The pale Blue-Eyes White Dragon opened its mouth and fired a white blast. Chainsaw Insect vanished instantly in the blazing light.
"Tch, my strongest insect was taken out that easily..." the leader gritted out. But he still had a back row as solid as iron.
"Effect of Dictator of D. in my hand. By sending one Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my Deck to the Graveyard, I Special Summon it!"
Dictator of D., ATK1200
"Then the dictator's other effect. By discarding the Blue-Eyes White Dragon I just searched to my hand, I can Special Summon the Dragon Spirit of White in my Graveyard." (ANIME EFFECT)
Seto Kaiba waved his hand. "Revive the card I discarded as the cost for The Melody of Awakening Dragon. Appear - Dragon Spirit of White!"
Dragon Spirit of White, ATK2500
"When Dragon Spirit of White is Special Summoned, one Spell or Trap Card in the opponent's Back Row is banished." Seto Kaiba pointed at one of the set cards.
"That set card is banished!"
A white storm rose, swept the set card into a vortex in the Dimension, and erased it from sight. It was the Counter Trap Negate Attack.
The leader's face grew even uglier. Even Negate Attack had been dealt with.
"I activate a Spell Card! Polymerization!" Seto Kaiba said. "So I fuse Lord of D. on my field and Divine Dragon Ragnarok from my hand. Fusion Summon - King Dragun!!!"
King Dragun, ATK2400
"Then King Dragun's effect. Once Per Turn, I Special Summon a Dragon Monster from my hand."
Seto Kaiba calmly drew another card from his hand. "Special Summon Prime Material Dragon."
Prime Material Dragon, ATK2400
The leader's expression darkened again. "This is the field he can build on the first turn..."
He could not help glancing at his remaining Back Row again, and his heart began to pound. Could his back row really withstand the full assault of Seto Kaiba's dragons?
As if noticing his gaze, Seto Kaiba also looked toward the two set cards in the Back Row. Then he let out a quiet laugh.
"Battle," Seto Kaiba declared. "Dragon Spirit of White attacks directly!"
A white storm wrapped around Dragon Spirit of White. Power gathered in its mouth, and then it roared as it fired. "I activate my set card!" the leader shouted.
"Trap Card Dimensional Prison! When the opponent's Monster declares an attack, that Monster is banished!"
"Useless," Seto Kaiba said flatly. "While King Dragun is on the field, the opponent cannot target Dragon Monsters with Spell, Trap, or Monster effects."
The leader stared in shock. It actually had that kind of protection.
"Tch. Then I activate my other set card, the trap with the strongest reflecting power - Mirror Force! Destroy all Attack Position Monsters on the opponent's field!"
"Useless."
Seto Kaiba still spoke in the same calm tone. As soon as the word fell, it felt like an absolute command no one could disobey, and the sacred reflective shield shattered on the spot and exploded into fragments.
The leader was stunned. Why? Even Mirror Force did not work?
"Mirror Force affects the whole field. It does not target Dragon Monsters..."
"Correct," Seto Kaiba said expressionlessly. "But with Prime Material Dragon's effect, by discarding one card, I negate and Destroy the activation of any card effect that includes destroying cards on the field."
The leader's pupils Shrink. Dimensional Prison did not work, and even Mirror Force did not work.
The full assault of the dragons crashed down on the leader in one overwhelming wave. He closed his eyes and was blasted off his feet by the impact.
This was Seto Kaiba's Duel. It had no blind spots at all.
It was far too strong.
Leader, LP 0
"I lost."
The team leader rose to his feet as he spoke. There was no reluctance on his face, only a direct and honest acceptance of defeat.
"So this is Seto Kaiba's Duel? It truly leaves no openings at all. You really are worthy of being the number one figure in today's Duel world. I accept this completely."
"As a Duelist, you at least have some potential," Seto Kaiba said. "A Duel should be the suppression of absolute power. You should crush even the smallest chance your opponent has to resist.
"And to achieve that, relying on only Monster, Spells, or Traps is not enough. They only have meaning when they are fused into a single whole.
"After that, there is something even more important for a Duelist. It is here."
He raised a fist and tapped his chest. The leader seemed to understand at once, then bowed deeply.
"Thank you very much for the guidance, President. I will give it everything I have, and from now on I will work even harder for the Student Council."
"Since that guy thinks highly of you, don't disappoint him," Seto Kaiba said calmly.
"Yes!"
After that brief exchange, everyone watching was filled with admiration for the legendary Seto Kaiba. His reputation already spoke for itself, but after seeing him in person, many felt the president was even stronger than the rumors suggested.
The atmosphere had unexpectedly turned friendly, like a senior master instructing a junior. If that junior had not been a burly man in a Blue-Eyes White Dragon maid outfit, the scene would not have felt nearly so strange.
Their leader really did have terrible taste. At that moment, a large man in white stockings ran over from the back of the group and spoke to the team leader.
"There's a situation!"
"What is it?" the leader asked.
"The cops. A whole squad is moving this way, and it looks like they're coming for us."
"The cops?" The leader frowned and muttered a curse. "What a pack of bloodhounds. They still managed to track us down?"
Did he mean law enforcement? Yugen looked at Mokuba Kaiba.
"I thought you said they did good deeds?"
"That wasn't exactly what I said. I said they use dark power to punish evil and uphold justice," Mokuba Kaiba replied. "But you know, when you punish evil and help people, it's easy to cross a few lines sometimes."
After thinking it over, Yugen had to agree. Out of ten superheroes, at least nine had probably played cat and mouse with the authorities before, so it was not strange for justice and the law to clash from time to time.
The burly man in white stockings continued, "They brought a whole motorcade, and they even called in armed helicopters. Boss, should we hurry up and..."
Even Mokuba Kaiba was stunned. He stared at them in disbelief before finally speaking.
"What exactly did you people do to bring down that kind of pursuit?"
"Oh, nothing much. A new casino opened in the city recently. On the surface, it had all the proper paperwork and was operating legally, but we discovered the owner was actually a Shadow Game player."
The team leader spoke in a calm tone, as if this were perfectly ordinary. He sounded more annoyed by the interruption than concerned about the danger.
"They say you can win anything in that casino. Not just wealth, fame, beauty, or dueling momentum, but literally anything. But the losers also lose everything in the truest sense, and in the end even their souls have to be placed on the table as chips. Once they lose, they become the casino's property forever."
"A Shadow Game that uses gambling as its medium." Yugen understood immediately.