Chapter 79

Kobayashi Yuki kept his head down all day today.

He got up early in the morning to avoid the peak time to leave the dorm, didn't dare to go to the cafeteria all day, and lunch was solved by bread from the convenience store. Even in class, he wore a hood and kept his head down, mixing into the classroom with the largest batch of students, and as soon as the bell rang, he lowered his head and ran...

The reason was none other than that his opponent for the new round of dorm exchange matches was matched with 'that man'.

A legendary man, a man who won the recognized title of 'Great Demon King' in the entire Yellow Dorm within a week of enrollment, and also the guy that almost everyone in the entire dorm least wanted to be matched with.

Being matched with others at most meant losing a duel and earning one or two fewer credits, but this guy was different. It was rumored that after playing a match with him, you couldn't close your eyes for at least a whole night, and more seriously, it might even directly kill your passion for dueling, making you have the thought of 'maybe playing cards isn't suitable for me, I should go back to moving bricks' not long after enrollment.

So every student who checked that their next opponent was this guy would immediately show an expression of mourning. And as long as others in the dorm saw that expression, they could probably guess what this poor person had encountered, and then either shook their heads or held back their laughter, patted his shoulder, and advised the brother to be strong.

Yuki felt that his whereabouts all day had no flaws, perfectly avoiding that terrifying Great Demon King. Although he also knew that hiding for a while didn't make sense, the instinct when facing great terror was helpless; he could only hide for a while.

At least this day seemed to have passed safely.

Yuki, who finally finished a day of activities, finally relaxed his tense nerves. He was preparing to return to the dorm, take a hot bath, and go back to watch a show to relax for a while...

Then he suddenly petrified.

Because he saw the Great Demon King leaning against a stairwell on the only way to his dorm room, waving and greeting him with a sunny smile.

"Yuki-kun, right?" You Xuan said cheerfully, "Did you forget that we have a duel?"

Yuki was crying without tears. He really wanted to say no, you recognized the wrong person, I'm not, but the opponent had already unfolded his duel disk.

"Don't worry, it won't take long." You Xuan said cheerfully, "Come on, come on."

Yuki: "."

"."

"'Dimensional Prison', send your monster to another dimension!"

"Submarineroid direct attack!"

"Pair Cycroid direct attack!"

"."

You Xuan didn't lie; it really ended very quickly.

Ten minutes later, Yuki was lying on the ground, his eyes dull and his expression vacant, looking like he had been tossed around. It seemed that he had fallen too hard when he fell, and the cards in his duel disk were scattered all over the ground.

Passersby who didn't know the truth might be shocked to see this scene, fearing that this was a Dark Duel that had just been lost.

Another person sent to the underworld... JPG (Malik limited edition)

"Ah~ another duel before bed, comfortable, comfortable."

You Xuan stretched, politely saying goodbye to his card-playing friend.

"It was a good duel. Good night, Yuki-kun, I wish you sweet dreams tonight."

Yuki: "."

Professor Kabayama, the dorm head who happened to pass by, saw this scene and wanted to say something for a long time, but he never knew where to start.

Initially, he held this competition so that freshmen could communicate friendly and get to know each other and get along well.

But now it seems that according to this trend, it wouldn't be strange if they soon 'got along' by 'fighting'...

But he seemed unable to say anything. After all, this student named You Xuan really seemed to be dueling seriously, and in terms of results, he even had a perfect record.

It had only been a week. If this continues, what will the Yellow Dorm become this year...

"."

In the second week, a new course appeared on the class schedule that You Xuan was very interested in.

Alchemy.

Honestly, whenever this term was mentioned, the first things that popped into his mind were famous alchemy anime terms like 'human transmutation' and 'equivalent exchange'. However, there was also alchemy in Yu-Gi-Oh.

The teacher in charge of the alchemy course was the dorm head of Osiris Red, Professor Daitokuji.

In the early stages, he looked like the most useless and salty teacher in the whole academy, always giving people the feeling of being very cowardly and weak. But in the Sacred Beasts arc, it was discovered that he was actually a hidden BOSS, and even netizens who analyzed the plot believed that if he hadn't intentionally cultivated Judai and deliberately gone easy, the Judai who hadn't grown up in the early stages shouldn't have been able to beat him.

Of course, that was just speculation and there was no actual evidence, but there was no doubt that Daitokuji was one of the hidden strongest characters.

His attainments in alchemy had also reached the level of fantasy. The background setting said that he was actually terminally ill, and he was actually relying on forbidden arts similar to 'human transmutation' to create a new shell, moving his soul into the new body to prolong his life.

Even in the end, after he lost to Judai in a Dark Duel and his body decayed and collapsed, he still survived in the form of a soul and was swallowed into the body of a cat he raised. Until the end of GX, he had always accompanied Judai on his journey, being a crucial teacher and friend in Judai's life.

However, You Xuan was concerned with alchemy itself. Although other students now felt that this teacher was just wasting time, You Xuan knew clearly that this was a big shot.

It was rumored that alchemy could give people the power of immortality, and in the worldview of Yu-Gi-Oh, it was conceivable that all things must be related to playing cards. Alchemy also seemed to involve the field of 'card printing'.

The most awesome card Daitokuji printed in the original work, the 'Philosopher's Stone' that he handed to Judai before his body perished, could pay half of one's life points to add any card from the deck to the hand, and could be used three times in a row in one turn without limit.

Unlimited search and it was a one-for-three, basically equivalent to a super cheat that guaranteed a win in a card match; the biggest drawback was that it could only be used in one duel, and it was scrapped after use.

But the existence of this card was enough to prove the value of alchemy.

So You Xuan listened to this class extra carefully. Most of the classroom was listening until they were sleepy, but he always focused his attention and didn't let go of any words Daitokuji said intentionally or unintentionally, taking notes continuously throughout the process.

As a course in a card-playing academy, alchemy was originally a bit niche, and Daitokuji might have been seeing a student listening to his class so carefully for the first time, and couldn't help but glance at this side a few more times before the end of class.

You Xuan noticed it and returned a warm and sunny smile to the teacher.

Daitokuji was stunned, and then quickly pretended to be his usual silly image and smiled at You Xuan.

The bell rang. Daitokuji narrowed his eyes, put away his teaching materials, and left the classroom holding his cat.

The name seemed to be Fujiki You Xuan.

He remembered this student.

A student with such a sunny smile, he should be a good young man.

(End of chapter)