Chapter 15 Ni Cheers Lu Up
Putting a finger on the back of his neck, Kaiba moved his neck, feeling the "click" sound his bones made when they moved due to maintaining one movement for a long time, and looked away from the computer screen.
Because he also signed up for the KC Cup this time, Kaiba couldn't leave all the trivial matters to Keppei like before, but had to share half with Keppei.
When a large amount of equipment is shipped from Japan to the United States, it needs to be connected with customs, the decoration of the competition venue must be completed before the audition ends within three days, the arrangement and design of the event process, etc., all have to be completed by Haima. Of course, there is also the most important thing - paying taxes to the tax bureau.
In the "free" America, you can engage in color, join gangs, get high on drugs, and buy a whole gun, but you can only pay taxes. For many big bosses with black backgrounds, even if the FBI comes to their door, it is nothing, but if the tax bureau comes to their door, it will be a big deal.
After closing the document irritably, Haima, who was suffering from procrastination, chose to wait for a while and leave the work at hand until later. He opened a folder in the computer and planned to relax.
Of course, the relaxation method of a normal adult male cannot satisfy the lusty President Kaiba. The only way to entertain himself that can make him feel relaxed is--
"Hmph, are you more comfortable using magicians than you were in Duel City? Yugi..."
Looking at the opened video file, the game uses the combo of [Demonization-Rizhen] and [Sage's Gem] to see a combination of [Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl] in one round, and use [ Black·Explosion·Broken·Destruction·Magic·Guidance] Destroys all the cards on the opponent's field and directly attacks to clear the opponent's basic points. Kaiba shows a ferocious smile.
"However, the strongest evolved dragon in my deck cannot be conquered with that level of magic. Show more power to arouse my fighting spirit!"
As the mouse wheel scrolled, Kaiba browsed the entire duel videos compiled during today's audition. He had no interest in wasting his precious time on ordinary unknown duelists, and his eyes quickly passed by, looking for someone who was slightly interested. duelist.
"Samejima Iemitsu? One of the top four in the Duel Kingdom? He obviously uses the same [Cyber Dragon] as Hayato, but he focuses on a blood-cutting duel? Huh, boring."
"Peacock Dance, that mediocre lover? He's good at bullying only fourth-rate duelists."
"Is this guy called Ryuzaki? He's just an incompetent person."
When he clicked on a video, Kaiba raised his eyebrows and opened it to watch with interest.
In this duel video, the duelists on both sides can be said to be unknown in the world of duel monsters. Logically speaking, Kaiba should have no interest in this duel, but if one of the parties in the duel is Kaiba's younger brother Keipei , that’s another matter.
"My turn, draw a card!" In the video, the Indian guy standing opposite Guiping drew a card and said proudly in curry-flavored English, "Hoho, I didn't expect a brat like you. You dare to come to the competition and you are really unlucky to meet me."
"Normally summon [Thousand-Hand God]. When [Thousand-Hand God] is successfully normally summoned, I activate its effect and add a ritual monster from my deck to my hand!" Brother Asan said from the card He retrieved a card from the group and added it to his hand, and then said proudly, "I didn't expect to be able to summon my strongest monster in the first round. It's really a blessing from the gods!"
"Activate the magic card [Gela's Ritual], and send [Sonic Bird] from my hand and [Thousand-Handed God] on the field as sacrifices to the graveyard. The total level is 8☆!"
"Ritual summons [Jera] that I just added to my hand!"
A monster in Brother Asan's hand and on the field each turned into a pillar of light and rose up. Under the sacred ritual, the monster that came to his field with two monster cards as a sacrifice was actually a ferocious demon.
【Jera】【8☆/Dark】
[Devil/Ritual/Effect]
【2800/2300】
"Hahahaha, feel free to be afraid and trembled for my powerful [Jera]. You must have never seen such a powerful and terrifying monster since you were a child!" Asan glanced at Guiping arrogantly, and also Without covering the card, "My turn is over, kid."
Seeing that Asan ended the round, Keihei sighed helplessly: "What, I was expecting you to play a combo, but the result is just this level?"
"Although it's a bit excessive to compare a duel of Hayato-nii's level with you, but it's exactly what I said, he's just a third-rate duelist using a fourth-rate deck." With a scornful smile on his face, Keppei pointed his finger. Putting it on the top of the deck, "My turn, draw a card!"
"It really gave me the confidence to break through, but such an uncle!"
Keppei's relaxed smile that didn't take him seriously at all made Asan very angry: "The arrogant brat is really annoying, and I'm only eighteen years old!"
Asan stroked his thick beard that he had grown because he had been consuming a rich periodic table of elements from the "holy river" in India since he was a child, which caused his development to be stimulated. Ah San said angrily: "You can say something that looks down on people." If so, is it possible that you can defeat me in one round?"
"It's not necessarily impossible, uncle." Keppei showed a confident smile, which made Kaiba smile rarely when watching the video. The two brothers smiled with the same confidence. Unknowingly, Keppei gradually grew up from a child who needed his own protection to one who could take charge of his own business.
“I activate the effect of [Thunder Dragon] in my hand, discard [Thunder Dragon] from my hand and send it to the graveyard, and then I can add up to two [Thunder Dragon] from the deck to my hand. Card."
"Then summon [Dragon Magic Guardian] in attack position and activate its effect. If this card is summoned or special summoned successfully, discard a card from my hand and add a [Fusion] Normal from my deck. Magic cards are added to the hand."
"Then, after activating the second effect of [Dragon Magic Guardian] and showing [Double-Headed Thunder Dragon] to you, I can fuse one of the [Double-Headed Thunder Dragon] materials from my graveyard— —That is, the [Thunder Dragon] that was just sent to the graveyard by its own effect is Special Summoned in defense position!"
"Activate the magic card [Offering to the Dead], I discard a [Thunder Dragon] in my hand, target [Jera] on your field, and destroy it!"
"Finally, I activate the magic card [Fusion], and send the [Thunder Dragon] in my hand and the [Thunder Dragon] on the field to the graveyard as fusion materials. Come out, [Double-Headed Thunder Dragon]!"
After a wonderful operation, Keppei kept the last two cards in his hand, but on the field he summoned a [Dragon Magic Guardian] with an attack power of 1800 and lowered the [Thunder Dragon] deck. The average-looking [Double-Headed Thunder Dragon]. As for the Indian Asan who was still clamoring just now, his proud [Jela] was wrapped in a pile of bandages that emerged from the ground and dragged back to the underworld.
Glancing at the [Holy Protective Shield - Power of Reflector -] and [Forbidden Holy Spear] in his hands, Keppei looked at San, who looked stunned, and relaxedly spread his palms: "Dueling monsters is actually surprisingly easy. Isn't it? What a pleasant duel, uncle."
"This, how is this possible! [Jera], my [Jera]!" Ah San looked like he couldn't accept the reality, but what does his inability to accept the fact have to do with Keipei? Keipei was very similar to Kaiba only in his indifferent attitude towards strangers. He calmly ordered:
"Start a full-scale attack. Let the opponent's duelists directly attack, [Dragon Magic Guardian], [Double-Headed Thunder Dragon]!"
Seeing Keppei directing the two monsters to completely clear out Asan's base, Kaiba closed the video with satisfaction.
It seems that Keppei, like himself, has certain talents in the field of dueling monsters.
With this in mind, Kaiba closed a contestant's identity form that was open next to the video.
According to the information retrieved from Asan's name, that guy was actually just an ordinary person who couldn't stand being oppressed by the upper castes in the country and ran away to the United States with all his money. The reason why he participated in Duel Monsters was just because he bought a pack of cards. After coming out with [Zela], I thought I might be able to try my luck and become the champion.
Regarding Keppei's duel videos, Kaiba felt that watching one would be enough to understand his brother's level. What he was really more interested in were the powerful duelists. Then--
"Yoshi, the points are six, so your monster's attack power will be reduced to one-sixth of its original value. Counterattack, [True Red Eyes Black Blade Dragon]!"
Watching the video, Jonouchi fought back and forth with an unknown little character, with the score basically falling below the crisis line of 1,000 points, and then at the last moment, as expected, he made a comeback with the gambling card of a shitty athlete who was tipped by the goddess of luck. After winning, Kaiba looked very ugly.
The top four in the Duel Kingdom and the top four in the Duel City, who once gave Kaiba a sense of crisis in a duel, how could that bastard in the castle fight with a third-rate duelist? Doesn't it seem like that? Are seahorses embarrassed? !
"That idiot is the type who won't use all his strength even if he can't tell the difference between the candles in the wind!" Kaiba didn't want to see Jonouchi's silly face on the screen after his victory, so he turned off the video unhappily and continued to search. A duelist worthy of attention.
For example, Malik once held two gods.
He finally found Malik in the complicated duel videos. After clicking on Malik's duel video and watching it for almost five minutes, Kaiba withdrew unhappily.
In the previous duels, the cards that Malik used basically revolved around the idea of "summoning the god" → "protecting the god" → "using the god to blast the opponent", but now he has lost all two of them. After God, Malik, who has the ability to make the final decision is no longer in the deck, and the duel idea used naturally becomes——
First of all, there are five cards in the backfield, either [Naraku's Hole], [Exploding Armor], and [Magic Interference Array], trying to survive in various ways.
Then, use all kinds of trash talk to anger the opponent and trick the opponent into summoning more than one monster.
When there are two monsters on the opponent's field, decisively send a level 8 3000 attack monster to the opponent's field, and then add a [Torture Wheel] that makes the monster unable to attack and change its form. The effect damage caused during the round is based on blood reduction.
In the duel video that Kaiba clicked on, Malik met Samejima Iemitsu, whom Kaiba had seen before. As the saying goes, "A long illness makes a good doctor." Malik and Samejima Iemitsu had played with blood-cutting for too long, so naturally they learned how to restrain the blood-cutting without any teachers. The result was two blood-cutting The top player meets his opponent in chess, and the fight becomes inseparable.
In the end, if Malik hadn't been able to hold back his anger and activated a [Bitter Choice], he wanted to add a card that could change the battle situation from the deck to his hand, but Samejima Iemitsu used a [Necromancer] [The temptation] slashed 1,500 basic points. I am afraid this duel will continue until one of the decks has time.
Because the duel was too boring, Kaiba couldn't help but yawned. After turning off the video, Kaiba lowered his eyes and was about to look for the names of some familiar duelists. However, he unexpectedly found that next to the video, there was a copy of the duel. The thumbnail of the video showed Hayato's maniacally laughing face.
After clicking on the video, he saw, as expected, that one of the two duelists who appeared in front of Kaiba was Hayato, and the other was a duelist named "D.D." who had suddenly risen in the recent professional duelist circle. By.
But what makes Kaiba a little confused is that no matter how he looks, he looks like Hayato, but everyone around him turns a blind eye to him. Instead, he fanatically pursues the guy named "D.D.", even the one Hayato used when competing. The name is also "Tanli Dou" which Kaiba has never heard of before.
"Hmph, anyway, I must have used some weird methods, such as hypnosis or something. I didn't focus on the duel monsters, but immersed myself in those otherworldly things, and that's how I got the title of Duel King. Don’t be resentful if you are arrogant and lazy, and if you catch me and take away your honor, Hayato.”
The corners of Kaiba's mouth raised slightly, showing a sneer, and said to himself.
While watching the video of the duel, and writing down the brand new monster used by Hayato during the duel - [Bad Beast] in his memo for further study, Kaiba opened the identity report of "Tan Reito". As expected, there was no entry and exit record with the name "Tan Li Dou" at the customs.
In other words, either this "Tan Reito" is just a stowaway who looks a lot like Hayato, or it is a pseudonym used by Hayato. After seeing "Tan Reito" use [Red Restart], Kaiba thought it was the latter Most likely.
He conveniently activated the background editing mode of the matching level during the audition stage, tampered with the data and arranged himself and contestant No. 114514 "Tan Lidou" who also participated in the audition together. Kaiba laughed proudly.
"Having seized the loophole that does not restrict Duel Kings from participating, do you also want to compete for the championship? Only events like this can arouse my interest." Kaiba narrowed his eyes and wished he could speed up time to tomorrow's daylight and quickly follow Hayato. In an exciting duel with monsters, he said, "But the championship bonus is not that easy to get. If you take the initiative to participate, don't blame me for taking the initiative to find you, Hayato Kobayashi!"
————Made In Heaven————
"Surprise?"
"It's shock."
Hayato looked at Kaiba, who was standing opposite him with a proud look on his face, and covered his forehead helplessly.
As expected of Kaiba, he saw through my perfect disguise easily.jpg
It's a pity that Hayato didn't bring Tequila, otherwise he would have really looked like a cosplayer in this famous scene. It's just a pity that the character who could replace Kaz got lunch yesterday.
(The voice actor of D.D. is the same as Kazuhiko, Kazuhiko Inoue)
Inserting the deck into the duel plate, Kaiba ignored the cheers of the audience who gathered around because of his reputation, and said to Hayato with high spirits: "Since you have participated in the audition, no matter what opponent you encounter, you should not I’m surprised, after all, the Haima Group’s matching program is quite intelligent and will only match players with similar levels together.”
"Okay, let's start the duel quickly, 'Tan Li Du'!"
Hayato looked at Kaiba, who had a serious face, and his face was a little serious: "I see, that's it."
"That's right. Although I feel a little unhappy, since I'm facing you, this is the only way to do it, Seth."
As he spoke, under Kaiba's expectant gaze, Hayato patted his left arm and thigh with his right hand that was not wearing a duel plate: "The famous President Kaiba and the legendary duelist Seto Kaiba, I don't need to duel with you. You can't get on my strong arms and thighs. The first thing is—"
Hayato's hand went to the card box on his waist where the deck was placed, but just when Kaiba thought he was going to take out the deck and duel with him, Hayato suddenly raised his hand: "Referee, I surrender (Referee, I surrender) )!"
After hearing what Hayato said with his hand raised, the referee on the sidelines of the duel nodded and announced: "Winner, No. 1, Seto Kaiba."
"N-Nani?!" The expression on Kaiba's face was also stunned, and then he realized - although he didn't know how Hayato did it, but his current identity is not the duel king, he is just a person who just won the KC Cup. He was just an ordinary duelist who had gained some fame, but when he met Seto Kaiba, the legendary duelist and Duel City runner-up, there was no shame in abstaining or surrendering.
And this is not a formal competition where you lose the qualification if you lose, it is just an audition stage. Even if Hayato surrenders and admits defeat, he will only have a few points deducted. His accumulated points are still ranked in the top 20 of all contestants. Among them, losing one point does not affect his qualifying.
Kaiba, who felt that he had been tricked by Hayato, took an angry step towards Hayato, but Hayato, who had already planned his escape route, smiled evilly at Kaiba: "Then now, please help me~"
With that said, Hayato told Kaiba what he was going to do when he said "use his thighs" before - he took off in a sprint and jumped about nine meters away, which was close to the world record, and disappeared into the crowd, leaving only countless Kaiba behind. of admirers remained at the edge of the dueling platform.
"Uno type!"
Listening to the angry roar of Kaiba coming from behind, Hayato chuckled. Before the matching system assigned him a new opponent, he began to wander around the audition site.
Walking through the crowd, Hayato unexpectedly saw many familiar figures - "Dinosaur" Ryuzaki, Kajiki Yuta, "Super" Aluminum Field, etc., and even collected star chips for Hayato during the Duel Kingdom. The "King of Shipping" Anasis, who played a part in the competition, also participated in the KC Cup.
Hayato even heard Uncle Anasis bragging to his opponent that even the duel king—that is, Hayato himself—had a hard time fighting with him in a duel and almost lost. Equivalent conversion, Hayato > Anasis, Hayato > Seto Kaiba, so Anasis ≈ Seto Kaiba.
Hayato couldn't help but sigh, this man with a chin that looks like his butt is really a math genius.
While walking, Hayato saw a duel stage where a duel had just ended. On one side of the duel stage, the loser of the duel just fell to his knees on the ground in despair, seemingly unable to accept his defeat, while his opponent pushed up his glasses with a calm expression.
"So strong. He is obviously just a minor, but he has such strong dueling ability."
"Children from wealthy families are indeed different from ordinary people like us. They must have received elite education from the beginning, right?"
"Huh? That's not the case. Don't you know him? Amon Gallem."
"Gallum? Could it be that he is the adopted son?"
"So it has nothing to do with prenatal education. Speaking of which, I seem to have seen several young brats who were quite terrifying in dueling monsters."
From the mouths of passers-by, he could barely hear the name "Amon Gallem", which was not unfamiliar but not familiar either. Hayato's eyes lingered on the face of the young man wearing plain glasses.
In appearance, Amon Gallem looked nothing like Ptah Gallem, whom Hayato had met once during the Duel Kingdom. After all, he was an adopted son. In terms of age, he looks older than Hayato has seen, such as Wanzhang Mingquan, Yujo Judai and the others. He is probably eight or nine years old, but the plainness on his face that does not reflect the joy or sorrow of victory or defeat is like that of ordinary people. It’s hard to have it even when you’re eighteen or nineteen years old.
As if aware of the eyes of the crowd, Amon Gallem looked towards Hayato. After seeing Hayato's face, he was slightly stunned, and then tilted his head in confusion, as if he was thinking. Why did I feel so familiar when I saw Hayato, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him.
Just at this moment, Hayato heard the broadcast: "No. 114514, Dan Kuroto, please go to challenge arena 44."
Hayato glanced at the stage again, and he was also happy - although the number "44" would make some Italians unhappy, the execution stage that Hayato came to while wandering happened to be the 44th stage.
In other words, Hayato's next opponent is Amon Gallem.