In the previous chapter...
"The second Fight will take place, please choose the following participants." The commentator said... "Finally..." Kazuma was getting up from his seat. "It's a shame, I'll face Shindou's Patiño, well... Once I'm done with him, I hope you'll let me mop the floor with Shindou, Shiranui." Miguel said very confidently...
Turn 46: The End of The U-20!
Both boys go to the battle board..."This will be over soon." Miguel said very confidently.
"You seem very confident." Kazuma laughed. "Is that so?... You are nothing to me... I know your story. It's a shame that I have to beat Kazumi's little brother." Miguel replies.
"So your strategy will be using mind games... Well, luckily this doesn't affect me." Kazuma said by placing his deck on the board.
"Luna?" Am reacts surprised, when she saw her friend arrive at the stadium. "Can I sit?" asks Luna, Am very surprised, she let her sit next to her, because despite everything that had happened... They were still friends.
"Stand Up! Vanguard!"
"Ride! Rebecca. Well, do your best..." Miguel said while he put a grade one on the board.
"Ride! Dragwizard Knies." Kazuma appears as Knies on the battlefield. "With Rute's boost, Knies attacks!" he added, as he attacked Rebecca.
"No Guard!" Answer Miguel.
"Drive check: no trigger (Sentinel)" after making his Drive check, Kazuma ends its turn.
"Damage check: Heal trigger. Well, I think it's my turn now." Miguel said, putting a card in his Damage zone. "Ride! Gentain Musketeer, Antero," Miguel added, as he called his grade two.
"With May Len's boost, Antero attacks!" said Miguel, who attacked Knies. "No Guard!" replies Kazuma... "Drive check: Draw trigger! I draw a card." Miguel commented, as he rebelled the card from the top of the deck.
"Damage check... Critical trigger." Kazuma replied, while putting the trigger in his damage zone. "I think that'll be enough to show you who's in charge." Miguel said as he laughed.
"Now I understand why Shindou and Anjou hate you, seriously you're hateful. However... I made a promise to that idiot idol, so... I don't plan on losing to someone like you." Kazuma responds. "Ride! Liafail, in addition... I call Swordbreaker and activate his skill: Soul blast and steal a card. In addition... I call Smother Knight, Giva." Add Kazuma while calling two more units.
"How hateful... This guy is a pain in the ass, just like Shindou." Miguel thought.
"Now Liafail, attack!" Kazuma's Liafail attacked Antero, but... "Guard!" Miguel defends himself with two Draw trigger. "Drive check: no trigger (grade one)" Kazuma reveals the card from the top of his deck, and unfortunately there was a grade one, so his attack didn't reach the defense of the blonde.
"Don't forget I still have another unit!" Kazuma now attacks Giva, and this time his attack manages to strike, and make Miguel put another card in his damage zone.
"Maybe... He can do it, even if he's a rookie... He's playing very well." Luna thought, watching the game.
"Ride! Master of Wisteria and called: Cherry Blossom, Augustus and two Ruths." said Miguel, who called three units to put more pressure on his opponent. "Wisteria Attack!" Miguel attacked Kazuma with his grade three... "Quintet Wall!" Kazuma manages to block Miguel's attack.
"You're very persistent. Drive check: Draw trigger! Power Ruth and draw a card/No trigger (Sentinel)" said Miguel, who had two sentinels in his hand.
"He only did a damage..." Luna was surprised to see that Kazuma was keeping his promise, because she only saw him as a rookie.
"Come to my companion... Ride! Dragheart, Luard. Stride Generation! Dark dragon carnivore dragon." Kazuma did stride with no cost, as he put two cards from his drop zone at the bottom of his deck. "I activate the Skill of Luard: counter blast and call Abyssal owl and Belial owl. Now... Carnivore dragon Skill: retreat to Abyssal owl and counter charge. Now you must remove two units."
"I'll retire the two Ruths." He's starting to bother Miguel.
"I call Knies and Liafail. Carnivore dragon, eat that jackass." It said Kazuma, who attacked with his dragon.
"Perfect guard!" Miguel defends himself from Kazuma's attack, but... "Drive check: Heal trigger! I heal a damage and power for Knies/No trigger (Sentinel) /Draw trigger." Kazuma draws a card... "Liafail, it's your turn..." Kazuma was attacking now with Liafail, but... "No guard!" replies Miguel.
"I activate Liafail's skill: I remove a unit that's in the same column plus a Soul blast, and draw a card." Kazuma smiled... "Knies, let's finish this!" but... "Guard!" He defended himself with a degree 0.
"Stride Generation! Myra and I activate May len's skill to call Rebecca. She gets +3k and thanks to her skill I call another Antonio." Miguel said, who couldn't believe that a human was beating him... He had always despised the humans, the humans his queen kept talking about. The humans who made their queen befriend just a bunch of outsiders.
"He's playing in despair... This will be easy." Kazuma thought...
"Myra attacks!" added Miguel, who sent his unit to attack Kazuma, but... "Perfect guard!" Kazuma manages to stop Miguel's attack.
"Drive check: No trigger... (Grade one, two and three)." replied Miguel, revealing the three cards at the top of his deck, and losing all hope of winning.
"Still... Antonio attacks!" he said, giving his last attack.
"Guard and intercept..." Kazuma defends himself from Miguel's attack, then the boy sighs and sees that Luna was among the audience..."Pathetic..." Kazuma said referring to Miguel.
"Luard Ritual! Now I do Stride at no cost..." Kazuma added while returning two cards to the bottom of his deck again.
"Beat it at once!" shouted Luna, leaving everyone surprised... Because she was still an Idol.
Kazuma smiled a little and... "Stride Generation! Dragstrider Luard. Dragheart Luard's Skill: counter blast and I call Abyssal owl and Morfessa. Now if I remove Belial, he goes back to the bottom of my deck and draw a card." he said. "Now attack Dragstrider! I activate his skill and he gains a critic and an extra drive if I discard more than two cards, and I'm going to discard 4, plus he gets + 3k for each discarded card and you can't defend yourself with grades one." Kazuma was making Miguel pay for everything he had done so far, as well as fulfilling the promise he had made to Am and Luna.
Miguel could only defend himself with his perfect guard, but... Thanks to Dragstrider's ability this was impossible for him..."No guard..." Miguel responds...
"Drive check: No trigger (grade two) /No trigger (grade two) /No trigger (grade one) / Critical trigger! Power to Morfessa and critical to Dragstrider." Kazuma said, who only hoped that his opponent would not pull out a Heal trigger.
"Damage check... No trigger (grade three)... / No trigger (grade two)... / No trigger (grade three)" Miguel reveals the cards during his damage check, but none of them were a Heal, so... He lost the fight, reaching six damages.
"The winner is Shouji Kazuma!" said the commentator, but... No one paid much attention to him, Because they were all still surprised by Luna's reaction. But... Both she and Am were gone...
"We will take a 15-minute break and continue with the Finals..." said Ibuki, who hoped to solve this problem...
Meanwhile...
"We've done it, there's only one left." Chrono said happily, but at that moment comes Am...
"Guys, we have a problem!" she said agitated, as she had run to where Chrono and the others were resting.
"Am?" Tokoha was surprised to see her friend. "And now what's the problem?" she asked.
"Apparently Luna speaks too much..." replies the blue haired girl.
"Eh?" Chrono, Tokoha and Kazuma react confusedly. Am explains what happened and both Chrono and Tokoha start laughing...
"And what do you want us to do?" asks Kazuma, so Am furious replies. "Take the responsibility Shouji Kazuma."
"I got it, if we make a big rumor people will forget about that." Chrono mentions, who apparently had an idea. "Do you think so?" asks Tokoha... "We could try. But first we must bring Onimaru-san back." Chrono responds, while Ibuki listened to everything.
Minutes later...
"Get ready Shiranui, here is end your journey..." Chrono said. "No one will send me to Cray until I fulfill my mission." Shiranui responds.
"Stand Up! Vanguard!"
"Ride! Seizui. I move Madoi to (RC) below."
"Ride! Chronoethos, with Dran's boost, Chronoethos attacks!" Chrono makes his first attack.
"No guard" replies Shiranui/Kazumi. "Drive check: heal trigger all to Chronoethos" comments Chrono, who reveals his Heal trigger.
"I'm not going to let a human beat me." Shiranui was thinking. "Ride! Stealth Dragon, Shibarikusari" said Kazumi... "With Madoi's boost, Shibarikusari... Attacks Chronoethos." Kazumi adds, while his Vanguard attacks Chronoethos.
"No guard!" replies Chrono "Drive check: no trigger (grade three)" Kazumi reveals a Shiranui
"Damage check: No trigger (grade one)" Chrono put a card in his damage zone.
"Ride! History-maker, plus... I call Lugal-ure." Chrono said, calling another unit to the battlefield.
"This is bad, the only way Chrono can do a damage to Onimaru Kazumi is by revealing a trigger." Tokoha said, while watching Kazumi block Chrono's attack. "Drive check: draw trigger! I draw a card and power to my vanguard..." Chrono said.
"Damage check... Heal trigger. I heal a damage and power to my vanguard!" Kazumi smiled, as he removed one of his cards in the damage zone. "I can't do any more, so Turn End!" replied Chrono...
"Ride! Shiranui 'Oboro' and..." Kazumi said, but he noticed something... "That's right. I don't have any cards in my drop zone, so... Your skill doesn't work." replies Chrono smiling.
"Damn human!" thought Shiranui, who attacks with his grade three "Let's see if this gives you laughter!" he replies.
But... Chrono defends himself with a grade 0 "you won't hurt me. Vanguard is a precious thing that I will protect to the end." Chrono responds, at that moment he remembers all the adventures he lived with his friends. "Twin drive: no trigger (grade 2) /no trigger (another grade three)" by not being able to do more Kazumi ends his turn...
"Ride! Chronojet Dragon G. Stride Generation! Metapulsar Huang-long... Now I activate the Dran skill: and I do 'time leap' I call Mesh-kia. Dran goes to my Soul and I call Chronojet Dragon! I activate the Skill of Mesh-kia: I put it in [Rest] and one of my units gets [power] +4k" said Chorno, who... "Lugal-ure attacks!" he attacked with one of his rears.
"No Guard" replies Kazumi... "Damage check: no trigger (grade 2)" who puts Genkai in his Damage zone.
"Hunag-long attacks!" Chrono attacked Kazumi with his Sride. "No Guard!." Kazumi responds.
"Triple drive: No trigger (grade two) / no trigger (grade three) I activate the Lugal-ure skill. I call Chronojet dragon. /no trigger (grade two)" Kazumi put one more card in his damage zone reaching 3.
"Come on Chronojet dragon!" Chrono attacked with his Chronojet dragon, but... "Guard" Kazumi stops his attack at a grade 0. "I still have another Chronojet dragon." Chrono said attacking again... "No guard!" replies Kazumi by placing his fourth damage.
"Turn end... Lugal-ure returns to my field, the Chronojet I call for Dran's skill goes to my hand and the Chronojet I call for the Lugal-ure skill returns to the bottom of my deck."
"I activate Shiranui's skill 'Oboro' and call Chronofang in your field. Now... Stride Generation! Mguntembu." said Kazumi. "Now I activate the skill of Shiranui and Maguntebu: Now for the stride skill I dominate Chronofang, and for the skill of Maguntembu dominate Lugal-ure." add Kazumi preparing the ritual for his domination.
"Here it comes..." Chrono thought.
"Lugal-ure, attack Chronojet." Kazumi said, who attacks Chrono with one of his units. "No Guard!" replies Chrono...
"Damage check: no trigger" Chrono put one more card in his damage zone and with that he reached two "Chronofang attacks Chronojet." Kazumi added, who attacked Chrono again with his units. "No Guard!" replies Chrono." Damage check: critic trigger! All to Chronojet dragon." putting his third damage, Kazumi gets the game tied the game. The question is... What would Chrono do?
"Maguntebu attacks!" Onimaru attacked with his Vanguard.
"He doesn't call re-guards, why?" thought Chrono, who put a Heal in his drop zone and... "Generation Guard! I activate Uluru's skill: she gets + [shield] +5k and I put a normal unit and a trigger in the bottom of my deck: in addition... Intercept with Lugal-ure." Stops Kazumi's attack...
"Triple drive: No trigger (grade2/ sentinel/ grade 1)" Kazumi reveals all the cards of his drive check, but none was trigger.
"It's time end to this!" said Chrono. "Stride generation! Chronodragon Nextage! plus... I'm calling Chronoethos. Skill by Chronojet G: Mesh-kia makes time leap and I call Pulsar Bunny." Add Chrono, while Luna and Tokoha remember that unit and the moments they spent with Chrono.
"Now Nextage, finish him!" Tokoha said excited... "Perfect guard!" Kazumi defended himself.
"Triple drive: Critical trigger! All to Speedy Bunny/ Critic trigger! Everything to Chronofang! / No trigger (grade two)"Chrono revealed 2critics triggers, but it was not finished yet... "I activate Nextage's skill: I flip a Nextage face up my G zone and [stand] to Chronojet dragon. Skill from Chronojet Dragon G: All my ZTBs get [power] +1k for every two cards in my G zone, while Chronojet Dragon G gets +5k" added the redhead.
"Kazumi is interfering... I can't let him take the control of this body." Shiranui was thinking.
"Chronojet dragon, attack!" said Chrono. "No guard" Kazumi let himself be attacked by Chrono."Twin drive: Critical trigger! All to Chronojet dragon. /No trigger" add Chrono, who gets a Critical trigger
"Damage check: Heal trigger! Power to my Vanguard and I heal a damage / No trigger." replied Kazumi.
"Speedy Bunny, attack!" said Chrono, who attacked Kazumi again, but... "Guard!"
"I'm not done yet. With Chronoethos boost, Chronofang... Attacks!" Chrono was making his last attack, but..."Guard!" the result was the same, as Kazumise had defended.
"Stride Generation! Shranui Mukuro. Skill of Shiranui 'Oboro': I call Chronoclaw and dominate him. Chronoclaw attacks Mesh-kia." Chrono can't do anything, so he puts Mesh-kia in his drop zone. "Now, since you have two units dominated Seizui gets +6k. And as another dominated unit Attacked in my turn Fuurai gets +2k." added Kazumi...
"Now you're see Shindou Chrono, you're alone... That's your destiny, but... If you join me, I can change that..." Shiranui said, but... "On my dead body." Chrono responds.
"Well, then perish here! Shiranui Mukuro... attack!" said Kazumi/Shiranui, who attacked Chrono.
"Perfect guard!" Chrono defends himself from Kazumi's attack, but... "Triple drive: draw trigger draw a card (critical trigger) and power to Fuurai / no trigger (grade 3) /critic trigger all to Fuurai" smiled Kazumi/Shiranui "no guard!" replies Chrono and with that the game was already tied.
"Damage check: no trigger (Sntinel) / Heal trigger! I heal a damage and power to Chronojet." Chrono said, smiling... "I activate the Arka skill: a card with the same name goes from my drop zone to my bind zone, plus a ZTB, and I add 1 Arka to my hand."
"Let's put an end to this!" said Chrono smiling..."Stride Generation! Chronodragon Gearnext! I also call Chronoethos and Throbbing worker. I activate Throbbin worker's skill, draw a letter and call another Throbbin worker."
"Chronodragon Gear Next attacks!" Chrono's attack is stopped by Onimaru Kazumi's strong defense, but... "I activate the GearNext skill: I return 3 ZTB from my hand or field to the bottom of the deck, and he gets [stand] plus... He gets 10k and an extra drive if it's his second battle." The redhead smiled, while everyone was surprised.
"That means that even if he has lost his triple drive, he can still make a twin drive." said Tokoha happily.
"Here we go again! Take him down Gearnext!" said Chrono, Kazumi saw his hand but... he only had a grade 3, so... "No Guard!" Kazumi said.
"Twin drive: heal trigger! I heal a damage and power to Chronoethos/ Critical trigger! Everything to Gearnext" shouted Chrono, but... The final result was... "Damage check..." Kazumi put a Draw trigger in his drop zone, after that he puts a grade one and with that he make his six damages.
"I lost..." Thought Shiranui, but... "That's right, you lost because you walked away from the path Andrea taught us." Kazumi replies...
"What are you talking about?" asks Shiranui... "Forget the past and your revenge, it's best to see the future and what's coming." Kazumi responds. "Humans are very strange." Add Shiranui... "Yeah, but that's part of our way of being." Kazumi responds.
"My time has come..." Shiranui was beginning to say goodbye. "Take care." He says Kazumi, who said goodbye to his avatar. "And you take care of your own, your brother has become very strong." Added Shiranui... While Kazumi with his eyes closed responds..."I know."
After the talk with his unit Kazumi falls passed out... "Brother!" Kazuma runs as fast as he can, but paramedics arrive and take him to a nearby hospital.
Meanwhile...
"I need to go with him..." Kazuma said, while they were taking Kazumi to a hospital. "Wait! I know how you feel, but... The press won't let you go for the rumor spread between you and Luna." Tokoha replies who stops Kazuma for. While Kazuma didn't know what to do Chrono approached him and told him he had a plan, but Kazuma had his doubts. Ibuki stood in front of them with the trophy in his hands...
"You did well, congratulations for winning. We are proud of you." said Ibuki, who handed over the trophy to Chrono, but... "Kazuma, could you hold the trophy for me?" says Chrono.
"EH? Why?" asks Kazuma confused... Chrono smiles and turns to see Tokoha, who was also confused. After smiling, Chrono charges Tokoha bridal style.
"Chrono! What... What are you doing?" she asks, because she was nervous. "That's what I wonder myself... But if I had to answer that. Uh... I think it's something I should have done a long time ago." Chrono responds. "Chrono explain yourself please..." said she, because she was frightened and a little excited at the same time.
"You know, I could keep explaining this, but..."Chrono doesn't say anything else, as he had put his lips together with those of her teammate leaving everyone surprised. Although many of the audience took it as a cute and romantic moment, journalists began to ask many questions. On the other hand... Tokoha's father nearly died by a heart attack while Misae lifted him off the floor, Yachio crushed his drink with his hand due to the impression. Although Claudine was upset, she was a little worried about Luna and wanted to know how she would react. Since a lot of strong things had happened to her. During the confusion and press questions, Chrono told Kazuma to leave, and he did. He went to the hospital where his brother was.
A few weeks later...
"Everything is back to normal..." said Chrono with a face of relief. "Yes, it seems so. Although I must say that the best was the last part of U20." Kamui, who showed a video of the kiss between Chrono and Tokoha, responds.
"Could you please stop bothering me, Kamui-san." says Chrono, who tries to take his phone away. "I agree, by the way, Chrono-kun, do you have a dream for the future?" asks Aichi, while the three boys accommodated chairs in Card capital.
"Well... I hadn't thought about it until now, but I think... My dream for the future would be... See Dran and the others again. And if possible to get to Cray without the need of the Stride Gate or the power that connects me to the Gear Chronicle." Chrono responds, as he saw the sky through one of the store's windows.
"Wow! That's a good dream, but for that you need to study a lot and your grades leave a lot to be desired." It responds to a female voice... "well, that's for sure." adds a male voice.
"Tokoha, Shion! What are you doing here?" asks Chrono. "You already forgot that the meeting was today." Shion comments as he sat in one of the chairs. "Yeah, but the others hasn't come yet. Maybe we should wait a little longer." Add Chrono.
Hours later everyone was gathered, until...
"Sorry!" both Onimaru and Miguel apologized to everyone. "We are sorry that Verno can't apologize in person with us, but she has a job and couldn't attend." Kazumi, who was defending his teammate, added. "That's right... We want to apologize for everything that was done." said Miguel, who kissed Tokoha's hand.
"Well, I understand, but... You could get away from her for at least a meter. I still didn't trust you." Chrono stood between them. "Yes, I think that's understandable." Answer Miguel, who drops a little nervous laugh.
"Well, putting love affairs aside, you said you'd tell us something important. What's this about?" Ibuki mentioned, who get back to the subject. "You'll see I still have the memories of Shiranui, so I think telling you this is important. Since it probably has to do with the disappearance of girls from the girls Academy." Kazumi replied, which left everyone surprised... "After Andrea's death, Shiranui believed that I was weak and unfit to continue with him, so he took control of my body. Then he met Gastille, who proposed to him the plan to dominate the vanguard to be freed from his cruel fate. In return of that, he had to find a vessel for his god." Kazumi explained...
"A god?" asks Aichi.
"Yes, Dragon Deity of Destruction, Gyze." Kazumi nodded... "Sounds like a complicated enemy." Kazuma responds very seriously. "Well, what were you waiting for... If he is a god of destruction." Miguel replies with sarcasm, which made Kazuma annoy. "I want to remind you that you are only here because my brother asked for it, but if you don't like it... Shindou and I could beat you until we get tired."
"I would like Kazuma, but... The blood doesn't get cleaned so easily and Misaki-san will be mad with me." Chrono adds, laughing and seriously seeing Miguel.
"Let's leave it for now, if we know anything, we'll let you all we know." Ibuki said touching his head...
As usual, Chrono walked home with Tokoha, but something happened..."Thank you for joining me. But everything is fine Chrono?" asked Tokoha, while Chrono, walked with her, she thought the redhead was jealous as she did not let go of her hand.
Tokoha laughs a little, as he could not believe that Chrono, the boy he met at first behaved this way. "You don't have to worry, but... You know, I want to talk to you a little bit more, too."
