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Chapter 1750 Elbow Opens Helicopter Cabin, Cobra Out (Confused)

"Without a doubt, I love you, Judai!"

"Can you feel it? That pain? This is proof of my love for you, just as you love me, I love you too!"

"Look, you're all alone now. Is there anyone else who can stand by your side at a time like this? Only me, Judai. I still love you, so come to my side quickly, my beloved Judai!"

"That's how it feels! Such vivid pain, can you feel my sincere love for you? Why are you making such a painful face? It must be because you've remembered your love for me!"

"Will Hayato Kobayashi mourn for you? Only I love you, Judai!"

"Ten generations, ten generations, ten generations, ten generations, ten generations!"

Inside the basement, [Yubel] was in a life support pod, looking through the glass at the surveillance screen not far away, which was showing the entire duel between Professor Cobra and Jaden.

Thanks to the dueling energy she extracted from the entire Duel Academy during this period, [Yubel] managed to gather enough energy to recover from the injuries she sustained in her previous battle with Hayato. However, if she used it all for healing, her energy reserves would be depleted in the short term. If possible, she would naturally want to store as much energy as possible for unforeseen circumstances—just like when she exiled Hayato.

Considering that Hayato Kobayashi had already been sent to another distant world, [Yubel] was not in a hurry to heal her wounds. In any case, as long as she had enough energy reserves, she could recover at any time. So she simply stayed in the life support pod prepared by Professor Cobra in her broken body form.

She estimated that by the time Jaden and Professor Cobra's duel ended, her own collection and reserves of dueling energy should be nearly complete, enough to satisfy her needs for a long time to come. By then, the darkness within Professor Cobra, this useful tool, would have been almost completely drained, and [Yubel] would be willing to grant his wish as well, although it might not be in the way Professor Cobra wanted.

But at the same time, one of her materialized eyes inside the life support pod was looking out of the monitoring room. On the other side of the wall, someone was fiddling with the locked door.

“I see. No wonder you weren’t with Judai. So you left the group to act alone, Amon Garlem.” [Yubel]’s eyes held a hint of mockery. “The darkness in your heart is quite interesting. It may not be purely delicious, but it might be a very interesting condiment.”

On the ground, on that high platform, John listened to [Britmon] finish speaking, then turned to look at Manjoume: "Ruby said she sensed a strange aura from Professor Cobra, but it wasn't like Professor Sato's previous state of being controlled and possessed by a spirit."

"'Ruby'? Is that the name of your Pokémon? But even without the ability of a 'Pokémon Master,' just looking at that guy's hands, you can tell that he's acting very strangely right now, right?" Manjoume paused, looking behind Professor Cobra. "Although I really want to say that we can see something special, it's clear that what we see is pretty much the same. We can only vaguely see a strange aura on him, but we don't see any specific Pokémon."

"In other words, it's not like Mr. Sato's mind was altered, or Garam's that was directly controlled by a spirit," Asuka concluded. "It's more like that spirit hunter who inherently possessed such thoughts."

"You defeated everyone in the academy with 'exposing duels,' collected that strange special energy, and were just talking about that person a moment ago." Jim adjusted his cowboy hat. "What exactly is your purpose, Dr. Cobra!"

“I have no obligation to answer your questions, but considering that I am already confident of victory, as long as Jaden Yuki’s turn ends, I can win even if I end my turn immediately after the start of my next turn. So, it doesn’t seem to matter if I explain my goal to you a little, right? After all, I’m not the one who should be anxious.”

Professor Cobra didn't rush to use his last remaining enemy, the Reptilian Cobra, to attack. Instead, after Jim raised his question, he leisurely answered, "Actually, I didn't have any plans at all."

"Stop lying!" Manjoume frowned. "Are you trying to say that you just find doing evil fun?"

"Doing evil? No, I just wanted to create a miracle, how can that be called doing evil?" Professor Cobra said matter-of-factly, "I am clearly doing the most righteous thing in the world!"

"Once upon a time, when I was a soldier active on the battlefield, I unexpectedly found a dilapidated baby basket by the ruins on the way back during a mission. Inside was a baby boy who was either abandoned or whose family had perished. I, who was usually just a heartless executioner, subconsciously broke away from the team and went to the abandoned baby."

"As a soldier, I felt inexplicable emotions at that time, which should have been wrong, but the truth is quite the opposite. It was because of my action that I managed to avoid the shells that would have wiped out my original unit. In other words, it was that child who saved my life. He was the only redemption in my wasted life."

“I adopted him and raised him to adulthood—that’s how it should have been.”

"But one day, Rick, the child who saved me from an accident, whom I regarded as my second life, even more important than my own, brought hope to my stagnant life. But that child was taken away by a ridiculous accident!"

(I got hit by a truck and was transported to another world of card players to become the king of the road (I'm sure of it))
“I can’t accept it, I can’t forgive it, but my resentment can’t change anything. My anger can’t bring back the dead, and my sorrow can’t bring Rick back!” Professor Cobra said, revealing an expression of excitement he had never shown in the previous duel. “Because of Rick, I left the military and my life has fallen into the abyss again. I can’t forgive myself for not even stopping Rick back then. I started to vent my endless grief and anger as a mercenary.”

"After Rick died, I thought I was going to lose him forever, but it was because I started working as a mercenary again that I found out that wasn't the case. Because of a certain investigation mission, I met that person!"

"That adult?" Upon hearing this, Judai endured the excruciating pain that constantly asserted his presence and looked at Professor Cobra's left hand.

"Initially, we knew nothing and were just going there to investigate what was that thing that had fallen from space, based on mission intelligence. But as we approached it, we encountered a strange storm, and my squad, which was in a helicopter, was wiped out in the crash. However, I was the only one in the squad who survived, and even appeared safely outside the wreckage of the plane with the hatch still closed."

(Related to snakes and helicopter accidents, identified as a survivor from a parallel universe in the IF timeline)

"Later I learned that it was because I had been chosen by that great being to become His agent. He promised me that as long as I served Him, He would help me bring Rick back to my side and let Rick and me be together forever."

“But that’s wrong!” Asuka said seriously. “I can understand the emotion of risking everything to get back someone important to you, but that’s never a reason for you to sacrifice other innocent people in the academy! Don’t you care about the lives of your students?” “Yes, I don’t care!” Professor Cobra said without hesitation. “All I want is that rebirth that’s still here. As long as that child is here, I’m willing to do anything for it—unlike you students who can’t even bear the burden of other people’s lives, I know how heavy the promise of ‘being willing to do anything’ is. For that, I am willing to give up my life!”

“You idiot, you only think about yourself!” John said angrily. “Besides, the dead cannot be brought back to life!”

Asuka frowned as well: "To believe such a nonsensical statement about something that doesn't even exist is really stubborn!"

"Enough! Don't talk to me like that again!" Professor Cobra said angrily in the face of the crowd's accusations. "There's an old Eastern saying, 'A teacher for a day is a father for life,' right? Don't you even know what filial piety is?"

"Can't you even offer your lives to that person so I can save Rick? If you keep bothering me, I won't spare any of you either!"

“Unbelievable,” Jim said in a low voice, pulling down his hat brim. “To say something like that is completely beyond words. Dr. Cobra has gone completely mad.”

Manjoume fell silent, suddenly recalling the swarm of venomous snakes unleashed from the [Snake Venom Swamp]. He knew that the ability to freely materialize Duel Monster cards was rare, even for the third son of the Manjoume Foundation. Professor Cobra, on the other hand, was just an ordinary person; he had only managed to materialize Duel Monster cards by relying on someone who seemed to haven't even completed their "revival."
While it's unlikely that he can do anything like "resurrecting the dead," just how powerful is that guy?

Thinking of this, he quietly moved a little closer to O'Brien and whispered, "Hey, Ossin O'Brien, can you trust that guy Amon Garlem? He was under control before."

“I can’t guarantee what they can do, but he’s the only one among us who has ever found the entity that Professor Cobra had contacted. If more than two of us leave the group, they might not show themselves to us,” O’Brien said in a low voice without turning around.

"Tch, so you can only completely trust that guy to do it?" Manjoume frowned. "Hopefully, that guy can handle it. Otherwise, we'll have finished fighting here, but he won't have managed to deal with the thing behind Professor Cobra, and it'll come here and cause us a big mess."

With his extensive online surfing experience, Manjoume had already imagined Professor Cobra being defeated, only to pull out that mysterious "that person" and put on a show like "So you've always been with me," "Memories of the Second Cycle," or a second-stage transformation.

"Hmm?" O'Brien looked at Manjoume with some surprise. "You... weren't you thinking of having Yuki Jaden's side drag things out for a while even if they couldn't win, hoping that Amon Garram's actions would be effective?"

"These are two different things. Who said I don't trust Judai?" Manjoume pointed to himself. "He's one of the top four in the 'Second World Martial Arts Tournament,' he's not so easy to defeat. The only person in the academy qualified to defeat him is me, Mr. Manjoume."

"By the way, do you know who won the 'Second Best Martial Arts Tournament'? In the second year of the Genna era, a down-on-his-luck gambler came to the Manjoume family and asked to stay the night."

Even O'Brien, upon hearing that Manjoume's attempt to promote his victory in the "Second Best Martial Arts Tournament" had gone so far as to fabricate a nonsensical story about his ancestors, couldn't help but wave his hand helplessly: "We've seen enough of that."

"This is a trial, Jaden Yuki, a trial from the past!" Professor Cobra clenched his fist as he looked at Jaden, who was struggling to stand and whose expression was grim, seemingly due to the pain caused by the venom. "My past has shaped who I am today, and your past has determined that you are the one standing before me."

"Only by overcoming one's immature past can one grow. If you want to become the hero you see yourself as, you have to defeat me. And I will definitely defeat you here in order to create the miracle of bringing Riku back. You think so too, right, Jaden Yuki!"

"But fate has already determined our positions! I am above, you are below. The winds of victory are indeed blowing from behind you, but for me, they mean the winds of victory are blowing right towards me!"

"Battle phase continues! [Reptile Cobra] attacks [E·hero Shining Neo-Winged], but it has resistance that cannot be destroyed by battle, and because of the [Soul Barrier], I will not be damaged by battle!"

Faced with the [Reptile Cobra]'s deliberate attempt to provoke Jaden, Jaden's [E·hero Shining New Universe Wingman] seemed to sense Jaden's pain and angrily retaliated, but was completely unable to destroy the [Reptile Cobra] and was even sprayed with venom.

"Very good!" Seeing that the [Reptile Cobra]'s attack had worked, Professor Cobra decisively said, "That's it. I'll end my battle phase. Then, since [Reptile Cobra] and [E.Hero Shining Neos] have started a battle, I'll activate its effect at the end of the battle phase, reducing [E.Hero Shining Neos]'s attack power to 0!"

"In that case, even if you destroy my Soul Barrier in the back row, your E-Hero Shining Neoswing will no longer pose a threat to me." Professor Cobra coldly announced the end of his turn. "That's how my turn ends, and one turn has passed since [Venom Minaga] inflicted its venom on you."

"Your life countdown has only two rounds left!"

Klaus Wallis: 3000LP, hand 1→0

【Viper God - Venomine Naga】【ATK4500】

【Reptile Cobra】【ATK0】

【Reptile Fairy Melusin】【ATK2500】

Backcourt: [The Viper's Resentment] [Soul Barrier] [Attack Pheromones]

The thought of Mujica collaborating with Arknights in three days, with people using Toyokawa Shoko's image to go all-in on gambling in the Cyber ​​Cricket Fighting game, and even changing their names to "For 168 Billion," makes it hard to stay calm.