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"Activate Magic Cylinder!"

Hayato's Spell/Trap Zone flipped open, revealing that classic and useful Trap Card, Magic Cylinder. Only then did Hiroya Misawa, who had just impulsively rushed in, suddenly remember that it was the card Hayato had Set when he Special Summoned Labrynth Archfiend.

The card searched and Set by Labrynth Archfiend's effect when it's Special Summoned has a specific requirement: it must be a card that activates during the Attack Declaration. How could I have forgotten this point?

"Magic Cylinder can only be activated when your opponent declares an attack, by targeting that attacking monster. It negates that monster's attack and inflicts damage to your opponent equal to that monster's ATK." Hayato said, looking at the Buster Blader on Hiroya Misawa's Field. "How scary, 5600 ATK. It can easily wipe out my Life Points."

"But the same applies in reverse! 5600 damage is also enough to wipe out your Life Points!"

Hearing Hayato's words, Hiroya Misawa was also in a panic now. "Bad, bad! If I die in this Dark Game... No, I absolutely don't want that to happen!"

With a panicked expression, he glanced at his empty hand, then looked at his field where he had no monster effects he could activate. His gaze fell upon that last Set card in his Back Row. "I've got it! I still have this card, I still have a chance! I haven't reached the time to die yet!"

"Activate the Quick-Play Spell Card, Half Shut!"

With an expression of having escaped death, Hiroya Misawa flipped open the card in his Spell/Trap Zone. A beam of light fell upon the Buster Blader on his Field.

Even though Buster Blader's ATK had clearly increased to a full 5600 from the boost of Destruction Swordsman Fusion before, after that Set card in Hiroya Misawa's Spell/Trap Zone was activated, Buster Blader's ATK instead decreased!?

Buster Blader [ATK 5600 → 2800]

"Magic Cylinder indeed has the powerful ability to reflect attacks, but the premise for wanting to defeat me with that one card is that Buster Blader's ATK must be enough to wipe out my Life Points, right?"

Hiroya Misawa, who had just been panicking, became arrogant again after grasping this lifeline, like a petty person who had achieved their goal. Looking at Hayato, he said, "But according to Reverse Chain Resolution, as long as I decrease Buster Blader's ATK to a degree that won't wipe out my Life Points before Magic Cylinder's effect takes effect, it'll be fine!"

"Because of Half Shut's effect, Buster Blader's ATK becomes half until the End Phase, and it will not be battle destroyed."

Hiroya Misawa proudly watched as Buster Blader's attack was blocked by the two cylinders that appeared in front of Labrynth Archfiend, and the sword slash was absorbed into them.

"My Life Points are a full 4000. Although 2800 damage is also a heavy blow to me, as long as I can endure this hit, I can use Daitenku with 3700 ATK to counter you, Hayato Kobayashi!"

"One point you just made is correct: after this Battle Phase ends, your Life Points will be like a flickering candle. If you had replaced Half Shut with Fireball, that would have been a finishing blow, but unfortunately, you couldn't replace it."

Magic Cylinder began converting the attack it had absorbed before. The cannon barrels aimed at Hiroya Misawa, seeming like they were about to reflect the attack back. And Hiroya Misawa had also prepared to accept the attack.

But when his gaze looked towards the rear of Magic Cylinder, he was startled. Because he saw a hexagonal device that had appeared on Hayato's Back Row at some unknown time. And inside it were six holes like revolver handgun cylinders, loaded with several Magic Cylinders?

"What is that thing?"

"This? You were just looking at what cards you could activate in your own Spell/Trap Zone, so you didn't see it, right? This is a card I Chain Activated when Magic Cylinder was Activated, the Normal Trap Card Heavy Barrel." Hayato said with a shrug, with an innocent expression.

"But on your Back Row just now, there was clearly only one Set card, Magic Cylinder!"

"That's right, my Set card was indeed only one Magic Cylinder, but I also didn't say that Heavy Barrel is activated on the Field." Hayato said, surprisingly taking out a card from the Graveyard. "When I activate Magic Cylinder, Heavy Barrel can activate its effect by banishing itself from the Graveyard. You're not the only one next to you who activates Trap Cards from the Graveyard."

"And Heavy Barrel's effect is to double the effect damage that Magic Cylinder returns to the opponent." A considerably evil smile appeared on Hayato's face. He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips. "Which means your attempt to struggle by just activating Half Shut was fundamentally useless effort, completely useless! Hahahahaha!"

"Nani!?"

Hiroya Misawa looked again at the Magic Cylinder about to fire, and felt from it even greater power compared to the attack Buster Blader had swung just now.

He used Half Shut to halve Buster Blader's ATK, then after Magic Cylinder absorbed the damage of that value, it was then doubled by Heavy Barrel's effect. Which means the attack now being returned is surprisingly still that 5600 ATK from Buster Blader just now!?

This time, Hiroya Misawa truly had no card he could activate. He looked towards the Mysterious Person next to him, pleading for help. "Hey, save me! Quickly activate any card, help me with your card effect! My wise brain absolutely cannot disappear from this World!"

"Why are you just watching!"

"Tsk, why are you showing such an ugly expression? Could it be you can't accept the reality that you are about to be defeated in the Dark Game?" Hayato said, looking at Hiroya Misawa, mocking. "Only with the Resolve to be shot can one have the Qualification to shoot. Go on your way in peace of mind, Small Fry."

Even Kaiba had his arms crossed over his chest and said with a cold laugh, "Just now you seemed to still be arrogantly evaluating the cooperation between me and Hayato Kobayashi, right? Seeing as your ugly state can make me laugh, I'll respond to you a little."

"Hayato Kobayashi and I cannot cooperate? That's not the case. The reason you can't see my cooperation with him from this Duel is only one, a very simple reason: you, a third-rate Duelist with a fourth-rate Deck, don't even have the ability to make the two of us get serious in a Duel alone. Cooperation or anything like that is fundamentally unnecessary!"

"You guys!" Seeing that Magic Cylinder was finally about to fire, Hiroya Misawa said somewhat hysterically, "Wait for me! When you are absorbed by the darkness and fall into Purgatory, you will surely remember my, Hiroya Misawa's, wrath!"

"Boom!"

From within Magic Cylinder, the beam cannon converted from Buster Blader's slash suddenly fired, sweeping past the Buster Blader on Hiroya Misawa's Field, as well as Gozuki and Daitenku, who had appeared and shown their faces but hadn't even attacked once, and directly hit him personally.

The destructive magic energy instantly wiped out Hiroya Misawa's Life Points, and amidst his wails, his whole person was directly blasted away, penetrating the Dark Game's domain and landing outside.

Outside the few people dueling, Keipei, who had been waiting outside for a long time together with Alister, always watching the duel inside through a one-way window specially pioneered by Hayato using the Millennium Ring's power, subconsciously glanced at Hiroya Misawa after noticing him flying out, then indifferently turned his head back to watch the duel.

"One lost." "Mm, resolved one." Alister and Keipei chatted idly. No one paid attention to the unconscious Hiroya Misawa. Even inside the Dark Game's domain, it was the same.

"Hmph, the unnecessary Small Fry has finally left the Field. If you had direct attacked that guy just now, it would have been faster, Hayato." Because Hiroya Misawa left the Field, his Turn ended immediately and it came to Kaiba's Turn. While saying this, Kaiba placed his finger on the Top of Deck. "My Turn, Draw."

"Don't say it like that, Kaiba. If I had attacked that guy just now, who would have stepped on a trap for you? After all, your Blue-Eyes is too easy to fall into traps, isn't it?"

Looking at Kaiba's raised eyebrow when drawing a card, Hayato also somewhat guessed what card this guy had drawn again and reminded him, "Although I have a feeling you won't listen, it's okay to slightly counter your offensive. You will have difficulty resolving this guy in one Turn."

"Hmph, have you not directly faced Blue-Eyes White Dragon for too long, so you've forgotten her strength, Hayato Kobayashi?" If Hayato hadn't said anything, it would have been fine; Kaiba didn't necessarily have the idea to activate this card in his hand yet, but now he felt he absolutely had to go for it. "Then you just watch! I will resolve that Mysterious Person opposite me in this Turn!"

"Activate the Spell Card, Card of Demise! Everyone draws cards until they have six in their hand!" Placing the card in his hand into the Spell & Trap Zone, Kaiba said, having already drawn six cards. "My hand is 0, therefore I can draw a total of six cards!"

".My hand is also 0, I can also draw six cards." The Mysterious Person opposite, closely following Kaiba, also drew six cards. Seeing this, Hayato sighed. "You've replenished the opponent with six cards, Kaiba. Tsk, I have one card in hand, so I can only draw five cards."

"Seriously, if I had known you were going to use Card of Demise, I would have used this card in my hand. Making me gain one less card is more uncomfortable than giving me card disadvantage."

"Hmph, it doesn't matter. Even if I let the opponent draw six cards, what of it? I won't let him have the opportunity to activate a card in his own Turn."

While speaking, Kaiba activated the effect of a card on the Field. "Once per Turn, with Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon's effect, return the Blue-Eyes White Dragon on my Field to my hand. Then, because the returned card is Blue-Eyes White Dragon, I can directly Special Summon one monster from my hand!"

"Come forth, White Spirit Dragon!"

Blue-Eyes White Dragon's figure disappeared, followed by Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon's effect, replaced by the appearance of a completely white giant dragon.

White Spirit Dragon [Level 8 / Light]
[Dragon Type / Effect]
[2500/2000]

"White Spirit Dragon activates when successfully Summon/Special Summoned. By targeting one Spell/Trap Card on the opponent's Field, banish it." Kaiba's goal pointed directly at the sole Set card in the Mysterious Person's Spell/Trap Zone opposite him. "What I select is that Set card in your Spell/Trap Zone."

Corresponding to Blue-Eyes Steel Armor Dragon which negates monster effects, White Spirit Dragon has the ability to banish Spell and Trap Cards when appearing. Unlike Hayato, who knows what specific effects the Golden Land Spell/Trap Cards have, Kaiba could only make a judgment based on his own experience.

But unfortunately, that Mysterious Person, seeing Kaiba was about to banish his card, also directly activated the Set card.

"In that case, I will chain White Spirit Dragon's effect and activate my Set card, the Quick-Play Spell Card Elixir of the White Destiny. Because of Reverse Chain Resolution, its effect will take effect before you banish this card."

Alchemy's four processes, "Falling into Darkness", "Albedo", "Citrinitas", and "Rubedo". Among these, the cards of "Falling into Darkness" and "Rubedo" had already been used successively in previous Duels. At this moment, the Mysterious Person activated the "Albedo" card, Elixir of the White Destiny, representing "Combine".

"Elixir of the White Destiny's effect: Select one Zombie-Type monster from my hand or Graveyard and Special Summon it. In the situation where an Eldlich monster is not on my Field, only an Eldlich monster can be Special Summoned." Drawing a card from his hand, the Mysterious Person played it. "Thanks to Card of Demise, I drew a large amount of cards! I will Special Summon this monster from my hand in Defense Position!"

The beam of light spat out by White Spirit Dragon annihilated and banished Elixir of the White Destiny, preventing the Mysterious Person from banishing that card from the Graveyard again in the next Turn to mobilize cards in the Deck again. However, Elixir of the White Destiny's own effect had already successfully taken effect, and one monster appeared on his Field.

Necroworld Banshee [Level 4 / Dark]
[Zombie-Type / Effect]
[1800/200]

"Although it has 1800 ATK, its DEF is only a mere 200. It's to the extent that even the kind of weak monsters that Hayato Kobayashi and Mutou Yuugi like to use can break through it."

Hearing Kaiba's words, Rainbow Kuriboh popped out from Hayato's Duel Disk on the spot with dissatisfaction and grumbled at him. But because it's very cute, it can be forgiven even if it's saying dirty words.

"Although you gained one monster, this also means the cards in your Spell/Trap Zone are finally gone! I will activate the Spell Card, Polymerization from my hand!"

"Using the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand as Fusion Material, descend, the evolved strongest dragon!"

"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

Three Blue-Eyes White Dragons soared up behind Kaiba. In mid-air, they fused into one, transformed into the ultimate Dragon Type, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon [ATK 4500]

"When Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon exists in my Fusion Deck, once per Duel, activate Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's effect: it can perform three attacks during the Battle Phase." Kaiba looked at the four monsters on the Mysterious Person's Field and said with a cold laugh, "Enter Battle Phase! You've endured for a long time, haven't you, Blue-Eyes? Then begin to ravage!"

"Crush! Destroy! Grand Celebration!"

As Kaiba reached out and pointed at the Conquistador of the Golden Land, Golden Land Forever!, and Eldlich the Golden Lord on the Mysterious Person's Field, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon behind him also opened its mouth, and white light converged into it.

"Hyper Burst Stream!"

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