"Why wasn't there any damage?"
The Dragon Lord asked in confusion.
"Because I banished this from the Graveyard." Judai picked up a card and showed it to his opponent, "Necro Gardna."
"This card can be banished during the opponent's turn to negate one attack of their Monster."
"...Oh, a card discarded by trade-off, huh? You're really a lucky guy." The Dragon Lord slowly caught on.
"No matter, then I'll set a card and end this turn."
"Come, Supreme King, it's your turn now."
"So—what Supreme King, I am Yuki Judai! I'm a different Yuki Judai from the one you know!" Judai muttered angrily, then drew a card from his Deck.
"That's right, bro is bro, what's all this about past lives and reincarnation, that was the past, what does it have to do with the bro now! Bro is human, the pride of the school!" Kenzan shouted.
Shou coughed and also showed support from the car: "Yeah, bro! Go for it!"
"Shou... Kenzan..." Judai's anxious mood eased a little.
"Ha ha... Human?" The Maniacal King seemed to have heard something interesting and laughed sinisterly again.
"Are you trying to distance yourself from us, Supreme King?" The Dragon Lord laughed wildly, as if he had heard a good joke, "Did you hear that, Rain! He never changes.
He was like that before, never giving you a second glance, and he's the same now, never considering you his subordinate—
How many comrades have you sacrificed to protect him, how many injuries have you suffered, yet he will never care about these things!"
Rane, who was guarding beside Judai, remained silent and did not respond.
It was long used to such treatment, and if Judai ever thanked it like before, it would ironically feel a kind of terrified flattery.
Judai clenched his fist, his entire body trembling continuously.
Rane?
Judai indeed never cared about it.
Rather, when he realized Rane's true situation, he already understood.
This Demon God wasn't here to help him, but purely to "protect the Supreme King."
It didn't care what he thought or what he wanted, it just wanted to serve that so-called Supreme King.
So it wouldn't care to protect his classmates, nor did it concern itself with anyone else outside of him.
Even more so, it wasn't any friendlier than the person opposite him, equally cold, equally ruthless, and just as likely to prey on weak Spirits!
Even if there wasn't the Dragon Lord opposite him, wouldn't he be suffering at the hands of this Demon God?
And even if he acted so eager to help his companions, this Rane did not choose to support him, so was it truly "loyal" to him?
It was merely loyal to someone it didn't even know!
"My turn, draw!" Judai suddenly drew a card.
Seeing Judai's determined and resolute demeanor, the Dragon Lord couldn't help but laugh wildly again.
Judai looked at his hand cards.
The Dragon Lord of Dark World has the ability to revive continuously.
Moreover, perhaps there are other ways to recover, which means it can keep destroying his Monsters, making him face direct attacks every turn.
He looked at the Earth Mole in his hand.
This is not the time to use Earth Mole, otherwise even if the Dragon Lord returns to the hand card, it would result in another card being destroyed this turn, which would be a loss for nothing gained.
If so.
"Activate Spell Card, Convert Contact. I have no Monsters on the field, send one 'Neo-Spacian' card each from the hand and Deck to the Graveyard. Draw two cards. I send Earth Mole from my hand and Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird from my Deck to the Graveyard, and draw two cards."
Having exchanged his hand cards, Judai scrutinized them again.
Alright—
Use this.
"Activate Spell Card, Neos Fusion!"
Judai inserted a card into the Duel Disk, clenching his fist.
This was one of the fusion tactics he learned from Tenjo Hikari, possessing efficient Fusion Power.
"Send the Fusion Materials from the hand and Deck determined by the Fusion Monster to the Graveyard, Special Summon one Fusion Monster from the Extra Deck that uses 'Elemental Hero Neos' as a material, ignoring the conditions!"
"After this card is activated, I cannot Special Summon Monsters until the end of the turn."
"I send Neos and Flare Scarab from my Deck to the Graveyard!"
"Fusion Summon, Flame Neos—
Elemental Hero Flare Neos!"
Neos was clad in a beetle shell, flames burning on its body, as it leapt in front of Judai with a shout, while both the Dragon Lord and Rane looked at this Monster, feeling the presence hidden beneath its surface.
This is—the manifestation of The Supreme King Power.
Elemental Hero Flare Neos, LV 7, Fire Attribute, Warrior-Type, ATK 2500.
"The more Spell and Trap Cards on the field, the higher Flare Neos' ATK, increasing by 400 points for each!"
Flare Neos, ATK: 2500→3300.
"Good, it's surpassed the Dragon Lord!"
"But, Flare Neos will return to the Deck at the end of the turn, right?"
The situation hadn't improved, and Kenzan and the others were still worried.
"Activate Equip Spell Card, Instant Neo Space!" Judai revealed an Equip Spell Card. "It can only equip to a Fusion Monster that uses Neos as a Fusion Material. The Fusion Monster equipped with this card can negate the effect of returning to the Deck at the end of the turn."
"With this, Flare Neos' ATK increases to 3700 points and won't return to the Deck!"
Judai didn't stop his actions and then Summoned a Monster in Defense Position: "Summon, Card Trooper."
A small tank with exploratory tracks spun madly, arriving in front of Judai.
Card Trooper, LV 3, Earth Attribute, Machine-Type, DEF 400.
"Once per turn, by sending the top three cards of the Deck to the Graveyard, activate. The ATK of this card increases by the number of cards sent to the Graveyard x 500 points until the end of the turn. I send three cards to the Graveyard."
Judai quickly sent the top three cards of his Deck to the Graveyard, glanced at them, and then continued to operate.
"Activate Continuous Spell Card, Mirage of Nightmare, set a card."
With this, the ATK of Flame Neos increased to 4500 points!
"Wow, it suddenly has such high ATK!"
"We can do it! We can do it, everyone!"
"Battle, Flare Neos attacks Grafa!" Judai issued the command, calling his Neos forward to attack.
Flare Neos shouted with determination and arrived in front of the Dragon Lord's Grafa duplicate, extending its claws for a strike.
Bang!
The Dragon Lord was instantly blown into pieces.
Grafa LP, 4000→2500.
"End turn..."
"You used up all your hand cards, just to destroy one of my duplicates?" The Dragon Lord saw this and began laughing maniacally, "That's all there is to the Supreme King!"
"Or are you suppressing your own nature, suppressing your own power?"
"What are you talking about, I don't understand." Judai said again, firm and decisive, "I am Yuki Judai. Not the person you know!"
"Hahahahaha—how weak, look at this little one avoiding reality, how adorable! Is this the King of Fusion who once struck terror into every Spirit? How ridiculous!
Since that's the case, I won't hold back any longer!"
"It's my turn—"
The Duel Disk, like a windmill, began to spin, again emitting a terrifying, tearing sound.