

When a guy that obsessively collects watches sees that there aren't anymore watches, he steals the watch from Honda who in turn gets slapped by an angry Miho. Honda buys a watch for Miho, and he gets lucky because he gets the last one. The game ends in a tie, and Yugi gets his Grandpa's card back. After he steals the Blue-Eyes White Dragon from Yugi's grandfather, Yugi's other self challenges Kaiba to a duel where the monsters from the cards are real. Seto Kaiba, a new student in Yugi's class is a Duel Monsters expert and the head of a company known as the Kaiba Corporation. As a result, Anzu develops a crush on the man who saved her, unaware that it was Yugi's alter-ego.

In revenge, Yugi subjects him to a Penalty Game, causing the criminal to believe he is on fire. But the prisoner does not fall for it and attempts to kill Yami Yugi. The game this time is that the two contestants are allowed to choose one finger to use, as soon as the game begins they can do whatever they wish with it, the criminal chooses his pointer to fire a gun, but is outsmarted when Yugi uses his to light a lighter to light his cigarette, but then puts it on his hand, so he may not fire, or allow the lighter to fall on the alcohol he is about to consume. When Yugi reacts angrily to the criminal slapping Anzu, his other self in the Millennium Puzzle emerges and wastes no time in challenging the criminal to a Shadow Game in order to get her back. When his true identity is exposed, he holds the restaurant and the people inside, Yugi, Honda, Jonouchi, and Miho hostage, while also taking Anzu as a prisoner. "Akuma Gēmā - Jigoku no Wana" (悪魔ゲーマー 地獄の罠)Ī criminal escapes from jail, disguises himself and gets a job at the restaurant Burger World. After all of that, Yugi, Honda, and Jonouchi become life-long friends with Yugi's childhood friend, Anzu Mazaki, and Honda's crush, Miho Nosaka, joins the group. Ushio loses after a failed attempt to cheat, and Yugi enforces a Penalty Game upon him, which results in Ushio hallucinating that there were monsters coming out of a body of water that were about to eat him. In the process, he unknowingly changes his own life forever by releasing an alter-ego, who is the "King of Games", and challenges Ushio to a Shadow Game.

One day, Yugi solves the Millennium Puzzle after working on it for eight years, heralding the return of the Shadow Games. Ushio later beats up Yugi, but Jonouchi and Honda try to intervene, only to be beaten up as well. The hall monitor, Tetsu Ushio, forcibly becomes Yugi's bodyguard, beating up Jonouchi and Hiroto Honda, and then says that Yugi owes him money. "Gekiretsu Batoru - Yami no Gēmu" (激烈バトル 闇のゲーム)Ī shy and meek young boy named Yugi Mutou is a student, who is bullied by his classmate Katsuya Jonouchi.
