A/N: I wrote this in like twenty minutes after watching episode 128. And I know this little story addresses episode 127 instead but like, wow. The show's finally gotten good again. Am I allowed to say that I actually can sort of empathize with Leo Akaba? Because while I totally still want him to lose, I just, I could also totally still support him.

Enjoy this odd little drabble I guess?

The world had been destroyed by Zarc, and saved by Ray. Sakaki Yuya was a part of Zarc—more than just one part, the Xyz fragment was within him as well. In order to protect the world—and he would this time, he had to right his mistake so many others had died because of—Yuya had to be defeated in this Duel. And as long as that happened, then there was no way that Zarc could revive in the world he was trying to remake—the world where his daughter would exist once again.

So then why?! Why did his son insist on siding with the devil? Reiji had always taken after himself, a genius—a prodigy—he should be able to see that Yuya could not be trusted, that the only choice was to defeat Yuya here and now, and end the horrid legacy of Zarc. Yet, here his son stood, on the opposite side of the battlefield—next to the devil, declaring that Yuya was his friend.

Friend.

As if that would hold any power over Zarc. No, the Demon Duelist did not care about any that stood in his way. Reiji was a fool if he thought that such a meaningless construct would prevent that monster from attacking him once his power was revived. Not even Ray had been able to save him, before he fell completely into the pitch-black darkness. Her only choice had been to take those four cards and split herself into four alongside Zarc and the entire world.

And if Ray could not get through to him, no one could.

Akaba Leo had no other choice.

"To return to the United World…"

Images of his home, from before it had been turned to ruin, flashed through his mind—for once, not haunting reminders of the past that morphed into nightmares just as he remembered them.

"To resurrect Ray…"

He loved both of his children, there was no doubt about that. But Ray had been taken from him so unfairly all those years ago—and he could finally bring her back. These four girls that shared his daughter's face—they just needed to return to one. His son stood in the way of that by siding with Yuya. Reiji needed to see the error of his ways—and he would do just that.

"I will bury Sakaki Yuya! I will cut down Reiji!"

A/N: That's it. Tell me what you thought, okay?