Duels should be played with a smile.

According to the promotional video previously released by Haima, a press conference will be held there after the Duel Link development is completed.

When that time comes... the real show will begin!

……

In a high-end residential area of ​​Domino City, Leyu is lying on the sofa, counting on his fingers the various events he might encounter.

"Dartz seems to be making some moves. I haven't seen that Pyramid of Light, but it seems to be related to the strongest fishing dragon. Could these two dark forces be colluding with each other?"

"How about we just combine the later 'Light of Destruction' and 'Darkness' together? Consider it me helping Jaden finish his homework."

"To crush a snake god with no resistance, why would you need the Nameless Dragon? My assessment is that the Nameless Dragon is inferior to the Four Heavenly Dragons."

"I even wanted to kick down Dartz's door. I remember that guy's lair had something that looked a lot like Black Brother's Tower of Babel. If I took it and modified it, could it help me unlock the invincible Black Brother?"

Seeing that Leyou's thoughts were getting more and more out of control, the Snow Maiden who was manually making ice cream couldn't stand it anymore and roughly shoved the thick, big ice cream cone she had just made into Leyou's mouth to stop his unreliable mouth.

To ensure that the cold stimulation would cool down Leyou's mind, the Snow Maiden slowly leaned against Leyou again, found a comfortable position, and lay down on the sofa together.

"You know what? The way you were just now, you looked just like a trash-talking freak."

Several days have passed since my last visit to the museum. The Doma organization had shown some signs of activity before, but there hasn't been any follow-up recently. I wonder if they've been rendered powerless by Old Ai.

Nothing unusual happened during the previous visit. Perhaps, just as Leyou guessed, with 2.5 kings standing there, even if he, the Duel King, was just there to make up the numbers, most of the villains wouldn't dare to cause trouble.

These past few days, whenever Leyou had free time, he would play cards intensely with Ella, Yuki-onna, and the Dragon Maids in this newly acquired villa. Every day, he would go from being full of energy to being completely exhausted, which helped him pull his card skills back from DM mode to OCG mode. At least his skills in discarding G, Ash, Finger, and Meteor have become much more proficient. At the same time, he also strengthened the bonds between his deck and his opponents during the intense card games.

However, Little Blue still manages to precisely trap the ball in the hand every time, so it seems we can't take it out yet.

Yesterday, Isis called again to say that the Paradis Company, which sold the artifact, contacted her again, wanting to buy it back at a higher price. After consulting with the game, they sold it back, making a huge profit.

This operation is simply baffling; are you trying to inflate the data?

"Actually, if you really want to go to their door, it's not impossible, as long as you ask that 'woman' for help."

The Snow Woman wore a mischievous smile, which was seven or eight parts similar to Leyou's when he was having a bad time. She even emphasized the word "woman" when she mentioned it.

"Don't slander others when they're not around. According to your logic, she could have found Daz's hideout, so monitoring this place wouldn't be difficult for her. Be careful, you might get into trouble for what you say!"

The Snow Woman's smile froze instantly. She had only been thinking about teasing her older brother for becoming an older sister, and had completely forgotten that even if her older brother had become an older sister, he would still be the leader of the Electronic World Clan and the only god in the virtual world.

"Let's get down to business." Pretending nothing had happened, the Snow Woman forcefully changed the subject with a straight face. "She can help you find Dartz's lair, but it will take some time. After all, the technology level of this era is not high, which slows down her efficiency. But what you need to focus on now is something else."

Taking a document sent by Philvo from the dormitory's Dragon Girl, also known as Xiao Hei, the Snow Woman said, "Strange spacetime fluctuations have been detected around the Seahorse Park recently. Big Sister wants you to go check it out when you have time, instead of acting like a useless person all day."

"Seahorse Park? That place really is a great place to cause trouble."

Upon hearing this location, Leyou recalled the boastful words Haima had uttered a few days earlier when they met.

At the time, Leyou asked Kaiba what would happen to his dream of opening Kaiba theme parks all over the world if he devoted all his energy to the development of Duel Links.

At that time, the seahorse said something that Leyou also found particularly interesting.

"Once I accomplish this groundbreaking feat, I won't need to spend any more effort building the Seahorse Park myself. Instead, the whole world will be begging me to open the Seahorse Park in their countries!"

Bringing her thoughts back to reality, Leyou thought for a moment and then switched from lazy mode to fun mode, getting up from the sofa—playing cards is indeed great, but you also need to take care of your health, balance work and rest, go out for walks more often, and find other forms of entertainment.

For example, finding other people to play cards with.

With the help of the dragon maids, Leyou and Xuenu changed into more appropriate clothes and headed to the place with the strange spacetime fluctuations.

……

Today is a weekday, and Kaiba Park is relatively quiet. There are not many people on the streets. After the Duel City event ended, Domino City has returned to its former tranquility and leisure.

That's weird.

"I never imagined I would meet such an important person as you under these circumstances."

A cool white D-Wheel, a mask that lets you go to Gotham City and have fun with Batman, a hairstyle that looks like you're a pro at playing cards... This is the bravest person in Yu-Gi-Oh! history.

Who are you?

"It's normal that you don't recognize me. My name is Paradox, and I come from the future." The guy named Paradox, whom we'll call Uncle Pa for now, took off his mask, revealing a handsome face that rivals Leyou's.

Especially with a mixture of sadness and anger on her face, the combined charm is enough to make her a heartthrob.

Fortunately, Leyou doesn't like this kind of thing.

Meanwhile, Zone, still spying, glanced at Apollia beside him. Apollia was also looking at him. The two exchanged glances for a while and decided to ignore everything and just watch the show. What could they do? They couldn't beat them, and it would be too late to notify them. They didn't want to end up actually sending it to Uncle Calabash Brothers.

They could only hope that Leyou was in a good mood today, because they had also noticed that Leyou was pretending not to know Uncle Pa, clearly just looking for fun.

Of course, they also have some doubts now, because judging from the statement in Paradox, Paradox clearly knows Leyou. It seems that Paradox may have encountered something unusual when it travels through time and space.

"From the future? I'm quite curious now, what kind of important person will I be in the future?"

The moment the paradox and the pleasure of travel meet, a spacetime disturbance is created, and the future that this timeline will lead to will no longer be the future observed by the paradox.

Even so, Leyou was still curious about what the future he envisioned as a big shot would look like.

"Hmph, back in that era, you were a big shot known to everyone!"

"Oh? Tell me more?"

Uncle Pa's expression instantly turned serious, and the sadness and anger in his eyes intensified. Before he could even speak, Leyou could already sense that what he was about to say would not be anything pleasant.

And that is indeed the case.

"You are the culprit who led the duel to a hopeless future!" Paradox said with a sorrowful expression, as if making an accusation.

"It's all because of you! Because you taught Link Summoning to everyone, and then, in order to make money, you forced those who hadn't been recognized by the Spirits to get powerful Link Monster cards. As a result, the duels kept speeding up and speeding up!"

"You can't get powerful cards without being recognized by the spirits? What kind of rule is that?" Leyou couldn't help but interrupt the paradoxical statement and asked.

Leyou scoffed at the idea of ​​him accumulating wealth. Did he look like the kind of person who needed money? He only needed to call out to the system to send him money when he was broke, and a huge sum would immediately arrive in his account! That's how he bought his previous luxury residences!

So, based on my understanding of myself, that behavior was mostly because I was bored and wanted to have some fun, but ended up having a lot of fun.

"That's your masterpiece too!"

By this time, Zone and Apollia were completely bewildered. What was all this about? What had happened in this paradox? It felt like it was happening on a completely different timeline than what they were seeing.

"There's nothing bad about that statement. Even if you're a complete scoundrel, at least in this one thing, you did something good." Paradox changed his tone, adjusting his agitated emotions.

"On that day, you opened the passage between the real world and the elven world, and with your great strength and the powerful elves under your command, you enabled humans and elves to coexist peacefully and amicably."

"From that day on, duelists could gain the recognition of spirits through their own efforts or through good compatibility with them, and obtain all kinds of cards that housed spirits. From that day on, the spirit world, the human world, and dueling entered a new and wonderful era."

"But!"

"Yet you shattered the beautiful future you had created with your own hands! With countless cold cards, you destroyed all the duelists' dreams! With the most ruthless competitive deck building, you made the duelists abandon the decks with which they had deep bonds and throw themselves into the embrace of emotionless competitive decks!"

"Oh! I understand. Then I'll just print out powerful cards for myself from now on!" Leyou said, feigning sudden realization.

See, this is easy to solve. I only print cards for myself, so the others have no choice but to use their own bond card decks—and then get beaten up.

"Anything else?" Paradox's eyes were full of astonishment. He had thought that Leyou would be shocked, annoyed, or remorseful upon hearing such news.

But now, none of that is there.

"What? There's more?"

Don't you have any other thoughts at all?

"What other ideas could I possibly have? You're only talking about one of countless possibilities for me in the future. Even if I have some ideas now, who can predict what will happen in the future? Besides, your statement is just your side of the story. Your ideas don't represent everyone. In the entire dueling world, it's impossible for no one to like competitive decks. The bonds they've formed with competitive decks are definitely bonds, aren't they?"

"...It seems I was too superficial. As long as someone like you exists in this world, you will inevitably cause irreversible harm!"

The D-wheel transforms into a flight mode, leaving a paradox hanging high in the air.

"Therefore, in order for the world to develop normally, I have no choice but to ask you to leave the stage now!"

"Come on! The greatest duelist in history! The most despicable duelist in history! Pick up your duel disks and decide the future of the world with a duel!"

"I say...aren't you too self-righteous and arrogant? Even someone as arrogant as me wouldn't claim to be the one who decides the future of the world. What right do you have to regard your duel as a turning point in history?"

"Hmph, enough talk! Today I'm going to use my deck to blast you apart!"

"Duel!"

[Paradox LP: 8000]

[Leyou LP: 8000]

8000LP, no card draws at the start, and still an EX zone... it seems this paradox is indeed a bit different.

Chapter Ninety-Nine: One-Sided Pure Love God of War and One-Sided Minotaur Do Not Conflict

"My turn! I activate the Continuous Spell Card, [Sin Domain]!"

"As part of the effect's processing upon activation, I can also activate the Field Spell Card from my Deck: A World Buried with Sin! [World of Sin]"

Strange energy erupted from the D-Wheel, transforming the area into a more suitable setting for paradox.

This also separates this area from the present world.

Upon seeing this starting hand, Leyou raised an eyebrow: "You keep saying you'll defeat me with your own deck, but as far as I know, this deck isn't entirely yours, is it?"

"Oh? It seems you really are unique, even knowing this."

Paradox merely expressed his surprise at Leyou, but did not answer Leyou's question, because he was indeed suffering in silence.

He also wanted to use those powerful cards that Leyou printed in the future to beat Leyou up and let Leyou experience that hopeless future, but he couldn't get his hands on those cards!

At the very beginning, there was no Leyou on the timeline where Paradox is located. He traveled through countless timelines, intending to destroy Pegasus, the father of Duel Monsters, according to the original plan. However, when he arrived at that point in time, spacetime suddenly changed, causing him to get lost in spacetime. When he came to his senses, he found himself in the future of another timeline.

That time coincided with a period of harmonious coexistence and development between the human and elven worlds. The beautiful scene filled him with joy and relief after experiencing the destruction of the world. He felt that it was probably because his companions had intervened and changed history that the world was finally saved.

So he drove the D-Wheel through time again, intending to see if the direction of that time led to a bright future. If the future was good enough, he planned to stop there.

Then, he saw a future that resembled a hellish scroll—because of the existence of elves, many people obtained super powerful cards, but precisely because elves resided in the cards, something called the Forbidden Card List was abolished.

After all, others earned the elves' recognition through their own abilities.

Up to this stage, things were still alright. What was frightening was that with the disappearance of the banned card list, a large number of powerful cards without any spirits appeared – such as [Super Magical Dragon Knight - Red-Eyes Dragon Rider], [Crystal Machine - Inherited Fiber], [Predator Plant - Blue Lock Dragon Anaconda], and so on. These super powerful cards were stuffed into the decks of countless ruthless duelists who only cared about climbing the ranks and had no time for fun.

From that day on, the battles between duelists accelerated toward an infinitely accelerating future, never to return.

The investigation into the paradox suggests that the source of these powerful cards is very likely the man who was the top duelist of that era and held the title of Duel King.

He wanted to defeat that man and change that hopeless future, but he couldn't.

Because he was an unregistered person, he couldn't pass the identity verification of the Eternal System, and therefore couldn't obtain those super powerful cards through legitimate channels—stealing from others was definitely out of the question, since there were similar card ownership verifications, and at that time, his deck might not even be able to beat an ordinary random player who had added a bunch of ridiculous cards.

This further proves just how hopeless that future was.