Chapter 128

"Fujiki You Xuan really is very calm~"

Professor Da Desi sat in the chair of his alchemy laboratory, holding his cat named Pharaoh in his arms, stroking the chubby cat with one hand.

Since entering Duel Academy, Da Desi has been slacking off almost the entire time. The laboratory is said to be scientific research resources provided to him by the academy, but in fact, it has basically been gathering dust all these years.

After all, Da Desi's persona in the academy is a salted fish who slacks off, and he has to maintain this image in front of both students and the academy. So no one has ever seen him seriously engaged in scientific research, and this laboratory is basically no different from being abandoned.

Until now.

When Fujiki You Xuan pushed the door open for the first time, a musty smell almost hit his face. The floor was full of dust, and sunlight shone through the gaps in the glass, forming rays of light, with countless dust particles dancing in the light path.

Fujiki You Xuan spent a little time cleaning up the laboratory, and since then, he has basically been using it.

"What?" Fujiki You Xuan, who was working intently at the workbench, raised his head.

"About the team duel." Da Desi tilted his head, continuing to stroke the cat. "You don't look nervous at all."

"Oh, that... nothing to be nervous about, right?"

Fujiki You Xuan said while lowering his head to continue working.

"Besides, Yugi doesn't look very nervous either." Fujiki You Xuan said casually. "I invited him to study the deck for the team battle yesterday, but he refused. Saying something like... Hayato's dad is here? Anyway, he had something to do and didn't come."

However, Fujiki You Xuan also had an impression of that plot when Yugi mentioned it. It seems that it was the father of the Koala guy in their dormitory who felt that his son was not making progress in the academy all day and wanted him to drop out and go home.

Later, Hayato played a game with his dad, and although he lost, he successfully made his dad change his mind and agree to let him stay in the academy.

Hayato's dad used some kind of drunkard deck, which is also a series of unclear significance that has not been made into physical cards to this day.

According to Professor Da Desi, Hayato's dad seems to be the successor of some 'Satsuma Dimensional Style', and is said to be a very famous duelist in the world. It is said that it is a one-hit-kill duel style realized from famous sword skills, with the powerful ability to kill opponents instantly.

However, judging from that duel in the anime, the deck's performance seems a bit lacking...

Fujiki You Xuan felt a bit strange in his heart. The strength shown by the so-called world-famous duelist doesn't seem to be the case, but on second thought, it seems that it cannot be completely asserted.

After all, there were only two monsters summoned by Hayato's father in the anime, and the audience actually doesn't know what else is in the deck. Perhaps because he was dueling his son, he deliberately went easy on him.

Over the years, K-Company has proven more than once that as long as they want, even the oldest and most lacking decks can immediately soar several generations in strength just by releasing a few heaven-defying thigh-strength cards.

Still can't underestimate the top duelists who are famous in this world.

"Haha, Yugi is different." Da Desi laughed. "That child has such innate talent, there are very few things that can make him nervous.

But there are rumors that your opponents in the team battle might not be simple. Do you have any countermeasures?"

"Well, sort of." Fujiki You Xuan smiled.

He already had a bold idea. If it goes well, with a little help from Yugi's god-draw power, he should be able to bring double the happiness to the Paradox Brothers.

"Let's not talk about this, I'm done here."

Fujiki You Xuan got up and handed a card to Da Desi.

"Teacher, please give me some advice."

Da Desi took the card and adjusted his glasses: "Let me see..."

Fujiki You Xuan hasn't been in the card-making course for long. Although he has shown extraordinary talent and has Da Desi giving him special training, his current technology is still stuck in the 'copying' stage.

That is, trying to copy some low-rarity cards that are relatively easy to copy. Only after becoming proficient can he consider more advanced card making.

Da Desi looked at the card he handed over: "This time you tried to make a bicycle, I heard you really like this card. Not bad, not bad, you actually succeeded in copying it so quickly... Hmm!?"

Professor Da Desi's squinty eyes almost didn't open again, and his glasses almost fell off along the bridge of his nose.

Because he saw the effect of the 【Bicycle Machine】 Fujiki You Xuan handed over.

"This card can attack directly."

Wait, doesn't this thing have to decrease its ATK by 500 points...

He looked up at Fujiki You Xuan in astonishment, as if he had realized something.

I asked you to learn to copy, and you directly made a scientific research breakthrough?

Fujiki You Xuan just smiled.

He successfully proved that a conjecture he had earlier was correct.

Many early Yu-Gi-Oh viewers know that it is common for the effects of the same card to be contradictory when appearing on different occasions in the anime.

A representative example in GX is the famous monster 【Jinzo】, which has discrepancies between its appearance in the GX anime and the DM anime effects.

The effect of Jinzo in DM is "When this card is on the field, all face-down and face-up Trap Cards on the field are destroyed, and the activation and effects of Trap Cards are negated."

But by the GX period, Jinzo, which appeared twice in the early and late stages, became consistent with the physical card effect, that is, "Trap Cards cannot be activated, effects negated," but it would not scan and destroy all Set cards on the field like in DM.

There is also "Future Fusion," which has discrepancies in effects when used by Kaiser and when it appeared in the hands of Darkness's lackey, Mr. T, in the later stages.

There are many similar examples, too many to count.

In the past, as an audience, I just watched for fun, and I didn't care about the many bugs and contradictions in the anime. Now that I have come to this real Yu-Gi-Oh world, he certainly cannot be satisfied with this statement. Especially after understanding and studying the principles of card making, he had a new idea.

As mentioned before, the effects of card design in this world are not filled in at will, but the manifestation of the power of the cards.

Is there such a possibility? When designing the same card, a designer only awakened part of the card's ability, while another designer developed greater potential when designing this card. Then, for the same card designed by two designers, isn't it natural that the effect strength will perform differently?

Or perhaps some cards actually have more potential, but it has never been tapped. In the process of re-engraving and resetting this card, will there be room for improvement?

Over the past period of time, he has been learning to print cards from Da Desi while trying to study this topic.

Facts have proved that he seems to be right.

For example, after his persistent experiments, he found that this 【Bicycle Machine】, which is relatively simple to modify, is not a very strong card itself. Although it is said to increase potential, it only removes the restriction of "reducing 500 ATK," which cannot be considered a major enhancement, so it is relatively easy to develop.

But it is enough to prove his conjecture.

Those anime cards that are weaker than the physical card versions in his memory have room for further development.

"It's really surprising."

Professor Da Desi adjusted his glasses, and when he looked at Fujiki You Xuan again, there seemed to be light in his squinty eyes.

Actually, reducing the ATK of the bicycle by 500 points doesn't have much impact, but it is a scientific research breakthrough after all. And making scientific research achievements directly at the beginning of card-making learning is something that is rare even for Da Desi.

Is it true that so-called geniuses are so unreasonable?

"You might really have a talent for alchemy."

"Teacher is overpraising, I just followed your teachings and treated the cards with my heart." Fujiki You Xuan smiled happily.

But in fact, it is largely because he knows in which direction to work hard. And others, let alone the direction of enhancement, there are thousands of cards in this world, and there is no way to know which one still has development potential.

"By the way, teacher, I also tried to make some other cards here."

Fujiki You Xuan silently took out a few more cards.

"Look, I have two more here that are a bit different from others..."

Da Desi: "???"

Still have more?

Even the knowledgeable Da Desi was silenced for a while.

After a long while, he looked up and spoke slowly.

"Fujiki You Xuan."

"What's the matter, teacher?"

"Have you considered being promoted to professor?"

"?"

(End of Chapter)