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kaiba assumed he understood how gozaburo thought. he really guessed that gozaburo was training them to compete and decided he liked kaiba more.
but really...
he just wanted to make a perfect body for noa to revive in some day.
now here's a big surprise! the english version SPOILS THIS BIT SUPER FUCKING HARD by having gozaburo show up in the freaking opening titles from the very beginning of the arc!!! but out of nowhere it turns out
GOZABURO WAS IN HERE THE WHOLE TIME
yay noa's defeated and everyone's not stone anymore! what could go wrong!
this line is the absolute funniest shit. i know what it's MEANT to say. but given the context it absolutely feels like
Kaiba: I want everyone to remember that there's something more important to believe in than the whims of Gods. That's right. Fucking dragons. That's who
and in the end... ishizu... is actually... happy
because this proves that her prophecy really isn't set in stone. she doesn't know everything that's going to happen. the necklace foretold a long and hard path that would probably end in darkness. but... that didn't happen!
the big reveal of course was that ishizu's signature trap is the busted and errata'd original card exchange of the spirit, where everything kaiba did only gave her more power. she just fucking destroys him. kaiba is left with a 6 card deck