Dimensional Fissure caused Yubel’s emotions—only just barely calmed when the duel began—to surge violently again.
This card basically amounted to sealing off the existence of both players’ Graveyards, delivering a massive shock to Yubel’s entire tactical plan. From here on, she had no choice but to reconsider her deployment.
"Next, I Normal Summon D.D. Survivor."
Kira summoned another monster. This time it was a warrior whose body was mostly wrapped in a cloak—someone who had traveled through dimensional cracks for years and had ample experience with interdimensional travel.
[D.D. Survivor, ATK 1800]
"D.D. Survivor, attack Samsara Lotus."
The D.D. warrior snapped his cloak, pushed off with his foot, and dashed out as a blur. His fist carried a gale of air as it smashed into the lotus bloom that had opened on the ground.
A lotus with no combat power, of course, couldn’t withstand such a heavy blow. Flower and leaves alike were driven almost into the earth, and then it exploded with a boom.
"I activate a face-down card," Yubel said. "Trap Card Sinister Seeds.
Activate when a face-up Attack Position monster you control is destroyed by battle. For each 1000 points of damage you would have taken from that battle, negate that 1000 points of damage, and Special Summon 1 Sinister Seed Token to your field." (anime effect)
This card exists in real life too, but the real card can’t negate battle damage; it only Special Summons Tokens based on the damage you took. Also, in the anime it converts one Token per 1000 damage, whereas the real card only needs 500 damage to Summon one.
"The battle damage from D.D. Survivor’s attack is a total of 1800," Yubel said.
"Therefore, Sinister Seeds negates 1000 points of battle damage, and Special Summons 1 Sinister Seed Token to my field."
[Yubel, LP 4000 → 3200]
The impact energy blocked by the Trap was absorbed, then transformed into a seed that scattered onto the ground. A transparent ripple spread across the surface, and the seed sank as if into water, disappearing underground.
Moments later, roots and a stem rapidly sprouted where it had gone in. The twisting stalks quickly formed into a crooked plant that landed on Yubel’s field.
[Sinister Seed Token, DEF 0]
"A Trap that converts damage into a monster," Kira said.
"Exactly," Yubel replied. "If I learned anything in the last ten years, it’s that you grow from pain."
As she said this, her heterochromatic eyes grew hazy, and she spoke with an almost obsessive fixation:
"At first I couldn’t understand. All that pain—every torment—I asked myself again and again: why?
Why would Jaden, the Jaden I loved—and who loved me—make me go through all of that?
But then, I finally understood."
A cold, dangerous light flashed in her eyes.
"Pain is an expression of love. Because of pain, I can become stronger.
The essence of love is sharing—sharing happiness, and sharing pain. Sharing the pain I’ve come to understand with Jaden is the truest expression of love!"
Kira: "..."
He wasn’t sure whether years of torment in space had finally driven her insane, or whether the Light of Destruction had twisted her mind. But judging by the results, it looked like she’d gone off the deep end.
"And you... you obstruct my sharing. You obstruct the love between Jaden and me."

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