Chapter 282: Paying the Price (9k for monthly votes)

"My turn."

Swish—

Yusei drew a card.

Because he didn't lose any life points, his speed remained the same as Kiryu's.

However, when he saw the card he drew, he pursed his lips slightly.

He sent this card to the card area on his left hand, placing it in the hand card position.

"If the opponent controls a monster and I control no monsters, this card can be Special Summoned as a Level 4 monster!"

"Level Warrior!"

A monster that looked like a red warrior from a sentai show jumped onto the field. There was a five-pointed star drawn on his head. After he appeared, the star on his face flashed, and a projection of a star was added to his forehead.

Level Warrior, Level 3, Light, Warrior-type, ATK 300.

Level Warrior, Level 3 -> 4.

"Then, Normal Summon, Rogue Synchron!"

A green robot appeared on Yusei's field.

Rogue Synchron, Level 4, Light, Machine-type, ATK 1600.

"Tuning Level 4 Rogue Synchron with Level 4 Level Warrior!"

"A flash of light cutting through the starry sea!

Let the pulse of the soul roar in the world!!

Synchro Summon!!

Stardust Charge Warrior!"

Light shone on the dark track, and Stardust Dragon appeared again, only this Stardust Dragon appeared more holy and more shining.

Stardust Charge Warrior, Level 8, Light, Dragon-type, ATK 2500.

"The Synchro Monster summoned using Rogue Synchron as a Synchro Material gains 600 ATK until the end of the turn, and its effects are negated."

"2500 plus 600, ATK reaches 3100!"

Stardust Charge Warrior, ATK: 2500 -> 3100.

"Battle, Stardust attacks your Infernity Doom Archfiend!"

Stardust spun his body, turned into a golden whirlwind, and pierced the demon. Kiryu just smiled but didn't activate any cards.

Rather, he actually had no cards he could activate right now.

In the next second, Stardust Dragon instantly pierced the demon, then took the opportunity to flip Kiryu over and slam him into the purple flames nearby.

The flames burned his soul, but he didn't scream in pain, instead laughing again: "Hahahaha, really good, really great, this is the feeling of battle! Yusei! You were the first to cause damage, well done, hahahaha—"

Kiryu, LP: 4000 -> 3100.

Yusei frowned, looked at the card on his left hand, and set a card: "Set a card, end turn."

"My turn, draw!"

"Heh... really unlucky, Yusei." Kiryu looked at the card he drew and couldn't help but hook the corner of his mouth, "Activate Continuous Spell card, Infernity Launcher!"

A cannon barrel stood on his D-Wheel, aimed at himself.

"As long as this card is on the field, once per turn, you can send 1 Infernity monster from your hand to the Graveyard during the Main Phase."

"Discard hand?" Crow frowned.

"...So that's it," Jack understood, "Infernity's effects are always cards that activate when the hand is 0. This card is a Spell card that exerts Infernity's power to the maximum extent."

"It's not just that simple, Jack~" Kiryu smiled eerily, "Infernity Launcher's other effect. When my hand is 0. Send this face-up card in the Spell & Trap Zone to the Graveyard, and Special Summon up to 2 'Infernity' monsters from your Graveyard."

!

"What?"

"So strong!"

"What a powerful card—"

You have to know, the famous "Monster Reborn" can only revive one monster.

This card can actually Special Summon two at once, and more importantly, the Special Summoned monsters still have effects!

"Send Infernity Launcher to the Graveyard, revive Infernity Sage and Infernity Doom Archfiend from the Graveyard."

"Activate Infernity Doom Archfiend's effect, negate your Stardust's effect!"

"Then I activate Stardust's effect, once per turn, target 1 face-up card I control, that card cannot be destroyed by effects or battle. This effect can also be activated during the opponent's turn."

"Ha—then, I activate Trap card, Infernity Suppression!"

Kiryu laughed grimly: "If you control an 'Infernity' monster, activate when the opponent activates a monster effect. Negate that effect. After that, inflict damage to the opponent equal to that monster's level x 100."

"A card that wasn't activated last turn... Indeed, Yusei only activated Stardust's effect just in case last turn, but this turn, if Stardust doesn't pass, then there's no way to protect itself."

"Activate Trap card!" Unexpectedly, when Kiryu was laughing wildly, Yusei suddenly opened his set card, "Counter Trap, Damage Polarizer!"

"Activate when an effect that inflicts damage is activated. Negate that activation and effect, and both players draw 1 card!"

"Tsk..."

A shield of light appeared in front of Stardust, splitting the flames and preventing the invasion of the flames.

"Beautiful!" Crow shouted in surprise.

"Damage Polarizer! How wonderful." Jack couldn't help but say.

"Eh? What's wrong with Damage Polarizer?" Carly asked suspiciously.

"At this point, Yusei must have seen it too. The strongest moment of Kiryu's Infernity deck is when the hand is 0. Only then can Kiryu's monsters, Spells, and Traps exert their strongest effects. And Damage Polarizer not only blocked the damage but also made both players draw cards. Worthy of Yusei."

Jack evaluated.

"Tsk..." Seeing his trap negated, Kiryu had no way.

So, the two could only draw cards at the same time.

Kiryu took a look.

Tsk...

Infernity Destroyer, huh?

Cut.

Yusei also drew a card and took a look.

That's fine.

"Since it can't be destroyed by effects, then let's battle!" Although Kiryu was a bit regretful, he didn't feel sorry and laughed loudly.

"Tuning Level 2 Infernity Sage with Level 6 Infernity Doom Archfiend!"

Infernity Sage turned into black stars again, only this time, what he attached to was a 6-star monster.

Infernity Doom Archfiend turned into pitch-black stars. These stars connected to each other and then erupted with black lightning.

In the lightning, eyes rose one by one in the darkness.

"When the pitch-black curtain falls, the eye of the underworld will open!"

"Darkness, descend!"

"Synchro Summon—"

"Hundred-Eyes Dragon!"

The Dark Mark on his left hand began to flash with light. A twisted giant dragon covered in eyes appeared on his field and flew with him.

Hundred-Eyes Dragon, Level 8, Dark, Dragon-type, ATK 3000.

"ATK 3000!"

"It's the same as Jack Atlas's Red Dragon Archfiend."

"Is that his trump card?"

He laughed grimly, looked at Yusei, and said: "Yusei, don't blink, witness the power I obtained for revenge—"

"Hundred-Eyes Dragon's monster effect, this card gains the effects of all Dark monsters in the Graveyard!"

"What!?"

Not to mention Yusei, who was dueling, everyone who was paying attention to this duel was startled.

What kind of terrifying effect is this?!

"A... all?" Shinji was stunned on the side, but after being stunned, he felt a surprise like a divine grace, "Invincible! Really invincible! As long as this card exists, the world—Mr. Kiryu can definitely become the [Only God]!"

With such an invincible effect, how could anyone resist it!?

This is a monster that copies the effects of all Dark monsters in the Graveyard!

Tenjou Hikari's eyelids were also twitching wildly.

Hundred-Eyes Dragon... it was actually the original effect. Clearly, there was no "Dark Synchro" in this world, but there was actually the complete original effect.

This card could be said to be one of the most outrageous original cards in the original work. In the original work, this card brought Yusei untold pain and could be said to be the trump card among Kiryu's trump cards.

However, after Kiryu was completely resurrected in the original work, this card disappeared from his deck. Roughly calculating, the Dark Synchro monsters were probably projections of the Earthbound Immortal's power. Without the Earthbound Immortal, there was no such invincible monster, which was reasonable.

"Yusei, I want you to experience what despair is, what fear is, I want you to witness true power—let you, the traitor, live in fear forever!"

Yusei's expression under the mask could not be seen. He looked at Hundred-Eyes Dragon and said in a low voice: "Indeed, Hundred-Eyes Dragon's effect is shocking. It can be called an invincible monster.

But—the effects of the monsters in your Graveyard, those Infernity monsters, are effects that can only be activated when the hand is 0.

That is to say, the current Hundred-Eyes Dragon can only copy Infernity Doom Archfiend's effect."

He waved his right hand: "And Stardust Charge Warrior has already activated its effect on itself, so it cannot be destroyed by effects or battle!"

"Heh, but you still have to take battle damage—Battle, Hundred-Eyes Dragon attacks Stardust!"

"Activate Trap card, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow! Negate Hundred-Eyes Dragon's attack, and then set this card back."

"Beautiful, as long as Scrap-Iron Scarecrow is there, even if Hundred-Eyes Dragon's ATK is higher, it can be blocked."

Crow cheered.

"Even at such a dangerous moment, being able to achieve tactics through the cooperation between cards is really great!"

"Hehe... Yusei, you did a good job, but. Too naive! How could I forget Scrap-Iron Scarecrow?! Infernity Doom Archfiend's effect in the Graveyard: a Dark Synchro monster that uses this card as Synchro Material can attack monsters up to 2 times during battle!"

He pointed at Stardust Charge Warrior: "Hundred-Eyes Dragon, attack again!"

The eyeballs on Hundred-Eyes Dragon opened one by one. A moment later, this eerie dragon emitted terrifying purple light, then flew to Yusei's side and slapped Stardust with a claw.

"Ugh—" The terrifying power knocked Yusei away, slamming him directly into the purple flame wall of the track. The violent flames instantly swallowed him, and his car and clothes immediately showed signs of burning.

"Hahahahaha, hahahaha—" Kiryu laughed wildly in surprise.

Only, before he could laugh for long, he saw Yusei tighten the throttle after the initial cry of pain, actually running on the fire wall relying on the D-Wheel, then spinning and landing on the track again.

His smile disappeared immediately, replaced by astonishment.

Yusei, what on earth is this guy...

Yusei, LP: 4000 -> 3500.

"Hmph, really boring, not satisfied at all—end turn."

"My turn!!" Yusei roared, accelerating the car crazily, running out of the purple flames, and reappearing beside Kiryu.

He drew a card in the flames.

"Kiryu! Since you passed away, I have been thinking, what on earth happened to our world!"

"Ha?"

"I saw many people in the Lower City and encountered many things. Jack and I even had conflicts because of this, to the point where we parted ways for a period of time. I met people from another dimension and learned about their world from them.

I have been thinking, if this world were slightly better, would tragedies like yours not happen."

"What on earth are you talking about, Yusei?" Kiryu looked at Yusei with uncertainty.

He vaguely sensed that Yusei was evolving from the Yusei he was familiar with into a "Yusei" he couldn't predict or imagine at all.

"I want to establish a real opportunity for everyone to understand each other, a world where everyone can understand each other and understand each other's thoughts."

"You..." Kiryu was stunned, "Could it be that you became a [Signer] with this thought in mind?"

"...No." Yusei denied this.

Then, he started his turn: "Activate Stardust Charge Warrior's effect, once per turn, target 1 face-up card I control, that card cannot be destroyed by effects or battle.

Then, I activate Quick-Play Spell card—Meteor Stream!"

"Target 1 'Stardust' Synchro Monster I control. During this turn, if that Synchro Monster battles an opponent's monster, at the start of the Damage Step, that opponent's monster returns to the owner's deck."

"Oh! This way, you can defeat high-ATK monsters with low-ATK monsters." Crow cheered.

"Damn it—come on, Mr. Kiryu!" Shinji cursed in a low voice and then cheered for Kiryu.

"Battle, Stardust Charge Warrior attacks your Hundred-Eyes Dragon."

Kiryu raised his mouth: "Yusei, I do want to praise your dueling, but this level is not enough!

Activate Trap card, Enemy Alarm!

Activate when an opponent's monster declares an attack. Special Summon 1 monster from your hand. The monster Special Summoned by this effect cannot be targeted by the opponent for attacks as long as it is face-up on the field. The monster Special Summoned by this effect returns to the owner's hand at the end of the Battle Phase."

"Special Summon, Infernity Destroyer!"

Infernity Destroyer, Level 6, Dark, Fiend-type, ATK 2300.

"Special Summoning a monster card from the hand is to make the hand zero, right?" Carly Carmine also saw the situation.

"Hmm..." Yusei sighed softly, then stopped the attack, "Attack replay, I won't continue to attack."

"Set a card, end turn."

"Not attacking, you want my monster to return to my hand, right? Because as long as this card remains in my hand, my Hundred-Eyes Dragon can't use many effects—but, Yusei, this is just this level. If you don't even dare to take this kind of risk, you still want to be a savior?

Hahahahaha—you can't even save yourself!"

Yusei's pupils contracted sharply.

He remembered the past.

During a battle with a Duel Gang, he was pushed off a high building. At that time, it was Kiryu who risked falling down with him, grabbing his arm desperately, so he didn't die.

At that time, he had already made up his mind to let Kiryu live, and if he fell, he fell.

But Kiryu said that he was his companion, so he tried his best to save him.

Yusei seemed to fall into silence, and Kiryu had already taken the monster on the field into his hand.

"My turn, draw!"

"Hahaha, hahahaha, it seems everything is over, Yusei!"

"Activate Continuous Spell card, Void Wave! As long as this card is on the field, when you have no hand, the ATK and DEF of face-up 'Infernity' monsters you control increase by 400—but that's not important. You can send this card on the field to the Graveyard and send your entire hand to the Graveyard!"

!!

Everyone realized what this scene represented.

The countless eyes of Hundred-Eyes Dragon began to emit purple light.

"Battle, Yusei—hahahaha—" He pointed at Yusei's Stardust Charge Warrior, "Battle, Hundred-Eyes Dragon attacks Stardust Charge Warrior!"

"Then, I activate Stardust Charge Warrior's effect, let it not be destroyed by battle or effects!"

"It doesn't matter—"

"Activate Trap card, Scrap-Iron..."

"Useless, useless, useless!" Kiryu laughed loudly, "Hundred-Eyes Dragon gains the effect of Infernity Beast in the Graveyard. When this card attacks, you cannot activate Spell/Trap cards."

Hundred-Eyes Dragon flew to Stardust Charge Warrior's side, countless eyes lit up, illuminating Stardust Dragon, which was shining, and causing black smoke to rise all over its body.

Yusei, LP: 3500 -> 2500.

"Why?!"

"How did you lose 1000 life points?"

"Hahaha—" Kiryu laughed again, "Hundred-Eyes Dragon uses the effect of Infernity Doom Archfiend in the Graveyard. As long as your hand is 0, the battle damage inflicted to the opponent when this card battles an opponent's monster becomes double!"

Yusei's driving became very unstable, almost falling down.

"Heh, can't you hold on anymore? Yusei, don't make me completely unable to be satisfied—don't forget, Hundred-Eyes Dragon, which used Infernity Doom Archfiend for Synchro, can attack monsters twice in one turn!"

"Go, Hundred-Eyes Dragon, finish Yusei for me!"

Hundred-Eyes Dragon attacked again, knocking Yusei away with a dragon claw.

Yusei drove the car, spinning on the ground like a spinning top, almost falling.

Boom!

He fell directly into the fire wall and disappeared completely.

Yusei, LP: 2500 -> 1500.

"Hahahahaha—" Kiryu laughed crazily, "By the way, tell you, Infernity Guardian cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects when the hand is 0!"

Kiryu exerted extreme pressure, swearing to crush Yusei's spirit completely, but—

To his shock, Yusei actually stood up to the heavy pain and rushed out of the flames, looking at him with a firm gaze.

The eyes under the visor made Kiryu feel surprised.

"...End turn."

"My turn—" Yusei drew a card.

His clothes had already been torn, dark purple flames were burning on his body, and his body was visibly suffering.

But even in this situation, he was still holding on.

Up to now in the duel, Yusei was different from the Yusei in Tenjou Hikari's impression in every way, but if he had to say what was wrong, Tenjou Hikari felt that nothing seemed wrong.

Really strange.

"Activate the effect of Speed Warrior in the Graveyard. Banish this card from the Graveyard, target 1 Synchron in your Graveyard. Add that monster to your hand."

"I add Junk Synchron to my hand."

"Then, activate Spell card, Angel Scepter (Note 1). According to its effect, I draw two cards and discard one card."

He drew two cards and then threw Junk Synchron into the Graveyard again.

He looked at the cards in his hand, and one card after another appeared in his mind, connecting to each other, finally leading to a possibility—

Feasible!

"Activate Continuous Trap card, Fragment of Hope!"

"When a monster you control inflicts battle damage to the opponent, draw one card from your deck. If it is a Trap, destroy this card and you can activate that card directly."

"Heh—that also requires inflicting battle damage first." Kiryu was noncommittal about Yusei's behavior.

"Normal Summon, Runner!"

A monster wearing sneakers and hanging gold medals ran at high speed on the field.

Runner, Level 4, Wind, Machine-type, ATK 1100.

"Runner—" Kiryu was surprised.

"That's right, Runner! As long as this card is on the field, the ATK of all Synchro Monsters you control increases by 600!"

Stardust Charge Warrior, ATK: 2500 -> 3100.

"It exceeded Hundred-Eyes Dragon!"

"Well done, Yusei!"

"Battle, Stardust Charge Warrior attacks Hundred-Eyes Dragon! Stardust Impact!"

Kiryu's car shook slightly.

"Tsk—"

Kiryu LP: 3100 -> 3000.

"Because of Infernity Guardian's effect, Hundred-Eyes Dragon cannot be destroyed by battle!"

"Then Fragment of Hope's effect, I draw a card—" He drew a card, his eyes widened suddenly.

It's here!

"Fragment of Hope destroyed, activate Trap card, Miracle Trajectory! Target 1 face-up monster you control. The opponent draws 1 card from their deck. Until the end of the turn, the selected monster's ATK increases by 1000, and it can attack again!"

Tenjou Hikari vaguely felt that he had reproduced the classic—this card doesn't inflict battle damage to the opponent after being OCG-ized, so Tenjou Hikari basically never used it.

"Tsk—" Kiryu drew a card.

"This way, you have a hand!"

"Stardust Charge Warrior attacks again!"

Just like Hundred-Eyes Dragon attacked Yusei twice in the last turn, this time, Stardust Charge Warrior also attacked Kiryu twice!

Stardust Charge Warrior rode the wind and stardust, swooping down from the sky, piercing Hundred-Eyes Dragon.

Kiryu LP: 3000 -> 1900.

"...Hundred-Eyes Dragon's effect, when this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, select a card from your deck and add it to your hand."

Outrageous.

Tenjou Hikari only felt that this thing was really outrageous.

"I choose, Earthbound Geoglyph."

"Runner attacks!" Yusei called Kiryu with all his heart, "Think about it quickly, Kiryu, our friendship and bonds—"

"...Activate Trap card!" Kiryu suddenly widened his eyes, "My life is only dueling—I only believe in dueling! I won't believe you, traitor!!"

"Activate Trap card, Honor's Sacrifice!"

"Activate when your life points are 3000 or less and the opponent declares an attack. Negate that monster's attack, Special Summon two 'Sacrificial Stone Stele Tokens' to your field, and add 1 card with 'Earthbound Immortal' in its name from your deck to your hand!"

"What?"

"I add Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu to my hand."

Earthbound Immortal...

Tenjou Hikari looked at the geoglyph on the ground shining with eerie blue light. He looked at his left hand, and the Hound Dark Mark also began to resonate.

This posture was as if he and Kiryu had some bond, supporting him to deal with the Signers.

Wait!

Suddenly.

Tenjou Hikari grasped the point he had ignored before.

Why did he always feel that Yusei was strange somewhere? It turned out to be here—until now, Yusei's Signer mark hadn't lit up!

Conversely, Jack's Signer mark had long started to glow!

"My turn, draw—activate Field Spell card, Earthbound Geoglyph!"

The huge, unbelievable giant geoglyph reflected from the ground to the sky. Countless people, whether in the Lower City or the Upper City, could see this terrifying, huge geoglyph.

"Has it started..." Goodwin stood with his hands behind his back, looking at this scene calmly.

A huge stone heart was beating in the mid-air of the City.

Thump thump...

"Release the two tokens on the field as tributes!

Tribute Summon—

Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu!"

Suddenly, countless light spots rose and flew from all around. Shinji looked at those light spots in surprise, and after a while, he realized that this seemed to be one person after another, including security police and some people he was familiar with.

What's the situation?

"Ah—aren't these the people who used Earthbound Geoglyph!?" Crow shouted in horror when he saw this scene.

"What?" Shinji suddenly screamed.

"It's a sacrifice." Tenjou Hikari said on the side, "The call of the Earthbound Immortal requires sacrifices—requires the souls of living beings to awaken them."

Shinji opened his mouth. He saw a resistance member who had just come out with him to rescue companions today, and only felt that his heart had been stabbed hard.

"Da... damn it, but... it doesn't matter, this is a necessary... sacrifice." He gritted his teeth, trying his best not to look at those people.

"Kiryu, what are you doing—" Yusei questioned Kiryu loudly.

"Hehehehahaha—I want to thank you, Yusei. It was you who made me draw cards and destroy Hundred-Eyes Dragon, so I could gather them!

Now, let you witness the real [God]!"

Rumble.

In the earth, a huge stone man rose from the ground. Its body was burning with blue flames, and its figure was so high that it covered the sky and the sun. Even in this position, it could easily exceed the highest position of the Upper City and overlook the whole world!

Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu, Level 10, Dark, Fiend-type, ATK 3000.

"Is it another ATK level of Red Dragon Archfiend?" Carly trembled nervously.

"Ccapac Apu attacks!" Kiryu laughed loudly.

"Activate Trap card, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow—"

"Useless, Earthbound Immortals are unaffected by Spell/Trap card effects!"

"...Then meet it, Stardust, Runner!"

"Hehehe." The two monsters rushed up wanting to block it, but didn't expect to pass directly through Apu's palm, while Apu pointed directly at Yusei.

"What's going on?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Earthbound Immortals can attack directly." Kiryu sneered, "You're finished, Yusei!"

Boom boom boom—

The giant's hand fell slowly. No one could stop it, no one could resist it.

Bang!

A blue mushroom cloud like an explosion rose out of thin air.

"Hahahahaha, hahahaha—ha—ah?"

The smoke dissipated, but Yusei was seen rushing out of the smoke unscathed.

"How is that possible?"

"I discarded this card—Swift Scarecrow."

Swift Scarecrow, when the opponent's monster declares a direct attack, discard this card from your hand to activate. Negate that attack, then end the Battle Phase.

Kiryu remembered the effect of this card.

"Tsk, just playing little tricks... " Seeing this, Kiryu didn't care, "Earthbound Immortals cannot be touched—you cannot target them for attacks. Likewise, because it is on the field, you cannot attack directly either. You've lost, Yusei!"

"Hahahahaha—this world, it seems it will end soon. Let me think about how to create this new world after I become the messenger of the Only God? Hmm, sure enough, remove all the merchants and other things, and only keep the duelists. Hahahahaha—"

Yusei looked at the hand card on his left side, the card that had never been used, and fell into a long silence.

"No."

"Hmm?"

"I said no." Yusei said calmly, "There is one more possibility."

"I don't believe that hope will be cut off, and I don't hope that this world is destined to have only an apocalypse."

Kiryu narrowed his eyes.

Yusei closed his eyes, as if returning to that white world.

That desolate wilderness after the apocalypse where even breathing didn't exist.

[The battle between gods and gods cycles endlessly, have you really made up your mind to help one side?]

[Is it positive, or negative?]

[But it's all useless, no matter which side it is, this is the last choice for humanity.]

[Humanity... has no hope, unless... from the beginning, cut off 'Synchro'.]

"No!"

He suddenly widened his eyes.

Flames, storms, and the breath of the Earthbound Immortal made his body shake wildly.

Click—

The helmet, which had already suffered countless impacts, finally cracked, and thus, Yusei's current face was revealed from under the helmet.

"Yusei!?" "Yusei!" Jack and Crow exclaimed at the same time.

"How could it be!" "What is this—" The two women couldn't help but cover their mouths, not daring to look at the screen.

"You..." Kiryu forgot even anger and hatred for a while.

This Yusei behind him, the right half of his face, seemed to be eroded by something eerie, madly emitting black gas.

No.

It wasn't black gas, but... numbers?

That appearance was as if he had caught some bizarre infectious disease. It was also like being parasitized by a cyber evil god, madly growing tentacles.

No wonder—

No wonder Yusei hadn't appeared in public during this period, no wonder Yusei hadn't even taken off his helmet during this period.

"It doesn't matter, this is just a symptom of incompatibility with the [Artificial God]." Yusei didn't care about the pain in his body and focused on the duel, "Kiryu, I believe—in your heart, you are still our partner!

I believe that as long as everyone, as long as everyone overcomes difficulties together, then we can definitely correct the apocalypse of our world!

Since Hikari can shout [Fusion is the noblest summoning method], then we cannot and should not fear the power of [Synchro]!"

"What are you talking about—"

"What I want to say is... sorry. Kiryu—draw card."

He took a look at the card he drew: "Activate Spell card, Shallow Grave."

"It's, it's a Spell card that lets both sides Special Summon monsters!!?" Carly exclaimed.

"That guy—"

"You..." Kiryu looked at his good friend in a daze.

"I know, you experienced pain, I know you experienced death, I know you don't believe me. But it doesn't matter—I will use drawing cards, use helping you revive monsters, to make you believe, to make you understand my thoughts."

"According to the effect of Shallow Grave, both sides select 1 monster from their Graveyard and set it face-down on their field."

"I choose... Stardust Dragon."

"Hundred-Eyes Dragon..."

"Then, I release the face-down Stardust Dragon on the field and the Stardust Charge Warrior on the field."

"Release?" Everyone watching the battle was confused.

"Ah? Releasing two Stardusts?!" Shinji exclaimed.

Tenjou Hikari couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this.

Rustle—

The two monsters turned into starlight and dissipated.

A ball of fire burned on Yusei's hand.

Immediately after, the flames were thrown into the air, and a human face observed the human world through a mirror, revealing a compassionate smile.

Immediately after, mechanical limbs, shields, and wings appeared at the same time!

"Normal Summon, Timelord Metaion!"

Timelord Metaion, Level 10, Fire, Fairy-type, ATK 0!

That card Yusei had held in his hand from the beginning and never wanted to use!

Zzz—zzz zzz—

Yusei couldn't help but instinctively cover his right eye. The current even scorched it, emitting bursts of burnt smell. Only then did Kiryu realize why Yusei didn't have any fear after experiencing the attacks of Hundred-Eyes Dragon and the Earthbound Immortal.

Because he was already used to pain!

"But, its ATK is only 0!"

"It doesn't matter—Metaion attacks Hundred-Eyes Dragon!"

"Are you crazy, Hundred-Eyes Dragon's DEF is 2500! You will lose the duel directly—"

"Battle damage received by Timelord is 0."

Metaion held his hands in front of him, very casually rubbed a ball of fire, hit the face-down monster, and then just floated there, looking at the Earthbound Immortal with great interest.

What's the point of this?

Kiryu didn't understand.

The holy light slowly replaced the geoglyph in the sky. Unknowingly, the sky seemed to brighten.

"Metaion's effect, activate at the end of the Battle Phase in which this card battled. All other monsters on the field return to the owner's hand, and inflict 300 damage to the opponent for each."

"!!"

"Great, this way, both Hundred-Eyes Dragon and the Earthbound Immortal are solved!" Carly shouted excitedly, and then looked at Jack, hoping to hear Jack's agreement.

But when she turned her head, she saw Jack looking at the ground in a daze, as if he were a fool.

Crow's helmet fell to the ground without him noticing, but he didn't react at all.

At this moment, they finally realized.

Yusei had given up his identity as a [Signer] without them knowing!

He wanted to win this victory for the [Only God] as a [Human]—he wanted to take power to the human side!

Therefore, he accepted human body modification!

At this time, the mere few hundred points of damage made Kiryu not care so much. He just opened his mouth and looked at Yusei in a daze.

The Earthbound Immortal and the Timelord collided in the air, and the two real "gods" erupted with terrifying fluctuations.

"Ugh—"

"Ah—"

Yusei felt more and more unable to control the power of the god, and Kiryu also felt the anger coming from the Earthbound Immortal.

Zzz—

Bang!

Explosions began in various places of the entire geoglyph.

All power began to run wild.

Clang—

Yusei couldn't hold on after all, and was blown off the car just like that.

And Kiryu didn't fare any better. Under the backlash of the Earthbound Immortal's power, purple flames instantly swallowed him!

Seeing this, Tenjou Hikari hurriedly jumped onto his D-Wheel and leaped downward.

Didn't expect...

In the end, it was still "unscrewing the bolt" after all.

No wonder Yusei would ask him for help now.