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Chapter 1574: Duelists have a strange rule that only those who have shuffled their decks an odd number of times are considered duelists

"Why do you look totally unsurprised, Hayato?" Bakuryo asked curiously, "That's Grandpa Soroku. I never knew he was such a great duelist."

"That's because you didn't meet him in the KC Cup, right? That seemed to be the last time the old man Sugoroku took action in a duel other than this one." Malik said casually, "But, the old guy didn't use the current [Millennium] deck but the Heavy Pit deck."

"I played against him at that time, and he almost broke through me, the 'qualified goalkeeper', to enter the official competition. Fortunately, I was more skilled and won in the end. It was all thanks to the fact that I played cards with Lishid a lot when I was a child."

"Then I'll reward you by having another fight with Lishid?" Hayato teased with a smile.

"What kind of thing is that?" Malik refused without hesitation, stretching out a finger on each hand and crossing them.

"Well, Malik-kun. At your age, it's no longer appropriate for you to imitate anime and act cute." Bakura said gently, but Malik looked deeply shocked.

"seriously?"

"It's really disgusting, a three-year-old's cuteness." Hayato stood on Bakura's side, "You're so old and still watching anime. It really makes us elders worry."

"That being said, brother-in-law, you are only 24 this year, and you are only two years older than me." Malik, who is 22 years old this year, protested unhappily, "Besides, brother-in-law, you who kept saying in the duel that your deck, which is not girly at all and is even less like a band, is a 'girly band' deck, you have no right to say anything about me!"

".Come to think of it, what did you ask me just now, Bakuliang?"

"You actually pretended not to hear what I just said! And you acted as if it was a matter of course!"

Neither Hayato nor Bakura paid attention to Malik's complaints. Bakura asked again out of curiosity: "Hayato, when did you know that 'Yu-Gi-Oh' is Grandpa Sugoroku?"

"Interesting question. Then when did you come up with this idea? I didn't use the mirror flower and water moon, ahem. I mean, why do you think I can't tell at a glance that 'Yu-Gi-Oh' is Mr. Muto Sugoroku?"

Hayato paused, put his hands on his head and imitated Muto Sugoroku's hairstyle, "I'm not saying anything, but it's hard to find five people in the world who can match Yugi's hairstyle. One of them imitated Yugi's hairstyle, and one lived three thousand years ago."

"Although Mr. Sugoroku wore his turban quite tightly and I didn't take it off until the end of the duel, the problem is that he never thought of covering his hair with a turban. Otherwise, if he covered his face like a [Thief Chestnut Ball], even I would have to spend some time to guess who such a short person is."

"Honda and Otogi, let alone them, didn't cover their hair at all, especially Otogi, he didn't even bother to take off the dice earrings on his ears, it was not even acting."

Hayato continued to talk, and the topic shifted from Muto Sugoroku to Honda Hiroku and Oga Ryuji. "And the crappy nicknames they gave each other. At least Sugoroku's 'Game King' made me a little confused and thought I had met someone in the same field, but Honda called himself the 'Car King' and Oga named himself the 'Dice King', so it's hard to judge."

"To be honest, that's true." After hearing what Hayato said, Malik couldn't help but nod his head to express his agreement, "But this is not a reason for you to avoid my question just now, brother-in-law."

"It's a weird rule that a man has to be able to touch a frog to be considered a real man, Malik!"

"He suddenly started calling my name and saying some weird things? And who wants to touch a frog?"

"That's the strange rule that a true duelist must shuffle his deck an odd number of times to be a true duelist!"

"I see. I also have the habit of counting prime numbers while chewing rice." Bakura said a little embarrassedly.

"Ah, I think so too. When I eat barbecue, I like to eat the original flavor first and then dip it in various sauces at the end. No, the topic has gone off track again!"

He acts like a spitball, and although he can't continue to be a otaku because of Hayato's mandatory request and is dragged out to act with Hayato, Malik is quite energetic.

The three of them were strolling on the island towards somewhere unknown. Soon, a building with a long queue in front of the door appeared in front of Hayato and his companions.

"Huh? So many people?" Bakura looked at the long line of at least 40 to 50 people in front of him, and curiously asked Hayato, who was very familiar with the Duel Academy Island, "Hayato-kun, is this the place you wanted to bring us to? But what are everyone doing here?"

"It would be too troublesome to just talk about the specific rules. Let me give you an example. Do you remember Duel City?" Hayato took out two GX badges from his arms and said, "Just like when Kaiba used his company's new product, the Duel Disk, and a special map card attached to the Duel Disk as the 'entrance ticket' to participate in Duel City, this 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament' also has an entry ticket, which is this badge."

"I still remember this. Of course, I will also remember that you, brother-in-law, took away the badge of the old man Sugoroku after he was defeated." Malik, who had transformed into a historian of time and was revisiting Hayato's past, complained, "And in my brother-in-law's description, it seems that the president of Kaiba used the fact that he was the organizer to make money with the duel disk?"

"Although Kaiba gives duel disks for free to duelists whose duelist level is above 3☆ and who have rare cards in their decks, other people are not eligible to buy them no matter how rich they are. But you tell me, has the share price of Kaiba Group gone up after the Duel City?" Hayato paused and shook the badge in his hand. "Kou can go, and so can I. What's wrong with our Duel Academy relying on being the organizer of the 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament' to earn a little teaching funding?"

"Earn money?" Bakura looked at the badge in Hayato's hand with some surprise, "But Hayato, didn't you give this badge to Mr. Kajiki and the others for free when you invited them to participate? How can you make money with free things?"

"It's not free." Hayato raised one and shook it, saying proudly, "Although this badge as a qualification for participating in the competition is distributed free of charge to students of our school and recognized strong duelists, don't forget that in addition to the invited strong players, there are also many uninvited participants in this competition."

"When they boarded the Duel Academy Island, which was open for a limited time and was hosting the 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament', they wanted to find someone to duel with, but found out that they were not eligible. What should they do at this time?" He pointed to the building behind him, "Clang clang! This is the designated place for issuing and recycling badges that was temporarily built by the professional construction team of the Seahorse Group for this 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament'. I named it the 'Gold Exchange'."

“Using a process similar to Duel City, the decks of those who intend to participate but have not been invited will be checked, and then you can get a badge by paying a mere five hundred yuan. For the price of two Tamashis, you will have a chance to glimpse the peak of the world.” “It sounds really cheap, but I can understand giving it away, but what about recycling?” Malik said curiously without complaining about whose “Tamashi” would cost a mere 250 yuan.

"It means exactly what it says. These badges can be exchanged for money."

After casually dropping a bombshell, Hayato stretched out his fingers and began to calculate for the two of them: "Based on the eighty students admitted last year, there are roughly two hundred and forty students in the three grades of Duel Academy. Add to that the badges received by the teachers in the school, and there are more than two hundred and sixty GX badges in the Duel Academy headquarters alone. Then there are more than forty invitees who have received the invitation and replied that they will participate, which makes more than three hundred. Add to that other people who are interested in participating, and it is estimated that there will be more than four hundred participants, which means four hundred badges."

"The rules of this competition require that the loser hand over all of his/her badges to the winner. Now is the beginning. No matter how efficient we are, we can only collect a dozen or twenty badges at most. Carrying them with us would be a burden at best. But what if it's the last few days?"

"Although each one is very light, it would be great if one person could carry one or two hundred of them and be able to move." After hearing the calculation given by Hayato, Malik also realized the flaw in this rule. "So, brother-in-law, have you come up with a solution for recycling the badges?"

"After all, the purpose of this badge is just to prove your eligibility to participate in the competition. It's not like the puzzle cards that Kaiba designed back then, which actually had a weird design where you had to collect different pieces to qualify for the competition. It's just like scanning the Chinese character for "Fu" to collect the five blessings. It's easy to end up with a situation where you have all the other pieces or even duplicates, but the only piece left is something you can't collect."

When it comes to the past Duel City competition system design, even Hayato felt a little resentful. After all, he had encountered a situation where he collected the same map card repeatedly. In the end, he got the final puzzle card from Lishid and advanced to the quarterfinals.

"Although the value will be cut in half when it is recycled, we can still give 250 per badge, the price of a Tamashi. The recycled badges will be recorded as points accumulated in the individual's file until the loser loses the badge and transfers it to the winner. The final winner will get all the badges."

"No matter how many there are, it doesn't matter. But this means that even if I only have one badge, it will be enough for me to continue participating in the competition. I can give the other badges to the Duel Academy for recycling. The amount of money in return will give me enough motivation to duel more in this competition."

Bakura did some calculations and according to the data given by Hayato, the winner of this competition, in addition to fame, would actually receive four hundred times two hundred and fifty, or one hundred thousand!

"Although I don't have much pursuit of money, even I am a little scared by one hundred thousand dollars. It's really a lot." Baliang said with emotion.

Malik was also stunned when he heard what Tapirara said: "Ah, not Yen?"

Hayato said in a somewhat strange tone: "Didn't I say that?"

"It seems, there really isn't?" Baliang tapped his chin and said uncertainly.

"Then take what I said now. Of course it's in US dollars. Otherwise, you want to buy the chance to play cards with my students for 500 yen? What a dream." Hayato sneered, "Besides, 100,000 US dollars is not a lot of money. If the problem can be solved with money, then don't - I haven't finished speaking yet, Malik, what are you going to do?"

"I want to participate too!" Malik said with a determined expression. "My brother-in-law, who owns shares of the International Illusion Agency, you don't know what life I live. You have never tasted the pain of being penniless, so you naturally don't know how much temptation this $100,000 brings to me!"

"Don't stop me! I want to participate in the competition, and I want to compete for second place in the world!"

Malik once again exuded the aura of the leader of "Gurus", who had been shortlisted for the top eight in Duel City.

However, Hayato broke his plan with just one sentence: "Very ambitious, but I have a question - do you have the $500 registration fee?"

“Ah, ah! Don’t tell me such a cruel reality!” Malik’s expression turned into despair when he found out that he had no start-up capital at all. “Usoda! Are you kidding me!”

"Strange?" Looking at Malik rolling on the ground, Bakura was a little puzzled. "I remember that you told us before, Hayato, that Malik had some unused 'legacy' of 'Gulus' in his hands, right?"

"But that was a long time ago. Six years ago, he developed a habit of spending lavishly because he had too much money. He even told us some stupid things like 'we must change the bad habit of eating staple foods, eating lobsters can also fill our stomachs.'" Hayato spread his hands, "He also watched the live broadcast of the suit man and gave him tips. He also spent money in revenge because he didn't have a good life before. He also got into the pit of the two-dimensional world. He ate up all the gold mountain."

"So after discussing with Isis, we decided to limit Malik's monthly spending and let Lishid manage his property."

Bakura nodded: "It's very much in your usual gentle style, Hayato."

"How can I be gentle!" Malik protested. "Ten thousand dollars a month is not enough. I really want to buy one of those new flying motorcycles this year. If I only have the hundred thousand dollars, I, I, I will die!"

"Don't be like this, Malik-kun, you'll disturb everyone." Bakura tried to comfort Malik with a soft heart, "At worst I can lend you 500."

"Really?"

"That's fake. What Bakura said was that he wanted me to sign up." Hayato snatched the US dollar bills that Bakura had just taken out and that were almost caught by Malik, and stuffed them back into Bakura's hands and said, "Don't spoil this guy Malik. He said he wanted to buy a flying motorcycle, but once he gets the money, he will definitely give gifts to the female anchor first."

"Protest! Is there anything wrong with me giving a tip to Evil☆Twins?" Malik said confidently and without shame after being pointed out by Hayato, "Besides, why do you need to participate in another competition, brother-in-law?"

"Who said it's gone? This badge is the proof of participation for 'Duel King Kobayashi Hayato'." He put the badge away and put it back in his arms, inadvertently revealing the 'Millennium Scepter' that was restored by the 'Quantum Cube' and continuously released the power to modify other people's cognition. Hayato spread his hands and said, "What does it have to do with me, 'Danrito'?"

"Give the winner a prize? I won't give out even a penny! The prize is mine, and the second best in the world is also me, 'Danrito'!"

(End of this chapter)