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WHO: Fudou Yuusei, Bruno and OPEN to anyone around?
WHERE: The park
WHEN: ... Backdated to, uh, last Sunday.
WARNINGS: Robot flailing.
SUMMARY: Yuusei goes to meet that awesome robot that lives in his garage and eats Jack's ramen and has absolutely nothing to do with a certain sunglasses guy who saved his ass back home.
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Things were getting complicated.

It wasn't because he'd been kidnapped to some alternate world and not even because Ruka claimed to have spent over a year there while he was positive he'd seen her just a few hours before coming to the City. No, he could deal with those oddities. What made him really concerned was the fact Kiryuu was a Dark Signer. Again. He frowned a little, attempting to put that thought aside. Apparently, Kiryuu wasn't there at the moment (though he'd never made it clear where exactly he was), so the Signer had some time to meet with his friends and possibly explain some things that had happen back in their world to them.

Yuusei stopped walking and looked around the park. He had been trying to familiarize himself with the City for the past few days, so he had a fairly good idea of where was and where he wanted to go. So as for the moment, all that had been left for him was to wait for Bruno to arrive.

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"That's what I've heard, but I think if you already had powers before you came then that counts..." He ponders to himself. "Maybe it's because of your Signer thing?"

Yuusei looked down at his right forearm in silence. It would be the most logical explanation, yes, especially if considered the Clear Mind ability he'd recently acquired...

"I suppose it could be that." He agreed, turning back to Bruno.

"Mm..." Bruno was quiet for a few moments. He was clearly a little troubled about the whole powers subject.

But he soon looked back up to Yuusei. "Oh! By the way, I don't think I ever asked you, when did you get ported in from? I came during the first match victory party, and Carley's from the end of Jack's duel a little earlier in the day, and Ruka's... Ruka's from a long time ago. But what about you?"

Seeing as Bruno didn't seem too comfortable about the subject, Yuusei chose not to bring it up for the time being.

"After our second victory in the tournament, Neo Domino was attacked by an army of Ghosts," he explained, his expression darkening a little. "They forced the D-Wheelers into dueling them on the rules of Battle Royal mode."

"Ghosts? You mean like that one that dueled you last summer that was making people crash?" he asked, sounding concerned. "There's even more of them?"

But as Bruno thought through more of the discussion he'd heard a couple weeks ago from Sherry and the others, his face turned even more worried. "Wait, if they cause real damage in duels, then... all the people in the tournament..."

He went on a little urgently, "Is everyone okay? What happened?"

"Unfortunately, there is." Yuusei confirmed, scowling. Even if they hadn't been as powerful as during his previous encounter with them, he had to admit their number had made it difficult to fight them.

"They caused several crashes, as well as severely damaged the highway and part of the city. That led the Security to suspend the WRGP for now." he carried on, "Everyone is fine, though."

He made a pause, looking away for a moment. "... The one who controlled them... was a member of Yliaster."

He sighed in relief a bit. "That's good." He was a little disappointed that the WRGP had to be put off, but as long as it wasn't canceled then their team would still have a chance to reach for their dreams.

Bruno saw Yuusei look away and nodded softly. "So Sherry was right about them being connected to Yliaster..." he said. "Did you meet the person behind it all?"

"Yes," Yuusei answered, turning his gaze back to Bruno. "The Three Emperors of Yliaster... Each of them is in possession of a 'Machine Emperor' monster. It seems their goal is to destroy Neo Domino City."

Thinking back to it, there were many things that had been left unexplained. He wished he knew Yliaster's motives better, what the 'Circuit' and the 'will of God' they claimed to follow were. How were they supposed to protect the City without even knowing who their enemy was?

"... I dueled one of them... Placido." he continued after a moment, wondering if he should share his suspicions with his friend and finally deciding to do so. "I don't think he was human."

"Destroy the city??" Bruno exclaimed. "Why would they want to do that?" From everything he'd heard before now it sounded like these people were focusing on Yuusei and his friends and a few other people like Sherry's family, and that was bad enough. But now... what could make them want to kill hundreds of thousands of people?

Bruno was quiet for a moment after Yuusei finished. "... Not human...?" he asked weakly. "What do you mean?"

"... Apparently, they're aiming to 'set the history back to the right course'." Yuusei explained, aware it might not been enough to calm Bruno. After all, it must have been the first time he'd ever faced a threat like that, so his reaction was only natural. Not that Yuusei wasn't worried, he just wasn't expressing it openly.

"Remember our discussion on Ghosts and Jack's impostor back during the victory party?" he asked, thinking about the best way to put it. "I believe he was a kind of robot as well. During our duel, he merged with his D-Wheel."

"Set history on the right course...? What's that supposed to mean?" He was more wondering aloud to himself than asking Yuusei. It seemed like they were both still in the dark about a lot of this.

He turned an unsettled look back at Yuusei at that explanation. "A... a robot? He merged with his D-Wheel?" He swallowed. "So the ones controlling all those machines are more machines?"

This thread of conversation seemed to be making him nearly as uncomfortable as the powers talk, but in a different kind of way. He looked almost like he was preoccupied with his own thoughts, trying to sort something out about all this in his head and not having much luck.