I Was Summoned to the Duel Monster World

012. A Pebble for Reversal

The card I drew this time was a continuous trap card.

It was another trap card, not a monster card.

Strange.

Why is it that only one monster card comes out when half of my deck is composed of them?

I wonder if there is anyone else as unlucky as me in this world.

“I also activate the effect of Scarecrow in the graveyard. I set it again on my field.”

“You’re like an undead made of iron. It’s a pity that it’s not a monster card.”

I know, right?

It would have been nice if Scarecrow was a monster card.

If it was a low-level monster that could revive itself during the standby phase, I would have tried something.

But since I reached this situation due to my lack of duel skills, I decided to endure as much as possible.

“I set one card. I end my turn like this.”

“You’re not summoning a monster? If this goes on, you’ll lose, you know?”

“I have a plan, so stop talking and do your thing.”

Balor, who seemed genuinely curious, scratched his chin and threw a question at me.

If I had a monster card, I would have summoned it already.

I know he has no ill will, but I feel strangely annoyed.

Is it because he has three monsters on the field?

“Then it’s my turn. Draw!”

Balor drew a card from the field and checked it.

He twisted his mouth and showed the card to his side.

“I summon Zombie Maestro from my hand.”

[Zombie Maestro]

Level: 3 / Attribute: Dark / Race: Undead

Attack / Defense: 1100 / 0

Once per turn, you can send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard and target 1 Level 4 or lower Undead monster in your or your opponent’s Graveyard. Special Summon that Undead monster to your field in Defense Position.

Grrr-!

A zombie in a neat tuxedo stretched out his hand from the ground and popped out.

A monster with the effect of reviving monsters from the Graveyard.

It was tricky that the revival target included the opponent’s Graveyard.

“Activate the effect of Maestro. By discarding 1 card from your hand, I summon ‘Cobalt Special Forces’ from your Graveyard to my field.”

The Zombie Maestro took out his baton and waved it around.

Cobalts with flesh eaten away from here and there crawled out of my Graveyard Zone and walked to Balor’s field.

With this, there were no monster cards in my hand, field, or Graveyard.

“Next, I will also activate the second effect of ‘Twin Zombie’. By sending ‘Suicide Ghost’ from my deck to the Graveyard, I increase the attack power of Zombie Maestro.”

[Suicide Ghost]

Level: 2 / Attribute: Dark / Race: Undead

Attack / Defense: 300 / 0

When this card is in the Graveyard, you can activate it when your opponent Special Summons a monster from their hand / deck / Extra Deck. By banishing this card from the Graveyard, destroy the summoned monster.

“You are really cruel.”

“The world of Duel is cold.”

He was going to block the source of summoning monsters from my hand and deck as well as stealing the monsters from my Graveyard.

How can I live with this sorrow?

I felt so pitiful that tears almost came out.

My opponent was cheating from the start to the end, while I only had a set of magic / trap cards.

I had no choice but to lay down my cards and wait, as if I was farming.

“Battle! I’ll attack first with Twin Zombies!”

“No chain.”

Two zombies with sharp teeth ran towards me.

Crack-!

They bit my shoulder and arm repeatedly, then returned to their place.

Their attack power was low, so it didn’t hurt as much as I expected, but it stung a little.

LP: [4000 ＞＞ 3200 (-800)]

“Next, I’ll attack directly with Zombie Maestro and the Girl who Calls the Dawn’s Curse!”

“No chain…!”

At the attack command, Maestro grabbed his baton again.

I thought he would attack with his baton, but contrary to my expectation, he started to wave his baton and hand as if he was conducting an orchestra.

Then, a bizarre noise came from somewhere and penetrated into my ears.

The violin sounded like nails scratching a blackboard, the piano sounded like a hammer smashing things every time it hit a key.

The flute was like the mocking laughter of ghosts, the trumpet was like the roar of a monster.

I wished the unpleasant performance would end, and I endured it with my eyes squinted.

LP: [3200 ＞＞ 1800 (-1400)]

Squeak!!

As the noise subsided, a little girl ran towards me with a ghostly scream.

She had a hideous mole and a pale skin, and her nails were stained with red and sticky blood.

She felt like a special monster from a famous zombie game, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

But there was nowhere to run, so I had to take the crossing nails with my body.

LP: [1800 ＞＞ 100 (-1700)]

“Ugh…!!”

“This is the last attack of mine.”

“Ha, trap activation! The Iron Scarecrow that Provokes!!”

“So you’re blocking with that, huh. Can’t be helped.”

Valore, who lifted up a spear made of bones.

He destroyed the scarecrow in front of me with a concise and swift motion of stabbing it with his spear.

What if I was the one who was pierced by that spear?

I just imagined it, but fear overwhelmed me and my body started to tremble.

“Good, I’ll pass my turn like this.”

“My turn…!!”

My life is now only 100.

The moment of life and death has arrived.

I have 3 magic cards in my hand that I can’t use, and 2 trap cards set on the field.

The only monster card I have is taken by the opponent.

I had to stake everything on this draw.

I carefully placed my hand on the card that might be the last one.

‘Maybe my expectations put too much pressure on the cards.’

It was a joke in reality, but it meant something different in this world.

Cards that might be alive and breathing like me, with their own will.

They are comrades who fight together, and I should never ignore them.

So I earnestly asked the cards I believed in.

To lend me the power that leads to victory.

“Draw.”

With a crisp word, I gently pulled out the top card of the deck.

If the cards don’t lend me their power, then I’ll accept defeat.

That’s what I thought as I flipped the card over.

“Ah…”

A green-colored card.

The card I drew this time was also a magic card, not a monster card.

It was refreshing to see no monster cards drawn for the first time.

So ridiculous that the corners of my mouth naturally rose.

“Ahahahahat!!”

“Why are you laughing?”

Valore, who didn’t understand the meaning of my laughter, looked at me suspiciously.

He wouldn’t know if I was laughing because I drew a good card or a bad card.

There is only one thing I can say.

“This duel is mine because I won.”

“You won…? In this situation where you only have 100 life points left, are you saying you can defeat my monsters and me?”

“Yes. As you said.”

“This arrogant guy… But not bad. Good! Let’s see you try your best to beat me!!”

To tell the truth, I might not be able to finish it this turn.

I don’t know what the magic or trap card that is set on the opponent’s field is.

But as someone who has used countless decks so far, I could guess what card it was.

If it is the ‘card’ that I think it is, I will surely win.

“I activate ‘Magic Fusion’ from my hand!”

[Magic Fusion]

Normal Magic

Send 2 magic cards from your hand to the graveyard and activate one magic card from your deck. Activate the designated magic card.

The card I drew from my deck this turn.

It will surely be the cornerstone of my victory.

“I send 2 magic cards from my hand to the graveyard and activate ‘Designated Fusion’ from my deck!”

The 2 magic cards mixed and were reborn as a new card.

It was time for my core and always reliable card to appear.

“You want to fight me with a fusion monster, huh. I won’t let you do that! I activate the card I set!”

[Ghostly Interference]

Normal Trap

You can activate this by sending 1 face-up Undead-type monster on your field to the graveyard. Until the end of this turn, the effects of all magic cards on the field are negated.

Two wicked souls emerge from the body of the Twin Zombie.

They cling to my magic cards and start to devour them.

“With this, your ‘Magic Fusion’ effect is nullified!”

“Really, is that so? Counter Trap activate!!”

“What?!”

[Reboot Project]

Counter Trap

You can activate this when a monster / magic / trap effect that negates card activation is activated. Pay half of your LP and negate and destroy that card.

LP: [100 ＞＞ 50 (-50)]

“I will negate your ‘Ghost Interference Operation’!”

“You’re pretty good…!”

“Not yet. The real start is from now on. With the effect of Designated Fusion, I summon ‘Corrupted Faith, Phineas’!”

A crimson flame appears, burning away the white mist.

In the dark and cold space, it becomes a ray of light and reveals its form on my field.

A woman who exudes a beautiful and fierce atmosphere, Phineas.

“I’m so sorry for being late!!”

“It’s okay, it’s not your fault.”

“But…!”

“Phineas, what I want is not forgiveness, but victory.”

“……Yes, I understand!”

Phineas turned his body and faced Emperor Valore.

He showed a determination to knock him down right now.

“So that monster was your ace, huh.”

“Yes. I intend to end this duel with this card.”

“Is that so. Then I have to destroy it. I activate the effect of Self-Destruct Demon in my graveyard! By banishing this card, I destroy a monster that was special summoned!”

“Then I activate the second effect of Phineas! By destroying the Scarecrow I set during the standby phase, Phineas becomes immune to destruction.”

“Foolish boy!! All the monsters in the World of the Dead are in my grasp! I activate my effect to negate the effect of your card!”

He raised his spear again and this time, he spewed out black energy.

The black energy engulfed Phineas, but soon dispersed into the air.

Seeing that, Valore widened his eyes in disbelief.

“I’m sorry, but it seems that it won’t go as you wish.”

“Wh, why? Why is your monster not destroyed!!”

“The truth is, I had a trap card activated at the same time as the main phase started.”

“Trap card…?”

Only then did Valore notice a card shining brightly in a corner.

[Stonecutter’s Modification Surgery]

Continuous Trap

The player who activates this card declares one type of race. As long as this card is on the field, all face-up monsters on the field become the declared race.

“Because of this card’s effect, Phineas is no longer an undead race, but a different race. He is not affected by your Majesty’s effect.”

According to the rules of the duel, continuous effects are overridden by the later cards.

Therefore, the effect of my trap card that was activated later than the World of the Dead is applied to the field.

It was a card that I drew in the previous turn, so the priority is clear.

Anyway, the race that I declared is angel.

The race of all monsters, including Phineas, becomes angel.

That’s why Phineas’s black wings were pure white in this duel.

I felt a sense of incongruity because only the wing color changed and the appearance did not, but he seemed to be indifferent.

He must be thinking that he has to win for me, so he doesn’t care about anything else.

“A trap card that transforms monsters into different races! Then what about my monsters…!”

“Yes. They all became angels instead of undead.”

“What a monstrous thing!! My monsters are angels, not demons! I can never accept this!!”

“Is that so?”

“Yes! So please return the races to their original state right now…!!”

“Your Majesty, by the way. Have you ever looked at the top of your head?”

“The top of my head?”

When I pointed to the sky with my finger, the Necromancer King Balor naturally raised his head and looked up.

There was a brightly shining halo of an angel, which was none other than the Necromancer King’s.

As long as he was on the field, he was inevitably subject to the modification procedure.

Should I call him the Angel King instead of the Necromancer King now?

“Your Majesty, you have become a noble angel, so now accept the outcome…”

Thud-!

Before I could finish my sentence, Emperor Valore collapsed on the floor.

He seemed to have fainted from the unbelievable reality.

“What the hell…”

I didn’t expect to win like this.

He retired before I could show him the long-awaited reversal drama.

I was rather flustered.

“…Wait a minute. If I had used the modification procedure in the previous turn, it would have been over sooner?”

I was disappointed when I thought it was a shining draw, but it wasn’t.

But in fact, it was a shining draw.

It was just not a fair victory.

“Is this okay…”

It seemed that my deck was also a realist like me.