Duels should be played with a smile.

Inside the living room, Qiu and Carly were resting on the sofa with their eyes closed when Yusei pushed the door open and entered, instantly waking them up.

"You're here?"

Leyou nodded, looked around at the house, which was about two or three times the size of his former residence, and began searching for the Snow Woman.

"Um..." Qiu looked at Le You, who had a calm expression, with some embarrassment, and hesitated to speak.

Leyou immediately noticed Qiu's self-blame and said softly, "Just say what you have to say. The fact that you can still rest here with your eyes closed means that Xue Nu is doing well."

"In fact, we can't really say anything about her current situation."

"Ok?"

"That...it's on that table."

Looking in the direction Qiu was pointing, Leyou only saw a card... She didn't know what Qiu and Carly were thinking, but they even put a card sleeve over the card.

Leyou fell into deep thought.

"This...is a Yuki-onna?" Yusei leaned closer and saw only a fake card with a connection of 8. Even though he often traveled through time and space and was very knowledgeable, this was the first time he had ever seen such a scene.

"I think I understand..." Saying these words with the heart of a Kamen Rider, Leyou rubbed his temples, sighed, and gently picked up the card to examine it carefully.

The moment Leyou held the card in his hand, he understood that this was the current form of the Snow Woman. The connection between the two clearly told him that, although it was a bit far-fetched, the Snow Woman had indeed become a card.

But it doesn't seem to be a problem, after all, she was just a card to begin with? Now she's just turned back into a card.

However... these 8 arrows look obviously fake.

Thanks to the connection between the two, Leyou was able to get a general idea of ​​the Snow Woman's condition, and the anxiety that had been hanging over him finally subsided.

Holding the Snow Woman's card, Leyou's crystal chest began to flash, and his face turned pale at a visible speed.

This time, I was truly drained.

"Phew... She's fine. She just needs some rest and should be better in a while."

Le You let out a soft breath, feeling his legs go weak. Ignoring the strange looks from others, he sat down and leaned back on the sofa.

What's going on here?

"It's nothing. My relationship with her is a bit special. I just gave her a blood transfusion to speed up her recovery... It was my first time trying this method, and I didn't quite get it right. I'm a little weak now, so I'll rest for a bit..."

After catching his breath, Leyou calmed himself down and carefully manipulated the life energy within his body, slowly transferring it to the Snow Maiden.

Just now, I almost got drained without even realizing it... Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger. Leyou started to think about how old the Snow Maiden really was.

Judging from the current trend, it seems like I'll be drained dry several times a day for the next while...

I don't know if I can handle it...

Leyou was focused on channeling energy into the Snow Woman. Carly, Miki, and Yusei all remarked that they had never seen anything like it before. The somewhat heavy atmosphere was lightened by Leyou's actions.

The key person is currently undergoing treatment, and some others have not yet arrived, so the planned discussions have not yet begun, and everyone is doing their own thing.

Qiu and Youxing went into the kitchen. Carly sat on the other sofa and sent Jack message after message, but received no reply. This made Carly feel both annoyed and uneasy.

Long Ke had also arrived in the living room at some point. After learning about what had just happened from Carly, she lowered her head, lost in thought.

To avoid further problems, Leyou concealed the crystal on his chest. No one else noticed anything unusual about him; they only saw him resting with his eyes closed, though he was still holding a card in his hand.

"Sister Carly?" Long Ke tugged at Carly's sleeve and called out softly, but his eyes remained fixed on Le You.

"what's up?"

"Um... is Brother Leyou and Sister Xue Nu in that kind of relationship?" Long Ke asked with a hint of curiosity.

Carly was a little confused. She poked Long Ke's face a few times with her finger and replied, "Isn't it obvious?"

“Not just that… I mean…” Long Ke lowered his head somewhat awkwardly, poking his fingers in front of him. After stealing a few glances at Le You, he blushed and whispered in Carly’s ear, “You know, that kind of, more advanced, like you and Jack…”

Carly's face flushed red. Although she and Jack had long since progressed beyond that point, she was still a little flustered to be asked about this by a junior.

"A little kid..." Just as Carly was about to make up an excuse, she suddenly realized that Long Ke was no longer a little kid.

She was about the same height as me, or even slightly taller by half a head; she was a vibrant young woman.

"Well... I guess so, but why are you asking? Could it be...?"

Carly's keen senses told her that a big story was brewing.

Even if you round it up, it's still our own cabbage; we can't just let it be so easily...

"No, no." Long Ke waved her hands repeatedly. She didn't want Carly to have any strange misunderstandings. Although she was an adult now, she didn't know much about adult knowledge.

Longya protected her very well, keeping her away from any unsavory things—probably out of a sense of protection? After all, it's only natural for an older brother to protect his younger sister.

"What I mean is, could it be that because Sister Yuki-onna is an elf, Brother Leyou can give her... It's definitely impossible between humans, but between humans and elves, and between elves..."

"Oh, this is my area of ​​ignorance. Why don't you go ask him yourself?" Carly was a little unsure how to answer. Neither she nor Jack were elves, so they couldn't just give random answers.

"Uh... then forget it..." Long Ke shook her head awkwardly in refusal, but a strange idea flashed through her mind.

At the same time, Ryuya, who happened to meet Kro and Guiliu outside the door, suddenly shivered for no reason.

Because there is a security checkpoint to get from the lower city to the upper city, Guiliu and Keluo arrived a little late, but fortunately there was nothing urgent, so being late didn't cause any problems.

But Jack has never been seen.

After briefly understanding the current situation, Guiliu suggested contacting Jack again and then went to the rooftop.

Meanwhile, Crowe, who remained in the living room, was lost in thought.

"It seems that learning from him was definitely the right decision. Not only can he juggle three relationships at the same time and maintain high speed while keeping things stable, but he also has corresponding solutions when things go wrong, and he's even willing to sacrifice himself for treatment... I guess that's one of the secrets to his popularity with girls?"

At that moment, Kro even had the idea of ​​finding a card spirit as a girlfriend—compared to the complicated minds of humans, and the incredibly complex environment of Synchro Dimension, whether in the upper or lower city, it might be more suitable for his personality to connect with the simpler and more genuine card spirits.

However... after taking out his deck and looking through it, Kro felt that his idea might face considerable obstacles in its implementation.

This Blackwing deck... forget about cute girls, you can hardly find any female elves!

……

Feeling his own life force flowing into the fake card in his hand like a gentle stream, Leyou couldn't help but be curious about the Snow Woman's current state. He could only sense that the Snow Woman's current state was somewhat related to him, but lacking key information, he couldn't guess anything out of thin air.

As life energy was gradually depleted, Leyou felt that she had really become "weak" and didn't know how fast she was recovering.

He suddenly realized that he hadn't thought at all why he had started acting immediately after the idea of ​​helping the Snow Woman recover through blood transfusion came to mind.

They didn't think or calculate gains and losses like a "normal adult."

It's like, I thought of it, so I did it.

Everything was so natural.

But the next second, he shook his head, banishing the pointless question from his mind.

"This is good too... I usually think I'm quite selfish. If I really calm down and weigh the pros and cons, I might not be so 'selfless'."

"Get well soon... It's really hard to get used to suddenly having one less noisy and disruptive person to torment by my side."

"Get well soon, then tell me who did it, and we'll go and burn that thing to ashes, turn it into fireworks and set it off to calm you down..."

He's never been a coward; he just has more important things to do right now.

With his energy dwindling, Leyou felt a wave of drowsiness wash over him. The luxurious sofa he was leaning against provided him with unparalleled comfort, making his already sluggish brain even less inclined to continue functioning.

Not long after, a golden light flashed from the card in his hand, and Leyou leaned back on the sofa and slowly fell asleep.

However, he still didn't stop, and the crystal on his chest continued to sparkle.

However, it dimmed slightly.

……

Slowly opening my eyes, I was greeted by a magnificent sight.

Like a supreme god looking down upon the creations prostrate at his feet, as Leyou's consciousness gradually returned, he suddenly discovered that his field of vision was filled with the cosmos, and in the very center of the cosmos, four connected landmasses occupied most of his view.

"This is..."

As the question arose in his mind, a sense of enlightenment arose spontaneously, as if the teacher had thrown the answer key of the test paper in front of him. Leyou naturally understood the meaning of the scene before him.

What we see are the four dimensions of today—or rather, four different Earths.

Four different Earths exist in the same spacetime, yet they do not attract each other and cause a major explosion due to their connection. While closely connected, they are also, in a sense, unrelated to each other.

Strange, yet wondrous—that was Leyou's first impression.

But the next second, he suddenly realized something.

The Earth is round, and so are the four dimensions, but what appears to Leyou at this moment are four different continents.

A sphere can never be fully represented in a two-dimensional form, but no matter how Leyou observes it, he cannot find anything wrong with it.

"Could it be that... the scene before me is actually beyond my comprehension? So it has been transformed into a form that I can roughly understand, but because of the inherent difference, it is difficult for me to comprehend?"

After much thought, Leyou could only come up with one possibility...

The scene before my eyes seemed to come from the outside world, from an existence whose level of cognition surpassed mine.

It was strange, yet Leyou vaguely felt a sense of familiarity...

It seems... some things can't be delayed any longer.

"Leyou?"

Whether in her ears or in her heart, Leyou heard someone calling her name.

Looking around, but finding no signs, Leyou's clear mind made her realize that she might be dreaming or in a similar state.

“Here… I seem to have a certain degree of autonomy… So, let’s try this.”

Close your eyes and silently say "wake up." When you open them again, the scene before you changes rapidly.

Planets, dimensions, and the universe have all vanished, replaced by a somewhat familiar scene.

The sky was filled with stars, thirteen of which stood out most—one dim, one dazzling, and two of normal brightness, twinkling.

This place seems to be the place in my heart, in my consciousness, where the whispered spirits are recorded.

Before Leyou could figure out why she had come here again, the scene before her eyes changed once more.

"Enjoy your trip!"

The call rang out again.

It's the Snow Woman's voice.