Pierre Anatoly Dmitrich Smerdyakov

"'Regardless how much I learn and how much I earn, I was, am, and will always be a servant to a greater purpose than mere service to anyone.' - Pierre Smerdyakov"Pierre Anatoly Dmitrich Smerdyakov (Пиерре Анатолы Дмитрич Смердяков) is the main protagonist of Mr. S and its sequel Mr. T. Formerly an attorney, he was the resident psychiatrist and neurologist in the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell and a participating doctor in Doctors Without Borders.

He was the only son of former KGB agents Dmitri Anatoly Nikaelovich Smerdyakov Kravinoff and Katerina Ivanovna Yaroslav. During the course of Mr. S, he found out that he was related to the Kravenovs through his father's side, being a half-cousin to Vladimir Kravinoff, Alyosha Kravinoff, and Anastasia Tatiana Kravinoff. By the end of Mr. S, it was revealed that his former mentor Pravatel Ivan Konstantinovich Yaroslav was his maternal grandfather. By the end of Mr. T, he was married to Sharon Stefanovna Trifionov, becoming a son-in-law to Stefan Vyacheslavich Trifionov Sr. and a brother-in-law to Stefan II (Seto) and Mitrofan (Mokuba). Pierre became the father of Daichi (adoptive) and Proserfina.

In Russia, he was most famous for his popular essays that focused on psychology, sociology, criminology, and governmental diplomacy; as a result, he promoted his Rank from the minor Servant Rank to the prestigious Intellectual Rank. His passion for the law and mind brightened Pierre's future as a lawyer and psychological counselor. Additionally, Pierre was famous for his research on neuroscience in Harvard University, expanding his experience in medical school and later medical practice and a psychiatrist and neurologist in the University Hospital near Columbia and Cornell. Prior to the events of Mr. T, however, Pierre decided to change legal paths from criminal law to patent and trademark law when he encountered the corporate world. At the end of Mr. T, Pierre permanently retired from law and returned to his medical practice, eventually becoming a participant surgeon for Doctors Without Borders.

Mr. S , which is based on criminal law and federal law, covers his story of his developing career as a lawyer while unraveling the mystery of an enigmatic entity called the Chameleon. Mr. T , which is based on corporate law and family law, covers his story of the continuation of Mr. S after his concluding engagement with Sharon and his investigation with the ominous history behind Kaiba Corporation and its bloody past with Trifonov Corporation, which was headed by Sharon's father and mysterious business mogul Stefan Vyacheslavich Trifionov Sr.

Physical Attributes
After being adopted by the Kravinoff family as their servant, Pierre wore a white mask that covered his whole head, which is one of the key features that led people that he was the Chameleon. While he lived in the Osborn Penthouse, Pierre took off his mask, which revealed his hidden beauty. He strongly resembled his mother. He had the same blond hair and the same shape of her face; however, Pierre shared his father’s blue eyes.

He had scars and burns on his back from his punishment from Vladimir. He had a Russian tattoo that he used to write on his right pinky knuckle during his time in Ravencroft, which was a dot in a circle (which means "In life, always count on yourself."), until it had faded away over time and he didn't notice it.

During his time as a servant, he wore servant clothes that resembled worn-out peasant clothes. When he was adopted by the Chekhov family, Pierre wore modest clothes that made him resemble a middle-class man of his age and school uniform from the gymnasium. When he went to America and got sent to Ravencroft, he wore the inmate uniform of Ravencroft. After being released, he wore ragged clothes until he stayed with the wealthy Osborn family that allowed him access to more comfortable, and stylish, clothes. Due to him being used to colder weather, he wore layers. During his times in Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, he became professional from wearing office clothes during lectures to wearing nicer clothes in special occasions like symposiums and formal concerts.

Personality
Along with his intellect, Pierre was known for his inspiring courage and his great kindness to others. In spite of his frustration toward some people, Pierre respected everyone as his equals and maintained a forgiving nature, despite Vladimir and Seto's grudging envy for him and Sasha and Stefan's contempt for him. A compassionate person, Pierre strived to see the goodness in every person and was also known to be loyal and protective amongst others, in spite of the mistreatment from his former master Vlad and the nastiness of his boss Seto. His loyalties had limitations when he was injured or taken advantage like when he ran away from the Kravinoff estate after Vladimir scarred him and when he resigned from Kaiba Corporation after Seto was revealed to be the one who sent Skander to prison for ten years when the latter was 14 years old. When both Vladimir and Seto atoned for their grave mistakes, however, Pierre forgave both of them after remembering the reasons why he spared both of them in the past.

Despite achieving a top-notch career of his life, Pierre remained to be a kind, humble person, having a soft spot for children, which was shown through his commitment in medicine, law, and social work. Standing firm in his commitments, Pierre was an intelligent overachiever who did the impossible for his hopes of having a better life. Pierre is also known for his sense of justice and honesty. As a lawyer and doctor, he managed to maintain his morals and do his work in the most ethical way as possible.

In spite of his good intentions, Pierre was also a person of his weaknesses, and ironically, his strengths were keys to his undoing, especially his loyalty and ambition. His belief in the goodness of every person and his loyalty made him defensive to people with low principles like Sasha, Stefan, and Seto that his defenses went against his own beliefs and principles. Coming from a humble background, Pierre became very ambitious, independent, and responsible in a very young age, becoming very diligent to the nth degree, greatly affecting his relationships with others, especially with Sharon, and most of his colleagues found him as an overachiever most of the time and his around-the-clock schedule as impossible to work with. In spite of these shortcomings, Pierre always meant well that he acknowledged how difficult he was and was always willing to make things right.

While Pierre was more mature and virtuous than people in his age, Pierre also had a rebellious side that was inherited from his father. During his year as a teacher assistant, he started a secret relationship with Sharon, despite the risks of losing his job. In spite of the law-abiding nature of his jobs, he was not above getting traffic citations for speeding. Despite his severity, Pierre was known to have a sense of humor that was also inherited from his father, calling the legal change of his last name "refreshing" (Note: Smerdyakov means "the reeking/untidy one") and obtaining the habit of speaking with playful yet well-meaning wisecracks and clever plays on words toward everyone, in contrast to the brutal insults coming from Seto and Stefan.

Occupations
When Pierre was in New York, he managed to tutor Normie while working as a teacher's assistant for the teachers in the Foreign Language Department. When he pursued his bachelor degrees in Government and Neuroscience at Harvard University, he worked as a paralegal in Murdock's law firm, an undergraduate researcher in the neuroscience lab, and a student assistant in the library for 24 hours straight every day, and he managed to become summa cum laude in his graduating year. When he pursued his JD and MD degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, he had to juggle neurology lab hours, county internship hours, and pro-bono clinic hours. After passing the bar and getting residency in New York, Pierre became a full-time lawyer during the day and a resident psychiatrist and neurologist during the night. When he transferred to Japan, Pierre decided to retire from medical practice to do independent neurological research at Osaka University. After adopting Daichi in the end and wanting to give him a better education, he retired from practicing law permanently after returning to New York to resume medical practice in the University Hospital in Columbia and Cornell, and he became a participating doctor for Doctors Without Borders International.

Early Life: As an Orphan to a Servant
Born in Uryupinsk in the Volgograd region of Russia, Pierre is the only son of Dmitri Smerdyakov and Katerina Yaroslav, former KGB operatives and Bolshoi Theatre costume designers who went into hiding from authorities. Because of Dmitri's status in exile as a former Special Operative Agent in Russia and convict in America and Katerina's death after giving Pierre birth, it's considered dangerous and risky for Dmitri to raise his son without his access to basic needs, the corrupted government, and his dangerous family to take care of him, and he didn’t want Pierre to live on the run. Due to such extreme circumstances, he had no other option but to leave Pierre in Myshkin Orphanage in Volgograd immediately after being discharged from the hospital. Never leaving a trace of his child's familial origins to the government, Dmitri named his son without a patronymic and surname.

Due to his kind nature and angelic complexion, Pierre had a reputation in Russia, even when he was a child. People came to know and recognize him quickly, just as Pierre knew the people in the district. He was known to be the Guardian Angel in Myshkin Orphanage. Pierre's striking blue eyes were thought to be eyes of a saint that people feared to see him in a bad mood as being caught in Pierre's cold glare was rumored to bring bad luck. Nevertheless, people wanted to adopt him because of his looks and sweet personality, but Pierre politely denied all offers in favor of his unknown father who he was waiting for so long.

Sharon and Skander
Dmitri left Pierre in the orphanage under care of the Mother Superior there. Three years later, he raised a girl named Sharon Stefanovna Trifonov, who became his best friend in the orphanage. Even though his father remained in America as a fugitive, he gave young Pierre books for New Year Eve to read and "teach" him different languages with dictionaries and collections of old Russian literature. While growing up in the orphanage, Pierre was a big brother figure to the other kids, reading and teaching them how to read and speak with his father's books.

After ten years in the orphanage, it was rumored that Pierre's father died in America, and Pierre had to grieve for his father's apparent death. In spite of this bereavement, Pierre refused an adoption offer from Vasily Trifonov, who he recognized to be the brother of Sharon's father; instead, he offered Vasily to take Sharon in. A few days later, Sharon's real father, Stefan Trifonov, returned to the orphanage to retrieve Sharon, and Pierre forgave Stefan for him leaving Sharon as an infant, as long as he would be a better father to her.

A few months later, he befriended a Russian-German orphan who was four years his junior, Skander Zarubin, who was like a little brother to him. A couple of years later, Pierre and Skander were befriended and hired by young heiress Anastasia Kravinoff, who came to the orphanage trying to recruit servants for her family with room and board. Because her mother Sasha Kravinoff allowed Ana to keep either Pierre or Skander as a servant, Skander ran off from the manor to let Pierre serve the family, and he was never heard again. Skander left a note to Pierre that he'll find another family to care for him, and Pierre shouldn't worry about him too much because Skander wanted Pierre to be happy, much to his dismay. Sasha also made Pierre to wear a white mask that made him unrecognizable and dehumanized. He tried to escape from the mansion to look for Skander, but unfortunately, he broke his arm when it got caught in a trap and he was punished for leaving the estate beyond curfew.

While looking for Skander in the next day, Pierre went to look for him at the pond where they used to skate but to no avail. Pierre cried for his disappearance until he heard a gentle voice. The one talking to him was no other than retired governor Ivan Yaroslav. Unlike the other aristocrats Pierre encountered, Ivan treated him with kindness and gave him money that, according to Pierre, could give him food for a month. Instead of spending the money, Pierre actually gave it to a hooded homeless lad in the street, who was actually Skander in hiding (who didn't recognize Pierre).

Servitude in the Kravinoff Estate
Sasha made Pierre the steward to Ana’s older brother in Pierre’s age, Vladimir, who was proved to be extremely brutal in strength and size at a young age. As a Boyar and the heir apparent to his aristocrat family, Vladimir was influenced by his mother to abuse Pierre up to his limits, forcing Pierre to do chores and take care of the animals while wearing a white mask on his whole head that gradually dehumanized the servant in the process. Pierre was even forced to serve as a target for Vladimir’s hunting training sessions, eventually becoming the “White Stag”. The increasing intensity in Vladimir’s rigorous training made Pierre stronger in impacts and faster in reflexes than his master because of being used to fighting against a strong force like Vladimir. Over time, Vladimir and Pierre became sparring partners and they started to learn more about each other that they ended up becoming close friends. Ana's governess Sonya Sidorova also took care of Pierre that she became a mother figure to him, much to her son Vasili's dismay and jealousy.

Razumikhin Academy
Even though he worked at the mansion all day, Pierre was enrolled to Razumikhin Academy to study due to Sonya's recommendation, while he replaced himself with Vasili. According to Professor Chekov and the headmaster of the academy, Boris Razumikhin, Pierre was a child prodigy and the top student of his school, despite his low social status. Due to Pierre's excellent scores in the entrance exams, Boris Razumikhin allowed Pierre admission when an anonymous benefactor gave him a generous sum to pay his tuition in Razumikhin Academy.

In his first years, Pierre wasn't popular toward his fellow aristocratic classmates, as he was the only low-classed student in the school; however, more of his classmates started to warm up to him because of Pierre's likable personality, much to Vladimir's jealousy. Thus, Pierre was harassed, used, and was even forced to fight against Vlad's elitist gang of Boyars and Cadets (future Agents) like Rodion Razumikhin, who is the jealous son of Razumikhin Academy's ultra-conservative headmaster, ex-Agent Colonel Boris Razumikhin. As a result, he was traumatized to some of the incidents, especially a drowning incident where he had a fear of swimming. In spite of the bad times at school, he found refuge from Professor Anton Chekov II, who also introduced Pierre to his son who just transferred to the academy, Ivan.

Later on, he became the top of the class, even after the enrollment of new transferee Ivan Chekov, who was known to be equally intelligent. After knowing Vladimir's mistreatment to Pierre, Ivan suggested Pierre to escape the estate and live with him and his father, but Pierre declined because of his loyalty and compassion toward Vladimir.

Essays and Escape Plans
In order for Pierre, who was offered an opportunity to promote to the senior class during his middle school years, he had to be on the top 1% in all of his classes. Vladimir, who was pressured by his mother to cheat against his will and put Pierre down, coerced Pierre to write an essay for a final exam in one of the classes. Understanding how terrible his mistress was to Vladimir and Vladimir betraying his father's principle of fair play, Pierre wrote his best work and willingly submitted to Vladimir without an additional essay for himself. When Vladimir submitted "his" essay, Ivan, who knew what happened, snitched on Vladimir that Vladimir's "essay" wasn't actually Vladimir's work. When asked about it, Pierre kept silent and never dared to snitch on Vlad for forcing him to do so, in spite of going against his principles. Along with evidence against Vladimir, Ivan snitched on Vladimir for academic fraud, and the professor took this allegation to consideration, forwarding the matter to the dean. The dean expelled Vladimir for his action along with his previous offenses and promoted Pierre to the senior class.

Even though he achieved a great accomplishment, Pierre was still not off the hook of Vladimir when Vladimir disgraced his family name for cheating and his mother blamed Pierre when her reputation was tarnished in the district. When Sasha falsely accused Pierre for planning to snitch on Vladimir and have him expelled, Vladimir severely whipped Pierre for punishment, giving the scars on his back. According to Vlad, Pierre's screams during that time was too horrifying that the lambs and the horses in the stables were screaming.

After the incident, Pierre talked to the only other person he trusted in the estate: Ana's governess Sonya. Pierre told Sonya the truth about what happened: Pierre did the essay for Vladimir because he felt sorry for him. He knew that Vladimir's mother was only using Vladimir for future control of the Kravinoff estate and inheritance of the family fortune, and he wanted Vladimir to be free of her constant oppression because no child deserved to be in that position. Out of care for Pierre, Sonya said, "More the reason why you should leave this place." Sonya told him that he didn't deserve to be on the cross for someone else's sufferings, especially if that someone was not smart enough to believe in him to have his back. While he didn't fully agree to what Sonya said, Pierre knew that he should know his rights to be treated well like how he treated others and Vladimir was too gullible to believe in his loyalty to him.

Pierre finally agreed to Ivan's offer to live with them. After school one time, Gregor overheard Ivan's plan to take Pierre away, and he ratted it out to Vladimir. Vladimir confronted Pierre about his plans to escape and desperately asked Pierre to stay with him in his desperate hour. For the first time, Pierre declined and assertively replied, "Are you smart enough to ask a traitor to remain loyal to you? Instead of believing in me, you believed in your own mother and my scars proved it." In the next morning, Pierre escaped the estate with the help of Sonya, but Sonya was shot dead by Sasha who shot her from above.

As a Chekhov
Pierre ran away to live with the Chekov household, where Professor Anton legally took Pierre as a ward under his guardianship, granting Pierre the last name "Chekhov". While living with the Chekovs, Pierre, with Ivan, graduated from the academy and graduated later as the valedictorian in the national gymnasium in a very young age of fourteen. He came a long way with high scores on the national test and excellent English proficiency.

Extremely fluent in many languages, Pierre, under his pen name "Anatoly" (just to throw his pursuit of his former masters at the wrong track), published his essays and memoirs as a book titled The Pinky Mark in multiple languages. His novels became very famous that the Russian Government offered him a scholarship and recruited him as a Junior Ambassador to one of the key Government Officials, Ivan Konstantinovich Yaroslav.

After his one year lapse as "Anatoly", Pierre kept the name "Anatoly" as his "middle" name and decided to come to America with the Chekovs to study law. Professor Anton warned Pierre that he should take off his mask or something bad could happen, but Pierre claimed that America was known for their values of freedom and equality amongst others and he would not be persecuted for wearing his mask (while in reality, he was afraid to take his mask off because he lost his memory of his face before wearing it).

After finishing his courses in the gymnasium at an early age and getting his literary stardom in the Russian government, Pierre decided to go to America with the Chekovs so he can try to apply to a university and become a lawyer; however, his arrival became dodgy. After falling behind at the customs area and separating from the Chekovs, he was accused of being an international spy for Pakistan's terrorist organization and putting a dirty bomb in New York.

Ravencroft and Dr. Kafka
Because of his white mask and his multilingual ability, Pierre was mistaken to be a spy, namely the Chameleon, a Russian ex-spy convict who was known for impersonating others and being paid to gain government intelligence and achieve the goals of his illicit clients. Pierre was placed in the governmental detention center in a couple of days until he got sick with palpitations and became hypervigilant that he couldn't trust the people around him. Because of his illness that was later confirmed to be a panic disorder, he was incarcerated into Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane at the age of 14, being the youngest inmate in the Institute. With a long recovery from his illness, he was able to cope with his mental trauma, even though he became more wary of people.

Natasha Romanoff, a SHIELD agent, was able to converse with Pierre and help him deal with his panic disorder by teaching him how to discipline his mind and assess a threat. Aware of Pierre's fighting abilities from an anonymous source, she even taught Pierre how to defend himself with his lightweight figure. Through intensive training, he was able to deal with his hypervigilance and fear of the unknown. Just as Natasha had a rare soft spot for Pierre, he became close to his teacher who became his sestra figure to him, which reminded Romanoff of her older Widow sister who gave her a prayer card before Natasha left the nation for her defection and she died years ago from childbirth. On her last day of training Pierre, she gave him an envelope with her prayer card and a message saying, "Это молитва вашей покойной матери за вас. (This is your departed mother's prayer for you.)"

While recovering, Pierre also became an apprentice of Dr. Ashley Kafka, the chief psychiatrist at Ravencroft Institute. During his three-year apprenticeship with Dr. Kafka, Pierre studied abnormal psychology, medical science, behavioral neuroscience, psychological physiology, and sociology. He participated in various processes for other prisoners. He was able to complete his first year of his paralegal program from Westchester County Community College during his incarceration; however, he was under debt for that he had to be on hold for the next year.

There was a trial, and Natasha's old friend and lawyer Matthew Murdock stood for him. Pierre was declared innocent due to a lack of evidence. He was able to work in menial jobs, but it was not enough to make ends with his debt. When he was released from Ravencroft, he was penniless and had to live in a shelter in Westchester.

In the Streets
One time, Pierre was hiding in a warehouse from the winter cold, which he barely managed to survive due to being from a cold country. He was woken up by a fight taking place in the warehouse. It was a struggle between an American named Joe Cord and a wide figure who demanded him something as payment for a loan Joe owed him. As Joe was about to lend a rare card he recently received as collateral, the police came in with a Japanese boy in his age who accused Joe of larceny for taking his rare card and selling it for profit. The police arrested Joe, and as they left, the boy gave the wide figure, who revealed himself as Kingpin, money in exchange for his “service”. Pierre witnessed the entire thing and was discovered, and Kingpin turned his back on the boy that the boy sent his men to hunt Pierre down. Pierre ran in the street until he hid himself in an orphanage nearby that the boy's men were told to retreat. As the coast was clear, Pierre walked on the other side of the avenue and saw a young boy who he almost mistook for Skander. When a car was closing in on the boy, Pierre pushed him away from the incoming car, saving the boy’s life. The boy was looking for his brother and ending up lost in the streets while looking for him. Unable to find the police station, Pierre took him into the hotel where the boy stayed and found out that the boy’s older brother was the same boy he saw with Kingpin. Realizing that the boy's older brother was the only family the boy had while feeling afraid of being caught, he ran away from the hotel until he was stopped over at Brooklyn. He relocated to Queens two weeks later.

In Queens, New York
While walking through Queens, Pierre accidentally caught in between a fight between Spider-Man and a gang of criminals. One of the criminals got mortally wounded and was abandoned by his group. Pierre took the criminal away and took him to a county hospital where the criminal survived. The criminal punched Pierre who he mistook as the Chameleon. After clarifications, the criminal befriended Pierre and introduced himself as Alyosha Kravinoff. Thinking about the family he once served, Pierre introduced himself as “Anatoly” and helped him escape from the hospital and the incoming cops. After Alyosha left, Pierre became sick and passed out in a neighborhood in Queens.

Pierre was taken in by May Parker and her Japanese friend, Kimiko Kawai, who nursed him back to health, and May Parker allowed him to stay in her apartment, which was next door to Kimiko and her daughter, Shizuka Kawai, who was diagnosed with glaucoma. Pierre befriended Shizuka and treated her well when she needed help with her wavering eyesight. Shizuka, in turn, became fond of him that she had a short-lived crush on him until she later considered Pierre to be an older brother figure. She remembered Pierre with his white mask.

While Pierre helped May in groceries and chores, May helped him finding a job, especially through her nephew Peter and his wife Mary Jane. Peter initially mistook Pierre as the Chameleon because of Pierre's white mask, but seeing that his aunt trusted him and Pierre was actually a sweet person, he realized that Pierre wasn't the Chameleon. Peter got to know more about Pierre and found a kindred spirit in him because Peter also lost his parents when he was a kid. Pierre got to know that Peter's secret identity as Spider-Man and the Chameleon as one of his enemies who almost drove Peter mad by creating Life Model Decoy replicas of his parents to find out about his secret identity and almost assaulted Mary Jane out of spite. Just when Pierre assured Peter that he would never say or do anything to him and his family, Peter told Pierre that he talked to his friend Harry Osborn, the present CEO of Oscorp Industries, who said to Peter that his son of Pierre's age, Normie, needed a personal tutor for his schoolwork.

In the Osborn Residence at Manhattan
Harry and his wife Liz saw Pierre. In spite of them mistaking Pierre as the Chameleon, both of them were impressed with Pierre's intelligence and polite personality that they hired him as an in-home tutor for their son, Normie, and allowed Pierre to move into their penthouse home. Pierre expressed his gratitude to the Parkers and moved into the Osborn penthouse in Midtown Manhattan. While Normie was standoffish and rude to Pierre, Normie's younger brother Stanley welcomed Pierre entirely. While working for the Osborn family, Pierre came to know that the Osborn family had been through a lot of hardships within the household ever since Normie's grandfather was up to no good for many years and Harry had to redeem the Osborn name out of his father's terrible legacy, and Normie got caught in most of his father's troubles. Normie changed his instincts about Pierre after Pierre saved him from his estranged grandfather Norman by spraying homemade mace that Norman got away, and Pierre earned the Osborn family's trust for saving Normie.

Through the encouragement from both the Osborns and the Parkers, Pierre took off his white mask that he was wearing for years of bondage as a steward of the Kravinoff family. As Normie did better in school, Harry gave Pierre the permission to stay with his family and have a job of his own, and Pierre accepted his part-time job as a teaching assistant in Normie's school. As Normie's personal tutor and a teaching assistant in his school, Pierre taught Normie and his classmates many levels of foreign languages, including French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian, and Normie's high school became more advanced with the foreign language department than previous years thanks to Pierre's methods of training. Because of Pierre's natural teaching skills, the Foreign Language Department allowed Pierre to work as a substitute teacher when one of the teachers temporarily went to Europe. Thanks to his daytime jobs as a substitute teacher and teaching assistant, Pierre cleared his debt and finished his paralegal certification classes to be a paralegal.

From Russia with Love
Pierre reunited with his long-lost childhood friend, Sharon Trifonov, who was an exchange student after her training at the Bolshoi Opera. At one Christmas, Pierre and Sharon shared a passionate kiss under the mistletoe, becoming each other's first kiss. Not wanting to cause commotion for kissing a student, Pierre and Sharon kept their kiss and subsequent relationship secret.

Meanwhile, Pierre was not aware of the presence of his former masters and his father; furthermore, he didn't know that he was directly related to the Kravenovs on his father's side - his father Dmitri Smerdyakov is the half-brother of Sergei Kravinoff, the head of the Kravinoff family and husband of Sasha. Since they had no knowledge that Pierre changed his last name and took off his mask, none of them recognized Pierre until Ana encountered Pierre on the way to school and Rodion, who got transferred to Harry's school after failing in the national gymnasium, recognized Pierre through Pierre's extensive knowledge of the Russian language, literature, culture, and politics. After Rodion's father, the headmaster, applauded and praised Pierre's lecture, Rodion got into a jealous fit that he reported about Pierre to the Kravinovs, except to Dmitri Smerdyakov who wasn't there with them at that time, wishing that they would place Pierre back to servitude. While Sasha wanted to take Pierre as her servant again, Alyosha, who owed his life to him, disagreed to take Pierre away from a life of opportunities that America had provided for him. Recently knowing Pierre to be his half-brother Dmitri's son through Rodion's father, Sergei agreed Alyosha's remark; after all, the Kravinovs would make their most dishonorable mistake for demoting "special meat" in his family and Rodion's father lost his past honor for trying. When a frustrated Sasha realized her husband's knowledge of Pierre's relation to Dmitri and intention to place him in his final will, Sasha decided to keep Pierre's whereabouts as a secret from Dmitri.

When assigned to supervise Ana for her eccentric behavior due to her obvious crush on the new teacher's assistant, Dmitri encountered Pierre many times by chance without recognizing him as his son, and he started seeing him as he impersonated different people that Pierre started to realize that he was seeing a dream of a person who can take forms of others just to see him. Even though he was a bit irked of the idea of somebody stalking him, Pierre treated him more kindly than the other members of the Kravinoff family (except Alyosha). Vasili, who became Sasha's devoted majordomo, was extremely infatuated with Ana and kept on stalking her and Pierre until Dmitri and Vladimir, who was protective of his own sister and distrustful toward Vasili, cornered Vasili for constantly neglecting his servant duties and threatened him to be punished by Sergei.

When Sharon and her uncle Vasily Trifonov were suddenly invited to dinner with the Kravinoff family, Pierre warned Sharon about the family for that he had worked under that family for years. When Pierre had a feeling that Sharon may be tied to an arranged engagement because of her more powerful family that could grant more power to the Kravinoff family, he insisted her to go with her as her date so he can protect her. Sharon, unlike many daughters of socialites, was sickened with the idea of an arranged marriage, so she agreed. As a result, the engagement dinner was a failure for Sasha to gain favors from the Trifonov family through marriage, but Vasili, who recognized and hated Pierre because of his jealousy and his mother's death, gave Sasha an idea of a smart ex-servant who just blurted out her true intentions in advance that made the engagement impossible. Sasha coerced Vladimir to get rid of Pierre and forced Rodion to collude with him.

While Rodion actually chickened out and advised Vladimir against it, a frustrated Vladimir reluctantly snuck out of his home and set a booby trap at the icy lake late at night. Vladimir changed his mind about the plan in the next morning that he went back to the park quickly to remove the trap before someone could get hurt, but when he was about to remove the trap, he accidentally activated the trap that cracked the icy lake and fell into the water. By coincidence, Pierre came into the water to help Vladimir out, but as he got to Vladimir, a wrapped-up Vasili attacked Pierre by the back with an air pistol and knocked him out. Vladimir got angry at Vasili that he forgot about Pierre, and Alyosha, who was trailing Vladimir, saved Pierre and Dmitri and Spider-Man had to get both of them out of the cold water.

Pierre suffered hypothermia and a minor coma that he had to stay in the hospital for a month due to his concussion. Avoiding arrest for assault, Vasili put his wet clothes and the air pistol in Rodion's gym locker, and Rodion was turned in to the police. After his recovery and his knowledge of the events, Pierre let go of his past animosity toward Rodion, telling him that he knew that Rodion didn't do it. Pierre acknowledged Rodion's feelings of jealousy, and Pierre comforted Rodion that he himself is jealous of the other boys, including Rodion, for having a family to love and care for, while he wasn't raised by his parents and he never knew their faces and their whereabouts. Rodion was freed and he reconciled with Pierre, and with Pierre and Normie's help, he planned to go to Japan with his father, who got a new job as a Headmaster of TIARA after his academy shut down. Frustrated with Vladimir and his issues, Rodion left Vladimir's side and went to Japan with his father after his commencement.

Pierre also applied to multiple universities, including all of the Ivy League universities, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Even though Pierre got accepted to all universities, he decided to attend Harvard University. Pierre received a scholarship from Harvard, and he accepted his job offer as a paralegal with Matthew Murdock in his law firm at Boston. Due to his great impact in teaching for the Foreign Language and ESL Departments, Pierre became the youngest awardee of the Empire State Excellence in Teaching. At the night before leaving New York, Pierre spent the night with Sharon, and they decided that they're not ready to continue their relationship together because of their increasing responsibilities. Pierre left New York a week after Normie's commencement and reunited with the Chekovs at Boston.

Education in Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania
In Harvard, Pierre double-majored in Government and Neuroscience. Even though he was working part-time as a paralegal and doing lab hours at night that deprived him many hours of sleep, he remained to be on top of his advanced classes, which Murdock found Pierre to have a high IQ. According to Harvard officials, Pierre was a member of the Mega Society, the most elite of all of the high-IQ societies. Despite his elite status, Pierre was humble toward other students. Pierre eventually reunited with his best comrade Ivan Chekov, who attended Harvard. He reunited with Sharon, who came to Harvard after two years, and they resumed their romantic relationship. He met Ivan's childhood friend Svetlana who developed feelings for Ivan.

By his senior year, Pierre was awarded the Bowdoin Prize in Harvard University due to many contributions to law, psychology, and neurology. Pierre's essays worked as research articles in Psychology Today and other Harvard University publications. Pierre graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. Parting ways with Ivan as he set out for New York to do his graduate study in Columbia University and pursue his career as a journalist, Pierre remained in Boston for a couple of years to pay for his student loans and be there for Sharon for the rest of her years in Harvard. Due to his high marks in the MCAT and LSAT, Pierre got accepted in the Joint JD/MD Program at University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in psychiatry and neurology.

Early Legal Career
Heading back to New York, Pierre finished his graduate studies through the JD/MD joint degree program at the University of Pennsylvania. During his years in UPenn, Pierre took internship hours in the county as a family social worker. Pierre's intelligence and headstrong persona attracted Matthew Murdock, who mentored him throughout his four years of study to obtain his JD, in which Pierre specializes in criminal and family law, and MD, in which Pierre specializes in psychiatry and neurology. While Pierre took his residency at New York Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell as a psychiatrist and neurologist during night hours, Pierre practiced criminal and family law in the day. Pierre worked for long hours and was very devoted to his work that he became wealthy; however, he didn't change his modest attitude and his strenuous efforts. Pierre owned a Modern/Luxury loft house and a higher net income than he ever had before, which was impressive for a young lawyer and doctor in his age.

Dmitri's Trial and Tribulations
After freeing Alyosha from prison, Pierre was referred to take Dmitri as his lawyer for trial. Pierre decided to give his client some psychiatric treatment due to Dmitri's mental distress that rendered him incapable to stand for trial. He put Dmitri into a straightforward routine of examination and counseling. Because of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s tendency to give distress to his client, Pierre kept Dmitri in his house. Both of them were anxious toward each other until Pierre won Dmitri's trust by giving him one of his favorite books, not knowing that it was Dmitri himself who gave those books in the first place.

Interrogation in S.H.I.E.L.D.
Pierre decided to investigate the case himself. S.H.I.E.L.D. tracked the Taliban officer who hired Dmitri down and interrogated him on the nature of the relationship between the officer and Dmitri as a means of discovery. The Taliban officer revealed that he was bribed by someone outside his circle to hire Dmitri in the first place. The one who bribed him was none other than Vladimir Kravinoff. Knowing that the answer would damage the chances of judgment in his favor, the prosecuting lawyer nudged at someone who appeared to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. security officer to tamper the recording of the interrogation during the intermission. Pierre was a witness to the interrogation and saw the tampering. Pierre nudged at his old mentor Natasha Romanoff that one must have a different perspective on the truth before listening to someone who lies. Resolving what he said, Natasha got a CD of the first round of interrogation and the security camera of the officer tampering.

Trial
The night before the trial was proved to be too nerve wracking for Dmitri to handle that he reached an emotional breakthrough, finally remembering his life before his exile. Dmitri said that everything went against him but the only thing that remained to be a blessing to him was his only son who he truly cared about. After leaving his life as a KGB spy, Dmitri fathered a son with his wife who he had eloped with. After losing his wife, Dmitri prioritized his son's life over his own by leaving him in the orphanage with nothing but his first name: Pierre. Dmitri was deported out of the country that he had no choice but to live in exile where he planned revenge on the country that took everything from him. The more he tried, the less he became himself. He got lost and confused that he went mad and depressed to the point of suicide. When he received the call from the Taliban officer, he reached the ultimatum to place a dirty bomb in New York, but he failed and decided to retire from criminal work to look for his son. Pierre realized that the client before him was not only the Chameleon but his long-lost biological father who left him in the orphanage many years ago.

Pierre won the trial due to extensive evidence that Dmitri was mentally incapable of judgment and all the means of prosecuting him were underhanded. Pierre proved Dmitri to be mentally incapable of judgment due to depression for the death of his wife and separation from his son via the subpoenaed records from Ravencroft and his resident hospital. Pierre also proved to the court that the means of prosecution was tampered due to his opponent's bribery of the security officer and tampering with one's testimony in according to one's best knowledge and appreciation of the truth. Pierre also revealed himself to be the same boy who was framed for the same cause of action and the only son of the Chameleon, the only person who the Chameleon would never harm. The proceedings of the bomb and the allegation of placing it was merely a coincidence. Thus, the judge cleared Dmitri and expunged his criminal records, while he suspended the prosecuting lawyer's legal practice and arrested Vladimir Kravinoff for bribery and Vasili Sidorov for impersonating a federal officer and tampering with evidence. Pierre witnessed Vladimir's apparent suicide in prison. Despite his colleagues' praises, Pierre remained silent about the terrible fate of the family that he always yearned for years. After the trial, Dmitri didn't speak to his half-brother and especially, Pierre.

Much to Pierre's dismay, Dmitri moved away from Pierre because he felt unworthy to be his father and Pierre suffered for so long because of his last resort of vengeance toward America. While Pierre went under depression, Sharon considered that both she and Pierre should return to Russia and make amends with his father. Pierre agreed.

Back to Where it All Started
In Russia, Sasha was apparently angry to Dmitri for letting their son to die in a dishonorable way, up to the point of putting Dmitri at gunpoint. Fortunately, Pierre and Sharon came in time to rescue him and getting Alyosha and Ana to help them get inside the estate. Sasha revealed that she knew Pierre's whereabouts before Dmitri came back to the family and she separated them because Sergei named Dmitri in his last living will, which was something Dmitri wasn't aware of its existence, to inherit 50% of the estate and one of their children to inherit the remaining. She knew that Sergei will choose Pierre over Vladimir because of Pierre's superior intellect that can make Pierre a powerful ally to the family. Sasha was enraged when she lost her son, and she wanted to destroy Dmitri for taking everything she wanted. Dmitri reasoned her out that vengeance and envy will not only destroy her but also her only remaining child, Ana, for he understood her feelings. Sergei also reasoned that Dmitri was not responsible for Vladimir's death; it was their fault. Sasha, however, stubbornly tried to shoot Pierre but Dmitri got a nonfatal gunshot on his shoulder. Sergei, in anger of seeing his half-brother in pain, stood over Sasha and broke her neck. Sergei collapsed due to exhaustion and revealed to Dmitri that he was suffering a terminal stage of liver disease and the family needed a new head of the household. Even though Sergei and Vladimir were meant to be stronger in strength and endurance than Dmitri and Pierre, Sergei admitted that Dmitri and Pierre were stronger in willpower and perseverance that people deemed them to be. That was more the reason Sergei named them in his living will to inherit the Kravinoff estate and the family fortune. Sergei finally made his dying requests to them: (1) Establish a new form of nobility in the Kravinoff family, (2) Take care of his children, and (3) Give him peace by euthanizing him from the pain he endured from his illness. Dmitri tearfully euthanized Sergei as they silently reconciled.

New Life with his Father
Pierre took his father in and confessed his love and longing for his father. Fortunately, Dmitri survived the shot and recovered quickly. After Dmitri's recovery, Pierre and Dmitri visited Katerina's grave and bid her farewell and many thanks for her to be the only Russian, besides Pierre, to love and accept Dmitri for what he truly is: A good man. Pierre's former mentor, retired Pravatel Ivan Konstantinovich Yaroslav, greeted Pierre and confessed his biggest regret of not giving Dmitri another chance and disowning Katerina for the marriage, revealing his direct relation to Pierre as his maternal grandfather and accepting Dmitri as his son-in-law. Yaroslav also revealed that he was the benefactor responsible for the funds of Pierre's scholarship in Razumikhin Academy and the one responsible for Anton Chekov II to adopt him under his wing and Natasha Romanoff to mentor him in New York after receiving intelligence from Sonya Sidorov, who was actually his informant until she died. Pierre then visited Sonya's grave, bidding her thanks for her bravery and kindness that made her a second mother to him. When he returned to New York, Pierre came to know that Vasili got severely injured and punishment by the prison cop for screaming for his mother and died of his injuries on his first night.

With his father having no longer a place to go and call home, Pierre took his father in his home in New York. Inspired by Pierre's presence in his life, Alyosha decided to renovate the Kravinoff penthouse in New York before leaving New York to attend college in the NYU branch in Sydney for his environmental studies. Later on, Pierre was engaged with Sharon on New Year Eve night, representing his first day when things are finally settled. Pierre legally changed his last name from "Chekov" to "Smerdyakov", instead of "Kravinoff" because as a humorous note, he found it quite "refreshing" to stick with his father's family name and he found it unique like his dad.

In the end, Pierre, Sharon, and Dmitri received invitations to a bible study from the Church.

Japan
Following their engagement, Pierre and Sharon were converted into the Church and became active officers. Both of them decided to go separate ways as they move forward to the apex of their legal careers before they get married. Two years before the events of Mr. T, Pierre decided to resign his full-time healthcare job to obtain his LLM in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Cornell University, while secretly keeping his medical license up to date. Because of his scientific and medical practices as a psychiatrist and neurologist, Pierre managed to take the Patent Bar from the USPTO. While Pierre became the Patent Attorney and General Counsel for Oscorp, Sharon moved to Japan with her father and passed the Japanese Bar to become the Special Counsel of Trifonov Corporation. Wanting to be there for Sharon, Pierre was referred by Harry and Normie who were in control of Oscorp to work for their international business partners, Seto and Mokuba Kaiba of Kaiba Corporation in Japan, and Harry advised Pierre to keep a close eye on Seto Kaiba and be on guard.

Before considering to reunite with Sharon, Pierre felt that he had to know about Kaiba Corporation and the Japanese culture, even though he knew the language and law of Japan. As he retired from medical practice in the hospital and went to Japan, Pierre passed the Japanese Bar on his first month of his stay and managed to have his special attorney visa and rent a townhouse in Osaka. While Pierre managed to do independent research in the neurology lab in Osaka University during night hours, he researched on the history of Kaiba Corporation and its market focus in gaming technology that promoted the game of Duel Monsters. Unfortunately, Pierre was very new with Duel Monsters. He managed, though, to reunite with his professor at Cornell, Professor Hawkins with his granddaughter. Pierre was introduced to Yugi Muto and his grandfather by them, and they introduced the game to him. When Pierre told them that he was referred to work at Kaiba Corporation, Yugi's friend Katsuya Jounouchi gave him a warning: "Kaiba may be a powerful ally, but he cannot be trusted."

Kaiba Corporation
Undaunted from the warning, Pierre represents himself as the referred Special Attorney and Scientist from Oscorp. Even though Seto was extremely impressed with Pierre's credentials as an accomplished attorney and doctor from the United States, he refused to hire Pierre because he saw Pierre as an overqualified double threat, not as someone who he can control; however, Seto's younger brother and Vice President of Kaiba Corporation, Mokuba Kaiba, was impressed with Pierre of his great accomplishments and his trustworthy and hardworking persona and hired Pierre as the General Counsel and appointed him as a Board Director without Seto's prior knowledge. Discovering that Mokuba hired Pierre without his consent, Seto was about to terminate Pierre until Pierre forwarded him the completed contracts and employee handbooks, letting his abrupt termination go with the intention to maintain the status quo between him and the shareholders.

Shizuka and Shinji
In spite of his short time there since his first day, Pierre became an instant favorite employee in the staff, especially up to the point when he met his old friend, Shizuka, who worked as Secretary for Seto and Mokuba but did not recognize Pierre (Pierre met her when he wore his white mask). Noticing something familiar with the new employee, Shizuka started a friendship with Pierre, much to Seto's increasing jealousy. When they became closer after knowing that they shared a mutual friend in Sharon, who got her MBA (and her JD) with Shizuka, Shizuka confided with him about her struggle as a single mother and the struggles of her only son, Shinji, who was actually suffering from early symptoms of open-angle chronic glaucoma that he inherited from her. Pierre asked Shizuka about the biological father of Shinji, but Shizuka refused to disclose it.

Seto Bashing Mokuba
An extremely insecure Seto realized Pierre's closeness to the staff and saw him as a threat because of more people favoring Pierre and Mokuba over him in management. Blaming Mokuba for his situation, Seto shared a rumor with a true backstory: When Seto dated Shizuka seven years ago and Mokuba was 15, Seto and Shizuka became more intimate that Mokuba became strangely jealous of her. When Mokuba accidentally walked in when Seto had his first time with Shizuka, Mokuba got offended when he was caught blushing after gawking at Seto for a while. Seto caught Mokuba with his high school friend in the evening, claiming to come from bible studies. Ever since Seto didn't believe them and assume about Mokuba's "homosexuality", Seto denied Mokuba any more chances to join him in business events because no investor would want to invest on a company with someone in leadership who was gay, while he lied to Mokuba that he would no longer join him in business events because he had to focus more on his education than Kaiba Corporation. Then he received alerts that someone outside the company was apparently calling him for intimate reasons recently. Crudely humiliating Mokuba with his indiscretion and pleasure, a snarky Seto ended the story by saying to Pierre, "So now he's done with his crush on you - I wonder who's next, Mokuba?" As Pierre was abhorred with Seto persecuting his own brother out of spite and jealousy, he realized that Seto was the biological father of Shinji.

Safety and Sabotage
While in Kaiba Corporation, he viewed some of the lawsuits sued against Kaiba Corporation, which shared a cause of action that Kaiba's technology caused health problems and there were no health warrants due to lacking an attorney. After that day, Pierre went on working for Kaiba Corporation, where he also became Chief Research Officer due to his extensive medical expertise in neurology and researched on how to make KaibaCorp's dueling technology more accessible and photosensitive-friendly for patients with neurological disorders and vision problems. As he created health warrants on the current products, he decided to create the Virtual Visors for those who had photosensitive epilepsy and those who were blind. As Pierre created a testable prototype of the Virtual Visors, Seto urged Pierre to test it on Shinji and hacked in the prototype's settings that gave Shinji terrible headaches due to his sensitivity and rendered the prototype a failure. Pierre wondered about what went wrong that caused injury to Shinji. Seto purposely used Pierre's experimental "failure" to suspend him from the laboratories and lower his position as his Special Counsel; however, Seto unknowingly gave himself away and underestimated Mokuba's keen insight when he took some of Pierre's shares of the company and tended to Shizuka. After hearing Seto's heated argument with Shizuka, Mokuba realized that his brother was trying to win the company and Shizuka with one stone.

Mokuba went to Pierre's townhouse to apologize for Seto's deliberate suspension of Pierre's lab rights. Shizuka also came with him for medical treatment of Shinji's eyes from that accident. Finally understanding what was going on in the last few weeks he was in Kaiba Corporation, Pierre told Mokuba that he was no fool about what happened: Seto was envious of Pierre's growing power and saw him as a potential rival because of Pierre's qualities that were deemed better than his own; however, Pierre wasn't the only item of envy on Seto's list: Mokuba too. Mokuba told Pierre about the roots of Seto's competitive, ruthless nature, and Pierre silently remembered that as similar to Vladimir. Mokuba also disclosed that Seto was losing appeal in the business world due to his ruthless reputation and leadership style that corrupted the work culture and image of the company, and because Seto was unable to compromise, Mokuba wanted to take charge via a hostile takeover, just as Seto did to Gozaburo years ago. Pierre advised Mokuba to take over in a different way because it would only repeat the same mistake and Mokuba would become like Seto. Mokuba argued that a hostile takeover was the only way to solve this and he wanted Pierre to be on his side, but Pierre declined and disagreed, telling him that a hostile takeover may be a short-term resolution in a business and it would be against his principles to take part of treachery, especially between brothers. Pierre could only switch sides for the most extreme cases. Mokuba agreed.

Seeing an old white mask, Shizuka finally recognized Pierre as her old friend, and Mokuba started to remember seeing something like that in New York until he got distracted to remember the rest. Pierre introduced Mokuba to Dmitri as his father, much to his surprise. Dmitri told him that he left Pierre in the orphanage to protect him from a life on the run because of his mistakes, whereas Mokuba rebuffed his explanation as a pathetic excuse with his argument that children were not meant to be raised in an orphanage and Shizuka assured that Seto also believed in that. In return, Dmitri expressed his disbelief in Seto's apparent compassion for children that juxtaposed with his actual ruthlessness to others, especially to his best friend who was in prison for years after his false arrest for larceny of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card. Dmitri admonished both Mokuba and Shizuka that he was lucky to be spared by Pierre because even though Pierre would never work in a culture that would be against his principles, he chose to work for a person like Seto.

Standing Up to Mokuba
Realizing that degrading a reliable employee and advocate to the foster youth and letting Seto calling the shots would be bad for the company, Mokuba took a larger portions of shares than his brother had taken from Pierre and took some shares for himself, and he gave the appropriate amount of shares back to Pierre, including his liberties to use the laboratories to repair and create his prototypes. When Seto realized Mokuba's purchase of shares, Seto fought with Mokuba about his rebellious actions against him, and Pierre stood up for him that resulted a fight with Seto until Mokuba unexpectedly fainted. A frustrated Seto left his brother to rest.

Because of Seto's actions toward him and Mokuba, that fight was a red flag for Pierre to help Mokuba take over Kaiba Corporation. Pierre noticed Mokuba feeling weak and sleepy in the daytime in the past few days and starving. Finding Pierre as his ally, Mokuba confessed to him that he had been attending the prestigious Kyoto University as a full-time student secretly, even though he was prohibited to step foot on Kyoto by Seto, and he was going to graduate in a few months. During his senior year, he had been collaborating with his maternal cousin and Doshisha University senior student Asuka to design office renovations, work culture improvements, and humanitarian projects for Kaiba Corporation at night until 5 o'clock in the morning. To make matters worse, Mokuba was actually HIV positive and had been taking antiretroviral therapy to increase his CD4 count in his blood, which explained why he was more sensitive to fatigue.

Pierre hated the idea of taking Seto's place as Mokuba's guardian figure, but he decided to be a guardian to him because he felt that Mokuba's heart had always been in the right place and because of this long period of living in secrecy, Mokuba was exhausted that he couldn't take care of himself. Pierre asked him why would he hide such great things from his brother. Mokuba told him that he was meant to be loyal to Seto because he was his brother and parent to him, but his loyalty faded after he made his choice to join the Church. Mokuba had done great things with his brother, but it reduced him into a figurehead under his brother's shadow that Seto made him feel smaller and more alone. Mokuba even disclosed that he was sexually abused by his stepfather as a child routinely, which was the source of his case with HIV because his stepfather was HIV positive until he died, and he didn't disclose to Seto because of the trauma he got that was compared more worse than Seto's share of abuse from his stepfather.

Mokuba came to learn that Pierre was a member of the Church, which was the same Church he was introduced by his high school friend and invited to bible studies. When he came to bible studies, he felt more relieved and calm than before and he was able to be more open to others. Seto and Mokuba's relationship got worse after Mokuba attempted to invite Seto to join him in bible studies and Seto "outed" him to all of the major shareholders and prevented him from discussing future business plans to their investors. That started a power struggle between them that Mokuba even had to force Shizuka to hide the fact that Shinji was Seto's biological son to gain ownership rights of the company and protect Shinji from Seto's influence and the pressures that Seto had to undergo as an heir of a multibillion-dollar company. Pierre realized that the last part of what Seto was saying was a malicious rumor to kick Mokuba out of competition for control of the company.

Connecting his experiences with his own, Pierre told Mokuba that he was already an inspiration by managing a great company in a young age, enduring through trauma and illness, going to college, and planning for the future, but he should know that what he was doing to himself was dangerous: If he won't take care of himself in the present, there wouldn't be a future to live, especially since his weak immune system would be on the line. Hideyoshi Sato, a Japanese lawyer who Pierre befriended, acknowledged Mokuba's situation and offered to teach Mokuba the basics of cooking. Pierre offered to teach Mokuba the basics of housekeeping and health wellness, even though Mokuba wanted him to teach him how to drive a motorcycle (which he eventually did whenever Mokuba learned quickly on his lessons).

After meeting Ivan and Pavel Chekov some time later, Pierre also found out that Pavel knew about Shizuka and Shinji because Pavel raised Shinji with Shizuka during their shared time in Columbia University. In spite the fact that Ivan informed Pierre about Pavel's rebound in his addictions, Pierre realized that there was some hope for Pavel because he was capable to show restraint and Pierre knew Pavel's sense of honor and loyalty. Pierre warned Pavel that he would be Seto's next victim because of Seto's possessive jealousy that drove him to coerce Pierre to test his prototype on Shinji and intentionally hack the settings that hurt Shinji, who was Seto's biological son who was diagnosed with acute glaucoma. Out of concern for Shinji, Pavel was angry at Seto for doing that to a child for the intention to degrade his friend.

Mokuba brought Pavel and Pierre to his commencement from Kyoto University, instead of his brother; however, a disguised Isono videotaped the graduation ceremony. Dmitri caught Isono spying and questioned his actions, asking him where did Isono's loyalties truly lie if he wasn't doing that for Kaiba. Isono replied cryptically, "I'm only loyal to someone who had to know every piece of information I obtain, but it's not who I currently stand with."

Meeting Daichi
Mokuba found Pierre and Sharon visiting the orphanage and revealed to him that he and Seto were grown up in this very orphanage after their father died in an accident and their mother died giving birth to him. While playing with the other orphans, he noticed a group of orphan bullies bullying a ten-year-old orphan who was obviously blind. Seeing his own experiences back in Russia, Pierre separated the bullies from the orphan and befriended him. The orphan told him that Pierre was the first person who treated him with kindness, and Pierre reassured to him that he will not be the only one, introducing him to Sharon and Mokuba, who immediately liked him. With Sharon and Mokuba on his side, Pierre sternly questioned the bullies, "Who taught you to bully other people, especially those who can't defend themselves?" While the gang seemed sheepish for their actions, one of the bullies started to cry and tell that they all wanted to be strong like Kaiba, who they viewed as their role model, and because of Kaiba's aggressive approach to strength, they didn't see any wrongness. Pierre reprimanded the bullies that genuine strength comes from respect, not violence. Sharon said that their actions only showed themselves as weaker people than their victim. Mokuba told all of the orphans that his brother may be a positive role model to teach them about success through determination but it turned out that he was teaching them to hurt other people, which was something everyone should not allow in the future generations. After the bullies apologized to the orphan, Pierre and his friends took their new friend for taiyaki and asked for his name. The orphan's name was "Daichi". Daichi became friends with Shinji, who looked up to him as his sempai because of their disabilities.

The Lab of Secrets
When Pierre moved into his office, he found an old photo of Gozaburo and the former Board of Directors with a mysterious business partner who he somehow recognized in the past: Stefan Trifonov, Sharon's father. Isono later revealed that the mysterious business partner was Gozaburo's former business partner from Russia, who served as the former Chief Research Officer before Seto when he was training to become the heir of Kaiba Corporation; furthermore, Isono revealed that that photo was meant to be destroyed before Seto took over Kaiba Corporation and Seto and Mokuba had no prior knowledge about Kaiba Corporation's past and its historic coexistence of Trifonov Corporation. Isono warned Pierre to never to disclose of what he saw about the past of Kaiba Corporation. Pierre recalled of reading an old article about the feud and litigation between Trifonov Corporation and Kaiba Corporation and the subsequent crises for both companies.

When Pierre went to the labs to repair a prototype of the Virtual Visors, Pierre incidentally found an abandoned laboratory and went inside after finding graffiti on the nearby walls that said "Commie". In its office, he found another photo of Stefan with another couple and two children and due to curiosity, he took it with him. When he was on his way out, he forced to fight against a shadowy figure that was trying to obtain trade secrets in the laboratories. When the spy went away to escape in the dark, Pierre found the spy's fighting style strangely familiar.

Pierre contacted his father, who was a veteran spy and former corporate mercenary, about the spy he encountered and Stefan. Dmitri told Pierre about the past of Stefan, revealing that Dmitri actually raised both Stefan and Vasily when they were born after their older brother Viktor's death in WWII and the subsequent deaths of their parents who hid in Siberia from the KGB, and Dmitri's sacrificial exchange of his promotion for their safety was what led to Dmitri's exile that forced him and Katerina into many years of hiding and cornered him to leave Pierre in the orphanage. Dmitri also revealed that Stefan was once engaged to Katerina while she was secretly engaged to Dmitri, and Stefan callously called her a basket case because he wanted to have children to carry on his business legacy and Katerina was believed to be infertile due to being a former Black Widow. Dmitri warned Pierre about encountering and even trusting Stefan from his history with the ill-tempered man.

Stefan Trifonov
Finding Seto's right-hand man Isono to be suspicious since the spy attack and not wanting to cause turmoil in the office, Pierre spied on Isono. Pierre learned that Stefan took over Trifonov Corporation from her uncle Vasily, who was Vice President of Trifonov Corporation since its founding years and became President and CEO, and his adopted son Noah, who was training to take his former position before Stefan's retirement. He also learned that there was someone who claimed to be the true Heir of Trifonov Corporation, and it was immediately a red flag becuase Stefan himself didn't assume anyone as his Heir, even Sharon. Knowing that Sharon would most likely lean to her father because her father would need his lawyer at hand, Pierre kept his investigations to himself and decided to get more help in his investigation outside his network.

Pierre contacted his old mentor, Natasha Romanova, because next to his father, she knew the KGB members in the old days. He asked her if she knew anyone who personally knew Stefan by heart, next to Vasily. Natasha connected him to Yelena, a lead engineer in Boeing, a rival company of Trifonov Corporation. Yelena revealed that she once worked for Trifonov Corporation since its humble beginnings as a pioneering engineer and a close comrade of Stefan in her VSV days. She knew a few things about Stefan's past; while Stefan worked for Kaiba Corporation, he had two sons whose identities were anonymous for protection and prevention of being killed by Gozaburo and his supporters until his car accident that almost cost his life. Upon hearing her account, Pierre showed Yelena the photo he found at the lab, and Yelena recognized the couple in the picture as Vasily and his wife Adina and the date taken was taken five years after Sharon was born. Pierre questioned her on how did she know about Sharon's time of birth, and Yelena revealed that she was her biological mother who was sent to jail for alleged rape and forced to leave her daughter in Stefan's custody for being financially unfit due to her aging mother's health and her debts. More than willing to take down Stefan for what he did to Sharon and her mother, a shocked Pierre revealed to the agents that Kaiba Corporation will host the annual business gala to meet its investors and finally know Trifonov Corporation in the open.

When Pierre was introduced to the "Heir" of Trifonov Corporation by Sharon for the first time, Pierre noticed some things that were familiar with him that only Pierre knew from a long time ago: the man had a specific pattern of freckles on his face, which was something that Pierre recalled that the man had obtained from chicken pox as a kid, and the man had a Low German accent, which was something that Pierre only remembered from his childhood friend Skander.

At the gala, Pierre met Sharon’s father and employer CEO Emeritus Stefan Trifonov (who Pierre addressed as "His Grace"), who noticed that Pierre was working in his former position at Kaiba Corporation. After noticing that Pierre was working for Kaiba Corporation, Stefan "admonished" him about trusting Seto because of Seto being extremely intolerant of competition and taking advantage of people's trust as long it benefited him at some point until he had no need of him, showing his sadistic delight of Seto toying with Pierre's kindness and lack of assertiveness due to him being a former servant. Stefan also congratulated Pierre on his engagement with Sharon, while still implying that he only saw her as a good follower, not a daughter. Pierre, in turn, stated that no matter what he was and how much he earned, he will always be a servant to a greater purpose. Stefan rebuked his statement by insulting his father and how much Pierre reminded a lot of him with the statement, "Nice guys finish last." Pierre defended Sharon and his father, cleverly saying that it was funny of Stefan to say that because he would "save the best for last". Knowing that Pierre came to know about him having more than one child through Isono's spying of Pierre's recent moves, Stefan cryptically threatened that if he would say something about his sons in the public, harm would come to the "Heir", implying that he knew that the "Heir" was an imposter.

After the talk with Stefan, Ivan, who was covering the events that occurred recently, told Pierre that Vasily blurted out a secret that was deemed hypothetically true: Seto was the true Heir of Stefan Trifonov. While Pierre was surprised of the things that was going on, Ivan stated that Rodion, whose father worked for Stefan as his advisor, let slip that his father paid a German-Russian orphan to play his act as Stefan's "Heir" as a ploy to ward off the information in the press. Shocked, Pierre realized that the "Heir" in the gala was actually his long-lost childhood friend Skander, but he wondered how Stefan would know about his friendship with Skander in the first place when Stefan took Sharon in before Skander came into the orphanage. Ivan deducted that if Rodion knew about it, his father would know; Ivan told Pierre that his father may know something about this thread of information. When Ivan and Pierre contacted Professor Anton, who was in New York, Anton stated that he was researching about this ordeal a couple of months before Pierre came to Japan and he managed to save confidential documents, which were redacted enrollment records from Razumikhin Academy that was dated a couple of years ago before Pierre's enrollment. These enrollment records were signed by Stefan Trifonov himself for the enrollment of his firstborn son, and with them were copies of the child's Russian passport and Japanese passport (Stefan's son had dual citizenship before the Nationality Law was enacted). Since the records were redacted due to Stefan's confidentiality, almost the whole name of the child was crossed and the face was blurred, leaving the first Japanese character of the family name 細.

From their understanding of the information they gathered and the photo itself, they realized that Stefan and his family knew that the "Heir" they met was truly an imposter because Stefan's Heir was older than him and was of Japanese and Russian descent, and Stefan was setting the imposter up since he could had rejected the imposter in the first place. Pierre kept on pondering that if Skander was paid to be the "Heir", then Stefan couldn't hurt him until Skander would be no use to him; that meant that the "Heir" mentioned in their conversation was actually someone else who Pierre knew personally and Stefan knew that connection from afar.

Isono's Secret and the Koseki
The only thing that concerned Pierre was that even though Kaiba Corporation’s litigations against Trifonov Corporation was well-known to every person in business, it was kept into secrecy on the inside: there was a conspiracy from not only entrenched management and its resulting power struggle between Gozaburo and Seto but also a power struggle between Gozaburo and Stefan. Pierre realized something else and wondered how Mokuba got enrolled to Kyoto University in a different family name without being noticed or recognized as a member of the notorious Kaiba family. Pierre asked Mokuba about his enrollment, and Mokuba said that it was Isono who instructed him to use the family name and the family name was no fake name - it was recorded in the orphanage. Dmitri told Pierre that he encountered Isono in Kyoto University during Mokuba's graduation and again in the business gala speaking to Stefan Trifonov: Isono was actually working for Stefan Trifonov while concurrently standing on the side of Seto. Pierre figured that Isono was hiding more than just his loyalties.

Wanting to know more about the secrets that Stefan entrusted to Isono and Gozaburo's part of the story, Pierre and Dmitri wanted to investigate about Gozaburo's account of the litigation against Trifonov Corporation and Stefan Trifonov; thus, he recruited Yelena to hack the surveillance security in the building. Together, the father and son sneaked into Isono's office when Kaiba Corporation HQ was closed for the KC Championship of Legends. In Isono's office, Pierre found a series of old employee profiles with attached order forms of barbiturates signed by Gozaburo Kaiba, and he realized that these employees are also former representatives of Trifonov Corporation. Much to his horror, Pierre discovered Gozaburo's copy of the adoption papers of Seto and Mokuba with an administration form of one lethal injection for one of them, and he unexpectedly found a contract signed by Stefan and Gozaburo and a koseki with a specific family seal and Seto and Mokuba's names under the family name Saiku 細工. Seeing Stefan's name of the koseki, Pierre realized that Seto was the true Heir the entire time, but Seto and Mokuba had not known their true heritage as purebred heirs of the Trifonov family and Gozaburo and the former Board of Directors found out about their true identities and their hidden heritage with the intent to kill both sons to gain revenge against Stefan and prevent a Trifonov to gain his power. Knowing that Stefan and his entire family are competing against Seto in the tournament, Pierre rushed out of the office with the koseki and contract in his hand.

When Dmitri and Pierre were on their way out, however, the spy Pierre encountered in the labs stood in the way. As Dmitri defended Pierre from the spy as a diversion and chased it out through town, Pierre got out of Kaiba Corporation and went on his way to Kaiba Land in Tokyo via helicopter.

Skirmish in Kaiba Land
After receiving word that Mokuba was attacked by Seto into surrendering in the proxy battle in threat of Pavel's life and the lives of Mokuba's supporters, Pierre saw how it was too similar to the civil war many years ago and therefore gave all of his shares to Mokuba and initiated the signal for Mokuba's supporters to share a video Mokuba's petition of no confidence in the current leadership to the major shareholders.

When an enraged Seto came to know about the proxy battle continuing in spite of Mokuba being tortured to surrender on the day before, Seto calmly approached Sharon, his next opponent in the Championship, and told her that Shizuka knew Pierre before her and visited him periodically when he came to Japan, implying to Sharon that Pierre had been cheating on her. Sharon was offended about Seto's remarks, telling that she didn't believe him; however, when Pierre arrived, Sharon acted coldly toward him with a snarky Seto grinning at him. Placing her in where he wanted, Seto took advantage of Sharon's increasingly vulnerable position that Seto kept her at bay in the majority of the duel with his strategies, up to the point of mocking her jealousy of him with her father who favored her the least and thus left her due to her being a bastard child. Pierre was enraged at Seto for humiliating her and placing her in great distress, especially knowing how Sharon was with her father. When Stefan came in from his duel and witnessed Sharon's disastrous loss to Seto, Stefan disowned her publicly, much to Sharon's humiliation and disgrace.

As Pierre took Sharon away from everyone in the venue, Pierre told her his findings, including Stefan's relation to Seto and Mokuba and Seto's identity as the real Heir. Sharon didn't want to believe Pierre, especially the fact that she would ever be related to Seto, who was proven to be so despicable. Pierre told her that he will never lie to her, but Sharon backed him off with Seto's testimony of Pierre having an affair. Pierre clarified her that he was attending to Shizuka's son for medical work, not Shizuka for an affair. Sharon scolded him for doing medical work while he was actually supposed to be retired from medical practice, but Pierre told her that he actually didn't retire from medical practice since he kept his medical license up to date and secret from her. Sharon blew off and told him that her father was right about him being difficult for not being able to make up his mind. Sharon asked him rhetorically, "Are you kidding me to ever defend a client who goes against your own principle to do the next right thing? And how many times had you ever done so in your career? You could fight for them, but what about me who actually needed you?" Putting his foot down for Sharon's naivete and lack of self-worth, Pierre told her that while they loved each other, they felt that they deserved better and only loved each other for what they could give in compensation of their guilt for not fulfilling their promises to be together. Their engagement was cut off afterwards.

When Pierre heard an alarm that went off from an armed scuffle involving Seto, Sharon, and Skander, Pierre rushed to the scene after hearing successive gunshots after the alarm. When Sharon failed to stop Skander, Seto fought Skander alone with the gun in both of their hands. When the gun was accidentally pointed to Sharon's direction, Seto saw Pierre pushing Sharon away and remorselessly pulled the trigger and Pierre took the bullet for her. When a devastated Skander realized on who just got shot, he stopped fighting against Seto, and Seto ran off. Before passing out from a loss of blood, Pierre told a terrified, remorseful Skander to run and hide. Dmitri and Ivan came to the scene with the help of Sharon and took Pierre to the hospital. The Trifonov family called the police for Skander, and Seto departed from Kaibaland.

At Death's Threshold
Unconscious and mortally wounded, Pierre was under an intensive care unit in the University of Tokyo's Hospital. Due to the severe degree of his wound, Pierre suffered major blood loss, and if he couldn't find a blood donor, he could die. Because he recently had donated blood to Mokuba and the hospital’s blood bank had a deficiency of Type B blood, Dmitri was desperately searching for another blood donor by checking his family for a compatible blood donor but to no avail. Skander, who hid in the hospital and had Type B blood, submitted himself as a blood donor, and after seeing that his blood type was compatible and eligible for donation, Skander went with Dmitri to do a blood transfusion, saving Pierre's life at the last minute.

Sharon v. Seto
The doctor gave Sharon the bloodied koseki and contract that was in Pierre’s hand, and Sharon finally believed Pierre. While Pierre was recovering in the ICU, Shizuka encountered Sharon and revealed that she knew Pierre for a short period of time when he first came out of Ravencroft after his trial regarding the Chameleon case. Shizuka explained her everything that Pierre was only seeing her because of her son Shinji who was diagnosed with open-angle glaucoma. Shizuka apologized for not telling Sharon about the fact that she was a single mother and involving Pierre in her problems that made Sharon think that Pierre was betraying her and ruining their relationship, but Sharon told her not to worry about that because Pierre was always trying to help because he always cared.

When Seto came to the scene and told Shizuka to let him speak to Sharon, he insensitively asked Sharon how was Pierre. Sharon was sickened with Seto, telling him angrily that he shot Pierre on purpose, and Seto denied that and said that it was an "accident". Sharon told him that she saw him pointing the gun to Pierre and shooting him down. When the two fought, Mokuba came around the hospital hall and stopped them from fighting, telling Seto to stop fighting against Sharon because Sharon was their biological half-sister and shocking Seto and the Chekov family. Mokuba tearfully blamed himself for Pierre's fate and apologized to Sharon that Pierre got hurt; Sharon hugged to comfort him and reassured him that what happened to Pierre wasn't his fault.

On the other hand, Seto scolded Mokuba that he shouldn't be fighting against him for the control of the company in the first place; after all, he practically raised him and chose to be a Kaiba because Gozaburo was the only one who could adopt both of them and Seto only did this for Mokuba and their future together. Sickened of Seto's indirect way of putting Mokuba in the blame due to her personal experience as an orphan and a former social worker like Pierre, Sharon firmly put her foot down and stated her disbelief in his reason of becoming a Kaiba because being adopted by a dangerous man could had put himself and Mokuba in danger. Seto was just only adamant to be a Kaiba for himself, even if that meant being a nasty man who hurt his family, especially his brother and father, and destroying many lives - Pierre could had been one of them. People like him had potential of hurting other people, especially children and those who had no parents. She understood her father to be despicable because of her father's terrible experiences that caused his mental instability, but unlike him and Seto, she and Pierre would not let despicable jerks like them get the best of them. When Seto was about to say something, Sharon told him to leave before he could hurt somebody else. Seto left them.

Sharon Finding Solace in Skander
As Mokuba left the hospital to finish the proxy war against Seto once and for all and the Chekov brothers gave their friend some space, a heartbroken Sharon broke into tears. After overhearing Sharon and seeing her as his unexpected heroine who practically stood up for him, Skander comforted her. Acknowledging that even though she said that she would not let a jerk get the best of her, Sharon remembered breaking up with Pierre after Seto tricked her and her father disowned her and realized that she was talking to her frustrated self, not just Seto. She also remembered her childhood dream of living in a happy home with a loving family and realized that it was never going to come true. Sharon blamed herself for what happened and revealed to Skander that she already knew who he truly was and the truth about Stefan’s intention of setting him up. She also told him that Pierre was constantly worried about his whereabouts and welfare for all of those years. Amazed by Sharon’s kindness, Skander told his story to Sharon as a lifelong orphan who shared his common dream with her to live a nice home with a loving family. Skander told her about his former guardians, Herr Wolfgang Weber, his wife Wanda, and Netz, who were actually his seven adopted children because Weber and Wanda were both orphans and both infertile. Even though the nature of being part of a hacktivist organization can be gruesome, Netz was generally a family of misfits who didn't belong to anyone in the world and everyone in there was a second family to him that they sacrificed their lives to protect him. The message of the story was that family is not always made of flesh and blood - it was made of people who love you and accept you for who you are. Skander helped Sharon to make her promise to fight for her own family, and Sharon helped Skander to make his promise to do the next right thing.

Meeting his Mother
When Sharon pleaded to Pierre to keep fighting so they can fulfill their dreams and promises together, Pierre actually heard everything of what Sharon said, and in his mind, Pierre got transported to a dream, where he finally met the spirit of his deceased mother, Katerina Ivanovna Yaroslav. Katerina sincerely apologized for leaving him as a baby and letting him live a difficult life that led him this far. After telling her that her sacrifice gave him a chance to live for the better, Pierre discussed with Katerina about the recent events and confessed his fear that he wouldn't have the strength to even face them. Katerina affirmed that strength will always be given to him when he trusts in its power and potential. As she said that trust is a fragile thing itself but a strong privilege once gained through responsibility and integrity, Katerina amended her former statement: Strength will always come from purpose and integrity. She advised Pierre to remember his purpose in life and make good on his promises that went with it. Finding strength in her words, Pierre promised to fulfill his promises this time and told her that he loved her, and Katerina replied with her love for him and Dmitri and told him to tell Dmitri that she was proud of him. He remembered and amended his promise to defend and serve for the greater good of his family and the people around him, gaining consciousness to return to the physical world.

Making Amends with Vladimir
When Seto came to know that Pierre was alive and saw that Mokuba was just Pierre’s shares away from taking over the company, Seto came into the hospital in the next morning with a bouquet of white roses, in guise to wish Pierre well and intention to kill him. When Seto came into Pierre's room, he put the roses down on Pierre's bedside, and he took out an empty syringe from his pocket, intending to kill Pierre via air embolism. When Seto was about to put the syringe in Pierre's IV, Pierre grabbed Seto's hand and pleaded to put the syringe down, resulting a scuffle between the two of them. Seeing Pierre being attacked, Vladimir attacked Seto on time, and Seto (who was actually Dmitri in disguise) got the real Seto arrested with the police. With the real Seto being taken away, Dmitri removed his disguise, and Vladimir finally embraced Pierre.

When Vladimir was about to apologize about the messed-up relationship between them and how Pierre deserved better than the mistreatment from him and his mother, Pierre was utterly relieved of Vladimir being truly alive and apologized to Vladimir for his selfishness and leaving him behind when he needed his help the most. Wanting to come clean, Vladimir revealed that under a different name (thanks to his father Sergei and Dmitri's secretive efforts to change his name in Russia), he was working for Schroeder Corporation as its Chief Business Officer so he could go on adventures for a living, and he was the same spy who attacked him in the labs, but the real spy who got the trade secrets was his accomplice Skander, who was revealed to be a professional hacker serving for Schroeder Corporation, while Vladimir just served as a decoy. He also revealed that it was Stefan who set Schroeder Corporation up; Stefan took advantage of Zigfried's underhanded tactics to expose Schroeder Corporation for corporate espionage that he even instructed Isono, who was revealed to be Stefan's loyal, undercover informant, to hide Vladimir in Stefan's old laboratory in and give him access to the high-security spots of Kaiba Corporation. Stefan also used Skander for publicity when he and Vasily were fighting for power in their company because of Vasily's exposure of Stefan's biological relation to Seto as a tactic to gain shares and bend the trusts of the shareholders. To make matters worse, Stefan placed Vladimir on a tight spot that Vladimir was currently in hiding after his secret was exposed on the media: While Stefan called the police on Skander, he instructed Isono to call the police on Vladimir for trespassing and involving in corporate espionage via impersonating Seto (they resembled each other), which explained how the police came to the hospital. A call from Isono, who changed sides with Dmitri against Stefan, to Dmitri interrupted them, saying that Skander just got arrested after submitting himself. Vladimir contacted the Meinhardt family about Skander's whereabouts.

Skander's Trial
Seeing the police in the distance and not wanting to hurt Pierre even more, Skander submitted himself to them in the next morning, feeling weary of finding a family and having no way to get home. Fully recovered from his wound, Pierre was determined to free Skander, contacting his Japanese lawyer friend, Yoshi-san, to clear him off the charges. During the trial, Pierre realized the suffering that Skander went through for many years, mostly because Seto blackmailed and double-crossed Skander's former guardian into hacking into the Meinhardt family's bank accounts and tipped off the police while falsely denying his involvement to the police. Pierre was devastated when he found out that Skander was fourteen when he got arrested and sent to prison for ten years; while finally understanding Skander's reason to attack, Pierre got into utter devastation and disgust that he was working for the man who had initiation to destroy an young orphan's life with ten years in prison while he was still young. While Vasily listened with his associates in Trifonov Corporation and saw Stefan's stern, determined face, he broke down into tears, saying, "He was just a kid! On byl prosto rebenkom, bratya!" Skander saw how genuinely concerned Vasily and Mads were, in contrast to Stefan's cruel determination to hurt him.

When Mokuba was called as a witness, Mokuba truthfully answered his questions in favor of Skander, but Mokuba testified against Seto that he was the real criminal for attempting to murder Pierre twice with newly reproduced surveillance videos of the attacks in Kaiba Land and the hospital showing Seto's clear intent to murder Pierre because of Pierre's support for Mokuba's hostile takeover and Seto's obsessive jealousy of Pierre. Rodion, who was called as a witness due to his tryst with Skander, presented videotaped evidence about Seto bribing Boris and overseeing Boris' torture of Mokuba. Seto attempted to retaliate until he saw a hallucination of his dead mother that shocked him. Feeling agitated, Seto experienced symptoms that Pierre can fully recognized to be schizophrenia; however, the court still questioned the validation of Mokuba's testimony to Seto, needing the confession from Seto. When Seto came back to his senses, Seto confessed that he attempted to kill Pierre, but under someone's instruction. Chastising Seto for his cryptic confession, the court vehemently asked Seto to answer the questions properly, but Seto kept on telling the court about the "one who told him to crush his competition" and describing it as one with a tail and wings before violently pleading Skander to show it himself. Seto laughed as he told the court that it was the one who told him to "not trust anyone" and "if he shows weakness, it will be over". A bailiff came to him and Seto violently attacked the bailiff until Isono saved the bailiff and stunned Seto with Dmitri's air pistol gun. The court cleared Skander of all charges due to lack of sufficient evidence and gave Seto an rare innocent judgment due to the insanity defense, but the court decided to relocate Seto into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo for treatment until he would be ready to appear for a second trial. The court also repatriated Zigfried von Schroeder back to Germany for corporate espionage.

A devastated Stefan was extremely angry to Isono to have his own son arrested and spare Vladimir, who was supposed to be arrested before the trial. A newly reformed Isono replied, "Let's just say that I made some new friends, Stefan-san." Stefan was unhappy with the outcome and cross with Pierre to free Skander. Pierre was disgusted that Stefan was brutally determined to send him to prison as a cruel means of display of Skander and how much he hated the boy for disrespecting his son who was nothing but despicable as he was. Pierre criticized Stefan for being short-sighted on his hypocritical attitude. While Stefan charged Skander for embezzlement, he knew about Seto’s charges, in which the degrees were more severe than embezzlement. While Stefan charged Skander for disrespecting his son by impersonating him, he disrespected his own daughter Sharon by leaving her in the orphanage for being a bastard child and disowning her for losing her Duel. While Stefan disliked the Kravinoff family for Sasha's former gold-digging ways, he disgraced Dmitri by his own contemptuous attitude and superficial way to help him out with his life. After Stefan insulted Dmitri's late wife Katerina in front of Pierre, Dmitri lost control of his frustration and tackled Stefan, trying to strangle him while Pierre tried to break them off. After Stefan stunned Dmitri with his stun cane by his leg, Vasily shot Stefan by the side with a knock-out air gun, saying that he really wanted to do that for years after regretting for not being able to help Dmitri after all they had been through.

Pierre and Sharon walked away together with the Kravinoff family after Sharon eventually told Pierre that they can have a new life together with or without Stefan’s blessing. Vasily said that Stefan wasn't a real father to Sharon like he promised to be: If Stefan wouldn't bless them, Vasily will, giving the couple his blessing and trusting Sharon's welfare and future to Pierre and the Kravinoff family. Resolved and decisive on his next move, Pierre decided to take Sharon under the care of his father and cousins and leave Japan for good.

Departure from Japan and Kaiba Corporation
At the same time when Sharon resigned her position in Trifonov Corporation, Pierre resigned his positions in Kaiba Corporation for the second time. At a short time afterwards, Mokuba concluded the proxy battle, taking the victory and the company by a landslide due to Pierre's early call to the major shareholders and the team's progressive efforts. Pierre and Sharon gave Mokuba and Yoshi, who became Kaiba Corporation's new General Counsel, the drafts of new employment policies and the final prototype of the Virtual Visors that were ready for a patent and wished the new administration good luck, and Mokuba gave them his farewells, thanking them in Russian and finally calling Sharon "Onee-sama" (honorable older sister).

Before leaving Japan, he adopted Daichi after preparing the paperwork ahead of time to relocate Daichi to New York, where he would had access to better education and disability benefits.

New Life in New York as a Newlywed
Pierre and his family went to the airport at the same time as Skander and the Meinhardt family, who got the good news that they were eligible to adopt him after a long wait. After telling Pierre that he would had been in better places if he would stay with Pierre back then and apologizing to Pierre for making him feel any more guilty, Skander decided to be adopted by the Meinhardt family after Mads and Drake Meinhardt, out of genuine love for the orphan, offered to adopt Skander, which Pierre agreed and apologized for not being able to protect him like he promised. Skander told him that he never blamed him for his misery and suffering. Finding the closure he needed for a long time, Pierre finally let go of Skander as Skander left for Germany with his new family and he left for New York with his own family.

When Vasily took over Trifonov Corporation, Vasily rendered the contract between Stefan and Sharon's mother Lena null and void, allowing Lena to see her daughter again. After hearing the good news, Lena informed Vasily of her employment in Boeing and her transfer from its branch in Moscow to the Pennsylvania branch after knowing Sharon's residency in New York. After getting Lena's new address from Vasily, Pierre and Sharon came down to Pennsylvania, and Sharon finally met her mother. Lena gave her blessing and agreed to their invitation to their wedding.

Pierre and Sharon got married and started their new family life in New York. Having experience in running a business herself, Sharon remotely opened her own law firm at home and offered pro-bono legal services and advice for small businesses. Pierre retired from legal practice and resumed his residency in the University Hospital in Columbia and Cornell as the resident psychiatrist, neurologist, and psychologist. Working in the hospital every other day, his schedule became more flexible than before, and he got to spend quality time with his family and friends, especially when he did volunteer work for the foster youth and give pro-bono medical work for the homeless that his family helped and participated. Both Pierre and Sharon resumed their duties in the Church as officers.

In the first few months as a newlywed, Pierre started to have a happier life of quality that he felt content with his new life as a fulltime doctor and father. When Daichi managed to learn Morse code and universal Braille and travel independently with his new guide dog, Snowy, Pierre registered Daichi in the Boy Scouts of America.

Catching Up with the Chekovs
One day, Pierre and Sharon watched an online mini-series hosted by Ivan and Pavel with one of the episodes featuring Mokuba, who successfully took over Kaiba Corporation as President and CEO and went straight away with his progressive agenda and the transition following Kaiba's automatic concession. The couple watched with pride and shock when Mokuba took his stand about the reasons for his hostile takeover and Kaiba's well-deserved early retirement. In the episode, Mokuba spoke his incensed anger against his brother for his actions that stood against everything that he swore to advocate for his own personal gain like his callous treatment of innocent families and his disgraceful acts toward orphaned individuals like Skander and the Netz organization that could had used some help from him. Unsurprisingly, that episode alone made the mini-series a huge success. Dmitri and Sharon literally had a celebratory toast to that last statement, but knowing about Seto's mental instability, Pierre couldn't help but feel sorry for his damaged peer who practically lost everything.

Ivan and his father Anton met Pierre in the hospital during his work hours, and after complimenting Ivan for his online mini-series and catching up with them, they showed NYT's published articles regarding the recent events, including Seto's brief incarceration in Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital after being officially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (as Pierre had thought), Zigfried von Schroeder's 5-year prison sentence for corporate espionage, and Stefan's arrest by the International Criminal Court. Ivan asked Pierre whether he really meant to resign from Kaiba Corporation because of what happened between Seto and Skander or not.

Pierre finally came clean about his legal career to them. He told Ivan that as a counsel for many other clients before Seto, he was helping other people without violating his principles; however, when he had someone like Seto as his client, Pierre realized the double-edged sword of his legal career: he had to play the loyal dog and defend his client regardless the moral wrongness of his client's actions and his moral quandary became worse because he and Skander were the primary witnesses of them and because of their lack of voice, many more lives were jeopardized. In spite of giving his clients a second chance of life, he regretted that he didn't call the cops on Seto years ago for he could had prevented the suffering of many innocent lives, including his own. When he watched Mokuba on Ivan's series, he knew that Mokuba was right, but it also showed Pierre's fault for not doing so proactively due to loyalty being his greatest virtue.

When Ivan told Pierre that it was not like Pierre to abandon someone like that, Pierre actually admitted that the last time he did something like that was when he left Vladimir when Vladimir actually needed help from him during the last few days before that night when he ran away. He thought that like Vladimir, Seto would be someone whose misbehavior was a cry for help, but unlike Seto, Vladimir would never betray anyone for his own gain. Anton told him that before Pierre helped Pavel overcome his depression back in Harvard, Pavel lost all hope of connecting to someone who can understand his problems without judging him: The only thing that Pavel needed and wanted that time was a second chance, so did Seto.

Ivan reminded Pierre the time when he snitched on Vladimir for forcing Pierre to write an essay for him in the final exams and Pierre never spoke a word against Vladimir; Ivan was shocked that time when he saw a servant who remained loyal to Vladimir and he had a feeling that there were many things he may never knew about Vladimir before he did that and Pierre might had understood Vladimir more than anyone else can that he could give him so many chances, even that would mean getting the shorter end of the deal. Pierre also remembered the reason why he didn't snitch on Seto to the police: Because of Mokuba who would had lost the only family he had left. After that visit, Pierre regretted for abandoning Seto like how he did with Vladimir many years ago; however, he decided to leave the personal matter between the brothers to themselves.

Dmitri later reminded him that it was never too late to make things right like the way Pierre helped him.

Saving Stefan
Striving to make things right, Pierre aided as an interpreter and supported Sharon to mediate with the counsel of the deceased Ambassador Long while in New York, and the counsels agreed to request dismissal from the entire action and all the parties involved after Pierre instructed Yoshi to make a fully executed settlement for the damages Seto caused with other conditions and forward an affidavit that Seto Kaiba was mentally unstable with the supporting medical documents that showed his diagnosis. When Seto himself was also subpoenaed to appear in court after his stay in the hospital was expired and he was shown capable to stand before court, Seto complied and he was transported to the Hague to be prosecuted.

Sharon and Pierre freed Stefan from the Hague, convincing the ICC that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute Stefan for murder because of his amiable relationship with Long Zhou and the fully executed settlement. In defense of Stefan, Sharon argued that Stefan’s testimony of the blood contract that was presented was faulty because the contract was a void contract from its unlawful consideration and Stefan was under duress. Sharon also made a settlement on behalf of Trifonov Corporation. Seto, who was repentant after knowing the consequences he placed on himself and his family, pleaded himself guilty after acknowledging his obsessions and ambitions that blinded him from his conscience and his family's needs, which triggered and aggravated his mental illness, and he stated his acceptance to the punishment that he deserved.

When Pierre was subpoenaed to appear as a witness to the false accusation of Joe Cord for larceny, Pierre truthfully told his account of the event, and he added that while Seto had committed a vicious crime for selfish reasons, Seto was the only family that Mokuba had left since they were separated from their father and if Pierre wouldn't spare him after saving Mokuba that night, Mokuba would be alone. He remarked that Seto acted without mercy due to his lack of knowing mercy because no one had ever granted him any form of mercy, and even after Seto tried to kill him twice, he already forgave Seto. After Xi-Li Zhou, the second son of Ambassador Zhou who was subpoenaed to appear as a witness, stated his testimony of the attack, he added that while the court must judge Seto for his wrongdoings to his father, he already forgave Seto as well after he acknowledged that he knew what was like to lose a father and his father was a compassionate person who would do the same thing. When Seto was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his crimes, the case was dismissed with prejudice, releasing Stefan and leaving Shizuka and Shinji in the care of Stefan, Mokuba, and Pavel.

Stefan returned to Japan with silence and confusion until he asked Dmitri why he, Pierre, and Sharon would free him after all he had done to them. Dmitri told him that he was there when Stefan’s older brother Viktor died in Operation Barbarossa and Dmitri promised Viktor to protect his family who was into hiding since the Revolution. Dmitri also admitted that no matter how poorly Stefan regarded him, it had always been a privilege to him to take care of Stefan and Vasily as his own children, just as Pierre had been watching over Sharon ever since Stefan left her, and no matter how their lives and priorities would change over time, he loved, loves, and will always love her just the same. Sharon also told him that she will fight for her own family. Even though Stefan hurt her for treating her respect and trust like a doormat for years, Sharon will still fight for him, only if he will be true to his own promises. After Stefan reconciled with Dmitri and gave his late blessing to Pierre, Pierre and his family parted ways with Stefan and returned to New York.

Katerina Ivanovna Yaroslav
In spite of the beliefs of many people that she couldn't conceive and have a child due to being a former Black Widow, Katerina unexpectedly became pregnant with her only child, Pierre, which was a miracle to her. Because general conditions was sickly and she and Dmitri were into hiding, Katerina got ill, but she gave every effort and all of her willpower to help her child to survive. Her efforts were worth it, except it required the sacrifice of her own life that she died in childbirth after safely giving birth to her healthy son, Pierre.

Through his mother, he was the grandson of Pravitel Ivan Konstantinovich Yuroslav, his old mentor while he was a Junior Ambassador in Russia. According to many people who knew her very well, Pierre inherited her determination and temperance. Pierre met her briefly while in limbo after being shot and mortally wounded, and he acknowledged and credited her to be one of the wisest people in his life, next to his father Dmitri. Pierre was offended when Stefan insulted her in front of him out of spite to him and Dmitri.

Dmitri Anatoly Nikolayevich Smerdyakov
Dmitri loved Pierre very much as his only son and the only remaining aspect of Katerina he had left after she died. Because of his exiled status and his lack of funds to take care of Pierre, Dmitri left Pierre in Myshkin Orphanage to protect him from his life of crime and exile. In turn, Pierre loved his father very much, in spite of what he had to go through without him. According to Pierre, Dmitri was his first "teacher" because he sent him books of foreign languages and literature, which made him fluent in many languages and eager to obtain a good education background. Because Sasha hired Pierre before Dmitri managed to have a chance to adopt his son, Dmitri was constantly worried about Pierre's whereabouts for many years. In America, there were times when he encountered Pierre, but he hadn't recognized him as his son. He felt a familiar sense of kindness that Pierre vaguely reminded him of Katerina. When Dmitri was Pierre's client, Pierre treated him with the utmost kindness and determination to cure and free him from all of his charges, but Dmitri didn't know that Pierre was his son until the end of the trial. When Dmitri found out, he was distraught, thinking that he was happy without him (which was untrue because of the fact that Pierre never knew his father). When he realized that Sasha confessed that she knew Pierre as her former servant and his true identity the entire time, Dmitri was angered that his son was kept in secrecy the entire time, just to get him in line with Sasha. Realizing his mistake and seeing Pierre who was rescuing him, Dmitri saved Pierre from Sasha's gunshot and survived.

In Mr. T, Dmitri was very reluctant to let Pierre work for Kaiba Corporation, not because it was far away from home but because Seto Kaiba was the one who placed Joe Cord into prison by falsely alleging him of larceny and making a deal with the Maggia to forge a loan to pay Dmitri's penal fines and use the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card as collateral for it was worth $1 million dollars. Because the past was over, he decided to let his personal charges against Kaiba go and let Pierre achieve in patent law by working for Kaiba Corporation. Dmitri's protective side came into action when he argued with Stefan in Pierre's defense and decided to adopt Skander as his own. He was also offended when Stefan insulted his late wife Katerina in front of Pierre, up to the point that he assaulted Stefan. When Dmitri told Pierre about the charges against Stefan and Seto after Stefan's arrest, Pierre was astounded that his father did not tell him this, but learning that Stefan was arrested to protect his son from imprisonment and knowing that Dmitri would do the same thing for him, Pierre was more than determined to save Stefan. Stefan noted that Pierre inherited his father's qualities of perseverance and selflessness.

Sergei and Sasha Kravinoff
Before knowing Pierre was his nephew through Dmitri, Sasha had his acknowledgment for Pierre's achievements; however, she took advantage of Pierre's kind nature to get him to do things for her until Pierre's naivete wore off. When Sasha knew about Dmitri's relation to Pierre, she kept Pierre's true whereabouts from Dmitri, knowing that Pierre would be a great enemy if used by Dmitri and Dmitri would out of Sasha's control and Dmitri and Pierre would claim the estate before her. Due to hysteria, Sasha started to hate both Dmitri and Pierre after Vladimir's death, claiming them to be responsible for Vladimir's madness and suicidal death.

When he served under the Kravinoff family, Pierre was once loyal to Sasha; however, his loyalty started to wear off when he realized the wrongness of some of Sasha’s actions and treatment of him and her children and he started disobeying her. In spite of that, Pierre avoided any probable conflict with her due to his pacifist nature. It was proved when Pierre told Sasha and Sergei truthfully that he tried to stop Vladimir's suicidal death. Sasha purposely separated Pierre and Dmitri to inherit the wealth of the Kravinoff family. When Pierre eventually knew of this, Pierre completely lost his loyalty to her and was disgusted for her treatment of her children and his father. It was shown when Pierre didn't bother to refute against Stefan when he insulted Sasha toward Alyosha and Ana.

Sergei, on the other hand, saw Pierre as a child worthy to be a Kravinoff, and he was more than willing to name him in his will, next to Dmitri. Out of the Kravinoff couple, Pierre respected Sergei more than Sasha because of his similarities with Vladimir.

Vladimir Kravinoff
Before knowing Pierre was his half-cousin through Dmitri, Vladimir, under his tyrannical mother's control, treated Pierre as no less than a servant, and he wanted Pierre to stay in line without going beyond his duties as a servant because of his acknowledgment of Pierre's skills and cleverness that he considered him as a potential rival. When Pierre was a kid, he was harassed, used, bullied, and was even forced to fight against Vlad's elitist gang of Boyars and Cadets (future Agents) like Rodion Razumikhin. Even though Vladimir initially dedicated his own life to make Pierre's life a misery, there were times when he wanted to be like Pierre because of everyone's fear of him, and he even asked Pierre how to be loved by everyone. Under influence of his mother, Vladimir coerced Pierre to a stellar essay for one of the final exams during secondary school, and when he got exposed, Vladimir was persuaded to whip Pierre with a coal-pressed flog that Pierre suffered third-degree burns and scars on his back. Vladimir felt intense remorse and secretly ironed his right hand afterwards because of Pierre being nice to him and not willing to put Vladimir in the mercy of the academy in the first place, in spite of Vladimir's callous mistreatment to him.

After Pierre escaped, Vladimir became an asset for his mother to take down Pierre by sending the family associate Gregor to spy on Pierre and the Chekov family, using his uncle Dmitri to frame Pierre for terrorism, and drowning Pierre to avenge Ana for her heartbreak. When he received his rite of passage and a few worthwhile moments with his own father, Vladimir realized the wrongness of his previous actions and the true nature of his relationship with his mother and wanted to reinvent himself like Pierre did, up to the point he managed to separate himself from his mother, arrest his mother's associates who were rigging the investigation, and free his uncle Dmitri out of pure strategy and cunning that his mother had underestimated.

When Vladimir worked for Schroeder Corporation in promise to live an adventurous, yet honest life, he was reluctant to become a spy for Zigfried, especially when he came to know that Pierre was working for Kaiba Corporation, the archenemy of his company. As Vladimir was in Kaiba Land trying to ask Zigfried to retreat back to Germany and find a more honest way to improve their company, he unfortunately witnessed Pierre getting shot that he blew his cover and got mad to his hacker accomplice Skander until Skander revealed that Seto accidentally shot Pierre with his gun. In the hospital, Vladimir hid without being found by his siblings and went on Pierre's side. When Pierre got conscious, Vladimir saved Pierre's life from Seto and apologized for what happened to both of them and told Pierre that he deserved so much better than this, and Pierre told him that it was his own fault for leaving Vladimir behind when he needed him the most. When he came back to the family at the end of Mr. T, he still had a cocky attitude, but he became more friendly, noble, and honest that he wanted to do business with his own hands, not with underhanded tricks from his employer Zigfried von Schroeder. He maintained a better relationship with Pierre than the screwed one in their shared childhood.

Pierre, in turn, cared about Vladimir because he acknowledged that in spite of how much he suffered from him, Vladimir tried his best to get out of his mother's will and be a better person. In spite of his sufferings from Vladimir and his immoral actions, Pierre remained loyal to Vladimir out of knowledge of Vladimir's aspirations to reinvent himself to a person he could be proud of and compassion for Vladimir's faulty morale and judgment due to Sasha's control of him. Pierre's scars on his back reminded of him and Vladimir. After Vladimir got exposed and expelled from the academy, he insisted that he followed his commands and the final judgment was beyond their control. After Vladimir was arrested, Pierre blamed himself for what Vladimir had become and his apparent suicide. When Vladimir was proven alive, Pierre was so relieved that he made amends with Vladimir and convinced him to return to the family, and Vladimir promised his return, which he did, as soon he was able to prove himself worthy to come back. He maintained a better relationship with Vladimir than the screwed one in their shared childhood.

Alyosha Kravinoff
Pierre met Alyosha when he was in New York after his release from Ravencroft Institute. Pierre accidentally got caught in the middle of a fight. Alyosha was fighting amongst a gang of criminals who were fighting against Spider Man, and he was mortally wounded and abandoned to die by his gang. Pierre found him on the siding and took him to the nearest hospital to heal his wounds. After being mistaken for the Chameleon, Pierre told him that he saved his life and he would die in jail if it wasn’t for him. Pierre even helped him escape from the hospital and the incoming cops. Ever since the first day when they met, Alyosha took him as a friend and owed his life and loyalty to him. After renouncing his criminal ways, he later helped Dmitri find Pierre because of his friendship with him. In turn, Pierre cared for Alyosha. After knowing their relation through their fathers, Pierre saw Alyosha more as a younger brother than a cousin. He loved him as his first friend in America.

Sharon Smerdyakov (née Trifonov)
Pierre's relationship with Sharon was once a platonic relationship when he raised Sharon after her father Stefan left her in the orphanage. By the time he held her when she was an infant, Pierre made a solemn vow to protect Sharon at all costs, both as her brother figure and her best friend. When he received books from his father, Pierre taught Sharon how to read and write in both Russian and English and how to count. Pierre also read Sharon her favorite book Madeline. When her father Stefan returned to retrieve Sharon from the orphanage, Pierre stood up to him again and gave him a second chance to raise her, showing his selfless care and love for Sharon.

When Pierre came to America, though, Pierre had an intense longing for Sharon after being kept in Ravencroft for three years, questioning the nature of his relationship with Sharon as children. When he got promoted from a substitute teacher to a teacher's assistant in Midtown High's Department of Foreign Languages, Pierre met Sharon as a transfer student. As a teacher, Pierre was impressed with Sharon absorbing the course's rigorous material under his teaching. Sharon recognized Pierre by his looks and his teaching style, which was very familiar to her back at the orphanage. Pierre and Sharon reunited with each other, and they started communicating each other on a daily basis without the school's knowledge. During the holidays, they shared their first kiss, leaving Pierre in a predicament that he was a teacher who kissed his own student. After spending their first night together, Pierre and Sharon decided to break up temporarily, while accepting that their relationship became more than teacher and student or mere friends.

Pierre and Sharon met again at Harvard College. After they balanced their academic and work priorities, Pierre and Sharon resumed their romantic relationship. After graduating from Harvard University, Pierre remained in Boston, so he could be there for Sharon in her graduation ceremony. While back in New York, however, Pierre and Sharon became distant because of their busy schedules in UPenn and Columbia University respectively. Because they couldn't spend time together during those times, Sharon often felt isolated from Pierre, but she used their work to rationalize Pierre's uncompromising schedule and increasing workaholism. Their priorities to each other changed as they become lawyers and Pierre took his nighttime residency in the hospital; nevertheless, their relationship lasted long that they got engaged after the events of Mr. S.

In Mr. T, Pierre and Sharon decided to reach to the apex of their careers before getting married. While Pierre stayed in New York to work as Oscorp's general counsel after his premature retirement from medical practice, Sharon traveled to Japan to work for Trifonov Corporation as the Special Counsel there. His priorities changed that he went to a great extent to work for Oscorp's Japanese partner, Kaiba Corporation, so he can make a living and let Sharon live with him while she could catch up with her father. When Pierre started a friendship with Mokuba, Sharon loved the fact because of her friendship with Seto's wife and secretary, Shizuka. Sharon started to have a sinking feeling with Seto because of Stefan's favor of him, and Seto took advantage of her weakness and gaslighted her with misinformation about Pierre having an affair. When Sharon was humiliated by Seto and disowned by her own father, Sharon became overwhelmed that she became furious at Pierre after Pierre told the truth about Seto and Stefan and admitted to do secret medical work after his retirement. Sharon felt that Pierre couldn't settle his priorities rightfully because of Pierre's workaholic attitude during the course of their relationship and how it greatly affected her. She broke their engagement after their spat.

When Pierre was shot protecting Sharon, Sharon regretted her actions and the lack of trust in their relationship. When Sharon and Skander talked about Pierre's presence in their lives, Sharon started to remember how much Pierre truly loved and cared for her, regardless what they had to go through. After Pierre recalled their broken engagement and how his priorities changed over time and worked against his relationships with others, he realized that he was selfish during those times and regretted that he didn't get to be with Sharon for all these times when she needed him the most. Both of them remembered their promises to each other. When he came to apologize to Sharon for his uncompromising character lately, Sharon forgave him and apologized him for projecting her resentment of her father and neediness to him and taking his kindness for granted. She decided to leave her family and live a new life with Pierre and his family with her uncle’s blessing. Disgusted with her father’s contemptuous attitude to Pierre and everyone else, she left without turning back. They reinstated their engagement and started planning for their new life together in New York.

After their experiences in Japan, their relationship had improved dramatically as the couple returned in New York. After helping Sharon to find her biological mother, they got married and adopted Daichi as their own. Pierre became more flexible in his schedule than before as he permanently retired from law and worked in the hospital and then voluntarily participated as a doctor in Doctors Without Borders, and he managed to spend more time with his friends and family. With him and other of his business clients like Oscorp and Meinhardt Industries, Sharon got unconditional support as she opened her own law firm at her home.

After clearing Stefan and Kaiba Corporation from all charges, Pierre told him that even though times kept changing, he loved, loves, and will always love Sharon ever since he kept her under his wing. Pierre and Sharon had a daughter, Proserfina.

Stefan Trifonov Sr.
When he met Stefan as a child in the orphanage, Pierre initially loathed him for leaving Sharon behind and treating her as an inconvenience. He was practically the first person Pierre had ever hated in his lifetime. Stefan's action was what led Pierre to respect his own father, in spite of being away from him when he was born, because while his father left Pierre out of sacrifice, Stefan left Sharon out of pride. When Stefan retrieved Sharon back from the orphanage, Pierre forgave him out of the conditions if Stefan will raise Sharon as his own child, regardless how she came to be. Stefan himself was impressed with the boy's maturity and bravery, which reminded him of Seto. Vasily's personal account on that day noted that Stefan also had a mix of admiration and fear of him.

Later on, Stefan met Pierre, and they had a more-hate-than-love relationship amongst each other. While Pierre respects him in a civil manner, Stefan became blunt with him on his career choices and his family, especially Dmitri. When Stefan found out that Pierre's father was Dmitri Smerdyakov, the Agent who raised and mentored him and his brother years ago, Stefan was reluctant to give his blessing to let Pierre marry Sharon, in spite of the couple's love for each other, because of his personal score to settle with Dmitri, not because of any care or concern for his daughter who he generally considered more as his follower than his daughter. Stefan showed a false sense of concern for Pierre, especially when it was expressed in a sinister way. When he found out that Pierre worked for Kaiba Corporation, Stefan admonished Pierre with factual words about Seto's extreme intolerance of competition, even though it has the slightest smug impression of tolerance and even close to sadistic delight in Seto toying with Pierre's "nice-guy" personality with the expression: Nice guys finish last. Pierre then spoke about the former statement Stefan said: The nice guys may finish last but they would be saved first.

When Stefan dismissed Skander for his scandalous actions, Pierre stood for Skander and chastised Stefan for his critical, unjust attitude against everyone and his high self-regard. When he spoke the bitter truth of Stefan, Stefan's reserved veneer broke that he insulted Pierre's late mother Katerina in front of Pierre, and Pierre did his best to stand firm and resolute from Stefan's insults and restrain his father from hurting Stefan. In spite of what happened, Pierre had enough compassion for Stefan that along with Sharon's mother Lena, who was an old friend to Stefan, he was the one who convinced Sharon to free her father from the Hague.

In the Hague, Stefan finally acknowledged the inner strength of the Smerdyakov family and regretted of not helping Dmitri and Pierre. When Pierre and Sharon freed him, Stefan found a new respect to the Smerdyakov family. In response to that, Pierre didn't regret that he gave Stefan many more chances than anyone could ever give, no matter how long it would take for Stefan to respect him.

Seto Kaiba/Stefan Stefanovich Trifonov
At first, Pierre found Seto a difficult person to understand and manage, comparing his arrogant, obnoxious attitude to that of his former master, Vladimir Kravinoff. When Seto and Mokuba interviewed him, Pierre read their personalities while answering questions and found Mokuba to be trusting to a fault and Seto to be aloof due to Seto's passive behavior in the interview. In response to Seto's attitude, Pierre turned the questions onto Seto and made him answer them by his mind tricks. Pierre read Seto's frustration with his mind games and reasoned that he was not saying anything. Seto, in turn, was irritated with Pierre's mind games, but he was impressed with Pierre's experiences in law and medicine and guts to initiate a conversation with him. Because of Pierre's high intelligence though, Seto firstly distrusted him as a person who he can control, and thus, he didn't hire Pierre, only to find that Mokuba hired Pierre without his permission. A competitive man, Seto found Pierre a threat when he found his wife and son with Pierre that he became increasingly insecure with himself, and adding salt to the wound, Pierre became a supporter in favor of Mokuba's leadership of the company.

In spite of Pierre being abused by his boss, it was in Pierre's purest nature to be loyal and forgiving, and after being told about Seto's past, Pierre defended him, similar to his sympathy with Vladimir. Stefan and Isono, the right-hand man to the Kaiba brothers, admonished Pierre for being merciful and tolerant to Seto's despicable behavior from his past history with the ill-tempered CEO. Seeing a lot of Vladimir in Seto, Pierre defended Seto for his actions numerous times, and it can be used against him. When Seto brutally defeated Sharon and publicly humiliated her, Pierre was shocked of his nasty, ruthless competitiveness and how brutal Seto can be; however, Pierre was no longer surprised with that because he saw that trait coming from Stefan, who was found out to be Seto's biological father. When Pierre told Sharon the truth of Seto and Stefan, Sharon was very distraught, and because Pierre was defending Seto, Sharon reasoned it to be an act of loyalty and broke her engagement with Pierre due to his relationship with Seto.

When Pierre was mortally wounded and thus comatose from protecting Sharon, Pierre heard the heated discussion between Sharon and Seto, and he realized that he was serving a selfish, despicable traitor who hurt many lives, especially of his own family and many innocent people. When Seto was revealed to be the one who set young Skander to prison for ten years by Mads Meinhardt, who was a witness to one of Seto's ventures of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards (his father was a former owner that got drove to bankruptcy via a data breach that stole confidential information and access to the company's bank accounts), Pierre was shocked and disgusted to ever defend Seto, up to the point of leaving him like how he left Vladimir.

After discussing about this with the Chekovs and remembering the remaining good in Seto, Pierre decided to make things right by legally helping Yoshi to set him free from the charges and releasing Stefan for him to reunite with his family. After giving Seto treatment, Pierre reconciled with Seto.

Trivia

 * Pierre's hometown was Uryupinsk at Volgograd, Russia. According to one theory, Uryupinsk was derived by the word "урюпа" (uryupa), which means "untidy person". Pierre's surname Smerdyakov means "son of the reeking (untidy, stinking) one".
 * In the Breakfast Club, Pierre was considered to be the "brain".
 * His birthday was revealed to be September 25, which made him exactly a month older than Seto, a month younger than Ivan and Pavel Chekov, and two months younger than Vladimir, whose respective birthdays were October 25, August 25, and July 25.
 * With his birthday, his Zodiac sign was Libra, and Libras are known for their sense of diplomacy, sociability, and imagination.
 * Like his father and daughter, Pierre was a vegetarian due to the moral opposition of animal slaughter.
 * His favorite band was Queen, and his favorite member of the band was Brian May because he was a vegan and an animal rights activist. He dedicated the Queen songs "Killer Queen" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" to Sharon and Freddie Mercury's rendition of "The Great Pretender" to Dmitri.
 * Besides reading Dostoevsky novels, Pierre's favorite leisure activity was playing his guitar. According to Sharon, who was also an avid Queen fan, Pierre had an electric guitar and he could play Brian May's solos in the songs "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Killer Queen". He also had a classical guitar.
 * His favorite movies were Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon (both from the Hannibal Lecter franchise), and his favorite characters in the film were Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham. He greatly considered Hannibal Lecter as one of his inspirations in being a psychiatrist and a neurologist.
 * His favorite childhood book was The Adventures of Tintin. Coincidentally, he greatly resembled Tintin in his appearance and personality, and he named his pet dog Snowy after Tintin's dog with the same name.
 * He had two pets: a Russian Blue cat named Eva and a white Siberian husky named Snowy that served as Daichi's guide dog.
 * He rarely drove a car; instead, he drove a motorcycle in both New York and Japan.