Bleu was not at all surprisingly knocked out.
The cycle of Flag and Drum Grandly with Armed Regeneration was enough to make the cycle of the Thief's Smoke Jade and Shaving Hand go on forever—of course, the prerequisite was that each time during the loop, Yugen must pay 300 Life Points due to the Continuous Magic effect of "Regeneration." And as long as this continued, every turn the "Torture Wheel" would burn Bleu for 500 points.
Unable to act, Bleu could only stare blankly as the Torture Wheel slowly burned through 500 of his Life Points each time. If there's any benefit to this excruciating process, it's probably that it gives him enough time to reflect on his own recklessness.
This inexplicable loop almost drove others into frustration when it first formed, with only one thought in mind—what the hell, is this a combination that a human could come up with?
But there was no place to argue. To be fair, the formation of this combination owed a great deal to him—it was primarily because of him that the entire card deck of the opponent was built up.
If he hadn't helped speed up the graveyard build, needless to say, some of the opponent's graveyard effects and combo components wouldn't have easily fallen into place, and the Continuous Magic effect of "Regeneration" is to recover one card from the graveyard to the bottom of the deck each turn. To ensure the card returned to the bottom can be drawn every turn, the condition where "only one card remains in the deck" is essential.
So Bleu himself indeed had significant contributions during this period.
When this combination first formed, Bleu was angry and puzzled, feeling that he'd never encountered such an idiotic situation in his life of card playing, especially the feeling of facing certain death with empty hands was maddening.
However, during the excruciating process, this anger gradually dissipated and turned into fear. The way he was overwhelmed by such an inexplicable combination made him realize one thing.
This duel, the opponent almost seemed to be playing with him.
Such a card deck, bluntly speaking, seemed like mere "acrobatic stunts", even looking like it wasn't used with the purpose of winning. Yet, such a deck managed to produce actual results, leaving Bleu with literally no card play possible while awaiting death, which meant only one thing.
The opponent was way stronger than him, so much stronger indeed that even if the opponent wanted to lose, it wouldn't be so easy; merely playing around could render him incapable of dealing with himself.
At this moment, Bleu recalled what a companion had told him before this trip.
"Fujiki Yugen... the true character of this person is unknown, and deep, probably not someone you can handle. Avoid direct conflict with him, at least not now."
Bleu casually agreed at the time, not taking it to heart. In his view, no matter how strong the opponent, it was not possible that he couldn't put up a fight.
But now he understood, the advice wasn't wrong, only too late did he realize.
"Boom — Hiss!!!"
The front cover of Bleu's D-Wheel suddenly exploded, hot steam gushing out, mechanical joints emitting a sharp metallic screech under overload. The wheel locked up, and the entire D-Wheel lost control at high speed, like a metal beast with its legs cut off, violently flipping on its side, scraping the ground, sparking a trail of fire.
"Ugh ah—!"
Bleu was violently thrown out by inertia, his body rolled a few times in the air, heavily smashing to the ground, rolling a few more times before coming to a stop. His goggles shattered, and his cloak torn, yet even so, he still forced himself to sit up with an eerie grin curled at the corner of his mouth.
Yugen also braked, jumping off the D-Wheel, "Bleu from the Unicorn Team... is it? What's your objective after all? Why are you interested in me?"
Bleu didn't directly reply, but chuckled coldly, his voice carrying a mechanical-like icy resonance: "Heh, Fujiki Yugen... that's your real name, right?
You, too, are an 'anomaly' of this dimension, aren't you?"
Yugen raised an eyebrow.
It wasn't wrong to put it that way. Yugen similarly did not belong to this dimension, though he harbored no malice, to this dimension, he was a person who shouldn't have existed in the original history, which might as well be considered an "anomaly."
"This time, I was careless. But don't be too happy... Our 'companions' have also arrived in this dimension—you... have no chance."
"What?" Yugen was about to ask more.
"Bzzt... Self-destruct protocol activated."
Bleu's eyes, and the D-Wheel behind him, simultaneously lit up with a blinding red light, with mechanical joints emitting high-frequency electronic buzzing.
The next moment, Yugen's eyes reflected the rapidly expanding firelight.
"Boom!!!"
The deafening blast swept across the field, scorching fireballs rose to the sky, Bleu's body and the D-Wheel shattered within the explosive flames, with metal fragments scattering like torrential rain. Yugen raised his arm to shield against the heatwave, and as the smoke and dust settled, only scorched remains were left on the ground, along with a few pieces of machinery still blinking with red light.
Just as the explosive flames were about to engulf him, a cold silver light suddenly flashed. In the void, countless tiny light fragments quickly converged, forming a white-robed magician. The Silent Magician descended silently, her Magic Staff lifted gently, its tip tracing a dazzling trajectory.
A transparent Hexagram Array rapidly unfolded before her, runes spinning like a stream, constructing a translucent barrier. The explosive flames crashed against it with a boom but were silently dissipated by the array. The flames collided with the invisible wall, diverting to both sides, leaving the area where Yugen stood untouched by even a whisper of hot wind.
Yugen patted her silvery-white head: "Thanks."
The Silent Magician tilted her head to avoid his hand, pouting.
That awkward little expression, looking aside, seemed to say, it's only times like this you remember to be nice...
The aftermath of the explosion still trembled in the air, with hot metal fragments scattered on the ground, emitting a faint "bzzzt" electrical noise. Yugen slowly lowered his arms from shielding his face, his pupils reflecting the scattered wreckage on the ground—
Charred gears, broken hydraulic tubes, exposed circuit boards...
No flesh and blood, no screams, only the cold remains of machinery.
Yugen frowned slightly: "This guy... a robot?"
Bleu from the Unicorn Team, a robot?
No, probably a robot modeled after Bleu, designed based on his prototype. However, the cards and decks used by this person were indeed the same as Bleu's, with a similar tactical style. In the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, to achieve this, typically even the personality of the Duelist must also be copied.
Such as those beside ZONE, whose original bodies were long dead but revived within mechanical bodies thanks to ZONE's technology, like Antinomy, Apollia, and Paradox.
With this thought, Yugen, holding his chin, looked at the broken machine that turned into shattered remains, his boot stepping on a piece of still-smoking metal fragment.
Naturally, such technology reminded Yugen of ZONE.
How about packaging up these parts and consulting a bit?