Yugi was still trying to work out how to phrase her letter when she got home from school. She had been attempting to think about it all day, but returning the stolen games hadn’t helped her steadily increasing fame amongst the student population. Instead she was more popular than she had been this morning.
“Oooh, post!” Jou grinned, pouncing on a letter addressed to him and tossing Yugi a couple of envelopes. Yugi was about to open her post when Jou let out a delighted whoop and spun her around the shop until she was dizzy.
“Jonouchi, I would appreciate it if you didn’t make Yugi sick.” Ojiisan scolded, his tone only half serious as Jou swiftly let go and Yugi stumbled slightly before leaning on one of the glass cases.
“Sorry, but you remember that application I put in for ‘Get the Million?’ You know, that game show that’s really popular right now?” He asked, a huge smile on his face.
“How could we forget?” Ojiisan asked, “You coloured it in with every colouring pencil we own and a few I didn’t think we did.”
“Well I’m on. They’re letting me play!” Jou crowed, “I’m recording at the end of the week!”
“That’s great.” Yugi smiled at him, still dizzy but pleased for her friend and able to sense Oneesan’s pleasure at Jou’s good luck too.
As Jou started babbling about everything he was going to do with the money when he got it, Yugi started restocking the shelves. The store looked like it had been busy over the course of the day. Monster Fighter hadn’t been the only thing to fly off the shelves by the looks of it.
In fact it continued to be busy right up until about five minutes before closing when one of the other teens in their year, one Yugi had returned a game to earlier in the day, entered the shop looking nervous.
“Imori-kun? Right?” Yugi asked, curious about the package in his hands.
“Ye...yeah.” Imori nodded, “You’re Mutou-kun?”
“That’s right.” Yugi encouraged, “What’ve you got there?”
“I wanted to...” He put the package on the counter, letting them all look at it. It looked like a jar and a box, tied with string and with a piece of paper with kanji attached, “Well you know games, right?” Yugi nodded, “I was hoping you could tell me what this is and maybe we could have a gam...”
“No.” Ojiisan’s firm and unyielding denial confused Yugi, who turned to her grandfather to find that he was glowering at the package.
“Ojiisan?” Jou asked, confused.
“I’ve heard about this.” Ojiisan explained, “This is an ancient game called Dragon Cards and you must not break this seal!”
“Why?” Yugi asked, confused considering that he didn’t discourage Oneesan’s game and they were certainly dangerous.
“Because they were created by a Taoist master as a test for his students. Their final test. They use the energies of the heaven and nature. The cards are currently in balance, the dark energies of the cards are balanced by the light energies of the seal.”
Yugi blinked, wondering if her relationship with Oneesan was something similar.
“If this seal gets broken, it will create a warped power and disaster would fall upon you and anyone around you.” Ojiisan warned, “In fact I’ve heard rumour that these Dragon Cards once ruined countries. You must never, ever break this seal.”
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