[ Epsiode 207 ] Winded Back Time

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After attacking the royal palace at night, Bakura and his Diabound run into the city and attack villagers. Meanwhile, Pharaoh summons Osiris, following Bakura and protecting the villagers. Finally, the priest Karim and Seto have come to save him in time. Seeing the priests'coming, Bakura decides to move back. Also, Diabound disappears into darkness and follows Bakura. Pharaoh warns Karim and Seto not to be careless because Diabound has an ability to camouflage in darkness. Then Seto gives the order to his soldiers to let cavalrymen keep on chasing Bakura and infantry evacuate people into the royal palace. Around the city is burning. Many people are moving into the royal palace. At this moment, little Yugi and the others are looking for Yami Yugi and Osiris. Seeing Osiris, they move straight to that direction.

[The Priest Karim ]	Pharaoh! Are you safe?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Ah!
[ The Thief Bakura]	Shi! The priests!? Diabound!
[The Priest Karim ]	Wait!
[The Priest Seto ]	It disappeared..!?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Be careful! Diabound can hide itself in darkness and then attack from there.
[The Priest Seto ]	Cavalrymen keep on chasing Bakura! The infantry evacuates people into an open space of the royal palace!

Back to the battle, Seto tries to cheer everybody not to give up, although no one can see the enemy. Even Pharaoh still has strong spirit to beat Bakura, no matter what. Three Ka of Pharaoh, Karim and Seto follow invisible Diabound into the sky. Diabound first takes a strike from darkness and then destroys Karim's Ka. Thus, Karim gets such a strong damage. Seto tells him to hang on and not to give up to darkness. At the same time, the royal palace looks very chaotic by people moving in. The priest Shada asks Isis what she is seeing from her millennium tauk. Isis replies that she sees god of the sky and dark shadow. Looking at a Ouiju shrine, both of them understand that Pharaoh is summoning gods and fighting against Bakura. At the same time, Pharaoh is thinking about the way to see the enemy. After that, he starts running to follow Bakura to the hill while the priest Seto and Karim are after him. They have reached Bakura standing on the top of the hill. Pharaoh hopes this will be his final turn. Anyway, Bakura thinks that he still gets the advantage because of Diabound's disappearance. Pharaoh lets Osiris protect Dios in order to use god as decoy.  Diabound suddenly launches Spiral Wave (Rasenhado) directly toward Osiris. Once the power is released, Osiris can point out Diabound's direction. As a result, Osiris counterattacks by Thunder Force. At ths moment, at the Ouiju shrine, the priest Akunadin is standing in front of the stone tablet of god Osiris, throwing his sword toward the tablet. When the table is pierced, Osiris's movement is ceased. Therefore, Osiris is finally destroyed and Pharaoh gets such a serious damage. Anyway, the priest Akunadin is attacked by thunder and then loses his consciousness. Shada has just come in and sees him there.

Pharaoh tells Seto to continue attacking Diabound at this time when they can still point out Diabound's appearance. Thus, Seto lets Dios throw its Aura Sword toward that direction. The sword pierces to something, so everybody wonders whether it worked. Yet, Bakura starts laughing and lets people take a look again. Aura Sword of Dios, in fact pierced into another Ka summoned by Bakura. The last chance to attack Diabound was gone. At this point, Pharaoh, losing too much Ba, is too tired to continue the fight. He starts losing his consciousness, falling down from his horse onto the ground. Then he hears little Yugi's voice calling him up. Openning his eyes, Pharaoh sees little Yugi and the others appearing in this memory world. Little Yugi tries to cheer Yami Yugi up, releasing some power inside himself through Yami Yugi. Pharaoh understands that he, in fact, still has power of friendship left. Obtaining more power from his friends, Pharoah gets on his horse again and summons his last god, The Wing Dragon of Ra - God of Sun. Bakura is very surprised by that power of friendship. He hasn't expected that Pharaoh's friends could be able to come in this memory world and help him. When Ra is summoned, the light is shining around the country as if it is daytime. All people are amazed by power of god. Yet, Bakura believes that Diabound also has power of god. He suddenly lets Diabound launch Thunder Force, power of Osiris (Diabound's special ability is that Diabound can copy an attack of Ka that it destroyed). At this moment, Seto releases his entire Ba into Aura Sword of Dios, using it change direction of Diabound's Thunder Force. After the attack is invalid, Pharaoh lets Ra perform the last attack, God Phoenix - one turn kill that can burn even through a soul. Diabound is going to get such a tremendous flame...

[The Priest Karim ]	That!? The god will become the first target.
[The Priest Seto ]	Does Pharaoh intend to use god of the sky as a decoy to lure the enemy?
[ The Thief Bakura]	God must die, Yugi! Diabound's attack...Rasenhado (Spiral Wave)
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	There! Go, Thunder Force of interception!
[ The priest Akunadin attacks the stone tablet of Osiris. Thus, Osiris is destroyed and Pharaoh gets damage ]
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Ah!!!!...Seto, this time!
[The Priest Seto ]	Dios Aura Sword!
[ Aura Sword pierces into a Ka ]
[The Priest Seto ]	Was it effective?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Did it work?
[ The Thief Bakura]	Hi hi hi! Are you blind? Take a good look!
[The Priest Seto ]	Another Ka? That was impossible!
[ Aura Sword pierces into a Ka. Seto's attack fails ]
[ The Thief Bakura]	Pharaoh! The millennium puzzle must belong to me!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Bakura..! Is this the end...?
[The Priest Seto ]	Pharaoh!
[ Pharaoh falls down and sees little Yugi with the others ]
[ Little Yugi ]	Another I!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Partner?
[ Little Yugi ]	Another I!
[ Jyonouchi ]	Are you okey?
[ Anzu, Honda]	Yugi
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Jyonouchi-Kun! Honda-Kun! Anzu!
[ The Thief Bakura]	What? Why? Why could those guys come into this memory world?
[ Little Yugi ]	Please hang on, another I! You are with us.
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	I see. I still have some power left, power of friendship!
[ Pharaoh gets up on his horse again ]
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Bakura! An advent of god! Shatter rough darkness! Come on! The Wing Dragon of Ra!
[  Ra is summoned, bright light is shining around the country ]
[ The Thief Bakura]	Midnight Sun..?
[The Priest Karim ]	Oh! This light is...
[The Priest Seto ]	The light that tears the cloud and shatters darkness.. Perhaps, this is the third god!
[The Priest Karim ]	That is..!
[The Priest Seto ]	God of Sun, The Wing Dragon of Ra!
[ The Thief Bakura]	God of Sun? This is impossible! When god of the sky had been beaten, Yugi's Ba should have run out. Yet, he still has enough strength to summon the new god. Is it because his friends appeared? Was power of the vessel (Little Yugi) passed through Yugi?
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	I can feel it...existance of partner...another soul inside my mind!
[ Shimon ]	Oh!! The change of this daytime...is it because of god's power?
[The Priest Karim ]	When there is no darkness, Diabound can no longer hide itself. It is time to beat it.
[ The Thief Bakura]	Anyway, power of god has already been with Diabound. Thunder Force!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	What?
[The Priest Karim ]	Pharaoh!
[The Priest Seto ]	Go, Dios! Aura Sword! Release my whole Ba into Aura Sword, change the direction of Thunder Force!
[ Aura Sword changes direction of Diabound's Thunder Force ]
[ The Thief Bakura]	The attack of god!
[The Priest Seto ]	This time, Pharaoh!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Flame of Soul Burning is included in the god's one turn kill ! The attack of Ra! Go! God of Phoenix!

Ra, god of Phoenix, burns Diabound by its flame, so Bakura's body also starts burning. Then Bakura falls down from his horse at the same time when Diabound is defeated. People in the city are very glad to see that Pharaoh can finally beat Bakura. Pharaoh turns to thank little Yugi and his friends. If they hadn't come to give him some spirit power, he wouldn't have defeated Bakura. Little Yugi and the others claim that they are always with him because they are friends. While people are happy to their victory, the theif Bakura is thinking whether he has already been defeated. This isn't what it is supposed to be. Suddenly, a sand glass turns upsight down. Time starts running back. The ground in the memory is shaking while the time is wound back to when Osiris was just defeated and Pharaoh got such a strong damage. Everybody is surprised by this sudden event. Little Yugi, Jyonouchi, Anzu, Honda and Bobasa are blown away following the time because at this point of time they haven't come to reach Pharaoh yet. When time is returned, Bakura is back. Little Yugi and the others hurry to go back to see Yami Yugi despite the fact that they haven't understood why this situation could happen.

[ The Thief Bakura]	Ahhh!!!
[The Priest Seto ]	Flame of god is burning Bakura!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	(This is the end, Bakura!)
[ Bakura is burned and falls down ]
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	(This was dangerous. My partner who gave me some spirit power and my friends...)
[ Jyonouchi ]	You did it, Yugi!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Ah! It is because of you. If you hadn't come, I would have...
[ Little Yugi ]	Don't say like that. We are friends!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Thanks, I would like to give you gratitude from my heart...Partner!
[ Little Yugi ]	Another I
[ Honda ]	Don't forget about us!
[ Jyonouchi, Anzu ]	Yes! Yes!
[ Pharaoh Yugi ]	Ah!
[ Anzu ]	Wherever you go, we are always with you, Yugi!
[ Bobasa ]	This picture of everybody....Bobasa feels very glad!

Pharaoh getting injury moves slowly up to the hill to see Bakura while little Yugi and the others are running closer from the other side. Seeing that, Bakura won't let Pharaoh's friends interfere again. Thus, Diabound suddenly attacks Pharaoh by Spiral Wave (Spiral Wave). The earth beneath Pharaoh is destroyed and broken down. Pharaoh's horse falls down while he still can hold himself in time at the rim. Although they see that their Pharaoh is in danger, Karim and Seto can't go closer to help because there is some big crack in front of them. Taking out a millennium puzzle from Pharaoh, the theif Bakura steps on the rim so that Pharaoh can fall down. People are shocked when they sees Yami Yugi falling down into the abyss. They go the rim and look down; however, they see nothing in darkness. Meanwhile, Karim and Seto turn back to search for Pharaoh. Honda is so angry at Bakura that he runs toward him and punches him very strongly. Bakura now is an evil, so he doesn't care about his friend anymore. Asking whether Honda would like to die, Bakura squeezes Honda's nect and raises him up by his one hand. In fact, Bakura is now penetrating some of his parasite mind into Honda's body. Jyonouchi starts attacking Bakura but Bakura throws Honda back on him. When little Yugi and the others turn up on another hill, they see Bakura's followers with black cloths standing by there. So, Jyonouchi and Honda look very scared. Bobasa tells everybody to leave here as soon as possible because it is too dangerous. The followers are coming after them. As a result, little Yugi and the others have to run away from there. In fact, the ability that Bakura uses in this game is called Wind Back Time (The ability activated by a sand glass). Even though he was almost defeated at first, he could turn back to win.

On the other side, little Yugi and the other are safe from the followers of Bakura. Anzu is very worried about Yami Yugi who was already defeated to the shadow game. A shadow game is a game that a player has to sarifice his life at the end of the game. Jyonouchi is also worried whether this means Yami Yugi was already dead. Anyway, little Yugi cheers everybody up because he believes that Yami Yugi must be alive. He explains that this is the memory world of Yami Yugi. It hasn't been disappeared yet, so Yami Yugi must be alive somewhere else. Anzu feels impressed by little Yugi's act, seeing that he, in fact, looks stronger. Then everybody starts looking for Yami Yugi.

[ Bobasa ]	We are safe now. They have already gone.
[ Honda ]	This is such a dangerous place.
[ Jyonouchi ]	Shi!! That Dam Bakura!
[ Anzu ]	Yugi was already defeated to the shadow game.
[ Little Yugi ]	Anzu!
[ Jyonouchi ]	A shadow is a game that a player has to bet by his life. That means Yugi...
[ Little Yugi ]	Don't be worried. He has been alive.
[ Anzu ]	Haaa!?
[ Little Yugi ]	Before we came here, Shadi had ever said. This is Pharaoh's memory world.
[ Jyonouchi ]	Ah! That means...
[ Little Yugi ]	But we are still here. This world has been disappeared yet.
[ Anzu ]	I see, Yugi's memory has been exactly disappeared.
[ Little Yugi ]	So, he must be alive. Let's look for him!
[ Anzu ]	(You really look stronger, Yugi.)

At the royal palace, Shada is taking care of the priest Akunadin at a room. He reminds himself of the previous situation. When Isis saw Pharaoh summoning god, Shada went into the Ouiju shrine of Pharaoh. Then he saw the priest Akunadin there. Shada would like to know what the priest Akunadin did there, so he took out his millennium ankh and tried to look into Akunadin's mind. Yet, Akunadin gains his consciousness first., so Shada has to hide his millennium ankh at once. The priest Akunadin asks Shada what was the end of Ka hunt. Shada told him the truth that he couldn't measure power of Ka inside Kisara by his millennium ankh. Hearing that the power couldn't be measured by millennium ankh, Akunadin thinks about his plan to measure it by himself. As a result, Akunadin gets up, pushes Shada away strongly and then leaves the room. Anyway, Shada is very surprised by Akunadin's aggressive act.

At the main hall of the royal palace, Seto is very furious when there has been no trace of Pharoah. So he gives his order to the soldiers to look for Pharaoh even through the whole Nile. Shimon asks Isis what else she can see. Isis replies that she sees a ripple of darkness. First, it has only one but it later becomes larger and more. Then they will finally become a big disaster. Hearing wonders whether this is the future of the kingdom. Isis confirms that this is what has already begun. Shimon is very worried about this situation. Any principle controlled by the seven millennium items has been unstable because of only one theif. He thinks that there is perhaps only one factor to protect the disaster....

On the other side, the priest Seto and Shada are talking together, walking to see Kisara. Shada tells Seto about strange act of the priest Akunadin. When they reach the room, they don't see Kisara. So, Seto asks a soldier where she is. The soldier says that the priest Akunadin already took her to the battle stage of prisoners. Shada seems to be very surprised by that. Then, a servant named Gebeluk comes in following Akunadin's order to take Seto there. Gebeluk leads Seto the underground room. There, Seto is amazed by the battle stage in the middle while there are three prisoners with three Ka fighting against each other. He sees the priest Akunadin sitting on a seat and ordering the prisoners to kill one another in order to survive. Getting surprised a little bit, the preist Seto tries to stop this action. Yet, Akunadin stops Seto's move and lets him take a look. Ka of a prisoner becomes bigger when he shows his strong feeling that he doesn't want to die. Akunadin explains that this is good time to prepare Seto for becoming a new Pharoah. The royal palace without Pharaoh means the sand castle. In order to become a new king, Seto has to find greater Ka than three gods of Pharaoh Yugi. Seto is very amazed by those words of the priest Akunadin. Also, he doesn't understand why the priest Akunadin tries to make him become Pharaoh. Akunadin explains that fear can make Ka become stronger. As a result, he lets a soldier send Kisara into the battle stage. Because Shada's millennium ankh couldn't see Ka consealed inside Kisara, no one knows how great her Ka is. Thus, Akunadin wants to test Kisara by sending her into danger and seeing what she will express when he has such a strong fear. Although Seto tries to stop Akunadin, his words mean nothing. Kisara turns her face to Seto, the one who ever saved her before when she was young, and calls his name before she is pushed into the battle stage. Then she has to face such a cruel Ka of the prisoners....

[The Priest Seto ]	Akunadin-Sama looks weird...?
[The Priest Shada ]	While talking about that non-native girl, he looks like another person.
[The Priest Seto ]	Ah! How is that non-native girl?
[ A Soldier ]	Haa! A while ago, Akunadin-Saka took her to the underground battle stage.
[The Priest Seto ]	Akunadin-Sama?
[The Priest Shada ]	But....that battle stage?
[ Gebeluk ]	That's it. He is calling for Seto-Sama. Please come this way.
[ Seto follows Gebeluk to the underground battle stage ]
[The Priest Seto ]	Ah!! This is...
[The Priest Akunadin ]	I have been waiting for you, Seto!
[The Priest Seto ]	Akunadin-Sama! What is...?
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Why? We have no time to take a rest. If you (prisoners) don't want to die, you must fight. If you don't kill your partners, you may not survive. Kill! Kill!
[The Priest Seto ]	Are you crazy, Akunadin-Sama? You let the prisoners kill one another uselessly. Hey! What are you doing? Stop that immediately!
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Shut up, Seto! This is what you ever requested, isn't it! Take a look!
[ A prisoner Ka becomes bigger ]
[The Priest Seto ]	Ah! Ka can grow up!
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Seto! Ka is something that can become more powerful. It is also attached to the life of its master.
[The Priest Seto ]	Life of the master?
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Strong fear to death or thought that he doesn't want to die are all possible factors to make Ka become more powerful and larger.
[ A prisoner presents his feeling that he doesn't want to die ]
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Seto, if there is something happenning to Pharaoh, the royal palace without protection from god is similar to a sand castle.
[The Priest Seto ]	We've known that. That is why we are trying to rescue Pharoah now.
[The Priest Akunadin ]	It isn't just like that. The important point is the next Pharaoh.....New Pharaoh!
[The Priest Seto ]	New Pharaoh?
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Pharaoh was chosen because of his three gods. If a person can't obtain Ka with power greater than that of gods, he won't be chosen to become a new Pharaoh. Seto! Power exceeding power of gods is here!
[The Priest Seto ]	(Akunadin-Sama! He is trying to make me become a new Pharaoh)
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Fun time is ended! Take that girl into the battle stage!
[The Priest Seto ]	This is bad. That girl with the same eyes...
[The Priest Akunadin ]	I heard from Shada that his millennium ankh couldn't see Ka concealed inside the girl. So we can't know real power of her Ka.
[The Priest Seto ]	Please hold on! What you are going to do is left in the eyes.  Even it is waht you said, the reason...
[The Priest Akunadin ]	Heee! Seto! If there is no prepare of god resistance, we can't obtain power exceeding that of gods in hand. Open your eyes! That girl looks frightened with fear, trembles and wails. What you can see is that those are good.
[ Kisara ]	Seto!?

To be Continued...

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>> This episode's story matches that of comic episode 299-307
>> Japanese scans of comic episode 299-307
>> Story Digest