
Pharaoh Atem and the Millennium Puzzle then fade away, and Kaiba and everyone else return to reality. Yugi succeeds in doing so, and he and Atem defeat Diva with ease. Kaiba sacrifices himself during the Duel and makes a final plea for Yugi to call forth Atem.

Diva becomes corrupted by the incredible evil powers of the Millennium Ring, and duels both Yugi and Kaiba. Yugi defeats Diva, resulting in Bakura's return to reality, and while dueling Kaiba, Yugi re-completes the Millennium Puzzle to demonstrate that the spirit of Atem is no longer inside it. However, Yugi is furious with Diva over what he has done to Bakura and insists he will duel him instead, which Kaiba agrees to. He intends to duel both Diva and Yugi, while gambling their pieces of the puzzle. He abducts Diva and approaches Yugi, so he can have the two take part in the showcasing of his updated Duel Disk virtual reality technology. Kaiba has a computer that rebuilds the Millennium Puzzle and discovers the last two pieces are missing. As Diva almost disintegrates the three of them into another dimension, Joey unknowingly returns to the real world, with help of Pharaoh Atem. When Yugi, Téa Gardner, and Tristan Taylor find "Aigami", Aigami reveals himself to be Diva, and his plan to eliminate Bakura as well as Yugi. The two are interrupted by Mani, who has become warped by the evil energies of the Millennium Ring. Bakura apologizes and explains that the evil spirit of the Millennium Ring had been responsible. Using his Quantum Cube, he transports Bakura and Joey Wheeler to another dimension. He takes interest in Yugi's friend Ryo Bakura, whom he believes is responsible for the death of his father-like mentor, Shadi. He keeps one fragment and gives the other to his younger sister Sera, who passes it on to Yugi Muto, as he is the only one who can reassemble the Puzzle, being the modern-day alternate version of Pharaoh Atem.ĭiva, under the alias "Aigami," forges a "friendship" with Yugi and the rest of his friends. The excavation is interrupted by Diva, who faces Kaiba in a game of Duel Monsters and steals two pieces of the recovered Puzzle.

The item had previously housed the spirit of his longtime rival, Pharaoh Atem, whom he hopes to "return to life" in order to settle their ancient score. Meanwhile, Seto Kaiba has commissioned an excavation to retrieve the disassembled Millennium Puzzle from the ruins of the Millennium chamber. Six months after the departure of the Pharaoh (one year in the dub), Yugi Muto and his closest friends are in their fourth and last year of Domino High School and are talking about what they will do in the future. Suddenly, a mysterious cloaked man is seen at the underground shrine as one of Kaiba's bodyguards tells him that he is behind schedule and to speed up his progress. In the opening, KaibaCorp is doing research on the Millennium Puzzle.
