Traveling in reverse through the Yu-Gi-Oh! world with the MD system

Traveling in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World with the MD System Author: Passerby Comes to Beat Up Fans

Summary:

In a certain month of a certain year, a Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel player, after experiencing the extreme highs and lows of a ten-pull where all cards were shiny and chroma but none were UR cards from the pack, tragically passed away due to a sudden heart attack.

And from that moment on, the Yu-Gi-Oh! world gained a traveler who journeyed against the grain into the anime world. After missing the story of Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains, Soleva's first stop was Mainet City, where his journey would officially begin.

"Mr. Soleva, thank you for your guidance. In return, please show me my Magician deck!" — Yuya Sakaki

"Damn it! I don't remember teaching you that dirty trick of the Magician OTK!" — From Soreva, who was killed in one turn by Yuya Sakaki.

"Thanks to the Kaiju cards entrusted to me by Master Soreva, I finally found a way to defeat thousands of masters!" — Yuma Tsukumo

"I didn't! I didn't!"—Under a barrage of sharp gazes, Soreva awkwardly turned his head away.

"...That bastard, he actually turned Aibo's duel into this!" — Atum

"Don't slander me! Your Aibo is a ghost, you know!" — From Soleva, whose soul had already been dragged to the underworld, still trying to defend himself.

Chapter 01 Hello, DanceNet City

Mai-Ani City is a city on the Japanese coast. In this city, there is Lion Corporation, which developed [High-Quality 3D Illusion] and led the trend of action dueling with it, as well as Yu-Sho Juku, a private dueling academy founded by Yu-Sho Sakaki, a former action dueling champion.

In this world where action duels are all the rage, Mai-Ani City is like a holy land.

Today, this holy city of action duels welcomes a guest from another world.

"Hey, system, this should be the city where the fifth Yu-Gi-Oh! anime takes place, right?"

As a ripple appeared in mid-air, a young man's figure gradually solidified from an illusion before landing in a small alley in Wuwang City.

However, after waiting for a long time, he still didn't hear a response from the mechanical voice in his head. A cross-shaped vein bulged on his forehead, and he shouted angrily:

"Hey! I don't even expect you to be able to strike all sorts of poses like those systems in BookKing, can't you at least answer when I ask you a question?! Because of you, I didn't even encounter a single anime character in the last world!"

However, even after the young man shouted like that, he still received no response, which angered him so much that he could only fiercely raise his middle finger:

"You win! System, open the panel!"

As the young man's eyes lit up, a picture with red background and white text appeared before him:

KONAMI

He was all too familiar with this logo; it belonged to the evil Konami company and was the opening animation of Yu-Gi-Oh! Mega Drive, a game he had been playing for almost a year.

Immediately, the screen went dark, turning into a black background, a game screen he was quite familiar with, Yu-Gi-Oh! Mega Drive.

Faced with this scene, he smiled slightly:

"That's the best thing about this system. You don't need to use a VPN or accelerator to play MD anymore. It even has built-in Chinese localization and..."

I pointed my finger to the upper right corner of the screen, and the red dot there stood out starkly against the black background.

"Sure enough, this comes with every new world: 1000 diamonds, 10 pulls, that's great."

After clicking to claim the reward, and seeing that he could use his diamonds for another ten-pull, the young man's face immediately lit up with satisfaction. However, after exiting the reward interface and seeing his username, his expression instantly fell, and he reluctantly poked at the user information bar in the upper left corner.

"Seriously, this broken system! All the other functions work, but why can't I change my name?! I've reset my account information and card deck, so why isn't my username reset?!"

As for the young man's username...

Soreva Dokana

This is a transliteration of a famous comeback line from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! When the young man was playing Yu-Gi-Oh! MD, he was just using it as a meme, simply adding a period to the phrase and using it as his username.

Unexpectedly, after he transmigrated with this system, the username full of memes actually became his real name. All his identity documents were marked with this name, and he couldn't change it no matter what he did.

So let's just call this unfortunate young man Sorewa for now.

Incidentally, the reason the young man traveled through time was that while he was playing Mega Drive, a themed card pack that would last for a month was released. The young man, who hadn't drawn much from Mega Drive before, wanted to join the mainstream and experience the power level, so he excitedly drew the new pack.

As a result, amidst the screen full of golden and colorful light, he didn't manage to draw a single UR card from the original brand; almost all the colorful light was given to the first four cards of each draw.

And just like that, the young man, enraged, blacked out and fell down, his head hitting the corner of the table. And just like that, he was transported to another world.

Therefore, my friends, cherish life and stay away from baggage!

Now, seeing that the username field remained as stubbornly steadfast as the Wailing Wall, Soreva sighed and gave up. After all, in the nearly one year since his transmigration and rebirth, he had tried countless times, but all had ended in failure.

However, during the year he was reborn, Soreva did not do nothing. Although he did not participate in any of the missions in the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS storyline, he still diligently played ranked matches and saved diamonds every day, and rebuilt his usual deck.

As for why Soleva, despite arriving in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS as his first stop, didn't participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS storyline, this relates to Soleva's understanding of Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Soreva's earliest introduction to Yu-Gi-Oh! came from a Yu-Gi-Oh! manga he received from his cousins ​​when he was a child, along with a few pirated cards from China. Later, it wasn't until the Mega Drive was released that he officially entered the world of card games.

As for that manga, it tells the story of Yugi Muto participating in Duel Kingdom during the DM era.

It's fair to say that Soleva knows absolutely nothing about the plot of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. While he could recognize the main characters in the earliest two Yu-Gi-Oh! series, DM and GX, he struggled to even recognize the main characters in the later series.

Regarding VRAINS, the sixth Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, Soleva's knowledge of it is limited to Link Summoning, Cyberse, online card games, and the invincible tight-fitting man.

So, Soreva thought that since it was online card games, there was no need for him to go to Japan, since he didn't speak Japanese very well. He should just stay in China.

(It wasn't until an accident that Soreva learned that his broken system actually had a built-in voice translation function.)

As a result, Soreva, who was looking forward to meeting the main characters while playing cards online in China, encountered an embarrassing situation, which was—

The Japanese and Chinese servers are separate! This is why he can't encounter the main characters!

There was nothing he could do but give up and obediently stay in the Chinese server to play cards, grind the MD system, and accumulate more cards for himself.

Just as Soreva was getting used to this leisurely life, that wicked system suddenly appeared, informing him that the VRAINS storyline had ended and that he should set off for the next world.

What else could Soleva do? If he didn't set off, he would be sent back to his original body, and then he would only face death.

Therefore, Soreva had no choice but to set off.

However, this time Soreva was more cautious. Before setting off, he informed the system that he wanted to go to the city where the protagonist was.

So this time, Soreva successfully arrived in the city of DanceNet.

However, having received no response from the system, Soreva began to wonder if he had really arrived in the city where the protagonist was.

Forget it, there’s no point in thinking too much!

Soreva immediately patted his face, and facing the bright sunlight, walked out of the alley to welcome his new day in the new world.

Chapter 02 Pendulum Summoning and Yuya Sakaki

"Oh my god! What is this?! Pendulum Summoning? What kind of summoning method is this? I've never heard of it before!?"

"I don't know either, but to be able to summon three monsters in an instant, including a level 7 high-level monster, this summoning method is incredibly powerful!"

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As Soreva stepped out of the alley, the only sounds that reached his ears, besides the rumbling engines of cars passing by on the road, were this sudden burst of loud cheers.

Soreva looked to his side at the sound and saw a group of people seemingly gathered around something, cheering and shouting excitedly.

"Pendulum Summoning? Yeah, it seems like Pendulum Summoning is a new summoning method that's been introduced in this series. Maybe it's related to the protagonist of this series!"

Thinking this, Soreva immediately walked towards the crowd. Only after getting closer did Soreva realize that the people were surrounding a television screen that was broadcasting a duel match.

However, when Soreva saw the image on the television screen, he was instantly stunned:

"That tomato-shaped head, green on top and red on the bottom, if I remember correctly, this guy is the main character of this Yu-Gi-Oh! series, right? And the heterochromatic-eyed Pendulum Dragon... Yes! That should be him! His name is... Yu something?"

Although, based on his outstanding hairstyle and the heterochromatic Pendulum Dragon that Soreva himself had used, Soreva immediately determined that this boy with the tomato-shaped hair must be the protagonist of this Yu-Gi-Oh! series, he just couldn't think of his name.

Just as Soreva was racking his brains over the boy's name, the image on the television screen suddenly changed.

The camera focused on a burly man with three purple horns on his head, red markings on his face, and an expression of shock on his face.

"Three monsters appeared at the same time? And that dragon is a level 7... I probably can't perform a high-level summon without releasing the monsters!"

As if in response to the man's shock, an equally shocked voice came from somewhere:

"However, the system did not indicate an error, which means..."

After the pause in the voice, the man, as if in response, continued the conversation with a grim expression:

"The summoning is... effective."

Suddenly, the camera cut back to the tomato-headed boy, who had now climbed onto the back of the heterochromatic golem, one hand supporting himself on the golem's horn, the other outstretched, issuing commands:

"Activate the effect of [Entertainment Partner Whip Snake]! Swap the ATK and DEF of one of your opponent's monsters!"

At the boy's command, a cobra, entirely purple, wearing a top hat and bow tie, with two five-pointed stars painted on its face—one blue and one orange—looking quite comical, immediately raised its tail, swaying a heart decoration hanging upside down from it.

As the camera moved, a giant holding the purple-haired man suddenly knelt down, smashing his massive metal mace to the ground.

And right next to this giant, a display box suddenly and thoughtfully appeared on the screen:

ATK: 5000 → 1100

This means that the giant's attack power dropped from 5000 to 1100.

The purple-haired man, laid to the ground by the powerless giant, realized the gravity of the situation. Looking at the giant's now kneeling figure, he muttered resentfully:

"[The Barbarian King's] attack power..."

In Soreva's opinion, there was no point in watching the match anymore. With only 1100 attack power left, the Barbarian King, plus the purple-haired man with less than 3000 LP, was powerless to turn the tide against the boy's three monsters' total attack of 4800.

As expected, after activating the effect of another monster on the field, [Entertainment Partner Swordfish], the Tomato-Headed Boy further reduced [Barbarian King]'s attack power to 500 points, and then commanded [Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon] to launch an attack on [Barbarian King].

Despite the purple-haired man's attempts to evade the attack by activating a trap card and an action card in succession, his efforts were repeatedly negated by the tomato-headed boy's activation of the effects of two pendulum monsters in the back row.

Ultimately, with the [Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon] benefiting from the doubled battle damage effect when battling monsters of level 5 or higher, the purple-haired man lost all his remaining LP points in one hit.

At that very moment, as the television screen announced the winner, Soreva learned the real name of the "Tomato Head":

Sakaki Yuya.

"As expected, with the character 'Yu' in his name, this guy must be the main character of this Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, right?"

Watching Yuya Sakaki being interviewed on the television screen, tirelessly promoting the Yushojuku school named after his father, Soleva knew where he belonged in this world.

"In that case, let me go and take a look at that Yusheng Academy."

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"Oh my, this is really terrifying!"