"Duel!" x2
[Kira, LP 4000]
[Dimitri, LP 4000]
"Looks like I’m going first," Kira glanced down at his Duel Disk.
"Heh, it doesn’t matter," Dimitri stood with his hands on his hips. "Now that I’ve acquired the strongest deck, there’s no way I can lose. First or second, it’s all the same to me. Against the students of this academy—even you—dueling is just a game."
"You sure are deep in character, huh..."
But deep down, Kira thought: What’s impressive isn’t the deck itself, but the person using it.
"Oh well, since I’m up against that deck, maybe this deck of mine is the perfect match," Kira smiled, accepting the first turn without hesitation. "My turn, draw!"
"I activate the Spell Card ’Graceful Charity’: draw three cards from my deck, then discard two from my hand."
"And next, this card."
He raised his arm, and the image of a Spell Card projected before him.
"Quick-Play Spell—Spellbook Organization. I can look at the top three cards of my deck."
He drew three cards at once, rearranged them, and placed them back on his deck.
"I can arrange them in any order I like, then return them to the top."
Dimitri muttered, "Rearranging the deck order... to increase the chance of a combo?"
He’d analyzed every notable duelist’s deck at the academy, but Kira’s strategies were always a mystery to him. The way he built his decks and played them was never the same. From the finished decks alone, it was impossible to grasp his line of thinking.
But Dimitri had noticed that Kira liked to pull out all sorts of weird, unexpected combos.
"I set a monster, then set a card. Turn end," Kira said.
"Whatever you’re planning, it’s useless against me now! My turn, draw!" Dimitri said. "I’ll also activate Graceful Charity! Draw three, discard two."
"Next, I activate the Spell Card ’Silent Doom’! I revive a normal monster in Defense Position from my graveyard!"
[Queen’s Knight, DEF 1600]
"And then, I Normal Summon ’King’s Knight’!"
[King’s Knight, ATK 1600]
The duel was taking place near the Yellow Dorm, and though it was late, it wasn’t deserted. A Yellow Dorm student passing by pointed, "Hey, there’s a duel going on over there!"
"Huh? Someone in Yellow dares to duel with Kira?"
"Wait, didn’t I hear the Duel King’s deck was stolen? Do you think that guy looks like...?"
"NANI!?"
Seeing Kira dueling in Yellow Dorm was already a spectacle, but with the Duel King’s Deck rumor, a crowd quickly gathered.
The master of Yellow Dorm facing the Duel King’s deck!
It was like the duel of the year.
"Heh, perfect. Looks like even more people will witness the moment I become Yellow Dorm’s number one," Dimitri boasted. "Watch closely. This is the King’s Duel!"
"King’s Knight’s effect! When this card is summoned and ’Queen’s Knight’ is on my field, I can Special Summon ’Jack’s Knight’ from my deck!"
[Jack’s Knight, ATK 1900]
A fan in the crowd was excited: "I know this! It’s the Three Knights for summoning the Egyptian Gods! Yugi used them to summon the God Cards!"
Or, to put it less nicely, the three tribute fodders.
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