“Hehehehe, there are too many people here, it’s not convenient. Let’s go inside to duel.”
The black-robed man put down his Duel Disk, like a priest luring an innocent little boy to see goldfish.
Kagura Kiryu suppressed his disgust and followed him to the depths of the alley.
Seeing that they had finally arrived at a quiet place in the dead of night, the lewd black-robed man finally stopped concealing himself and tore off the covering on his hood.
The golden eye symbol was revealed, and the hooded man laughed lewdly!
“Hahahahaha! You fell for it! You naive little brat!”
He started winking and introducing himself: “I am the Rare Card Hunter of the Garooz Group! If you know what’s good for you, hand over your Rare Cards!”
Several burly men suddenly emerged from the entrances of the alley, all wearing the same Garooz black robes as the lewd man, completely blocking the alleyway.
Kagura Kiryu was silent for two seconds, suddenly feeling that the man opposite him laughing like that was quite awkward, and immediately became a drama queen.
He said in a “panic”: “What, it’s the legendary Rare Card Hunter! You, what do you want to do? Steal my Rare Cards?”
The lewd man was quite satisfied with Kagura Kiryu’s reaction: “That’s right!”
He held the Duel Disk across his chest: “I’m going to have a Duel City rules gamble with you! The winner can take one Rare Card from the loser!”
He chuckled cunningly: “Uncle here is going to force you to keep dueling until I take all the Rare Cards from your hand!”
Kagura Kiryu was stunned for a moment and blinked: “Keep dueling?”
“That’s right!”
The black-robed man laughed loudly: “According to the Duel City rules, it’s forbidden to duel the same target multiple times!”
“However, we Garooz, as rule-breakers, can use force to break this rule and make you lose until you have no Rare Cards left!”
Kagura Kiryu: …
He sighed, no longer maintaining the expression of a weak, coerced young man on his face.
He merely looked at the black-clad man opposite him with a pitiful gaze, as if looking at an idiot.
“I originally thought you were a robber, but I didn’t expect you to be a beggar.”
Kagura Kiryu was speechless. No wonder they say that the villains in Yu-Gi-Oh are the most rule-abiding villains, sometimes even more principled than the protagonists.
You have so many people, you could clearly just rob them directly, why play cards?
Even if you’re influenced by the underlying logic of the Yu-Gi-Oh world and have to play a card game for everything, you could simply take the entire deck after winning against me.
Instead, you want to take one card per game, until I have no Rare Cards left.
Kagura Kiryu almost laughed out of anger again.
The black-clad lewd man was enraged by Kagura Kiryu’s words: “What do you mean! How dare you call me a beggar?”
“This great me is a man who has won the Duel Hall championship three times in a row!”
Kagura Kiryu’s lips curled into a cold smile, looking more like a villain than any of the villains present: “You said you were a Rare Card Hunter, right?”
He raised his Duel Disk and inserted his deck:
“Coincidentally, I am a Rare Card Hunter who specializes in hunting Rare Card Hunters!”
The black-clad man was a little startled, but forced a cold snort: “Don’t talk big!”
“Duel!”
“Duel!”
【Kagura Kiryu: LP4000】
【Rare Card Hunter: LP4000】
“My turn first, draw!”
The Garooz Hunter shouted, directly drawing a card from his deck.
Kagura Kiryu, who had just drawn five cards from his deck: ?
He belatedly remembered, damn it, it seems like in the anime, whoever shouts faster goes first.
And the first turn in this era doesn’t just mean five cards in hand; you can also draw an extra card.
Seeing the opponent gain a card felt even worse than losing a card himself.
Kagura Kiryu silently noted this mistake in his mind and decided to practice more intensely later.
“Hehehe, what a great hand!”
The black-clad man added the card he had just drawn to his hand, but before he could make any moves, he heard a loud shout: “Damn Garooz, stop right there!”
Kagura Kiryu looked back and saw a blond young man punch away the Garooz black-clad man who was blocking him.
Then he kicked down several other Garooz big men who came to reinforce him and rushed straight towards himself.
“Damn Garooz! You’re stealing other people’s cards again! Stop it right now!”
The black-clad lewd man was startled: “Katsuya Jonouchi?”
Kagura Kiryu also recognized him. That’s right, this was the famous protagonist group member, the God of Gamblers, Katsuya Jonouchi, from Yu-Gi-Oh DM!
“Damn Garooz! Terminate this duel!”
Jonouchi rubbed his fists: “I haven’t settled the score with you yet for almost stealing my Red-Eyes Black Dragon last time!”
Kagura Kiryu slowly revealed a question mark: ?
In his impression, the first time Jonouchi encountered Garooz, he was defeated by a Garooz using a Dark Magician deck.
Now he says “almost,” which means it wasn’t stolen, right?
The direction of this world and the anime doesn’t seem to be exactly the same, for example, the timeline, and also Jonouchi.
He silently noted it down, reaching out to stop Jonouchi, who was waving his fists: “No, this is my duel, and I don’t need anyone else to interfere.”
Kagura Kiryu turned to him and said:
“You are the runner-up of Duel Kingdom, Katsuya Jonouchi, right? If so, you should also be a true Duelist.”
Kagura Kiryu held his Duel Disk, his eyes sharp: “As a Duelist, how can one avoid battle!”
And most importantly, I’m the one who wants to steal cards.
Kagura Kiryu silently added in his mind.
“A true Duelist…”
Jonouchi silently repeated these words, his heart trembling, and finally nodded heavily.
“Alright, then this great me will just watch from the side.”
“Hey, Garooz over there, don’t try any tricks!”
The Garooz snorted: “Then the duel continues!”
He scanned his hand, a cold smile on his face: “Then let me show you my strength!”
The Garooz slapped a card onto the Duel Disk’s card slot: “I Summon 【Blade Rabbit】! In Attack Position!”
A humanoid monster with a bull’s head appeared on the field, covered in thick fur, wearing armor, wielding a broken great axe, and roaring angrily at the sky.
【Blade Rabbit, Beast-Warrior Type, Normal Monster, ATK 1700】
Kagura Kiryu and Jonouchi were both somewhat shocked.
Jonouchi was shocked because the opponent had summoned a monster with 1700 ATK on the first turn, while Kagura Kiryu was shocked because:
Axe Raider?
Although it wasn’t the real Axe Raider, the famous Axe Raider.
But with the same 1700 ATK, also a Normal Monster, and also wielding an axe, it was quite easy to confuse them.
In Yu-Gi-Oh, people like to call monsters that only have high ATK but no special effects “Axe Raiders.”
This card was once the highest-level UR in the international server of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links.
Coupled with its outstanding 1700 ATK among a host of lower-level monsters in the original environment.
Axe Raider became a popular meme among card players.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t the real Axe Raider, just a high-quality replica.
“Hahahaha, you’ve seen it, right? This is the power of our Garooz’s copy card technology! No matter how rare a card is, we can copy it successfully! Turn end!”
Katsuya Jonouchi was a little anxious: “Damn it, he summoned a monster with 1700 ATK on the first turn!”
“He’s indeed a Duelist whose strength shouldn’t be underestimated!”
He looked at Kagura Kiryu: “Well? Can you win?”
Kagura Kiryu glanced at his hand and smiled confidently: “If nothing unexpected happens, he won’t have another turn.”
“Nani!?”