Obelisk Blue 4

As always, classes with Crowler were a complete and utter slog. It took literally all of Yarden's will power not to fall asleep. Admittedly, the trio of eye candy sitting beside him made for a decent distraction, but even then, it was quite hard.

He would honestly rather be spending his time in classes, doing actual class work, even with how hard the proper schooling curriculum for Duel Academy was, rather than listen to Crowler drone on and on, repeating himself over and over again the different types of spell cards and trap cards and shit.

And the worst of it was. Half the idiots in this class didn't even manage to pick that up.

Yarden would be one of the first to admit, that the attitude given to the Slifer's for being 'drop outs' was seriously over the top. But, for the most part, there really was a reason for it.

Crowler had called on quite a few of them to answer during this class. And every time, not one of them had answered correctly. And the stupidest of all, was the questions were literally along the lines of, 'describe the function of a field spell'.

The sheer stupidity of it all, actually gave him a headache. Forget the Obelisks, Yarden wanted to mock them himself.

And the worst of it was, just how long Crowler's class was. It lasted right up until lunch, no breaks until then.

As class ended, Yarden was the only one not to get up to leave the class. Instead, he stayed in his seat and let everyone vacate the class. Jasmine pointed her tongue out at him as she passed, while Alexis gave him a nod.

"Sucks to be you bro!" Jaden laughed patting him on the shoulder as he happily skipped out of class, chanting, "Golden eggwich! Golden eggwich!"

No doubt, by time Yarden got out of here, the golden eggwich would be gone. Which, was lame. After all, the golden eggwich generally had pretty useful cards in them, and there was only one per day.

Seiyaru and Dragon's Mirror could attest to that.

Once everyone was gone, he got up and made his way down to the bottom and center of the classroom where Crowler was sitting behind his deck.

"You wanted to see me after class Doctor Crowler?" Yarden asked, stopping in front of the desk. He really hoped this wasn't some scheme the odd looking blonde haired man had set up to get back at Jaden.

"Why yes I did, good of you to remember my boy," Crowler outright beamed at him and Yarden had to resist the urge to flinch back. This was totally weird, he only gave beaming smiles like that to Alexis and the other blues, "I just wanted to congratulate you on your accomplishments last Friday, you performed marvelously."

"Thanks..?" Yarden replied, confused.

"No need for your thanks my boy, your results speak for themselves, you completely crushed your opponent in the practical, and you scored one hundred percent on the theoretical test, beyond even with your marvelous reply to the extra credit question," Crowler chuckled lightly, he then leaned forward, threading his fingers together and placing his chin on them as he stared into his eyes, "It is odd though. On the entrance exams, you scored a fifty one percent, one of the lowest passing scores, and on your practical duel. you just barely scraped by against the examination proctor."

This time, Yarden did flinch back, his face screwing up in disbelief. 'How...how the fuck?' he gaped inwardly.

"Now now, I'm not saying you're cheating or anything, that would be impossible on the practical duel at the very least," Crowler for some reason rushed to reassure him, "It's just odd you would be playing so much better with a deck you picked up after your own was stolen so dreadfully by some hooligan. A water themed deck with your ace monster being Levia Dragon - Daedalus was it not?"

So that was the deck that the guy who had this body before ran. Not bad taste at all really, especially with A Legendary Ocean, making Daedalus only a one tribute summon and with the ability destroy every other card on the field just for tributing Umi to activate the effect. And with how many damn cards could function as 'Umi', it was an easy effect to spam.

God damn, the guy who had this body before really was trash if he could barely beat an exam proctor with cards like that.

Yarden's mind raced as he searched for an excuse.

"Ah, sorry to say Doctor Crowler, but I've not really changed all that much," he gave the blue clad professor a grimacing smile as he lied, "I just got unlucky and had a fever, and I couldn't just not show up to the exams to get into a school like this right? I just had to suck it up and do it regardless."

Crowler blinked, "I see, that does make sense," he nodded, before giving the teenager a sympathetic look, "Your luck wasn't quite so good at all, was it? From a fever that made you nearly lose out on actually managing to attain a position here and then having your very deck stolen, simply dreadful. Why, you should never have ended up with those vagabonds in Slifer at all, you should have been in Ra Yellow at the very least from the get go."

"Thanks for the kind words professor," Yarden smiled back at him, relief sweeping through him at how easily his lie was bought, "..Is that all, or is there something else?"

Crowler nodded, "Why yes there is," the man grinned, purple lipstick clad lips stretching wide open, "I'm glad to inform you young Yarden, that you won't be joining Ra Yellow today, and instead you will be getting promoted straight to Obelisk Blue."

...Come again?

"Doctor Crowler...?" Yarden gave the man an odd look. This, he was not expecting.

Crowler chuckled, "Come now Yarden, do you believe the staff at this academy do not keep an eye on what our students get up to?" he said, giving Yarden a coy look, "The duel disks handed out by this academy are used for monitoring our students to a degree, to keep track of how they duel and how they can best be helped to improve. This also keeps track of other student opponents who also have a monitored duel disk, such as the dozens of Obelisk Blue students you have easily defeated one after another in the last week."

Actually, Yarden figured there was some way for them to keep track of duels between students. There were student duelist rankings that were dependent on how many times a student dueled and just who they had beaten. He just wasn't sure exactly how that happened. Now he did though.

Which probably meant, the reason for this promotion was because of his second duel on last Friday.

"And one very special Obelisk was noted to have been defeated by you on Friday night, I was quite shocked when I got the alert," Crowler shook his head, before beaming at Yarden once more, "I thought it a glitch of some kind to be honest at first. But imagine my shock when I call my very top student and find out that no, it was the truth of things and you had actually amanged to defeat Zane Truesdale."

'Called it.' Yarden resisted the urge to snort. Really, for everyone else it was some big world shaking revelation and event. But for him? It was Tuesday. Or rather, Friday, but the point stood.

"I must say young Yarden, you are the type of student this academy needs above all others, and there's no way you could be left to just toil in Ra Yellow until the next promotional exams after an accomplishment such as that," Crowler added. He sat back in his chair then and reached under his desk, pulling out a large blue folded jacket covered in plastic, a key sitting on top of it, "This will be your new Obelisk Blue blazer, and the key to your new dorm room at the Obelisk Blue dorms."

Well, it meant that the amount of DP he got per month would go up, even if his winnings would go down. A passive thousand pounds more or less a month wasn't anything to sneeze at anyway. And it wasn't like he'd be able to keep up his pace of trashing Obelisk's like he was doing would keep up forever.

Plus, the amazing dorm room of the Blue's? Sign him the fuck up. He'd get his own personal bathroom and not need to go shit in an outhouse.

A thought occurred to Yarden as he accepted the jacket and key, "Does that mean I'll get the monthly DP allowance for an Obelisk Blue right now?" he asked.

"Indeed you will, it's customary for a ranking up student to be gifted it, even if not at the start of the month," Crowler chuckled lightly, "Your promotion was finalized this morning, so the DP should already be in your account."

That was perfect! Now he would have enough to purchase the Five Headed Dragon from the card shop for a second copy. That meant, with Future Fusion and Dragon's Mirror, he could get two of them on the field within two turns.

Then he could really go crazy just for the sheer fuckery of it. Like say, Gift of the Martyr to sacrifice one of the Five Headed Dragon's to give its attack points to the other bringing it up to ten thousand. Then hitting it with Megamorph, since the version here didn't specify only doubling original attack points. Which would get him a twenty thousand attack point monster.

He almost laughed aloud at the thought! Truly, there was no kill quite like overkill!

"Now, your belongings will be picked up and moved to your new dorm room, actually they have already been so," Crowler continued, "I will meet you at the Obelisk Blue dorm at five pm, and help you get settled in Yarden, is that fine with you?"

"That's perfect Doctor Crowler." Yarden grinned at him.

"Splendid!" Crowler stood up and leaned over, patting him on the shoulder, "Let me be the first to welcome you to the Obelisk Blue dormitory and congratulate you on escaping those Slifer-Sludge vagabonds. Though, if you'll excuse me, I have some papers to grade."

Yarden bid the professor goodbye, a massive smile on his face as he made his way up the stairs of the classroom. It was so good to be him.