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What lay before them was unmistakably a dark duel. However, as far as You Xuan knew, although Longqi wasn't the most upstanding person, aside from being misled by Doma during the Orichalcos arc, he was generally a serious duelist who didn't usually engage in these life-or-death duels.
By now, it seemed the two had been locked in battle for quite some time. Both fields were completely empty, and both duelists were visibly battered—exhausted, breathing heavily, barely managing to stay on their feet.
[Longqi, LP 700]
[Fujimoto, LP 300]
After catching his breath for a moment, Fujimoto, the dark duelist, spoke in a low voice: "As expected of a legendary duelist, to have fought this long... you're no ordinary opponent."
His tone shifted abruptly, becoming louder and more resolute. "But I've sworn to offer your soul as a sacrifice to my fallen brother—I won't fall here!"
"I keep telling you, I've never even heard of this 'Oni' guy or whatever!" Longqi roared.
Being forced into a deadly duel over someone he'd never met left Longqi feeling utterly exasperated. This situation was beyond frustrating—it felt like the worst day of his life.
"His name is Onizuka Genichiro. Remember it," Fujimoto bellowed. "Because you'll soon be descending into hell to beg for his forgiveness!"
"I already told you, I don't know him..." Longqi muttered, frustration evident in his voice.
Was this guy insane? He came out screaming about revenge without even listening to reason.
If he ended up losing his life over such an absurd card game, Longqi was certain he would die with eternal regret.
You Xuan fell silent upon hearing the name.
Onizuka Genichiro… It sounded so familiar.
Come to think of it, that night when some random guy ambushed him for a duel, he did mention something about originally planning to challenge Longqi but changed his mind after seeing Longqi get crushed in a tournament…
Could it really be such a coincidence?
Just then, a loud roaring sound echoed through the air, accompanied by swirling dust and a violent gust of wind. Instinctively raising an arm to shield himself, You Xuan looked up to see a white helicopter swooping overhead, heading toward the nearest open area to land.
The propellers sliced through the air, creating a turbulent storm of wind that felt like a dragon thrashing in the sky. Before the helicopter even touched down, the door slid open with a loud clang, and a figure leapt out mid-air, his trench coat billowing dramatically behind him.
The newcomer executed a flashy superhero landing, crouching briefly before rising with arms crossed. His coat flared dramatically in the hurricane-force winds generated by the helicopter's rotors.
Even the two engaged in this high-stakes duel couldn't help but turn their attention to the spectacle. Both wore expressions of shock.
Longqi: "It's you!?"
Fujimoto's face turned deathly pale: "A legendary duelist... Seto Kaiba!?"
You Xuan: "..."
No one else could make such a grand entrance at a card game showdown. Moreover, jumping from that height unscathed suggested superhuman physical capabilities. Was playing cards somehow a form of intense physical training?
"This foolish duel ends here."
Kaiba stepped forward, his voice cold and commanding.
"Bullying weaklings proves nothing. If you want a real challenge, I'll take you on."
Longqi snapped angrily: "Who are you calling a weakling!?"
Kaiba ignored him completely.
Fujimoto swallowed hard.
While everyone referred to Kaiba as a legendary duelist, challenging Longqi was one thing—but facing Seto Kaiba was an entirely different matter.
Everyone knew Kaiba's ace was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but it had been years since his last public duel. The world hadn't seen him in action for ages, yet rumors persisted that his top-tier research team worked around the clock developing new forms of the Blue-Eyes. Who knew how terrifying those cards had become?
"Hmph... Haha."
Fujimoto decided to stall.
"Fine... Fine! I've always wanted to test the power of the Blue-Eyes. But once a dark duel begins, it can't be stopped. Let me finish off Longqi first..."
"No need."
Kaiba suddenly raised his duel disk.
Only then did everyone notice that the device on his arm wasn't a standard model—it was clearly a cutting-edge prototype, custom-made and unavailable to the public.
This pose and the design of the duel disk struck a chord in You Xuan's memory. In Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions, the antagonist, Aigami, tried to use his artifact to bypass dueling and send Kaiba directly to another dimension. At that time, Kaiba had similarly raised his duel disk, claiming it amplified his consciousness, countering supernatural powers with technology...
The duel disk Kaiba held now bore a striking resemblance to that one, and it radiated a brilliant light.
Fujimoto frowned. "I don't know what you're doing, but I told you—a dark duel can't be stopped unless..."
"...What!?"
Fujimoto's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
What was he seeing?
The barrier of the dark duel... was dissolving under that radiant light?
Impossible!
Fujimoto was thrown into disarray.
He prided himself on wielding dark forces! Hadn't the times changed? Wasn't mysticism supposed to reign supreme while science had faded into obscurity?
How could this still happen?
You Xuan remained calm despite witnessing this unprecedented scene. Though Yu-Gi-Oh's world revolved around card games as the ultimate law, it didn't mean science had been rendered obsolete. In 5D's, the final boss hailed from the tech side, proving that science could materialize duel monsters and achieve effects similar to dark duels—even traveling through time to destroy the world...
Seto Kaiba had endured the torment of supernatural forces eight years ago during Duel Monsters and had relentlessly pursued technological solutions to counter mysticism. It wasn't surprising that he'd made breakthroughs after all this time.
"This is the latest duel disk developed by Kaiba Corporation. It amplifies a duelist's mental energy to an extraordinary degree, specifically designed to deal with scum like you."
Kaiba sneered.
"And it can do this."
An even brighter blue light erupted from the duel disk, flooding the area with streams of data resembling flowing azure water. Within moments, the entire battlefield transformed.
The ground beneath their feet and the stone walls on either side of the alley vanished, replaced by a glowing blue arena surrounded by nothingness.
"A holographic duel battleground—but unlike ordinary projections, the monsters we summon and the impacts they create will possess actual mass!"
The sheer scale and overwhelming aura of Kaiba's setup began to unnerve Fujimoto.
Though others might not believe it, Fujimoto felt as though he'd stumbled into something unprecedented: a scientific dark duel.