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"Nice duel, Kiku. You have Playmaker's ace monster now. Which plan do you have with that card ?"
Ryoken asked me. I had just logged out and I laid in a comfy bed. All knights were staring at me.
"Where are we ?"
I asked. I still felt dizzy.
"We are in the villa now."
Dr Taki aka Baira answered.
"Ryoken, do you have any computers ? I want to check something."
I asked him.
"Right at that table."
Ryoken pointed to a table. There was a laptop on it.
I came to the laptop and connected my duel disk with the laptop. Every other knights came back to their work. They searched for Bohman and Haru.
When I opened the website, all the headlines were 'Playmaker is defeated'. There were many analyses about our duel. Most of them were how broken my deck was.
Yeah, I admitted. 3 Girsu and 3 Harp Horror was something very broken.
But Konami wasn't here, I definitely abused it. Like the way I was going to abuse Firewall Dragon and Topologic Gumblar.
They should feel lucky that I didn't play Phantom Knights Orcust
Let's see the card database Cyber gave me.
I copied the folder to the Ryoken's laptop.
It's quite surprised to see Winrar was also used here. Sometimes I would research the history of this world.
I extracted the file.
"What data is it ?"
Ryoken curiously asked while watching me extracting the file.
"You will see, Ryoken."
I answered.
The extracting was finish, I opened the folder.
And what I saw.
Oh my god...
I didn't know what to say. Definitely Cyber had more buffs and cheats than me. He carried 3 powerful decks with him when he came here.
And this...
He could practice all days with this.
How the hell he had EDOPro Project Ignis with him here ?
"What is this ? It's like an offline computer game."
Ryoken asked me when he saw the icon of Project Ignis. Under the icon, there was a txt file had named 'must read' .
"Do not alter anything about this game. If you do that, the program will stop updating. It always automatically updated. I always want to share this information to somebody like me. Please don't make this game become public."
Ryoken read out loud.
"What does that means ?"
He asked me. He didn't know Cyber and me was from another dimension where he was just a fictional character.
Of course I wouldn't share this game to public. This program was something everyone would die for in this world.
"You should follow these instruction, Ryoken. And you will see many decks are even more broken than mine."
I smiled.
"I doubt that."
He answered.
I opened the program. I was met with a familiar menu.
"This is a dueling program."
He said when he saw the menu. But it was not only that.
I clicked the Deck bar.
Ok, he had built many decks already. Most of them were meta decks. Virtual World, Prank-Kids, Eldlich, Invoked Dogmatika, Sky Striker, Code Talker, Orcust, Thunder Dragon, Salamangreat, etc...
This was the ultimate cheat. Knowledge was the strongest weapon.
Oh god, my heart was still beating. I hardly contained my excitement.
"What is this ? Many cards I haven't seen anywhere."
His eyes were wide opened.
I searched Borrelend Dragon. It was still OCG exclusive, there was a letter OCG next to the card.
It was like the normal program.
No, seriously. This was scary. A program still worked greatly from the world where I and Cyber were dead.
"Wait, let me see. How does this game have Borrelend Dragon data ?"
Ryoken questioned.
"It's normal. It even has some cards haven't been existed yet."
I shrugged.
"Ok. This is beyond my understanding. This data is too valuable. I must make sure nothing can go to search for this."
Ryoken groaned.
Ok, I felt worry now. Cyber had this program in his computer, right ? Did it have enough protection ?
I hoped he realized that.
"Ryoken. This game contains all the cards you can possibly imagine. You know how valuable this data is, right ?"
I asked him.
"Where did you get it ?"
He asked.
"I hope you never ask me these questions again. I told you, I have many secrets. I share the knowledge to you doesn't mean I need to explain."
I sighed.
"Ok, I believe it is a very big secret. But does it..."
He waved his hand. The windows and the door were closed.
"No one can hear us. No recording device here. No words in this room can be out. So let me ask you straight. Are you from the future ?"
He suddenly asked me, my eyes were wide opened.
I should expect this. He was a genius after all. He must speculate something like this.
"Yes."
I answered sheepishly.
"No, you are lying. I've interrogated too many people to detect lies. I want you be honest. We are in the same boat now. Let me ask you again. Who are you ?"
His blue eyes stared directly at me.
Please stop, your eyes made me feel cold.
Should I reveal this to him ?
Unfortunately, he was the only person I could ask for favors. He had the most resources and the most intelligent person.
"Please keep this big secret. Promise you don't say to anyone unless I allow it."
I pleaded.
"Ok, I promise. Seems like your life is depending on it."
He sighed.
"Because it is."
I confirmed.
"What do you mean ?"
Ryoken questioned.
"I'm not Kiku. Precisely, I'm not original Kiku."
So embarrasing, I couldn't believe I would be esposed like this.
"You say you are a different person in the body of Kiku Kamishirakawa ?"
He asked.
"Yes."
I confirmed.
"I was an ordinary person. I got into a traffic accident and the next thing I knew that I was in this body with my decks."
I continued.
"So how do you have Borrelend Dragon ? I am sure there is no link 5 monster. You lie to me you are from the future. So there must be something else."
He asked. His intelligence never ceased to amaze me.
"Do you believe that all of you are just the fictional characters to me ?"
I asked.
"What ?"
His eyes were wide opened in shock.
"Let me ask you. How long have been since this game first came out ? To you."
Ryoken thought for a while.
"According to the history, it is 50 years."
He answered to me.
"To me it is just 24 years."
I answered while chuckling. This game had changed so much. And people laughed at Kaiba because he opened Duel Academy.
"24 years ? So how can you keep up ? What does it mean when you say I'm fictional ?"
He questioned.
"You see. Multiverse is real. I'm from a world where you guys are in an anime called Vrains. Vrains is the 6th anime series of this game's franchise. People are dueling too but no VR or holograms. Just paper and paper. Even that, the game is still super popular. And trust me, there are many more things were more broken and disgusting than my deck. Of course your cards were mass-producted."
I explained.
Took him a while to take the information I just had said.
"So you said you are from a world where we are fictional to you. You had a traffic accident and woke up in Kiku's body and your decks are with you. No holograms or VR in your world but the game is still popular ? Many cards are mass-producted. Do I miss anything ?"
He questioned.
"That's the basic. You would be defeated by Lightning because he cheated, twice. Ai would be the only Ignis left. But that is according to the script. Now I couldn't predict anything because of my presence with another person has changed the script too much."
I sighed.
"Ok, I understand. I believe Cyber is the another person and he gives the dueling program to you. His deck is Virtual World and ironically that deck is the top deck in the program. His dueling style is also very advanced like you. Am I wrong ?"
I didn't know what to say. I just nodded.
Considering he was just 17, that was a new level of scary. He was just too smart.
"Ok, I promise I will keep these secrets. Can you show me something you say it's even more broken than your deck ?"
He asked. You should be relieved that no one could build these decks in this world.
Most of meta decks were built. I showed him the first deck called Plant FTK.
I performed the FTK to him with EDOPro program. Just feed enough Plant monsters to the grave, Topologic Bomber Dragon and Phoenixian Cluster Armaryllis would do the rest. Nothing was hard once per turn. The most consistent FTK deck of all time.
And that was 8000 LP.
"Ok, I underatand. So your world must have banlist too."
His eyes were wide opened when he saw his monster could create infinite loop to FTK.
"Of course. My deck in my world was also heavily hit too."
I showed him the OCG banlist. It hurted so much to see Harp Horror, Girsu and Galatea were limited. And TCG banned Harp Horror. And Knightmare Mermaid was banned by two formats.
"They ban so many cards in your world. In here only very broken generic cards like Delinquent Duo or Pot of Greed are banned."
Ryoken said while searching the banlist.
"I need to extract the database from this. This is too good."
He muttered.
What time is it ?
It's 7 P.M. Surprisingly it was still this early.
"We have database and data materials now. Which card do you want to make ?"
I asked.
"I've got enough for my deck. I see Dark Ruler No More and Nibiru, the Primal Being are very great. Maybe I would create those cards first. I have enough Yokai girls from you."
He said while he observed the Dragon Link deck. Surprisingly there was no Red-eyes Dark Dragoon engine in the deck.
"How to create a card, Ryoken ?"
I asked.
"It's not that hard. The question is: Do you have enough data materials ?"
He replied.
"You need to use a programme to materialize the card by pouring data materials to it. The more data materials, the stronger the cards. That's why Data Storm always creates the strongest cards."
He explained to me. No wonder 2 of the most broken cards of all time were from Data Storm. Firewall Dragon is the key card of many FTK deck and that card could make Extra Link very easy. Topologic Gumblar Dragon had the most broken mechanic ever: Hand ripping.
"Ok, let's start. By the way, how about my Yokai girls ?"
I asked.
"I create one more copies each of them except Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle. They need a lot of data materials. Luckily we collect a lot of data materials from destroying Cyberse World and we just need half the data materials to create those cards thanks to your copies."
As expected, those two cards were the most powerful. Of course they needed data materials the most.
"Tomorrow we will have enough copies of Ash Blossom for each Knights. Do you have any ideas about Hydradrive deck ?"
He asked me about Bohman and Haru's deck ? I just had knowledge from anime. I didn't know the impact that deck could affect the meta.
"From my perspective, that deck is a toolbox deck by using its Link monsters and spell/trap cards to control field. Those Link monsters have effects that they can negate effects of monsters have the same Attribute as them. And usually those Link monsters have multiple Attributes. Just imagine they are like Skill Drain to opponents' monsters have the same Attributes as them. But with Judgement Arrows, that deck also has potential of OTK too. Bohman can link climb quite good to link summon high Link Ratings monsters."
I replied.
"Impressive, so do you have any suggestions to counter that deck ?"
He asked.
"I told you. Hydradrive is a toolbox deck controling the field by negating monsters' effects with the same Attribute and relying on backrows. I recommend Red Reboot, Royal Decree, Twin Twister, ... to deal with backrows and perform OTK. Infinife Impermanence to negate those Link monsters' effects, it can activiate from hand. Ghost Ogre to deal with Judgememt Arrows. Of course Maxx 'C' is a must have card. if you want more extreme measure, I recommend Solemn Warning."
I shrugged.
"Those cards you say are extremly hard to find."
Ryoken said.
"If you want budget options to disrupt his stragety, I recommend Book of Moon or Book of Eclipse, Link monsters must use face up monsters as materials, Bohman prefers going 2nd. Forbidden Chalice is a budget version of Infinite Impermanence. By the way, his main deck Hydradrive monsters can be special summoned if there are no monsters in both players' main monster zones. Another budget options to deal with Judgement Arrows are Imperial Order, Dark Bribe, Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell, your choice. Nibiru, the Primal Being is the ultimate weapons against combo deck, but I don't know does he extend his combo far enough to use Nibiru. If we duel against Lightning, Nibiru is his bane. But Lightning has been absorbed."
I finished my analyses.
Wait, there was something I forgot. This was the ultimate lock from Extra Deck Summoning.
Ryoken noticed my expression.
"Do you forget anything ?"
He asked.
"Yes, if you use this combo, almost every duelists in this world will be crippled heavily and guarantee your victory. This combo is considered to be one of the most degenerate moves in my world beside FTK and Mystic Mine."
I said.
"What ? Even this combo is broken in your world ? Is that Artifact Scythe ?"
He questioned. Artifact Scythe was nothing compared to this.
"Do you know Dragon Buster Destruction Sword ?"
I asked.
"I know. That card can lock Extra Deck summoning but it can only be equipped to Buster Blader monsters."
He answered.
"Ironically, that monster is a mercenary for almost every decks has Dark Attribute or Dragon Type. But that monster is not very useful for its main deck in my world. It means it can work very great to my deck to."
I chuckled. Dragon Buster couldn't help much Buster Blader deck. That card was better known as a mercenary like M-X-Saber Invoker.
"How is that possible ?"
He questioned.
"You see. In my world, there is a Link monster is a support card for ABC Union deck. And that card is very generic."
I came to the laptop. I searched for Union Carrier on EDOPro.
Ryoken analyzed the card carefully.
"I understand now. That card can equip Dragon Buster Destruction Sword to Dark Attribute or Dragon Type monsters. The condition to summon that card is very easy too. That card also has downsides but it is nothing compare to its advantages."
He said.
"And that engine works the greatest in your deck. Your monsters are mainly Dark Attribute and Dragon Type. Imagine you can equip Dragon Buster to Borreload Savage with 2 counters in the first turn."
I chuckled.
"Yeah, you are right. My first priority will be creating Union Carrier. I can find Dragon Buster quite easily."
He said.
"I always wonder something. Why do I feel you are still holding back in our duel ?"
He suddenly asked me.
He was right. I built my deck in that duel mostly for entertaining. I didn't use Phantom Knights engine or turbo Borreload Savage Dragon. If I did that, it would be boring.
"I played all my best in that duel. But I didn't build my deck in the best way."
I chuckled.
"Why ?"
He sounded offended.
"I underestimated you. I thought it would be enough to defeat you when I built my deck that way. I easily defeated Spectre with that deck. That's why I used another deck in the duel against Takeru right after that. I didn't have time to rebuild my deck and I didn't want to lose 2 duels in a row."
I replied.
"Then how about Playmaker ? You still use that playstyle. Did you still underestimate him ?"
He asked.
"Actually I didn't care the result. I still will tell everything to Takeru anyway. Beside, if I went on full mode in that duel, he would be humiliated quite heavily. My opening board is also quite explosive. Borreload Savage is great for my deck too. So why don't we entertain the audiences a little ?
I smirked.
"Why I am not surprised that you have Borreload Savage in your deck ? Do you have any monsters are supposed in my deck ? "
He sighed.
"Well, Borreload Savage is one of the best omni negations has ever been existed. Borrelsword is the best OTK machine. I don't have chances to buy Borreload Dragon and Topologic Gumblar when I was alive."
I answered.
"I would love to see the full power of your deck. Someday we must rematch."
He said.
"Talking about rematch. I remember you want to duel Cyber after dealing with Bohman and Haru. I have advices. Negates VFD as soon as possilble. I would love to crush you at the rematch. You will not have that luck again."
I said.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Ryoken said.
The person opened the door was Spectre.
"We finish creating Yokai girl cards."
He showed us many copies of Yokai girls.
"You should keep some copies for your deck, Spectre. Return the original copies to her bag. Beside, create for me this card and find for me Dragon Buster Destruction Sword. We collect a lot of data materials."
Ryoken showed Spectre Union Carrier on his laptop.
"I understand, Ryoken. But this program is quite strange."
Spectre questioned.
"Tell others to analyze this program. Do not let this program be leaked. This is an extremly valuable program. You should create a copy of this program then analyze it. You can bring my laptop."
Ryoken ordered Spectre.
"Wait, there is Union Carrier in my bag. Also Dragon Buster too."
I said. The less data materials would use if he used the original copy to replicate the card.
"So allow me to meddle your bag."
Spectre asked me. He eyed Ryoken mysteriously.
"No problems, there are many strange cards you might see. Just don't be too curious and take too much time."
I shrugged. In my bag there were some Lunalight and D/D cards. There were Lunalight Tiger and D/D Savant Corpernicus.
"I understand."
He bowed to us then left with Ryoken's laptop.
"I have seen your bag. I want to ask you. What is Pendulum ?"
He questioned.
"You shouldn't meddle with girls' things."
I glared to him. He must have seen my Pendulum monsters.
"I'm sorry. It's just curiousity wins over me. I'm very curious what kind of cards you would use. That's why I speculate that you are not the person you seem to be."
He raised his hand to surrender.
"It will be a long lesson."
I sighed.
"But first, I want to ask. Do you have any ideas where to find Subterror or Spyral deck ?"
I asked.
He thought for a while and said.
"I remember some of our minions defeated some duelists had those decks when we searched for Cyberse cards. I have data of those decks. If you want, I can find for you."
He answered.
"Thanks. Please notify me when you find those decks. I will show you what Spyral can do."
I said.
"Ok, I will help you. I'm very curious about what you can do. You have done so much to us. Just feel free to ask anything you want."
He said.
"Thank you very much. Now, we begin the lesson."
I started to explain to him what was Pendulum Summon.
...
"So Pendulum Summoning allows me to summon multiple monsters simultaneously Pendulum monsters from my Extra Deck and any monsters from hand have Ranks/Levels between the Pendulum Scales. If the summon is negated like Solemn Warning, I must destroy all the Pendulum monsters have been summoned and send them to the graveyard instead of Extra Deck. If the Pendulum monsters is sent from the field to the graveyard, they will go to Extra Deck, except from detaching as XYZ materials."
Ryoken said to me.
He learnt extremly fast, only for 1 hour.
I needed at least 2 days to learn.
"They are monster cards and the spell cards at the same time but they cannot be set. That's why Anti-Spell Fragnance is the greatest counter card of Pendulum. Even if Imperial Order negates your Pendulum monsters in Pendulum zones or spell/trap zones, you can still able to perform Pendulum Summoning, but their Pendulum effects are negated."
I continued to explain.
"You said Pendulum decks aren't too popular in your world, right ? How can that be possible ? This mechanic is very powerful. It can even break the game."
Ryoken questioned.
"In my opinion, Pendulum Summoning is a mistake, big mistake. But what's done is done. That's why Konami, our publisher and developer of this game, creates Link Summoning and nerfs terribly Pendulum Summoning. Pendulum monsters summoned from Extra Deck have big restrictions. They must be summoned at the zones Link monsters point to and Pendulum Zones are the same as Spell/Trap Zones. I don't know which ways I can use Pendulum Summoning in this world. But maybe it is the best that Pendulum Summoning isn't existed."
I sighed.
"I understand."
He said.
"Even that, Anti-spell Fragnance is a great threat. Pendulum Summoning needs at least 3 cards to perform the combo. In the era of 1 card combo, not to mention many key cards of Pendulum are banned. As far as I know, Pendulum Summoning isn't consistent enough to compete in competitive tournaments during the time of my death."
"Duel Monsters in your world is very fascinating. You should tell me more. Beside, it must have some Pendulum decks are competitive. Do you know some ?"
He asked.
"You can ask Cyber. Maybe he has more knowledge than me. To answer your question, there were Qliphort, D/D/D, Endymion, Zefra, Pendulum Magicians, Metalfoes."
"Wait, the Metalfoes Fusion spell card used by Miyu Sugisaki belongs to a Pendulum deck ?"
He asked surprisingly.
"Yes, it is. 3 Foolish Burial Goods and 1 Metalfoes Fusion is a draw engine for Sky Striker. Sky Striker deck loves spell cards in the graveyard."
I explained.
"I understand. Her archetypal spell cards have many powerful effects when her graveyard is milled with many spell cards."
Ryoken said.
"Those Pendulum decks are nothing compare to this deck. Not only this deck is the most powerful Pendulum deck. This deck is also one of the most powerful decks in the history."
I shuddered when I remembered Monkey Board, Plushfire and Skullcobrat Joker started searching.
"Are you ok ?"
Ryoken noticed me quite tense.
"I'm ok."
I dismissed him.
"That deck was called Performaple Performage or PePe for short. It was the most disgusting thing I played against. That deck can vomit its whole deck in the first turn to create an unbreakable board or swam the field to perform OTK if going second. You know Traptrix Rafflesia, Steelswarm Roach or Cyber Dragon Infinity, right ? Imagine all of them are on the field in the first turn. Rank 4 XYZ was never so easy. And many more broken cards."
I explained. At least it was better than 2017.
"I...see."
Ryoken's eyes were wide opened. Then he regained his composure.
"You say Firewall Dragon can enable many FTK decks. That monster is that strong ?"
He asked me curiously.
"Yeah, you didn't know it because Playmaker only used its first effect. First effect, as you know, it can return cards on the field or graveyards to the hand up to the number of monsters co-linked with the card. But the second effect is..."
I took a breath.
"That monster can special summon a monster from hand if a monster Firewall Dragon points to is destroy by battle OR sent to graveyard. And that effects is not once per turn. Do you know Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World ?"
I asked.
"Yes, I know. That card is the most powerful Dark World monster."
He replied.
"Imagine that monster is tributed by Cannon Soldier and Firewall Dragon points to it."
I said.
"Wait, Cannon Soldier is also not once per turn too."
Ryoken's eyes were widen. I didn't know how much times he surprised in this night.
"It can create infinite loop if there is at least a Dark World monster in the hand . 500 damage for eternity."
He muttered.
"You are very smart. Bingo."
I clapped my hand.
"If Gouki deck uses this monster, that deck can create Extra Link with no problems."
Ryoken realized.
"You are fast. I'm amazed."
I praised him.
"So why Playmaker doesn't use Firewall Dragon that way ?"
He questioned.
"I don't know. If he doesn't utilise the card, I will abuse it."
I shrugged.
"He didn't know how powerful his monster truly is. What a fool."
Ryoken chuckled.
"Speaking of fools. You dueled with Ghost Girl quite relaxed. I couldn't understand why she didn't summon Hextia instead of Kidolga."
I pointed out.
"Oh, she is just a third rate duelist."
Ryoken laughed. Performing the OTK with Red Reboot and Topologic Trisbaena was a sweet memory to him.
"With a first rate deck. Too bad that deck is in her hand."
I sighed.
"You can take anybodies' decks by PK duels. I believe you can crush her quite easily."
He pointed out.
"It's quite sad that she doesn't know the potential of her deck. Maybe I should PK duel Ghost Girl someday."
I said.
"You are very greedy."
Ryoken said while shaking his head.
"I know. The worst scenario is I am losing my account and my dueling deck. I still can take my deck back. If what ever happens to me, you can ask Cyber. He is like me."
I looked at the time.
"It's late now. I have class tomorrow."
It was 9 PM. It took quite long to return to my apartment.
"I will order Hiro to take you home."
Then I followed Ryoken to the gate. A car was waited for me.
And the Knights.
"After everything is over, we must have a vacation together."
Dr Taki hugged me tightly. Her chess was pressing hard to me. Luckily I wasn't a male anymore.
"Th...thanks."
I muffled out.
"Your cards are all here except 2 cards we borrow."
Spectre returned my crossbag.
"Oh, Dr Aso. My Extra Deck monster is Borrelsword Dragon. Too bad I don't have Borreload."
I said.
"So you are lost, Aso."
Spectre smirked.
"I know."
Aso grunted.
I got in the car and waved goodbye to everyone. If people watched this scence, they wouldn't believe that this is the most dangerous organization in the network.