Sorry for taking so long to come back, I finished editing right at the start of the holidays (Christmas and New Year), I wanted to start in the first week of new year, but then I got a flu (it was the worst), only now I'm finally starting to recover properly enough to start writing this post.
In this post there is a lot of important conversations, expect many "important discussion/conversation" interruptions in the plot summary, since the important discussions/ conversations are focused on the key points.
Plot Summary:
After that important conversation with his grandfather and the next day being the day they will finally go to the museum, Yugi can't help but think and wonder about what his granpa and Yami Bakura said to him before, so feels restless and he is having difficulties to start sleeping, then he sees Dark Yugi sitting on the chair with an expression of contemplation looking into the window, Dark Yugi notices Yugi is still awake, he apologizes and asks if he woke Yugi, Yugi tells him like Dark Yugi, he is too excited to sleep (more like restless), Dark Yugi noticed slightly and in himself, that they both feel restless because of what kind of memories will be shown to him, but these two aren't the only ones feeling restless...followed by an important conversation...
The moment Yugi and Dark Yugi starts to sleep, there is some storm happening, the window is with a hole with few broken pieces over the table where the golden box is with his cards inside, a hand from the window reaches for Yugi's golden box to steal... as Yugi starts waking up because of the sound broken glass and sees the hand reaching for his box, the thief grabs the box and runs away, Yugi goes after him, Dark Yugi asks Yugi to be himself taking care of it, Yugi insists to be himself since he feels is his responsibility as a vessel to protect those cards, when Yugi starts catching up, sees the thief already unconscious on the floor and encounters Yami Bakura, both have a very important discussion...
The next day finally arrives, it starts the usual at school until is noticed Yugi and Ryou both have dark circles under the eyes, the moment the gang reunites inside the classroom before class starting , they start discuss about about the god cards and it's importance being connected to why they are going to the museum, being necessary to Dark Yugi for his quest into recovering his lost memories, Anzu is worried about something and Dark Yugi takes over and gives his reply...
After the school is over, they arrive to the museum with Dark Yugi already taking over, there they encounter someone already waiting for them, a man who is big and fat, who introduces himself as Bobasa, one of the tomb guardians and saves the millenium items in the surface of his belly of his body, with only two millenium items (Millenium Key and Millenium Libra/Scales), but it has other holes for the others, at start they don't fully trust him, however there is another important conversation, so Bobasa accompanies them to the famous and mentioned stone slab, on the way, Anzu ponders about something and goes to a small store inside the museum to buy something for Dark Yugi related to his quest, when they reached the stone slab, most of the gang is shocked, Dark Yugi then presents his three god cards...
Key Points:
This is one of my favourite conversations between these two, besides
the one before the duel against the silent doll , because it reveals who Dark Yugi feels closest to and by an order of sequence who he met first and spends most time with as well, Yugi coming first, of course, he is the host, following by Jounouchi and Anzu, Honda and then many other friends, in this case is not favouritism, he mentions the four of them in specific and orderly too from closest to least close, because they are his closest friends...
Yugi being to whom Dark Yugi is closest too, it's very clear to all readers, hilarious even sometimes, since they started to be able to talk to each other normally (Pegasus's duel), it became part of their daily routine to a point even Dark Yugi giving fashion advice and rooting for Yugi about Anzu, also subconsciously they know each other longer than they think, specially Dark Yugi like I stated in the
previous post.
Next is Jounouchi, it's another person who is closest to him after Yugi for obvious reasons, both of them in terms of games, they're more inclined towards Magic and Wizards/Duel Monsters TCG and very passionately too, both are emotive players and share in common in views and fighting spirit, strong friendship rivalry, also the way of them to communicate with others best is through dueling, and being a friend that he can easily relate to besides Yugi when it comes to games.
Then is Anzu, their close friendship takes a bit longer and is slower to develop, which is why it tends to be easily overlooked by readers, including myself in the past, what truly set it in stone for them sharing a fairly close bond was the "set up date", it shows when he talked about what he has been feeling and mind after the events of Duelist Kingdom to Anzu and her advice was very valuable and helpful to him and become someone he feels more comfortable to talk to when it comes to his personal thoughts, feelings and problems (I will write in more detail about the development of their friendship more towards the end of this post and close to the end of the series).
Lastly Honda, it's simpler, but can be easily overlooked, Honda is a very good supportive friend, when it comes to understanding and roots for him when it comes to his own decisions and friends,
the little scene of Honda before the duel against Kaiba , just this small scene speaks volumes that Dark Yugi is very grateful for this kinds of supportive moments from Honda.
It's curious that he doesn't mentions Ryou Bakura, I guess is because he is very wary of the millenium Ring and the fact Ryou ignores their advice in not bringing and wearing the ring but considers Ryou as a friend, for him to say "lots of other friends", it means in a bigger scale, not just Ryou and Mai, he is including Kaiba, Otogi, Ryota, Rishid, Ishizu and Marik, even though Dark Yugi is a very reserved and awkward person, it still means a great deal for him, or else he wouldn't say:
"Now, I have new memories...the memories of being with my friends. No matter what happens to me, those memories will always be there."
Dark Yugi doesn't often speaks of his feelings about his bonds and memories like this being very dear to him, even more giving this kind of assurance to Yugi and more to himself, it shows that Dark Yugi has been thinking a lot about this quest and speculated of what could happen when the time comes.
Yugi's reaction to Dark Yugi's reflection on the people he met becoming important to him, he was quite touched, even Yugi himself got contemplative when Dark Yugi given assurance to him and noticeably to himself that he wouldn't forget them being his new memories, he doesn't seem worried about it in the quest for his memories, but...
(for a first key point of this post, it's quite huge, well it is a very important scene about Dark Yugi's character and development)
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