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Chapter 1766 Ousato's Regional Forms

【X-Crossed Cannon】【ATK1800】

"During my Main Phase, I activate the effect of [X-Cross Cannon], which allows me to equip a Machine-Type LIGHT Union Monster that is equipped to this card as an Equip Spell Card of that effect from my Deck. This also puts me under a restriction that prevents me from Special Summoning non-LIGHT monsters from the Extra Deck. This time, I Special Summon a second [Z-Infinite Tracks]."

Hayato took out the card automatically retrieved by the Duel Disk and placed it on his back row. He said, "The biggest feature of Union Monsters is that they can be Special Summoned from my field after being removed from their equipped state—and now I'm going to remove the equipped state of [Z-Infinite Tracks]."

【Z-Infinite Tracks】【ATK1500】

After the crab-shaped [Z-Infinite Tracks] appeared, a blue light and shadow suddenly appeared above it. It was an image of [Y-Year Dragon Head] when it was still on the field, but the focus of the image was not on [Y-Year Dragon Head], but on the other [Z-Infinite Tracks] that it was equipped with.

"【X-Cross Cannon】can equip monsters from the Deck, 【Y-Dragon of Time】can equip monsters from the hand and Graveyard, so the effect of 【Z-Infinite Tracks】is self-explanatory—it's banished monsters." Hayato retrieved the previously banished 【Z-Infinite Tracks】, "If 【Z-Infinite Tracks】is Special Summoned, I will equip one of my banished Level 4 LIGHT Machine-Type monsters as an Equip Spell Card to it. I will choose another 【Z-Infinite Tracks】."

"Then, the equip status of the other [Z-Infinite Tracks] is removed. The effect of [Z-Infinite Tracks] is not limited to once per turn by the card name. I activate the effect of [Z-Infinite Tracks] again and equip the banished [Y-Dragon of Time] to [Z-Infinite Tracks]!"

Hayato did not unequip [Y-Year Dragon Head] again, not because there were no cards in his graveyard that could be equipped to [Y-Year Dragon Head], but simply because his monster zone was already full.

[Hayato Kobayashi: 2000LP, 1 card in hand]

【D·hero Blood Demon-D】【ATK1900】

[Alliance Manipulator] [ATK2200]

【X-Crossed Cannon】【ATK1800】

【Z-Infinite Tracks】【ATK1500】

【Z-Infinite Tracks】(Y-Time-Defying Dragon Head)【ATK1500】

Now Kusanagi truly understood just how outrageous Hayato's words "truly outrageous" were. These "X, Y, Z" mechanical monsters were like cockroaches; one would emerge and another would appear, multiplying in number until they completely filled Hayato's field in the blink of an eye.

"But no matter how many of them there are, they're still just trash. Their weak attack power is negligible!" Kusanagi said, looking at the two [Mitsu-no-Tsurugi] monsters on his field. "Although [Alliance Manipulator] and [D·Hero Blood Demon-D] can break through my [Ama-no-Habakiri no Mitsu-no-Tsurugi] in defense position, my true form—[Ama-no-Kurakumo no Mitsu-no-Tsurugi]—is an insurmountable wall of despair that these minions with attack power not exceeding 2000 cannot cross!"

Upon hearing this, Hayato simply sighed: "So you don't remember at all the cards I showed you when I activated [Disruptor Modification]?"

"Hmm? That [ABC-Dragon Destroyer]? But what's the point? Aren't the three materials needed to Fusion Summon that monster already in your Graveyard? And your field is already full of monsters, so there's no need to summon a new one. Besides, is that card in your hand really a Fusion Spell Card that can be Fusion Summoned?"

Hayato glanced at the card in his hand and smiled. "There are too many mistakes in your statement, so I can't correct them all. I'll just say three points."

Following the example of a card player in a tight-fitting suit who held up three fingers, Hayato said, "First, not all Fusion Summonings require a Fusion Spell Card; second, who says you can't Fusion Summon if the materials are in the Graveyard; and third, who says I can't clear a monster zone on my field?"

"Despite having the [Alliance Manipulator] as a demonstration, they still haven't realized the truth. They're just crawling worms. Well then, open your eyes wide and watch closely this invincible 'Contact Fusion'!"

Behind Hayato, three monsters—[X-Cross Cannon], [Y-Dragon of Time], and [Z-Infinite Tracks]—rose up together, disassembling themselves into countless parts and reassembling them into one place!
Hayato picked up three cards from his Duel Disk: [X-Interlaced Cannon], [Z-Infinite Tracks], and [Y-Dragon of Time] equipped on [Z-Infinite Tracks], and declared: "The bonds we've forged have united our mechanical souls. Illuminate the future before us! Go!"

"Triple contact fusion, Level 8!"

"Merge, [XYZ-Super Divine Dragon Cannon]!"

【XYZ-Extreme Super Dragon Cannon】【9☆/Light】

[Mechanical Race/Fusion/Effect]

[3000/2800]

"A fusion summon that doesn't require [fusion]!?"

Upon hearing Kusanagi's words, Hayato said, "This is the 'XYZ-Super Divine Dragon Cannon's' 'Puwa'! I only need to banish the Fusion Materials from my field and graveyard to Special Summon it from the Extra Deck without needing a Fusion Spell Card!"

Mikusa Nagi's expression changed drastically, and Hayato revealed a sinister smile: "That's right, just as you thought—[ABC-Dragon Annihilator] also possesses such power!"

"Excluding [A], [B], and [C] from my Graveyard, Special Summon [ABC - Dragon Annihilator]!"

【ABC-Dragon Annihilator】【8☆/Light】

[Mechanical Race/Fusion/Effect]

[3000/2800]

The two vacant monster zones were reclaimed by two high-level Machine-Type Fusion Monsters, and Hayato's field suddenly had two powerful monsters, their standard 3000 ATK points were truly eye-catching. "Even so, your monsters' ATK—"

“If Duel Monsters were a game where the winner was determined by comparing the monsters’ attack power, then Kaiba wouldn’t have kept losing to me.” Hayato interrupted Kusanagi, pointing to the monster on his field. “For example, even with your [Ame-no-Habakiri no Mi-no-Tsurugi], I don’t need to compare attack power to defeat it; I can just use a light swipe like this.”

As Hayato discarded the card in his hand, made a sword gesture, and then slashed, his [ABC-Dragon Annihilator] on the field immediately fired a laser cannon, cutting [Ame-no-Habakiri no Mitsuki] in half on the spot, just like its mythical ending.

"!?"

“The era of real sword battles is long gone. Who still plays with swords?” Hayato said, raising his Duel Disk. “This is the effect of [ABC-Dragon Annihilator] – once per turn, discard one card from your hand, target one card on the field, and banish it.”

"My lord, the food defense... times have changed!"

Although it was barely noticeable, Hayato wouldn't have been able to pull off this move if the [Sword of the Nine Realms] card that Kusanagi had activated earlier was still on the field, because the effect of [Sword of the Nine Realms] was to prevent Hayato from targeting the [Sword of the Nine Realms] card on Kusanagi's field as the effect target of monsters Special Summoned from the Extra Deck—but that card had already been destroyed by [The Dragon King of the Progenitor].

"As for your 3200 ATK [Ama-no-Murakumo no Mitsuki] on the field, you don't actually think that after all that time setting up the field, all I have to do is [ABC-Dragon Destroyer] to clear it, do you?" Hayato touched the [D-Hero Blood Demon-D] card on his Duel Disk. "I've felt despair time and time again, but because the monster with the highest ATK on my field doesn't even have more ATK than your [Ama-no-Murakumo no Mitsuki], even in your despair, you still retain a certain amount of hope—and that's exactly the effect I want!"

"When you attacked my school, my students, and my teachers, wasn't it the same mentality you had when you attacked your prey, slowly eroding the enemy's defenses? I'm a very vengeful person, so your last hope is now extinguished!"

Hayato waved his hand: "Activate the effect of [D·hero Blood Demon-D]! Take one of your opponent's monsters and turn it into their Equip Card, and increase the equipped monster's ATK by half of its original ATK!"

"I will plunder the [Kumara-no-Mitsuba no Mi] sword on your field!"

A torrential rain of blood shot out from the wings of [D·hero Blood Demon-D], and Kusanagi was powerless to fight back. He could only watch helplessly as the [Ama-no-Murakumo no Mi-no-Tsurugi] connected to his lower body was dissolved by the blood rain and then turned into a red, bloody wind that was absorbed by [D·hero Blood Demon-D], while he fell from mid-air to the sand.

【D·hero Blood Demon-D】(Ama-no-Matsumo no Tsurugi)【ATK1900→3500】

Having absorbed the power of the [Kusanagi no Mitsuki], [D·hero Blood Demon-D]'s attack power jumped to 3500, a full 300 points higher than the original [Kusanagi no Mitsuki]. More importantly, this also meant that Kusanagi's last monster had disappeared from his field. With only 2400 life points, he now had to face the direct attack of five monsters on Hayato's field!
Upon realizing this, Kusanagi visibly panicked: "How could such an effect, such power, possibly exist in the world!?"

"My power, why has my power left me!" Lying on the sand, he looked at the [Ama-no-Murakumo no Mitsuki] struggling to escape from the wings of [D·hero Blood Demon-D], yet unable to even break through those seemingly thin wing membranes, and said humbly, "Uncle, without the power of the [Ama-no-Murakumo no Mitsuki], Watashi!"

"That power is mine! I cannot lose that power, nor can my great life simply vanish!"

Just moments ago, Kusanagi was extremely arrogant and domineering, but after losing the power of the [Kusanagi no Mitsuki], he suddenly became like a clown, crawling on the sand, making Hayato frown.

"Tsk, an insect is just an insect. It only became this ugly after its teeth were pulled?" Hayato looked at Kusanagi with disdain and waved his hand. "Then, let the honor of seeing the majesty of the heavens be the last flash of your life—All-out attack!"

The Z-Infinite Tracks, with the lowest attack power, led the charge, unleashing a pair of beam cannons from its scorpion-claw-shaped tracks, sending sand flying everywhere. After Kusanagi's vision was obscured by the sandstorm, the cables of the Alliance Controller suddenly flew out from the sand and pierced his body, lifting him into the air.

【D·hero Blood Demon-D】released another shower of blood. The seemingly liquid blood made a series of metallic clanging sounds when it hit Kusanagi in the air, like a levitation move in a fighting game, leaving him suspended in the air for a long time.

Finally, although the [ABC-Dragon Destroyer] could not combine with the [XYZ-Super Dragon Cannon] like it could with the [XYZ-Dragon Cannon], it could still coordinate to launch a joint attack. The two energy cannons, which had been charged to their limit, fired at the same time and merged together in mid-air, slamming Kusanagi heavily onto the ground!
"boom!"

The explosive energy blasted a huge crater about twenty meters in diameter into the sand. In fact, to avoid affecting Hayato, Daitokuji Temple, and the Osiris-Red dormitory, the attack was launched with restraint.

At the bottom of the pit, Kusanagi had completely lost consciousness. Although his original form was a split spirit from the [Kusanagi no Mitsuki], he was stripped of the power shared by the [Kusanagi no Mitsuki] and suffered continuous high-intensity attacks, so he could not withstand it at all. Even in his unconscious state, his body had begun to dissipate into purple particles.

However, Hayato, who had just used the power of [D·hero Blood Demon-D] to seize the [Ama-no-Kurakumo no Mi-no-Tsurugi] as its equipment card, discovered that only a portion of the power on Kusanagi's body was recovered into the [Ama-no-Kurakumo no Mi-no-Tsurugi] card, and a portion entered the [Mitsu-no-Tsurugi no Sovereign-Kusanagi] card, but a large portion of the power did not rise from the pit and remained at the bottom of the pit.

This made Hayato curiously look down into the pit. Daitokuji, who had just seen the duel finally end, also came closer, leaning on a glass cane made of sand, to see what was going on.

Looking at the spot where Kusanagi's body had completely disappeared in the pit, Daitokuji said in surprise, "How come there's still someone lying in there, meow?"

“I see. I completely understand why Kusanagi appeared in this desert instead of going to the Great Forest of Birds and Beasts to seize territory. This power does not actually belong to him. After all, he said from the beginning that he was only a part of the Ame-no-Murakumo. But the Ame-no-Murakumo is ultimately a sword, and the true wielder of its power should be the sword's master.”

“Susanoo-no-Mikoto? Or perhaps Susanoo-no-Mikoto?” Daitokuji subconsciously thought of the owner of the “Sword of the Sky” in mythology. As an alchemist who had studied myths from all over the world in order to find a way to prolong Kagemaru’s life, Daitokuji naturally knew about the myths of the Far East.

"Compared to the [Ama-no-Murakumo], which he acquired later, Susanoo should have taken the original weapon, [Ama-no-Habakiri], right?" Hayato speculated, thinking that although he hadn't seen the [Mitsu-no-Tsurugi] deck yet, it might one day be printed by the evil card printing conglomerate K to strengthen it. "Don't forget that the name of [Mitsu-no-Tsurugi - Kusanagi] isn't 'Mitsu-no-Murakumo' or 'Ama-no-Murakumo'. The name 'Kusanagi' comes from the story of the third owner of [Ama-no-Murakumo].

(Waken-no-Mikoto (in the form of Fate))
"Someone lied and claimed that there was a ferocious evil god in the swamp of the plains, and asked Yamato Takeru to investigate. Deceived, Yamato Takeru entered the plains, only to find that someone had set the plains ablaze. So Yamato Takeru used his sword, the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, to cut away the surrounding grass and used a flint to set the grass ablaze, causing the fire to spread back. This is how the Kojiki records the origin of the famous sword 'Kusanagi no Otsutsu' and the place name 'Yakitsu,' meow." Daitoku-ji recited the anecdotes he remembered as if they were his own treasures.

"Yes, although the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki record different reasons for the deception, the story's development is similar: both involve cutting grass to start a fire, and the user is Yamato Takeru, also known as 'Japan's Samurai.'" Hayato paused, then had [D·hero Blood Demon-D] bring the unconscious guy from the bottom of the pit up, saying...

"Following the naming convention of the [Snake Sword], wouldn't it be more appropriate to call that guy below [Prince of the Snake Sword - Kou]?"

(Yoshima Takeru (YGO's appearance))
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