Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

I happened to see him staring blankly in a certain direction.

Following Jaden Yuki's gaze, Sho Marufuji looked at the large screen in the arena.

The large screen is currently displaying the list of duelists for the second batch.

【…】

[Yusei - Marufuji Sho]

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"?"

Upon seeing the list, Marufuji Sho immediately displayed a big question mark.

"No!"

He subconsciously rubbed his eyes and shook his head.

After confirming that he hadn't misread it, his whole body collapsed.

"Even the God of Duels has abandoned me..." After realizing that his opponent was Yusei, whom even Jaden Yuki couldn't defeat, Sho Marufuji's face was filled with despair.

The written test is a disaster! And now, in the practical test, I have to face the monster, Yusei...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ! !

At this moment, Marufuji Sho's heart was roaring.

110 The duel had barely begun when it was already over.

"Let's go!" Upon seeing the list, Yusei picked up his Duel Disk, then stood up and patted Marufuji Sho on the shoulder, signaling that he could get ready to go on stage.

"Yes!"

Startled by Yusei's pat on the shoulder, Marufuji Sho instinctively stood up and followed Yusei down from the audience.

Even after standing on the dueling field, Marufuji Sho's mind was still hazy.

He stared at Yusei, who remained motionless opposite him, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

In previous duels, Marufuji Sho had always sided with Yusei, so he had never directly confronted Yusei.

At this moment, Marufuji Sho stood on the opposite side of Yusei, and only then did he realize the sense of oppression that Yuki Judai, Manjoume Jun, and Tenjouin Asuka had once felt.

Standing before Marufuji Sho was not Yusei, a human, but an unfathomable and untouchable abyss.

Feeling the oppressive aura emanating from Yusei, Marufuji Sho couldn't help but want to give up the duel.

"Cheer up, Xiang!"

Yuki Judai cupped his hands together in a megaphone shape around his mouth and gave an encouraging shout to Marufuji Sho.

"Big brother..."

Before Sho Marufuji could even feel touched by the encouragement he received from Judai Yuki, he heard his older brother's next words...

"...It's okay if you lose to Yusei, I understand!"

Marufuji Sho: "..."

Jaden Yuki, who had shone brightly in the previous duel, spoke up for the duel between Yusei and Sho Marufuji, drawing everyone's attention to the two on the field.

What they saw was Sho Marufuji trembling, and Yusei, who had been sitting with his arms crossed and eyes closed, resting ever since he stepped onto the dueling arena.

"Ah! It's Lord Yusei!"

"That calm and composed demeanor... is still so dashing!"

The gasps of surprise came from the audience.

Judging from the voice, it was clearly coming from Asuka Tenjouin's two best friends, Junko Makita and Momoe Hamaguchi.

Noticing the girls' voices, Yusei slowly opened his eyes and waved towards their location.

During this process, Yusei's gaze met Asuka's.

"..."

Seemingly recalling the embarrassing incident from that night, Asuka subconsciously avoided Yusei's gaze.

"What... that Osiris Red guy..."

"Damn it... Who is this guy? How come he's so close to the girls from Obelisk Blue!"

"So what if he's a little handsome? What's so great about that!"

"The most important thing for duelists is to prove their strength! What good is a handsome face if you're a weakling?"

"Hmph! Women will only slow down my card-drawing speed!"

……

...

Seeing Yusei's intimate behavior with the girls, some people in the crowd couldn't help but murmur with envy.

Yusei simply shrugged at these jealous remarks and didn't take them to heart.

After this duel, having witnessed Yusei's strength, they will naturally shut their mouths obediently.

Yusei's previous duels were all conducted on a small scale.

Today's practical test marks the first time a duel has been conducted in public.

Every single person in the audience was an outstanding duelist who had passed the Duel Academy's assessment.

"I hereby announce! The second practical test is now beginning!" Principal Samejima's booming voice came from the stadium's loudspeaker.

Upon hearing this voice, Yusei gave Marufuji Sho a strange smile, then reached out and turned on the Duel Disk switch.

Upon seeing Yusei's smile, Marufuji Sho instinctively sensed something was wrong.

"duel!"

"A duel..."

The red and white Duel Disk unfolds in Yusei's left hand.

Before Marufuji Sho could react, Yusei decisively seized the initiative.

"My turn! Draw a card!"

Yusei reached out and drew a new card from his deck.

Yusei looked at the trap card with the red border and a surprised expression on his face.

I thought I'd have to go through several draws before I could get the cards, but this time I actually drew them directly.

It seems that everything is fate!

"Sho, the game is over." Yusei looked at the trap card he had drawn—[Reversal of the Real World and the Underworld]—and said to Marufuji Sho.

The higher-ups have decided that Comrade Marufuji Sho will become the first victim of the "Genmei-ryu"!

"?"

Upon hearing Yusei's words, everyone couldn't help but cast questioning glances at him.

This duel has only just begun, how could it be over already?

Could it be that Yusei is planning to surrender right now?

"Yusei, you may be strong, but I also obtained the rare card [Magic Cylinder]... You're not completely powerless, are you?" Even Marufuji Sho, who had been feeling fear the whole time, couldn't help but retort at Yusei's arrogant words.

"Hehe...you'll find out soon enough."

Yusei completely ignored the gazes around him and drew a card face up from his hand into the back row of the Duel Disk.

"I activate the Spell Card 'Hero's Arrival'!"

"Based on this card's effect, when I have no face-up monsters on my field, I can Special Summon one Level 4 or lower Elemental HERO monster from my Deck to the field by paying half of my Life Points!"

"My choice is of course—[Elemental Hero: Shadow Mist Lady]!"

The indicator light on the duel disk in his left hand began to flash, and a card was popped halfway out of the deck.

Yusei stretched out his right hand, pulled out the card, and placed it on the Duel Disk.

After a flash of white light, the Shadow Mist Lady, with her left hand on her hip and dressed in black fitted armor, slowly appeared on the field.

"Huh? Is this guy named Yusei also using an Elemental HERO deck?" Upon seeing the cards Yusei was using, this question couldn't help but arise in the audience.

The impact of Jaden Yuki using Elemental HERO monsters was a bit too strong for them.

"Yusei's Elemental HERO and Jaden Yuki's Elemental HERO seem to be a little different..."

"By the way, is this monster in Elemental Heroes?"

Looking at the Shadow Mist Girl on the Starry Sky Field, someone asked in confusion.

In his view, the lower-level monsters of Elemental HERO should all be low-star, low-attack normal monsters.

"Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist! The fact that it can be summoned means that this monster truly exists!"

His question was quickly answered by another person.

"This strangely familiar action... Could it be that Yusei is planning to..." Seeing Yusei's behavior, Jaden Yuki seemed to understand something.

“Yusei is planning to summon [Masked Hero Dark Claw].” Daichi Misawa, sitting next to Jaden Yuki, spoke for him.

111 He tolled his own death knell.

"When the Shadow Mist Lady is successfully Special Summoned, I can add one Quick-Play Spell Card, Masked Change, to my hand from my Deck!"

Yusei pulled out a spell card that was halfway out of his deck, inserted it into his back row without even looking at it, and activated it decisively.

"Then I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card 'Masked Change,' sending one of my 'Hero' monsters to the Graveyard, and Special Summoning one 'Masked Hero' monster with the same Attribute as that monster from my Extra Deck!"

The Shadow Mist Lady was bathed in white light, and werewolf-shaped armor appeared around her before automatically assembling onto her body.