Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

"Special Summon one [Dark Magician Girl] from my hand, deck, or graveyard, then set one of the following four cards face-down on my back row: [Dark Magician], [Dark Magician Blast], [Dark Blast Magician], or [Dark Magician Barrage]!"

“A wise disciple of the Dark Mage, come before me, Dark Magician Girl!”

At Kagurazaka's call, [Dark Magician Girl] yawned, reluctantly jumped out of his deck, and came to [Dark Magician]'s side, patting him on the shoulder in a rather disrespectful manner. After all, she wasn't Mana, and [Dark Magician] wasn't Mahad.

"Wow, [Dark Magician Girl] is back!" Seeing the person he'd been longing for reappear before him, Marufuji Sho couldn't help but grin foolishly. "Although I wanted my older brother to win, at least let me cheer for [Dark Magician Girl] for now. Hehehe, so lucky~"

Seeing Marufuji Sho's dazed expression, Marufuji Ryo helplessly turned his head away, closed his eyes, and simply couldn't bear to look.

Dark Magician Girls, ATK2000

The card 【Master-Disciple Bond】 isn't just for Special Summoning 【Dark Magician Girl】. Kagurazaka isn't like Marufuji Sho, who becomes obsessed with 【Dark Magician Girl】 the moment he sees her. He sets a card face-down and then plays another, saying, "At this moment, as I successfully gather 【Dark Magician】 and 【Dark Magician Girl】 on my field, this card in my hand fulfills its activation conditions. Destruction is about to descend upon your field, and I am about to achieve victory!"

"Quick-Play Spell Card [Dark Magician] activated! This card requires a monster whose original name is [Dark Magician] or [Dark Magician Girl] to be on my field. Its effect is to indiscriminately destroy all cards on your opponent's field at once!"

Kagurazaka waved his hand and said, "While your [E·heroes] do possess considerable power when united, and can even shake my plans, when destructive power engulfs all your monsters and your [E·heroes] are all in danger, will their unity still be effective?"

"Go, Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl! Let them witness your power!"

"Black Blast Magic!"

[Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl] each extended their staffs, crossing them at their sides, and simultaneously released their magical power. Guided by the spell card [Dark Burst Magician], their magical power merged into one, converging into a massive purplish-black magic bullet, ready to be unleashed upon Jaden's field!

Once Jaden's field of cards is cleared, with only 2000 Life Points, he can't even withstand the attack of [Dark Magician Girl]!

"My heroes won't be defeated so easily!" Jaden said, pressing the button to activate a face-down card and revealing a card in the back row. "Chain [Black Blast Magic], I activate the Trap Card [Scapegoat's Darkness]!"

As Jaden activated his face-down card, a black shadow suddenly shot out from his deck and crashed straight into the [Black Blast Devastation Magician] that was still brewing on the Kagurazaka field.

Under Kagurazaka's watchful gaze, the dark figure charged into the [Black Explosion Destruction Magic] spell, detonating it before it was completed. This caused the [Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl] spells to fail, but the dark figure also sacrificed itself, entering Jaden's graveyard.

"【Darkness of Sacrifice】Can only be activated by your opponent when the effect of a Spell, Trap, or Monster that would destroy a card on the field is activated. Negate that effect. Then, I send one DARK monster of Level 3 or lower from my Deck to the Graveyard."

"I chose the Level 3 [Necromancer]," Jaden said as he sent the card to the Graveyard. "It's a necessary sacrifice!"

"Achoo!" Hayato, watching from afar, couldn't help but sneeze, muttering to himself, "Why did I suddenly sneeze? It must be the sea breeze, unforgivable Pegasus!"

The game player standing nearby simply remarked, "The impact on teenagers is immeasurable, Hayato."

Watching Jaden send the cards to the graveyard, Kagurazaka frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed, saying to Jaden, "You've successfully preserved your cards, but I'm afraid that 'Darkness of the Scapegoat' is your only trap. The remaining two cards should be 'Extraordinary Food' and 'Miracle Fusion'?"

"In that case, your field setup is as naked as I see it, Jaden Yuki! I am now absolutely certain that your cards cannot withstand the onslaught of my [Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl]."

"And I'm going to summon that invincible monster again, right now, right here!"

As she spoke, Kagurazaka took two cards from her graveyard and said, "Purge the two monsters in my graveyard: the DARK monster [Magical Kuriboh] and the LIGHT monster [Celestial Knight]—"

"That summoning condition!?" Asuka's eyes widened in surprise. "Could it be the legendary forbidden card—[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Messenger of the End]?!"

"The Chaos Emperor Dragon - Messenger of the End, which was once used by both Duel King Hayato Kobayashi and the legendary Duelist Seto Kaiba, and was banned due to its combo with [Yata-u]? However, there is no such card in Yugi Muto's deck, so it is definitely not that card."

Although Professor Chronos failed to properly safeguard Yugi Muto's deck, he still knew exactly which cards were in it.

"If it's not that [Chaos Emperor Dragon - Messenger of the End], then it must be another card, right? It's also a card series that both Mr. Yugi Muto and Mr. Hayato Kobayashi have—[Chaos Warrior]." Maeda Hayato looked expectantly at the two monsters on the field, which were separated by their two-colored souls, and the monster card in Kagurazaka's hand that was about to be summoned to the field.

"One soul guides the light, one soul guides the darkness. Wield the power of darkness and light, and forge the light of chaos!" Mimicking the game's summoning phrase, Kagurazaka held up the card in his hand, "Come to my field, [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Creation]!"

A blue-purple bodysuit overlaid with golden armor, the strongest warrior, possessing power comparable to the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon, stood on the field of Kagurazaka, sword and shield in hand, his aura soaring!

【Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Beginning】【8☆/Light】

[Warrior/Special Summon/Effect]

[3000/2500]

Before Jaden and the others could even marvel at the power of the Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Opening, known as the "Great Opening," Kagurazaka drew another card from his hand and played it, leaving him with only two cards: "You're not the only one who can use fusion. When Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl fuse, the strongest magician combination that will defeat the legendary duelist and the father of Duel Monsters will be born!"

"Spell Card [Fusion] activated! Send my [Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl] on my field to the Graveyard as Fusion Materials—"

Bonds Linked! Shatter the darkness with endless chains of light, Fusion Summon!

"【Grand Archmage - Dark Archmage's Apprentice】!"

[Super Archmage - Dark Archmage's Apprentice] [8☆/Dark]

[Mage Race/Fusion/Effect]

[2800/2300]

Looking at the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl standing only slightly closer together on the Kagurazaka field, even Jaden couldn't help but complain, "What kind of fusion is this? They're just standing together. It's not even as good as Gaia's fusion, where a person rides a mount."

"Naive! This is a fusion monster created by Duel King and Yugi Muto together!" Hearing Jaden's retort, Kagurazaka became excited as if Jaden was talking about him. "This contains a top-level understanding of Duel Monsters that you can't even imagine. What do you know?"

As he spoke, Kagurazaka gestured with his hands, as if to say, "No one knows Yugi Muto better than me."

What is the biggest improvement of the Fusion Monster 【Super Magician - Dark Magician Master and Apprentice】? For Kagurazaka, it is neither the slight increase in attack power nor the effect that requires a Spell/Trap Card to activate, but rather its level, which has been raised from 7☆ of 【Dark Magician】 and 6☆ of 【Dark Magician Girl】 to 8☆.

—And this means that the magic card he had retrieved from his hand in the previous turn has regained its usability!

"Although [Chaos Dark Magician] was destroyed last turn and banished due to its own effect, the card it recovered for me still exists." After revealing the card in her hand and inserting it into the Spell & Trap Zone, Kagurazaka said, "If I have a Level 8 or higher Spellcaster monster on my field, I will activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Destruction Spell - Death Ultimate Curse]!"

Although this ultimate magic cannot be used alone, when the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician Girl work together, the magic power is synchronized and resonates, supporting the smooth operation of the spell. A red-purple magic bullet, which is smaller than the Dark Blast Magician but much more concentrated, quickly takes shape at the tip of the staff of the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician's apprentice.

This time, Jaden no longer has any face-down cards to protect his monsters in order to counter this card!

"The effect of 【Destruction Spell - Death Ultimate Curse】can banish a card on the field face down without targeting it, preventing it from ever returning to the game."

"However, before that, the effect of [Super Magister - Dark Magister's Apprentice] is activated once per turn. If the effect of a Spell/Trap Card is activated, I can draw one card from my Deck. If the card I draw is a Spell/Trap Card, I can set it face-down on my back row."

As he spoke, Kagurazaka drew a card from his deck, bringing his hand back to two cards, but he didn't put the card face down, making it impossible for Jaden to tell what card he had drawn.

Chapter 1225 Move! The Great Opening, why not move!

After glancing at Jaden's back row, Kagurazaka, who identified the two face-down cards as "Miracle Fusion" and "Extraordinary Food," did not intend to remove those two cards, nor did he intend to remove "Nightmare Mirage" to eliminate the card's side effects for Jaden.

As for the Skyscraper? This field, which is only useful for attacking and useless for defense, is completely out of his consideration. His Destruction Spell - Death Ultimate Curse will only target the monsters on Jaden's field.

Then is there even a need to choose?

"The card I banished is [E·Hero Sunrise] on the opponent's field!" Kagurazaka said, "Destruction Spell - Death Ultimate Curse!"

The magic bullet shot out, instantly releasing a spreading, distorted black hole that twisted and engulfed [E·hero Sunrise]'s body, banishing him from the field in the blink of an eye! Meanwhile, the [E·heroes] on the field, having lost the power boost from [E·hero Sunrise], saw their attack power instantly decrease—

【E·hero Sky Warrior】【ATK2200→1800】

【E·hero Giant Tornado】【ATK3200→2800】

The attacks of the two [E·hero] units returned to their original values, but what they faced were [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Creation] and [Super Magister - Apprentice of the Dark Magister], whose attack power far surpassed theirs. Kagurazaka even had two cards left to play.

"It looks like this duel is about to end. As expected, I can become this powerful using Yugi Muto's deck!"

Kagurazaka glanced at the two cards in his hand, both of which were useless this turn. The card he had set in his back row with "Tether of Master and Disciple" was another "Black Blast Spell Card", which could not be activated during the turn it was set because it was a Quick-Play Spell Card.

But it doesn't matter anymore. At this moment, victory is undoubtedly in his grasp. Defeat is a thing of the past. As long as his monsters launch their attack, everything will be alright. He who could even defeat Jaden Yuki will never be laughed at by anyone again!

There's nothing left to be afraid of!

"Entering the battle phase, use [Super Mage - Black Mage Apprentice] to attack [E·hero Sky Warrior]!"

"Jackpot!"

Although it replicated the lines from the final battle of Duel Kingdom when Yugi and Hayato launched their final attack together, the lines lacked impact because Kagurazaka was alone.

However, the [Super Magus - Black Magus Apprentice] was much more imposing than their users. The two magic circles crossed again and were aimed at the [E·hero] on the field of Judai, and it was the [E·hero Sky Warrior] with the lowest attack power.

A difference of 1000 points in attack power equals 1000 points of combat damage. For Jaden, whose base score is only 2000 points, taking this hit would directly halve his base score!

However, just as the magic bullet prepared by the [Super Mage - Black Mage Apprentice] was about to be launched, a monster suddenly jumped out from the graveyard of the Tenth Generation and kicked the overlapping magic circles of the [Super Mage - Black Mage Apprentice] with a high kick, causing the two magic staffs to point uncontrollably at the sky, and the magic bullet was also launched into the sky and missed.

—Although it was aimed at "Skyman" but shot at "the sky", perhaps it can be considered a hit?

"What is that?!" The scene before him was not what Kagurazaka had anticipated. He looked at Jaden's back row with a puzzled expression. Jaden hadn't used any face-down cards, so what was that just now?

“It’s [Necromancer Guardian].” Jaden took a monster card from the graveyard and showed it to Kagurazaka. The monster that had just stopped [Super Magister - Dark Magister’s Apprentice] gradually turned into a phantom and disappeared, returning to the card. “The [Necromancer Guardian] that was sent to the graveyard by the effect of [Scapegoat’s Darkness].

"You can activate this effect by banishing this [NecroGuardian] from my Graveyard during your opponent's turn. During this turn, you can only negate one attack by your opponent's monsters."

Simply setting cards in the back row isn't enough to create a truly effective trap. In addition to back row traps, you need hand traps in your hand and graveyard traps in your graveyard to make it a complete trap.

While it doesn't have a card like the "Super Electromagnetic Turtle" from the game that can end the Battle Phase directly, or the "Rainbow Kuriboh" from Hayato that can be used in both hand and graveyard, "Necromancer Guardian" is still a pretty good card because it can block an attack at any time after being banished. After all, even if its effect is successfully activated during the Main Phase, it can even block the attack of "Ancient Gear Chaos Giant" which blocks monster effects during the Battle Phase.

—This isn't directed at Professor Chronos. Uh, absolutely not.

After listening to Judai's explanation, Kagurazaka frowned, using a serious expression to hide her embarrassment.

In his plan, he would first use [Super Magus - Dark Magus Apprentice] to destroy [E. Hero Sky Warrior], and then use [Chaos Warrior - Envoy of the Beginning] to defeat [E. Hero Great Tornado]. That way, after the monster was destroyed in battle, when [Chaos Warrior - Envoy of the Beginning] activated its effect to launch an additional attack, he could deliver a direct attack on Jaden Yuki, who had no space on the field, and spectacularly wipe out his last Life Points to win.

However, now that the attack of [Super Magus - Dark Magus Apprentice] has been blocked, even if the two consecutive attacks of [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Beginning] destroy Jaden's monsters, the damage will not be enough to wipe out Jaden's basic attack.

In that case, wouldn't all the harsh words I just said become a joke? I'd lose face and feel so ashamed!

Kagurazaka didn't show his inner emotions on his face. Since he was imitating Yugi Muto, he would naturally try his best to maintain his composure with his acting skills. He spoke to Jaden in a calm tone, "You even took advantage of the negative effects of the card? What a remarkable performance. To be able to withstand the attack of my most trusted servant, I, Kagurazaka Yugi, would call your spirit the strongest."

"Huh? So Kagurazaka, you're also called Yugi?" Judai looked surprised when he heard Kagurazaka's words. He and the others had been calling her "Kagurasaka" as her surname, and he had never known Kagurazaka's full name.

However, Manjoume, who was watching the match, complained, "No, anyone can tell that he just changed his name randomly. I remember his real name is 'Kagurasaka Sōji', right? Nobody would think that his name is really 'Game', would they?"

However, as Manjoume finished speaking, Marufuji Sho turned his head to look into the distance and whistled to cover his embarrassment: "Y-that's right."

Misawa's eyes held a hint of resentment: "Kagurazaka's role seems to be less than mine, so why can you remember his name but not mine?"

Now, Manjoume also looked into the distance and whistled, pretending not to hear Misawa's words.

On the field, although Kagurazaka lost the ability to kill Jaden this turn, he still had to continue attacking him. Destroying Jaden's monsters as much as possible would make it easier to try to kill him again in the next turn.

"【Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Creation】, attack 【E·hero Great Tornado】, unleash the Creation Dance Slash!"

Kagurazaka's attack names were quite accurate, and he perfectly imitated the expression when commanding monsters to attack, just like in the game. Unfortunately, he still lacked the confidence of a real game duel.

However, the attack from [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Creation] was real. The strongest warrior, nicknamed "The Great Creator," easily cleaved through the cloak and armor of [E·hero Great Tornado] with a single strike, destroying him and sending him to the graveyard. Jaden was also injured in the battle as a result.

[Yujo Jaden: 2000 → 1800 LP]

The so-called "Opening Dance Slash" has the word "successive" in it, so it can't be just one attack. Kagurazaka smiled confidently as he looked at the destroyed [E·hero Great Tornado]: "The effect of [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Opening] can only be activated when his attack destroys the opponent's monster."

"[Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Beginning] You may attack again, only once!"

"3000 attack power and it can attack twice? That's too unfair!" Upon hearing the effect of [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of Creation], Marufuji Sho couldn't help but show a surprised expression.

Asuka glanced at him and said helplessly, "Is this some kind of effect that's so surprising? [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Beginning] even has another effect that can banish an entire monster on the field at the cost of forgoing an attack."

"Giving up the attack to clear the field, and two consecutive strong attacks with 3000 attack power..." Recalling the effects of [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] and [Blue-Eyes Double Burst Dragon], Hayato looked indignant. "Yugi, Kaiba is really shameless. He actually copied the effect of your [Chaos Warrior - Messenger of the Beginning]!"

"Huh? But didn't Kaiba's [Blue-Eyes Hydra] and [Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon] appear earlier?"

"While it's true that Kaiba's cards appeared earlier in this world, your 'Great Opening' should have appeared earlier in another timeline," Hayato said, then changed the subject, "However, considering that Pegasus was the one who made the cards, Pegasus is unforgivable!"