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Episode 76: Friends ’Til the End - Part II (Report! Friendship’s Red Eyes Black Dragon) Joey laughs at the sight of Yugi reeling from the effects of Joey’s Hinotama magic card. (A shot of Yugi standing in the smoke is cut rom the US version.) As soon as he wipes out the rest of Yugi’s life points, Joey says, the anchor will drop and take Yugi with it. Yugi tells Marik he’ll never get away with his plan. He knows the real Joey is in there, and he’ll set him free no matter what it takes! (Japanese Jounouchi says his deck has been powered up with rare magic cards so that he doesn’t need monsters. Yugi asks, doesn’t his duelist’s heart feel a little pain? Jounouchi shrugs derisively, saying, “A duelist’s heart? What’s that?“ Yugi tells him that the pain in his body isn’t from Jounouchi’s card, and Jounouchi’s evil smile fades.) From his ship, Marik says Joey belongs to him now! He tells his mind-puppet, Joey, to strip his former best friend of all he has, so that Marik can rule the world as Pharaoh. Joey tells Yugi that his friend is gone, and neither of his monsters is powerful enough to destroy Joey’s Alligator Sword. (Japanese Jounouchi says he’ll kill Yugi.) Téa calls out to Joey to snap out of it, reminding him that they’re his friends. (Japanese Anzu tells Jounouchi to wake up.) Little Yugi comes out to tell Yami that Téa’s right—and he has an idea. He thinks Yami should let him duel. Yami asks why, and Yugi explains that he and Joey have always shared a really strong bond, and he thinks that bond might be able to break through to him now. They’ve been through so much together, he says, remembering Joey’s smile. He reminds Yami of the time that Joey and Tristan risked their lives to save them from the fire, and says now it’s his turn.
