Chapter 310: Asking for Teacher

"It's almost winter break, and Fujiki You Xuan-kun is still in the lab?"

Professor Daitokuji narrowed his eyes, gently stroking the soft fur of the Pharaoh cat in his arms.

As a cat owner of many years, his technique was already quite skilled, and Pharaoh let out a comfortable "Meow~".

Sometimes Fujiki You Xuan actually felt that this cat named Pharaoh belonging to Professor Daitokuji wasn't an ordinary cat either. This cat had discovered abnormalities more than once in the series, sometimes looking like it could smell the scent of spirits or related objects.

And Professor Daitokuji's primordial spirit, which finally left his flesh, was swallowed by this cat in one gulp, and had been dwelling in this cat's body ever since. Although the anime performance looked a bit funny, if you think about it carefully, as an external-cheat-level alchemist like Daitokuji, the final container was likely carefully selected.

So his keeping a cat might have been laying the groundwork for his own retreat from the beginning.

"Yes, I'm going back tomorrow, so I'll stay a bit longer while I have time... compared to that."

Fujiki You Xuan sat in the seat opposite Daitokuji with a serious face.

"Teacher, I've had a very interesting idea recently, but I don't know if it will work, so I'd like to ask for your guidance."

"Oh?"

Daitokuji narrowed his eyes and asked with interest.

"About what?"

"This deck."

Fujiki You Xuan took a deck out of the card box and placed it on the table.

"Deck building, huh."

Daitokuji smiled and stroked the cat.

"Oh my, even if you ask me... but Fujiki You Xuan-kun, you also know that I'm actually not very good at dueling, meow."

Fujiki You Xuan was amused.

Still acting here.

"It's okay, Teacher, just take a look and say whatever comes to mind."

Fujiki You Xuan insisted, even taking out a small notebook to take notes.

"Hmm, alright, since Fujiki You Xuan-kun insists so much..."

Daitokuji half-reluctantly took the deck he handed over and spread it out to look.

In fact, the relationship between them was a bit subtle now; it felt like there was only a layer of window paper between them, everyone guessed what was going on but no one took the initiative to poke it, so they both had to maintain a tacit understanding and keep acting.

Daitokuji actually already felt a bit that Fujiki You Xuan should have discovered that he wasn't the fool he pretended to be on the surface. It's just that he couldn't be sure how much Fujiki You Xuan knew.

However, he felt that he had hidden it very well for so many years, and there shouldn't be any leaks. So he felt that this student probably just discovered he was a hidden master based on his keen observation and intuition, but probably shouldn't know much about his true origin, purpose, or background.

But conversely, he felt Fujiki You Xuan was becoming more and more unfathomable.

At first, he was just curious about his talent for research and his creativity in developing various deck tactics, but slowly, Daitokuji now began to feel that this person's background, origin, and power were all a fog, and the secrets hidden in his heart might not be fewer than his own.

However, he also felt that Fujiki You Xuan's attitude when asking for his advice was indeed sincere. No matter what kind of secrets he was hiding, at least he was a student with a truly upright attitude, and from his observation, his character wasn't bad...

Well, not bad most of the time.

In fact, as a dying person to some extent, Daitokuji knew very well that his flesh could not last past the next year.

Although he used alchemy to arrange a backup plan, the idea was too bold after all, and no one could say for sure whether he could successfully continue his life.

Now there weren't many things in the world he cared about, and the only two things he couldn't let go of were left.

One was the benefactor who provided him with a large amount of research funds and access to forbidden alchemy knowledge, and also his boss behind the scenes, the chairman of the Duel Academy board, Principal Sheppard.

Principal Sheppard was now old and terminally ill, relying entirely on burning money and high technology to continue his life, not hesitating to seek all kinds of dark forbidden powers in order to survive. Now both his physical and mental states were very dangerous, which was what Daitokuji was most worried about.

This was why he handed the "Philosopher's Stone" to Judai before he died in the anime and let Judai defeat Principal Sheppard.

The second was to cultivate a successor.

In the original work, the one he took a fancy to was Judai Yuki, saying Judai was a natural alchemist. But now Daitokuji saw new possibilities.

Although he didn't know much about Fujiki You Xuan's background, Daitokuji didn't care much about this himself. As an alchemist who studied forbidden arts and a high-level dark duelist, he had done quite a few things that couldn't be seen in the light on his research path.

So he didn't care much about Fujiki You Xuan having some little secrets; he only cared about talent and potential.

"Eh? It's actually Monarchs."

Daitokuji flipped through the deck Fujiki You Xuan handed him one by one, feeling a bit surprised.

"This is an incredible series. Fujiki You Xuan-kun has already collected so many different attributes of such rare Monarchs; Fujiki You Xuan-kun's channels and resources are also very powerful, haha..."

Continuing to flip through the deck construction, he quickly noticed something.

【Banisher of the Radiance】

【Level 3, ATK 1600】

"Effect: As long as this card is face-up on the field, cards sent to the Graveyard are banished directly from the game instead of going to the Graveyard."

It immediately reminded Daitokuji of a certain card he had developed exclusively...

Indeed, Daitokuji should be one of the people in the Duel Realm who could best realize the power of this kind of banishing effect.

He himself used the exclusive artifact "Macro Cosmos" printed by alchemy, which could banish all cards sent to the Graveyard directly from the game as long as it existed on the field. For many decks that increasingly relied on the Graveyard environment today, it was almost a devastating blow.

Then he flipped back.

【Dimension Scout Plane, ATK 800】

"Effect: During the End Phase of the turn this card is banished from the game, Special Summon it in attack position."

【D. D. Survivor, ATK 1800】

"Effect: During the End Phase of the turn this card on the field is banished from the game, Special Summon it back to the field."

【Gren Maju Da Eiza, ATK 2000】

"Effect: This card cannot attack directly. Once per turn, if this card is banished from the game, it can be Special Summoned directly to the field, and its ATK increases by 200 points for each Dinosaur-type monster I have banished."

Others might have to pause when seeing this construction, but as the printer of Macro Cosmos and the ancestor of the Dimension series, Daitokuji grasped the idea of this deck at a glance.

Banish all cards in both Graveyards, directly BAN the Graveyard zone, which was enough to disgust decks that relied on the Graveyard zone.

And on this basis, all the cards he used had similar "revival when banished" effects. If such a combination was achieved, Fujiki You Xuan's monsters were almost all equivalent to having an immortal body.

And being able to revive infinitely meant providing an endless supply of Tributes for the high-level "Monarch" series. Each attribute's Monarch had powerful removal effects when summoned, respectively having destructive suppression capabilities against front-row monsters, back-row Set cards, and even hand resources, and also included the banishing of Thestalos and the removal plus top-deck control of Raiza, all of which were powerful forces.

This was a Dimension series, a Monarch control deck oriented toward banishing BEAT!

Almost the moment he understood this philosophy, Daitokuji immediately felt the strength of this deck, and even seemed to be able to imagine the opponent's helpless rage when facing the banishing seal of the Graveyard, the immortal little roaches on Fujiki You Xuan's field, and the suppression of various Monarchs...

And then he naturally thought of it.

This deck seemed to have an amazing compatibility with a certain exclusive artifact he had at the bottom of his box...

"Teacher, I think this construction idea is quite good, but after thinking about it, I always feel it's missing a little something, just missing that little bit, as if it's just that one key card..."

Fujiki You Xuan looked distressed.

"But I just can't think of which card to use. Teacher, could you give me some advice..."

Daitokuji: "..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 311 =====