A duelist never gives up!

Hara Nana is a very powerful duelist. He is very strong and he will become stronger and stronger than everyone else.

If I, a weak person, continue to stand beside him, I will only become an appendage, unable to provide him with any help, unable to step into his battle, and can only watch his back.

I hate this!

I want to get stronger too!

I want to be his strength and fight with him!

Goodbye, my timidity and cowardice!

"My turn, draw a card!"

The man in black No. 1 looked nervously at the white-haired girl opposite him.

Something seemed different, and his intuition told him that the girl in front of him exuded a dangerous aura.

No way... Is my life going to end here?

Impossible! This kind of thing is absolutely impossible!

As long as you survive this round, you can attack in the next round, and then everything will be reversed!

"I Normal Summon a petal of Rokka. Based on her effect, I will add Rokka Snowdrop to my hand!" Xuefeng looked at her hand and her brain began to calculate frantically. Yes, this hand would work!

"Next, I activate the Spell Card—Rokka Blossom! This card adds a Rokka monster from the deck to my hand. I choose Rokka Heather!"

"That's enough." Xuefeng looked straight at the man in black No. 1 and said.

"Enough...enough for what?" The man in black broke out in a cold sweat, an ominous premonition coming to his mind.

Xuefeng didn't answer Black Man No. 1's question, but instead activated the effect of a monster in his hand: "I activate the effect of Six-Flower Snowdrop! You can activate this card by Tributing 1 Plant-Type monster on your field. Special Summon this card and Plant-Type monster from your hand! I Tribute one petal of Six-Flower on the field to Special Summon Six-Flower Snowdrop and Six-Flower Heather from my hand!"

"Due to the effect of the field's water world, the attack power of all water-attribute monsters on my field has increased by 500! So their current attack power is..."

Six Flower Spirit Snowdrop: Attack 1200 → Attack 1700

Heather: Attack 2400 → Attack 2900

"Is it just as I expected?" The second man in black frowned and prepared himself to fight two people at once.

"Are you kidding me? Is that what you mean by 'enough'? No, I haven't attacked yet. If it weren't for the mistake just now, I would be..." The man in black No. 1 looked at the two monsters on the snow wind field in despair.

1700+2900, enough to empty his LP.

"You're not planning on attacking me, are you? This is a Dark Duel! Not the duel training you practice with your classmates at school! If you attack me, I will curse you! I will resent you! Even if my soul dissipates, I won't let you go!" Man in Black No. 1 threatened, "Because, you killed me."

"Are you going to kill me?"

"Do you have the courage to kill?"

"Do you have the courage... to bear this sin?!"

The man in black looked at Xuefeng, who was silent with his head down, and was overjoyed. He continued, "Hahaha! Come on! Come and kill me! Coward! Get your hands stained with blood! What are you afraid of?!"

"Xuefeng...if you don't want to, I can..."

Before Yuan Qi could finish his words, Xuefeng interrupted him:

“I’m entering the battle phase.”

"Snowdrop, Heather, attack directly!"

Chapter 18: The End

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Wailing sounds rang out, and the Man in Black No. 1 knelt on the cold ground, with the black mist eroding his body and soul.

"No... I don't want to do this!" The man in black No. 1 was tearing off the black mist on his body in a panic, but the mist was an invisible beast and his actions were just in vain.

"Save me! Save me!" He stretched out his hand to the Man in Black No. 2. "Aren't we companions?"

"Didn't we say we'd get stronger together?"

"Why are you just watching? Come and save me! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! I... don't want to die!"

The second man in black looked at the first man in black silently and said:

"This is our destiny. The day we used the dark game to steal someone's soul, we should have expected this outcome. You just got there before me."

"Goodbye."

"No, no! I don't want to die! I don't want to die, I don't want to..." Before the man in black No. 1 could finish his words, his body collapsed to the ground.

His soul was burned out.

In the last moments of his life, he had no curses, no regrets, only infinite fear.

"Do you want to end the battle phase?" The second man in black asked Xuefeng.

"Aren't you sad?" Xuefeng panted, lowering his eyes. "Your companion fell in front of you. Don't you feel sad?"

"I told you, this is the inevitable outcome. I will also face this day, but... it definitely won't be today." The second man in black said coldly, "Come on, continue your story."

Xuefeng looked at the cards in his hand and shook his head, "I'll end my turn like this."

"Then it's my turn," said the second man in black. "My turn, draw a card!"

The second man in black looked at the card he had drawn and smiled faintly. "I see. No wonder you wanted to use Phantom Rabbit to destroy my Fusion Regeneration Mechanism. You guessed it, right? You guessed I had that card. If I could successfully summon it, your Crown Tiramisu would be powerless."

"But, no matter how much you try to stop me, it's useless." Man in Black No. 2 said, showing the card he had just drawn. "With just a simple Fusion Magic Card, I can skip the complicated deployment process and summon my trump card."

Yes, the card in his hand was the magic card he had just drawn - Fusion!

"First, I activate the effect of Venus, Agent of Creation, paying 500lp to Special Summon 1 "Holy Sphere" from my deck from my hand." Man in Black No. did not rush to activate the magic card, but activated the effect of Venus first.

"Qi, he only has two cards in his hand!" Ai quickly reminded him, "If we interrupt his effect now, he won't be able to gather the fusion materials. Quickly activate Magic Doll Night!"

Yuan Qi shook his head and said, "No, he is trying to trick me."

"If I were him, I wouldn't show my newly drawn fusion to my opponent like that," Yuan Qi explained, "especially in a disadvantageous situation like this. I would nonchalantly pretend to be indifferent, and even frown slightly."

"So, the unknown card in his hand is definitely not a normal monster."

"I special summon a Holy Sphere from the deck into Defense Position onto the field." said the second man in black.

Man in Black No. 3000 LP: 2500→

"I thought you were going to activate the Night of Magical Dolls." The second man in black said suddenly.

"The performance is too exaggerated. It doesn't match the image you have shown before. If it was your companion, I might believe it a little bit." Yuan Qi said lightly.

"That makes sense. Perhaps next time I duel, I should disguise myself as him from the start." Man in Black No. 2 sighed, "Then I'll jump right into the battle. I'll use my divine steed, the Cornflower Saint Horse, to attack your Crown Tiramisu."

"The attack power of the Cornflower Saint Horse is only two thousand, why..." Xuefeng frowned.

Soon, the second man in black gave Xuefeng an answer: "Because the attack power of the crown tiramisu is 2200, I will take 200lp of damage."

2500lp→2300

"However, due to the effect of Divine Knight Cornflower Sage, this card with Xyz Materials cannot be destroyed by battle. Then, I remove one Xyz Material and activate its second effect. At the end of the Damage Step when this card battles an opponent's monster, you can activate this effect by removing one Xyz Material from this card. Return that opponent's monster to its owner's hand!"

"Chain!" Hara Qi opened his face card. "I activate Magical Doll Night, negating the effect of Cornflower Saint Horse!"

"Very good, I enter the main phase two, and then I normally summon Rescue Rabbit." The man in black number two finally slapped the unknown card in his hand onto the field.

"Ah Qi, you're awesome! You guessed it right!" Ai clapped his hands and said, "We're definitely going to win this round!"

"Yes, this duel is over."

Yuan Qi murmured as he looked at the cards he had been covering from the beginning to now.

Now, it's your turn to decide.

"I activate the effect of Rescue Rabbit. This card on the field can be banished to activate this effect. From the deck, Special Summon two Level 2 or lower Normal monsters with the same name. I Special Summon two White Rabbits from the deck to the field."

Two cute little white rabbits jumped onto the duel field, but before they could stand firm, Man in Black No. 2 sent them to the cemetery.

"I activate the magic card - Fusion! Send the two little white rabbits on the field to the graveyard. Come out, my trump card - Ancient Dragon!"

A huge roar was heard, and a giant dragon appeared on the duel arena, revealing its bloody mouth, as if it would swallow everyone in the next second.

"It's over! Proto-Dragon's effect cannot be destroyed by battles with monsters other than normal monsters, and it's unaffected by the effects of monsters other than this card! And it has a whopping 2700 attack power!" The man in black said with a wave of his hand. "Neither your Crown Tiramisu nor her Six Flower Monster can break my Proto-Dragon!"

"I will put Venus, the Agent of Creation, in defense mode. This round ends!"

"Yeah, it's over." Yuan Qi nodded and drew a card from the deck. "My turn, draw a card."

"Why are you so calm?" The man in black number two frowned, and then suddenly looked towards Yuan Qi's field - it was a cover card, he still had a cover card!

"Did you notice?" Hara Nana opened the card he'd kept face-down since the first turn. "I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card—Forbidden Holy Grail. This card targets 1 face-up monster on the field. That monster gains 400 ATK until the end of the turn, and its effect is negated."

"Is that so? So that's how it is." The moment the Man in Black No. 2 saw the forbidden Holy Grail, he lowered his arm holding the Duel Disk and said with a self-deprecating smile:

"I surrender."

Chapter 19: Who wants to duel with you!

The black mist surrounded him and devoured his soul.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Xuefeng couldn't help but ask.

The second man in black looked at Xuefeng strangely: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can it not hurt? It's eating away my soul!"

"Then why are you so calm?"

"Because I know that no one can win all the time." The second man in black said self-deprecatingly, "The moment I devoured someone's soul with the Dark Duel for the first time, I had a premonition that the same day would come for me."

"I just didn't expect this day to come so soon."

"..."

"Honestly, I feel more relieved than in pain right now," said the second man in black. "It's finally over."

"Is it painful?" Yuan Qi suddenly asked.

"It's very painful. I'm scared to death when I think about dying if I lose. I toss and turn in bed and can't sleep. I hope the next day won't come." The second man in black said, holding his head.

"Then why do this? Isn't it better to be an ordinary duelist?" Xuefeng couldn't help but say, "An ordinary duel, even if I lose, it doesn't matter..."

"You won't get stronger that way!" interrupted the second man in black. "If I were an ordinary duelist, I wouldn't be as strong as I am now!"

"I don't know how to master Xyz Summoning, nor do I own Xyz monsters and Proto-Dragon, so the only way for me to succeed is through Dark Duel and by joining the Holy Fire Society." The voice of the Man in Black No. 2 became weaker and weaker. There was very little of his soul left, like a candle in the wind.

He looked at Yuan Qi and smiled: "I really envy you, you are so strong. I wish I were as strong as you back then."

"If I were as strong as you back then, would I not be dead now?" He shook his head, "No, there is no if."

The second man in black stumbled towards Yuan Qi and held out his hand. A deck of cards lay quietly in his palm. "Don't go any further. The enemies ahead are beyond your ability to handle. Leave here... And, I'll leave my deck in your hands."

After saying this, his body lightened and he fell to the ground with a thud.

The black fog surrounding Yuan Qi and Xuefeng also dissipated in an instant.

The dark duel is over.

"I'll take your deck." Yuan Qi collected the deck of the man in black number two, and then handed the deck of the man in black number one to Xuefeng.

"Don't think too much. It's not safe here. Let's go back first." Yuan Qi said.

"Can I accept it?" Xuefeng hesitated.

"Don't miss out on the spoils!"

A familiar voice suddenly sounded. Yuan Qi and Xuefeng turned their heads and found that Teacher Nafeli was standing behind them at some point. Beside him, a girl with purple hair and red eyes was looking at them silently.

"Mr. Nefeli and Senior Julie?!" Xuefeng asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

"My classmate Julie brought me here and said that you were in danger in the back mountain." Nafeli pointed at Julie and said.

"Eh? Is that so?" Xuefeng quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Julie-senpai."

"Huh? Thank me?" Julie opened her mouth to say something, but finally frowned and said, "Forget it, now that I've found the way, I'll go back first."

"Wait, it's not safe for you to go back alone now." Yuan Qi said, "Maybe there are other dangerous people in the back mountain."

"Classmate Yuan Qi is right." Nafeli walked over to the two men in black lying on the ground and said with disgust, "I didn't expect that bugs would sneak into the academy. It's not safe for you to go back directly. Why don't you come with me? I want to see who is so rampant."

"Okay, teacher." Xuefeng nodded.