If he wasn't busy burying his past, Kaiba would have pointed out that he didn't start out on top, he clawed his way up there. The price he paid for it was severe.

"I've been listening to what everyone else has to say.." He'd just been chucking it all in a metaphorical dumpster soon after. Arrogant didn't even begin to cover it, but it was no less true.

"Once again you're starting from a false premise." Allow him to explain. "The form you see before you, most likely isn't real. It too would also be part of the simulation. The better question is who are the player characters and who are the NPCs." So- he doesn't think this version of himself is real either. "The players would be the ones hooked up to the machinery in reality-".