Duels should be played with a smile.

As a result, his "stroke of genius" surrender completely disrupted his train of thought.

Defeating Leyou is something to be happy about, but... could that duel just now really mean he defeated Leyou?

Thinking about this, Jaden felt a lump forming in his throat again, just as he had felt relieved.

He just couldn't get it right when he thought about it!

Unless he lets Leyou get a good beating.

However... while he was communicating with the heroes, his senses were also amplified to an extreme, and he sensed that there was a being not far from here that he could not afford to offend.

Not to mention this is a virtual world. Even if you really harden your heart and beat this guy up, he will most likely call for backup before you can even make a move, leaving you empty-handed.

Modifying data is incredibly easy for Fire Dragon.

"Why did you suddenly change your mind?" Judai took several deep breaths, suppressing the urge to hit someone, and asked.

"I think that by suddenly admitting defeat like this, I'll definitely gain extraordinary joy~"

“Now it seems that’s true!” Leyou replied in a very irritating tone.

Blanching! Such a perfunctory and casual excuse? How can we tolerate this?!

The tenth generation has hardened! His fists have hardened!

But the next second, it went soft again.

What can you do in this place? Knowing the personality of the teacher he knows, this guy probably already had a bunch of ways to escape prepared before he started messing with him, right?

He remembered clearly that once he jokingly asked his teacher why he liked to tease others so much but never got into trouble.

At the time, his teacher replied: "As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, and a wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall. It is better to be prepared than to be afraid. In short, as long as I have many contingency plans to deal with various situations, I don't need to worry about my safety at all."

At that time, Judai didn't quite understand. Until one day, he saw his teacher suddenly decide to tease his three teachers' wives. But somehow, the three teachers' wives worked together to chase and intercept him for a whole day.

As a result, the next day, he saw his teacher appear in front of him as if nothing had happened, still flirting with one of the three teachers' wives, making Jaden feel that his card-drawing speed had slowed down a lot.

However, the fact that the teacher was able to escape unscathed from the pursuit of his three wives and then act as if nothing had happened suggests that there must be other factors involved.

For example, did he "tame" the three mistresses through a duel?

So, since that day, in addition to learning from his teacher to prepare various contingency plans, Jaden also understood the principle of "unless you are extremely strong, don't go looking for women."

Women will only slow down the speed at which he becomes stronger.

But Hubert is different; Hubert has no gender.

Therefore, he also knew that catching his teacher would be extremely difficult—this was undoubtedly one of the reasons he agreed to duel with Leyou.

Fighting him and defeating him is probably the only way to catch him.

"By the way, you won the duel, why are you still wearing that long face? You should smile!"

Come on, give me a smile!

The incredibly irritating voice rang in his ears, and Judai immediately put on the same expression as the old man on the subway with his phone. This infuriating vibe was just too perfect!

"What are you laughing at! If I did this to you, would you still be laughing?" Judai rubbed his chest, trying to catch his breath, and said in a low voice.

The low pressure was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Why can't I laugh?" Leyou put away the deck he had just finished organizing, and answered with a smile, the corners of his mouth turning up wide, which was enough to show how good he was in the mood.

"Huh?" Judai frowned again.

"If you did that to me, I'd just laugh really hard, because this ending would be completely unexpected, it would feel fresh and exciting, and I'd even be thinking about doing it again next time I have the chance..."

"So, why do you think I can't laugh?"

"Our duel won't involve anything serious, it's just a simple, ordinary duel. Neither of us is using any heavy-hitting, high-reward decks, and yet we still managed to come up with such a fun ending, so why can't we laugh?"

Magic Clock Cave isn't a major trap card; it's just an ordinary field spell card, so how can it be considered a major trap?

Besides, it hasn't even been used yet!

After a series of witty exchanges, Judai's questions were thrown back at him. Seeing that Judai was still frowning, Leyou couldn't help but sigh: "Ah, it's all a good thing~ We should all smile more."

"Let me ask you again, did you feel even the slightest bit of joy during this duel?"

“Happy…” Judai pondered, his furrowed brows gradually relaxing. “To be honest, I was happy for a while in the beginning and middle of the game… but because of someone’s perverse sense of humor, I could have been even happier when I won.”

"However, as I said before, I'm used to these unpleasant duels."

“You couldn’t have won anyway…” Leyou glanced at Jaden, muttered to himself for a moment, and then said, “I don’t think I’ll say anything meaningless like ‘enduring hardship’ to you, so I’m really curious why you take on everything yourself and end up like this.”

After a duel and a somewhat "interesting" ending, Jaden and Rayu's relationship is no longer as cold as before.

At the very least, both of them had let their guard down, but because of their special relationship, they couldn't completely open up at the moment.

However, having let his guard down, Jaden no longer needed to hide anything. Fortunately, there was no one around, and John and the others in the arena were doing quite well, so he didn't need to worry about anything. He walked over to Yuu's side, leaned against the wall with him, and slowly recounted his experiences.

As a protagonist, Jaden is naturally very good at talking, but his storytelling skills are only average.

What might have been a dramatic and eventful experience, when recounted by him, became a life story with some ups and downs.

He had been learning dueling from his teacher since childhood. Because of his teacher, he had good relationships with many legendary duelists and was also involved in some events that most people would never encounter in several lifetimes. However, thanks to the care of his teacher and elders, those events were not difficult for him and could even be said to be just a way for him to gain experience.

As a result, Judai developed a strong heart from a young age, and he was able to face almost anything without fear—the reason for "almost" is that he was helpless when facing his teacher.

Besides his excellent mindset, Jaden's dueling skills far surpassed those of his peers. He had never lost a duel in the true sense of the word—of course, this certainly does not include training matches against those legendary duelists.

Jaden's formidable strength and positive mindset made his path to growth incredibly smooth. Even when there were occasional setbacks, he could easily overcome them. Thus, Jaden grew up in an invincible manner.

Until he entered the Duel Academy founded by the Kaiba Corporation, until the sudden appearance of dimensional turmoil, until all the legendary duelists disappeared with the loss of the basic dimension, until Jaden and the entire academy were lost in another world.

Jaden's strength is beyond doubt. Even in the other world, he can stand up to protect the academy, as well as the teachers and classmates. During the initial period after entering the other world, Jaden was the spiritual pillar of the entire academy.

His prestige surpassed even that of the teachers in the academy.

And then... that thing happened.

The undefeated Jaden Yuki failed—he didn't lose to anyone, but he failed to protect everyone.

In his view, he himself had lost.

That will, forged from invincibility and undefeated prowess, quietly began to crack.

Along with this crack came rumors that spread out of panic—you can't expect everyone to be rational all the time, and you also have to know that the total intelligence of a group does not increase with the number of people.

What happened next was actually quite simple. Even though some people died, Jaden was still the strongest and the one everyone could rely on. So, after the rumors were gradually suppressed, Jaden continued to lead everyone in their search for their way home in the other world.

After many twists and turns, Jaden realized that he could not protect everyone. He led most of the people back to the shattered foundational dimension. Under the people's expectations, he took on the heavy responsibility and, under Yubel's guidance, awakened the dormant power within him called the Overlord.

In the story of the Overlord, there is no existence of the New Universe Knight; in the story of the Tenth Generation, there is a lack of timely setbacks.

The Overlord led the remaining people to rebuild the Fusion Academy on the ruins. He led his duelists to quell all the turmoil and led the rebuilt Fusion Dimension to defeat all the other dimensions at the first official exchange meeting of the four dimensions, thus gaining the qualification to make the Fusion Dimension the new foundational dimension.

When a tyrant takes action, the word "defeat" will never exist.

"Really... your story is like something a third-rate online novelist would just make up. It's completely meaningless."

"That's enough about the story of the Overlord. I have something I'd like to discuss with you..."

"But before that, let me give you a card first."

"It took me a lot of effort to figure out how to make this."

Leyou took out a card with a black border. As he took out the card, he felt a series of sharp pains in his chest.

"What card?" Jaden looked at Rakuyu, whose face had suddenly turned much paler, with some surprise and uncertainty.

During the time he spent with his teacher, he had never seen his teacher look pale.

Unless he and his three mistresses went out on business for several days before returning.

"It's not a special card..." Leyou took a breath and chuckled, handing the card to Judai.

"Just an ordinary hero card."

"【E☆HEROPitBoss】"

"【Entertainment☆Heroic Market Executor】"

Chapter 104 Could it be that I'm about to be released from prison?

"Interesting... Someone actually managed to take a portion of my power under the watchful eye of the world's will?"

In some unknown space, a golden dragon awoke from its slumber and slightly opened its enormous dragon eyes.

Countless images appeared in the dragon's eyes, with specks of silver light flowing within them. After a while, the dragon, which had just opened its eyes, closed them again, as if preparing to return to its dreamland.

"I thought it was the world's will acting crazy, preparing to pull some tricks again, but it turns out it's just him coming... Fine, he's coming, but why bother printing cards..."

"However, printing cards doesn't seem to have any impact on him. He already had the ability to print cards, and this seems to be the first time he's ever printed one?"

"But for your first time printing a card, why did you have to print my vest? This puts me in a bit of a bind..."

The dragon, with its eyes closed, remained motionless, its breathing gradually calming, as if it were immersed in an infinitely beautiful dream.

After all, you can have anything in a dream, or you can have nothing at all—for example, you can have Victory Dragon, or you can have no banned cards.

However, although the dragon appeared to be fast asleep, a well-hidden, mysterious power was quietly dissipated with each breath it exhaled.

"Alright, alright, give me some face. After all, my birth was thanks to Him, and now that He's printed his card on me, I should at least give Him some respect..."

"Ugh, back to sleep. This idiot world will is always watching me, making it impossible for me to do anything but sleep... Speaking of which, now that he's here, is there even the slightest possibility that I'll be able to do something else?"

"To be a dragon, you have to have some dreams!"

"Sigh... If I had known, I wouldn't have been so arrogant back then. Old Ai is so reliable; he's perfectly fine now, I wonder where he's off gallivanting off to... Sigh, I'm so jealous!"

……

"This is really interesting... I was wondering why I suddenly lost control of the virtual world. Turns out there's this little guy causing trouble here."

"Fate is truly wondrous. Perhaps this is the protagonist's privilege? Not long ago, I helped him break the seal of the world's will on his dragon, and now I've helped him retrieve his aibo... Is this kind of luck really the same person that Leyou mentioned as the 'lone star of ill omen'?"

He casually tossed aside the AI, which he had just retrieved from the chaotic data stream, to let it recover slowly, and then Philvo threw himself back into the work of sorting through the data.

After losing control of the virtual world, she blocked out all distractions and devoted herself to data processing until the massive data stream suddenly fluctuated violently for unknown reasons.

The violent fluctuation came and went quickly, but Philwart was surprised to find that after the fluctuation disappeared, the previously chaotic data stream began to slowly improve back to its previous good state.

Although the control over the virtual world is not as strong as before, it has at least been stabilized.

Upon discovering this, Philwar immediately began investigating the cause. Before long, she found a cluster of data within the chaotic data stream that, while equally disorganized, contained a core of complete logical chain.