Chapter 609

"Huff, huff..."

Zaloog panted heavily, looking a bit bruised and swollen. Meana and Cliff beside him were also covered in injuries. As for Gogo and Chick, they had already been locked into transparent energy capsules and hung upside down.

The man stood in front of them, wearing a duel disk on his arm, holding an energy whip in his hand, with a playful smile on his face.

"Is this all you've got?" The man sneered, "I say, why don't you just give up resistance and submit to me."

"Go to hell!"

Zaloog was furious.

"I haven't even warmed up yet—cough, cough, cough, cough..."

He tried to force himself forward, but after taking two steps, his injuries flared up, and he couldn't help but kneel on the ground, clutching his chest.

Zaloog was shocked in his heart and couldn't help but look up at the man.

The situation was truly bizarre.

The capture capsule, as well as the strange weapons including the energy whip in the man's hand—they were clearly human technology, yet they were actually able to hurt them as fairies.

Even de-materializing their physical bodies didn't work. Those weapons seemed to have the ability to ignore intangibility, and even fairies in ghost form could not be immune.

This included the injuries Zaloog felt at this moment. Fairies often appeared invincible in the real world because their true bodies were actually cards.

It was very similar to their performance in a duel. When a monster was summoned to the field, whether it was cut in half or smashed to pieces, a Monster Reborn could bring it back to life. Even in a Shadow Duel, it generally wouldn't hurt the fairy's true self.

It was the same for materialization outside of a duel. Even if a materialized monster was killed or destroyed, it didn't mean the card was wasted forever. As long as the card was still there, the duelist could slap it back onto the duel disk, and the fairy would be lively again.

But now, Zaloog clearly felt that he seemed to be injured. It wasn't an injury to a briefly manifested physical body, but a more fundamental injury.

He didn't even know that he could be injured in this world.

"Boss!"

Meana suddenly exclaimed with joy.

Zaloog looked back: "What?"

Then he immediately realized, oh, she wasn't calling me.

She was calling our bigger boss.

Fujiki You Xuan walked out of the forest and came before them. The thieves immediately began to complain.

Meana: "Boss, you have to stand up for us!"

Chick, locked in the capsule, reached out his hand hard: "Boss! Save! Save!"

Fujiki You Xuan frowned, looking at the two fairies already locked in the capsules, and then at the man opposite.

The man opposite looked him over for a moment and also frowned slightly: "Hmm, I didn't expect this. Just caught a few fairies, and the master behind them is actually the 'King'?"

"Let me guess." Fujiki You Xuan stared at the man for a moment, "A fairy hunter?"

"As expected of the King, you have an eye for it."

The man laughed.

"Not bad. I am the fairy hunter Keith."

He actually shared a name with a thief in a certain DM.

Fujiki You Xuan remembered. This guy was also a character in the GX anime who appeared around this time. His purpose for coming to the Duel Academy island was for Johan Andersen, or more accurately, for Johan's Crystal Beasts.

Just as the name suggested, fairy hunters were people who specialized in hunting fairies. But unlike the rare card hunters in DM who relied on Shadow Duelists or gambling methods like the Ghouls, fairy hunters were a type even more despised in the orthodox duel world, and even among Shadow Duelists.

Because for them, dueling was the final, not the conventional, means. In most cases, they didn't like to use dueling to hunt.

Instead, they relied on direct robbery.

Just as they had shown, they had technological means to hurt and capture fairies. Therefore, these people often liked to launch sudden sneak attacks, taking advantage of the master's lack of attention to capture fairies with thunderous speed using technology, and then run away once they caught them. If possible, they didn't like to have direct dueling conflicts with fairy masters.

This was also why these people were despised even by Shadow Duelists. "Since guests have arrived, I must treat them well."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled and revealed his duel disk.

Since he had been caught by him, it wouldn't be so easy for this hunter to escape. Of course, this hunter didn't seem to have any intention of running either.

"Fine, I had the same intention." Hunter Keith chuckled, "Although it's a bit unexpected to meet the King here, I did have a plan to pay a visit this trip anyway."

"Oh?"

"One of the goals of coming to the island this time is the legendary, priceless 'Crystal' fairy. As for the other goal..."

Hunter Keith narrowed his eyes.

"The industry says that the current King has god-level fairies in his hands. And I, being the most outstanding among the hunters, have long wanted to get my hands on a heavyweight fairy to play with..."

"Is that so." Fujiki You Xuan unfolded his duel disk, "Fine, let's do this.

If I lose, all my fairies will belong to you, and you can pick whatever you want.

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But as a substitute..."

Before he could finish, Keith snorted with a laugh.

"Of course, all the fairies I've captured in my hunting career will also be handed over to you to dispose of. I will wash my hands of it from now on, never be a hunter again—no, never touch cards or duel again, that's fine, right?"

"Good."

A fair bet.

"Duel!" x2

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000】

【Keith, LP 4000】

"I'll go first, draw!"

Keith drew a card and glanced at the cards in his hand.

"Summon 'Decoy Phantom' in defense position." (Original card)

An original anime card that hadn't been released as a physical card, it was also printed privately by the hunter organization in this world. Many of the cards used by fairy hunters were exclusive to hunters, forming a hunting deck that fit their profession and hunting habits.

What was summoned to the field this time was a mass of shadows, and then the shadow stood up from the ground, transforming into a small face that smiled somewhat creepily, with pitch-black eyes and a body composed like a mass of transparent clouds.

【Decoy Phantom, DEF 0】

"Then I set one card, and the turn ends."

As soon as Meana saw the phantom opposite, she felt something was wrong: "This guy's deck also feels wrong, Boss, be careful."

"It's fine, I will." Fujiki You Xuan smiled, "My turn, draw."

Glancing at his hand, he pulled out one of the cards and waved to set it.

"Set one card on the field.

Then activate the magic card 'Card Destruction' from my hand."

Fujiki You Xuan sent all his remaining hand cards to the graveyard in one breath.

"Both sides send all their hand cards to the graveyard, then draw the same number of cards from their decks."

Keith didn't speak, silently following suit by sending his hand cards to the graveyard and then replacing them.

After the replacement, Fujiki You Xuan immediately activated the back-row card he had just set.

"Activate the magic card 'Double Gate'.

Banish a card with the same name from the graveyard to draw two cards from the deck.

Banish another 'Double Gate' from the graveyard to draw two cards." (Original card)

(End of chapter)