Chapter 24

Although it sounded like this man in purple clothes didn't seem so hateful, Manjoume hadn't forgotten that this person had defeated "Yuki Judai" and was the person he must defeat.

So, after focusing his attention on the duel and no longer being affected by external things, he immediately covered two cards in his spell/trap area: "Set two cards, end turn."

"Then, my turn—" Tenjou Hikari drew a card quickly and directly showed a spell card from his hand. "Activate normal spell, Instant Fusion!"

Fused so quickly!?

Manjoume was shocked in his heart.

"Pay 1000 life points. I can special summon a fusion monster of level 5 or lower from the extra deck as a fusion summon. The monster special summoned by this effect cannot attack, and is destroyed in the end phase."

Tenjou Hikari LP: 4000→3000

"Fusion Summon—come, Thousand-Eyes Restrict!"

The evil god full of eyeballs flew out of the card. Just looking at it, one would feel uncomfortable and disgusting.

"Thousand-Eyes Restrict?" Manjoume saw this card, was slightly stunned for a moment, and then without hesitation, decisively opened the set card. "Wait, when you special summon, I activate the trap card—

Burst Breath!"

Under the attention of all candidates and teachers, the Wind-attribute armored dragon began to take a deep breath, and then frantically spit out hot flames.

"The effect of this card is to offer a Dragon-type monster on the field as a tribute. Destroy all monsters on the field with defense power lower than the attack power of that monster!"

"Armed Dragon's attack power is 1900 points, Thousand-Eyes Restrict's defense power is naturally 0, so—destroy it!"

The emerald dragon breath frantically penetrated, blowing the evil god into powder. At the same time, it also seemed to have exhausted its strength, slowly turning into light spots and disappearing on the field.

"Eh? Why did Manjoume use this trap card?" Marufuji Sho, who was watching the duel and was very low-ranked so very idle, looked at the duel on the field and couldn't help but ask.

"No. That won't work." Someone interrupted his thoughts.

"Eh!? Misawa, you're here?"

"I've always been here!" Misawa Daichi's blue veins on his forehead were bulging. "Hikari claims to compete with me for the first place in the grade, of course I have to watch."

"So why did you say that just now? Isn't it possible to save a card without using Burst Breath?"

"No, you think too simply." Misawa Daichi shook his head. "You know this kind of thing, Hikari naturally knows it very well. Instant Fusion is a powerful card with side effects. As a fusion duelist, he knows it better than you and me.

Then, he will naturally find a way to avoid this kind of thing."

"Haha, for example, Flame Sword Domain!" Judai on the side interrupted and said in advance, "I have seen him use this combo before."

"Oh—" Sho finally realized it.

"But Manjoume doesn't even know who Tenjou is..." Misawa Daichi crossed his arms and thought, saying, "Does he know what cards are in Hikari's deck? He would make such a decision at this time. As expected of that disciple of President Kaiba."

"This is instinct, instinct!" Judai laughed on the side, "The duelist's instinctive reaction! As expected of Manjoume!"

Yes.

Manjoume's operation just now came entirely from "instinct." He knew Thousand-Eyes Restrict and its effect, but if he thought about it purely ideally, there was no need to do so at all, but he still chose to blow up the field because he instinctively felt that if he didn't do this, it would only be more dangerous!

Tenjou looked at his hand and shook his head helplessly.

"Then, I activate the Continuous Spell card, Future Fusion." Tenjou Hikari stroked his chin and covered another card. "Set another card, and end it like this."

"Then, I will open the set card at the end of your turn! Quick-Play Spell, Armed Dragon Lightning, special summon an [Armed Dragon LV3] from the deck!"

"Go, Armed Dragon!"

"Ga!" Accompanied by Manjoume's call, a small flying dragon flew out from the depths of his deck.

"Next, my turn, draw—at this time, activate the effect of Armed Dragon LV3. In your standby phase, you can send this card to the graveyard and special summon an Armed Dragon LV5 from your hand/deck!"

"Evolve, my giant dragon!"

"Ao!!!" The cute little dragon clenched two fists, roared at the sky, the sound gradually moved from immature to strong, and the body became more and more sturdy.

Armed Dragon LV5, Level 5, Wind Attribute, Dragon-type, Attack 2400.

"Normal summon, Masked Dragon!"

Masked Dragon, Level 3, Fire Attribute, Dragon-type, Attack 1400.

"That's it, attack directly with Armed Dragon—"

Tenjou Hikari LP: 3000→600.

"Next, Masked Dragon attacks directly!" Manjoume was slightly excited. As long as this attack succeeded, then he would win—

"Too naive, I open the set card, Quick-Play Spell, Scapegoat!"

"!!"

The classic four sheep of red, blue, yellow, and pink. Seeing these four sheep, Manjoume, who had just been filled with the excitement of "victory" and "winning against Judai," suddenly came back to his senses, and then, as if splashed with cold water, calmed down completely.

Each sheep is equivalent to a shield with 0 attack and defense!

"Actually Scapegoat..." Seeing the four sheep standing quietly on the field, Manjoume was even more nervous. "You could have used Scapegoat at the beginning to reduce the damage received, but you didn't use it.

You knew the effect of Armed Dragon, and didn't want Armed Dragon to evolve, right?"

Tenjou Hikari nodded, looked up, and talked nonsense: "The student from the North Academy before also used Armed Dragon. Although his performance was not very good, I specifically looked at the effect of Armed Dragon after that. So I know that Armed Dragon LV5 can evolve into LV7 after destroying a monster in battle, right?"

"Wu..."

"As expected of Hikari." Misawa Daichi couldn't help but exclaim, "Even I didn't know Armed Dragon LV5 before..."

"Knowing yourself and knowing the enemy is also part of fusion!"

"Big Brother, what you just said is really handsome." Marufuji Sho was a bit surprised, turned his head and looked at Judai admiringly. He didn't expect Judai to say such handsome and seemingly reasonable words.

"Hahaha~" Judai scratched the back of his head and laughed, "Hikari said it in the other dimension before!"

"...Well, that's true." Marufuji Sho turned his head awkwardly to look at the duel.

In short, seeing that he couldn't kill Tenjou Hikari in seconds, Manjoume could only destroy a pink sheep with Masked Dragon.

"Just in case... I set a card and end the turn!"

As expected of a duelist who can defeat Judai, he really can't be underestimated.

Knowing yourself and knowing the enemy?

He actually heard the conversation of Judai and others, but he was not interested in talking to others during the duel, nor did he want to accept others' reminders during the duel.

It's just...

He recalled the previous "training" and felt a bit sweaty.

He trained with the company's AI for a month, but that AI only used the Hero deck—

"It's my turn." Tenjou Hikari drew a card, "I also activate the effect in the standby phase. According to the effect of Future Fusion, in the first standby phase of your own turn when this card is activated, show a fusion monster to both sides for confirmation, and send the fusion material monsters decided by that monster from your deck to the graveyard."

Tenjou Hikari showed an "Elemental HERO Flame Wingman."

The next moment, Manjoume suddenly stood up!

Eh eh eh, right right, the feeling is here!

Seeking recommendations, seeking monthly tickets~

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(End of chapter)