"Is anyone there?"
Yugen said casually.
As soon as he spoke, the Eye floated out, vigilantly darting its large eyes around.
But after a while of staring, its eyelid soon drooped down: "Maybe you're overthinking? I don't feel anything."
Yugen squinted his eyes, observed a bit more, then nodded slightly.
"Hmm, it seems they're gone for now. It looks like the other party doesn't intend to confront us yet."
"For real?"
Eye expressed skepticism.
"Even a powerful Elf like me didn't sense anything, how did you...?"
Yugen didn't respond, but instead, Thousand Gold walked by with a smile, leaving behind, "Probably because you don't have a brain."
Eye was furious, its large eyes showing anger. But it couldn't even muster a reaction for two seconds before it deflated.
"Darn it, that seems hard to refute..."
After all, in its current state, it's just an eye, literally without a brain. It was just the truth being spoken.
But clearly it was the truth, so why does it feel so inexplicably angry?
"..."
After Yugen ended his consciousness projection and left the Elf Realm for a moment, a figure appeared on the mountaintop.
"Such a vigilant guy." The person murmured to themselves, "The target of the Evil God is with this person."
A deep voice whispered in their ear: "Can you handle it?"
The figure chuckled.
"Don't worry. No matter how extraordinary, at the end of the day, he's just a man."
Saying this, they licked their lips, a dangerous glint flashing in their eyes.
...
...
The next evening, Yugen sat in the Yellow Dormitory cafeteria, reading the latest investigation report sent by the Kaiba Group's reconnaissance team to the island, all while having a simple dinner.
"This Yubel really knows how to hide, huh." Yugen muttered.
He thought the other party hadn't left the island, but the investigation had been going on for two days with no progress.
It even made him start to question the professional ability of the reconnaissance team.
As he was reading the report, suddenly a tray was placed in front of him.
"Mind if I sit here?"
Yugen looked up to see a girl with exquisite features like a painting, her facial features pronounced, and her skin delicate and smooth like creamy jade.
A girl with this level of beauty approaching would probably make many boys of a youthful age instinctively nervous, or even flattered.
But Yugen said expressionlessly: "I mind."
The girl seemed taken aback.
She quickly laughed it off and sat down anyway: "You really like to joke, Lord Yugen."
Yugen raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
Whether intentionally or not, when she sat down, she seemed to almost place a weapon on the table, appearing to be deliberately flaunting her abundant talent, but the visual effect was truly striking.
Yugen asked plainly: "What's the matter?"
"Nothing much, just wanted to get to know you." The girl seemed to have a ripple of emotion in her eyes, "You know, everyone wants to know you."
"Mm, but I don't want to know you."
Yugen replied.
The girl seemed taken aback again.
She then gave a slightly awkward but polite laugh.
"Aha, aha... let's switch topics then."
The girl blinked, her bright eyes seeming to speak.
"So, Lord Yugen... do you like seafood?"
This time, before Yugen could even say anything, someone had already run out of patience.
The silver-haired, school-uniformed Silent Magician quietly appeared behind the person, raising her hand, with white light gathering into a Magic Staff in her hand.
She swung the staff down onto the girl's head.
The girl let out a scream, followed by a burst of Demonic Qi from her entire body. The purple light, like smoke, gathered into a humanoid form in mid-air, transforming into the image of a tall and slender, gold-and-silver adorned Queen.
She clutched her head, angrily saying: "How rude!"
Silent glared at her, holding the staff horizontally in front of her, shielding Yugen.
At this moment, the cafeteria was almost empty, but the occasional passing students cast stunned glances over.
"Sorry, but having an Elf try to disguise and approach me isn't a very good plan." Yugen chuckled lightly, "I've seen quite a few Elves, I'm pretty experienced."
Silent nodded repeatedly in agreement.
"So... what brings you here?"
The Queen snorted arrogantly.
"For that nameless Elf." She said coldly, "The Evil God needs it."
"Me?"
Eye emerged, astonished.
"Am I really that popular?"
Yugen also frowned: "Are you with the Descent Sect? Does the Descent Sect have Elf members?"
This surprised him. He thought it was just a bunch of cultists.
"The followers of the Evil God are everywhere. Since you've seen through my disguise, there's nothing to say, let's settle this the traditional way."
She extended her hand, golden light spots gathering on her arm, quickly forming a Duel Disc.
"Using cards to speak, huh?" Yugen smiled and nodded, "Indeed, it's the way of the Duelist. Alright."
Saying this, he stood up from the table.
"Duel!" x2
[Yugen, LP4000]
[Queen, LP4000]
"I'll go first, draw!"
Her Majesty drew a card, then almost immediately revealed her true form.
"Summon 'Charming Queen LV3'!"
The girl summoned from the card looked identical to her, fair-skinned and beautiful, just a bit younger than the Duelist herself, and less exaggerated in terms of her weaponry.
[Charming Queen LV3, Attack Power 500]
Yugen suddenly realized: "You're the Charming Queen."
Her Majesty puffed her chest proudly: "Precisely, the genuine article."
Yugen nodded.
He remembered this series. Actually, these cards were released as Physical Cards very early, but when they first appeared, they were quite obscure and not many people knew about them.
The reason Yugen remembered them was because, years later, this deck actually made an appearance in the anime and received a significant boost.
In the sixth installment of the anime, "Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains," the executive at the company SOL, which operates the virtual world of online dueling, "Queen," used this deck. And her deck featured exclusive Magic Cards not found in Physical Cards back then, even adding link monsters to update the deck for modern times.
"Set one card face-down, turn end." said the Queen.
"So you're the Queen's Elf, no wonder you want to 'charm' me; that's your innate ability, right?" Yugen smiled.
The Queen huffed heavily, feeling somewhat defeated that her proud ability didn't work.
Could it be that this man has only cards in his head, making him immune to her charming ability?
"My turn, draw."
Yugen said.
"Well, first up, this card...
Magic Card 'Dark Realm Trade'."
"Dark Realm?" The Queen's heart skipped a beat, "That's the Dark Realm under the Overlord?"