"It's too early to give up," Kaiba says forcefully. A picture of Mokuba and his own suspicions flash in his mind, and he leans forward.

"If we can learn how to open the holes in a specific time and place, you can go back to him as long as he still exists in some dimension. It will take work, but I'm going to work at it. We all need to be able to get back to where we belong."