No regrets were had

[permanentlysealed]

As long as you don't find yourself in my way, this arrangement will work. If you think you can overcome me however, you are sorely mistaken. I won't fall for your tricks.

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[last_to_kneel]

[Now, why does this sound so familiar? Oh, right. He's heard it once before from Mai when he brought her to see Dartz. Varon only shakes his head. It's a repeating cycle. He hated it then. Now, winning means survival and not for the title. He shouldn't have picked up that deck...]

No matter how you look at it, you're still a prisoner.

[permanentlysealed]

The words of a loser hardly matter to me. [Everyone will fall eventually and no one matters. What a free life.]

[last_to_kneel]

What a boring guy. I thought you'd be better than that. Oh well, it's not like I care. I'd say welcome to the family, but you're no brother of mine.

[orichalcoslord]

It seems you've fallen in another way.

[obsessed_gamer]

[Oh, shi--]

[He remembers this. Or that look. It was one of the last things he remembered before he had been pulled from his canon and plopped into that game of his.]

M-mou Hitori no Boku...?

[neverwavering]

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

[whitewizardgirl]

...Are you all right? [Because both versions weren't around for season four, so this is new to Ryou.]

[permanentlysealed]

I have no need of your pathetic little family. You belong to the seal, and to him. Not I.

[permanentlysealed]

I don't have any need of your commentary.

[permanentlysealed]

[...that's really you, isn't it? He softens for a moment.] Ai-

[No. Nope. Not that person anymore. And even if he was he still wouldn't have the right to call you that. His head turns up with a scowl and his eyes leave the other.] Hmn. [It's as much acknowledgement as he's going to give.] What do you want? [Come to take back the body he's stolen while leaving you high and dry?]

[permanentlysealed]

Everyone keeps using that word. Fallen is hardly good commentary for someone succeeding.

[permanentlysealed]

Of what importance might that be to you? [Are you in there spirit? Come out so he can destroy you finally. Oh yes. Blood. He wants blood.]

[neverwavering]

Succeeding? Even though you were all about justice and what's right? Seems like you're being hypocritical, Pharaoh.

[permanentlysealed]

And who are you to say? [Because he doesn't know who you are.]

[last_to_kneel]

Wrong. That Seal's got you hook line an' sinker. You're its puppet, not the other way around. Wake up!

[permanentlysealed]

It is no more powerful than my puzzle and that I command. It is mine. Just because you fell so easily doesn't make me as weak as the rest of you.

[neverwavering]

One of Dartz's soldiers. That is all you need to know.

[permanentlysealed]

[There may have been a roll of his eyes.] You all seem to want to come out of the woodwork the moment someone makes a stand. Then and now. None of it is a surprise. You're a weak pack.

[last_to_kneel]

I didn't fall easily. I chose my fate an' only one needed t' survive. You don't know my battle, Nameless Pharaoh. BUTT OUT!

[permanentlysealed]

You're the one who came to me. Not the other way around. But that's how soldiers work. They can't do anything for themselves.

[neverwavering]

Heh, you're further from the truth than you know. It seems like you want a fight with all this.

[permanentlysealed]

The fight has already been won. Your friend Raphael picked a fight he couldn't win and handed me a powerful prize.

[last_to_kneel]

I'm not loyal to you. Let's get that straight. I make my own choices an' not you, or Dartz can control my fate or my life.

[permanentlysealed]

Your fate was already sealed the moment you decided you needed someone over you giving you orders.

[neverwavering]

Wrong, he offered you it. You took it so easily and gave in to your inner darkness. It's a shame, but I suppose that's how they fall.