[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh":3,"chapter-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-12":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh!?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2248861,4388,"Chapter 12: Promotion","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-12",12,"\u003Cp>\"Did Big Brother Manjoume just get sent?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the spectator stands, Minion A and Minion B both wore faces of utter disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As fellow students of the Duel Academy intermediate division, they were both well aware of Big Brother Manjoume's strength. To put it without exaggeration, even among the elite gathering of the intermediate division, Manjoume was absolutely the number one of their year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, such a Manjoume had actually lost so casually to a newcomer participating for the first time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this newcomer a monster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-haired girl beside them was also stunned for a good while, then turned to look at the two: \"It seems your big brother just lost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two minions glanced at each other, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, we just mistaken someone. At first glance he looks a bit like him, but looking closely, he's actually not our big brother,\" Minion A said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, yeah, he really does look a lot like him, haha,\" Minion B also said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-haired girl narrowed her eyes: \"So, could it be that his name is the same too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Y-yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two minions stiffened their scalps, gritting their teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a coincidence indeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\".\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This match produced a major upset, leaving the audience greatly surprised. However, perhaps no one felt more like spitting blood than Manjoume himself, the person directly involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Losing was one thing, but the key was that he even had a strange feeling, as if the opponent hadn't exerted any effort at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the entire match, he was given a sense of ease, as if the opponent standing across from him, coming onto this arena, carried a casual air of \"just playing along with you,\" never getting serious at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent hadn't even summoned a single high-level monster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Manjoume believed he had created a full-pressure situation and delivered sufficient suppression. But the opponent handled heavy matters lightly, seemingly neutralizing his full power with a casual wave of the hand—no, more accurately, it felt like punching into cotton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire match left Manjoume with the feeling that the atmosphere had been built up, layered and layered and layered again, accumulating to the point of nearly exploding, yet there was simply nowhere to release it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, he had never encountered such an infuriating duel before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the opponent put away his duel disk and turned to leave the arena, he couldn't help but call out to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan paused and turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who exactly are you?\" Manjoume asked through gritted teeth, unwilling to accept the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan met his gaze for a moment, offering only a slight smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a passing Level One duelist, that's all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said that, he turned and left with a carefree stride, but Manjoume felt as if a knife had been stabbed into his heart again, making him want to spit blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level One?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of retarded system and retarded evaluation mechanism is this? You call this damn thing Level One?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, Manjoume's journey had ended at the quarterfinals; who knew how his two older brothers would scold him when he returned. Moreover, if he had lost to Ryuzaki, that would be one thing, but losing to such an unknown nobody was another, and the way that duel was played was utterly brain-frying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was simply terrible luck spanning eight lifetimes to run into this guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Setting aside other things, there was one thing Manjoume was certain of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the rest of his life, he never, never, never wanted to see this old sneaky bastard again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan reviewed his matches from the past few days, absorbing experience and summarizing lessons through actual combat against local duelists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he hadn't encountered any tough opponents in this tournament so far, the process of the matches made him realize a slight flaw in his previous thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was, he could not directly substitute the real-card meta of that same period into the anime environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Hand Destruction was a deck that had dominated competitions back then and possessed strong suppressing power here as well, relying solely on this trick might work against average duelists, but its effectiveness would likely be diminished when facing experts within the anime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, the anime featured god-tier draw engines that did not exist in the real card game; situations where a single card accelerated filtering to draw five or six cards were not impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, for the strong individuals in the anime, turning the tide with a single card even with an empty hand and field was a common occurrence. This wasn't metaphysics, but had its own logic. To quote the original work: \"Everything of a true duelist is inevitable; even drawing cards can be created.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like how Jaden Yuki in the later stages of the GX anime always wore colored contact lenses before every tough match, that wasn't just for looks. In his awakened form wielding the Power of the Supreme King, Jaden possessed a divine draw ability of a higher tier than usual, placing him among the high-tier powerhouses within the anime's supernatural system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jaden in his Supreme King form, even holding a messy deck of forty cards randomly drawn from the card pool, might very well crush an ordinary person holding a top-tier constructed deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really need a chance to get hold of some divine draw skills,\" You Xuan sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, transmigrating into Yu-Gi-Oh! meant one could soar as long as they knew how to play cards, but without some foundation in the supernatural, surviving in the later stages where gods flew everywhere would truly not be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone knows, in Yu-Gi-Oh!, the simplest and most direct way to achieve a supernatural rank is not through cultivation, but by finding a way to get a spirit attached to one's back. However, as far as he knew, most of the spirits in the original work already had their masters; where could he go to trick one into attaching to him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, he would set those thoughts aside; all he could currently do was study the environment as much as possible, optimize his deck, and make tactical improvements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan was still in a phase of exploring through actual combat, and his deck was not yet fully finalized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His next opponent was named Kajimoto Makoto, a Duelist Rank Five. His background listed results from several public tournaments and marked him as a true disciple of the \"Psychic Flow Duel Dojo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Psychic Flow. You Xuan saw this and pondered for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, this school had briefly appeared in the later stages of the GX anime. It was in a competitive relationship with the Cyber Style Dojo inherited by Ryo Marufuji, and towards the end of the anime, a master holding a license of full transmission in the Psychic Flow even showed up to challenge the dojo, playing with Jinzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the half-day before the match, he had watched recordings of his opponent's recent public matches. Kajimoto Makoto seemed to use a deck centered around \"Machine King,\" a series of ace monsters belonging to one of the \"Big Five,\" villains who defected from Kaiba Corp in the DM anime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to that Psychic Flow duelist who showed up to challenge Ryo Marufuji in the anime, their Psychic Flow's ace monster should have been Jinzo, but obviously, Kajimoto Makoto's deck did not contain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking about it, that made sense. Cyber End Dragon was said to be the ace of the Cyber Style, but the dojo possessed only one copy, passed down solely to the style's single legitimate successor, serving as proof of one's status within the school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kajimoto Makoto was merely an apprentice of the Psychic Flow, so obviously he could not yet qualify to inherit the school's ace monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having watched the recordings of his opponent's previous matches, You Xuan already had a clear understanding of the other party's tactics in his mind. He had also adjusted his deck for the upcoming battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the last time before the match, he checked his deck, confirming there were no errors. He stood up, inserted the deck into his duel disk, secured it properly, and strode through the dim corridor onto the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The host had already completed the warm-up and announcements. You Xuan ascended the stairs onto the stage, only to see his opponent had already appeared on the opposite field. Their gazes met in mid-air, sparking invisible fireworks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan took his position on the field, and his duel disk unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt that this match shouldn't be much of a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1439,"2026-06-19T08:58:34.393Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e53eb7f4f7ac5db7ff54ba281af62cca4186f37f690f813e93757c25008e32ea","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-13","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-11",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwho-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-cover.jpg"]