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Chapter 891: Hayato Kobayashi, I'll Kill You a Thousand Times!
The moment the explosion occurred, Hayato rushed towards Tenma Yexing, grabbing a chair beside him and throwing it at Tenma Yexing. However, Tenma Yexing reacted quickly, dodging the flying chair in time.
But Hayato took advantage of his dodge to get next to **Ojama Black**, smashing the jar containing it with a punch and retrieving **Ojama Black**, whom he had previously thought was unconscious but was actually just heartlessly asleep.
"Your target is actually your own spirit? Although there were rumors that you were quite a ruthless guy who would sacrifice your spirit arbitrarily, it's clear that the truth isn't like that, Hayato Kobayashi!" Tenma Yexing paused, then continued, "But, what exactly is going on?!"
"Since you asked so sincerely, I'll mercifully tell you." After bringing **Ojama Black** back, Hayato retreated to put distance between himself and Tenma Yexing, pointing a finger at Keipei and saying, "In your eyes, whether it's me, Kaiba, or Alister, you believe you need to keep an eye on us and be vigilant because we possess a certain amount of combat power, right?"
"But from beginning to end, you never paid attention to Keipei, not just because he's young, but also because he doesn't possess much strength in the field of Duel Monsters. And the result is, you never expected him to connect to the KaibaCorp Network using Kaiba's device and load a temporarily written self-destruct program into the Arc Reactor."
"Your next line is, 'Were you stalling for time before, Hayato Kobayashi!?'"
As Hayato's voice fell, Tenma Yexing also spoke, "Were you stalling for time—Nani!?"
While Tenma Yexing was stunned, Alister had already placed a bomb on the iron door blocking the way behind them and shouted to Kaiba and the others, "Get back, it's going to explode—"
"Boom!"
The bomb exploded with a boom before Alister could even finish speaking. The directional explosives blew open the sturdy metal door, allowing the group to escape from there.
"Say it a little sooner next time!" Keipei complained, "And why do you carry bombs with you? Aren't you a chef?"
"Is there a question? I occasionally encounter annoying customers who deliberately pick fights," Alister said casually, shouting to Hayato, "Stop wasting words with that guy, if you've got your spirit back, hurry up and leave, this place is going to explode!"
The self-destruct program Keipei loaded into the Arc Reactor, although temporarily written using the AR glasses he was wearing, wasn't just a simple detonation program. It had two explosion stages set up.
The first stage was the explosion just now. Since Tenma Yexing's device couldn't be detected by conventional means, Keipei simply overloaded the Arc Reactor directly and then used an explosion to damage all connected devices, directly causing the **Tragoedia** card to be stuck in the device and unable to be taken out.
The second stage of the explosion was set by Keipei two minutes after the first explosion. When the countdown reached zero, the Arc Reactor would be completely destroyed from the inside out. The power of the explosion, after precise calculation, would be concentrated in the upward and downward directions, minimizing damage to a wider range while definitely destroying the Underground Space where Tenma Yexing was located.
And before that countdown reached zero, what Hayato and the others had to do was leave here as quickly as possible, if they didn't want to be destroyed by the high heat and high pressure of the Arc Reactor's instantaneous explosion.
Hearing Alister's words, Tenma Yexing immediately glared at Hayato: "Wait a minute, are you trying to escape, Hayato Kobayashi! Aren't you the Duel King? Give me the courage to battle the enemy until the last and never give up!"
"Huh? What kind of idiot are you? Who the hell wants to commit mutual destruction with you? I'm escaping now, you can drown in your illusion." Imitating the lines of a certain passing Archer, Hayato turned without hesitation and ascended the Stairs, running towards the Maintenance Channel that was now clear. Alister had already picked up Keipei and ran, while Kaiba remained at the Entrance waiting for Hayato.
"You bastard!" Tenma Yexing wanted to pursue Hayato, but just as he took a step in the direction Hayato had left, he glanced at the **Tragoedia** card stuck in the device beside him again.
Logically speaking, weighing the two things of pursuing Hayato and saving his own life against a card, the importance of the latter is undoubtedly incomparable to the former. But Tenma Yexing gritted his teeth and chose without hesitation to stay and take action to forcibly dismantle the stuck device, attempting to take out the card.
Hayato, who had already arrived at the Entrance, glanced at Tenma Yexing, who seemed to have given up on his escape plan. Standing at a high place, he couldn't help but say loudly, "Remember this day, Tenma Yexing, because today, you almost caught the great Hayato Kobayashi!"
"Whose virtual character lines are those now?" Kaiba raised an eyebrow and said impatiently, "Hurry up, we only have one minute left."
"Okay, I'm coming."
Hayato and Kaiba entered the Passage, moved quickly along it, and upon reaching the Passage's exit, immediately rushed towards the Entrance of the Central Building's First Floor Lobby. Tenma Yexing was still struggling with the powered-off, stuck device.
A strange dark aura was wrapped around the hands pulling at the device's moving mechanism. Tenma Yexing watched the tough metal being forcibly pried open little by little with brute force, somewhat annoyed that when he stole KaibaCorp's products and hand-crafted this device, he had worried about the safety of the card within and used metal of excessively high quality.
While the quality of food packaging does need to be high, when you need to open the packaging, excessively high quality that prevents you from opening it quickly is annoying.
Just as Hayato, Kaiba, and Alister with Keipei had successfully escaped to a position dozens of meters away from the Central Building, accompanying the tearing off of the last part that was jamming the **Tragoedia** card, Tenma Yexing revealed a smile of joy: "Ya☆Ta☆Ze!"
"Boom!"
Tenma Yexing, holding the **Tragoedia** card tightly in his hand, was swallowed by a blue energy impact that blasted down from above the next moment.
The Arc Reactor's self-destruct countdown reached zero. A blue energy pillar shot straight up into the sky from its location. Even the sturdily built building was pierced through more than ten floors. The energy that couldn't completely break through the entire building had nowhere to vent and began to be released horizontally. The strong wind completely messed up the hairstyle of Hayato and the others who hadn't fully moved away from the Central Building. Keipei was only saved from being blown away because Kaiba held onto him tightly.
On the Commercial Street several kilometers away, the Ground also suddenly experienced a slight shaking and trembling. Téa , who usually had good balance from practicing dance, seemed a little unsteady and happened to fall into Yugi's embrace, where he supported her.
He looked worriedly in the direction the tremor came from. Before Hayato and Kaiba left, they had told him the destination they were going to. Had something happened at KaibaCorp?
Fortunately, Kaiba President, who has always favored peace, been friendly to others, and cared for the World, also loves the environment. At that time, when building the Arc Reactor, he didn't choose the old-fashioned nuclear generator, which had mature technology but would cause radiation pollution. Instead, he overcame the cold fusion technology himself and created this clean energy device. Hayato and the others, who directly faced the hot wind from the explosion, did not encounter the test of nuclear radiation.
The explosion came and went quickly. Sitting on the Ground, Keipei looked up at the building in front of him. Although the explosion didn't completely destroy this reliable quality building, the large explosion from the inside out also damaged its supporting structure significantly. Even though it still stood before them, it's estimated that no one would be willing to work in this building with a large hole in the center, and it definitely wouldn't persist for long.
Although actively detonating the Arc Reactor was quite exhilarating, looking at his family's industry ruined like this, Keipei couldn't help but start calculating again, saying with considerable regret and heartache, "The explosion was indeed quite satisfying, but this building is basically scrapped. The direct loss is at least over a billion Yen. If this continues, KaibaCorp will go bankrupt in another thousand years."
"Out with the old, in with the new, Manji," Hayato said casually, "Besides, it hasn't collapsed yet, has it? Maybe it can still be used after repairs."
"Boom!"
The instant Hayato's voice fell, a pitch-black figure suddenly flew out from the Ruin rubble piled up in the completely ruined First Floor Hall from the previous explosion. It flew upwards for dozens of meters, passing through several floors, then shattered the building's outer wall covered in rifts and flew out from within, blasting towards the location of Hayato and the others.
Hayato and the others quickly retreated, dodging the attack of the unidentified object. The pitch-black figure smashed onto the Ground, creating a considerable pit. Smoke filled it, making it impossible to see what it was, but Keipei could see that behind it, the building, heavily damaged again, couldn't withstand this time and was collapsing from top to bottom.
The Central Building was now in the same state as Industrial Illusions' Headquarters in the American system after Hayato tore it down. And as the building completely collapsed, Keipei fell into silence.
"Hayato Kobayashi!" Just as Hayato was about to rub salt into Keipei's wounds or comfort him with a couple of words, a malice voice came from the pit created by the thing that had almost hit them. It sounded like Tenma Yexing's voice, "Again, you destroyed everything of mine!"
"What I want to say is, life is unsatisfactory..." Hayato appeared completely undefended on the surface, but actually, he had already taken out several cards in his hand behind his back, ready to take action, watching the smoke gradually dissipate from the pit. But his words were cut short when he saw the "thing" that appeared in the pit. Even Hayato couldn't help but be stunned.
What crawled out of the pit, or rather, climbed out, was a pitch-black spirit shaped like a lobster. The voice, identical to Tenma Yexing's, came from its mouth: "Hayato Kobayashi! I'll kill you a thousand times and it still won't be enough!"
"No, who are you? Do we know each other?"
Hayato could recognize that the monster before him was **Tragoedia**. After all, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! meta from his past life long ago, there was a period when the Undying Synchro was strong, dragging it into a "Zombie Hell," and Cold Wave was rampant. At that time, **Tragoedia** was also popular as an OTK Countermeasure Card, and had even become a noble Limited Card.
But what was going on with this **Tragoedia**? Why did it have such great grudge towards him? Could it be that the spirit of the **Tragoedia** from his past life, which he always summoned to take hits and sell off, had also transmigrated?
"Heh, I owe this appearance entirely to you, Hayato Kobayashi!" **Tragoedia** said through gritted teeth, "I originally intended to fully analyze and assimilate the power of this card before taking this step, but because of you, this cunning guy, I was forced to fusion summon with the card prematurely!"
"Although the power I obtained hasn't changed, I've been turned into this ugly appearance. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, I'll let you know who I am, with the invincible power I've obtained!"
As **Tragoedia** spoke, it raised an arm, spread its five fingers, and faced its palm towards Hayato and the others. In an instant, dark power gathered in its hand into a sphere and flew out, smashing into the card Hayato threw out fiercely!
"Kuriboh!" Striking an uppercut pose, **Rainbow Kuriboh** blocked the attack of this energy ball. Although it was quickly destroyed and returned to the card to recover, it also protected Hayato and the others from injury.
However, Hayato, who was constantly watching **Tragoedia**, captured a faint afterimage that vaguely appeared beside its skull the instant it launched the attack. But that was Tenma Yexing's appearance. Hayato somehow remembered Mahad and **Illusion Magician**, and a conjecture surfaced in his heart. He immediately blurted out.
"You're Tenma Yexing!? You actually turned into a card spirit?!"
"What? That's impossible!" Alister looked at Hayato with a shocked expression and said, "What are you thinking, Hayato Kobayashi? How can a human turn into a spirit?"
But Kaiba spoke up. Having also experienced the battle of Memory World and knowing Mahad's experience, he could understand Hayato's words: "No, that guy is indeed Tenma Yexing. He actually turned himself into a Duel Monster?"
"Counting this, it's the third time I've seen something like this, but I have to say, this is the most annoying I've felt." Looking at **Tragoedia**, or rather, Tenma Yexing who had completely abandoned his human identity, Hayato said with a look of disgust.
"Hmph, foolishness, you fundamentally don't know the beauty of power. I now possess a powerful power that you cannot imagine." Looking down at Hayato, Tenma Yexing laughed coldly, "I've changed my mind. Killing you like this would be too easy for you. I will use this body to set up a Dark Game and completely devour your souls!"
On his outstretched arm, a Duel Disk appeared out of nowhere, identical to the style he wore before. At the same time, Tenma Yexing also took out the three cards he had wanted to use before but were interrupted by the explosion, put them into the Deck he had printed out, and they automatically shuffled.
"You were the one who refused the duel before, and now you're the one who wants to duel. However, I don't care." Hayato glanced at the cards Tenma Yexing had shuffled into the Deck. After a brief thought, he modified the Deck he had planned to use before and inserted the cards into his Duel Disk again, "In that case, I will use the Evolved Strongest Dragon and bestow the Whip of Complete Defeat upon you!"
Kaiba behind him: "?"
The moment the explosion occurred, Hayato rushed towards Tenma Yexing, grabbing a chair beside him and throwing it at Tenma Yexing. However, Tenma Yexing reacted quickly, dodging the flying chair in time.
But Hayato took advantage of his dodge to get next to **Ojama Black**, smashing the jar containing it with a punch and retrieving **Ojama Black**, whom he had previously thought was unconscious but was actually just heartlessly asleep.
"Your target is actually your own spirit? Although there were rumors that you were quite a ruthless guy who would sacrifice your spirit arbitrarily, it's clear that the truth isn't like that, Hayato Kobayashi!" Tenma Yexing paused, then continued, "But, what exactly is going on?!"
"Since you asked so sincerely, I'll mercifully tell you." After bringing **Ojama Black** back, Hayato retreated to put distance between himself and Tenma Yexing, pointing a finger at Keipei and saying, "In your eyes, whether it's me, Kaiba, or Alister, you believe you need to keep an eye on us and be vigilant because we possess a certain amount of combat power, right?"
"But from beginning to end, you never paid attention to Keipei, not just because he's young, but also because he doesn't possess much strength in the field of Duel Monsters. And the result is, you never expected him to connect to the KaibaCorp Network using Kaiba's device and load a temporarily written self-destruct program into the Arc Reactor."
"Your next line is, 'Were you stalling for time before, Hayato Kobayashi!?'"
As Hayato's voice fell, Tenma Yexing also spoke, "Were you stalling for time—Nani!?"
While Tenma Yexing was stunned, Alister had already placed a bomb on the iron door blocking the way behind them and shouted to Kaiba and the others, "Get back, it's going to explode—"
"Boom!"
The bomb exploded with a boom before Alister could even finish speaking. The directional explosives blew open the sturdy metal door, allowing the group to escape from there.
"Say it a little sooner next time!" Keipei complained, "And why do you carry bombs with you? Aren't you a chef?"
"Is there a question? I occasionally encounter annoying customers who deliberately pick fights," Alister said casually, shouting to Hayato, "Stop wasting words with that guy, if you've got your spirit back, hurry up and leave, this place is going to explode!"
The self-destruct program Keipei loaded into the Arc Reactor, although temporarily written using the AR glasses he was wearing, wasn't just a simple detonation program. It had two explosion stages set up.
The first stage was the explosion just now. Since Tenma Yexing's device couldn't be detected by conventional means, Keipei simply overloaded the Arc Reactor directly and then used an explosion to damage all connected devices, directly causing the **Tragoedia** card to be stuck in the device and unable to be taken out.
The second stage of the explosion was set by Keipei two minutes after the first explosion. When the countdown reached zero, the Arc Reactor would be completely destroyed from the inside out. The power of the explosion, after precise calculation, would be concentrated in the upward and downward directions, minimizing damage to a wider range while definitely destroying the Underground Space where Tenma Yexing was located.
And before that countdown reached zero, what Hayato and the others had to do was leave here as quickly as possible, if they didn't want to be destroyed by the high heat and high pressure of the Arc Reactor's instantaneous explosion.
Hearing Alister's words, Tenma Yexing immediately glared at Hayato: "Wait a minute, are you trying to escape, Hayato Kobayashi! Aren't you the Duel King? Give me the courage to battle the enemy until the last and never give up!"
"Huh? What kind of idiot are you? Who the hell wants to commit mutual destruction with you? I'm escaping now, you can drown in your illusion." Imitating the lines of a certain passing Archer, Hayato turned without hesitation and ascended the Stairs, running towards the Maintenance Channel that was now clear. Alister had already picked up Keipei and ran, while Kaiba remained at the Entrance waiting for Hayato.
"You bastard!" Tenma Yexing wanted to pursue Hayato, but just as he took a step in the direction Hayato had left, he glanced at the **Tragoedia** card stuck in the device beside him again.
Logically speaking, weighing the two things of pursuing Hayato and saving his own life against a card, the importance of the latter is undoubtedly incomparable to the former. But Tenma Yexing gritted his teeth and chose without hesitation to stay and take action to forcibly dismantle the stuck device, attempting to take out the card.
Hayato, who had already arrived at the Entrance, glanced at Tenma Yexing, who seemed to have given up on his escape plan. Standing at a high place, he couldn't help but say loudly, "Remember this day, Tenma Yexing, because today, you almost caught the great Hayato Kobayashi!"
"Whose virtual character lines are those now?" Kaiba raised an eyebrow and said impatiently, "Hurry up, we only have one minute left."
"Okay, I'm coming."
Hayato and Kaiba entered the Passage, moved quickly along it, and upon reaching the Passage's exit, immediately rushed towards the Entrance of the Central Building's First Floor Lobby. Tenma Yexing was still struggling with the powered-off, stuck device.
A strange dark aura was wrapped around the hands pulling at the device's moving mechanism. Tenma Yexing watched the tough metal being forcibly pried open little by little with brute force, somewhat annoyed that when he stole KaibaCorp's products and hand-crafted this device, he had worried about the safety of the card within and used metal of excessively high quality.
While the quality of food packaging does need to be high, when you need to open the packaging, excessively high quality that prevents you from opening it quickly is annoying.
Just as Hayato, Kaiba, and Alister with Keipei had successfully escaped to a position dozens of meters away from the Central Building, accompanying the tearing off of the last part that was jamming the **Tragoedia** card, Tenma Yexing revealed a smile of joy: "Ya☆Ta☆Ze!"
"Boom!"
Tenma Yexing, holding the **Tragoedia** card tightly in his hand, was swallowed by a blue energy impact that blasted down from above the next moment.
The Arc Reactor's self-destruct countdown reached zero. A blue energy pillar shot straight up into the sky from its location. Even the sturdily built building was pierced through more than ten floors. The energy that couldn't completely break through the entire building had nowhere to vent and began to be released horizontally. The strong wind completely messed up the hairstyle of Hayato and the others who hadn't fully moved away from the Central Building. Keipei was only saved from being blown away because Kaiba held onto him tightly.
On the Commercial Street several kilometers away, the Ground also suddenly experienced a slight shaking and trembling. Téa , who usually had good balance from practicing dance, seemed a little unsteady and happened to fall into Yugi's embrace, where he supported her.
He looked worriedly in the direction the tremor came from. Before Hayato and Kaiba left, they had told him the destination they were going to. Had something happened at KaibaCorp?
Fortunately, Kaiba President, who has always favored peace, been friendly to others, and cared for the World, also loves the environment. At that time, when building the Arc Reactor, he didn't choose the old-fashioned nuclear generator, which had mature technology but would cause radiation pollution. Instead, he overcame the cold fusion technology himself and created this clean energy device. Hayato and the others, who directly faced the hot wind from the explosion, did not encounter the test of nuclear radiation.
The explosion came and went quickly. Sitting on the Ground, Keipei looked up at the building in front of him. Although the explosion didn't completely destroy this reliable quality building, the large explosion from the inside out also damaged its supporting structure significantly. Even though it still stood before them, it's estimated that no one would be willing to work in this building with a large hole in the center, and it definitely wouldn't persist for long.
Although actively detonating the Arc Reactor was quite exhilarating, looking at his family's industry ruined like this, Keipei couldn't help but start calculating again, saying with considerable regret and heartache, "The explosion was indeed quite satisfying, but this building is basically scrapped. The direct loss is at least over a billion Yen. If this continues, KaibaCorp will go bankrupt in another thousand years."
"Out with the old, in with the new, Manji," Hayato said casually, "Besides, it hasn't collapsed yet, has it? Maybe it can still be used after repairs."
"Boom!"
The instant Hayato's voice fell, a pitch-black figure suddenly flew out from the Ruin rubble piled up in the completely ruined First Floor Hall from the previous explosion. It flew upwards for dozens of meters, passing through several floors, then shattered the building's outer wall covered in rifts and flew out from within, blasting towards the location of Hayato and the others.
Hayato and the others quickly retreated, dodging the attack of the unidentified object. The pitch-black figure smashed onto the Ground, creating a considerable pit. Smoke filled it, making it impossible to see what it was, but Keipei could see that behind it, the building, heavily damaged again, couldn't withstand this time and was collapsing from top to bottom.
The Central Building was now in the same state as Industrial Illusions' Headquarters in the American system after Hayato tore it down. And as the building completely collapsed, Keipei fell into silence.
"Hayato Kobayashi!" Just as Hayato was about to rub salt into Keipei's wounds or comfort him with a couple of words, a malice voice came from the pit created by the thing that had almost hit them. It sounded like Tenma Yexing's voice, "Again, you destroyed everything of mine!"
"What I want to say is, life is unsatisfactory..." Hayato appeared completely undefended on the surface, but actually, he had already taken out several cards in his hand behind his back, ready to take action, watching the smoke gradually dissipate from the pit. But his words were cut short when he saw the "thing" that appeared in the pit. Even Hayato couldn't help but be stunned.
What crawled out of the pit, or rather, climbed out, was a pitch-black spirit shaped like a lobster. The voice, identical to Tenma Yexing's, came from its mouth: "Hayato Kobayashi! I'll kill you a thousand times and it still won't be enough!"
"No, who are you? Do we know each other?"
Hayato could recognize that the monster before him was **Tragoedia**. After all, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! meta from his past life long ago, there was a period when the Undying Synchro was strong, dragging it into a "Zombie Hell," and Cold Wave was rampant. At that time, **Tragoedia** was also popular as an OTK Countermeasure Card, and had even become a noble Limited Card.
But what was going on with this **Tragoedia**? Why did it have such great grudge towards him? Could it be that the spirit of the **Tragoedia** from his past life, which he always summoned to take hits and sell off, had also transmigrated?
"Heh, I owe this appearance entirely to you, Hayato Kobayashi!" **Tragoedia** said through gritted teeth, "I originally intended to fully analyze and assimilate the power of this card before taking this step, but because of you, this cunning guy, I was forced to fusion summon with the card prematurely!"
"Although the power I obtained hasn't changed, I've been turned into this ugly appearance. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, I'll let you know who I am, with the invincible power I've obtained!"
As **Tragoedia** spoke, it raised an arm, spread its five fingers, and faced its palm towards Hayato and the others. In an instant, dark power gathered in its hand into a sphere and flew out, smashing into the card Hayato threw out fiercely!
"Kuriboh!" Striking an uppercut pose, **Rainbow Kuriboh** blocked the attack of this energy ball. Although it was quickly destroyed and returned to the card to recover, it also protected Hayato and the others from injury.
However, Hayato, who was constantly watching **Tragoedia**, captured a faint afterimage that vaguely appeared beside its skull the instant it launched the attack. But that was Tenma Yexing's appearance. Hayato somehow remembered Mahad and **Illusion Magician**, and a conjecture surfaced in his heart. He immediately blurted out.
"You're Tenma Yexing!? You actually turned into a card spirit?!"
"What? That's impossible!" Alister looked at Hayato with a shocked expression and said, "What are you thinking, Hayato Kobayashi? How can a human turn into a spirit?"
But Kaiba spoke up. Having also experienced the battle of Memory World and knowing Mahad's experience, he could understand Hayato's words: "No, that guy is indeed Tenma Yexing. He actually turned himself into a Duel Monster?"
"Counting this, it's the third time I've seen something like this, but I have to say, this is the most annoying I've felt." Looking at **Tragoedia**, or rather, Tenma Yexing who had completely abandoned his human identity, Hayato said with a look of disgust.
"Hmph, foolishness, you fundamentally don't know the beauty of power. I now possess a powerful power that you cannot imagine." Looking down at Hayato, Tenma Yexing laughed coldly, "I've changed my mind. Killing you like this would be too easy for you. I will use this body to set up a Dark Game and completely devour your souls!"
On his outstretched arm, a Duel Disk appeared out of nowhere, identical to the style he wore before. At the same time, Tenma Yexing also took out the three cards he had wanted to use before but were interrupted by the explosion, put them into the Deck he had printed out, and they automatically shuffled.
"You were the one who refused the duel before, and now you're the one who wants to duel. However, I don't care." Hayato glanced at the cards Tenma Yexing had shuffled into the Deck. After a brief thought, he modified the Deck he had planned to use before and inserted the cards into his Duel Disk again, "In that case, I will use the Evolved Strongest Dragon and bestow the Whip of Complete Defeat upon you!"
Kaiba behind him: "?"
