Duels should be played with a smile.

"I'm adding [Entertainment Partner Donkey] to my hand."

This deck is rather messy, but at least it has a semblance of a system, so you don't have to rely on drawing cards for everything.

"Then there's Kouki's effect. During the Main Phase of the turn this card is double-summoned, you can activate the effect of Koudou in Attack Position on my field, changing both Koudou and Kouki to Defense Position, and search your Deck for a 'Odd-Eyes' monster."

"I'm adding [Entertainment Partner Heterochromatic Melter] to my hand."

The purpose of searching for this card is not for Fusion Summoning, but because this card is a rare monster that has both the Entertainment Partner and Odd-Eyes fields.

Often, the field itself has hidden value. A card may seem ordinary, but because of its field, it may be added to the Duel Links ban list. A card may be a normal card with 0 attack and 0 defense, but because of its field, it may have an effect that other ordinary cards do not have.

"I haven't Normal Summoned this turn yet. I will Normal Summon my secondary card, Donkey, and activate its effect. If I successfully double Summon, I can activate this effect to send an Entertainment Partner monster other than the same card to the Graveyard."

"If you have two cards in your Pendulum Zone, you can add them directly to your hand without sending them to the Graveyard."

"I'm adding [Entertainment Partner Skeleton Acrobat Clown] to my hand."

After going around in circles, I finally got the starting point for the next round. If I don't get a G, I can still move around a few more times by searching for other monsters.

But now, Leyou's only option is to end the round and watch the opponent perform.

Normally, a card like Light's Protection Sword could be easily destroyed by two cards transformed into a Phoenix, but after being buffed by G, it's really not worth it.

"Turn over, it's your turn. Come on, let me see the power of your gambling deck!"

Leyou really wanted to see just how far one could go with playing cards using lifespan.

"Then you'll have to watch!"

The Faceless One responded loudly, drew a card, and the way he drew the card was exactly the same as the way Yoruichi first met Jonouchi.

Suddenly, Leyou felt a little curious about what state the real Jonouchi of this world was in at this moment.

"At the start of the main phase, I activate the Golden Pot again, drawing 2 extra cards (excluding the 6 inside cards)!"

With a few quick swipes, Faceless Man was left with only 3 Extra Deck cards, and his hand now had 7 cards.

"Hmph! You have a lot of monsters on your field. Watch me wipe them all out in one go!"

"Normal Summon [Legendary Gambler]!"

There was a crisp sound of a coin hitting the ground. The golden coin fell to the ground and was immediately picked up by a handsome blond man who appeared out of nowhere.

Inside the black half-finger leather gloves, three coins were constantly being flicked by five nimble fingers. With the other hand, the brim of the hat was gently touched, and the legendary gambler made a dazzling appearance.

In that instant, rousing music echoed in Leyou's mind.

If the gambler had a slicked-back black hairstyle instead of short blond hair, it would be even more fitting.

With the appearance of this gambler, the dueling arena shrouded in black mist took on a different atmosphere, and the thin light falling from above gave it a somewhat moonlit feel.

"Tell me, what are we betting on today? I have a little bit of experience with all the different types of gambling."

The one who spoke was a gambler, and very unusually, this card actually had an elf residing within it.

The previous Faceless One deck was indeed quite soulful, but you really didn't see a single spirit from beginning to end.

"Watch closely!" The Faceless One, seemingly possessed by Jonouchi, made a move that perfectly matched Jonouchi's character.

He raised his hand high, thought for a second or two, and then made a "five" gesture.

"I will defeat you within five rounds!"

"...Whatever makes you happy."

Raku recalled his last duel with Jonouchi, and it seemed that Jonouchi had made a similar declaration back then.

Then he was killed.

"Don't underestimate my luck! No, don't underestimate my strength!"

The Faceless One seemed quite dissatisfied with Leyou's reaction, and at the same time, his every move was very much in line with the image of Jonouchi that Leyou had initially perceived.

He has absolutely no merits that would qualify him as a "legendary duelist".

"I'm going to activate the legendary Gambler's effect!"

"Once per round, can only be activated during the main phase, allowing for 3 coin tosses!"

The gambler stopped what he was doing, tossed the three gold coins into the air, and clenched them in his hand.

"The show is about to begin!"

One coin, two coins, three coins—the coins were tossed and dropped one after another. The gambler caught each coin precisely with the back of his hand and covered them with lightning speed before anyone could see which side was on which.

"If all three coins are heads, all your monsters must be destroyed! If two coins are heads, you must discard one card from your hand at random!" Faceless Man explained the Gambler's effect with a smug look on his face, stretching out his hand and pointing at each of the monsters on the field, as if he could already see the scene of all of the Gambler's monsters being destroyed.

"What about other situations?" Leyou countered.

"what?"

"There are four possible outcomes. Don't just tell me half of it. What about the other two? Is it that your monster gets destroyed, or your hand is discarded?"

"One face-up card destroys one card on my field; no face-up cards discard all cards in my hand," Faceless One glanced at Joyful and explained casually.

This is a stark contrast to how he previously explained the positive effects.

They were as skilled as if they were masters of face-changing.

"Tsk tsk tsk... To be honest, this is quite interesting. Well then, let your legendary gambling master reveal the answer!"

After saying that, Leyou pressed a button on his Duel Disk, and a burst of exciting music came out of the Duel Disk.

It was the background music that had been echoing in Leyou's mind, the one that represented the appearance of the "God of Gamblers".

Even though the results are in, as soon as the background music starts playing, Leyou feels like he has the illusion that he can rewrite the outcome of those coins.

The appearance of the background music added a sense of grandeur to the game, which was something that had never been seen before. The sudden music also puzzled the Faceless One, who wondered why someone would play music during a duel.

As if to avoid any further complications, he was somewhat impatient to have the gambler reveal the answer.

"Come on! Watch closely, your monster will soon be reduced to ashes... Moh?"

The Faceless One suddenly froze.

The opposite, the opposite, the opposite.

The air suddenly went quiet, and the scene became quite awkward.

But Leyou almost burst out laughing.

Depending on the effect, Faceless Ones need to discard all their hand cards.

The key point is that he was so confident and assertive just a moment ago, so this sudden reversal of his stance came rather quickly.

"They're all negative, but it's okay, it was just a minor accident!"

In his excitement, the Faceless One's hood slipped off, revealing the face of the castle dweller, an illusory face.

Just like when we first met, he still had a bit of naivety, and did not yet possess the tenacity that was unique to Jonouchi, the mortal will that embodied his pride.

"I have a second chance! Apply the second chance effect to start this coin toss again!"

The Faceless One looked no different from any other gambler who had lost everything, with bloodshot eyes and heavy breathing.

Like a drowning person clutching at their last straw.

A series of clinking sounds came from the magic card, and a handful of gold coins fell from the sky and into the magic card. Immediately afterwards, three coins flew out and into the gambler's hand, replacing the three coins whose outcome was already decided.

"Wow, so that's how it works... This is what they mean by 'money makes the world go round'?"

The way the magic card worked left Leyou completely bewildered. So that's how the second chance was obtained.

Having been given a second chance, the Faceless One immediately instructed the gambler to act again, tossing the coin high into the air once more before it gently fell.

Front...back, reverse.

"Hahahaha~~~ This is your gambling? You have Jonouchi's face, how come your luck is so embarrassing!"

Leyou was genuinely amused. He never expected that someone who played gambling decks and was staring at Jonouchi's face could be so embarrassing.

If there were even one more positive aspect, Leyou would consider this Faceless One worthy of his face, which bears a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to the Flowing Sky Savior Dragon.

This time, the Faceless One didn't have a third chance. The Gambler's effect took effect immediately; the pistol tucked into his waistband was already loaded and pointed back at its master.

Gamblers have no loyalty.

Gamblers only care about money.

Left with no other choice, the Faceless One, with a gun pointed at him, had no choice but to destroy the gambling master on his own field.

The Gambler's effect only occurs once per turn, so keeping it on the field is pointless.

It's quite ironic that the gambler ended up losing his life because of his own pleasure.

But...on closer reflection, there's no more fitting end for a gambler than this.

At the same time, the gunfire also took effect, but apart from dealing a negligible 500 LP damage to Leyou, it didn't have much of an effect.

Seeing the gambling den destroyed, Leyou sighed. He had thought he would witness something virtually impossible under normal circumstances, but in the end...

"In the end, it's just a false shadow... The real Jonouchi actually despises gambling. He might place his last hope on gambling when he's in dire straits, but he would never entrust everything in a duel to some vague and uncertain luck from the very beginning."

"In the end, it's just a fake."

"It's not over yet!" the Faceless One suddenly shouted.

"I activate the Spell Card [Monster Resurrection]!"

"I have resurrected the gambler from my grave!"

"And then! Let's gamble again!"

My assessment of Chapter Forty-Three is that it's inferior to the Demon Bell Cave.

Unrestrained desires are terrible.

Just like in certain works that are difficult to describe, some characters are activated with a strange hobby but cannot suppress their desires, so the final outcome is something that those who know, know.

Gambling, which is considered one of the "three evils" alongside that desire, is far more harmful than that desire.

It's like many people say things like "Heaven above, we are mortal enemies with gambling and drugs," but very few people say anything about gambling being above heaven.

After all, if you exercise a little restraint with one of them, you might at most become a little weak, but the other two can cause death if you get even a little bit of them.

At this moment, from Leyou's perspective, the state of the faceless person in front of him became very unstable.