This Hextech Duel Master is a pro at getting targets.

however……

Got nothing.

The vast majority of players are male.

There are very few female duelists.

The target You Shuo had always wanted to meet—the hot and mature female duelist, Kong Que Wu—had still not appeared.

As You Shuo was searching, suddenly the sound of arguing came from the front of the group.

A blond-haired boy was dragged away from the dock by two bodyguards in black.

He struggled and shouted:

"Hey!! You're using violence!"

"Take a good look at who I am!"

"I'm one of the top eight in the National Duelist Tournament!!"

One of the bodyguards in black sneered, "What's the use of being in the top eight of a county-level competition! Get out of here!"

That blond-haired boy was none other than Katsuya Jonouchi, a classmate of You Shuo.

Just then, a short figure appeared in the group—it was Yugi Muto!

He quickly stopped the bodyguard's actions...

You Shuo witnessed this scene.

Although his appearance meant that Yugi Muto was no longer the one who defeated Seto Kaiba, it caused some changes in the storyline.

However, Pegasus's desire to collect all seven Millennium Items remained unchanged. In order to obtain the Millennium Puzzle, he still sent a mysterious videotape to Yugi Muto and used dark power to kidnap Yugi Muto's grandfather, Sugoroku Muto, forcing Yugi Muto to participate in the Duel Kingdom Tournament.

When Muto Sugoroku was kidnapped, Yu Shuo was at the National Duelist Tournament and had no time to help.

Furthermore, he is currently just an ordinary player with little supernatural power, so even if he were here, he wouldn't be able to play a crucial role.

In conclusion, Yugi Muto did not miss this Duel Kingdom tournament.

As for Jonouchi Katsuya, he still harbored the idea of ​​making money through the Monster Duel tournament, so he wanted to try and see if he could sneak into the ranks of the participants...

Not far away, Yugi Muto and Katsuya Jonouchi were negotiating with two bodyguards in black.

After making a phone call, the bodyguard in black finally allowed Jonouchi Katsuya to board the ship, but on the condition that Yugi Muto hand over one of his two starting star chips to Jonouchi Katsuya...

The farce ended quickly.

As the sun completely sank below the horizon, the melodious whistle of the cruise ship sounded, and the great ship, carrying the dreams of countless players, slowly sailed toward the Duel Kingdom Tournament venue...

"You Shuo, you must do your best!"

"I will keep watching the live broadcast of the game!"

On the phone, Miho Nosaka was giving her a cute encouragement.

You Shuo could hear the longing in her voice.

Even though they had only been apart for a short while, the clingy Nosaka Miho still couldn't bear to part with him.

You Shuo said with a smile, "Alright, let's go to bed early~ It's getting late, and I need to find a place to stay."

Miho Nosaka replied obediently, "Okay! Goodnight!"

"Goodnight~" You Shuo hung up the phone and stood on the deck, enjoying the refreshing sea breeze.

At this moment, a burly man in black approached and said respectfully, "Mr. You Shuo, since you enjoy the privileges of being the champion of the National Duelist Tournament, you can stay in a private luxury room on this voyage. Would you like me to take you there?"

You Shuo looked at the receding dock and the seagulls flying in the night sky: "No rush, I'll stay a little longer."

The burly man in black nodded and was about to hand the room key to You Shuo when, at that moment, the runner-up, Dinosaur Ryuzaki, whom he had met once before in the National Duelist Tournament, walked over.

"If he's not in a hurry, just give me that card first!" Dinosaur Ryuzaki said impatiently. "I need to get some rest."

There are two luxury rooms, one reserved for the champion and one for the runner-up.

You Shuo didn't really care which room he stayed in. He let Dinosaur Ryuzaki take the room card, and he could just go to the second room. It didn't really matter anyway.

Ryuzaki took the room key, thinking that his appearance would attract You Shuo's attention.

Unexpectedly, You Shuo didn't even bother to glance at him.

"hateful……"

Ryuzaki the dinosaur was unconvinced.

"Did you think that just because you defeated that insect-like moth, you were truly invincible?!"

"In this competition, I'm going to beat you to a pulp!"

"In that case, I, Dinosaur Ryuzaki, will be the strongest Duel Monsters player in the nation!"

Dinosaur Ryuzaki took the room key and walked towards the room.

You Shuo sensed the hostility coming from behind him, but he ignored it completely.

Huh~

Dinosaur Ryuzaki...

He's just a nobody who can't even beat Katsuya Jounouchi.

His actual strength is even inferior to that of Kajiki Ryota, who came in third place...

As the sea breeze was blowing, Yugi Muto and Katsuya Jonouchi walked over.

"You Shuo!"

"I've finally found you!"

"You're actually here? Don't you feel cold?!"

Yugi Muto and Katsuya Jonouchi greeted each other warmly.

You Shuo also turned around with a smile.

The very humble Yugi Muto took out a golden box containing his card deck.

"You Shuojun".

"The Duel Kingdom Tournament is just around the corner."

“I think we can exchange cards that are useful to each other.”

"In this way, our deck can become stronger."

With that, Yugi Muto genuinely took out his deck and handed it to Yushuo.

Yugi Muto isn't as confident and resilient as he is now, so handing over his deck to Yu Shuo is actually partly a way of asking for advice, since Yu Shuo has just defeated two national champions.

Yugi Muto and Katsuya Jonouchi were somewhat looking forward to Yu Shuo's opinion as the champion hunter.

Yu Shuo, who was extremely familiar with the original work, only intended to take a symbolic look, since he knew exactly what deck Yugi Muto used.

but……

When You Shuo noticed the five complete "sealed" cards in the deck, his expression changed drastically.

Wait a minute...

Wait, wait, wait?!

All five cards are here?!

Oh no! Oh no!

My appearance seems to have led to something truly terrible!

The dueling world... is doomed!

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Want to play a round?

The five cards that Yu Shuo saw in Yugi Muto's deck were—Sealed Exodia, Sealed Left Arm, Sealed Right Arm, Sealed Left Foot, and Sealed Right Foot.

When one player collects all five cards in their hand, they win the game.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! DM, Yugi Muto used these five cards to defeat Seto Kaiba for the first time.

However, that was the only time in the entire series.

On their way to the Duel Kingdom tournament, Yugi Muto's five cards were thrown into the sea by the despicable insect, Hagoromo. Although Katsuya Jonouchi retrieved some of them, a portion of them sank to the bottom of the ocean...

Looking at the five cards in his hand, You Shuo was momentarily dazed.

"broken……"

"Because of my presence, the insect moth was unable to participate in this competition."

"Then no one will throw Yugi Muto's five cards into the sea..."

"In other words, these five sealed cards still exist in Yugi Muto's deck."

"Whenever he encounters a difficult match, he can rely on his mental strength to collect all five cards..."

Thinking of this, You Shuo couldn't help but shudder.

Throughout the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! series, no one has a higher level of mental strength than Yugi.

If someone immediately shouts "I'll use my synergy to draw all five sealed cards when things get tough, how can anyone else compete?!"

You Shuo couldn't help but rub his shoulders.

"Huh? What's wrong, Yu Shuo?" Katsuya Jounouchi said, then sneezed. "Achoo! Is it too cold in here? It certainly seems so..."

You Shuo paused for a moment and then said, "Um...yes. Game, your deck is excellent, there's nothing wrong with it..."

Yugi Muto smiled happily and said, "Really? Since Yushuo said so, I'm relieved."

At this time, Yugi Muto was not yet very confident, and Yu Shuo's opinion had some reference value for him.

Yugi Muto then took out a spare card and said, "Yushuo, we all watched your battle with Kaiba, it was really exciting."

"I noticed that the last monster card you used was Armed Dragon Lv7."

I don't know if this card will be of any help to you.

As he spoke, Yugi Muto handed over a card.

You Shuo looked closely and saw that it was a magic card—Upgrade Transformation.

In the OCG environment, this card's effect is to send one face-up monster you control to the Graveyard, and then Special Summon one monster from your Deck with the same Type and Attribute as that monster in the Graveyard but one Level higher.

In the current era, the description of this card has some ambiguities and inaccuracies unique to certain versions—"Evolve one monster on the field."

In the early days of Yu-Gi-Oh!, there were no strict rules regarding text and effects, which led to the creation of many unique cards whose abilities could be interpreted in various ways.

This upgrade transformation card that Yugi Muto handed over at that moment was among them.

"Will it allow a monster on the field to evolve...?"

You Shuo's eyes lit up.

"According to this description..."

"Perhaps we can allow the Armored Dragon to evolve during battle?!"

You Shuo currently only has one card: Armed Dragon Lv3.

Although it is possible to use the monster's own effects to evolve Armed Dragon from Level 3 to Level 5, and then from Level 5 to Level 7.

However, once it reaches level seven, Armored Dragon no longer has the ability to evolve actively, and in the current era, there is almost no chance to summon the strongest Armored Dragon Lv10.

This upgrade and transformation can perfectly solve this problem.

Let You Shuo unlock the most terrifying level 10 Armed Dragon at the crucial moment!

"Game, thank you so much!" You Shuo gratefully accepted the ingenious magic card.

Yugi Muto smiled and shook his head: "You're welcome, Yushuo~ Last time you helped Grandpa deal with the harassment from the KC Group and protected that Blue-Eyes White Dragon, giving you a card like this is only right~"

Katsuya Jonouchi exclaimed excitedly, "Alright, alright! Yushuo, can you take a look at my deck too? There are a lot of players exchanging cards over at the large dormitory. Let me see what cards I need so I can go over and trade with them!"

As he spoke, Katsuya Jonouchi handed over his deck with both hands.

You Shuo flipped through it once.