The protagonist of the Yu-Gi-Oh! world might be the same person.

【Red-Eyes Blackblade Dragon: Attack Power 2800 → 3000】

Then, the blade on one of its right claws slashed horizontally, instantly forming a fiery blade that surged towards the poisonous man.

boom!

The fiery blade sliced ​​through the poisonous man's body and exploded into fragments in the blink of an eye.

"Yeah..."

[Yujo Jaden: LP4800→2700]

At that moment, Jaden immediately shouted, "At this instant, because I was injured, the monster effects of Increment and Multiplier in the graveyard are activated, so I set these two cards on the field as Continuous Trap Cards."

After the attack, there were other things to do in the castle. "I'll activate another effect of the Continuous Magic [Armed Training]!"

If you control an Equip Spell Card, you can activate this effect by sending 1 Warrior-Type FIRE monster or Gemini monster from your Graveyard to the bottom of your Deck. Draw 1 card from your Deck.

"I put the evil demon from the graveyard back into the deck, and then draw a card from the deck."

He glanced at his hand and revealed it, saying, "I activate the monster effect of [Black Steel Dragon] from my hand. While this card is in my hand or on the field, equip this monster as an Equip Card to [Red-Eyes] monster, increasing its ATK by 600."

A layer of black steel suddenly coated the Black Blade Dragon's blade, making it even sharper.

【Red-Eyes Blackblade Dragon: Attack Power 3000 → 3600】

"That concludes my turn."

The turn has now come to the Jadens' side.

"My turn, draw a card!"

[Yuki Jaden's hand cards: 1 → 2]

After glancing at his hand, Jaden said with a relaxed expression, "Finally, it's the last turn."

"So much confidence?!" Jonouchi's heart pounded. 'Is he really that confident? He's got the skills to compete with a gamer!'

"Let's go, Mr. Jonouchi!"

Jaden first threw out another card from his hand, "I activate the Spell Card 'Hero's Arrival' from my hand!"

"Pay half of your Life Points to Special Summon one Elemental HERO from your Deck through this card's effect."

[Yujo Jaden: LP2700→1350]

[Yuki Jaden's hand cards: 2 → 1]

"Come forth, [Elemental Hero Sky Knight]!"

Om-! !

A golden light flashed across the field, and Sky Warrior was projected in an instant.

【Elemental Hero Sky Warrior: Attack Power 1800】

"Furthermore, the moment Sky Warrior enters the field, you can add one [Hero] monster from your deck to your hand."

"I add [Elemental HERO Solid Warrior] to my hand and Normal Summon it."

As Jaden placed the card onto the Duel Disk, another light effect flashed across the field, and Solidman appeared.

[Elemental Hero Solid Warrior: Attack Power 1300]

Then he played his last card: "Spell Card [Phantom Fusion] activated!"

[Yuki Jaden's hand cards: 1 → 0]

"Send Fusion Materials from your hand or field to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 [Hero] Monster."

"When you have monsters on your field that are used as Continuous Trap Cards, you can banish up to two of those cards as Fusion Material."

"I used Skyman, Solidman, and Incremental Man on the field as materials for fusion."

The three heroes were then engulfed by the fusion vortex, radiating a dazzling light.

"Fusion Summon! Appear, [Phantom Heroes III: One Person]!"

As the light faded, a hero clad in crimson armor descended upon Jaden's field.

"The turn this card is successfully Fusion Summoned, this card's ATK becomes twice its original ATK!"

[Phantom Heroes III - One Person: Attack Power 2500 → 5000]

"The attack power is actually 5000 points...?" Jonouchi was a little surprised, but he was not flustered at all.

'Even if I'm attacked, the damage won't be enough to deplete my health. Plus, with the effects of Blackblade Dragon and Blacksteel Dragon's last words, I don't need to panic, hehe!'

Just then, Jaden suddenly swung his arm and shouted, "At this moment, Solidman's monster effect activates!"

"When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard by the effect of a Spell Card, Special Summon 1 HERO monster from your Graveyard in Defense Position."

"Awaken, Sky Knight!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Skyman reappeared on his field.

【Elemental Hero Sky Warrior: Defense 300】

"With the return of Sky Knight, another effect of this card is activated: destroy Spell and Trap Cards on the field based on the number of other HERO monsters you control besides this card."

"There were only three players on the field, so only one card was destroyed...?"

"Wrong, there are two!"

"Nani?"

Jaden pointed to the monster card in the back row and continued, "Phantom HERO, which is used as a Continuous Trap, also has another general effect: during both players' Main Phases (Speed ​​2), you can Special Summon one HERO monster from your field by Tributing it from the Spell & Trap Zone."

"Therefore, I chain-activate the effect, sacrificing the Sky Knight on the field as a tribute to Special Summon Multiplier in Defense Position!"

Sky Warrior vanished from the field amidst a flash of light, and Cardart in the back row immediately released a beam of white light, projecting the image of Multiplier once again.

[Phantom Hero Multiplier: Defense 700]

"That makes two [Hero] monsters besides Sky Knight...!" Jonouchi, who had been in the professional gaming scene for many years, immediately grasped the key point.

Sky Knight's effect doesn't target monsters; it only sets the target after activation. In other words, it doesn't target monsters. As long as you change the number of HERO monsters before the effect takes effect, you can increase the number of monsters destroyed.

"So at this moment, Sky Knight can destroy two Spell/Trap cards. I'll destroy your face-down card and [Black Steel Dragon]!"

Boom!

The two cards shattered instantly.

【Red-Eyes Blackblade Dragon: Attack Power 3600 → 3000】

"Not only that, when Multiplier is Special Summoned from the field, it can choose one monster on the field to gain 800 ATK."

[Phantom Heroes III - One Person: Attack Power 5000 → 5800]

"Attack power 5800 points!? I lost..." Jonouchi gladly accepted the result.

"It's over, the attack by the Thirty-One is over!"

[Jouchi Katsuya: LP2100→0]

Chapter 125 First Day of School, Edward Comes to the Door

"I won! What an interesting duel!"

Hearing Jaden's words, Jonouchi gave him a thumbs up again: "Hmm, that was a great duel! You've mastered the new deck very well!"

The latter didn't care about winning or losing the duel; in his mind, Jaden was practically synonymous with someone else.

After the duel, Jaden and Jonouchi exchanged their experiences.

Jonouchi volunteered to show Judai around Domino City, and the day passed quickly.

......

It was evening, still outside the Turtle Game House.

After playing all day, Jaden waved goodbye to Jonouchi and Sugoroku Muto: "See you next time, Jonouchi-san, Sugoroku-san!"

"Oh! See you again sometime, Judai!"

Goodbye, game. If you go home, I'll give you my regards!

The two waved goodbye to Judai.

Nighttime, in a hotel room, a young man with a starfish-shaped hairstyle is organizing his card deck.

Ring ring...!

A cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting his train of thought.

He put down his deck, picked up his phone, casually flipped open the card, and pressed a button. "Moshi moshi, Jonouchi-kun?"

After a long pause, he spoke up, "Really...? I'm glad you're having fun..."

Closing his phone, the young man murmured, "He's gotten stronger again... I really look forward to the day he graduates."

After that, the room fell silent again.

......

Time flies, and it has been almost two months since Jaden went on a trip to Domino City.

During this time, Jaden didn't go far from home again. Apart from occasionally going out on dates with Asuka, he didn't have anything special to do.

This situation continued until the Duel Academy started in October. The new semester finally arrived, and Jaden would begin his second academic year at the academy.

Jaden returned to Duel Academy aboard a cruise ship chartered by the academy, along with the freshmen of this year. The sea voyage of a few days passed quickly.

As soon as he stepped ashore, Jaden saw two teachers who had come to welcome the new students.

One of them was Professor Chronos, whom Jaden was familiar with. At this time, Chronos was riding high.

Based on his overall teaching evaluation last semester, he is a shoo-in for vice principal this semester.

But he received the notification a few days before the start of the semester.

Principal Samejima is away from the academy on business, so it has been decided that Chronos will serve as acting principal temporarily.

"I hope Principal Samejima won't be so quick to think about coming back to continue teaching. That way, once I've achieved something, I can become the official principal! Oh my god!"

Chronos thought to himself with a smug satisfaction.

Even after becoming the acting principal, he couldn't put on airs when he saw Judai. He greeted him warmly with a smile and said, "Judai-kun is back! It's been two months. I bet your dueling skills have improved even more!"

What he said wasn't exactly insincere politeness. After all, they had spent a year together. Although there had been some unpleasantness at the beginning, which made Chronos unable to hold his head high in front of Jaden, their later interactions had still fostered a bit of teacher-student friendship between them.

Upon arriving at Chronos's side, Jaden smiled and replied, "Professor looks very pleased with himself; you must have received a promotion and a raise."

Kuronostos suddenly became somewhat smug: "Principal Samejima is currently unavailable, so I'm temporarily serving as acting principal..."

He was about to boast a bit, but before he could finish speaking, he was pushed aside by another teacher next to him.

This was a short, stout, bald man with a slightly upturned mustache. He wore a dark green suit, just like Chronos, and looked like a traditional European nobleman.

Although this person's height only reached Chronos's hips, his arrogance was even greater than the former's, but this arrogance was restrained in front of Jaden.

He warmly shook Jaden's hand: "You must be Jaden Yuki, right? You are indeed a handsome and talented person, no wonder you are an outstanding student praised by all the teachers in the academy~ Diablo!"

"My name is Napoleon Malden. I just transferred to the Duel Academy's main campus. From now on, I'll be an instructor at the Duel Academy. If you have any difficulties in your life or studies, feel free to come to me for help~ Diaru!"

Hearing Napoleon's constant use of the slang "Diaru," Jaden's lips twitched, and he thought to himself, "He's the same type of person as Professor Chronos. It seems like the Red Dorm is going to be lively again."

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Napoleon and Chronos were of similar backgrounds, both descended from European noble families. Moreover, his personality was very similar to Chronos'. Like the original Chronos, he favored and promoted the 'top students' of the blue dormitory and discriminated against the 'poor students' of the red dormitory, wishing they could get rid of them as soon as possible.

Of course, Judai is definitely an exception. After all, his performance last semester was amazing. Even though he was wearing the red dormitory uniform, his grades and strength could not be ignored. That's why Coach Napoleon tried to please him right away.

Judai didn't linger at the dock. After exchanging pleasantries with the two teachers, he dragged his suitcase toward the dormitory.

Before leaving, Chronos added, "By the way, Judai. Because of your excellent grades last semester, we all agree that you can be promoted to the Blue Dorm. We'll prepare an opponent for you then, so take some time to prepare~ Nao Nai."

"Okay, I see."

After Judai left, the freshmen who witnessed this scene couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"Who is that person? They seem to have a good relationship with the teacher."

"It's not just that they have a good relationship; those two teachers are excessively kind to him!"

"They must be very powerful seniors, right?"