Chapter 68

Before this match started, Yamamoto Yuichi was full of ambition, being the first to impatiently enter the field to fire the first shot of the dormitory exchange tournament.

At that time, he had thought about taking advantage of the fact that all the freshmen were still at the banquet, performing his first victory brilliantly in front of everyone to get a head start, but who knew he didn't grab the head start, but got his funeral instead...

After the match, the first thing he thought of wasn't regret for the defeat, nor was it a review of his tactical deficiencies and mistakes, but he began to fall into a soul-searching question about himself.

For example, why was he full and bored enough to duel with a dog, and why did it have to be in front of so many people...

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that everyone seemed very happy after this match. The freshmen on the side exclaimed and pointed at this side, especially when they saw him being slapped twice by the self-contained combination of bicycle and submarine, each of them full of undisguised joy.

However, the joys and sorrows of people are clearly not connected; Yuichi only felt that these people were so noisy...

So he quickly retreated gloomily, shrank back into the crowd, and didn't make a sound.

"Ahem ahem."

Dormitory Head Professor Fontaine coughed and walked up.

"Hmm, well... Fujiki You Xuan and Yuichi have set a good example for us, setting a good model for this year's freshman exchange tournament.

I hope others can also actively duel more, get to know each other as soon as possible to promote feelings, which will facilitate everyone's exchange life in the next three years..."

Hopefully.

However, to be honest, after watching the duel just now, Professor Fontaine was already a little less confident.

He had originally intended to let the new duelists connect with each other and become partners as soon as possible through this welcome exchange tournament, but he never expected that the style of the first match would be quite different from what he imagined.

Judging by this style, he didn't know if they could connect, but after playing a match, they would mostly be frozen...

Thinking of this, the dormitory head couldn't help but take another look at Fujiki You Xuan. At this time, Fujiki You Xuan had already put away his Duel Disk and retreated to the side, looking like he was humbly listening to the professor's speech.

Such a sunny, handsome, and polite child, how could he...

Professor Fontaine let out a long sigh. Sure enough, you can't judge a book by its cover.

He suddenly had a bad premonition. The future style of this year's freshmen in the Yellow dormitory might be a bit unpredictable.

Returning to the dormitory at night, Fujiki You Xuan lay on the bed like a salted fish after washing up, turned on the dormitory's central air conditioning heating system, and squinted his eyes comfortably while lying on the soft bed.

The hardware of the Yellow dormitory is just good, much more comfortable than what he lived in at home before. However, theoretically, Obelisk Blue seems to be even better, and he couldn't help but start to be curious about what it would be like.

But no rush, promotion is a matter of time. Maybe it won't be long before he can experience it in person.

Lying alone felt a bit boring, so he took out the Silent Magician card and tried to call out the spirit.

Maybe because their feelings were a little closer, Silent wasn't as self-contained as at the beginning; at least she would still come out to bubble up when her master called.

Although theoretically, spirits don't need to come out for air often, Fujiki You Xuan felt that occasional communication to maintain emotional stability was also necessary. Jaden loved to chat with spirits from time to time when he was free; that might be the secret to his god-draws.

As a result, when he called today, Silent actually had no reaction again.

Fujiki You Xuan was a bit stunned. What's the situation? The favorability that was finally built up went back? Started playing dead again?

Good guy, not even listening to the master's summons, doesn't that mean she needs discipline again?

Fujiki You Xuan felt that this lost the master's dignity, so he called twice more. It seemed she couldn't withstand his pestering, and the Silent spirit finally came out after much calling, holding... the scroll half-covering her face?

He unexpectedly discovered that the Silent girl today was actually holding a book in her hand, as if she was so fascinated by reading it that she didn't pay attention to him for a moment. Even now that she was out, she was still holding the scroll and studying it seriously.

Fujiki You Xuan curiously leaned next to her head and took a peek.

Well, very good, he couldn't understand a single word.

It looked like some kind of hieroglyphics, plus a bunch of complicated magic circles, runes, and the like; it was simply a heavenly book.

"What are you reading?" He asked strangely.

Silent raised her eyelids from the book, looked at him with some resentment, turned her head, and continued to read the book seriously.

Fujiki You Xuan: "?"

What's the situation with this look that seems to be looking at a heartless man?

However, it seemed that because of the subtle connection with the spirit, he soon seemed to understand a little.

She might be afraid that Fujiki You Xuan wouldn't need her anymore if he had a new spirit, and she was studying hard...

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

He remembered that he seemed to have seen literature when he was researching before, saying that spirit evolution and deck strengthening don't necessarily require a research team to print cards; sometimes spirits work hard to break through themselves, especially when the bond with the duelist upgrades, new forms might appear.

Sometimes some seafood-headed players have their extra decks suddenly glow halfway through a match, and when they open it, there's an extra monster out of thin air; that might be this situation.

Many spirits are also very afraid of being abandoned by their masters. The most representative one is Yubel, the number one yandere in GX, who didn't hesitate to travel through space and cross the galaxy to find her former master, Jaden, showing her twisted love. There is also Aster Phoenix's Honest in the final season, who also felt that he had been abandoned by his master and traveled thousands of miles from the spirit world to Duel Academy to find the whereabouts of his missing master.

If spirits could evolve on their own while lying down and doing nothing, Fujiki You Xuan would naturally wake up laughing even in his sleep. But he still coughed and comforted: "Don't worry, you are my first spirit, and we will always be companions."

Silent poked her head out from the magic book, as if asking with her eyes, really?

Not lying to me?

"Of course." Fujiki You Xuan smiled. "You are all my wings; how could I abandon you?"

The spirit seemed simple after all; the magician girl's frosty face suddenly showed a smile when she heard this, nodding vigorously as if to express her determination to be one with her master from now on.

However, Fujiki You Xuan wasn't just talking empty words. He had been thinking before that if there was a chance, he would find an opportunity to print some support cards for Silent.

In Duel Academy's courses, he wasn't very interested in courses like deck construction and practical teaching, mostly just listening casually with the mentality of understanding the ideas of other duelists in the environment. But that didn't mean he felt there was nothing to learn in the academy.

First of all, card-making teaching was a course he specifically circled, and it was also a key point he had always paid attention to. The academy should systematically explain card design starting from basic knowledge, which was definitely faster than self-study by finding books everywhere.

Following that, he was interested in courses like Duel Spirits, Duel Monster Archaeology, Duel History, and other related courses.

In addition, there seemed to be drawing practice courses. In the anime, he saw students in the Cyber Style dojo practicing drawing cards day and night like practicing martial arts, and in GX, there was a student who went to the mountains to practice and said he discovered the mystery of god-draws based on his understanding of nature.

These show that even without relying on artifacts and cheating, god-draws seem to have a way through practice. Fujiki You Xuan was also very interested in this, and it was also listed as a key point for him to listen to at that time.

Summarizing, there was still a lot of content to learn, and the three years were very short, so he had to work hard.

Although he had taken a side quest to save the world from the spirit world, he still had no idea who the new Dorma behind the scenes was or where they were located; they could be in any corner of any country in this world. Moreover, Fujiki You Xuan's own level hadn't reached the level of the Pharaoh yet, and this side quest level was too high and still a bit far from him.

Anyway, Kaiba was currently handling the investigation work, and no one was more suitable than him, as he could fight and had resources. Fujiki You Xuan felt that his top priority was to learn and develop steadily, upgrade his deck and personal skills, and start from the small things in front of him.

Hmm, for example, starting from his second round of exchange tournament tomorrow.

Striving to continue to bring smiles to his new friends in the Yellow dormitory through duels.

(End of chapter)