Chapter 74

"My turn." Marjoram goes first.

"Activate Field Spell Card, Aroma Garden."

She placed the card into the duel disk that had transformed from her staff. Immediately after, the curtain made of vines behind her automatically pulled open, revealing a winding but not very long path. At the end of the path was a classical residence, surrounded by countless flowers and birds. At a glance, one felt as if their soul had been healed.

"Summon Jasmine in Defense Position."

A white-haired Spellcaster with a waist bag appeared on her field with a pop, as if flashing.

Aromage Jasmine, Level 2, Light Attribute, Plant-Type, DEF 1900.

Summoning Jasmine from Aromage in Defense Position.

Tenjou Hikari thought for a moment.

Looking at it this way, because this world allows Normal Summoning in Defense Position, cards like Aroma are actually strengthened to a certain extent.

"Activate the effect of Aroma Garden, once per turn, if you control an [Aroma] monster, you gain 500 Life Points."

Golden light spots emerged from the nearby flowers. Marjoram opened her arms and closed her eyes, embracing these lights. Because of this action of closing her eyes and opening her arms, the people around cheered again.

Marjoram LP: 4000 -> 4500.

"Jasmine's effect, once per turn, activate when your Life Points are recovered. Draw one card."

Marjoram drew a card from her deck.

"In addition, after Aroma Garden's effect is activated, until the end of the opponent's turn, the ATK and DEF of monsters on my field increase by 500."

Jasmine, DEF: 1900 -> 2400.

"It's not over yet. While Jasmine is on the field, if your Life Points are higher than the opponent's, you can perform an additional summon besides the Normal Summon. I Normal Summon, Rosemary."

"Coming, coming~~" Rosemary on the side heard her sister's summon and ran over without delay.

Aromage Rosemary, Level 4, Water Attribute, Plant-Type, ATK 1800 -> 2300.

"Then, set one card, end turn."

That's good.

Tenjou Hikari looked at this scene, pondering in his heart.

After all, there is no Link Summoning, so Aroma's greatest ability as a Plant-type archetype cannot be fully utilized, so it looks like a standard beatdown tactic.

"So that's it, increasing hand size and enhancing the battle ability of monsters on the field through Life Point recovery, defeating the opponent by accumulating resources?" Misawa Daichi was quite serious when dueling. Looking at Marjoram's few cards, he roughly understood the tactics of the Aroma deck.

"It's just two monsters with over two thousand points, Master can easily defeat them!" Serena was still very confident in Tenjou Hikari's power, lifting her head slightly.

"No, for Hikari, this is actually a quite terrible opponent." Misawa Daichi shook his head, "Serena, Hikari's Fusion is indeed already quite powerful, but he cannot change one status quo, which is that his dueling resources decrease every turn.

Even if he can Fusion Summon every turn, the opponent is also constantly replenishing the deck and increasing Life Points. In the end, it is very likely that Hikari will have only one card in hand, while Marjoram still has a full hand of cards."

Hearing this, Serena was stunned for a moment.

Eh eh?

"Ha, didn't expect you to be quite smart." On the other side, the math doctor heard Misawa Daichi's words and nodded in approval, "Dueling is math and probability. Miss Marjoram's deck is exactly the charm deck of math!"

The boys on the other side didn't think that much. They only knew that Miss Marjoram seemed to have an advantage, so they started cheering for Marjoram. Some even shouted directly: "Miss Marjoram! Tenjou Hikari's deck is full of Fusion-related cards, be careful!"

"Please don't say such things that affect the duel!" Marjoram was a bit angry despite her good temper.

She was a dueling spirit, after all.

Hearing such words, she wouldn't feel comfortable at all.

She looked at her opponent. From the start of the duel until now, the opponent hadn't had any emotional changes. The only difference was that after the duel started, a "Shaddoll Construct" spirit appeared beside him, looking at his hand with interest.

According to Kaiba Corp, she, this "Twelve-Star Duelist," was a role like an examiner, needing to bring out different levels of skill for students of different grades. But because the people around were simply too annoying, she subconsciously used all the cards she should use right from the start.

Don't know how the child opposite will duel...

"My turn—draw!"

Tenjou Hikari quickly drew a card.

"Wuhu, it's here, it's here!" Tierra saw the card Tenjou Hikari drew, her eyes lighting up, "A creature with super design sense, I like it very much—"

To be able to make Tierra, who hates carbon-based life forms, say such things, it shows she really likes this card.

Seeing this, Tenjou Hikari didn't hesitate.

"Normal Summon, Predaplant Sundew Kingii!"

"Screech!"

A lizard, green all over, with a head crest like a leaf and countless red dot-like nodes on its body, appeared on Tenjou Hikari's field.

Predaplant Sundew Kingii, Level 2, Dark Attribute, Plant-Type, ATK 600.

"Predaplant?"

"What kind of card is that."

"Never heard of this monster."

"Looks so disgusting."

Marjoram blinked.

Although she hadn't seen much of it, she had heard of Predaplants: "So it's a monster of the same race..."

"What is this, a Plant-type monster?"

"It's completely different from Miss Marjoram!"

"Miss Marjoram, you are the most beautiful!"

"Naturally evil Fusion brat, the monsters he uses are also so ugly."

"Shut up!" Marjoram couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at the surroundings. After shouting, realizing her loss of composure just now, she coughed and said, "Can everyone please be quiet? When dueling, don't affect the warriors on both sides."

She turned back to look at Tenjou Hikari: "Sorry, because of me..."

"It's okay."

"Hmm?"

"Appearance is the most secondary thing!" Tenjou Hikari held the monster in his hand, "The key is whether it can Fusion!"

"Uh—" Marjoram couldn't quite respond.

"Activate the monster's effect, once per turn, during the Main Phase, this card can be sent to the Graveyard along with monsters in my hand, on my field, and monsters with Predator Counters on the opponent's field to perform a Fusion Summon of a Dark Attribute Fusion monster!"

"Opponent!?" Marjoram was stunned for a moment.

However, she didn't have any Predator Counters on her field.

"Use Shaddoll Dragon in my hand and Predaplant Sundew Kingii on the field to Fusion Summon!"

"Fusion Summon!"

Boom—

A huge pink flower crown rose from the earth. Immediately after, two thick vines filled the entire field, then cracked open, turning into two huge bloody mouths.

"Appear!"

"Level 7, Predaplant Chimerafflesia!"