Chapter 60: How the Weak Fight
"Kaiba Chiha, same annoying personality as her sister. Why bully our Synchro Academy students?"
On the rooftop adjacent to the exam venue, though marked "No Entry," the girl had not only entered but sat on the edge railing in an extremely dangerous-looking position, legs dangling in air, lollipop in mouth.
Smooth white hair rendered like starlight glittered brilliantly under the artificial sun.
Academy City total ranking third place, Rin Seiya—Synchro Academy's strongest duelist.
The girl directly bit through the lollipop she'd been sucking, chewing and swallowing it.
Seeing Synchro Academy students bullied genuinely irritated her. But she also found something strange.
Why wasn't this boy in the duel using Synchro at all?
Even across this distance, Rin Seiya could smell a Synchro aura from him more intense than anyone else's.
He should have many, many Synchro cards.
"Did I smell wrong?"
Saying this, Rin Seiya drew a card from the card box strapped to her thigh, gazing at the card face as if asking it for confirmation.
"What do you think, Stardust?"
[Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon] [ATK: 3000] × 3
Standing at the center of three Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragons actually blurred Kaiba Chiha's height problem. Illuminated by galactic radiance, even the duelist herself seemed magnificent.
"Unauthorized use of the same Blue-Eyes White Dragon as Big Sister—this turn, you'll regret it!"
Simultaneously commanding three Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragons into Battle Phase, Kaiba Chiha's first chosen attack target was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon on Amano's field.
3000 ATK VS 3000 ATK!
"Go, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!"
However, the anticipated image of two light dragons clashing never appeared.
Receiving Kaiba Chiha's attack command, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon directly spread its wings shining with galactic radiance, lunging at Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Then both dragons pressed tightly together as if wrestling each other.
Kaiba Chiha: "This is my love for Big Sister!"
Amano: "You crazy woman, can you duel normally?!"
Kaiba Chiha: "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect activates!"
Though stats, Attribute, and Type were completely identical, compared to Blue-Eyes White Dragon's vanilla status, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon possessed its own effect.
[During the Battle Step, when this card battles an opponent's monster: You can target that 1 opponent's monster; banish both that opponent's monster and this card. Return them to the field during the End Phase of the Battle Phase.]
Both tightly pressed dragons were simultaneously banished by the effect. The dual radiance escaping into another dimension left no trace on field.
[Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon] banished
[Blue-Eyes White Dragon] banished
Amano: "Using this method to show affection with my Blue-Eyes White Dragon—isn't that a bit excessive?"
Kaiba Chiha: "Do you want to die that badly?"
[Kaiba Chiha] [Affection -1]
Already low enough—Amano didn't care at all.
[Affection change detected. Skill reward distribution failed. Please try again later.]
Also, System, please fix this bug.
Amano's provocation wasn't purely empty trash talk but pointed out Kaiba Chiha's seemingly useless operation.
Using Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to battle Blue-Eyes White Dragon, both simultaneously banished, both returning after battle ended—effectively no battle at all.
Kaiba Chiha had even wasted one attack, leaving her two remaining Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragons unable to completely wipe out the three tofu blocks on his field.
"Don't lump me with those academy scrubs, Amano!"
As a tenth-ranked duelist, she really had no reason to make such mistakes.
After both dragons' radiance simultaneously vanished, Kaiba Chiha flipped the card she'd Set last turn.
"Trap Card activated: [Dragon's Revival]!"
[Dragon's Revival] [Trap Card: Target 1 banished monster (yours or your opponent's); Special Summon it to your field. During the End Phase, return that monster to its owner's hand.]
"I target the banished [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] to Special Summon it to my field!"
This was Kaiba Chiha's ultimate goal.
Have Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon banish both itself and Blue-Eyes White Dragon together, then use the Trap card to Special Summon Amano's banished Blue-Eyes White Dragon onto her own field.
"Return, my sister's proud and beautiful soul! Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
[Blue-Eyes White Dragon] [ATK: 3000]
"Hehe, I got it anyway, Amano Rei!"
This was Yu-Gi-Oh!'s fascinating aspect—even if Blue-Eyes White Dragon was soul-bound to Amano in reality, control could transfer within duels.
Though with various condition restrictions.
Amano: "Getting it for one turn counts as 'getting it'?"
Kaiba Chiha: "Even one turn is enough to plunge you into defeat's abyss! Continue battling, my dragon proud of the galaxy!"
Now both sides' fields had three monsters each.
Castle PK begins.
Kaiba Chiha's side: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Versus
Amano's side: Yuyu, Yuyu, Yuyu.
"—'Double Photon Stream of Destruction Overlapping Burst Stream Explosion'—!!"
What a long attack name!
[Yuyu] destroyed
[Yuyu] destroyed
[Yuyu] destroyed
[Yuyu] total annihilation
Amano: "Ah, close."
Kikawayu: "Not even close!"
Even the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that was their last hope had been stolen by Kaiba Chiha using interdimensional banishing tactics.
With Fusion banned, even his companions couldn't currently imagine how Amano could win this entrance exam.
"My turn ends!"
Surrounded by galaxy and white dragon, Kaiba Chiha confidently declared turn end.
"By effect, my banished [Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon] returns to my field!"
Triple galactic radiance gathered again, forming an even more impenetrable wall of despair than last turn.
"Then it's my turn!" Amano flipped the card Set in his back row.
Still during Kaiba Chiha's End Phase, the card Amano activated was—lots of Yuyu.
"Continuous Trap Card: [Human Wave Tactics]!"
The card face indeed showed lots of Yuyu.
[Human Wave Tactics] [Continuous Trap Card: During each End Phase: Special Summon from your Deck, Level 2 or lower Normal Monsters up to the number of Level 2 or lower Normal Monsters that were destroyed by battle during that turn.]
"Since three [Yuyu] were destroyed this turn, I Special Summon 3 Normal Monsters from my Deck!"
Amano raised his Duel Disk arm. Three cards shot from the Main Deck, forming a new battle line in the Duel Disk's Monster Zones.
[Heart Key Fairy], [Fire Rat], [Unicycler].
This is how the weak fight!