Yu-Gi-Oh!: I've Been Kidnapped by the Spirits and Taken to Duel City

Chapter 3 The Noble High-Quality Replica Axe King

"Hehehehehe, there are too many people here, it's inconvenient, let's go inside to fight."

The man in black robes put down the dueling disk, like a priest luring an innocent little boy to look at goldfish.

Despite the chill, Kagura Kiryu followed him into the depths of the alley.

Seeing that they had finally arrived at a secluded place in the dead of night, the lewd man in the black robe stopped trying to hide and ripped off the covering on his hood.

The golden eye logo was revealed, and the hooded man let out a lewd laugh!

"Hahahaha! You fell for it! You naive little brat!"

He began his self-introduction with winks and exaggerated expressions: "I'm the rare card hunter from the Gurus Group. If you know what's good for you, hand over your rare cards!"

Suddenly, several burly men emerged from the alley entrances, all dressed in the same style of sleazy men's black robes, completely blocking the alleyway entrances.

Kagura Kiryu was silent for two seconds, then suddenly felt awkward that the person opposite him was laughing so much, and immediately became a drama queen.

He feigned panic and exclaimed, "What?! It's the legendary Rare Card Hunter! What are you doing? Are you trying to steal my rare card?"

The lecherous man was quite satisfied with Kagura Kiryu's reaction: "That's right!"

He held the dueling board across his chest: "I challenge you to a duel based on the rules of Duel City! The winner takes a rare card from the loser!"

He chuckled slyly, "Uncle, I'm going to force you into a continuous duel until I take all the rare cards from you!"

Kagura Kiryu was taken aback, blinking, "A constant series of duels?"

"That's right!"

The man in black robes laughed loudly, "According to the rules of Duel City, it is forbidden to duel the same target multiple times!"

"However, we, the Gurus, are rule breakers, and we can use force to break these rules, making you lose until you have no rare cards left!"

Kagura Kiryu: ...

He sighed, and the expression of a coerced, weak-willed boy was no longer on his face.

He simply looked at the man in black opposite him with a pitying gaze, as if he were looking at someone with an intellectual disability.

"I thought you were a robber, but it turns out you're a beggar."

Kiryu Kagura was speechless. No wonder everyone says that the villains in Yu-Gi-Oh! are the most law-abiding villains, sometimes even more principled than the heroes.

With so many people, you could just rob them directly, why bother playing cards!

Even if you're influenced by the underlying logic of the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, where you have to play cards before doing anything, you could just beat me and take the whole deck.

You get one card per game, and keep doing this until you run out of rare cards.

Kagura Kiryu almost laughed out of anger again.

Enraged by Kagura Kiryu's words, the sleazy man in black retorted, "What do you mean! How dare you call me a beggar?!"

"I'm a man who's been the Duel Arena Champion three times in a row!"

Kagura Kiryu's lips curled into a cold smile, making him look more villainous than all the villains present: "You said you were a rare card hunter, right?"

He raised the Duel Disk and inserted the deck:

"What a coincidence, I'm a rare card hunter who specializes in hunting rare card hunters!"

The man in black was somewhat intimidated, but managed a forced snort: "Don't talk big!"

"duel!"

"duel!"

【Kagura Kiryu: LP4000】

[Rare Card Hunter: LP4000]

"First strike is mine, draw the card!"

The hunter, Gurus, shouted and drew a card directly from his deck.

Kagura Kiryu, who just drew five cards from his deck: ?

He was a beat late in the head when he realized, "Damn, the rule in anime is that whoever shouts first gets to attack."

Moreover, in this era, the first player doesn't just have five cards at the start; they can also draw an extra card.

Seeing the opponent gain cards is even more painful than losing cards yourself.

Kiryu Kagura silently remembered this mistake and decided to practice harder in the future.

"Hehehe, what a great hand!"

The man in black added the card he had just drawn to his hand, but before he could even make a move, a loud shout rang out: "You bastard, Gurus, stop right there!"

Kagura Kiryu turned around and saw a blond-haired boy punch the black-clad Gurus who was blocking his way.

Then he kicked over the other Gurus giants who came to reinforce him, and they charged straight at him.

"You bastard Gurus, you're stealing someone else's card again! Stop it right now!"

The sleazy-looking man in black was startled: "Katsuya Jonouchi?"

Kiryu Kagura recognized him too. That's right, it's the famous main character from Yu-Gi-Oh! DM, the God of Gamblers, Katsuya Jonouchi!

"Damn you, Gurus! End this duel!"

Jonouchi rubbed his hands together, eager for revenge: "I haven't settled the score with you guys for almost stealing my Red-Eyes Black Dragon last time!"

Kagura Kiryu slowly revealed a question mark: ?

In his memory, when Jonouchi first met Gurus, he was defeated by a Gurus using a Dark Mage deck.

Now, saying "almost" means it wasn't stolen, right?

This world and the anime don't seem to follow the same trajectory, for example, the timeline and the character Jonouchi.

He silently noted it down, then reached out to stop Jonouchi, who was swinging his fist: "No, this is my duel, and I don't need anyone else's interference."

Kagura Kiryu turned to look at him and said:

"You're the runner-up of the Duel Kingdom, right, Joey Wheeler? If that's the case, you must also be a true duelist."

Kagura Kiryu, holding the Duel Disk, said sharply, "As a duelist, how can you run away from battle!"

And most importantly, I'm the one who's going to grab the card.

Kagura Kiryu silently added in his mind.

"A true duelist..."

Jōnei silently uttered these words, his heart trembling, and finally nodded heavily.

"Alright, then I'll just watch from the sidelines."

"Hey, Gurus over there, don't try anything funny!"

Gurus snorted, "Then the duel continues!"

He glanced at his hand and sneered, "Then let me show you what I'm made of!"

Gurus places a card into the Duel Disk slot: "I summon [Minotaur]! Takes Attack Position!"

A humanoid monster with a bull's head appeared on the field. It had thick fur, wore armor, and wielded a broken giant axe, roaring angrily at the sky.

[Minotaur, Beast Warrior race, Normal Monster, Attack Power 1700]

Both Kagura Kiryu and Jonouchi were somewhat shocked.

Jonouchi was shocked because the opponent summoned a monster with an attack power of 1700 on the first attack, while Kagura Kiryu was shocked because:

Axe King?

Although not the real Axe King, he was the famous Giant Axe Raider.

But with the same attack power of 1700, the same normal monster, and the same axe wielding, it's still quite easy to confuse them.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, people often refer to monsters with high attack power but no special effects as "Axe King".

This card was once the highest-level UR in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links international version.

In addition, it has an attack power of 1700, which is outstanding among all lower-level monsters in the original environment.

Axe King has become a popular meme among card game enthusiasts.

Unfortunately, it's not the real Axe King; it's just a high-quality imitation.

"Hahaha, you've seen it now! This is the power of our Gurus' card-copying technology. We can successfully copy even the rarest cards. End of turn!"

Jonouchi Katsuya was getting anxious: "Damn it, they summoned a monster with 1700 attack power in the very first turn!"

"As expected, he's a duelist whose strength should not be underestimated!"

He looked at Kagura Kiryu: "How is it? Can you win?"

Kiryu Kagura glanced at his hand and smiled confidently: "If nothing unexpected happens, he won't have another turn."

"What?!"