The 4 Pillars

After the defeat

Yuya's POV

I thought.. everything worked out. Everyone was finally at peace.
But I guess I was wrong. Again, apparently.

It had only been a short while after my last duel against Declan Akaba; where my and Yuzu's counterparts finally left this world behind. ...I still miss Yuto. It would have been nice if he had remained with me, I don't care how; I just wish I hadn't been left alone. It wouldn't have been as painful for me if someone had been there.

While everyone was happy that Yuzu was finally back home, especially her dad, it seems that others soon changed how they thought and looked at me...

An Outsider. Someone too dangerous to be left alone. Someone who once destroyed an entire world. A duelist who can manifest monsters without Akaba Leo technology... and much more.
Heck, Declan's mom even hates me for causing the strife of her love life by splitting the main into the now known four dimensions! My own mom..she barely talks to me anymore. She tries to be nice, but she can't seem to accept who I am or what happened to dad.

Everything was good the first few weeks. Our friends visited us via the invented dimension bridge, we celebrated, our dimension and the others shared their dueling styles (we got D-Wheels!!), I was hailed as the dueling champion... It was all I had wished for before I even knew how to Pendelum summon..

But, once I got back to dueling and won against the others, they slowly started to look at me in a different light. Shun for example, I once saw him kneeling down and having a breakdown late at dawn in the park.. He had wept for Yuto and his sister. I don't know what I felt..but he wished that it had been Yuto that had come back instead of me. Others from the XYZ dimension were like that too.. And I'm sure, if Yugo had more friends, it would be like that for him too. Not sure about Yuri though. He changed after we separated being Zarc...but I'm the only one who saw that supportive side of him.

I even..heard from Reira how.. the Lancers had discussed taking the dragon cards from me and locking them up and hiding them in the desert or somewhere where they could never be found. Thankfully though, they discarded the idea since they weren't sure if the dragons might go berserk on their own and call for Zarc if I'm not there. They also couldn't lock me up either. There weren't many or any laws for dueling at all, and they themselves are aware that I'm.. technically not really Zarc himself. Although, they still speak of me as one of his personas occasionally. It seems like Reira is the only one who likes to talk with me..but she's kept at a distance.

Overall... It hurts. I'm sad. I feel alone. It's like I lost everything I loved. The dueling school I once dearly treasured is wary of me, my three juniors don't even want to team up with or against me. Yuzu's father especially doesn't seem to want me around incase I send her to fusion or synchro on accident or something. As for the Lancers...

Gong trains at the dojo now, we only talk for a short while. And if I want to duel with him, I'm not allowed to call the dragons or use anything other than Pendelum or the traditional summoning methods (i.e. Tribute summoning).
Sora does hang out with me, but he seems more like he's observing me... He's still one of the ones I'm currently closest to. Shun I've already mentioned, he usually stays in Heartland now unless Reiji calls for him. Most of us do.

I did try to show others that I only want to perform with my dueling.. to entertain them, but that just makes them see me as Zarc more. Why or how do they know? That's because Reiji had - sometime after our duel - explained to them what kind of person (or duelist) Zarc was in his time. While they now try to not encourage violence in duels, or push the duelists to fulfill their wishes, they don't seem able to sympathize with...the past.

Now though, I don't know anymore.. I've been taking to wandering around alone to feel better lately, but I can't seem to get much rest. As for going to school? The principal got so many parent complaints that it stressed mom out, I basically got kicked out.  Even if I tried deluding myself that is not like that, I can't help but realize that the worlds (or rather their people) are against me. I had already locked myself up in my room.. but then my mom came in and kicked me out so she could have some fresh air. I'm not doing her any good either...

"Idk Mister Declen, he seems to care too much for those dragons to even think of burning them. Not to mention, I heard from Gong that when he told Yuya not to use them during their duel, his eyes changed to a toxic green for a short moment. I don't think that we're completely rid of Zarc yet..".

There had been a Lancers meeting, I had gotten the notification shortly after my mom got me out of our front door. I went to the Leon institute, took the elevator (I wore my goggles the entire time to not show how I noticed their stares), and walked towards the room where the Lancers had gathered for the first time. Its where our meetings are held. From a distance, I had seen Phobio (Me: Idk if that's correct..) enter the room before me.

'If he's already here then I'm probably the last one to arrive', just as I was trying to push the door open, I overheard Sora through the small opening (Phobio didn't close the door after him).

My hand and my body stepped back, 'S-Sora..?'.

Gong: That's true, and I would put my deck on the line to prove it.
Ninja: No need to be that drastic, we believe you as is.
Reiji: Hmm..
Shun: I truly wished that damn card didn't exist. If not for it...
Dennis: We know, we know.. Many things wouldn't have happened. It would've been peaceful and there would've never been war.

'.. I don't wanna be here anymore', I turned around. Water swept the insides of my vision that was hindered by my goggles. My red shoes slowly got me out of the building, but first, I went inside a bathroom stall. I didn't want anyone around, I didn't want to be bothered, I just.. Just didn't.

~meanwhile, with the Lancers~

"He's late" Phobio looks to the door while sitting on the couch with Sora and crossing his arms.
Reiji also looked, then he turned to his watch. He went to his work table going to CCTV, "He is..". On the various monitors, not a single sign of someone that wasn't a Leo corporation student.

"Maybe he didn't get the summons?" Dennis voiced. Shun shot him down, "Or he's just not coming. I wouldn't put it past him". He looked at a wall. "...Could be. Anyways, what did you call us for Declan?" Gong said getting everyone else to nod, they wanted to hear the reason already.

Reiji sighed before pushing up his light reflecting glasses as he turned around elegantly in his swivel chair. He clicked a button on his keyboard switching the screens' displays. He lazily gestured to it with the back of his hand while facing them.

"I want to hear your opinion on these readings, they are from the dimensional Bridge I have built, and so far, they work to stabilize it. I am however undecided to the cause or origin of these particles.. so far, these particles were not part of any physics book and no one at Leo could explain them. I need to find out their origin, as they could endanger the bridge otherwise".