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Chapter 1665: The Missing Daitokuji Temple
In fact, it's not just Professor Chronos and Aunt Tami. Even Judai and his friends who live in the Red Dormitory haven't seen Mr. Daitokuji since they returned to school this year.

You know, due to the geographical location of Duel Academy, students can return to school a week before the start of the semester, and people like Judai are naturally the first to return eagerly.

However, when Judai excitedly returned to his loyal Red Dormitory, not to mention the people who were looking forward to going to school as perverted as he was, even Daitokuji Sensei had not come to the Red Dormitory.

Although there is no rule that teachers have to stay in Duel Academy as if they were at home even during holidays and when there are no students on the island, unless there is special additional work to do like Professor Chronos, the school only requires teachers to arrive at school the day before the start of school. After all, each dormitory has a welcome ceremony for new students and work to do that has accumulated over the holidays - but there is no need to worry about hygiene, as there are school workers specially left on the island to clean.

At the beginning, neither Judai nor Marufuji Sho and Kenzan who arrived with Judai, nor Manjome who had settled down in the Red Dormitory where there was quite a lot of vacant rooms and even connected several rooms to form a super spacious large room, cared much about the fact that Daitokuji did not appear. After all, it was the same at the beginning of the previous semester.

In his first year, Daitokuji, who fought as one of Kagemaru's "Seven Stars" until his body collapsed, lost his artificial human body, literally "died twice" - because Kagemaru died twice. However, with the unreasonable and unphysical technological support of the Kaiba Group, the human body transmutation, a miracle that is difficult to replicate in traditional alchemy, was easily replicated.

Of course Daitokuji refused at the beginning. After all, he thought that he had lingered in the world for too long. Being able to stay in the world in the form of a firefly-like light was already a rare miracle. Or it was a proof of his talent as a top alchemist who had achieved the two great miracles of alchemy. He did not need to get another body.

However, after the "Nine Realms Incident" that occurred in the "Duel-Links" world, Daitokuji re-entered an artificial body, because he found that this world might still need him, at least for the future of alchemy that he was optimistic about - before the talent of Yuki Judai was fully developed, he might not disappear so early.

"It's impossible that I've been eaten by the orange cat Pharaoh too many times and have developed a resistance to the gastrointestinal structure of cats, meow!" This is what Daitokuji said at the time.

However, it will take some time for the new body to merge, especially because Daitokuji's real body had turned into a mummy several years ago, from which even his DNA could not be extracted and would turn into ashes at the slightest touch. Although the new body was customized to look exactly like Daitokuji's original body, his soul always felt a little inconsistent when using it, as if he was playing a game on a network with a very high latency.

Last school year, Daitokuji returned to school in a hurry before the opening ceremony because he had to adapt to his new body. At that time, Judai had doubted whether the news that Daitokuji was still alive that he knew in the "Duel-Links" world was true, and worried about him for a long time. For this reason, Daitokuji also served the stew that he had finally succeeded in making at the freshman welcome party in the Red Dormitory to make up for his lateness, as well as the unlimited supply of fried shrimp mountains that made Judai's eyes light up and he still can't get enough of it.

But that was all last year. In the past year, Daitokuji has adapted to his new body quite well - although his original titles were cancelled because he had died once, and even his salary card was difficult for the bank to make withdrawals from, requiring the deceased Daitokuji himself to go through the process; even though Daitokuji's new body looks exactly like the original one, it cannot be verified by fingerprints, irises, etc., and is not considered to be the same person as the deceased - but at least he is still alive, and still manages the Osiris-Red Dormitory as the de facto dormitory head teacher without a job title, even though the position has been taken over by the "Pharaoh".

But this year, let alone the teachers' latest arrival deadline the day before school starts, even before the opening ceremony, and even now after the opening ceremony, Mr. Daitokuji has not appeared publicly anywhere on the Duel Academy Island.

This made Judai, who was originally extremely excited about John's arrival, become a little depressed, not to mention that John had been in low spirits after the duel.

"Five days?"

"Ten days." Looking at the palm stretched out by Manjomu in front of him, John also raised his palm weakly, then turned it over and said, "Teacher Ayukawa said that my body is like taking some stimulants and running a marathon without sleep for three days and three nights. I am overdrawn and have the current symptoms. Although I was able to hold on for a while after the duel, I have no strength now."

"Is it that exaggerated, Senior John?" Jianshan scratched his head and said puzzledly, "Obviously, it was just a duel."

Helping John sit down, Judai added, "According to Mr. Ayukawa, even if John is guaranteed to rest, five days may not be enough. He needs at least ten days, otherwise his body will easily suffer from sequelae."

Fubuki frowned and said, "Even Emi-chan said that, Judai, you went to the infirmary with John-chan, did they find out anything wrong with you?"

"Unfortunately, not at all. Mr. Ayukawa even said that I am as healthy as ever, and even a few centimeters taller than last year." Judai shrugged, also with a serious expression, "We both wore the 'Death Band' to duel, why is only John?"

Next to Judai, Marufuji Sho said, "Could it be the 'Death Band'? After all, Big Brother's basic points were not deducted much in the previous duel, while John's basic points were reduced a lot. In contrast, the two Ishdar teachers who did not wear the 'Death Band' did not have any symptoms."

"Most likely, after all, the name is so dangerous." Misawa looked at the "Death Band" on Judai's outstretched hand. It looked like there was nothing special about it. "Dr. Stein said that his 'Duel Grand Unification' theory recently obtained an extremely valuable piece of data and made a major breakthrough. He doesn't have the energy to help us analyze the problem with the 'Death Band' for the time being."

"Then, 50% off for you"

"It's Misawa, not Wuzhe." Misawa corrected Judai, then waved his hand, "Although I don't know what my image is in your mind, Judai, but it's better not to think too highly of me. Without destroying the 'Death Band', you can't analyze its internal structure and working principle just by looking at it, and then evaluate and analyze its safety, right?"

"Although I do seem like a 'tech geek' at ordinary times, I'm just a student interested in scientific research after all. I'm better at theory than practice, so don't have strange expectations of me." At the end, Misawa also quoted Hayato's Lesson 1 in the "Elf Coexistence Class" to answer Judai.

"And dismantling it is impossible, because Professor Claus has posted special rules at the place where the 'Death Bands' are distributed." Asuka said, spreading her hands helplessly, "If you don't receive the 'Death Bands', you will be expelled; if you don't fight the required battles every day in the 'Revelation Duel', you will be expelled; if you destroy the 'Death Band' without permission or even just take it off, you will be expelled."

"So strict? This is a competition between the schools, but isn't it a bit too intense?" John frowned when he heard Asuka say the rules posted by Professor Cobra. "Is there no one protesting?"

"Among the teachers, Professor Chronos actually objected to it, but because Professor Klaus was the top person in charge this time, his protest was completely invalid. And Coach Napoleon just stood by and watched such a rule with a cold eye, and said something like, 'Poor students who are afraid of duels have no qualifications to become elite duelists, and it doesn't matter if they drop out of school.'" Maruto Sho mentioned this and said unhappily, "I feel that Professor Chronos's face like the [Pot of Greed] is much more handsome than Coach Napoleon's!" "As for the students' protests, let alone." Fubuki sighed helplessly, "Professor Klaus added a new rule on the spot, and anyone who protests against the above rules will also be expelled."

"It's like he treats Duel Academy as his territory. He's made it as messy as a swamp. No wonder I heard that the students of Western Academy nicknamed him Professor Cobra." Manjome said gritting his teeth. When he put his hands on the table, Judai saw the "Death Band" on his right hand.

Although he had guessed it when Asuka mentioned the rules at the beginning, when he saw that Manjome had already put on the "Death Band", Judai's heart sank: "So..."

After hearing Judai's words, Asuka and Fubuki looked at each other and raised their right hands simultaneously. At the same time as their helpless expressions, they saw the "death bands" that were bound to their personal information and forced to be worn under their lifted sleeves. Kenzan, Misawa, and Marufuji Sho also revealed their own "death bands".

Under pressure from dropping out of school, even the Wanzhangmu had to wear the "death bracelet" despite knowing that it was very likely to be dangerous.

"It would be great if Sensei Daitokuji was here. Maybe he could use alchemy to figure out what the 'Death Bracelet' is all about." Judai looked at everyone wearing the "Death Bracelet". Unable to change the established facts, he sighed helplessly and missed Sensei Daitokuji.

"As the champion of last year's 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament', I had the opportunity to make a request to the school and have it granted. This is a reward equivalent to being the valedictorian."

Manjomu once again talked about his achievements in the previous school year, but when others were about to show an expression of "this guy is going to bring this up at this time", he quickly explained, "No, this time I'm not going to talk about my glorious achievements. What I want to say is that when Professor Cobra proposed that 'students in the Red Dormitory don't have to wear the 'Death Band' and will not be expelled', he actually rejected it!"

"The reason this guy used was that he was in charge of this academy exchange competition, the 'Revelation Duel', and the rewards for last year's GeneX competition, the 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament', should be redeemed from him after Mr. Hayato returns to school. He didn't care about my request at all!"

Manjomu said angrily, "Even my request to change it so that all teachers and students in the school can call me Mr. Manjomu was rejected!"

"No, the latter request was rejected reasonably, which is a good thing." Marufuji Sho complained, "But I didn't expect that when making a wish at Manjomu, you actually asked for the 'students of the Red Dormitory' instead of the 'Blue Dormitory' where you are?"

"Hehe, although I was forced to wear this rather humiliating bracelet, I never said that I had any resistance or fear towards the 'Revelation Duel'." Manjomu raised his lips and said proudly, "From Judai's behavior, we can see that although the 'Death Bracelet' will affect the duel and cause a large loss of physical strength, if you just win the duel without getting hurt like Judai, the impact on your physical strength will be much less, right?"

"I think so?" Judai said uncertainly, "Although I also felt tired at the end of the duel, it was only for a moment. It was more serious than a normal duel, but still within an acceptable range."

"That's right." Manzhangmu nodded. "So, as long as I win without getting hurt, this 'death bracelet' is just a small burden to me, just like the lead weights on the straps during running exercises. It's not unacceptable."

Just as Manjome was feeling proud, the door of the spacious room in the red dormitory where they were staying was pushed open. Saotome Rei probably heard what Manjome said from outside the door and walked in with an unhappy look on her face: "It really fits my stereotype of you, Manjome, you selfish guy."

"Huh?" Hearing Saotome Rei's words, Manjo raised his eyebrows and turned his head unhappily to look at Saotome Rei and her silent follower Garner Muldoon who walked into the Red Dormitory. "How do you, a freshman in the Red Dormitory, treat your seniors?"

"Hmph, I only recognize people with talent and moral character as my seniors, such as Judai~" Her expression was quite cold in the first half of the sentence, but when it came to Judai, Saotome Rei performed a series of face changes on the spot, from "winter" to "spring", and after moving her eyes away from Judai, she looked at Manjomu with disdain, "And Manjomu is right about you, you are either stupid or bad."

"You think that you are fine as long as you are not injured, and you can easily get through this 'exposure duel', but have you ever thought about what will happen to the other people who are dueling with you if they lose the duel?"

"John, as the victor, lost half of his basic points and ended up like this. Who knows what will happen if he loses the 'Revelation Duel'?"

After a pause, Saotome Rei stepped on the stairs and looked down at Manjomu from a high position, expressing her contempt for him, "You are a person whose mind is full of yourself."

If the first few words reminded Manjome and made him feel a little embarrassed about his idea of ​​actively participating in the duel, Saotome Rei's last words had the opposite effect, and made Manjome angry out of shame and annoyance: "Tsk, are all the guys in the Red Dormitory annoying? It's not certain whether the 'Death Bracelet' is dangerous. I haven't heard of anyone having any accidents except that guy named John!"

"So you're not going to admit your mistake until someone gets into trouble?" Although Saotome Rei is a girl and only thirteen years old, she refused to give in to Manjome, who is almost five years older than her. "How could Judai-sama, who is like a hero, have a friend like you!"

"Big sister, stop arguing first." Seeing his "big sister" arguing with someone, Ghana Malden wanted to stop them, but he didn't dare to face Manjōme, who looked very fierce and even wore a black uniform instead of a school uniform, like a delinquent. He fell silent while talking, and was completely unable to stop the growing tension between Manjōme and Rei.

At this moment, a message suddenly popped up on Misawa's personal terminal. He glanced at it casually, but his face changed drastically. He suddenly said to everyone in a serious tone: "Everyone——"

"Someone is starting to expose the duel!"

There are only three days left before the college entrance examination. I suddenly remembered that the dormitory manager wished us a perfect score in the exam (laughs)