A duelist never gives up!

"My girlfriend has always wanted to get that, but... we lost the year before last, and I didn't have time last year. But this year..." Akro glanced at his watch and said, "It's two o'clock now, and there are still four hours before the game starts. There's still time!"

"But... a doubles match requires two people. Didn't you have a fight with your girlfriend? Is she willing to go with you?" Yuan Qi said, and suddenly instinctively felt something was wrong.

"Your dueling skills are very strong, right?" Akro looked at Yuan Qidao dimly.

"Huh? Wait... you're not going to prepare..." Yuan Qi's face turned pale, but before he could say anything, he was grabbed by Akro and pulled out of the school.

"Stop talking nonsense! Come with me!"

"Wait! We want to go too!" Xuefeng hurriedly followed.

……

At the registration counter for the Qixi Festival Couples Doubles Tournament in Elro City, a staff member looked at the two people in front of them and said with some embarrassment, "Gentlemen, this is a couples doubles tournament, not a doubles competition. Only couples can participate."

"Who said we're not a couple?" Akro hugged the pale-faced Yuan Qi and said, "Does a couple have to be a man and a woman? Can't men fall in love with men?"

"This... this... please wait a moment, I'll ask my superiors." The staff member felt his brain was shocked, but he still followed his professional instinct, took out his mobile phone, walked aside and started making a call.

A moment later, the staff member came back with a tired look on his face. He looked at A Keluo and Yuan Qi and said, "Okay, you can come and register. But first, let me make it clear that you must have a certain historical achievement or status to participate in our competition, otherwise there will be too many people."

"I'm a teacher at the Duelist Academy and I have a teaching certificate," Akro said.

"I'm a student and I didn't bring my student ID." Yuan Qi said, covering his face.

"It's okay, you can pass." The staff member said with a stiff expression.

What the hell, homosexuality and a teacher-student relationship?!

After finally seeing the two off, the staff member was about to drink some water and relax, but the two people who appeared in front of him almost made him lose consciousness.

"Register," Julie said, hugging the petite Sera.

"I... need to ask my superiors for instructions." The staff member said with a forced smile.

After all, I just asked about male ketones. Maybe the standards for female ketones are different?

Chapter 45: Isn’t that your boyfriend?

"idiot!!!"

A burst of rude insults came from the phone in the staff's hand.

"Since we have agreed that men and men can form couples to participate in the competition, but we don't allow women and women to do so, isn't that discrimination against women? If it gets out, there will be big problems!" The staff member's superior yelled on the phone.

"But... one of them seems a little young. Is she a Tong cultivator?" The staff member couldn't help but ask, recalling Sera's petite body and tender cheeks.

"Girls are not going to get pregnant when they have sex, so why would you meddle in their affairs? I'm going to go accompany the boss to entertain the sponsors. In the future, use your brain and solve these kinds of trivial matters on your own."

As he spoke, before the staff could reply, the phone was disconnected with a "beep, beep, beep" sound.

"I made a mistake solving the problem myself, so I'm not the one to blame." The staff member grumbled, then returned to the registration office and said to the two, "You can register, but you need to have a certain historical performance to participate in our competition."

"Do members of the National College Competition champion team count?" Julie asked calmly.

"You think I wasn't watching TV? The champion team of this year's National College Competition..." The staff member's voice suddenly dropped. He rubbed his eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Are you contestant Julie?!"

"Yeah." Julie nodded.

"So... you are contestant Sera?!" the staff member looked at Sera in Julie's arms in disbelief.

"Yeah, yeah," Sera said perfunctorily.

"Wait, so..." The staff member suddenly realized that the face of the student in the teacher-student homosexual incident, although he was covering his face, looked a bit like...

"Contestant Yuan Qi is actually gay?!!!" the staff couldn't help but shout.

"Boom!!!"

Julie hammered the table hard, creating a small dent in the smooth surface. She said in a deep voice, "I think some things are better left unsaid."

"Gulp." The staff member swallowed and nodded quickly, "I don't know anything! I didn't see anything!"

"That's good. Can we register now?" Julie continued to ask.

"Yes, yes! Of course!" said the staff member, and was about to write Julie and Sera's names.

"Wait, will this competition be broadcast on TV?" Sera stopped the staff and asked.

"Of course it will be on TV. This is a great opportunity to promote our city," the staff member said with some pride. "Our city of Elro is a city themed around 'love'. In our city..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense." Sera waved her hand and said, "Can we use pseudonyms or code names?"

It's fine to simply participate in a competition, but if others see me and Julie competing in couples doubles on TV, my reputation and innocence will be ruined!

"Well...it's not impossible." The staff member said after hesitating for a moment.

"That's fine."

So, under the instructions of Sera and Julie, the staff filled in two fake names.

"Um... can we also use pseudonyms?" Xuefeng, who was standing in line behind him, poked his head out and asked.

Beside her, Nero was holding her hands, and they looked very intimate.

"You...are also a couple?" the staff member said with a curled lip.

"Hehe..." Xuefeng laughed dryly twice in embarrassment.

The staff felt that their three views were shocked. The entire team of Duelist Academy was actually all gay!

Is Duelist Academy full of homosexuals?!

Originally, he saw that the Duelist Academy won the championship again this year and planned to send his 16-year-old daughter to study at the Duelist Academy.

Now it seems... let it go.

…………

It was six o'clock in the afternoon. Because it was summer, the sun had not yet completely set, but the streets were already full of shops. On both sides of the shops, there were heart-shaped red hanging lights.

"Welcome everyone to our annual Qixi Festival Love Doubles Tournament in Elro City!" said the young female host, wearing a red dress and smiling as she stood before the camera. "The rules of this year's competition remain the same as in previous years. We will give each couple a heart-shaped gem. Participating couples must find other couples between 6:9 and : PM and duel over the gems. The four couples with the most gems will compete in the finals!"

"I heard there are over 60 couples participating this year. I wonder which four couples will make it through the thick of it all? Let me show you the status quo!"

In a brightly lit room, a woman in shorts lay on the sofa, eating barbecue on a plate and drinking beer. She pointed at the TV screen with a greasy finger and said to her bestie, "Why, aren't you going to the competition with your boyfriend this year?"

"No." The woman in the white dress took a bite of the barbecue and said lightly.

"Oh, you had a fight, didn't you? You only thought of me as your best friend because you don't have a man anymore, right?" The woman in shorts pretended to be sad and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Men and things like that are not important at all. I'll spend Chinese Valentine's Day with you this year!"

As she spoke, the woman in shorts stood up and prepared to pick up the remote control next to the TV to change the channel: "Change the channel, so that you won't be reminded of the past."

However, just as the woman in shorts was about to press the button to change the channel, the picture suddenly changed and a familiar figure appeared on the screen.

"Okay, we can see the competition has just begun, and it looks like a couple has already won a match. Let's go interview the winning couple." The host approached Akro, who was wearing a mask, and said, "Hello, I'm the host from Elro City TV. I think you just defeated a couple, right? Are you also a contestant in this Qixi Festival Couples Love Doubles Tournament?"

"Yes." Akro said in a deep voice.

"Then where is your lover?" The host looked around and found that Akro seemed to be the only one there.

Akro turned sideways, revealing Yuan Qi, who was also wearing a mask and had a slicked-back hair. "It's him."

"...Um, this...is a gentleman, right?" the host asked.

"Isn't it possible for men to have sex?" Akro asked back.

"Well... this is certainly possible..."

"..."

"Hey." The woman in shorts twitched her lips and looked hesitantly at the woman in the white dress behind her. "Although he's wearing a mask, if I'm not mistaken, he's your boyfriend, right? By the way, the reason for your quarrel couldn't be..."

The pretty face of the woman in the white skirt darkened, and she said coldly:

"Shut up!"

Chapter 46: Magic Dessert - Pudding Princess!

"What was the reason for the quarrel?"

After defeating another couple, Akro spoke while standing on the street and eating hot fried meat patties with Yuan Qi.

"Well, it's not that I can't tell you..." Akro scratched his hair and said, "What do you think of Duelist Academy?"

Yuan Qi was slightly taken aback, wondering what this had to do with the Duelist Academy, but he still answered truthfully, "It's one of the most well-known and best-quality academies in the entire continent. While the facilities aren't the newest, they have everything they need, and the teachers are also very qualified..."

"That's not it." Akro shook his head. "I mean, what do you think of the Duelist Academy's location?"

"It's very remote." Yuan Qi said, and suddenly realized.

"Yeah, it's very remote." Akro sighed. "There are few goods, the hospital is small, and there's nothing here or there. It's no different from any other small town in the remote part of the empire."

"When we were dating, it wasn't a big deal, but recently we're actually getting ready to get married, and she wants me to quit my job and move to a big city with her." Akro said, taking a light bite of the steaming meat pie and saying lightly, "I don't really want to go."

Yuan Qi opened his mouth but didn't say anything. After all, he had been single since birth and had no experience in this kind of thing.

"Big cities are indeed good." Akro didn't expect Yuan Qi to answer. He looked at the bustling streets around him and said with a hint of sadness, "There are many products, good facilities, a developed economy, and convenient transportation..."

"But I really like our college. I graduated from our college. Without it, I wouldn't be who I am today." At this point, Akro couldn't help but complain, "Besides, a small town has everything it needs. So what if the conditions are a little worse? It's not like I don't have food or clothes..."

Yuan Qi listened silently to Akro complaining beside him and ate his meat pie without saying a word.

"Ugh."

Akro ended the topic with a sigh and said to Yuan Qi, "Keep going. I don't know how many gems the others have. If we don't make the top four, we'll be in trouble."

"Yeah." Yuan Qi wiped his mouth and pointed to a group of couples not far away who had just finished a duel. "Let's go find that couple. They just won a duel. Maybe they have more than two gems."

"Those two... look familiar. They seem to be last year's runner-up couple, Mary and Ryan, right?" Akro said, looking at the two people not far away. "They are both registered professional duelists in the alliance, but they don't hold any positions."

"It's not a big problem." Yuan Qi took out his deck and said.

He doesn't understand things about love.

But playing cards.

He is a professional!

"Do you want to duel with the Heart Gem at stake?" Yuan Qi spoke to the two of them.

"Little brother, if you only have one, it won't work." Mary, who was wearing a light yellow skirt, looked at Yuan Qi and chuckled.

If you bet one by one, the speed is too slow and there is no way to distance yourself from others within three hours.

Yuan Qi stretched out his palm, and seven small gems lay quietly on it.

"You've already collected seven of them after only half of the game?" Ryan's pupils shrank sharply, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. "It seems you are no ordinary person. Come on, where is your partner?"

"Here." Akro raised his hand and walked over slowly.

Mary & Ryan: “……???”

"Is it okay to bet six love gems?" Ignoring the shocked expressions of the two, Akro spoke directly.

Mary and Ryan looked at each other, and both noticed the doubt in each other's eyes. Finally, Ryan said, "No problem, let's get started."

They just happened to have seven heart gems, so betting on six was just right.

As for losing?

As long as you have a heart gem, there's still a chance!

"it is good."

Yuan Qi and A Ke Luo stood in a row, each holding up their duel disks and shouting, "Duel!"

"duel!"

"drop!"

Yuan Qi's duel disk made a clear sound, which meant that he could choose who would go first or second.

"I choose to go first." Yuan Qi said, drawing five cards from the deck.

The rules of this doubles match were different from the rules of his previous doubles match with Xuefeng.

The rule adopted is that both parties share the venue and cemetery, and the order is a1, b1, a2, b2.

Because of the deck, the original seven is a1.

"I can't draw cards on my first turn as I go first. I'm entering the Main Phase." Hara Nana said, slapping a card from his hand onto the Duel Board. "I Normal Summon Madeline Witch."