Would Raphael Have Beaten Yugi Again if He Didnt Soul Release

Episode 174: Grappling with a Guardian, Part 1 (The Destined Duel: Yugi vs Rafael)

Joey lies senseless, propped up against the fence where Mai left him. The gang get together around, Téa begging him to delight say something, merely Yami says he doesn't think Joey tin. Then it's true, Téa says, sinking to the footing. The Orichalcos took his soul. (The Japanese gang all say, "Jounouchi!" "Jounouchi!" and Yami says, "Jounouchi-kun!") Tristan reaches out to Joey, saying that when he gets his easily on the person who did this, they'll wish they were never built-in. He kneels before Joey, tears running downwards his cheeks, and puts his manus on Joey's shoulder, urging him to wake upwards. (Japanese Honda says, "Teme," which is a somewhat rude way of saying, "Yous." It's what he calls Jounouchi when he's angry with him for getting himself into trouble.)

Téa wonders who did do it—by the looks of Valon, who'southward also unconscious against the contend, it wasn't him. Tristan says Joey must have defeated Valon, and then Mai showed upwards. He's sure that Mai did this to Joey. (Japanese Honda says he'll get Mai for this.) Yami agrees, only says that there's simply one person they tin really blame for all this—he hides in his fortress while others practise his muddied work. Well, not whatsoever more. Yami turns and runs off, while Téa and Tristan elevator Joey between them. Téa calls out to Yami to wait, just Yami keeps on running towards the Paradias building, telling Dartz that this all ends now.

Yami stands in the empty foyer of the edifice, where he hears Dartz's laughter, and Dartz'south vox telling him that he's been expecting him. (Dartz is non heard in the Japanese. This shot of three lift doors is cut from the US version. Yami looks at the three elevators, wondering which 1 to have.)

(Besides cutting is this long shot, from behind Yami, of the lift door whose lights betoken that it'due south coming down.)

Yami runs to the elevator. The door opens, and he sees Mai standing there—but then Mai falls forrard into Yami's artillery, unconscious. He sees a feather globe-trotting downward inside the elevator, and realizes that Mai must take been in a duel—and lost. (Japanese Yami says, Harpie feathers!) He sets her downward against the wall, then gets in the elevator, taking his deck out of his pocket and thinking that he must put an end to this. (Yami's thoughts aren't heard in the Japanese. Cut from the U.s.a. version is this shot of Yami fanning his deck as the elevator rises, so shuffling his cards and setting them into his Duel Disk.)

The lift rises to the Roof level, where Yami's greeted past Rafael, who tells him it's about time he showed upwards for their rematch. Yami says he'southward at that place to run into Dartz, but Rafael's just answer is the appearance of the Guardian wings at his shoulders. Yami asks if Dartz is and so much of a coward that he sent Rafael to do his battles for him. Rafael steps forward, saying Yami owes him something. (Japanese Yami says, and so, it's Rafael. Rafael says he's been waiting for the Nameless Pharaoh.)

Rafael tosses Yami a carte du jour—Joey's Hermos card. Yami assumes Rafael defeated Joey, but Rafael explains that it was Mai who beat Joey, and then he defeated her. Yami wants to know why—wasn't Mai on their side? Rafael says he never trusted her, and it turns out he was right. Later on she took Joey'south soul, she turned on them. Flashbacks show Mai confronting Rafael beyond Dartz's conference table, telling him she's had enough of this world domination mumbo-jumbo, and she wants out. It's fourth dimension for Dartz to answer for what he fabricated her do to Joey. (Japanese Mai tells Rafael this is none of his business. She asks him where Dartz is, saying she no longer needs the Seal of Orichalcos. She wants to defeat Dartz with her own force, and rescue Jounouchi and Valon.) Rafael tells her it's his duty to protect Dartz (Japanese Rafael tells her to forget it, she's only a sacrifice. She'southward of no more use to them), and activates his Duel Deejay, telling her to say goodbye to her soul. Adjacent affair we know, Mai is crying out to Joey as the Seal of Orichalcos takes her, saying she tried her all-time. The Hermos card falls out of her hand as she collapses to the floor, and Rafael says her best wasn't good plenty.

Yami holds the Hermos card in a trembling hand, maxim this madness has to stop. Recall of how many innocent lives have been destroyed! Rafael may be adjacent. (Japanese Yami says that Jounouchi's feelings did reach Mai. But....)

Rafael says he doesn't intendance. He's made a commitment to Dartz to help him salvage the planet from people like Yami. If keeping his hope means giving upwards his own soul, and then be information technology. (Japanese Rafael says that both Jounouchi and Mai would have loved to send Yami this card, and then he should hang onto it. Cut from the US version is this sequence where Yami asks Rafael, doesn't he feel any hurting at all? Pegasus, Haga, Ryuuzaki, Mai, Jounouchi-kun, and Aibou—how many souls has he seized? Even Amelda and Valon, even Rafael'south companions' souls have been taken. Doesn't he feel annihilation at all?)

Rafael says, even if he's taken, he'll be doing his part, by giving the Great Leviathan the strength it needs to restore peace to the earth. Yami tells him to wake up—can't he run across that Dartz is just using him for his own selfish needs? If he really wants to salve the world, he should stop fighting Yami and join him. Rafael says that as soon as the Corking Creature is revived, Yami's side will no longer be. And all information technology needs is one more strong soul. (Rafael says that world can't be saved equally long as at that place are people in it. That's destiny. In guild to understand destiny, you must accept it and offering yourself to it. Rafael says he wants to understand destiny. That's why he'll gladly sacrifice body and soul. Yami asks why a duelist like Rafael must submit to Dartz'due south so-called destiny, and even steal souls for it. Rafael says destiny has already been set in motion. No one tin end it from moving.)

Rafael looks up, where the silhouette of the Bully Leviathan snakes through the sky. Yami gasps—oh no, information technology'southward true! Rafael says that even as they speak, the Great Leviathan lurks in the shadows all over the Earth. And as before long as Rafael defeats Yami, Yami's soul volition be offered to the Great Beast, giving it the forcefulness information technology needs to fully cross over into their world. (Japanese Yami asks, what is that? Rafael doesn't answer.)

The shadow of the Cracking Leviathan is seen flying all over the world. People stand in city streets, looking up and wondering what they're seeing. (The writing is removed from signs on a Chinese temple and US urban center buildings in the US version.)

On the balcony of a chalet on a remote hillside, a little girl stands watching the brute in awe. (Cut from the US version is this close-up of the little girl proverb, "The stars are slowly disappearing.")

Meanwhile, Téa and Tristan, carrying Joey, are running downward the street afterwards Yami, when a car pulls up behind them. Information technology'southward Mokuba and Kaiba, who've somehow escaped the endless stream of Orichalcos Soldiers blocking them and are likewise on their style to Paradias headquarters. Tristan notes that information technology'southward a squeamish car, but Kaiba merely grumbles about running into the dork-fest again, and asks what happened to Wheeler—did infant demand a nap? Téa doesn't think that's very funny. (Japanese Kaiba says, "Bonkotsu—You've lost, too, oasis't you?" Mokuba sadly adds, "Jounouchi," and Kaiba asks where Yugi is. Anzu says he's gone to Paradias alone.) Mokuba yells, oh no! and runs behind the front of the car. Kaiba asks him what'south his problem, and Mokuba points down the alley, which is suddenly total of rats with glowing blood-red optics, running towards them at full speed. Téa and Tristan both shriek like girls, and Joey starts to slide off Tristan's back, but Kaiba casually lifts Joey back up with i arm and tells the geeks to get moving. They run for a fire escape, which they climb up to by continuing on a garbage can, even though there'south a stairway upward the fire escape right behind them.

Mokuba and Téa haul Joey'due south body over the railing, then Tristan and Kaiba—who'southward too cool to employ both easily—leap up and catch onto the railing, just as the hordes of rats run beneath them. Kaiba says he smells a rat, and his proper name'due south Dartz. (Japanese Kaiba asks what's going on.)

Meanwhile, beneath the ocean, the Leviathan's eye opens.

Atop the Paradias edifice, Rafael tells Yami that as they speak, the most devastating fauna that e'er lived is waiting to rising once more. All information technology needs now is the Pharaoh's soul, and the Seal of Orichalcos volition take intendance of that. He was already able to defeat Yami once, simply Yami cheated him by switching places with someone else. (Japanese Rafael says that soon the door of destiny volition be opened by Lord Dartz. The moment for the reply to be revealed will soon be here. For the sake of that day, he asks the Pharaoh to duel him again. He says that he did defeat Yami that solar day.) He remembers the end of their terminal duel, when Yugi was taken by the Seal in the Pharaoh's identify, and tells Yami non to even call up about trying to pull a stunt similar that again. He doesn't appreciate being lied to, and besides, at that place's no 1 for Yami to hibernate behind this time. Information technology'southward but him and Yami. (The flashback is unlike in the Japanese version, showing Rafael's Guardian Eatos' final attack against Yami, and Yami's life points going to zero. In the US version, it's inverse to bear witness Yugi pushing Yami out of the way so the Seal will take his soul instead.)

(Rafael says that fifty-fifty though Yami was defeated, his soul wasn't taken. He doesn't know why Yami escaped his fate, just compared to the destiny Dartz speaks of, it's negligible. Yami can't defeat Rafael, and he's going to prove it here.)

Yami accepts Rafael'due south challenge, proverb if that's the just way to save his friends, he'll duel. Once Rafael's out of the fashion, he'll go straight for Dartz. It'south just a shame that a duelist with Rafael'due south talents has to throw it all away by following a madman. Rafael insists that Dartz opened him up to the truth, and fabricated him what he is today. Yami'south simply jealous because he doesn't accept one of these—the Seal of Orichalcos card. (Japanese Yami asks why they must be bound by destiny. He says he'd similar to duel Rafael once more, but that's considering Rafael is a True Duelist. It has nothing to do with destiny. Rafael insists that their duel is destined, and this time, Yami's soul must exist seized.) Yami says Rafael can't tempt him with that card again, and Rafael says he wasn't planning on information technology. Only, every bit he walks towards Yami, he says Yami can have one last look at it as he shuffles Rafael's deck. (Japanese Rafael tells Yami to let his own hands make up one's mind his fate.) As they trade decks, Yami says he knows what Rafael's trying to do, and information technology won't piece of work. He won't give in to his dark side. Rafael says they'll see most that. Yami thinks, he must stay true to his heart, no affair what Rafael tries to do. (Japanese Yami says that even if Rafael gives him the Seal of Orichalcos, he'due south not going to utilize information technology again. Rafael says he knows. Yami thinks, he wants Rafael to destroy the Seal with his own easily.)

They shuffle each other'south decks, so Rafael returns to the other side of the roof. They activate their Duel Disks and set up to duel, as lightning flashes in the sky. Rafael says that since he's the returning champion, he'll get-go things off. He plays the magic carte, Guardian Treasure (cut from the United states of america version is this shot of an aurora in the sky over Rafael's caput, after he plays Guardian Treasure),

which allows him to discard his hand and describe ii new cards, plus he can draw two cards each turn from at present on, as long as Guardian Treasure remains on the field. Side by side, he summons Backup Gardna (2200 DEF) in defense, sets one card face down, and ends his turn.

Yami draws, and then plays Queen's Knight (1600 DEF) in defense force, and ends his turn, thinking that he'due south surprised Rafael didn't play the Seal of Orichalcos right away. Maybe Rafael'due south toying with him.... (Or perchance he but hasn't fatigued information technology yet. Duh. Last turn, he played one card and then discarded his whole mitt, drew 2 more than cards, played one and set the other. Obviously, he doesn't have the Seal of Orichalcos in his hand. Ahem. Anyway, Japanese Yami thinks that Rafael volition certainly use the Seal of Orichalcos—but when?)

Rafael draws two cards, then tells Yami he's going to reunite him with a friend from their last duel, Gravity Axe, which allows him to summon Guardian Grarl (2500 ATK), and increases Grarl's attack past 500 points, to 3000. (The real Guardian Grarl is a Level 5 monster, but its event allows it to be summoned without a tribute, if information technology's the only card in the role player's hand, which it was when Rafael summoned it. However, Gravity Axe is an equip card, and must exist equipped to a monster when information technology's played—it can't exist played offset, then equipped. In the Japanese, Rafael equips information technology to Backup Gardna, then uses Backup Gardna's special effect to move Gravity Axe to Guardian Grarl.) Rafael attacks Queen's Knight with Grarl and destroys it, then ends his turn.

Yami draws, plays Monster Reborn to bring dorsum Queen's Knight (1500 ATK) in attack position, then summons King's Knight (1600 ATK). With both Queen's Knight and King's Knight on the field, he's able to use King's Knight'southward effect to special summon Jack'south Knight (1900 ATK). Finally, he plays the magic card, Brave Attack.

Rafael remembers Yami using Brave Set on in his duel confronting Grimo, which allowed the three Magnet Warriors to combine their attack strengths to defeat Obelisk. Yami says yes, Brave Attack lets him add the attack points of all three of his monsters together, although they'll be destroyed later on they assault. Rafael says Yami even so hasn't learned his lesson nearly respecting his monsters, but Yami says information technology's fourth dimension for him to teach Rafael a lesson about teamwork (Japanese Yami says he won't listen to Rafael whatsoever more—he believes in his relationship with his monsters), and sends his Knights to assault Guardian Grarl. But Rafael activates his trap card, Guardian Force, allowing him to negate and destroy a magic card, as long equally there are no Guardian monsters in his graveyard. (Guardian Force gets a slight redesign in the United states of america version.)

With Brave Attack destroyed, Yami'southward monsters' attack is halted, and Yami must end his plow, thinking that Rafael ruined his strategy, and now his Knights are open to attack. He needs a new plan.

Rafael draws two cards, telling Yami he's going down. Yami thinks, if Rafael plays the Seal of Orichalcos now, he's in trouble, considering if Rafael wins with that on the field, Yami will never salve his friends. (Japanese Yami thinks that Rafael's making smart moves. And if he uses the Seal of Orichalcos over again....)

Rafael plays Butterfly Dagger, equipping information technology to the Backup Gardna (he calls information technology Backup Guardian here past mistake), and increasing its attack past 300 points, to 800. With Butterfly Dagger on the field, he can summon Guardian Elma (1300 ATK, 1200 DEF). Yami says he's never seen that Guardian monster, and Rafael tells him in that location are plenty of monsters in his deck Yami's never seen. Elma'south effect allows him to bring his Guardian Shield back from the graveyard, and he equips it to Guardian Elma, increasing its defense by 300, to 1500. So, he uses Backup Gardna's effect to transfer the Butterfly Dagger to Elma. Backup Gardna'due south assail returns to 500, while Guardian Elma's increases to 1600.

Rafael uses Guardian Elma to attack and destroy Queen's Knight, then Guardian Grarl attacks King'south Knight. Yami'south downward to 2500 life points, and one monster on the field. What now, Pharaoh? Rafael asks. (Japanese Yami thinks that Rafael is strong enough, fifty-fifty without using the Seal of Orichalcos.)

Yami draws, then plays the magic card, Five Star Twilight (Twinkle Five Star. Well, really, the card reads, "Tinkle V Star," but I call up "Twinkle" is what they mean). Since Jack's Knight is a Level 5 monster, he can sacrifice it to summon the five Kuriboh Brothers (300 ATK each). Rafael sarcastically says oh no, he's so scared. Yami continues, discarding a trap card in order to actuate the Kuriboh brothers' outcome, Kuriball. The white Kuriboh swallows upwardly all the other Kuribohs, then rolls into Guardian Grarl. When the Kuribohs divide up and return to their side of the field, Guardian Grarl'southward attack has been reduced to 1500. Then Yami combines the five Kuribohs into Kuribabylon (1500 ATK).

Rafael points out that Yami's powder puff and his Grarl accept the same attack strength, but Yami'southward non finished notwithstanding. He plays Mystical Space Typhoon (Whirlwind) to destroy Gravity Axe, and Grarl's attack goes down to 1000. Now he attacks Guardian Grarl with Kuribabylon.

But Guardian Elma blocks the attack. Rafael explains that the Guardian Shield's consequence allows him to forestall any of his monsters from being destroyed. Only it costs him 500 life points, then he's downward to 3500. (Japanese Rafael explains that the Shield can exist destroyed to salvage a monster from an set on, merely he yet takes the impairment from the attack.)

Yami sets ane card face down and ends his plough, thinking that he'southward never come across a duelist like Rafael earlier, who refuses to permit whatever of his monsters go to the graveyard. He protects his monsters at all costs—why would a duelist similar this concord the Seal of Orichalcos?

Yami says that every bit long as Rafael'southward loyal to Dartz, he'll never be true to himself. He has too much respect for his cards to employ them for such an evil purpose, just Dartz has brainwashed him into believing that he'south someone else. (Japanese Yami tells Rafael he has too much respect for his monsters to trust them with the darkness in his soul that using the Seal of Orichalcos would bring. Rafael simply says, "My turn. Draw." Cut from the United states version is this sequence in which Rafael tells Yami he'due south right. But.... A flashback shows young Rafael screaming equally he plays the Seal of Orichalcos. Rafael says that that alone will non explicate destiny. When y'all accept darkness and make it a role of you, and when you give upward everything, for the first time, light appears in the darkness. Some other flashback shows immature Rafael looking up with the Seal in his forehead.)

Merely Rafael says that Dartz opened his optics to the truth. Property upward the 2 cards he'southward drawn, he says that this world is an evil place, and Yami's role of the problem. He's here to fix that, and thanks to his principal, he has but the card to do it. (Rafael tells Yami that they're like, only they've chosen different paths. That's why Yami is unable to fully utilize his monsters. Then, he says, let me show you the true power of this carte du jour.)

Rafael plays the Seal of Orichalcos. Yami calls out, No, please don't! But it's besides late. Rafael slots the card into his Duel Disk, equally lightning flashes around them, telling Yami his fate is sealed.

Kaiba and Mokuba finally get in at the Paradias edifice, forth with Téa and Tristan. They see Mai lying by the elevator, and realize that she lost her soul, too. Tristan, with Joey on his back, wonders who's carrying her? They run across that the elevator'due south at the summit flooring.

Yami tells Rafael he's making a error, and the gang make it at the roof but in time to encounter the Seal of Orichalcos course effectually the duelists. Tristan says they're likewise late—that guy already played the Seal of Orichalcos, and Yami thinks, this changes everything. What has Rafael done?

Rafael smiles, and when he opens his eyes, they shine red. The Seal of Orichalcos glows in his forehead.

To Be Continued

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