Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

Considering the large number of people in the classroom and his lack of understanding of how the system distributes initial card packs, and since the "claim" button doesn't have a time limit, Hayato deliberately delayed claiming it for the entire morning until now, when no one was around, he finally took the initiative to touch the claim button.

The back of the card featured a swirling pattern that Hayato recognized all too well; the familiar brown and gold color scheme evoked a sense of warmth for Hayato, who was alone in this other world. Taking out the deck, Hayato began to examine its construction card by card...

3-star Normal Monster, Warrior-type Earth Attribute "Earth Swordsman"

3-star Normal Monster, Warrior-type Earth Attribute "Man-Eating Doll"

4-star Normal Monster, Warrior-type Earth Attribute "Netherworld Scout".

3-star Normal Monster, Warrior-type Earth Attribute "Judgment Hand"

......

As Hayato flipped through the cards faster and faster, he finally opened his eyes halfway and calmly remarked, "Although I expected that the DM era wouldn't give me a strong deck like Iron Beast Front or Wind-Riding Bird, I thought at the very least it would be an Elemental Hero deck that would die from overwork."

"Aren't these all just ordinary fish and bones?"

I glanced at the sixty cards inside the metal box. There were a staggering fifty monster cards and only ten spell cards, all of which were strange and meaningless. If the monsters were powerful, it wouldn't be so bad, but without exception, all fifty monster cards were common monsters, often referred to as "ordinary" monsters. Most of them were low-level minions, barely qualified to be used as wall monsters, with terrible stats.

Hayato drew three cards from the "card pile" he had just flipped through—Hayato really didn't want to call it a deck, it was incredibly stale—and placed them at the front of the deck. Of the sixty cards in the pile, only these three were barely worth Hayato's attention:

7☆ Normal Monster, Warrior-Type Earth Attribute "Dark Knight Gaia"

4-star Normal Monster, Warrior-type Light Attribute "Holy Knight Artoria"

And, the future Equipment Magic Card, "Dragon Slayer Sword," which has not yet been separated from the major category of Magic Cards.

"Dark Knight Gaia" needs no introduction. As a frequently used card by the protagonist Yugi Muto in his early days, it was prominently featured on numerous occasions. Later, the "Gaia" series of cards was even derived from this card, with the number of variations comparable to the famous "Gem Knight White Crystal". Moreover, its 2300/2100 attack and defense stats are top-tier among Hayato's collection of ordinary cards. Under the early rules of DM, where it could be summoned without tributes, it was sufficient to serve as Hayato's current ace card.

The second card, "Paladin Atolis," boasts a respectable 1800 attack and defense, but Hayato is more interested in the future potential of the "Paladin" archetype. While Paladin decks, which rely heavily on Xyz and Equip Spells, haven't seen many powerful Xyz minions due to the limitations of the era, Hayato's efficient search and recycling methods make them worth anticipating.

As for the Dragon-Slaying Sword...

A single card gaining 700 ATK was quite rare in the DM era, and the side effect of "destroy the monster at the end of the Battle Phase when battling a Dragon-Type monster" practically screams "targeting" in the chat. Especially for one particular Dragon-obsessed player, whose ace's 3000 ATK was practically designed for the "Dark Knight Gaia" + "Dragon Slayer" combo.

In short, the initial deck provided by the system gave Hayato the feeling that it was "playable, but not entirely playable," and "unusable, but not completely unusable." After putting the deck back into the metal box, Hayato was just about to return to the classroom when he heard the voices of several people talking downstairs:

"Hey, is he really coming?"

"Yes, yes..."

"It's so slow~"

Looking out from the corridor handrail, Hayato saw several people squatting together in the bushes on one side of the teaching building, talking quietly. Judging from their clothes, they didn't look like students. One of them was carrying a camera on his shoulder.

As soon as he finished speaking, one of the group of people picked up a school uniform from the ground and put it on. As he walked out of the bushes, he muttered to himself, "Why isn't that gamer kid here yet? He's got my job in his hands..."

Hayato frowned, looking down at the scene with some confusion. Although he hadn't inherited the original owner's memories after transmigrating, the man downstairs wearing a school uniform didn't seem like a student at all.

It wasn't about his physique or anything like that. After all, in this high school, Hayato had seen people as short as Yugi Muto, who looked like an elementary school student, and he'd also seen someone as tall as Tetsu Ushio, who looked like a professional basketball player. The main problem was that the man in the school uniform didn't have the air of a student at all, not even a student involved in the mafia. He seemed more like a seasoned office worker.

Just then, Hayato saw a short guy with a starfish-shaped head that was gold, black and red walking out of the classroom not far away. He walked quickly toward the stairs with an expectant look on his face.

Who else could it be but Yugi Muto?

Suddenly, Hayato remembered that he seemed to know what was about to happen downstairs.

Hayato had seen a similar scene in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga in his previous life. It mentioned a morning entertainment program called "Survival Morning," whose latest episode focused on "bullying," with the director addressing the issue of "school bullying." It was supposed to be a very good program.

However, the director didn't bother to find a real victim of "school bullying." Instead, he directly selected Yugi Muto, who seemed easy to bully, as the "male lead" of the show. He then hired someone to pose as a student to "bully" him and filmed it himself.

Chapter 4 I summon my fist in an attack gesture

The assistant director, named "Fujita," wearing the school uniform he'd stolen from the dressing room, anxiously awaited the arrival of the "male lead" while checking his watch. He kept muttering to himself, "The director just knows how to order me around," and "Damn it, when is the game?" He would occasionally glance up in one direction.

After several dozen seconds, he looked up again and finally saw a weak figure panting at the corner.

"Here it comes, here it comes!" Fujita was quite excited and hurried towards the figure that had just appeared. "Yugi, you've finally shown up!"

He kept his voice down as he spoke, careful not to attract attention.

The short figure that appeared was none other than Yugi Muto.

After the lunch break bell rang, he accepted Jonouchi's nth challenge for revenge and played a tense and exciting Duel Monsters match. Unsurprisingly, thanks to his skillful use of spell cards, Jonouchi failed in his nth challenge once again.

It was only then that Yugi belatedly recalled that during the break between classes, someone had asked him to go out during lunch break, saying that "there's actually a celebrity at school, and he can take me to meet one." Remembering this, Yugi declined the invitation to "have lunch together" from Jonouchi and the others, and hurriedly went to the agreed location.

Seeing that the classmate named "Fujita" was indeed waiting there, Yugi, who had been worried that he might have been tricked, breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that when he arrived, he would find that no one had come at all.

While feeling relaxed, he also began to have some expectations—what kind of celebrity would it be?

The gamer was holding a bouquet of flowers he had prepared beforehand, intending to give them to the celebrity he hadn't met yet; after all, it would be too embarrassing to come empty-handed. As for where the flowers came from... well, the school's flowerbeds had so many different kinds of flowers!

Upon seeing the game begin, the director, who was hiding in the bushes, was quite excited and quickly nudged the cameraman squatting next to him with his elbow: "Okay, quickly turn the camera over, it's about to start!"

Yugi walked up to Fujita and was about to apologize for being late when Fujita said impatiently, "Hey, you've finally arrived, Yugi. I've been waiting for ages~"

Although it was already autumn, it didn't mean the summer heat had completely subsided. The midday sun was still quite intense, and Fujita was already feeling irritable and restless. He felt no remorse towards the short, oblivious boy who was about to get beaten up. After all, in his mind, the game was to blame for making him wait so long, and the boy deserved to be beaten.

But Yugi didn't pick up on the annoyance in Fujita's voice. He first bowed slightly to him apologetically, "I'm so sorry, Fujita-kun, I didn't think of this right away. I've kept you waiting." Then, he looked around. "By the way, Fujita-kun, I remember you said there were 'celebrities,' right?"

"I don't think I see anyone else here?"

As Yugi turned to look around, Fujita's face broke into a vicious smile, but he quickly disguised it with a friendly expression and said to Yugi, "Actually—"

"No, you have to come closer first before I tell you."

Just as Fujita had predicted, Yugi obediently leaned closer, trying to hear Fujita's whispers. But unseen by Yugi, Fujita's left hand, hidden behind his back, was already clenched into a fist, ready to deliver a powerful punch to Yugi as soon as he came closer.

The director, hiding in the bushes, was so excited that he crumpled the paper tube in his hand: "That's right, that's right, hurry up and attack, make it more intense, Fujita."

The game's head was already close, and Fujita's vicious smile was no longer concealed. The fist hidden behind his back slammed into the game's face!

"Snapped!"

The sound of flesh colliding reached Yugi's ears. Before he could see Fujita's fist coming at him, he saw a slap suddenly appear on Fujita's face as Fujita brought his mouth close to his ear, and he was sent flying.

The director, hiding in the bushes, was so excited he almost stood up. He had indeed filmed a scene of "school bullying," but the problem was that the one being "bullied" wasn't his intended "male lead," Yugi Muto, but rather Fujita, whom he had sent out to play the "bully"!

"Ouch!" Fujita sat up from the ground, clutching his swollen cheek. His attention had been completely focused on the game, and he hadn't noticed anyone approaching. It wasn't until he was hit that he realized someone was near him.

The game turned around and saw several familiar faces. Still confused, he asked, "Jounouchi, Honda, Kyoko? What are you doing here? And why are you hitting Fujita-kun?"

"Of course it's because this guy was trying to hit you just now~" A person walked out from behind Jonouchi, holding a novel point-and-shoot camera in his hand.

"Kobayashi-kun, what are you doing here?" Yugi was even more puzzled. He remembered that Kobayashi was a rather aloof person, and few of his classmates had ever interacted with him. In fact, because of their outstanding looks, Kobayashi and his classmate Seto Kaiba were jokingly called the "Iceberg Handsome Duo" by the girls.

Why is Kobayashi, whom I've never had any dealings with before, here?

"(??ω??) (You little brats, how dare you hit me!)!" Fujita, still furious after being slapped by Jonouchi, charged towards Yugi while brandishing his fists and uttering threats. However, because his cheek was swollen from Jonouchi's powerful slap, the tone of his threats sounded strangely comical.

"Hmph, that's perfect, I haven't had enough yet!" Jonouchi said coldly, charging towards Fujita. With a single blow, he brought down the outwardly imposing but inwardly weak Fujita. Jonouchi grabbed Fujita by the collar and shook him violently, making strange "Ora ora" noises.

"Seriously, Yugi, if Kobayashi hadn't told us, you would have gotten a beating just now." Kyoko walked over to Yugi's side. Because of Yugi's ridiculously tall height, Kyoko, who wasn't particularly tall, had to squat down slightly to face Yugi, just like a kindergarten teacher talking to a child.

Hayato waved the camera in his hand and said calmly, "It's all thanks to 'Little Ribbon' Nosaka. Without her camera, I wouldn't have been able to record the evidence." There was a yellow non-slip wrist strap and a large photo booth picture with the word "Miho" on it attached to the camera in Hayato's hand.

Chapter 5 I washed the seaweed directly

Honda noticed Hayato shaking the camera and said with some concern, "Hey, Kobayashi, I borrowed this from Miho, so be careful and hold it steady, don't break it."

"They've even called out to Miho-san, so it seems someone's quite interested in Nosaka-san?" Hayato casually remarked, but it made Honda, who usually gave off a "fierce" vibe, blush. Clearly, Honda's secret had been exposed. "Oh, you're blushing? I guess you have absolutely no idea~"

Ignoring Honda's impending demise, Jonouchi shook his tired hands, grabbed Fujita by the collar, and asked, "You bastard, I haven't seen you at school. Tell me! What are you going to do with the game!"

"_(??`」∠)_ (This isn't what I wanted to do, really!) Fujita was dizzy from the abuse he suffered at Jonouchi's hands, and his slurred speech seemed to be getting worse. "(?ω?)ノ (The director made me do this)......"

"Director?" Jonouchi listened to Fujita's mumbled words for a while before he could barely make out a word, repeating it over and over again.

Before he could figure out what Fujita meant by "director," a person suddenly stood up from the bushes beside him, interrupting Jonouchi's train of thought: "Enough, let go of me!"

Jonouchi turned his head to look in the direction the sound came from, and the hand that was grabbing Fujita's collar subconsciously let go. Before he could react, Fujita fell heavily to the ground again, letting out a "ouch".

The director, wearing his baseball cap backwards, stood up from the bushes with a gloomy expression and said to Fujita, who was lying on the ground, "Alright, alright, thank you for your hard work, Fujita. You can leave now."

"Director..." Fujita rubbed his buttocks, first looked at the director's face, and then confirmed that Jonouchi did not intend to harm him. He quickly got up from the ground and ran back to the bushes where the director was.

"So, you're the one planning to take down the game's director?" Jonouchi frowned, his fists clenching so tightly they cracked, looking as if he would immediately take action if the director's words displeased him.

"Heh, don't get so worked up, kid. I was actually planning to put your friend on TV," the director said with a sullen face.

"Using punches and kicks? That's not very effective. Want me to give you a set too?" Hayato let go of Honda, who was just as lame as Binbin, and stepped forward with his camera to stand next to Jonouchi.

"What a pity. I could have gotten some pretty good footage, 'a short boy being bullied at school,' which would have attracted a lot of sympathetic people, right? Too bad, you guys ruined it." The director shrugged and said with a sinister smile.

"However, the material we've gathered so far isn't bad either. 'Staff members go undercover at a school and get bullied by delinquents.' Although it won't be as profitable as the previous project, you guys are going to suffer along the way, so I'm happy even if I get less money."

"What do you mean?" Jonouchi didn't understand the director's meaning. Hayato explained, "It means he's planning to film a program about 'school bullying.' He chose the game before, and now he's chosen you. However, if this program airs, you, as the 'bully,' might very well be expelled, Jonouchi."

"How could this be?!" Kyoko, who had explained the situation to Yugi, was quite surprised. "Didn't the camera record what happened before? Yugi is the victim, and Jonouchi was just protecting Yugi."

"What an naive little girl! There's a technique called editing, you know?" the director sneered. "With just a few simple manipulations, I can even turn black into white. Honestly, you bunch of kids are so innocent; you get absolutely no feedback when I bully you."

"You bastard—" Jonouchi angrily wanted to rush up and punch the annoying director, but he had only taken one step forward when the director suddenly called out to him, "Hey, wait a minute."

"You actually know fear now?"

"No, no, no, it was just a friendly reminder, kid." The director, with a disgusted smile, strolled into the city and pointed to the cameraman behind him. "The cameras are still on. If you want to show more of your atrocities to the national audience, feel free to attack me."

Jonouchi looked in the direction of the cameraman. Just as the director had said, the camera was still on, and if he were to attack the director, he would only give this annoying guy more evidence.

Walking up to Jonouchi, the director patted Jonouchi's face with the crumpled paper tube in his hand: "Aren't you angry and annoyed, kid? That's the expression I've been waiting for, that look of wanting to kill me but not being able to, hehehehehe—"

"Hey, didn't you consider that there are surveillance cameras here?" Hayato, standing on the edge of the castle, watched the director's actions and pretended to be a bookworm. "The surveillance cameras will record everything, and your crimes will not escape the law."

"So, you kids are really adorably naive." The director glanced at Hayato with disdain. "Do you think we adults act impulsively and without considering the consequences like you kids? How naive! I specifically chose this location after investigating your school. There are no surveillance cameras here."

"Oh, there are no security cameras."

Hayato's weak expression vanished instantly. He exchanged a glance with Jonouchi beside him and simultaneously revealed a strange smile.

With lightning speed, Jonouchi delivered a swift knee strike, his hard knee colliding with the director's soft abdomen. A single blow subdued the previously smug director.

"How dare they be so arrogant without any surveillance cameras?!"

The moment Jonouchi made his move, a figure darted out from behind him. His bullet-shaped hairstyle immediately identified him as Honda. Having fought with Jonouchi since middle school, Honda could guess Jonouchi's intentions just by looking at his raised rear end.

Without even giving a hint, Honda rushed to Fujita's side, who had just escaped the clutches of Jonouchi, and slapped the other side of Fujita's face that wasn't swollen, helping his face become symmetrical.

The cameraman was a little flustered.

Wait a minute, these students aren't playing by the rules. Everyone else is trying to avoid being filmed as evidence, but these guys are practically walking right in front of the camera with the evidence. What's going on?

Seeing the director being yelled at by Jonouchi as a "bastard! Fuck! Bastard! Hit!" and Fujita being grabbed by the collar and shaken by Honda while being yelled "Muda Muda", the cameraman had the idea of ​​turning around and running away.