So, did Sawutari use to work for Kaiba then? Is that why Kaiba said he betrayed him? I don’t remember them having any interactions at all so far, but maybe they did in the manga?
The way he takes the gun is priceless. It’s like he’s taking a screwdriver from a toddler.
It’s funny how in the manga (just read through Duelist Volume 3), this scene happens on the copter Kaiba’s flying into Pegasus’s island. Kaiba’s with one of his guards (not Saruwatari) and he also hopes that Mokuba’s ok, but then Kaiba, thinking to himself, realizes the plane’s been flying in circles. That’s when said guard pulls the gun out, and this all happens with him, except it gives Kaiba more badass points because he snatches the gun from him because he ruined his card, then proceeds to point it at him and the pilot, says, “Don’t worry, I can fly a helicopter. Even if I splatter your brains all over the cockpit, I can just wipe them off and keep going!”, and commands them to jump into the fucking ocean.
Also, Saruwatari used to “work” for Kaiba during Death-T before DK (he was Mokuba’s bodyguard); he tells Mokuba during the Yugi/Ventriloquist (Yugi/Ghost!Kaiba) duel that even back then, he was already working for Pegasus. Leave it to NAS to leave out something like that, so Kaiba saying “you’ve betrayed me” or Saru saying “…that we must meet again” sounds a bit weird haha.
Holy shit, it just clicked for me. So you know how at the beginning of Season 1, we see Seto sitting in class reading “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Nietzsche? I always thought it was just to establish that he was intelligent and well-read, but there’s another reason.
“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.” (Chapter 10, On War and Warriors)
I defy you to sum up Seto Kaiba’s entire character in a better sentence.