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"Yao" the man spoke and spread out his hands.

“The so-called head of the family is shaped.”

"……shape?"

"To be reliable, mature - to be forced by circumstances and become that kind of person."

"It has nothing to do with that kind of thing..."

"You are not my biological child, Haruka."

——!

Like being struck by lightning.

The words that Haruka wanted to say got stuck in her throat.

Something she didn't care about, built up something she couldn't cross - she knew there was a tragically thick barrier between them.

This is something that cannot be changed by any amount of wisdom or power.

"I……"

“People often have to pay for things they don’t need.”

He took off the black jacket that he had somehow turned into and draped it over the tablecloth that had replaced the curtains.

"You...are you going to treat me like this when I came to save you?!——I have other things that I should do, but first..."

The middle of the circle paused and said, "I'm fine." I slept.

—He almost said something she would regret.

...No, maybe it is because they are self-righteous relatives that they are more likely to say hurtful words.

The fragmented memory of a bandaged man flashed through her mind, and Haruka shook her head vigorously.

(I... am not that kind of person! - I have another way that my teacher taught me!)

"In that case - let's duel."

"..."

Looking at Haruka who had a determined expression on her face, the middle-aged man's smile became even more unpredictable.

"I will prove it, I will convince! - I know my innocence and immaturity... But if I were to stand back because of your inexplicable behavior right here - I would definitely regret it later!"

She called out, in the endless rain of money:

"Exile your regrets, loss and confusion! [Until you disappear in the crowd]!"

Each deck can have up to three cards of the same name:

Chapter 319 53 Only Tiredness

"Dark Game."

——He sighed a little.

"A symbol of a life being manipulated by the gods...ah."

"You know a lot more than I thought."

Haruka shuffled and cut the deck, then reached out -

"It's your first strike."

"...Not going to attack first?"

"...Just winning is not enough."

Haruka shook her head and placed her fingertips on the top of the deck.

"Pretending to be mature is also a sign of maturity - it's my turn, draw a card!"

"..."

"..."

——His squinting eyes opened for a moment, then he looked at his own card.

"I activate [Black Whirlwind]! ——Then, I activate [Temptation of Darkness] in my hand, draw two cards, and banish [Hirook of Dawn] from my hand."

"...!"

——Strange, strange…?

Haruka's eyes widened.

"No hand trap? ——In that case, I activate the effect of [Blitzcrank of Breeze] in my hand! Special Summon it from hand!"

——It really is... too familiar.

"Normal Summon [Blue Flame Shura], Black Whirlwind searches [Gael of the Gale]! Activate [One on One], discard [Elite Zephyros] from hand, and Special Summon [Effect Veiler] from the Deck!"

—Is that so? Is fate trying to...laugh at me?

Haruka clenched her teeth, but...

"Then - I activated the effect of the Elite in the Graveyard, bounced the effect Veiler on the field back to my hand, and I took 400 damage!"

"!"

——Something is different!

"I will adjust the stars of [Elite Zephyrus] and Breeze on the field! ——First is [BF-Armored Wing]!"

"Then, Special Summon [Gael of the Gale] and Synchro-Tune [Mechanical Dragon Power Tool] with Shura of the Azure Flame!"

This is……

"I activate [Metallic Silver Armor] from my hand, targeting Power Tool! --Power Tool's effect activates, draws a card from my deck--I cover two cards, and the turn ends."

Equipped with [Metallic Silver Armor], the effect is a bit confusing - the opponent cannot target monsters other than the equipped monster... no matter if they are on the field, in the graveyard, or excluded.

"This is..."

Armored Wings and Power Tools, as well as Zhai in hand.

"Black Feather is a weak theme." 8

He spoke.

"…I understand this better than anyone else."2

——Anyway, she doesn’t want to use Old Black Feather to fight heroes anymore.

"But, even so - people have to move forward... So, I taught you how to play as Old Kuroba."

"..."

Yao's eyes widened, but the emotions that had just risen in her heart were shattered by the next sentence.

"But, even so - people have to stop... So, I still couldn't keep up with that pace after all."

"How did you..."

"Haruka, I have a lot of things to tell you... Maybe I won't have the chance to tell you until I die - so, can you listen to me?"

"..."

Haruka really wanted to say, “Let’s talk after the duel,” but… this dark game was started for the purpose of talking, and preventing him from speaking would be putting the cart before the horse.

"Haruka - a lot of things about me are fake... the university acceptance letter, my family, and you... there are too many fake parts in my life."

"?!"

"Haruka... I am a defective product of an intelligence agent. If you are the current you, you should be able to understand this sentence, right?"

——Haruka didn't understand what this meant at first.

No…if it’s just the facts, just retelling it is enough.

But something beyond the facts is not enough.

"—I committed myself to studying medicine when I was in high school."

——It was a very painful and heavy time.

"GPA, family pressure, and having to find time for a relationship - things that seem insignificant now almost crushed me at the time."

He shook his head:

"Then came the bad news. One of my family elders committed a criminal offense, and the crime was passed down to three generations. I lost the qualification to go to university."

"……who?"

"It is your duty as a junior to keep it a secret - but now you should be quite open about it. There are many people who can go to college even with such a situation... But in short, the law was strictly enforced at that time."

"The crackdown is strict..."

How much hard work and suffering are contained in these three simple words?

"At this time, someone told me that I could continue to go to college... because I was not a child of this family, but an intelligence officer who was screened out... that is, a test-tube baby."

This is not a child made from someone's genes, but a child made from random gene fragments.

Completely fatherless and motherless.

"As a price, I want to become a member of the intelligence system."

——Neither a professional intelligence officer nor an ordinary citizen.

“It didn’t have to happen right away, it just had to happen after I finished college and my residency, and when I was celebrating and had my diploma, I realized that what I had learned, or what I had worked so hard to get, was just a tiny piece of nothing.”

"……What's the meaning?"

“Have you heard of [Company]?”

"…The one who saved people?"

"The one who monopolized the life-saving resources."

——As the attending physician, there was a strange light in his eyes.

"They are the best doctors in the world - but they are not allowed to save lives and only work secretly for governments... Unlike doctors like us who treat diseases and save lives from the bottom up, they are demons who desecrate life from the top down."

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