A duelist never gives up!

"You're not going to die, so why should I hold a funeral for you?" Noah stopped what he was doing when he saw Yuan Qi wake up. He leaned over and pushed the flowers in front of Yuan Qi's eyes and said, "I picked them especially for you. Aren't they beautiful?"

Yuan Qi looked at the flowers reflected in his pupils, and Noah's pupils that seemed calm but were actually slightly dilated, and answered honestly, "Beautiful."

It would be better if it wasn't white.

Noah's tense little face flashed a smile brighter than the sunflowers painted by Van Gogh in the blink of an eye: "Are you in love with me?"

"No." Yuan Qi said expressionlessly. Although the flowers were beautiful, Yuan Qi didn't think that the flowers all over the ground could act as Cupid for himself and Noah.

So in just a few seconds, Noah's face vividly portrayed the characteristics of summer in a human body - from cloudy to sunny, and then from sunny to cloudy again.

Finally, return to peace.

"As expected," Noah said calmly, "If you fall in love with me because of these flowers, doesn't that mean my body is even less valuable than these flowers in your eyes?"

You clearly had a very rich expression just now.

Yuan Qi didn't burst Noah's bubble of lies. Instead, he stood up from the sea of ​​flowers, gently put a bunch of flowers into Noah's hair and said, "Silly, only girls like flowers. Boys usually like robots, monsters, Ultraman, Kamen Rider..."

Noah tilted her head back and watched Yuan Qi utter one unfamiliar word after another. Her brain froze for a moment, but she still managed to remember a few familiar nouns.

"Monster...right?" Noah grabbed Yuan Qi's arm and pulled him out of the tent without saying a word.

"Hey, where are you taking me?" Yuan Qi asked helplessly.

"Just follow me."

Noah led Yuan Qi through one bush after another. After running for about ten minutes, Noah finally stopped, and Yuan Qi also saw clearly the scene in front of him.

"I didn't expect there would be such a clear lake here." Yuan Qi walked forward and gently scooped up a handful of water to wash his face, driving away the drowsiness that still remained in the morning. Then he found that there were a few small white flowers blooming sporadically on the grass next to his right foot - the flowers were surrounded by flowers that had been plucked by someone, leaving only half of the flower stalks.

"These flowers are too small, so let them continue to live." Noah explained while standing next to Yuan Qi.

"You brought me here to show me these little flowers that escaped your clutches?" Yuan Qi asked doubtfully.

"No." Noah shook his head, then slowly held a card between his fingers and said, "Don't you... like monsters?"

"Wait, what are you going to do?" Yuan Qi frowned, feeling a sense of inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.

"Go ahead! Dark Magician! Use Dark Magic!"

Following Noah's command, a dark magician in a black robe jumped out of the card, waving his staff and sending a series of black energy balls towards the calm lake.

"Peng!"

A roar like thunder rang out in the lake, accompanied by waves dozens of meters high stirred up by the energy ball. The owner of the lake also appeared in front of Yuan Qi and others - a sea monster that was dozens of meters tall and had an ugly face.

"Spiral Dragon, attack power 2900, defense power 2900, only 100 lower than the Blue-Eyes White Dragon." Noah glanced at Yuan Qi, as if to say - are you satisfied now?

Yuan Qi curled his lips, looking at the tall and mighty figure of the Spiral Dragon, its eyes wide open with anger, and its fangs gleaming in the sun, and couldn't help but ask, "Then the question is, how do we subdue this big guy?"

"Don't you have the strongest monster, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon?" Noah said as a matter of course.

"I left it to Ino..." Harachi sighed.

Noah: "..."

Yuan Qi: “…”

Spiral Dragon: "Roar!!!"

"Run!" Yuan Qi shouted hurriedly.

"Wait, if I use magic cards to strengthen the Black Magician..." Noah frowned, took out his deck and began to flip through it.

"Wow—"

Just as Noah looked down at the cards in his hand, the spiral dragon suddenly jumped out of the water and rushed towards the two of them with its bloody mouth gaping like a rocket!

"Danger!"

Before Noah could react, he was pushed to the ground by Yuan Qi. In just a few seconds, the spiral dragon had already arrived in front of Yuan Qi, opening its mouth to bite Yuan Qi's upper body!

"thump!!!"

Just when Yuan Qi thought he was about to fall into the fish's mouth, the spiral dragon suddenly widened its eyes, fell straight to the ground and splashed a cloud of dust.

"what happened?"

Yuan Qi pointed at the spiral dragon that landed in front of him with a confused look on his face and said to Noah, "What did you do?"

"No." Noah shook his head, his face serious, "You did this."

"I did it?"

Yuan Qi looked at Noah suspiciously: "What did I do?"

Noah pointed at the unconscious Spiral Dragon on the ground and said, "Just when it was about to attack you, a black duel force emanated from your body, and then it fainted."

Yuan Qi was slightly stunned. He thought that the dueling power in his body was just given by the Dark God of Duel. He didn't expect that it was actually closer to the origin?

Although I don't understand your purpose, thank you, unknown god of dark duel.

Yuan Qi thanked the God of Dark Duel in his heart.

"Um..." Noah suddenly grabbed the corner of Yuan Qi's clothes and said in a low voice, "I was too reckless. I'm sorry. And just now... thank you."

Yuan Qi flicked Noah's smooth forehead and looked at the spiral dragon in front of him and said, "Forget it, nothing happened anyway, and this monster is really strong. I forgive you."

"Oh." Noah nodded, and then seemed to remember something and continued, "Are you in love with me?"

"No." Yuan Qi said with a calm but polite smile.

Chapter 86: Actually... I also want to be a duelist

"Is the grilled fish tonight delicious?"

"It's delicious."

"So, are you in love with me?"

"No."

Beside the blazing bonfire, Yuan Qi and Noah repeated the conversation they had repeated countless times today.

From sunrise to sunset, whether eating, drinking, resting or traveling, Noah constantly launched various attacks on Yuan Qi. Even now, Noah was still massaging his shoulders while asking:

"Are you in love with me?"

"not at all."

While feeling the comfort on his shoulder, Yuan Qi repeated the lines he had recited countless times.

"Is that so?" Noah stopped what he was doing and slowly walked from behind Yuan Qi to in front of him. He lowered his eyelids and said, "I have done everything I can think of to make you fall in love with me."

"So you're planning to give up?" Yuan Qi asked.

Noah shook his head: "That's the last thing."

As she spoke, she took Yuan Qi's hand, pulled him up from the stake, and issued an unquestionable command like a queen: "Dance with me."

Yuan Qi didn't reply, but lowered his head to look at Noah's pale face and said, "Are you feeling unwell? Your hands seem to be shaking."

"No problem." Noah shook his head and took a deep breath to calm his heart and body. "Let's get started."

"Let me make it clear first. Although I don't know what kind of dance you want to do, there's a high probability that I can't do it." Yuan Qi reminded gently.

"You just have to follow my rhythm."

So, without any musical accompaniment, Yuan Qi followed Noah's footsteps and performed an awkward dance under the gaze of the moon.

Although he tried his best to keep up with Noah's rhythm, he would still accidentally step on Noah's little instep. However, Noah neither shouted nor cried, as if he was a mechanical puppet, performing every move rigidly.

Just when Yuan Qi thought the dance would end in silence, Noah spoke.

She stared at Yuan Qi's face and spoke in a slow, hoarse voice, "Every summer, our tribe gathers young men and women for a grand bonfire party. At night, young people invite their favorite partner to dance with them. If the partner accepts, they will be married before autumn."

Noah paused and said in a serious tone: "In my eyes, we are already married."

Yuan Qi did not refute the stubborn girl, but instead asked: "Why are you so persistent? I don't think I have done anything worthy of your love."

"A secret." Noah said, stopping his steps and said lightly, "It's over, go to bed early... Tomorrow, we will probably be able to reach the Black Magic Tribe."

After saying that, he let go of Yuan Qi's hand and walked towards the tent on his own.

A secret...never mind. I wouldn't be myself if I could guess it.

Yuan Qi looked at Noah's back, shook his head gently, and gave up thinking.

And the next day, just as Noah said, when the moonlight once again covered the earth, Yuan Qi and Noah came to the black magician tribe.

"Do you know where your family is being held?" Yuan Qi asked in a low voice.

"We don't know, so we have to 'ask' the tribe's leader." Noah said in a deep voice.

They have now sneaked into the courtyard of the residence of the Black Magician Tribe's chief. According to Noah's description, although the chief of the Black Magician Tribe also has a Black Magic deck, there is only one Black Magician in the deck, and there are also a large number of blank cards in the deck.

"In other words, he's no match for the two of us." Noah looked towards the dimly lit room in the center of the courtyard and said, "That's the hall. If I'm not mistaken, our patriarch should be enjoying a delicious meal with his wives, served by servants."

"You really know how to enjoy yourself." Yuan Qi smacked his lips.

"Aren't you the same?" Noah stood on tiptoe and bit Yuan Qi's ear frivolously.

"Stop messing around." Yuan Qi pushed Noah away angrily and said, "Let's do serious work."

"Aren't you doing it?" Noah stretched out his hand and pointed at the door of the room. "Just break in and defeat the patriarch in a duel."

"I understand!" Yuan Qi nodded, then kicked the door open!

"Peng!"

The locked wooden door was opened by Yuan Qi at this moment. Looking at the people in the room who were holding chopsticks and had not yet reacted, Yuan Qi asked, "Who is the clan leader?"

A middle-aged man stood up with a gloomy face. "I don't know what you want, but since you dared to break into my house without permission, I think you should have understood the consequences, right?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Yuan Qi waved his hand impatiently and said, "Where are Noah's family being held?"

The middle-aged man was slightly stunned and subconsciously looked at the dining table behind him.

Yuan Qi followed the middle-aged man's gaze and saw a large man in a silk robe sitting on the right side of the dining table with a confused look on his face. Next to the large man sat a woman of similar age and two young children curled up in the woman's arms.

Suddenly, an ominous premonition came over Yuan Qi's heart. He turned around and tried to stop Noah from coming in behind him, but it was too late.

"Father...Mother?!"

Noah, who stepped into the threshold, looked at his well-dressed relatives sitting at the dining table in shock, and froze in place as if struck by lightning.

"Noah...you...why are you back?!" The big man whom Noah called father looked evasive when he saw Noah appear.

"That's what I want to ask... weren't you imprisoned by Sasha?!" Noah clenched his fists and trembled all over.

"House arrest, this is house arrest!" The big man hurriedly explained, "We are under house arrest in the clan leader's house!"

"Under house arrest, wearing silk clothes... and eating at the same table with the patriarch?" Noah lowered his voice and said in an unpleasant hoarse voice.

“The tribe leader felt sorry for us, so he showed us mercy… He gave us clothes and let us eat with him…” The woman next to the big man nodded quickly, but her voice became smaller and smaller, and she seemed to have no confidence.

"Then, come with me now." Noah extended his hand to his father and mother, his eyes filled with hope. "Let's leave the tribe together as a family and live somewhere where the tribe can't find us."

silence.

A suffocating silence filled the air, and as time went on, the despair on Noah's face became more and more intense.

After an unknown amount of time, the big man spoke.

"Noah, I'm so sorry..." As Noah's father, he grinned at Noah, showing a smile that was uglier than crying: "Actually, I also want to be a duelist."

Chapter 87: ...Useless

"What do you mean by 'I want to be a Duelist too'?"

There was a hint of trembling in Noah's calm voice. In fact, she already had the answer deep in her heart, but she still held on to some naive hope.

Maybe I heard it wrong.

Maybe it's not what you think it is.

Maybe my father has some difficulties that I don’t know about.

However, the next words from Noah's father shattered all her fantasies.

"I know Noah is a very sensible child. He's been helping us with chores and taking care of his younger siblings since he was little. Ever since you became a Duelist, our family has become wealthy. People who used to look down on us now smile ingratiatingly at us..." Noah's father said, smiling the same gentle smile Noah remembered. "So please, be a good child one last time. For humanity, for the tribe, for us... dedicate yourself to the God of Dueling, okay?"

"Doesn't that mean you want me to die?"