Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

[Kobayashi Hayato: 2000LP, hand card: 5]

【Shadowbringer Midrash】【ATK2200】

【Divine Flame Dragon - Crimson Realm Dragon】【DEF3000】

[Armed Dragon - Lightning LV10] [ATK5000]

【Ra's Winged Dragon】【ATK4600】

【Hercules Dragon - Disguised Dragon】【ATK2500】

Venue: [Union Hangar]

While he had to admit that Hayato's lineup was formidable, what kind of talk was it to say that he couldn't duel anymore? [Gausa] looked at Hayato's final lineup on the field with some confusion, then suddenly remembered that he shouldn't have waited for his opponent to act—it was clearly still his turn!
"My turn continues. I'll set one card." [Gaussa] set down [Mega Fusion], regardless of whether Hayato could tell the difference; maybe this card could fool his opponent. After that, he didn't try to enter the battle phase again, but directly declared, "I'm going to end my turn now."

As the turn ended, the Disruptive Black monster that had been lingering on Gaussa's field disappeared, emptying the monster zone it had occupied.

[Gaussaint: 500 LP, Hand: 2 → 1]

【W-Ejection Wing】【DEF1500】

【Y-Dragon Head】【DEF1600】

【Z-Metal Tracks】【DEF1300】

Back row: [Face Card] [Face Card (Mega Fusion)]

During Hayato's turn, almost at the same time he drew his card, [Gaussa] immediately shouted, "During my opponent's Standby Phase, I'm activating my Continuous Trap Card in my back row—"

"【Hundred-Armed Invisible Guide】! The first effect of this card can only be used once per turn, but that one time is enough, because this card can be activated by Tributing one 【Hundred-Armed Invisible】 monster on my field or a monster that originally belonged to my opponent, and gain control of one monster on my opponent's field!"

【Gausa】arrogantly introduced, "This effect is just like the effect of 【Hundred-Armed Invisible God - Señor】 from before. Instead of targeting first and then controlling, it seizes control of the monster during the effect resolution. This means that no matter how you deal with the monsters on your field, whether you fuse them or banish them, as long as there are still monsters whose control can be seized, I can eventually seize one of them and use it for my own purposes!"

"And now, I will unleash my [W-Eject Wing] on the field and seize control of the opponent's [Divine Flame Dragon - Crimson Realm Dragon]!"

【Gausa】I don’t know what effects Hayato’s monsters have, but it’s always good to take over the one with the highest defense, 【Divine Flame Dragon - Crimson Dragon】—Hayato Kobayashi can’t just activate 【Troy Bomb】 again and blow his own basic points to smithereens, can he?
Thinking this, He waited for a long time but saw that the [Divine Flame Dragon - Hellfire Dragon] on the opponent's field showed no intention of moving towards Him. Even His own [W-Ejecting Wing] had not been released. Looking down, He even found that the Continuous Trap Card [Hundred-Armed Invisible Guide] had not been activated at all!

"Strange, why didn't I activate a face-down card?" He pressed the button on the Duel Disk to activate a face-down card, then remembered that this Duel Disk was just a fake flesh and blood organ he had created by imitating Hayato's Duel Disk. He simply stretched out his tentacles to manually flip the cards on the field. "Is something wrong? Anyway, I'll activate a trap—"

With a sudden burst of force, it still couldn't be lifted?

"What's going on?" [Gaussa] pressed the Duel Disk again and again in disbelief, and even tried manually pulling out the card, but the [Hundred-Armed Invisible Guide] on His field, which was face down, remained motionless as if it had taken root.

"Move! [Guide hand]! Why aren't you moving?"

"Yeah, why is that? I'm looking for the reason too. It can't be because your life points are too low that you can't activate any cards, right?"

Hayato's voice drew Gaussaint's attention, and He looked in Hayato's direction: "Did...do you do something!?"

"You call yourself a god, yet you need to ask someone else to confirm even something as obvious as this?" Hayato shrugged. "I already told you—I've already stripped you of your right to duel!"

"The effect of my 【Crimson Dragon - Disguised Dragon】 is such that as long as this Fusion Summoned card is in my Monster Zone, my opponent cannot activate the effects of Spell/Trap/Monster Cards without paying 600 Life Points."

Pointing out the real reason why [Gaussa] cannot open face-down cards, Hayato slowly took out the card and inserted it into the Duel Disk. "After losing 3500 Life Points to [Armed Dragon Cannon], you only have 500 Life Points left. You simply can't afford the minimum Life Points required to activate a card—in other words, it's like you've entered the 'kill line' and been deprived of the right to continue playing!"

Despite Gaussa's outward appearance as a cloaked tentacle monster with no visible expression except for a single red dot, Hayato still sensed emotions like "despair," "surprise," and "fear" emanating from it. But could any of this stop Hayato? Not even the card he played at this moment could stop it!

"It would take too long for [Armed Dragon Lightning LV10] to gain the effect of destroying other cards on the field after its ATK reaches 10000, so I'll use this card as a temporary substitute—activate the Spell Card [Lightning Strike]! Destroy all three monster cards on your opponent's field!"

With a lightning strike, all three monsters stolen from Hayato by [Gausa] returned to Hayato's graveyard, leaving only two unusable cards in [Gausa]'s backrow. Hayato then played another card, declaring, "Although a direct attack would win the duel—victory alone cannot satisfy my greed. Therefore, I will activate the Continuous Spell Card [True Sun God]!" "As part of the effect of this card's activation, I will add one [Winged Dragon of Ra] or a card with that name from my Deck to my hand. I choose this one: [Divine Flame Cannon]."

"Next, targeting [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra] on my field, I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Divine Flame Cannon]. The activation and effect of this card cannot be negated!"

"During this turn, [Ra] gains the following effects: it is unaffected by the opponent's effects, attacks can be activated after damage calculation, all monsters on the opponent's field are sent to the Graveyard, and when declaring an attack in battle, it can activate by Tributing any number of other monsters on the player's field that did not declare an attack this turn, and [Ra]'s ATK increases by the sum of the original ATKs of the Tributed monsters!"

—Although the "Winged Dragon of Ra" held by Hayato is not the "Winged Dragon of Ra" that was later cut down into several cards after being released as a physical card, it is the "True Ra God" with all the effects in its complete form. It can use its abilities such as destroying the field and releasing monsters to launch attacks normally, even with the support of spell cards.

But the most important thing in Duel Monsters, besides winning, is to look cool! Why use a bunch of cards to show how the power of "Pull" is enhanced when you can just activate its effect directly?

Behind Hayato, flames uncontrollably spilled from the gaps in the body of the giant sun god, and the fire god bird—the phoenix form of [Ra's Winged Dragon]—appeared, absorbing the attack power of the other monsters on Hayato's field one by one!

【Ra's Winged Dragon】【ATK4600→6800→9800→12300】

Aside from [Crimson Dragon - Disguised Dragon], which Hayato intentionally kept, the power of all the other monsters was channeled into [Ra's Winged Dragon], which explains why it manifested a phoenix form to unleash its power!
别说【迦乌撒】现在的基本分就只剩下区区500点了，就算他的基本分有4000点、甚至8000点、乃至再加上4000点变成12000点，也抗不下这毁灭性的一击！
—This is the benefit of dueling. Outside of dueling, Gaussaint, who could even faintly rival Ra the Winged Dragon of Ra with his own power, was dragged into the sacred rules of dueling. So when his life points were crushed by Ra the Winged Dragon of Ra, no matter how powerful he was, he would be crushed by the dueling rules at the bottom of the world!

"Take him down, [pull]." Hayato's tone was quite calm, as if he were saying, "Let's go for barbecue tonight," as if he had just crushed an ant and issued the order to attack, "Clear the opponent's life points."

"You, how dare you! I am 'God'!" Now, Gaussaint clearly realized his defeat, but how could it be? He was so powerful, so invincible, so how could this human possibly defeat him? Defeat the one who could not be defeated?

"The suffering and hatred endured by all living beings in the world—the power contained within these emotions never disappears, but rather flows into the inner world along with malice. My place lies at the very bottom of that endless darkness. My appearance is the embodiment of the darkness that settles within the world. Humans, how dare you defy 'God'!"

"What a weak god," Hayato muttered. "I thought you'd say something like 'My great mind can't disappear,' but now you can't even utter a word of begging for mercy. Are you really obsessed with this illusory 'god-playing'?"

“Listen up, [Gaussa], or as you prefer, ‘the sediment of darkness within the world,’ consider it your choice, like end-of-life care.” Hayato sneered, running a finger across his neck. “Regardless of your background, Duel Monsters is a cruel game like this; only one can play it—when I am the victor, no amount of cursing or resentment can save you, loser.”

"Cry, scream, and then die, ha ha ha ha!"

There was no struggle, no chance of a final curse. The moment Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra launched its attack, the ultimate flames that incinerated everything, obliterating body, spirit, and even soul, engulfed everything in front of it. Whether it was the body of Gaussaint, the Hundred-Armed Invisible God, on the ground, His tentacles that had previously pierced the ground to try to erode the world, or His Duel Disk and Deck, Hayato burned them all to ashes in one go.

—Although Hayato sometimes likes to occasionally collect one or two cards, Gaussa's cards are so disgusting that they seem to be squeezed out of his duel disk, which is covered in sticky liquid, like laying eggs. Hayato simply cannot accept putting such cards into his storage and contaminating his inventory.

But if it's left outside, and there's a chance that some of Gaussa's remains are left inside, Hayato doesn't want to see a scenario where the other party "comes back from the dead" or "returns from hell." So it's better to let Ra burn the other party to ashes.

After the sacred fire, Gaussa's body completely disintegrated. The hands that made up the tentacles loosened, but no matter how small the fragments became, not a single remnant escaped the encirclement of the sun's fire and was completely burned on the spot.

The surging flames even advanced and bombarded the still-existing [Phantom Demon Gate] blocking the exit of Vera's mansion, forcefully smashing open the door that had been closed after [Hundred-Armed Invisible God - Gaussa] walked out. The flames burned into it, burning a goat-headed skull hiding behind the door!

"Hmph, hmph, ughhh, ahhhhh!"

The skeletal figure, screaming in agony, frantically tried to extinguish the fire behind the door and eliminate these unwanted intruders into the dark world. At the same time, it hurriedly closed the door that had been forcibly forced open. As the [Gate of Illusions] slammed shut once more, the door, which had been standing there, vanished like a bubble, leaving behind only a venomous curse.
"Onorei Kobayashi Hayato!"

"Heh, I knew it. I felt someone was watching us while we were playing cards. It really was you, Darkness." Hayato sneered as he watched the other person run away.

The [Gate of Illusions] appears to be closed, but a small crack remains, as if someone is spying from behind it. Meanwhile, [Gauza, the Hundred-Armed Invisible God] claims to be "the sediment of darkness from the inner side of the world," while Darkness claims to be "the darkness flowing into the inner side of the world." The striking similarities make it hard for Hayato not to suspect the existence of Darkness—and that it is highly likely watching his duel from behind the door.

—As for why the other party doesn't come out? It's simply because they want to gather information from your duel so they can use it against you later.

Knowing he had no chance of stopping the other party, nor could he break into the [Phantom Gate] and confront Darkness in the other party's home turf, Hayato never intended to kill Darkness from the beginning. However, he did have the idea of ​​using the [Pull] attack to give the other party a hard blow—and the effect was quite good. Before the door disappeared, Hayato heard the other party suppressing its screams, which finally came out loud like Tom the cat.

It was at this moment that, because Hayato destroyed [the Hundred-Armed Invisible God - Gaussa], Vera, who had been quite useless and easily controlled by him in one move, also recovered from the state of being controlled.

Unfortunately, at the same time her control was released, the supply of magic was also cut off. The magic bullet she was about to release exploded with a "bang" due to insufficient magic power, knocking Vera unconscious and causing her to lie dead on the ground. Her body also changed from the form of a young girl to the form of an old woman.

"It's over?" Seeing that Vera had finally fallen, Alai breathed a sigh of relief. If it had continued, he probably would have had to resort to some ruthless tactics against his old friend. If he had actually made a move, even if Vera here was a clone of the other party's spirit, it would probably have caused Vera serious and indelible psychological trauma. Fortunately, Hayato's duel ended quickly.

Hayato nodded. "We're safe for now." (End of Chapter)