"From the cooking squad?" The silver-haired man frowned. "Why are you here? Where is your squad?"
Yuji managed to squeeze out some tears and said with a bitter face: "During the siege of Spade Academy that day, our squad got separated from the main force and was then surrounded by people from Spade Academy. In order to cover our breakout, the squad leader sacrificed himself at that time. Moreover, while being pursued by those rebels, I'm the only one left from our cooking squad."
"Since you survived and weren't seriously injured, why didn't you return to headquarters?" The silver-haired man asked.
"I... I can't find my way back alone!" Yuji blushed and said sheepishly.
"Hey!" The silver-haired man sighed resentfully, then said: "Get in the car, I'll take you back! After you get back, go directly to the kitchen at headquarters to report!"
"Thank you very much! I heard that the cooks at headquarters don't have to go to the battlefield." Yuji Itadori raised his head and showed a simple smile.
"You..." The silver-haired man stammered angrily. "When you get back, get lost and go raise pigs at the logistics farm!"
"Don't do this sir, let me stay in the cooking squad. I'm not bragging—everyone in my squad has tasted my cooking, and they all approve." Yuji Itadori spouted nonsense.
"Stop talking nonsense! Get in the car!" The silver-haired man said with a dark face.
"Wait a minute, sir, I need to take a dump, I can't hold it anymore!" How could Yuji go with him? Seeing this, he immediately made up an excuse.
"Then why don't you go! What are you standing there for? Waiting for me to give you toilet paper?" The silver-haired man said after taking a deep breath.
"If possible, sir, please do." Yuji said casually while bowing.
"You... okay, fine." The silver-haired man laughed angrily, took out a pack of tissues from the car and threw it over. "I really don't know how trash like you got into the Obelisk Legion. Now hurry up!"
"Yes!" Yuji took the tissues, pretended to hold his stomach, and ran to the corner.
After a while, Yuji walked back with a satisfied expression and returned the tissues with both hands.
The silver-haired man gave Yuji a look of disgust. "Throw that thing away and get in the car."
Seeing this, Yuji rolled his eyes, put on a thick-skinned expression again, and showed a simple honest smile: "Reporting sir, can you wait a little longer? I don't think I cleaned up properly just now."
Hearing this, the silver-haired man slammed the steering wheel, looked straight at Yuji , and said through gritted teeth: "Enough! Is this game amusing to you? Put away your poor acting skills. Where is your dignity as the chief of Heartland Academy, Yuji Itadori?"
Hearing this, Yuji shrugged, dropped his cowardly act, took off his disguise and threw it away: "So I've been discovered? Well, my wanted poster should be posted everywhere in your camp. But speaking of bad acting, we're both guilty of it, Commander of Obelisk, Mister Ed Phoenix."
"You already knew I recognized you?" Ed said coldly.
"That's right, but I saw you were enjoying the act so much, I wanted to keep playing along. The night is still long anyway." Yuji said with a smile.
"Now that your identity is exposed, if you don't run away, do you think you can keep me here by yourself?" Ed said.
"We won't know until we fight." Yuji activated his duel disk.
Ed also activated his duel disk, and the battle was about to begin.
"Duel!" ×2
"My turn!" Ed took the initiative.
"I summon [Destiny HERO - Drilldark] in Attack Position!"
"The effect activates when [Destiny HERO - Drilldark] is successfully Summoned! When this card is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned, I can Special Summon 1 'Destiny HERO' monster from my hand with ATK equal to or less than this card's ATK."
"I Special Summon [Destiny HERO - Decider]!"
"The effect activates when [Destiny HERO - Decider] is successfully Special Summoned! When this card is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned successfully, at the end of this turn, I can choose 1 'HERO' monster in my Graveyard and add it to my hand. This effect can only be used once per Duel."
"Spell Card, [Fusion Substitute]!"
"This card is treated as [Polymerization], but it can only fuse monsters on the field."
"I fuse [Destiny HERO - Drilldark] with [Destiny HERO - Decider]!"
Ed put his hands together in front of his chest, and the two monsters before him spun and fused together under the spell card's effect.
"The two heroes who pierce through fate and possess relentless determination, merge into one and rule the dark future!"
"Fusion Summon! Come forth! [Destiny HERO - Dystopia]!"
A warrior in purple armor with a large letter D carved on his helmet stepped out of the fusion vortex and stood before Ed.
"The effect of [Destiny HERO - Dystopia] activates!"
"When this card is successfully Fusion Summoned, I can target 1 'Destiny HERO' monster in the Graveyard that was used as this card's Fusion Material, and inflict damage to my opponent equal to that monster's ATK!"
"I target [Drilldark] in the graveyard and inflict damage equal to Drilldark's 1600 ATK! Palm of Oppression!"
The Dystopia raised his palm and shot a dark blue ball of light that exploded in front of Yuji.
The explosion's impact knocked Yuji to the ground, raising a large cloud of smoke and dust.
Yuji Itadori LP: 4000→2400
After the smoke cleared, Yuji stood up, patted the dust off his body, and said: "Not bad, dealing damage on the first turn."
"Surrendering already?" Ed said.
"Don't misunderstand. But I'm curious—is there a Skyman in your hero deck?" Yuji said, trying to delay time while waiting for Shingo and the others to arrive. A duel with this guy would probably be a fierce battle, and he had already fought Sugihara Yasuo today. Even if he won, he probably wouldn't have the strength to capture him.
"Skyman ?" Ed frowned. "I haven't heard of it."
"[Elemental HERO Skyman]! You call yourself a hero user and haven't heard of it!" Yuji said.
"Hmph, are you spouting nonsense? What Elemental HERO? My Destiny HEROes are much stronger than those things!" Ed said, then realized: "Are you stalling for time? Waiting for reinforcements?"
"Did you figure it out?" With his intention exposed, Yuji didn't care—the duel had already started, and he didn't believe someone as arrogant as Ed would run away.
Sure enough, Ed sneered and said: "It doesn't matter if reinforcements come. Once I deal with you, getting rid of those small fry is just a bit more troublesome."
"Don't speak too soon, Ed Phoenix. If you, the commander, are killed here, the morale of Obelisk's remaining forces will plummet." Yuji Itadori said.
"Keep dreaming." Ed sneered and revealed a spell card. "Spell Card, [Destiny Draw] activates!"
"I discard 1 'Destiny HERO' card from my hand and draw 2 cards from my deck."
"I discard [Destiny HERO - Celestial] from my hand and draw two cards!"
"I set two cards and end my turn." After Ed set all the cards he drew, he ended his turn.
"At this moment, due to the effect of [Destiny HERO - Decider], I add [Destiny HERO - Drilldark] from my graveyard to my hand."
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(End of this chapter)