"My turn!"
Obaro is a blond, blue-eyed Caucasian male, a teacher at the South American Branch, and his position is "Instructor," equivalent to the teachers under Instructor Napoleon here.
However, although his position level is lower than Instructor Napoleon and Professor Cronos, it doesn't mean his dueling skills are necessarily inferior to teachers with higher positions.
The teachers hired by Duel Academy are all excellent "Duelists" or "Special Teachers" carefully selected. Each teacher possesses talents in a certain domain that ordinary people can't reach.
For example, even Teacher Kabayama from Yellow Academy, who doesn't have much presence, is a world-class expert in curry.
The teachers at Duel Academy are all "talented," and basically, each one has their own "special skills." Some teachers in the original work can even make Judai paranoid or self-doubt.
However, this Obaro is not that type of teacher.
He is a teacher specialized in dueling, and only teaches dueling — in other words, his dueling abilities are equivalent to the overall level of other teachers.
He glanced at his hand cards, nodded lightly, but didn't rush to play.
His opponent was... Professor Cronos from the main branch of Duel Academy, the guy who has always been at odds with Professor Akuma.
Stealing the Seven-Star Key this time wasn't a spontaneous decision, nor did he happen to be caught by Cronos; it's just that he could only come at this time.
Because of the Fusion Army's quick assault on Heartland, all Duel Academy branches underwent inspections. Although as the Instructor of the "Assassin Team," he wasn't detected, he hadn't had the opportunity to go directly to the main branch and steal the Seven-Star Key.
Simply put, before Cronos returned to the school, the principal's office was closed. Kaiba Company's guards did not allow anyone to get close.
Only when Cronos was released and allowed to return to school, before Cronos entered the principal's office, did he have time to infiltrate the office — furthermore, as he expected, after Cronos greeted people from Kaiba Company, he went to check on the Dimensional Teleportation first.
Unfortunately, he made one mistake.
Cronos didn't immediately enter the principal's office, not because he was negligent, but because he was confident that no one would use the Seven-Star Key to cause trouble.
It's indeed something an extraordinary professor who can always go against Professor Akuma would do.
He raised his eyes and stared straight at that ugly principal, then snorted coldly.
Since that's the case, he must settle a decisive battle with this guy before he can create more trouble!
Thick dark mist extended across the ground, Cronos watched as the dark mist wrapped around them, gradually forming a black ring containing the two duelists, unable to help feeling a bit flustered, but he gritted his teeth without showing it.
"It's all because of you, Cronos! If it weren't for you, the professor's plan would have succeeded long ago!" Obaro roared, "Ahhhh— I will offer my soul, I must keep you here today!"
As he shouted, a winged black humanoid creature emerged behind him, staring at Obaro's body, as a strange energy gradually emerged from Obaro's body and flowed into the angel's body.
Obaro's complexion paled a few shades.
"Mamma mia..." Cronos instinctively shivered.
At this moment, he was no longer the person he used to be; he knew these weren't special effects, but likely real "Darkness Duel."
"Activate the monster effect of Darklord Ixchel in the hand card. Discard this card and a [Darklord] card from the hand to activate. Draw two cards from the deck!"
Darklord!?
Only then did Cronos take another look at that dark figure.
Indeed, on closer inspection, that eerie silhouette truly resembled a Darklord!
"I discard Ixchel and Darklord Superbia from my hand and draw two cards!"
He placed the two cards in his hand into the Graveyard and then drew two cards from the top of the deck.
"Activate the Spell Card, Darklord Contact!" He inserted a card into the Duel Disk.
"This card can only be activated once per turn. It can directly revive one Darklord monster in Defense Position from the Graveyard!"
"I choose Superbia from the Graveyard!"
A black ring appeared in the sky, scarlet wings slowly unfolded, and a bizarre, ring-like black angel quietly descended.
Darklord Superbia, LV 8, Dark Attribute, Fairy-Type, DEF 2400.
"It's really appeared..." Cronos became even more tense.
It seems to be quite formidable.
"When Superbia is successfully revived from the Graveyard, it can target another Darklord in the Graveyard besides itself. That monster is revived!"
"Awaken, Darklord Ixchel!"
Bang—
Pure, pristine white wings unfurled in the sky, a pure white six-winged beautiful angel slowly descended from above. A white feather gently fell from the sky, followed by the feather being corrupted by the black ring's power, gradually turning black.
And the angel in the sky, after the light's illumination ended, transformed into a black and white dual-colored angel under the influence of black power.
Darklord Ixchel, LV 10, Dark Attribute, Fairy-Type, DEF 2900.
"The second Darklord, so easily..." Cold sweat gradually trickled down Cronos' forehead.
The opponent seemed quite formidable indeed.
Because the opponent achieved such a scene using just one hand card, this kind of ability is relatively strong among the teachers at Duel Academy's main branch.
But, precisely because of this.
His internal tension was instead overshadowed by confusion and doubt.
Given such talent as a teacher, with this kind of dueling power, he should have no need to rely on Akaba Leo; he could certainly forge his own path, with no need to resort to Akaba Leo's influence.
After all, he understood at Kaiba Company that some teachers joined the Fusion Army due to living conditions or economic reasons, or because they lacked Rare Cards.
But the person before him was using a Deck that no one in the Fusion Army had ever employed — the "Darklord" Deck!
Why would someone like this join Akaba Leo in collusion?
It was only upon thinking of this question, even if he didn't ask it out loud, that Cronos wasn't nervous or afraid anymore, but was filled with confusion, doubt, and... anger!
Obaro stared at Cronos.
Hum...
Even after Special Summoning two superior angels, he showed no fear, instead being filled with fury.
Truly impressive.
But—
The power of Darklords is just beginning to be displayed!
He glanced at the trap cards in his Hand Card.
"Set two cards! End my turn!"