Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

"Great! Hayato is about to summon his [Dragon Knight - Gaia]!" Guiping seemed very happy. However, his smile quickly faded.

Hayato had just added the [Spiral Fusion] card to his hand when the virtual Hayato interrupted him, saying, "During your Main Phase, I'm going to activate the effect of [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia] on my field."

"Once per turn, reduce his attack power by 2600 points, then choose one card on the field other than him and destroy it."

Virtual Hayato's hand pointed directly at the "Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon" on Hayato's field, which was baring its teeth at "Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia": "The monster I choose to destroy is 'Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon'."

The [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon] that was pointed at looked completely bewildered.

It had originally thought that since Hayato had already drawn [Spiral Fusion] using its own effect, all it had to do next was become the fusion material for [Dragon Knight - Gaia] and become a mount to participate in the battle.

【Spiral Fusion】 can be considered the hand/field version of 【Dragon's Mirror】. Although the monsters that can be fused to summon are also restricted to Dragon-type Fusion Monsters, the fusion range is limited to the hand and the field, just like a regular 【Fusion】 Spell Card.

However, since there are limitations, there are also compensations. If the Dragon-type Fusion Monster summoned by [Spiral Fusion] is [Dragon Knight Gaia], it will increase the ATK of that [Dragon Knight Gaia] by a full 2600 points, and will also grant it the effect of attacking monsters twice in one turn.

For the [Dragon Knight - Gaia] series, where the entire family has an attack power of 2600, the effect of [Spiral Fusion] is to make your attacks critical hit and combo. It's not just strong, it's incredibly strong.

This is why the [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon] provoked [Dragon Sorcerer Knight - Gaia], or more precisely, the other [Cursed Dragon] beneath him, in advance. Although the others couldn't quite understand the content of the provocation, it roughly translated as—

You little brat, I'll kill you in three minutes and scatter your dragon bones to ashes!

The tip of Gaia's short spear burst into flames. At this moment, the thoughts in the mind of the Cursed Dragon were:

If I had known beforehand that provoking someone would result in a beating...

【Dragon Knight - Gaia】【ATK2600→0】【ATK7800→5200】

The flame, compressed into a single line, instantly pierced through the body of the [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon], destroying it and sending it into the graveyard.

"The Cursed Dragon has been destroyed!"

Guiping looked completely surprised, as if he had been looking forward to Hatsune Miku's concert for a long time. He had even taken time off work and finished all his work in advance so that he could go to the show, only to be told that Hatsune Miku had been arrested for drug abuse.

What's going on?!

“Duel Robot is really amazing,” Pegasus added. “If [Magic Knight Gaia] is destroyed, Hayato might have other [Gaia] monsters that can be specially summoned individually, and they could combine them to fuse and summon [Dragon Knight Gaia].

"But what was destroyed was the [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon]."

Pegasus praised again, "What remarkable dueling instincts!"

He would never admit that he was actually thinking about that time in Duel Kingdom when the game asked him to guess the face-down card, and he guessed wrong. Losing in a duel was one thing, but admitting that his intuition was worse than the robot's would be too embarrassing.

As Pegasus said, after [Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon] was destroyed by [Dragon Sorcerer - Gaia] at the cost of losing its own Life Points, Hayato's hand indeed had no other Dragon-type monsters that could be used to Fusion Summon [Dragon Knight - Gaia].

In this way, Hayato's action of adding Spiral Fusion to his hand using the effect of Cursed Dragon - Cursed Dragon seems rather silly.

"Honestly, I was looking down on robots just now, but I got tricked in the blink of an eye. How embarrassing." Hayato touched his nose awkwardly, looking helpless, and sighed, "Oh dear, this is terrible. Now I have no dragon monsters to use for fusion."

As he spoke, Hayato looked at the virtual Hayato's field, where the attack power of [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia] had been reduced to 0, and [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia].

"Huh, what a coincidence! How come I never thought that [Dragon Knight Gaia] is actually a dragon monster?" Hayato said, revealing a card from his hand. Even though it hadn't been activated yet, a strange power appeared in the duel arena, causing the virtual Hayato's body to fluctuate abnormally. White gibberish floated on his body, just like a television screen with a poor signal.

"Since you're also Hayato, I suppose you wouldn't mind if I borrowed your card for a bit, right?" Hayato didn't even glance at the Duel Disk, casually flicking the card between his fingers downwards, sending it right into the Spell & Trap Zone. "I discard one card from my hand, and then activate the Quick-Play Spell Card, [Super Polymerization]!"

"In exchange for the [Spiral Fusion] in my hand, I will use your [Dragon Spell Knight - Gaia] and my [Spell Knight - Gaia] as fusion materials to Fusion Summon a monster!"

"Witness this, ultimate power!"

Chapter 395 So, shall we fire?

"I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Super Polymerization]!"

As Hayato sent [Spiral Fusion] into the graveyard, its unparalleled power instantly locked onto [Magic Knight Gaia] and [Dragon Magic Knight Gaia] on the field.

"The effect of [Super Polymerization] is to discard one card from your hand, send the required Fusion Material monsters from your and my fields to the Graveyard, and then Special Summon a Fusion Monster as a Fusion Summon."

"Furthermore, [Hyperfusion] also has the ability to prevent the activation of Spell, Trap, and Monster effects from being triggered by its activation!"

On the Hayato field, [Magic Knight Gaia] pulled on the reins, and his warhorse suddenly began to gallop wildly towards [Dragon Magic Knight Gaia] on the virtual Hayato field. [Dragon Magic Knight Gaia] tried to dodge, but under the suppression of [Hyperfusion], he was completely unable to move!

The distance between the two finally closed, and at the last moment, [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia] stood up directly from his horse, leaped high into the air, and using the momentum of his mount, launched a "Knight's Flying Kick" into the immobilized [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia]!

Gaia, who was on the dragon's back, was kicked away and fell to the ground. It was then hit by the powerful horseshoe of the warhorse, which was unable to stop its momentum, and was sent straight into the graveyard. Meanwhile, the original Magic Knight Gaia took over the Cursed Dragon under its mount, pulled on the reins, and returned to Hayato's field.

However, upon returning to Hayato's field, Gaia, who had been forced to abandon his weapon due to the previous flying kick, reluctantly pulled out his spare spear, and the Cursed Dragon evolved into the Infernal Cursed Dragon thanks to Gaia's power.

【Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia】【ATK2600】

"Although I also want to fuse and summon [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia], the fusion material requirements are [Dark Knight - Gaia] monster and a 5-star Dragon-Type monster, while the [Dragon Magic Knight - Gaia] material is a 7-star Dragon-Type monster."

Hayato, who had gotten a good deal but was now acting innocent, looked rather dissatisfied. "So, I guess I'll have to summon [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia]."

"And you should know its effect, right? When it is successfully Special Summoned, I can add one [Spiral Shot] from my deck to my hand."

Having caught the [Spiral Shot] that popped out of his deck, Hayato didn't intend to keep it in his hand and activated it immediately: "I activate the [Spiral Shot] that I just added to my hand."

As Hayato placed [Spiral Shot] into his Duel Disk, a spiral of air began to swirl around the tip of his [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] spear, giving it the ability to penetrate defense.

At this moment, there is a [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] on both Hayato and the virtual Hayato's arena. Coupled with their identical appearances, it's as if a mirror has been erected in the very center of their dueling arena.

As one of the few gaps, Rainbow Kuriboh sat obediently on Gaia's head and yawned.

Guiping looked at the two players on the field with some confusion. Although the attack ability of [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] on the Virtual Hayato's field was sealed due to the [Rainbow Kuriboh] equipment, its attack power of 2600 points was still there.

If Hayato had chosen Sky Dragon Knight Gaia for his Super Fusion, he would now only need to face Dragon Magic Knight Gaia, whose attack power has been reduced to 0.

Pegasus, who was also watching, narrowed his right eye, which was the only part of his eye showing, as he looked at the face-down card in Hayato's hand. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the card that Hayato often used during his time in Duel Kingdom. With that card, Hayato often stole other duelists' cards and used them in front of them.

Moreover, every time he uses it, Hayato always adds a sentence—

"Let me witness the bond between me and my comrades!" Hayato declared loudly as he drew a card from his hand. "I will activate this card that symbolizes 'bonds,' the Spell Card [Heart Change]!"

So, where exactly does that thing relate to bonds?

As Hayato placed the card into his Duel Disk, a half-angel, half-demon figure emerged from the activated "Heart Change" card in his backrow, making a heart shape with its hands towards the virtual Hayato's "Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia." From the hand gesture, a phantom pink heart flew out.

“The effect of [Heart Change] is to select one monster your opponent controls, and gain control of that monster until the end of the turn.” Hayato said, extending his finger to form a gun shape, aiming it at [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] through the illusory heart shape. “Well then, I’ll take your monster. It’ll be a little itchy, won’t it?”

"The Captive's Arrow!"

As Hayato made a firing gesture, a dense barrage of arrows shot out from the illusory heart shape, heading towards Gaia, the Sky Dragon Knight opposite Hayato. The arrows rained down on him, but all of them passed through his body and landed in empty space.

However, just after the arrow pierced through the body of [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia], the heart-shaped object floating in front of Hayato turned black, and the virtual Hayato's [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] also came to his field in a daze.

At this point, the situation on the field changed again. Just like the virtual Hayato from the previous turn, there were two monsters with 2600 attack power on Hayato's field, with a total attack power of 5200. This gave Hayato the ability to wipe out the virtual Hayato's current maximum of 4000 life points in one turn.

Virtual Hayato only has two face-down cards in his back row, and it can be confirmed that one of them is not a trap card that can be used for defense or counterattack, but rather a "Spiral Shot" that Virtual Hayato added to his hand in the previous turn using the effect of "Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia" and is now just acting as a smoke bomb.

Hayato, on the other hand, had much more resources. He had one card left unused in his hand and two face-down cards in his back row.

The only drawback is probably—

"This is bad! Hayato has made a huge mistake!"

Keihei, watching from the sidelines, noticed something. His finger pointed directly at the [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] that had just been moved to Hayato's arena, specifically at the top of its head.

"That person in that position is—"

"The Rainbow Kuriboh is still equipped on Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia!"

"Although control has been transferred, the equipment card remains unchanged; [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia]'s attack abilities are still sealed!"

"What?!" Pegasus looked over at the sound and saw Rainbow Kuriboh, who was much more energetic than before after returning to Hayato's field and yawning with boredom. It was now bouncing around on the head of the delirious Sky Dragon Knight Gaia, greeting Hayato.

For a moment, it was unclear whether Gaia, the Sky Dragon Knight, was delirious due to a change in her mind or had suffered a concussion from being stepped on by Rainbow Kuriboh.

Virtual Hayato also stated: "The Equip Card does not specify a person's monster, but simply the monster itself. Unless it is the monster's own state, such as changing from face-up to face-down, or leaving the field, a simple change of control will not cause the Equip Card to leave the monster."

"Even though you used [Mind Change] to control [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia], he is still unable to attack due to the effect of [Rainbow Kuriboh]."

Hayato shrugged indifferently upon hearing this: "It's just a machine. How could simple calculations possibly calculate the possibilities of a Duel Monster? It's just that its attack capabilities are limited. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean I can't!"

"Who says you can't kill someone if you don't have the ability to attack?"

Hayato played his last card: "Then, I'll activate the Spell Card [Inherited Power]!"

"A single Gaia may have its individual limits, after all, the cycle of an individual has an end. However, as long as someone can inherit the unfinished cycle that Gaia possesses, the endless cycle can lead to an infinite future!"

"Send one of my monsters to the Graveyard, then I choose one monster I control. The chosen monster gains ATK equal to the ATK of the monster sent to the Graveyard until the End Phase of this turn!" Hayato commanded, waving his hand. "Trust in Spin, [Gaia], and move on to the next phase of Spin!"

On Hayato's field, Gaia, the Sky Dragon Knight controlled by the effect of [Heart Change], raised his lance in response to the magnificent light that enveloped Hayato's field. A spiraling energy, granted by [Spiral Spear Kill], swirled around his lance.

Gaia, the Sky Dragon Knight, was touched by another Gaia. The perfectly synchronized swirling power from the two identical lances was transferred to the same point, and golden holy flames ignited on the Sky Dragon Knight Gaia summoned by Hayato.

The radiance that enveloped it vanished silently, along with the Gaia that had been controlled by [Heart Change]. The Rainbow Kuriboh above its head was also sent to the graveyard, waving goodbye to Hayato before leaving.

【Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia】【ATK2600→5200】

"Have you inherited this exact same vortexing power, [Gaia]?"

Although it was a question, Hayato used an affirmative tone.

Looking at the virtual Hayato standing before him, unmoved by the departure of his monster, Hayato simply and firmly issued his final command:

"Then let's finish this duel with a perfect spin, just like the golden ratio!"

"Entering the battle phase, I will use [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] to directly attack the opponent!"

"Golden Cyclone Power!"

At Hayato's command, Gaia, empowered by the other Gaia, the Sky Dragon Knight, took flight without hesitation or even pulling the reins. His dragon, the Cursed Dragon of Hellfire, flapped its wings and soared into the air, its body spinning like a spiral.

"That's the key! Go, Gaia!"

At the same time, Hayato also revealed a face-down card in his back row. "Then, I need to provide support too! Activate the Continuous Spell Card [Spiral Cannon]!"

"As long as [Dragon Knight Gaia] is present in my monster zone, the opponent can only choose [Dragon Knight Gaia] as their attack target."

"And once per turn, when my [Dragon Knight - Gaia] declares an attack, I can choose one card on the field to destroy!"

Hayato pointed to a card on the back row of the virtual Hayato: "The card I'm going to choose is the one to your left. Surrender before [Gaia], who has achieved a perfect cavalry maneuver!"

[Sky-Soaring Dragon Knight - Gaia], whose card name is [Dragon Knight - Gaia], swooped down from the sky. The spinning [Hellfire Curse Dragon] served as a second layer of support after the other [Gaia], strengthening the spinning power of [Gaia]'s spear tip. Moreover, it used the excess power to directly roll up and tear apart a card in Virtual Hayato's back row!

The green card shattered under everyone's watchful eyes...

What was destroyed was the [Spiral Shot Kill]?!

“Then, I will chain the attack of [Sky Dragon Knight - Gaia] to activate another face-down card on my field that has not been destroyed.” Virtual Hayato said in his usual calm tone, but his words sounded like he was mocking. “The card I set is this one.”

"Trap Card, [Magic Cylinder]!"

"What?!" Hayato was quite surprised. "How did you get this card?! This card isn't in my Gaia deck!"

Guiping also looked surprised, even somewhat incredulous: "The data on the cards stored in the database has been modified?"