With her cards fanned out, Tsukiko continued to reflect on her past and how much the card Void Dragon was a huge part of it. At that time it wasn't in her hands and was her brother's card, but she could feel its influence flowing out of her brother. She could feel what felt like a mist creep out of the card when her brother held surrounding him what looked like a dark purple aura. She questioned toward herself as she placed her index finger which she extended into a a straight as an arrow line against her moist lips. The thought was such a sour taste which was hard to savor. Not only that, it was hard for her to swallow that her past was the way it was no matter how much she hated or wanted it to be changed. During the duel with Vincent, she could feel a force that suffocated just like the one she felt in the morning after she woke up from her bad night with Angelo. She wondered if that force was responsible for how she was acting today. After the card was banished she was finally baptized by fire where it didn't feel like a noose was around her neck anymore.
She ran her hand and fingers gently across the surface of each one of her cards. Sure it wouldn't really do anything to them or cause anything different about them, but that's how much she valued the deck that was presented to her. She remembered she came there to do one thing and she let some force detour her away from the goal she was going to accomplish. Her greatest burden was that her past haunted her like a ghost or a nasty nightmare that wouldn't go away. Perhaps Vincent was meant to become her dream-catcher and drive those terrible dreams away from her. Turning her index finger into a ninety degree angle it was now positioned in a horizontal position which was positioned between the position of both her lips right in the center gently caressing her lips. She slightly slid the smooth surface of her skin across her lip as she then turned her finger back into a vertical position positioned upward. It was obvious by her gestures that she was thinking deeply about what happened when she dueled Vincent and how much that boy she met earlier had affected her personality.
As much as she didn't want to stand up and thank Vincent for what he did earlier, it wasn't in her nature not to do so. She wasn't quite sure how to see Vincent. He seemed gentle but also had that ferocious attitude that her brother displayed. Of course, unlike her Shinrei would know the weakness inside Vincent's deck being that he is from the professional caliber. That's probably why her brother had no respect for Vincent either, because he won't recognize how pathetic he really is. She saw how strong he was, but she knew her brother would still refuse to acknowledge him, because when it came to tournaments, people would exploit your weaknesses and crush you. "He's weak, Tsukiko. That deck of his could easily be exploited. Do not trust someone who is so conceited that they refuse to acknowledge that they are only fooling themselves." A voice inside her head said which sounded like her except it didn't sound very friendly. In fact the voice sounded very wicked and somewhat distorted making it hard to understand what it was saying but she managed. When she interpreted its words she was under the impression that it didn't want her to trust Vincent at all. From what she saw he wasn't that bad of a person and the only way she could know his true intentions was if she allowed him to get closer to her. She wondered if her mind created a duplicate version of how she acted during Vincent's duel. She was ruthless not allowing Vincent to intimidate her. The only reason she collapsed was most likely due to the reason that she was under the influence of possession.
Tsukiko touched the card where she was immediately transported to a hospital room which had a silver haired woman lying in bed. She saw her brother sitting in a chair right beside this woman who was currently still asleep. She wasn't quite sure what was going on since she was struck by surprise to see a woman who looked exactly like her mother. She then saw what looked like herself, but what she wore was well not something she would wear in public that's for sure and too embarrassing for her to explain. "The world killed your mother. They killed your mother. Your brother didn't care. This world is weak. That's the problem." The girl with silver hair said toward Tsukiko as she showed her that monitor showed her mother's pulse was a straight line meaning she was gone. Tsukiko wanted to know why this person was showing her this? "Are you a personification of myself from Void Dragon?" Tsukiko asked only to have the girl laugh hysterically. "You still don't understand, do you? Hah, how such a lonely pathetic girl as yourself still exists I don't know. You're pathetic so why don't you just cease to exist!" The girl said with fire burning in her eyes as her anger exploded like a raging volcano spilling its ashes onto her affecting the way she perceived the situation which made a little scared. "You and I are one and the same. You created me to vent all your anger and hatred toward. Why should I have to live with your dramatic midlife crisis bullshit while you get to stand atop the mountain? Your sweet girl attitude makes me sick to my stomach. I want to puke all over your grace."
"It's simple, I should be Queen. I was until that damn chaos moron threw a monkey wrench into my plan. Eventually I will crush that fool into the foundation of his own existence. Though you're wrong, I've been around since your father abusing you using you as a test subject. You were most interesting as a crash dummy for his duel experiments." The girl said ferociously breathing her flames onto Tsukiko as she was hinting toward Vincent freeing her from the force of her card earlier or was that what she was hinting at? That wasn't the case when she brought up Tsukiko's father not treating his daughter like a normal father would. "Fine, I'll allow you to use my influence, but if you prove that you're not worthy of the throne. I will dethrone you in the blink of an eye. But always remember, I will remain no matter how much you urge for my nonexistence. You created me after all."
Tsukiko immediately jumped out of her chair when she came to again. She felt like she had just had a really bad nightmare which made her feel a little under the weather. She felt a slight sharp pain in her head where she pressed her fingers against her forehead. It had felt like someone has just poked her with a nail. The pain subsided though she still wasn't feeling the greatest and looked slightly pale white as she approached Vincent after standing up from her chair fanning her cards together and returning them back into her duel disk. Tsukiko approached Vincent as he was helping Hayate with her deck saying, "I still don't know why I feel this way when I'm around you. I don't know whether to say it's scary or relieving. I don't exactly know what happened to me back there or why I acted the way I did today. Everything is just one big blur to me. I still don't know who I am. I still don't know what I stand for. But I want you to thank you for removing the veil of darkness that was clouding my perception. I don't know whether that was me or not. I still have a lot of questions about myself that I would like answered. I want you to help me search for the light inside myself that I have lost sight of. If it's not too much trouble. Give me your response whenever you feel. It's not like I'll be going anywhere anytime soon." Tsukiko concluded her words toward Vincent as she would now make her way toward the elevator unless Vincent wanted to say something to her. Piecing together the mysteries of what happened today and how it affected her character would take time. It wasn't something that was going to be solved overnight, that's for sure.