Just as Youmi refused Kaiba, the Duel Disk on her left hand suddenly began to transform, equipping itself onto her arm. It fit so tightly that no matter how much force she used, she couldn't take it off.
"Hey, Kaiba, is this thing of yours broken? Why did it transform like this?"
And then, something similar in design to the receiver on Kaiba's head popped out of the Duel Disk and landed squarely on Youmi's head, even avoiding her horns.
A massive stream of data appeared before her eyes. Youmi skimmed through it rapidly, then looked at Kaiba. "Don't tell me I can't take this thing off unless I Duel you? Do we really have to waste time here?"
As if receiving a message, Principal Sheppard also arrived at the Obelisk Blue dormitory area together with Professor Crowler.
And because of the massive noise from Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon, quite a few Obelisk Blue dorms that had already turned off their lights lit up again, though due to dorm supervisor rules, no one was able to come out.
"Hmph↗↘→ Exactly so, You↗→mi↘→! After four years, let me show you my evolved, strongest Dragon Deck. Come on—quickly load your Deck in, or else just input the card data right here and build your Deck on the spot!"
Kaiba pointed at Youmi's new Duel Disk. His left hand swiped several times across the light screen unfolded in midair, tossing a file to Youmi—the user manual for this new Duel Disk.
Unable to overcome Kaiba's persistence, Youmi let out a sigh and revealed her Deck. "Got it. The Extra has 'Ultimate Waifu', 'True Ultimate Waifu', and 'Double Waifu', right? And if card data can be input… can I record cards on the spot that aren't in your database?"
"Doesn't matter. KaibaCorp's technology is second to none."
Since Kaiba had said so, Youmi didn't hold back.
She input the card data, then took a card she originally only had one copy of and inserted three adjusted copies based on KaibaCorp's database.
However, after discovering that Branded-related cards couldn't be duplicated into a second copy no matter what, she stuffed the physical cards back into the deck box.
"Since that's the case, let's Duel. If you couldn't beat me four years ago, then this time I'll make you wait another four years."
"DUEL!"
"D↗U↘E↗L↘!"
TURN.1
"I'll take the first move. My turn, draw."
The Duel Disk that had originally been used to hold physical cards underwent several transformations, turning into the same type as Kaiba's, and popped out a total of six data cards.
The moment the six cards were acquired, they instead floated onto the screen in front of Youmi. Although it felt somewhat similar to the Noah arc, it still made Youmi a bit uncomfortable.
"The feel is really weird… couldn't it be changed so you have to slap them onto the field? Oh well, I'll just make do for now."
"I Normal Summon Chamber Dragonmaid, and activate her effect to search one Dragonmaid Spell from my Deck."
Chamber passed through a gate formed of data and appeared on Youmi's field. She looked around in confusion for a long while before finally understanding what had happened, then handed Dragonmaid Hospitality to Youmi.
"Hmph↘→ So you've finally abandoned Fiend monsters and chosen Dragons, the symbol of power? But right now it's still an extremely weak form. A Dragon that needs the Battle Phase to unleash its full power, hm?"
A small screen lit up in front of Kaiba. After a brief scan, he reached his conclusion. "It truly is a card that was never recorded in KaibaCorp's database in this era. Starting today, it will be officially registered."
"So these are cards I only obtained on this side… I see, so they were born early…"
Youmi looked at the Chamber on her field, then suddenly raised her head. "Wait a second… this new Duel Disk of yours can check the opponent's card effects now? The Duel Disks used by the Academy can't even do that yet?!"
Kaiba seemed to be waiting for Youmi to say this, and began explaining. "Hmph↗↘ This is a Duel Link Virtual Imaging System that was already established four years ago. I did mention it to future you back then.
"In the end, however, I chose not to implement this type of Duel Disk and instead released the new model currently used by Duel Academy. With this system, the effects of all cards whose data is stored by KaibaCorp can be queried in real time—even the cards whose data you just input."
"That really is a design ahead of its time… If I remember right, even 5D's didn't have anything like this… Don't tell me you specifically designed this to deal with me?!"
Youmi said, then continued, "I activate Dragonmaid Hospitality. I Special Summon Dragonmaid Lorpar from my hand, add Dragonmaid Nurse to my hand from the Deck, then discard Dragonmaid Parlor from my hand."
Youmi added another card from her Deck to her hand, then discarded Dragonmaid Parlor.
"I activate Dragonmaid Send-Off, returning the Dragonmaid Chamber on my field to my hand, then Special Summon Dragonmaid Nurse from my hand.
"I activate Dragonmaid Nurse's effect to Special Summon Dragonmaid Parlor from the Graveyard. I activate Dragonmaid Parlor's effect, sending Dragonmaid Changeover from the Deck to the Graveyard."
Because she wasn't familiar with how to use this Duel Disk, Youmi checked the manual again on the spot before finally moving the cards into the Graveyard.
"I activate Dragonmaid Changeover's effect in the Graveyard, returning the Dragonmaid Lorpar on my field to my hand to add this card to my hand. Then I activate it immediately—Fusion Summon!"
Using Dragonmaid Lorpar that had returned to her hand and Dragonmaid Ernus that she had been holding in her hand all along as materials, Youmi Fusion Summoned the Level 10 Dragonmaid Sheou.
Looking at the Dragonmaid Sheou on Youmi's field, Seto Kaiba's serious expression suddenly softened a little. He nodded. "3500 Attack, and effects that can call companions and negate and destroy cards… seems that after four years, you've developed some decent taste."
"Before you get any strange resonance with me, let me clarify first—I'm not a dragon addict. I Set one card. End of turn."
Turn.2
"Hmph↘→ My turn, draw!"
Using the new-model Duel Disk with practiced ease, Kaiba drew a card and added it to his hand, then entered the Standby Phase. "Come on, use that Dragon's effect of yours!"
Youmi shot Kaiba a look and activated Dragonmaid Sheou's effect. "Don't order me around. Dragonmaid Sheou's effect activates—I Special Summon Dragonmaid Lorpar from the Graveyard, then activate her effect to search and discard Dragonmaid Lorpar."
Youmi tapped both the Deck and hand areas, sending the card constructed from virtual imagery—or perhaps physical imagery—into the Graveyard.
"Hmph. So with that, you can change your monsters twice during my Battle Phase?
"Even so, its Attack still can't compare to my Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
"Such a weak Dragon will be utterly crushed by Blue-Eyes' fury. I reveal Blue-Eyes White Dragon in my hand, Special Summon Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon from my hand!"
Two massive slate-like cards descended in front of Kaiba at the same time. Both were blue data card faces—one was Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and the other was Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon.
"Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon's effect activates. I target Dragonmaid Sheou and destroy it. As the cost, this card cannot attack this turn. Come on, activate your Dragonmaid Sheou's effect!"
Facing the effect of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, Youmi had no choice but to activate Dragonmaid Sheou's once-per-turn effect to avoid taking a total loss.
"Dragonmaid Sheou's effect—I negate and destroy the effect of Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, and transform into Dragonmaid House from the Fusion Deck."
As Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon spat out its subtype gust blast, Dragonmaid Sheou answered with her own breath.
Amid the collision, Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon was blasted into countless fragments, while Dragonmaid Sheou transformed into the form of Dragonmaid House.
"I activate Pot of Greed, draw two cards. Then, I Summon Justice of the Allies—Kaibaman!"
Kaiba glanced at the cards he had just drawn and summoned one of them.
"I Tribute this card to Special Summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my hand!"
Watching Kaiba summon himself without a shred of shame and then immediately bring out Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Youmi instantly flipped her face-down card. "Not so fast~ I activate my Set card, Dragonmaid Tidying. I return Dragonmaid Nurse on my field and your Blue-Eyes White Dragon to the hand! If you managed to pull out a Burst Stream of Destruction, I'd be done for."
Seeing Blue-Eyes White Dragon get dealt with by Youmi's backrow, Seto Kaiba, for some reason, nodded in satisfaction.
"She took out the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon twice already. As expected of the legendary Duelist!"
Jaden exclaimed as he watched the intense back-and-forth between Youmi and Kaiba. "This is awesome!"
"Then I activate the Normal Spell Polymerization, fusing the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand to Fusion Summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
"What the heck?! You're not even shuffling?! And is it just my imagination, or did all three of your Dragons change appearances…"
The three Blue-Eyes White Dragons flew and merged together in midair, reincarnating into a brand-new Dragon monster—one of Kaiba's ace cards, the wall that couldn't even block anything, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
Looking at the vanilla monster before her, Youmi felt a surge of frustration. "You said it was your evolved strongest Dragon Deck, so how did you end up fusing into a vanilla monster?!"
As if responding to Youmi's confusion, the Blue-Eyes jet suddenly shone its searchlight on Kaiba, and at the same time, he raised a card high in his hand.
"I Tribute the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on my field. Evolve—Blue-Eyes Shing Dragon!!!"
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