114 Winged Chestnut Sphere: Long live the Chestnut family! (ﾉ≧∀≦)ﾉ

“The ritual monster ‘Five-Headed Dragon’ cannot attack during the turn it is summoned, but…”

The infuriating word “but” appeared. In the next moment, all five heads of the Five-Headed Dragon charged simultaneously, and five rays of differently colored light burst forth from the dragon mouths.

“Boom!”

With a deafening explosion, the Dragon Mage Guardians and the Sawtooth Wild Rangers on the playing field, along with both face-down cards in the back row, were completely destroyed!

“But upon successful summoning, the Five-Headed Dragon can use its own effect to destroy all monsters, Spell, and Trap Cards on the opponent’s field!”

Though unable to attack, it could clear the entire opponent’s field the instant it appeared, thus providing an excellent environment for the other Five Emperors to unleash their power!

“The last face-down card—equip the Spell Card ‘Dragon Shield Armor’ to the Five-Headed Dragon!”

Clad in metallic armor, the Five-Headed Dragon was instantly fully armored, transforming completely from a majestic dragon lord into a dragon clad in gleaming metal armor.

Dragon Shield Armor—this was the third time Yu Yi had encountered this Equip Spell in the city tournament. Its effect was quite useful: equipped monsters could not be destroyed by battle or card effects. The only restriction was that it could only be equipped to Dragon-type monsters.

The problem was, as of this point in time, Dragon-type monsters accounted for at least half of the powerful monsters!

Most famously, the various “Blue-Eyes White Dragon” cards in Kaiba’s possession—classic high-level, high-attack monsters.

Next were the “Red-Eyes” cards owned by Jonouchi, which, though slightly lower in level and power, were still formidable.

Then there were the pinnacle Duel Monsters—the Three Egyptian God Cards!

Although all three were Divine-Beast types, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was undeniably a typical “Dragon” both in name and appearance. The Winged Dragon of Ra, though bird-shaped, also carried the word “Dragon” in its name.

Hence, Yu Yi had reason to encounter three different opponents wielding Dragon Shield Armor.

“Finally, the Spell Card ‘Fusion Rush’! Activate it! Five-Emperor Dragon! Five-Element Dragon’s Breath!!”

A twelve-star monster—the highest-level Duel Monster!

Even in this virtual world created by Noya, Fusion Monsters still had to abide by the “New Duel Rules” issued by Yu Yi’s world: Fusion Monsters of level seven or higher cannot attack the turn they are summoned unless their card effects say otherwise.

But with the Spell Card “Fusion Rush,” that restriction was bypassed.

Just as the Five-Element Dragon’s breath was about to shatter Yu Yi and secure victory for the Five Emperors, a massive chestnut-like sphere suddenly appeared, blocking the devastating attack with 5000 points of power!

‘Kuri Kuri!’

“A Chestnut Sphere?… No, wait!”

Seeing the huge fluffy creature, Honda instinctively exclaimed in surprise, but then quickly noticed something unusual—the massive white feathered wings sprouting from behind the giant chestnut sphere.

Without those wings, it would have looked exactly like the weak little monster “Chestnut Sphere” from their memories.

“It’s Winged Chestnut Sphere—that’s her name.”

Yu Yi smiled as he looked at the giant Winged Chestnut Sphere before him.

“Simple card destruction does not prevent face-down Spell Cards that meet activation conditions from being used. And this Winged Chestnut Sphere was Special Summoned from my deck using the destroyed Quick-Play Spell ‘Call of the Chestnut Sphere.’”

The flute that summons two godly cards of the Chestnut family—Yu Yi had used it in the final turn against Dark Malik to Special Summon Chestnut Sphere, then used “Multiply” to gather the tribute monsters needed for the arrival and effect activation of the Giant God Soldier.

“Tch! But that means I can activate this Quick-Play Spell now!”

Though frustrated that the Five-Emperor Dragon’s deadly strike was blocked, the Five Emperors were grateful that Yu Yi Special Summoned this small, seemingly insignificant monster called Winged Chestnut Sphere. Because of this, they now had a Quick-Play Spell that met activation conditions.

“Targeting the Five-Emperor Dragon, activate the Quick-Play Spell ‘Dragon’s Fighting Spirit’!”

“What!?”

Hearing the card’s name, Yu Yi was stunned. Dragon’s Fighting Spirit was a brand-new Quick-Play Spell used by Kaiba in the anniversary movie “Dark Dimension.” It was a card that had only appeared at that point in time—so why was it now in the Five Emperors’ hands?

And more… Yu Yi realized that not only the name, but even the artwork on the card was of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!

If the Five Emperors knew what Yu Yi was thinking, they would honestly tell him:

Dragon’s Fighting Spirit was a card designed by Noya, specifically to annoy Kaiba Seto, using his ace monster, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, as the card image.

Furthermore, all five of their ace monsters—Five-Emperor Dragon and Five-Headed Dragon—were Dragon-type monsters, fulfilling Dragon’s Fighting Spirit’s activation conditions, so they included this card in their decks.

“The Five-Emperor Dragon was Fusion Summoned this turn, so it meets the targeting requirements for Dragon’s Fighting Spirit! And as you said, the Winged Chestnut Sphere was Special Summoned from the deck using the Quick-Play Spell ‘Call of the Chestnut Sphere,’ so—”

As he spoke, the five heads of the Five-Emperor Dragon gathered elemental power once again, preparing to launch another attack!

“This turn, the Five-Emperor Dragon can perform additional attacks equal to the number of monsters Special Summoned by the opponent this turn, in addition to its normal battle!”

Jonouchi and the others: !!!

They had barely managed to fend off the first wave of attacks, and now a second wave was coming!

“Hmph!”

Though Jonouchi and the others worried for Yu Yi, he only smiled.

“Sorry, but my Winged Chestnut Sphere has an effect similar to Chestnut Sphere.”

“When Winged Chestnut Sphere is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, all battle damage occurring for the rest of this turn is zero for me!”

Having finished speaking, the giant Winged Chestnut Sphere appeared once more, but this time she wasn’t blocking attacks—she stood with her two small green claws on her hips, exuding an air of supreme disdain toward the Five-Emperor Dragon.

Little brat! So what if your attack is 5000? So what if you can attack again? You can’t deal a single scratch of damage to my master! ╭╮

Honda and the Five-Emperor Dragon: “……”

“…End of turn!”

The remaining two cards in hand were normal monsters, so summoning them or not made no difference.

“My turn, draw!”

As Yu Yi drew two cards, the system sent information about the two monsters the Five Emperors had summoned—monsters that did not exist in Yu Yi’s memories.

System:

‘Is that so…’

With the system’s assistance, Yu Yi now fully understood the effects of the two monsters and could proceed perfectly with his One Turn Kill plan.

‘Five Emperors… watch carefully as your two greatest ace monsters are defeated within a single turn!’

“My turn! Activate the Field Spell ‘Gate of Fusion!’”