Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 857

Chapter 857: Chapter 857: A Maiden in Love

"Kira-sama!"

Standing on the dueling platform, Kira watched a girl in a yellow dorm vest dash toward him with sparkling, starry eyes, and couldn’t help wanting to quip.

Shouldn’t you be Jaden’s fangirl?

And before that, weren’t you supposed to be Slifer Red?

In fact, Blair Flannigan was a prodigy admitted ahead of schedule—by age, she should still be in middle school. She’d been fast-tracked into Duel Academy because of exceptional performance, and given her strong showing in the GX Tournament, she could have been placed directly in Obelisk Blue.

But in the original story, she rejected the elite dorm herself and insisted on staying in Red. The reason was simple: to be near Jaden.

Blair was pure love-brain. Back in elementary school, she’d snuck into Duel Academy to get close to her crush, Zane Truesdale.

Then, after being defeated by Jaden’s duel at the academy, she switched to idolizing Jaden, striving to catch up to him, and coming to Duel Academy mostly for that goal.

But now, seeing the yellow vest on the girl and those almost glowing starry eyes, Kira realized Jaden’s little fangirl might have been stolen by him...

But he swore he was innocent. He’d never even met the girl before. And the first-year duel she had was something he hadn’t poached—Jaden had taken that one himself.

Blair reached the platform, face flushed. "Um... Kira-sama, I came to Duel Academy because of you. I’ve dreamed of having a chance—just once would be enough—to duel you..."

The new students—especially the first-year girls—totally understood.

More than half of them had enrolled with starry-eyed devotion, hoping for a chance to get close to the duel world’s absolute pinnacle.

He was witty, his dueling style was fun and full of joy. He looked handsome, and his sunny smile...

The upperclassmen didn’t feel the same.

They thought the newbies really didn’t know their place. Dream big if you want, but dreaming of dueling the Lord of Yellow...

Kira took his place on one side of the arena.

Vampire Fraulein teased at his side. "Master, you’re really popular with the girls."

Silent Magician stood nearby, pouting and saying nothing.

"Oh, stop. She’s just a little girl." Kira shrugged. "Being admired by a naive middle-schooler isn’t much to brag about."

He paused, then grinned.

"Besides, I’m so excellent—having many admirers is only natural, no?"

Eye: "..."

Even this usually noisy spirit was stumped into silence.

She wondered if his thick skin correlated with his dueling skill. After all, there’s a saying: ’If you have no shame, you’re invincible...’

Silent Magician, however, found nothing odd about it and even nodded solemnly—as if to affirm that someone this handsome and strong being admired was only right.

"Then, starting now," Professor Crowler announced, "we’ll have the representative duel between seniors and freshmen!"

He smiled at Kira.

"I’m counting on you, no ne, Kira-kun!"

"Duel!" x2

[Kira, LP 4000]

[Blair, LP 4000]

"I’ll go first. Draw!"

Blair took the first turn.

"I summon ’Maiden in Love’ in Attack Position!"

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