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

The little bird was still willing to believe Yuma, wondering if there really was something there, but Tetsuo just thought that Yuma was going crazy from fear because the shark was too strong.

Soreva, however, knew that it must be Astral, or rather, the Astral, who had appeared. Yet, even with the Tyrannosaurus Rex tattoo around his eyes revealed, he still couldn't see the Astral's true form.

However, he did have other ways to confirm the existence of astral bodies.

"Zero, can you help me out? Can you check if someone has really appeared around Yuma?"

That's right, the only person Soleva could think of was Zero, since Zero knew more about spirits than he did.

After responding, Zero emerged from Soreva's body. In a single glance, she spotted the astral figure beside Yuma and immediately spoke to Soreva:

"That's right, there is indeed a spirit beside him. However... the structure of this spirit is very strange; it doesn't seem to be a human soul."

"That's it."

Hearing Zero's answer, Soleva was almost certain that Yuma had seen an astral body. He himself was quite interested in seeing one, so Soleva made a request to Zero:

"Zero, is there a way for me to see astral bodies too?"

"of course can."

Upon receiving the response, Soreva saw Zero cover her eyes with her hands, plunging him into darkness. Zero's voice quickly followed in his ears:

"When you hear my voice, you'll see it when you open your eyes."

"it is good."

As Zero hugged Soleva tightly, her body merged into Soleva's body once again. At the same time, the silver-white Tyrannosaurus tattoo on Soleva's left eye instantly turned into a golden color.

"Okay, you can open your eyes now."

Following Zero's command, Soreva opened his eyes, and now he could clearly see the astral body being surrounded by Yuma.

"It really was him, Astral Body."

With a sigh, Soleva placed the fingers of his left hand on his temple, sent a message to Yuma, and called out,

"Yuma, what you saw wasn't an illusion; that person really exists! Now, calm down. You have more important things to do, don't you? Your duel isn't over yet!"

Chapter 244 The Last Hope

"Huh? It wasn't my imagination after all!"

Upon hearing Soleva's voice, Yuma breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that he was the only one having such a hallucination, but thankfully, others could see it too. It wasn't a hallucination, nor was it a malfunction of his D-view glasses.

But then, Yuma raised a question to Soreva:

"But uncle, how exactly did you see him?"

Not only Yuma wanted to ask this question, but even Tetsuo and Kotori, who were beside Soreva, heard Soreva's words and all gathered around Soreva to ask:

"Uncle, did you really see something?"

"No way? Could it be a ghost!?"

Hearing the incessant chatter around him, a look of helplessness instantly appeared on Soreva's face:

"In short, Yuma, all you need to remember is that what you're seeing isn't an illusion, just trust yourself. And don't forget, your duel isn't over yet!"

Now, let me explain to these two first.

After saying that, Soleva cut off the communication with Yuma. Although he didn't get any other information from Soleva, Yuma realized that he was in the middle of an important duel and couldn't afford to lose focus. He quickly raised his left arm, which was equipped with the D-Panel, back towards the shark.

Seeing that Yuma had stopped fooling around and continued the duel, Shark also set a card face down, ending his turn.

As for Soleva, things were in a worse state. Iron Man and Little Bird were already aggressively closing in, determined to get an answer from Soleva.

"Uncle! What exactly did Yuma see? Just tell us!"

"Yeah, uncle, it's too unfair that only you guys can see this, isn't it?"

Faced with the two little ones pestering him, Soleva first sighed, then thought of a way to prank them, and a smile instantly appeared on his lips:

"Alright, since you're so eager to know... Zero, could you please come out and let them see you?"

This time, Soreva didn't lower his voice when talking to Zero. Instead, he spoke in front of Tetsuo and Kotori, immediately causing both of them to tilt their heads in surprise.

"Uncle, you..."

Before the two could utter a word of confusion, they saw a girl's head pop out from Soreva's shoulder, smile at them, and then float out to greet them.

Hello, everyone.

"Yo, yo, yo..."

In an instant, the stammering Tetsuo, startled, made several "you" sounds before finally managing to scream.

"ghost!?"

And Soreva snapped his fingers in perfect unison:

"Bingo! Congratulations on getting it right, Tetsuo-kun. By the way, Yuma's situation is similar, except his ghost is still very weak, which is why you can't see it~"

"Alas--"

Seeing a ghost is scary enough, but now, Soreva says there's another ghost near Yuma, which terrifies Tetsuo so much that he hides behind a bird whose face seems perfectly still.

"What should we do, little bird! There really are ghosts!?"

However, Iron Man's question went unanswered until Iron Man gently touched him from behind, and the bird fell straight into Soleva's arms. Only then did Iron Man realize that the bird had been terrified when it first saw the ghost.

After falling into Soleva's arms, the little bird reacted instantly, quickly pushed Soleva away, and hid behind Iron Man, cautiously watching Soleva.

Seeing how frightened the two children were, Soreva realized he had gone a bit too far and quickly waved his hands at them, saying:

"Alright, alright, you two don't need to be afraid, Zero won't hurt you."

"Really, really?"

Seeing the little bird's teary eyes, frightened by her actions, Lingyi flew out and clasped her hands together in apology to the bird.

"I'm so sorry, I just wanted to scare you a little with Soreva's help. I didn't expect you to be so scared. I'm really sorry."

Seeing Zero's sincere apology, and not like a demon from a horror movie, Kotori and Tetsuo gradually relaxed their guard and nodded to Zero, acknowledging her apology.

Meanwhile, Soreva pointed in the direction of Yuma and the shark, and said to the two of them:

"Are you sure you don't want to watch Yuma's duel anymore? Yuma is in a serious crisis right now."

The two turned their heads and realized that Yuma's LP had reached a precarious 500 points, while Shark had [Sea Dragon] with an attack power of 3000 points and [Drill Barnacle] with an attack power of 1300 points on the field.

However, on Yuma's field, there is only one [Strong Knight] with an attack indicator and an attack power of 0.

"This...isn't Yuma in trouble?"

Now, anyone can see the great crisis facing Yuma, and Tetsuo is already prepared to take back the two-man deck if Yuma loses.

As for Yuma himself, he was still arguing happily with Astral Sphere at the moment:

"It's all your fault! All that noise made me summon a monster with 0 ATK in Attack Position!"

The astral body, however, ignored Yuma's complaints and continued to give orders:

"That's enough. Now, use [Monster Resurrection] in your hand to resurrect [I-I-I Magician] in the graveyard."

"What's the point of reviving [Me, Me, Me, the Magician] at a time like this..."

Despite saying that, whether out of inexplicable trust in the astral body or a desperate mentality, Yuma still activated [Monster Resurrection] and successfully resurrected [GagaGaga Magician] in the graveyard.

"Now all the conditions are met."

Looking at the two level 4 players, [Strive for the Best Knight] and [I-I-I Magician], on the racecourse, Astral Entity calmly said,

Stack the level 4 [MeMeMeMagician] and [Go for it Knight] together.

Now Yuma understood; the Astral Entity was probably doing this to perform an Xyz Summon. But…

"I don't have an Xyz Monster!"

Hearing Yuma's wails, the astral body immediately looked at the D-panel on Yuma's wrist and reminded him:

"Take a look at your extra deck."

Upon hearing this, Yuma immediately looked down and saw that his Extra Deck, which should have been empty, had opened by itself, and a brilliant golden light shot out from it.

Reaching out, Yuma saw the card's true form: a jet-black background confirming its Xyz Monster status, and an illustration of a warrior clad in platinum armor wielding a sword.

only……

"What are these words? I can't understand them at all!"

"Let me interpret it, [No. 39 Hopeful Hopp]."

As the text on the card changed to a format Yuma could understand, he instantly looked at the astral body and exclaimed in surprise:

"This card is [No.] card!?"

"That's right, this is the power I entrusted to you. Now, summon it."

Having received a positive response from the astral body, Yuma no longer hesitated and immediately began the summoning:

"A level 4 [Ga-Ga-Ga Magician] and [Go for It Knight] stacked together! A stacking network of two monsters is constructed! Xyz Summon! Descend, [No. 39 Hope the Emperor]!"

At the joint call of Yuma and Astral, a warrior clad in platinum armor descended upon the scene amidst a radiant glow.

At that moment, Soreva's right hand also felt a burning sensation.

Chapter 245 The Sword and Shield of Hope

"This monster..."

Even though it should be the first time he's seen a monster like this, Tetsuo felt a strange sense of familiarity when he saw [No. 39 Hope the Emperor] appearing in the marathon.

"Why do I have this feeling...? Oh right! It's that card of the old man!"

After a moment of thought, Tetsuo instantly realized why the monster looked so familiar. Wasn't this monster very similar to the card that Soreva had just shown him?

However, compared to the monster's dazzling appearance, the card that Soreva had just shown left Iron Man with a gloomy and oppressive feeling.

"What exactly is going on?"

With this question in mind, Iron Man couldn't help but turn his gaze to Soreva, but what he saw was Soreva tightly gripping his right hand with his left, saying "Calm down, [Hoples]" as if to comfort him.

That's really suspicious, sir!