ruleroftheend | [Story & Private to Yuya]

Akaba Reiji looked up to his computer's mainframe, the giant luminous flowing orb of steel and circuitry, his hands running over the guard rails anxiously. The anxiety and the disgust were both eating at him.

It had started simple enough. He and Serena had noticed Reira had been growingly off. Could of been some trigger or event setting them back emotionally, but that could be worked over, especially with Serena. Reiji loved his younger sibling, but years of both of their parents and their business had kept him, well. Rigid. Stiff. Cold. Serena had said it gave him the demeanor of a mobster. Which he never quite got how. But she did insist he did sometimes word things in a way that gave people the impression they'd be having a trip at sea with concrete shoes.

But, Reira's behavior was the start of it. Then the mentions of people remembering things that couldn't of happened, or feelings of memories missing. That had led him into looking at the computer mainframe of Leo Corp's Head Quarters. What had shocked him is that quite a bit of information, beyond surface level things, was just gone. Where money had gone. Empty project and file reports.

From there, he remembered his father had developed technology. Technology to dig up suppressed memories, or as his father claimed absurdly, 'past lives'. He had his staff pull it out, dust it off, turn it back on... And test it on himself.

What scraps he saw alarmed him. A war. A war started by his father. Giant robots that leveled cities. Airships that crossed worlds. Other worlds. The fact he had a satellite in orbit. And the worst: Certain feelings for the girl who was now his sister. Feelings that made him queasy...

'Enough of that trail of thought...' He thought to himself gripping the railing.

He quickly had that satellite accessed. Apparently for whatever reason, this satellite carried information of another world. Did he do it? Had the world been changed but whoever had done so just simply ignored it? Were they incompetent? Lazy?

He had lead the Lancers into other worlds. Through Synchro. And split up to Xyz and Fusion, and ultimately, they had faced down two forces that Leo Akaba, his father was ultimately responsible. A ghostly goddess emulating his half sister, Ray, the basis of his his sister, Serena. And a demon dragon, called Z-ARC, a monster born of Yuya and his counterparts, or rather now, his brothers. It had been stopped, through a huge massive effort, but only barely. And at quite a bit of cost.

Those ghosts. Those echoes of another world. What Leo had speculated was once an original Dimension, but others believed with a parallel world, or even the 13th Dimension of the Branes that created this world and the Duel Monster Worlds. ... And what was worse, he realized, the Ghost of Z-ARC had fled. Fled into Reira. And he sincerely doubt he or Serena could do anything about it. Likely, the only ones that could do anything about it...

Were the shards of Z-ARC themselves.

He'd have to ask Sakaki Yuya and his doubles, no. His brothers. For help...

Akaba Reiji took a deep breath before pulling out his smartphone.

[Private to the Sakaki Brothers]

I'd like to talk to you four about something. Please hear me out.

[Story & Private to Yuya]

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