A duelist never gives up!

"Ah."

"So……"

"duel!"

"duel!"

Snow Wind: 4000lp

Nero: 4000lp

"drop!"

"I'll take the first move," Xuefeng said, holding up the blue duel disk.

I have always been helped by classmate Yuan Qi, and this time, it’s my turn to help him!

"I enter the Main Phase and Normal Summon Rokka's Petal." Yukikaze placed the card in her hand on the Duel Board. Soon, a little girl with long blue hair holding a flower-like umbrella appeared on the field. "Next, I activate Rokka's Petal's effect and add Rokka's Snowdrop from the deck to my hand."

"Then I activate Snowdrop's effect, releasing one petal of Rokka on the field, and Special Summon Rokka Heather and this card from my hand to the field."

So, the blue-haired little girl on the field was sent to the cemetery, and was replaced by two young and beautiful girls who appeared on the field.

"I cover a card and the turn ends."

"Great!" Mina couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly as she looked at the two monsters on Yukikaze's field. "In the first round, he summoned Heather with an attack power of 2400 and Snowdrop with a defense power of 2600. As expected of Yukikaze! I want to see how this little brat will deal with it."

"Oh, I was wrong." A sigh came from Mina's side. Mina turned around and found that it was her childhood sweetheart Qingshi who was standing beside her with a sour face.

So without saying anything, Minai poked Qingshi hard with her elbow and said dissatisfiedly, "What do you mean? Did you come here just to contradict me?"

"Stop, stop, stop! No violence!" Qingshi begged for mercy. "You guys are making too much noise over there. Not only me, but many people are coming over here."

Mina then realized that everyone around her had stopped practicing and slowly gathered around.

"Won't the teacher do anything if they surround us like this?" Mina asked unhappily. She had seen how annoying the onlookers were, and they could talk at once and say anything nasty.

"The teacher said that if it was a duel with Nero Arisa, they would definitely benefit a lot." Qingshi said helplessly.

"What? A girl with bad character like that, no matter how cute she looks or how good she is at dueling, I wouldn't want to watch her duel!" Mina said angrily.

"This is the Duelist Academy, after all." Qingshi knew his childhood sweetheart's temperament and patted her on the back. "Just turn a blind eye."

"Forget it, what do you mean by 'wrong' just now?" Mina said with narrowed eyes.

"The strategy was wrong." Qingshi stared at the duel field with dark green eyes and said calmly, "According to the intelligence I gathered, this little girl of Arisa seems to be mainly attacking from behind. Yukikaze's choice of attacking first just suits her purpose."

"Attack from behind? What deck does she have?" Mina asked in surprise.

"Have you forgotten? Arisa is from a ritual family." Qingshi seemed to have foreseen the outcome of this duel.

"Don't tell me riddles!"

"Ahem! Soul Bird! Her deck uses Soul Bird!" Qingshi raised his hands in surrender. "If Xuefeng had chosen to attack later, she might have been able to kill quickly with her high attack, but if she attacked first... I'm afraid she'd just get OTKed."

Perhaps because he was a little excited, Qingshi's voice reached the ears of others and also reached the duel arena.

"Soul Bird? What deck is that?"

"I haven't heard of it... Wait, I remember there was a professional duelist whose deck used Soul Bird?!"

"You're kidding, right? You're a student using a professional duelist's deck, right?"

"..."

"Soul Bird?" Xuefeng was a little confused when she heard this unfamiliar word. She had never heard of this card deck.

"Does anyone know my deck?" Nero murmured. She was indeed using the Soul Bird deck, but for some reason it was only a defective version. But to deal with students... it was enough.

"My turn, draw a card."

Nero casually drew a card from his hand and inserted it into the black duel disk. "I enter the main phase and activate the magic card - Ritual Preparation."

"Its effect is to select 1 Ritual Spell Card from your Deck, then select 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck or Graveyard with the name of that Ritual Spell Card. Add those two cards to your hand." Nero continued, "I add Soul Descendant and Soul Bird God - Hiko Peacock to my hand."

"Tsk, there's a Hu dog." Qingshi couldn't help but say, "It's coming."

"I activate the magic card - Soul Descendant, send the Thunder Emperor Zabolg in my hand to the graveyard, and ritually summon the Soul Bird God - Yan Peacock from my hand." Nero slapped the ritual monster in his hand on the field indifferently.

But in contrast to her calm expression, a dazzling and huge mysterious green light appeared on the duel field, and then a man in peacock clothes appeared on the field with a sword in his hand.

"This... is this the ritual summons?" Mina asked in surprise.

"It's so easy to summon a monster with an attack power of 3,000... No, attack power is not the key." Xuefeng felt an invisible pressure from the monster on the field. There was no mistake, this feeling... This monster must have a powerful effect!

"Immediately afterwards, I activated the effect of the Soul Bird God - Yan Peacock..."

"Activate this effect only if this card is Ritual Summoned successfully. Select up to 3 monsters on your opponent's side of the field and return them to the owner's hand. Afterwards, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Spirit Monster from your hand, ignoring the summoning conditions."

Chapter 35: There is no fairness in a duel

"chain!"

At this moment, Xuefeng opened his face-up card: "I activate my Trap Card Breakthrough skill, targeting the Spirit Bird God - Hiko Peacock on your field, negating his effect!"

"That was a close call!" Mina, who was watching the fight from the side, almost had her heart jumping out of her throat.

Unexpectedly, it has the same effect as Tiramisu, which does not depend on the target of the bullet card. In addition, with an attack power of 3,000, once it is successful, the opponent will basically have no power to resist.

"It's not over yet." Qingshi couldn't help but say, "Don't forget, she has only used two cards in her hand so far. She still has five cards in her hand at most. Yan Kongque doesn't have one per round. If she ritually summons Yan Kongque again..."

"There's actually more than one of those powerful monster cards?" Mina said with her mouth wide open.

"A powerful card of that strength... is only for us." Qingshi said calmly, "For the Arisa family, Hiko Peacock is probably not a strong card. It's possible to play all three."

Nero did not play three Peacocks. In order to prevent getting stuck, she only played two.

But sometimes the card still gets stuck. Nero looked at the card and frowned slightly: "I enter the battle phase and use Yan Kongque to attack the six-flower spirit Heather."

Snow Wind: 4000lp → 3400lp

"Then, my turn ends."

"Could this be a case of...something stuck?" Qingshi asked suspiciously as he watched Nero's operation.

"Your hand is stuck? Serves you right!" Mina grumbled, "It must be because you've done so many bad things, so this is retribution!"

"Um, I think... the hand jam has nothing to do with this kind of thing." Qingshi on the side seemed to remember something, and his face looked a little unnatural.

"Otherwise, why didn't others get stuck?"

"..."

While the two were discussing, it was already Xuefeng's turn in the duel.

"It's my turn, draw a card." Xuefeng looked at the card he had drawn, his eyes lighting up as he inserted it directly into the Duel Board. "I activate the Spell Card - Planet Transformation, adding the Field Spell Card - Water World to my hand!"

"I then activate the Field Spell Card Water World. All Water monsters on the field gain 500 attack points and 400 defense points!"

"Immediately afterwards, I Normal Summon Lone Flower, I Release Lone Flower, and Special Summon from the Deck—Rokkakusei Iron Chopsticks!"

"Due to the effect of the water world, the attack power of the iron chopsticks has increased to 3100!"

"This way, our attack power will exceed Yan Kongque's!" Mina waved her little fists, looking very happy.

"It's not over yet!" Xuefeng said, inserting a card into the Duel Disk, "I activate the Normal Spell Card - Earth Shatter!"

"Its effect is to destroy the monster with the highest defense on your opponent's field!"

As Xuefeng's voice rang out, the onlookers who were originally whispering suddenly exploded.

"Eh?!"

"Wait, Earthshatter?!"

"If that's the case... wouldn't it be possible to kill him?!"

"Is there going to be an upset?"

"I think the youngest daughter of the Arisa family is just like that. I can easily defeat her in her place."

"Xuefeng... does he have such a card?" Mina was slightly stunned. She and Xuefeng had known each other for so long, how come she didn't know that Xuefeng had such a powerful card?

Of course, the previous Xuefeng did not have this card. This card belonged to the man in black No. 1, but now it has become Xuefeng's.

"Because you only have one monster on the field, Hiko Peacock, Hiko Peacock will be destroyed and sent to the Graveyard."

"Next, I turn the Snowdrop on the field into attack position, and then... I enter the battle phase!" Xuefeng turned the Snowdrop on the duel disk into attack position.

3100+1700=4800, I won this duel!

"I'll use Snowdrop and Iron Chopsticks to attack you directly!"

The huge impact directly rushed towards Nero's weak body, and a cloud of white smoke was raised in the huge duel arena because of the impact.

"We won!" Mina couldn't help but shout.

"Wait!" Qingshi hurriedly stopped Mina who was about to rush into the duel arena and said, "The duel isn't over yet!"

Xuefeng, who originally thought she had victory, suddenly felt something was wrong. When the smoke cleared, she saw that the petite figure opposite her was still standing straight.

Nero: 4000lp.

An eerie silence filled the training room for a long time before someone finally couldn't help but ask:

"I say, something's wrong, right? Shouldn't her LP be reset to zero?"

"I don't know. She clearly has nothing on the field. Wait, what's with that monster? When did she get a monster on the field?"

"I don't know! Could it be Yan Kongque's last words?"

"Should I say...it's worthy of the Arisa family?" After seeing the monster on Nero's field, Qingshi understood the current situation in an instant and said with a bitter smile.

"What's going on? Shouldn't Xuefeng have cleared her LP to zero? What's going on with that monster on the field?" Mina said in confusion.

"There are no monsters on the field and no covered cards. In this situation, that's the only thing that can work, right?" Xuefeng also realized it. After all, she had seen it with her own eyes.

At this moment, Nero spoke, "As you declare an attack, I activate Warbreaker in my hand. Its effect is that it can only be activated when the opponent's monster declares a direct attack. This card is Special Summoned from your hand, and then the Battle Phase ends. If this card Special Summoned by this effect leaves the field, banish it."

"Sure enough, is it a hand trap?" Xuefeng bit her lower lip and said unwillingly while looking at the War Eliminator on Nero's field. She was so close to winning, but after trying her best, she couldn't even touch the opponent's LP?

"With only 4000 LP, isn't it natural to put an attack and propaganda pit in the deck?" Nero didn't understand why the people around him looked surprised.

I would like to invest, but I don’t have a card!

Qingshi couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"It's actually possible to use cards from your hand to activate effects..." This was Mina's first time seeing a hand trap with her own eyes, and she hadn't recovered from her shock yet. "Aren't they said that only professional duelists or even top duelists have such powerful cards? Why is she, a student..."

"Mina." Qingshi held Mina's hand. "Some people are born at the top. There's nothing you can do about it."

"But...but this is too unfair to Yukikaze, right? This is a duel between students, why would a card of this strength appear?!" Mina couldn't understand.

Qingshi didn't know how to explain to his childhood sweetheart, because in a sense, he and Nero Arisa were the same kind of people.

As the second son of the old Red-Eyes family, although the family has gradually declined, the assets left by generations have also allowed him to own many rare cards that ordinary duelists cannot obtain. He started dueling at the age of five, mastered Fusion Summoning at the age of seven, and learned Synchro Summoning at the age of twelve. In a few years, when Xyz Summoning becomes common, he may also master Xyz Summoning.

Of course, this is not because of his special talent, but because his family has been constantly pouring resources into him. If it weren't for the help of his family, he might not even have a fusion monster now.

Therefore, he could only grit his teeth and helplessly say under Mina's puzzled eyes:

"There is no fairness in a duel."

Chapter 36: I will do my best!

"You probably don't have any usable cards in your hand, right? Can the turn be over?" Nero said calmly to Xuefeng.

An excellent duelist must constantly calculate the amount of resources owned by both his opponent and himself in order to make the next move and even predict the opponent's strategy. But now, Xuefeng has no cards left in his hand, and both monsters on the field are eight-star. Even if he adjusts the monsters, it is impossible to synchronize a 16-star monster. There is only one breakthrough skill in the graveyard that can be used as a graveyard resource.

In this situation, except for the over-summoning, it is impossible for Xuefeng to allocate resources.

"My turn is over."

As expected, she doesn't over-summon.

There was a hint of disappointment in Nero's eyes.

"My turn, draw a card."