Chapter 880: Executive

"Executive?"

Fujiki You Xuan stood up from the sofa and sized up the person who had entered.

The person was masked, so their face couldn't be seen, but their aura was indeed different from an ordinary person's. It was the sharpness of a warrior who had been through many battles, like a sword already unsheathed, with its edge undisguised.

"Correct."

The person said in a somewhat gloomy voice.

"I am Taiyi's Executive, responsible for executing the erasure of all who betray the organization and leak secrets."

Clark, lying on the ground, said in despair: "No! I didn't betray the organization, and I didn't leak... I was just... just..."

"Just foolishly walked into a simple Shadow Game trap and was manipulated at will. Yes, I don't question your loyalty; I know you are simply stupid."

The Executive said coldly.

"But the reasons don't matter. In any case, your verdict has been passed down by Taiyi, and the verdict is erasure."

Clark was in despair and filled with extreme regret.

Why the hell did I have to be so itchy-handed and roll that die...

"And you."

The Executive looked up at Fujiki You Xuan.

"A person who has mastered this level of Shadow Game power... so that's how it is. It is indeed quite rare in this era. However..."

He snorted and raised his arm. Floating mechanical devices flew out from around him, circling and assembling on his arm, quickly combining into a strange floating Duel Disk.

"However, no matter who you are, since you are inquiring about Taiyi, there is only erasure!"

"Oh? Is that so? Interesting..."

Fujiki You Xuan thought that in the anime, Taiyi fought with Yusei and the others, and except for that pile of grunt robots called Ghosts, it was basically all the Three Emperors. It felt as if Taiyi's massive organization had no one else besides the Three Emperors who acted as leaders.

But that was, of course, impossible. An organization hiding in the river of time, constantly correcting history and infiltrating every corner of the world, must be a behemoth; how could it only have three lone commanders?

"Fine, it seems that if I don't deal with you, those three won't show themselves... I still have some questions I want to ask and talk to them about."

Fujiki You Xuan also unfolded his Duel Disk.

"Then let's deal with you first."

The Executive said indifferently: "Do it if you can."

"Duel!" x2

【Fujiki You Xuan, LP 4000】

【Executive, LP 4000】

"I'll go first. Draw card."

The Executive's first turn. After drawing a card, he barely thought, fluidly drawing two cards from his hand.

"I set one monster on the field."

"Then I set one card, and end my turn."

Fujiki You Xuan: "My turn, draw card."

He added the drawn card to his hand, then drew another card from the other side of his hand.

"Then I will also set one monster face-down on the field..."

Fujiki You Xuan placed his monster card on the Duel Disk, and the image of the face-down monster in the front row appeared with a ripple of starlight. At this very moment, the Executive waved his hand and opened his back row.

"At this moment, I activate my set card. Trap card 'Shadow of Temptation'!"

The trap activated, and a huge eye appeared within it. Those huge eyes released bursts of magnetic force full of temptation, as if saying something silently.

Following that, under the gravitational pull, the monster Fujiki You Xuan had just set face-down was uncontrollably turned from horizontal to vertical, flipping into attack position.

"Shadow of Temptation can only be activated when the opponent sets a card," the Executive said. "This card can force a set monster into attack position."

"And, at this moment, if it is a Flip monster, its flip effect cannot be activated!"

Fujiki You Xuan: "I see, a card targeting flip effects?"

The monster he had set wasn't a Flip monster, but...

At this moment, the set monster flipped over, and a soft, white little thing was summoned to the field, looking depressed: "Damn it, they saw everything..."

【Marshmallon, ATK 300】

"Marshmallon, huh," the Executive said. "A troublesome monster that can deal 1000 damage if attacked while face-down and cannot be destroyed by battle."

"But if it's flipped over, it can't reflect damage. And even if it can't be destroyed by battle, its 300 attack points will become a huge flaw..."

"Indeed, to actually flip my Marshmallon, how vicious."

Fujiki You Xuan sighed, helpless.

"Fine, fine... Then I'll set one card, and end my turn."

Executive: "My turn, draw card."

He slapped down another monster card from his hand.

"Normal summon 'Ally of Justice - Bomb'!"

A round bomb sphere, burning with purple flames, floated in the air above the Executive's field.

【Ally of Justice - Bomb, ATK 400】

"Then I flip the face-down monster on the field, Flip Summon!"

The Executive's set monster flipped over, turning into a small mechanical insect with a spider-like design.

【Ally of Justice - Cycle Reader, ATK 1000】

Fujiki You Xuan: "Ally of Justice deck, huh."

This was also a deck that appeared in the earliest era of Synchro, and it had some screen time in the anime. The Ghost army mass-produced by Placido used the Ally of Justice series cards.

"Level 2, Tuner monster 'Ally of Justice - Bomb'!"

"Level 3, 'Ally of Justice - Cycle Reader'!"

"Tuning!"

【2+3=5】

The Synchro halo burst with blinding purple light, and the phantom of the giant mechanical insect gradually materialized in the data storm.

"Gnaw at the light with metallic fangs, crush hope with infinitely regenerating machine bones!"

The Executive raised his arm. At the same time, the dark steel scales of the giant insect in the storm bloomed, a scarlet Ally of Justice emblem appeared on its body, and the energy core began to overload and spin.

"Synchro Summon—"

"—Ally of Justice - Catastor!"

【Ally of Justice - Catastor, ATK 2200】

"Actually Ally of Justice..." Fujiki You Xuan glanced at the Marshmallon on his field with a half-smile. "You seem to have walked right into the gun barrel."

Marshmallon was still confused at this time, tilting its head blankly at him: "Huh?"

What did that mean? Although it was in attack position, the one who would get hurt was the master behind it. It wouldn't be destroyed by battle anyway, so taking a hit didn't matter.

What did "walked into the gun barrel" mean?

The Executive had already shouted: "Battle!"

"Use 'Ally of Justice - Catastor' to attack 'Marshmallon'!"

The giant mechanical insect aggressively opened fire at Marshmallon, energy pouring into the eye of the metal insect brain, turning into a beam of golden light that pierced through.

At first, Marshmallon still held its head high, completely unafraid, until it heard the Executive opposite say: "Ally of Justice - Catastor's effect!"

"When this card battles any monster other than a DARK attribute monster, it can destroy that monster directly!"

Monsters other than DARK attribute...

Marshmallon was shocked.

Nani!?

This cunning giant insect wasn't battling at all, but destroying it with an effect...

What a cheap ability!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 881 =====