Chapter 171. The Iconic "Crab Bro Unscrews" Scene Exposed! A Riding Duel That Left the Old Guard Stunned!
VRAINS World.
At the moment when that last Rank-Up into the burn finish with Number C9: Chaos Dyson Sphere happened, Yusaku Fujiki, "Leader" Zaizen, Takeru Homura, and the others were left baffled and at a loss.
What the heck?
You can play like that too!
No—who in the world would put those weird non–Galaxy-Eyes Xyz Monsters into a pure Galaxy-Eyes build!
Do they think the Extra Deck has too many slots?
What they didn't expect even more was—
Those 2 inclusions actually pulled off a one-turn burn sequence in the end!
"Genius! Absolute genius!"
"I'd just calculated he was still 500 short!"
"Didn't expect that slap in the face to land instantly!"
"Is this the dueling mindset of a higher world?!"
"You can calculate to that degree?!"
Off to the side, Aoi Zaizen swallowed hard.
It felt more and more unbelievable to her!
She even kind of wanted to run Number C9: Chaos Dyson Sphere herself!
Sadly, it doesn't really fit her Trickstar.
In the Prime World!
Sei Yuki also sighed when he finished watching that final line.
The calculation was too precise!
Even the last 500!
It was exactly as if it had been pre-read!
"As expected, you've gotta hand it to those 'gimmick' uploaders!"
"They can always cook up a pile of flashy lines!"
"Caught me completely off guard!"
"At least my Galaxy-Eyes would never run those!"
After sighing, Sei Yuki quickly went to check the next short video!
After all, you still have to watch for content! Money doesn't have a chill!
There are still plenty of functions to unlock later!
With that thought, Sei Yuki promptly started searching for more short videos!
Besides duels,
There were quite a few clips of iconic anime duel moments too!
"Yusei Fudo unscrewing bolts?"
"Oh, right!"
"Showing this iconic scene to duelists from other worlds—what would their reactions be?"
"After all, it's a duel from their own lives!"
Muttering to himself, Sei Yuki quickly settled on the next short video!
And the title simultaneously appeared across the dueling worlds!
"Yusei Fudo's Iconic Bolt-Unscrewing Riding Duel! Duel Terminated by D-Wheel Malfunction!"
The instant this video popped up—
The other worlds didn't react much yet.
But in the 5D's World,
Duelists who knew about it froze on the spot!
Yusei Fudo himself twitched at the corner of his mouth!
Kalin Kessler's expression flickered.
This iconic scene—
Of course he knew it.
Wasn't it—
Wasn't it the duel stirred up by his other dark persona, a Dark Signer Kalin Kessler?!
Meanwhile,
The chat also erupted into a flurry of discussion!
"What do you mean? The higher world even recorded our life duels?!"
"No way! That's a lie! Let's ask Yusei Fudo himself!"
"Uh, it's true. I can testify—the match got terminated because of a Duel Runner malfunction!"
"What the—?! For real? The higher world really has duel videos of each of us?"
Jaden Yuki, Yugi Muto, Yuma Tsukumo, Yuya Sakaki, and Yusaku Fujiki all chatted a bit and their faces changed!
They'd thought these higher-world duels only recorded locals.
But unexpectedly—
They even recorded their duels!
That's way too wild!
And in the short video—
The familiar D-Wheel Riding Duel had already begun!
Two silhouettes on Duel Runners flashed across the screen!
It was Kalin Kessler's dark persona and Yusei Fudo!
The Turbo Duel field had been successfully activated!
Kalin Kessler vs. Yusei Fudo!
Both Life Points: 4000 LP!
First turn—Kalin Kessler!
Kalin Kessler: "Hahahaha!"
Kalin Kessler: "My turn! Draw!"
"Summon Infernity Beast!"
"Set 1 card! End my turn!"
"All right! Come on then! Give me a duel that makes my flames of vengeance boil hotter!"
"Yusei! Enjoy this to your heart's content!"
Yusei Fudo: "My turn! Draw!"
"Is this all I can put up?!"
"I Normal Summon Speed Warrior in Attack Position!"
"This turn's Battle Phase!"
"My Speed Warrior's ATK will be doubled!"
"That makes it 1800!"
"I use Speed Warrior to destroy your Infernity Beast!"
Kalin Kessler: "Activate the Continuous Trap—Depth Amulet!"
"I send 1 card from my hand to the Graveyard!"
"The cost pays for an effect that negates the opponent's attack!"
"Your Deck is still the same! I've seen right through it!"
"Boring!"
Yusei Fudo: "I Set 2 cards!"
"Turn end!"
Kalin Kessler: "My turn! Draw!"
"I Normal Summon Infernity Archfiend!"
"I enter the Battle Phase!"
"Infernity Beast, attack your Speed Warrior!"
"Take 700 LP!"
"Hahaha! Dance for me, Yusei!"
"This is a Riding Duel! A real—Riding Duel!"
"It's not the same as the little games you play!"
"I'll keep going—Infernity Archfiend attacks you directly!"
Yusei Fudo: "Activate Trap—Scrap-Iron Scarecrow!"
"Negate that attack, and instead of sending it to the Graveyard, Set this card."
Kalin Kessler: "I Set 1 card!"
"Turn end."
Unlike the higher-world duels!
This was, in the truest sense—
A duel from their world!
That's right!
After seeing this,
Duelists from the DM and GX worlds—everyone other than 5D's—grew solemn!
This kind of duel footage!
That strange D-Wheel duel!
And Yusei Fudo nearly wiping out after taking damage!
The whole picture was telling them—
This was something that had truly happened in the 5D's World!
Back in 5D's World!
Seeing himself duel his Dark Kalin again,
Yusei was both embarrassed and incredulous!
"It's real! This is real! This is Yusei vs. Kalin Kessler!"
"I was right there watching it at the time!"
"Yeah! This is the duel!"
"Unbelievable!"
"Why would the higher world have it on record?!"
Crow Hogan stared blankly at the familiar footage rolling!
At the same time, the memories were replaying in his head!
Yusei swallowed and came back to himself.
Looking at the field in front of him, his expression had grown tense!
"Yes. I know it myself."
"The final result of that duel was—"
"But why?"
Muttering, Yusei started to say something, then swallowed it back down!
And the duel continued!
Yusei Fudo: "My turn! Draw!"
"I Normal Summon Junk Synchron! I activate its effect to revive Speed Warrior from the Graveyard!"
"Level 2 plus Level 3!"
"I Synchro Summon!"
"The stars that gather shall awaken a newborn power!"
"Become the shining path!"
"Synchro Summon! Junk Warrior!"
"Next! I activate the Continuous Trap—Shards of Hope!"
"The effect is: when my monster inflicts battle damage to the opponent!"
"I can draw 1 card from my Deck; if that card is a Trap, I can activate it straight from my hand!"
"I use Junk Warrior to attack your Infernity Beast!"
"Scrap Fist!"
Kalin Kessler: "I'll keep using Depth Amulet!"
"I discard 1 card to negate that attack!"
Yusei Fudo: "Willing to burn through hand resources?"
"My turn ends!"
Kalin Kessler: "My turn! Draw!"
"I Tribute Infernity Beast and Infernity Archfiend!"
"I Tribute Summon Dark Tuner Nightmare Hand!"
"I activate its effect—when this card is successfully Summoned, I can Special Summon a Level 2 monster from my hand!"
"I Special Summon—Infernity Dwarf!"
"I tune Infernity Dwarf with Nightmare Hand for a Synchro Summon!"
"When the pitch-black curtain falls, the eyes of the Netherworld open!"
"Dark descend! Dark Synchro!"
"Here it comes—Hundred Eyes Dragon!"
Yusei Fudo: "3000 ATK? Useless!"
"I've got the Scarecrow in my backrow!"
Kalin Kessler: "Oh? Then I activate Hundred Eyes Dragon's effect! I banish Infernity Beast from my Graveyard to gain its effect permanently!"
"Infernity Beast's effect is—when my hand is 0!"
"If this card attacks, the opponent can't activate Spells or Traps until the end of the Damage Step."
"Hundred Eyes Dragon, destroy your Junk Warrior!"
"Hahaha! Be crushed by the flames, Yusei!"
"But relax—I won't let you die that fast!"
"My turn ends."
Dark Synchro?
This is—?
What's going on?!
That black power, and the monster's soul being corroded!
DM World!
Yugi Muto's pupils shook! His first thought—
This isn't a duel!
This is clearly a Shadow Duel!
"Dark Riding Duel? No way! They have Shadow Duels in Yusei's world too?!"
"I thought Shadow Duels were only in ours! Didn't expect theirs too!"
"No way, right! Although that dwarf's soul did scream as it got corrupted!"
"Kinda scary! Didn't expect Yusei to have gone through something this terrifying!"
Mai Valentine, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, and the others immediately started talking!
Having experienced Shadow Duels themselves,
The moment they saw Kalin's sequence, they realized this was probably a Shadow Duel too!
Same for the GX World…
Jaden Yuki and Professor Chronos both had the same reaction—Shadow Duel!
They'd also had their share of fights against Shadow Duelists,
Especially the duels centered on the Sacred Beasts.
To guard the Keys,
They'd run into quite a few Shadow Duelists!
Meanwhile,
The chat had already gone white-hot!
Joey Wheeler: "Whoa! Big Bro Yusei! You've got Shadow Duelists over there too?"
Yusei Fudo: "Uh… how to put it? He wasn't a Shadow Duelist. He's my partner and friend."
Kalin Kessler: "At the time it was my dark persona—basically a Dark Signer, while Yusei and the others were Signers."
Yuma Tsukumo: "Your relationships are so complicated. My review: not as simple as me and Astral!"
Yusaku Fujiki: "I see. Wouldn't have guessed your world's duels were this interesting."
After some chatting, Yusei used the chance to tell them about Dark Signers and Signers.
And in the short, the duel kept going!
Yusei Fudo: "My turn! Draw!"
"I Set Rockstone Warrior in Defense!"
"I Set 1 Trap!"
"Turn end."
Kalin Kessler: "Depth Amulet's self-destruct clause."
"Three of the opponent's End Phases after activation, this card destroys itself."
"Next is my turn! Draw!"
"I activate a Turbo-Duel-exclusive Speed Spell—Speed Spell – Power Baton!"
"You can only activate it when you have 6 or more Speed Counters!"
"I send 1 monster from my Deck to the Graveyard!"
"I send Infernity Destroyer!"
"Then Hundred Eyes Dragon gains that monster's ATK until the end of the turn!"
"So my Hundred Eyes Dragon rises to 5300 ATK!"
"Next! I activate Hundred Eyes Dragon again!"
"I gain the effects of Infernity Dwarf and Infernity Destroyer!"
"This attack—will pierce!"
"Hahahaha! This is the zero-hand combo!"
"Hundred Eyes Dragon attacks your Rockstone Warrior!"
"Take that piercing damage!"
Yusei Fudo: "I activate Rockstone Warrior's effect!"
"During a battle involving this card, the battle damage I take becomes 0."
Kalin Kessler: "Hahaha! Clung to life by a thread!"
"But you're down to just 2 cards in hand!"
"Can you hold out next turn?"
"I activate Hundred Eyes Dragon—while my hand is 0!"
"When it destroys a monster, you take 800 damage!"
"Come on—enjoy it!"
With that damage—
Yusei Fudo's Life Points: 1800 LP!
And at this moment, his Duel Runner veered off the dueling track!
This scene left duelists from every world utterly confused!
Huh?!
And the Riding Duel's track was surrounded entirely by flames!
Was 5D's World's Yusei Fudo about to be engulfed by fire?!
No—
Maybe it wouldn't be that simple!
Back to the short!
Yusei Fudo's Duel Runner seemed to stomp on wind-and-fire wheels, riding the flames and soaring back onto the track!
And the duel wasn't over!
They were still racing at full tilt!
Seeing this, duelists from other worlds all flinched in unison!
What kind of machine is that?
It can literally step on flames and race back?
Didn't see that coming—
Yusei's riding skills are that good!
In the chat, after this sequence—
Duelists from other worlds started riffing in turn!
Yugi Muto: "Speak up, Yusei Fudo! What were you feeling then? And that duel—was it a Shadow Duel?"
Jaden Yuki: "Sugoi! Dueling on bikes is way too cool! If Yusei had fallen just now—would that have been a loss?"
Yuma Tsukumo: "Ahem! I feel like you 5D's folks duel under way too much threat. Can't you be normal for once? Who duels while riding?"
Crow Hogan: "Hey, hey, hey! That's our 5D's specialty! What do you know! And it's not a 'bike'! It's a Duel Runner! How many times do I have to say it!"
Yusei Fudo: "How should I put it… Seeing my past duel now just makes my scalp tingle! When I took that hit and the Runner drifted, my mind went blank. In the end, it was the will to duel that brought me back."
Kalin Kessler: "Sorry, Yusei. My dark persona—didn't think it would come to that. That still… isn't enough."
The old guard in the chat immediately started chattering all at once!
In the Prime World, even Sei Yuki couldn't help but laugh!
Indeed.
Who duels properly while riding?
Well—that was his first thought.
Later it became—
Who duels properly without riding?
You've gotta ride to duel!
Kalin Kessler: "You still haven't been swallowed by the flames?"
Kalin Kessler: "Hmph, clung to life. I end my turn."
Kalin sneered and roared!
With a terrifying gaze and expression,
He once again made duelists of other worlds shudder.
Without a doubt—a Shadow Duelist!!!!
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