Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

When he arrived at the rooftop again, as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he could hear a majestic roar that seemed to shake the heavens and the earth coming from inside the enclosed building.

"Roar!"

"That sound... Has the Blue-Eyes already made its appearance?" Hayato quickened his pace and entered the building, where he saw Kaiba and Yugi standing on two separate dueling platforms, as well as the White Dragon spewing out a ball of energy that was swirling with endless gales and brilliance, destroying the monsters on Yugi's field with a single blow!

A monster embodying both holiness and power, its enormous wings capable of blotting out the sky. Bathed in the debris of monsters destroyed on the field, the most classic monster in Duel Monsters history, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, makes its appearance!

"That's Grandpa's card! But it wasn't just now!" Yugi watched his life points plummet due to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's attack, and his body felt a slight pain from the impact simulation system on Kaiba's specially designed dueling ring, but his mind was entangled in a mystery.

"Hmph! Yugi Muto, you're not the only one in the world who possesses the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Of the four Blue-Eyes cards, three are in my possession. If I want to become the strongest duelist, then the fourth Blue-Eyes is the only monster that can threaten me."

"So, you tore up the card that Chicken Sauce cherishes like his own life!" Yugi's expression was so serious it was almost frightening. "You're so despicable to steal someone else's treasure just for this reason, Seto Kaiba! I'll stake my grandfather's name and my dignity as a duelist on defeating you!"

Kaiba chuckled: "Anyone can talk big, but if you can actually do it, then come and try, Yuu Muto!"

Although the anger in his heart was almost tangible, the pressure from the Blue-Eyes White Dragon on Kaiba's field was too strong. Yugi only summoned a monster in the back defense position and ended his turn.

"Cry your heart out, wail your heart out before Blue-Eyes, and then die!" Kaiba commanded Blue-Eyes to attack without hesitation. Among the current Duel Monsters, very few could withstand Blue-Eyes. And his attack was indeed successful. The monster covered by Yugi was destroyed in one blow by the Gale Burst Bullet, a symbol of destruction, spewed by Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

"Blue-Eyes is the strongest monster card in the world, and with three Blue-Eyes, I am the strongest duelist. Come on, Yugi, please me with your wailing like that old man trying to climb a mountain only to fall off a cliff! Just like him." Kaiba repeatedly provoked Yugi's nerves.

"The mournful cry of your monster when it was destroyed by Blue-Eyes was truly melodious; I can hear that old man's last gasps just by standing here!"

"Damn it, it's my turn!"

Angrily pulling out a card, Yugi froze, then involuntarily turned to look at Hayato, who was watching from the sidelines. This card... is it the one Hayato gave me?

Chapter 35 A Game at the End of the Road

Although the monster Hayato gave him was weak in attack, if the card's effect worked, it could easily destroy even a powerful monster like Blue-Eyes.

"Did you draw that card?" Hayato noticed something in Yugi's eyes, nodded, and shouted, "Go, Yugi! Let that Kaiba see the power of my Tamashii!"

Instead of commenting on the fact that Hayato's Tamashi number had increased, the game player nodded seriously in response and then turned back to focus on the duel.

“Unlike you, who are all alone, I have the strength that friends give me. It’s the power of trust that comes from the resonance of our hearts!” The game started with a string of words, and then slammed the card in his hand onto the field. “This is the power of the heart. I will soon show you how to surpass your simple and pathetic power.”

"Cover a monster, end your turn!"

"Hahaha, that sounds nice, but in the end, isn't it just a matter of barely surviving? My turn!" Kaiba glanced at the card he had drawn and laughed excitedly again. "Looks like even fate is on my side! Yugi, I drew the second Blue-Eyes!"

The violent air currents spread outwards without restraint as the wings spread out, and the powerful Blue-Eyes White Dragon reappeared, with two of them now present on Kaiba's field.

"That way, no matter how many walls you summon at once, I can easily crush them. Attack that monster, Blueas!"

Blue-Eyes launched another attack, its blue and white light engulfing the monster Yugi had just summoned. But before Kaiba could taunt him further, a pair of insect pincers suddenly emerged from the thick smoke that had enveloped the destroyed monster's location?

"You've fallen into my trap, Kaiba!" Yugi smirked. "The monster I set face-down is this [Man-Eating Bug]. When it's flipped over, it has an effect that activates! It can destroy any monster on the field."

"What?! Masaka!"

"That's right, what I'm going to destroy is your Blue-Eyes monster. Go and accept the resentment of the monster you destroyed, and go to sleep in the graveyard, the strongest dragon!"

The man-eating insect emerged from the smoke, its lower body completely obliterated by the attack from the blue-eyed creature. Only its powerful insect-like resilience allowed it to continue moving.

Despite being only a 2-star monster with a fragile 450/600 stats, the tiny insect still bravely accepted the challenge, even when facing the powerful Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

The enormous white dragon had its throat torn open by the last biting pincers of the [Man-Eating Insect], and its holy body turned into fragments that drifted into the graveyard. The seahorse's health points also dropped from a relatively good 1800 points to only 300 points due to this attack.

"Damn it, you destroyed my Blue-Eyes!" Kaiba gritted his teeth and glared at Yugi, scoffing, "Hmph, you destroyed one of my Blue-Eyes, but so what! Not only do I still have a Blue-Eyes on the field, but my deck also has a third Blue-Eyes White Dragon dormant!"

"And you, how many more times can you summon that annoying monster?"

Yugi couldn't refute Kaiba's words, and the excitement he had just felt after defeating Blue-Eyes quickly cooled down.

Yes, although he managed to defeat one Blue-Eyes with Hayato's help, there's another Blue-Eyes lurking on Kaiba's field. In fact, there's another Blue-Eyes lurking dormant in Kaiba's deck.

Simply defending against the monster isn't a sustainable strategy. Even though I currently have more life points than Kaiba, Blue-Eyes can finish me off with a single hit. I need to find a way to break this deadlock!

Looking down at his hand, Yugi's brow furrowed with worry. He had five cards, but apart from the reasonably strong Dark Knight Gaia and a low-level monster with less than 2000 stats, there were three other monsters whose meaning was utterly unclear.

'What was Chicken Sauce thinking? There are clearly monsters much stronger than these to choose from, so why put these cards in the deck?'

'Please, Chicken Sauce, if you're still watching, point me out where victory might actually lie!'

"My turn, draw a card!" The top card of the deck was flipped over; it was the magic card [Light-Sealing Sword]!

"Activate [Light-Sealing Sword]!" Yugi played the card, and three swords shimmering with holy light fell from the top of the only remaining [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] on the field, trapping it within the sword array. "Kaiba, your [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] will be trapped for three turns and unable to battle!"

"Muda, muda, muda! Blue-Eyes White Dragon is the strongest monster card. Even if it can't attack, your monsters can't break through this high wall!" Kaiba laughed confidently. "Useless struggle! Even if you have three turns, what can you do?"

"I believe the deck will respond to my heart!" According to the rules, if you have no monsters on your field at the end of the turn, you will lose the game. The game summons [Gaia] to the field and the turn ends.

"Hey, Yugi!" Suddenly, Yugi heard Hayato shouting at him from outside the arena.

"Hayato-kun?"

"Yugi!" Hayato shouted, megaphone-like, as Yugi stood on the platform. "Trust your deck! No monster is useless! No one can guess what the picture is until the puzzle is complete!"

"A jigsaw puzzle?" Hayato's loud shout suddenly reminded Yugi of what happened earlier that day—

After Honda finished writing his message on the confession puzzle, he scrambled the pieces. Jonouchi picked up one of the pieces and said something like this:

"If you take this piece of the puzzle out of the box, you can't tell what Honda wrote at all."

"Because puzzles, when viewed individually, don't seem very interesting, but they only become meaningful after the puzzle is completed."

At that time, this is what Kyoko said to Jonouchi.

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'Could it be that these cards are…?' Yugi suddenly remembered that Chicken Sauce had once told him that there was a special kind of monster in Duel Monsters that could only function when all of them were collected.

"My turn!"

Unable to know what was going on in the game, Kaiba simply drew a card from his deck. Seeing the "Anka," the symbol of resurrection on the card, Kaiba laughed triumphantly: "Hahaha! You're finished, Yugi!"

"Activate the Spell Card: [Monster Resurrection]!"

"This card's effect is to revive a sleeping monster in either player's Graveyard. Of course, I'm going to revive my own monster!" Kaiba shouted arrogantly, calling out the monster's name.

"Back to my field, Blue-Ace-Tilted-Head-Dragon!!!"

Chapter 36 The Complete Puzzle Piece – The Invincible Old Ai!

"Roar!" The roar seemed to shake the heavens and the earth. The white dragon revived from the graveyard and returned to its master's side.

Moreover, unlike the other white dragon that was trapped by the sword, the attacks of this newly revived Blue-Eyes White Dragon are completely unrestricted by the Light-Sealing Sword.

"Crush that ground crawler, Destructive Gale Burst Bullet!" At the beginning of the card game, he was a little restrained, but the more the duel went on, the more excited Kaiba became. His words became more and more unrestrained, and he even began to shout out the monster's attack methods.

"boom!"

Although Dark Knight Gaia's 2300 attack power is not low, it is still no match for Blue Eyes' terrifying 3000 points. He couldn't even put up a decent resistance before being torn apart by the attack.

[Game: 750LP → 50LP]

The simulated impact brought a hurricane, making the game's clothes flutter. Looking at his last 50 LP, his will was even stronger than before.

"My turn!"

The player draws a card called "Sealed Left Foot" and adds it to the far left of their hand. The player then discovers that they now have a total of four cards: "Sealed Left Hand," "Sealed Right Hand," "Sealed Left Foot," and "Sealed Right Foot."

"Defense mode summons [Brutal Emperor], my turn ends."

"What a waste of time." Kaiba snorted as he watched the game being played solely on defense, and drew a card.

"My turn, draw a card!"

After glancing at the card, Kaiba paused for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Let me bestow upon you the greatest despair, Yuu!"

"The third Blue-Eyes White Dragon has arrived!"

The card was slammed down, accompanied by a shattered spark of light from one of the three [Light-Sealing Swords], and the strongest dragon of the Third Body descended!

"Roar!"

"Roar!!"

"Roar!!!"

The presence of three Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field would be a great morale booster for allies, but for the opposing team, it would only create an overwhelming sense of pressure as the three dragons surge towards them.

"The moment the Blue-Eyes White Dragon fell into my grasp, the battle was already decided, Yugi!" Kaiba waved his hand, as if a military commander had given an order to charge. The 1600 points of defense of the Rough Emperor on the field were rendered useless, and it was instantly crushed by the dragon's advance!

The game field was empty, and now he had to face the intimidation of the three blue-eyed dragons. The virtual imaging system was too perfect in its simulation; the game could even hear the heavy breathing of the three white dragons and the high pressure in their eyes.

"Strong and resilient!" The unified white dragon spread its wings.

"Mother Iron Chicken!!" The trapped white dragon slammed its hand on the protective sword, seemingly eager to break free from its cage.

"Sai Q!!!" The last remaining white dragon raised its head and roared loudly at the sky.

Watching the white dragons display their power alongside the roar of the seahorse, Yugi, having overcome his initial fear, gradually closed his eyes, took a deep breath to calm himself, and placed one hand on top of the deck.

"Seahorse!"

"Huh? You've already closed your eyes in fear, wanting to beg for mercy?" With his arms crossed, Kaiba coldly stared at Yugi Muto on the opposite platform. "Your life is already as fragile as a candle in the wind. Blue-Eyes will tear apart all your resistance. Don't even think about escaping!"

“No, Kaiba, I don’t want to surrender. No duelist can accept defeat so easily.” Yugi shook his head, calmly flipping his hand over to show Kaiba. “I’m telling you, I will defeat you, this very turn!”

"With your hand of cards that's worse than trash and has no meaning? Don't make me laugh, Yugi!" Kaiba's face revealed a bloodthirsty, ferocious grin, his expression full of anticipation. "Hurry up and draw your cards, then accept Blue-Eyes' attack and face a complete defeat on your way out of the field, hehehehe!"

Chicken Sauce, Jonouchi, Kyoko, Honda, Hayato, everyone is waiting for me...

Deck, if the power of the mind truly exists, please respond to me!

"My turn—"

"Hmph, finally reaching for the final despair, huh?" Kaiba looked at the game and saw that he was finally going to draw cards, a smile of excitement spreading across his face. But just as he was about to say something sarcastic, a voice came from not far away: "That's not how it is, Seth!"

"You're that, Kobayashi Hayato?" Because "Seto" and "Seto" are pronounced the same, Kaiba was a little annoyed that Hayato called him by his first name. "We're not that close to each other that we call each other by our first names! And, are you implying that Yugi Muto still has a chance to beat me?!"

"As long as there are cards left in the deck, and as long as life points haven't reached zero, the duelist has an infinite future. The way to defeat you is currently dormant in Yugi's deck, and it's about to awaken." Hayato looked at Yugi, who was about to draw a card, with an unusually firm look in his eyes. "Although there are still so many cards in the deck, and the hope seems very slim, for a true duelist, everything is inevitable!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

The instant the card was drawn in the game, a five-pointed star magic circle suddenly appeared in the center of the field. "W-What happened!?"

Seahorse was utterly shocked. He was the lead developer of the virtual imaging system and had overseen the design of countless monsters, but in his memory, no monster had ever appeared like this.

"The card I drew is [The Sealed Exodia]! Now I have all five parts of it!"

"What?! It's Exodia!? That invincible monster!" Kaiba never imagined that someone in the world could collect all of Exodia and even summon it during a duel!