Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

At this critical juncture, how could I possibly hand her over to you?

Go ahead and dream of your spring and autumn dreams!

"A duel with Yusei and the others? Heh, too bad... they can't come here anymore."

"what?"

"Now that I have infiltrated this place, their mission is essentially complete."

As he spoke these words to Professor Cobra, whose expression had turned strange, Amon then reached out and pressed a button on his nightsuit, activating the card bomb he had prepared before coming here.

--boom!

"Before coming here, I made a few slight changes~"

As Amon finished speaking, the bomb in the ventilation duct exploded, triggering the emergency protection device inside the equipment.

As the alarm beeped, the fire gates were activated and began to close one by one.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Judging from that sound, it seems to be... an alarm?"

The group, who were walking down the dimly lit corridor, also heard the alarms blaring around them.

As they stopped and looked around in confusion, they immediately noticed the dire situation behind them: the fire gates in the distance were closing one after another.

"...Emergency! Emergency! This area will be sealed off soon. Please evacuate to a safe area immediately."

A cold, emotionless female voice came through the radio.

Addressing the stunned crowd, the broadcast relayed the current situation in the area.

"The broadcast said we should seek refuge?"

"Oh no, everyone...run!"

"Ah! If we don't hurry, we'll be locked up in here!"

Urged on by John and Yusei, the group quickened their pace and headed towards the destination ahead.

At this moment, noticing what was happening inside the device, Professor Cobra's face immediately showed a displeased expression.

"Amon, you little rascal..."

"Hehe, see? This way, nothing can get in our way anymore."

With a shrug of delight, Amon pointed to Professor Cobra's location: "Let's settle this with a duel... though that's what I'd like to say..."

Changing the subject, Amon chuckled and said, "But I can't guarantee that you won't resort to underhanded tactics like the previous duel-belt in the duel."

"So, I'll use force to make you submit here!"

After removing his glasses, headphones, and the bag from his waist—items that hindered his movement—Amon immediately assumed a professional fighting stance towards Professor Cobra.

Next comes the segment where the summoned fist directly attacks the duelist.

"Amon...you brat, you've been getting in my way time and time again. You're such a nuisance!"

Clutching the hem of his uniform, Professor Cobra, provoked by Amon, said this while simultaneously using a one-click striptease technique to instantly rip his upper garments off his body: "Heh... How could I, who survived on the battlefield, possibly lose to a pampered young master like you?"

"—Drink up!"

Professor Cobra casually draped his uniform over the chair next to him, took off his shirt, clenched his fist, and showed off his eight-pack abs and solid body brimming with explosive power to Amon, who dared to challenge him.

That figure possessed the strength and physique honed through years of training!

"Ha, showing off your muscles, huh? That's not your prerogative!"

Seeing Professor Cobra's actions, Amon followed suit, loosening his belt and lifting his upper body's night clothes: "Don't let my appearance fool you, I have considerable confidence in my physical abilities!"

Beneath Amon's clothes was also a body brimming with power.

Although not as strong as Professor Cobra overall, Amon, who also has eight-pack abs, possesses a level of agility that Professor Cobra lacks.

"What an arrogant fool! How dare he challenge me in terms of strength! I'll take this opportunity to show you my true power!"

"……bring it on!"

Professor Cobra, cracking his knuckles and making a series of popping sounds, rushed in front of Amon after his declaration, aimed at his body, and swung his fist, which was as big as a sandbag.

Seeing the attack coming towards him, Amon immediately turned around, nimbly dodging Professor Cobra's punch, and then swung his own fist at Professor Cobra's body.

Similarly, Professor Cobra, who had noticed the trajectory of the attack, dodged the attack that was coming straight at him.

You attack, I defend; you advance, I retreat.

The two of them then used the most direct, hand-to-hand combat style to demonstrate the power they possessed to each other.

713 Yubel: It doesn't matter, I'll take action.

"—Drink up!"

"--snort!"

The size difference between Professor Cobra and Amon is roughly equivalent to the difference between a lion and a cheetah; they can exert different levels of power in different situations, such as on plains or in dense forests.

Although Professor Cobra has higher strength than Amon, he is constantly using "War Stomp" and "Pounce" to destroy the surrounding walls and floors. However, his speed and accuracy are correspondingly reduced, and he is unable to hit Amon's vital parts.

On Amon's side, although he was not physically dominant, his exceptional agility allowed him to dodge Professor Cobra's attacks and take the opportunity to inflict some damage on him.

However, these speed-focused, opportunistic attacks failed to unleash Amon's full power, nor could they penetrate Professor Cobra's solid physique to inflict significant damage on him.

The two were evenly matched, and were temporarily locked in a stalemate.

"Oh? You're quite agile! So what if that's how it is?"

Constantly defending against Amon's attacks, Professor Cobra repeatedly deflected the damage he caused and deflected Amon's attacks back at his own body.

After getting used to Amon's movements, Professor Cobra deliberately created an opening to lure Amon into attacking. Then, he seized the opportunity to grab Amon's body, forcefully gripped Amon's outstretched foot, spun him around several times, and then flung him away, slamming him against a wall.

"……Well!"

"Die to me!"

Just as Professor Cobra was about to charge at Amon, who had fallen to the ground, intending to finish him off, Amon, who had struggled to his feet, nimbly leaped up and dodged the fatal blow.

"Although I'd heard that the Garham Group had an excellent intelligence agency, I never expected that one of its members would be the young master of the Garham Group—Amon Garham!"

"...Hmph! Enough with the nonsense!"

With a regretful sigh, Professor Cobra, whose attack had missed, sensed Amon's presence fading away and couldn't help but utter this lament.

Upon hearing these words, Amon frowned and an impatient expression appeared on his face.

After wiping their noses, the two, who had been evenly matched in the previous round of probing attacks and neither had gained much advantage, were temporarily locked in a stalemate where neither could gain the upper hand.

……

"Emergency! Emergency!"

"Ughhhhh... Hurry, we're going to be too late!"

"Tsk... The door is about to close!"

Amidst the emotionless broadcast and the resounding crashes of iron gates slamming against the ground behind them, Yusei and his group, running deeper into the facility, quickly arrived at a circular room resembling a transfer hall.

Above them, they could see a glass ceiling connecting to the outside world, and opposite them was the doorway leading to a deeper area.

At this point, due to Amon's questionable actions, this door is about to be closed.

It is foreseeable that, at their current speed, everyone will definitely not be able to keep up with the closing speed of this door.

"Oh no, that door in front is about to close!"

"What do we do? Are we going to be trapped here?"

"That despicable Professor Cobra... He's too cowardly to come out and duel, so he resorts to such a despicable tactic!"

"That's too late!"

"Damn it! I can't accept this!"

Just as everyone was watching the door about to close, thinking they were going to be trapped here, a black figure suddenly smashed the glass above their heads. As the glass shards fell from the sky, they crashed to the ground. The figure then threw a grappling hook at the door that was about to close, forcibly fixing the half-closed door in place.

Due to the limitations of the device, the door is temporarily stuck in a stalemate where it wants to close but cannot.

"Who are you……?!"

"O'Brien? What are you doing here?"

The person who suddenly appeared here was none other than O'Brien, who had fallen from the trap earlier.

At this crucial moment, he descended like a hero, helping everyone to stop the door from closing.

Without even exchanging pleasantries with Yusei and the others, O'Brien, who had temporarily frozen the door, suddenly stood up, took a step, hoisted the struggling door onto his shoulder, and shouted to the stunned crowd, "Go, everyone! Go stop Professor Cobra!"

"what?"

Addressing the stunned crowd approaching, O'Brien, covered in wounds, loudly conveyed his will: "Hurry up, I can't hold on much longer!"

"Sorry!"

Keeping his body low to the ground, Jim was the first to react. He slid over the door with Karen on his back, and then tried to help O'Brien hold the door open on the other side.

"Ah...I'll help too!"

Kenzan, the second one to crawl to the other side of the door, clenched his fist and helped prop up the door that was about to fall.

I can't speak for other aspects, but when it comes to physical strength, with dinosaur genes in his body, he can be said to have enough confidence.

Following closely behind Jim and Kenzan, John, Yuki Judai, Asuka, and Reiya took the opportunity to bend over and enter through the door.

"O'Brien, why are you here?"

Yusei, who had previously fought with O'Brien, quickly approached O'Brien and, noticing that something had clearly happened to him, asked why he had come.

"I don't have the power to stop Professor Cobra right now... so this task is left to you, Yusei, who defeated me!"

Bracing against the door, O'Brien shouted at Yusei with all his might, "Don't stop, Yusei! Take my hope with you, go and defeat that guy, go and defeat Professor Cobra!"

"O'Brien, what's going on? Aren't you with Professor Cobra? Aren't you our enemy?"

"Ah, so there are also wrong encounters in this world!"