Finally! The day I've been waiting for. Well, one of them at least. Which day am I talking about? The day I finally get to play this crappy deck at a regional, of course! I won't get any better one without a goddamn job, but Japanese hiring practises are complete bullshit, meaning I won't get another interview for a full-time job for at least half a year. Even part-time work is hard to get despite my degree, because there are so many students doing that already. Locals have so far been quite fun and I've done fairly decent at them. Nothing to write home about, but I'm no longer at the complete bottom either.
"I'll be going!" I tell my bigger sister, who's been financially supporting my hobby so far.
"Take care!" she yells back at me as I'm already on my way. Today I will finally get to test my skill at a greater stage. Today is the day to VROOOOOOOOOOOM CRASH WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO.

After being hit by what I can faintly remember to be a truck, I find myself in a very weird room, with an old bearded man sitting in it.
"Ah, how unfortunate. I actually wanted to kill that stray kitten when you jumped out. My sincerest apologies." This man kills kittens with a truck? What kind of monster would do such a thing? "Let's see… Ah, yes, Inoue Sakura, 24, barely missed her chance at getting employed. You don't seem to be evil, yet you've accumulated tragedy after tragedy. Something good must happen to you in order to balance this out."
The man just sat there ranting on and on about Sakura's life so far. Was he a stalker? No, he knew things that a stalker could not know even if they had more resources than Google and Facebook combined. There was only one word to describe this omniscient being. It had to be a God.
Oh, and by the way, I am Sakura.
"Very well, how about this: I shall reincarnate you into your favourite anime and you shall also receive an OP deck and an OP skill to guarantee you get a job there. Do you agree with this?" My favourite anime? It couldn't be Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, could it? Well, given the vast knowledge of this person, they would certainly know it wasn't ZeXaL or anything after that.
"Very well, I agree."
The man stroked his beard twice. "Then it shall be done."

Just a second later I found myself in New Domino City, complete with a duel disk and deck to survive in this world where everything was decided through duels. I was interested in what OP deck I would get, so I had a look at it. It looked like the standard Junk Speeder Turbo strategy, which was indeed overpowered if pitted against the main characters. It was basically Yusei's deck, but with its most important engine greatly amplified. This was good, almost too good. How would the world react if I wiped the floor with its saviour? No, this idea was stupid, there was a much better option: romance. I'm not really that interested in isekai settings, given that it's more of a shounen thing, but if I remember correctly, this is the kind of story, where the hero wanders off into a fantasy world to build a harem of beautiful ladies. Yep, definitely a boy's wet dream. But what if I could pull of the reverse? A harem consisting of Yusei, Jack, Crow and maybe Kalin as well? Now that's more up my alley. Although I'd really be fine if it was just Yusei. Speaking of Yusei, where in the 5D's timeline is this and where is Yusei according to it?

"SHINY!" Turning around to see the person, that called me out like that, I was greeted by a slightly curvy blonde woman wearing nothing but a tank top and very short shorts. Americans… summer has barely even started and she was already as naked as she could get without being arrested for charges of public indecency. Wait, how did I just know which season it was from the weather alone? Never mind, perhaps more thought went into her clothing choice than I had initially assumed. It does suit her, interestingly. "Wooow, your deck has so many Secret Rares. Even three Junk Synchrons. How did you get your hands on them?"
It then dawned to me, that I perhaps should not casually show my deck to random people on the street. I quickly hid it. "They were passed down to me by a very important person." That was technically the truth. I love technical truths.
"Is that so?" The suspicious American did not believe me, it seemed. "Even then, three Junk Synchrons seems quite obsessive. Could it be you're one of them? Trying to get into Yusei's pants?" Who the fuck are you, pestering people with your prejudices? Also, why the fuck do you care about who I am interested in? That's none of your business!
"His pants? Where are they?" I blurt out instead of the thoughts I should have had. Probably not the best thing to say to get her to stop.
"Geh! Not another rival." Rival? Did she have the same aim as me? This could become more difficult than I had first thought.

I was curious about my rival – and also kinda homeless, now that I think about it – so I followed her around to see where she would go. I swear, this is not stalking, I am not interested in her private live or whatever, I am just following her around to get myself familiar with the city and the city familiar with me. My journey ends at Momentum Labs, Japan's leading R&D facility in the energy department. At least that's what the sign says. And walking towards the facility from the other direction is none other than the man, the myth, the legend, Yusei Fudo himself. Ah, so this is set after the main story, when Yusei was working on Fortune, the program that kept the Momentum (or Ener-D as my new-found rival would surely say) from going out of control.
"Yo boss, even here on your day off?"
He sighed. "I'm the one with the keys, in case you forgot. Just get what you need and return quickly." He opened the doors and went in with her together.
A few minutes afterwards they return, and she's holding a quite worn-out lab coat. Yusei closes the doors again. "Seriously, why do you have to wait for your coat to gather mold before you consider washing it, Minami-kun?"
She merely giggles at that. "Well, if that's all you have to say, then see you on Monday." Despite her otherwise quite unusual mannerisms, she thanks Yusei and bows to him partly out of respect and partly as an apology, before waving him goodbye in a more true to herself way.

Now that she has left, it is only me, Yusei and the corner from which I peek at him. I swear, this is not stalking behaviour, I am just looking at him from a distance, admiring his handsome face, his godly abs, his…
"You over there, what are you plotting?" Yusei was quite perceptive, noticing my actions at first glance. "You've been watching us the whole time. So, which one of us are you stalking? Me or Minami-kun?"
I am bombarded with question after question, none of which I am fit to answer. This is the part, where I run away in shame, is it not? Why are my legs not moving? Oh right, Yusei's abs. I can't resist them, they compel me to move towards him, but I shouldn't, I will just seem weird to him.
"I'm sorry!" I bow my head so deeply, I could almost perform fellatio in this position. Perhaps I should.
"That is not an explanation. Raise your head, little one." I do as he says. "Well?" He stares deep into my soul with his azure eyes, his spiky hair dancing in the soft summer winds.
"I… I… I want to work for you!" Again, I bow my head as deep as I can, but not quite as deep as before, so as to not leave the impression I wanted the Junk without the Warrior behind it.
He sighs. "What qualifications do you have?"
Qualifications? "I… I watched all 154 episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's! Multiple times even!"
He sighs even harder. "Look, we need actual researchers, not…"
"I know! You maintain the Fortune program to keep the Momentum from over-spinning. But it's not as easy as the ending makes it out to be. Even if things may appear fine now, you'll have to ensure that it will remain fine for 200 years to come, a daunting task when machines can barely simulate a fraction of that accurately." Did I… just say that? What did any of this mean? I have no degree in physics or engineering, can someone please help me make sense of this?
"Heh. You seem not so bad after all." That worked? "You can start on Monday. Keep this up for a month and I'll even pay you."
Hurray, success! But wait, how should I conduct actual research at this facility? This will have real physics. The last time I came in touch with physics was when I had some physics student tutor me in maths. Damn you, useless economics degree, I didn't need you to tell this system was fucked and I was fucked as well!
"Well, with that said I will take my leave. See you on Monday." Yusei started walking away, but I could stop him by yelling "Actually!" He looked back towards me. "I'm kinda homeless right now. Could you let me stay at Zora's place if you still live there? I'll even pay rent."

"And that's her story. I will pay this month's rent and from next month on, she will hopefully do that herself." Zora looked at Yusei in a somewhat bewildered way. From her perspective he had just recently moved elsewhere with all the money he made, so why rent out this place again, even if it was for another person? I doubt Zora knows what growing up to Satellite means to Yusei, but I for one am incredibly grateful to his benevolence. "Fine, I'll take her, since you're so keen on letting her stay here."
There seems to be a little misunderstanding. "Actually, it was me who asked him to. Yusei is just being nice."
Now I am met with a harsh gaze. "I know that, kid. Do your best to pay rent on time, will you?"

And that is the story of how I found a job and affordable housing in another world. It's a depressing one, is it not? I had to get reincarnated with an OP skill just to have a chance at the job market, and even then I only managed because I circumvented it altogether. Will this turn out well for me? Who knows. But at least I know something: If I do my best at impressing Yusei, he may even let me ride his bike. Perhaps we could perform an Accel Synchro on top of it, that would be nice. Ahh, what am I thinking? Yusei is not the type to do perverted things like that.

Wait, what, it's April 1st?