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"Is it settled already?"
Yuxuan took the deck Silent Magician handed over and tucked it into an empty deck box attached to the inside of his jacket.
When he went out, he usually carried several deck boxes to hold different decks, one deck box for his SIDE deck, and in addition, he would reserve a few empty slots specifically for storing confiscated spoils.
Syrus usually had six deck boxes hanging on his chest, while Jaden generally carried two behind him. So generally speaking, including the deck loaded in the Duel Disk, carrying at least nine decks when out and about was no problemâand that was without a backpack.
Yuxuan took the deck and briefly browsed through it.
Anyway, this duelist named Titan was just a swindling charlatan. In the anime, he didn't even duel properly, just sneak-attacked Alexis from behind and knocked her out, then kidnapped her to force Jaden to duel him.
He didn't duel very seriously either, using underhanded tricks that relied on hypnosis to fool his opponent. Then, once Jaden exposed his ploy, he immediately stopped dueling and tried to flee.
He had neither dueling ethics nor any real skill. So, naturally, there was no need to observe any chivalry when dealing with such a second-rate player; having the spirit directly attack him would suffice.
This was called confiscating the tools of the crime.
As expected, the duelist named Titan used a Fiend deck. Although it was at least a series with archetypes, overall, there weren't any cards that he considered very powerful.
But even if he couldn't use them, selling them for a good price wouldn't be bad.
Yuxuan had already sold many of the unusable cards from decks he had picked up before. He found that just picking up decks and selling cards was actually a decent source of income. The spare cards and Duel Disks he had found so far were still enough to last him quite a while.
"Good work, well done."
Yuxuan smiled and patted Silent Magician's head.
Silent Magician, who had been pouting unhappily, was suddenly stunned. She stared blankly at her master actually giving her a head-pat. Her social anxiety attribute seemed to flare up again, and her cheeks flushed slightly.
Swoosh! She transformed back into a white light and disappeared into the deck.
Yuxuan looked at his hand, left hanging in mid-air, and couldn't help but reflect.
What's with this reaction that feels a bit like disdain?
Jaden's voice came from the corridor outside: "There's nothing in this room either. Yuxuan, did you find anything over there... Eh!?"
As he entered the room, he seemed to have just caught a glimpse of that graceful white figure disappearing into Yuxuan's deck. He couldn't help but blink a couple of times and then rub his eyes vigorously.
"I didn't see wrong, did I? Yuxuan, that thing of yours is..."
Winged Kuriboh flapped its little wings and flew to Jaden's side: "Kuri Kuri~!"
"Ah, so that's it! I knew I didn't see wrong!" Jaden showed a surprised and delighted expression. "You have spirits too, right?"
Winged Kuriboh nodded vigorouslyâalthough its entire small body looked like a head, so the scene looked like it was flapping its wings and bouncing up and down: "Kuri! Kuri Kuri!"
Jaden nodded: "Mm, I know, partner."
Yuxuan: "..."
No, he was really always very curious, how on earth do you guys understand what Kuriboh says?
He thought every syllable sounded exactly the same.
Seemingly having rarely encountered a kindred spirit, Jaden excitedly pulled him over: "I've been hearing strange voices since I was very young.
At first, it was when I was dreaming in the middle of the night; I always felt like someone was calling my name. Then I often couldn't help but get up in the middle of the night to look at my deck."
"And then the spirit appeared?"
"No, then nothing happened." Jaden scratched his head embarrassedly. "Haha, it's really not that easy to see spirits. For a long time after that, I couldn't hear the spirits' voices anymore.
But recently, I've started hearing them again."
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Winged Kuriboh. The little Kuriboh happily squinted its eyes and rubbed affectionately against his face: "Kuri Kuri~!"
Yuxuan roughly understood. Indeed, although Jaden remembered hearing spirit voices when he was little, he seemed to have completely forgotten about his first spirit.
Poor Yubel...
Jaden's first spirit should have been Yubel, a spirit who had reincarnated with him from a past life and vowed to protect him for all eternity.
But the yandere Yubel had been a bit too overzealous in her protection back then, turning all the little friends who had beaten Jaden in duels into vegetables. After that, she was deemed an ominous cursed card and shot into space by a Kaiba Corp rocket.
After that, Jaden was tormented by nightmares related to Yubel, so his parents had his memories erased. Thus, Yubel was now completely forgotten...
"Yuxuan's spirit looks really strong!" Jaden said excitedly. "Can you summon it out for a look?"
"Uh... about that," Yuxuan pondered, "she's shy."
Jaden: "?"
Just then, a scream came from a room not far away: "Aah!"
Jaden was startled: "Syrus and Chumley's voices!"
He hurriedly rushed out the door and ran down the corridor to that room.
"What happened?"
"Just now... there was something! Something passed by!" Chumley babbled incoherently. "There's really something wrong with this place!"
Yuxuan walked a little slower. As he stepped out, he indeed caught a glimpse of a small, eerie green thing whizzing past down the corridor and disappearing behind a certain door.
And this thing, he felt like he had seen it before...
Jaden was puzzled: "I didn't see anything, you guys must have seen wrong, right?"
"Absolutely not! Both Syrus and I saw it!" Chumley shouted.
Yuxuan: "Don't be afraid, it's just a ghost."
Everyone: "???"
Don't you think there's something wrong with what you just said?
But Yuxuan really wasn't joking. He remembered now; that seemed to be a Normal Monster card. A niche Normal Monster he hadn't even seen in his previous life; he only saw it when he was memorizing questions for the Duel Academy entrance exam before.
[Phantom Ghost, Level 2, ATK 600, DEF 800]
The description was that it was a vengeful spirit slowly formed from the souls of those in this world who could not achieve enlightenment after death. It was a bona fide, proper ghost.
However, this was the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!; even ghosts couldn't escape the fate of becoming cards. So, although "vengeful spirit" sounded quite formidable, it was just a Normal Monster with 600 ATK. Whether it was Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning or Silent Magician, they would both be insta-killed.
Indeed, even ghosts aren't much to be afraid of in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
But what Yuxuan cared about was, why would monster spirits randomly spawn in this dilapidated dormitory?
"Kuri!"
Winged Kuriboh flew up, seemingly signaling its master to follow.
"Winged Kuriboh, wait!"
Jaden hurriedly followed, and the others trailed behind.
Passing through the corridor, they followed Kuriboh into an old, gloomy room.
An unknown magic circle was carved on the floor, as if it had once been used for some ritual. The surrounding walls were covered with complex text and patterns. A quick glance even revealed images of some Millennium Items that no longer existed in this world.
Jaden walked to one of the stone slabs and gently brushed away the dust on it.
"Millennium Items... Did someone once research Dark Games here?"
"Kuri!"
Winged Kuriboh floated out beside him, its tone becoming serious this time.
At this moment, Black Luster Soldier also abruptly materialized beside Yuxuan, reminding him in a deep voice, "Be careful. The space in this place is not right..."
Before his voice fell, the magic circle carved on the ground suddenly lit up.
A burst of intense light erupted, abruptly enveloping both Yuxuan and Jaden. Following that, both simultaneously felt the ground beneath their feet give way. In an instant, it was as if the world was spinning, like they were about to fall into another world.
Yuxuan had experienced this once before.
It was exactly like the last time he had accidentally fallen into the Spirit World.