Word had gotten around that Dr. Crowler was being a jerk once again, like how he was before. Everyone did thought he changed but seemed to revert back to his normal self, he was making the third year students do tests in basic maths to ensure they can calculate Life Points, write card effects down and even push-ups. It was just too strange.

Not just that, but he starts to cancel classes as the students fear they won't have sufficient grades to graduate if classes keep getting cancelled. To the point now that majority of the students are getting quite angry with him and decide to hunt him down and demand an explanation. However, Crowler ends up hiding from them but still runs and leads them to Chancellor Sheppard's office.

Angry as the third-year students were, Crowler still had to refuse and couldn't allow them to graduate. With Jaden being there too, he asks Crowler why but gets off-topic and tells him that he doesn't even have enough sufficient grades to graduate and calls him a 'Slifer Slacker' just like the old days.

With having no choice, Jaden decides to challenge Crowler to a duel and if he does it would allow everyone to graduate.

Now at the Duel Arena, everyone gathers and sits, watching the duel between Jaden and Crowler - oddly enough, every card played was exactly the same like the first duel that happened between them both.

Finally, with Jaden being the victor, he tells everyone that he's learned so many things from his students and that they have learned so much from him too, not wanting to let them go but knows he doesn't have a choice. Since classes were starting up once again, Crowler forces Jaden to catch up on all the work he has skipped.

A few days go by and Chancellor Sheppard and Dr. Crowler call everyone to the auditorium to announce the start of the Graduation Duel.
Crowler, explaining that the third-years have to obtain a hundred points through dueling. That losing a duel equals to a point and also a win against a first-year student, a win against a second-year student is two points and dueling another third-year equals to three points.

Each of the third-years can only duel their opponent once and once they earn a hundred points then they are able to graduate. Some students, also allowed to keep going passed a hundred and the one student who has the most amount of points at the end will be able to receive a replica of Yugi Moto's deck, which is provided by Industrial Illusions.

With the Graduation Duel now underwear, Jaden at his Slifer Dorm sees many second-year students who wish to duel him, while Atticus becomes surrounded by girls who wish to duel him. Alexis, Syrus and Chazz also become quite popular and want to be dueled too.

The other third-year students get so few but don't mind it, while Rosa- a sigh as she had sat under a tree. No one yet wanted to duel her, it didn't really bother her and didn't care about obtaining the replica deck from the King of Games and just wanted those hundred points to graduate so she can move on.

"There's my upperclassman, Rosa!"
A familiar voice which made the brunette rather annoyed but didn't want to show it. Standing up and seeing Anna run, followed by a male who was walking behind.

Laughing, Anna had her duel disk ready and deck placed in.
"Come on! Let's duel!"
She proclaimed, a smile on Rosa's face as the duel started. Rosa's turn beginning, since she was starting it off; she wanted to play safe since she wasn't sure what deck Anna had.

Drawing a card from her deck, Rosa seemed quite serious and knew she had to give it her all; the un-confidence she had right at the start had diminished and changed overtime.
"I go an' use tha spell Pot of Greed!"

It was a strange tactic to use right at the start, however the brunette knew what she was doing; drawing two cards and placed them in her hand. Golden hue's staring at them again then making her move, "I play Dark Blade in attack mode an' equip 'im with Legendary Sword."

Dark Blade's attack and defence points increase by 300, making Dark Blade's ATK 2100 and DEF 1800.
"I place two cards face down an' end my turn."

Now, it being Anna's turn. She draws and keeps a wide smile on her face, staring at her cards in her hand then playing one.
"I place a monster faced down in defence mode then place a card faced down and end my turn!"

It was a rather short and quick turn for Anna, and Rosa wondered why she wouldn't try and attempt to win; there was a way and perhaps Anna was playing strategically.

However, when Rosa had attacked the faced down monster, it was Nimble Momonga which allowed her to gain 1000LP. Since now that Anna had 5000LP, Rosa figured it would be slightly harder to beat her but she felt like she could be able to think of a way to win.

Rosa had a feeling, in order to win she needed to up her game and decided to make her move by placing two more cards faced down and summon a monster.
While the duel progressed, the brunette could notice Anna making a few slip ups and had lost the duel.

Soon after, the male beside her and smiled and took his duel disk out. Rosa could tell that the male with Anna was most likely Daniel and wanted to duel as well.
"I've heard a lot about you, and I'm quite pleased to meet you."

He didn't seem so snobby and stuck up like all the other Obelisk Blue men, he was more sincere and kind. When glancing at him, Rosa couldn't put her finger on it but something felt off - Daniel was just too pretty to be a guy, he had quite a feminine face and didn't seem like he was bothered by it.

Maybe she was envious of his face? Not entirely sure but, needed to shake all of it off in order to get to the duel. When he went to make the first move, she could see that he used machine-type monsters, quite different to Anna's beast-type.

The duel that Daniel had put up was quite tough and challenging, he was winning and determined to not lose. Perhaps because Rosa was also a year older, that he wanted to make it challenging for even when she graduated.

However, when Rosa had just thought she was going to lose, she was able to turn it around with Monster Reborn and win the duel.