Chapter 129 Awesome! Era! Future!
Tongshiye Market, Commercial Street.
As the most prosperous area in Tongshino City, and because the Haima Group is located close to the commercial street, even on normal working days from Monday to Friday, there are a large number of people coming and going on the commercial street in Tongshino City. And on Saturdays and Sundays, days when children don't have to go to school and adults have a break, the flow of people is even greater.
However, even compared with the usual Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, today is obviously Friday, but there are really too many people in the commercial street.
The last time there was such a large amount of traffic in Doshino City's commercial street was on the eve of the opening of Duel City, when Kaiba gathered a large number of duelists and announced Duel City news at the top of their lungs in helicopters.
But today's matter has nothing to do with that guy from Kaiba. He has been working hard to expand new markets since the KC Cup created a space in the United States. However, he did not abandon the Japanese market he had already occupied, but handed it over to Kei. Ping Lai is responsible.
In a world where Duel Monsters is becoming increasingly popular all over the world, it is actually not too difficult to gather as many people as today. As long as there is big news related to Duel Monsters, whether it is a large-scale event or the release of new cards, it is easy.
Today, Bekas's International Illusion Club did the latter. He specially selected Doushino City, where the craze for dueling monsters is the highest, as the launch venue for the new card series, and even invited Hayato, Yugi and Jonouchi. Come stand for him.
The reason for inviting Hayato and Yugi is that both of them are stock holders of International Illusion Society. They are just here to stir up the atmosphere of the scene. It will not cause any loss to Hayato and Yugi but it will be beneficial. After all, if the stock price of International Illusion Society rises, they can The dividends you receive will also increase.
As for Jonouchi, although he was reluctant at first, Becas and Kaiba both understood Jonouchi's biggest weakness and gave him too much.
Although Becas himself has not yet appeared in the central square of the commercial street, the people waiting here are not bored at all. They must be very patient because of their love for Duel Monsters.
It must have nothing to do with the fact that there were many beauties cosplaying into various duel monsters such as [Holy Elf] and [Dark Magician Girl].
Hayato didn't know much about the others, but anyway, the guy from Jonouchi and Mr. Sugoroku who came with Yugi were already lingering in the crowd.
Honda and Kyoko didn't come together today. After all, it was Friday and school was still in session.
Yes, you heard it right, "school class", a word that sounds so far away from Hayato and the others, but it just happened.
The famous cherry-licking performing artist Hana Xin once said that students should behave like students. Don’t look at Yugi, Jonouchi, and Hayato. They all have fun outside again and again, playing various cards, but they are still just Just an ordinary, ordinary Japanese high school student.
As we all know, students should go to school, and Hayato and the others are no exception. However, because of Bekas's invitation, the school approved the vacation applications submitted by Hayato, Yugi, and Jonouchi. As for Honda, Kyoko, and Oga, just I can only unfortunately stay in school.
Hayato and Yugi, who each own 30% of the shares of International Illusion Society, did not take photos with beautiful cosplayers in the square like others. After all, Yugi has [Dark Magician Girl] in his deck, and his figure is not as good as those cosplayers. Her personality is more clingy, but Hayato thinks that the girl is more attractive than the cosplayer.
In addition, it was also because the two of them knew in advance what fancy work Becas was going to do today.
The release of new card packs can only be regarded as a means of publicity, and inviting "legendary duelists" such as Hayato, Jonouchi and Yugi to the battlefield is just to create a sufficient atmosphere. Bekas's real purpose is actually to win over children. A duel monster convention is held in Sanano City.
The so-called "Duel Monsters Convention" is not something that is mainly about competition like "Duel City". In fact, it is closer to Bekas' personal art exhibition and Duel Monsters fan exchange meeting.
For today's "Duel Monsters Convention", that guy Bekas is said to have brought out all the works of his youth that were stored in his castle, including quite a few prototypes of today's Duel Monsters cards, and even some of his past works. A copy printed from a stone tablet while traveling in Egypt can be said to have paid off.
After all, with these things and Bekas himself, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the origin of Duel Monster cards, even if there is no stone tablet recording the predecessor of "Duel Monsters" - the "Rite of Duel" in ancient Egypt. These things are precious.
The ancient "Duel Rite" is certainly precious, but without the cards that Bekas transformed into "Duel Monsters", the "Duel Rite" would not have any possibility of development, let alone become popular all over the world.
Even though there were so many people on site, they almost occupied the entire square, with not much space left. On the surface, it seemed like a mixed crowd. No one knew whether there might be some crazy guy causing trouble, but Hayato and Yugi knew very well that in the middle of the commercial street. There are a large number of security personnel stationed in the high-rise buildings on both sides of the square. If necessary, they have even obtained permission to use firearms.
In addition, even the crowd at the scene was actually mixed with Bekas's people. At least Hayato knew that the guy wearing a [Rainbow Chestnut Ball] holster who was taking a photo with Jonouchi was one of Bekas's men, as well as those who were with him. The [Dark Magician Girl] in Mr. Shuangliu's photo is actually a transvestite.
As for the other aspect of the "Duel Monsters Convention" - the so-called "Fan Exchange Meeting", in the final analysis it is still playing cards, but it is more light and entertaining, that is, the people participating are not using their own collected resources. Instead, use the card packs provided by the International Illusion Society to assemble the deck.
Even if you are a professional duelist, if you leave the deck you are good at and use an unfamiliar deck to duel, you will lose to a new duelist if you are unlucky.
After all, no one can guarantee what the card they draw will be like. It may be an invincible [Lion Wizard], or it may just be a bunch of miscellaneous fish.
In addition, for the sake of fun, in the card packs Becas provided to participants, in addition to the cards that have been released before that the public already knows, the new cards that will be released this time were also randomly put into these card packs by him. middle.
As a result, participants not only have to use cards that they are not good at, but also face unfamiliar cards with unknown effects.
It can be said to be quite a bad taste. However, Hayato, Jonouchi and Yugi all plan to participate. After all, they also think this kind of gameplay is very interesting.
The official start time was twelve o'clock at noon, and the guy from Bekas hadn't arrived at the scene yet. Hayato and Yugi, who had no intention of taking a photo with cosplayers, sat in the seats reserved for them. Yugi flipped through a brochure to kill himself. time, and Hayato looked at the vacant position of Becas.
There is a small mechanism installed under the table in front of Becas. The "Duel Monster Convention" has prepared a trophy for the final winner and stored it in the mechanism. With a little trick, the mechanism can be raised and the trophy lifted off the table. , creating the illusion of a “trophy rising”.
Placed together with the trophy is a deck of cards, which contains the latest cards to be released by Bekas this time, which means that the winner of the "Duel Monster Tournament" can directly collect them all without having to buy card packs to open cards. card.
Hayato does know what that deck of cards is. In fact, it is the [E·hero] deck that he had given to Judai in advance, but it mainly contains the four elements of waste and Lust Man, and there is also [Winglizi]. Ball] and other cards.
That trophy, on the other hand, looked inexplicably familiar to Hayato.
It has a golden base like a water bottle. The mouth of the water bottle is inlaid with a crystal clear green glass ball, surrounded by a pair of exquisitely crafted blue wings. There is a three-dimensional duel monster card sculpture in a tilted state above the glass ball.
"This trophy must be the first time I've seen it. Why does it look so familiar and full of a sense of immediacy?" Hayato muttered to himself, looking at the trophy, but he still couldn't remember where he was. I've seen this trophy.
"No, that's not the point." Hayato's eyes suddenly became sharp. "Even events like the 'Duel Monsters Tournament', which is not even a large-scale event, have trophies. Why didn't they have trophies in the Duel Kingdom?"
"You actually took a kickback, that's unforgivable, Becas!"
————Little Blue kills and disrupts Yellow ————
20XX, Florence, Italy.
As the birthplace of the European Renaissance and a world-famous cultural tourist destination, Florence used to have many tourists from all over the world, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
Even in Florence, which has many squares, Piazza della Signoria is known as "the most beautiful square in Italy". However, today, this place, surrounded by many beautiful and historic squares, is covered in smoke and fire.
Over the Municipal Square, which was darkened by thick smoke that obscured the sky, a three-headed flying dragon with a mechanical body spread its wings and soared overlooking the earth. The three heads swayed and searched in different directions, seeming to be looking for something. .
Suddenly, on the roof of a building that the dragon had passed by, a young man with a jellyfish head in red clothes used his arms to switch from the original state of hanging on the eaves to stepping on the roof with both feet. A card was drawn from the duel disk-like device he was wearing: "Yoshi, it's now! Attack [Electronic Terminator Dragon], [E·hero Gaia]!"
"Shi Potian Shocking Fist!"
The three-headed mechanical dragon flying in the air - [Electronic Terminator Dragon] noticed the missing life behind him as soon as the boy spoke out, but it was too late to change direction from the air. Before spitting out the "Eternal Evolutionary Flame" from the three heads of the Earth, [E·hero Gaia], named after the earth, shot down [Electronic Terminator Dragon] from the air with a handsome uppercut.
"Yada☆thief!"
Seeing this, the boy with a jellyfish head in red clothes waved his fist proudly, but suddenly he heard a reminder from his friend in his ear: "Judai, avoid at six o'clock."
Without thinking at all, the boy followed his friend's reminder and flipped backwards, just in time to dodge a beam of light bullets that hit his original position. The light cannon smashed the roof of the building into pieces, and the boy used the help of The shock wave left the roof where it was originally located.
"Thank you, Yubel." He thanked his friend who could not be seen by others around him. The boy raised his head and looked at the being attacking him in the air, revealing a pair of orange and green pupils.
It can be seen from the name of the boy's friends and the boy's appearance that this boy is Judai Yujo, but he is at least ten years older than the Judai Hayato knows.
Through the smoke and dust, Judai's heterochromatic eyes saw the existence hiding behind the smoke attacking him, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink. Because he discovered that the monster that had just attacked him was clearly the most famous duel monster in his era - [Blue Eyes White Dragon].
"Hey, no, why did [Blue Eyes White Dragon] also appear? Could it be that Mr. Kaiba Seto's card was also tricked?" Judai said in a very frivolous manner, but the movements of his hands were slightly different. Er was not slow, and he placed another card on the duel plate, "If you're dealing with [Blue Eyes], wouldn't it be more appropriate to use this card?"
"Come on, [E·hero Flame Winged Man]!"
The winged hero holding the dragon-headed arm flew out of Judai's duel plate. The dragon's tail behind him flicked away another "blast blast bomb" spit out by [Blue Eyes White Dragon], and the dragon head on his right arm shot out. A firebomb in return.
A golden light spot floated out of Judai's coat pocket, and a lazy man's voice came from it: "No, it doesn't feel like President Kaiba's [Blue Eyes], who was once captured by him" The [Blue Eyes] who had fought with the Duel King shouldn't be that weak, it's like he hasn't experienced much fighting."
"Hey? Could it be the fourth one [Blue Eyes White Dragon]? That's not right. I heard Mr. Hayato said that card was torn up by Mr. Seto Kaiba. You must have guessed wrong, Daitokuji Temple Teacher~"
Judai waved his hands carelessly, and beside him, an illusory figure appeared. [Yubel], who folded his arms on his chest and was much calmer and calmer than when he was sealed by Hayato, said: "In any case, the lower limit of [Blue Eyes White Dragon] is there. Even with the support of Judai you, [Yubel] E·hero Flame Winged Man] can only deal with it but cannot defeat [Blue Eyes White Dragon]."
"And as for the [Electronic Terminator Dragon], I don't think it's that easy to solve that [Electronic Terminator Dragon]."
Judai nodded: "After all, it is Caesar who is his trump card. Even if it was Yubel, you almost couldn't do anything to Caesar."
"Hmph!" Hearing Judai mention the past things again, [Yubel] snorted arrogantly and said, "Then, what should we do next?"
Judai couldn't help but straighten his face when he heard this, and said seriously: "Mr. Hayato has mentioned this situation to me before. As a duelist, if you want to reach the top, you must coordinate your whole body. "
"Not only must you have a brain full of courage and wisdom, and draw cards that are connected to the heart of the deck, but these legs are also extremely critical."
"Oh oh oh, what are you going to do with your legs, Judai-kun?" The light spot named Daitokuji said in a very expectant tone, completely unaware of [Yubel] beside him covering his head with a troubled expression. forehead.
"No, come again?"
Judai reached out and suddenly grabbed the light spot Daitokuji and stuffed it into his pocket, turned his back to the fighting [Blue Eyes White Dragon], and ran along the roof: "Of course you use your legs to escape, Daitokuji teacher!"
"Mud oil Lu~"