After bringing Yusei's life points down to 50, Roman begins to tell him of what happened 17 years ago between him, Rex and Yusei's father. They were working on the Original Energy Reactor, but Professor Fudo wanted to stop the project when it started to look unstable. Roman had decided to travel to the Nazca lines, where he encountered a mysterious person, claiming to be from Yliaster, who knows about Roman's birthmark. The mysterious man convinces Roman to look into the light coming from the reactor, where he is struck by dark energy and is shown the history of the Earthbound Immortals and the mighty powerful Crimson Dragon. Meanwhile, Crow finds Rex, who explains that Professor Fudo was betrayed by Roman. He shows off four Dragon cards, but Professor Fudo manages to escape with three of them, but got severely injured in the process and entrusts the cards to Rex.