Yet a again, today was the same as other days. Just sitting at the park and waiting for someone to challenge me.
That being said there has been no one that challenged me to a duel, so I guess today is going to be different.
That was what I thought but unfortunately the one and only starter extra, Max came towards me, and probably like always he wanted to duel me.
Some might wonder why I remembered his name, that's because I decided to refer to any other extra character I met as Max.
I gave him a bored look "What's up? Wanna duel again?" I then activated my duel disk.
Seeing me ready to duel, he quickly raised his hands as if surrendering "Chill bro, I'm actually here for something else."
Nah this cant be, every extra wants to duel me. Maybe they are developing and I should not think of them as extras anymore.
"Go on then, say what you need."
"I wanted to invite you to a duel tournament."
I see. no development at all, so they are still extras.
I sighed "Sure why not at least this way I can beat many of you together."
Max chuckled a bit, not arguing with what I said "well you do always win against most of us, but this tournament is special."
"And why is that?"
"It's because a few students from academia will be also participating in this tournament."
Max said that with a proud tone, guess some students appearing on this event seems like a big deal for them.
As for me? I couldn't care less about it. At most they gave me a bit more rewards.
If their skills are the same level as it was in the anime and can only spam cards from gear golem archetype, then they are not worth my time.
Then again we're not in the war era yet, so they might use different decks and it could be a good experience for me.
"Also there are two more reasons on why this tournament is special. We will be giving a rare card as a reward to the winner of tournament. Also academia has sponsored this tournament so the money that is gained by it will be given to the orphanage."
"Why would they give the money to orphanage?"
That genocidal egghead didn't strike me as the kind of person who would donate to the orphanage out of pure kindness.
"You don't know? Academia always picks up a portion of its students from orphanage, and because of that the orphans that grew up in there will always be grateful to it and will try to find a way to repay what academia did for them."
Wait what? Now that I think about it, it actually makes sense. Academia had many loyal lap dogs during the dimension war, given how many people were willing to work and fight for professor Akaba.
After a few minutes of walking we reached an area that I haven't seen before. The said area was full of dueling fields and gears, similar to the device that was used in duel kingdom. There was also a building that looked like a hotel.
"That's the orphanage I was talking about."
Quite an impressive orphanage I have to say, too good in fact to be true.
"Impressed right?" max once again with an ounce of proud said.
Seriously can this guy not be proud about a damn thing? Might as well piss in public and be proud of it.
"Not really. Just did not expect that you guys have such technologies."
Max gave me a annoyed look for a moment, but then smiled "I have already registered you as a competitor in the tournament. So you can go ahead and look around for a bit. Once your match is about to begin you will get a call."
And with that, max ran off to who know where.
I don't have anything special to do so guess I can check on the orphanage and see what kind of place it is, this is yugioh world so there is no way it's going to be a normal orphanage.
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In one of the playgrounds of the orphanage, while other kids were playing Card games with each other, A kid with magenta hair colour was sitting alone all by himself while holding a deck of cards.
This boy was known as the outcast and no kid went him as they found him weird and sometimes scary.
While some neglected him, a few tended to make fun of him from time to time and sometimes even bully him.
'Another day with me being alone. Why no one wants to play with me? Did I do something wrong?' The child thought to himself.
'Its not like I have hurted any of them,Well maybe I did while Dueling. When I duel people sometimes I feel I'm losing control and in that Time I hurt other people. Maybe I deserve being alone.'
The child's spirit only went down as he beat himself up in his mind, thinking of others leaving him was his own fault.
But then a small smile crept on his face, remembering that those who performed greatly in today's tournament would be adopted and picked up by the academia.
If he performed well and got picked, he could finally hope to met people that might treat him like a family. If he was lucky he could even make friends.
"Look at him, its Yuri, he's smiling like a creep again." One of the kids that was near him said, not caring the slightest if the boy heard him or not.
The friend of the boy followed up, not wanting to fall behind his friend.
"What did you expect of a person that uses plant type deck."
'why are they mean to me just for using plant type cards, is it really a bad thing? Should I put them away?'
He had considered throwing his deck away before, but he couldn't because he felt as they had a close bond to him.
Unlike everyone else, his cards didn't bully him nor leave him alone. They were always there for him, especially his favourite card.
"Oi you two kids, stop this."
Hearing someone stand up for him, made him look up to see who that person was.
He had lilac eyes, tanned skin, White hair that spikes backwards at the sides, with purple-blue highlights, His outfits Consisted of a pink shirt underneath a light-grey suit jacket, with black trousers.
The kids that were intimidated by his tone and height, got scared of him and ran away.
Yuri looked at him briefly before Bowing his head down in gratitude.
"Thank you for helping me."
The young man chuckled at the sight "You're welcome Onion."
"My name isn't Onion."
The boy raised his hand and it closed on Yuri, making Yuri close his eyes out of fear of being hit.
But the next second, the hand that was supposed to hit him was gently patting his head.
"I think its a good nickname for you. Suits your hair colour."
Yuri wanted to say something back to him but he decided to stay silent and enjoy that little kindness he received.
"Anyways why were those kids treating you like that?"
Yuri looked down at his cards, his mood dampening again.
"Its because they think I'm weird and scary because I use Plant type cards."
"That's it?"
"Yes."
The boy crouched down in Front of him, to be the same height as him.
"Look even if they find you weird it still doesn't give them the right to talk like that about you. Every card is mesnt to be treasured, which I see you're doing so. So be proud of yourself."
Yuri was at loss for words. For the first time in his life someone didn't ridicule him for his deck.
"My name is Ryoken but you can call me something else if its hard to remember or say." The boy introduced himself to him
After a few seconds of thinking, Yuri asked "Can I call you Ryo?"
"Sure thing Yuri."
Yuri didn't question how Ryoken knew his name, guessing he might have heard it when those kids were bullying him verbally.
It was then that Yuri's eyes saw the duel disk on Ryoken's hand, sparking curiosity in him.
"Are you a Duelist?"
Ryoken raised his duel disk, showing it to Yuri "Yes, I'm also participating in the tournament."
I looked at him a bit and pondered that should I ask him to duel me. What if he finds me annoying or I hurt him in our duel?
Yuri wanted to ask him if they could duel, but he was scared of doing so. Why? because what if he hurt the only person who showed him kindness and that person also abandoned him?
"What's up Yuri? You look Troubled."
"Can I ask you something?" Yuri asked, gathering his courage to ask Ryoken to duel him.
"Yeah sure why not."
"Can We Duel?"
Ryoken looked at Yuri blankly for a few seconds before he started laughing, making Yuri think he was going to ridicule him too.
"Really? All that just for a duel? Sure I don't mind. Dueling is the love of my life after all. How about this, If you impress me or win against me i will give you a gift. But if I win, You have to do one thing i ask you to do."
(A/N: That last line looks a bit sus, but bear with it.)
"Sure."
Yuri accepted on spot. The fact that Ryoken agreed to duel him was already a gift.
"You ready?" He asked
"Yes."
Yuri Activated the Duel disk that the orphanage gave him And Ryo activated his own.
"DUEL!"
Ryoken VS Yuri
Turn 1
Standby phase 1
"I will go first" Yuri declared and looked at the cards he drew to see what he got.
Predaplant Squid Drosera, Predaplant Moray Nepenthes, Predapruning, Predapractice, Predaplant Flytrap.
Yuri smiled as he saw the cards he drew. With them he could put up a great defence for now.
"I activate the spell card Predapractice, it lets me special summon one 'predaplant' monster from my hand and also add one 'Predap' card from my deck to my hand."
"I special summon Predaplant Moray Nepenthes In Defence Position."
Predaplant Moray Nepenthes ATK1600 DEF1000
"I then set a monster Face down (Pre Flytrap) and end my turn."
End phase
Turn2
Draw phase
"I draw."
Main phase 1
Ryoken looked at his cards before smiling "Yuri you might be lucky enough to see my ace monster today."
'Ace monster? Is his ace stronger then my Venom dragon?'
"From my hand I Activate The spell card, Bingo Machine, Go!!!"
"This card lets me choose 3 cards that mention Blue-eyes in their name, then you choose one of them randomly and i can add that card to my hand."
He then took out three cards from his deck and held them up for Yuri to choose.
"I pick the middle one."
Ryoken added the middle card to his and returned the other two to his deck.
"Next I summon The white stone of legend in the attack position."
The white stone of legend 300ATK/250DEF
'He summoned a monster with 300 Attack points in the attack position... why?' Yuri asked himself, only to get his response a moment later.
"Now from my hand I activate the spell card successor soul! I tribute one effect monster on my field and send one effect monster on your field to send it to the graveyard."
"I tribute my White stone of legend to send your Moray Nepenthes to the graveyard."
The white stone of legends turned into light particles as it was tributed, same happened to Yuri's Predaplant Moray Nepenthes.
"So you summoned that card as a tribute to remove my monster. But that leaves your field empty too." Yuri remarked.
"Successors soul effect doesn't end here, I can also special summon a level 7 or higher normal monster from my hand or deck."
Hearing those words made Yuri's eyes Widen, a card to clear his field and also special summon a strong monster? That must be a rare card.
Only if he knew it wasn't.
"Through the effect of successor soul I summon my ace, my pride and my soul, my Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
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What are your thoughts on Yuri? I meant the character btw not the action XD