A duelist never gives up!

Original seven lp:4000

vs

Julie lp:4000

"drop!"

A red light appeared on Julie's duel disk, meaning she could choose to attack first.

"I'll win if I attack first!" Julie raised her lips and slapped the card in her hand on the duel disk. "I activate the magic card - Fusion!"

"I got Fusion in the first round? That's pretty lucky, right?"

"Julie-senpai is so strong. I haven't learned Fusion Summoning yet."

"So what if you learned it? Do you have a powerful fusion monster?"

"She pulled out her trump card straight from the start. Is this the strength of a second-year senior?"

"..."

The duel between Yuan Qi and Julie quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding students. As Julie activated the fusion card, they quickly started discussing.

Julie didn't stop her actions because of the surrounding discussions. She sent the two cards in her hand to the graveyard and continued to operate, "I send the Horse-Headed Ghost and the Banshee from the Corpse Realm to the graveyard, and Fusion Summon them. Come out - Underworld Dragon, Dragon Death!"

"Jie Jie Jie..."

As a sinister laugh sounded, the monster that had just appeared came to the duel arena again, staring at Yuan Qi with its scarlet eyes.

"Sure enough, although I guessed it, I didn't expect it to be this." Yuan Qi muttered as he looked at the monster in front of him, "It seems that her deck is Undead Jun. I wonder if she has Undead Jun's trump card, the Evil Eye of the Dead King."

"It's not over yet. I'm activating the effect of Graveyard Banshee to banish this card, and then I'm activating the Field Spell Card, Undead World, from my deck!" As Julie activated Undead World, the originally sunny gymnasium was shrouded in darkness in an instant. Withered branches and skulls of various shapes filled the entire gymnasium, causing bursts of exclamations.

"I can't attack in the first round, so I'll cover two cards and the round will end." Julie confidently covered the cards and ended the round.

"How is it? The gloomy environment and the huge monster, you are not scared to the point of your legs going weak, right?" Yi glanced at Yuan Qidao who was somewhat silent.

"No, I was actually wondering why she didn't call Main Phase One just now." Yuan Qi shook his head and placed his hand on the deck. "Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore."

"My turn, draw a card!"

Chapter 3: You don't have a next turn

"My turn, draw a card!" Yuan Qi glanced at the card he had drawn and continued, "I enter Main Phase One and activate the Continuous Spell Card, Puppet Dessert Ticket, from my hand."

"Wait, I'll chain-open the cover card, Whirlwind, and destroy your Puppet Dessert Roll." As soon as Yuan Qi's magic card was inserted into the duel disk, Julie opened her own quick-attack magic card Whirlwind and destroyed the Puppet Dessert Roll.

"It appeared! It's a rare card that I can't possibly have!"

"A fast-play magic card that can directly destroy magic traps is fake, so fake! Why hasn't the Alliance banned Cyclone yet?!"

Hearing the praises from everyone around her, Julie raised her chin like a goose and said, "Really? It's just a Cyclone! I have plenty of rare cards of this level in my deck."

"There are...more?!" Xuefeng, who was secretly standing behind Yuan Qi and watching the battle, couldn't help but exclaimed, his cute little face turned pale. It was over. Not only did he lose the deck his sister gave him, but he also caused others to lose their decks. What should he do...or... should he forcibly interrupt the duel and run away with this kind-hearted person?

Yuan Qi, who was being worried about by Xuefeng, was very calm. The only uncertain factors on the opponent's field were a cover card and a hand card. Considering that there would be no hand traps in a duel of this level, Yuan Qi only needed to find a way to step on the cover card.

"Then, I'll start with the usual puppet dessert, the Madeleine Witch." As soon as the words fell, a witch lady sitting on a huge silver fork and wearing a cute dress appeared on the duel field. Under the witch lady, there was a piece of cake that looked like it was coated with chocolate.

"Oh my God! This monster... this monster... is too cute?" The first-grade girl said with care in her eyes when she saw the witch Madeleine.

"But she only has 1400 attack power." A male classmate next to her couldn't help but complain.

"That fluffy long skirt, those little black leather shoes... and that floppy magic hat..."

"But she only has 1400 attack power."

"And that cute and playful face, the flowing long hair, and those gem-like heterochromatic eyes, this is a true Duel Elf!"

"But she only has 1400..."

"Damn it, are you annoying? I'll punch you!"

The appearance of the cute witch lady attracted the favor of some duelists. Even Julie had to admit that the puppet dessert monster on Yuan Qi's field was much cuter than the dragon death on her field, but...

"It's just a weakling with an attack power of only 1400. What can you do if you summon such a monster? My Underworld Dragon, Death, has the same attack power of 3000 as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Julie sneered mercilessly.

"Madelaine Witch is no weakling. Watch out! She'll lead me to victory in this duel," Yuan Qi retorted coldly. "I activate the effect of Madeelaine Witch. If this card is successfully Flip Summoned, I'll retrieve a Golem Dessert monster from my deck and add it to my hand. I choose Golem Dessert—Jelly Angel!"

"It's a Search Card, but so what? You can only Normal Summon once per turn, and your Common Summon this turn is already..."

"Running out, huh?" Yuan Qi interrupted before Julie could finish her words. "Just add one more. I'll activate the magic card, Double Summon! I can perform two Normal Summons this turn!"

"Then, I Normal Summon the Golem Dessert—Jelly Angel from my hand!"

A cute little girl in a snow-white dress was floating above a piece of smooth red jelly. Behind her was a pair of white wings like an angel.

"No, this is an angel! Golem dessert! Golem dessert! I'll remember this deck! I want to buy Golem dessert!"

"But her attack power is only... mmmmmm..."

Julie's nervousness suddenly relaxed when she saw that the Jelly Angel only had 1,000 attack points. "What? Just pretending. Is this the only monster you have?"

Hara Qi didn't bother to pay attention to Julie. He simply sent the angel to the graveyard and said, "I activate Jelly Angel's effect, liberating myself and Special Summoning a Golem Dessert monster from the deck. I summon Golem Dessert - Pancake Owl, then activate the Owl's effect, banishing a monster from the graveyard, Special Summoning a Golem Dessert from the deck, and then Special Summoning a Madeline Witch."

So, in just a few minutes, there were three monsters on Yuan Qi's field.

"If I remember correctly, Madeline Witch's effect can only be used after a successful Normal Summon and Flip Summon. If you Special Summon Madeline Witch, it means your deployment is over and all your Normal Summon and Special Summon points have been used up!"

Julie watched Yuan Qi summon the Witch of Madeline. As a veteran duelist (self-proclaimed), she had already seen through the situation. The three monsters on the field had already used their effects. If the opponent wanted to break through his Dragon Death, they had to use extremely rare cards such as Lightning Strike or Earthshatter, otherwise they would have no chance of winning. Even if Yuan Qi used a rare card like Lightning Strike, his remaining face-up card Explosive Armor could destroy a monster when he declared an attack, and he could revive the Dragon Death again in the next turn by banishing the Horse-Headed Ghost from the graveyard!

This duel is her victory!

"You're right. I've used up all my general and special recruitment points." Yuan Qi nodded. "But I still have one last step to take."

Another step? Julie frowned. A Fusion Summon? She had never heard of three Earth-attribute Fusion Monsters. A Synchro Summon? There were no Tuner monsters on the opponent's field. Wait, there were two Madeline Witches, meaning they were the same level. Could it be... Impossible, absolutely impossible! That's a summoning method not even the teacher knows!

However, Yuan Qi's voice broke her fantasy.

"There are two Level 4 monsters. I'll stack two Madeline Witches together, forming a Gyro Network. Gyro Summon—Magic Queen Dessert Crown Tiramisu!"

A bottomless hole appeared in the duel arena. As the two monsters turned into light and entered, a queen holding a scepter and wearing a crown appeared in front of everyone, sitting on the throne.

"Hey...are you kidding me..."

"Something big has happened...something big has happened!"

"It's an Xyz Summon!"

The gymnasium was in an uproar. The crowd surrounding Yuan Qi and Julie increased threefold in an instant. Even those who were dueling gave up and rushed over.

Are you kidding me? That's an Xyz Summon! Even many teachers can't do that!

"What's going on? Are they overreacting?" Yuan Qi felt that the atmosphere around him was a little strange, especially the way those duelists who were watching him looked at him, as if they were hungry ghosts who had just escaped from prison and saw meat.

"Didn't I tell you before? Duels on this road involve energy," Yi explained. "It's not just the power contained in the Duel Spirits, but also the Fusion Particles generated by Fusion Summoning, the Synchro Particles generated by Synchro Summoning, and the Xyz Particles generated by Xyz Summoning. These are all enormous energies. To perform the corresponding summons, you must master these energies."

"As a summoning method that was only discovered two years ago, only a few people can use it now. They'll naturally be shocked to see you perform it." Yi finished speaking, not forgetting to mention, "Of course, as an outsider like you, it's strictly impossible to master Excess Particles. So the Excess Summoning just now was actually me helping you. How is it, did I do my job as a cheat?"

"No wonder you gave me this deck. Your purpose is to cause a sensation, right?" Yuan Qi said belatedly.

"That's enough!" Julie pointed at Yuan Qi with a sullen expression, "Stop talking to yourself. Even if it's an Xyz Summon, your Crown Tiramisu only has 2200 attack power, while my Dead Dragon has..."

"It has the same 3000 attack power as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, right?" Yuan Qi sighed helplessly. "Please, can you please stop mentioning attack power? I'm tired of hearing about it."

"Don't you think it's lame to keep talking about attack power?"

Julie was choked by Yuan Qi, but still challenged: "Then attack, come and destroy my monster!"

"I will, but before that, I activate the effect of Queen's Crown Tiramisu, removing one Xyz material. This can only be activated by targeting up to two Golem Dessert cards in your Graveyard. Return those cards to the Deck, and select the card with the most return points from your opponent's field and return them to their owner's Deck." Hara Shichi put a Madeline Witch and a Golem Dessert Roll into the Graveyard, then returned the Golem Dessert Roll and Madeline Witch from the Graveyard to the Deck. "I select these two cards to return to the Deck, and then I select the Underworld Dragon, Dragon's Death, and the face-down card in your backfield to return to the Deck."

"This is too fake! How can it have such a powerful effect?!" Julie looked at the monsters and covered cards disappearing from her field and said in a daze.

"Sorry, I'm just that powerful." Yuan Qi had no sympathy for the girl who kept talking nonsense. "I'm entering the combat phase. Hot Pancake Owl attacks directly!"

The owl's attack power is only 1500, so the impact is not very great, but Julie's LP is only left with 2500.

"The attack power of Crown Tiramisu is 2200, 2500-2200, I still have the next round." Julie's brain began to calculate frantically whether she still had any powerful cards to use. If she drew them, she could make a comeback!

"No, you don't have a next turn." Hara Nana shook his head. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card—Forbidden Holy Grail. This card's effect can only be activated by targeting 1 face-up monster on the field. That monster gains 400 ATK until the end of the turn, and its effect is negated. I choose Crown Tiramisu. Crown Tiramisu's ATK increases to 2600. I use Crown Tiramisu to directly..."

"Wait!" Julie clenched her fists and shouted unwillingly.

Yuan Qi stopped what he was doing and looked at her quietly.

"Wait, I...I surrender." Julie said, lowering the arm holding the duel disk. "I lost."

Admission

"As agreed, I'll return the deck to you." Julie handed the deck she had just received to Yuan Qidao.

"Well, although you have good dueling skills, you should change your arrogant and domineering personality." Yuan Qi said softly, "Otherwise, you will learn a painful lesson."

"Shut up! Don't think you can point fingers at me just because you won!" Julie glared at Yuan Qi fiercely. "You only won because you have a powerful Xyz monster! Just wait! When I get a stronger monster card, I will definitely crush you under my feet!"

"Did you hear that? If she really gets a stronger card, I will be killed by her revenge war." Yuan Qi hinted to a certain god.

"Don't worry, you did very well this time. I've already accumulated enough duel energy. I'll print your card later, but before that, you need to take care of the things at hand." Yi pointed at the onlookers. Before the duel was over, they could still restrain themselves, but now that Julie had left, they excitedly rushed towards Yuan Qi.

"Hey, do you want to duel with me? I'm very skilled!"

"Me and me! I know how to Synchro Summon, and we can learn from each other!"

"I only ask you to over-summon once more. I didn't feel anything just now. Do it again! Do it again!"

"...Silence!" A loud and clear voice suddenly drowned out all the students. "What's with all this pushing and shoving? No organization, no discipline! No discipline! How can you still be considered duelists?!"

The noisy sound suddenly stopped, and the students surrounding Yuan Qi quickly dispersed. Yuan Qi then saw the owner of the voice - a tall young man with curly hair and wearing black casual clothes.

"Our fish is hooked." Yi said with a smile while biting Yuan Qi's ear.

"Hello, I'm Nafeli, a teacher and part-time deputy director of Duelist Academy. I watched the duel from beginning to end. It was truly a wonderful duel." Nafeli said, extending his hand. "Are you interested in joining our Duelist Academy?"

"Don't you ask me how I got here, or check my identity and bottom line?" Yuan Qi asked doubtfully.

"That's not my responsibility. Let the dean worry about it. As the deputy dean, I'm only responsible for getting the duelists I want into the school." Nafeli shrugged.

"So what do you think?" asked Nefeli.

"I'm honored to be a part of the Duelist Academy." Yuan Qi smiled.

"Well, welcome to school..." Nefeli paused mid-sentence and asked, "What's your name?"

"Yuan Qi, my name is Yuan Qi."

"Okay, classmate Yuan Qi, from today on you are a first-year student of the Duelist Academy. I will come to you after sorting out the admission procedures. Before that... classmate Yukikaze, please take Yuan Qi to visit the school." After saying that, Nafeli gave Yuan Qi a meaningful smile and gave him a thumbs up before leaving.

"Wait, I can also take you on a school tour. Why don't you let me take you on a tour?" As soon as the teacher left, a male classmate volunteered to say to Yuan Qi.

"You can't do this for me. Do you know the history of every building in the school? Do you know the founding of every person on the photo wall? Do you know the story behind every sculpture in the square? This kind of thing should be done by me!"

"Stop arguing. I have a disease that will kill me if I don't help others! I have to show Hara Nana around the school, because she's unfamiliar with the campus. Otherwise, I'll die!"

"Bullshit!"

"..."

However, while they were arguing, they did not notice that Yuan Qi had already sneaked away.

Bring the snow and wind along.

"Huh--" Xuefeng ran breathlessly behind Yuan Qi until he stopped under a big tree in the courtyard.

"Why...why are you running?" Xuefeng asked stupidly.

"If you don't run, something very troublesome will happen." Yuan Qi said, pulling out a deck from his pocket. "Here, I won the deck back for you."

"Hmm!" Xuefeng hugged the deck to his chest, bowed and nodded, "Thank you, thank you so much, I don't know how to thank you enough."

"Just show me around the school." Yuan Qi waved his hand. After all, he had his own purpose in that duel, and it couldn't be said that it was entirely because of the girl in front of him.

"That won't do!" Xuefeng frowned, pouting seriously, "Showing you around the school is what I'm supposed to do. How can that be considered a thank you?"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Yuan Qi asked.

"Hmm... let me think about it." Xuefeng tilted her head, pretending to be thoughtful. Soon, she clapped her hands and said, "I figured it out!"

"What did you think of?" Yuan Qi was a little curious when he saw her behavior.

"You know where the Duel Monster Cards we use come from, right?" Xuefeng blinked mischievously and deliberately kept the question in suspense.