Chapter 558

Alice-chan, with her disheveled hair, blinked blankly, pushed aside the messy hair in front of her forehead in confusion, secretly sized up Fujiki You Xuan, and then looked at the man in the trench coat in front of her.

Is this person very strong?

Fujiki You Xuan said she wasn't his match, and Alice was still a bit unconvinced in her heart, unable to help but pout angrily.

I'm clearly very strong too...

"Masumi Momono, right?" Fujiki You Xuan sized up the person in front of him. "The former 'Card Shop Destroyer,' now you've started taking mercenary commissions too."

"Oh?" The man in the trench coat smiled lightly. "There's actually someone who knows my title from back then? Interesting..."

Masumi Momono, who appeared in the DM spin-off "Yu-Gi-Oh! R"... or perhaps it's more appropriate to call it a spin-off of a spin-off. Because his story had nothing to do with the main plot of Yu-Gi-Oh! R, he was just a character who appeared in a short story at the end of the volume.

Yugi's grandfather, Solomon Muto, in order to attract more customers, publicly displayed the three Egyptian God cards in the card shop to attract duelists to come and worship them. And he held a shop tournament, attracting duelists from all walks of life to compete, with the winner getting to duel Yugi, the Duel King.

And that tournament attracted the person who was known as the "Card Shop Destroyer" in the dueling world at the time, which was Masumi Momono.

He plundered decks through dueling and demanded protection money from shopkeepers, similar to some kind of street-dueling mafia.

However, although this person was a street thug back then, his strength was truly not bad. It was said that he had never tasted defeat before meeting Yugi, and had taken away countless people's decks. Even Joey Wheeler had lost to this Masumi Momono's underling in the shop tournament.

These Card Shop Destroyers were best at collecting information on powerful opponents in advance and choosing suitable decks to deal with them based on the opponent's deck. They built a hundred decks with the cards they had stolen and named them the "Anti-Deck," with each deck capable of countering a different type of opponent.

Using different decks for different opponents was the Card Shop Destroyer's greatest reliance. Joey Wheeler was the one who fell for this.

Hmm, a substitute of a similar type to Fujiki You Xuan...

Of course, in the end, he was still sanctioned by the invincible King. And although this spin-off story was a bit obscure, the "Gorz the Emissary of Darkness," which later became active in the environment as a super-versatile hand trap, was the card the King used in this duel.

"Seriously, I was thinking about keeping a low profile this time, but I ran into the Duel King as soon as I arrived..."

Masumi Momono rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"Sure enough, saying the Duel Academy is the King's territory is no exaggeration. In that case..."

He raised his head and sneered lightly.

"Since I can't hide, then come on!"

"Duel!" x2

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000】

【Masumi, LP 4000】

"I'll go first, draw!" Masumi Momono took the first turn.

He hesitated slightly when choosing his deck.

He was best at collecting information in advance to counter enemies, but the opponent in front of him was extraordinary.

As the Duel King, Fujiki You Xuan was of course a public figure, and there should be countless people in the entire dueling world studying and analyzing every one of his public duels.

But the more he studied, the more Masumi realized that this person was not easy to deal with. Because whether intentional or not, this guy used a different deck in almost every public duel.

The slots for common cards, attributes, types, etc., had almost no uniformity. If one were to integrate the decks Fujiki You Xuan used in various duels, this person was a Transformer, and even if one wanted to counter him, there was no way to do so.

If one had to say what part of this person's tactics had a strong personal color, the common feature was probably "being annoying."

If one wanted to use the "Anti-Deck" to counter an opponent, but ended up countering the wrong deck, it would instead turn into a situation where one was at an absolute disadvantage.

So after thinking it over, Masumi Momono decided to be safer and used the deck he usually used when dealing with opponents whose information was unknown, which was also the deck he was most adept at.

"I set one monster face-down on the field," Masumi Momono said. "And then I set one card face-down in the back row. Turn end."

"My turn, draw."

Fujiki You Xuan looked at the card he drew and then revealed it directly.

"Activate the Magic Card 'Pot of Greed' to draw two cards from the deck. Then, I summon this card..."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled mysteriously and slapped an unremarkable monster card onto the Duel Disk.

"Summon 'Holding Hands Majin' in attack position."

A little devil with black wings appeared, looking ugly, but it had a pair of giant palms that didn't match its small body.

【Holding Hands Majin, ATK 1000】

"Holding Hands Majin?" Masumi Momono muttered. "Adopting a defensive posture right from the start, is this what the King's dueling is like?"

Fujiki You Xuan smiled and didn't speak.

"Next, I activate the Magic Card 'Ties of the Brethren'," Fujiki You Xuan said. "Pay 1000 Life Points, select one monster of Level 4 or lower on my field, and Special Summon two monsters of the same Type and Level as the selected monster from the deck. But those monsters cannot be used for attacks or as Offerings!" (Original effect)

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000 → LP 3000】

After being made into a physical card, this card requires paying 2000 Life Points, cannot perform other Special Summons during the turn it is activated, and cannot summon cards with the same name. But the original card didn't have this restriction.

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He pointed at the Holding Hands Majin on the field.

"Special Summon two more 'Holding Hands Majin' from the deck," Fujiki You Xuan said. "But the monsters summoned by this effect cannot attack or be used as Offerings, so these two will be in defense position."

【Holding Hands Majin, DEF 1600】 x2

"Then, battle," Fujiki You Xuan said. "Use the first 'Holding Hands Majin' to attack the face-down monster."

Holding Hands Majin slapped over, and the monster face-down in the front row flipped over. An angel with a halo above its head was half-crouched on the ground, its giant wings crossed like a shield in front of it.

【Shining Angel, DEF 800】

Holding Hands Majin slapped the angel in defensive posture to pieces, and the latter exploded into golden light spots and dissipated.

"Shining Angel's effect: when this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, Special Summon one LIGHT monster with 1500 or less ATK from the deck."

Masumi Momono searched for a monster from his deck and played it.

"Special Summon 'Marshmacaron'!"

A dazzling white light gathered on the field, and the white light spots condensed into the appearance of a soft, white, fluffy little ball, with a very cute, chibi expression on its face.

【Marshmacaron, DEF 300】

"Marshmacaron, huh," Fujiki You Xuan said.

This was also a monster Yugi had used, and its effect was that it could be Special Summoned when added to the hand by a card effect. But why search for this kind of thing?

"Set two cards face-down, turn end," Fujiki You Xuan said.

If there was anything special about Marshmacaron...

Fujiki You Xuan quickly thought that this monster was Level 1 and was a Fairy-Type.

In other words, the opponent likely had that card in their hand...

"My turn, draw!"

Sure enough, Masumi Momono waved his hand.

"Activate face-down card, Continuous Magic—

—Court of Justice!"

Fujiki You Xuan was not surprised at all.

Sure enough.

(End of Chapter)