My anime-style card deck is fine!

It was as if some voice was calling out in his mind...

Reincarnation! Reincarnation!

Go forth, chosen one…!

Almost subconsciously, the gang leader stood up. Under the astonished gazes of the leather-clad man and the horse-faced blond man, despite being in extreme physical and mental pain, the gang leader unconsciously curled the corners of his mouth.

The unnatural muscle tension caused a chilling smile to appear on his lips.

"What...what do you want to do, you brat?!"

The man in the leather jacket felt a chill run down his spine, a mixture of surprise and fear, but mostly anger and rage at the fact that the gang leader dared to defy him. He was about to stand up and continue to teach the gang leader a lesson.

"...Hmph, hahaha! I get it, I get it!"

But then the rogue leader suddenly burst into laughter.

They even laughed so hard they bent over.

After laughing so hard he could barely breathe, the leader of the gang, amidst everyone's astonished gazes, completely ignored the presence of the man in the leather jacket beside him and even reached out to push him away.

Completely different from his previous behavior of letting others bully and oppress him, the man in the leather jacket was not even able to recover from this sudden change for a moment.

They just stared blankly as the rogue leader crossed the final barrier and stood in front of the window.

"I finally understand..."

"I understand how a [Hero] is born!" The leader of the delinquents stepped onto the window sill, turned around, and flashed a smile that was so bright it sent chills down everyone's spine: "That's right, that's exactly it!"

"I finally understand!"

"How can you be considered a hero if you don't reincarnate into another world to receive the goddess's blessing!? Right, right!" The leader of the delinquents smiled, but stood on the window without hesitation.

Feeling the gentle breeze caress my body, it's as if even the pain is being carried away.

"—I can't wait to be reincarnated in another world."

The wicked leader left behind only this one sentence.

He jumped off the building with a completely relaxed and cheerful air.

--Snapped!

……

Duel Cuisine!

Upon hearing that someone wanted to challenge the chef's culinary duel, the surrounding diners immediately became interested.

Actually, if you want to challenge the head chef, you need to spend a certain amount of money and there are various requirements—but these conditions can be waived for silver-level card masters.

Those conditions exist precisely to filter out unnecessary challenges.

And the Silver Card Master is the best proof!

This is also why the surrounding guests are so interested. They choose this restaurant not only because the food is really good, but also because people often challenge the chef.

Watching a duel performance while dining is also a wonderful thing!

Welcome to my restaurant!

The lights in the surrounding restaurants dimmed slightly, and then a spotlight suddenly shone down on the central stage, allowing the surrounding diners to clearly see the duel performance on the central stage without disturbing them.

Standing in one corner of the stage was a middle-aged white Westerner with a chef's hat in his hand and his blond hair neatly combed.

However, he spoke fluent Mandarin and even hosted the event himself.

"I am the head chef here. You may call me Wilson." Chef Wilson first bowed to the guests around him before turning to look at Amon, who was waiting below the stage.

A big smile spread across his face: "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, esteemed guest. May I ask your name?"

“Amon, my name is Amon.”

“Alright, Mr. Amon, please come up to the stage.” Wilson invited Amon onto the stage, then suppressed his smile and said seriously, “This duel will be between me, the head chef of this restaurant.”

"On the other side is Mr. Amon, who is taking on the challenge of this week's king crab theme."

"Is there any problem?"

"no problem."

Amon opened the Duel Disk in his left hand: "If possible, I hope to start as soon as possible!"

“Okay.” Chef Wilson nodded, and at the same time opened his duel disk, which was the chef’s hat he was holding—then it transformed into a duel disk:

"I hope you enjoy your meal."

"Duel!"

"Duel!"

A clash of mental energy fields unfolds in the duel arena!

Both sides became serious at the same time, and even the air became hot due to their fighting spirit.

"Round one! Draw a card!" Wilson had just drawn a card for himself when he looked up and saw Amon slap down a card.

An Eevee suddenly appeared out of thin air.

"Buyi!" I make my dazzling reappearance once again!

—Pokémon?

Although he was a foreigner who had settled in Sakura, Wilson had apparently not received any information about Pokémon and regarded it as a small series developed by his rival.

Despite this, Wilson did not underestimate Amon.

After all, those who can advance to Silver rank are not easy to deal with, like him—

"I'll put the five cards under my hand!"

Wilson directly placed five cards on the duel disk, and the five face-down cards floated beside him.

"Huh?!" Amon subconsciously raised an eyebrow.

But he reacted quickly.

This world is different from the previous one. The rounds are combined, not staggered. Therefore, it is not without reason that Amon encountered so many strong geniuses during the final college entrance examination, but none of them used the cover card.

Because the face-down function of trap cards in the previous life was already 'slow' enough.

In this life, due to the fusion of the two sides' turns, it is equivalent to being two turns slower—which is obviously unacceptable to many card players, which is why Amon has never encountered a card player who uses face-down cards.

But is covering up completely useless?

of course not!

There's a rather annoying rule in this world for Amon—the normal number of summons!

Not only follower cards, but also spell cards and ritual cards consume this normal summon count, which is very unusual for Amon, who was used to multi-axis activation, jumping left and right and then summoning monsters by talking.

—Although I've gotten used to it pretty much by now.

The technique of covering cards is one of the dueling skills developed based on the limitation of the number of times cards can be summoned normally.

By setting cards face-down in one turn, the card player can use the remaining Duel Energy to activate cards. In the next turn, they can ignore the limit on the number of normal summons and freely use the face-down cards on the field!

It looks like a pretty good dueling technique.

All the card master needs to do is survive one round, and then unleash their ultimate power in the next round to seize the championship!

But what will be the price?

The trade-off is that face-down cards cannot be used this turn. While this isn't absolute, using them this turn will still consume a normal summon attempt.

And these unusable cards are equivalent to having N fewer cards in hand than others in this turn!

Furthermore, face-down cards will occupy their own card slots.

Although it's just a spare card slot that comes with the Duel Disk, it has considerable limitations for decks like Burst!

"If you're going to fold, then it means you must have a way to replenish your hand."

Amon was certain in his heart.

Wilson's actions proved this point, as he played the last card in his hand: "This card can be activated directly from the hand on the first turn of the duel—[Pre-meal Preparation: Big Shopping]!"

"A duel can only be initiated once. In this duel, I cannot draw cards through any means other than normal!"

"This card's effect can replenish my hand to five cards!"

Wilson quickly replenished his hand with cards, and seeing Amon's somewhat surprised expression, he casually added, "During this duel, I can return cards from my hand to the deck at any time. When I return the same number of cards as the number I have drawn, the effect of that card will be canceled."

"Then, I will Normal Summon this card."

"Come, my other half, my beloved—Silver IV [Duel Chef Wilson]!"

As the card was summoned, a blond boy wearing a chef's hat over a meter tall appeared on the field, with a smile on his lips identical to that of head chef Wilson.

—Just like a younger version of myself.

No, not the younger version of him...

Chef Wilson looked at the young chef on the stage, a hint of tenderness and sadness flashing in his eyes, but he quickly rallied his spirits and looked at Amon across from him with fervent passion.

"A life card?" Amon made the judgment the moment he saw young Wilson.

This is actually quite obvious, because apart from ritual cards and spell cards, in order to summon silver-level follower cards, except for your main cards and some cards with special summoning conditions, you must use low-level cards as a stepping stone before you can perform a higher-level summon.

And considering Wilson was a chef...

It's perfectly normal for duelists to choose to train and work hard in industries related to their own decks in order to improve their skills—just like Wushan Yu's research on the mythology of [Wushan], or Jun's cultivation and experimentation with [fungi].

By using a certain thing in reality as the basis for anchoring one's own card deck, research and development will also be carried out based on that basis.

This is normal.

On the contrary, pure duelists like Amon are extremely rare.

Chapter 206: Chef Wilson!