Chapter 25: The Prodigy Chef, Michio Mokota
It was the middle of the night in the Sakaki household and Yugo was sitting cross leg on the floor looking at all the cards in his deck. "Alright this is perfect starting tomorrow I'm going to kick a lot of ass and beat my four opponents with this deck for sure" Yugo said as he looked at his cards "this is it starting now I'm taking my first step in becoming a pro" Yugo said. He then remembers what Reiji said about further evolving Pendulum Summoning back when they first dueled together Yugo then picked up a card which turned out to be Clear Wing Synchro Dragon. "That's right there no way in hell that I'm not going to lose to him not now not ever" Yugo said thinking about his rivalry with Reiji.
The next day Yugo was currently in the bathroom downstairs washing his face and once he was finished he headed downstairs towards the kitchen and when he opened up he was treated with the sight of Sora and his mom in the kitchen. "Ah Yugo good morning" Sora said Yugo sighed "seriously doesn't this kid have a place where he can eat his own food he getting more suspicious day by day I'll still keep an eye on him in case he does something to betray us" Yugo thought. "Morning you really made yourself at home didn't you kid" Yugo said to the fusion duelist. "Well it's fine isn't it since we're friends right" Sora said "by the way good luck with the four matches I'm working hard to enter the same tournament as you" Sora said.
Yugo gave Sora an annoyed look "so I take it you're going to be doing your qualification duels today as well" Yugo asked the blue haired boy. "Yeah I only need to win six matches in a row, so it'll be a clinch" Sora replied causing Yugo to sigh "you really think it will be that easy huh" Yugo said he then looked at his adoptive mother "hey mom is breakfast ready?" Yugo asked Yoko. "Just wait a bit more son" Yoko said to her adoptive son confusing Yugo and Sora "I'm working on making Mille-Feuille Tonkatsu with a special salad right now" Yoko said. Yugo then walked up to her "huh but mom I'd rather you make your usual and pancakes instead of something that's making you work a lot harder then usual" Yugo said to his adoptive mother. The last thing he needed was for his mom to work even harder for him since in his opinion she done enough just by adopting him into their family especially after the pain she went through with having her son and husband disappearing right off the face of the earth.
"But I've already got Mitche's popular recipe open right now" Yoko said "well just make whatever and make it quick mom" Yugo said to her adoptive mother. "I told you to wait didn't I" Yoko said "but mom if I don't hurry I'll be late for my duel" Yugo said "ah look you made me mess up" Yoko said as this was going on Sora quietly drinking some milk while quietly watching the mother and son duo argue with each other with a annoyed look on his face.
About a couple of minutes later Yugo was already in the middle part of downtown and his stomach was growling as he put his hand on it. "Got damn it I didn't get any breakfast at all since I had to rush out" Yugo then started to smell something in the air "what's this smell it smells awesome!" Yugo said as he ran to see what that delicious smell was. Yugo then stopped and he found the place where the smell was located at "so this is the place" Yugo said as he looked at the building. "Kirigakure cooking school" Yugo said as he looked at the sign "hey wait a minute wasn't this the place I was told to come here the other day" Yugo said as he grabbed his duel disk and tried to look to see if this was the place he was looking for.
I've been waiting for you, Yugo" Nico said suddenly appearing in front of Yugo scaring him "ah how he get in front of me like that!" Yugo thought. "Now, come on inside" Nico said to the young synchro and pendulum duelist "huh are you trying to take me to the gas chambers" Yugo while Nico when behind him and pushed him towards the building "its fine just go" Nico said. Not long after Yugo was inside the building and he could smell all of the food the chiefs were making "oh god so many wonderful smells" Yugo said as he started to drool. He then looked at a sign "Mitchie love what the hell is that?" Yugo wondred. "Let me introduce today opponent nickname Mitchie its Michio Mokota" Nico announced.
As a smokescreen appeared and it reveled to be a boy with brown hair with pink hair at the front and his eyes was closed. "Your Yugo Sakaki right?" Michio asked Yugo while Yugo looked at the boy in surprised "y-yeah" Yugo said snapping himself out of his daze. "Michio is a young chef whose self-made recipes are very popular among housewives everywhere" Nico said as Yugo stomach growled loudly. "You seem to be pretty hungry yourself" Michio said as Yugo rubbed his head. "Yeah sorry about that I uh missed breakfast today" Yugo said "on top of that all the food everyone is cooking smells really good" Yugo said.
"Then I'll fill that hungry stomach of yours using my perfect recipe and my cooking duel" Michio said. "Principal Kirigakure" someone said as Yugo turned to look at what was going on and it looked like it was a lady talking to a man wearing a chef uniform. "What is the meaning of this?" the lady ask Kirigakure "Michio has already qualified for the Junior Youth Championship why are you still having him play in official matches?" the lady which turned out to be Michio mother asked Kirigakure. "Ma'am it's just like I explained to you earlier-" Kirigakure started to explain but Michio interrupted him. "It's fine mom" Michio said as he walked up and spoke to his mother.
"Yugo Sakaki was the one who beat Strong Ishijima remember" Michio said while Yugo laughed at the complement. "It seemed like fun, so I'll make a light meal of him" Michio said while Yugo just glared at him and Nico had to grab his shoulders from keeping Yugo from killing Michio. "Yes your right he shouldn't give you any trouble at all show him the strength of someone who doesn't even lose to the top players of LDS" Michio mother said to her son. "I'll do my best mom" Michio said as he began to walk away from the area "I'll be cheering for you do your best" Michio mother said while Yugo looked at the scene. "Big brother Yugo" Yugo looked to see who called out his name and saw that Ayu, Tatsuya and Futoshi were here as well.
"Hey you are here too?" Yugo questioned the three younger kids "of course" Ayu said "this is your first step to becoming a pro after all" Tatsuya said. "You better win this duel with style and give me goose bumps" Futoshi said Yugo then smiled at the three of them "thanks guys" he said to them. Not too long after that moment both Michio and Yugo stood on opposites sides of the duel field waiting for their match to begin. "Everyone, it's what you've all been waiting for it's time for the duel between Pendulum Summoning pioneer Yugo Sakaki and the cooking duel prince Michio Mokota" Nico announced as he introduced the two young duelist.
"I'm crazy for your recipes" one older lady said as the housewives cheered Michio on while his mother was filming the duel live "honey are you actually watching" Michio mother spoke to her husband who was currently at a restaurant cooking something.
"Michio has a big match today, but you didn't come to the stadium because you're busy with prep work" Michio mother said while her husband didn't look at the screen and just continuing preparing the meals. "Now then, Principal Kirigakure if you would" Nico said as the spotlight was on Kirigakure as he gave his speech. "Cooking is a insatiable journey for new possibilities and duels are one and the same lets have these aspiring youths do their cooking duel on the most fitting field action field on" Kirigakure said as the solid vision system activated. Turning the field into a very large kitchen "field magic: action kitchen activate" Kirigakure said.
Yugo then looked at the field in amazement "woah a giant kitchen" Yugo said "that's right" Michio said as Yugo truned to face him. " so I can cook you properly" Michio said "heh no matter what field this is I just have to make it through with my dueling" Yugo said as he grinned as he activated his duel disk. "Duelist locked in battle" Yugo said as he began the chant "kicking against the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters they strom through this field" Michio said. "Behold this is the newest and greatest evolution of dueling" Yugo said "Action..." everyone said as the action cards spread all over the field.
"DUEL!" both Michio and Yugo said at the same time.
YUGO LP 4000
VS
MICHIO LP 4000
"Freshness is everything in cooking and in dueling I'll be taking the first turn now I'll let you get a good taste of how amazing my cooking dueling is I summon Cook-Make Chickwheat from my hand" Michio said as he swiped a card on his duel disk and a baby chick like monster that is wearing a flower bag appeared on the field (*2: ATK/100). "Let's go Chickweat" Michio said as he got on his monster and Chickweat started to head towards a grill and when Chickweat jumped up a bit Michio jumped and landed on a grill and he pressed the open button and the grill opened up which turned out to be a action card.
"I'll take that action card" Michio said as he took the action card from the air Yugo widen his eyes in surprised "he already gotten an action card?" Yugo said as Michio landed on top of the grill. "Good, I got myself a nice one I'm going to use this while this is still fresh I activate the action magic food prepping microwave" Michio said as a giant microwave appeared beside him. "This card allows me to return one monster on the field to my hand and special summon a level four or lower monster from my hand I return Chickweat to my hand" Michio said as Chickweat turned into a beam of light and returned to Michio hand as a card.
"and I special summon the level one Cook-Mate Egg Gong" Michio said as a beam of light appeared out of the microwave and it turned into a egg like monster (*1:ATK/0). "At this moment Chickweat effect activates this card can be special summoned the same turn it's returned to my hand from my field" Michio said as he swiped the card onto his duel disk and Chickweat appeared back on the field (*2:ATK/100). "And when there are two or more cook Mate Cards on my field I can special summon Cook-Mate Potato Jaguar from my hand" Michio said as he swiped the card on his duel disk and a potato like monster appeared on the field (*3:ATK/600). "And also" Michio said as he grabbed on Egg Gong leg and the creature flew with Michio towards a blinder.
Once Michio landed by the blinder he turned it on and it activated creating a gust of wind and suddenly an action card went flying out of it. "That's!" Yugo said as Michio took the action card from the air "I'll be taking another action card" Michio said the kids were surprised at what Michio did "he got three monsters out in an instant" Tatsuya said "on top of that he gotten two action cards" Futoshi said "he looked like a total pushover, but he's pretty good" Ayu said. "I set two cards face down and end my turn" Michio said he swiped the two cards face down on his duel disk and the two cards appeared face down on his duel disk before disappearing.
"Michio seems to be in top from" Nico said to Kirigakure "well he does know this field like the back of his hand" Kirigakure replied. "First, he collects his ingredients" Kirigakure said "that's right he only just getting started" Michio mother said.
Meanwhile Sora was battling a sumo wrestler "this'll finish you" Sora said as Frightful Bear knocked the sumo wrestler out of bounce while Yuzu had a look on her face as if she was thinking about something. "All right,we're going to the next one" Sora said snapping Yuzu out of her thoughts "huh" Yuzu said "ah yeah right" Yuzu said as she got up from her seat while Sora gave her a annoyed look. "Ore no turn!" Yugo said as he drew his card while his stomach was growling causing him to sweat drop "aw man I'm so hungry" Yugo thought as everyone laughed at him while the three kids sighed. "Come on, big brother Yugo" Ayu said while Yugo sheepishly rubbed his head and laughed a bit.
"You're quite something, but I guess I can't blame you since you missed out on breakfast I don't want you using that as an excuse for loosing, though" Michio said as he looked down at Yugo. "You be pretty confident thinking that I'm just going to lose" Yugo said as he gave Michio an annoyed look "but of course my recipe is perfect after all" Michio replied. "So there's no way that you defeat the cooking duel I'm going to create from it" Michio said "don't be so sure about that you idiot" Yugo said. "When I have no cards on my field I can activate the spell card Speed Draw" Yugo said as he swiped the card on his duel disk and the card flipped up face up on the field.
"With this I get to draw two cards while I have to send a Speedroid monster to my graveyard" Yugo said as he discarded a Speedroid monster and send it to his graveyard. "Then I summon Speedroid Double Yo-yo and with it's effect I can special summon Speedroid Tri-eyed dice from my graveyard" Yugo said as he swiped a card on his duel disk and Speedroid Double Yo-yo appeared on the field (*4 :ATK/1400). Next Speedroid Tri-eyed dice appeared on the field from a portal due to double yo-yo effect (*3: ATK/300). "I tune my level four Double Yo-yo with my level three tri eyed dice" Yugo said as Tri- Eyed Dice turn into three dots that expanded into three rings and double yo-yo went through the rings as it gained an outline.
"Spread those wondrous and beautiful wings and strike your enemies at the speed of light" Yugo chanted as a light shot through the rings "Synchro Shokan!" Yugo said.
LV 4 + LV 3= LV 7
"Appear level seven Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!" Yugo said as Clear Wing Synchro Dragon braced his arms and roared as it appeared behind Yugo (*7: ATK/2500). "Synchro Summon so he a synchro user?" Michio said as he was surprised that Yugo managed to pull off the summoning method. "Alright Clear Wing lets so them how it's done" Yugo said as he jumped on Clear Wing's back and the dragon roared and flew up towards the kitchen sink and Yugo noticed that there was an action card on the sink "all right an action card" Yugo said as he smiled. "Oh he quite impressive himself" Kirigakure said as he was impressed with Yugo dueling skills so far. "Well he is the son of the action duel pioneer Yushou Sakaki after all" Nico said.
"I can see why you expect great things from him" Kirigakure said as he saw Yugo take the action card from the sink. "Now battle Clear Wing Synchro Dragon attack Egg Gong!" Yugo said as Clear Wing Synchro dragon roared and released a green like energy blast from its mouth and shot it at Egg Gong. Michio laughed and smirked as he showed an action card to Yugo "I activate the action spell Freeze, freeze" Michio said as he swiped the card on his duel disk. "That's the action card he got earlier" Yugo said "Freeze, Freeze negates all of the opponents attacks this turn" Michio said as a refrigerator appeared on the field and it opened up and it released a freeze like blast freezing Clear Wing and Yugo. "Crap that's cold" Yugo thought.
"Now those are some real shivers" Futoshi said "if that's how you want to play it then fine I activate the action spell battle burner" Yugo said as a flamethrower appeared on the field. "One monster whose attack was negated can attack again as the flamethrower blasted a fire stream at Clear Wing and Yugo freeing them. "Also this additional attack cannot be negated now Clear Wing let's try this again attack!" Yugo said as Clear Wing released a green like blast from its mouth and struck Egg Gong destroying him. Michio had to cover himself from the blast while his life points went down (LP 4000-2500= LP 1500). "He did it" Ayu said "also when my monster destroys an opponent's monster with battle burner effect all monsters in attack position on the opponents field are destroyed" Yugo said as two flames shot down and destroyed his monsters.
"All his monsters got wiped out" Tatsuya said "I set one card face down and end my turn" Yugo said as he swiped a card on his duel disk and a card appeared face down on the field before disappearing. "See an outcome of a duel is something we won't know unless we try and do something about it" Yugo said. Michio just laughed "no actually I already know this is all going according to my recipe I activate the continuous trap food cemetery" Michio said as a trap card appeared face up on the field "in the turn this card is activated all cook mates that were sent to the graveyard are sent to the food cemetery" Michio said as his monsters went inside the food cemetery "the destroyed monsters went inside" Ayu said.
"And now I can add the same number of harvested cook-mates cards from my deck to my hand" Michio said as three cards ejected out from his duel disk and he picked the three cards up. "The more monsters are sent to the graveyard this turn, the stronger food cemetery becomes" Michio said as Yugo gritted his teeth "before I had to do anything you did all the hard work for me by destroying my monsters" Michio said as Yugo looked at the cemetery. "Brand-new Cook Mates are now on the menu" Michio said "that's it Michio" Michio mother said. "So that means he added three monsters to his hand" Yugo said as Michio smirked "with this, all the prep work is complete" Michio said.
Back at his job Michio father was busy cooking while at the same time he was watching his son duel. "Boku no turn draw!" Michio said as he drew his card "now I saved the best for last for that starving belly of yours" Michio said "Mitchie's best dish is coming" one of the housewives said. "I activate Wonder Recipe from my hand" Michio said as he swiped a card on his duel disk and a card with an image of a cook book flipped face up on the field. "This card lets me special summon a number of Royal Cook Mates as the number of cards in my food cemetery" Michio said as the card shot out a beam of light at the food cemetery. "Those are three cards in his food Cemetery right now" Yugo said as Clear Wing took him down on a table as the dragon went behind him.
"I got your order" Michio said as the beams of light shot out of the oven "I special summon Knight Neapolitan, Princess Pudding and Prince Curry" Michio said as a curry, pudding and a knight soup like monster appeared on the field. (*6: ATK/300), (*7: ATK/300), (*8:ATK/300) "to think that he could special summon high level monsters for each card in the food cemetery" Tatsuya said. "This guy is exquis-" Futoshi was about to say but he got glares from Ayu and Tatsuya. " Sorry I mean expert" Futoshi said. "Cook-Mates that are destroyed in the turn I activate Food Cemetery are all seated by Food Cemetery and now thanks to Wonder Recipe, I could special summon one royal cook-mate for each cook mate sealed" Michio said.
"A combo that punishes me for destroying monsters by replacing them with stronger ones huh this might be bad" Yugo said as he gritted his teeth. "Exactly this is my perfect recipe" Michio said he used his monster to slid down into a bowl and he grabbed an action card. "I'll be taking this action card" Michio said as he grabbed the action card from the bowl. "Damn he got another one!" Yugo said as he started to run along with Clear Wing "before our food gets cold, I'll activate the other effect of wonder recipe for each monster special summoned by it's card effect I can deal three hundred points of damage to my opponent" Michio said as the three monsters struck lighting at Yugo.
"He summoned three Royal Cook Mates with that card" Tatsuya said "so three hundred times threeis" Futoshi said "nine hundred points of damage" Ayu said. "I'll have you pay for your restaurant bill in life points" Michio said as Yugo jumped on a plate as the lighting struck him shocking him "AHHHHHHHH!" Yugo said as his life points decreased (LP 4000-900= LP 3100). "You may have got a lot of food on the table but they still have three hundred attack points each Clear Wing can still devour them" Yugo said. "Hmph, at this rate that's true but royal cook-mates are my perfect recipe and they'll just keep getting stronger" Michio said "what" Yugo said. "I activate Princess Pudding effect once per turn she can double the orginal attack points of all Royal Cook Mates I control" Michio said.
"I don't think so I activate Clear Wing Synchro Dragon effect when a level five of higher monster activates it effect I get to negate and destroy it" Yugo said. "What negate and destroy" Michio said as he ran to get an action card Clear Wing Synchro Dragon wings glowed "go Dichoric Mirror" Yugo said as Clear Wing Synchro Dragon released a beam of light at Princess Pudding. Luckily Michio had a grabbed an action card in the nick of time and swiped the card on his duel disk "I activate the action card Skillet with this card all of my monsters are protected from your card effects for this turn" Michio said as a giant pan like skillet protected Michio monsters from Clear Wing effect. "Since your dragon used it's effect and thanks to Skillet I can freely use my monsters effects" Michio said as she doubled Curry's attack points (LV 7: ATK/ 300+300= ATK/600).
"It's Michie set menu" one of the housewives said "that's right if you have desert with your meal your happiness doubles" Ayu said. "However Princess Pudding can't attack in the turn she activates her effect" Michio said. "Now I activate Knight Neapolitan's effect once per turn he can also double the orginal attack of all Royal Cook-Mates I control" Michio said as Curry attack points went up (LV 7: ATK/600+600= ATK/1200). "Oh a curry and Neapolitan special I can accept double with this kind of portion size" Futoshi said. "However, Knight Neapolitan can't attack the turn he activates this effect. Both Ayu and Futoshi both drooled at the amount of food being displayed in the duel.
"You guys what are you doing drooling when the enemy is getting stronger" Tatsuya said scolding his two friends. "Even though Yugo is dueling with all he got" Tatsuya said after he said that Yugo stomach starting growling very loudly causing Tatsuya to fall on the floor. "Big brother Yugo!" Tatsuya said Yugo laughed as he rubbed his head "It seems you taken a liking to my special menu" Michio said. "Yeah I'm certainly drooling alright" Yugo said "but no matter how delicious it seems Prince Curry still has lower attack points then Clear Wing" Yugo said as he looked at his dragon behind him. "Yes...for now" Michio said as he grabbed an action card from the floor.
Causing Yugo to gasp "but what happens when we add one more flavor I activate the action magic Triple Excellent Spice" Michio said as he injected the card into his duel disk. "I can increase the attack of one monster by three thousand points for the remainder of this turn" Michio said as three different spices sparkled around Prince Curry. "Prince Curry became even more delicious" Michio said as Curry attack points went up (LV 7: ATK/1200X3= ATK/3600) "battle Prince Curry attack Whip Viper Excellent Express Curry Plate" Michio said as Prince Curry released a steam of Curry at Clear Wing Synchro Dragon.
"I activate the trap card Speed Barrier by banishing Double Yo-yo I can protect Clear Wing Synchro Dragon from destruction" Yugo said as a barrier formed around Clear Wing. "But you still take damage" Michio said as Yugo covered himself from the impact (LP 3100-1100= LP 2000). "My, oh my was that two spicy for you I end my turn here, at this moment Triple Excellent Spice, Princess Pudding and Knight Neapolitan effect wears off and Prince Curry attack points return to normal also the effect of skillet ends as well (LV 7: ATK/3600-3300=ATK/300). "Heh are you having your fill of my cooking duel" Michio said Yugo jumped towards the ground.
"Ore no turn" Yugo said as he drew his card "alright it looks like it's time for me to counterattack" Yugo said. "As thanks for earlier I'll let you have a good taste of my Pendulum Summon" Yugo said as Michio had a nervous look on his face. "With the scale two Speedroid Domino Dragonfly and the scale eight Speedroid Domino Butterfly I set the Pendulum Scale" Yugo said as he swiped the card on the edges of his duel disk and the word Pendulum appeared on the middle of his duel disk. It was then Speedroid Domino Butterfly and Dragonfly appeared in blue pillars of light on each side "it's here" Ayu and Futoshi said. "Here comes the counter attack" Tatsuya said "sway Pendulum of the soul draw an arc of light across the ether" Yugo said as a giant Pendant swung from side to side to each monster.
"Pendulum Shokan come froth my monsters" Yugo said as a portal opens and beams of light came out of the portal. "Come forth level seven Clear Wing Fast Dragon!" Yugo said as Clear Wing Fast Dragon roared as it stood next to it's synchro counterpart (LV 7: ATK/2500) "and finally Speedroid Den Den Daiko Duke" Yugo said as Daiko Duke appeared on the field (LV 3: ATK/1000). "Hmph I welcome the whole team" Michio said. "Since you all came out of that famous Pendulum Summon I'd best entertain my guest" Michio said "what" Yugo said.
"Did you say entertain" Yugo said "yes the greatest of course when a monster is summoned or special summoned to my opponents side of the field Princess Pudding, Knight Neapolitan and Prince Curry activate their effects" Michio said "but did you forget Clear Wing can negate their effects" Yugo said as Michio ran as he grabbed an action card "of course I didn't which why I activate the action card Pasta Strike!" Michio said as he swiped the card on his duel and Clear Wing was stuck on a food of Pasta Strings. "At this moment Clear Wing's effect is negated" Michio said "oh no Clear Wing!" Yugo said. "Full house of stomach" Michio said.
As Michio Monster filled up Clear Wing, Fast Dragon and Daiko Duke "ah no fair why do you guys get to eat" Yugo said "I'm starving too "more eat more eat all of my cooking monsters" Michio said. "What is that?" Tatsuya said "they're forcing it down that's horrible" Ayu said. "The good atmosphere in here is ruined" Futoshi said as he saw Fast Dragon and Daiko Duke roll around full with the food they received. "It looks like you're satisfied that you have no regrets to leave this world by returning Princess Pudding a Prince Curry and Knight Neapolitan I can destroy one monster for each card returned by this effect" Micho said as his cards returned to his hand and all of Yugo's monsters were destroyed.
"No my monsters" Yugo said as he glared at Michio who just grinned and laugh at Yugo "This is bad" Yugo thought as he knew he was in a load of trouble.
A/N: That's the end of the chapter haha I hope you guys enjoyed the duel between Yugo and Michio and see it's conclusion in the next chapter. Will Yugo be able to come out on top well you will just have to find out and also if you guys want to check out my other story The Angle and The Devil I promise you it's really good and originally it was meant to be a one shot and I was thinking of maybe continuing it and make it a full story but let me know what you guys think and if I get enough positive reviews or encouragement I'll make it into a full blown story. Anyway thank you guys so much for reading my story don't forget to read, review and follow my story I really appreciate it if you guys did that so then until next times guys see ya.