“You bastard!”
The Gurus Hunter was furious: “Are you looking down on me?”
This is a joke. I currently have a rare monster with Attack Power 1700 on the field, and 4000 Life Points. You think you can defeat me with six cards?
That’s hilarious, impossible, absolutely impossible. Not even the Duel Kingdom champion, Yugi Mutou, could do it if he stood before him.
Jonouchi also looked at Kagura Kiryu in shock: “He declared a KO in the first turn. Is this guy really strong, or…?”
Kagura Kiryu’s lips curled: “Then open your eyes and watch carefully.”
Blade Rabbit, huh? I’m a Pure Love Warrior!
“My turn, draw!”
He placed his finger on top of the deck and drew the top card.
Hmm, this hand should be able to complete this combo.
He looked at the opponent’s empty back row. In this era, duels where you set one and I set one seemed common.
But if he doesn’t even set one back row, then he can do whatever he wants, with no worries at all.
There aren’t even hand traps in this era. Hmm, the Death Star is already shining brightly over the Rare Card Hunter’s head.
“First, the card I’m summoning is this one! 【Charging Forward Captain】!”
Kagura Kiryu slammed a card from his hand into the Duel Disk’s card slot: “I summon him in Attack Position!”
A holographic image slowly emerged on Kagura Kiryu’s field, and the Charging Forward Captain jumped onto the Duel Disk’s field.
He had messy yellow hair, wore metal armor, had a serious expression, firm eyes, and a clear scar over his left eye.
The Captain held long swords of varying thickness in both hands, and with a flick of his red cape behind him, he looked like a seasoned warrior.
【Charging Forward Captain, Level 4, Warrior, Earth Attribute, Attack Power 1200, Effect Monster】
“Next, I activate the effect of 【Charging Forward Captain】!”
Kagura Kiryu drew another card from his hand, flipped it over, and showed it to his opponent: “The Captain’s effect can only be activated when he is successfully summoned, allowing me to Special Summon one Level 4 or lower monster from my hand!”
“The card I’m summoning is this one! Mythical Beast Cerberus!”
A lion-type monster with blue-purple fur appeared on the Duel Field, its sharp claws and fangs gleaming with a menacing light.
【Mythical Beast Cerberus, Level 4, Light Attribute, Magician, Attack Power 1400, Effect Monster】
“He summoned two monsters in an instant!”
Jonouchi was shocked: “So strong!”
Garooz snorted: “But their Attack Power is far less than my Blade Rabbit!”
“Don’t be in a hurry.”
Kagura Kiryu smiled and drew a card: “At the moment 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 is Special Summoned, I will activate this card.”
He inserted the card into the Spell/Trap Zone of the Duel Disk: “Quick-Play Spell! 【Inferno Reckless Summon】!”
Garooz was surprised: “He’s activating a Spell Card at this timing?”
“That’s right!” Kagura Kiryu patiently explained: “【Inferno Reckless Summon】 can only be activated when there is a face-up monster on the opponent’s field, and only one monster with 1500 or less Attack Power is Special Summoned on your field.”
“I can Special Summon as many monsters with the same name as the Special Summoned monster as possible from my hand, deck, and graveyard in Attack Position.”
Kagura Kiryu pulled his deck from the Duel Disk and began to flip through it.
Although Duel Disks existed in this era, they didn’t have automatic shuffling or search functions, so he had to manually flip through the cards.
Fortunately, he quickly found the cards he wanted.
“I Special Summon two more Mythical Beast Cerberus from my deck!”
【Mythical Beast Cerberus, Attack Power 1400】 X2
“However, as a side effect of activating Inferno Reckless Summon, your opponent can also choose one face-up monster and Special Summon as many monsters as possible from their hand, deck, and graveyard.”
Kagura Kiryu smiled: “You only have 【Blade Rabbit】 on your field. So, do you have two other 【Blade Rabbit】 in your deck?”
(Yu-Gi-Oh! rules: A deck can contain a maximum of three cards with the same name.)
“Hmph hmph hmph!” The Gurus Hunter laughed triumphantly: “Don’t underestimate our Garooz Group! I Special Summon two 【Blade Rabbit】 from my deck! In Attack Position, of course!”
【Blade Rabbit, Attack Power 1700】 X2
“Ah ah ah, although he beautifully summoned four monsters at once! But the opponent now has three monsters with Attack Power 1700 on the field! Isn’t this even worse?”
Jonouchi covered his head in despair, and Garooz’s laughter grew even more triumphant: “That’s right, kid. It seems you wanted to gamble on whether or not I had other Blade Rabbit in my deck.”
“But unfortunately, you gambled wrong! Thank you for giving me two more monsters, hahahahaha!”
Kagura Kiryu watched him perform silently: “Who said I was gambling on that?”
“You Garooz have tons of duplicate cards; do you think I wouldn’t know that?”
He pointed to the Mythical Beast Cerberus that was summoned first: “Because I activated a Spell Card, the effect of 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 was triggered.”
Jonouchi, Garooz: “A monster with a Special Effect!?”
“That’s right, every time either player activates a Spell Card, 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 places a Spell Counter! Magic Absorption!”
Kagura Kiryu improvised a move name for 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】: “The second effect of 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 is that for every Spell Counter on this card, its Attack Power increases by 500 points!”
“It currently has one counter, so its Attack Power is…”
【Mythical Beast Cerberus, Attack Power 1400 → Attack Power 1900】
“Attack Power 1900!?”
Garooz was shocked: “It surpassed my 【Blade Rabbit】!”
“It’s not over yet!”
Kagura Kiryu inserted another card from his hand into the Duel Disk: “Continuous Spell, United We Stand activate!”
“According to this card’s effect, the Attack Power of Warrior monsters on your field increases by the number of Warrior and Magician monsters on your field X200!”
“【Charging Forward Captain】 is a Warrior monster, and 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 is a Magician monster.”
“So, Charging Forward Captain will gain Attack Power from a total of 4 monsters!”
【Charging Forward Captain, Attack Power 1200 → Attack Power 2000】
“Furthermore, because I activated a Spell Card again, all three 【Mythical Beast Cerberus】 will each place a Spell Counter and gain 500 Attack Power!”
【Mythical Beast Cerberus, Attack Power 1900 → Attack Power 2400】
【Mythical Beast Cerberus, Attack Power 1400 → Attack Power 1900】 X2
“Attack Power… 2400!?”
Garooz’s face was frozen in shock.
Jonouchi’s pupils also constricted in surprise:
“In the first turn, he summoned a monster with Attack Power comparable to my Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and also summoned a Level monster with Attack Power 2000, and two monsters with Attack Power 1900.”
He clenched his fist, feeling the Duelist’s soul boiling within him, an uncontrollable excitement in his heart: “So strong, truly so strong! Besides Yugi, there’s actually such a powerful Duelist?”
At this moment, Kagura Kiryu waved his hand: “Enter the Battle Phase!”