Chapter 74 Tears and Knife
(I haven't recovered from the cold yet, so I'm posting a 4,000-word chapter to wish you all the best. I hope you'll get better.)
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Dueler Kingdom.
After Yugi lost the "Black Magician", he seemed to be in a state of hesitation. After all, many of his tactics were based on the "Black Magician". However, Yugi's hesitation soon ended, because now is not the time to be depressed. The Black Magician is already lying in the cemetery. Now if he wants to use the power of black magic again, he must draw "Resurrection of the Dead". Or find another magician to replace the role of the "Black Magician". Yugi remembers that he heard from his grandfather that this deck not only has the "Black Magician", but also the master and disciples of the "Black Magician". I hope he can draw it in the next round.
"My turn, draw a card!" Yugi drew a card, ["Fortress Guard Winged Dragon"? It is not an apprentice of black magic, and it cannot use the "Magic Box of Death" on my field. Yugi didn't summon more monsters. He now had monsters with lower attack power than the "Cursed Dragon" on the field, or magic cards that only the Black Magic Clan could use. In this situation, they were not very effective.
[So, can I just attack directly?] Yugi thought, [But Hui's backcourt, I don't think the magic trap cards she covered were just for show. One of the two magic trap cards was covered after the Black Magician attacked the Phoenix God, and the other was before "Brainwash" and "Monster Recycling" were activated. During this period, I only attacked Hui once with "Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto". She didn't activate these two cards that time. Maybe she just wanted to activate the effect of "Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto". Therefore, the threat of these two cards has not been eliminated. 】
Although I am a little worried about the pitfalls, I don't plan to give up the attack. If I get trapped, I can just switch to defense. But if I see Hui accumulating Warrior monsters, it will be terrible. If she immediately summons "Captain Cutting into the Enemy Formation" with a "Command Knight" and then "Combined Forces" in the next round, "Ninja Leader Sasuke" with 800 attack power will be difficult to deal with.
"I use "Cursed Dragon" to attack your "Ninja Leader Sasuke"! Dragon Flame Bomb!" The flames of the Cursed Dragon swept the field again, vowing to burn the ninja who assassinated the genius magician to ashes! However, Hui's back field was opened, and with the opening of this magic trap card, Sasuke seemed to have learned a new ninjutsu.
Facing the raging flames, "Ninja Leader Sasuke" showed no fear at all. He quickly formed seals with both hands. When the flames swept over him, a puff of smoke exploded, and a piece of burnt wood appeared at the original position of "Ninja Commander Sasuke", while Sasuke was standing in the air at this time, unharmed!
Yugi then saw the appearance of the covered card clearly: Ninja Art Void Cicada Jutsu.
[Ninja Art Void Cicada Jutsu: Continuous Trap, Effect: Select 1 monster with the word Ninja in its name on your field to activate. As long as this card exists on the field, the selected monster cannot be destroyed by battle (damage calculation applies). ]
[Tofutani Hui: lp1900→1700]
"Oh no! Now 'Ninja Leader Sasuke' is invincible!" Yugi looked at the current duel field with some difficulty. It's not that there are no cards in his cards that can destroy monsters using effects other than battle, but basically they have to be used in conjunction with the "Black Magician" or "Black Magic" family (Note 1).
"I cover a card, and the turn ends." Yugi covered the card, and there was nothing more he could do in this situation.
"It's my turn, draw a card." Hui drew a card, and her hand increased to four cards, and then she still chose to summon "Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto", "Summon 'Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto', seal the 'Cursed Dragon', and then 'Ninja Leader Sasuke' attack the covered 'Cursed Dragon'."
The moonlight formed a seal again, and the "Cursed Dragon" fell into a deep sleep like the "Black Magician" in the previous round, and was assassinated by the ninja in his sleep.
The "Cursed Dragon" was defeated, but Hui was not relieved. The card that Yugi had just covered did not activate. Hui did not think that the card was placed there for bluffing, "Cover two more cards, and the turn ends." At the end of the turn, the Moon Maiden naturally turned into moonlight and returned to Hui's hand.
Although Hui was worried, there was really nothing she could do now, so she had to wait and see for the time being.
"My turn, draw a card!" Yugi seriously drew a card. When he saw the card, Yugi's mouth curled up, "Mei, I drew a card that can break this situation!"
"Hmm?" Hui had a bad feeling. She felt that Yugi was going to talk nonsense again.
However, this time it was indeed Hui who blamed Yugi wrongly. Yugi did not intend to talk nonsense. "Mei, you are indeed very smart. You realized that almost all of my magic traps require the 'Black Magician' to use, but you overlooked one thing, that is, the 'Black Magician' is not fighting alone. He also has the support of his school. Magicians from other 'Black Magic' schools can also use magic that was originally only available to the 'Black Magician'. I use the attack position to summon the 'Black Magician's' proud disciple - the 'Black Magic Girl'!"
A gorgeous magical girl transformation music and a magic rainbow floated on the duel field. Gradually, the rainbow light condensed into a bright-eyed, white-toothed, lively and cute magical girl. The magic wand in her hand was not as powerful and aggressive as the "Black Magician", but round and cute.
"Black Magician Girl", come on!
[Black Magician Girl: Effect Monster, Magician Type, Dark Attribute, Six Stars, Attack Power: 000. Defense Power: 1700, Effect: The attack power of this card increases by the number of Black Magicians and Black Chaos Magicians in both parties' graveyards. ]
[I didn't expect that Yugi Boy could learn to use the power of a magician's apprentice in this situation... However, "Black Magician Girl" is worthy of being one of the cutest monsters I created. If it wasn't Hui Girl but Jonouchi Boy or Gengsi Boy, he would have lost half of his fighting spirit now, right? ] Looking at the changes on the duel field, Bekas on the side thought with a bad taste.
"At the same time, because of the monster effect, her attack power can be increased by 00. Then, open the face card, I equip her with 'Magic Spell Book', and her attack power will increase again!" Yugi continued to act, but unexpectedly, the face card was equipped with magic instead of trap. "Then it's the magic card 'Heaven's Treasure Card'. I use its power to let both sides draw six cards!"
[Magic Spell Book: Equip magic, (animation) Effect: Can only be equipped with black magic family, equipped monster's attack power increases by 500. ]
[Black Magic Girl: Attack Power 000→00→800]
Mei drew four cards from the deck. She saw that "Archangel Christia" finally returned to her hand, and she also drew another angel at the same time.
"Attack power 800! It has reached the level of 'True Red-Eyes Black Iron Dragon'!" Jonouchi in the off-court sighed that Yugi's monsters can also increase their attack power so quickly. It seems that it is not only Megumi who can easily call out monsters with an attack power of 800.
[First, cause a lot of battle damage to Hui, and then let "Black Magician Girl" use "Thousand Blades" to destroy the now invincible "Ninja Chief Sasuke". ] Yugi originally planned to do so, but after seeing a card drawn from "Heaven's Treasure Card", he decided to win the game just like that!
[Thousand Blades: Normal Magic, Effect: Can only be activated when there is a Black Magician on your field. Select 1 monster on the opponent's field to destroy. ]
"Fight! 'Black Magician Girl' attacks 'Ninja Chief Sasuke'!" So he issued an attack declaration, and the magic wand in the magic girl's hand formed a rainbow, shooting at "Ninja Chief Sasuke" like a laser. Such a huge magical energy is something that Sasuke cannot avoid even if he has great skills!
Hui obviously didn't intend to take the blow in vain, so she activated the trap card in the back field: "I activate the trap card, 'Roar of Pride'."
[Roar of Pride: Normal Trap, Effect:: When calculating battle damage, if your monster's ATK is lower than your opponent's monster, pay the basic points equal to the ATK difference to activate. Only when calculating damage, your monster's ATK increases by the difference in ATK of your opponent's monster + 00. ]
"What? Such a cruel card?!" Jonouchi, who was off the field, said he couldn't stay calm, this card was simply a style of mutual destruction!
[Tofutani Hui: lp1700→700]
[Ninja Leader Sasuke: ATK 1800→100]
Yugi watched this scene and calmly activated a trap card from his hand: "Now! I discard a card from my hand to activate the trap card - Energy Up!"
[Energy Up: Normal Trap: Effect: Discard 1 card from your hand. Until the end of the turn, the attack power of a face-up monster on the field increases by 1500. 】
[Black Magic Girl: Attack 800 → 400]
"Attack... 400!" Everyone present was shocked by this attack power, except Hui, who was now looking at the light attribute "Ninja Leader Sasuke" on the field and hesitating about using a card.
[Forget it, let's just leave it at that. ] Hui finally gave up a great opportunity and activated two face-up cards on the field at the moment when "Black Magic Girl" came over.
"I activate the Continuous Trap Card "Enhanced Resurrection" and Special Summon "Unfortunate Girl" from my Graveyard in Attack Position." Hui's first trap card opened, and soon, a monster in the Graveyard broke out of the ground, but it was not any ace monster, just a fragile girl.
[Enhanced Resurrection: Continuous Trap, (ocg) Effect: Select 1 monster of level 4 or less from your Graveyard and Special Summon it. The level of the monster Special Summoned by this effect increases by 1 star, and its attack and defense increases by 100. When that monster is destroyed, this card is destroyed. 】
[Unfortunate Girl: Effect Monster, Light Attribute, Magician-Type, Star, Attack Power: 400, Defense Power: 00, Effect: This card in face-up Attack Position cannot be destroyed by battle. While this card is on the field in face-up Attack Position, monsters that have battled with this card cannot attack or change their positions. 】
"What is this?!" Yugi panicked. He didn't know what it meant for Hui to summon a monster in attack position that can't be destroyed but has only 400... well, 500 after the trap card is strengthened. But he quickly thought of something: "Hui, when did this monster enter the graveyard?"
"At the time of 'Reincarnation of the Dead'."
"I see, did you prepare so early?"
Hui answered Yugi's question, but he didn't stop the operation in his hands. "Then activate the trap card - 'Final Battle!'." She almost said the name of the trap card word by word.
[Final Battle!: Normal Trap, Effect: When your life value is 1000 points or less, it can be activated during the opponent's turn. Select 1 monster on your field, and all other cards on the field and in hand of both parties are sent to the graveyard. After that, the opponent selects 1 monster from the deck to Special Summon in Attack Position and fight (the player's battle damage is 0). The player with a monster on the field at the end of the turn wins the duel. Other cases are considered a draw. 】
"This... It seems that the previous 'Roar of Self-esteem' was also a preparation for this card?"
"I choose my 'Unfortunate Girl', what about you, Yugi?" Hui said. It's not that she didn't have a better plan, but it was not suitable to use it here. She was always worried about how troublesome things would be if she really beat Yugi, the protagonist of the original work.
Except for the thin and unfortunate girl, all the cards on the duel field were swept away by a powerful energy, including the cards in both hands. However, because Hui's "Enhanced Resurrection" did not have the side effect of "the monster is destroyed when this card leaves the field", "Unfortunate Girl" remained on the field. After seeing this scene, Yugi also understood Hui's plan. He smiled and said, "I summon my 'Dragon Breaker Swordsman'!"
The dragon-slaying swordsman broke through the gust of wind and appeared on the stage. He also noticed his opponent this time-a fragile and powerless girl. Looking at such a girl, the swordsman's knife slowed down and chopped beside the girl, and the girl's tears also made the swordsman hesitate.
"The final battle!" It's over. Both sides have monsters on the field.
This round is a tie.
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Note 1: In the DM era, the cards dedicated to "Dark Magician" seemed to be able to use monsters such as "Dark Magic Girl". Didn't you see that the first time Yugi summoned "Dark Magic Girl", he used "Dark Magic Curtain" (or "Dark Magic Curtain" was sent by the opponent...)