After saying goodbye to Tenjo Hikari, Ansueeru walked towards the final Resurrection Area. The second resurrection race was a "battle royale," where only one out of dozens advanced, and Ansueeru didn't have the confidence to be in the top eight, so after blessing Tenjo Hikari, he chose to leave.
Next time, it's uncertain when they'll meet again.
As the last match of the second round, after Tenjo Hikari's duel ended, Kaiba Company hurriedly started loading the final equipment to ensure the new stage setup would be completed by tomorrow.
Back in the preparation hall, Tenjo Hikari was still thinking about the matter of the Keeper of Dragon Magic.
He hadn't expected that he would receive news of the Keeper of Dragon Magic in such a manner.
It's an extremely useful card for him. Although its effect prevents him from Special Summoning monsters other than Fusion Monsters from the Extra Deck during the turn it's activated, meaning no Muddy Mudragon, this actually doesn't greatly affect Tenjo Hikari's deck construction.
Aside from that, its two effects are very useful.
The first effect allows him to discard a Hand Card during the turn he Summons·Special Summons to add a Normal Spell Card with "Polymerization" from the Deck to the Hand Card!
A weakened big plant search range that cannot search Equip, Continuous, Quick-Play, or Field Spell Cards, and can't grab Future Fusion or Fusion Recovery Mechanisms that Tenjo Hikari finds more useful. Nor can it retrieve "Super Polymerization" at critical moments like the big plant.
But still, it's a means to search with just a Normal Summon, much more convenient than summoning the big plant and then activating its effect.
Moreover, it can reveal a Fusion Monster from the Extra Deck and Special Summon a Fusion Material Monster mentioned in its card name from the Graveyard in Face-down Position.
Searching a Deck Fusion and then activating and recovering can be said to be extremely compatible with Tenjo Hikari's deck and strategy.
More importantly.
Ansueeru also told Tenjo Hikari.
Pegasus plans to reference Tenjo Hikari's image when creating cards—unexpectedly, one day, he too would be illustrated on a card like the original characters!
This makes Tenjo Hikari quite happy.
After all, such opportunities are rare.
Tenjo Hikari returned to the waiting hall, greeting several friends, with Mitsuzawa Daichi marveling at Tenjo Hikari's understanding of duel rules, and Manjome praising his consecutive Prism Crystals.
Everyone was very aware of the purpose behind Tenjo Hikari's previous duel displays.
After completing this round of duels, the next duel will again start with the first duelist of each round.
And the next duel, well, it's confirmed.
First, of course, is the second round's first duel, between Manjome Jun and Gloria.
The second person is...
Tenjouin Asuka.
"The next opponent... Tenjouin-san?" Although he's known for a while who his opponent is, Manjome has just started to consider his opponent.
He and Asuka are the "male and female representatives" of their Blue Academy class.
Generally speaking, only Blue Academy does this.
Because other academies don't have female students, only Blue Academy has a designated girls' dormitory.
Thus, even though Serena wears a red uniform, she ends up resting in Blue Dormitory.
However, this leads to a new question.
Who exactly is number one in Blue Academy?
In the session before last, there was Caesar Ryo, so Blue Academy's number one was undoubtedly Caesar. The previous session was relatively balanced, so after Fubuki awoke and joined as a second-year student, he was the chief and number one.
But for Tenjo Hikari's class, until now, no standard has been set.
Because Blue Academy has never really determined who is number one.
Manjome has never accepted the Blue Academy's "Dimension Travel" privileges.
For one thing, Manjome relied on Kaiba Company and Manjome Group, having plenty of opportunities for dimension adventures, Judai loves dragging him around, and he truly doesn't want to occupy the chance that his classmates worked hard to get.
Moreover, Blue Academy's Dimension Gate energy is greater than Red and Yellow, so there's no need to deliberately divide who is first.
But now things are different.
Even though he personally hasn't dealt with it, others will look at this duel to determine who is the chief of Blue Academy.
"Is it Manjome and Asuka?" Mitsuzawa Daichi pondered beside him.
He's still in this hall because he won his previous duel.
If he wins his next duel, based on the duel rounds, he will face the winner between Manjome and Asuka.
Personally, he really wants to battle Asuka.
Because during the Friendship Cup in the S Dimension, he lost in a duel against Asuka, and as a Duelist, he certainly wants to rally and settle the score.
However, if the opponent is Manjome...
"Sigh—" While he was pondering, beside him, Tenjouin Fubuki looked at the battle chart, sighing, "Looks like Asuka will stop here."
Huh?
Mitsuzawa Daichi glanced at Fubuki, just about to speak, when Fubuki suddenly produced a violin from somewhere and gently played it: "But don't be disheartened, Asuka~~maybe you'll reunite with me in the resurrection race~"
Mitsuzawa Daichi remained silent.