All the blood in Zahra's face drains away. "Wait, what's going to happen to Domino City?" they're far more preoccupied with that yes,
"Hold on. Yugi, you said the tournament is happening in Nazca?" Shizuka, however, is focused on more immediately pressing matters. "They're turning it on there?"
"Yeah, Hideo's riding duel got really popular, remember? So Paradox decided to make it an official format and-"
Now it's Shizuka's turn to pale. "Oh no. You don't think they're trying to..."
"Sweet Slifer, d- do you think this Paradox guy is trying to awaken... whatever possessed Hideo that one time?" Zahra looks very, very afraid all of a sudden. "If one riding duel was enough to wake up their Servants, then if you have a bunch of them happen at once and then detonate this Moment thing..."
"Right. I should probably explain." Shizuka sighs, forcing herself to focus. "I don't know how much you know about our world in particular, but there's these immortal... things bound beneath Nazca's geoglyphs. I suspect you've had an encounter with them in your time. When we were on our little year-long apocalyptic roadtrip, one of our friends was indoctrinated into a cult. We met her in Nazca, Zahra tried a really stupid stunt to get her to wake up- a duel on a motorcycle, of all things. The moment a Synchro was summoned, we woke up these... things that were servants of the gods beneath, and Hideo got possessed by them instead. That's when something called the Crimson Dragon gave me this," Shizuka rolls up her sleeve, revealing the Heart of the Dragon, "to fight them and stop them from awakening their masters. Afterwards, it told me to look out for the rest of the 'Signers' in around half a century and help them.
"I think Paradox is trying to move up the timetable."
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"Hold on. Yugi, you said the tournament is happening in Nazca?" Shizuka, however, is focused on more immediately pressing matters. "They're turning it on there?"
"Yeah, Hideo's riding duel got really popular, remember? So Paradox decided to make it an official format and-"
Now it's Shizuka's turn to pale. "Oh no. You don't think they're trying to..."
"Sweet Slifer, d- do you think this Paradox guy is trying to awaken... whatever possessed Hideo that one time?" Zahra looks very, very afraid all of a sudden. "If one riding duel was enough to wake up their Servants, then if you have a bunch of them happen at once and then detonate this Moment thing..."
"Right. I should probably explain." Shizuka sighs, forcing herself to focus. "I don't know how much you know about our world in particular, but there's these immortal... things bound beneath Nazca's geoglyphs. I suspect you've had an encounter with them in your time. When we were on our little year-long apocalyptic roadtrip, one of our friends was indoctrinated into a cult. We met her in Nazca, Zahra tried a really stupid stunt to get her to wake up- a duel on a motorcycle, of all things. The moment a Synchro was summoned, we woke up these... things that were servants of the gods beneath, and Hideo got possessed by them instead. That's when something called the Crimson Dragon gave me this," Shizuka rolls up her sleeve, revealing the Heart of the Dragon, "to fight them and stop them from awakening their masters. Afterwards, it told me to look out for the rest of the 'Signers' in around half a century and help them.
"I think Paradox is trying to move up the timetable."