[ Epsiode 203 ] Mahado's Decision

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Diabound of the theif Bakura and Obelisk of Pharaoh Yugi strike violently against each other. Both of them are hit back and then disappear into Dia Diank (Duel Disk) of their owners. The priests is wondered by strength of Diabound which can withstand power of god. Anyway, the theif Bakura gets some injury, thinking that he might come here too fast to fight against god. Without power of Kaiba (Burn Stream), he might not have been able to be against god. So, he decides to return this time and declares that he will come back to take all millennium items later. After that, he gets on his horse, riding it towards the exit. The priest Akunadin orders to capture him immediately while Pharaoh Yugi moves out at the terrace of the royal palace to follow him. However, whatever he sees is the city in fire and the thief Bakura with his followers riding horses away from the town. Meanwhile, when he turns his face up, he sees a thing with the top part of pyramid in an up-side-down position (a millennium puzzle) on the sky. Thus, he asks Shimon and Mahado what it means. Yet, it seems that nobody but Pharaoh Yugi sees that thing, so he thinks that this may be a part of a shadow game. Then the priest Seto walks out and reminds himself of tremendous power of god. He reports to Pharaoh that everyting has already been safe. Turning his face to see the priest Seto, Pharaoh Yugi is amazed why Diabound of the theif Bakura could use power of Blue Eyes White Dragon, Burn Stream.

[The Priest Seto]	He could retreat the god...!?
[ The Thief Bakura]	( He got the same hit.. Perhaps, this is too fast to be against the person with power of god. If there hadn't been that thing got from Kaiba, ...) King-Sama (Ou-Sama)! We will continue until the end of the game next time. Hi hi hi! And that is Mahado, right. In fact, the millennium ring that you are hanging at your chest belongs to me. No..I should say that I will get it later.
[ The Priest Mahado ]	How can I let you touch my millennium ring...!?
[ The Thief Bakura]	How ardently! I will take all of millennium items that you are holding. See you..
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Bakura!
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	Don't let that guy run away!

Back to the present world, Kaiba working in his office is looking at a millennium eye and some connection between him and Blue Eyes according to what Bakura told him. Then he picks up the millennium eye up and thinks about the Blue Eyes'voice that he heard before from it. When put closer to his eye, the millennium eye starts glowing and showing Kaiba the scene in the memory world, which he as the priest Seto is talking with Pharaoh Yugi at the terrace. Kaiba is very shocked by that, dropping the millennium eye. Then he decides to fly alone to Egypt and seems to accept what his destiny is determined.

In the memory world at a Ouiju shrine, the priest Seto and the priest Akunadin are discussing about the thief Bakura's topic. Seto suggests his idea about looking for additional Ka from criminals remaining in the city. He would like to test to develop those Ka into powerful weapon by exercising people' souls. According to Bakura's Diabound, it is apparent that strong power of it came from hatred of the owner. Only the priest Akunadin understands well where the theif Bakura's hatred came from. Anyway, he didn't tell further to the priest Seto.

[ The Priest Akunadin ]	Haven't we known yet where Bakura is hiding?
[The Priest Seto]	No, sir, but we already disposed the troop to widely look for him in many areas - city behind the castle, desert and even valley. It is impossible to for him to get through this surrounding.
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	Um...Anyway, Bakura's Diabound has such awful power. If Pharaoh hadn't summoned god, only power of the priest might not been able to be against it.
[The Priest Seto]	(God..) I have some idea, Akunadin-Sama. Among our civilians, there may be latent Ka kept inside their bodys. If we catch them by our own hands, we may be able to develop their Ka into powerful weapon by exercising the vessels'souls.
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	Baka! (What! That is bad...!) It is impossible that there is probably some Ka that obtains higher power than that of the prists, which has been trained.
[The Priest Seto]	But if we consider fearful power of Bakura's Diabound carefully, we can assume that it came from hatred of that guy.
[ The Priest Akunadin reminds himself of what the thief Bakura talked about Kuruelna Village ]
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	(That guy knows about Kuruelna village. If he was really a survivor from that village, his hatred should be so extreme.) In order to create Ka with hatred, fear is a factor.
[The Priest Seto]	Akunadin-Sama, the theif or the criminal matches Diabound. Well! so Ka of a person can obtain power exceeding god if it is covered and increased by hatred
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	In order to create Ka with hatred, fear is a factor.
[The Priest Seto]	Everything is for Pharoah and to decrease number of criminals. We can get two birds by one shot.
[ The Priest Akunadin ]	Seto...
[The Priest Seto]	We can't avoid dying our hands with blood for prosperity of royal palace. My dad who sacrificed his life in the battefield ever said this.

On the other side, the priest Isis is trying to see the future from her millennium tauk while the priest Karim and Shada are waiting for the result. Anyway, she can't see anything. The priest Karim and Shada tell her not to push herself too much. In order to fight against the theif Bakura, power of the owner's Ba (Power inside a person's mind which controls Ka) is very important. Isis thanks for her friends' feeling but she can't have a rest until she can find the next target of the theif Bakura. No matter want, she has to continue for Pharaoh and everybody.

At the same time, Pharaoh Yugi still stands at the terrace at night, looking up into the sky. Then he takes out the cartouche which Anzu gave him before, and thinks about little Yugi and the others. In the maze inside Yami Yugi's mind, little Yugi, Jyonouchi, Anzu, Honda and Shadi have been searhing for the real door. Jyonouchi points to a door and tells his friends that he feels someting from that door. Honda would like to trust Jyonouchi's instinct, so both of them run towards the door and open it. Suddenly, Honda and Jyonouchi almost fall down because there is nothing behind the door. Anzu and little Yugi have to help them up. While everybody is still walking and searching, Anzu says that the only who may know the real door may be little Yugi because he is mostly close to Yami Yugi. Thus, she asks him whether little Yugi feels something. Even little Yugi doesn't understand this feeling. He only feels loneliness of Yami Yugi around here. It seems that Yami Yugi's heart is closed, so little Yugi has no idea how to figure out the real door, either.

At the terrace of the royal palace, Pharaoh Yugi still stands there and keeps thinking. Everybody here knows his him but he can remember nobody. While he is confused by his actual appearance of Pharoah, the priest Mahado comes in to greet him because he is wondered by that Pharaoh is standing alone at night in this kind of place. When both of them are walking back downstair, Mahado heard some voice from an earthen jar. Suddenly, a girl jumps out and hugs Pharaoh. While Pharaoh Yugi is wondering who this girl is, Mahado holds her up and asks what she (Mana - Black Magician Girl), is doing here. Mana is just curious what her master (Mahado) is talking to her prince about the past. Hearing that, Pharaoh Yugi looks glad and asks whether Mana knows his background. Mana is amazed by this question, claiming that she, her master and Prince have been together for a long time. Her prince looks wired today that he seems not to know this thing. Anyway, Mahado repeats his question why Mana is coming here. Then Mana shows her work that she did to the soldiers. Mahado is shocked by Maha's spell play that has stopped movement of the soldiers in the royal palace, so he ordered her to release the spell at once. However, Maha can't remember the removal spell, thus she has to open her magic book (Magic card - Magic Book - of Black Magician Girl) to find what it is. Looking what Mahado and Mana are having fun, Pharaoh Yugi also feels happy. He remembers that at least he has both of them as his friends. Meanwhile outside the kingdom, the thief Bakura is planning to take all seven millennium items by focusing on his first target, the millennium ring.

[ The Priest Mahado ]	Who is that!?
[ Mana ]	Cha...
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Mana! What are you doing? Leave Pharaoh now!
[ Mana ]	Master Sama ..(Mana called Mahado - her master or teacher). Previously, I heard you talking. It is strange, isn't it!? You two seem to talk to the former time.
[ The Priest Mahado ]	He isn't a prince... but you should call him Pharaoh! (Maha calls Pharaoh Yugi "Oji" which means prince or young king. A prince is different from a king.)
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Previous... do you know my previous life?
[ Mana ]	What are you talking about!? We three have always been together for a long time. We've studied magic and fighting together, and we've enjoyed together like brothers and sister, haven't we!?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	A...ah..! That is right.
[ Mana ]	Are...Are you really the actual prince? I feel something different.
[ The Priest Mahado ]	That's enough! He has already become Pharaoh. Heavy responsibility to serve him belongs to us. To serve our ...Pri...
[ Mana ]	Ah... Master-Sama is going to call him Prince, too.
[ The Priest Mahado ]	A.... please forgive me... Pharaoh!
[ Mana ]	Hi hi hi!
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Anyway, what are you doing here?
[ Mana ]	Hi hi hi!
[ Mana shows Mahado what she did to the soldiers by her binding body spell ]
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Binding body spell !? What! Release them now! Do you intend to make all people in this palace inactive like that!?
[ Mana ]	A...re...!?
[ The Priest Mahado ]	What's wrong? Hurry!
[ Mana ]	Removal ...? Please give me more minute!
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Ha... That's enough. I will do it.
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	(Mahado, Maha, At least, I know my existence between yours. I also have friends.)

At the following day, the priest Mahado with the troop are checking damage around the city attacked by the theif Bakura last night. He doesn't understand why Bakura did this. Then his millennium ring is activing, pointing to the top of a valley. Mahado sees a guy riding a horse away. He is certain that the guy must be Bakura. No matter what, Mahado expresses his confidence that he won't let Bakura harm anybody else. Inside the palace, Maha and Pharaoh Yugi are walking in the courtyard. Maha is complaining that she gets bored a lot because her master is away and nobody can give her spell practice. Thus, Pharaoh Yugi explains that Mahado is the priest with busy work. Then Mana accidently calls his name Prince (Ouji) again not "Pharaoh". When Pharaoh Yugi reminds her of that word, Mana says sorry and recalls his name "Pharaoh". In fact, Pharaoh Yugi merely wants to kid her. Then he asks whether Mana knows his actual name. It appears that even Mana hasn't known Pharaoh's real name. All the time, she has called him Prince-Sama.

At the other side of the royal palace, the priest Isis is walking through the priest Mahado. Both of them ask each other whether one feels the theif Bakura from the millennium items. It seems that the priest Isis really saw nothing from her millennium tauk, but the priest Mahado didn't tell the truth that he felt the theif Bakura when he went into the city. Then the priest Mahado walks pass while the priest Isis feels something strange from him. Going back to her room, the priest Isis tries to see the future from her millennium tauk again. This time, she sees darkness, the battle scene between Diabound and a magician, the priest Mahado and a blade that is cutting something. Isis understands at once what this means and what is going to happen to Mahado.

In the main hall, the priest Mahado is reporting himself to perform his responsibility, taking Pharaoh Akunumkanon's remain back to the tomb. Pharaoh Yugi asks him to take care of his father's casket well. While the priest Mahada is preparing himself to go, Mana is complaining and trying to go with her master. So shimon has to stop her to follow. Anyway, Mana insists that she will go to help her teacher fight. Shimon tells Mana not to be worried because the priest Mahado is, in fact, the greatest spellcaster in the world. No one can beat him if his sealed power is entirely released. Hearing that, Mana seems to understand not to follow her master again. When Mahado is leaving the palace, he sees the priest Isis come out. The priest Isis is certain that the priest Mahado won't change his decision to this mission. The priest Mahado understands at once that the priest Isis must have already seen his future. While the priest Isis is going to say something, the priest Mahado asks her do him a favor to take care of Pharaoh. Then he leaves by saying nothing else. The priest Isis realizes that she can't stop the priest Mahado, thus she merely tells him that the victory will come to him. Mahado with some troop pulling a seal stone is walking through the city, reminding of his past with Pharaoh. Once upon a time, young Pharaoh Yugi were taking a fruit from a tree for Mana in the royal garden. While Mahado was coming to join, he saw a snake attacking Pharaoh Yugi. Then he jumped in and pushed Pharaoh Yugi out off the way, so the snake bit him instead. After that Pharaoh Yugi first aided him without concern of his title as prince or future Pharaoh. He told Mahado that he would like to create the world without discrimination of level or status. The priest Mahado understands that this thought may be only an ideal at this time. Nevertheless, in order to let Pharaoh Yugi make it come true in the future, he intends to protect his Pharaoh, no matter what. While the priest Mahado with the troops are walking through a cliff, he realizes that there is a servant of Bakura following his way along the top of the cliff. So he prepares himself ready and waits for the theif Bakura alone inside the tomb. At night, the thief Bakura with his followers are going into the entrance of the tomb. Yet, when the thief Bakura moves in, the troops of Mahado drop a lot of rock from the top to close the entrance and to stop the theif Bakura's followers not to get in. As a result, the thief Bakura has to moves inside the tomb alone and finally meets the priest Mahado waiting for him there...

[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Here it is..!
[ Mana ]	Thank you.
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Prince! Ah....
[ Mahado helped Pharaoh Yugi from a snake ]
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Mahado!
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Prince! Are you safe?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Mahado! Don't move..
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Prince! Please...don't do this. The person who will become Pharaoh like you is doing such a....
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Is there any difference between you and me? Mahado has blood flowing in the body, and I has my blood flowing in my body, too. Isn't that the same?
[ The Priest Mahado ]	Prince...
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	The world where we can live freely without separation of status...I will definitely show you it!

To be Continued...

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>> This episode's story matches that of comic episode 292
>> Japanese scans of comic episode 292
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