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Chapter 424: One Piece Really Exists, and So Does Tenma Yexing
Looking at Rayne's confident expression, Zigfried pursed his lips and said nothing more. Compared to what he told Rayne about "Restore Schroeder's Glory, it is our bounden duty," his true goal was actually to sabotage this KC Cup from beginning to end.
To achieve this goal, not long ago, with the help of a mysterious individual who sought him out, he discovered a fatal vulnerability in the firewall used by KaibaCorp.
Based on this vulnerability, Zigfried Lloyd wrote a trojan program and sent it into KaibaCorp's internal network. Zigfried's "Partner" took on the task of providing cover, launching an attack on KaibaCorp's network as a wingman, seemingly controlling some device in Kaiba Land.
The result was naturally a success. With the help of his "Partner," Zigfried Lloyd successfully sent the trojan program into KaibaCorp's internal network. Once successfully detonated, the data stored on KaibaCorp's network will be destroyed in a very short time. At that point, let alone continuing the KC Cup, it's hard to say if the highly networked KaibaCorp can even maintain its current status.
At that time, it will naturally be Schroeder Corporation's opportunity to rise!
Watching his brother—Rayne—stand up and return to his room, Zigfried leaned back on the sofa and narrowed his eyes.
If an instant trigger or timed device were used, the trojan program would be very easy to detect, and re-invading through that vulnerability would also leave traces. Therefore, the trigger device for the trojan program Zigfried set up is set to trigger conditionally.
He discovered that to ensure no fake cards appear in the KC Cup, Kaiba added a setting to every Duel Disk connected to the KC Cup system: every time a Card is placed on the Duel Disk, it reads the Card's data and compares it with the Card data on KaibaCorp's server.
Based on this, Zigfried Lloyd set the trojan program to trigger after a specific Card is read. That Card, Zigfried Lloyd set it as a Field Spell Card from his brother—Rayne Wilson's— Deck, **Golden Castle of Stromberg**, whose prototype comes from the fairy tale story "The Crow".
'Just wait, Kaiba. I'm really looking forward to the unwilling expression that will appear on your face after my plan succeeds, Hahahaha!'
—————
Hayato, who had left Tenma Tsukihiro's side, didn't return to the Spectator Area inside the Kaiba Dome Venue. Instead, he appeared before Kaiba, who had somewhat relieved his craving by playing a card game earlier.
"Tenma Tsukihiro? I remember he's the person sent by Industrial Illusions to assist, right?" Sitting in his private lounge, Kaiba crossed his legs on his executive chair and said disdainfully, "Although KaibaCorp and Industrial Illusions have reached a certain degree of business cooperation, that guy Pegasus is still unwilling to give me full access to all the Duel Monsters data."
"He says some data can't be released yet, he's hiding things. Although he granted some permissions, he demands that Industrial Illusions also participate in the supervision. Hmph, what a troublesome guy."
Hayato raised an eyebrow: "I thought the KC Cup was entirely supported by KaibaCorp alone."
"Hmph, I'll take that as a compliment to KaibaCorp." Kaiba glanced at Hayato, then looked at a transparent tablet-style personal terminal placed beside his hand. "Anyway, Tenma Tsukihiro is the person Pegasus arranged to be in charge. Free labor is free labor, so I just had him bring the guys from Industrial Illusions along to supervise the situation at the KC Cup field."
"Are you very interested in him?"
"No, just a little curious about his 'background setting'." Hayato shrugged. "Mainly, your KC Cup process is long and tedious. I don't think increasing the number of participants means the KC Cup will be a qualified event. At least, I think a long part of the process could be directly cut, and it would be much better to just enter duels with only a few people."
"You think I haven't thought of that? Idiot, business matters aren't something you can do however you want."
Kaiba picked up the tablet, tapping the screen repeatedly as if filtering something, and said casually, "Although Industrial Illusions is helping, to get government support, I first have to convince the local conglomerates, and the best way is to create enough profit for them."
"The longer the KC Cup lasts, the more stable the popularity behind it will be. In fact, just yesterday alone, the income from the advertising signs hanging around the venue was more than the KC Cup's ticket money."
"But compared to those things, I think you might be more interested in this."
Saying this, Kaiba pushed the tablet towards Hayato, stood up directly from his seat, adjusted his trench coat, and picked up his Deck and Duel Disk.
Hayato looked at the tablet Kaiba handed over. The tablet displayed many videos, images, and documents, all of which were related to Tenma Tsukihiro without exception.
"The Genius Boy of Industrial Illusions," "Tenma Tsukihiro, Adopted Son of the Father of Duel Monsters," "Completely Lacking Talent in Duel Monsters?"
From the newspaper headline when Tenma Tsukihiro was adopted as a child, to Tenma Tsukihiro entering Industrial Illusions to work because of his genius mind, all the way to Pegasus's evaluation of Tenma Tsukihiro as "completely lacking Talent in Duel Monsters," it covered "Tenma Tsukihiro's" situation from childhood to adulthood, and there wasn't much difference from what Hayato knew.
However, one newspaper was specially filtered out by Kaiba and placed in the most conspicuous position: "Father of Duel Monsters Adopts Two Boys."
"Recently, the KC Cup seems to have a lot of strange guys mixed in, so I used KaibaCorp's algorithm to screen everyone, and I found a few interesting people. Although Tenma Tsukihiro was sent by Industrial Illusions and isn't a participant, out of curiosity, I also looked up his information."
Kaiba stood opposite Hayato, put on his Duel Disk, confirmed his Deck, and inserted it into the Duel Disk. "A quite reasonable life, without any suspicion. And from some angles, it's slightly similar to my life. The only differences are that guy Pegasus isn't dead yet, and he doesn't have a brother as an assistant."
"That's what I originally thought, until I found a piece of data hidden in a corner, which is the photo you see."
On the newspaper titled "Father of Duel Monsters Adopts Two Boys," a photo was printed. A boy who was clearly Tenma Tsukihiro as a child stood slightly shyly to Pegasus's left hand, holding his hand. He seemed a bit embarrassed to face the reporter, but still stood out and showed a smile that could barely be considered decent.
And to Pegasus's right hand, a boy who looked exactly like Tenma Tsukihiro, although he also held Pegasus's outstretched hand, his eyes looking at the camera were full of indifference and disdain.
Furthermore, perhaps due to the time and angle of the photo, the side where Tenma Tsukihiro was standing happened to be under the dark yellow setting sun, while the other boy stood in the shadow with half of Pegasus's body.
"At least I can be sure that Tenma Tsukihiro, adopted by Pegasus, should have a twin brother. However, for some reason, the existence of Tenma Tsukihiro's brother seems to have been shrouded in his brother's shadow for a long time afterward?"
The Duel Disk on Kaiba's hand was already deployed. He showed a cold and arrogant smile to Hayato, who was still looking at the tablet. "But what makes me more curious is that even if his presence was low, he should at least be findable. Yet, no matter how I search, I can't find any evidence of Tenma Tsukihiro's brother's existence other than this photo."
"It's almost as if he stayed in his brother's shadow for too long, and even his existence completely melted away? Luckily, Keipei isn't like that."
"That is to say, Tenma Yexing that guy is real? Pegasus and Tenma Tsukihiro are lying?" Hayato was a little surprised by the information he learned from Kaiba. To be honest, he didn't expect to get anything from Kaiba, he was just thinking about whether to come here and play a card game with Kaiba to pass the time.
As a result, Kaiba casually dropped such a bombshell.
Now there are more and more doubts in front of Hayato - why, Pegasus and Tenma Tsukihiro did not move at all after hearing the name "Tenma Yexing", and asked Hayato "Tenma Yexing" like they were not lying? Who is it?
Why was that "Night" who called me surprised by the name "Tenma Yexing", is he Tenma Yexing, or is he related to Tenma Yexing, and why did he suddenly disappear from the perception of the [Millennium Ring]?
Also, why can Kaiba only find this photo that seems to have slipped through the net on the Internet, and there is no other information about the existence of "Tenma Yexing"?
"Although I still haven't been able to find out the truth, Kaiba, you are so powerful." Hayato put down the tablet in his hand and looked at Kaiba with a fighting spirit. "You really helped me a lot. It doesn't matter even if you ask me to duel with you."
"Isn't that the kind of thing you came up with on your own?" Kaiba raised his chin proudly. "Although you only use your full strength in public, but you refuse to duel with me in public, but it's not bad to defeat you here."
"Let's duel, Hayato Kobayashi!" As he said that, Kaiba was about to draw a card from his deck.
But Hayato suddenly stood up and ran outside the office: "I'll talk about that later, I suddenly have something I have to deal with, excuse me Kaiba, Ciao~"
"You bastard, stop for me! I've already deployed the Duel Disk, said I was going to duel with me and then ran away, Yarog!"
Outside the office, Iso, who had left the infirmary early because of his insistence, but was still forbidden by Kaiba to serve as a referee and could only be a security guard, pushed the sunglasses that slipped off his face, and watched Hayato Kobayashi walk out with a tablet, and President Kaiba, who was waving a Duel Disk that was almost like a blade, chased after the former with a calm expression.
Looking at Rayne's confident expression, Zigfried pursed his lips and said nothing more. Compared to what he told Rayne about "Restore Schroeder's Glory, it is our bounden duty," his true goal was actually to sabotage this KC Cup from beginning to end.
To achieve this goal, not long ago, with the help of a mysterious individual who sought him out, he discovered a fatal vulnerability in the firewall used by KaibaCorp.
Based on this vulnerability, Zigfried Lloyd wrote a trojan program and sent it into KaibaCorp's internal network. Zigfried's "Partner" took on the task of providing cover, launching an attack on KaibaCorp's network as a wingman, seemingly controlling some device in Kaiba Land.
The result was naturally a success. With the help of his "Partner," Zigfried Lloyd successfully sent the trojan program into KaibaCorp's internal network. Once successfully detonated, the data stored on KaibaCorp's network will be destroyed in a very short time. At that point, let alone continuing the KC Cup, it's hard to say if the highly networked KaibaCorp can even maintain its current status.
At that time, it will naturally be Schroeder Corporation's opportunity to rise!
Watching his brother—Rayne—stand up and return to his room, Zigfried leaned back on the sofa and narrowed his eyes.
If an instant trigger or timed device were used, the trojan program would be very easy to detect, and re-invading through that vulnerability would also leave traces. Therefore, the trigger device for the trojan program Zigfried set up is set to trigger conditionally.
He discovered that to ensure no fake cards appear in the KC Cup, Kaiba added a setting to every Duel Disk connected to the KC Cup system: every time a Card is placed on the Duel Disk, it reads the Card's data and compares it with the Card data on KaibaCorp's server.
Based on this, Zigfried Lloyd set the trojan program to trigger after a specific Card is read. That Card, Zigfried Lloyd set it as a Field Spell Card from his brother—Rayne Wilson's— Deck, **Golden Castle of Stromberg**, whose prototype comes from the fairy tale story "The Crow".
'Just wait, Kaiba. I'm really looking forward to the unwilling expression that will appear on your face after my plan succeeds, Hahahaha!'
—————
Hayato, who had left Tenma Tsukihiro's side, didn't return to the Spectator Area inside the Kaiba Dome Venue. Instead, he appeared before Kaiba, who had somewhat relieved his craving by playing a card game earlier.
"Tenma Tsukihiro? I remember he's the person sent by Industrial Illusions to assist, right?" Sitting in his private lounge, Kaiba crossed his legs on his executive chair and said disdainfully, "Although KaibaCorp and Industrial Illusions have reached a certain degree of business cooperation, that guy Pegasus is still unwilling to give me full access to all the Duel Monsters data."
"He says some data can't be released yet, he's hiding things. Although he granted some permissions, he demands that Industrial Illusions also participate in the supervision. Hmph, what a troublesome guy."
Hayato raised an eyebrow: "I thought the KC Cup was entirely supported by KaibaCorp alone."
"Hmph, I'll take that as a compliment to KaibaCorp." Kaiba glanced at Hayato, then looked at a transparent tablet-style personal terminal placed beside his hand. "Anyway, Tenma Tsukihiro is the person Pegasus arranged to be in charge. Free labor is free labor, so I just had him bring the guys from Industrial Illusions along to supervise the situation at the KC Cup field."
"Are you very interested in him?"
"No, just a little curious about his 'background setting'." Hayato shrugged. "Mainly, your KC Cup process is long and tedious. I don't think increasing the number of participants means the KC Cup will be a qualified event. At least, I think a long part of the process could be directly cut, and it would be much better to just enter duels with only a few people."
"You think I haven't thought of that? Idiot, business matters aren't something you can do however you want."
Kaiba picked up the tablet, tapping the screen repeatedly as if filtering something, and said casually, "Although Industrial Illusions is helping, to get government support, I first have to convince the local conglomerates, and the best way is to create enough profit for them."
"The longer the KC Cup lasts, the more stable the popularity behind it will be. In fact, just yesterday alone, the income from the advertising signs hanging around the venue was more than the KC Cup's ticket money."
"But compared to those things, I think you might be more interested in this."
Saying this, Kaiba pushed the tablet towards Hayato, stood up directly from his seat, adjusted his trench coat, and picked up his Deck and Duel Disk.
Hayato looked at the tablet Kaiba handed over. The tablet displayed many videos, images, and documents, all of which were related to Tenma Tsukihiro without exception.
"The Genius Boy of Industrial Illusions," "Tenma Tsukihiro, Adopted Son of the Father of Duel Monsters," "Completely Lacking Talent in Duel Monsters?"
From the newspaper headline when Tenma Tsukihiro was adopted as a child, to Tenma Tsukihiro entering Industrial Illusions to work because of his genius mind, all the way to Pegasus's evaluation of Tenma Tsukihiro as "completely lacking Talent in Duel Monsters," it covered "Tenma Tsukihiro's" situation from childhood to adulthood, and there wasn't much difference from what Hayato knew.
However, one newspaper was specially filtered out by Kaiba and placed in the most conspicuous position: "Father of Duel Monsters Adopts Two Boys."
"Recently, the KC Cup seems to have a lot of strange guys mixed in, so I used KaibaCorp's algorithm to screen everyone, and I found a few interesting people. Although Tenma Tsukihiro was sent by Industrial Illusions and isn't a participant, out of curiosity, I also looked up his information."
Kaiba stood opposite Hayato, put on his Duel Disk, confirmed his Deck, and inserted it into the Duel Disk. "A quite reasonable life, without any suspicion. And from some angles, it's slightly similar to my life. The only differences are that guy Pegasus isn't dead yet, and he doesn't have a brother as an assistant."
"That's what I originally thought, until I found a piece of data hidden in a corner, which is the photo you see."
On the newspaper titled "Father of Duel Monsters Adopts Two Boys," a photo was printed. A boy who was clearly Tenma Tsukihiro as a child stood slightly shyly to Pegasus's left hand, holding his hand. He seemed a bit embarrassed to face the reporter, but still stood out and showed a smile that could barely be considered decent.
And to Pegasus's right hand, a boy who looked exactly like Tenma Tsukihiro, although he also held Pegasus's outstretched hand, his eyes looking at the camera were full of indifference and disdain.
Furthermore, perhaps due to the time and angle of the photo, the side where Tenma Tsukihiro was standing happened to be under the dark yellow setting sun, while the other boy stood in the shadow with half of Pegasus's body.
"At least I can be sure that Tenma Tsukihiro, adopted by Pegasus, should have a twin brother. However, for some reason, the existence of Tenma Tsukihiro's brother seems to have been shrouded in his brother's shadow for a long time afterward?"
The Duel Disk on Kaiba's hand was already deployed. He showed a cold and arrogant smile to Hayato, who was still looking at the tablet. "But what makes me more curious is that even if his presence was low, he should at least be findable. Yet, no matter how I search, I can't find any evidence of Tenma Tsukihiro's brother's existence other than this photo."
"It's almost as if he stayed in his brother's shadow for too long, and even his existence completely melted away? Luckily, Keipei isn't like that."
"That is to say, Tenma Yexing that guy is real? Pegasus and Tenma Tsukihiro are lying?" Hayato was a little surprised by the information he learned from Kaiba. To be honest, he didn't expect to get anything from Kaiba, he was just thinking about whether to come here and play a card game with Kaiba to pass the time.
As a result, Kaiba casually dropped such a bombshell.
Now there are more and more doubts in front of Hayato - why, Pegasus and Tenma Tsukihiro did not move at all after hearing the name "Tenma Yexing", and asked Hayato "Tenma Yexing" like they were not lying? Who is it?
Why was that "Night" who called me surprised by the name "Tenma Yexing", is he Tenma Yexing, or is he related to Tenma Yexing, and why did he suddenly disappear from the perception of the [Millennium Ring]?
Also, why can Kaiba only find this photo that seems to have slipped through the net on the Internet, and there is no other information about the existence of "Tenma Yexing"?
"Although I still haven't been able to find out the truth, Kaiba, you are so powerful." Hayato put down the tablet in his hand and looked at Kaiba with a fighting spirit. "You really helped me a lot. It doesn't matter even if you ask me to duel with you."
"Isn't that the kind of thing you came up with on your own?" Kaiba raised his chin proudly. "Although you only use your full strength in public, but you refuse to duel with me in public, but it's not bad to defeat you here."
"Let's duel, Hayato Kobayashi!" As he said that, Kaiba was about to draw a card from his deck.
But Hayato suddenly stood up and ran outside the office: "I'll talk about that later, I suddenly have something I have to deal with, excuse me Kaiba, Ciao~"
"You bastard, stop for me! I've already deployed the Duel Disk, said I was going to duel with me and then ran away, Yarog!"
Outside the office, Iso, who had left the infirmary early because of his insistence, but was still forbidden by Kaiba to serve as a referee and could only be a security guard, pushed the sunglasses that slipped off his face, and watched Hayato Kobayashi walk out with a tablet, and President Kaiba, who was waving a Duel Disk that was almost like a blade, chased after the former with a calm expression.
