1 Childhood's Beginning

Burned... all of it

Reflected in his green eyes, the yellow flame dancing atop his Duel Monsters cards and his Duel Disk.

The cards that he collects and taken care of so tediously from he was a child... all of it becoming ashes.

The various monster card no matter if it's normal or effect one, low or high attack, normal or rare... all of them are gone.

His companion who played with him is no more...

Not only the cards, his duel disk is also gone.

Like the cards, the duel disk is also a special thing to him.

That is the Duel Disk he got from the first Domino City Battles, the duel disk that he always used and taken care of, no matter if the duel disk is outdated or not.

More importantly, that duel disk also had the signature of the first duel king,

Yugi Muto himself!

But, the duel disk start to melt, and inside the flame the duel disk give a little spark, like it was saying his last Goodbye.

"Come, don't stop! Burn every card and everything that related to duel monsters!" Said the man with black tuxedo.

Then, a couple of men start to pour new cards from the box to the flame, making the flame bigger.

The smoke rose up to the sky, Yuji instinctively look at the direction of the smoke with an empty eyes.

Because of the smoke, the twilight sky now had a murk stain of blackness.

Yuji then gaze at his burned cards and the duel disk again.

Then, a single tear fall from his eyes. He clenched his chest as hard as he can, and finally fall to his knee.

He wonders why they did such a cruel thing to him, he then remembers the words his former principal said to him.

"From today onward you are expelled!"

She said it so calmly, and with blank face, to him.

"Dammit..." whisper Yuji while kneeling.

He was expelled because he scares off some upper classman who were bullying a freshman student like him, with a projection of Armored Zombie from duel monsters.

"It's too much..." cried him.

Then, an obese guy wearing a red suit walks to him and then grabs his hair.

"Look at it... your precious toy cards" said the obese man, forcing Yuji to watch his Duel Monster cards and Duel Disk burned.

The way the obese man grabs and pulled his hair is very rough, hurting him.

Yuji then grabs and hitting the guy's hand, struggling to make him releasing his hair, but the obese man hand didn't even flinch.

"Hmph!" The obese man snorted like an orc, then he throws Yuji to the ground.

His face hit the ground, dirt plastered on his face. Some of Yuji's hair strands is still on the obese man's hand.

The obese man gaze at Yuji with disdainful eyes, when Yuji saw his eyes he can't help but flinched.

His cold eyes are like a dagger made from refined ice that slowly pushed toward his heart.

Yuji avert his eyes because of the fear.

The obese man then says to him, "Tomorrow, I'm going to send you to Finland-"

Yuji then looks at the obese man with a surprised gaze, but he quickly averts it again.

The obese man continues, "There's a school, a very prestigious one, that one of my colleagues owned"

He continues.

"Unlike the previous lukewarm school, that school is so good, so good that it's akin to military school... I hope that school could reform you to become a better child"

The obese man snorted, "Ah! I forgot, and that school had a very peculiar rule... it is very forbidden to play children card game, you know what I mean, right?!"

Yuji nods slowly.

"From tomorrow onward you are going to enroll in that school, and just in case I also add some of mine... trusted subordinate to keep you from playing cards again"

After the obese man said that, he turned around and walks, leaving his son Yuji.

Not far from Yuji, there's also his other family members watching.

"What a moron, am I right? It is unfathomable to me how he can be like that?!" say a woman with black hair, dressed in gaudy clothes and wearing many jewelries.

"Yes, mother..." said the boy weakly.

"..." then there's a girl who watch Yuji silently.

Yuji wept his eyes, and stand up.

He looks at the fire for the last time, and clenched his fists before he going back to the mansion.

"Haha... I'm a failure as a duelist"