Everyone found a table and sat around it.
Each person held a few card packs in their hands, some had more, some had less, and naturally, the one who had the least was John, who lost. Next was Asuka, she had just dueled with Rin, and her life recovery and control card deck was somewhat a counter against the blood-cutting deck, though her performance wasn't great, thus she ranked second lowest.
Sitting around the table, Tenjo Hikari sat next to Asuka, holding a stack of card packs in her arms, and looked curiously at Yugi. Among these, there were even some card packs that Yugi helped to choose.
Yugi gently tore open a card pack, expertly ensuring the cards didn't suffer any pulling, then took out the cards inside.
His purpose in coming to this world was precisely for the cards of this world, and Kaiba Company naturally provided him with plenty of "points." Theoretically, if he wanted, he could take all these Sector Security card packs to research.
But he wouldn't do that.
He looked at Manjome across from him and saw his nervous appearance, hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "You're Manjome, right?"
"Yes, yes! Mr. Muto Yugi!"
"No need to be so formal, just call me Yugi."
"Then... Mr. Yugi!"
Muto Yugi shook his head and chuckled, looked at the cards in his hands, then at the card packs in Manjome's hands, gently raised his head, "How about this, let's use the cards from the packs for a temporary duel, right here on this table."
"Really, really?! I have the chance to duel with you..."
Manjome was shocked.
Ever since Muto Yugi announced his venture into game design, and even into other games, he had basically stopped dueling with people, even his teacher hadn't dueled with him!
"It's just a card game, no need to overthink," he shook his head, "just have fun."
"Yes! Yes!!" Manjome became excited.
Across from Tenjo Hikari, Judai and John nudged each other's shoulders, and witnessing this scene, they envied, saying, "How nice, I also want to duel with Mr. Yugi..."
While opening card packs, Yugi glanced at them, covering the cards together, and shuffled, asking, "Manjome, you're Kaiba's disciple, right?"
"Y-Yes!"
"I see you seem dissatisfied with your score."
"That's right!" Upon hearing Yugi's words, he instantly became excited, no longer as nervous as before, clenched his fist, and said, "At the very least, I should be like Judai... no, I should be like Tenjo!"
"Hmm..." Yugi didn't refute Manjome's passionate attitude, while arranging the scene with Manjome, he said, "Actually, Kaiba is also dissatisfied."
"!!!" Manjome widened his eyes.
Wha—what?
"Ah, it's not directed at you. Sorry, my wording seems off," Muto Yugi noticed his phrasing wasn't great, coughed and continued, "In reality, it's dissatisfaction with the overall dueling results."
"Eh—" John sighed deeply.
"In your view, our dueling with the S Dimension shows more wins than losses, performances very well, yet to Kaiba, this is unacceptable."
"Why?" Manjome hurriedly asked.
He usually wanted to know what his mentor, Kaiba Seto, thought, yet because Kaiba is an ultimate enhanced version of himself, he dared not speak to him much, thus feeling quite confused when facing Kaiba.
He really wanted to understand Kaiba Seto's thoughts.
While placing his cards forward, Yugi struck Manjome's monster on the field, reducing Manjome's Life Points, while saying, "This world has been contacting Other Dimensions for just half a year; prior to this, it developed independently, limited to this world.
But our world has gone through years exploring Other Dimensions. By coming to this Dimension and Friendship Cup, most students under Kaiba Company's investment were sent here via Dimension Gate to the Spirit World; compared to people from this world, we're actually more 'advanced.'
While speaking, Muto Yugi placed four cards on his field, "Yet under such circumstances, the duelists from Satellite Area labeled as weaker, when they duel our students, get average results, even losing."
John awkwardly scratched the back of his head.
Besides him, another person lost, but he lost to Jack, not shameful.
Of course, even though Yugi and Kaiba both can see Yusei isn't an ordinary duelist, it doesn't matter.
In short, to Kaiba, their dimension's years of advance in Other Dimension exploration should have crushed the opposition in communication, but even in dueling, it's relatively 'equal,' what does that say?
It shows the S Dimension's strength is much higher than their world average strength, it shows their dimension exploration hasn't progressed enough!
"So that's it... I understand," Manjome suddenly realized.
At first glance, they all won, but their opponents, aside from specific ones like Yugo, Yusei, and Rin, most are just dueling for fun; how could one feel satisfied even with such outcomes?
"You've seen, Kaiba wishes to pursue endless dueling peaks."
Everyone nodded.
This cosmos, no, the "highest peak" in human current perception is probably the legendary Pharaoh residing in the Netherworld.
So it's for this reason...
Everyone suddenly realized.
"Hmm, it's getting late," Muto Yugi checked the time; he had other matters to attend to. Looking at the scene, he smiled, "It's time to talk about this world's cards.
Actually, from my observation, whether it's X Dimension or this world, their cards are more advanced than ours, although the development directions differ, in overall terms considered evolution of our world... so in this world, there are even some new evolutionary forms of our world series."
"Eh? What's that?" Judai instinctively asked.
Muto Yugi chuckled, didn't explain but used the card in his hand.
"Quick-Play Spell, Mask Change II."
!!
Tenjo Hikari abruptly stood up.
"In these cards—" He was somewhat excited.
After searching for a long time in the original world, even wanting to find the card in countless dimensions, and now it appeared in front of him!
"Indeed." Muto Yugi nodded gently, "It's here."
Then he couldn't help but laugh, "You recognized it, seems the rumors aren't exaggerations, you're truly impressive in matters of Polymerization."
"In short, discard one Hand Card, send one face-up Monster Card from the field to the Graveyard, then Special Summon one Masked Hero Monster with the same attribute and a higher LV from the Extra Deck as Mask Change's Special Summon."
"Masked Hero?! Other heroes??" Judai was even more surprised and jumped up.
Yugi placed the Water Attribute Monster from the field into the Graveyard, took the Extra Monster nearby, placed a blue Hero directly onto the field.
"Now I can Special Summon Masked Hero Mist without Polymerization."
"Ah—"
"Wow..." Judai became excited, "A whole new Hero!"
Then, under Manjome's surprised gaze, Yugi used Torrential Tribute, the card that can destroy all monsters, relying on Mist's ability not to be destroyed by effects, directly attacked, and won.
After this, Yugi packed up the cards, waved goodbye to Tenjo Hikari and others.
Before sitting down, Muto Yugi even helped each of them choose a few card packs, and after his departure, Tenjo Hikari and others looked towards the card packs in their hands.
Not only having the chance to obtain this world's unique Synchro series cards, but also possibly drawing brand-new cards from certain series!
Tenjo Hikari began drawing cards happily, first opening the card pack specially chosen for him by Muto Yugi, and upon seeing the instant card inside, both he and Tierra widened their eyes excitedly.
The first card—excellent news—Genex Spare!
Genex series card, an important part of Tierra-related Alchemy!
Then, Tenjo Hikari hurriedly opened the other card packs.
Just to say, no wonder these were chosen by Muto Yugi himself; even Tenjo Hikari, usually unlucky, seemed to have mysteriously better luck.
Although the second pack had no notable results, in the third pack, Tenjo Hikari saw the purple background, along with Tierra's exclamation of "Wow," he saw the brand new card...
Trishula, the Dragon of Icy Imprisonment!