"When the elimination round is over, I promise to treat you to the Golem Dessert Castle and eat your fill."
Hearing the slightly familiar voice, Jock turned back with interest, intending to see who he met another acquaintance.
What he didn't expect was that the one who asked him to give up his love behind his back turned out to be the pink-colored Ai Dou who exchanged "Ancient Relic·Holy Spear" with him for "No.25-Heavy Optical Camera·Focus Power" two days ago. Dew boy.
If Jiao Ke remembered correctly, the other party called himself 3, which sounded like a nickname or a stage name.
"What a coincidence, 3. I thought you had potential when I saw the cards you and I exchanged before, and you made it to the knockout round as expected."
3 is passionate about the legacy of ancient civilizations, so his deck is built around this theme.
Cards such as "Ancient Relics" and "Prehistoric Heritage" are 3's destiny.
Considering the characteristics of these two decks, those who can produce a bunch of 2-speed interference in this era are probably not ordinary people.
"Yeah, I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance in the knockout round." 3 smiled awkwardly, "I'm actually not very good at being too showy in front of acquaintances, especially in a duel..."
"Sorry, the request I made just now is a bit excessive, but I do have my own reasons."
3 let out a long sigh and painfully recalled the past.
The original name of this pink boy is naturally not 3, but Michelle Ackleade, the second son of Byron Ackleade, a researcher affiliated with the Seahorse Group.
Ten years ago, Duel Monsters caused a global uproar.
The past information was buried by the Haima Group, and the specific reasons for the incident are no longer known. However, the attitude of the Haima Group before and after the incident has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Changes from the previous focus on the development of the "original" scientific side, such as "Card Elf", "Alternate World", "God Particle", "Dimension Conversion", "Light Wave", "White Fantasy Beast" and so on Projects have been established one after another and occupy a large part of scientific research work.
After confirming that the "supernatural tricks" he scorned were real phenomena, although Kaiba refused to admit it, in fact, he had already regarded the induction, summary, analysis, and research of these phenomena as a top priority in his heart.
Michelle's father, Byron Acreide, and his friend Dr. Fika are one of these researchers.
They specialize in the exploration of "alternative worlds", but how can the illusory other world easily appear in people's sight?
Just when Bailon and Fika, who were frustrated, were about to be unable to apply for the necessary funds due to lack of results, a private archeology professor, Kujiu Yuma's father, Kujiuma Yuma, was introduced to join.
After that, the research progress of the laboratory skyrocketed, and a ruins connected to another world was even discovered.
Under the advice of Dr. Fika, the three scholars hit it off and headed to the ruins...
Then Michelle's nightmare happened.
"Dr. Fika betrayed me and Kujiu Yuma's father, and sacrificed them as sacrifices to some kind of existence in other worlds in order to gain power!"
At this point, Michelle’s reason for asking other contestants to give up the competition and move forward was finally revealed: “But my father miraculously survived some time ago by signing a contract with an existence from another world, and has supported his life ever since. The only purpose of going down is to take revenge like Dr. Fika!"
"As my father's son, I must help him fulfill his only wish!"
"So, please, Joke-kun, I really need it..."
"boring."
However, before Jock could wait for Michelle to repeat her request, he gave a cold and decisive answer of rejection.
"You told me so much, don't you think that I will let you go because I sympathize with you?"
"What, I..."
Michelle never expected that her painful past would only be rated as "boring".
When he exchanged "no.25" with Jock before, he originally thought that he might be able to chat with Jock, who was interested in "Pacific" and "Atlantis".
Mingming is also interested in ancient relics. Maybe he can become friends with the other party after revenge.
"You don't have to go on, I'm not interested at all."
Jiao Ke waved his hand and continued to say coldly: "Your painful past, the realization you have carried, and the long-cherished wish that must be achieved are nothing to me. The only purpose of my coming to Heart City to participate in the Super Cup is to play cards. It's best It’s better to play against interesting and powerful opponents.”
"Anything other than playing cards has nothing to do with me."
"Revenge? In the form of a duel? Stop joking!"
Jock unhappily drew a card from the deck.
"You just put your life on such a small piece of paper? Don't you think this is really ridiculous?"
"Maybe they have elves and supernatural powers, but after all, these are just residents of another world. There is no need to bear the heavy burden you impose."
"If you want revenge, there are obviously better choices. If you want to truly redeem your father, you shouldn't try to change everything by relying on external things."
"The cards themselves do have mystical power, but now Duel Monsters is just a game."
"Bringing boring and heavy reality factors into the game will make the originally interesting things boring and boring. You are just using the game to escape the bleak reality!"
Games should be used for recreation and entertainment!
Having said that, Jock actually has some desire to fight monsters, and he also hopes to return to Earth through the power of elves.
But at the same time, Jock also knew very well that the main purpose of playing cards was for recreation and entertainment, otherwise he would obviously have a more suitable solution as he has the power of imaginary numbers.
For example, go to the elf world to directly visit powerful beings... maybe try to materialize Dialga and Palkia?
In the face of Jock's words, Michelle's awareness of burden, the price of sacrifice, and the goal of hope were completely negated, and all his efforts were evaluated as worthless.
"Jock, what do you know!?" Michelle said angrily, "You have never experienced the pain and hatred of our family!"
"You are just criticizing our efforts as an outsider!"
"If possible, of course I would also like to play with my two brothers, my father, and the children of my father's friends in a relaxed and carefree way!"
"Jock, you don't know anything!"
Now that things have come to this, the only thing left is a duel.
"The negotiations have broken down, so there is only one solution, Michelle." Jock pointed to his duel plate, "No matter how nice it is, there is no point in losing at cards."
Wang Jiang secretly cursed at the side: "You call that negotiation?"
"Duel!"*2
