Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

The back field is located directly below the front field and is generally used to place and activate Spell & Trap Cards. It is the core area of ​​the Duel Disk and has corresponding buttons. Pressing the corresponding button will activate the corresponding face-down card.

(Lia's LP: 4000 → 3000, number of hands: 6 → 1)

026 Greed Hero

At this moment, Ria has two attack-position monsters in the front row: "Vampire Red Reaper" with 2000 ATK and "Vampire Slayer" with 1600 ATK.

In the back row, there is a face-down card and a face-up Continuous Spell, "Vampire's Domain".

Generally, ordinary spell and trap cards are sent to the graveyard after their effects are activated, while special spell and trap cards such as Continuous Spell & Trap Cards and Field Spell Cards remain on the field unless other cards activate their effects to destroy them. For example, the quick-play spell "Whirlwind" had the effect of destroying a spell or trap card on the field.

"My turn, draw!" Yusei held the Duel Disk in his left hand across his chest and forcefully pulled out a card with his right hand. As he moved, the card left a brief afterimage in his vision. This was what Yusei considered the most orthodox card-drawing action.

"That gesture... it feels a bit like showing off..." A company employee watching Yusei's card-drawing gesture couldn't help but remark.

"I think this kid is just showing off on purpose!" The onlookers said they had seen through Yusei's thoughts.

"He was chosen by the young lady, so his dueling skills are beyond doubt. It's normal for him to show off a bit." This was the secretary's opinion.

"...This guy, he just can't shake his chuunibyou." Kei had already witnessed Yusei's embarrassing past.

“╭(╯^╰)╮ I will never be defeated by my big brother!” Ria saw Yusei’s confident face.

Yusei added the cards he drew to his hand. He looked at his hand and saw that they were [Pot of Greed], [Elemental HERO Bubbleman], [Monster Reborn], [God's Warning], [Fusion Recycling], and [Spherical Kuriboh].

"To have both Pot of Greed and Greed Hero at the same time, this luck is unbelievable..." Yusei looked at the forbidden card in his hand with a surprised expression.

"It's a pity we didn't merge, this is a bit of a problem... Oh well, let's just play it safe for now." Yusei quickly made his decision.

"I activate the spell card [Pot of Greed], and according to its effect, I add two cards from my deck to my hand!" Yusei used the "forbidden card" in his hand without hesitation. This kind of experience was completely unimaginable in his original world.

Yusei drew two cards from his deck and added them to his hand. He didn't even look at them before continuing with his next move.

"I Normal Summon Elemental HERO Bubbleman from my hand! And activate Bubbleman's effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned, if you control no other cards, you can draw two cards from your Deck!"

The Elemental HERO deck primarily relies on fusion rather than normal summons, so Yusei chose to use his once-per-turn opportunity to draw cards. After this maneuver, he now has 8 cards in his hand.

The four newly drawn cards are [Elemental Hero Electro], [Hero Mark], [Elemental Hero Blaze], and [R-Justice Judgment].

"Holy crap... you can do that?" The onlookers were shocked.

"Waaah... Big brother, you're so mean!" Ria protested.

"ヽ(ー_ー)ノ" Miss Yui had already been tricked by Yusei in the previous duel, so she was well aware of Yusei's cunning tactics. She could only make a helpless expression at the current situation of frantically drawing cards.

"Hehe, I didn't cheat!" Yusei declared that he was a good kid who followed the duel rules and had no reason to be condemned.

"I activate the Spell Card [R-Justice Judgment] from my hand. This card's effect is: You can destroy one Spell/Trap Card equal to the number of [Elemental HERO] monsters on your field. I have [Elemental HERO Bubble Fighter] on my field, so I can choose to destroy one Spell/Trap Card on the field. And of course, I'll choose to destroy one of your face-down cards." Yusei showed the Spell Card from his hand to Ria, then inserted it into the back row of the Duel Disk to activate its effect.

With a flash of white light, the card art of the spell card [R-Justice Judgment] appeared on the field, and then beams of light shot out from the card, shattering Ria's face-down card.

When the face-down card is destroyed, it will be flipped over. Yusei noticed that the flipped-over card was not the [Vampire's Domination] he had thought of, but another trap card, [Cursed Coffin].

"...Damn, I got tricked." Yusei remembered that this [Cursed Coffin] card could only activate its effect when it was destroyed.

In other words, this was a trap card that Ria deliberately placed on the field. She had anticipated that Yusei would destroy her face-down card, so she prepared a countermeasure in advance.

"Big brother fell for it, didn't he? The effect of [Cursed Coffin] can only be activated when it is destroyed while face down. The effect is that the opponent must either discard a card from their hand or destroy a monster on their field." Ria puffed out her chest, a smug look on her face.

"I choose to discard a card from my hand..." Yusei chose to discard the [Elemental HERO Electro Wizard] in his hand. Right now, he has no shortage of cards in his hand. On the contrary, the monsters on the field cannot be destroyed. After all, Ria has a Vampire Red Reaper with 2000 attack power and a Vampire Slayer with 1600 attack power on her field.

If Yusei chooses to destroy the Elemental HERO Bubbleman on the field, then Yusei, who has already performed a Normal Summon, will face the risk of an empty field.

He has the Kuriboh given to him by the knot, which can forcibly turn an attacking monster into a defense state and cancel its attack, but it can only block once.

Ria has the Continuous Spell Card "Vampire's Domain" on her field, allowing her to perform two Normal Summons in one turn.

If Helia summons two new monsters in the next round, he will be attacked directly by four monsters. Kuriboh can only block one of them, and he may lose the duel.

This is a situation that Yusei absolutely cannot allow.

He looked at his hand and began to think about his next strategy.

Elemental HERO's main strategy relies on the [Fusion] spell card. Yusei's deck contains three [Fusion] cards and one [Miracle Fusion] card, plus the [Fusion Recycle] card in his hand.

In theory, Yusei can perform a maximum of 5 Fusion Summons in a single duel.

"I've set two cards in reserve, turn over." Yusei didn't have any Fusion Spells in his hand, so this was the only way to end his turn. Yes, Yusei was now in a very awkward situation; he... had a bad hand.

Flamebringer's effect can search for Fusion Spell Cards in the deck, but Flamebringer was only drawn into the hand through Bubble Spell Card's draw effect, so it cannot be summoned again this turn and must wait until the next turn.

(Yusei's LP4000 hand count: 6→8→4)

027 A scene that seemed familiar

The two cards that Yusei placed face down in the back row were [Hero Mark] and [Divine Announcement].

The effect of [Hero Mark] is that when a monster on the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower [Elemental HERO] monster from your hand or Deck to the field.

【God's Announcement】 can pay 1500 Life Points to negate and destroy a monster's Special Summon or monster effect activation. As a "God" card, it is an important member of the Trap Card family.

In Yusei's original idea, the level of duelists in this world should be very low. He remembered that Jaden Yuki even dared to use his normal summon, the Elemental Hero Flash with an attack power of 1600, to directly attack his opponent without ignoring the back row.

In the original world, such reckless behavior would have earned him a lesson from his opponent in no time. Only someone with the protagonist's halo would dare to do something like this.

"Hmph~ It's my turn now! Draw a card." After seeing that Yusei's opening move was not threatening, Ria began to relax and planned to teach Yusei a lesson as she had said before.

Instead of summoning a new monster, she went straight into battle.

"Vampire Red Reaper attacks Elemental HERO Bubble Fighter, then Vampire Slayer directly attacks Big Brother!" Ria gave the attack command to the two monsters on the field, and while declaring the attack, she showed Yusei a monster card from her hand, preparing to activate the card's effect.

"Is she coming?" Yusei heard Ria's command and realized that "that woman" was about to appear.

When talking about vampire decks, how can we forget her?

“They activated the monster effect of [Vampire Heiress] (Zombie/DARK/Level 5/ATK 600/DEF 2000) from their hand: When a monster declares an attack, this card can be Special Summoned from your hand in Defense Position!” Ria placed Vampire Heiress horizontally in front of the Duel Disk.

As she moved, a black staircase appeared out of thin air in the void above the arena, extending from mid-air all the way to the ground.

A pale-skinned blonde girl in a black dress, carrying a parasol, slowly descended the steps, surrounded by a swarm of bats. She placed her right hand to her mouth, yawned deeply, then folded her parasol, bent down, and half-squatted on the ground, several small black bats circling around her.

Beneath her was an enlarged projection of a monster card, indicating that she was currently in defense position.

"When Vampire Princess's effect is activated, your Undead monsters have one chance to pay a multiple of 100 Life Points (up to 3000) when battling an opponent. That monster's ATK and DEF will only increase by the corresponding amount during that damage calculation!"

Ria activated the second effect of [Vampire Heiress], which allows her to increase the attack and defense of monsters on her field by paying life points. This effect can be activated during damage calculation, at which point the opponent can no longer cancel the attack.

If used properly, this effect can often achieve unexpected results in certain situations.

"They've chosen to pay 2800 health points to add that amount to [Vampire Red Reaper]!" Ria currently has 3000 health points, and she's chosen to use a full 2800 of them as the cost of activating the effect…

In this way, with the bonus from [Vampire Red Reaper], the attack power of [Vampire Heiress] can reach an astonishing 4800 points... (the original 2000 plus the 2800 LP bonus from the effect).

On Yusei's field, there is only the Elemental HERO Bubbleman in attack position (ATK 800/DEF 1200). If he takes a hit from Red Reaper, he can immediately declare Game Over.

"Hey! Little sister Ria, do you have to be so ruthless! Losing so many health points all at once..." Yusei felt that something was wrong with the rhythm. He was always the one who killed the opponent in one go, but this time he was afraid that the opponent would take him down in one go.

Shouldn't LPs be cherished? Why did Ria choose to pay such a high price all at once? Didn't she consider the consequences?

"The second effect of the Continuous Magic [Vampire Domain] is that when your [Vampire] inflicts combat damage on the opponent, you recover the corresponding amount of base LP. In other words, when [Vampire Red Reaper] destroys [Elemental HERO Bubble Fighter], Big Brother will take 4000 LP damage, while the opponent will recover 4000 LP~" Ria said that she had already considered this point, so Yusei didn't need to worry.

The exchange between the two seemed lengthy, but in reality, only a short time had passed on the field.

At this moment, the effect of [Vampire Heiress] had just been activated, and Ria had already paid out her life points, while [Vampire Red Reaper] had not yet received the buff. It was such a clever timing.

"Hehehe... Luckily I cleverly covered up a [God's Announcement], otherwise I might have lost this round..." Yusei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He didn't expect the little girl in front of him to be so difficult to deal with when playing cards. He originally planned to slow down the pace and just play casually, but he suddenly found himself in a desperate situation.

"I activate the counter trap card [Divine Announcement]!" Yusei opened the face-down card in the back row, much to Ria's disbelief.

"【Divine Announcement】Requires paying 1500 Life Points to activate. Its effect is to negate the Special Summon of a monster or the activation of a monster effect, and destroy that card!"

When Yusei Special Summoned [Vampire Heiress] to the field, he could have used [Divine Announcement] in the back row to negate and destroy its Special Summon. However, he didn't rush to activate the effect at that moment. Instead, he chose to wait until Ria lowered her guard, paid a lot of life points, and activated [Vampire Heiress]'s bonus effect before using [Divine Announcement] to negate and destroy it, thus maximizing his advantage.

As the familiar white light appeared, the vampire heiress was swallowed by the light and disappeared from the scene.

"I knew it would be like this..." Jie covered her eyes and muttered to herself.

Previously, she had failed to eliminate Yusei's back row, which led to her being severely hampered by [Divine Declaration] during the battle, directly resulting in her defeat.

At this moment, Ria was facing a similar outcome. She thought that after paying a huge price, a perfect victory awaited her, but instead, she suffered a terrible setback...

As expected of sisters, they are highly unified in their ability to fall into the trap set by the "god-like" generation.

"Damn, why didn't they release it earlier or later? They deliberately waited until this moment to activate the effect. This guy is so cunning!" commented one onlooker.

"Oh... is Miss Er alright?" The company employee said that most people probably couldn't accept such a blow.

"...It should be alright." The secretary was also speechless. She admired Yusei's judgment, but she couldn't agree with such a cunning tactic.

028 The determination to go all out

The onlookers were somewhat unable to accept Yusei's tactics, but what was Ria's situation like now, having been directly caught in Yusei's red trap?

"Big brother, you're too cunning..." Unexpectedly, Ria wasn't as upset as Jie; she just pouted and frowned slightly.

She complained about Yusei's tactics for a moment, then rallied and continued the duel.

This mindset alone puts them ahead of the vast majority of people.

No wonder Yui told Yusei that her dueling skills were no match for Ria's.

If Yusei doesn't habitually set his back row cards face down, and if the face-down card in his back row isn't [God's Announcement] which can negate effects, then Yusei will face being defeated by Ria in one turn.

The little girl in front of me is terrifyingly powerful...

If she grows up, or gains the experience of someone like Yusei, then probably no one in this world can rival her.

Although she is still just a tender seedling, she has unlimited potential for the future. As long as she can grow up smoothly, she will surely have a place in the history of duels.

In Yusei's eyes, Amamiya Yu is a reliable partner who can be entrusted with important matters. She is steady in her actions, has outstanding abilities, and can manage such a large-scale company at such a young age, so her abilities are beyond doubt.

Meanwhile, Ria Amamiya is a genius duelist who is a match for him. In a world where the level of dueling is generally "relatively low", she is a unique powerhouse who, at a young age, can pose a threat to duelists like Yusei who have come from hell.

The two sisters have different areas of expertise, but they are both extremely talented individuals with easy-going personalities. They do not abuse their privileged backgrounds or act arrogantly.

It was a stroke of luck for Yusei to meet them.

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Although it was due to carelessness, Yusei did not use his strongest deck, but only made some modifications and improvements to the deck he had just randomly assembled.