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Chapter 1779 A Gender Equality Advocate Who Kicks Anyone Without Hesitation

"Hmm? This feeling... is that Jaden?" Hayato glanced back in the direction of Duel Academy, frowning. "It looks like he's dueling someone."

"How can you sense meow from such a distance?" Daitokuji looked in the direction Hayato was looking with a puzzled expression, sniffed the air with his nose, but only inhaled a noseful of sand and dust and almost choked to death.

"Cough cough, I can't feel anything at all, meow. Is the so-called 'New-Type' really that sensitive?"

After a pause, Daitokuji asked again, "Moreover, it's really not scientific at all. Is the 'New-Type''s perception speed the speed of light? It can receive any movement instantly, even if the other party is not in its line of sight. It's simply outrageous."

"The speed of light? In fact, the perception of 'New-Type' has never relied on any medium to transmit information. Just like that 'communication duel device' that you saw before, Daitokuji, does the information exchange between the input and output of that device rely on extremely high transmission speed to achieve zero-delay communication?"

Upon hearing Hayato mention the communication duel device that had recently proven incredibly effective and which Hayato used to defeat the approaching asteroid "Surtur," Daitokuji blinked and said, "I may not be very knowledgeable about science and technology, but isn't that how it is?"

"Then let me ask you, even at the speed of light, or even faster than the speed of light, how do I manage to receive information from space—where even light takes several seconds to travel—without delay while I'm on the ground, and then transmit the corresponding response back into space without delay?"

In the time it takes for the signal to travel back and forth, the perceived delay in signal transmission will double, and even the most astute duelist's reaction will become sluggish. If a signal traveling at the speed of light were used to link the input and output of the communication duel device, how could Hayato possibly defeat "Destruction Light" in space? He would have been defeated long before his opponent could activate the effect because he was too slow to keep up with the chain!
Without giving Daitokuji too much time to guess, Hayato gave the answer directly: "For 'New-Type' who can overcome the barriers created by differences in space and time, the primary prerequisite for the ability to sense each other's hearts, understand each other, and even further develop 'love' between them is to have a correct insight into all things."

"If a person possesses this insight, then that person can correctly deduce the observed situation from all things and phenomena before their eyes, and can further accurately predict the direction of the situation as time and space progress, and what kind of situation will emerge as a result."

"For example, watching a large white goose fly over a lake and seeing two giant mobile suits fighting at sea twenty years from now; watching the fine sand on the beach that you pick up and then let slip through your fingers and seeing an asteroid being thrown into space several years from now. Such abilities were what people living in the early 20th century called 'precognition'."

Daitokuji was stunned by Hayato's words: "Really? 'New-Type' actually has this kind of ability that's practically predicting the future? That's incredible, meow!"

"I see, I understand now. So the essence of the communication duel device is probably not as simple as 'real-time transmission of duel information'. Rather, it allows users on Earth to know what will happen in space tens of seconds in advance, so they can react early. Then, when the information finally arrives at the output end in space tens of seconds later, it coincides with the input end on Earth, allowing users to see the future scene, thus achieving the actual embodiment of 'real-time duel'."

"...Hmm!? Wait a minute, so it seems that the so-called 'communication duel device' is just a replica of a 'New-Type's' precognitive ability, which is to say, a 'oracle', right?!"

"That's why I said that Kaiba's talent in scientific research is simply outrageous." Hayato spread his hands. "Even though duelists have the ability to 'determine their own future through card draws,' which transcends the constraints of fate and prophecy, Kaiba managed to exploit a bug to allow duelists to create a fixed future themselves."

Saiou and Isis have repeatedly demonstrated with their prophetic abilities that mere "prophecy" cannot bind the possibilities of duelists. Although fate may constrain the endgame to a fixed course, duelists can, through their own will, transcend fate, change prophecies, and even break free from the constraints of gravity.

However, Kaiba also involved the duelist's will, which transcends the constraints of fate, in determining the "prophecy." It wasn't just the user's will; for example, in the recent space duel, even the power released by "Destruction Light" was converted into part of the information transmission and participated in the constraints of fate, truly using the opponent's power to fight the opponent himself.

Its concept is no less than that of Gaia receiving Agul's power and becoming V2, then Agul sublimating himself and becoming V2, then Gaia V2 receiving Agul's power and becoming Gaia SV, Agul V2 receiving Gaia's power and becoming Agul SV, and Gaia SV receiving Agul SV's power and becoming Gaia SSV, truly "stepping on the right foot to ascend to heaven".

"That's true. That person casually created the ultimate fruit of alchemy and then just threw it away." Touching his own body in front of him, Daitokuji said helplessly, "It's a pity that it was ruined before I could test the limit of this new body's active lifespan."

At this moment, Daitokuji was not appearing beside Hayato in a normal human body, but rather floating in mid-air as a semi-transparent ghost, or perhaps truly in ghost form. This was not the first time he had entered this state; he had been in this form for a long time after completing "human transmutation" and transferring his body, and also after his body collapsed following being defeated by the Jade Emperor, without a new body.

However, to ordinary people, the spirit of Daitoku-ji Temple cannot be seen; they can only see a golden, firefly-like point of light flying around in the air.

Previously, when [Sword of the Hour] attacked Osiris-Red Dormitory, Daitokuji suffered too many poison injuries with his own body. Even though Hayato came to the rescue in time, it only prevented Daitokuji from dying on the spot. Not long after Hayato ended the duel, Daitokuji fell into a state that was infinitely close to death.

Daitokuji was also straightforward, directly abandoning his body, which had become a complete burden and constantly inflicted pain upon him, and continuing to exist as a soul. In the human world, a soul like Daitokuji's would quickly dissipate and truly die if it wasn't preserved. But perhaps it was a characteristic of the spirit world that, at least here, Daitokuji's soul didn't have to worry about naturally dissipating.

The number of students who remained in the Red Dormitory and were transferred to the Spirit World was not large, only ten. However, even fewer were the supplies in the Red Dormitory. Even if the [Swordsmen] had not been watching the Red Dormitory before, if Hayato had arrived here even half a day later, the students in the Red Dormitory would have had to leave the dormitory and go out to find food.

—The reason why [Si Jian] found the Osiris-Red Dormitory was because someone went out and was spotted by [Si Jian], who followed the student who fled back to the Red Dormitory and found the location of the dormitory.

Fortunately, there were only so many people in the Red Dorm, so Hayato didn't need to escort them back to school. He could simply summon a monster with the ability to carry people and send them back to Duel Academy along the same route he had come from. Hayato had taken down quite a few wild Pokémon along the way, so sending the students back to school was quite safe. As for the Osiris-Red Dorm itself, Hayato left it where it was for the time being. Although he could move the entire Red Dorm back to the vicinity of the school, that would be too time-consuming, laborious, and unnecessary, especially since Duel Academy was currently attracting many Pokémon due to the continuous activation of the "Duel Energy Distributor," and moving the dormitory there would only add to the risks.

After Aleister and the others casually released some kind of concealment barrier to prevent rats or wild dogs from breaking into the Osiris-Red Dormitory, Hayato changed into a new vehicle—the Cursed Dragon—and began searching for the dormitory that needed to be found sooner than the Red Dormitory—the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory.

Huh? You're asking me what to do with the old car I'm replacing? Of course, I'll turn around and... cough cough, that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking why I didn't go to Sun God - Huang's Dormitory first?
So, the first thing to clarify is that Hayato has never stated that the order in which he searches for student dormitories is based on the students' strength or weakness; otherwise, the students in the Osiris-Red dormitory would never have been ranked first. The truly crucial determining factor is the urgency at which the student dormitories are found.

The reason why the Red Dormitory is ranked first is the "scarcity of supplies" mentioned above. The reason why the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory is ranked second is not only because the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory is the farthest from the school except for the Osiris-Red Dormitory, unlike the Apollo-Yellow Dormitory which is near the school, but also because of the special nature of the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory - it is clearly divided into male and female dormitories!

At least in Hayato's Duel Academy, there was never a setting that "girls are only assigned to the Obelisk-Blue dormitory," which was somewhat of a gender-preferential arrangement. In fact, both the Osiris-Red dormitory and the Apollo-Yellow dormitory theoretically had girls.

The reason for using "theoretically" is that most girls, after knowing their grades are poor, are unlikely to continue down the path of fighting monsters and attend Duel Academy. The most common girl the students in the Red Dorm see is Asuka, who comes to play with Jaden. Before Rei Saotome, as the top freshman, made a special application to enter the Red Dorm, this place was a true "monk's dormitory".

The reason why there are few girls in the Yellow Dormitory is that the vast majority of girls who have decided to pursue the path of Duel Monsters have attended Duel Academy Middle School and therefore almost directly entered the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory. As for girls who have not attended Duel Academy Middle School—why would they come to Duel Academy if they haven't attended Middle School? Would they come to the Yellow Dormitory to experience the atmosphere of studying among a group of straight men? Why not just go to other branch campuses?
It's not that there are no girls in the Yellow Dorm, but the number is so small that there's a saying that "girls who enter the Duel Academy will be directly assigned to the Obelisk-Blue Dorm." But that's impossible—expecting Kaiba, a card addict who doesn't care about family or gender, to give preferential treatment to women? It's better to expect Hayato, a thorough egalitarian who can kick anyone, young or old, who doesn't hesitate to kick them, to give them special treatment.

However, Hayato's reason for looking for the almost adjacent Obelisk-Blue dormitory and the Obelisk-Blue girls' dormitory was not because of taking care of girls or anything like that. As mentioned earlier, he is a believer in gender equality. The reason he wanted to look for the Obelisk-Blue dormitory first was also very simple: the head teacher of the Obelisk-Blue girls' dormitory was Ayukawa Megumi, and the head teacher of the Obelisk-Blue dormitory was Professor Chronos.

Both teachers are currently staying at the main campus to take care of the students. In addition, Asuka, Fubuki, and Manjoume, who have a certain say in the Blue Dormitory, are also not here. This makes the Obelisk-Blue Dormitory the most prone to internal strife among all the dormitories. In particular, most of the students who can enter the Blue Dormitory are somewhat arrogant at heart. Without a strong enough leader, they will fight amongst themselves.

The situation in the Yellow Dormitory was much better. Although top students like those in arithmetic, Kagurazaka, and Kenzan were not in the dormitory, the students in the Yellow Dormitory were much easier to manage than those in the Blue Dormitory. The students in this dormitory, whose presence was never very strong and who lived a "peaceful life like plants" like their dormitory head teacher Kira Aoki, were less likely to have "internal conflicts" than the Red Dormitory, which was full of academic underachievers.

—Unless someone brings up an extremely sensitive topic among this group, such as whether to eat sweet or savory zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), then this group is unlikely to be able to unite.

Of course, another point is that, unlike the Blue Dormitory, although the Yellow Dormitory's dormitory head, Kira Aoki, went on a business trip with Samejima, Kabayama-sensei, who has long served as the acting dormitory head, stayed in the Yellow Dormitory. More importantly, this acting dormitory head, who is as good at cooking as Kira-sensei, especially curry, had just applied for a batch of ingredients before the transfer began to prepare a meal for the Yellow Dormitory students to reward them for their recent physical and mental exhaustion due to the "exposing duel".

With ample supplies, the most well-behaved students, and the same disciplined teachers, and even the dormitory that was geographically closest to the Duel Academy, it's no wonder that Hayato prioritized finding it last.

Another point is that although Ayukawa-sensei usually works in the school's infirmary and most medical supplies are stored at the school, considering the special physiology of the girls, Ayukawa-sensei actually also keeps a certain amount of medicine in the Obelisk-Blue girls' dormitory. In addition, the return of the Obelisk-Blue dormitory, whose students are much stronger on average than those in the Red dormitory, can greatly alleviate the school's manpower pressure. This is why Hayato decided to go to the Obelisk-Blue dormitory first.

(The locations of the dormitories in Duel Academy differ slightly from those in the anime and in the card illustrations; this is for reference only.)
However, the locations of the red and blue dormitories are at opposite ends of the spectrum, even on the original Duel Academy Island. During this long journey, Hayato got bored and started adjusting his deck. The back of the [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon] deck wasn't very big, but besides that, it only carried the "corpse" of Daitokuji, which was probably useless but might be useful, so it didn't matter if he brought it along. Overall, it was still quite spacious.

The card Hayato pulled out, at the very top, was none other than the new being that had appeared within the body of [Kusanagi, the Supreme of the Mitsu Sword], whom Hayato had previously defeated—[Kousuke, the Prince of the Mitsu Sword].

According to him, he was actually the master of the [Kusanagi no Mi] sword. However, during his daily training, he fed the [Kusanagi no Mi] sword too well, causing it to become stronger than him, its master. As a result, the [Kusanagi] sword turned against him and controlled him. It was not until Hayato defeated the [Kusanagi no Mi] sword that it was finally freed.

Both to repay a debt of gratitude and because he was willing to accept defeat, [Prince of the Sword - Kou] voluntarily became Hayato's card and served him. He also provided Hayato with a lot of information about this desert that even the [Harpie] was not very clear about, but which was the most basic common knowledge of the desert inhabitants.

One of them was about the location of several buildings that had recently appeared in the desert. After comparing the locations of two of the buildings—the Duel Academy headquarters and the Osiris-Red dormitory—Hayato quickly determined that the other three were most likely the Sun God-Yellow dormitory and the two dormitories of Obelisk-Blue.

"It is my honor to be able to help you in this way, sir."

On the card, [Prince of the Snake Sword - Osui] sincerely expressed his gratitude, while Hayato pointed at [Prince of the Snake Sword - Osui] and said to Daitokuji who was standing next to him, "Look, he even has to thank us."

Staying at home: Three days of National Day have already passed in the blink of an eye, time flies!

Those stuck in traffic on highways during the National Day holiday: Time just seems to be passing by so slowly! (Annoyed)