Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

After a moment of surprise, Yusei followed behind her like a bodyguard.

He was actually quite curious about the current situation and the troublemakers who had suddenly appeared here.

"Hmm? You are..." The young man's pupils contracted as he looked at the blonde girl who had entered the room. He frowned, a look of reminiscence on his face, and the arrogant attitude he had just displayed also subsided.

“I am one of the members who fought against Seven Stars…” Following the lanyard around her neck, Asuka pulled the key to the Seven Stars Gate from her uniform and held it in her hand. She composed herself and looked solemnly in the direction of the young man: “If you can defeat me, then I will hand over this challenge right to you.”

“…Oh?” Upon hearing Asuka’s words, the young man raised an eyebrow, revealing an expression of interest.

“However, in return, if I win, I will take your most precious possession.” Asuka raised her arm and then added to the previous conditions.

"Ha! I wasn't sure at first..."

Upon hearing Asuka's words, the young man let out a cold laugh, left his desk, and stood before her: "But this courageous attitude, and this tone of voice... it really is you! Tenjouin Asuka!"

"You haven't changed at all, Mizuo." Asuka frowned, giving a noncommittal answer, her expression defiant.

"...Mizuo? Is he someone you know, Asuka?" Yusei looked back and forth between the two figures, a puzzled expression on his face.

Could these two be old classmates or something?

"Well……"

"Shut up! Don't mention that name! I'm not Mizuo anymore, I'm a reborn boy~~~"

Just as Asuka was about to say something, Mizuo waved his hand, interrupting her.

With hands on hips and head held high, Mizuo, dressed in a white suit, looked arrogantly at the blonde girl in front of her: "Fine, since this is your condition, I'll mercifully become your opponent!"

Asuka: "..."

"Uh... so what exactly is going on now?"

Feeling somewhat out of place, Yusei really wanted to shout "Riddler, get out of Gotham City!" but after realizing that this guy named Mizuo seemed to know Asuka, he forcibly suppressed the urge.

In short, let's continue to observe for a while.

If this is Asuka's own business, then it's not appropriate for him to interfere casually.

……

Led by the principal, the crowd of onlookers moved with the parties involved to the dueling arena within the academy.

Upon hearing this news, Yuki Judai and his group, filled with curiosity, rushed over from their dormitory overnight to join Yusei and the others.

The duel between Asuka and Mizuo is about to begin, with the ownership of the Seven Star Gate key at stake.

If Mizuo wins, then Asuka's key and the identity of the challenger will be transferred to his hands.

If Ming Rika wins, then Mizuo will, as previously agreed, call out his most precious possession.

Mizuo, who was absolutely certain of winning, agreed to Asuka's conditions without a second thought.

After all, in his eyes, it was already a foregone conclusion that he would become the center of the crowd, the focus of the world, and the ultimate victor!

After that, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Asuka and Mizuo, the two duelists, picked up the mass-produced dueling disks prepared in the arena and stood on opposite sides of the dueling arena, ready to duel.

"Anoza... How did things turn out like this?" Professor Chronos, who was sitting in the audience with Principal Samejima, looked up at the sky with a bewildered expression.

Just, quite suddenly.

I was just working peacefully when some clueless guy who seemed to know Asuka suddenly appeared, and then inexplicably we were in the middle of a duel...

Isn't this turn of events... a little too fast?

"You're asking me? I don't know either!" Principal Samejima, equally bewildered, uttered a voice full of doubt.

"Well... I don't really understand what's going on, but anyway, we're going to have a duel now, right?"

Standing alongside Yusei at the edge of the arena, Jaden Yuki, one hand on his hip, wore an excited expression: "...I really can't wait to see what kind of tactics that guy named Mizuo will use~"

Too long to read, I don't care, and I'm too lazy to remember.

By now, the onlookers, including Yusei, have long forgotten the English name that Mizuo had given earlier.

In short, just call him Mizuo.

"...I'm going, Tenjouin!" Mizuo pushed up his glasses, looking confident, and raised his arm.

"Come on." Asuka nodded calmly and assumed a fighting stance.

Place your decks into the Duel Disk simultaneously, and as the Duel Disk unfolds, both players shout at the same time, "...Duel!" x2

(Shuiwei LP: 4000)

(Asuka LP: 4000)

"Hmph!" Mizuo snorted coldly, touching the red silk handkerchief in his suit's breast pocket. After drawing five cards from his deck, he drew one more: "My turn, draw!"

"Hmm..." Noticing Mizuo's subtle movements as he stroked the silk scarf, Asuka's pearly teeth unconsciously clenched together.

"I'll go first! I summon the [Gambling Angel Bunny Girl] (Attack Power 1200) in attack mode!"

Black fishnet stockings covered her shapely thighs, and as Mizuo's call faded, the scantily clad bunny girl stretched out her arms and appeared before everyone's eyes along with the light.

Just as the name suggests, she is a humanoid rabbit-eared beast girl, so her face has rabbit-like features, rather than a human cosplaying her appearance.

Aside from a few people with unusual fetishes, I doubt many people would actually do that to this rabbit.

"Ah, so cute!"

Before he could finish speaking, Marufuji Sho crossed his arms and let out a heartfelt sigh.

On his face, one could see a complex expression, a mixture of infatuation and fascination.

"Sho... Weren't you obsessed with [Dark Magic Girl] before? How come you're interested in other monsters now?" Even the thick-skinned Yuki Jaden couldn't help but break out in a sweat watching his little brother embarrass himself online.

"Jūdai, you just don't understand, do you?"

Replacing the engrossed Sho Marufuji, Yusei chuckled and said, "Many people change their wives every season (referring to the fact that new anime series are released every season, and the female leads change one after another). For Sho, Dark Magician Girl must already be a woman of the past!"

"Huh? Oh... is that so?"

Scratching his head, after listening to Yusei's explanation, Jaden Yuki's face immediately showed a look of understanding but not quite.

Um... change it every season?

Changing wives so frequently? Even if they're just two-dimensional characters, isn't that a bit too fast?

Once your mindset becomes rigid, can you really accept girls in real life?

"Next... I'll set a card and activate the monster effect of [Gambling Angel Bunny Girl]."

Mizuo habitually pushed up his glasses and continued, "Flip a coin and guess heads or tails. If you guess right, the other person takes 1000 points of damage; if you guess wrong, you take 1000 points of damage."

Asuka: "..."

"Then let's entrust our fates to this coin!"

He took a gold coin out of his pocket and showed it to everyone, displaying both sides. Mizuo sneered and tossed it into the air: "I bet it's heads!"

The coin spun continuously as it climbed upwards, and then, due to gravity, fell back into Shuiwei's palm.

The result of the coin toss was then revealed to everyone.

Without a doubt, it's the back!

Mizuo's guess was wrong!

"Yada thief! This guy guessed wrong!"

"That's right, now he's going to be affected by his own monster's effect and lose 1000 life points!"

"Hahaha... Is this guy trying to be funny?"

Seeing Mizuo make a fool of himself, the group of people sitting in the audience all revealed mocking smiles.

Mizuo, having failed in his attempt to show off, suddenly became a fool in everyone's eyes...

"No, one more time!" The mocking voices of the crowd echoed in her ears. Mizuo's lips curled up, and a sinister smile appeared on her face.

"Huh? What do you mean, 'again'? Are you planning to cheat?" Someone questioned Mizuo's inexplicable statement.

No, that's not how it works~

With a slightly flamboyant air, Mizuo straightened his bangs and pointed to his chest: "The reason I say this is because I secretly activated this card before flipping the coin!"

At the spot that Mizuo was pointing to, there was a card that had been turned over.

The image above depicts a goblin nouveau riche going bankrupt and bowing and scraping before a human merchant.

The once glorious goblin can now only humiliatingly pick up the scattered gold coins on the ground under the cold and mocking gazes of the crowd.

That is indeed the Continuous Spell Card – [Second Chance]

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[Second Chance]

(Continuous Magic Card)

Effect: As long as this card is on the field, once per turn you can negate the effect of your Coin Toss and toss the coin again.

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"Thanks to the effect of [Second Chance], I can choose my fate again and toss the coin once more." Holding the coin up in his hand again, Mizuo's face showed a knowing expression.

This time, he won't make a mistake again and will definitely get the result he wants.

"This time, I'm still choosing to face it head-on!"

With a shout, Mizuo gave a thumbs-up and flicked the coin in his hand into the air: "Come on, the second coin toss!"

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Mizuo stretched out his other hand and slapped the coin in the air onto the back of his hand.

“This feeling…”

Feeling the sensation in his palm, Mizuo smiled knowingly: "This time, it's a head-on collision!"

As he said, on the back of that open hand lay a coin with heads up.

With his second chance, Mizuo successfully took control of his destiny.

"What...? This is unbelievable!" Jaden Yuki's face immediately showed disbelief as he watched Mizuo's series of actions.

This kind of luck-dependent, gambling-style deck simply cannot showcase an individual's dueling skills.