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

"My deck relies most on monsters Special Summoned from my hand and deck, and [Archangel Christia]'s ability to block Special Summons is the bane of my deck."

Yuzu nodded silently, then suddenly heard a rather mechanical voice in her ear:

"The winner is Hiiragi Yuzu!"

Upon hearing the sound, Yuzu Hiiragi was instantly at a loss. Looking down, she realized that Soleva had placed his right hand over the duel disk in his left hand, which was the gesture for surrendering in a duel.

“Mr. Soreva, what is this…”

Before Hiiragi Yuzu could finish her question, Soreva helplessly raised his hand:

"Alright, in this situation, I can't win against you, so it's better to just admit defeat. But I'd like to ask you, if it weren't for what I just said, what would you have done?"

Upon hearing Soreva's question, Yuzu Hiiragi immediately drew her deck, selected two cards from it, and answered:

"I will choose to Special Summon [François, the Glory of the Phantom Songstress] and [Sopunora, the Phantom Songstress] from my Deck. After activating François's effect to recycle one monster card from my Graveyard, I will activate Sopunora's effect to Fusion Summon [Tiva, the Holy Flower of Phantom Songs]."

Yuzu Hiiragi paused after flipping through her Extra Deck to reveal [Phantom Song of the Holy Flower, Tiva], before continuing.

"At this time, there should be an Angel-type monster in my graveyard. I originally thought that I could Special Summon it through the effect of [Archangel Christia]."

"clap clap"

Hearing a burst of applause, Yuzu Hiiragi, who was feeling down because she hadn't expected the Flower Harmonist's self-restraint, looked up and saw that Soreva was already clapping for her.

"Although your idea is difficult to realize due to the effect of self-restraint, isn't it still a very interesting approach? Don't be discouraged, Yuzu, you've done a great job."

As he spoke, Soreva drew the Wind Witch deck from his Duel Disk on his left wrist and handed it to Yuzu Hiiragi.

"Here you go, Yuzu, this is your reward. Congratulations on passing my test. However, you should still pay more attention to self-discipline in the future..."

At this point, Soreva smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head:

"To be honest, I don't really have the right to lecture you. I often forget about self-restraint myself, and only remember it when a special summon fails."

Upon hearing Soleva's self-deprecating words, Hiiragi Yuzu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Yes, I understand."

Seeing Hiiragi Yuzu's face light up with a smile, Soleva smiled with satisfaction.

"Soreva, there's something I'd like to talk to you about, is that alright?"

Zero's voice came through, and Soleva didn't know what she wanted to say, but she couldn't show anything unusual in front of Hiiragi Yuzu and the others, could she? Soleva immediately laughed it off, said she needed to go to the bathroom, and ran away.

"Alright, there shouldn't be anyone else here. Zero, what did you want to say?"

Standing in front of the bathroom sink, facing Zero floating before her eyes, Soreva asked a question.

And Zero didn't hide anything, blurting out her discovery:

"Just now, when I was attached to you and touched that girl named Hiiragi Yuzu, I suddenly regained a memory."

"Really?"

This good news instantly brought a look of surprise to Soreva's face, and he quickly asked more questions.

"What did you remember? Do you remember your father's name? What did he look like? Was he the Red Horse Zero King I showed you the other day?"

To this, Zero simply shook her head:

"I still can't recall anything related to my father. All I can remember is something from when I was the same age as Hiiragi Yuzu. At that time, my father's physical image system had been successfully developed, and action duels were becoming popular."

Oh, right, back then a really strong new duelist started to emerge, and many of the girls in my class became his fans. His name, I think, was...

Zack!

Chapter 46 Su Liang's Little Ideas

"Zack? Isn't that..."

Although Soreva didn't finish her sentence, Zero understood what she meant and nodded solemnly.

“That’s right, just like you thought. The Zack I remember, the up-and-coming duelist, is the same person as the Zack who later intended to destroy the world! But…”

"Just what?"

"In my memory, although he was a duelist who was very obsessed with winning, he had a very sunny and cheerful personality. I don't understand why he would turn into someone who ultimately intended to destroy the world."

Hearing Zero's words, Soreva also pinched his chin. He hadn't expected to hear such news about Zack from Zero.

"So, you completely lack the memory of how Zack gradually became the person who ultimately intended to destroy the world, right?"

Zero didn't speak, but her nod gave Soreva the answer.

"In that case, there's only one way. Keep up, Zero."

Seeing Soleva walk towards the toilet exit, Zero floated after him and couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Soreva, have you thought of a good idea?"

"It's not exactly a good method. Since you regained your memories by interacting with Yuzu, why don't we go back now and interact with Yuzu more to see if we can regain more of your memories?"

"Yes!"

When his gaze fell on Zero, who had caught up with him, Soreva hesitated to say something:

If I remember correctly, wasn't she all gold? But when did she get these reddish strands of hair on her head?

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

"Ah, Mr. Soreva, you're back."

"Mr. Soreva, since this is special training, let's have a duel. Let me try out my newly constructed [Odd-Eyes] deck!"

Seeing the three people rushing towards him, and noticing that Sakaki Yuya's deck was noticeably thicker than the others', Soreva couldn't help but frown:

Could it be that Yuya Sakaki still hasn't properly constructed his deck?

"Sakaki Yuya-kun, please let me see your deck."

"Ok!"

After reviewing the deck that Yuya Sakaki handed him, Soreva finally breathed a sigh of relief:

"It's alright, it's just that the main deck and the extra deck are stacked together, and it's no longer a deck where you only play one copy of each type of card like before, but this..."

Seeing that Yuya Sakaki had two copies of each of [Odd-Eyes Descent] and [Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon] in his deck, Soleva didn't know what expression to make.

"Sakaki Yuya-kun, why did you choose to include these two cards in your deck?"

Seeing Soleva draw [Odd-Eyes Descent] and [Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon], Yuya Sakaki scratched his head and said matter-of-factly:

"Because these two cards are [Odd-Eyes] cards, and isn't that effect quite powerful?"

Soreva was speechless. After all, if one or two Ritual Monsters were added to the deck alone, it would easily cause a problem: the monster and the ritual would become separated.

Therefore, most decks that utilize Ritual Monsters are entirely Ritual decks, capable of supporting the operation and scheduling of Ritual Spell Cards and Ritual Monsters.

But is this a problem for Yuya Sakaki, who's incredibly lucky with his draws? Absolutely not!

If he wanted, even if the Ritual Spell Card and Monster Card were separated, he could probably draw them in his hand next turn. This made the effects of these two cards quite bizarre.

[Odd-Eyes Descent] allows you to Special Summon monsters from your hand and Deck, expanding the scope of Ritual Summoning; if your opponent has two monsters on their field and you have an empty field, you can even use [Odd-Eyes] monsters from your Extra Deck as tributes for Ritual Summoning.

The [Odd-Eyes] monsters in the Extra Deck aren't just Pendulum Monsters that are destroyed and sent to the Extra Deck!

As for [Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon], it can flip back row and cannot be chained.

Soreva began to doubt that if he and Yuya Sakaki were to have their first duel again, even if he got the first move and set up a good field, Yuya Sakaki's [Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon] would probably wipe out his back field in the next second.

If this really happens, what's the point of playing? Just hang yourself from a tree!

So, Soreva didn't say much, simply putting the two cards back into Sakaki Yuya's deck. As for Sakaki Yuya's duel request...

"Since you're asking, we can give it a try."

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

"I activate Quick-Play Spell, [Mysterious Chinese Pot]! I sacrifice my [Number 100 Source Dragon] to increase its LP by the same amount as Source Dragon's ATK!"

Watching the golden dragon with an attack power of 13000 points transform into a golden light and plunge into a giant Chinese wok on the field, while Soreva's LP soared to a terrifying 17000 points, Yuya Sakaki's face showed deep bewilderment:

“Mr. Soreva, why…”

Upon noticing Sakaki Yuya's confusion, Soreva immediately pointed to another completely black monster on his field and said:

"Sakaki Yuya-kun, have you forgotten that I have another monster on my field? [Number 43 Soul Puppet Demon Soul Puppet Master]'s effect! Once per turn, when you recover Life Points, you can activate this effect. This card gains the amount of Life Points recovered and inflicts damage to your opponent equal to that amount!"

"so……"

Seeing the monster's attack power soar to 13000 points, raise its hand, and aim at the black and red energy blast it had condensed, Yuya Sakaki knew he was doomed.

Amidst a violent cloud of dust, Yuya Sakaki's LP dropped to 0, and the announcement of Soleva's victory came over the loudspeaker.

However, the expressions of the people in the spectator area varied.

"Mr. Soleva is really going too far. Yuya lost before the duel even started. This can't be considered special training anymore. It's just a simple venting of anger."

Seeing Yuya Sakaki blown away by the shockwave amidst the smoke and dust, Yuzu Hiiragi's face showed a clear expression of complaint.

But Shiyunin Sora, who was standing next to her, said with great interest:

"Huh? But isn't this kind of victory pretty awesome?"

Although she was responding to Hiiragi Yuzu's words, Shiunin Sora's gaze never left Soleva:

Wow, that's really impressive. Soreva actually has such a terrifying way to win. If the Academy and the Obelisk Force could also master this way of winning, they would be able to conquer other worlds even faster, right?

But why use Xyz Monsters...? Fusion Summoning is clearly the noblest summoning method!

Despite a slight grumbling in her heart, the desire within her drove Shiunin Sora from the spectator area to the dueling arena. Before the special training duel began, she proposed to Soreva:

"Teacher Soleva, you've already given Yuzu a reward, you can't be biased. If I win this duel, I want a reward too!"

"Really? Then what do you want?"

"How about... the deck that you used to defeat Yuya, Professor Soreva?"

Chapter 47 Thunder Dragon Descends

"I'm sorry, no, that deck is very expensive, and it also has a lot of sentimental value for me personally."

Shaking his head, Soreva refused Shiyunin Sora's offer. After all, that Hope deck was the first deck he built when he started playing Mega Drive. Although he had changed the deck's construction many times since then, it was still a very important deck for Soreva.