Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1463 Did he go easy on me?

Jaden: "Earth Neos' effect, bounce Hope back to me! Hope is an Xyz Monster and cannot return to the hand, so it will naturally return to the Extra Deck!"

Astral: "Wandering Horse, Trap."

“Oh, okay,” Yuma said. “Then I’ll activate the face-down card, the Continuous Trap ‘Dimensional Gate’!”
Dimensional Gate can choose a face-up monster on its field and banish that monster from the game.

I'm removing 'No. 39 Hope Royal Hope' from the game!

The dimensional black hole opened up, forming a door-like shape, seemingly leading to some deep blue, distant part of the universe. A powerful gravitational force emanated from within, pulling Hope into the void just before she was sucked in by the black hole of the nebula's void.

"Oh, so you used a trap to avoid the effects of Neo-Universe?" Judai chuckled. "That's pretty good, isn't it?"

"Then let's fight!"

The tenth generation swung his arm in a sweeping motion.

"Go! Elemental Hero - Earth Neos, attack the 'Rumble Golem'!"

Earth Neos activated his drill again, but this time he didn't fire it from a distance; instead, he leaped forward and swung the drill directly at the stone man. The drill pierced through the stone man's thick chest armor, creating a huge hole from his chest to his back.

[Yuma, LP4000 → LP3300]

"Ugh!" Yuma staggered back two steps, embarrassed, and said, "Damn it, I should have had the rumbling stone golems guard the area."

Although the Rumble Stone Golem's defense is lower than its attack, it can only withstand combat damage once per turn while in defense mode.

However, the attack signal in the previous round was originally intended to strengthen the offensive, but unexpectedly, the opponent easily countered the attack, and now the attackers are in a sorry state under the opponent's offensive.

"It's not over yet." Jaden smiled mysteriously, revealing another magic card between two fingers, "Quick-Play Spell 'Contact Separation'!"
This card allows you to de-Fusion Deliver a Neo Fusion Monster on your field, return it to the Extra Deck, and Special Summon Fusion Materials from your Deck.

I'm dispelling the fusion of 'Earth Neos Knight'!

Astral was also a little surprised: "Fusion Deactivation. Special Summon Fusion Materials from the Deck?"

At this moment, the Earth Neos had split into two again, separating back into the two monsters, Neos and Earth Mole.

【Elemental Hero - Neo-Universe Warrior, Attack Power 2500】

【New Space Warrior - Earth Mole, Attack Power 900】

Marufuji Sho: "It's here! The fusion-disarming follow-up attack tactic that Big Brother was best at in the early days!"

Jaden: "Since a new monster was summoned during the battle phase, we can continue attacking."

New Space Hero - Earth Mole, attack directly!

Mole Brother launched his Salted Fish Thrust, his two silver-white shoulder armor plates reforming into drills that spun rapidly, piercing the ground. The tiny mole burrowed into the earth, emerging only half a step away from Yuma.

Astral Entity: "Hope has summoned Yuma!"

“I know!” Yuma said, “It’s another effect of the Continuous Trap ‘Dimensional Gate’!”
When you are declared a direct attack, you can send this card to the Graveyard. Also, when Dimension Gate is sent to the Graveyard, monsters banished by this effect can be Special Summoned!

Come back, No. 39 Hope!

The deep dimensional gate in mid-air above the racecourse twisted and dissipated, a golden blade cleaved through space, and the golden warriors descended once more amidst a shower of golden starlight.

[NO.39 Hopeful Hopp, Attack Power 2500]

"Hey, you dodged the effect of Earth Neos with that kind of trick, and then you can still call back your ace to continue the battle. Pretty clever move." Jaden chuckled.

"But I know the effects of the dimensional gate, and I anticipated this move as well."

Astral Body: "What?"

"The monster effect of Neo Space Ranger Earth Mole!" Jaden said, "When Earth Mole battles a monster, it can bounce this card and the opponent's monster back to their hand without calculating battle damage!"

Yuma x Astral: "What!?" x2
The invincible mole burrowed headfirst into Hope. At this moment, Hope returned to the field from being banished using the effect of the Continuous Trap "Dimensional Gate". Although banished monsters can be returned, if the target is an Xyz Monster, then all the Xyz Materials on the Xyz Monster went to the Graveyard the moment it was banished and cannot be returned.

Without any materials, Hope is now a blank slate and cannot activate the effect of "invalidating the opponent's attack".

In fact, this is still the anime version of Hope, which is relatively good. The physical card version of Hope has been greatly weakened. After being released as a physical card, Hope will self-destruct if attacked by the opponent without Xyz Material, a purely comical side effect. Even if it revives without Xyz Material, it's meaningless.

At this moment, Hope had already transformed into golden light and flown back into the card box on Yuma's waist. Meanwhile, the Earth Mole had also successfully completed its mission and flown back into Jaden's hand, adding another brilliant chapter to its legendary record of defeating countless powerful monsters.

"The Earth Mole actually has such an effect. I see. So the Earth Neos is an upgraded version of this monster's ability." The Astral Entity's expression turned solemn. "My 'Dimensional Gate' countermeasure has been seen through."

Is this boy perhaps more tactically adept than me?

Jaden: "Next up is 'Elemental HERO Neos,' attack now!"

New Universe Knight leaped high into the air, gathering energy in his right arm, and with a long white trail, slashed down at Yuma and Astral Body.

Yuma: "Activate the face-down card, the trap card 'Guardian Barrier'!"
It can reduce the combat damage of a battle to 0, and I can draw a card from my deck!

A buffer shield appeared in front of Yuma. Xinyuxia's hand slammed into the shield, the force of which caused transparent ripples, but ultimately failed to break through the defense.

"Based on this effect, I'll draw cards from my deck!"

Yuma drew a card and then chuckled.

"See? I'm pretty tenacious too! You won't beat me so easily!"

Astral immediately poured cold water on his enthusiasm: "There's nothing to be proud of, Yuma. We failed to protect Hope, and we've exhausted all our defensive options. We lost this round."

"Well, don't say that."

Judai seemed to be able to hear the astral entity speaking, and laughed.

"Your response has been quite impressive."

In fact, the students around were pointing and whispering, and many people started talking about it.

"real or fake?"

"Why does this kid seem to have suddenly become so powerful?"

Many people thought that Yuma was mediocre when they fought him before, easily suppressed, and even at the bottom of the Duel Academy. But in this match, his offensive and defensive exchanges with Jaden were quite exciting.

Oh, and there's also the possibility of a monster like Hopeful appearing with an extraordinary art style, which is the first time such a monster has appeared so far.

Marufuji Sho asked in confusion, "Has he been holding back all this time?"

(End of this chapter)