"She's amazing. There's a certain fondness in Zahra's eyes as they talk about Shizuka, a unique tenderness with implications that are likely to make a whistling sound as they fly high above Joey's head. "She started out with nothing and still managed to beat Atem during Duelist Kingdom... she even managed to destroy Ra three times all by herself and- right."

Zahra shakes themself out of their reverie. "Shizuka uses a power deck on steroids, basically. It's primarily Fusion and Ritual based; most of the monsters in her deck proper aren't incredibly powerful, but her Fusion summons are like nothing you've ever seen before. Same for her Ritual monsters too, she draws everything she needs for them with kind of disturbing regularity." Zahra snorts. "Kaiba hit her with Card Crush once and she still managed to pull out a win.

"...I'm glad you're still proud of her in your world, though. You're a good brother." Joey has one good point in his favor. One.