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Chapter 463: The Word 'Second' Doesn't Exist in Kaiba's Dictionary, Just Like G Fat Can't Count to Three
"Leon von Schroeder."
After defeating Leon von Schroeder, Kaiba's voice suddenly rang out from the mobile phone in Hayato's pocket.
Taking out his mobile phone somewhat strangely, Hayato found that his phone had somehow dialed Kaiba's number by itself and even turned on speakerphone. Even though he had turned off the phone's screen, there shouldn't have been any possibility of accidental touch.
"Seto?"
Hayato replied to the phone doubtfully, "How did my phone call by itself?"
"Hmph, just a small trick in electronic communication technology, easier for me than breaking a roadside branch with my finger," Kaiba paused on the other end of the phone, then continued, "Since you've already defeated that guy named 'Leon von Schroeder', it also means that the card, 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】, has been destroyed by you, right?"
Hearing this, Hayato turned his head back.
Leon von Schroeder was defeated by the Divine-Beast Card's attack. Although there was no physical damage, his Duel Disk's internal precision structure was destroyed by the powerful impact. After he finished organizing his deck, he took off his Duel Disk and temporarily placed it on the ground.
Also placed down with it was the card, 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】.
"Although 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】 had been tampered with to some extent, it was still no match in front of a Divine-Beast Card and has already been destroyed by me."
Hayato picked up the 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】 card. On the card effect description, the few lines of effect that Zigfried had added were precisely burned into a few black marks due to the electric current overflowing when the Duel Disk was destroyed.
Kaiba wasn't surprised to hear this; instead, he said as if it were obvious, "Hmph, after all, it's 【Obelisk the Tormentor】 that I once used. It's only natural that it could do something like this."
Hayato nodded subconsciously, then suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Seto, I should have just said 'Divine-Beast Card', right? I didn't mention 【Obelisk the Tormentor】 at all," Hayato's expression was strange. "You, since when have you been eavesdropping on me?"
"Hmph, just since you activated 【Monster Reborn】."
"Isn't that the same as monitoring from the very beginning!"
Back then, Hayato intentionally kept the communication with Kaiba going by turning on the speakerphone on his mobile phone beforehand, leaking Bakura's deal with him to Kaiba. Without violating the restraint, this allowed Kaiba to get the information in advance and be prepared.
At that time, his excuse was that bastard Kaiba was actually eavesdropping on him.
He didn't expect that his excuse from back then would actually become true now. So this guy Kaiba was really monitoring him. How perverted.
Hayato quickly changed the subject: "You... Forget it, let's not talk about this. Rex told me you went to the Kaiba Land building? How did you handle that Trojan program?"
"Hmph, who do you think I am? Those third-rate technicians? My past academic qualifications aren't just for show," Kaiba said as if showing off. "In the field of hacking, even within the entire KaibaCorp, I'm one of the best."
"Academic qualifications? You, the guy who only went to school for one day?" Hayato ranted, but he couldn't deny the richness of Kaiba's various miscellaneous skills, even to a tragic extent.
Electronic information, handicrafts, chemical reactions, lathe machining, artistic appreciation—Kaiba had unique achievements in fields that were vastly different from each other. Whether inventing new things or improving old ones, he could achieve something. He was almost omnipotent except for always losing in dueling in various ways. Hacking skills were naturally one of his strong suits.
The reason Kaiba had to limit it to KaibaCorp was because he still remembered back during the Battle City Top 4 group stage, the incident where Noah Kaiba, who became an AI after dying, usurped control of the "St. Ann" ship, which the participants were riding and whose program was jointly written by the Kaiba Brothers.
Although Noah wasn't human and had already sunk into the sea with the Seafront Fortress and disappeared forever, the fact that he was once surpassed was undeniable. Kaiba wouldn't think he was the strongest hacker just because Noah was gone.
And he also said he was one of the best hackers within KaibaCorp. Another reason was that Keipei's talent in this area was actually not weaker than his, perhaps even stronger. If he were a few years older, Keipei's hacking skills surpassing Kaiba Seto would be incredibly easy.
Of course, it would be as hard as ascending to heaven to make Kaiba say something like "Mai is the second strongest hacker in KaibaCorp," because it's well known that the word "second" doesn't exist in Kaiba's dictionary. "First" and "three Blue-Eyes" are quite common.
"Hey~, Hayato!"
"Hayato-kun!"
Two voices came from behind Hayato. One of which you could tell was good at rolling dice and flipping coins just by hearing it, and the other sounded like he was about to unleash Hanoi's Sublime Power at any moment. Even without turning around, Hayato guessed who the two people were.
Turning his head, it was indeed Joey Wheeler and Yugi, walking from the distant Spectator Area towards the center of the venue.
Joey Wheeler's steps were a bit faster than Yugi's. He walked down the stairs one step ahead of Yugi and came to the edge of the Duel Field, looking at the few people on the field.
Hayato holding a mobile phone, a young boy looking at Hayato's back with a look of admiration in his eyes, and a flamboyant pink-haired youth who was tied up.
Joey Wheeler did remember that young boy; he was Hayato's opponent in the duel arranged in the same field. And this sudden anomaly also began after this young boy, who seemed to be named "Rayne", activated a Field Spell Card. However, it seemed it wasn't his subjective idea but that he was being used.
That pink-haired person, Joey Wheeler had some impression. He seemed to have seen him in some duel, but couldn't remember who exactly he was.
"Hayato, are you okay?"
Compared to the duels of others in other places, Hayato and Rayne's duel had the largest number of audience members. After all, they were on the Duel Field in the very center of the venue. Earthbound Immortal and even 【Obelisk the Tormentor】—Hayato even brought out monsters that surpassed the regular duel level in this duel. One can imagine how intense the battle was.
"Completely fine," Hayato spread his hands, looking at Yugi who followed closely behind Joey Wheeler. He looked him up and down and said doubtfully, "Strange, Yugi, you seem to have a familiar aura on you."
"Could it be, you—"
"That's right, Yugi defeated a strange guy and got the card that seems to have caused this anomaly, 【Uria, Lord of Searing Flames】."
Joey Wheeler put his hands on his hips proudly and answered Hayato. Looking at his posture, most people who didn't know would probably think he was the one who got 【Uria, Lord of Searing Flames】.
But Hayato also looked at Joey Wheeler and strangely felt that the "Phantom God" aura on Joey Wheeler was indeed a bit stronger than on Yugi.
In the mobile phone that hadn't hung up, Kaiba heard Joey Wheeler's words but frowned. "Hmm? The Normal Monster said Yugi has already gotten the card that caused the anomaly?"
"I have already shut down the Trojan program, and Hayato also destroyed 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】. Logically speaking, shouldn't this anomaly have been resolved?"
With Kaiba's reminder, Joey Wheeler couldn't help but nod. "But, many of the audience members on site still haven't recovered?"
"If you can't figure out the situation, wouldn't it be fine to ask someone who knows?"
Hayato said, turning to look at the tied-up Zigfried.
Because of Hayato's one sentence, the pink-haired person, realizing that everyone present was looking at him, couldn't help but shrink his neck and took a step back. "W-What do you guys want to do!?"
"Oh my, the physique is quite solid. Been working out lately?" With a strange smile on his face, Hayato held the rope with one hand, not letting Zigfried leave. "Be good, let me take a look!"
"Ughhhh, no!"
"Leon von Schroeder."
After defeating Leon von Schroeder, Kaiba's voice suddenly rang out from the mobile phone in Hayato's pocket.
Taking out his mobile phone somewhat strangely, Hayato found that his phone had somehow dialed Kaiba's number by itself and even turned on speakerphone. Even though he had turned off the phone's screen, there shouldn't have been any possibility of accidental touch.
"Seto?"
Hayato replied to the phone doubtfully, "How did my phone call by itself?"
"Hmph, just a small trick in electronic communication technology, easier for me than breaking a roadside branch with my finger," Kaiba paused on the other end of the phone, then continued, "Since you've already defeated that guy named 'Leon von Schroeder', it also means that the card, 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】, has been destroyed by you, right?"
Hearing this, Hayato turned his head back.
Leon von Schroeder was defeated by the Divine-Beast Card's attack. Although there was no physical damage, his Duel Disk's internal precision structure was destroyed by the powerful impact. After he finished organizing his deck, he took off his Duel Disk and temporarily placed it on the ground.
Also placed down with it was the card, 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】.
"Although 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】 had been tampered with to some extent, it was still no match in front of a Divine-Beast Card and has already been destroyed by me."
Hayato picked up the 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】 card. On the card effect description, the few lines of effect that Zigfried had added were precisely burned into a few black marks due to the electric current overflowing when the Duel Disk was destroyed.
Kaiba wasn't surprised to hear this; instead, he said as if it were obvious, "Hmph, after all, it's 【Obelisk the Tormentor】 that I once used. It's only natural that it could do something like this."
Hayato nodded subconsciously, then suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Seto, I should have just said 'Divine-Beast Card', right? I didn't mention 【Obelisk the Tormentor】 at all," Hayato's expression was strange. "You, since when have you been eavesdropping on me?"
"Hmph, just since you activated 【Monster Reborn】."
"Isn't that the same as monitoring from the very beginning!"
Back then, Hayato intentionally kept the communication with Kaiba going by turning on the speakerphone on his mobile phone beforehand, leaking Bakura's deal with him to Kaiba. Without violating the restraint, this allowed Kaiba to get the information in advance and be prepared.
At that time, his excuse was that bastard Kaiba was actually eavesdropping on him.
He didn't expect that his excuse from back then would actually become true now. So this guy Kaiba was really monitoring him. How perverted.
Hayato quickly changed the subject: "You... Forget it, let's not talk about this. Rex told me you went to the Kaiba Land building? How did you handle that Trojan program?"
"Hmph, who do you think I am? Those third-rate technicians? My past academic qualifications aren't just for show," Kaiba said as if showing off. "In the field of hacking, even within the entire KaibaCorp, I'm one of the best."
"Academic qualifications? You, the guy who only went to school for one day?" Hayato ranted, but he couldn't deny the richness of Kaiba's various miscellaneous skills, even to a tragic extent.
Electronic information, handicrafts, chemical reactions, lathe machining, artistic appreciation—Kaiba had unique achievements in fields that were vastly different from each other. Whether inventing new things or improving old ones, he could achieve something. He was almost omnipotent except for always losing in dueling in various ways. Hacking skills were naturally one of his strong suits.
The reason Kaiba had to limit it to KaibaCorp was because he still remembered back during the Battle City Top 4 group stage, the incident where Noah Kaiba, who became an AI after dying, usurped control of the "St. Ann" ship, which the participants were riding and whose program was jointly written by the Kaiba Brothers.
Although Noah wasn't human and had already sunk into the sea with the Seafront Fortress and disappeared forever, the fact that he was once surpassed was undeniable. Kaiba wouldn't think he was the strongest hacker just because Noah was gone.
And he also said he was one of the best hackers within KaibaCorp. Another reason was that Keipei's talent in this area was actually not weaker than his, perhaps even stronger. If he were a few years older, Keipei's hacking skills surpassing Kaiba Seto would be incredibly easy.
Of course, it would be as hard as ascending to heaven to make Kaiba say something like "Mai is the second strongest hacker in KaibaCorp," because it's well known that the word "second" doesn't exist in Kaiba's dictionary. "First" and "three Blue-Eyes" are quite common.
"Hey~, Hayato!"
"Hayato-kun!"
Two voices came from behind Hayato. One of which you could tell was good at rolling dice and flipping coins just by hearing it, and the other sounded like he was about to unleash Hanoi's Sublime Power at any moment. Even without turning around, Hayato guessed who the two people were.
Turning his head, it was indeed Joey Wheeler and Yugi, walking from the distant Spectator Area towards the center of the venue.
Joey Wheeler's steps were a bit faster than Yugi's. He walked down the stairs one step ahead of Yugi and came to the edge of the Duel Field, looking at the few people on the field.
Hayato holding a mobile phone, a young boy looking at Hayato's back with a look of admiration in his eyes, and a flamboyant pink-haired youth who was tied up.
Joey Wheeler did remember that young boy; he was Hayato's opponent in the duel arranged in the same field. And this sudden anomaly also began after this young boy, who seemed to be named "Rayne", activated a Field Spell Card. However, it seemed it wasn't his subjective idea but that he was being used.
That pink-haired person, Joey Wheeler had some impression. He seemed to have seen him in some duel, but couldn't remember who exactly he was.
"Hayato, are you okay?"
Compared to the duels of others in other places, Hayato and Rayne's duel had the largest number of audience members. After all, they were on the Duel Field in the very center of the venue. Earthbound Immortal and even 【Obelisk the Tormentor】—Hayato even brought out monsters that surpassed the regular duel level in this duel. One can imagine how intense the battle was.
"Completely fine," Hayato spread his hands, looking at Yugi who followed closely behind Joey Wheeler. He looked him up and down and said doubtfully, "Strange, Yugi, you seem to have a familiar aura on you."
"Could it be, you—"
"That's right, Yugi defeated a strange guy and got the card that seems to have caused this anomaly, 【Uria, Lord of Searing Flames】."
Joey Wheeler put his hands on his hips proudly and answered Hayato. Looking at his posture, most people who didn't know would probably think he was the one who got 【Uria, Lord of Searing Flames】.
But Hayato also looked at Joey Wheeler and strangely felt that the "Phantom God" aura on Joey Wheeler was indeed a bit stronger than on Yugi.
In the mobile phone that hadn't hung up, Kaiba heard Joey Wheeler's words but frowned. "Hmm? The Normal Monster said Yugi has already gotten the card that caused the anomaly?"
"I have already shut down the Trojan program, and Hayato also destroyed 【Golden Castle of Stromberg】. Logically speaking, shouldn't this anomaly have been resolved?"
With Kaiba's reminder, Joey Wheeler couldn't help but nod. "But, many of the audience members on site still haven't recovered?"
"If you can't figure out the situation, wouldn't it be fine to ask someone who knows?"
Hayato said, turning to look at the tied-up Zigfried.
Because of Hayato's one sentence, the pink-haired person, realizing that everyone present was looking at him, couldn't help but shrink his neck and took a step back. "W-What do you guys want to do!?"
"Oh my, the physique is quite solid. Been working out lately?" With a strange smile on his face, Hayato held the rope with one hand, not letting Zigfried leave. "Be good, let me take a look!"
"Ughhhh, no!"
