Juudai and Manjoume return to Duel Academy for their final year to find the Morality Committee back in full military swing, the Fourth Dorm rebuilt, and Fubuki as the new Chemistry teacher. Saiou's dead, but Juudai isn't certain this is the end of the Light and seeks comfort in the dark items won from the Seven Stars. Ensemble cast, growing body count, slow-burn Viewshipping.

To the Winter Soldier, there are three kinds of people in the world: superiors, mission support, and targets. He lacks the context to understand things like friendship. So what he sees in the Smithsonian exhibit and what little he remembers or feels about his past, he interprets in that light. He thinks that Steve must have been his handler during WWII. Cue misunderstandings.