Do you like Yu-Gi-Oh even if it's like this?

"That counts, but there are other things that are more tiring."

In fact, it has been a while since my father's funeral. It is no longer in the final stage, but has passed. It's just that my mother is often reminded of the past, and perhaps she sold the cards on her own initiative in order to get over it.

"Anything else that's more tiring?"

Die is her best friend, but she doesn’t play cards, and she wouldn’t understand even if she was told.

——But it’s really tiring, so let her pick something to talk about.

"These past two nights... I met a teacher at the card shop..."

My thoughts got stuck.

What should I say? Force her to learn the new master rules? Explain the field system and pan-use?

"…I'm just very busy anyway."

"..."

The air around them quieted down a little.

Several eyes turned over.

"Haruka, you didn't... make any bad deals outside, did you?"

"Trade? ...It's a deal, but there's nothing wrong with it."

I will definitely buy those cards back.

"Could it be that... Haruka, you have already... matured?"

"Take action? What are you talking about?"

——When it comes to playing cards, can that be called a move?

Her mind was still a mess due to lack of sleep, so Yao ignored Die's chattering, used her arms as pillows, and went back to sleep.

Only the gradually boiling class atmosphere was behind her.

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"Your education is too Spartan."

"This is the fastest way to get the veterans up to speed."

The store manager put the deck in his hand back to its original position.

"Come over if you are here, let's try actual combat today."

I greeted the little girl who was looking out the door.

“Hmm…well…”

Two days later she actually had dark circles under her eyes. It seems that I am really too Spartan.

"Actual combat is...what kind of actual combat method is it?"

"Just playing cards."

"Just playing cards?"

"It's just playing cards. It's just playing cards. It's not like memorizing some homework."

I saw that she seemed to be a little bit shrinking.

"I've prepared three decks for you - you can choose one... Once you learn how to operate it, you can start playing."

"You really are wholehearted."

The store manager next to me was a little surprised when he saw the deck of cards I took out.

"Those who followed you in learning didn't have this treatment."

"It would be too much for me to expect elementary school students to pay for and assemble one on the spot."

I laid out the three card boxes on the card mat.

"If you choose El Dorado, you can 'win' even without practice, but you won't become stronger."

The king with flowing golden decorations shows great oppression in the card.

"Choose Long Hui Qiao. With a certain amount of practice, you can also 'win' - but the improvement will be limited."

Angels and contraptions, gathered under the weak theme of ritual, have become the only ritual deck among the current strong decks.

“Choose Sky Striker. You can become stronger, but…”

Cricket A girl with 1500 attack power, wearing a military uniform, flying with a winged armor.

"No way to win?"

Seeing that I was about to speak, she seemed to hesitate for a moment - but her eyes did not move away from the Sky Striker card.

"…It's hard—but you'll get stronger quickly."

——I understand. I want to play this card because it doesn’t seem very strong but the card looks pretty.

——What’s more, Flash Striker is not weak either.

"Are you familiar with the rules of Link Summoning?"

"It's just sending the materials to the Graveyard, and then using the Extra Monster Zone or the area pointed by the arrow, right? It's a bit like a simplified version of Synchro... But I haven't decided which one I'm going to choose yet."

Halfway through her speech, she suddenly realized that the deck in front of her only had a link deck. She blushed and looked away.

"I never said that El Dorado and Ryūki-Kyou didn't have Link Summons—"

I looked at her with a hint of sarcasm.

"Besides, I can tell from the look in your eyes that you want to play this deck."

——Compared to those terminal dragon cancer mecha cancer patients, it is natural for her to like girls...it should be a beautiful older sister.

"..."

She lowered her head, and then, as if to hide her shyness, she took out the three-pronged dragon card mat I gave her.

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About ten minutes later, soul-like substance began to emerge from the corners of her mouth.

"Stack three magic cards, warm up a pot... Greedy? Or what kind of pot?"

"...Maybe I should teach you Shadow Summoning, then it won't be so troublesome."

I shuffled the deck in my hand and cut it into pieces. ＄转∴: ⑨＝≌4￥±罢-」贰々∧⒋３∑￡㈢鲮〃? ５下.

"Just play the passionate fusion once and that's it."

"Shadow... Shadow what?"

"I've been restrained by the Hero System. You don't have to worry about it for now. I'll teach you when the Hero System regulates it."

She had an expression as if she was listening to something mysterious.

"Then let's get started - I'll use a weak deck and give up the initiative."

I shuffled the deck and set it aside.

——Originally, I should have let my opponent shuffle it, but duel etiquette is something I should put aside for now.

“…Is there no problem?”

“No problem without the worm pit separation.”

She showed the expression of listening to a foreign book again.

"Do you remember the new rules?"

"You don't draw a card first, and you can have two cards on the field, an extra monster zone... um, there's also something called a pendulum that I don't quite understand."

"Don't worry, most players don't understand. The Pendulum decks I played were left gathering dust because they were too troublesome to play."

As I spoke, I drew out five cards and rubbed them in my hand, snapping them.

"Will you teach me? The Pendulum?"

She also draws five cards.

"If you want to learn."

"Let's not talk about that for now. I'd rather learn this first."

She pointed to my hands - the hands that were shuffling the cards.

"Well... I'll teach you after this round - no, I'll teach you if you satisfy me in this round."

I showed a bit of bad intentions, and the sound of shuffling the cards was a little louder.

I hope the card set is okay (namaste).

Water machine, and its first seven:

Chapter 5: Sky Striker vs. Insect Demon

"Can I ask you something?"

There was no one else in the store, and the manager had gone somewhere to slack off.

The little girl asked hesitantly, looking at the cards in her hand.

"explain."

"What is this white card?"

She raised her head, and her beautiful eyes reflected the pure white cards mixed in the middle of her hand.

"This lesson is about the use of hand traps. As a practice for your first use of hand traps, there are 13 pure white cards in total... As long as they comply with the rules, you can use them as any hand trap."

"...I always feel like this exercise looks down on me."

"Don't worry, I didn't mean to win - I just wanted to check the breadth of the 2 general purpose cards you read yesterday."

It would be too boring to show off and win every time - a novice must win first before he can enjoy the fun of playing cards.

“Activate [Reinforcement], add [Sky Striker – Rei] from the deck to hand, Normal Summon Rei.”

A girl in school uniform appeared in the center of the station.