[ takes a second, then begins, voice even, perhaps overly so ]

After our parents died, their family frittered away our inheritance while we got sent to an orphanage. When a rich businessman visited the orphanage as a photo op, I convinced him to make us his heirs. That was Gozaburo Kaiba. Gozaburo was strict. He didn't like us to waste much time together. He...didn't like a lot of things, including games, said they were a waste of time and money.

One day my brother sneaked an envelope with some Duel Monsters cards into my textbooks--basically trash, with a mock Blue-Eyes White Dragon card he'd drawn himself to cheer me up. We both got in big trouble when Gozaburo found out. But from then on, I knew that if I could hold out and finally get the real thing, I'd be able to do anything. And eventually, I tracked them all down.