Fusion is the noblest form of summoning!

“Light and Darkness Dragon, attack directly!”

“Guaaa——”

Rumble rumble.

Three days had passed.

The first duel of the second round.

Although Gloria had tried her best, unfortunately, sometimes a little bit of luck is needed.

After losing the duel, Gloria glanced at the audience below, then looked at Tenjouin Hikaru in the waiting room who was watching from a close distance. With a red face, she silently walked towards the loser's bracket hall.

Although she lost, there was still a chance in the loser's bracket. Even though by that time, there would only be 1 spot left in the loser's bracket, she couldn't give up just yet, right?

The thought of patting her chest and guaranteeing Hikaru that she would win, only to be questioned by him, and now having to run away in shame, made Gloria's face burn. She quickly slipped away.

Tenjouin Hikaru didn't know what to say.

He could only say that those words were indeed a taboo.

The duels of the second round soon began to unfold, and the duels in this round were even more intense. The audience gradually developed a habit of watching at this fixed time every day.

Because a few people were补 (bǔ, fill/mend/make up) from the loser's bracket, although they played well, many people could feel that, apart from those particularly unlucky duelists, there was a clear gap between most duelists and those in the second round—Gloria was also in this range. She belonged to the particularly unlucky type.

Honestly, after watching Manjoume's duel, Tenjouin Hikaru felt that the current Manjoume might not be worse than Judai or Edo. There was an indescribable feeling, as if he was ridiculously strong.

In short, in Tenjouin Hikaru's view, encountering Manjoume right away was undoubtedly very unlucky for Gloria.

Not to mention that Gloria only had eyes for him and didn't care about Manjoume at all. It was too normal for her to lose.

Because he was the last duelist to duel in the second round, Tenjouin Hikaru had a lot of free time to observe and study others.

He focused on looking at his friends' decks.

The Tenjouin siblings, Asuka, were still using the Cyber Angel series. Although there were no changes, the effect of the card 'Cyber Angel Benten' was indeed quite strong, and Cyber Angels, as ritual support cards, had excellent resource circulation, so she easily defeated her opponent.

As for Tenjouin Fubuki...

Tenjouin Hikaru watched one of his duels.

To Tenjouin Hikaru's surprise, Tenjouin Fubuki's deck was no longer "Red-Eyes."

Of course, it couldn't be said so definitively. Tenjouin Fubuki's deck was not entirely a "Red-Eyes" deck anymore.

His deck had become a peculiar deck composed of Red-Eyes and Winged Beast monsters, mixed with many strange magic and trap cards, which seemed very performative.

Although it was just a change in the deck, honestly, this was not a simple matter.

It might be nothing for other friends to change the components in their decks, but this was Tenjouin Fubuki!

Previously, Tenjouin Fubuki had been influenced by the power of darkness. No matter what deck he used, the cards in the deck would turn into the Red-Eyes series. But now that Fubuki could use other cards, it meant that Tenjouin Fubuki had, to some extent, even adapted to the power of darkness.

Exaggerated, but reasonable—because in the original work, Tenjouin Fubuki did this.

But what exactly did he do during this time that allowed his spirit's adaptability to increase so much? He wouldn't be wearing the darkness mask every day, would he?

That would be too much effort.

However, when this thought arose in Tenjouin Hikaru's mind, he gradually felt that this might really be the answer.

For Kaiser, it wouldn't be strange for Fubuki to do anything.

As for some other friends, Misawa's deck mixed in Amazoness cards, O'Brien's deck had some other Flame monsters, Jim, like in the original anime, used the Fossil series—but it was clearly not the Fossil series from the original version.

It was probably a Fossil Fusion card that he collected himself.

The strength was really not low.

As for Hell Kaiser, Ryo Marufuji himself, there was even less to say.

Cyber End Dragon, Cyberdark Dragon, Cyber Dragon Nova, he would use every type of card, without the slightest bit of frenzy in pursuing victory without being calm.

It is worth mentioning that Tenjouin Hikaru saw that Johan's magic and trap cards were quite complete, even including the Rainbow Bridge of Salvation.

The Crystal Beasts might not be very strong, but the magic and trap cards related to the Crystal Beasts were quite excellent.

Life is not easy, and family members are not advantageous, so they can only use magic and traps to assist them.

While Tenjouin Hikaru was studying others, others were naturally studying him. Compared to other contestants,

Tenjouin Hikaru's fame was very high, only a little lower than Kaiser, but many people were very clear about what kind of deck Tenjouin Hikaru had.

A small amount of fusion materials and a large number of fusion cards.

Combined with a large number of Polymerization cards, a small number of fusion disruption cards, and a large number of powerful fusion monsters, he made different arrangements in different situations, responding to each duel in a versatile and flexible way.

Anssiel checked his deck and, in addition to Skill Drain, added a few cards that he considered quite useful.

As time passed, soon, the schedule came to Tenjouin Hikaru's turn.

Tenjouin Hikaru slowly walked into the duel field, and the audience in the duel field cheered when they saw him.

Tenjouin Hikaru waved to them while observing the surroundings.

He found that the duel field seemed to have undergone some changes, and some KaibaCorp employees were whispering and working.

Judging from this posture, it seemed that after this round of duels, the duel field would also undergo large-scale modifications.

"The last duel of the second round, now begins!"

Warm applause began to sound.

Along with the applause, suddenly, with a "嘭 (pēng, sound of explosion)" sound, huge flames emerged from the surroundings. One spirit jumped up in fright, wanting to put out the fire, but in the next second, the flames cracked open, then turned into specks of starlight, adorning the sky above the duel field, drawing two huge cards.

One was Anssiel's Continuous Trap Card, Skill Drain, representing him.

And the other was—the Normal Magic Card, Polymerization!

"Wow," Tenjouin Hikaru raised his head and exclaimed in surprise.

"Strange, why did it start automatically?"

", didn't you say that this would be used in the next round? Lights, what's going on!?"

The KaibaCorp employees were greatly startled.

Tenjouin Hikaru looked left and right, then looked at a huge chandelier, which turned around and nodded at Tenjouin Hikaru like a head.

A phantom?

Tenjouin Hikaru understood its meaning.

Did it want to see him duel again?

"Tenjouin Hikaru, your opponent will definitely put down a lot of trap cards to target you," Tierra leaned over and said.

"It's okay, I've also adjusted my deck."

When the dazzling colors and lights ended, Tenjouin Hikaru and Anssiel set up their duel disks and faced each other at the same time.

"Duel!" X2

Duel Academy Eastern European Branch, Equality for All, Anssiel, LP: 4000

Duel Academy Main School, Absolute Fusion Master, Tenjouin Hikaru, LP: 4000

Another burst of lights flashed, and the duel officially began!