Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

"Why did Hayato Kobayashi keep us here?" Keith crossed his arms over his chest, looking annoyed, and trampled a weed on the ground with his boots. "He had already sent those kids away, hadn't he?"

"I don't even know where the end of the universe is, how can I know the answer you want?" Amerda responded to Keith's question casually with a blank face.

"Tsk, didn't that guy just want me to be a security guard? Now he's assigning me other tasks?" Keith kicked the mess away in dissatisfaction, "I'm not his subordinate!"

"Well, even though it's an uninhabited island, I still think we should protect the environment."

A weak voice sounded behind Keith, and he was already impatient, and became even more irritated. He arrogantly took out the cigarette and lighter in his arms, turned his head and said, "What the hell is it to you? Not only do I want to step on the grass, I also want to smoke--"

Keith's eyelids twitched wildly as he looked at the weak and timid white-haired young man behind him. It was because he knew the man in front of him, but he didn't know him as a celebrity under Kaiba Entertainment Group, but as a dark duelist.

Although he is undoubtedly a man, his appearance has become more androgynous since he became an adult. With his long, slightly banged white hair and a delicate look, he always gives people a subtle sense of girlishness. It's like - he is easily bullied, and after being cheated of his money to play with a small steel ball, he is left with an empty wallet and a feeling of losing small pearls alone.

".Baira, how come you are here?" Keith looked at the harmless young man warily, seemingly unaffected by his appearance.

And Amerda also glanced at Tapir. He didn't have much interaction with the other party. Although he had investigated Tapir, a transfer student in the same class as Kaiba, Yugi, Jonouchi and Hayato, he had never heard of any connection between the other party and the thief Keith.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but what are you doing, Keith? Are you trying to scare people?” Kajiki Yuta, who had just arrived nearby, saw Tapir, who was a little frightened by Keith’s aura. Recognizing everyone except Amerda, he immediately intervened between the two and said, “How shameless! Bullying ordinary people who have nothing to do with Duel Monsters like this.”

"Ordinary people? If you don't know the truth, don't act rashly out of righteousness, Kajiki Yuta." Keith glanced at Kajiki Yuta from behind his sunglasses and sneered, "You have no idea what a wicked person the guy you are protecting is."

"Can he be more evil than Hayato Kobayashi?"

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Keith suddenly fell silent, and even Amerda beside him couldn't help but join in the conversation to express his agreement: "That's true."

"Hayato-kun is a good man!" After hearing other people's malicious comments about Hayato, Bakura excused his good friend, "He is not an evil person."

"Heh, because you're the type who can hang out with people who manipulate people's minds and play tricks, you think Hayato Kobayashi is a good guy, right?" Keith pointed at himself with his thumb. "I was once called a 'thief' and was as unpopular as a hyena in the professional dueling world, but even I can only bow down to the evil of Hayato Kobayashi."

"He can even do something like freeing his own monster in exchange for victory without any malice. It can be seen that things that are extremely evil in the eyes of others are as simple as breathing in his eyes!"

After a pause, Keith gritted his teeth and said, "Even his students inherited his innate evil, causing me to lose face!"

"Hey, doesn't this last sentence completely expose the fact that you're just taking your anger out on and slandering Hayato Kobayashi because you lost to those students?" Kajiki Yuta complained, "Anyway, we're just here to participate. We didn't really take the duel seriously. Is it necessary to care so much about winning or losing?"

Seeing that Keith suddenly remained silent, Kajiki Yuta raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Wait a minute, you didn't really take the duel seriously and lost to Kobayashi Hayato's students, did you? Pfft-Pfft, hahahahaha, you are too slow, aren't you, Keith? No wonder you slandered Kobayashi Hayato and said he was an evil guy."

"Stop making so much noise, you aquatic idiot! The brat who defeated me wasn't just an ordinary character."

Keith tried to find excuses, and with his amazing wisdom, he quickly thought of something - as long as the person who defeated him was strong enough, wouldn't he be able to look less weak? This was the main way most of the "Legendary Duelists" went out.

After all, when it comes to their past battle records, aren't the only characteristics worth bragging about "once made Yugi Muto suffer a tough battle", "fought with Seto Kaiba", "put Jonouchi Katsuya in crisis", and "was beaten by Hayato Kobayashi"?

"As a professional duelist who has fought against two generations of Duel Kings, Yugi Muto and Hayato Kobayashi, and is now ranked sixth in the world, I, Thief Keith, can make a professional judgment based on my personal professional qualities. The kid who defeated me is definitely not an ordinary person. He may even become the next generation of Duel King!"

"Even if you don't want to admit that you lost to a student, you shouldn't flatter him like that, right? Your intentions are too obvious, Keith." Kajiki Yuta complained, "And you haven't told me why you're targeting Bakura so much."

Although Kajiki Yuta is not a fan and just knows that the other person is a star, considering that the other person is Jonouchi's classmate and he has a good relationship with Jonouchi, Kajiki Yuta feels that he still needs to help the other person when no one is there to protect him.

"Did you have any conflicts with Keith before, Baliang?"

After hearing what Kajiki Yuta said, Bakura shook his head in confusion: "I don't remember having any conflicts with Mr. Keith? I don't even have many memories of meeting him."

"Maybe it's because that guy saw me and you meeting, huh."

A new voice joined the conversation. When they looked in the direction of the voice, no one else reacted, but Keith's eyelids were twitching wildly.

"Malik-kun, long time no see." Seeing the person who appeared, Bakura greeted him in a friendly manner. Because Malik had been staying at Hayato's house for a long time after the end of Duel City, when Hayato invited others to his house, Malik inevitably met Bakura and others several times, and they all knew each other.

"Malik?" Kajiki Yuta thought about it and said in surprise, "Could it be that you are Malik Ishdar?"

"If you're talking about the strongest user of the Millennium Scepter in history, the former leader of 'Gurus', the brother-in-law of Hayato Kobayashi, the top player on the 'Live☆Twin' list, the international master of 'Duel Monsters League', and the top eight player in Duel City, then it's me!" Malik pointed his thumb at himself arrogantly, not shying away from saying something incredible.

"It's you, Malik!" Keith frowned and protected Kajiki Yuta in front of him with a bad expression, but he kept saying "bad luck, bad luck, bad luck" in his heart. His resistance to Amerda came from the fact that when Hayato sealed his soul in the past, Amerda was accompanying him to supervise Hayato Kobayashi and he was a supervisor who sincerely joined Doma. His resistance to Tapirara came from the fact that he had witnessed his transaction with an evil leader, but the one who traded with Tapirara at that time was not someone else, but Malik. Even at that time, Keith existed as a puppet controlled by Malik, who could only watch his actions but could not change anything!

Although Malik now looks lazy and is wearing vintage clothes with two-dimensional patterns on him, he looks just like a harmless two-dimensional character that can be seen everywhere in Akihabara, but in Keith's eyes, he is more terrifying than a billion murderers!

*American swear*, why did he accept Hayato Kobayashi's invitation to come here? Why did he meet so many people here that he didn't want to meet? Could it be that this place is actually hell!

"The title is a bit long, but it is you after all. I have heard Jonouchi talk about you before." Kajiki Yuta's expression was a little subtle, "There is something that I am very concerned about."

Malik raised an eyebrow: "International wanted?"

"No, I'm curious about how you reached the Master rank in the Duel Monsters League international server." Kajiki Yuta looked distressed, "When I teamed up with Jonouchi, Ryuuzaki and I, we could only reach the Diamond rank. Is it possible for a human to reach the Duel Master rank?"

"If you're a sucker, just practice more. You can reach the master level if you play games for sixteen hours a day like me." Malik said proudly, with a fairy-like look on his face.

"Then what about the King rank of Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, and Hayato Kobayashi?"

"There must be something wrong. Even I can only reach Master. The first is that the designer himself cheated. The despicable operator left a backdoor for himself." Malik did not hesitate to slander others who were higher in rank than him. "As for my brother-in-law, he is not a human being."

"Oh!"

Malik was hit on the head and squatted on the ground with his hands covering his head. Hayato was not worried at all that he would make Malik stupid. After all, Malik's IQ was close to zero, and you couldn't destroy something that didn't exist in the first place.

"So, it's best not to say bad things about others behind their backs. The person concerned will hear it. This is the underlying logic." Retracting his hand, Hayato looked at the people present and first greeted his best friend, "Long time no see, Bakura."

"Ah, Hayato-kun." Bakura's cheeks flushed slightly, and he waved to Hayato and said hello, "It's been a long time. We just met in Tojino City a month ago."

"A month is a long time." Hayato said with a smile, and then looked at Malik who was still squatting beside him, "You're still not well? Do you want me to perform a pain transfer treatment? Just hit another part of your body, and your head will definitely stop hurting."

"Let's not do that." Malik stood up quickly after hearing this. "So, brother-in-law, why are you asking me and my gang to stay here? Isn't your game of 'Wild Survival' over?"

When the others heard Malik's words, they all looked at Hayato, equally curious about the answer to this question.

"I asked the students to choose the name of the activity. 'Wild Survival' was chosen by them, but in my case, this activity is still called 'Great Expedition'." Hayato paused and looked at everyone: "You don't think that I specifically called the students to this island just to let them experience a wild fight and grow?"

"It looks like they have grown a lot and benefited a lot, but I have also obtained some very important data." As he spoke, Hayato took out a test tube-like object with some golden liquid flowing inside, "This is it."

"What is that?" Amerda looked at the thing in Hayato's hand and immediately noticed the Kaiba Group logo on it. "Is this another new thing that Kaiba Seto has come up with?"

"On the surface, it is true that I bought this uninhabited island, but Kaiba also made a lot of efforts in the actual construction process. The main purpose was to find a place like this where there are not many to test the 'new element' he had just developed." Hayato turned the test tube in his hand, and the liquid in the sealed test tube flowed, and countless bubbles appeared. "His naming talent is really too rubbish. He can only come up with a lame name like 'Seahorse Element'. I think 'Duel Energy' sounds better."

"Duel energy? It sounds weird. It's as if Duel Monsters are some kind of human-powered power generation project." Keith said disdainfully, "And what does this have to do with us?"

"Of course it is related, because this is something you produced with your own hands." Hayato thought for a moment and explained in a little more detail, "It is in all your activities related to duels on this island."

"Hmm?" Keith raised his eyebrows, suddenly thinking of something, and looked at his duel disk. "Wait a minute, could it be because of this duel disk?"

"Bingo! I have placed a duel energy collection device specially provided by Kaiba Group in everyone's duel disk. It can collect the duel energy that you unconsciously generate and will be wasted in each duel. The final product is this tube of 'duel energy'." Hayato said with a smile, "Not only you, but even my students who came to the island, they also have collection devices in their duel disks."

"However, the collection device is not yet able to remotely transmit and concentrate energy. Instead, it will be temporarily stored in the duel disk for people to use in some way."

Amerda thought of something and pointed at his feet. "So the Duel Monsters materialized not because of this island? But because of the so-called 'Duel Energy'?"

"As expected of you, Amerda, you guessed the answer right away. In fact, the existence of this island is just a range activator that activates the Duel Energy Collectors that land on this island. The students on the island are able to materialize their Duel Monsters, but in fact, they are just using the Duel Energy in their Duel Disks."

"So, there will be a situation where their Duel Monsters consume a lot of physical strength after materializing." Kajiki Yuta suddenly realized, "Is it because they use physical strength instead of 'Duel Energy'?"

"But in that case, how did those Duel Monsters on the island materialize?"

"Why do you think they accepted my control and were confined to this island?" Hayato raised his Duel Disk. "I have never been a person who favors one over the other. The same Duel Energy Collector also exists in my Duel Disk, and I alone can supply the Duel Monsters on the entire island with long-term materialization."

"Eh? Are you tired or feeling uncomfortable, Hayato-kun?" Bakura asked with concern after hearing Hayato's words.

"No problem at all! And you have no idea how excited I was when I found out that Kaiba finally figured out this thing!" Hayato held the tube of "Duel Energy" in his hand with satisfaction, "I already have a device to collect Duel Energy. I just need to add 'Wandering Particles'. Maybe in two years, I can play cards on a motorcycle!" (End of this chapter)