# Chapter 242: Another Smiling Individual
The Angel Valkyrie, holding two short halberds, gracefully stepped out from the Altar, looking proudly at the three monsters.
"The effect of Tributed Cyber Angel - Vrash activates! If this card is Tributed, all Ritual Monsters on your Field gain 1000 ATK and DEF."
Cyber Angel - Idaten ATK: 2500 → 3500
"Next, the Continuous Spell, Ascending Soul's effect activates!"
"Once per turn, when a Ritual Monster is Ritual Summoned successfully, you can target 1 monster in your Graveyard that was Tributed for that Ritual Summon and add it to your Hand."
"I add Cyber Angel - Vrash from my Graveyard to my Hand!"
"Next, I activate the Ritual Spell, Machine Angel Absolute Ritual!"
"Tribute monsters from your Hand or Field, or return Fairy-Type or Warrior-Type monsters from your Graveyard to the Deck as substitute for Tributes, whose combined Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon, and Ritual Summon 1 "Cyber Angel" Ritual Monster from your Hand."
"I return Cyber Angel - Benten and Cyber Petite Angel from my Graveyard to the Deck, and Ritual Summon! Appear! Cyber Angel - Dakini!"
Cyber Angel - Dakini ATK: 2700
"Cyber Angel - Dakini's effect activates! When this card is Ritual Summoned successfully, your opponent must send 1 monster from their Field to the Graveyard."
"Next, I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Solemn Machine Angel! Tribute 1 "Cyber Angel" Ritual Monster from your Hand or Field, then target 1 Fairy-Type, LIGHT Attribute monster on your Field; that target's ATK and DEF increase by the Tributed monster's Level x 200 until the end of this turn."
"I Tribute Cyber Angel - Vrash from my Hand, and Cyber Angel - Dakini on the Field gains 1200 ATK!"
Cyber Angel - Idaten ATK: 2700 → 3900
"Next, Cyber Angel - Vrash's effect when Tributed activates again! The Attack Points of Ritual Monsters on the Field increase by 1000!"
Cyber Angel - Idaten ATK: 3500 → 4500
Cyber Angel - Dakini ATK: 3900 → 4900
"Finally, I equip the Equip Spell Card, United We Stand, to Cyber Angel - Idaten! The equipped monster's ATK and DEF increase by the number of face-up monsters on your Field x 800."
Cyber Angel - Idaten ATK: 4500 → 6100
"Let's battle!" The cloaked woman waved her hand, entering the Battle Phase.
"Cyber Angel - Idaten attacks Ancient Gear Hound!"
The Mechanical Valkyrie let out a battle cry and charged at the opponent, the short halberds in its hand gleamed with a chilling light, and with one strike, it cut an Ancient Gear Hound into pieces.
Obelisk Force soldier's LP: 4000 → 0
"When Cyber Angel - Idaten attacks and destroys an opponent's monster and sends it to the Graveyard, this card can attack an opponent's monster once more."
"Keep going! Cyber Angel - Idaten attacks the second Ancient Gear Hound!"
Obelisk Force soldier's LP: 4000 → 0
"Finally, Cyber Angel - Dakini direct attacks!"
Obelisk Force soldier's LP: 4000 → 0
After a series of dazzling maneuvers, all three Obelisk Force soldiers were defeated.
Seeing this, Reiji Akaba couldn't help but click his tongue, saying, "I really didn't expect that Ritual Summon, which Leo Duel School abandoned due to its perceived weakness and low enrollment numbers, actually has such a powerful user in the Fusion Dimension."
"Ritual Summon isn't weak at all," Yūga Hōzumi said, as if recalling some unpleasant memories.
However, the cloaked woman's Duel Disk didn't have the effect of enhancing physical damage like Yūga Hōzumi's. The three defeated people gritted their teeth and ran off.
"You just let them go? Aren't you going to turn them into cards?" Sugihara Yo couldn't help but say upon seeing this.
The cloaked woman heard this, turned around, took off her hood, frowned as she looked at the group, and said, "Duel is not a weapon for war. This is the guiding principle of our Yusho Duel School."
Upon hearing this, the Lancers all turned their gaze towards Yuya in their team.
Yuya and Yuzu beside him were also stunned upon hearing the name Yusho Duel School. They stepped out from the group and excitedly asked the cloaked woman, "Yusho Duel School? Is your teacher Yusho Sakaki?"
"Who exactly are you?" The cloaked woman, whose teacher's name had been revealed, felt a sense of vigilance rise in her heart, and she raised the Duel Disk she had just lowered.
"Relax," Reiji Akaba stepped forward and said. "His name is Yuya Sakaki, your teacher's son. Strictly speaking, he is your senior disciple."
"You're the teacher's son?" The cloaked woman's brows furrowed deeply. "He doesn't look like it, though?"
"That's right, big sister, my father is Yusho Sakaki. Is he here with you?" Yuya Sakaki asked excitedly.
"How can you prove your identity?" the cloaked woman asked vigilantly. She probably already considered the group a team from the Academy pursuing Yusho Sakaki, having recently heard that the Academy's war in the XYZ Dimension had failed, and that Akaba Leo was massively searching for Yusho Sakaki to shift the blame.
"This... this should prove it," Yuya said, rummaging through his Deck for a long time before pulling out a card.
The woman looked closely: Smile World.
You're a smiling individual too?
Okay, misunderstanding resolved.
"I apologize for the misunderstanding. The Academy's pursuit of your teacher has become increasingly intense lately, so I had to be cautious." After seeing this card, the cloaked woman extended her hand to Yuya Sakaki. "My name is Asuka, a student of your father, Yusho Sakaki."
Seeing this scene, Yūga Hōzumi felt a massive complaint brewing in his heart.
Smile World can be used as a secret signal?
But it's actually possible. Besides Entertainment Duelists, who else would put such meaningless cards into their Deck?
"This is not the place to talk. Please follow me," Asuka told the group.
"There's no need. Just tell us how to get to the Academy," Sugihara Yo said coldly at that moment.
Because of Yusho Sakaki's disappearance when the war began, coupled with his previous act of rescuing Aster Phoenix, the Heartland Resistance members did not particularly welcome him.
"Aren't you all together?" Asuka wondered aloud.
"Compared to catching up with your teacher, we have more important things to do. Our companions are still imprisoned in the Academy, waiting for us to rescue them," Yuto said.
"Is that so?" Asuka nodded. "However, the boat for the island where the Academy is located won't depart until tomorrow. You can't go to the Academy right now."
(end of chapter)