Yu-Gi-Oh!: Madoka, start!

Lightning stared at Mathmech's cover card suspiciously, wondering which card to use.

"Fourteen." Mathmech suddenly said something without any context, interrupting Lightning's thoughts.

"What fourteen?" Lightning asked subconsciously.

"The number of cards your deck has reduced." mathmech answered truthfully.

Lightning was shocked when he heard this. Unconsciously, his 40-card deck had been reduced by about one third.

Lightning carefully placed a card on the duel disk: "I Normal Summon Sea Crystal Maiden Blue Hanging."

Sea Crystal Girl Blue Hanging Attack 1500

The moment he saw Lightning using the Sea Crystal Girl, Mathmech felt his anger rushing to his head.

Mathmech glared at Lightning and said, "So Aqua has..."

Lightning said excitedly with a twisted look: "Now she has become a part of my power, and I will soon become a true god in Link Vrains. She should feel honored to be a part of God."

Mathmech rubbed his temples, adjusted his emotions, then sighed and said, "You are really hopeless..."

Upon hearing this, Lightning said, "I will use this deck to prove to you that I am better and stronger than her."

mathmech was too lazy to say anything more and just watched Lightning's next move.

"The effect of Blue Hang. Activate when this card is successfully summoned. Send Kaiba from your deck to the graveyard."

Mathmech immediately opened the face card and said, "Chain this effect. I use the face-down fast-play magic card Divine Stele's Edge. Add the Divine Stele from the deck to your hand. Then banish a card from the top of your deck."

After Mathmech showed the retrieved curse-breaking monument and added it to his hand, Lightning's deck was reduced by one card again.

After taking a look at the cards that had been excluded, Lightning sent Kaiba to the cemetery with a dark face, and he looked unhappy.

"Sixteen." Mathmech continued to count to himself.

"Show up! The circuit that guides the light!"

"I'll set the connection mark for the blue upside down."

"Link Summon, Sea Crystal Girl, Qinggao Sea Cow."

Sea Crystal Girl Qinggao Manatee Attack 1500 Connection Mark: ↓

"The effect of Qinggao Hainiu is activated by targeting the Kaiba in the Graveyard. Add it to your hand."

"Chain activates the Blue Hang effect. Turn over the top three cards of your deck, and choose a Sea Crystal Girl card from them and add it to your hand."

"I will add the flipped Sea Crystal Girl's Dou Hai to my hand."

The moment Lightning added Seahorse to his hand based on the effect of Qinggao Manatee, Mathmech immediately drew out the only card in his hand.

"Wait! If I remember correctly, this is quick-attack magic, right?" Lightning said somewhat nervously.

Mathmech said quietly, "The effect of Fountain of Divine Monument. As long as this card exists in the field zone, you can also activate the Divine Monument Quick Attack Magic Card from your hand during your opponent's turn."

Ignoring Lightning's incredulous look, Mathmech played the curse-breaking monument in his hand.

"You can only activate this effect when your opponent adds a card from their deck to their hand outside of the Draw Phase. Then, discard one card from their hand. After that, banish the top two cards from your opponent's deck."

As Mathmech finished speaking, Lightning's hand, which had no subsequent chain, shattered another card, and then the number of cards in the deck was reduced by two again.

"Nineteen." Mathmech said at the right time.

Lightning watched helplessly as the Sea Crystal Girl's Dou Hai, which had just been added to his hand, was shattered. When he thought that only half of the deck was left, he felt indescribably frustrated.

"I Special Summon the Kaiba from my hand to the Link Zone of the Aogaka Sea Cow in Defense Position."

Sea Crystal Girl Seahorse Guard 1000

"Show up! The circuit that guides the light!"

"I'll set the seahorse to connect with the mark."

"Link Summon, Sea Crystal Girl, Sea Angel."

Sea Crystal Girl Sea Angel Attack 1000 Connection Tag: ←

"The effect of Sea Angel is activated. I add Sea Crystal Maiden's Lurking Encounter from my deck to my hand."

Lightning said proudly: "Can you still activate the divine monument to break the curse?"

mathmech sighed slightly. "It's a pity that the effect of the quick-play magic card of the Divine Monument is limited to once per turn. But now your deck has been reduced by twenty cards."

After Lightning had embarrassed himself, he continued with his operations.

"Show up! The circuit that guides the light!"

"The summoning conditions are two water attribute monsters."

"I set a connection mark between the Sea Angel and the Qinggao Manatee."

"Link Summon, link2 Sea Crystal Girl, Pacifier Anemone."

Sea Crystal Girl Pacifier Anemone Attack 2000 Connection Tag: ←↓

"Target the Sea Angel in the graveyard and activate the effect of the Pacifier Anemone. Special Summon the Sea Angel to the connected area of ​​the Pacifier Anemone."

Seeing that the time had come, mathmech flipped open the second face-up card again: "Chain this effect. I activate the quick-play magic Monument of Radiant Flame targeting the Special Summoned Pacifier Anemone on your field. Destroy Pacifier Anemone. After that, banish the top two cards from your deck."

"You...!" The Lightning was numb. Once the Pacifier Anemone was destroyed, the condition of "Special Summon to her Link Area" in its effect would not be met and the effect would not be processed.

Seeing Lightning's anxious look, Mathmech added at the right time: "Twenty-two."

Lightning calmed down for a moment and said, "The effect of the Pacifier Anemone sent from the field to the Graveyard. Activate by targeting the Sea Crystal Girl's Doukai in the Graveyard. Add the Sea Crystal Girl's Doukai from the Graveyard to your hand."

Mathmech immediately pointed at the Fountain of Divine Stele after hearing that. "The effect of the chain field magic Fountain of Divine Stele. Once per turn, when you activate a Divine Stele Quick-Play Magic Card, you can activate it targeting up to three Divine Stele Quick-Play Magic Cards in your Graveyard. You can return those cards to the bottom of your deck in any way you like. After that, you can draw as many cards as you want from your deck."

"I return the Divine Monument of Edge, Divine Monument of Radiant Flame, and Divine Monument of Curse Removal to the bottom of the deck in the order I said, and then draw three cards."

Lightning looked at Mathmech numbly. No one except Mathmech knew that he had drawn several quick-attack magic cards. Adding the two cards he had placed on the cover, even though he was Ignis and didn't sweat, he began to sweat profusely.

After Lightning added Dou Hai to his hand, he even began to have a bad mentality. If he did nothing, could he avoid this torment?

But this thought only appeared for a moment before he dispelled it by shaking his head.

Not to mention that as of now, Mathmech has three cards, namely, Monument of Golden Shizuku, Monument of Curse Removal, and Monument of Edge, which can be activated when Lightning has an empty field; Lightning is still unsure whether the Monument deck can win through monster attacks; what's more, Lightning is the one with the smaller deck now, and even if it really drags on, Lightning will definitely lose in the end, so he must be patient and look for opportunities to counterattack.

"He won't be able to attack next round due to the effect. I must learn to be patient before the chance to counterattack comes..."

After figuring everything out, Lightning ended the round directly.

Lightning ended the round suddenly, which was a bit unexpected for Mathmech.

"Have you figured out a way to deal with the Divine Monument so quickly? But you still can't solve the huge disadvantage of the deck's compatibility." mathmech thought in his heart.