It was odd. It was so odd. Like waking up from a dream, but it wasn’t a dream, but it definitely had to be a dream because the last thing you remember was setting Lua up with his new riding duel team you can make your way to the next one.
But then there was a whole other life. And there was no Yusei and Jack and instead there was...Aki. And it felt just as normal and growing up around Yusei and Jack, leaving high school with Aki, and then watching her get her degrees extraordinarily quickly while he made sure she didn’t have to work too-too hard to get those degrees. And that kid...
His head hurt. It was all too much. And then he “woke up” in that same place.
He couldn’t even be bothered trying to decrypt what that message meant, especially since nearby was - “Aki!”
It had been a while since he’d seen her. “What a...Well, it’s definitely a way to meet up - that ‘the world is ending again’ announcement aside...Did you maybe have some weird dream, too? And what is this place anyway...?” And where was that brightly haired kid? He wasn’t anywhere to be found, but those other versions of them were responsible for him.