[For your sake. That doesn't give him his answer. And Marik brings up fate -- is that true? Is fate an impartial force at work, guiding circumstance and action, so that no one individual's choices can be faulted for what happened? Fate might be what brought the Millennium Puzzle to Yugi, but...
...but for something like this...
No. Somebody must have decided that this should happen. Someone must have given the order to shut a family away in the dark for three thousand years, to scar the oldest male child, to hide them from everything and everyone...!]
...why?
[Why was that done?]
Why are my memories so important? What about them makes them matter more than--! Than your family's happiness? Why was such a terrible thing done, just to ensure that I would remember...?
[Who...? Who deserves to be punished for this? is one question in Atem's head, but the other...the other is, what is locked in my memories? To go to such extreme measures...is there some secret he knows, that he absolutely must get back? Or...was this simply done because he was a king, and because a family of tombkeepers was considered an acceptable price for the memories of a ruler? The idea makes him feel sick, it's precisely that sort of abuse of the weak by the powerful that used to bring the other Yugi out, to show the people who think they're untouchable that they're anything but. He, his family, they've all been complicit in terrible injustice, one crime after another. Even if there is a vitally important secret in Atem's memories, that's no excuse for this, for choosing a method of preserving the secret that's this needlessly cruel.
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...but for something like this...
No. Somebody must have decided that this should happen. Someone must have given the order to shut a family away in the dark for three thousand years, to scar the oldest male child, to hide them from everything and everyone...!]
...why?
[Why was that done?]
Why are my memories so important? What about them makes them matter more than--! Than your family's happiness? Why was such a terrible thing done, just to ensure that I would remember...?
[Who...? Who deserves to be punished for this? is one question in Atem's head, but the other...the other is, what is locked in my memories? To go to such extreme measures...is there some secret he knows, that he absolutely must get back? Or...was this simply done because he was a king, and because a family of tombkeepers was considered an acceptable price for the memories of a ruler? The idea makes him feel sick, it's precisely that sort of abuse of the weak by the powerful that used to bring the other Yugi out, to show the people who think they're untouchable that they're anything but. He, his family, they've all been complicit in terrible injustice, one crime after another. Even if there is a vitally important secret in Atem's memories, that's no excuse for this, for choosing a method of preserving the secret that's this needlessly cruel.
It's wrong, it's wrong it's wrong ḭ̶͑t̶̠͊'̴͖̇s̵̭̀ ̶͆ͅ w̷̼̿̊̽̊r̴̡̞̯͊̈͠o̴̞͌̅́͑͐ǹ̸̗͉͙͖͗͜͝ğ̴̦̔ ]