21 1st day done

As Arthur was comforted by his mother, Alexis stared wide eyed. She stared at this unusual side of Arthur and couldn't help but feel her chest tighten, but she shook her head and threw her thoughts out. She wanted to speak with Arthur but she was stopped by her mother who smiled at her.

''Mom ?'' She was confused and was wondering why her mother stopped her.

''Don't interrupt them. Arthur that kid seems to be holding a lot. People react differently, while your duels feel easily won your opponents have not shown the despair that they have shown Arthur and this has been his first couple of duels, loving to duel he can't go easy on his opponent but it shatters his opponents once he goes all out. It is a very hard place to be at. Right now no one knows how to help him better than her. Think of it as family time.'' Alice smiled tenderly as she explained to her child.

She too couldn't help being emotional at the sight of the crying Arthur. The kid who seemed to be so level headed, composed, and mature finally showed a little bit of his vulnerability. No one is made of stone and looking at Arthur made her realize just that. But she didn't show any concern as she saw Mira handling her son. ' Who would have thought... Fufufufu' She placed a hand in front of her mouth as she chuckled.

'' Come let's see Atticus duel. It should be close by.'' She grabbed Alexis' hand and they soon went moving.

Alexis still looked back from time to time but didn't struggle. After all, she trusted her mother. Thinking about her mother her mind wandered toward the handkerchief that her mother had gifted to her, maybe the bastard was around here dueling?

After a little while, Arthur slightly recovered from all the crying. He didn't know when had been the last time he had cried so honestly.

He felt refreshed and a genuine smile came to his face.

'' Feeling better? '' Mira asked him as she had a shit eating grin on her face, much to his dismay. Arthur nodded and refused to make eye contact with her. This action just widened her smile even more.

She bear hugged him once more. '' Aww, my Arthur is so cute I can't help but not hug him. ''

Meanwhile, Arthur struggled for a couple of minutes while he was hugged to death by Mira.

Much to the disappointment of many Arthur's quota of duels for the day had been met so after watching Atticus mop the floor with some random, the group decided to go to a restaurant and call it a day.

As the first day came into a closure at 10 PM, people received a notification on their PDA. It was basically information on the tournament and how you progressed and your overall rating.

Arthur shook his head at the abnormal set of stats he had. He had an average of 2nd turn with 11000 Damage. If you know about the game you understand how insane this is.

Maybe it had been the heart of the cards but, he seemed to consistently get a key card to get his deck going. Slowly the heart of the cards talk that Yami Yugi spoke so much about started to make sense to him.

His connection with his cards deepened by the second, and he couldn't be more happy about it. Maybe he would be able to interact freely with his cards like Jesse Andersen and Jaden Yuki.

But it was a matter far away. Arthur stared at the ceiling as he prepared himself to go to sleep.

His heartbeat was loud and clear so much so that it brought him into a trance, the next moment he found himself in a white space. He stared around confused. ' The freak?'

'' I see you have been having fun?'' A sweet voice sounded in the space.

'' Who? '' Arthur stared all over the place in search of the owner of the voice.

'' Fufufu... You are trying to look for me the wrong way, you have been given eyes haven't you? ''

''Oh yeah true.'' Arthur facepalmed as he focused energy in his eyes. Soon the scene changed, everywhere his sight passed by, the scene morphed and shifted into a much darker place. A colossal dark orb blocked the source of light yet still some strands could pass through, issue is even without these strands of light you could see everything quite vividly.

A space dark and void of life, everything seemed so mistic and so intangible that Arthur was rather absorbed into checking out the place and forgot about the voice.

'' Humph, you forgot about me quite fast no?'' The voice sounded, it didn't hold the slightest of the malice, it just seemed so neutral that you couldn't quite understand what emotions she conveyed even when she chuckled it had seemed rather forced, but the beauty of her voice was nonetheless unquestionable.

Arthur soon focused his eyes on a serpentine shaped creature that roamed under this dark floor, somehow the different shades of black made it noticeable, its eye sockets white but since he couldn't really find the detailed form of this creature he couldn't say it had white eyes.

This creature soon swirled and swiftly moved through the space without burden. Until it stopped beside a heel, it swirled upwards, from the legs up to the neck of this new person.

She gazed at him with her red eyes, her goth dress fitting her perfectly as it swayed gently. With golden highlights here and there, the dress tried to hide her body shape but Arthur was amazed at the sight of her. The person in front of him was truly beautiful with her swaying black hair with red highlights in the tips, coupled with her two blood red earrings.

Her eyes seemed to see through everything. And he was deeply enchanted by her beauty, but he was brought back by her voice. '' This is a first. A human entered my domain... Welcome. I am the Underworld Goddess of the Closed World. But you may call me Abyzou. '' She said as she swayed her wand.

'Really? This is hella Random no?' Arthur gapped.

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So now what is the deck most fitting to this baby right here? who expects her?