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Okay, let's try this again.

Hi. I'm Kachidoki Isao. Ryozanpaku Duel School. One half of... [He includes a picture of himself with his tag team belt. Smug bastard.] ...your Super Junior Tag Team Champions.

I am well aware at this point that we got off on the wrong foot. And since I'm stuck with the lot of you as long as I'm in this league, this is me trying to compromise. So I'm going to tell all of you some things about myself and that's going to make all of us get along and hopefully, all of you will stop crying at me so often.

1) My interests outside of dueling include NJPW, MMA and samurai movies. I know I'm not getting any originality points for this, but my favorite movies are The Seven Samurai and Star Wars.
2) My favorite card is Great Shogun Shien.
3) My favorite duelists are Seto Kaiba, Jack Atlas, Edo Phoenix, "Akuma" Kurosawa, Hibiki Koyo and Hell Kaiser Ryo.

Oh yeah, and I'm cycling my flying forearm and my knee strike out of my repertoire. So you can stop worrying about me hitting you in the head and start worrying about all the other ways I'm going to lay you out.

See?

Compromise. I'm making an effort.

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I gotta admit, I was kind of surprised by your apology in your interview. I wasn't expecting that, but, it's appreciated. I don't like holding grudges or anything so, we'll just let bygones be bygones.

I'm still not keen on Ryozanpaku's dueling style and I doubt it's something that'll ever be something I agree with, but making compromises seems like the best thing to do. I'm glad you'll be taking out some of your more dangerous moves at least. Head injuries aren't much fun!

Yeah, well.

I still don't really like your dueling style, either. But it's pretty obvious that whoever Kurosaki's buddy was, it's not you. Which means I went overboard.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on each others dueling styles.

Yeah, that was a really crazy mix-up. I don't know who that guy was, or why he apparently looks a lot like me, but I'm hoping he doesn't attack anyone again. Though I don't think he will. I think Kurosaki felt a little guilty for accidentally dragging me that mess.

We'll just leave that in the past now.

We should probably just avoid each other entirely unless absolutely necessary.

Huh...

... Edo Phoenix was one of my favorite Pro Duelists too!

He's one of the greatest ever.

Just pisses me off that it seems like he's gone before I'll ever get a chance to duel him.

Yeah, he basically vanished off the face of the earth, right?

I still don't know what happened there. His PR site hasn't updated in forever since they said he was taking a break.

I don't know. I don't speculate about that kind of thing. Point is, he's not dueling right now.

Hnmm... Otherwise, I think "Escher", that was in the Action Dueling tournament, is one of my favorites. She embodied the exact opposite of what WATER-deck duelists seem to do, which is kinda inspiring.

She has a glass jaw.

I was talking more about her deck.

I could never avoid that much damage for so long, and that Shark guy seems to be... pretty much in the same boat.

We're not in the "same boat".

And I'm working on that problem.

I wouldn't really call you two in the same boat, Shark's actually good.

I'm plenty good!

Unless you're talking about the Junior League rankings. I was pretty much 90% asleep throughout all of that.

That is what I was talking about.

Well then, I'll just have to step up and fix that when they actually start back up again!

...

You know what, I think the doctors and Rio might have a point for me to keep resting until I recover.

If I was a figment of your concussion-addled imagination, I'd be much blurrier.

I am Trendafilka Adelina Cardozo my favorite movies are the second Yu Yu Hakusho, When Marnie Was There, and Princess Mononoke! My favorite duelists are all of them and

and

WE SHOULD HANG OUT

Oh yeah.

I googled what tsundere is.

You're gonna wanna stop referring to me as that.

... Fiiiine.

Will definitely do that.

Good.

What I said before still applies. If you want to "hang out", find a partner and get a title shot.

Fine.

Easily done!

... Is one of your friends looking for partner, maybe? Tendou?

...

Pretty sure he's gonna be focused on defending his own championship.

But what if he's NOT?

... See point.

Problem is deck is mess and also does not play well with others. And... Have idea! WILL SEE YOU SOON ISAO

Bated breath. Promise.

You're cycling out your flying forearm and knee strike?!

Yes.

But why?!

I have plenty of other moves I can use.

I want our dueling to be about the two of us doing feats of strength, speed, agility, toughness and endurance that nobody can match. Some of that, yes, will involve strikes and holds and throws on our opponents. But I don't want people to say I give people head injuries and use it as a distraction from how good we are.

[ our dueling ... the two of us... ]

It was efficient, though... But I suppose I can learn to understand.

If I was dueling people with similar training to us, it'd be one thing. But I'm not.

This is just a decision I made for myself. You can still do whatever you want.

No, I can't. Not as half of a team, anyway.

...

Have it your way.

In that case, I think we should spend some time coming up with a team strategy.

Huh.

I'm that old enough to be remembered by people when they're kids.

You and your sisters came off as larger than life figures who were dominant in all aspects of dueling. It was fun to watch.

Thanks, I guess.

I'm not really great with talking to fans. Sorry.

That's fine, I'm not really a fan anymore, anyway.

...Star Wars as in the first one or like the series in general?

The first one, from the 70s.

...Fair enough. I was expecting you to like Revenge of the Sith or something.

It's fine.

It's just a lot of effects and not a lot of substance. It's like a cake that's 80% frosting.

Nah, frosting cake is WAY better than that movie.

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