the duel king's status.
Is there a duel venue?"
As soon as Kaiba finished speaking, with the roar of the engine, an airship that was so huge that even the spacious Doshino City Sports Center could hardly accommodate it 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: "Then, is that the real place of the decisive battle?" "Duel on an airship?"
"It's 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.
At the beginning of his duties, he introduced the landing airship, but his vice president Keihei kicked his butt and took away the microphone.
"For those 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 be parading in the sky more than a thousand meters above the ground, just like a king going out to patrol his territory, spreading the glory of duel monsters and the glory of duel kings to the world!"
With Keppei's passionate speech, not only Jonouchi, a simple-minded guy, 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. After showing an ID card in his hand as a demonstration, he walked up the steps. At the same time, the staff also said loudly:
"Contestant No. 1, Seto Kaiba!"
That ID card was not only held by Kaiba, Hayato also had one in his hand. After completing the qualification registration with the staff of Kaiba Group, Hayato took it from their hands. Hayato walked towards the login after Kaiba.
At the airport, I showed my ID card, and the one he had had the word "two" on it.
"Contestant No. 2, Hayato Kobayashi!"
Boarding is 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, Muto Yugi!"
"Contestant No. 8, the tapir is great!"
During this period, when Kyoko, Honda, Oga Ryuuji and Shizuka, who wanted to watch their brother's duel, were following them onto the airship, they were almost stopped because they did not have an ID card on hand. Their reason was
, "If you don't have an ID card, you are not a contestant and will not be allowed to board the plane."
However, when Keihei 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 from 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 right 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 taken some money for this airship again.
Some weird names, like seahorse boat, blue-eyed 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, isn't it?"<
/p>
"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, "
You think, is it still too late for me to jump off the plane in advance?"