Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1603 Respective goals

Jonouchi: "Ugh, what are these? Zombies?"

One by one, skeletons clad in armor, with dangerous green markings on their foreheads, advanced aggressively, swords and shields in hand. Meanwhile, the castle sergeant was already prepared for a fight, ready to pounce on any rash move by the skeleton warriors.

Jonouchi is very self-aware of his role as the team's warrior and tank. In the past, no matter who his teammates faced, Jonouchi was always the first to rush in whenever there was a fight.

However, the situation today was clearly beyond what Yugi could handle. Yami Yugi quickly deployed his old-fashioned Duel Disk, drawing cards from his deck and reminding Jonouchi, "Jonouchi, use Duel Monsters!"

As he spoke, a golden light flashed from the Millennium Puzzle on his chest, and at the same time, he slammed a monster card onto the Duel Disk. Yami Yugi shouted, "Dark Magician!"

The legendary servant of the Dark Mage, spanning millennia, instantly leaped forth using the Duel Disk system. His emerald staff swirled twice in his hand, unleashing a dark orb of magical energy. That blast struck a skeleton monster in the chest, instantly blasting it to pieces, armor and all.

Jōnei exclaimed in realization, "You can do it like that! Okay, I'll try it too!"

As he spoke, he also unfolded his duel disk.

"Red-Eyes Black Dragon!"

Boiling lava shot skyward, transforming into the form of a black dragon. From its mouth spewed forth scorching spheres of fire, instantly reducing several skeleton monsters to ashes.

But the number of skeletons seemed endless; as soon as a few were defeated, even more appeared from all directions. The skeleton warriors formed an encirclement, steadily advancing, and the circle continued to shrink.

Jonouchi: "Damn it, if this keeps up, these guys will never stop."

"It's alright, no need to get entangled with them."

You Xuan took a step forward, raised his duel disk, and a transparent wave spread out from it, quickly releasing itself as if opening up some kind of invisible domain.

In an instant, everything seemed to stand still.

The air froze, shards of broken glass hung suspended in mid-air, and the menacing skeleton warriors were frozen in place, even the blades that were slashing down were stuck in mid-air, unable to swing even a fraction further.

It was as if the whole world had been frozen in the blink of an eye, in the blink of an eye.

Time stops!

That's right, this is the new technology that Yu Xuan obtained from the forces of Xyz Dimension and Dr. Fica last time. He installed the corresponding technology on his Duel Disk before this mission.

It's currently still in the prototype stage. In the anime, Kaito Amagi's time stop seems to have no time limit, and the time stop effect can last until he and Yuma finish a whole game of cards. However, Yugen's prototype version is not yet like that; it can only stop for about a minute at a time.

But it was shocking enough.

The Eye of Horus on the Millennium Puzzle automatically lit up with golden light, the sacred radiance seemingly dispelling the mysterious influence. However, Yami Yugi glanced around, his expression slightly surprised.

Jonouchi, also protected by the Millennium Puzzle of Yami Yugi beside him, was unaffected by the time stop. Looking around, he couldn't help but show a look of surprise and doubt: "Huh! What's going on?"

“Time has been stopped.” Dark Game looked at Yuugen and said, “I didn’t expect you to have such a powerful ability.”

"well enough."

You Xuan laughed heartily, patted the duel disk, and said.

"It's not my ability, it's its. It's technology."

"What an amazing Duel Disk." Jonouchi rested his chin on his hand. "So technology can reach this level. Is this the power of future science?" "Alright, let's hurry up and go."

You Xuan lightly deflected the blade of a skeleton soldier who was frozen in mid-air with a single finger, and strode past the frozen soldiers as if no one else was there.

"I can't stay for long, let's go now."

Yami Yugi and Jonouchi exchanged a glance and quickly followed.

“There are two other activation points for the barrier. Why don’t we split up and take them all out as quickly as possible?” Jonouchi said, rubbing his hands together eagerly. “A barrier suddenly descended on the entire city, along with these monsters. Not everyone is capable of protecting themselves. We should race against time to break this barrier as soon as possible.”

Yami Yugi nodded in agreement: "Indeed. Then I'll go to one of the locations, and Jonouchi, you and Yugen will go to the other location of the barrier sender."

You Xuan disagreed: "No, even if the barrier is lifted, the problem is still not solved. Until the root of the enemy is defeated, they will try to launch more attacks one after another."

Dark Game: "So what do you mean?"

“Jonouchi and I will each be responsible for one barrier transmitter.” Yuugen smiled. “Didn’t President Kaiba already mark the location of the enemy headquarters? It seems to be in the exact opposite direction from the location of the barrier pillar. Mr. Yuugen can just head straight towards the headquarters.”

He paused, then added, "Although the Doma headquarters is isolated outside the barrier, I think we should be able to remove it before you arrive."

“Indeed, this is the most efficient way.” Jonouchi hesitated, “But those responsible for activating the barrier are probably all those executives from that Doma group. I’m quite confident I’ll be fine, Yuugen, are you sure you’ll be okay?”

"Me?" You Xuan smiled. "It's alright, I'm very strong."

Dark Game looked at him intently for a moment, seemingly finding it difficult to make a decision.

At that moment, the game floated behind him like a ghost and spoke, "The other me, let's trust them here."

"AIBO" Yami Yugi turned around and exchanged a glance with his partner, then nodded and said, "Alright. I'll leave it to you guys."

With the plan finalized, the three immediately turned around and quickly left towards their respective destinations.

"Go to hell, die, die!"

With a loud shout, Jonouchi filled all five squares of the Duel Disk, summoning his favorite monsters, including Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Lightning Warrior, Flame Swordsman, and Iron Knight Gia, which surrounded and protected him from all sides, making him a mobile chariot that rampaged through the skeleton warriors.

At this moment, the time-stop effect given by Youxuan had ended. He fought his way out of the city and found an overturned motorcycle on the roadside—the motorcycle's owner had probably been attacked by a horde of monsters and was now nowhere to be found.

Jonouchi mounted his motorcycle and, under the ironclad protection of the five monsters, sped off at full speed. The motorcycle roared sharply as it headed straight for one of the beams of light.

At first, there were many skeletons around, but as you got closer to the pillar of light, the resistance decreased. The skeletons gradually thinned out and eventually disappeared completely.

He stopped his car at the spot where the pillar of light was, took off his helmet, and saw a man sitting on the edge of the building ahead. The man was dressed in a motorcycle suit, with his feet dangling in the air, looking at him with a playful expression.

Baron, one of the Three Musketeers of Doma.

"Finally, someone has arrived. I thought we'd have to wait until dawn."

Baron leaped down, unfolded his Duel Disk, and sneered.

"Since you're here, why don't you have some fun with me, Katsuya Jonouchi!"

(End of this chapter)