Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

A French-style doll holding a trumpet gun appeared in front of Napoleon as his voice fell.

Just like its harmless appearance, this monster's attack power is only a pitiful 800 points, making it completely unthreatening.

"Hmph~~~ Next, it's my turn!" Taking over the initiative, Professor Chronos reached out towards the disc on his chest and received a card that popped out automatically: "My turn, draw!"

"Napoleon, you can't do this! How can you end your turn without doing anything when you have such a rare opportunity?"

"...Let me teach you the right thing to do in this situation!"

"……what?"

Professor Chronos waved to his teammates with a smug look on his face, then slammed a card onto the Duel Disk with a smile: "...I summon [Ancient Mechanical Hound] in Attack Position and activate its effect. If this card is successfully summoned, inflict 600 damage to your opponent!"

A power gear was spinning in its abdomen, and a blue mechanical hound appeared before Professor Chronos, accompanied by a beam of light, as he finished speaking.

The newly arrived hound let out a howl with a wide-ranging sound wave, aimed at Pegasus's location.

Pegasus, affected by this impact, also lost 600 health points.

(Bekas LP: 4000→3400)

"Oh~ Unbelievable~~"

"Hehe~~ Although you can't attack in the first round, it doesn't mean you can't damage your opponent!"

Pegasus, whose health points had been reduced, subconsciously uttered a heartfelt sigh.

Professor Chronos, who had done this, explained the current situation to everyone with a smug look on his face.

"...Hmph! Nothing special! Only 600 points."

Even though they had just agreed not to fight amongst themselves, Napoleon couldn't help but grit his teeth and show a resentful expression when he saw Professor Chronos's irritating look.

Damn it, he actually managed to fool me.

I cannot accept this!

612 Cartoon Kingdom

"...This isn't over yet, my story isn't finished yet!"

After successfully inflicting 600 points of damage on Pegasus through the monster's effect, Professor Chronos, with a smug look on his face, did not stop his actions.

Under everyone's gaze, he once again stretched out his arm in front of him and said calmly, "Next, I will activate the effect of my 'Ancient Gear' on the field once per turn during my Main Phase. Send the Fusion Material Monsters of the 'Ancient Gear' Fusion Monster Card from your hand or field to the Graveyard, and Fusion Summon 1 of those Fusion Monsters from the Extra Deck."

Coach Napoleon: "...Fusion Summoning?"

"...That's right! Based on the effect of [Ancient Mechanical Hound], I can perform a Fusion Summon without a Fusion Spell Card!"

Nodding to his teammate, Coach Napoleon, Professor Chronos then drew a card from his hand and sent it, along with the Ancient Mechanical Hound from his Duel Disk, to his Graveyard as Fusion Material: "Let's go! I'm sending the Ancient Mechanical Hound from my field and the Ancient Mechanical Engineer from my hand to the Graveyard. I'll use these two monsters as Fusion Material to perform a Fusion Summon!"

"...Hounds of mechanical construction that inherit ancient souls! Form ranks and intertwine with the gear soldiers of mechanical devices, and be reborn with new power!"

"Fusion Summon! Appear! Level 8! [Ancient Mechanical Demon God]!!!"

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Ancient Mechanical Demons

(Mechanical race/8-star/Earth attribute/Attack 1000/Defense 1800)

Fusion/Effect: 2 Ancient Machines

The second effect of "Ancient Mechanical Demon God" can only be used once per turn.

①: This card is unaffected by the effects of other cards.

②: Can only be activated during your main phase. Deals 1000 damage to the opponent.

③: If this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can activate this effect. Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster from your Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions.

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The hound's body was tainted by darkness, and it transformed into the body of a demon along with the engineer.

After that, several thick cables extended from various parts of the demon's body, eventually converging together and intertwining to form thick mechanical arms.

With the roar of the mechs, the mechanical demon god, with its mechanical wings unfurled and six terrifying cannons extending from its hands, emerged from the vortex of fusion and descended before everyone, carrying a powerful aura.

"...Hmph! The second effect of [Ancient Mechanical Demon God] activates! Once per turn, during your Main Phase, inflict 1000 damage on the opponent! Guild Master Pegasus, take this damage!"

"...No~~~~!!!"

With a sudden swing of his arm, Professor Chronos activated the effect of the mechanical demon standing in front of him.

This monster, which possesses all resistances and appears on the field in defense position, immediately turned its cannon around and aimed it at Pegasus after hearing Professor Chronos's command.

With a burst of laser cannon fire, Pegasus, covered in dust and grime from the demon god's attack, was revealed to everyone as the smoke cleared.

(Bekas LP: 3400→2400)

"Bury a card, end the turn."

With a smug grin, Professor Chronos covered a card and ended his turn.

"Amazing! As expected of Professor Chronos! He actually managed to gain such an advantage against Pegasus!" Watching Professor Chronos's brilliant performance, Jaden Yuki, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but let out a heartfelt exclamation.

The last time I saw this monster was during the battle against the Seven Star King.

It seems that while the children were growing, the teachers were keeping up with their own pace.

"Hmph! What's so great about it... I could do it too!"

Watching Professor Chronos steal the show and leave the president across from him looking utterly humiliated, Coach Napoleon, feeling a bit of a toothache, couldn't help but mutter a few dissing remarks to him under his breath.

In his heart, a malice mixed with jealousy began to quietly grow and spread.

"Ahem... It's my turn."

Seemingly affected by the smoke from the explosion of the previous attack, Pegasus cleared his throat before placing his finger on the deck of cards on the Duel Disk.

Unlike the two teachers' flashy duel disks, the duel disk he used was just a standard model provided by the Duel Academy, with nothing special about it.

"Hmm, I suddenly had a great idea."

Pegasus drew a card from the top of his deck, but instead of immediately deploying it, he smiled and looked at Professor Chronos and Coach Napoleon, who were on the same side.

Seeing that the two were clearly having a shady deal, Pegasus suggested, "How about this, if one of you is more capable, I'll give him a higher position in my company. What do you think of this suggestion? Don't you think it's a great idea?"

Professor Kronos & Coach Napoleon: "...Huh?"

Pegasus: "Of course, that's only true after you've beaten me, which means..."

Professor Chronos: "That means the side with more remaining health points..."

Napoleon the Coach: "...and the position is even higher?"

"YES!"

Nodding to the two who answered first, Pegasus then turned his gaze to his hand, no longer looking at their expressions.

Or rather, the person who made this suggestion to sow discord had already guessed what would happen next.

"..."

Having received Pegasus's personal promise, Professor Chronos and Coach Napoleon looked at each other simultaneously.

After noticing the subtle shifts in each other's expressions, the two of them instinctively turned their heads and looked in different directions.

This signaled the beginning of an invisible barrier that spread between the two who had temporarily become teammates due to mutual interests, dealing a heavy blow to their fragile alliance...

"I activate the Spell Card [Toon Catalog] from my hand. Based on this card's effect, I add one [Toon] card from my deck to my hand."

Pegasus held a spell card between his index and middle fingers, flicked it slightly, and continued, "The card I choose to search is the Field Spell Card in my deck—[Toon Kingdom]~~~"

"...A magic card that searches for [Cartoon] cards? Could it be that [Cartoon] is an entire series?"

Having come from the wilderness to the Duel Academy and never having seen Kenzan from the Pegasus team before, he couldn't help but ask a curious question.

Upon hearing Kenzan's question, Yusei answered him, "Yes, this is a special [Cartoon] deck that belongs exclusively to Chairman Pegasus."

"Next, I will banish the top three cards of my deck and activate [Toon Kingdom] from my hand!"

Manipulating his distinctive foreign voice, Pegasus shoved the Field Spell Card he had just acquired into the side area of ​​the Duel Disk.

As Pegasus moved, a huge magic book appeared behind him, spreading out on both sides amidst the smoke.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, a large, cartoon-style medieval castle emerged from the open book.

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Cartoon Kingdom

(Field Spell Card)

effect:

①: As part of the effect processing when this card is activated, banish 3 cards from the top of your Deck in face-down position.

②: As long as this card's name exists in the field, the card name is used as "Toon World".

③: As long as this card is in the field zone, your Toon monsters cannot be targeted by your opponent's card effects.

④: If a Toon monster on your field is destroyed by battle or card effect, you can banish 1 card from the top of your Deck face down instead of the monster that was destroyed.

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"【Cartoon Kingdom】? It's a Field Spell Card..."

Professor Chronos and Coach Napoleon were both stunned when they saw the magic card activated by Pegasus.

In their minds, Pegasus's core card in the past should have been the Continuous Spell Card "Toon World," which required 1000 LP to activate, had no real effect, and was only used to assist those "Toon" monsters.

So, after all these years, has Bekas, the big boss of the card manufacturing company, printed some new cards for himself?

"The prerequisites have been met; now it's time to get started."

Raising his head to look at the two stunned people, Pegasus reached out and inserted one of his cards into the back row of the Duel Disk, activating it: "...I activate the Spell Card [Toon Flip] from my hand. This card can only be activated if you control [Toon World]."

Based on this card's effect, I can show my opponent three different Toon Monsters from my deck, and then let them randomly choose one of them.

Special Summon that monster to your field, ignoring its Summoning conditions. Return the remaining monsters to your Deck.

As he said this, Pegasus picked up his deck from the deck section of the Duel Disk and spread it out in front of him.

After thinking for a moment, he took out three of the cards separately and showed them to Professor Chronos and Coach Napoleon.