Anyone could have guessed what Kaiba's two Set Cards were, but our Jonouchi isn't one to play by the rules.
It's just two pits, right? Why be scared!
Here, Jonouchi might pretend not to see them and launch an attack directly, catching Kaiba off guard and making him too surprised to activate his Trap...
...Okay, I can't keep this up.
"Hahaha, just as expected, a Normal Monster is just a Normal Monster. You've already fallen into my trap! Flip the Set Card, Shrink! Cut my monster's attack in half!
And then 'Crush Card Virus'! Sacrifice my Hunter Dragon with attack less than 1000 to destroy your entire card deck!"
Jonouchi was shocked: "What!? There's such a move!?"
"Hahahaha, with this, all monsters in your field, hand, and deck with attack over 1500 are annihilated!" Kaiba laughed with arms crossed, "You're finished!"
Jonouchi clearly didn't care about the Set Card issue at all, after all, his dueling style has always been straightforward—attack recklessly, leave the rest to luck.
With this, the duel completely fell into Kaiba's pace.
Kaiba's deck mainly focuses on high-attack suppression; even a casually summoned four-star monster could have an attack of over 1800.
Next turn, President Haima summoned a Vorse Raider with 1900 attack directly, and Jonouchi was shattered in place—he didn't have any monster with attack that high left in his deck...
Kaiba never cared about Jonouchi to begin with, and now that Jonouchi has fallen into this trap, he cares even less about this duel.
How can your deck with barely any monsters defeat my Vorse Raider with a bunch of Normal Monsters?
Today, if Jonouchi can defeat my monster using only low-star Normal Monsters from his deck, I'll immediately turn around and jump off this Duel Boat!
Next turn, Jonouchi draws a card: "...Okay! I summon 'Swordsman of Landstar' (ATK 500), then use the Magic Card Graceful Dice! Double the monster's attack based on the dice roll!
...Ha! The dice roll is five! Swordsman of Landstar's attack becomes 2500, breaking through Vorse Raider!"
The little Normal Monster quickly grew in size under the influence of the Magic Card, leapt forward, and slashed Vorse Raider.
Kaiba: "..."
Alright, perhaps some unexpected situations are inevitable during a duel...
"Hm, do Normal Monsters have their own luck?" Kaiba pretended nothing happened, acting nonchalant, "But your deck has already been destroyed by the Crush Virus, can you win the whole duel relying on this random stroke of luck?"
Jonouchi claims, oh President, you don't get it, I'm going to win this duel relying on luck, I've progressed from the preliminary rounds to qualifiers this way...
President Haima got angry and decided to get serious.
Going again in the President's turn, he directly used "Enemy Controller", summoned a game controller and entered cheat commands—carefully target Blue-Eyes White Dragon, pay 1000 Life Points, and gained control of Jonouchi's "Swordsman of Landstar" until the end of the turn.
Then Kaiba used Magic Card to Cost Down lower the stars of monsters in hand, then used the NTR-ed Swordsman of Landstar as tribute, directly Tribute Summoned!
"My strongest servant!" President Haima pointed to the sky and screamed, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Strong light erupted, White Dragon descended. The giant dragon of light spread its wings and landed on Kaiba's field, roaring at Jonouchi!
"Feel honored, it's your glory to be defeated by White Dragon!" Kaiba shouted, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack! Burst Stream of Destruction!"
Blue-Eyes White Dragon's attack power reached 3000, and Jonouchi who took Vorse Raider's direct attack last turn only had 2100 LP left, taking this hit means direct defeat!
With this, Jonouchi's Duel City journey will come to an end.
...If he didn't set this inexplicable card last turn.
This turn will let President Haima see what true inexplicable means!
"Flip the Set Card!" Jonouchi waved his hand, the trap at his feet immediately activated, "Graverobber!
This card allows me to use cards from the opponent's graveyard, what I'm going to use is... Enemy Controller!"
"What!?" Kaiba was surprised.
"I'm going to use the other effect of Enemy Controller, pay 1000 LP, destroy the opponent's monster on the field!"
Graverobber snatched the game controller from Jonouchi's hands, Jonouchi imitated Kaiba's earlier move to input the cheat command—up, up, down, down, the neighbor knocks on the door.
And thus the freshly summoned Blue-Eyes White Dragon exploded right in place.
His newly summoned wife ended a short-lived, one-turn journey, President Haima was furiously wide-eyed.
But little did he expect this was only the beginning, Jonouchi directly used Monster Reborn next turn to revive last turn's Blue-Eyes White Dragon onto his field.
—Kaiba's wife, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, summon!
This time President Haima almost spat blood angrily...
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack!" Jonouchi waved his hand, imitating Kaiba's move again, "Burst Stream of Destruction!"
Unfortunately, his decisive move was blocked by Kaiba's Trap Card, Counter Gate.
President Haima was so infuriated he was shaking: "You Normal Monster...dare to...dare to..."
He snorted, spoke fiercely: "Blue-Eyes White Dragon, it's better for me to destroy it myself than let it be controlled by a Normal Monster!"
President Haima used a slew of Life Points for draw replenishment, directly used Ancient Rules, special summoned a Normal Monster with over five stars from hand.
Of course what he wanted to summon was—Blue-Eyes White Dragon, second unit!
Kaiba didn't hesitate, directly ordered the second Blue-Eyes White Dragon to attack Jonouchi's first Blue-Eyes White Dragon, they exchanged blows and both were destroyed under the clash of their blasts, vanishing from the field.
Jonouchi sat there clutching his face in pain.
"Why is Kaiba so angry?" he muttered under his breath, "isn't this just a card game? Is it really just because I stole his Blue-Eyes White Dragon?"
Utterly confused...
"Monster Reborn isn't your exclusive, either." Kaiba snickered, pulled out a card from his hand, "Magic Card - Monster Reborn activate!"
"What!?" Jonouchi wore a look of disbelief.
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Return to your rightful master!"
The light dragon descended again, roaring with a cry that seemed to pierce the sky. Kaiba laughed uproariously with arms folded.
"Tough! Invincible! The strongest!" He shouted, "This is the ultimate power of the White Dragon! Crush that Normal Monster for me! Burst Stream of Destruction!"
Followed by a classic three-part laughter, it seems whenever Kaiba summons Blue-Eyes White Dragon he's deliriously happy...
It seems Kaiba's actually quite magnanimous, looks like he's already forgiven the betrayal of the White Maiden from last turn...
But now Jonouchi had no more means to defend against Blue-Eyes White Dragon's attack, forced to take this hit directly.
[Jonouchi, LP 0]
Thus, the third elimination round ends here.