Chapter 7

In the vast arena, the duel venue has towering ancient cities standing. Although the competition has not yet started, the auditorium is already crowded with people.

You Xuan and his dojo senior brother Sato Koji arrived outside the venue. After getting off the car, they looked up and saw the Dark Magician sculpture standing at the main entrance of the venue.

Although the appearance rate of the Dark Magician as a rare card in the main tournament has dropped sharply following Yugi Mutou's retirement, as the ace monster of the former King of Games, it still serves as a facade in many competition venues.

"Then I'm going to do my pre-match preparations; the preliminaries should start soon."

Sato Koji said to him.

"Senior brother, you should also prepare as soon as possible."

"Okay. Looking forward to meeting you again on the field," You Xuan said politely.

But after hearing this, the senior brother's expression became strange, wanting to speak but stopping, stopping but wanting to speak.

I don't want to meet you again at all...

But in the end, he still couldn't say it.

After parting with his senior brother, You Xuan received his credentials and number plate as a contestant from the young lady in charge of registration at the front desk. He took the number plate and looked at it; it was surprisingly number 39.

A quite auspicious number for a card player. You Xuan put away the number plate and nodded with satisfaction.

It seems that his luck is good today; he should be able to win the first battle.

"The Yuehua Cup this year feels like it has high quality."

Just as he walked into the venue lobby, he heard the voices of spectators talking.

"I seem to have just seen that Kajiki Makoto from the Psychokinesis dojo; it looks like he's also participating in this year's competition..."

"Kajiki? That emerging duel genius from the Psychokinesis flow? Good guy, that feels like something to watch..."

Then he heard someone else say: "I don't care about Psychokinesis dueling or anything; I just hope my buddy who plays the Spellcaster tribe can advance..."

"Are you hoping your buddy advances? Pfft, I'm too embarrassed to expose you; don't you just want to see them summon the Magician's Valkyria?"

Magician's Valkyria, with a cool mage outfit similar to the "Dark Magician Girl" in the legendary Yugi deck, a pure face, and slender little arms, but unexpectedly bears the weight that shouldn't be on that small body in certain parts, is one of the "girl cards" long loved by gentleman duelists.

The person exposed immediately blushed: "But she is really big!"

Several companions heard this and stopped arguing, nodding one after another.

"One thing to say, it's true."

"Indeed, it's hard to refute."

"."

You Xuan walked through the venue, and after a few steps, he heard a little girl exclaim.

"My god, really? Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

"Absolutely true!" the girl next to her said with absolute certainty, "Absolutely can't be wrong, that's Dinosaur Ryuzaki! The legendary duelist!"

Hearing this, You Xuan's footsteps paused slightly.

Dinosaur Ryuzaki? The one from "Yu-Gi-Oh! DM"?

When he first appeared, he was portrayed as an expert image, once the national runner-up in the duel tournament, in the absence of a series of big shots like Yugi, Kaiba, and the late DM period.

"Really? But isn't the Yuehua Cup a non-professional secondary competition? Why would a legendary duelist like this..."

"I heard people say that Ryuzaki has been in seclusion for several years and hasn't appeared in public. Now he has come out of seclusion; this is his resurrection match."

"Good guy, then the contestants of this year's Yuehua Cup are really unlucky, running into the Great Demon King."

"Yeah, in this case, isn't the championship already decided?"

"."

You Xuan tried hard to recall. He didn't have a deep impression of Ryuzaki, but he remembered his good buddy Weevil Underwood who was always inseparable from him in the anime. Both of them had despicable personalities who would do anything to win, but Ryuzaki was slightly stronger than Weevil. After all, the latter even did the act of dumping Yugi's entire "Exodia the Forbidden One" deck into the sea...

However, in a sense, his behavior can also be called the savior of all the bosses in the late DM period.

Imagine if the five pieces of Exodia hadn't been dumped by this guy, with Yugi's (Dark Yugi Atem) late-stage "cheat-level god-draw" ability of "getting whatever he wants with his eyes closed," all the Three Phantom Gods, Legendary Dragons, and Orichalcos would have to stand aside.

It would definitely not be too much for Marik, Dartz, and Dark Bakura to each kowtow to Weevil three times.

However, after losing to Yugi and the "normal guy" Joey Wheeler respectively, the two seemed to have transformed from competitive players into entertainment comedians, and their card-playing routes had been developing in an increasingly comedic direction.

Come to think of it, Joey's soul card "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" was even won from Ryuzaki. Since then, Ryuzaki has really not won a single game.

DM didn't explain what happened to him in the end, and he didn't appear in the sequel GX anime. But thinking about it now, the timeline of GX is only eight years after the end of DM, so it's not strange to run into him now.

Thinking about it this way, although Atem has returned to the Underworld, DM-era characters like Yugi and Joey should still be around in this era; it's just that it hasn't been explained where they went or what they are doing.

As an old man from the DM era, Ryuzaki, with the title of "having fought Joey Wheeler," has even mixed into a "legendary duelist"...

These days, even the small fries who were instantly defeated by Yugi back then dare to call themselves legends, and some of them really rely on this gimmick to mix well.

Some of them may really have strength, but some are just muddling through, and the gold content of their "dueling the King of Games" is probably no higher than Kakuzu next door telling everyone "I fought the First Hokage back then."

Weevil and Ryuzaki didn't appear in GX, and it's hard to say how strong they are now. However, You Xuan kept a heart, thinking that if he ran into them in the later competition, he would give them the minimum respect and make some targeted adjustments to his deck.

You Xuan bought a cup of milk tea, found a seat, and looked through the list of registered contestants.

The rank of the contestants is generally higher than that in the duel dojo. After this competition, he should be able to successfully reach four stars, so the academy application requirements will not be a problem.

Scanning the list, except for Dinosaur Ryuzaki, most of them are new faces; it seems there are no other characters he recognizes...

Hmm?

You Xuan's eyes fell on a familiar name.

Chazz Princeton?

That perennial second-in-command of GX, the master of reverse point-rushing from elite to comedian in one year?

He also checked Chazz's personal information.

Elite Academy of the Junior Department attached to Duel Academy, expected to be recommended to the Senior Department of Duel Academy this year.

Hmm... so speaking from the enrollment age, the GX protagonist group should be the same age as him.

No big problem.

He then checked the duel information for his first round of the preliminaries.

Nakamura Tsubasa, duelist rank four.

Looks like there shouldn't be any pressure.

In fact, when Nakamura Tsubasa walked onto the preliminary duel field and came to You Xuan's opposite side, he thought the same thing.

Fujiki Youxuan, rank one, no tournament experience, no honorary awards, resume is blank...

A few short lines of personal information, Nakamura looked at it over and over for a long time, and only saw two words between the lines.

"Freebie."

Sometimes you occasionally get matched with such opponents on the field; these people are called "charity-type duelists" by insiders. They are terrible, but they love to play, and their main focus is giving away points.

Then this game is stable.

But Nakamura didn't know that when You Xuan stood opposite him, with five cards in his hand, he said sorry to his opponent in his heart.

Sorry, buddy, but I've got a perfect hand.

It looks like only one of us can play Yu-Gi-Oh this time.

You Xuan's first move. He first played the Spell Card "Confiscation," paying 1,000 LP to look at the opponent's hand and discard a card. Then there was "The Forceful Sentry," looking at the hand and choosing one to return to the deck. Then he followed up with "Twin Elves," paying 1,000 LP for the third combo, randomly discarding one of the opponent's cards and having the opponent discard one themselves, totaling two more cards discarded from the opponent...

The legendary three artifacts of hand destruction, playing a quality combo in one breath.

It hadn't even reached the opponent's turn, and the opponent was still confused, with only one card left in his hand.

And because he had seen the opponent's hand, You Xuan knew very clearly that the only card the opponent had left was the Spell Card "Double Spell." By discarding a card from his hand, he could use a Spell Card from the opponent's Graveyard.

Not very useful.

The quality combo was completed in one go, and then You Xuan didn't summon a single monster, set one card in the back row, and ended his turn, very cool.

Finally, he elegantly made a "please" gesture.

I'm done, you go ahead.

Nakamura Tsubasa was not feeling well at all.

It wasn't even his turn yet, and he only had one card in his hand; what is there to play?

But adhering to the principle of a duelist, he did not give up. Nakamura Tsubasa stabilized his mentality and drew a card from the deck...

Then he saw the opponent gorgeously flip open a Trap Card, "Drop Off."

The card he just drew hadn't even warmed up before it went to the Underworld...

Nakamura was messy.

This guy is determined not to let people play cards, right?

No way, he was holding a "Double Spell" in his hand, and there was no card he could discard as a cost for activation. He could only end this turn depressed.

He always felt that his turn seemed to have ended before it even started, I don't know if it was an illusion...

Then it was You Xuan's turn again. You Xuan activated the Spell Card "Reinforcement of the Army," which could search for a Warrior-type monster from the deck. You Xuan directly took a "Don Zaloog" and then Normal Summoned Zaloog to attack directly.

Then, triggering Zaloog's effect, when it deals battle damage to the opponent, he could discard one of the opponent's cards...

Nakamura Tsubasa: "."

Now he had no cards left.

No...

What kind of sin did he commit in his previous life to be matched with such an autistic guy?

(End of chapter)