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| image name = Dark Yugi VS Kaiba - Battle City.png
| width = 275
| game type = ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]''
| rule set = [[Super Expert Rules|Super Expert]]
| projectors = [[Duel Disk]]
* [[Seto Kaiba (manga)|Seto Kaiba]]
| winner = [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]]
| event = [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]]
| location = [[Duel Tower]]
| appears manga = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
}}
[[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]] and [[Seto Kaiba (manga)|Seto Kaiba]] faced each other in a game of ''[[Duel Monsters (manga)|Duel Monsters]]'' in the second [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]] semifinal, in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga]].
==Events==
===Prior===
After [[Death-T]], [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi]] had hoped to face Kaiba in a fair Duel.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|60|ref}}</ref> At the conclusion of the [[Duelist Kingdom (manga)|Duelist Kingdom]] tournament, Kaiba shared a similar sentiment, declaring his battle with Dark Yugi to be unfinished until he defeated Dark Yugi in a fair Duel.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|133|ref}}</ref> With Dark Yugi as the only Duelist that Kaiba recognized as a rival,<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|148|ref}}</ref> Dueling him became one of Kaiba's goals in the Battle City tournament.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|159|ref}}</ref> Having seen the [[Tablet of Lost Memories|Tablet of Memory]] depicting himself [[Atem and Seto's Diaha (manga)|battling]] [[Priest Seto (manga)|Priest Seto]], Dark Yugi wondered if the tablet had predicted his present-day conflict with Kaiba<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|150|ref}}</ref> and believed they were fated to battle.<ref name="d d 180">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|239|ref}}</ref> Yugi entered Battle City, hoping it would give him the chance for the fair Duel with Kaiba.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|151|ref}}</ref>
After translating the effects of [[Dark Marik (manga)|Dark Marik]]'s [[Egyptian God|God]] card, "[[The Sun Dragon Ra]]", Kaiba calculated the odds of his Deck defeating it as being 13%.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|236|ref}}</ref> Among the factors to improve his chances, he figured he would need to win "[[Slifer the Sky Dragon (manga)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]" from Dark Yugi<ref name="d d 180" /> and see "Ra" used in battle again. For these reasons, he decided he would need to face Dark Yugi in one semifinal and have Katsuya Jonouchi face Dark Marik in the other.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|243|ref}}</ref> His actions in the [[Battle City battle royal (manga)|pairing-organizing battle royal]], contributed to achieving these match-ups.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|242|ref}}</ref>
Kaiba regarded his semifinal with Yugi to be a Duel to determine the ultimate Duelist. As such he prepared a befitting setting, the "Sky Duel Coliseum", a [[Solid Vision]] virtual reality stage.<ref name="d d 193">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|252|ref}}</ref>
Following Jonouchi and Dark Marik's [[Katsuya Jonouchi and Dark Marik's Duel (manga)|Duel]], Jonouchi was left unconscious and not breathing. He was considered dead by Dark Marik. With one hour until the next semifinal, Kaiba instructed Dark Yugi to overcome his friend's death and return in time for their Duel. Dark Yugi began to lose the will to continue fighting, until the [[Millennium NecklaceTauk (manga)|Millennium Tauk]] showed him a vision of him and Jonouchi Dueling in the future.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|250|ref}}</ref>
Dark Yugi returned to the top of the Duel Tower to face Kaiba. Kaiba had been worried that Dark Yugi's anguish would make the Duel a walkover, but was soon relieved to see that he still had his fighting spirit.<ref>{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|251|ref}}</ref>
[[File:Light of Memory - ball.png|thumb|right|250px|The Light of Memory, forming a sphere]]
As "Obelisk" and "Slifer" destroyed each other, a brilliant white light was emitted, forming a sphere, which engulfed Dark Yugi and Kaiba. The spectators in the Battle Ship saw the light and wondered if the Duel Tower was after exploding. The [[Millennium Rod (manga)|Millennium Rod]] began to glow; a phenomenon Dark Marik equated to its behavior during [[Seto Kaiba and Ishizu Ishtar's Duel (manga)|Kaiba and Ishizu's Duel]], leaving him conclude that another of Kaiba's memories was about to manifest. The Millennium Puzzle reacted similarly and Dark Yugi and Kaiba consciously found themselves floating min-air at the ruins of the [[pharaoh's palace]], in ancient Egypt, where they witnessed some of [[Atem and Seto's Diaha (manga)|the ''Diaha'']] between [[Priest Seto (manga)|Priest Seto]] and [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Pharaoh Atem]].<ref name="d d 198">{{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|257|ref}}</ref>
[[File:D-198 Pharaoh VS Priest.png|thumb|left|250px|Dark Yugi and Kaiba witness [[Atem (manga)|Atem]] and [[Priest Seto (manga)|Seto]]'s ''[[Atem and Seto's Diaha|Diaha]]''.]]
Seto and Atem, stood at opposite sides of an arena. Seto declared that the [[Akhenaden (manga)|High Priest of Darkness]] had conquered Heaven and Earth with his evil power and that Atem's divine right and [[Millennium Items (manga)|Millennium Items]] were worthless against the power of darkness. He professed himself an enemy to Atem, with one wish to defeat him with his own hands. The two began to battle. Using their Millennium Items, Seto and Atem erected [[stone slabs]] and Summoned [[The White Dragon (manga)|The White Dragon]] and [[Mahado (manga)|Dark Magician]], respectively. Dark Yugi and Kaiba recognized the scene as the one depicted on the [[Tablet of Lost Memories|Tablet of Memory]].<ref name="d d 198" />
Kaiba and Dark Yugi returned to reality, where their God cards had both been destroyed. Dark Yugi and Kaiba were both certain that had seen themselves fighting each other in that vision. Dark Yugi was confident the scene was from his memories. They accepted that the Duel was fate and that they would not need the God cards to finish it.<ref name="d d 198" /> Trying to think of a logical explanation for what happened, Kaiba thought it must have been a realistic illusion. However the presence of the king, facing the priest and the immense fighting spirit from the two convinced him otherwise. Regardless of what he had seen, he affirmed that his goal was to defeat Dark Yugi and become the King of Duelists.<ref name="d d 199" />
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