Chapter 287

As Tenjou Hikari drove away from the sea surface and casually looked at the power the Earthbound Squid had given him, those Security Police guarding the shore briefly experienced some commotion.

A person with blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a luxurious formal suit, drove a luxury sports car from the Upper City to the shore.

As soon as he appeared, he triggered exclamations from the police, because they all recognized that this was a noble duelist who often appeared in magazines and advertisements in the center of City!

After this noble arrived, he first reprimanded the Security Police led by Ushio for their incompetence.

Why had they not arrested the interdimensional person Tenjou Hikari until now?

If you worked harder every day, spent two more hours a day on the pursuit, and used your spare time for work, wouldn't you have succeeded long ago?

Just like him back in the day, he was also mining in the mines, twenty-four hours without stopping, and that was how he worked his way up to this position.

This kind of talk might fool the lower-class people who didn't know any better.

Although Ushio kept his head down and responded, he felt disdain on his face and muttered in his heart.

Who doesn't know that your family has been passed down for generations and owns three mines? You mined in the mines? You were probably vacationing in the artificial park near the mines, right?

However, although he knew this noble was full of nonsense, for the sake of his job, he still lowered his head and responded.

"Sigh, a bunch of people with no ambition." The noble shook his head, turned around, and looked at the beach.

At this time, Tenjou Hikari had already returned to the beach.

He caught a glimpse of the police surrounding the driveway and the noble who had rushed over from afar, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"You must be the dimensional traveler, Tenjou Hikari, right?" the noble said with a grin, "I am the Earl of Great Mountain of City, Finger."

"Tenjou Hikari."

The noble raised his right hand: "You have been wanted in this dimension all along; you must be very troubled, right? Hehehe, if you can defeat me in a duel, then I can take the initiative to cancel the warrant for your arrest."

"Moreover, as a God's Envoy, you must also want to duel other God's Envoys to gain more power, right?"

Tenjou Hikari raised an eyebrow.

"Fine." Tenjou Hikari prepared to push his bike onto the track.

"No, that's not necessary." Finger shook his head, "I won't participate in that kind of duel invented by commoners."

What?

Tenjou Hikari couldn't help but knit his brows together.

Although he knew the nobles of this world were all outrageous, being outrageous to this extent was really going a bit too far.

Earthbound God duels require Turbo Duels to draw "Earthbound Geoglyphs"; if he doesn't even participate in a Turbo Duel, how is this geoglyph to be drawn?

Furthermore, Turbo Duels were born in this dimension in pursuit of freedom and are related to the several major roots of "Synchro"; not even participating in a Turbo Duel...

"Ha, how about that, a huge concession, right? After all, if it were a Turbo Duel, as long as I drive, with the speed of my bike, you would absolutely never catch up to me. If you finish the run like that, you'll lose."

He hadn't considered at all that the duel might end quickly.

"Heh... that's fine too." Tenjou Hikari thought about it and didn't mind too much.

He only needed to get what he wanted.

As for the thoughts of the people in this dimension, let Yusei and the others worry about that.

Tenjou Hikari removed his Duel Disk; after the Duel Disk was mounted on his arm, it flashed, automatically unfolded, and revealed the futuristic-looking slots.

Finger's Duel Disk looked quite flashy, glittering with gold.

"Duel!" x2.

Following the start of their duel, a small policeman next to Ushio asked: "Captain, if Earl Finger loses, are we really going to let that Tenjou Hikari go?"

He was a bit worried about the blame from his superior.

Ushio snorted coldly.

If it were before, he would definitely have said that with a noble intervening, there would naturally be no problem.

But now, he couldn't say such things.

Because based on his experience, he dared to conclude that if Finger lost to Tenjou Hikari in this match and let Tenjou Hikari leave at will, then their squad of police would definitely be made the scapegoats; by then, Finger would have done nothing wrong, and all the problems would be theirs.

Salary deductions would be the least of it; demotion or even dismissal might very well happen.

"As the host, how about you let me go first?" Finger said with a chuckle.

Tenjou Hikari glanced at him, casually gestured, and signaled for the opponent to do as he pleased.

Finger, LP: 4000.

Tenjou Hikari, LP: 4000.

"Hahaha, you've fallen for it, Tenjou Hikari!"

Just at this moment, suddenly, from higher up the coast, a person's voice rang out.

A man wearing a purple military uniform laughed wildly, jumped down from the sky, and landed beside Finger.

Fusion Army?

Tenjou Hikari immediately frowned.

The Fusion Army is actually here?

Tenjou Hikari was a bit surprised, but not shocked.

After all, in the original work, the Fusion Army collaborated with the nobles of the Synchro Dimension to develop various Synchro-Fusions; even the "Empowered Emperor" he was currently manufacturing was mass-produced by the Fusion Army using technology.

Tenjou Hikari was only surprised that they had appeared so early.

"Who is he?" "Don't know." "Looks like a soldier?" A group of Security Police immediately started discussing in a chaotic manner.

"Hehehe, sorry, Tenjou Hikari, this is military strategy." Finger looked quite self-satisfied, "A duel is not just a matter within the field; even outside the field, it is very important.

I had already learned your information through this Lilos."

"Tenjou Hikari, didn't expect it, right? While you were adventuring in this dimension, we of the Fusion Army had already cooperated with the nobles here—in a foreign land, even Cronus cannot save you!

Prepare yourself for death!

This time, you are absolutely finished, because the Professor has already arrived in this dimension, and you will absolutely not be able to leave——"

Tenjou Hikari, who had been indifferent, suddenly widened his eyes upon hearing that [Leo Akaba] had actually come to this dimension in person; his aura changed abruptly, and he stared at that Lilos.

A purple air wave, as if tangible, surged up from beneath the beach; even though they were standing on high ground, Lilos felt for no reason that Tenjou Hikari below was beginning to grow crazily, looking down at him!

"Ha... Leo Akaba is in this dimension... ha." He couldn't help but grin, his teeth almost entirely exposed, completely unlike his usual demeanor.

This change made Lilos instinctively take half a step back.

In this instant, he felt "horror."

Even if Tenjou Hikari was famous in the Fusion Army, he had previously only regarded Tenjou Hikari as an opponent.

But when he saw Tenjou Hikari's abnormal aura in person, he finally realized why so many members within the Fusion Army feared Tenjou Hikari, and why so many members... secretly admired Tenjou Hikari.

"Hmph, no matter what you do, you have already lost half of this duel from the very start."

"That's right." Finger on the side didn't know the situation, laughed twice, and then drew a card from his deck, "I had long since learned about the problems with your deck from the gentleman of the Fusion Army.

Ha, even though you've dueled many times in our dimension, we still haven't figured out the weakness of your deck, Tenjou Hikari.

Because your deck seems to be an [All-Fusion] deck, right——

Then, take a look at this card given to me by the gentlemen of the Fusion Army!"

"Discard the [Fusion] from my hand to the Graveyard, activate the Continuous Spell Card," a ferocious smile appeared on Finger's face, "Fusion Destruction!"

Fusion Destruction?

Tenjou Hikari frowned, recalling this card.

"Send 1 [Fusion] from your hand to the Graveyard to activate. Banish up to three Spell/Trap cards with [Fusion] in their name from the opponent's deck; for each card, inflict 300 points of damage to the opponent!"

"Not only that, as long as this card is on the field, every time you activate a Spell/Trap card with [Fusion] in its name, this card can activate its effect. Negate that activation and destroy it. And inflict 300 points of damage to you!"

Tenjou Hikari couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

"I had already heard from Mr. Lilos about the important components in your deck—so, I will banish your [Substitute Fusion], [Fusion Recovery], and [Instant Fusion]!"

Tenjou Hikari's Duel Disk responded automatically; three cards flew out from the deck, floating before Tenjou Hikari's eyes, then were shattered like waves, turning into purple powder, and dissolved before Tenjou Hikari.

Tenjou Hikari LP: 4000→3100.

"Hahaha——"

Under Lilos's wild laughter, Tenjou Hikari's expression became increasingly cold.