Duels should be played with a smile.

Having wasted his Normal Summon without achieving the desired effect, and with his Feather Duster in his hand rendered useless by the effect of a Trap Card, Yata Ue was momentarily at a loss for how to best resolve the current situation.

"Since we can't deal with your back row with effects, let's just use a powerful monster to directly destroy your front row."

Then, Hachitau unleashed its three signature moves.

"Except for the Light and Dark Monsters in the Graveyard, I will specially summon Great Opening!"

With 3000 attack power, it's not a problem to defeat a Neon Stone with 2000 defense power. The reason why the Great Opening was a popular monster in the early stages of Yu-Gi-Oh! is because of its powerful effect, easy deployment, and good physique.

A creature with a physique exactly like the Blue-Eyes White Dragon makes its grand entrance, its sword and shield appearing exceptionally reliable.

Moreover, the Great Opening Up was merely the vanguard.

"If I can't activate the effect this turn, I'll activate it next turn. This turn, I'll use my attack power to break through your defenses!"

Yata-U activated a card with great force, and when Leyou looked over curiously, everything went black again.

That's going too far!

"I activate my second [Sixth Sense]! I still declare 5 and 6!"

With a blank expression, Leyou threw out the dice. This time, Leyou's luck was neither good nor bad; he rolled a 4.

"No gacha pulls... but the goal has been achieved!"

"I'm activating the Spell Card 'Dragon's Mirror'! I banish 5 Dragon-Type monsters from my Graveyard to Fusion Summon!"

"【Five Divine Dragons】!"

The magical mirror absorbed the dragon's soul, summoning a powerful combined dragon with an attack power of 5,000 points, capable of defeating any monster.

By using the Great Opening to defeat the Neon Stone Spirit, and then using the Five Divine Dragons and the Destroyer to deliver a devastating blow to Leyou, Leyou will be left with only 100 LP points, which is a mere flicker of hope. This is Yata's simple and direct plan.

However, this is the cradle of ice water.

"The effect of 'Ice Bottom' can be activated once per turn. If you summon two monsters, you can target 1 WATER monster you control. The ATK of the targeted monster and all face-up monsters your opponent controls is reduced to the original ATK of the targeted monster until the end of this turn."

"I activate this skill on my Neon Stone Fairy. Her ATK is 1000, therefore all monsters on the field lose 1000 ATK."

The power of the ice water was drawn by Neon Stone and spread to the other monsters. Neon Stone in defense position was fine, but the attack power of the Great Opening in attack position dropped to 2000, which was the same as Neon Stone's defense power. Only the Five Divine Dragons with 4000 attack power could be effective.

"Look, you make a move, I counter it, and I didn't even use an extra deck. Do you like this raw, interactive feel?"

"..."

Yata-Uru didn't want to answer, and directly commanded the monsters to start the battle.

The five dragons took the lead and flew towards the weak, pitiful, and helpless Neon Stone Spirit, their five heads simultaneously exhaling breath.

"When Neon Stone's effect is targeted for an attack, you can activate it. Special Summon 1 WATER monster from your hand or Graveyard, except for the same-named card. The monster Special Summoned by this effect returns to its owner's hand during the End Phase. This card cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects once this turn."

"I will Special Summon the Starstone Guardian from the graveyard."

The Sunstone returned from the graveyard, scattering a shower of shimmering jade that easily blocked the Five Divine Dragons' attack. The only monster on the field capable of defeating the Neon Stone Spirit thus returned empty-handed.

"The effect of Yangqi Stone Essence is to send a Water-attribute monster from your hand to the graveyard and draw 1."

The five dragons returned empty-handed, but the Yangqi Stone Spirit's defenses were weaker than the Nishi Stone Spirit's. So, Yata-u ordered Daikai to launch an attack on the Yangqi Stone Spirit and defeat it.

"You defeated my monster, so I'm back to interact with you again~"

"The effect of the Crystal Stone of Icy Water in the Graveyard: If this card is in the Graveyard and a face-up WATER monster you control is destroyed by battle or card effect, banish this card to activate this effect. Special Summon 1 WATER monster from your hand or Graveyard other than the same name."

"I want to specially recruit another Neon Spirit!"

Neon Stone has excellent search capabilities, but it can only be activated once per turn. Therefore, previously, Leyou could only choose to send the second Neon Stone to the graveyard instead of using it to consume unused normal moves.

"For the effects of Neon Essence, I searched for [Ice Water Cradle]."

Instead of defeating one Neon Stone Spirit, a second one appeared. Yata-U is now in despair, as all three of his monsters can only watch helplessly.

"Enter the battle phase, proceed to main phase 2." Yata Uchiha pondered for a long time before slowly pulling out a classic old card and placing it on the field.

"You cannot launch an attack while the Sword of Light is on the field."

"If you won't let me activate the effect, then I won't let you attack!"

"Next round, I'll destroy your arena, and then things will be much easier!"

Seeing this typical ostrich tactic, Leyou couldn't help but chuckle.

"This is your interactive duel? How did it turn into a self-isolating duel?"

Yata rolled her eyes, not wanting to answer.

"However, your Light-Sealing Sword doesn't really affect me much, and I wasn't really keen on attacking anyway."

Without making a sound, he drew a card, ending Yata's turn. Leyou planned to give Yata a hard time.

Since you've already used a deceptive tactic of combining Demonic Asura with Sixth Sense, and even used two cards at once, then don't blame me for being impolite!

"First, the newly retrieved 'Ice Cradle': add 1 'Ice Cradle' monster from your Deck to your hand if the same card is not on your field or in your Graveyard."

"What I'm looking for is the supreme being of the Ice Water Clan! [Ice Water Emperor Sodium Chromium Pyroxene Essence]!"

"Ice Emperor's effect: If there is a face-up card in the Field Zone, this card can be Special Summoned from the hand!"

The Ice Water Clan is quite peculiar; the longer they exist, the closer their body color becomes to dark green.

Just like the newly born Neon Stone Spirit, which is crystal clear, the Yangqi Stone Spirit, which is already in the form of a young girl, is like jade. As the oldest member of the Ice Water Clan, the Ice Water Emperor's body is like jade that has been precipitated to the extreme.

[Water · 10★ · Water · Defense 3000]

The Ice Water Emperor has high defensive capabilities, but due to the characteristics of the Ice Water Clan, even the strongest member of the clan does not have very high offensive capabilities.

"Then, I cover a card with my hand."

"And then... since you've already used your sixth sense, it's reasonable for me to use a divinely bestowed treasure, right?"

"I activate [Heavenly Treasure Card]! Both sides draw 6 cards!"

The same six cards are not comparable in the hands of Leyou and in the hands of Yata.

"I got some really good cards this time!"

"You can activate this effect by targeting 1 'Beast-with-the-Warriors' monster or a 'Sea-Type' monster in your Graveyard. Special Summon this card from your hand, and equip the targeted monster to this card as an Equip Card."

This is a pure ice and water build, so it's reasonable to include a beast and a fighting god, right?

"I specially recruited Leapfish and equipped it with the [Ice Water Boat Emerald Kingfisher] from the graveyard."

The leaping fish, an incarnation of the Pisces star, descends from the sky with azure starlight, awakening the kingfisher in the graveyard. The two combine and appear on the field.

[Water · 7★ · Water · Defense 2500]

"Using monsters as equipment? Allied monsters?"

Yata-U's first reaction was to think of the Alliance. In its mind, the Alliance monsters didn't seem to be very powerful; even a group of monsters together couldn't defeat a single Great Opening.

"Although the entire Zombie family has similar effects, Zombie is not an Alliance Monster."

"Then comes the effect of the Kingfisher: once per turn, you can target 1 monster your opponent controls with ATK equal to or less than the DEF of the equipped monster. Special Summon this card and return the targeted monster to your hand."

"The Leapfish has 2500 DEF, so I bounce your 1900 ATK Destroyer back to my hand and Special Summon the Kingfisher."

The kingfisher flapped its wings in the water, manipulating the power of the waves to pull itself and its enemies into the water. The enemies, who were not good at swimming, were forced to leave the scene, while she herself used the power of the water to arrive on the battlefield.

[Water · 9★ · Water · Defense 2500]

As the Kingfisher appeared, the water began to spread in all directions, reaching the field of the Eight-Taigu, immersing the Five Emperor Dragons and the Great Opening into the water, and forcibly binding them to prevent them from escaping. Fortunately, the Eight-Taigu saw the situation was not good and ran away in advance, flapping its wings to escape from the water, otherwise it would have become a drowning bird.

"The effect of 'Ice Water Bottom' is activated when Kingfisher is Special Summoned, targeting herself and reducing the ATK of both the monsters you control by 2500 points."

The erosion by the ice water reduced the power of the Five Emperor Dragons by half, and even the Great Opening became no match for a small rabbit standing on a tree stump.

"It's still the effect of the Kingfisher. Activate it by targeting the Ice Emperor on my field and equip the Kingfisher itself as an Equip Card to it."

Having just disembarked from the Leaping Fish, the Spirit Kingfisher immediately flew to the Ice Water Emperor's side, proving that her title as the Ice Water Boat was truly well-deserved.

Fortunately, her card-playing effect is that the card name can be used once per turn, otherwise Yata-U would be out of the game right now.

"They're all monsters in the defense stance. Looks like you're planning to stick to defense?"

Fluttering its wings, standing on the Sword of Light, Yata asked casually.

"No." With quick eyes and hands, Leyu leaped over the monsters in front of him, grabbed Yata-Uru which wasn't staying in its own field and had wandered over to him, and then threw it back.

"The best defense is offense, and I know that better than you do."

"Then how will you break through my Light-Sealing Sword?"

"That's easy, isn't it?" Leyou revealed a mysterious smile and pointed to his graveyard. "Don't forget, I threw down a magic card to counter you before."

"By the effect of the Spell Card [Galaxy Cyclone] in your Graveyard, banish this card from your Graveyard, target Light's Seal Sword on your field, and destroy it!"

A truly powerful (god-tier) duelist can make good use of every card! Even if a card is sent to the graveyard as cost, it simply transforms that card into another kind of resource!

A whirlwind fell from the sky, scattering the protective sword. Having lost its foothold, Yata-u looked around for a few moments and finally chose one of the five dragon heads as its new territory.

Standing atop the dragon's head, looking down at the other monsters, Yata-guru still had a hint of confusion in his eyes: "But, all your monsters are in Defense rank, aren't they?"

Leyou smiled and said, "So, you've heard of bumping into someone with your butt?"

"Advance to the combat rank!"

"The effect of the Kingfisher as an equipment card allows [Ice/Water] monsters equipped with this card to attack in Defense Position, and the damage is calculated using their Defense as ATK!"

"Ice Emperor! Attack the Five Divine Dragons! But before that, I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Forbidden Grail] to negate the Five Divine Dragons' effects and increase my ATK by 400."

The power originally intended for defense, with the blessing of the Jade Bird, transformed into countless icy water blades, attacking the five divine dragons.

Ice Water Emperor has a slight edge.

"Only 100 points of damage, that's acceptable."

After calculating the offense and defense of both sides, Hachitau breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Only one monster can attack; either it will cause damage, or it will leave the big monster behind. Either way, it won't be too much of a loss.

Is that really the case?

"The effect of Ice Emperor is that when your Ice Book monster battles an opponent's monster, that opponent's monster's ATK is reduced by 1000!"

Another bone-chilling cold swept over them, and the Five Divine Dragons' attack power dropped to 1900, making them yet another monster that couldn't defeat the little rabbit.

With the combined power of multiple forces, the invincible Five Divine Dragons fell.

【Yata-U LP: 8000→6900】