Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 648

Chương 648: Chapter 648: Fate

Aster fell to his knees, feeling the breath catch in his chest.

He lost.

This might be his first defeat since he began dueling. And thinking it through, he felt it should count as a complete defeat.

During the duel he hadn't felt that way; several times he thought he had a chance. At moments it even looked like he was just a hair's breadth away—that if luck tipped a little more his way, or if some small variable changed, the outcome might have been different.

He might have won.

But when he replayed the entire duel in his mind, taking the long view, considering the opponent's performance throughout, he suddenly felt that his opponent might never have even used his true strength.

Yes—like toying with him. As if the result had been decided before the duel began. What tactics he chose, how he played his cards or attacked—none of it mattered.

He would lose, because the ending was predestined.

Exactly like how all kinds of opponents had felt when they faced Aster himself up to now. In one duel after another, against every opponent—he'd barely even needed to bring out his Destiny HEROes. His attitude toward dueling had itself been one of toying.

The elusive thing called fate had always placed him on the side of the victor, yet today it seemed to have kicked him into the loser's seat for the first time. This was his first time feeling the helplessness of those he'd defeated when they stood before the behemoth of fate.

Especially now that this heavy fate had taken form—rolling in like a mountain that could not be shaken. He was pressed to the ground as if under a thousandfold gravity, almost unable to breathe.

But when he forced his head up to look at the fearsome figure, he was momentarily dazed.

They were his Destiny HEROes.

Yes, the very same four Destiny HEROes had steamrolled in a single turn—among them even his soul card, Dreadmaster…

Say what you will, that damn Revolver really can bull through. Four NTR in one turn—unheard of. A live demonstration of "we had no guns and no cannons, the enemy built them for us."

If it had been someone else, after such a brutal beatdown they might only wonder why the world allows someone to be that dirty. But Aster instead began to think about what it meant.

"See."

Kira stood before him, the four Destiny HEROes orbiting at his side.

"Your Destiny HEROes—they're mine now."

"So are you thinking this means that your socalled immutable fate with Sartorius is now on my side?"

Aster was silent.

He thought a moment, then slowly raised his head.

"Who are you?"

"As you can see, just a passerby duelist." 1

Kira pulled four Destiny HERO cards from the trap/spell slot of his duel disk. The holograms winked out in turn. He handed the four cards back to Aster.

Aster looked up at him in surprise.

He remembered the intel: this man loved cards like life itself. Anyone who'd lost to the Revolver never walked away with their own deck—assuming they were lucky enough to walk away alive.

It seemed the rumors weren't entirely reliable.

"I beat you—not because of fate, but simply because my tactics, my deck, my duel were stronger. That's all. Fate had nothing to do with it."

Kira said flatly.

"If you hand wins and losses over to 'fate,' then when you win it was 'inevitable,' and when you lose you were 'powerless'—as a duelist, that's as far as you'll ever get."

Kira continued.

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