Chapter 98: Yu Miao and the Six-Year-Old Get Into a Fight
Two dark energies intertwined, creating a terrifying storm of power.
Dark Marik's expression was contorted with rage. The twisted joy he felt from tormenting the Nameless Pharaoh and Seto Kaiba vanished instantly, replaced by an utterly venomous tone as he demanded:
"Yu Miao, ahhh, you actually chose to betray me."
"For the sake of worthless humans no better than ants!!"
Anger, fury, resentment...
These unfamiliar emotions overwhelmed Dark Marik, making his eyes sting with unshed tears.
He never imagined Yu Miao would truly choose to betray him and even attack him.
Honestly, Dark Marik had somewhat come to trust Yu Miao.
But precisely because of that, the betrayal felt even more personal and enraging.
This feeling of being betrayed was a first for Dark Marik.
"Yu Miao, I'll make you regret this for a lifetime."
At this moment, Dark Marik's fury and hatred toward Yu Miao even briefly surpassed that toward the Nameless Pharaoh!
Fuming, Dark Marik forgot to detonate the bombs on the two hostages. He was determined to settle the score with Yu Miao here and now.
"MIND CRUSH!!"
Dark Marik leaped into the air, launching an assault on Yu Miao from mid-air with the Millennium Rod.
However, in the next instant, spirits appeared around Yu Miao.
One, two, three...
Biu~
The "Mind Crush" shot from the Millennium Rod was instantly neutralized by the spiritual energy surrounding Yu Miao.
Dark Marik stared dumbfounded at the spirits hovering around You Miao.
What was this?
A gang fight?
Dark Marik's expression darkened. For an ordinary person, having one or two spirits was the limit. He never expected Yu Miao to possess so many.
"Give it up, Marik. Trying to subdue me with a Millennium Item is impossible," Yu Miao stated nonchalantly.
"I don't believe it!" Dark Marik roared in fury, channeling the Millennium Rod with all his might to fire multiple shockwaves.
The scene instantly shifted from Yu-Gi-Oh! to... Naruto.
Dark Magician Girl raised her staff...
All the "Dark Shocks" released by Dark Marik were wiped clean from existence like chalk on a blackboard.
At this point, Dark Marik had to admit one thing.
As long as there were enough of these spirits, the sheer accumulation of energy...
Damn it, Dark Marik really had no way to deal with Yu Miao.
"Dark Marik, eat this!" Yu Miao directed the Winged Dragon of Ra, sneakily landing a punch on Dark Marik.
Boom~
The punch landed squarely. Although Dark Marik blocked in time with the Millennium Rod, the force still sent him flying.
Thud.
A metallic taste filled Dark Marik's mouth—he had been punched so hard he was bleeding.
Since he couldn't deal with Yu Miao head-on, Dark Marik turned his attention to the one called Panther Lady.
"Yu Miao, know suffering. Every hunter who joins the Rare hunter is a pitiful wretch with no future." Dark Marik activated the Millennium Rod.
He was going to use its power to trigger the mark in Panther Lady's brain, burning her into an idiot.
Every person who joined the Rare hunters—except for Odion and Yu Miao, who had spiritual protection—had long been marked by Marik.
This was the charm of the Rare hunters' leader: ruling everything through violence and power.
A golden eye appeared on Panther Lady's forehead, a precursor to her brain being incinerated.
However.
Yu Miao remained completely unfazed. He pulled out a Millennium Rod look-alike that resembled a toy.
A cheap toy sold for a few bucks at a wholesale market?
That was Dark Marik's first impression.
Yu Miao waved the fake Millennium Rod gently, and the golden eye mark on Panther Lady's forehead instantly vanished.
"Impossible!" Dark Marik was floored. Even with the support of N spirits, that shouldn't allow Yu Miao to erase a dark mark previously placed by a Millennium Item.
It was like water could extinguish fire, but that didn't mean water could also roast meat.
The functions were completely different!
—It was that toy-like Millennium Rod!
Dark Marik's mind worked quickly. He deduced the only possible reason.
Compared to Marik himself, Panther Lady was undoubtedly more loyal to Yu Miao, thus fitting the criteria for the fake Millennium Rod's protection.
As long as the target was loyal and submitted to Yu Miao, he could use the fake Millennium Rod to protect them.
"Marik, give up. When it comes to cheating, you're no match for me," Yu Miao mocked.
"I refuse to believe a mere toy could be so powerful." Dark Marik couldn't accept that such an absurd toy existed in this world. He'd rather believe his own Millennium Item was... malfunctioning or tired!
"Don't believe me?"
"Let me tell you something: I am now the leader of the Rare hunters. Those hunters no longer acknowledge your authority."
"You're nothing but a mentally challenged idiot who only knows how to revel in twisted pleasure."
Yu Miao aimed to wound both body and soul. He hadn't intended to rebel so soon, but Dark Marik had pushed him too far.
"I've been sidelined?"
Veins bulged on Dark Marik's forehead. He had been sidelined?
And by the person he once trusted most!!
Dark Marik truly didn't care about the Rare huntets organization, but that didn't mean he could tolerate collective betrayal.
What he discarded voluntarily was his to give; it didn't mean others could take it!
"Useless. The Rare hunters in this city no longer acknowledge you. As long as they are loyal to me, your Millennium Rod cannot threaten them."
"Dark Marik, you no longer have any means to control the entire organization."
Ding~
The Millennium Rod emitted a golden light.
To verify Yu Miao's claim, Dark Marik began communicating on a large scale across all of Domino City!
He was going to detonate each hunter's brain, one by one.
But...
Just like with Panther Lady, Dark Marik found the marks on those Rare hunters disappearing one after another.
This confirmed Yu Miao's words were true. Those damn, good-for-nothing Rare hunters had really betrayed him and pledged allegiance to Yu Miao.
"Ahhhhhh!" Dark Marik, this six-year-old at heart, was driven mad with rage. As if throwing a tantrum, he insisted on finding someone who hadn't betrayed him to detonate as proof.
The six-year-old was being stubborn with Yu Miao!
Because the wound of You Miao's betrayal... would never heal!!
"Wahahaha, found them! There are still two people who haven't betrayed me." Dark Marik wore a maniacal grin as he used the Millennium Rod to personally trigger the detonation, intending to show Yu Miao.
However.
Yu Miao realized something.
There were still Rare hunters in this city who hadn't betrayed Marik?
That shouldn't be possible.
Those hunters taken out by Kawa-something didn't count. There shouldn't be anyone that stupid in this city...
Soon, Yu Miao realized there might indeed be.
At that moment.
The Silent Doll standing next to Mokuba began to heat up, the golden eye on its forehead growing terrifyingly hot.
Bang~
The back of the Silent Doll's head exploded, blood gushing from the hole.
Yu Miao was stunned.
Panther Lady was dumbfounded.
Dark Marik's grin slowly froze.
—Oh right. The Silent Doll and Pandora hadn't pledged allegiance to Yu Miao; they were still on his side.
Good news: Marik successfully proved Yu Miao wrong; there were still people who hadn't betrayed him.
Bad news: The hostage detonator pawn... had its brain burned out. Dark Marik could no longer control it to trigger the explosion.
Panther Lady seriously doubted Dark Marik's intelligence...
Was this guy missing a few brain cells?
The Silent Doll's body swayed—it was dead.
Splash~
Just like that, this pawn holding the detonator fell into the sea.
Seeing this, Kaiba immediately halted the duel. He pushed off with his feet...
Launching himself like Tarzan, he used 5–8 steps to leap across various steel beams and girders, reaching the top where Mokuba was!
The entire process took less than 8 seconds.
Dark Yugi watched, dumbstruck. What kind of superhuman speed and strength was this?
Kaiba, are you on drugs?
"Mokuba!" Upon reaching the top, Kaiba swiftly tore off the bomb strapped to Mokuba's chest.
Moving with incredible speed, Kaiba hugged Mokuba and took a leap of faith, jumping down.
From this height...
Even if the surface below was water, a normal person could die from the impact.
But Kaiba was no normal person. Using his tall, broad frame, he shielded Mokuba, absorbing most of the impact before plunging into the sea.
Yugi looked toward Téa's location. Pandora, the other pawn, hadn't fallen into the sea like the Silent Doll and remained standing guard.
Dark Marik realized his stubbornness seemed to have backfired.
One hostage had been rescued.
But it didn't matter.
Because Dark Marik's greatest hatred now was directed at Yu Miao.
However, the death of the Silent Doll refocused Dark Marik's attention.
"Yu Miao, you betrayed me for a friend like Téa Gardner. Then watch her die."
"Wahahahaha."
The bomb on Téa couldn't be disarmed by that toy.
Yu Miao's expression turned grim. Besides its "protection" ability, the fake Millennium Rod had another effect: "Brainwashing Removal."
However, both abilities only worked on targets who were loyal and submitted to Yu Miao.
Pawns like Pandora and the Silent Doll fell outside the fake Millennium Rod's protection scope.
Dark Marik issued the detonation command.
Pandora's expression sharpened. He immediately pressed the detonator in his hand, intending to trigger the explosion here.
At this critical moment.
"ZA WARUDO!!" Yu Miao raised a finger and shouted.
The Winged Dragon of Ra, in sync with Yu Miao, activated its special effect: Time Stop.
He had held back from using "Time Stop" during the fight with Dark Marik to conserve stamina.
Exodia's "Time Stop" wasn't omnipotent. The more Yu Miao understood it, the more he realized its limitations.
In a single day, Yu Miao could use it at most three times.
Each successive use lasted shorter than the last.
However, Yu Miao could expend all three uses in one burst, stacking them for a single effect.
Additionally, if the dark energy was strong enough—like with someone like Dark Bakura—the Time Stop effect might not be as effective.
Now, with time frozen, Yu Miao noticed Dark Marik's hand moving at an extremely slow pace.
This was the limitation of Time Stop.
Not an invincible, omnipotent power.
At least within the stopped time, only he could move normally for now.
Bang, clatter~
Ra punched through the windowpane!
Yu Miao stepped onto Ra's powerfully muscular, ethereal arm and shouted:
"Use all your strength, send me over!"
"I'll summon you again later."
Thus, with a mighty roar, Ra hurled Yu Miao forward.
Crash~
Ra's strength was so immense that glass shards flew everywhere around it, and two wooden pillars at the corner joint snapped, collapsing!
As he flew through the air, Yu Miao felt his limbs going numb.
Such overwhelmingly overbearing force.
(End of Chapter)
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