"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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Judai and Yuya both fall into darkness because they felt they had no other option.
Judai had just lost 4 friends, watched them scream as they were sacrificed to revive Super Polymerization. He was backed into a corner and all he felt was hatred, to Brron of course but also to himself for being unable to prevent it.
He’s lost in his rage, it consumes him. Judai even says himself that he won’t be satisfied no matter how many times he kills Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark world. Which let me remind you, even scares Brron.
And it only grows when he’s told Johan is dead. That in the end he failed everyone..and Sho can’t bare the sight of him anymore.
As for Yuya, everything he knows about himself is shattered. He’s trying to defeat what is essentially himself, and he can’t do it through his usual methods. And yet he’s still trying…still trying to hang onto his Father and his old self.
But once Smile World is sent to the graveyard… Once Reiji tells him all he should think about is winning… Well Yuya falls the same way Zarc does. Winning… It consumes him and awakens what was lieing their all along.
I mean being told to focus on winning, falling to your audience’s wishes and becoming twisted by them.. Is what happened to Zarc, history simply repeats itself.
Yuya beats Yuri just like everyone wanted. He only focused on winning, nothing else mattered even at the end he doesn’t seem to even care Yuri’s holding his carded father…
It’s not Yuya anymore, it’s Zarc.
Both of them lose themselves to power, what started as a noble goal becomes twisted much like themselves. They couldn’t go on the same way, backed into a corner where smiles and fun couldn’t save them anymore.
