Yu-Gi-Oh!: Madoka, start!

After listening to Playmaker's accusation, Zaizen Akira fell silent.

"What exactly did you and Miyu go through back then?" Blue Angel looked sad and asked hurriedly.

"I only know about the lost incident, so I'll explain that part."

After saying this, Zaizen Akira glanced at Mathech, organized his words, and then continued.

"Ten years ago, six children disappeared one after another. They were abducted by a certain organization. One of those six children was Playmaker..."

"Abduction!? So Miyu was also abducted?" Blue Angel asked anxiously.

"If the information is not wrong, then that is it."

Zaizen Akira said helplessly.

"That's enough. Let us explain our past ourselves." Playmaker raised his hand and interrupted Zaizen Akira who was about to continue speaking.

"The abducted children were imprisoned in a small room one by one. The only thing in the room was a VR headset connected to the wires."

"What is projected in VR is a duel space. Inside, we are forced to duel with the AI ​​inside."

"Once we lose, what awaits us is electric shocks of varying degrees of pain."

"And we can't avoid the duel just because of the pain."

"At the beginning, they were given the most basic food and blankets. But gradually, these necessities of life were tied to the results of the duel."

"Once we avoid a duel because of the pain, all that awaits us is hunger and cold."

"Here, all we have is eating, sleeping and dueling. This hellish day repeats itself every day."

"When can we get out? How long can we live? All of us are worried. But even so, all we can do is fight."

Playmaker narrated all this quietly, but everyone present except Mathmech couldn't calm down.

Mathmech stood aside and looked at everyone quietly. He looked at Playmaker who was telling everything, and at the others who were feeling sad.

"Playmaker, I must correct the misunderstanding in your words." Mathmech said slowly after Playmaker finished speaking.

"What!?" When Mathmech said this, everyone present was extremely surprised.

"You weren't fighting the AI ​​the whole time."

"What do you mean!?" Playmaker also looked shocked.

"Remember what I said before? The victims of SOL Technology Company are not just the six people in the lost incident."

"Could it be that you..." Blue Angel looked at Mathmech with a sad expression.

"I am the seventh victim besides the Lost incident." Mathmech calmly recounted everything he had experienced.

"Ghost girl, do you remember the continuous trap card I used when I fought you?"

While mathmech was looking through the deck, he casually asked ghost girl.

"Mind extraction, and nightmares of an everlasting sleep..."

"It seems you have a good memory."

As mathmech spoke, he took out the continuous trap card from his deck.

"Actually, I was really confused at first. Why do I have these continuous traps in my deck when my deck is clearly a machine cutter?" mathmech concealed the way he obtained the cards and casually said to everyone.

"In addition to the nightmare of mind extraction and eternal sleep, there is also a magic mirror that absorbs darkness and a magic mirror that absorbs light."

Mathmech lined up four trap cards on the duel board.

"Until I recalled some of my past memories again."

"But this doesn't answer the question either. Why do you say that there is a cognitive error in Playmaker's words?" Ghost Girl asked in confusion.

"Hold on, I'm about to explain."

Mathmech said, casually picking up the spirit extraction and showing it to everyone.

"I wonder if you have any doubts after listening to what Playmaker said."

"For example, why was it that Playmaker could only use simple head-mounted VR glasses ten years ago, but SOL Technology Company developed Link Vrains that can be neurally connected in a very short time afterwards?" Mathmech smiled slightly and casually asked the people in front of him.

A terrible idea came to everyone's mind...

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Mathmech continued to speak casually.

"From a biological perspective, nerve signals are nothing more than bioelectric signals, so as long as we can perfectly simulate bioelectric signals, we have at least taken the first step. However, the guinea pigs in this experiment are not Playmaker and his team."

"Math...Mech..." Blue Angel looked at Mathmech in shock, his hands trembling, as if something was stuck in his throat. He looked painful and couldn't utter a word.

Ghost Girl and Zaizen Akira only had shock on their faces. They didn't want to believe it in their hearts, but their minds were blank and they couldn't find any reason to refute it.

Playmaker stood there with a painful look on his face, not saying a word.

"I just said that Playmaker has some cognitive errors, right?"

"Playmaker, why do you think that all the people playing against you are AI?"

"Because..." Playmaker just opened his mouth and realized something was wrong.

"Because that's what's written in the duel space, and that's what the prompt says. The guy you fight at the beginning is clumsy, right?"

"But what if the SOL technology at the time was not mature enough and the only way to forcibly connect the brain to the computer was to cut off the neural signals?"

"Due to early technical reasons, the connection is not stable, so it seems clumsy. As for the other things, SOL can set them up at will."

"But that doesn't explain why there's only one of you and six children..." Zaizen Akira pointed out the contradiction in the topic.

"I didn't say that I was the only one fighting against them. What I said was: why do you feel that all the people fighting against me are AI?"

"And then..." Zaizen Akira asked.

"Don't worry, let me explain it slowly. I believe your doubts will be answered."

As Mathmech spoke, he picked up the Continuous Trap Card - Magic Mirror that Absorbs Flashes.

"Starting at seven in the morning, I will be sent to one of the kids every two hours to duel with them."

"That is to say, each of you had two hours to actually duel with me at that time."

"SOL Technology will collect and record all the data every day, and then improve the AI ​​related to duels."

"It does feel like the AI ​​is getting stronger and stronger, and it's becoming more and more difficult to win, but it's not like we can't win. Occasionally we still have a chance to win." Playmaker recalled the situation at the time and nodded seriously.

Then, Mathmech picked up another card - the magic mirror that absorbed darkness.

"Starting at 7pm, it's your rest time, but I have to continue. I need to fight and win the six AIs trained that day before I can start resting. The results of my duel that night will be used to train and optimize the AI ​​for the next day."

"Then, as a 'reward' for my victory, they will add nutrients necessary to sustain my life to my IV tubes, and will inject me with sleeping pills to put me to sleep quickly."

"Because of drug resistance, they had to keep increasing the dosage. Gradually, I began to lose the ability to distinguish between reality and dreams. So I began to deliberately fight passively, because only in this way would there be no sleeping pills at night, and I could rely on insomnia to stay awake temporarily."

"This kind of life lasted for six months."

After saying that, Mathmech picked up the last card on the duel disk - the eternal nightmare, and looked at everyone silently.

After understanding the meaning of this card, everyone present showed disbelief.

Mathmech ignored everyone's reactions and continued speaking.

"Remember the duel with Revolver? When the Skyfire Prison took effect, all the electronic worlds present disappeared. And I fell down right away."

"But it was a blessing in disguise. I recalled some of my memories in my own memory space, and also found my best friend again."

After saying this, mathmech still looked at everyone with a smile, and then drew Sigma End from the deck.

"If it weren't for the power of Sigma Last, I would probably not be able to continue the duel at that time."

"This is impossible! There's no way the situation you described could happen!" Zaizen Akira shouted excitedly.

"That's right. Words are not enough. If you need evidence, I can show it to you."

Mathmech held up Sigma's Last Card and placed it slowly on the duel disk.

A burst of flames appeared behind Mathmech, and the horrible heat distorted his vision.

A red sword quietly floated in the flames.

Mathmech turned his back to the fire, raised his hands high, the heat from the fire blew Mathmech's clothes, and Mathmech raised his head and shouted loudly.

"Answer my call! My dear friend! Flame Slasher, Sigma the Last!"

A pair of giant mechanical hands stretched out from the flames, grasped the red sword, and then extinguished the flames with one sword.

A red and white mechanical warrior holding a sword stood quietly behind Mathmech, guarding him silently.

"Long time no see." Flames burned on Mathmech's body, and he silently greeted Sigma the Last.

Sigmar nodded gently to Mathmech.

"This is the card spirit."

After mathmech finished speaking, he quietly looked at the stunned people present.

Just by standing there, Sigma End brought terrifying pressure to everyone present.

And from beginning to end, Sigmar only focused on Mathmech, standing there quietly and motionlessly.

After the appearance of Sigma the Last, Mathmech's aura changed completely, like a bottomless abyss.

"Then let me ask you again: Zaizen, after hearing all this, do you still think you have the qualifications to make Playmaker and I put aside our hatred?"

The scene was deathly silent.