My anime-style card deck is fine!

Do not……

That's far from enough!

"Let me show you [Pet Girl - Shina Mashiro] in my hand. I can activate Mashiro's effect—set one card from my hand to the field, and then activate it immediately!"

Ignoring the childish Mashiro who was eating a Baumkuchen cake not far away and belatedly exclaimed "Huh?"

Amon's operations are still ongoing.

"I choose to set 'Girls' Shura Field' from my hand to the field and activate it immediately!" Amon suddenly slammed the card he had previously retrieved through Fumino Furuhashi onto the table with great fanfare.

Then, while he was at it, he also took a picture of the other card that Riju Ogata had retrieved.

“Then, because there’s a Shura Field on the field, I can activate [Bloodstained Cleaver] from my hand!” Amon said, then placed the Cleaver card on Hiratsuka Shizuka’s card: “This card’s effect gives one Cleaver counter to one of my [Youthful Romantic Girl] follower cards on the field!”

Despite using so many cards in his series of actions, Amon didn't actually use a single Normal Summon.

On the other hand, since the Pokémon's summons and effects had already been activated, Mingyi could only watch helplessly as Amon kept activating his cards.

"The effect of a battleground!"

Amon, as if boasting, began to read out the effect: "When this card is successfully activated, the effect is calculated based on the number of [Youthful Romantic Girls] in the Graveyard!"

"I have 10 girls in my graveyard, therefore your health will be reduced to one-tenth!"

"Percentage-based damage!?"

Mingyi on the other side was stunned: "Seriously, Amon, you know the price of having a harem, but you don't seem to care at all!"

"It's alright, it's just a minor fatal wound!"

Amon put on a serious face like in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: "It's just a little bit of trivial hardship!"

"No, that's not true!"

Mingyi complained, "You'll die, you really will die—you might get carried out to sea by someone holding your head."

"Then there's the effect of the [hammering knife]."

Amon ignored Mingyi's complaints and continued to activate the effect: "When the effect of Shura Field is used, the follower holding the hatchet counter will gain an attack boost of NX100 based on the number of girls in the graveyard!"

"That means my Hiratsuka Shizuka's attack power will increase to 1500 points!"

"It has already surpassed my Snivy!"

Amon pointed at Mingyi and announced the victory command: "You only have one-tenth of your health left. With a mere 800 health points, you are already like a candle flickering in the wind!"

"...It's my Snivy."

Mingyi looked at the Snivy struggling in her arms, trying to run to Amon, and pouted in dissatisfaction: "I'm going to activate [My] effect!"

"Huh? Didn't we agree that we couldn't start it?"

Ammon was startled.

The female lead series has a very powerful effect.

"【Grand Gathering】!" Mingyi didn't care about anything else. She had only printed out one card when Amon snapped up so many more, showing them off right in front of her.

She doesn't want such a boring ending!

"I'll summon as many Pokémon as possible from my deck onto the field!" Mingyi flipped open her deck and picked out the Pokémon follower cards one by one.

Minase, Tepig, Marill, Togepi.

"This effect can only be used on unevolved starter Pokémon, and it will return to the deck at the end of the turn... But that's okay, everyone come on up!"

Mingyi looked at Amon triumphantly: "Hmph, now who's the one in the nick of time?"

The girl's innocent charm made Amon almost lose his composure.

"You're cheating!"

"Hehehe~ I don't want to hear it!" Mingyi whistled as she turned her head, then looked at Amon: "Do you still want to continue the duel?"

"certainly……"

Of course, Amon wouldn't give up so easily.

Although he has no cards left in his hand, the girls in the graveyard will activate the effect of [Youthful Love Girls] in the next turn, returning them all to the deck.

In other words, Amon will be able to draw two cards in the next round!

but……

"Warm Pig, Water Otter, use the combination skill!" Under Amon's astonished gaze, Mingyi unceremoniously used Water Oath and Fire Oath to create a [Rainbow] field on the field.

Then, Togepi went straight for [Original Power], taking advantage of Rainbow Terrain and its own Serene Grace ability.

As expected, my ability stats were boosted.

Then, under Amon's indifferent gaze, Mingyi activated the card [Baton] in her hand, returning Togepi to the deck, and then summoning the only final form Pokémon from the deck.

A green hedgehog.

—【Shaymi】!

“Marilu, use [Help] on Shaymi.” Mingyi looked at Amon with a grin, picked up Shaymi’s card and waved it at Amon.

Amon covered his face.

He had no more turns left, and although his health had increased to 12,000 thanks to the girls' effects, he should have been able to rest easy.

Because only level 30 starter Pokémon defeat Shizuka.

At most, it can only deal around four thousand damage to Amon, which is nothing to him...

However, Mingyi summoned Shami by taking over the baton!

With the boost from the Primal Power attribute and the help of Marylou, Shaymi's Seed Flash could completely wipe out Amon's mere eight thousand HP in one go!

"Finally, it's Shami's [Seed Flash]—"

With a smug look on her face, Mingyi prepared to deliver the decisive blow to Amon.

"Bang—!" The door was suddenly flung open, and Wu Shanyu strode in. Seeing Amon sitting alone at the coffee table playing cards, she sighed.

"I knew you were home alone."

"?"

Amon looked around at the house, which was filled with girls, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered that Wushan Yu and the others could not see the girls.

The girls can only leave and truly appear in the real world by linking to the Soul Card slot and relying on the golden privilege contained within it.

The girls around him existed only in Amon's mental world.

Simply put, she's Amon's fantasy girlfriend!

—Although the quantity is really a bit too much (more than a bit).

"What happened?"

Amon immediately scrambled the cards on the table and, under Mingyi's astonished gaze, stood up as if nothing had happened—as long as the match hadn't officially ended, he hadn't lost!

Furthermore, according to the rules of the duel being interrupted, the contest is based on the number of life points each side has.

Amon has over 8,000 health points.

Mingyi's health points are only 800.

——I won!

Amon affirmed in his heart.

"Wang Quan and the others are back," Wu Shanyu said, revealing a piece of news that greatly interested Amon.

Although he missed the freshman competition and had no interest in these power struggles, it was still a kind of duel, and Amon wanted to learn about it.

"They're finally back?" Amon took a coat from the spiritual world and put it on, laughing as he said, "If they hadn't come back, I would have thought they were going to die at sea."

"If they knew you were talking about them like this, they might question the meaning of life."

Wu Shanyu shook her head. She had the most contact with Amon, but for some reason, Amon had the best relationship with Wang Quan and the others.

We've barely met.

Or is this what male friendship is all about?

Putting aside the inexplicable doubts that had surfaced in her mind, Wu Shanyu finally got to the point: "Actually, they were originally scheduled to return next week, but they encountered an accident at sea."

"What accident?"

"—They encountered a group of American students."

Chapter 213: Is he really that useless? [Revised]

Amon never expected that less than a week after landing in Sakura, he would encounter not local Sakura students, but rather the Americans across the sea.

Actually, things are quite simple.

Although the freshman competition at Huaying University is not as grand as the final college entrance examination, it is, after all, a special university supported by the state and Sakura University, and its teaching resources and funding are quite strong.

Therefore, this wealthy and powerful company directly booked a nearby uninhabited island as the competition venue.

There's nothing inherently wrong with it; the problem is that the United States has also set its sights on that uninhabited island.

Due to reasons such as saving face and differing stances, the two sides, unable to reach an agreement, decided to hold an additional competition to determine the right to use the island.

Because of this unexpected event, Huaying University moved the originally scheduled freshman competition to the cruise ship.

Only after the freshman competition was decided on the cruise ship would they go ashore to face the American students.

Wang Quan and his group received this news and boarded the ship, intending to test the mettle of the Americans.

only……

They never expected that those domineering Americans wouldn't even wait to reach the island and would attack Hua Ying's cruise ship halfway there. Although they were eventually driven back by Wang Quan and his group, the freshman competition was interrupted as a result.

After all, it was a diplomatic incident of some magnitude.

Hua Ying's cruise ship had to return home early.

Amon was indeed unaware of the inside story.