How come the Ace of Cups isn't considered the Holy Grail?

Okay, okay, everything matches up, right...?

So that's how it was solved?

But he's just an ordinary Yu-Gi-Oh! player. Besides using his Noble Phantasm to force the opponent to play against him, how is he supposed to fight against those overpowered players who can just spam their Noble Phantasms all the time?

Does he have to summon Neo-Universe's spirits to launch a physical attack? — Huh?

hiss……

Is this really how it's going to be done?

Yu Du thought to himself with a strange expression, and decided to try it out sometime later.

As for now... of course, I need to get to know my Master, who has calmed down!

Yuwatari turned his gaze to Rin Tohsaka, who had calmed down somewhat but was still squatting on the ground. Rin turned to look at Yuwatari, who was sitting calmly on the ground, and asked:

"...Just to confirm, you should be the Servant I summoned, right?"

Yuwatari nodded: "Yes, you are my Master?"

After receiving an affirmative answer and seeing that Yuuto's attitude was relatively mild and he didn't seem like a difficult person to get along with, Rin Tohsaka secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She was initially worried that she would summon someone with an arrogant personality who completely disregarded others and had a condescending attitude...

She lacked the confidence to get along well with that kind of guy.

In order to maintain her dignity as a Master, Rin Tohsaka stopped squatting on the ground. She stood up, walked to Yuuto, and showed him the three Command Seals on the back of her hand.

"That's right, this should be enough to prove it, right?"

Feeling a subtle connection coming from the Command Seal, Yuuto realized that he could sever the connection at any time if he wanted to, but he didn't do so.

After all, among all the Masters who participated in the Fifth Shinobi World War, Rin Tohsaka's abilities are undoubtedly top-notch. If the contract with her is broken, then who will he, who is only C-rank when acting alone, sign a contract with?

Is it some righteous ally who caused Saber's overall stats to drop by one level?

Or is it Medea, the figure collector from Ryudouji Temple?

Surely we're not going to go find Ilya?

He felt like he'd be hammered to death by Uncle B the moment he showed his face...

Besides, although Rin Tohsaka has a strong sense of pride and is a tsundere, she's not someone who won't listen to reason if you just go along with her.

He didn't want to end up like Archer in the original story, having to waste a Command Spell at the start, since it was something that could replenish his mana at any time.

If his previous guess was correct, then he would probably need to consume magic power to summon card spirits, and the stronger the card, the more magic power it would consume.

Command Seals that can replenish a large amount of magic power should not be wasted casually.

"Well, that's fine for now. Let's get to know each other properly!" Yuuto stood up and, with his superior height of 183cm, looked down slightly at Rin Tohsaka, who was 159cm tall.

"Servant, Archer, your real name is Yuwatari. Master, what about you?"

"Rin Tohsaka, you can just call me Rin."

Rin Tohsaka tilted her head slightly to meet Yuuto's gaze, her expression unwavering. Catching a particular word in Yuuto's words, she suddenly realized something and asked:

"You said you're Archer? Not Saber?"

You Du shook his head and remained silent.

Although he knew that Rin Tohsaka's original goal was to summon a Saber-class Servant, unfortunately, he didn't even have a bow, let alone a sword, which is what an Archer-class Servant should have.

Unless he uses the cards like darts, like President Kaiba...

"Is this so..."

In fact, Rin Tohsaka had already anticipated this when she realized she had messed up the summoning time, but she still couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

"What a failure! I spent so many gems and didn't even summon Saber..."

Yes, that's right. She was mainly upset about the gems she had used up.

After all, despite living in such a large mansion, the Tohsaka family are still landowners in Fuyuki. The real estate, along with the patents for magic invented by her father, Tokiomi Tohsaka, can guarantee the Tohsaka family a considerable income every year.

However, since the Tohsaka family's magic requires a large number of gems, and after Tokiomi Tohsaka's death, Kirei Kotomine mismanaged the business while serving as Rin's guardian, selling off many of the Tohsaka family's valuable assets. Therefore, Rin Tohsaka actually didn't have much money at all.

This has led to her heart bleeding with regret over the gems she's spent...

That's all her money!

Even though you've seen this scene in the anime and know that Rin Tohsaka didn't mean to be disgusted with you, Yuuto still couldn't help but feel speechless when it actually happened.

Is this the art of speaking passed down through the Tohsaka family?

"Master, I'm still here..."

Rin Tohsaka: "?"

Rin Tohsaka wasn't stupid; when Yuuto subtly reminded her, she instantly realized the inappropriateness of her words and quickly waved her hand apologetically, saying:

"Ah, sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to criticize you. I just wanted to say that if I had known earlier that it wouldn't be Saber that was summoned, I wouldn't have needed so many gems..."

"...Master, you don't have to speak if you can't speak."

Yuuto sighed in exasperation. Seeing that Rin Tohsaka still wanted to make amends, and worried that he might be driven crazy if he stayed any longer, he taught himself to use spirit particles and disappeared from the room as light particles.

It's true that when people are pushed to the limit, they can do anything except solve math problems...

Before leaving, he said irritably to Rin Tohsaka, who was frozen in place, "I'm going to find a place to experiment with some things. Master, you should have some materials containing magical energy here, right?"

"Huh? Oh! Yes, most of them are in the basement, feel free to use them!"

After Yuuto left, Rin Tohsaka returned to her previous defensive posture, crouching with her head in her hands, inwardly groaning.

Ah ah ah ah ah……

She messed up again!

Rin Tohsaka, the smooth talker: Help! What should I do if my Master accidentally said something wrong and made my Servant angry? I need help urgently!

Chapter Three: The family was so poor they only had jewels left.

The Tohsaka family home, basement.

There are two things that Youdu wants to test.

First, we need to see if he can summon a Duel Monster directly outside of the duel. Second, we need to try using his A+++ rank [Alchemy Card].

After glancing at the scattered books and papers in the basement and the various odds and ends piled up around it, Yuuto walked to the center of the summoning circle, which still bore some traces of its presence, and placed the deck he had taken from the Duel Disk on the table next to him.

He needs to confirm what cards are in the deck he has chosen before deciding which cards' effects to test.

However, after taking a quick look at the deck, Yuuto realized that it seemed to be the same deck he used when he went to the card shop to play cards with others before he traveled through time. It was a mix of Elemental Heroes, Destiny Heroes, Phantom Heroes, and New Space Heroes decks.

Could this system have simply copied his deck directly?

Could the other decks he hasn't chosen yet also be decks he used before?

"But this is actually good, as it saves us the trouble of getting familiar with the deck again."

After organizing his deck, Yuuto decided to skip the first step and start trying to summon cards directly.

As for which card to summon, he had already chosen it. He unfolded the Duel Disk and placed the chosen card in the Monster Zone.

"After all, this is the first summoning, and it's already quite late, so it's best not to make too much of a commotion... Let's start with you!"

"Summoned in an attack stance! Come forth! [Winged Kuriboh]!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a brown ball of fur with a pair of small white wings appeared out of thin air in front of Youdu.

"Curry, curry~"

Yuwatari briefly assessed the amount of magic power he had consumed during the summoning process, silently marveling at how low the magic power consumption was for a 1-star monster. He then turned to look at the Winged Kuriboh flying beside him and asked a question.

"Um...can I touch you?"

Don't get me wrong, he didn't summon Winged Kuriboh for that purpose. He just wanted to confirm whether the summoned monster really had a physical form.

Seeing that the Winged Kuriboh nodded, Yuwatari reached out and felt it.

"It does feel normal to the touch, and you can also feel the temperature..."

Although a continuous supply of magic is required, the amount of magic spent to maintain the existence of the card spirit is not much compared to the magic required to summon it.

After that, Yuto tried to summon other monsters of higher star levels, and tried to summon them by directly injecting magic power into the cards instead of relying on the Duel Disk.

The 4-star monsters were alright, consuming less mana than he expected. However, for monsters of higher star levels, the mana consumption was excessively high without using Advanced Summoning or Fusion Summoning.

Furthermore, without using the Duel Disk, the mana cost for both summoning and continuous supply increases by one-third.

Yuuto roughly estimated that if he were to summon a monster without using the Duel Disk, or methods like Advanced Summoning and Fusion Summoning, a single 12-star monster would likely drain all the magic power in his body, not even enough to sustain its existence.

On the contrary, among the Spell & Trap Cards, apart from Equip Spell Cards, Field Spell Cards, and Continuous Spell/Trap Cards, which need to remain on the field and require a continuous supply of Spell Power, the other Spell & Trap Cards only consume a portion of Spell Power when activated or set.

He could even use his mana to pre-define several cards, so that when needed, he could activate their effects without consuming mana.

Unfortunately, the effects of both monster cards and spell/trap cards are not as 'absolute' when used outside of duels as they are in duels.

For example, the effect of [Divine Shield - Mirror Force] is to destroy all Attack Position monsters on the opponent's field when a monster on the opponent's field declares an attack.

When this card is used outside of a duel, it can only reflect the opponent's attack back exactly as it was. The opponent can not only dodge it, but even if it hits, the strength of the reflected attack may not be enough to defeat the opponent directly.

This is the result of an experiment conducted by Yudo and Sky Knight.

The effects of other cards also change outside of duels. For example, the search function of Sky Warrior II's effect is not very useful for Yuwatari, who has an entire deck in hand outside of duels.

However, correspondingly, the effect of cards like Sky Knight's ability to destroy magic traps can become a powerful tool against various spells.

……

After Yudu finished testing the card's effect, he looked up at the clock, which was pointing to 5 o'clock.

Hmm... since the clocks at the Tohsaka residence are all an hour fast, it should be... 4 AM now?

It's already this late. Instead of sleeping, why not just stay up all night? Anyway, he's no longer human, so staying up all night shouldn't be a problem, right?

With that in mind, Yu Du simply abandoned the idea of ​​sleeping and prepared to start testing alchemy, which meant he needed some materials and a container to put the materials into for alchemy.

Of course, he could also directly refine the materials in his hand, but the quality of the cards refined that way would be reduced, so it can only be used as an emergency measure.

Now that we have the means, we should naturally look for suitable materials and a suitable container.

He searched the basement for a long time, but apart from some gemstones, all he found were books and papers of uncertain importance, or tables, chairs, and pebbles. He couldn't find any other suitable materials.

[A gemstone imbued with magic, D+]

[The gemstones used as a medium by magicians who perform gem magic.]

"After searching high and low, all I found were these magical gems... I don't even know if Rin is rich or poor now..."

"But gems... should be able to be used to create Gem Knights and Jewel Beasts?"

Looking at the dozens of gems of various colors that he poured out of a box, Yuuto wondered if this was Rin Tohsaka's last remaining possessions.

If he uses all of these, won't the other party get angry with him?

"It shouldn't be that bad, right? No matter how poor Rin is, as a magician who uses gem magic, she shouldn't only have this many gems... Besides, I asked her beforehand, and she told me to use them freely..."

He successfully avoided the pangs of conscience through talk therapy. Since he couldn't find a suitable container, Yuuto simply went upstairs to the kitchen and brought down a pot, without disturbing Rin Tohsaka, who was fast asleep in her room.

Considering that he consumed a lot of magic power when he tested the cards, Rin Tohsaka, who provided him with magic power, will probably need to sleep for a while to recover.

Back in the basement, following the knowledge given to him by the system in his mind, You Du placed a [Fusion] card into the pot and activated it, resulting in a two-colored vortex that slowly rotated in the pot.

"So your so-called alchemy is just fusion summoning?"

Yu Du casually tossed two red gems into the pot, and after watching them melt into liquid under the catalysis of magic, turning the entire vortex into a pale red, he made a comment.

Since it was his first attempt, You Du did not add any more materials and waited quietly until a pale yellow card formed from magic emerged from the center of the vortex.

Normal monster?

Yuto took out the card.

【Gem Knight. Red Pomegranate】

【☆☆☆☆】

[Warrior Race/Land]

[A warrior of the Gem Knights, possessing the power of garnets, whose fiery iron fists will crush all enemies.]

[Attack power: 1900]

[Defense: 0]