Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

It was precisely because of this consideration that Yusei did not use the card 【Destiny Hero - Blood Demon - D】 too much.

After all, the alternate art version of Blood Demon-D in Yusei's hand is not the same card that originally housed the Light of Destruction and was taken by Edward's father's killer.

However, as a card with the same name, it's impossible to guarantee that it will have the same effect as a certain white-robed scumbag Lester, attracting hatred and triggering the traps set by the opponent the moment it appears on the field.

……

"Let this card of destiny, the very first card of fate, end our destinies... Descend, ultimate D-HERO—Blood Demon-D!!!"

Putting aside other thoughts for now, in the midst of his duel with Tubein, an expert in physics, Yusei, on a whim, decided to try summoning this monster to verify his conjecture.

As Yusei finished speaking, the three monsters on his field were simultaneously enveloped in a blood-red light, then gathered together and transformed into a giant red sphere.

With the crimson moon as the altar and blood as the throne, the ultimate hero of destiny will descend upon the world at this moment.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the red sphere suddenly crashed into the cosmic space created by the Field Spell Cards, spreading a layer of blood-red lake between the Spheres of the Wandering Star.

From the lake, the crimson demon slowly emerged, spreading its wings and carrying an irresistible aura...

Yusei: "...Huh???"

Tubein: "At the very moment you perform this Special Summon, I activate the effect of [Singularity Demon] from my hand..."

Before Blood Demon D could finish his boastful lines, and only his upper body had emerged from the blood lake, Tubine immediately pulled out a monster card and showed it to Yusei on the other side.

"...Nani?"

Holy crap, there really is a trap? And it was set at this very moment!

When Yusei saw that Tubein had pulled out an unfamiliar hand card, he was momentarily stunned. The Destiny Hero Blood Demon-D that he had just placed on the Duel Disk began to shimmer with a light.

"...The effect of [Singularity Fiend] is that when your opponent Special Summons a monster, you can send this card and one Spell Card from your hand to the Graveyard to negate and destroy that monster's summon!"

With a smug look on his face, Tubine waved his single outstretched finger, a knowing smile spreading across his aged face: "Young Yusei, I knew... you would Special Summon during your turn, so I've been waiting for this moment when you summon a powerful monster. Although I don't know what the so-called Ultimate D—[Destiny HERO Blood Demon-D]—has, well... just leave the field here!"

"???"

Yusei instinctively opened his mouth, and as he listened to the echoing sound in his ears, he couldn't help but exclaim, "This effect... is it a monster version of [God's Announcement]?!"

The [Singularity Demon], which can activate its effect during the opponent's turn, is a second-fastest effect, not the third-fastest like the God of War, so it can be chained by other second-fastest effects.

However, since the [Singularity Demon] is ineffective, what is destroyed is the act of summoning itself.

At this moment, [Destiny HERO Blood Demon-D] has not yet been summoned to Yusei's field, so even though Yusei has the second-fastest spell card [Mask Change] in his hand, he cannot transform Blood Demon-D into Friend Hero in this situation to avoid this hand trap effect.

As Tubein sent the [Singularity Demon] and a Spell Card from his hand to the Graveyard, the Blood Demon-D, which had not yet appeared, paused for a moment, then sank back into the blood-red lake with a black line, eventually disappearing into nothingness along with the blood-red lake that filled the field...

【Destiny HERO Blood Demon-D】cannot be Normal Summoned. Its appearance condition is that it can only be Special Summoned to the field by Tributing three monsters on your field.

Even if they are sent to the graveyard, neither side can revive them through the [Monster Resurrection] effect.

In other words, Yusei essentially wasted three cards to summon nothing at all...

"Set up a card in ambush... End of turn."

With a twitch of his lips, looking at the empty field on his side, Yusei couldn't help but mentally give Tubine the middle finger.

In that situation, even if Yusei hadn't summoned Blood Demon-D and instead summoned other monsters, he would have faced the same result: unable to evade the effect of [Singularity Demon], he would have had to let their summoning be nullified and destroyed.

Therefore, this is not the reason for [Destiny Hero - Blood Demon - D], it is just a coincidence and cannot verify the so-called curse of defeat.

It seems that if we want to verify the causal law of [Destiny Hero - Blood Demon - D], we will have to wait for the next opportunity.

"Hoho~~ My turn, draw a card!"

With a smug stroke of his beard, Tubein reached into his deck and drew a new card.

After that, he set one of his cards face down to the back row, then took out another card and inserted it into the back row of the Duel Disk to activate it: "First, I set a card to the back row, and then I activate the Continuous Spell Card [Schrödinger's Mischievous Cat] from my hand."

The illustration on the magic card depicts a cat-man dressed in a white suit performing magic tricks.

After activating this card, Tubine reached out again and flipped the face-down monster cards on the field over: "Young Yusei, you must be feeling very heartbroken for wasting so many cards last turn. Well then, let me help you replenish your hand! Perfect timing, I also need to replenish my hand."

Yusei: "Hmm? Replenishing my hand... Could this face-down monster be...?"

Everyone: "...Huh? What's going on?"

Unable to grasp Tubein's thoughts for a moment, Jaden Yuki and Kenzan, who were watching the battle, had big question marks on their heads.

Misawa Daichi seemed to realize something and focused even more intently on the situation on the field.

"I flip-summon the face-down monster... At that moment, the effect of the flip monster [Shape Jar] (ATK: 700) will also be activated! When this card is flip-summoned, players with cards in their hand discard all cards in their hand and then draw five cards from their Deck."

The monster that Tubine is lurking on the field is a Reversal Monster with a special effect: [Shape Jar].

As a reversal monster, it will trigger its indiscriminate reversal effect the moment it is attacked.

With its arrival, Tubine and Yuxing's few remaining cards will be sent to the graveyard for a major cleanup.

"Tsk... my chestnut ball."

Looking at the [Spherical Kuriboh] in his hand, which has the effect of blocking attacks, Yusei paused for a moment before sending it, along with the other cards in his hand, to the graveyard. Then, together with Tubein, who had also discarded all his cards, he drew five new cards from his deck.

Although the hand trap is gone, a new hand has been formed.

As he replenished his hand, Tubaiin also received the same gift.

So, whether this operation was a profit or a loss, even Yusei himself couldn't say for sure.

"Since I drew a card outside of my draw phase, the effect of the Continuous Spell Card [Schrödinger's Mischievous Cat] will also be activated."

Pointing to the magic cards spread out in front of him, Tubine continued, "After confirming the cards I've drawn, I can put them back into the deck to shuffle, and then draw the same number of cards again."

Unlike Jaden Yuki, who relied on luck, Tubine obtained key cards through a large number of draws using a combination of various effects.

Card drawing is a chance-based activity where you don't know what card you'll get until you flip it over.

With the increased filtering effect, the probability of drawing key cards will also increase, gradually shifting the focus from luck to logical thinking.

If I don't win once or twice, what's wrong with trying ten times?

Without relying on so-called luck, you can still get the cards you want by simply increasing the number of times you draw cards.

This is the theory that Tubein believed in.

"Ah, here they come."

Looking at his hand, which had been refreshed multiple times, Tubein's lips slowly curled into a knowing smile: "I summon [Demon Arithmetician Laplace] in Attack Position (ATK: 1000)!"

A skeletal demon with a goat's head, draped in a blood-red cloak and holding a strange abacus in its hand, appeared on Tubai's field as Tubai's words fell.

"【Demon World Arithmetician Laplace】and 【Transformation Jar】, launch a direct attack on Yusei!"

Ignoring the face-down card in Yusei's back row, Tubine waved his arm, commanding the monsters on his field to launch a direct attack on Yusei, whose front row was empty.

Faced with the attacks of the two monsters, Yusei, mimicking Tubain's earlier actions, calmly took out a monster card from his hand and showed it to Tubain: "...Old man, it won't be so easy to hurt me!"

"……what?"

"At the very moment your monster attacks, I activate the effect of [Elemental HERO Neos] from my hand, Special Summoning it to my field! Furthermore, this card Special Summoned by this effect cannot be destroyed by battle!"

Yusei waved the monster card in his hand and then slammed it onto his Duel Disk: "Grandpa, thanks to your [Transformation Jar] earlier, I was able to get my hands on this card!"

"His effect will also be triggered when you launch your attack... Come on! Neos!"

As Yusei's call faded, the ethereal Neos, or Neos Elf, appeared with a burst of light, arms crossed, blocking the two monsters that were about to attack Yusei.

Seeing the [Elemental Hero - Neo-Elf] suddenly appear before them, an insurmountable and irresistible barrier with an attack power of 2500, the two low-star, low-attribute monsters exchanged a knowing glance and then wisely retreated to Tubain's front at the same time.

There's nothing we can do if we can't win.

Of course, it's a matter of selective blindness!

"...Grumble! Kid, you've got quite a few hand pits!"

"Oh, not at all, I'm no match for your cunning, old man!"

Tubein, whose offensive had been thwarted, sighed regretfully. Yusei, who had been tricked by him earlier, chimed in with a sarcastic remark.

Old man, you're not the only one with bad hands!

619 Turning the Tide

"If 【Elemental HERO Neos Elf】 is Special Summoned, its effect can be activated, allowing me to add one Spell/Trap Card with the 【Elemental HERO】 card name or 【Fusion】 card from my Deck to my hand."

"...Based on the effect of Neo-Elf, I choose to search for [Elemental HERO Liquid Knight] in my deck."

The ethereal New Universe Knight floated silently in the cosmic space in front of Yu Xing, arms crossed.

With his arrival, Yusei will not only block the attack of Tubein's monster, but will also gain a precise search opportunity to add a needed card from his deck to his hand to assist in the next turn's development.

Saying the name of the card aloud, Yusei then reached out and added the card, which had automatically popped halfway out of the Duel Disk, to his hand.

At this moment, besides the [Elemental HERO Neos Elf] (ATK: 2500) in attack position that cannot be destroyed by battle, he also has a face-down card that he had previously placed in ambush.

Meanwhile, Tubai, whose offensive was thwarted, was forced to end his battle phase and enter his main phase 2.

"It won't be destroyed in battle, and it also has a search function..."

Squinting his aged yet sharp eyes, Tubain stared at the New Universe Elf, stroked his chin, and began to think: "This monster is really troublesome... I need to find a way to get rid of it."

"Then let's just leave it at that."

Seemingly having made some kind of decision, Tubine inserted two cards from his hand into the back row of the Duel Disk: "I set a card to the back row, and then activate the Spell Card [Black Hole] from my hand to destroy all the monsters on the field!"

"Varied……"

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Tubine pulled out a simple and brutal removal card, intending to destroy all the monsters on the field indiscriminately.

As the spell card was activated, a huge black wormhole appeared in the space created by the field spell card.

The black hole emitted an unparalleled and immense gravitational pull, sucking in the Neos Elf on the Planetary Field, along with the two monsters on the Tubein Field, and then annihilating them into nothingness.

The Elemental HERO Neos, Special Summoned by its own effect, cannot be destroyed by battle, but it is a different story if it is destroyed by its own effect.

"...Ugh! Yusei's hard-won monster is gone again!" Watching the New Universe Spirit leave the field, Jaden Yuki, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but let out a regretful sigh.

"As expected of Professor Tubein, every movement has a deeper meaning! I understand now, I understand now!"

Meanwhile, Misawa Daichi, hiding in the shadows, watched the scene with shining eyes, gesturing wildly as he murmured heartfelt exclamations.

In any case, he had achieved his goal of hiding here today, and he had gained a certain understanding of the path he would pursue next.

"...At the very moment the monster is destroyed, the effect of [Demon World Arithmetician Laplace] activates!" Tubine adjusted his glasses and pointed in Yusei's direction: "When Laplace leaves the field, neither player has a single card on their field, and both players will inflict 300 damage to their opponent!"