Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Yuugen walked onto the duel field, facing his first-round opponent, Jun Manjoume. They stood face to face, ready to duel.
"Duel!" x2
【Yuugen, LP: 4000】

【Manjoume, LP: 4000】
The two weren't familiar with each other, and there was nothing to chat about before the match. Manjoume only thought of Yuugen as a stepping stone for his advancement, while Yuugen was looking forward to taking this opportunity to test the actual combat ability of a character.
It was well known among card players that most characters in anime had decks that were for entertainment purposes only from the perspective of deck building. Back in the day, most people probably made the mistake of copying the decks of anime characters when they were kids and didn't understand. And then, once they started playing, they realized that their hands were filled with a mishmash of cards that made them question life. Six cards sitting in their hand were having a meeting, and they couldn't even get one to hit the field.

However, actually dueling as anime characters was completely different from reality. They had the ability to write "deck bonds" but read "topdecking by the power of plot armor." The key combo cards were always stuck together like they were glued with superglue, no matter how much they shuffled, they could always get them in their hand. They could win with even the most abstract deck builds.
And this ability was more obvious in the hands of stronger duelists. For example, Jaden Yuki, the GX protagonist known for his god-draws, or Dark Yugi, who evolved to the point of drawing whatever he wanted in the DM ending.
However, Manjoume's trump cards in the original work were all obtained in the later stages of the story. The VWXYZ Five-Piece Combination was something that Professor Chronos helped him obtain through insider trading in order to teach Jaden Yuki a lesson, and the Armed Dragon was something he obtained at North Academy. At this moment, he didn't even have the Ojama Brothers yet.

His strength should be much weaker than in the anime.
"I'll go first."
Yuugen decisively took the first-turn advantage randomly assigned by the duel disk system.

"I set a monster face-down on the field, and then set a card in the back row."
He drew two cards from his hand, placing one face-down in the front zone of the duel disk, and inserting the other into the Spell & Trap Card Zone in the back. The black, empty images of the two cards were immediately projected onto the field.
"End turn."

"Heh, a defensive play? But facing the NO.1 of the Middle School Division, this caution is only right."
Manjoume proclaimed with great overblown.
Obviously, Manjoume hadn't been beaten up by Jaden yet before entering Duel Academy, so he felt very good about himself.

"But it's useless! My turn, draw!"
He scanned his hand and immediately drew out two of the cards.
"I set a card face-down on the field. Then I activate the magic card: Card Destruction! Both players discard all cards in their hand, then draw the same number of cards from our decks that we discarded!"
Yuugen discarded all the cards in his hand as instructed, and together with Manjoume, he exchanged for new hands.

After exchanging for the new hand, Manjoume immediately pressed the button to activate his set card: "Flip Summon, magic card: Silent Graveyard! I can Special Summon a Normal Monster from my Graveyard in Defense Position.
I Summoned the previously discared , Maiden Swordsman - Canaan!"
A black vortex opened on the field, and a beautiful red-haired female warrior holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other appeared from the vortex. She was crouched down, and a horizontally placed card face appeared beneath her feet. The shield was blocking in front of her in a defensive posture.

【Maiden Swordsman - Canaan, DEF: 1400】
"Then I activate the Equip Magic Card: Great Sword, equip it to the Maiden Swordsman! Equip Monster's ATK increase by 300!" (Anime Card)
【Maiden Swordsman - Canaan, ATK: 1400 → ATK: 1700】

"Heh heh, you must be thinking, what's the point of increasing the attack power of a monster in Defense Position, right?" Manjoume snorted.
Yuugen was expressionless, thinking that wasn't what he was completely thinking.
"Let me tell you, elite duels are far beyond your imagination!" Manjoume said, "The Equip Magic Card Great Sword also has another effect! When the equipped monster is used as a tribute for a Warrior-Type monster, one monster can be used as two tributes.

Therefore, I use the Great Sword equipped Maiden Swordsman - Canaan, as two tributes..."
A white whirlwind rolled up, enveloping the swordsman. The golden light wrapped her and her sword, turning them into specks of light and dissipating.
"Light of dawn, illuminate the path to victory, cut through the obstacles with the legendary sword!"

Manjoume raised a card high in the air, and the storm summoned behind him lifted his ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) lapels.
"Appear! Level Eight, Legendary Swordsman!!!"
A masked swordsman in black armor stepped out of the storm, carrying a long sword on his back. His red hair fluttered, and his aura was extraordinary.

【Legendary Swordsman, ATK: 2600】
Yuugen nodded slightly. Hmm, as expected, duelists in this world were more flamboyant in their movements and lines when summoning big monsters...
The audience watching this match couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

"He summoned such a powerful monster on the first turn!" a red-haired girl exclaimed, "That kid doesn't feel like an ordinary person..."
"Hahaha, of course!"
Manjoume's two underlings in the back row were delighted to hear this: "That's the number one in the elite class of our Duel Academy Middle School! Manjoume-bro!"

"Manjoume-bro has already been recommended to the Academy High School this year. Beating this little role is completely easy..." Underling B also chimed in smugly.
"Middle School Elite Class... Number One!?"
The two girls were immediately in awe, and their eyes when they looked at Manjoume on the screen had completely turned into looking up to a big shot.

They had all heard that although the Middle School Division of Duel Academy wasn't as difficult to get into as the High School Division, it wasn't short of experts. And each of the members of the Elite Class were all teenage geniuses.
The number one in the Elite Class... that was a real big shot.
They suddenly began to feel a little sympathy for his opponent...

The two girls both had a look of pity on their faces.
It's a pity, that boy named Yugen Fujiki was quite handsome. It looked like he wouldn't be seen again after this round...
"It's not over yet!"

Manjoume was still playing.
"Legendary Swordsman, activate effect! As many Equip Cards as possible from my Graveyard are equipped to Warrior-Type monsters on the field!"
He paused, accepted the two cards ejected from the duel disk Graveyard Zone, and sneered.

"Of course, the Swordsman himself is a Warrior-Type, so I specify that the equip targets are also the Swordsman himself. I activate the equip magic cards Great Sword, equip magic cards Jewel Sword, at the same time, equipped on the Legendary Swordsman!"
Two equip magic cards were stacked on the Swordsman at the same time. The swordsman let out an energy-filled roar, pulled out the longsword behind him, and the blade was constantly lengthening, looking like it was about to turn into a forty-meter greatsword.
"Great Sword and Jewel Sword each increase the Swordsman's ATK by 300 points. Therefore, the attack power is increased by a total of 600 points!"

【Legendary Swordsman, ATK: 2600 → ATK: 3200】
"..."
"An attack power of three thousand two!" The red-haired girl was even more surprised, "This is still the first turn! It's already exceeded the attack power of the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

The two underlings felt even more honored. The corners of Underling B's mouth were raised high, and he pretended to laugh dismissively: "Sit down, sit down, it's a small scene. It's just basic operation for Manjoume-bro..."
However, Yuugen, who was in the heat of battle, was not intimidated by this posture, or rather, it was exactly the opposite.
He was staring at the only two cards left in Manjoume's hand.

It was only the beginning of the battle, and Manjoume had already lost four of his starting six cards, rounding off, it was about equal to four for one. This card was so bad that he felt sorry for him just looking at it.
If he worked harder, he might even catch up with the famous scene in the anime of turning five cards into a blank slate with a "five for one"...
"Hahaha, have you already been conquered by this overwhelming power?" Manjoume laughed loudly, "Don't worry, it will end quickly.

Battle Phase. Legendary Swordsman, defeat that face-down small fry monster!"
The swordsman drew his sword and flew forward. The forty-meter greatsword swung out an astonishing air current, and the monster set face-down on Yuugen's field was completely unable to resist. It flipped powerlessly under the wind pressure, revealing its true face.
It was a female warrior.

A blonde female warrior wearing a black combat suit and high boots, crouched down, holding a sword in front of her, looking so petite and weak in front of the gigantic object of the sword's edge.
【Dimensional Warrior, DEF: 1600】
"Dimensional Warrior, activate its effect," Yuugen said calmly, "When this card battles an opponent's monster, after the damage calculation step, I banish this card and the monster that battles it...... completely from the game."

I'm directly sending your Eight-Star monster to another dimension!
Manjoume: "!?"