[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh":3,"chapter-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-78":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh!?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2248927,4388,"Chapter 78: Number One","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-78",78,"\u003Cp>“I lost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asuka exhaled deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she felt a bit defeated, she wasn’t the type to resent losing. Her opponent had completely dominated her in trap usage, disruption of her dueling rhythm, and battlefield control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She accepted the loss gracefully; there was nothing to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You won,” Asuka stood up and said, “but I won’t give up. Over the next three years, I’ll work harder to become stronger, then challenge you again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan wanted to say, Sure thing, next time double the credits, thanks for your business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, but the atmosphere here now doesn’t seem right for that—better save it for the next duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d easily gained ten more credits; he wouldn’t mind if more cards like this came his way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Nakamura from the Student Council cautiously appeared: “Um… so, which candidate will you cast your vote for, You Xuan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan suddenly remembered. Oh right, the cards today were originally meant for this election, not for my credits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care who he voted for—he hadn’t paid attention to the event to begin with. But Asuka spoke before him: “Vote for Hinata-senpai. She needs this vote more than I do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t joke,” Hinata Xinghua, standing outside, crossed her arms, glancing sideways with a pouty expression. “After that duel, it doesn’t matter who gets the remaining votes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asuka: “?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hinata turned and waved her hand. “Forget it. I’ll withdraw myself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unexpected turn left Asuka stunned. She hesitated, then said, “But I wanted to be recognized as a duelist, not…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hinata froze, shot her a look. “Idiot, don’t you get why I’m withdrawing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is a Duel Academy. Every title must be won through dueling to mean anything. That’s why… I lost to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asuka fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she turned to find the opponent who had given her such a profound duel, she found he was already gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he cared only about the duel itself—not the aftermath, not the election results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asuka: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy… might be a pure duelist too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, no one noticed that in the crowd, a certain jellyfish-haired figure in Osiris Red was scanning the room with a dueling disk in hand: “Huh? Has anyone seen You Xuan? I want to duel him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, no one knew that Hinata Xinghua, who had voluntarily withdrawn from the election, slipped into a quiet corner, pulled out her student terminal, opened the voting interface, and secretly cast a vote for the first-year, Tian Shangyuan Asuka.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she smiled, satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this, perhaps, is what they call turning from hater to fan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan, exiting the hall, happily counted his new credits as he walked, continuing to check his student terminal for any new cards added to the academy’s inventory today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately spotted a newly restocked card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaos Sorcerer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d set his sights on this card before the entrance exam, but after enrolling, he found the single copy in stock had already been bought. Until today, a new one suddenly appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, You Xuan reserved it immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had Great Opening and Chaos Sorcerer, his previously envisioned next World Champion deck was nearly ready to be built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 【Chaos】 archetype had won three consecutive World Championships and once dominated the meta. You Xuan couldn’t recall the full build, but he remembered the general concept and planned to adapt it using the cards he already owned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still lacked a few cards he envisioned, but none were especially rare. He had plenty of money and had converted many credits into DP points recently—he could easily replenish them from the academy’s store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As You Xuan walked, someone beside him spoke: “Hey, Number One.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped, looked up—and there was Sanze Daichi, the infamous guy from Yellow Dorm, no, the four-operation guy—wait, no, just Sanze Daichi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That was an impressive duel. No surprise you’re Number One,” Sanze greeted him with a smile. “The exchange matches have been going on for a week now, and it seems only we two still have perfect records.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re strong too,” You Xuan replied with polite flattery, then asked, “So, you thinking we should test each other?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he mentally calculated: maybe we should bet a few more credits this time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sanze shook his head. “No. We haven’t been matched yet in the pairing list, and I’m not ready. My duel against you must use my strongest deck—one forged with my blood and soul. It’s not finished yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan raised an eyebrow. That reminded him—he’d forgotten Sanze was also a counter-specialist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original work, when he first faced Banjou, he saw Banjou was using a Fire-type deck, so he pulled out a Water-type deck from his so-called “Six Harmonies Deck.” His ace monster, “Water Dragon,” reduced the ATK of all Fire-type monsters on the field to zero, completely breaking Banjou’s strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he faced Yuuki Jyodai, he analyzed the Elemental Hero deck and concluded it was a toothless tiger without Fusion. So he printed a card overnight—“Seal of Forbidden Magic”—and banned all Fusion Spells for the entire duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan sensed the pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is he a similar type of counter-specialist to me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the “strongest deck designed to defeat me” Sanze mentioned—could it mean…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry, Number One. It’ll be soon,” Sanze smiled confidently. “You know, the first-year entrance practical test is coming up, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entrance practical test?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan immediately recalled—it was the event from episode four of the anime. First-years undergo phased combat assessments, matched against classmates in their dorm with similar rankings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the original, Professor Chronos secretly manipulated the draw, claiming “Yuuki Jyodai’s strength is too overwhelming—fighting within Yellow Dorm is just fishing,” and paired him with Banjou, the top elite of Osiris Blue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And of course, Banjou got fish-slammed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But without manipulation, if matches were based purely on dorm rankings…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly,” Sanze smiled faintly. “We’ll likely face each other in the test. I heard winning grants a huge amount of credits—I won’t hold back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me see your duel, Number One.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan didn’t catch anything else—he only heard “huge amount of credits.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d thought it was just a phased test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it seemed he had no choice but to win.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today’s five updates, fourteen thousand characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please subscribe! Please vote for monthly awards!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1053,"2026-06-19T08:58:34.393Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","fbb94431a58dd6bd078af05e56350df3ed709df104c9a5d7f904c6d3aefa6178","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-79","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-77",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwho-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-cover.jpg"]