Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 863

Chapter 863: Chapter 863: A Cruel Truth

"So... we actually knew long ago that the guy named Viper wasn’t a good person?"

Big Eye widened it eyes and asked curiously.

"Yeah, we knew," Kira nodded while walking.

"He’s planning to host a duel tournament involving the entire student body here at the academy, and use duels to steal the students’ life energy. The goal is to resurrect an evil spirit that returned from space."

"Oh right, and he’s targeting Jaden because that evil spirit is intricately connected to him. But I think aside from Jaden, to reach his goal, he wouldn’t mind anyone else becoming a sacrifice."

Big Eye blinked several times, trying to digest the information.

Then its face changed drastically.

"Nani? That sounds pretty serious!"

"Small-time stuff, don’t always overreact," Vampire Fraulein said nonchalantly. "If you’d seen what Master has been through before, you’d know how trivial this is."

Big Eye narrowed its eyes. "Why do I feel like I’m being looked down on..."

"Haha, Vampire Fraulein isn’t wrong. Compared to the past, this really doesn’t count for much. Still, we can’t let our guard down.

After all, we’ve weathered major storms. If we get outmaneuvered by an opponent at this level and capsize in a ditch, that’d be laughable."

About three to five hundred meters from the Yellow Dorm, Kira suddenly stopped and looked over his shoulder.

"Isn’t that right, Mr. Stein?"

Moments later, a figure in a blue uniform appeared behind him. The man was pale and sickly, looking quite weak.

"Sharp as the rumors say, Fujiki Kira... cough, cough."

He coughed twice, forcing a faint smile onto his pallid face.

"But the Duel King is really hard to meet," he said, clearing his throat and smiling at Kira. "For a small, unremarkable professor like me to meet the King—shouldn’t I feel honored?"

Kira knew him—or at least had noticed him since early in his first year. This was Mr. Stein, a Duel Academy professor.

There are a lot of professors at the academy, but most are background extras—basically scenery in the anime. Mr. Stein, however, left a deep impression on Kira back when he watched as a viewer.

Not because he was some hidden boss like Professor Lyman, with shocking strength. It’s that from the moment Mr. Stein appeared, the entire tone of GX seemed to shift. The early, cheerful school-comedy vibe suddenly dove headlong into a darker route, and stayed dark all the way to the finale.

"Haha, professor, I’m the honored one," Kira said. "I’m just a student at Duel Academy."

"Right, but you’re a student with the title of King," Mr. Stein said calmly.

"Your light shines too brightly. Even if you merely exist over there, everyone is naturally drawn to you like moths to a flame.

"Or perhaps I should say your darkness is too deep—so deep that everyone is pulled into a hellish abyss by the gravity of a black hole."

Kira: "..."

He pondered for two seconds. "Professor, the way you say it makes me sound like a villain."

Stein ignored that and continued on his own: "If you were merely excellent, it’d be one thing. But as a King, everyone unconsciously gravitates toward you and imitates you.

"They all want to walk the same path as you, to become dazzling like you. But what they obtain is nothing but endless darkness."

Kira was speechless for a moment. "So you mean I’m misleading the students—leading them astray?"

He suddenly realized he’d unintentionally stolen Jaden’s plot again.

Mr. Stein is a key turning point in Jaden’s late-story transformation. He accuses Jaden, the academy’s hero who defeated the Sacred Beasts and saved the world, of skipping class, not listening, sleeping during lectures, and failing exams.

So all the students followed his example, the atmosphere worsened, and students strayed off the right path.

But the reason he dumped all of this on Jaden was based on the premise that Jaden was the academy’s role model the whole school idolized.

So now that the role model has been replaced, all his dissatisfaction seems to have naturally shifted onto the one who took that spot...

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