Duels should be played with a smile.

[Vehicle detected, Duel Disk activated]

[New Player Mission: Win a duel! Winning will unlock other features.]

The revived Kuriboh Pokémon was still fluttering around the pendant on its chest, its two big, round eyes fixed on the pendant, seemingly looking at something.

Holding the pendant in my right hand, I wondered if it had been modified by this suddenly appearing system, as it detached directly from the rope, which then vanished without a trace.

Leyou turned around, his back to the insects and moths. A flash of emerald light appeared, and when Leyou turned around again, a duel disk had appeared on his left arm.

A duel disk somewhat similar to those produced by Kaiba Corporation, but with added emerald crystal embellishments.

"What is this? Where did you get it from?" the insect moth couldn't help but ask.

"I'm a magician, isn't it normal for me to create something out of nothing?" Leyou raised a finger and waved it lightly, speaking off the cuff. "As for this Duel Disk... it's high-tech, a special version that was not released internally by Kaiba Corporation, a limited edition worldwide, understand?"

Just make things up; Seto Kaiba isn't going to come and check your household registration anyway.

"I'm ready, readyGo?"

"Wait!"

The insect moth stared intently at the duel disk that looked far superior to the one in its hand, a hint of greed rising in its mind.

"Since the Duel City event is about to open, why don't we just use the card betting rules? The loser has to give the opponent their rarest card from their deck."

Good guy!

Leyou exclaimed, "Good heavens! I wasn't even thinking of showing off to you, and you've already started to? I, the God of Pure Love, will definitely crush you today!"

"One rare card is no fun at all. Why don't I go all in and bet my entire deck and Duel Disk together?"

Leyou crossed his arms and leisurely looked down at the insects and moths, but the simple action brought him considerable pressure.

To be honest, Leyou doesn't really like the card gambling rules, because for every duelist, their cards are hard-earned (with money). The appearance of a rare card (meaning one that's ridiculously expensive) requires a lot of luck and even a lifetime. After each card is obtained, it is carefully protected with a card sleeve, and some are even directly placed in a card album or card brick for collection.

It's a real waste to gamble with such a "treasure".

But for gamblers, it's a different story. Only when gamblers lose everything will they know the pain.

Leyou doesn't mind helping this 14-year-old boy get back on track (personality correction).

I'm such a kind person!

At this point, the insect moth began to sense that something was wrong.

However, his greed prevailed, and he mistook the lingering pressure in his heart for "excitement."

"Okay! It's a deal!"

The insects and moths looked on with greed, but Leyou responded with a smile.

"Duel!"

Chapter Three: The Capitalist's Chestnut Ball

【Insect Feathered Moth LP: 4000】

[Leyou LP: 4000]

"I'll take the first strike!"

The insect moth, with lightning speed, loudly proclaimed its right to attack first, and after drawing the initial five cards, it drew another card.

At this moment, Leyou realized that he seemed to have made the same mistake as those previous transmigrators—in this era where the first move was determined by shouting and grabbing, there was no such thing as deciding who went first by playing rock-paper-scissors.

"Seto Kaiba probably didn't add the ability to determine the first move to the Duel Disk because he's fast enough. Otherwise, if he could come up with such advanced technology, why would he deliberately leave this out?"

After muttering a curse about a certain dragon's sexuality to himself, Le Yuan finally had time to look at his hand.

Hmm... a perfect hand, in every sense of the word.

"I activate Pot of Greed from my hand! Draw two cards!" the Insect Moth announced loudly as it drew two cards.

Starting with seven cards in hand, if this were in the OCG, it would make all the card game veterans laugh their heads off.

No, the Pot of Greed will definitely be useless at the start, so it's okay.

Leyou is now filled with regret, wondering why he didn't include three copies of the "Broad-Foreheaded Granny" in his deck. He can only console himself by rubbing the Resurrected Kuriboh sitting on his Duel Disk.

Mmm, it's fluffy, rubbing it brings joy.

"I usually summon a dragonfly. It can't attack in the first round. After the round ends, it's your turn."

The insect moth ended the first round uneventfully, leaving only one inexplicable monster on the field.

"Hmm... my turn. Draw a card, get ready, mainly... oh, no, it doesn't need to be this complicated when fighting you guys."

Shaking his head and adjusting his mindset, Leyou refocused his attention on his hand.

A perfect hand, so perfect that you only need to set one card to finish – that's the daily routine of a stunt deck.

“Cover one, pass.”

"What? You dare challenge my Insect deck with something like that? Your face-down monster must be that lowly Kuriboh!"

The insect moth laughed and drew a card, but since he couldn't see the card sprite, he didn't know that the revived Kuriboh on the Joyful Duel Disk was glaring at him angrily.

"I summon the substitute locusts! Then, in battle mode, go, dragonfly, tear his minions to shreds, and then tear him to shreds too!"

The locust appeared on the field of insects and moths, accompanied by the dragonfly next to it. After entering the battle, the dragonfly obeyed its command and rushed towards the covered card on the field of fun.

"Curry, Curry!"

The card flipped over, and the dragonfly's claws grabbed at the tiny Winged Kuriboh. With only 200 DEF, Winged Kuriboh was clearly no match for "Gundam's" 1400 ATK. It could only flap its wings and return to the Duel Disk of the player, while its associated card was sent to the Graveyard.

"What? Just as expected, a weak monster! Substitute locust, attack him! Locust Claw Strike!"

The locusts flapped their wings and attacked Leyou, but when they swung their claws down, they were bounced away by a gentle breeze.

"If a Winged Kuriboh on the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, all battle damage I received this turn will be reset to zero. So, sorry~"

Leyou and Winged Chestnut Ball waved to the Insect Moth, causing the Insect Moth's face to darken.

"Tch, I'll cover it up..."

"Stop!" Leyou interrupted the insect moth's actions, revealing a card in his hand. "At the end of your Battle Phase, I discard Resurrected Kuriboh and Special Summon any Winged Kuriboh that was destroyed by battle and sent to my Graveyard this turn!"

"Go on, Aibo! Get up and work overtime!"

Leyou uttered some cruel words, while Su Sheng Kuriboh flew to Winged Kuriboh in the graveyard, grabbed him, and pulled him out. Leyou then grabbed the pulled-out Winged Kuriboh and threw him back onto the field.

On the field, a lone winged Kuriboh stood alone, trembling as it faced two monsters many times its size.

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They're clearly from the same race, so why are they so ruthless!

Although it has white fur, the revived Kuriboh, whose heart may have long been stained black by its owner, quietly crawled out of the graveyard and continued to sit on Joyful's Duel Disk.

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"What a disgusting effect. I'll set two cards face down and end my turn."

He had already seen the effect of Winged Kuriboh before. Without a suitable spell card in hand, he had no way to deal with this monster. As long as Winged Kuriboh was still on the field, it meant that Winged Kuriboh could not deal any effective battle damage to Leyou for an entire turn.

"Then, it's my turn, draw a card!"

Leyou was delighted to see the card he drew, but when he thought of the card he used at the beginning of the game, he couldn't be happy anymore.

"Activate Pot of Greed, banish 6 random face-down cards from your Fusion Deck, and draw 2 cards."

The Extra Deck in this deck was just randomly added by Leyou; its purpose is simply to feed this pot.

Seeing Leyou's actions, the insect moth unsurprisingly made a sound.

"You could have drawn a card simply by using Pot of Greed, so why did you use that weird card?"

Leyou didn't want to answer that question; all he wanted was to win this duel and then steal all the Pot of Greed cards from the Insect Moth deck.

"None of your business, I'm blocking the backcourt, end of round."

Among the cards I just drew is a Light-Sealing Sword, which can help him survive a few more rounds, but with Winged Kuriboh already working overtime on the field, there's no need to waste it for now.

This deck originally included the Demon Clock Cave, but because it had collapsed several months ago during the battle with the computer-controlled Sakai King Fafa, Leyou had to remove it with tears in his eyes and replace it with a series of other cards that were essentially locked up, such as the Light Guardian Sword.

"My turn!"

"I usually summon baby larvae and then equip them with the Cocoon of Evolution! You just wait, once my ultimate form, the Great Moth, evolves, you're dead!"

Baby larva, a common monster with an attack/defense stat of 300/200, is a complete noob.

Evolution Cocoon, an Effect Monster with 0/2000 stats, can be equipped to a Baby Larva, granting it the ATK and DEF stats of Evolution Cocoon and accumulating evolution counts each turn. Once the evolution count is sufficient, it can be Special Summoned as the Ultimate Perfect Form of the Insect Moth, also known as the Great Moth.

Well, the fact that a small fry can evolve into a powerful monster is quite an impressive combo! (Reading in a monotone)

"Then I'll activate the Continuous Spell Card Insect Net! As long as this card is on the field, none of your Insect-Type monsters can attack!"

An electric grid covered the playground, but the only monster, Kuriboh, was an Angel and was completely unaffected.

"You must be thinking that my insect net won't work on you!" The insect moth laughed like a child who had just drawn five Exodia cards.

"Yeah, yeah, I never would have guessed (reading in a flat tone)." Leyou could tell with his toes what the insect moth was going to do next.

"I initiate a DNA modification surgery, declaring myself an Insect-Type monster. Now the field is filled with Insect-Type monsters. With these two cards combined, my Great Moth will be able to evolve successfully! Then I activate the Armored Spell Card, giving the Dragonfly a 700 ATK boost! Dragonfly, tear his monster apart once again!"

Winged Kuriboh returned to the graveyard once again, leaving behind a gentle breeze to protect Leyu from harm.

However, before he returned to the cemetery, he did not notice that the resurrected chestnut ball had glanced at him again.

Chapter Four suggests renaming it the Warden Deck.

"My turn, draw a card... Set one card to the back row, end of turn."

Shouting loudly to draw a card did not trigger Leyou's non-existent "Flash Draw" skill. He glanced at the card he drew, silently covered it, and ended his turn.

With two face-down cards in the back row and no monsters in the front row, Leyou's 4000 LP seems rather weak against the Insect and Moth.

The insect-moth's hand covered the top of the card deck, a smug smile on its lips. "Now your field is empty. As long as I draw a monster with 900 or more ATK, you're doomed!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

"Haha, I usually summon a second substitute grasshopper, so my total attack power on the field is a full 4100 points. Your 4000 LP is nothing! Someone as weak as you won't even get a chance to use my ultimate moth!"

The insect moth was now displaying its despicable nature. It didn't even bother to switch its larval baby, which had zero attack power, to a defensive position before eagerly announcing that it was entering the battle phase.