Yu - Gi - Oh ! - Duel 003 " Hard Beat ! " is the third chapter of the " Yu - Gi - Oh ! " manga . Summary . Bus . After getting on the bus to school , Yugi sees Hanasaki , a boy in his class . Yugi greets him , but Hanasaki seems to ignore Yugi . After the bus makes an emergency stop , Yugi stumbles and falls to the back of the bus . He realizes the back of the bus is empty due to the loud music being played by Sozoji , who is sitting at the back . Yugi tries to slip away unnoticed , but Sozoji calls him back . He asks Yugi to sit next to him and gives Yugi ten tickets to his concert , Sozoji ' s All Night Solo Live Show , prompting him to sell them at ¥2 , 000 ( about $ 17 US ) each . Sozoji wants the tickets sold in three days . He grins and cracks his knuckles as he exclaims " You know what will happen to you if you don ' t sell the tickets ! Right Yugiii ? " . School . At school Jonouchi notices Yugi looks a bit depressed . Concerned , Jonouchi asks if he ' s okay . Yugi insists that he ' s fine . Jonouchi says that after looking into it , there doesn ' t seem to be a star at their school . Yugi nearly topples over , " What ? ! You hadn ' t given up on that ? " he remarks in shock . " But that ' s the thing ! " , Jonouchi grins , " I ' ll become the first star from this school ! " Yugi begins to looks depressed again , Jonouchi reminds him that he ' s here for him and insists that Yugi tell him if something ' s bothering him . Yugi lights up and says that it ' s nothing . Jonouchi leaves Yugi , while he and Honda form a " panty tank " . Yugi thinks to himself , he can ' t tell Jonouchi , or he ' ll start a fight with Sozoji . Meanwhile Jonouchi lifts Anzu ' s skirt using a t - square , earning himself a punch in the jaw . Yugi thinks he can ' t subject Anzu to Sozoji ' s terrible voice either . Before leaving school , Yugi spots Hanasaki . He considers offering Hanasaki a ticket , but his morality takes over and he shoves the ticket back into his pocket . Instead he just waves an says goodbye to Hanasaki before leaving . Hanasaki calls Yugi back , he says that he ' s sorry to bug Yugi but asks Yugi if he ' ll buy a ticket to Sozoji ' s concert off him . Hanasaki explains that he ' s been given five tickets to sell , but he can ' t even sell one . It ' d real helpful if Yugi could buy one . Yugi is shocked . He says he has no money but offers to take Hanasaki ' s tickets and sell them . It didn ' t make much difference to Yugi if had ten or fifteen tickets , but at least this way only one of them would have to suffer . After Yugi leaves Sozoji appears and tells Hanasaki that he saw that . Concert . At the day of the concert only Yugi shows up . He tells Sozoji that everyone was too busy to buy a ticket , but he ' ll listen to his songs . Sozoji puts a set of earphones on Yugi and screams into the microphone . Before the next song Sozoji says that he ' ll introduce a special guest . He pulls a curtain to reveal Hanasaki who lay there beaten - up . Sozoji tells Yugi it ' s his fault for stealing his tickets . Yugi apologizes to Hanasaki , but Hanasaki insists that he ' s the one that should be apologizing . Yugi ' s Millennium Puzzle begins to light up and he switches to Dark Yugi . Dark Yugi gets angry and says " how could you do this to my friend Hanasaki . . . I won ' t forgive you . . " He glares at Sozoji and asks him if he ' s a coward . If not he ' s not to try escape the game Yugi is about to start . Sozoji is slightly stunned and wonders if this is the real Yugi . Dark Yugi explains the rules to the silence game : Sozoji notices that when Dark Yugi pulled the headphones out upon his transformation , the jack landed on the rim of a glass . If the jack were to fall , it would make a noise and cause Dark Yugi to lose . Sozoji gets so excited waiting for the jack to fall , that his heart starts pounding . The clown dances , but the jack hasn ' t fallen . Dark Yugi shows Sozoji that he has been holding the microphone next to his heart , the sound of his heartbeat , amplified by the speakers , caused the sound . Yugi inflicts the Penalty Game , " Beat Festival " on Sozoji . Sozoji is forced to hear his heartbeat get louder and louder . He begs to make the noise stop , while Dark Yugi leaves with Hanasaki . Appearances . Debuts are in bold .