Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 198

Chapter 198: Chapter 198: Academy Invasion

As soon as that topic was brought up, both Alexis and Misawa looked at him with eager faces.

After all, this was Seto Kaiba—the man at the very top of this world. Any anecdote about such a legend would fascinate everyone, especially when it involved a classmate.

"So you want me to tell the truth?" Kira put on a serious face.

The two sensed juicy gossip and nodded repeatedly.

"Alright, here I go."

Kira took a deep breath and, at his leisure, said:

"Actually..."

The two held their breath.

"...I’m not close with Seto Kaiba."

"..."

Kira sighed. Sure enough, judging by their faces, nobody ever believes the truth.

He hadn’t even exchanged more than a few words with Kaiba, didn’t have his contact info. At most, he was only vaguely acquainted with Kaiba’s brother, Mokuba.

The two were skeptical.

"Really?"

"Really," Kira said.

"Then is it true he gave you a huge scholarship?"

"...It’s true."

"And the sponsorship for our lab?"

"...Also true."

"Some say you got a bunch of rare cards through KaibaCorp’s internal channels—"

"...That’s also true."

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"But I heard Seto Kaiba is pretty difficult to get along with," Misawa said. "Even with Duel King Yugi and others, their relationship wasn’t great. Everyone at KaibaCorp is said to be terrified of him..."

Indeed, many people were curious about that. Kaiba was famous for his dueling skills and his infamous temper. To get so many favors from him, you’d have to be close, right?

But Kira shook his head: "Just rumors."

"So he’s not really like that?"

"Not exactly," Kira pondered. "If I had to say... that’s his mask."

"Mask?"

Misawa and Alexis exchanged confused looks.

"Seto Kaiba isn’t quite what you think." Kira smiled. "You know, KaibaCorp was originally an arms manufacturer, right?"

That was common knowledge; both nodded.

Seto Kaiba and his brother were adopted, and taken in by the previous arms tycoon, Gozaburo Kaiba.

Gozaburo had his plans: he wanted to use Kaiba’s body as a vessel for his real son, Noah, who’d died in a car accident. He wanted to download Noah’s digital consciousness into Seto’s body to revive him.

But unexpectedly, Kaiba took control of the company as a teenager, forced the old man out, and became the new president. Gozaburo’s plans failed, and he died bitterly.

Kira said, "Seto Kaiba took over a massive corporation at sixteen, and had to earn everything on his own.

He forced a bunch of old arms dealers to obey him and made a weapons company switch to making card games. If he didn’t act as tough and ruthless as the rumors say, it would’ve been impossible."