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

"Duel!" ×2

And so, the duel between Shark and III began. But now let's see what the protagonist of this book, Soreva, is up to.

Soleva had already been out of that place for quite some time, since he already knew the outcome of the duel when Iron Man successfully Special Summoned [Cyber ​​Dragon Next Star].

"No machine-type monster can escape being rolled around like a tire by the [Cyber ​​Dragon]."

After muttering this sentence briefly, Soreva turned his head and saw that Tokunosuke Omi, who had separated from him earlier, seemed to be dragging someone into a small alley.

"This guy... seems a bit suspicious."

Thinking this, Soreva immediately followed Rito no Suke quietly, but in order to avoid being discovered by the two, he ultimately did not enter the alley.

However, Tokunosuke seemed very cautious, pulling the man deep into the alley, so that Soreva, who was hiding at the alley entrance, didn't hear anything.

Soon, Soreva saw Omi Tokunosuke, who was smiling, walking out of the alley. In his hand, he was even swinging a crimson heart fragment.

"Wow, you're pretty quick. You won a Heart Fragment so fast?"

The sudden sound startled Tokunosuke, who nearly dropped the heart fragment he was tossing around.

Fortunately, thanks to Tokunosuke's frantic efforts, he managed to catch the fragment of the heart.

"Seriously! Don't scare people like that!"

Instinctively grumbled, and turned around to find Soreva standing behind him with a smile, asking him:

"It's nothing, I was just curious. You've collected a new Heart Fragment so quickly?"

Faced with Sorevadi's question, Pyoreide no Suke immediately patted his chest and said:

"Of course! I'm very capable. Isn't collecting a new Heart Fragment a piece of cake?"

"Really? I saw you go into that alley and come out in no more than five minutes, right? You can finish off your opponent in a duel in that short time? I don't believe it."

Soleva's words instantly sent a cold sweat down Tokunosuke's forehead, since he thought Soleva meant the short time they had been apart when he said "so fast".

He had no idea that Soreva had seen him go into the alley and come out in the whole thing!

"How to do how to do?"

Such a voice kept swirling in Tokunosuke's mind, but Soreva's approaching gaze finally made him turn his head away, choosing to do one of the things he did best:

lie!

"Haha, maybe his hand was just too bad? He surrendered after only a few rounds."

"is it?"

Soreva narrowed his eyes, and under that gaze, the sweat on Ryouto's forehead dripped even more dramatically. However, he soon heard a sentence from Soreva that relieved him greatly.

"Fine, let's just leave it at that. You can go now."

"real!?"

Instantly, the tension on Tokunosuke's face vanished, a smile returned, and he skipped away, even inwardly marveling as he left:

"Hehe, looks like my acting skills are pretty good after all. Even that scary old man didn't see through my act! This way, I can definitely become the first person to collect all the Heart Fragments!"

However, Rido, who had already abandoned his post, failed to notice that behind him, Soreva's lips curled into a cold smile:

"Hmph! What terrible acting! So nervous, it's obvious there's something wrong! What normal card player wouldn't think of sharing their hand with someone if they were stuck with a bad hand?"

As he spoke, Soreva took out his phone and made a call to Ghosh.

"Hey, Ghosh, are you there?"

"Of course I am, Soreva. What's up with your call?"

"It's nothing, I just need your help to check the surveillance footage in a small alley, and also send me a video recorder that can be remotely controlled."

Upon hearing Soreva's request, Ghosh immediately let out a soft chuckle:

"Hey, you actually need something like this? You must have discovered something, right?"

"Ah."

After giving Ghosh a direct response, Soreva looked in the direction where Reid had left and said,

"I have a suspected cheater here. I suspect he used non-duel methods to privately trade Heart Fragments, so please help me."

After Soreva spoke, there was a not-so-short silence before Soreva received a reply from Ghosh.

This time, Gorsh's reply was devoid of any smile; instead, it became quite serious:

"I understand. I will bring you what you need soon."

Chapter 383: Tokunosuke Omi was caught red-handed.

"Alright, everything you wanted is here."

Soreva took the recording tablet and the remote control recording device, which was already set up and connected to the tablet, from Ghosh's hand. He then turned on the tablet and saw the footage.

After pulling the person into the alley, Tokunosuke took out a large bag of red, fragmented things and showed it to the person, causing the person to look surprised.

Of course, not only that person, but even Soreva and Ghosh showed surprise at the sight of this bag:

"These things couldn't possibly be fragments of the heart, could they?"

Upon hearing Ghosh's question, Soreva immediately nodded in affirmation of Ghosh's statement:

"Absolutely not! When I met him before, he only had one Heart Fragment. He wasn't the kind of player with strong dueling skills, so it's impossible for him to have collected so many Heart Fragments in such a short time!"

"So, the only possibility is that he forged it?"

After stating his guess, Ghosh immediately gritted his teeth in anger and said viciously,

"This despicable brat who only thinks about taking crooked paths is completely defiling the sacred duel! I must expel him from Heart Garden City!"

As he spoke, Ghosh stood up, seemingly ready to cause trouble for Pyotr, but Soreva reached out and stopped him:

"Gosh, calm down! It's too impulsive to start a fight with him right now!"

"Hey! What are you saying! That guy cheated!"

Faced with Ghosh's dissatisfaction, Soreva simply said calmly:

“I know, but this one video is not enough evidence to prove he cheated. Now, we need to find the bag in the video and the fake heart fragment inside to have complete evidence.”

"Ghosh, I'm counting on you to go find this bag of counterfeit Heart Fragments."

"Yes, yes, I understand. This is such a hassle!"

With a grumble, Ghosh was about to leave when he turned back to Soreva and asked, with a hint of curiosity,

"By the way, I'm going to find that bag of his fake heart fragments, so what are you doing?"

In response to Ghosh's question, Soreva immediately raised the remote recording device in his hand:

"Of course, we're going to catch him in the act. By the way, Ghosh, you guys didn't forget to put the audio recording function on this videotape, did you?"

"Hmph, of course not!"

........................

"Hehe, see? I've already collected so many Heart Fragments!"

Having used the same trick again, Tokunosuke no longer felt the nervousness he had during his first performance. With a smug look on his face, he showed off a bag of heart fragments that he had made out of candy to a boy with chestnut hair wearing a yellow short-sleeved shirt.

"Really? That's amazing!"

The chestnut-haired boy, who had believed it, immediately let out a sigh, but soon he saw Tokunosuke Omotesando's helpless expression:

"However, these heart fragments are duplicates of what I already have, so they're unusable! Therefore..."

Holding up a finger, Tokunosuke Omoira said to the boy in front of him, seemingly out of kindness.

"You must have collected duplicate Heart Fragments too, right? Why don't you take out your Heart Fragments and we can exchange them? Maybe we each have Heart Fragments that the other can use!"

"Is this really okay to do?"

Upon hearing Tokunosuke's suggestion, the boy couldn't help but feel a little tempted, since this way he could collect the heart fragments that suited him more quickly.

However, the boy couldn't help but have some concerns:

"But is this okay? Exchanging Heart Fragments without a duel is against the rules, isn't it?"

"No problem, no problem! When we talk about it, we'll just say we had two duels, and we surrendered because our hands were too bad, so we exchanged Heart Fragments. That way, it won't be against the rules, right?"

"Yes, is that so?"

The boy was instantly tempted by Tokunosuke's terrible idea, since he wasn't exactly resolute to begin with.

"Then, let's change it."

And so, the boy and Tokunosuke, one handing over the bag and the other handing over their duplicate heart fragments, were suddenly illuminated as their palms met.

"That's it!"

With their backs to the light, Soreva and Ghosh slowly walked towards the two men.

"By engaging in unauthorized and illegal trading of Heart Fragments, and in accordance with WDC rules, I, as a member of the WDC Operations Committee, hereby announce that you will be disqualified from the competition. Do you have any objections?"

Seeing Soleva slowly approaching, Omi Tokunosuke's face turned deathly pale, and he immediately wanted to defend himself:

"Uncle, I..."

However, before Reid could even utter a word in his defense of Soreva, Soreva glared at him and interrupted him:

"And you, suspected of illegally forging Heart Fragments, your mistakes are even more serious than his!"

This made Tokunosuke's already pale face turn even more bluish.

The boy who had been tricked into the deal by Tokunosuke also sensed something amiss in Soreva's words:

"Wait, the fake Heart Fragment is..."

Upon hearing the boy's question, Soreva immediately smiled and said to him:

"Isn't his bag still in your hands? You can take out a Heart Fragment from the bag and lick it to see if it's a real Heart Fragment."

"This……"

Hearing what Soreva said, the boy took out one of the heart fragments with some skepticism, and carefully stuck out his tongue to lick it.

"This is...sweet?"