yugioh zexal · barian arc · anime · card duel · betrayal · denial · friendship · supernatural · vector · yuma tsukumo
Vector's lips curled into a jagged, mocking sneer, the atmosphere around him thickening with a suffocating, dark energy. "HEH. Still playing pretend? Don't you get it yet?" He paused, his voice dripping with malice. "Ray was me all along!" Yuma recoiled as if struck, his boots sliding back across the duel field. "It's not true! Ray... Ray is real! He's a good person!" Vector tilted his head, his crimson eyes gleaming with cold amusement. "So incredibly naive..." In the depths of Yuma's consciousness, Astral's voice echoed, heavy with a crushing weight of guilt. "This is my failing... I should have seen through the facade. *Good Barians* simply do not exist." "There has to be!" Yuma screamed, his voice cracking as he clenched his fists, tears blurring his vision. "I know there are good Bar…