Chapter 10: Get an N Card!

When You Yu came to his senses, he had been staring at the new batch of card packs in the store for ten minutes.

And the reason why he came to his senses was because of a line of "Favorability +1" prompts quietly floating in the corner of his vision...

You Yu looked in that direction speechlessly, and as expected, he saw the expressionless girl Qiannai. The latter noticed that he turned his head and hurriedly turned her head away, lowering her head to do something busy.

Then You Yu walked closer and found that she was concentrating on studying a teaching supplementary exercise book.

After all, she is a high school student, and she can't be completely slack even during the holidays. She still has to take time out to study.

Hmm, wait a minute, is she holding the book upside down...

But as the saying goes, people are in trouble, so You Yu just pretended not to see it.

Qiannai suddenly raised her head: "You, want to buy a card?"

You Yu was stunned.

"Because, you have been staring at the card packs over there for a long time." She pointed at the batch of card packs that You Yu had just stared at with a ballpoint pen.

Youyu looked in the direction her pen pointed. Qiannai took advantage of this momentary gap to quickly turn the book that had fallen in front of her.

"......Yeah, I really want it." Youyu turned his head and shrugged helplessly.

He didn't seem to notice Qiannai's little move - at least Qiannai thought he shouldn't have noticed it.

Of course Youyu wanted it. Because he saw a magic card called "Pot of Greed" in the description of the card box corresponding to that batch of cards.

Pot of Greed, the player who activates it can draw two cards from the deck.

Simple and crude effect, but it is almost unreasonable. It has a powerful card drawing effect that can easily exchange one for two without cost. Earning cards is like eating and drinking. It can be called a heaven-defying artifact in the world of Duel Monsters.

...Of course, the duelists in the DM world obviously didn't realize this.

From the card rarity mark on the card box, the pitiful "N" behind the Pot of Greed is enough to show that no one takes this thing seriously at all.

However, even so, in the connected world, the Greedy Pot is a card that only NPCs have, and players cannot obtain it. Whether through the system card pool or special tasks, there is no way to obtain this card, so players can only envy the Greedy Pot that NPCs use every time they play against NPCs.

Once upon a time, You Yu was one of the players who was jealous and furious every time he saw NPCs shamelessly use Greedy Pot.

But now it's different!

Now he is also a native resident protected by the rules of the world! He feels that he deserves the right to fill his deck with three Greedy Pots and have fun!

But...

"Wait until I get paid." You Yu said helplessly.

Yes, this is a very realistic problem, that is, he has no money...

"Is that so." Qiannai tilted her head and thought about it, and said, "Then... I'll lend you some first, and return it to me when you get paid."

"Ah?" You Yu was stunned, and then quickly waved his hand, "Thank you very much, but forget it."

After all, it's only been a short time since we met, and it always feels inappropriate to borrow money from a girl like this casually.

"It doesn't matter." Qiannai said expressionlessly, "Compared to this, it would be bad if the card you want is taken away by other customers before the salary is paid?"

...It seems to be the same.

Although the Pot of Greed is only an N card, it should be quite a lot in the newly received card packs...but who can say for sure about this?

"Well...Okay, lend me some first."

After all, it's just preparing to open an N card.

It shouldn't cost much...

...right?

So Youyu got his first pack of cards since he crossed over as he wished.

"Then I'm going to play."

Qiannai crossed her arms on the counter, resting her chin on her white arms, and stretched her neck to watch the scene.

Youyu opened the first pack of cards and took out five cards from it.

"Ah." Qiannai took a fancy to the "City Guard Pterosaur" in his hand and said in surprise, "It's amazing, I actually got a rare card in the first pack."

Youyu: "..."

Are you kidding me?

Is this low-attack ordinary bone a rare card?

(Fortress Guard Winged Dragon, Level 4, ATK 1400, DEF 1200, no effect.)

He estimated that he would never use this "rare card" in his lifetime.

He continued to open packs.

After three packs of useless things, when he saw what Yuyu opened in the fifth pack, Qiannai was surprised again: "Huh? Light Seal Sword? Another rare card... You are very lucky."

"...I guess so." Yuyu looked pained.

(Light Seal Sword, Trap Card, randomly select 1 card from the opponent's hand face-down and exclude it from the game. After activation, during the opponent's preparation phase of the 4th turn calculated by the opponent's turn, the card returns to the opponent's hand.)

When he opened the tenth pack, Qiannai-chan looked at him with a different look.

"Bull Demon! Another rare card!"

(Bull Demon, level 4, 1800 attack, 1300 defense, no effect.)

You Yu knew that in Qiannai's eyes, he might be the ultimate European who "got three URs in a ten-shot combo", the European emperor who opened the pack with a white face.

But the question is... who the hell wants these useless rare cards? What good can a Minotaur do?

Is it so difficult for me to just want a common Pot of Greed?

Qianai asked: "Do you want to keep drawing?"

"Of course I will keep drawing."

At worst, I can sell these so-called "rare cards" to get back the money.

After 20 packs of cards, there is still no sign of the N card "Pot of Greed".

But he felt somewhat comforted that at least a magic card fusion was released, which was a useful card for him.

After 30 packs of cards, there was still no Pot of Greed.

Youyu began to have a fight with this batch of new cards. He wanted to see how many packs he had to draw before he could see the damn Pot of Greed.

It's just that all these packs are spent by the girl, so I feel a little guilty...

However, Qiannai herself doesn't seem to have any opinions. She just silently lies on the counter and watches him open pack after pack, repeating like a ruthless pack-opening machine...

Finally, the 50th pack, the "Pot of Greed" that he has been thinking about finally shows up.

Looking at the green pot with yellow teeth and an extremely wretched smile on this emerald green magic card, Youyu suddenly has the urge to burst into tears.

This may be the first time in his life that he is happier to draw an N card than the previous pile of rare cards...

Qinnai came over and took a look with some curiosity.

"You just want to draw this?"

"Yes."

Qinnai expressed confusion: "But you just drew so many rare cards, why do you have to...this useless thing?"

Useless thing?

Haha, the girl is still young, and it's obvious that she has never experienced a beating and doesn't know the horror of the pot.

However, he also knew that the natives of this world had a completely different understanding of Duel Monsters cards than the players, and it was not very practical to popularize concepts such as "card difference" and "card earning" to them in such an environment.

You Yu was thinking about how to explain to the girl, but at this moment a customer came in.

"Hello, is anyone there?" The person who came in was a blond young man wearing a white T-shirt with blue stripes and a blue long-sleeved jacket.

"I want to ask... do you have the latest Duel Disk released by Kaiba Company?"

The two people in the store came over together following the voice.

You Yu raised his eyebrows.

Jonouchi Katsuya?