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"Believe in your cards, just believe."
Seeing that Johan was about to fall into confusion, Rafael immediately spoke to him. He believed that since he had become the boy's Teacher, he had an obligation to correct Johan immediately, even if Johan's performance in this duel would be marked down in Pegasus's eyes because of his help.
In Rafael's eyes, Pegasus's unfinished card might be powerful and might hold special meaning for Johan, but comparatively, Johan himself was more important to him.
"As you believe in cards, the cards will respond to you in turn."
"Teacher, but I really do believe in cards, I've tried hard to believe in them." Johan's expression was a little frustrated, "I've tried hard to listen to their voice, to try and feel their heart, but not a single card has responded to me."
"And I've started to waver, I didn't even use the effect of 【Earth Spider】."
"Then, are you choosing to give up here?" Rafael said with a serious face.
"Hey, Rafael, you're being too harsh on a child." Joey Wheeler couldn't stand it and wanted to call out to Rafael, but was pulled back by Atem beside him.
"Why are you pulling me, Yugi, no, Atem?"
Atem shook his head and looked at Johan, saying, "Rafael will handle it."
[Hayato: 4000 LP, Hand 1]
[Invoked Mechaba] [ATK 2500]
[Nibiru, the Primal Being] [ATK 3000]
After Hayato ended his turn, it was Johan's turn. The ten-year-old boy raised his Left Hand wearing a Duel Disk, and his empty Right Hand reached towards the Card on Top of his Deck, shaking his head, "There are no Cards in my Hand that can create victory, but Mr. Hayato's Field has two powerful monsters. All hope rests on this one Draw a Card."
"But, drawing a card in Duel Monsters is like a tennis ball bouncing off the net. No one knows which side the ball will land on, and no one knows what kind of card they will draw." Johan looked at Rafael, "But, unlike you, Teacher, and Mr. Hayato, you can fight alongside your spirits and get their response, but I can't hear even a trace of a voice from my Deck."
"A True Duelist is someone who can even decide the future of their draws, but I can't do it. That possibility, that one-in-ten-thousand draw, I can't do it. I can't do anything."
As he spoke, Johan looked frustrated. Hearing this, Rafael spoke again, scolding, "Idiot, are you saying a Duelist can't duel if they can't hear the voice of the cards? How highly do you think of your talent, Johnny!"
"A Duelist's Draw a Card is indeed like a tennis ball bouncing off the net. If the god of destiny existed, perhaps the result of the draw could only be left for him to decide, but god does not exist. The only ones who exist are us Duelists living in this world." Clenching his fist, Rafael warned, "The tennis ball will ultimately favor the side that clarifies their own will and desires victory, and the Deck will respond to you when your heart is no longer confused."
"If your heart is in confusion, you cannot Draw a Card, so just believe in the Deck, Johnny!"
Johan, who was stunned, lowered his head and looked at his Deck as Rafael's words fell.
If your heart is in confusion, don't Draw a Card? That is to say, I must clarify my desires and will to welcome the favor of victory. There is no doubt that even when facing me, Mr. Hayato, as a True Duelist, displayed his will to desire victory, while I could only play such an undignified duel.
What a disgrace.
Clarify my wish, I am naturally extremely clear about my wish, and that is—
Thinking of this, Johan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and shouted, "My turn! If this is the draw that decides victory or defeat, then I want to win, I want the victory that can fulfill my wish!"
"Respond to me, Deck! And now, draw!"
Fiercely pulling out a card, Johan maintained his drawing motion and flipped the card in his hand to reveal it to himself. The card he drew was a powerful Magic Card!
"Is this a miracle?" Johan was in disbelief that he had actually drawn this powerful Magic Card, which was limited to only one copy in his Deck, at this timing, but his gaze became firm, "No, this is the voice of the Deck, the response from the sleeping spirits to me!"
"I, Jesse Andersen, have a dream, and that is to become a bond between humans and spirits. For my ideal, Here I come, Mr. Hayato!"
Hayato looked at Johan's gaze, which had clearly undergone growth, and nodded in approval, "That's a good gaze. Then bring it on, Johan!"
"During my Main Phase, I activate the Magic Card 'Monster Reborn'! I can Special Summon one monster from either player's Graveyard onto my Field." Johan said, "I'm sorry, I sacrificed you for nothing before. Now, revive and fight for me again, Earth Spider!"
The Ankh Rune manifested, and a crack split open in the Ground, allowing the Earth Spider, which had been crushed by Invoked Mechaba earlier, to return from Johan's Graveyard along the crack, in Attack Position.
[Earth Spider] [ATK 0]
"Hmm? You chose to Special Summon a weak Insect with 'Monster Reborn'?" Hayato raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised that Johan would use this card in this way, "Anything that has been defeated by me can no longer become a threat to me, Hayato Kobayashi."
"Ah, I understand. Earth Spider is no match for your powerful monsters, Mr. Hayato, just like me. But perhaps it's a feeling of guilt, I don't want Earth Spider to continue to slumber in the Graveyard because of my previous mistake." Johan said, and then played another card, "My resolve is only just beginning to display. Here I come, together with my cards!"
"I activate the Continuous Spell Card Gigantic Throws, and then I will activate the last card in my Hand!"
Hearing Johan say "the last card", Hayato's eyes widened slightly, and he clearly saw the Magic Card with a green border that Johan raised above his head—Card of Demise.
"This is the response my Deck gave me! The Magic Card Card of Demise! Both players replenish their hands up to six cards! Since I have no Hand, I can replenish six cards in one go!"
Full of presence, Johan drew a full hand of cards, while Hayato, who felt "seeing others gain card advantage is more uncomfortable than losing card advantage oneself," said sourly, "Because I only had one Aleister the Invoker in my Hand, I can only draw five cards."
"But, Johan, you haven't forgotten the Invoked Mechaba on my Field, have you? Just now, due to the restriction of my Hand, its effect could only negate and banish monsters. Your Card of Demise certainly allowed you to draw a full six cards, but in contrast, I also replenished Magic, Trap, and Monster Cards of these three types!"
Looking at the Invoked Mechaba on the Field, holding its lance and ready to attack at any time, Hayato seemed to be threatening, but was fundamentally intentionally reminding Johan:
"Just Earth Spider alone will fundamentally not be my opponent. What kind of field setup will you have next? A monster, or Magic? No matter what it is, the time needed to crush your resistance in front of Mechaba doesn't even require a second!"
Johan nodded, "Ah, that's right. But Mr. Hayato, the effect of Invoked Mechaba is only once per turn, right? Although it's an omnipotent and severely consequential negate and banish ability, as long as I lure it out with a card that must be negated before performing the key field setup, it'll be fine!"
Saying this, he played a card, and lightning and thunder immediately appeared above Hayato's head.
"The Magic Card Raigeki! It destroys all monsters on the opponent's Field! And now, let your Invoked Mechaba negate and banish Raigeki, Mr. Hayato!"
Looking at Johan, who was convinced that he would operate as he thought, Hayato pursed his lips, "Although he seems to have become more confident, he's also become a bit annoying."
"Then, Invoked Mechaba, as he desired, I send the Magic Card Super Polymerization from my Hand to the Graveyard and tear apart Raigeki!"
Casually sending Super Polymerization, which probably wouldn't be relevant in this duel, to the Graveyard, the tip of the spear of Invoked Mechaba on Hayato's Field radiated with light and shot up into the sky, directly tearing apart the thundercloud that hadn't fully gathered.
Although he was tricked into a negate, Raigeki was a card that required using the effect of Invoked Mechaba, because if it were destroyed, this one effect would have been wasted for nothing.
And looking at the Invoked Mechaba that lowered its lance, Johan also revealed a smile, "Nice, in that case, I can use the effect of Gigantic Throws with peace of mind."
"Hmm?" Hayato raised an eyebrow, remembering that before Johan activated Card of Demise, he had indeed played a Continuous Spell Card onto the Field. So it wasn't just to clear his Hand and draw an extra card?
Looking at the conspicuous card art of Gigantic Throws on Johan's Spell/Trap Zone, which featured early Duel Monsters Insect-Type Normal Monsters like 'Basic Insect', 'Spider Man', and 'Cockroach Ball', it almost explicitly indicated that this card was a card that provides support for Insect-Type Monsters. Unfortunately, Hayato really hadn't played Insect-Type decks much, and the only known Insect-Type User he knew was Weevil, who had long since been defeated, so he didn't know the effect of this card.
And Johan had already begun his formal field setup: "The first effect of Gigantic Throws is that it can only be activated during my Main Phase of the turn this card was activated, to Special Summon one Insect-Type monster with a Level of 6 or lower from my Graveyard. However, because only one of its two effects can be used per turn, I chose to Special Summon Earth Spider with 'Monster Reborn'."
Saying this, Johan drew a card from his Hand and revealed it to Hayato. That was an Insect-Type Monster Card: "The second effect of Gigantic Throws, I show this Insect-Type monster from my Hand, Insect Armageddon, to Mr. Hayato, and I can activate it by targeting one Face-up monster on the opponent's Field and one Insect-Type monster on my Field with lower ATK than the monster shown."
That Insect Armageddon in Johan's Hand, with a Level as high as 8☆ and a seemingly impressive appearance, had a relatively low ATK of only 1500 points, half of a 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', basically belonging to the category of "Weak Monsters with 1500 or less ATK".
However, even so, the ATK of the Earth Spider on his Field was even lower, at 0 points, so Johan successfully selected the effect targets, which were Earth Spider and Nibiru, the Primal Being on Hayato's Field.
This suddenly gave Hayato a bad premonition.
Only to see Johan suddenly picked up the card of Earth Spider: "So now, because of the effect of Gigantic Throws, the control of the two targeted monsters is exchanged! Take good care of Earth Spider, Mr. Hayato, and I will use your Nibiru, the Primal Being well too!"
"Nani!?"
In Hayato's dumbfounded gaze, a blurry phantom appeared on each of his and Johan's Fields, each grabbed the two monsters, Earth Spider and Nibiru, the Primal Being. Immediately after, just like a forced Pokemon trade, the two phantoms threw the two monsters towards the opposite side like throwing baseballs!
Watching the "Meteor" Nibiru, the Primal Being land on his Field, Johan held up two fingers and said proudly, "I obtained Nibiru, the Primal Being!"
In contrast, Hayato, watching his giant Meteor turn into a cowering Earth Spider, couldn't help but get angry, "Damn it, I'm the one who usually takes control of other people's monsters! He actually took control of my monster, unforgivable! Be... Rafael! What have you taught this child!"
"That's really Brother-in-law style double standards," Marik ranted.
And Atem beside him just shrugged, "Card Exchange, for me, appearing in the hands of Johan, who was taught by Rafael, is fundamentally not an unexpected matter at all."
After the Doma Incident began, in Atem's second duel with Rafael after the KC Cup, Rafael had used 'Card Exchange' to forcibly exchange cards with Atem, forcing the 'Seal of Orichalcos' onto Atem, which was almost completely identical to the current situation.
However, Nibiru, the Primal Being appearing on Johan's Field seemed to have undergone some changes on its body.
[Nibiru, the Primal Being] [Rock-Type → Insect Type]
"Monsters whose control I obtained because of the effect of Gigantic Throws will become Insect-Type. Then, because I have an Insect-Type monster in Attack Position on my Field, I Special Summon Dream Cicada - Sleepy from my Hand!"
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Seeing that Johan was about to fall into confusion, Rafael immediately spoke to him. He believed that since he had become the boy's Teacher, he had an obligation to correct Johan immediately, even if Johan's performance in this duel would be marked down in Pegasus's eyes because of his help.
In Rafael's eyes, Pegasus's unfinished card might be powerful and might hold special meaning for Johan, but comparatively, Johan himself was more important to him.
"As you believe in cards, the cards will respond to you in turn."
"Teacher, but I really do believe in cards, I've tried hard to believe in them." Johan's expression was a little frustrated, "I've tried hard to listen to their voice, to try and feel their heart, but not a single card has responded to me."
"And I've started to waver, I didn't even use the effect of 【Earth Spider】."
"Then, are you choosing to give up here?" Rafael said with a serious face.
"Hey, Rafael, you're being too harsh on a child." Joey Wheeler couldn't stand it and wanted to call out to Rafael, but was pulled back by Atem beside him.
"Why are you pulling me, Yugi, no, Atem?"
Atem shook his head and looked at Johan, saying, "Rafael will handle it."
[Hayato: 4000 LP, Hand 1]
[Invoked Mechaba] [ATK 2500]
[Nibiru, the Primal Being] [ATK 3000]
After Hayato ended his turn, it was Johan's turn. The ten-year-old boy raised his Left Hand wearing a Duel Disk, and his empty Right Hand reached towards the Card on Top of his Deck, shaking his head, "There are no Cards in my Hand that can create victory, but Mr. Hayato's Field has two powerful monsters. All hope rests on this one Draw a Card."
"But, drawing a card in Duel Monsters is like a tennis ball bouncing off the net. No one knows which side the ball will land on, and no one knows what kind of card they will draw." Johan looked at Rafael, "But, unlike you, Teacher, and Mr. Hayato, you can fight alongside your spirits and get their response, but I can't hear even a trace of a voice from my Deck."
"A True Duelist is someone who can even decide the future of their draws, but I can't do it. That possibility, that one-in-ten-thousand draw, I can't do it. I can't do anything."
As he spoke, Johan looked frustrated. Hearing this, Rafael spoke again, scolding, "Idiot, are you saying a Duelist can't duel if they can't hear the voice of the cards? How highly do you think of your talent, Johnny!"
"A Duelist's Draw a Card is indeed like a tennis ball bouncing off the net. If the god of destiny existed, perhaps the result of the draw could only be left for him to decide, but god does not exist. The only ones who exist are us Duelists living in this world." Clenching his fist, Rafael warned, "The tennis ball will ultimately favor the side that clarifies their own will and desires victory, and the Deck will respond to you when your heart is no longer confused."
"If your heart is in confusion, you cannot Draw a Card, so just believe in the Deck, Johnny!"
Johan, who was stunned, lowered his head and looked at his Deck as Rafael's words fell.
If your heart is in confusion, don't Draw a Card? That is to say, I must clarify my desires and will to welcome the favor of victory. There is no doubt that even when facing me, Mr. Hayato, as a True Duelist, displayed his will to desire victory, while I could only play such an undignified duel.
What a disgrace.
Clarify my wish, I am naturally extremely clear about my wish, and that is—
Thinking of this, Johan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and shouted, "My turn! If this is the draw that decides victory or defeat, then I want to win, I want the victory that can fulfill my wish!"
"Respond to me, Deck! And now, draw!"
Fiercely pulling out a card, Johan maintained his drawing motion and flipped the card in his hand to reveal it to himself. The card he drew was a powerful Magic Card!
"Is this a miracle?" Johan was in disbelief that he had actually drawn this powerful Magic Card, which was limited to only one copy in his Deck, at this timing, but his gaze became firm, "No, this is the voice of the Deck, the response from the sleeping spirits to me!"
"I, Jesse Andersen, have a dream, and that is to become a bond between humans and spirits. For my ideal, Here I come, Mr. Hayato!"
Hayato looked at Johan's gaze, which had clearly undergone growth, and nodded in approval, "That's a good gaze. Then bring it on, Johan!"
"During my Main Phase, I activate the Magic Card 'Monster Reborn'! I can Special Summon one monster from either player's Graveyard onto my Field." Johan said, "I'm sorry, I sacrificed you for nothing before. Now, revive and fight for me again, Earth Spider!"
The Ankh Rune manifested, and a crack split open in the Ground, allowing the Earth Spider, which had been crushed by Invoked Mechaba earlier, to return from Johan's Graveyard along the crack, in Attack Position.
[Earth Spider] [ATK 0]
"Hmm? You chose to Special Summon a weak Insect with 'Monster Reborn'?" Hayato raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised that Johan would use this card in this way, "Anything that has been defeated by me can no longer become a threat to me, Hayato Kobayashi."
"Ah, I understand. Earth Spider is no match for your powerful monsters, Mr. Hayato, just like me. But perhaps it's a feeling of guilt, I don't want Earth Spider to continue to slumber in the Graveyard because of my previous mistake." Johan said, and then played another card, "My resolve is only just beginning to display. Here I come, together with my cards!"
"I activate the Continuous Spell Card Gigantic Throws, and then I will activate the last card in my Hand!"
Hearing Johan say "the last card", Hayato's eyes widened slightly, and he clearly saw the Magic Card with a green border that Johan raised above his head—Card of Demise.
"This is the response my Deck gave me! The Magic Card Card of Demise! Both players replenish their hands up to six cards! Since I have no Hand, I can replenish six cards in one go!"
Full of presence, Johan drew a full hand of cards, while Hayato, who felt "seeing others gain card advantage is more uncomfortable than losing card advantage oneself," said sourly, "Because I only had one Aleister the Invoker in my Hand, I can only draw five cards."
"But, Johan, you haven't forgotten the Invoked Mechaba on my Field, have you? Just now, due to the restriction of my Hand, its effect could only negate and banish monsters. Your Card of Demise certainly allowed you to draw a full six cards, but in contrast, I also replenished Magic, Trap, and Monster Cards of these three types!"
Looking at the Invoked Mechaba on the Field, holding its lance and ready to attack at any time, Hayato seemed to be threatening, but was fundamentally intentionally reminding Johan:
"Just Earth Spider alone will fundamentally not be my opponent. What kind of field setup will you have next? A monster, or Magic? No matter what it is, the time needed to crush your resistance in front of Mechaba doesn't even require a second!"
Johan nodded, "Ah, that's right. But Mr. Hayato, the effect of Invoked Mechaba is only once per turn, right? Although it's an omnipotent and severely consequential negate and banish ability, as long as I lure it out with a card that must be negated before performing the key field setup, it'll be fine!"
Saying this, he played a card, and lightning and thunder immediately appeared above Hayato's head.
"The Magic Card Raigeki! It destroys all monsters on the opponent's Field! And now, let your Invoked Mechaba negate and banish Raigeki, Mr. Hayato!"
Looking at Johan, who was convinced that he would operate as he thought, Hayato pursed his lips, "Although he seems to have become more confident, he's also become a bit annoying."
"Then, Invoked Mechaba, as he desired, I send the Magic Card Super Polymerization from my Hand to the Graveyard and tear apart Raigeki!"
Casually sending Super Polymerization, which probably wouldn't be relevant in this duel, to the Graveyard, the tip of the spear of Invoked Mechaba on Hayato's Field radiated with light and shot up into the sky, directly tearing apart the thundercloud that hadn't fully gathered.
Although he was tricked into a negate, Raigeki was a card that required using the effect of Invoked Mechaba, because if it were destroyed, this one effect would have been wasted for nothing.
And looking at the Invoked Mechaba that lowered its lance, Johan also revealed a smile, "Nice, in that case, I can use the effect of Gigantic Throws with peace of mind."
"Hmm?" Hayato raised an eyebrow, remembering that before Johan activated Card of Demise, he had indeed played a Continuous Spell Card onto the Field. So it wasn't just to clear his Hand and draw an extra card?
Looking at the conspicuous card art of Gigantic Throws on Johan's Spell/Trap Zone, which featured early Duel Monsters Insect-Type Normal Monsters like 'Basic Insect', 'Spider Man', and 'Cockroach Ball', it almost explicitly indicated that this card was a card that provides support for Insect-Type Monsters. Unfortunately, Hayato really hadn't played Insect-Type decks much, and the only known Insect-Type User he knew was Weevil, who had long since been defeated, so he didn't know the effect of this card.
And Johan had already begun his formal field setup: "The first effect of Gigantic Throws is that it can only be activated during my Main Phase of the turn this card was activated, to Special Summon one Insect-Type monster with a Level of 6 or lower from my Graveyard. However, because only one of its two effects can be used per turn, I chose to Special Summon Earth Spider with 'Monster Reborn'."
Saying this, Johan drew a card from his Hand and revealed it to Hayato. That was an Insect-Type Monster Card: "The second effect of Gigantic Throws, I show this Insect-Type monster from my Hand, Insect Armageddon, to Mr. Hayato, and I can activate it by targeting one Face-up monster on the opponent's Field and one Insect-Type monster on my Field with lower ATK than the monster shown."
That Insect Armageddon in Johan's Hand, with a Level as high as 8☆ and a seemingly impressive appearance, had a relatively low ATK of only 1500 points, half of a 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', basically belonging to the category of "Weak Monsters with 1500 or less ATK".
However, even so, the ATK of the Earth Spider on his Field was even lower, at 0 points, so Johan successfully selected the effect targets, which were Earth Spider and Nibiru, the Primal Being on Hayato's Field.
This suddenly gave Hayato a bad premonition.
Only to see Johan suddenly picked up the card of Earth Spider: "So now, because of the effect of Gigantic Throws, the control of the two targeted monsters is exchanged! Take good care of Earth Spider, Mr. Hayato, and I will use your Nibiru, the Primal Being well too!"
"Nani!?"
In Hayato's dumbfounded gaze, a blurry phantom appeared on each of his and Johan's Fields, each grabbed the two monsters, Earth Spider and Nibiru, the Primal Being. Immediately after, just like a forced Pokemon trade, the two phantoms threw the two monsters towards the opposite side like throwing baseballs!
Watching the "Meteor" Nibiru, the Primal Being land on his Field, Johan held up two fingers and said proudly, "I obtained Nibiru, the Primal Being!"
In contrast, Hayato, watching his giant Meteor turn into a cowering Earth Spider, couldn't help but get angry, "Damn it, I'm the one who usually takes control of other people's monsters! He actually took control of my monster, unforgivable! Be... Rafael! What have you taught this child!"
"That's really Brother-in-law style double standards," Marik ranted.
And Atem beside him just shrugged, "Card Exchange, for me, appearing in the hands of Johan, who was taught by Rafael, is fundamentally not an unexpected matter at all."
After the Doma Incident began, in Atem's second duel with Rafael after the KC Cup, Rafael had used 'Card Exchange' to forcibly exchange cards with Atem, forcing the 'Seal of Orichalcos' onto Atem, which was almost completely identical to the current situation.
However, Nibiru, the Primal Being appearing on Johan's Field seemed to have undergone some changes on its body.
[Nibiru, the Primal Being] [Rock-Type → Insect Type]
"Monsters whose control I obtained because of the effect of Gigantic Throws will become Insect-Type. Then, because I have an Insect-Type monster in Attack Position on my Field, I Special Summon Dream Cicada - Sleepy from my Hand!"
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