Duels should be played with a smile.

"Seal my effects? Then I'll just use the simplest and most direct method: kick your dragon to death!"

Leyou was actually a little curious: if this monster appeared here, would something interesting happen?

This isn't the original DM; this is a mixed dimension.

But what does it matter? What bad intentions could he possibly have?

He was just very curious and wanted to have some fun.

"Chain your Demonic Chains and activate the Trap Card [Tyrannosaurus Soul]!"

"Pay half your LP to activate this effect, Special Summon 1 [Tyrannosaurus Rex Zach] from your Extra Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions and negating its effects!"

"Four Heavenly Dragons! Hear my command! Unite as one! Descend here!"

[Dark 12★ Dragon 4000 Attack Power]

Without much fanfare, perhaps because the effect was ineffective and it was specially recruited, and without any Pokémon possessing it, Tyrannosaurus Rex Zak arrived on the field in an unremarkable manner.

It's probably rather ordinary, if you don't count its enormous body that occupies the entire sky.

"What's this?!"

The same question was asked by Jack and countless other viewers: the last time Jack saw such a huge monster was when he was fighting against the Earthbound God.

The other spectators had basically never seen a monster of this caliber before.

A brief commotion arose in the audience, but to Leyou's surprise, the commotion did not last long before it subsided.

Zach's arrival only caused this minor commotion; nothing more.

"That shouldn't be the case... Surely there can't be a single Pendulum Dimension person in the audience? Even if there aren't any, the organizers must know who Zack is, right? Or has something strange happened to Pendulum Dimension?"

Observing Jack's expression closely, Leyou could not find anything unusual except for a slight surprise.

Unable to figure out the reason, he could only put the problem aside for the time being and let Philvo investigate it first, and then think about the problem after the duel was over.

"Wait! Before you recruit me, I need to activate my enhanced abilities!" Jack suddenly snapped out of his daze and said with a hint of panic.

So shocked by Zach's overwhelming reminder, he had completely forgotten about the chain.

However, in a duel, a small mistake is no big deal. Anyway, Leyou has no way to counter it, and it's too lazy to care about losing all its G.

After G's effect allowed Jack to draw a card, Leyou checked his face-down cards again.

He suddenly remembered... it seemed... it appeared that after this chain reaction was resolved, the duel had a new possibility.

"Effect resolution: I draw 1 card, you Special Summon, Demon Chain takes effect, the effect of the Primal Beast is negated, and I can still activate monster effects this turn!"

"Therefore, I'm going to activate the second face card!"

"Trap Card [Synchro Summon]! Target Creator in my Graveyard, negate its effect and Special Summon it. Synchro Summon 1 DARK/Dragon-Fiend Synchro Monster using monsters on your field that include that monster as materials!"

Jack's intentions were quite obvious, practically written all over his face.

The cards that Leyou previously set aside were cards that, after a series of wondrous effects, could produce extraordinary results in this turn.

"Then I'll chain your cards and activate the Trap Card [Synchro Barrier]! Tribute one Synchro Monster on my field to activate this effect; until the End Phase of the next turn, all damage I take becomes 0!"

After paying half of the LP for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Leyou still had more than 10,000 LP.

Two rounds of immunity to damage, plus over 2 LP, Jack, who was just a little happy about passing the level with a G, now had his face darken again.

I'll never duel with this person again; it's too much of a prison sentence.

"Hmph! If you think this method can buy you time, you're sorely mistaken!"

"Oh? Is that so?" Leyou smiled, a smile that seemed utterly harmless. "What if I told you that this card of mine is the key to defeating you this turn?"

Do you believe it?

Chapter 82... no more fighting.

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Chapter 83 When you're tired, you should rest well.

Lost.

In a way he had never imagined, Jack was defeated in this duel.

As Jack drove the D-Wheel smoothly off the track, a sense of unreality still lingered in his mind.

On the one hand, it was because of the long-awaited defeat.

On the other hand... come to think of it, it seems that he hasn't accepted the fact of failure so calmly in a long time.

The last time was back then, due to some unforeseen circumstances, he was forced to duel with Carly.

It's hard to know what Carly was feeling at the time, but he lost to Carly for some reasons that are inconvenient to say, and his fate was to suffer a complete defeat.

Suddenly recalling the past, the last time I lost but didn't crash and burn was a long, long time ago.

The stadium was filled with cheers, mostly for Leyou, but a small portion was for himself.

Even though he was the loser in this duel, he still displayed his charisma, and his charm was enough to attract the audience and make them cheer for him.

Often, audiences are actually very simple and lovely; if you give them a wonderful performance, they will be generous with their praise.

Of course, this only happens most of the time, not all the time.

"No... I've become sentimental and overthinking just because of one failure? How ridiculous! When did I become such a weak person?"

"If you fail, you fail. This guy is a top-tier player in terms of both skill and strategy. I accept defeat wholeheartedly."

The D-Wheel had slowed to a safe speed and detached from the track. Jack looked up, wanting to look around the arena and see what the audience was like, but the first person he saw when he turned his head was Leyou, who was also driving the D-Wheel and smiling as he approached him.

"Hey! Looks like you're in a great mood!" Leyou greeted him.

Perhaps because the duel was over, or perhaps because Jack genuinely sensed that there was no malice in Leyou's words, Leyou's relaxed demeanor, which might have been mistaken for provocation or mockery, was no longer as annoying to Jack as it had been during the previous duel.

Of course, the fact that he doesn't sense any malice doesn't mean he'll treat Leyou kindly.

"What are you doing here? If I remember correctly, your players' lounge is on the other side," Jack said in a dismissive tone.

He didn't even stop the D-wheel.

"The players' lounge is over there, that won't stop me from making friends with you!"

"As the saying goes, after a duel, you become friends. After the duel we just had, I wonder if you would be willing to be my friend?"

After the race ended, Philvo no longer needed to help control the D-wheel. As Jack slowly moved forward, Leyou slightly increased its speed to make its D-wheel level with Jack's.

This made it easier for him to extend his hand and give Jack a friendly handshake.

"Friends?" Jack looked over, somewhat puzzled.

He couldn't quite understand how this person, after defeating him in a way that would be extremely humiliating for a loser—beating him to death—could still have the nerve to say they wanted to be friends.

Was it intentional, or is he just heartless?

"Is there a problem? In a duel, there are winners and losers. Losing is just a normal thing. Today I defeated you, but next time you might defeat me."

"Do you really think you can reject a friend just because of a duel?"

Sensing that Jack didn't seem to be rejecting him, Leyou, like some people with terrifying social skills, took advantage of Jack's situation and struck while the iron was hot.

According to his understanding, Jack is also quite rigid in handling interpersonal relationships. As proud characters, Jack and Seahorse are basically the same in this respect.

Leyou's question stumped Jack. As someone who was somewhat "out of touch with reality," Jack didn't really have much experience when facing strangers.

At least in his previous experience, very few people would take the initiative to approach him and ask to be friends.

His few friends were mostly people he was forced to befriend during his time in the Manchukuo team. They weren't even friends at first; they were just "accomplices." It wasn't until they went through more things together that they naturally became friends.

After Leyou asked the question, Jack thought for a long time with a straight face. When he still couldn't think of a way to answer, he threw out a universal answer.

"Hmph, whatever."

The next second, D-wheel accelerated instantly within the speed limit zone and fled as if escaping.

"Hey hey hey... What's all this about? I'm not some monster, why are you, a former Duel King, acting like a victimized little wife?"

Jack's swift escape left Leyou without a target. He hadn't really figured out how to talk to someone like Jack, since he wasn't familiar with him. Now that Jack had slipped away, he had no choice but to turn around and return to his lounge.

The two main characters have left, but the noise in the arena shows no sign of stopping. In a sense, this duel started strong but ended weakly, but it also brought the audience a special viewing experience unlike any other duel before.

In the past, most duelists, except for some decks that were not good at using big monsters to attack, would basically use their ace monster to end the game in the final stage of the dueling tournament.

It's rare to see a situation like Leyou's, where he barely lifts a finger but still manages to beat the opponent to death.

After all, in the minds of most duelists, an indispensable part of an intense duel is the passionate interaction between the two sides' ace monsters and the final powerful strike. In the duel that just ended, these elements were not entirely absent, but they were quite different from what the audience expected.

However, this discrepancy also brings a surprise to the audience.

The first semi-final match already provided such an extraordinary viewing experience, so what will the second match and the final match be like?

The professional commentator accurately grasped the audience's thoughts, and as the intermission was about to end, he used this question as a starting point to reignite the atmosphere that had cooled down slightly due to the short break.

"It's your turn to go on next."

"Hmm... But for me, it's just an ordinary duel, nothing to worry about."

In Ella's players' lounge, the two were having a brief conversation.

Don't ask why Leyou doesn't go back to his own rest room; what's fun about being all alone?

"Indeed... your competition here is practically no different from frying fish."

I glanced at Ella's next opponent's information; he was a guy with a somewhat cool hairstyle, but not quite cool enough.

With only two hair colors, she's generally considered a minor character at best.

"Wait a minute... this person looks... familiar?"

Upon seeing the name "Zedu" in the name column, Leyou searched through his memory and finally recalled in a corner who the owner of this name was.

Hmm... he is indeed a supporting character, a nobody.

Thanks to the excellent performance of the A5 anime in various aspects, Leyou still has some impression of the character Zedu.

"By the way, when I summoned the Tyrannosaurus Rex, did you sense any change in the emotions of these spectators?"

"Emotional changes?" Ella looked down and recalled for a moment, then shook her head. "From the moment you came on stage, I have been paying attention to the emotions of the audience. Because it is a virtual world, my senses are not entirely accurate, but most people's emotional changes from beginning to end are consistent with the changes in the duel situation. At the moment you summoned the Tyrannosaurus Rex, no special emotions appeared."