Yugi and his friends watch the Japanese Duel Monsters tournament finals on TV, before Yugi opens a package from Industrial Illusions, containing a recording of Maximillion J.
Starting with this chapter, the plot shifts to a Duel Monsters centered universe. It has been released in English in volume 1 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist tankōbon. It has been reprinted in Japanese in volume 7 of the tankōbon and volume 5 of the bunkoban. This chapter was originally printed in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japanese. ' Challenge!!', known as ' Challenge!!!' in the Japanese version, is the first chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist in the English version and the sixtieth chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh! in the Japanese version.