It's true. Three years ago Heartland was attacked by invaders from another dimension. Those invaders all specialized in Fusion summoning and came from a place called Academia. [Anger can be heard in his voice now.] They destroyed Heartland and turned people into cards - even those who couldn't duel.
[He falls silent again. He's talked about this so many times, but it's never easy. He can't forget that day when everything was destroyed, when his world fell apart. He can still hear screams of people and laughs of Academia soldiers.
When he speaks again his voice is somewhat quieter.]
But not everybody had been defeated. Those who survived became members of the Resistance. [...] We still fight Academia and we will not stop, until we save everyone.
[What about us? is the impulse that jumps into her head. What became of her, of Ryouga, of their friends? Were they killed? Captured? Did they become part of this "Resistance", too?
She doesn't ask. It's not like he would know, surely. Fusion is such an old style of summon that it's hard to imagine they'd be able to overwhelm Xyz users so thoroughly, but if they were all taken by surprise...]
They suddenly appeared in Heartland one day. I don't know what's their goal, but... they hunted people as though it was some kind of game. [Anger can be heard in his voice as he says that.]
...But we can still do something. We can still fight.
[That's all what matters. They've been fighting for long and there's no doubt in his heart that Academia will be defeated.]
[Yuuya said as much, too, about the hunting people down part. So far, their accounts match up, and that disturbs her.]
Then for my part, I want to try and stop it before it happens, or at least mitigate the damage. Maybe if we're prepared to fight them before they come for us...
And how do you plan on doing that? [He's silent for a moment, before he speaks again.] The soldiers from Academia have duel disk that can turn people into card. If you lose against them or if you can't duel at all they won't have any mercy on you. They almost never duel anyone one on one. You always have to face three or four of them at once.
And even if you win... there will be more of them coming after you.
[He frowns to himself.]
...I'm not saying that to stop you from trying. I also wish things would be different. I... just want you to understand our situation better.
[Organizing enough counter-forces to keep them at bay is one thing, but their tactics would dismantle even twice their own numbers eventually, from the sound of it. But if they could somehow hamper that ability to gang up on others or card them...]
But what about their disks? Do you think it would be possible to find a way to disable them? If we had that kind of ability before the invasion even started... wouldn't the outcome be very different?
The problem is how to disable them... We've been fighting for three years and the best we could do to fight them was stealing their technology and doing exactly the same thing they did to us...
[The tone of his voice is regretful when he says that.]
[That comes as a surprise to her. They've managed that much, and yet still couldn't find a way to neutralize them? She makes a pained sound; either their resources were slim, or this Academia was more well-prepared than she's given them credit for thus far. Perhaps both, realistically.]
That's... How could that be?
[Or perhaps they just didn't have the time before getting wiped out, after one thing led to another. There's a lot of reasons behind it. It's an unfortunate method to have to resort to, at any rate; with all that shot down, now she's just fishing for potential leads.]
If-- What if we could obtain one of their disks here, somehow? You don't happen to have that technology now, do you?
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What do you want to know?
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[That's the gist of it, at least, but there's so many details she's missing.]
Please, I need to know what happened. What's going to happen. I need your account of things, as much as you can give me.
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It's true. Three years ago Heartland was attacked by invaders from another dimension. Those invaders all specialized in Fusion summoning and came from a place called Academia. [Anger can be heard in his voice now.] They destroyed Heartland and turned people into cards - even those who couldn't duel.
[He falls silent again. He's talked about this so many times, but it's never easy. He can't forget that day when everything was destroyed, when his world fell apart. He can still hear screams of people and laughs of Academia soldiers.
When he speaks again his voice is somewhat quieter.]
But not everybody had been defeated. Those who survived became members of the Resistance. [...] We still fight Academia and we will not stop, until we save everyone.
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She doesn't ask. It's not like he would know, surely. Fusion is such an old style of summon that it's hard to imagine they'd be able to overwhelm Xyz users so thoroughly, but if they were all taken by surprise...]
Why did it happen? Why, so easily...?
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They suddenly appeared in Heartland one day. I don't know what's their goal, but... they hunted people as though it was some kind of game. [Anger can be heard in his voice as he says that.]
...But we can still do something. We can still fight.
[That's all what matters. They've been fighting for long and there's no doubt in his heart that Academia will be defeated.]
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Then for my part, I want to try and stop it before it happens, or at least mitigate the damage. Maybe if we're prepared to fight them before they come for us...
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And even if you win... there will be more of them coming after you.
[He frowns to himself.]
...I'm not saying that to stop you from trying. I also wish things would be different. I... just want you to understand our situation better.
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[Organizing enough counter-forces to keep them at bay is one thing, but their tactics would dismantle even twice their own numbers eventually, from the sound of it. But if they could somehow hamper that ability to gang up on others or card them...]
But what about their disks? Do you think it would be possible to find a way to disable them? If we had that kind of ability before the invasion even started... wouldn't the outcome be very different?
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[The tone of his voice is regretful when he says that.]
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That's... How could that be?
[Or perhaps they just didn't have the time before getting wiped out, after one thing led to another. There's a lot of reasons behind it. It's an unfortunate method to have to resort to, at any rate; with all that shot down, now she's just fishing for potential leads.]
If-- What if we could obtain one of their disks here, somehow? You don't happen to have that technology now, do you?
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I don't have it. I... arrived here without my duel disk. [He pauses.] As for obtaining it... I'm not sure.