Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 816

Chapter 816: Chapter 816: Crystal Beasts

"Alright, my turn’s over. It’s your move, Mr. Kira," Jesse said, face full of excitement.

"I’ve heard the Duel King uses all kinds of decks. What approach will it be this time? Just thinking about it gets me hyped!"

"Careful you don’t get OTK’d, Jesse," the Emerald Tortoise warned.

"Hahaha, relax—we’ve got this," Jesse said, giving it a thumbs-up.

"It’s an honor to face the legendary Crystal Beasts," Kira smiled politely.

Well, though to be honest, the real-life Crystal Beasts are a bit underwhelming.

"My turn. Draw," Kira said. "I’ve specially prepared a new deck I haven’t used before. Let’s try it out.

First, I set a monster in face-down Defense."

He set the monster on the field face-down.

"Then I set a backrow card. Turn end."

"A brand-new deck you’ve been saving? That makes me even more fired up!" Jesse clenched his fists. "Alright, then it’s my turn. Draw!"

Jesse revealed a card in his hand.

"I activate the Continuous Spell, Crystal Tree!"

A remarkable tree burst from the ground, its deep-brown trunk thick and sturdy. Gems hung like fruit from its branches, gleaming brilliantly, their refracted light forming a seven-colored rainbow at the top of the tree.

"As long as Crystal Tree is in the Spell/Trap Zone, each time a Crystal Beast is placed in the backrow, I put a Crystal Counter on this card!"

Being placed in the backrow is the Crystal Beasts’ shared trait. When destroyed, they don’t go to the GY like normal monsters; they become gemstones and are placed in the controller’s Spell/Trap Zone.

In the anime, this is described as proof of the Beasts’ bond with Jesse. Even if destroyed, they don’t leave the field—they’re always by his side, like family.

"Time to call out a new member of my family!" Jesse revealed another monster. "Come on out!

Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth!"

A radiant amber appeared on Jesse’s field, bursting with dazzling light. A towering mammoth emerged from the glow with a low bellow, swinging its long trunk.

[Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth, ATK 1700]

"Leave it to me, Jesse!" The mammoth bared its sharp tusks with a roar.

"Go for it, Mammoth!" Jesse said. "Attack the face-down monster, Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth!"

The mammoth charged at full speed toward Kira’s set monster, its massive frame kicking up yellow dust, its footsteps making the entire cave tremble.

"I activate my set card," Kira said, flipping his backrow. "Continuous Trap—Gravity Bind.

While this Trap is on the field, all Level 4 or higher monsters on both sides cannot attack!"

A gravity wave pulsed across the field as the trap flipped. The mammoth, midway through its charge, suddenly felt the gravity multiplied a hundredfold. Its steps sank into the ground, and it could barely move forward.

Mokuba: "Ohh, it’s Kira’s Gravity Bind!"

"You really like these ’you can’t play the game’ strategies..." the new spirit Kira called Eye floated out to gripe.

"But wait, isn’t the goal of this duel to inspire the other side and wake that powerful slab? If you make it so he can’t duel at all... is that really okay?"

"It’s fine," Kira smiled. "I know what I’m doing. If a duelist can’t play through something like this, how’s he supposed to awaken Rainbow Dragon?"

Sure enough, the next moment Jesse revealed his countermeasure. "Then I activate my set card, Counter Trap—Crystal Miracle!

When a monster effect, Spell, or Trap is activated, I can destroy one ’Crystal Beast’ card I control to negate and destroy that activation!"

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