The digital door opens and Yuki steps out, followed by a rather surprised Seto who stumbles after her. No sooner have you stepped through than the door disappears again. You are standing in a bright forest clearing and around you is a light deciduous forest. Seto straightened up again, disgruntled. “What's that supposed to mean now?” Now she turns to him and looks at him firmly. "We have to talk, Seto!" He returned her gaze darkly: "We've been talking all the time and it didn't bring anything, except painful memories."
She nods sadly: "I know! And I can't tell you how sorry I am. But you're right. I owe you an honest explanation for it." The young man looks at her skeptically: "Here I am curious; excited!"
She swallows hard once. "You know, I've always admired you. Right from the first day we met. You were incredibly intelligent and so talented and ingenious when it came to any kind of game. I was also said to be gifted, but you were surpassed me by far. "He listens critically to her words.
“One could have assumed that this was why I was jealous of you, but I wasn't. At most, I was competing with you.” She lifts her eyes and looks at him directly. "Basically, it was a lot of fun to play with such an excellent player. And I knew I would never make your class.
"At first I just admired your talent, but then Mokuba was born. I admit that at first I was really jealous of him, after all, he now had all your attention and affection. But then over time ... I saw how lovingly you treated him and how considerate, responsible and adult you always behaved and I was incredibly impressed by it. "
Seto listens to her in silence. Suddenly he just can't think of a snappy remark about it. Instead, a very queasy feeling creeps up inside him. What is she actually getting at? What does she want to say and does he even want to hear it? Not really really ... or is it? But she's already going on.
"I already explained to you why I came to you less and less, but still you came over to us whenever you had time. I had so much fun spending time with you that I did I would have done anything to keep it that way. You were always so kind and generous and I was afraid that you might eventually decide that your brother was more important to you than I. That's why I decided to join you in theWhite Dragon I hoped that we could always be friends then. And when I saw how much you liked it, I knew that I had made the right decision something would come of it."And then at the river back then ...", she takes a deep breath, "Mokuba was finally old enough that you could go somewhere with him, so we all decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go to the river, where we both had played together so many times, and neither of us could have guessed what a bad turn this would take.
"After you were so excited about the promised card, it was clear to me that I didn't have to worry about Mokuba. He was your little brother, whom you loved more than anything, and I was your best friend. And I accepted that Your brother just came first for you. I didn't mind anymore. It was enough for me that you were happy.
"You can't imagine what your words and the ring you gave me on this tree meant to me. At that moment I knew ... that we would always be friends." low. A tear steals from her eye and rolls down her cheek.
Seto swallows hard. His heart is pounding and he just can't stop it. Why is your report so upsetting? Less than five minutes ago he hated her with all his heart. He just can't make sense of her. Your behavior is completely incomprehensible to him. It is she who is responsible for all the suffering in his life and after she tormented and humiliated him in the running bath today, she stands here and tells him how much she once admired him. He just doesn't know what to think of it and that irritates him a lot.
The tears on her face in particular are a mystery to him. After all, she did him an injustice and not the other way around, as one can see from her words. Actually he would have every right to cry, which of course he will not do, although to his chagrin he has to admit that he feels like it.
Ultimately, he just decides to be certain. "If what you're saying is really true," he says, "then I understand all the less why you didn't want me to be your brother. If you were actually so ... impressed with me, what else would I have to do about it worth being your brother? "
Yuki looks up with wide eyes. "To be[i]worth? Oh Seto, do you still not understand it? You would havemorethan been worth it!" Seto shakes his head, uncomprehending: "But why about everything in the worlddidn't youwant it then? "" Because ... ", Yuki's eyes are once again flooded with tears," Because I ... I couldn't ... ", she squints together and turn their heads away.
Seto stands there extremely confused and helpless. What shoud that? Did he miss anything? Why does he just not manage to understand what she means and why does he suddenly want to comfort her somehow? Hesitantly he approaches her.He touches her shoulder uncertainly. "What could you impossible?" He asks. Still looking down, she raises her hand and wraps the fingers of his hand on her shoulder. Seto winced barely noticeably. Now she lifts her eyes and looks at him steadfastly. Her face is wet with tears but there is a strange glow in her eyes. "I ... couldn't possibly come to terms with the fact that then we would both be ... just brother and sister."
Seto's heart is racing. Unable to move or say anything, he stares at her. Did he really understand that right now? Is it really what he thinks? But that can't be the case! All these years he has hated her for her heartlessness and now it turns out that she did it because ... The thought leaves him breathless.
Yuki has also noticed his reaction and fear rises in her face. "Oh please Seto, I hope you don't hate me for that!", She begs, "It's enough that you hated me all these years while I just couldn't stop thinking about you. I know I had yours Hate deserves and maybe it was really selfish of me not to help you for this reason, but ... I just couldn't help myself!
"Believe it or not, but on the day we last saw each other ... You can hardly imagine what it took me to have to say such harsh words to you. That's the only reason why I was like that back then disappeared quickly because I couldn't pull myself together any longer. What the simulation couldn't show you earlier were the tears I shed because of it, it almost tore my heart to be so cold to you. I suspect that I would do much worse to you with it. "
Now she takes his hand and holds it tight with both hands, there is something so pleading about her penetrating gaze that it goes through Seto's bone and bone. "I admired you so much for your intelligence and your maturity and your warm-heartedness. I was convinced that you would definitely make it out of this orphanage, for me there was nothing you couldn't have done. And you you actually made it! You are now one of the most successful, wealthy and influential people in the world. I would not have expected it any other way.
"But when I realized the price at which it happened, I was devastated. I just couldn't believe that you had become such an unscrupulous, hard-hearted and arrogant person. It was almost heartbreaking, because I knew my decision back then was responsible for it.Imade you the person you are today. I hurt and destroyed everything about you that I loved so much about you ...i]have. "
She breaks off.Tears run down her face again. In a heavy voice, she continues: "All these years since then I've been desperately looking for a way to undo it. I've always kept an eye on you and your activities and I hated what you became with all my heart. .. what I made of you.
"But I couldn't hate you, I never could, not even after everything you've done. And I realized if you were ever to be able to forgive me or even to forgive me again To pay attention, then I had to become someone worthy of you.
"So I worked hard to build my company. I really wanted to impress you, so that you would take note of me again. And I began to develop this technique and then, if it was perfect, let you freely here it only served one purpose: to reconcile myself with you. "
Her hands shake as her fingers intertwine with his and her other hand closes around both hands. Her glowing green eyes now radiate such a longing that Seto is unable to avert his gaze.
"When Noah appeared in our database and I saw how you had treated your brother, I realized how much you had changed and I knew that this would be the only and last opportunity to get out of you again that I have loved ... with all my heart since I was a child! "
Seto's mind is racing. He expected everything, but not that; he expected everything but not[i]with it! His heart is beating so hard that he thinks it might burst. This is all wrong! How can that be?
He hated her for so many years. Oh yes, he did remember how much fun the two of them had together. That is precisely why her betrayal hurt so much at the time. Just the fact that he insisted that she couldn't really have suffered him from the start made the pain a little more bearable and over the years he believed it himself at some point.
But for exactly the same reason, he had vowed never to think back to the conversation under the tree, because what was happening there could not be reconciled with what he was fooling himself into. It had been an uphill struggle to erase this event and everything related to it from his mind, but it was still easier than facing the truth and remembering why he gave her the ring had really given back then.
He silently looks down at the young woman in front of him, who is still holding his hand between hers and he can feel a big lump forming in his throat. Just let it happen, you just have to accept it! she said earlier.How can he do that? That is not his way.