bookbashuk Chapter 1: The Boy, Card Drawing, and the Black Magician
Chapter 1: The Boy, Card Drawing, and the Black Magician
Kagura Kiryu has traveled through time.
He stood there dumbfounded outside the wooden door for two hours before he finally figured out his identity.
If I'm not mistaken, he must have traveled back to the era before Duel City in the Yu-Gi-Oh! DM era.
The newspaper he snatched from a child on the street contained news such as "Duel Kingdom Champion Yugi Muto" and "Kaiba Corporation's New Duel Disk Unveiled".
His vision went black. All he had done was take his childhood Dark Magician deck to a card shop tournament and get beaten up like a caveman.
Then, in a daze, I heard a sweet, lovely female voice coming from my deck: "Please, Master, go save the world!"
He suddenly appeared in front of this two-story building, carrying a pink suitcase.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! world is a very twisted world because, according to the setting, the universe of this world may have been created by a single card.
Therefore, the underlying logic of this world is cards.
When in doubt, play cards first.
They both have their eyes on the same girl, so they play cards; the winner gets to marry her.
Police catching thieves? Let's play cards. Only the winner can make the arrest. If the thief wins, then sorry, you can only watch him get away.
Company equity? Let's play cards. The winner becomes the CEO, and the loser leaves with nothing.
The winner takes all, the loser loses everything—that's the rule of this world.
After a brief moment of panic, Kagura Kiryu felt a strange sense of relief.
He recalled that even when he wasn't playing casual decks, he was a Diamond-ranked player in Master Duel and had reached Duel King rank in Duel Links.
With his fighting skills, wouldn't he be easily defeated in this world where primitive people roam everywhere?
Summoning a monster with 3000 attack power comparable to a Blue-Eyes White Dragon in this world is a high-level skill worth bragging about for a lifetime.
Just as I was happily fantasizing about punching Yugi Muto and stomping Seto Kaiba, I suddenly remembered something.
Do all the main characters in anime print cards?
Kagura Kiryu fell silent. What if he pulled out a Tearful Lament, and the opponent casually pulled out a Cosmos, then used a few forbidden cards to completely wipe him out...
What if you then kill yourself with Sapphire Dragon's punches?
Never mind, I should take a look at my deck first.
Huh? Where's my deck? Oh no, do I not have a deck?
No way! In this world, cards are not only expensive, but they're also incredibly difficult to collect! How am I supposed to fight them?!
Just as I was feeling pessimistic, the red wooden door in front of me suddenly opened.
A red-haired woman peeked out from the opposite direction.
Her hair was bright red and reached her waist. A braid was tied on the left side of her head, resembling half a wreath. She was squinting at him suspiciously with her beige eyes.
Kagura Kiryu's pupils contracted sharply because this woman gave her a sense of familiarity; her appearance was strikingly similar to Izayoi Aki, the heroine of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's!
Yosaki Mio carefully recalled the person in the photo, confirmed it was him, and opened the door: "You're the child my bastard parents adopted?"
Kagura Kiryu was taken aback by this premise: "Huh?"
Yes, he did figure out that he was a boarding student who had gone to stay with relatives, but he didn't expect the premise to be so unusual.
Seeing his dazed expression, Yosaki Mio's furrowed brows relaxed a little, and she smiled: "Don't just stand there like an idiot, come in!"
After saying that, he walked over and grabbed Kagura Kiryu's arm, lifting him up to a cubicle on the second floor.
"This will be your room from now on. If you need anything, feel free to ask me, although I certainly won't buy you anything expensive."
Kagura Kiryu nodded with a black line on his face. Although this was the attic where various main characters in Japanese anime often lived, it was fortunately clean enough.
Yosaki Mio looked to be in her early twenties and was a decisive woman. She simply said, "I'm going to catch up on my sleep," and left the attic, leaving Kagura Kiryu to fend for himself for lunch.
Kagura Kiryu sighed helplessly, picked up the small mirror in front of the window and looked at himself. Sure enough, it was the same as the reflection in the glass earlier.
This is what he looked like in his previous life, except his hair was dyed white and had grown quite a bit.
He looks a bit like Bakura before he turned into the Rabbit-Eared Demon King; in short, he seems like a very skilled card player.
Even the moles and scars on his body were exactly the same; he was certain that this was his body from his previous life.
Kiryu Kagura shook his head, no longer thinking about these things. Although he was very curious as to why he was a soul-transmigration character even though he was in a physical body, it didn't matter anymore. He might as well make the best of it.
He reluctantly began packing his luggage, and as soon as he opened the muscular pink suitcase, his pupils couldn't help but shrink again.
The suitcase wasn't big; half of it was filled with changes of clothes, and the other half was surprisingly filled with a duel disk.
He took the Duel Disk out of his luggage and saw that a deck of cards was embedded in the card slot.
Kiryu Kagura was pleasantly surprised. So, this was his deck?
He eagerly flipped over the first card, and saw a figure in a black robe with sharp eyes, grayish-blue skin, and a jewel-encrusted staff...
This is actually an alternate art version of "Dark Magician" from the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie "The Dark Side of Dimensions"!
This, this, could it be the deck he used before his previous life?
Then he'll be on fire! You know, his Dark Magician deck was packed with all sorts of later-developed buff cards!
While it can't compare to the overpowered mainstream games of modern Yu-Gi-Oh!, it's absolutely invincible in this primitive generation!
He couldn't wait to look through the deck, and the top of the deck was surprisingly three alternate art versions of Dark Magician and one alternate art version of Dark Magician Girl from the movie!
After admiring his childhood goddess, the Black Magician Girl, for a few seconds, he continued scrolling down, only to find his heart growing colder with each page.
Good news, it's the Dark Magician deck.
The bad news is that less than a third of the cards are related to the Dark Magician; the rest are mainly various Magician-Type monsters and Warrior-Type monsters, along with some accompanying Spell & Trap cards.
Kagura Kiryu even saw a few ordinary bones (normal monsters that have no effect).
However, this deck is at least a deck with combos, and it's definitely a top-tier deck in the anime DM.
In particular, it's not like the decks in other anime characters that rely entirely on synergy and have bad cards in hand.
As a modern-day card player, Kagura Kiryu knows that the biggest difference between himself and the anime characters is that he can't draw the cards he wants.
Because I once imitated Yami Yugi's deck and got beaten up by my teammates at the village entrance.
But maybe it will work in this world?
Kagura Kiryu licked his lips, shuffled his deck, and muttered to himself, "Please, my deck, prove to me that you truly possess your own consciousness!"
He wore the Duel Disk on his right arm, inserted the shuffled deck into the Duel Disk, and gently placed his fingers on the deck.
Filled with youthful dreams, he shouted, "My turn! Draw a card!"
As the five cards were drawn one by one, Kagura Kiryu's pupils contracted sharply. After a moment of silence, he suddenly burst into a hearty laugh that was hard to describe.
In his hand, three identical cards were arranged in a row; they were the three "Dark Magician" cards.