Chapter 194: A Chance to Win Under the Suppression of the Farewelcome & Doomstar Lock! Zoodiac vs. Kuriboh!
Under the gaze of the entire crowd!
The turn has passed to the D (Blue) Duelist.
Facing the opponent's "Red Supernova Dragon" plus "Despian Luluwalilith"!
Two ace monsters—even he finds that troublesome!
But that doesn't mean he can't break through!
Maybe—
To break this board, just a few cards are enough!
D (Blue) Duelist: "My turn! Draw!"
D (Blue) Duelist: "I Special Summon 'White Relic of Dogmatika' and Normal Summon 'Labrynth Cooclock'!"
"Cooclock, 1-card Link Summon!"
"'Relinquished Anima'!"
C (Red) Duelist: "Hahaha! Don't tell me you don't know what my monster on the field does?"
C (Red) Duelist: "This 'Despian Luluwalilith' can activate its effect."
D (Blue) Duelist: "Oh? Sole vado kana?"
D (Blue) Duelist: "Chain Quick-Play Spell! 'Forbidden Chalice'!"
"Negate your Despian Luluwalilith!"
"Well then—let the final hunt begin!"
"I overlay using White Relic for an Xyz Summon!"
"'Super Starslayer TY-PHON – Sky Crisis'!"
"While this card is on the field, neither player can activate the effects of monsters with 3000 or more ATK!"
"Your 'Red Supernova Dragon's' effect is already shut down!"
"Relinquished Anima's effect—equip your Supernova Dragon to this card!"
"Isn't that the end?"
"Battle!"
"Relinquished Anima attacks Despian Luluwalilith! You lose 600 LP!"
"Black Gundam—Super Starslayer, direct attack!"
C (Red) Duelist: "Chain the effect of the Continuous Trap 'True Light'!"
C (Red) Duelist: "I Special Summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon in Attack Position!"
D (Blue) Duelist: "A 100-point swing over me, huh?"
D (Blue) Duelist: "Heh heh heh, I end my turn."
On the board!
The D Duelist really lived up to expectations!
He used the resources at hand to punch through on two fronts!
And the moment Relinquished Anima appeared,
Duelists across all worlds winced—mouths twitching.
Seriously?
They really can bring anything, huh?
DM world.
Even Pegasus couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth when he saw this!
He never expected that, mid-duel, a monster related to the "Relinquished" line would pop out!
And Relinquished Anima paired with that "black Gundam" TY-PHON—
Not only solved the opponent's board,
It even suppressed further development!
Now the duel's outcome is hard to call!
Is 2–1–3…
Really going to flip?
If Red can't break this board next turn,
They might actually lose!
A (Red) Duelist: "My turn! Draw!"
A (Red) Duelist: "I activate 'Pot of Avarice'! I return 5 monsters from my Graveyard to the Deck and draw 2!"
A (Red) Duelist: "I activate the Equip Spell 'Axe of Fools'!"
"The target—of course—is your Super Starslayer!"
"The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK, and its effects are negated."
"With that, your lock is gone!"
"I banish LIGHT and DARK monsters from my GY to Special Summon 'Darkness Metal, the Dragon of Dark Steel'—no,"
"Special Summon 'Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon'? No—what I want is 'Dark Rebellion…' Wait."
"Special Summon 'Darklightstar Dragon'!"
"And I Special Summon a second 'Darklightstar Dragon'!"
"Two Level 5 monsters! Construct the Xyz Network!"
"Overlay! 'ZW – Dragonic Halberd'!"
"I activate Dragonic Halberd; detach 1 material to search 'Zexal Construction'!"
"Activate 'Zexal Construction'; I return 1 card to the Deck and search 'Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force'!"
"Next, allow me to think."
Searches complete.
The A Duelist suddenly pauses operations.
Clearly,
He's composing the final formula for victory—
Finding that one window to win!
And duelists across the various worlds
All still remember that the opponent used Labrynth's tools to get back "Nibiru, the Primal Being"!
Which means—
Once you Special Summon 5 or more times,
The big rock drops and wipes the board!
If it were Utopia,
It would definitely go over that count!
This is getting tricky!
The "veteran" duelists, realizing this, wear disappointed looks.
Yes—
In their eyes,
This A Duelist has no chance.
It's just one Rank-Up-Magic.
What could you possibly rank up into?
Besides,
The opponent still has a set mystery card.
What else can you do?
D (Blue) Duelist: "Hey, hey, hey—can you do it or not? Still not decided?"
A (Red) Duelist: "I've already decided."
A (Red) Duelist: "I activate 'Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force', targeting 'ZW – Dragonic Halberd' to Rank-Up Xyz!"
"Maybe my Deck will answer me!"
"Bring me one last hope! Time to gamble!"
"Rank-Up Xyz Summon! 'Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon'!!!"
???
What the—?
What's going on?
How is it—
An Odd-Eyes Xyz monster?!
Isn't this supposed to be Utopia?
Huh?
Masaka?!
A (Red) Duelist: "I activate Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon; detach 1 material!"
A (Red) Duelist: "Destroy every card on your field, and this card gains ATK equal to the number of destroyed cards × 200 until the end of the turn."
Monsters, back row—
All to the Grave!
The opponent's field—
Not a single card left!
And the set Trap is revealed as well—
It's "Farewelcome Labrynth"!
It triggers on a battle declaration!
This destruction—
Perfectly blanked that pitfall!
In hand—Nibiru!
On field—Super Starslayer!
In the back row—battle-declaration trap!
He actually stopped all of it!
Damn!
Genius—an absolute genius!
What more is there to say?
The duel is already his!
A (Red) Duelist: "I switch all my monsters to Attack Position!"
A (Red) Duelist: "Battle!"
"'Blue-Eyes White Dragon'! First hit! Burst Stream of Destruction! 3000 damage!"
"'Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon'! Second hit! Furious Annihilation Impact! 4200 damage!"
"'Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon'! Third hit! Furious Annihilation Impact! 4200 damage!"
"Duel over! I take the win!"
"That was a fun duel!"
Duel end!
Unsurprising—
Yet totally beyond the expectations of duelists across every world!
The group chat explodes in discussion at once!
Yugi Muto: "Huh? Why does this duel feel more and more abstract? Utopia ranked up into Odd-Eyes?"
Jaden Yuki: "Whoa! They pinpointed a win line under a three-way lock! That's nuts!"
Jack Atlas (or) Yusei? (Correction for multi-series):
Yusei Fudo: "Didn't see that coming! I thought he was locked out—since they retrieved Nibiru, and the set back row was clearly a battle-declaration trap."
Yuya Sakaki: "Hehe! That's Entertainment Dueling! That's my Odd-Eyes! Told you—it's strong!"
As they chat, the awe and excitement grow.
They also understand one key point—
Read the situation!
Simply put:
Use the flow of the duel to calculate and infer what the opponent's set cards might be.
For example, that Trap!
If it stays quiet all along,
You start to consider it might be something that triggers on battle declaration.
If it were an interruption, it could've been used when Utopia was Xyz Summoned!
That exact read
Let the A Duelist find the critical breakthrough!
A heavy lesson to the "veterans"!
They naively thought
The A Duelist had no plays and was just stalling,
But who knew—
On that harsh, seemingly dead-end path, he found a way out!
So this is what duelists of higher worlds are like!
Too good!
In the main world,
Sei Yuki is also stunned by that Odd-Eyes popping out at the end!
And those four duelists—
All so… absurd! The cards they bring get wilder and wilder!
Sei Yuki can't help but sigh.
This is what "content-creator two-on-two duels" are like—
They always manage to pull off something that makes your eyes go dark at the key moment!
"Haaah, finished watching!"
"Next short video."
"Let's pick the recommended 'Zoodiac vs. Kuriboh' one."
Sei Yuki glances aside.
In no time, the next video is set!
And the title appears in worlds across the multiverse:
"Zoodiac vs. Kuriboh! A One-Thousand-Percent Chance to Win!"
Seeing these two familiar Decks,
Duelists who were discussing the last short video perk right up.
And among the main protagonists of each era,
Everyone's most curious about Kuriboh!
Kuriboh?
Isn't that just a hand trap?
You run one copy, maybe two—
A lifesaver at the critical moment.
But this title
Suggests a Kuriboh-centric strategy.
The question is—can Kuriboh actually be a main-engine Deck?
You sure this isn't a mistake?
Yugi Muto, Jaden Yuki, Yuma Tsukumo and others trade odd looks.
They wait for the short to begin.
Duel info appears.
"Femboy Kuriboh" vs. "Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster"!
LP for both sides: 8000!
First to act: Femboy Kuriboh!
Femboy Kuriboh: "My turn! I activate 'Upstart Goblin'!"
Femboy Kuriboh: "You gain 1000 LP; I draw 1!"
"I set 2 and Special Summon 'Super Quantum Red Layer'!"
"Then I activate 'Five Star Twilight'!"
"I Tribute Red Layer to Special Summon these five little guys from the Deck!"
"'Kuriboo', 'Kuribee', 'Kuribeh'!"
"'Kuribehh', 'Kuribah'!"
"Next, I activate 'Kuribah'; Tribute itself and the other four Kuribohs!"
"I Special Summon this monster—'Kuribabylon'!"
"Then I use Kuribabylon; it returns itself to my hand!"
"I Special Summon the 5 Kuribohs from the GY back in Attack Position!"
"Now I Link Summon with 'Kuriboo' and 'Kuribeh'!"
"Link-2! 'I:P Masquerena'!"
"Then I Link Summon with just 'Kuribehh'!"
"Link-1! 'Linkuriboh'!"
"My turn's over!"
This is—
This is it!
So this is the Kuriboh engine?!
What the—
Pulled out five Kuribohs in one breath?
Then casually set up Link Summons and a ready-to-go quick Link with Masquerena?
Seeing this,
Duelists whose memories hadn't yet been jogged are stunned!
DM world.
Yugi Muto stands thunderstruck!
He'd never imagined the Kuriboh axis had developed this far!
Wait—there was a short before with this, too!
Right—Kuribohs!
Yugi and the spirit of Atem swallow hard; they're 100% sure now!
The opponent's Deck truly operates entirely around Kuribohs—
Not like those lists that just run one or two!
The opponent—
Is a pure Kuriboh Deck!
GX world.
Seeing Kuriboh shine,
Jaden Yuki is mostly moved and excited!
He knew it—Kuriboh isn't just a hand-trap!
Even as a main axis,
It's no slouch at all!
"'Mamma mia!' Even throwaway cards can have such power now?"
"Summon five at once, build resources—"
"And set a going-first board!"
"Though… it doesn't look that strong."
Professor Chronos clutches his hair in astonishment—
Then quickly cools down.
At first glance it seems strong,
But with a Link setup like that, what can Kuriboh actually do?
In the short, the turn passes to Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster!
Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster: "My turn! Draw!"
Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster: "I activate Continuous Spell 'Fire Formation – Tenki'!"
"Per its effect, I search 'Zoodiac Kataroost' from the Deck!"
"I Normal Summon 'Zoodiac Kataroost'!"
Femboy Kuriboh: "Darn! I'll accelerate into a Link-2!"
Femboy Kuriboh: "'I:P Masquerena' and 'Linkuriboh'—Link Summon!"
"Link-2! 'S:P Little Knight'!"
"Little Knight's effect—banish your Kataroost!"
Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster: "I activate 'Endless Engine Argyro System'!"
Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster: "I send 'Beast Battalion "King" Leo' from the Deck to the GY!"
"Then I activate a Field Spell—'Disc Arena: Beast Battalion Ring'! With its effect, I search a second Leo from the Deck!"
"I use Leo's effect—Special Summon it, then equip the Leo in the GY!"
Femboy Kuriboh: "I activate Little Knight's effect!"
Pure-Hearted Zoodiac Rooster: "Chain Leo—send the equipped card to the GY; negate your Little Knight!"
"Next, from my hand—'Magicians' Souls'! I send Dark Magician from the Deck to the GY to Special Summon Souls!"
"Then Souls again—send 'Fire Formation – Tenki' and the Field Spell to the GY to draw 2!"
"Now I activate the Continuous Spell 'Zoodiac Barrage'!"
"Per effect I destroy Souls and Special Summon 'Zoodiac Bunnyblast' from the Deck!"
"Overlay on Bunnyblast for an Xyz Summon!"
"Overlay! 'Zoodiac Chakanine'!"
"Xyz again!"
"Overlay! 'Zoodiac Hammerkong'!"
"Xyz again!"
"Overlay! 'Zoodiac Drident'!"
"Final overlay!"
"Overlay! 'Zoodiac Boarbow'!"
That's Zoodiac for you!
One card to start Xyz climbing!
Absolutely ridiculous!
And in one breath,
They've stacked up enough resources on board to break through!
"Zoodiac Boarbow" has only 800 ATK right now,
But everyone across the worlds knows Zoodiac history.
Who doesn't see where this is going?
"Zoodiac Boarbow" can attack directly!
Main Phase 2 it becomes "Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder"!
And all that ranking-up
Is simply to stockpile materials for ZEUS!
With 4 materials, it can wipe the board twice—terrifying!
Now we'll see whether Femboy Kuriboh can stop Zoodiac's incoming assault!
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