Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 875

Chapter 875: Chapter 875: A Duelist Countered by the King

Viper was full of question marks.

On my field... what?

He saw Kira reveal a monster card. A golden light flared, and a hulking demon encased in metal rose into view.

Despite being fully metallic, it exuded a chilling savagery. The steel demon bristled with spikes; in the center of its body, a sawblade spun at high speed. From head to toe, it seemed armed with torture implements—clearly not a monster for the forces of good.

In fact, this monster’s design intentionally mirrors Lava Golem in many ways. It feels like a steel torture-device version of Lava Golem. Even the "Level 8 big guy that appears on the opponent’s field" trait makes it feel like family.

[Grinder Golem, ATK 3000]

Viper blinked for two seconds.

Huh? So generous?

He gets a Blue-Eyes-level beater for free. Unlike Lava Golem, it doesn’t even eat two monsters as tribute—completely free of charge.

Does the Duel King’s dueling philosophy involve resource charity for the opponent?

Of course, such a naive notion was absurd. Viper knew the man before him was dark-hearted and would never do anything pointless. Any seemingly generous gift would hide something even grimier.

Sure enough, two small monsters popped into existence on Kira’s field.

"Of course it’s not a freebie. I’m not that charitable," Kira said. "Grinder Golem can Special Summon two ’Grinder Token’ to your opponent’s field and Special Summon itself to the opponent’s field."

[Grinder Token, ATK 0] x2

"Two Tokens," Viper muttered. "For tribute?"

In the real card game, after using Grinder Golem’s Special Summon effect, you can’t perform a Normal Summon that turn. In the anime, there’s no such restriction. Yubel’s first true-body descent used Grinder Golem’s tokens as tributes, then she gave the opponent the Level 8 beater and bounced 3000 damage back at a bewildered Adrian to finish him off.

Yubel’s pretty adept at being nasty too.

"Next, I Special Summon ’Jester Confit’ from my hand," Kira said.

A goofy clown appeared, head cocked at a not-very-bright angle.

[Jester Confit, ATK 0]

"Then I tribute the two Grinder Token and Jester Confit—three tributes!"

Viper: "!"

Three tributes?

Adrian’s expression also shifted.

As everyone knows, Level 5–6 monsters need one tribute; anything Level 7+—even if there were a Level 12 that could be Normal Summoned—needs only two tributes.

Monsters that explicitly require three tributes are rare, usually only when the effect text specifically says so. The most iconic examples are the Egyptian God Cards.

But Kira wasn’t summoning a god.

Water burst onto his field—clear and surging. A blade cleaved through the blue curtain. A female-looking warrior in blue armor, with a flowing cape like woven water, stepped forth. Twin blades glinted, their color like water, their form like lightsabers.

"From the Planets series: The Tripper Mercury, descends!"

[The Tripper Mercury, ATK 2000]

Viper and Adrian both paled.

"That’s the legendary Planets...!?"

Adrian adjusted his glasses. "Interesting. Looks like the rumors were true—most of the Planets are in the Duel King’s hands..."

"Mercury is Level 8, but can be Tribute Summoned using three tributes," Kira said. "Mercury gains different effects based on the number of tributes.

First, on Summon, all monsters on the field become Attack Position—"

Kira paused and smiled.

"Of course, they’re already in Attack Position, so we can ignore that.

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