A duelist never gives up!

"Huh? What's the dilemma? You're talking as if I'm lying." Sera blinked and said to Yuan Qi, "If you don't believe me, look for yourself. My foot is indeed sprained."

"Okay, okay, you sprained your foot." Yuan Qi said, pushed open Sera's door, took off Sera's other shoe, and then gently put her on the bed.

"Then you should just lie in bed and rest today."

"Can it heal just by resting? Are you underestimating a sprain?" Sera lifted her calf and held it in front of Yuan Qi, saying in a sweet voice, "Please help me apply the medicine."

Chapter 70: True or False

"Ok?"

Yuan Qi was slightly stunned and did not react for a while. After all, in his understanding, Sera's foot was not sprained at all, so there was naturally no need to apply medicine.

"It's in a wooden box in the bottom cabinet," Sera said, then frowned slightly. "Hurry up, it hurts."

"Is it really sprained?" Yuan Qi asked in surprise.

"What do you think? You don't think I'm lying to you, do you?" Sera bit her lower lip lightly, looking aggrieved.

"Sorry, sorry." Yuan Qi quickly squatted down and opened the bottom cabinet. After groping for a while, he found the so-called wooden box. Then Yuan Qi opened the wooden box, and a brown bottle was quietly placed in the box.

"That's the bottle. Once you unscrew the lid, you can see the white ointment inside." Sera continued.

"Okay." Yuan Qi sat next to Sera with the medicine bottle in his hand, put Sera's two slender legs on his thighs, and gently peeled off the furry cotton socks with his hands like peeling eggs, and took out the white and tender feet inside.

"Where does it hurt?" Yuan Qi asked.

"Here." Sera pointed to the back of her foot.

"Okay." Yuan Qi dipped his fingers into a little ointment, then gently applied it on Sera's little feet and rubbed it slowly. "Is the force too strong? Does it hurt?"

Sera shook her head: "It's cool and comfortable."

After kneading for about two or three minutes, Yuan Qi let go of Sera's little feet and prepared to cover the medicine bottle.

"Wait, my right foot is also sprained." Sera continued.

"Really?" Yuan Qi looked at Sera suspiciously.

"Really." Sera blinked.

"Wait." Yuan Qi put his finger to his nose and sniffed the ointment left on his fingertips. He noticed something was wrong. "Isn't this ointment too fragrant?"

"Who told you that ointment can't be fragrant?" Sera raised her eyebrows.

"Really?" Yuan Qi picked up the medicine, turned the bottle, and finally saw a few lines of small words at the bottom of the bottle. "Then can you explain what a hydrating mask is?"

"This is a multi-purpose medicine. It can treat sprains and hydrate the skin at the same time... Hahaha! Stop tickling the soles of my feet... it's itchy... Hahaha! I know I was wrong!"

"I was almost fooled by you." Yuan Qi said unhappily.

"It doesn't matter whether it's true or not." Sera stuck out her tongue and said, "As long as everyone wants it to be true, then it's true."

"I don't want you to really sprain your foot." Yuan Qi said.

"Okay, okay, don't we want to chat?" Sera looked at the ceiling in the room and said, "What do you want to talk about?"

"Anything is fine, right?" Yuan Qi thought for a moment and said, "I think you haven't finished telling me the story about the doll and the spider last time?"

"Well, since you're saying that, I haven't finished that game myself. How about we talk about that 'fantasy world' you go to every night?" Sera said casually. "I'm quite interested in that."

"What do you mean?" Yuan Qi asked in confusion.

"Illusions are similar to dreams, composed of a person's memories and cognition," Sera explained. "For example, you might dream of a hundred girlfriends. However, their actions, language, and personalities, limited by your level of understanding, would make the images you portray very limited. Or you might dream of time as a highly learned scholar, but the research manual you self-proclaimed as profound might simply state something like 1+1=2."

"Because a person's cognition is limited, the things in dreams lack a sense of reality. Even all the flowers, plants and trees in your dreams may look the same."

"Although you explained it in great detail, I still know about this kind of thing." Yuan Qi looked at Sera and said.

"Let me continue." Sera kicked Yuan Qi's stomach in dissatisfaction and said, "But what if the person who created the illusion, or the person who dreamed it, is a god?"

Yuan Qi raised his eyebrows and immediately understood what Sera meant.

"Although we don't know exactly how powerful the Dark Duel God is, if we assume he's very powerful, then as an omniscient and omnipotent god, what's the difference between the illusion he creates and the real world?" Sera said solemnly, "It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. As long as the god is willing, it makes no difference."

Yuan Qi's pupils shrank suddenly. Sera's words made him understand one thing, that is, whether it was an illusion or not, Ino was real.

"Are you thinking about Ino now?" Sera muttered.

"Yes." Yuan Qi said honestly.

"I knew it." Sera sighed. "I didn't want to tell you this, because no matter what, after the trial is over, you will have to separate from that world. Telling you will only make you feel worse, but..."

"In that case, Ino would be too pitiful." Sera lowered her eyelids and said, "That girl must like you. If you treat her as a false bubble, then she will be too pitiful."

"What will happen after the trial is over?" Yuan Qi asked coldly.

Sera sensed Yuan Qi's intention and quickly said, "I'm only talking about one possibility. There's another possibility too. That is, the Dark God of Duel might not be that powerful. She just pieced together an illusion that is similar to the past history, and then improved the feedback mechanism of the main characters, and just messed with the unimportant characters..."

"I understand." Yuan Qi took a deep breath, "Thank you for telling me this."

"This topic seems to be getting heavy," Sera said. "How about a lighter topic?"

"Okay, what do we want to talk about?" Yuan Qi asked.

"How about going to the forest this afternoon? A picnic or something," Sera suggested.

"Call everyone to join us?"

"It's just the two of us."

"..."

"How much is it?" Whiteboard asked Julie.

"It's not even 90%." Julie said, looking at the monitor in her hand. "According to what you said, Xuefeng should have won."

"It's just a reference value." Baiban was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. "The essence is to let Yuan Qi and the two of them have a deeper contact and understand my intentions. After all..."

"You can't measure your feelings with instruments or numbers; only your heart can tell."

"That sounds reasonable." Julie nodded and reached out to turn off the headset. "Then I'll just be an observer. Who do you think Yuan Qi likes?"

"As an observer." Whiteboard rolled his eyes slightly. "Not based on numerical values, but based on the experience accumulated over the past few days, I'm making an intuitive judgment."

"I think he likes both."

Chapter 71: Duel! Backfield Ban!

"Welcome, Trialist. I am the guardian of the fourth level. As long as you defeat me, you can enter the next level."

As an ethereal voice sounded, black mist gathered in the air, forming a vague human figure.

It is now around 8:20 in the evening. Yuan Qi once again came to the trial site and started the fourth trial.

"Let's get started without further ado." Yuan Qi quickly inserted the deck on his waist into the duel disk and said to the guardian floating in the air, "Duel!"

"duel."

"drop!"

A crisp sound rang out from Yuan Qi's duel disk. After several attempts at second move, he finally had the chance to choose first or second move.

"I choose to go first." Yuan Qi drew five cards from the deck without hesitation.

"The fourth level's restriction seems to be... a backfield ban, right?" Xuefeng, who was watching the game from behind Yuan Qi, asked worriedly, "That's like not being able to use Spell and Trap Cards, right?"

Julie nodded and said, "That's right. For the original seven, no, for most decks, not being able to use magic cards and trap cards is a very fatal thing."

If she used El Dorado instead of Hara Nana to stand in that position, she might not be able to win even if the opponent used the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

"Don't worry, Yuan Qi has Pearl Tears," Sera said calmly. "Even without using magic and traps, the strength of Pearl Tears is unmatched by ordinary decks. All we need here is to Normal Summon Pearl Tears Lamenter Renohart..."

"I enter the Main Phase and Normal Summon Orcust Canon."

As a white light lit up on the duel arena, a golden duel monster appeared in front of everyone.

"Eh? Not Pearl Tears?" Sera's face froze. "Why would you use Orcust at a time like this?"

"Why use Orcust at this time?" A crisp voice rang beside Yuan Qi's ears. Yuan Qi turned his head and found that Ai had floated to his right like a white ball. She was frowning and staring at him unhappily with her blue eyes.

"Good evening." Yuan Qi greeted Ai, "I haven't seen you all day."

"Oh, I'm not such a blind person that I wouldn't show up to disturb your fun when you're holding hands, touching feet and playing princess hug with a girl. I'm just a tool to help you print cards. Now the strongest deck of Nether Pearl Tears has been printed, and I'm afraid it's useless." Ai muttered with his head tilted away, and the sourness in his heart came out of his eyes.

"Okay, I get it. After this duel is over, I'll hold your hands, touch your feet, and play princess carry with you, okay?" Yuan Qi said softly to comfort him.

"No, go play with them." Ai said sullenly. She was clearly in love with him last night, but today she was hanging out with Xuefeng and Sera.

"Three days." Yuan Qi looked into Ai's eyes and said, "I did this so that I could give you an answer within three days."

Ai's heart tightened, and he lowered his voice and said, "I know, I just feel uncomfortable."

"Let's duel first." Yuan Qi reached into his extra deck and said, "Now is not the time to talk about love."

"Yeah." Ai's face hardened, and he temporarily suppressed the emotions in his heart, "Let's go together!"

"I set the Orcust Canon Canon on the field to the Link Marker. The summon condition is a Level 1 monster!"

"Connect Summon!"

"Connect the chestnut balls!!!"

"Chestnut chestnut!"

The cute connecting chestnut ball emerged from the connecting circuit on its short legs and landed in front of Yuan Qi.

"Then, I activate the effect of Orcust Canon Cannon in the Graveyard!" Hara Nana continued. "To activate this, banish this card from the Graveyard. Special Summon 1 "Orcust" monster from your hand, other than "Orcust Canon Cannon"!"

"I Special Summon Orcust Divertimento Demon from my hand!"

The Orcust Divertimento demon, with its eyes glowing red, looked like it had just crawled out of hell, exuding a terrifying aura.

"Then, I set the Orcust Divertimento Demon and Link Turbot on the Link Markers!" Hara Nana once again pulled a card from the Extra Deck and held it aloft. "The summon conditions require two Effect Monsters, including an Orcust monster!"

"Connect Summon!"

"Oratorio Galatea!"

A doll girl with long lavender hair holding a silver-white sickle descended from the sky like the cold god of death!

"I activate the effect of Orcust Galatea, returning the banished Orcust Canon Canon to the Deck, and then place an Orcust Spell/Trap Card from my Deck on my field!"

"Wait, isn't it impossible to use Magic/Trap Cards?" Xuefeng asked in confusion.

"It's not that you can't use Magic or Trap Cards, it's that you can't use the backfield." Yuan Qi heard the puzzled voice of Xuefeng behind him and explained, "Although the two seem the same, but..."

"I cover the field with the Field Spell Card—Orcust's Tower of Babel!"

"So that's how it is. Although the Field Magic Card is a Magic Card, it is not activated in the backfield!" Xuefeng suddenly realized.

"Is this the reason for choosing to play it yourself? It doesn't seem very necessary..." Sera muttered softly.

"First, I activate the Field Magic Card - Orcust's Tower of Babel." Yuan Qi said, opening the only magic card he could use in this duel.

"Then, I activate the effect of Orcust Divertimento Demon in the Graveyard," Hara Nana said, reaching into the graveyard. "I banish this card from the Graveyard and Special Summon one Orcust monster from my Deck, other than Orcust Divertimento Demon!"

"chain!"

The Guardian, who had been silent until then, suddenly spoke up: "I activate the effect of Gray Flowing Beauty in my hand, discarding this card in my hand, and negating the effect of Orcust Divertimento Demon in your Graveyard!"

The cute animal-eared loli appeared in front of the Divertimento Demon with a grim smile on her face, and stomped hard on the Divertimento Demon's head with her white little feet. Under the humiliation, the Divertimento Demon's body turned gray.

"Tsk, if I can't use magic cards, I can't use Grave Finger or Erasure Finger to prevent hand traps." Ai clicked his tongue.

"At least it's not a multiplied G." Yuan Qi said as he drew a card from his hand, "And... we still have this monster."

"I banish 8 cards from the top of my deck and Special Summon this monster from my hand!"

"Come out! Mechanical Snake - Mukumo Yuanluzhi!!!"

Chapter 72: Cat’s sixth sense!

The three-headed snake, made entirely of machinery, twisted its massive body wantonly, standing majestically behind Orcust Galatea like a loyal minister's bodyguard.

"There are actually some points to fill?" The guardian looked at the mechanical snake that suddenly appeared on the original seventh field, and there seemed to be some regret in his tone.

He himself had used the Orcust deck before, so he certainly understood what Orcust could do at the end. Without this mechanical snake, Yuan Qi would have almost certainly lost the duel.

"Then I'll stack Orcust Galatea on the field!" Yuan Qi continued, "A monster-like network, Xyz Summon!"

"Dingirsu, the God of the Evening Star!!!"