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

"Let's fight! Regret it to your heart's content after defeat! [Heavenly String Player], attack [Giant Slayer]!"

However, just as IV smugly issued the attack command, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Yuma's eyes—those unwavering and resolute gazes—which immediately caused IV to roar in displeasure.

"What kind of look is that! You're the one who's going to lose next!"

"No, I won't be defeated like this!"

With a wave of his hand, Yuma flipped over the face-down card at his feet—the card that would decide his fate.

"I activate the Trap Card, [Half-Destruction]! This card can only be activated by targeting one monster you control. This turn, the targeted monster cannot be destroyed by battle, and the battle damage it inflicts on you by battle is halved!"

And what I chose, naturally, was [Giant Slayer]!

As this card was activated, a shimmering white light seemed to emanate from [Giant Slayer]'s body, as it met the blade swung down by [Heavenly String Player].

The powerful gust of wind generated by the collision of the two monsters instantly sent Yuma flying, causing him to fall heavily to the ground and inflicting 500 points of damage.

However, when Yuma opened his eyes, he still saw [Giantslayer] standing on his field, which meant that the subsequent effects of [Attack Mechanism] could not be activated.

At this moment, IV has lost almost all his trump cards. Perhaps, all he can do in the end is to activate the effect of [Heavenly String Player] and make a final struggle.

However, it meant nothing to him, because he knew that in the next turn, whether Yuma activated the effect of [Giant Eye] to steal [Heavenly Strings] or activated the effect of [Giant Slayer] to destroy [Heavenly Strings], he would ultimately be defeated.

He had no other way to stop it.

Faced with this situation, IV placed his palm on his D panel, which meant...

"I surrender."

That's right, IV folded and conceded. As IV folded and conceded, the AR scene in Yuma's eyes vanished completely. Then, he heard IV's last words.

"Keep that [No.] card safe in your hands. I will definitely take it back from you later!"

After saying that, IV turned and walked into the alley, his body disappearing into the shadows of the alley.

"I... won..."

Only now did Yuma finally breathe a long sigh of relief. In his opinion, it had been too risky just now. If it weren't for [Half-Break], he might have really been defeated.

Looking at his hand, Yuma felt a chill of fear, after all, he had a hand full of monster cards from the [GagaGaga] family with special summoning effects.

Since learning from Soleva's lesson, Yuma has made significant changes to his deck, replacing many of the original defensive cards with new ones.

If Yuma himself hadn't really liked this [Half-Break] card, he probably wouldn't have kept it.

"That was close. It seems the old man wasn't always right. We should add more cards like [Half-reduction without breaking] in the future."

At that very moment, the astral voice rang in Yuma's ears:

“Yuma, now that the [No.] card has been recycled, you should go back to school.”

"Huh? Are we going back so early? Since time has been stopped, it wouldn't hurt for us to wander around outside a little longer, would it?"

"No, based on my observation, time has already begun to shift slightly. If you don't hurry back to school now, you might not be able to get back when time has completely shifted."

In other words, you're going to be late.

The word "late" struck Yuma's heart instantly, causing him to exclaim in surprise at the astral body:

"Hey! Why didn't you tell me something so important sooner!"

Immediately afterward, Yuma took off running towards the school.

"I absolutely can't be late! Let's soar to the sky, me!"

Chapter 352 The Shadow in the Stable

"Speaking of which, Astral Entity, didn't you say that the [No.] cards all contain your memories? So, did you see anything in that [No. 96 Black Mist] card?"

As time passed, Yuma spent an ordinary day. After school in the afternoon, Yuma suddenly remembered the [No.96 Black Mist] and immediately asked the starlight body.

"I did see some things, but..."

Despite his hesitation, the astral body ultimately chose to tell Yuma about the memory he had seen.

"I saw a planet crumble and fall apart before my eyes, finally collapsing completely, just like the end of the world."

"Wow, is it really such a terrifying memory?"

Upon hearing the description of the astral body and imagining such a scene, Yuma couldn't help but shudder. At the same time, he also offered a guess.

"Could it be that the destroyed planet was your home planet, or something like that?"

Upon hearing Yuma's guess, Astral Entity immediately shook his head:

"I don't know. My memories are incomplete, and I don't know if that planet might be my home planet."

More importantly, for some reason, from the perspective of that memory, the astral body does not feel that it escaped from that destroyed planet.

More like, it was the culprit that destroyed that planet.

When this thought entered the astral body's mind, he suddenly felt an emotion called fear.

After all, in Astral's own view, whether it was the influence of Yuma or the concepts of good and evil he learned from the TV show featuring the protagonist of his favorite show, Robin from Another Dimension, he was more inclined to the side called justice.

But now, knowing that he might very well be the evil force that destroyed a planet, a world, how could the astral body not feel a little strange?

So, that night, after Yuma took off the Imperial Key and fell asleep, Astral remained immersed in his memories, trying to find some other, useful ones.

However, no matter how many times the astral body is viewed, the memory provided by [No. 96 Black Mist] will always be only that memory of the planet's destruction.

"Is there anything else I haven't discovered?"

While the astral body was so immersed in its memories, it did not notice that in Yuma's room, a dark shadow suddenly opened its eerie red eyes and stared intently at Yuma, who was sleeping peacefully in the hammock.

"Does he remove the Imperial Key every night? It's just a pity that he's still too close, I still can't take it from him, and there's also his astral body..."

"However, it's alright, I still have plenty of time. I'll wait a bit longer; after all, now is not the right time to deal with the astral entities."

Then, those crimson eyes closed, as if nothing had happened.

However, perhaps even the shadowy figure didn't notice that its silhouette had already been spotted by a lovesick woman who came to the Youma family every night without fail to gather material.

"What was that just now?! Could it be that Yuma is in danger?!"

However, the gray-haired girl, who had absolutely no idea how to deal with the shadowy figure, immediately started pacing around the roof of the Yuma family's house in a panic.

It was at this moment that she remembered the man who had appeared in her house and inexplicably introduced her to Yuma's sister; and later, after everyone at the [No.] club was rescued, she saw through the culprit's act of faking death, the man Yuma called "Uncle".

"Although I don't know what happened in the beginning, it must be related to him. Maybe that uncle is very good at solving paranormal events."

Perhaps out of desperation, the girl immediately made up her mind, rushed home, and uploaded the photo of the scarlet-eyed shadow she had just taken to her computer.

Although she didn't have the man's contact information, she had exchanged contact information with his girlfriend at the afternoon tea party organized by Sister Youma that day.

And so, as Soreva was taking a shower in the bathroom, pondering where to slack off tomorrow, she heard Zero's voice outside the door:

"Sorewa, Sorewa, are you done washing? Come out quickly, Yuma looks like he's in trouble!"

"Hmm? Yuma?"

Upon hearing Zero say that Yuma was the one who was going to get into trouble, Soreva immediately turned off the tap, grabbed a prepared towel, roughly dried himself off, wrapped the towel around his waist, and strode out of the bathroom.

"What did Yuma do... ugh!"

However, what greeted Soreva was a pillow that Zero slammed heavily onto his face:

"Idiot! Get dressed before you come out!"

"Huh? You were the one who told me to hurry up and come out, weren't you?"

After throwing the pillow back to Zero, Soleva had no choice but to return to the bathroom, carefully dry herself with a towel, change into underwear, shorts, and a short-sleeved shirt, before finally emerging from the bathroom.

"Alright, now can you tell me what happened to Yuma?"

Immediately afterwards, he saw Lingyi, her face slightly flushed, holding up her phone. The photo on the phone was of Yuma, who was lying in a hammock, fast asleep.

This left Soreva looking completely bewildered.

"Hmm... judging from how comfortably Yuma is sleeping, there shouldn't be any major problems."

But do kids these days really go to bed so early? Hmm, maybe they're not assigning enough homework. How can they get into good schools like this?

Then he saw Ling Yi, who had put her phone away, roll her eyes at him:

"Idiot! Who asked you to say that! Look here, look here! See, doesn't this look like a pair of red eyes?"

As Zero's finger reappeared in the photo, Soreva noticed the pair of eerie eyes hovering above Yuma's head:

"Uh... well, it does look similar, but are you sure this isn't some photoshopped image, or just a decoration that Yuma himself put in his room?"

Upon hearing Soreva's question, Zero immediately shook her head at him:

"Although I initially thought so too, I felt that the child who sent this picture wouldn't lie about Yuma."

"Oh? Really? Let me see... Oh, Kitty, if she said it, then it's probably true. But, we still can't rule out the possibility that Yuma put something in the room, right?"

Then, Soreva saw a series of photos on Zero's phone, which could be roughly summarized as Yuma returning to his room, Yuma turning off the lights, Yuma going to bed, and then the entire process of those scarlet eyes appearing and disappearing.

Having witnessed this process, Soreva could roughly determine that there was probably nothing in Yuma's room that could produce those eyes.

"Now, do you believe it?"

"Yes, I believe it."

Soreva clutched his head, now believing not only that those scarlet eyes had truly appeared out of thin air in Yuma's room, but also that something else entirely:

She's such a devoted fan of this girl, she's really powerful.

Chapter 353 Rivals Join Forces

"In short, until we understand exactly how this anomaly occurred, let's hold back for now."

Rubbing his temples, Soreva then shared his thoughts with Zero.

"Lingyi, please tell Xiao Mao to stay close to Yuma at school tomorrow and contact us if anything unusual happens. If everything is normal, we can discuss our next move after school this afternoon."

"okay, I get it."

Following Soreva's words, Zero relayed them verbatim to Kitten.

This caused the kitten's expectant expression to vanish completely, and it couldn't help but pout and start complaining:

"Hmm... Even that old man couldn't think of a good solution? But that's all we can do for now. I'll keep a close eye on Yuma!"