Chapter 72: Festival Spectacle

In this world, buying cards is not a simple matter.

Some wealthy tycoons, even when buying cards, can only obtain so-called "rare cards" that look impressive at first glance but are merely high-attack normal monsters.

Meanwhile, knowledgeable duelists like Kuronos can't buy certain cards even with enough money.

For example, the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon," of which only three exist worldwide; the legendary god cards, "Three Sacred Beasts"; or the discontinued card "Heroic Destiny," whose designer died right after creating it.

Beyond these legendary and discontinued cards, there are others that aren't "legendary" yet are wildly popular, widely recognized, and Kancheng "idol" cards—

Dark Magician Girl.

In the original work, it was "a card only Yugi Muto possessed."

Yes.

This is a card that only Yugi Muto has—one and only one in the entire world!

Without exaggeration, in this world, Dark Magician Girl is a universally beloved "Duel Monster Idol," with countless works centered on her produced every year; yet no matter how many creators produce how many works, they can never obtain "Dark Magician Girl."

Because this card belongs only to Yugi Muto.

Keep in mind, even Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon exist in multiple copies, but Dark Magician Girl exists as only one—meaning, in other words, if "Dark Magician Girl" appears, it must be the 【True Dark Magician Girl】, 【Yugi Muto's Spirit】, 【Disciple of Dark Magician】!

Originally, Tenjo Hikari had been pondering how to fuse "Superdreadnought Rail Cannon - Chaos Master," and the simplest method was obviously to sacrifice an 8-star monster to trigger sudden mutation—but 8-star monsters in this era aren't weak, and they're hard to summon, so he considered using half of the gems he'd acquired to see if he could find an opportunity—

Unfortunately, Professor Kuronos clearly told him he couldn't afford it.

That's understandable.

In his world, 87 million for Blue-Eyes White Dragon was a joke; in this world… well, it's probably still a joke.

After all, in the original, Seto Kaiba didn't spend that much to buy KaibaCorp.

In short, the price of Dark Magician is certainly high, especially after it became the signature card of the first Duel King, Yugi Muto—its value skyrocketed, and those who own it would never sell unless utterly desperate.

But when the school began organizing the Campus Festival, Tenjo Hikari suddenly remembered—in the original, Dark Magician Girl's spirit happened to pass by the school, sensed the festival atmosphere, and couldn't resist joining in the "cosplay duel."

He didn't know whether, due to changes in this world's history, Dark Magician Girl would appear.

But if she did appear, wouldn't she have changed somewhat due to the world's alterations?

Even more so—what if Dark Magician came too?

So, seizing this opportunity, Tenjo Hikari decided to thoroughly explore the festival.

"Fusion Department? What's that? Urban-rural integration?"

"No no no, Wan Wan Zhangmu, it's fusion—fusion—uh, meaning fusion."

"Fusion Department recruiting?"

Unlike the original, since Professor Dadesi hadn't disappeared, Judai was energetically wandering the festival with Wan Wan Zhangmu when they suddenly spotted a strange club and began chatting—drawing the attention of Tenjo Hikari, who happened to pass by.

"Fusion… that's too sneaky," Asuka, who had been following them, couldn't help frowning, "You already lost to Akuang…"

"Hey, Akuang, you're here?" As the group chatted, they spotted Tenjo Hikari and waved.

Tenjo Hikari approached and saw a group of students in purple uniforms smiling, handing out prizes to one "tourist" after another.

These "tourists" were in fact students from various schools, mostly girls.

By the way, in the entire Duel Academy, only Blue Academy has female students.

Tenjo Hikari glanced and noticed the sign's name.

Fusion Department?

So that's it—they changed "Fusion" to "Fusion Department"?

That egghead came up with a clever little trick.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, "Fusion" is sometimes written as "Combination"; currently, the game makes no clear distinction, but some cards are Fusion, others are Combination.

However, in terms of category, "Fusion" is definitely the mainstream—or rather, "Fusion" encompasses "Combination."

After all, all Fusion Monsters are Fusion Monsters, not Combination Monsters.

"Judai, why are you here? Doesn't Red Academy have any festival events planned?" Tenjo Hikari remembered clearly that Red Academy's traditional event was "cosplay duels"—dressing up as Duel Monsters and dueling.

Logically, Judai, as Red Academy's representative, should be the one competing.

"Ryo is interested—he's making a cosplay outfit for Dark Magician Girl," Judai thought for a moment, "But you—shouldn't Fusion Department be recruiting now?"

"Well… no rush." Fusion Department already had plenty of students; in fact, nearly all first-years pursuing "Fusion" had joined Tenjo Hikari's Fusion Department. The few first-years still in Combination Department were either privileged Blue students, bullies, or a tiny number of bullied students—Tenjo Hikari couldn't manage them anyway.

Under these circumstances, he had no need to recruit like Combination Department.

After all, Combination Department was desperate for members and needed a boost, while Fusion Department's reputation among "elites," combined with having seized the name "Fusion," was already enough to make it the top choice for normal students.

So he wanted to use this chance to search for Dark Magician Girl.

But!

At that moment, they heard a deafening roar erupt from inside Combination Department, followed by a group of purple-clad students wearing masks frantically rushing out of the booth, abandoning plush toys—bears, wolves, penguins—without a second thought, sprinting wildly toward Red Academy.

Tenjo Hikari and his group exchanged glances, sensing something unusual, and immediately chased after them.

When they reached Red Academy's duel arena, they saw Ryo Fujiki standing on the referee stand, holding a microphone with wild excitement, looking completely transformed—energetic and vibrant. He shouted: "Wow, perfect strategy! With two Magician's Valkyries on the field, your opponent can't attack!"

"That means Dark Magician Girl has absolute advantage!"

"Ooooh!!"

A crowd of students, who had gathered without notice and completely surrounded Red Academy's duel arena, cheered wildly.

"Hehe, I'll do my best!" Meanwhile, on the duel field, a bright-eyed golden-haired girl with an angelic smile waved her wand happily, greeting the audience—Tenjo Hikari even saw Professor Kuronos mixed in among them, cheering along.

"That duelist has Dark Magician Girl on the field?" Sanze Daichi, dressed in a tiger plush suit and wanting to join the cosplay, exclaimed in surprise.

"It's real!" Caesar, familiar with spirits, immediately realized.

Strange?

Tenjo Hikari hurried to find Dark Magician Girl's opponent.

If not Judai, then who…?

He scanned the field, then his pupils contracted.

Directly across from Dark Magician Girl, on her opponent's side, a girl with her hair tied into a single yellow ribbon ponytail, wearing a modified Red Academy jacket, frowned intently, studying her hand!

Isn't that—

Serena!?

The "daughter" of Red Horse Zero King!

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