My anime-style card deck is fine!

Another kind of power, the surrounding air seemed to freeze.

The pressure of being buried alive under the earth, feeling suffocation and despair bit by bit, seems to suggest that all you need to do is dig out the soil above your head to find a way out.

but……

Is it really that simple?

"Round Two!" Amon's announcement interrupted Tang Shuang's train of thought, and she subconsciously followed Amon in drawing cards.

But Amon didn't just draw one card!

“I activate the effect of [Violet] and add one [Letter] to my hand.” Amon continued his actions, drawing three cards in quick succession at the start of the game: “Then I activate the effect of [Letter from the Autumn Wind] in my graveyard and add one [Letter] to my hand.”

"Activate the effect of [Letter] in your hand and send this card to the Graveyard."

"Then activate the effect of [Spring Breeze] to send another letter to the graveyard." The two cards Amon had just drawn were casually tossed into the graveyard.

Then he put away the remaining two cards in his hand and quietly looked at Tang Shuang opposite him.

"It's your turn, Wushuang."

"—There's no one with that name!" Tang Shuang retorted instinctively, finally snapping out of Amon's series of actions. She couldn't help but gasp at Amon's unusually efficient card draws and graveyard clearing.

Seven cards have already been piled up in the graveyard!

A hint of worry flashed through Tang Shuang's mind, but she forced herself to suppress her anxiety and unease and began to operate the machine.

Now that things have come to this, Tang Shuang knows that her summoning of Huaqing Pool was completely futile.

It wasn't exactly a failure, but it was certainly useless.

However, Huaqing Pool itself was prepared for decks like those of Amon, such as Corn, Zombie, Bird, Giant, and Pokémon, especially Pokémon - anyone who watched the live stream would be amazed by the Pokémon's extraordinary stats.

If you can't prepare in advance and clear out the Pokémon's attacks beforehand, you won't last a single round!

But as it turned out, Amon didn't use any of those decks.

So cunning!

Tang Shuang gritted her teeth. Wasn't this making her preparations look ridiculous?

If Amon knew what his younger sister was thinking, he would just smile and tell her—this was his tactic. Unlike the usual card players who conceal their deck information, Amon was openly displaying his deck!

However, there was a bit too much shown!

As the saying goes, "To blend in with the world."

For Amon, who holds multiple N-card decks, the more information his opponent knows about his deck, the more interference he will experience—because his opponent will not know exactly what deck Amon will use.

This forces opponents to consider all of Amon's decks.

This will result in the opponent's deck including a large number of miscellaneous cards.

Amon might be distracted by one or two of these cards, but the one who is truly distracted by these cards is the opponent—because if they draw a card that is completely unrelated to the duel and targets Amon's other decks, they can expect to have a bad hand!

Tang Shuang is only experiencing a small part of what she has to go through in her duel with Amon.

In the future, Amon's opponents will all be caught in the predicament of playing rock-paper-scissors in the void.

"Activate the effect of [Tang Palace Ladies - Ladies Preparing Silk] from my hand!" Tang Shuang first activated a card from her hand: "Send Lady Viewing Flowers to the Graveyard and Special Summon two [Tang Palace Ladies] from my field!"

The two round, chibi-style ladies on the field blinked and then bounced around twice.

This indicates that the summoning was successful.

"Activate [Lady Exploring Plum Blossoms]. When it is successfully summoned, Special Summon one [Lady of the Tang Palace - Lady with a Fan] from my hand to the field. While this card is on the field, if there is a [Tang Palace] building card on my field, all [Ladies] on my field will not be targeted for attacks!"

"Then, activate the effect of [Lady with Flowers in Her Hair], and when it is successfully summoned, add one [Tang Palace] card from my deck to my hand."

"I chose [Prosperous Tang Palace - Hundred Flowers Garden]!"

A series of operations.

Tang Shuang breathed a sigh of relief, her fingers hovering over the deck area, waiting for the Hundred Flowers Garden to be searched, and she felt much more at ease.

The effect of [Hundred Flowers Garden] is that it can deal damage to the opponent 300 times the number of [Ladies] on the field each round. If the field is full of ladies, it can reduce the opponent's damage by 1500 points in one round!

This is still the basics!

After that, all you need to do is add some cards that reduce health, and you can defeat Amon in two or three rounds!

Although Tang Palace cannot coexist, the effect of Huaqing Pool is useless against Amon's current deck. Let it be destroyed, as long as we can win!

Thinking of this possibility, Tang Shuang couldn't help but feel overjoyed, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up.

The girl's fleeting thoughts were gone in an instant.

The deck search is actually quite fast; Tang Shuang had already searched for Hundred Flowers Garden and was about to draw it on the spot...

"Activate the effect of [Letter from Heaven] in the graveyard."

Across from him, Amon suddenly spoke up.

A letter drifted down silently, and the lady adorned with flowers, who was dancing in circles on the field to activate her effects, suddenly stopped and curiously took the letter.

"Although I don't know what you're thinking, my intuition tells me that this effect shouldn't allow you to activate it so smoothly."

When Amon's voice came, Tang Shuang's expression froze.

Although the effect had already been activated, Amon declared that he would continue, calmly stating the effect of [Heaven]: "This card can only be activated once per turn when there are 6 [Letters] in the Graveyard. Return this card to the Deck and negate the effect of 1 follower on the field!"

"Hmm, of course I'll choose your [Lady with Flowers in Her Hair]!"

"what!!!"

Tang Shuang looked at the Hundred Flowers Garden card that she had already taken in her hand, but as soon as Amon's card effect was activated, the card was instantly returned to the deck.

Meanwhile, on her own field, the adorable lady with flowers in her hair was still blushing as she read the letter.

What was originally a very cute appearance now seems so hateful to Tang Shuang.

—Why don't you activate the effect first before you read the letter?

"...I usually summon [Tang Palace Ladies - Palace Music Ladies]." Tang Shuang hesitated for a moment before summoning a lady follower card from her hand onto the field.

At this moment, the Tang Shuang field was filled with four adorable ladies.

The effect of the Palace Music Lady is to double the attack and defense of the ladies on the field.

Unfortunately, because of Huaqing Pool, all the ladies' attack power was reduced to 0. Of course, even if it hadn't been reduced, a lady with only two or three hundred attack power wouldn't have been able to do anything to Violet, who had 1000 attack and defense.

After all, Violet has the ability to be unaffected by combat and effects.

"...The round is over."

Tang Shuang was somewhat unwilling and said dryly.

The duel has entered its third round!

Amon first retrieved a card through Violet, then added a [Letter] to his hand through Autumn Wind, and then sent two [Letters] from his hand to the graveyard in one go through the effect of Spring Wind.

At this moment, the number of letters in the cemetery had reached a staggering eight!

Most importantly, that annoying [Heaven] card was also sent back to the graveyard by Amon's swift and decisive action, and it can obviously be activated again this turn!

Tang Shuang really wanted to do something.

But when I looked at my card, I realized I couldn't do anything.

There was only one Violet standing alone on the field, the rest were all in the graveyard!

Most of Tang Shuang's cards are designed for the field, or rather, most people's cards are designed for the graveyard. Cards designed for the graveyard are not something a high school sophomore like her could possibly have.

There's nothing we can do about it, even if we want to.

They could only watch helplessly as Amon, on the other side, marched step by step toward victory!

Chapter 200: The Violet Evergarden!

They wanted to target Amon, but couldn't.

They wanted to attack, but couldn't get past Violet.

Tang Shuang felt that she had never experienced such a frustrating duel. A normal duel should be a back-and-forth battle, not like this, where she could only be beaten by Amon in one direction!

She somewhat understood how those people felt when facing Amon's unsportsmanlike deck in the final college entrance exam.

The key is……

She was stuck. After losing the search for the "Lady with Flowers in Her Hair" item, the item she drew was also "[Tang Palace]", but it wasn't entirely useless in the current situation; it was just completely ineffective.

The girl looked at Amon across from her, trying to use her eyes to persuade her brother to go easy on her.

Amon was completely oblivious to the girl's pleading for mercy.

Ammon is now caught in a dilemma.

The Violet Evergarden deck revolves around the Auto Memory Doll, which builds up its effects by continuously filling the graveyard with letters and then activating their effects.

Because of the inherent self-restraint of letters, Ammon can only send two letters to the grave in a normal round.

In other cases, they can only rely on Cattleya, Alice, and Erica for help.

Among them, Cattleya, as a senior automatic memory doll, has outstanding work ability. She herself is equivalent to a filter card. Once you draw her, you can reliably send out a card. If there are any special circumstances, she can also help with retrieval.

On the contrary, the other two Auto Memory Dolls were not as outstanding in their work abilities as Cattleya.

Erica also needs the [Letter from the Cold Wind] in the cemetery as a complement in order to use the letter as a stepping stone before it can be sent to the cemetery.

Alice's situation is a bit more complicated, as she needs to have three cards in hand.

And that's where the awkwardness lies.

Amon currently only has two cards in his hand, and Violet on the field can activate her effect to search for any card. Amon can indeed search for Erica, but what good is it if he does?

After summoning, Amon will have less than three cards in his hand, making it impossible for him to utilize Erica's effect!

In the third round, barring any unforeseen circumstances, you'll either skip it and continue accumulating letters in the graveyard, or you'll unleash a [Singing] attack, giving your sister a full-screen letter shockwave!

of course……

Amon has other options.

"Activate the Ritual Card 【Violet's Midnight Tidying】 from your hand - Send one 【Violet】 from the field or your hand to the Graveyard, and I can draw three cards."

On the field, Violet had no objection to being sent to the grave.