Prologue - Two sides of same coin

Hello. My name is Yugi Muto, I'm just some kid from Domino City, except for my reputation as the best duelist in existence. That card game, the monster duel, put me in a very embarrassing situation and I intend to tell you. Before getting to know the game properly, I received a gift from my grandfather. It was a relic found by him, in his day he was an excavator of the ancient Egyptian areas.

Well, an archeologist, in short. The object had been disassembled, its pieces were golden and I was immediately amazed by them. I thanked my grandfather and immediately started trying to put together such a puzzle. It took me a long time to get it, but I finally put all the pieces together. What had formed was an inverted pyramid, with a large eye in the center, the eye of Horus. I felt a huge force surrounding me after that, some things were kind of surreal, so I put it aside at first. After all ... I saw monsters.

I will not dwell on the Millennium Enigma, the name of the artifact, because what really matters was what resides within it. It took me a long time to discover it. It was after he started to be a player in the monster duel, before he defeated Pegasus the creator of the game. He was ... another me. I felt I had a will of my own when I refused to defeat Kaiba, but he would have defeated me if I hadn't just stopped him.

His original name is Atem, but at the time for his specter, an ancient soul trapped in the artifact, we call him Yami. I say "we call" because I mean me and my friends. Let me introduce you before proceeding: Téa, Joey and Tristan. They met Yami a little later, Téa was the first. Yami and I intertwined our minds and thus we were able to change positions of body control. Although he prefers to appear only during duels.

Over time, we became very close friends. Atem told me about how little he remembered when he was Pharaoh, but that he knew that he was the one who would ultimately seal the evil that the powers of the letters brought to ancient Egypt. I once got into the Millennium Puzzle. It's huge inside, I got lost several times until Pharaoh found me. The problem is, I could have died ... really. There are so many pitfalls out there that it looks like Pharaoh is at war with someone.

Ah, if you are in any way wondering why you never realized that we were different people, it is because we are very similar. He has few characteristics that differ from me, but when he takes my body, they just almost disappear. Only our personalities are very different. And I've always been a very kind, caring, and helpful guy to everyone around me. I don't say that Yami is a bad person, far from it. But your attitude is different.

Inflexible. He is somewhat proud, and he is very intelligent. Despite so much discrepancy between us, Yami and I have a mutual empathy between us, an extremely strong bond, and perhaps that was the initial problem that now causes me so much doubt and anguish. Let me start by finally telling you what's been going on. Ah! And welcome to my story.