A duelist never gives up!

"Anyway, this is what happened. Go and assist him."

"So... is this also surveillance?"

A hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.

Zhu Xiu was silent for a moment, then said, "It's not surveillance. Yuan Qi is a student of our college, and I want to trust him."

"I understand."

"..."

"I say, you must have known this a long time ago, right?" As soon as he left the office, Ai couldn't help but lean over to Yuan Qi's ear and ask.

"You already knew what?" Yuan Qi blinked, not understanding what Ai was talking about.

"Playing dumb, huh?" Ai angrily punched Yuan Qi's back with her pink little fist. "Just now I asked you what you were going to do with the deck you won, and you said you wanted to be a messenger of justice. That's completely irrelevant."

"Now I understand. You are not trying to persuade that little brat to become your team member, are you?" Ai poked Yuan Qi's face and said.

Although because it is a spirit, it cannot be touched at all.

"I do have plans to turn her against me, but it has nothing to do with the five-on-five head-to-head match." Yuan Qi nodded and explained as he walked. "Actually, ever since Julie told me that those guys from the Red Lotus Society had sent people to cause trouble again, I've been thinking about whether I should take the initiative."

"After all, it would be foolish to just passively take a beating all the time."

"But if I were alone, to be honest, it would be a bit overwhelming. So when I heard Xuefeng say that Nero didn't do anything to her, I started thinking."

"If Nero isn't such a heinous criminal, then I'll try to persuade her to help me deal with the Red Lotus Society."

"What if it is?" Ai asked.

"Then I'll force her to be my duel tool." Yuan Qi took out the deck he won from Nero and waved it in front of Ai. "From the beginning, she had no right to refuse, unless she didn't want her own deck."

"Indeed, we can't just deal with every random person who shows up." Ai nodded in agreement. How could a noble god be without a few thugs? "It wouldn't be bad to let Nero help us deal with any troublesome duelists."

"So are you going to look for Nero now?" Ai said, looking at the setting sun. "It's a little late now. How about we look for her tomorrow?"

"Let's go now." Yuan Qi said calmly, holding his head. "Otherwise, if we go too late, she might be eaten by those jackals."

"Hyena? What are you talking about?" Ai's long silver hair swayed slightly with her little head. Are there animals in the academy?

"The powerful lion is injured, and those hyenas will naturally not miss this opportunity. What's more, the lion may have done many evil things in his daily life." As he said, Yuan Qi walked towards a secret passage in the academy.

"You mean... someone will take advantage of her loss to kick her when she's down?" Ai finally understood what Yuan Qi meant.

"Isn't this inevitable?"

Chapter 43: If you are afraid, let’s go together.

In an unknown alley, Nero's frail body leaned against the cold wall. Around her, several tall girls were surrounding her in a corner like a solid wall.

"What do you want from me?" Nero said as he glanced at the girls in front of him with his black eyes.

"How dare you say that! Have you forgotten what you have done to us?" The leading black-haired girl bent down and said in a hoarse voice with her face close to Nero.

"I don't remember having any contact with you." Nero frowned cutely.

"Of course you haven't had any contact with us, but you, the Red Lotus Society, have done a lot of 'good things'. As a member of the Red Lotus Society, you wouldn't say that this has nothing to do with you, right?!"

"I see." Nero nodded. "You want a duel, right?"

"Duel? Hahaha! You've run out of decks, haven't you?!" the leading girl laughed heartily. "What are you going to duel with us with? Are you going to pick up a deck from that trash can over there and duel with us?"

Nero silently pulled out a deck from his waist. "Although it's not as good as the previous deck, my backup deck is enough to deal with duelists of your level."

"Backup...backup deck?"

"This guy actually has two decks?!"

"You...you guy, do you have another trick up your sleeve?!" The black-haired girl subconsciously took a step back.

Hiding a trick? Isn't it normal to have multiple decks? Nero looked at the crowd, who were originally aggressive but now somewhat retreating, in surprise, and said, "If you are afraid, it's okay to attack together."

"You mean... even if all of us attack you together, we still can't defeat you?!" The black-haired girl seemed to be enraged, her face turning pale. "Okay, let me see what makes you so arrogant!"

"You said it, so don't blame us for being rude!" The others also raised the duel disks in their hands.

"duel!"

"duel!"

"duel!"

"..."

Nero slowly raised his left arm and said expressionlessly, "Duel."

"I have the first move!" The black-haired girl slapped a monster onto the Duel Board without hesitation: "I enter the Main Phase! Normal Summon Thousand-Handed God!"

"You can only activate this card when it is Normal Summoned or Flip Summoned successfully. Add 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand!"

Nero was slightly stunned. Looking at the monster that suddenly appeared on the field, a ripple appeared in her black pupils. She looked at the girl with long black hair and asked, "Name?"

"Name? Hahaha! As expected you don't remember it! Well, the name of a concubine's daughter from a branch like mine is not worthy of being remembered by a high and mighty figure like you." The black-haired girl sneered, "However, the duel will not change just because of low status. Victory will only go to the strong!"

"Let me show you my duel!"

"I add the Evil Relic Phantom Squid from my deck!" the black-haired girl retrieved a monster from her deck. "Next, I activate the Spell Card - Relic Soul Mirror, which requires the Ritual Monster named 'Relic' to descend. You must pay 500 Life Points equal to the Level of the Ritual Summoned Monster!"

"My Phantom Squid is a 6-star monster, so I paid 3000 LP! Ritual Summon - Evil Relic Phantom Squid!"

A monster with a human upper body and a squid lower body appeared on the duel field, twisting its countless tentacles.

Black-haired girl: 4000lp→1000lp.

"Ahem!" The black-haired girl seemed to have been shocked by the excessive LP she had paid all at once, but she continued with a wild laugh, "It's not over yet! The effect of the Evil Relic Phantom Squid Monster: When this card is successfully Ritual Summoned, confirm up to two random cards in your opponent's hand, and select one from them and return it to the owner's deck!"

"I want to check the two cards on your rightmost hand!"

Nero turned over the two cards on the far right and showed them to the black-haired girl. They were the Ten Thousand Hands God and Preparation for the Ritual.

"I choose to return the Ten Thousand Hands God to the deck!" The black-haired girl pointed at the Ten Thousand Hands God and shouted with a hint of disgust in her eyes.

Nero silently put the Ten Thousand Hands God back into the deck.

"Next, I activate the Continuous Spell Card - Water Stage, set a card, and the turn ends!"

"My turn, draw a card!" another girl said, suddenly pulling a card from her deck. "I enter the Main Phase, then activate the effect of the Demon King, send the Demon King of the Swamp in my hand to the Graveyard, and add the Spell Card - Fusion - from my deck to my hand!"

"Then I activate the Thunder Dragon effect, discard a Thunder Dragon from my hand, and add up to two Thunder Dragons from my deck to my hand!"

"Finally, I activate the magic card - Fusion! I send the two Thunder Dragons in my hand to the graveyard. Come out - Two-Headed Thunder Dragon!"

Two-headed Thunder Dragon: Attack 2800/Defense 2100!

"It's my turn next!" said a short-haired girl. "It's my turn, draw a card!"

"I Normal Summon Bee Army - Stinger Bee and activate its effect. If this card is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned from this card, I can activate this effect. Add 1 "Bee Army" monster other than "Bee Army - Stinger Bee" from your deck to your hand!"

"I choose to add Bee Army - Double Crossbow Bee to my hand, then I activate Double Crossbow Bee's effect to Special Summon this card from my hand!"

"I then activate the effect of Bee Army - Guaranteed Pinbee. This can only be activated if you have an Insect-Type monster on the field. Special Summon this card from your hand!"

"Then, using its secondary effect, during the Main Phase, inflict 200 damage to your opponent equal to the number of 'Bee Army - Guaranteed Pinbees' on your side of the field!"

The sharp bee sting suddenly pricked Nero's white back of the hand.

Nero: 4000lp → 2800lp.

"3+2+1=6! I synchronize the three monsters on the field and summon—Hee Army—Assault Hook Scythe Spear Bee!"

"It's not over yet! I banish two Insect-Type cards from my graveyard and Special Summon a Demon Shovelworm from my hand!"

The two huge insects roared loudly, which was intimidating.

"End of round!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

"I activate the Field Spell Card—Sea! Then I activate Rough Man's Expectation to Special Summon from the Deck... Then I activate Resurrection of the Dead... Advanced Summon—Sea Dragon—Tadalus!"

"..."

When everyone's turns were over and only Nero was left, the narrow alley was already crowded with powerful monsters with hideous faces. They bared their fangs and claws at Nero, as if they would rush over and tear him into pieces in the next second.

"Is this your trump card?" Nero said softly as he glanced at the huge monsters in front of him.

"That's right. If you surrender and beg for mercy now, maybe we will be kind enough to let you go!" The black-haired girl said proudly with her hands on her hips.

Nero didn't respond to her words, but silently placed his hand on the deck: "My turn, draw a card."

Chapter 44: Bird in a Cage.

Nero inserted the magic card in his hand into the Duel Disk and said, "I activate the preparation of the magic card ritual and add Demis, the Demon of the End, from the deck to my hand."

"I activate the Spell Card Planet Transformation, adding the Field Spell Card World Destruction to my hand. Immediately afterwards, I activate World Destruction." Nero had just inserted World Destruction into the Duel Board when he casually slapped a monster onto the field. "I Normal Summon Ten Thousand Hands, activating its effect and adding Demis, Overlord of the End, from my deck to my hand."

"Tsk, you got it again?" The black-haired girl smacked her lips. She had clearly washed it back, but she didn't expect that she still had one in her hand, or rather... the one she just drew?

"I activate the magic card - World Eternal, liberate the Ten Thousand Hands God on the field, and ritually summon - Demis, the Demon of the End."

"When Demis, the Demon of the End is successfully summoned, due to the effect of World Destruction, I can draw a card. Then I activate the effect of Demis, the Demon of the End. When this card is successfully Ritual Summoned, destroy a monster on the field. I choose to destroy the Evil Relic Phantom Squid on your field."

"So you're coming for me first?" the black-haired girl said coldly, then opened her own face-up card. "I activate the Trap Card, Cry of the Living Dead, Return to the Field, Evil Relic Phantom Squid!"

"No, it's just that Demis's effect is guaranteed, so I just randomly choose a monster that's close to me." Nero shook his head and continued. "Then I activate the effect of World Destruction, targeting 1 Ritual Monster on my side of the field. 1 Ritual Monster in your hand is revealed until the end of the turn. The Level of that revealed Ritual Monster becomes the same as the Level of the targeted monster until the end of the turn."

"I target Demis, the Demon of the End, on the field, and display Demis, the Overlord of the End. Demis, the Demon of the End, becomes Level 10."

"Then, I activate the Spell Card - Armageddon, liberate the Demon of the End, Demis, on the field, and ritually summon - Demis, Overlord of the End!"

A huge monster covered in armor appeared on the field, wielding a silver axe. A cold air emanated from him, causing everyone present except Nero to shiver.

"When a Ritual Summon succeeds, I link the effect of Demis, the Demon of the End in the Graveyard and activate this card targeting Demis, the Overlord of the End on the field. As long as that monster remains face-up on the field, your opponent cannot activate any card effects in response to the activation of their Ritual Monster's effects."

"If you do that, you won't be able to chain with the effect of my Overlord Demis." Nero waved his hand and said coldly, "I activate the effect of Overlord Demis once per turn. This requires 1 Life Points to activate. All other cards on the field are destroyed, and the opponent inflicts 1 damage equal to the number of cards destroyed on the field."

"Smash it all, Demis!"

"what?!"

"How can it be!"

The girls had no time to be surprised as the huge axe was swung high up, and then... it suddenly fell down!

"Peng!"

After the chaos, in the originally crowded alley, only Dimis was left standing on the field.

"Don't give up! She only has 800 LP left! She can only activate this powerful effect once! As long as we use her remaining 800 LP..." The black-haired girl said halfway, her throat seemed to be stuck, and she couldn't make a sound.

Because Nero showed his remaining lp without any care: 2800lp.

"How is that possible?! You should have paid 2000lp!"

"The third effect of Demis, Overlord of the End, makes the Life Points paid to activate the effect of this card that only uses Ritual Monsters for Ritual Summoning unnecessary." Nero explained.

"By the way, its second effect is that as long as this Ritual Summoned card exists in the Monster Zone, your Ritual Monster cannot be destroyed by battle."

"……monster."

"You're kidding! Why do you have such a powerful card?"

"hateful!"

Nero ignored the girls' voices and said, "I enter the combat phase and attack directly!"

"..."

Ten minutes later, Nero looked at the girls who were knocked to the ground by the impact, put away the duel disk, and said to the black-haired girl who was barely holding on to the wall, "You are right. Victory only favors the strong."

"Now it seems that I am stronger."

"Don't... don't be so arrogant... you caged bird!" The black-haired girl gritted her teeth and panted, "Before I came... I had already written a letter to the family about your crushing defeat... the loss of the family deck!"

"Just wait! It won't be long... the family will send someone... to put you back in the cage... Hahaha... Hahaha!"

Nero's body stiffened, and his delicate face lost all color in an instant. After a long while, he replied calmly: