Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1394 Encounter
“I’m dying, dying, dying.”

Jōnei rushed back in a panic and hurriedly entered the Hippocampus Company building.

He'd been here all day, getting carried away with his excitement after getting an overdose of Red-Eyes. But his joy was premature; he only realized something important when he was almost home.

A week ago, Mai gave him a talisman, saying she had specially obtained it. Because Jonouchi now often has to engage in dangerous duels, although she is very confident in Jonouchi's dueling skills, especially his dice skills, there are always people more skilled than you, especially in this era of frequent interdimensional conflicts, no one can predict what kind of experts will emerge next.

After all, while Jonouchi is strong, he can't be considered invincible. So it's possible that there might be even stronger enemies in the opposing superdimensional dimension.

That's why Wu gave him this talisman, hoping it would ensure his victory in every battle he faced.

However, the thick-headed Jonouchi was so overjoyed after obtaining the Red-Eyes Steel Flame Dragon today that he didn't realize until very late that he had somehow lost the important charm.

This was no small matter. Jonouchi could instantly imagine Mai's furious reaction upon learning the situation. She might even use her fists to press down on his head and unleash her "Spinning Divine Skill" for an entire night, until his forehead was rubbed bald.

The city has been inside the Haima Group all day and hasn't gone anywhere else, so it must have fallen somewhere it passed by during the day.

That's why he rushed back to Haima Group to look for the lost amulet.

Unexpectedly, this trip brought some unexpected gains.

Following the path he had taken during the day, Jonouchi finally found the thing he had lost at a corner of a corridor.

Jōnei's eyes lit up, and he excitedly stepped forward to pick up the amulet: "It's here! I've been looking for it for ages!"

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

Because he looked up and gazed down the corridor.

He found a tall, slender, silver-haired man standing there, facing him in a somewhat stiff posture.

"Ok?"

Jōnei was taken aback at first.

He instinctively sensed that something was off about the person, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Besides, it's so late; logically, there should be no one left except for the R&D staff working overtime. But he had seen everyone in the R&D department during the day and was quite certain that this person wasn't there.

Then he noticed the heraldic-like mark on the back of the other person's hand.

Jonouchi's eyes sharpened instantly.

"You," Jonouchi said in a deep voice, "you and those two young men...you're in cahoots, aren't you? You came here to rescue them?"

V was immediately recognized, but he didn't panic. He just narrowed his eyes and said, "So what if I am?"

"If that's the case, then we can't let you act as you please."

Jonouchi put away the amulet, stood up, unfolded the duel disk, and revealed a confident smile.

"That's exactly what I was thinking during the day. If I were to encounter people from other worlds, I'd have to treat them well. After all, I haven't personally experienced the power called 'Extra' yet."

V remained silent for a few seconds.

The situation was indeed far from ideal. If possible, he hoped to avoid the fight as much as possible and simply take his two younger brothers and run away.

But since we've been entangled with duelists from this dimension, there's nothing we can do about it.

"Ok."

V gently closed his eyes and said, "Then let me give it a try, duelist of this dimension. Let's see what you're capable of."

"Duel!" x2
[Within the city, LP4000]

【V, LP4000】

"I'll go first, it's my turn, draw a card!"

V, as the intruder, attacks first.

"I usually summon 'planetary rover'!"

A mechanical car was summoned onto V's field. It had a green body, red tires covered by tracks, and a camera device resembling a camera probe standing on one side, slowly rotating, like a small head looking around.

[Planetary Exploration Vehicle, Attack Power 1000]

"Next is the effect of the 'Solar Sailboat' in my hand!"

V reveals another monster card from his hand.

"The Solar Storm is a five-star monster, but its effect is that it can be Special Summoned by halving its original ATK and DEF! (Original effect)"

Therefore, I hereby Special Summon 'Solar Wind Sailboat'!

It looks like a retro sailboat, but it's actually a spaceship made of metal. It has three layers of white alloy sails on the top and bottom, with a purple main body in the center, like a sailboat sailing in outer space.

[Solar Wind Sailboat, Attack Power 800 → Attack Power 400]

After being made into a physical card, it can only be Special Summoned when there are no monsters on your field. In the original work, there were no restrictions on Special Summoning. You only need to halve its ATK to directly summon it to the field, which is quite useful.

Jonouchi calmly observed. Although the opponent immediately summoned two monsters, one was level four and the other was level five, which should not be enough to meet the Xyz Summoning requirements.

But V immediately revealed a spell card in his hand: "Activate the spell card 'Tanhäuser Gate'!"
When this card is activated, select any two monsters on your field; their Levels become the sum of their Levels! (Original effect)

It has the same powerful animation effects, clearly indicating it's an Xyz Scaling card. While the physical card version also has the same effect, it adds the restriction that the monster must have 1000 or less ATK and be of the same type. Although it faithfully recreates the activation scene from the anime, its practicality drops significantly.

"I choose the Level 4 'Planetary Exploration Vehicle' and the Level 5 'Solar Wind Sailboat' to make the levels of the two monsters add up!"

[Planet Exploration Vehicle, LV4 → LV9]

[Solar Sailboat, LV5→ LV9]

"Two level nine monsters!?" Jonouchi was shocked.

He knew that Xyz Summoning required stacking multiple monsters of the same rank, so naturally, higher-rank monsters were harder to summon and should be stronger.

Two Level 9 monsters—logically speaking, the summoning conditions are far too stringent. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume that Xyz Monsters with such summoning conditions should possess extraordinary abilities.

So what will come out this time?

"I'm stacking a Level 9 'Plane Explorer' and a Level 9 'Solar Sailboat'!" V raised his arm high. "Using two monsters to create a stacking network, I'm Xyz Summoning!"
O destiny I bear, now swallow the galaxy, descend as a vast earth! Appear—

—NO.9 Heavenly Canopy Star Dyson Sphere!!!

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Jonouchi felt that the moment the two monsters disappeared into the Xyz Vortex and the other uttered those lines, even the starry sky outside the window seemed to dim.

(End of this chapter)