Chapter 60: Fujiki You Xuan's Trump Card

"Direct attack with Machine Ma Da Ω!"

The crimson mecha's engine exhaust spewed from behind, its sharp blades held high, slashing head-on toward Fujiki You Xuan, whose front field was already empty!

"This way it's over, obediently accept your death, and then hand over your soul!"

Fujiki You Xuan naturally couldn't just give up resistance as he said: "Activate face-down card! Trap Card 'Sacred Barrier - Mirror Force'!"

"To think you were still hiding a Mirror Force at this point!?" Bandit Keith was also shocked.

"That's right, when the opponent declares an attack, Mirror Force destroys all Attack Position monsters!"

A pale blue protective layer emerged before him, forcefully bearing the sharp blade swung down by the crimson mecha. The powerful recoil energy backlashed from the protective shield, transforming into a rain of light that swept back to Keith's half of the field.

"Tch, Trap Hole, Magical Cylinder, Mirror Force, troublesome traps really are one after another..."

Keith curled his lip.

What happened to the idea that every card in a deck is carefully selected and is the duelist's soul?

Then I wonder, isn't your soul a bit dirty...

"... But that won't work!"

Keith shouted.

"Counter Trap - Anti-Revolution! When an effect that destroys two or more cards on the field is activated, negate that activation and banish it!"

Fujiki You Xuan frowned. This guy really can pull things out; to think he even had this kind of thing.

Sure enough, when facing an opponent with strong fate power, the efficiency of general tactics is also easily discounted.

After Yu-Gi-Oh entered the 5D's era, this "Anti-Revolution" in the physical card environment was basically replaced by the trap card "Starlight Road", which had a similar effect and could also get a free Stardust Dragon. He vaguely remembered that back in the day, players would routinely set four cards, and if the opponent blew them up with a Heavy Storm, it would directly lead to a Stardust Dragon jumping out.

【Trap Card - Starlight Road. Negate an effect that destroys two or more cards on your field and destroy it, then Special Summon a 'Stardust Dragon' from the Extra Deck.】

Although this era didn't have the famous Starlight Road yet, Anti-Revolution had a similar effect. The unbreakable shield of Mirror Force cracked with a "crack!", shattering into slag with a clatter.

"Therefore, the battle continues, direct attack with Machine Ma Da!" Bandit Keith raised his volume again. "This time it's truly over..."

"Enter the damage calculation step of the battle," Fujiki You Xuan revealed a card from his hand and quickly inserted it into the Graveyard. "Effect of 'Kiteroid' in my hand!

During the damage calculation step when the opponent declares a direct attack, discard 'Kiteroid' from my hand to negate battle damage once."

A translucent image of a small kite emerged, guarding Fujiki You Xuan with its body. Machine Ma Da's fatal blow slammed entirely into the kite's phantom, and the blade could no longer hack down even a fraction.

"How is there still this kind of thing..." Bandit Keith was depressed.

"Truly tenacious... Desperado Barrel Dragon cannot attack the turn its effect is activated; my turn ends.

It looks like you've picked up another turn of life."

Fujiki You Xuan noticed that Keith's Machine Ma Da didn't activate its effect to summon tokens at the end of the turn—but he quickly realized that the original Machine Ma Da Ω didn't seem to have this effect.

After being made into a physical card, Machine Ma Da was adapted into an Effect Monster, with the effect of being able to strengthen its own ATK and the requirement to Special Summon Ma Da Tokens on the field during the End Phase. However, this card in the original work was a Normal Monster, a blank slate with no effects at all.

Holy Elf, who had been watching with trepidation the whole time, finally let out a long sigh of relief. She felt that watching this duel made her need fast-acting heart-saving pills; the moment she saw Fujiki You Xuan's Mirror Force, she almost cheered out loud, and when it was countered, she almost fell into despair again.

The Hero's duel was truly too stimulating.

However, she didn't know that, in fact, even if Barrel Dragon could attack again, the Kiteroid in Fujiki You Xuan's Graveyard could still block another hit.

What is the gold content of an ancient god-tier hand trap?

"To be able to reach this step, honestly, you're not bad, kid." With consecutive attacks failing, Keith seemed to start trying psychological warfare again. "But your means have all been resolved, and your trump card has also been defeated by me.

Even if you can miraculously summon a high-level monster from this situation next turn, as long as you enter the Battle Phase, it will be destroyed by 'Desperado Barrel Dragon' again.

Not only that, the effect of the Continuous Trap 'Barrel Cannon' will also be triggered in a chain, further interfering with and hindering your actions. Honestly, your winning percentage is already infinitely close to zero; continuing to resist has no meaning."

Keith put his hands on his hips, smugly.

"But it's not your fault, it's just that I'm too strong!"

Fujiki You Xuan was expressionless: "You've been beaten by a Normal Monster."

Normal Monster, the nickname President Kaiba gave to Joey back in the day, which gradually spread as Joey became famous.

Keith's expression twitched, and he said angrily: "I am the strongest card professor in America! A dueling expert who is invincible across the Americas!"

Fujiki You Xuan calmly repeated: "You've been beaten by a Normal Monster."

"I... that was just bad luck at the time." Keith gritted his teeth. "Now I have returned from hell; sooner or later I will find that guy again and win back the victory that belongs to me..."

Fujiki You Xuan said: "You've been beaten by an elementary school student hired by Pegasus."

Keith: "..."

Let's just keep talking about Normal Monsters, shall we?

Bandit Keith's face grew gloomier: "I know what kind of person you are; you're no different from them. You must be thinking that I'm a despicable duelist, right? All that crap about 'a duelist's dignity'?"

He clenched his fists, veins bulging on his forehead: "Those are all pretty words spoken by winners! Yugi Yugi Wu Teng, Joey Wheeler, they don't understand at all!

The pain of falling from the highest point, being humiliated, being mocked, having one's self-esteem trampled until it's worthless! You think I like it this way? But not everyone is Yugi Yugi Wu Teng!"

His green-glowing eyes were filled with bloodshot veins.

"Not everyone can be so indomitable. I've tried, I've attempted, but the result hasn't changed at all! Actually, most people are like this, aren't they? There can only be one winner in a duel, one victor; the others are nothing but their stepping stones.

It's easy to stand at the highest point and say pretty words, but the rest of the people don't have that many options."

He looked at Fujiki You Xuan with a gloomy expression.

"It looks like you're also a young prodigy, right? You haven't experienced what I've experienced; when you know what the hell of falling from a high place is like, you'll understand me.

By then you'll know that all that duelist's dignity, all that bond with cards, is just nonsense for children playing house. Only power, only winning is everything!

To win, one can use any means, whether it's cheating, backstabbing, or selling one's soul to the devil; as long as one can win, everything doesn't matter!"

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

"What are you doing?" Keith shouted. "Why are you looking at me with that look?"

"No," Fujiki You Xuan said calmly. "Indeed, in this world, even without borrowing the power of Orichalcos, you should already be stronger than most duelists.

You are indeed right. There is only one peak of dueling, and not everyone is Yugi Yugi Wu Teng. But there is one thing you got wrong.

Yugi Yugi Wu Teng and Joey Wheeler, before being 'victors', they are first 'duelists'.

Dueling is not just a tool for deciding victory. A so-called duelist is someone who believes in their deck at all times, never the relationship of the strong enslaving the weak that you speak of. If you don't even understand this point, that's why I say you're not fit to be a duelist."

Silent Magician, who had already left the field, was floating on the side in spirit form, listening. Although she remained silent, the look in her eyes as she watched her master was becoming increasingly moved. If there were a progress bar for conquest, it would surely be rising constantly...

Although Fujiki You Xuan was intentionally taking the opportunity to grind the fairy's conquest level, these words were indeed his true realization since he came to this world.

In the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, there's nothing wrong with pursuing victory, but using any means just to win will only make one further and further away from that throne.

Bandit Keith is a classic example. Having once fought across America, he couldn't be said to have no talent, but he always had a gambler's mentality as a duelist. Hiding cards in his sleeves, stealing the opponent's entry tickets, using every means possible. But in this extraordinary world, such means that show no respect for dueling won't go far.

Fujiki You Xuan was originally just taking advantage of the atmosphere to insert himself and act like the protagonist group to grind for style points and the fairy's favor, hoping to slightly increase his fate power. But never did he expect that just as the atmosphere seemed to be perfectly set, the carvings on the mountain rocks outside the duel field suddenly lit up.

The sealed carvings, at this instant, suddenly bloomed with ten thousand rays of light, so bright that one couldn't open their eyes. A powerful magic power was released from within, forming a magic storm that reached the sky, wrapping the entire barrier field within it.

After adapting to the strong light and barely opening their eyes, both of them only saw that the images originally carved on the mountain rocks... had actually disappeared!

Keith's pupils contracted, and he immediately felt a hint of ominousness at this strange development.

This development... Ma Saka (Could it be)!?

And when Fujiki You Xuan looked down, he was even more surprised to find that the card at the very top of his deck had actually begun to glow.

Holy crap? What's the situation?

Could it be that his words of moving with emotion and reasoning, which were originally meant for his own Silent girl, had actually resonated with the fairy sealed here?

This scene, this atmosphere, made him immediately unable to help but associate it with the famous scene of the President drawing cards from the floor...

He took a deep breath and placed his finger on the deck.

Shining Draw—!

That card, glowing with golden light, was drawn in a gorgeous arc. The moment the card left the deck, an astonishing air wave erupted, and the storm of energy centered on him spiraled up into the sky.

Keith became increasingly panicked: "That aura, that power, could that card be...!?"

Sure enough, Fujiki You Xuan looked closely and saw that what he had drawn was none other than the legendary warrior of the forbidden card level back in the day—

——Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning!

Well, of course, he knew clearly that this card was definitely not in his deck.

But since he had already transmigrated, drawing a card that wasn't in the deck was originally like NTR, belonging to a part of Yu-Gi-Oh that one had to appreciate...

This isn't called cheating; this is called resonance with the fairy, a sign of a powerful duelist.

Yeah, that's it.

When the card joined his hand, he vaguely seemed to see the majestic warrior's illusory figure emerge in spirit form, holding a sword in both hands and performing a salute to him.

It seemed to be saying, my sword will be with you.

So Fujiki You Xuan nodded, also indicating his response to the warrior fairy.

"Then Keith!" he shouted loudly. "Let me show you, the strongest trump card that is the soul of my deck!"

"Tch, could it be the legendary warrior... fine, who's afraid of whom, bring it on."

Keith also shouted loudly.

"Then hurry up and let me see!"

"Good!"

So Fujiki You Xuan held up a card in his hand, and the card seemed to release endless divine power.

"Then I will release the power of this card right here—"

Bandit Keith held his breath, gritting his teeth and concentrating his energy, waiting for the legendary warrior sealed in this land of fairies to appear.

The Black Luster Soldier fairy had also held the sword hilt, concentrating and holding his breath, ready to go, just waiting for that card to fall to step onto the field and win victory for his new master with the sword in his hand.

Then he heard Fujiki You Xuan continue: "Use the 'Desperado Barrel Dragon' and 'Machine Ma Da Ω' on your field as Tributes to Special Summon this powerful monster to your field!

Awakening from the lava of the abyss, the power of destruction and rebirth—

——Level 8, Lava Golem!"

Bandit Keith: "???"

Black Luster Soldier: "???"

You summon... what the hell??

Following closely, Bandit Keith widened his eyes and saw that his two great mechanical trump cards were both swallowed by a lava rising from the ground, instantly melting into molten iron. Amidst the red-hot lava, a burning, hideous palm slapped onto the field with a "pa!", and the burning giant slowly stood up on his field, its towering figure standing on Keith's field, while at the same time a scorching cage locked Keith within it.

【Lava Golem, DEF 2500】

"Effect of Lava Golem," Fujiki You Xuan said calmly. "This card can be Special Summoned to the opponent's field by Tributing two monsters on the opponent's field.

However, the turn I use this effect, I cannot conduct a Normal Summon."

He paused for a moment and smiled at Keith.

"This is a powerful monster with ATK rivaling Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you know."

I'm directly sending you an 8-star big monster!

Bandit Keith's mouth opened so wide his chin almost fell to the ground.

God damn rivaling Blue-Eyes White Dragon... get lost! Who the hell wants this ugly thing of yours?

My Barrel Dragon, my Machine Ma Da...

Keith was completely messed up.

No, just now, that atmosphere, that cheating development, at a time like this, shouldn't it obviously be to play a legendary Black Luster Soldier, and then have the trump cards of both sides collide passionately to decide the winner?

Damn it, why aren't you playing by the rules? What kind of crap is Lava Golem?

What happened to your trump card? Your soul? Your soul is... this thing??

The Black Luster Soldier fairy, who was preparing to draw his sword, also stood there in a daze for a moment, a bit unable to handle this development.

Ah? You're not summoning me?

Following closely, this legendary warrior suddenly realized one thing.

By the time the duel reached this point, Bandit Keith's hand cards were zero, his back row resources were used up, and every card in the Graveyard was already known, making it almost impossible to have any means of counterattack.

And "Lava Golem", besides being able to eat any two big monsters on the opponent's field, had another effect.

【Each time during your Standby Phase, inflict 1000 points of damage to the controller of this card.】

【Bandit Keith, LP 500】

In other words, Fujiki You Xuan actually didn't need him at all; this duel was already won.

His gorgeous entrance seemed to be redundant.

The legendary warrior fell into deep thought.

Then... should I leave?

Fujiki You Xuan smiled: "Effect of 'Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning' in my hand. This card can be Special Summoned by banishing one LIGHT monster and one DARK monster from my Graveyard.

I banish the LIGHT 'True Silent Magician' and the DARK 'Jinzo' from my Graveyard!"

Although he had already won, it was a rare fairy that recognized its master—and a quite high-level legendary fairy at that—so he had to give him a chance to show off to avoid hurting feelings.

Because as just said, by this point Keith's hand and back row were all zero, and the Graveyard was known, so it made no difference which posture he used to win.

Or if one had to say, if he waited for Lava Golem's effect to burn the opponent to death next turn, Keith still had one last chance to draw a card before that. Although the probability was slim to none, that draw still theoretically held the possibility of surviving.

But if he killed him within this turn, he could wipe out even that slim possibility.

The figures of Silent Magician and Jinzo emerged in sequence, rushing into the sky on both sides of Fujiki You Xuan, and flew into the chaotic vortex respectively.

"One soul guides the light, one soul guides the darkness, the gate of chaos opens here!"

Fujiki You Xuan raised his arm.

"Heaven and Earth open! Level 8—

——Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, summon!"

A vortex of light and darkness that was powerful to the extreme, the spirited warrior clad in armor appeared on the field. The sharp sword slashed open the chaos, carrying the majesty of a god that could not be violated, and even the dark green barrier was faintly shaken by that power.

【Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, ATK 3000】

"'Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning', attack 'Lava Golem'!"

Black Luster Soldier flew forward, slashing out a sword as if creating all things. The Lava Golem in defense state was slashed from the middle, its body collapsing and melting.

"Envoy of the Beginning, effect activate! When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, it can conduct a second attack!"

Fujiki You Xuan raised his hand to order.

"Final blow! Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, direct attack on Bandit Keith!

Space-Time Piercing Blade - Beginning Double Slash!!!"

Black Luster Soldier's figure soared into the air, spinning in mid-air. The golden light danced and swirled along with the sword blade, gathering on the sword and blooming with ten thousand rays of golden light, as if a sword that transcended time and space had fallen!

Looking at the incoming sword energy, as if the sky full of sword shadows had emerged before his eyes, Bandit Keith screamed in despair.

At the moment of his death, his mind was filled with unwillingness, filled with anger, filled with regret, and mixed with that endless pain, a thousand words finally converged into one sentence—

——God damn Lava Golem ah ah ah!!!

【Bandit Keith, LP 500 → LP 0】

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