Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1699 Illusionary Melody
"Duel!" x2
[Yu Xuan, LP4000]

【Zero, LP4000】

“Then I’ll start the attack,” Zero said. “My turn!”

Her slender fingers swiftly swept across the top of the first five cards, quickly picking out one of them.

"I usually summon 'Phantom Musician - Garo'!"

A woman dressed in purple, wearing a black and blue short skirt with a plaid pattern and a gold eye mask, looked like she was going to a masquerade ball.

【Phantom Musician - Jia Nuo, Attack Power 1400】

"Then set a card face down, and the turn ends."

A simple start, and then the round ended.

"Using illusionary tactics, huh?" Yu Xuan asked with interest.

The Phantom Deck is the deck used by the female protagonist, Yuzu, in the Arc-V anime. The lore states that Yuzu is one of Zero's reincarnations across four dimensions, so it's not surprising that Zero possesses cards associated with her.

In fact, although the anime didn't explain much about Zero's original deck when she was a professional duelist, it can be inferred from Zach's situation.

Zack is said to possess the "Four Heavenly Dragons," which are four dragons representing the four summoning methods: Pendulum, Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz. These are Odd-Eyes, Hungry Venom, Translucent Wing, and Dark Rebel.

After Zack split into four dimensions, his power was also divided into four parts. The Four Heavenly Dragons were also distributed among the four reincarnated beings, becoming their trump cards.

Zero's situation is similar to Zack's; both were transformed into four separate entities during the dimensional split. Therefore, it's possible that Zero also possesses a deck that utilizes four separate entities.

However, judging from the anime's ending, if Yuya Sakaki holds a relatively important central position among Zack's four clones, then Yuzu is probably the most crucial one among Zero's four clones. Therefore, it's entirely possible that Zero would primarily use Illusion.

"My turn, draw a card." You Xuan drew a card.

Today was a rare fun game in the Dimensional Long Journey, and I decided to test out the new high-ranking deck I had prepared before setting off.

"Normal Summon 'Starman Teens IV'!"

You Xuan summoned a monster, and golden light formed a constellation-like phantom. A new star within that constellation shone brightly, coalescing into the phantom of a pure white knight. Its wings spread, adorned with starlight, and its longbow was drawn, the arrow tip seemingly brewing a vortex in the starry sky.

[Star Guardian - Tenjin IV, Attack Power 1500]

"The monster effect of Celestial Tennis IV: When this card is successfully Summoned, you can add one Celestial monster other than Tennis IV from your Deck to your hand."

Another card popped out of Yu Xuan's deck, which he drew into his hand and showed: "I added 'Star Ingenie - Weaver Girl I' to my hand from my deck."

“Star Warrior.” Zero looked at Tianjin Si on the downstream Xuan Field thoughtfully, “It does bear some resemblance to the ‘Star Saint’ used by that academy cadre named Hoshino.”

"Oh? You noticed? As expected of Miss Zero, you're really perceptive." You Xuan smiled. "That's right, Star Knights are also called 'Satellite Knights,' which is somewhat related to Star Saints, but it's not important."

The point is, I'm stronger than that guy, and Celestial's deck is far superior to Celestial Saint's. Miss Zero-I'd better watch out.

He waved his hand as he spoke.

"Star Knight, Denizen IV, attack 'Phantom Musician, Gano'." The satellite knight began to charge up, a constellation pattern appeared behind him, and a bright star shone in the constellation, as if filling Denizen IV's bow with energy.

But Zero remained completely unfazed: "Then activate the face-down card, the trap card 'Variation of Illusion'!"
This card allows you to select one 'Morph' monster you control, return it to your hand, and then Special Summon any 'Morph' monster from your hand! (Anime Card)
She pointed to the Phantom Girl who had already been locked down by Tianjin Four.

"I return 'Gano the Phantom Girl' to my hand and Special Summon this card from my hand!"
O beautiful melody resounding from the heavens, awaken the slumbering genius! Appear, Level Eight—

—The Phantom Princess: The Genius Mozart!!!

Before the monster even appeared, the colorful melody had already materialized into the shape of a musical score, echoing across the field like undulating waves. Each note slid along the score, as if guiding the appearance of this musical master.

Named after the legendary genius Mozart, Otohime has a snow-white face, a wide red dress adorned with musical symbols, and giant butterfly-like wings on her back.

【Phantom Musician - Genius Mozart, Attack Power 2600】

The genius Mozart, Yuzu's ace in the anime, whose status is equivalent to Yuya Sakaki's "Heterochromatic Pendulum Dragon".

Furthermore, in episode 127 of the anime, it is shown that the Phantom Princess Genius Mozart is listed alongside three other monsters, "Moonlight Dance Cat Princess", "Wind Witch - Winter Bell", and "Love Song Robin - Combined Nightingale", with the four monsters together forming an image representing "wind, bird, flower and moon".

The so-called "Wind, Bird, Flower, Moon" is a deck system developed by Akama Zero and ultimately used by Zero-I. It defeated Zac in the previous unified dimension, essentially Zac's silver bullet.

"Set one card face down, and the turn ends," You Xuan said.

Zero: "My turn, draw a card!"

After drawing a card, she quickly played another card from her hand: "Activate the Spell Card 'Hand Card Annihilation'! Both players discard all cards in their hands, and then draw the same number of cards from their decks."

Both players simultaneously changed their hands, and then Zero looked up and said, "I know you're doing this for my own good. In your dimension, you must also be a duelist admired by thousands, with a heart full of justice and passion, right?"

You Xuan nodded slightly in agreement.

Putting aside the fact that he is admired by others, his sense of justice and enthusiasm are absolutely impeccable.

There is no duelist more righteous than me.

“But the situation here is different,” Zero said, shaking her head. “Zack is my responsibility. Too many excellent duelists have fallen, too many people have suffered misfortune. I cannot allow it.”

She let out a long sigh.

"I cannot allow things to continue like this. Especially since I was thinking during the day that perhaps with your strength, we could save the world."

But that evening, at the funeral, seeing all those who had fought so hard reminded me of the great warriors killed by Zach, and my father's final entrustment to me.

The more she spoke, the sadder she seemed to become.

"In short, all of this made me realize that maybe in the end I was just running away."

You Xuan: "Escape?"

“Yes, I’m running away,” Lingyi said. “It’s something I should be doing, but I’m trying to push it onto you guys who have nothing to do with it. If I really did that, even my deceased father wouldn’t be able to rest in peace, would he?”

(End of this chapter)