A duelist never gives up!

Yuan Qi chuckled, stretched out his thumb and was about to press it against Ai's when suddenly a familiar voice rushed into his eardrum.

"Junior, run!!!"

"Huh?" Yuan Qi was slightly stunned, and when he tilted his head slightly, he saw the scarlet figure forcibly tearing open the colorful cage with its sharp claws and rushing towards him at lightning speed.

Sera jumped down from the audience, took out a card from her extra bag and slapped it on her duel disk while running, "Come out and help! Hope!"

Julie, who had just retired from the arena, suddenly had her pupils shrink and shouted, "Dragon is dead!"

Nero also quickly summoned his two trump cards: "Go, Ji Kongque, Yan Kongque!"

"Damn! Stop messing around!" Nephilim looked at the swarm of Duel Pokémons that had appeared on the Duel Arena. Worried about chaos, he simply shouted, "Nephilim! Nephilim! Nephilim!!!"

"Boom!!!"

Just as Hope, who was shining with golden light, Long Wang, who was filled with the atmosphere of death, and Yan Kongque and Ji Kongque, who were holding long swords and feather fans, appeared in front of Yuan Qi.

The ceiling of the stadium suddenly emitted bursts of mournful wails, followed by cracking sounds. As the dazzling sunlight shone in, the Nephilim, like a god, fell from the sky!

However, even so, the Red Lotus Monster still rushed to Yuan Qi, baring its fangs and claws, trying to pierce Yuan Qi's thin body.

In an instant, time seemed to slow down, and everything in front of Yuan Qi slowed down. He saw the scarlet, blazing, blood-red claws slowly rising up, and then slowly, slowly falling towards his slender neck, but he could not move.

Am I going to die a second time?

Just as this thought flashed through Yuan Qi's mind, a cold voice sounded in his ears.

"Do you want to die?"

Ai appeared in front of Yuan Qi at some point. Her deep blue eyes were filled with a cold light. She stretched out her white and tender fingers with an expressionless face and gently touched the claws of the Red Lotus Monster that were stabbing Yuan Qi.

The Red Lotus Demon Beast's body stiffened, and then streams of scarlet blood mist spurted out from its body.

First of all, there are the pair of purple bone wings.

It was as if it was torn apart from its body by a giant hand and thrown casually into the air.

Next came its tail, which was separated from the body neatly as if chopped off by an executioner's knife.

Then the pair of sharp five-fingered claws were ruthlessly pulled off along with the arm.

Finally, the several sharp corners on its head were flattened by the invisible force.

"Roar!!!"

The Red Lotus Monster howled in pain, its body twitching and trembling constantly. In its golden eyes, the madness and anger had long since disappeared, leaving only bottomless fear.

"This is just a small punishment, there won't be a next time." Ai raised her hand and said coldly, "Disappear."

Then, the Crimson Lotus Monster and the part of its "existence" that separated from it turned into stars and disappeared into the air, turning into a card and falling on the lawn.

In an instant, time resumed its flow.

Hope, using his white "wings" as a shield, was the first to come to Yuan Qi, trying to shield him from all the damage. Then he saw the aggressive Long Wang. Just when the two monsters were about to fight, Ji Kongque and Yan Kongque appeared behind Yuan Qi, one on each side, grabbed his shoulders and prepared to take him away.

However, all this was interrupted.

Nephilim's huge body crashed directly into the center of the stadium's lawn, knocking Yuan Qi away!

"Boom!!!"

A huge pit appeared on the lawn, and the sound of the stadium seemed to have been stolen. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Until Zhu Xiu couldn't help but roared: "Na! Fei! Li!"

"Save people first! Save people first!!!" Knowing that he was guilty, Nafeli said nothing more and rushed to the stadium.

"The eyes are there, the nose is there, and the mouth is there."

Sera bent down and looked at Yuan Qi who had fallen to the ground. She stretched out her white and tender little hands and touched Yuan Qi's face. "Well, it seems that there is nothing wrong with his face. From the outside, there is no problem with his limbs. Next, there is only an unknown part that has not been confirmed..."

"Snapped!"

Julie angrily gave Sera a slap on the face: "What are you touching?! Get up!"

"Tsk, this is a rare opportunity..." Sera said with puffed cheeks.

"Don't worry about her. Yuan Qi, how are you feeling? Is there any pain?"

Nero's black eyes also looked at Yuan Qi worriedly, but at the same time he couldn't help but glance at Honglian.

"Could you please help me get to Honglian?" Yuan Qi asked, supporting himself with his elbows.

"Yeah." Nero said, and volunteered to put one of Yuan Qi's arms around his neck, but because he was too short, it looked a little funny.

"Let me do it," Julie said.

Here her height is similar to Yuan Qi's.

"Where is Xuefeng?" Yuan Qi glanced at everyone and suddenly asked.

"He used too many trap cards and suffered backlash. He's lying in the infirmary now." Sera said with a worried look on his face.

Xuefeng's three hay fever cards were given by Sera, and she didn't expect this to happen.

"Well, let's go see her after the game." Yuan Qi nodded, and with the help of Julie, he came to Honglian.

At this moment, Honglian had been placed on a white stretcher by medical staff. Her originally clean and beautiful kimono, as bright as a flower and as red as flames, was now covered with blood and mud. Even her beautiful hair and playful cheeks were covered with sweat and dust. She looked like a little beggar who came from nowhere.

Honglian saw Yuan Qi and tried to open her drooping eyelids. She stretched out her skinny little hand from her kimono and tightly grasped the corner of Yuan Qi's clothes: "Duel... continue..."

"It's over." Yuan Qi said with lowered eyes.

"No! Not yet! I can still continue!" Honglian's eyes widened, and she was about to sit up from the stretcher, but was gently held down by the medical staff beside her.

"It's over. You didn't lose, and I didn't win." Yuan Qi said, putting the Red Lotus Monster into the card box on Honglian's waist.

At that critical moment, he bent down and picked up the card that fell on the ground.

Honglian was slightly stunned, and a string of crystal tears fell from her eyes like pearls. She opened her mouth, and a hoarse voice came out from her throat, which was both weak and aggrieved:

"I do not want……"

"I don't want this..."

"I don't want it to end like this..."

The screams, mixed with thick nasal sounds and crying voices, faded away with the figures of medical staff. Everyone looked at Honglian who gradually disappeared in the gymnasium. For some reason, the joy of victory was suddenly washed away.

Only an indescribable heaviness remained on my heart.

Chapter 132: This society won’t allow it.

"Snapped!"

The bronze table was slammed loudly. Zhu Xiu looked at the young man in front of him coldly, wishing he could cut him into pieces.

"What did you tell me?" Zhu Xiu pointed at Nafeli and said, "The medical team will stop the duel immediately. I don't need to stop her."

"The results of it?!"

"Honglian is lying in the infirmary and hasn't woken up yet. Yuan Qi almost died in front of us, and the entire stadium is in chaos!"

Nafeli opened his mouth and said depressedly, "How could I know that the Duel Spirit would suddenly lose control?"

"You don't know?! Don't you know that Honglian is a Forsaken One?!"

"..."

"If the doctor hadn't just told me, I would still be in the dark!" Zhu Xiu was furious. "What did you tell me before? Honglian just lacks some talent, but she will definitely become an excellent duelist in the future."

"Is this a lack of talent? This is a lack of talent! If talent can be quantified, then she's a negative number!"

"When you let her go to school, you were just throwing her into a flame! You're driving this child down the path of death!"

"That's enough!" Nafeli was also angry. He frowned and said in a deep voice, "Whether it's a dead end or not is not up to you to decide!"

"Do you still have the final say?!" Zhu Xiu couldn't help but roar, "Isn't it because of your indulgence that we have the result we have today?!"

"You're giving students hope without authorization, but you don't diligently guide them. That's why you're half-baked! That's why you've always..."

"enough!"

A heavy and old voice sounded in the room, interrupting Zhu Xiu's words.

Only then did Zhu Xiu realize that a white-haired, slightly plump old man had appeared in the dim teaching office.

The old man slowly stood up from the sofa, pushed his reading glasses and said, "I already know the situation. Thank you for your hard work, Zhu Xiu, during my absence from the academy."

"Principal...Principal?" Zhu Xiu moved his lips and called out the old man's identity in shock.

"Didn't you go to negotiate with the board of directors? When did you come back?" Zhu Xiu asked in confusion.

When Yuan Qi came to see Zhu Xiu before, the reason why Zhu Xiu looked indifferent was because the principal of the Duelist Academy had already prepared to solve the problem from the root after realizing that the atmosphere in the school was not right.

"Well, it was a tough fight," the principal nodded slightly. "I'm just an old man who doesn't know anything except dueling. I don't know anything about shares or funds. I really don't know how to get the board of directors to stop their management of the academy."

"Then how did you..."

"Won."

The principal chuckled.

"I have supporters within the council, and I use my shares as stakes to duel with them, and then I keep winning their shares."

"Now I am the largest shareholder. Although I don't know what the use is, everyone is willing to listen to me and not interfere in the internal management of the academy."

"..."

Zhu Xiu was silent for a moment, and after a while he managed to say, "Very good."

"As for Nefeli... although he's quite erratic, he's certainly improving." The principal looked at Nefeli and sighed, "Do you know what he was doing recently?"

"Didn't you say that the negotiations were having some trouble and that you needed Nafeli's help?"

"No, he went to apologize on my behalf." The principal shook his head.

"Apologize?" Zhu Xiu looked at the silent Nafeli in surprise. It was hard to imagine who this man would bow to.

"He went to apologize to the students and parents who were forced to leave school because they lost their decks," the principal said helplessly. "Actually, I bought all the cards those Red Lotus Society students sold on the black market. My original plan was to personally visit each of them, apologize, return the decks, and invite them back once everything was resolved."

"It's just that Nafeli volunteered to go in my place."

"A total of 232 students have been returned to the deck. 197 of them have expressed their willingness to return to the academy. The remaining 35 students..." Nafeli lowered his eyes and said, "I'm sorry I didn't bring all the students back."

Zhu Xiu looked at Nafeli in surprise, as if they were meeting for the first time: "You actually did that kind of thing?"

Nafeli clenched his fists and said unwillingly, "The responsibility for this matter is indeed mine. If I had paid more attention to Honglian and provided more help, she wouldn't have gone down this wrong path."

"How do you help? Just give her a powerful deck?" the principal suddenly interrupted. "Can you give every student a powerful deck?"

Nafeli opened his mouth and let go of his hand weakly: "I don't know."

"The emergence of the Red Lotus Society was inevitable," the principal said calmly. "Even if the Red Lotus Society didn't exist, sooner or later there would have been a Green Lotus Society or a Purple Lotus Society."

"Without talent or resources, they want to become stronger but can't improve themselves. So they have no choice but to take risks and steal other people's decks. Isn't that how Dark Duelists came into being?" the principal said calmly. "The Red Lotus Society is just a microcosm of Dark Duelists."

"From now on, gambling with card decks will be strictly prohibited in the academy." Zhu Xiu said.

This kind of problem has no solution.

"It's better to open up than to block." The principal shook his head. "Powerful cards are a rare resource, controlled by a small number of people. Don't the academy store have card packs that can be exchanged for credits? Set aside some funds to buy rare cards to put into card packs. Hold more competitions and other activities to give students opportunities to earn credits. Hold a competition during a holiday and give out some powerful cards as prizes."

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Zhu Xiu nodded.

"If...if everyone had powerful cards, it would be great if they could easily get any card." Nafeli suddenly said.

“It will collapse.”

The principal said sternly, "If everyone can easily obtain rare cards, then rare cards will no longer be rare. If everyone has the same deck of cards, even a child with exceptional talent might be able to defeat the Duel King in a duel!"

"No, after all, we only need the power of dueling, right?" Nefeli frowned, unable to understand. "Victory and defeat are inherently unpredictable. So what if the Duel King loses to a child?"

"Don't we only need the duel power to develop?"

The principal was silent. A trace of sadness flashed across his somewhat cloudy gray eyes. Then he slowly said, "Nefeli, don't bring up this topic in front of others in the future."

“This society won’t allow it.”

Chapter 133: Did Xuefeng help you?

"Unfamiliar ceiling..."