First move by Gloria.
Bored for quite some time, not only can she duel now, she's also teamed up with Tenjo Hikari without any hesitation. She draws a card fiercely and smirks like a villain, glancing at the cards in her hand.
Oh!
Is it actually this?
She looks at the card in her hand, her smile involuntarily widening, and glances at Tenjo Hikari.
Tenjo Hikari sees her looking over, unsure of her intention, he appears rather calm.
"Tenjo Hikari." Before the duel even starts, Gloria shouts towards Tenjo Hikari, "Last time we lost to you, but don't think we'll always be left behind by you!"
"Hmm?" The Empress notices the strange atmosphere, growing increasingly curious.
Gloria doesn't mind the Empress's expression, clenching her fist with a passionately intense demeanor: "Since we lost to you last time, we've been training and honing our deck! Now, we're stronger than before!"
She pulls a card from her hand and inserts it into her duel disk: "Today, let's see who can deal more damage, how about it!"
"Gloria, I think in a tag duel, cooperation is key, right?" Tenjo Hikari responds.
"Grace and I are the perfect team—" Gloria's excitement wanes a bit; despite teaming up with Tenjo Hikari, she's convinced she and her sister are the strongest tag duelists, "We will keep evolving!
Let me show you this card—you should be familiar with it!"
A green spell card floats onto the field, with the card image depicting a knight descending from the sky.
Normal Spell Card, Fusion Deployment!
Wow.
Tenjo Hikari raises an eyebrow.
Where did she get that card?
But he isn't too surprised.
The people in this world aren't fools; seeing Tenjo Hikari's useful fusion assist cards and realizing some could benefit their decks means they'd definitely try to find and collect these cards.
The Tyler Sisters, as high-ranking members of the "Fusion Army" in the original work, collecting these cards through the Fusion Army is naturally expected.
After all, cards like "Fusion Deployment" likely relate to Fusion Army cards, so it's not surprising to see.
Seeing Tenjo Hikari isn't shocked, Gloria doesn't mind.
"Fusion Deployment can only be activated once per turn, during the turn activated, if not a Fusion Monster, you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck.
Reveal 1 Fusion Monster from the Extra Deck, and Special Summon the Fusion Material described on the card name from hand or deck!
I reveal, Amazoness Empress!"
"Oh?" The Amazoness Empress sees her card appear in her opponent's hand, nodding with interest, "My Fusion Materials are Amazoness Queen and Amazoness Monster. So, you can only choose Amazoness Queen."
"Exactly—I Special Summon from the deck, Amazoness Queen!"
The blue-haired queen wields her long blade, appearing on the field.
Back then, the Empress was still young.
Amazoness Queen, LV 6, Earth Attribute, Warrior-Type, ATK 2400.
"Summoning a High-Level Monster straight away."
"Haha, as expected of the Tyler Sisters!"
Grace sees her sister's performance, lightly claps her hands against her cheek with amusement.
She isn't bothered by the spectacle.
"It's not over yet, activating the effect of Amazoness Spiritualist from my hand. When this card is in hand or Graveyard, it can target 1 Amazoness card other than [Amazoness Spiritualist] to activate. That card returns to hand, this card is Special Summoned.
During the turn this effect is activated, until the end of turn, non-[Amazoness] Monsters cannot be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck."
A rarely demure Amazoness girl gently sways her magic staff, appearing on the field.
Amazoness Spiritualist, LV 2, Earth Attribute, Warrior-Type, ATK 800.
"It's usually restricted to Fusion, then also restricted to Amazoness." Mitsuzawa Daichi acts as the commentator, "But if the target is a Fusion Amazoness Monster, previous side effects don't matter.
However, recovering a 2400 ATK High-Level Monster, summoning this one… what for?"
Mitsuzawa is slightly puzzled.
"Ha, shut up and watch!" Gloria raises the sword-shaped duel disk with her left hand, points her right finger at the card in the Monster Zone, "When Spiritualist's Special Summon succeeds, you can add 1 Polymerization from the deck to the hand."
Whoosh—
A card automatically ejects from the duel disk, falls down, and Gloria flicks the duel disk aside, catches the Polymerization card with her index and middle fingers, suddenly slashing both hands open: "Spell Card, Polymerization!"
"Fusion of the Amazoness Queen from my hand and the Amazoness Spiritualist on the field!"
"Come forth! My trump card!"
"Fusion Summon!"
"LV 8!"
"Amazoness Empress!"
With Gloria's call, a slightly smaller Amazoness Empress appears on the field, emotionlessly waving her long blade.
"Oh ho… what an unprecedented sight." The Empress sees this and can't help but laugh.
Humans often marvel at the Spirit "summoning themselves?!" but for Spirits, it's a commonplace occurrence.
But—
Seeing their opponent summon themselves, that's truly an unfamiliar situation for the Spirits.
Amazoness Empress, LV 8, Earth Attribute, Warrior-Type, ATK 2800.
"Oh! I see, this way guarantees Polymerization is at hand, and also saves a card—" Mitsuzawa Daichi continues the commentary, "Beautiful improvement."
Compared to last time when dueling against Hikari, Gloria indeed grew stronger, it's no boast.
"Set two cards, end my turn!" Gloria confidently raises her head high.
"Indeed impressive." Tenjo Hikari acknowledges generally.
In this world, fusion through retrieval and recycling already surpasses most people.
Gloria hears this, to her surprise, lowering her head, looking at Tenjo Hikari, surprised he actually acknowledged her words.
Gloria isn't boasting, she truly made significant improvements since then.
However…
Tenjo Hikari looks across.
The opponent is the actual [Amazoness Empress].
"Nice fusion. As a Warrior of Amazoness, your performance is decent. I can feel your passion and fighting spirit, but—
Not enough, not enough not enough not enough!
Not enough!!"
"As a Warrior of Amazoness, you should be more fanatical, more passionate!"
Her eyes burst with red light, that aura, something no one present has seen.
Pure, primal savagery!
Bloodthirsty!