One of the things they both did on a regular basis was to keep an eye out for Foreigner-origin items in the shops and stalls around the city. Primarily this was for Duel Monsters cards, but they'd both gotten into the habit of purchasing anything that seemed out of place in the world of Konryu. One of the most common things to arrive were books, easily identifiable and relatively useless to the kedan since writing didn't translate the same way as speech did by Tu Vishan's magic.

The latest of which was a classic detective story, and Bakura and Pepper had taken to reading a few chapters each evening, punctuated by frequent lighthearted disagreements on method and tactic, and sometimes just the sheer camp of the story.

Marking the page where they left off, Bakura paused as Pepper commented on the event two years prior. "You weren't happy with learning some of the thing I'd done to get where I was," he said. "What else was there to talk about?"