Chapter 120: Invitation from the

[Ryuga, LP 0]

With his LP hitting zero, Ryuga let out a long sigh.

It took him a good few seconds to realize that his fists had clenched at some point.

On one hand, he had an urge to beat up the seemingly human-shaped dog in front of him.

On the other hand, he wanted to give a good beating to Professor Cronos, who had smiled so smugly while praising him and then arranged such a duel for him.

Did all the first-year freshmen at Duel Academy these days have such skills?

And what was with his dueling style? Had he been away from his old school for too long, had the educational policy changed?

Who taught him to play cards like that!?

Ryuga felt he had reason to suspect that Cronos, with his seemingly fawning smile, had actually been ill-intentioned from the very beginning.

Thinking about it now, no wonder that guy had a strange smile on his face when he mentioned arranging a student to duel him. At that time, Ryuga was immersed in his own world, fantasizing about making a name for himself after entering the academy and reaching the peak of his life, so he hadn't noticed. But now, recalling it, he suddenly felt that there might have been a trick involved.

But Ryuga felt that even though he had ambition, he should have hidden it very well. He had always been respectful to Cronos, putting on an image of a humble subordinate respecting his leader, so there shouldn't have been any obvious signs.

So what grudge or hatred did the professor hold that he would use such a fresh weapon to deal with him!?

Asuka-san on the platform remained silent for a while.

"This time it was another WATER attribute-focused deck, relying on lockdown and control as its main strategy."

Asuka's expression was a little strange.

Although it was a lockdown strategy that perfectly fit the inherent impression Yugen gave people, belonging to the type of deck that happily froze your heart before wiping out your LP, it was a new approach she had never seen before.

She increasingly couldn't help but wonder what exactly Yugen's brain was made of. Why could he always come up with various ingenious and blood-pressure-raising strategies, and on top of that, his combat strength seemingly wasn't low at all.

She couldn't help but look towards Misawa beside her.

"Speaking of which, you guys are the same type of Duelist, aren't you? I remember you also have many different themed deck structures, right?"

Misawa shook his head with a frustrated expression. "Don't mention it."

Since his loss in the previous duel, he had been troubled by Yugen's endless, unpredictable strategies and countermeasures. He hadn't even figured out the previous ones yet, and now looking at this duel, he found that Yugen's strange tactics had multiplied again.

This feeling was a bit like yesterday's math teacher assigning three challenging, final problems. You wracked your brain, exhausting all your mental effort just to solve one, still having no clue about the rest. Then today, the teacher gave you another three, and your blood pressure would instantly shoot up.

However, what Yugen displayed today was just the tip of the iceberg. Heaven only knew how many more dirty tricks he had developed behind the scenes.

Misawa felt a great deal of pressure.

After the duel ended, Yugen happily received his pre-ordered rewards. Professor Cronos, after watching the whole duel, seemed to want to say something but hesitated, as if wanting to comment or criticize something, but couldn't find a starting point. So in the end, he remained silent, only gently stroking his chin to show his approval.

As for senior Ryuga, he had obviously said goodbye to his planned career as a professor.

Moreover, not only did the senior leave, but he also thoughtfully offered up a deck archetype. Even though Yugen had the intention to decline, considering that this might be disrespectful to the opponent in a duel, he had no choice but to reluctantly accept it with pleasure.

Logically speaking, the rare ace card that Ryuga valued most, "Cyber Dinosaur," was actually a bit like salted fish to Yugen. He had already been thinking about directly finding an opportunity to trade it for some money as soon as he got his hands on it. However, the "Harpie's Feather Duster" that the opponent had used in the duel was a good thing, belonging to the back row removal god cards that are still sometimes active in the real card environment to this day.

After another large wave of new academic credits entered Yugen's account, the first thing he did upon returning was, of course, immediately exchange some for Dp points for shopping in the academy. Then, as usual, he routinely scanned the academy's store for new merchandise.

He casually picked up a few loose cards that he found slightly interesting, and then when he brushed past the deck construction area, he discovered a somewhat interesting new archetype.

The Ojama series.

One of the signature series of the later completely comedic character, Manjome-kun, whom he called the "Trash also has the use of trash" deck series. However, it actually did have some unique aspects.

Moreover, this deck archetype in the academy's store was probably fully stocked and relatively cheap compared to other archetypes.

However, thinking about it, this was normal. Ojama seemed to be a very common and also very unpopular trash series in the GX era. Even Ojama Black and Ojama Green in Manjome's hand were useless junk that others disliked and discarded, which he had picked up.

Furthermore, there were many support cards for Ojama in the GX anime that had not yet been made into real cards to this day. Although their individual combat strength was difficult to call strong, there were indeed some strategies that could be played.

Anyway, since it was cheap, Yugen temporarily bought a set.

Ojama might not be strong in terms of ability, but they definitely excelled at messing with people's mental state. Especially those three ugly and funny brothers. In this kind of duel environment with holographic projections, their three appearances alone, relying on the anime's presentation effects, could stretch the taunting value against the opponent to the limit.

Putting aside other things, whenever Manjome used the Ojama brothers to attack in the Anime, the opponent often felt extremely humiliated and angry.

It was just that the archetype itself was too much like salted fish, lacking combat strength. To gain actual combat capability, one still had to rely on their own imagination.

When Yugen saw this archetype, several interesting points had already popped into his head, all coming from the wisdom of his predecessors. In the beginning, Ojama really did appear in the competitive environment, and from the inherent characteristics of the Ojama deck, it wasn't hard to imagine that most of the decks involving them were inextricably linked to lockdown and messing with the opponent's mental state.

It was just that it still lacked some components to complete a mature structure.

Speaking of Manjome, it seemed like the first round of the Duel Tournament was coming up in a couple of days. If nothing unexpected happened, Yugen should probably have two matches with him.

He didn't know how much Manjome-kun had improved after so long since the start of the semester.

However, before that, the Administration Office finally took action regarding the unauthorized entry into the old dormitory.

The next morning, a truck that looked like an army transport vehicle pulled up aggressively downstairs at the dormitories. A large group of men in black suits and sunglasses directly barged to the front door of the Red Dorm, immediately starting to bang on it, even startling the still sleepy Professor Daitokuji awake.

"The academy's Administration Office, specializing in dealing with unruly guys," Daitokuji said with a frightened expression. "Why would such terrifying people come to our dormitory?"

As the saying goes, life is like a play, it all depends on acting. Professor Daitokuji's professionalism was such that even when no one seemed to be watching, he didn't forget to maintain his persona.

"Open the door."

Someone heavily pounded on the door.

Half-asleep, Judai-kun slowly woke up, rubbed his eyes, and got out of bed with some effort.

"What's going on?"

Judai yawned.

The voice from outside came again: "If you don't open the door, we will execute a breach."

Judai was still rubbing his eyes.

"A bre-breach!?"

As if suddenly jolted awake, Judai hurriedly jumped out of bed and opened the door.

What greeted his eyes was a serious-faced, long-legged, fair-skinned female teacher, surrounded by a group of burly men behind her.

"You are the ringleader, Yuki Judai, aren't you?" the female teacher asked coldly.

Judai was dazed. "Huh? Ring-leader?"

"You need to come to the Administration Office with us," the female teacher's voice was unquestionable. "Immediately."

At the same time.

Yugen, who had finished washing up early in the morning and was preparing to go to class, received a phone call through his student terminal.

"Hello, is this Yugen-kun?"

"This is he, who is this?"

"Ah, yes. This is a teacher from the academy's Administration Office. Regarding the incident at the abandoned dormitory the night before last, we heard you were also at the scene. Could you please come to the Administration Office to recount the situation at your convenience?"

"Actually, I have my first class in the morning, and I'm just about to head to class."

"Is that so? Then what time today would be convenient for you to come to the Administration Office?"

"My second class in the morning is free. Would that time be alright?"

"Of course, we very much appreciate your cooperation, Yugen-kun."

A graceful female voice came from the other end.

"Wishing you a pleasant day at the academy today."