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

With his fingers flying across the screen, Yuma quickly located IV and Shark, who were in the middle of a chase. Ahead of them was a large area of ​​fiery red.

So Yuma immediately pointed to this area again and asked Tetsuo:

"Tetsuo, what's this over here?"

Upon hearing Yuma's question again, Tetsuo couldn't help but sigh deeply. Now he completely understood that Yuma had not studied the rules of this round of the competition at all.

Therefore, he could only continue explaining to Yuma:

"In the underground stage of the race, the participants are allowed to engage in melee combat to reduce their opponents' LP."

Ultimately, only eight contestants will successfully reach the four dueling arenas, and only the winners from these four arenas will qualify for the next round of the semifinals.

"So that's how it is! In that case, this place is..."

As Yuma's finger touched the fiery red area, a hellish scene resembling a volcanic eruption appeared before his eyes.

Of course, not only Yuma, but even Tetsuo and Kotori were startled.

"This must be some kind of volcano scene, right? Iron Man, I remember Shark uses a deck that's mainly based on the Water attribute, right? He's probably in a bad situation facing this kind of terrain!"

In response to concerns about Yuma, Tetsuo nodded in agreement:

"That's right! Judging from how IV is leading the shark, he's probably intentionally luring it there so he can defeat it."

"Let's head towards that volcano scene! Charge!"

However, as Yuma confidently pushed the steering wheel, finding a shortcut to catch up with Shark and IV, Tetsuo and Kotori beside him both showed ominous expressions:

"Wait, Yuma, something seems wrong!"

"Huh? What's the problem?"

Just as Yuma was wondering why the two were so panicked, he saw a trap card appear right in front of the roller coaster, and a spring-loaded fist shot out from it, slamming heavily into Yuma's face.

His LP, which had just been reduced to 1500 points by Iron Man, further decreased to 1300 points at this moment.

Tetsuo and Kotori both nodded in understanding:

"I see, that 'T' symbol just now refers to a Trap Card!"

The two men's hindsight advice left Yuma, who had already taken a heavy punch to the face and whose LP had even dropped, speechless with despair.

"You should have told me about this sooner!"

"Isn't this because you didn't look carefully when you changed direction?" ×2

Faced with their simultaneous attempts to shift the blame, Yuma felt a pang of grievance, but could only swallow it down. However, Yuma still stubbornly insisted:

"Next time, going in this direction will definitely be no problem!"

And so, Yuma pulled again, and so...

"Oh!"

Another spring-loaded punch landed on Yuma's face, causing his LP to drop from 1300 to 1100 points once again, prompting Yuma to let out a wail.

"Why am I so unlucky?!"

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

"Hmm? There seems to be a sound behind us?"

Faintly, the shark seemed to hear someone howling in pain, and it turned its head to look behind it. However, all it saw was a dark cave, and the shark could only assume that it had misheard.

IV, who was a car length ahead of Shark, seemed to have heard the wail, but seeing Shark looking back in his rearview mirror, he dismissed it and said:

"Hmph! This is the WDC arena. Maybe someone was just screaming in despair after being eliminated. Isn't that normal? Shark, are you ignoring me because you're so distracted?!"

As the shark turned its head because of IV's words, IV slapped a card onto its D panel.

"I usually summon [Mechanical Puppet - Egghead]! And activate its effect! Discard one card from your hand and deal 800 effect damage to your opponent!"

As the materialized giant-headed puppet opened its head and launched several missiles, the shark assumed a defensive posture. However, the missiles bypassed it and hit another roller coaster that had just emerged from a side road, seemingly about to ambush it from behind.

"My wife! No!"

Seeing that the man's LP had reached zero, the shark immediately roared at IV:

"IV. Even if someone tries to ambush me, I can handle it myself. I don't need you to interfere!"

"Hmph! Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not here to protect you!"

Still maintaining his villainous demeanor, IV immediately gave a cold laugh.

"It's simply because you are my prey, and I won't allow anyone to lay a hand on my prey without my permission!"

Immediately, IV looked down and saw on the screen that he and Shark had approached the volcanic area. He immediately sneered and provoked Shark:

"Shark, I've found a suitable place for you to be buried. If you're not afraid of death, then follow me!"

Having said that, IV accelerated and drove the roller coaster toward the volcanic area. The shark, blinded by hatred and stirred by [No.] card, naturally followed, and together they plunged into this world full of lava.

"IV! You can't escape now!"

Even though the surrounding environment offered no help to him, the shark remained unconcerned; at that moment, all he could see was IV.

And IV simply sneered and said:

"Escape? What are you talking about? I've been deliberately leading you to this place, this area I carefully selected for you, a place full of volcanoes and lava."

This world, filled with scorching heat and lava, must be overwhelmingly disadvantageous for you, right?

"whispering sound!"

Just as Shark and IV's gazes collided and intertwined, several disheveled and noisy voices suddenly rang out, completely ruining the atmosphere of the meeting between the two sworn enemies.

"It's so hot! Why is it so hot here?!"

"You idiot, Yuma! This is a volcanic lava field, isn't it normal for it to be a bit hot?"

That's right. Despite taking several Spring Punches on the way, leaving him with less than 1000 LP, he still managed to catch up with the Shark vs. IV duel thanks to his shortcut plan.

But just as he was filled with anticipation, another voice, suppressing a laugh, rang out:

"Yuma, your face looks swollen."

Chapter 444 is an extremely unlucky number.

"That voice...is that an older man?"

Upon hearing the voice, Yuma immediately recognized its owner and looked in the direction of the sound with delight. Sure enough, Soleva was already standing behind him with a smile on his face.

"Hey, Yuma, your face... Pfft!"

Hearing Soleva's barely suppressed laughter, Yuma could only awkwardly touch his face and weakly offer an explanation:

"Well... there's nothing we can do about it. There were a lot of trap cards when we came over, but it'll be fine in a bit."

After explaining himself, Yuma seemed to remember something and couldn't help but ask Soleva curiously,

"By the way, uncle, when you came here, didn't you say you were here to rescue Kaito? How is Kaito now? Is he alright?"

Upon hearing Yuma mention Kaito, Soleva immediately smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, I just rescued Kaito. He should be at your house now, reunited with Yuto. But I'll have to trouble you for the next few days."

"Really? That's good."

Upon hearing that Kaito had been successfully rescued by Soleva, Yuma breathed a slight sigh of relief. As for Soleva's words, "I'll have to trouble you these next few days," Yuma didn't take them to heart.

So, Yuma, whose tone had lightened slightly, continued to ask Yuma:

"So, sir, you came here to watch the duel between Shark and IV? But how did you know they would come to this volcanic area?"

"Well... Yuma, don't forget, I used to work at WDC. Just ask a few of my colleagues and they'll find out."

After fooling Yuma for a while, Soreva narrowed his eyes and shifted his gaze to Shark and IV, who were currently facing off.

"As for what comes next, the most important thing is their duel."

At this moment, Shark and IV in Soreva's line of sight had both raised their wrists, revealing their respective D panels. Purple eye patterns and D-lens appeared on their eyes.

"Duel!" ×2

"I've secured the first strike! My turn, draw a card!"

Having seized the initiative and added the drawn card to his hand, the shark glanced briefly around.

"You want to confine me with a scorching lava field? Then..."

The shark drew a card from its hand and revealed it to IV:

"Then, I'll activate the quick-attack spell [Rock Salvage]! By its effect, field spells are nullified for two turns!"

As the Shark card was activated, a blue light began to spread across the scorching field. The volcanoes that were about to erupt were all frozen in blue and white ice, and even the ground beneath Yuma and the others turned into a pale white, frozen soil.

"Ah, ah—Achoo!"

After the volcano was frozen, a strong chill quickly dispelled the original heat, so much so that Yuma couldn't help but sneeze due to the sudden drop in temperature.

However, even the cold wind couldn't dampen Yuma's enthusiasm for the duel, and he looked intently in the direction of the shark:

"It actually stopped the effect of the Field Spell Card, freezing the original Lava Field in an instant. Truly worthy of being called a shark!"

As for the shark itself, it picked up another card and said to IV:

"IV, show me my brand new power!"

After saying that, the shark slammed the card in its hand directly onto the D panel.

"I Normal Summon [Left-Handed Shark] from my hand!"

As the card fell from the shark's hand, a blue bighead shark appeared on the shark's field, its head covered by solid black armor, with five blades arranged like the fingers of a left hand outside the armor.

After it appeared, the shark immediately revealed another card in its hand:

"Because [Left-Handed Shark] is a Fish-Type monster, I can Special Summon this [Sticky Shark] from my hand when it is Normal Summoned!"

Another card fell. Yuma had seen it many times before. The fish-type monster with a gray-blue body and a suction cup on its head appeared on Shark's field once again.

Now, the shark has two Level 3 monsters on its field, and the shark immediately announced:

"Now, I'm stacking my Level 3 [Left-Handed Shark] and [Sticky Shark] on my field! I'm building a stacking network with two monsters! Xyz Summon!"

Rise from the depths of the ocean! [Submarine Carrier Aviation Shark] (Original)!