Mai focuses on the word 'fear', eyes wide, as Jonouchi and Anzu call out encouragement to her with determined looks. Yami explains that the game of darkness is one of mental struggle, where the player's worst fears are shown them in an attempt to make them lose psychologically. She looks over at him in surprise, then back down at her hand, wondering if the blood and pain really aren't real at all. The one voice that breaks through Mai's stupor is Yami's, who shouts at her not to let Marik's illusions distract her. Why? My guess is because he's a grade-A piece of shit. He's planning to make it all the worse, thinking that this is just the beginning of his intent to utterly destroy this woman. Marik giggles about how Mai's cheerleaders can't see what's going on with her, the visions the attack on her monster caused. She's not listening anyway, completely engrossed in staring at what appears to her to be her bloodstained palm. Easy for the guy who won by default on a reserve of only 50 points in the last match to say. Then he yells at her not to give up and go crazy just because she lost a couple hundred points. Honda asks why Mai is acting so weird, and Jonouchi clearly read the script, because he blurts that it's ALMOST AS IF she got attacked just like her monster. Mai falls to her knees as she holds a hand to her chest, which appears uninjured in this panel, as her life points dial down to 3600. Yup, he's definitely committed to both of them remaining right where they are until one of them keels over.

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