Chapter 25: Cheating?

"Duel!" x2

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000】

【Genichiro, LP 4000】

"I'll go first, draw."

Genichiro took the first turn. But he wasn't in a hurry to play cards. After looking at his hand, he just gave a few gloomy laughs, and then stuck out his tongue to lick his lips.

"Just use this duel to let you enjoy it well, the feast of darkness. Let me taste your pain well."

"First activate a 'Pot of Greed,' draw two cards from the deck."

"Next is the magic card 'Magical Sanctuary'!"

The card was inserted into the Duel Disk, the magic circle unfolded at his feet, and a faceless metal man emerged from the barrier onto the field.

【Metal Fiend Token, ATK 0】

"The effect of Magical Sanctuary, I can special summon a 'Metal Fiend Token' on my field," Genichiro said. "Then I use this 'Metal Fiend Token' as an offering, Tribute Summon!"

"Led by the will of darkness, let all enemies tremble in the shadows—"

"—Level 6, Dark Tri-Horned Bird Dragon, summon!"

【Dark Tri-Horned Bird Dragon, ATK 2400】

"Then set two cards on the field, turn end."

Genichiro then licked his lips again.

"Now it's your turn. Hurry up, let me taste the darkness and pain, hehe..."

That expression and that action always made Fujiki You Xuan feel like he had a bit of the taste of six-year-old Marik.

It's just that this person only got the shape but not the spirit, and compared to Master Marik, who is a judge-level facial expression master in Yu-Gi-Oh, it was still far behind.

"My turn, draw."

Fujiki You Xuan was also very decisive.

"Set a monster card in the front row, set four cards in the back row, turn end."

Directly five sets to show friendliness.

"Hmm?" Genichiro was stunned.

Having watched Fujiki You Xuan and Ryuzaki's finals, Genichiro fully expected the opponent to still be Machina starting, but it turned out not to be.

Could it be that this person didn't use his main deck in the finals?

"Heh, just setting cards? Such a lukewarm duel will soon turn you into a sacrifice of darkness."

Genichiro sneered coldly.

"But at the end of your turn, I want to activate this set card..."

One of his set cards in the back row flipped over.

"Quick-play magic—End of Anubis! This card can special summon two 'Black Flame Tokens' on my field!"

【Black Flame Token, DEF 0】 x2

"The turn this card is activated, I can't summon any other monsters with other effects, but now it's the end of your turn, so I can't summon monsters anyway."

Genichiro said.

"Next is my turn, draw."

After he drew the card, his movements paused, and he looked at the set card in Fujiki You Xuan's back row.

"Maybe you want to rely on traps to delay defense... but this level of tactics is useless against me."

Genichiro sneered.

"Activate magic card from hand—Night Beam!"

The magic card appeared in front of him with golden light ripples, and a beam of golden light, like a sword piercing the night, pointed at one of Fujiki You Xuan's set cards in the back row.

"Night Beam can choose to destroy a set magic or trap card on the opponent's field. And when selected by 'Night Beam,' that set card cannot be activated!"

He pointed to the one in the middle of Fujiki You Xuan's back row.

"Destroy the set card in the middle!"

Fujiki You Xuan waved his hand: "Then at this moment, activate the set card..."

"It's useless," Genichiro said. "I said, you cannot respond to the activation of 'Night Beam'..."

"I know I can't chain to the activation of 'Night Beam' with the card you selected. But the card I want to activate is not the set card you selected, but the one next to it."

Another set card in Fujiki You Xuan's back row flipped over.

"Trap card—Magic Transaction! When the opponent activates a magic card, pay 1000 life points, and you can randomly discard one of the opponent's hand cards."

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000 -> LP 3000】

The moment the LP dropped, his heart seemed to miss a beat, and a strong stinging pain struck.

It was as if there was a thorn in his body, opening a gap in his heart, and the essence of life force poured out like a bursting flood.

"Ugh..."

Fujiki You Xuan's body went weak, and he swayed.

Silent Magician appeared beside him, looking at her owner with some concern.

"I-I'm fine," he waved his hand.

It was just the first time, and he wasn't used to it yet.

As expected of a dark duel, the feeling of consuming LP was like really losing life.

There was no doubt that if life points reached zero in such a duel... he would die.

"Hahaha, did you feel it? This is the pain of a dark duel!" Genichiro laughed loudly. "Very good, that's it. Continue to suffer, feel the darkness swallowing your life bit by bit, this is the happiness of a dark duel! Hahaha..."

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

The existence of dark duels undoubtedly stimulated many hidden psychological perverts to awaken. Some potential criminals, lunatics, and serial killers would become worse after gaining dark power, making them more powerful and harder to catch, while also becoming increasingly crazy.

Some dark duelists didn't even pursue powerful power or gain any benefits through dark duels.

Some people just enjoyed the process of making their opponents suffer.

Fujiki You Xuan quickly adjusted and continued: "The effect of 'Magic Transaction,' you need to randomly discard a card from your hand. Discard the card on your far left."

"As you like."

Genichiro put the selected hand card into the graveyard indifferently and continued calmly.

"But according to the effect of Night Beam, the set card you set still has to be destroyed..."

"It won't," Fujiki You Xuan snapped his fingers again. "At this moment, I want to activate the set card you selected with 'Night Beam'."

"Trap card—Raigeki Break!"

"Heh, are you stupid?" Genichiro gave a look of caring for the mentally retarded. "I already said, the card selected by 'Night Beam' cannot be activated."

"Can't understand human language... Nani!?"

Watching Fujiki You Xuan's "Raigeki Break" in the back row really flip open, Genichiro's green eyes stared straight. His eyes were full of a word—

—WHY?

Why can the set card you were pointed at by Night Beam still be activated?

Could it be that you are a noble Kaiba Corporation platinum member and have the right to cheat on the Duel Disk?

"I see you really don't understand."

Fujiki You Xuan explained calmly.

"You read your card effect again. 'Night Beam' only says that the selected card cannot be activated in response to the activation of 'Night Beam,' but my 'Raigeki Break' didn't chain to your 'Night Beam' activation, right?"

"I chained to my own 'Magic Transaction,' is there a problem?"

A big question mark seemed to appear on Genichiro's forehead.

Seemed not to understand.

"Is that so?" the dark duelist asked suspiciously.

His face was full of "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

"Buddy, you don't even understand this and you come to play a life-betting game?" Fujiki You Xuan looked at him with empty eyes.

"I... I naturally understand this kind of thing."

Genichiro mumbled vaguely.

"I was just testing your level, cough, cough... That's right, that's it."

Although he still didn't quite understand, since it was handled this way on the field, it must be correct.

But heaven and earth conscience, Fujiki You Xuan really didn't lie, this is the basic limit application of a card player to Yu-Gi-Oh rules. Although magic and traps destroyed by Night Beam cannot be activated in response to Night Beam, as long as another effect is inserted in the middle of this chain, it is naturally not subject to activation restrictions.

"You have two brushes, kid," Genichiro narrowed his eyes. "As expected of someone who can defeat that Ryuzaki, you don't look like an ordinary duelist... Well, such a soul is worth sacrificing."

Fujiki You Xuan ignored him and continued to process the effect.

"Then the effect of trap card 'Raigeki Break,' I can destroy any card on the field by discarding a hand card."

He sent a hand card to the graveyard.

"Destroy the 'Dark Tri-Horned Bird' on your field."

The pitch-black churning clouds gathered in the sky, a demon-like hand stretched out, and amazing lightning was released from the fingertips. The thunder hit the Dark Tri-Horned Bird on Genichiro's field, and the latter immediately exploded into fragments.

"Also, the magic card 'Compensation of Blood' I discarded as the activation cost of 'Raigeki Break,' when this card is sent from the hand to the graveyard, draw two cards." (Anime card)

Anime card drawing engine is cool, draw until you are satisfied.

"Tch, Night Beam didn't even keep 'Dark Tri-Horned Dragon'..."

Looking at his big monster that was trapped before it even had a chance to attack, Genichiro curled his lips unhappily.

But it's not a big problem.

Genichiro covered one of the hand cards to the field.

"I set another hand card to the field, then activate magic card—'Card of Sanctity'!"

Fujiki You Xuan: "!"

WOC, it's actually "Card of Sanctity"?

The card drawing engine that Kaiba-shacho loves most in the anime. The user can draw cards from the deck until the hand is full of five cards, but needs to bear the huge price of "discarding all hand cards after five turns."

However, anyone who has played cards knows that in Yu-Gi-Oh, in five turns, the grass on the opponent's grave is already several feet high...

Compared to this, the Pot of Greed that sits in prison is scum.

Years later, this card was also castrated and then materialized, but drawing five cards became drawing three, and there were restrictions such as not being able to special summon within the turn, not being able to cause damage to the opponent, and having to discard all hand cards at the end of the turn. But even with such castration, it still has practical value in the real card environment.

Such an against-the-sky card drawing engine, any time-traveling card player absolutely cannot fail to find it. Fujiki You Xuan naturally went to find it, but he didn't see it on the market for a while. In the original work, this card seems to have only been used by Kaiba-shacho, so maybe there are few issues, it might be a special version for tycoons...

I didn't expect to run into one here.

Looking at it, it's really greedy.

But it doesn't matter.

Fujiki You Xuan thought that since it's a dark duel, if he wins this game, the opponent's soul will naturally be gone. If the person is gone, the deck will become an ownerless thing, and it is only natural for him to pick it up, otherwise, it would be too wasteful to leave such a divine card on the street to eat dust...

So he didn't intend to steal other people's cards, he just couldn't bear to waste resources.

Genichiro, who was about to draw a card, paused instinctively.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he suddenly felt a bit uneasy and found...

The eyes of the kid opposite him seemed to have suddenly become hungry.