After eating Shunoros’s ultimate straight to the face, Sarina was blown off her feet with arms flung wide. For a moment, she looked disheveled; even her virtual avatar seemed to glitch slightly.
Everyone seemed dumbfounded by how fast the duel’s plot whiplashed.
First those Sphere Birds that kept bouncing back like cockroaches, then the legendary Planet series’s The Supremacy Sun, then the Phoenix of Nephthys—a virtual hard counter to her deck...
And finally—what!?
Orichalcos!?
When she saw Kyutora, it didn’t click. Kyutora is an unassuming little monster, not eye-catching. She felt like she’d seen it somewhere, but couldn’t place it.
But when that terrifying green divine idol descended with crushing pressure, bearing 12,000 ATK like the embodiment of heavenly judgment, Sarina suddenly realized—
—She had seen it.
Orichalcos... wasn’t that the deck of that world-ending demon king from ten thousand years ago?
The very one who was allegedly trounced by the Duel King at Duel City GX...
Yeah, right. While the "Arbiter" is reputedly very high-tier and truly powerful—especially among underground dark duelists, where rumors say that in Duel City the world stood only a few steps from destruction—
That’s what they say, but once people heard the details, what stuck most was how he got toyed with by the Duel King’s Lava Golem...
Only now did Sarina understand: not only did that Orichalcos unluckster lose the duel and his life, even his Orichalcos-avatar deck got stripped from him.
Sarina still didn’t know that the legendary Planet-series The Supremacy Sun she’d just witnessed was also stripped from a certain world-ending dark boss.
Come to think of it, even the Sphere Bird Kira first revealed—Kagemaru was at least an arc-end boss, just on a lower tier than the previous two.
So in a sense, Sarina got ganged up on by three major bosses this match; not exactly a disgrace.
"Never thought even the power of Orichalcos would be in your grasp."
Sarina slowly stood, chuckling softly.
"As expected of the Duel King—wielding so many extraordinary powers at once... When they say you’re not ordinary, they aren’t exaggerating."
In fact, she was being polite; there were things she didn’t say.
Rumors about the Duel King go far beyond "not ordinary." Those lucky enough to receive guidance from this generation’s King often said: he’s not even human...
"Well then, we’ve played the duel we needed to play. So—"
Kira smiled, stepped up to her, and offered a hand to the still-prone Sarina.
"Through this duel, what sort of fate did you observe?"
Sarina blinked, then smiled, placing her slender hand in his and letting him pull her to her feet.
"To be honest? You’ll laugh—I couldn’t see anything."
Sarina spoke calmly.
"It seems my ability is too shallow. Your fate is as unfathomable as your strength. With my meager capacity, I cannot glimpse it."
"You can’t see my fate?"
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