Marik never thought he'd have a reason to return to Domino City. Not until, two years after Battle City, the Millennium Items are unearthed again, and a promising young duelist dies in a duel monsters match against Yugi. He returns to Domino, determined to discover the truth of a murder that never made any sense, suddenly finding himself in way over his head. But as he sifts through everything that happened, he only seems to dig up more ghosts and phantoms from the past, until he's forced wonder whether something's been out to haunt him all along. *** aka Marik decides to solve a shadow game murder mystery that ends up being way more complicated and emotionally compromising than he expected Warnings: character death, strong language, violence, some mature themes, sequences resembling panic attacks. Generally no worse than your typical YA thriller. I'll give warnings for specific triggers at the beginning of each chapter, if you want me to add a warning about anything let me know! Cross-Posted to Archive of Our Own by the author