Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 133

Chapter 133 - 133: The Potential of Cards

The Paradox Brothers left with wails of despair.

Even as they were being escorted off campus, they were still in a daze.

Maybe, even to the end, they were still thinking—

—How could anyone duel in such a despicable way!?

Duel Academy students? First-year freshmen?

What a cosmic joke!

If they had a choice, they would rather face Yami Yugi and Wheeler again. Sure, they might get instantly KO'd, but at least that would be quick and clean, not dragged out and humiliated like this.

Especially that jellyfish-haired kid, who even jumped in front of them after the match and made a taunting gesture.

"We won! That was a fun duel!"

Paradox Brothers: "..."

For a moment, they almost rolled up their sleeves and went for him.

Ha, ha, ha, yeah, great duel.

Great, my ass!

They turned and left with dark faces.

Duel Academy—this cursed place—they swore never to return.

"I... didn't expect this." Even Alexis in the stands was rendered speechless.

Misawa looked complicated. "Yeah, even legendary duelists were defeated."

He didn't finish, but both understood the meaning.

No, it wasn't just defeated.

Even legendary duelists had been broken.

Everyone could tell—the brothers left the field in a daze, nearly catatonic. They might even have a falling out after this.

The students and teachers all enjoyed the duel immensely, agreeing with Jaden's "That was a fun duel!"

But thinking about it later—if even legendary duelists could be reduced to this, what did the future hold for the dueling world?

Actually, this combo was Kira's own modification, but it had a prototype in the real card meta called "[Cosmos LOCK]."

It was one of the early lockdown decks. Although calling it "competitive" was a stretch—it barely reached the threshold for competitive play and was mostly just a fun deck, not meta-defining.

From the name, you can guess—the lock centered around the Continuous Trap "Spatial Collapse", a classic anti-social deck.

It was only for fun because the lock was hard to achieve; during setup, you could easily be disrupted. But once the lock was in place, in the old card pool, even the gods couldn't break free.

Once LOCK was achieved, the opponent was "alive, but already dead."

Of course, Kira didn't remember the full deck, only the concept. So, he designed not the original Cosmos LOCK, but a more stable fusion of Ojama token lock and Cosmos LOCK.

His version was also loaded with a ton of anime-only cards. The early field clearing and setup were handled by his own Ojama engine, while the all-important lock card "Spatial Collapse" was handed off to Jaden—along with the finishing power of Rampart Blaster.

It did take a bit of Jaden's destiny power to pull off such a kill-lock with ease.

Of course, top-decking is always a bit of mysticism—even for Kira and Jaden, it wasn't certain they'd draw "Spatial Collapse" immediately. But even if they didn't, their tactics would still work: the lock with Ojama tokens and HEROs could still win, just not as oppressively as with the full LOCK.

Without Jaden's help, the original Ojama lock usually relied on direct-damage monsters and spells/traps for finishing.

It was clear Jaden was genuinely having fun, grinning as he high-fived Kira in celebration.

Misawa was once again speechless.

He'd spent so long analyzing Jaden's HERO deck and tactics, but this wasn't the style he knew.

Looking at Kira and Jaden standing together, he felt something peculiar.

These two were influencing each other, changing each other. Originally, they should have been two different, extreme duelists—before today, he'd thought their partnership would just clash and interfere.

But now it looked like their chemistry was producing something terrifying—one plus one suddenly equaled much more.

Misawa made up his mind.

Facing either one alone would be tough enough; whatever happened, he'd never go up against both in a tag match.

After seeing what happened to the Paradox Brothers, he knew.

It'd be worse than death.

Chazz, another spectator, was also deeply shaken by the horror of "Cosmos LOCK," but after calming down, his attention shifted to those three ugly-cute little monsters Kira had used.

"Ojama monsters... Even these kinds of weaklings can be useful?"

Chazz frowned, lost in thought.