Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

Realizing he had misread it, Marufuji Sho stopped struggling, and Yusei, seeing this, also released his hand from covering his mouth.

"Oh? You guys are back so soon!"

The washroom and toilet in Osiris Red Dormitory are outside, and Hayato, who had been lying in bed all day, was not sleepy at all.

In the empty dormitory, he was also troubled by his own worries.

Although he didn't say it, Hayato was clearly worried about Yusei and the other two.

Hayato was just about to go out to use the restroom when he ran into the three people returning home.

Hayato's face clearly showed surprise when he saw Yusei and the others.

He was also present when Manjōmu sent him the video message.

Therefore, he knew that the three of them planned to go and fight.

Unexpectedly, the group returned so quickly.

"How was it? Did you get a lesson from the elites of Obelisk Blue? Did you realize your powerlessness?" Hayato was still unaware of the outcome of the duel.

But he could guess how the duel between the underachiever and the elite would end.

In his view, Yusei and his group's opponent was Jun Manjoume, the No. 1 freshman, and it was obvious that Manjoume would win.

They came back so quickly; they must have been defeated by Manjoume shortly after they entered the arena.

As a consequence of the card duel, they also lost their best cards.

Well... let this be a lesson learned, and we should be more careful.

Through this incident, I realized my situation as a poor student in Osiris Red.

After that, they probably won't have such naive ideas anymore.

What a hopeful future, what a dream of becoming the King of Duel...

All of that is empty talk. Osiris Red's students should just stay at the bottom.

Looking at Yusei and the other two, Hayato seemed to be reminded of his own situation.

He wore that resigned expression again and sighed deeply.

070 Long-awaited Board Game Time

"I won." Yusei smiled slightly at Hayato.

"I knew it! It was definitely Obelisk Blue... What? You won!?" Upon hearing Yusei's words, Hayato's expression instantly changed from calm to astonishment.

He wanted to say something more, but the urge to urinate urged him to hurry to the toilet.

"Holy crap! I can't hold it in anymore!"

"Tell me what happened when I come back after I've finished relieving myself!"

Hayato strode towards the restroom; the amount of information Yusei had just said was too much for him to handle.

While he was in the restroom, he could finally calm himself down.

"Ah! That's exactly what I was going to tell you." Marufuji Sho said quietly, watching Hayato's departing figure.

……

"what?"

"real or fake?"

In the center of the room, Hayato-sensei was sitting cross-legged with Yusei and Jaden Yuki.

Marufuji Sho turned on the dormitory lights, then brewed a pot of tea and poured it into cups to distribute to everyone.

Hayato took the teacup from Marufuji Sho, took a small sip, and calmed himself down.

He had just heard the general details of the duel between Yusei and Manjoume from Marufuji Sho, who was just watching the show.

“Really! Really real, even more real than gold!” Marufuji Sho said with a hint of helplessness upon hearing the skepticism in Hayato’s words.

“That shouldn’t be the case… If he has such strength, how could he have been assigned to Osiris Red’s side…” Hayato looked at Yusei, who had a calm expression on his face, with a puzzled look.

Too many things happened to him today that shocked him.

First, Yusei, a special recruit, was assigned to the Osiris Red Dormitory.

Next, Manjoume, an elite member of Obelisk Blue, specifically sent challenge letters to several new students of Osiris Red.

Yusei accepted the challenge without hesitation, and most importantly, he actually won?

I heard they also got a really good card from Manjoume...

……

What's going on here?

It’s so outrageous!

Hayato, who had already resigned himself to a life of leisure, was shocked by Yusei's dueling exploits, and felt that his brain capacity was insufficient.

"Come on, calm down..." Jaden Yuki reached out to comfort Hayato.

"Is it really that big of a deal? I don't think it's a big deal at all." Yu Xing, the person involved, had no idea how outrageous his behavior seemed to others.

For him, it was just a matter of beating up Manjoume once.

What's so surprising about that? Isn't it just common sense?

"You really are..." Hayato shook his head after hearing Yusei's words.

"More importantly, Yusei, don't forget you have to duel with me!" Jaden Yuki said confidently, pointing at Yusei.

Judging from his demeanor, he seems quite confident in himself.

"Big brother! You're still thinking about this? Didn't you lose to Yusei before?" Marufuji Sho looked at the enthusiastic Yuki Jaden and expressed his complete incomprehension.

"Having witnessed the duel just now, how could I possibly hold back!"

"My heart is burning fiercely right now."

"This overwhelming emotion is simply impossible to suppress!"

Jaden Yuki suddenly stood up and assumed a posture of gathering energy.

Everyone: "..."

"Let's get started quickly, then we need to rest for a bit, we have class tomorrow."

"It's getting late, so let's skip the Duel Disk and just have a tabletop game-style duel." Yusei took his deck out of the Duel Disk and placed it in front of him.

"OK! I have no problem~"

Upon hearing this, Jaden Yuki quickly sat down and took out his deck from the card pouch at his waist.

In his view, as long as there is a duel, the form is not important at all.

Seeing Yusei and Jaden Yuki sitting on the ground, preparing to begin their card duel.

Maeda Hayato and Marufuji Sho quickly stepped aside and sat down side by side with the two of them.

Taking this opportunity, Hayato also got to see for himself the strength of the Yusei and whether it was as powerful as Marufuji Sho had described.

"Well... just like in the duel arena, five squares are used to place cards. The left side is the field area and banishment area, and the right side is the graveyard area and deck area." Yusei found a few pieces of chalk and roughly marked the card areas on the floor.

"Oh...oh..." The group looked at the card area drawn by Yusei and felt a sense of novelty.

With the widespread use of dueling disks, dueling arenas are now found everywhere, from the streets to the alleys.

In some card game shops, people also use special dueling tables with markings indicating dueling areas to conduct duels.

The act of drawing out areas with chalk and then dueling, as Yusei does, is indeed quite rare in this world.

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Yuki Judai and Yusei sat cross-legged on the ground, facing each other.

Their decks were casually placed in the "deck area" in front of them.

In short, a rather simple duel began.

Yusei & Jaden Yuki: "Duel!"

"I'll make the first move."

"My turn, draw a card!" Yusei drew a card from his deck and launched the first attack.

"I activate the field spell [Rampage Magic Circle] from my hand!"

Yusei placed the Field Spell from his hand into the Field area on his left, signifying that he had activated the card.

"I remember this card. It seems to have an effect that ensures the Fusion Summon can proceed smoothly!" Marufuji Sho saw Yusei activate the berserk magic circle he used in his previous duel with Manjoume and immediately remembered the effect of this card.

"That's not all," Yusei added to Marufuji Sho's statement.

"When [Rampage Magic Circle] is activated, I can add one [Summoner Aleister] from my deck to my hand."

Yusei picked up the deck in front of him and began searching through it for any trace of Aleister.

The lack of an automatic search function for the Duel Disk, requiring manual browsing one by one, is indeed somewhat inconvenient.

As he flips through the cards, Yusei inevitably sees the cards he will draw later.

“Found it… Based on the effect of the Field Spell, I’ll add [Summoner Aleister] to my hand.” Yusei showed the monster card he had taken out to Jaden Yuki, then put the deck back in its place.

"...I remember this monster's effect was to search for a Fusion Spell Card from the deck, right?" Jaden Yuki said uncertainly, looking at the [Summoner Aleister] in Yusei's hand.

"Yes, when Aleister is summoned, I can add a [Summoning Magic] card from my deck to my hand."

Yusei continued, "Actually, the 'rampage' in [Rampage Magic Circle] also has its meaning. Generally speaking, once you get this card, it means you can start a series of plays."

071 Long-awaited Board Game Time (2)

"【Rampage Magic Circle】can search for 【Summoner Aleister】 from the deck, and 【Summoner Aleister】can search for 【Summoning Magic】 from the deck. 【Summoning Magic】is a special Fusion Spell Card that uses monsters from both players' graveyards as materials to perform Fusion Summoning."

Yusei explained the convenience of the summoning system to the three bewildered children.