Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 289

Chapter 289: Chapter 288: Artifacts (Bonus)

Yata-Garasu, at first glance, looks like a weakling with only 200 attack points. Most newcomers are likely to wonder, "How did this thing end up rotting away in the shadow realm among all those god cards?"

But that’s only because they don’t know about the terrifying combo called "Yata Lock."

In fact, what Kira used this time was a substitute. The original Yata Lock didn’t use Demise and the Sky Scourge, but rather the most powerful weapon of the Chaos deck before its effect was nerfed—Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, once one of the most broken cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! history.

Chaos Emperor Dragon can be Special Summoned just by banishing a Light and a Dark monster from your graveyard—a much easier requirement than Sky Scourge Norleras. And it, too, has the effect of paying 1000 Life Points to send all cards in both players’ hands and on the field to the graveyard.

So, just like Kira demonstrated, if you put together "Chaos Emperor Dragon" and "Sangan," you use the Emperor Dragon to clear all cards from both hands and fields, then Sangan searches for Yata-Garasu.

After that, your opponent falls into the nightmare cycle of being repeatedly attacked directly by Yata-Garasu—never able to reach their own Draw Phase ever again.

Back in the prime of the Chaos era, the whole meta was basically dominated by Yata Lock. Once the combo was set up, your fate was to be pecked to death by Yata-Garasu.

Basically, the moment Yata-Garasu’s effect goes through, you might as well start warming up for a round of shadow boxing.

The spirits and soldiers guarding the tomb watched the duel end from the back row. Someone seemed to want to step forward and say something, yet no one spoke for a long time.

The boss lost.

The Gravekeeper’s Chief was undoubtedly their leader, the strongest among them. So far, only one person who’d taken the trial of dueling had ever won.

But even that person seemed different from today.

How to describe him?

There was a sense of calmness. At first glance, it looked like the Chief might have had a chance, but after the duel ended, it felt like that wasn’t really the case.

More importantly, after the sacred ritual, some people felt as though the opponent had somehow quietly seized the high ground—and what he said even made some sense.

See, even the Chief ended up defecting to the other side halfway through the duel, didn’t he?

The Chief stood up and let out a long sigh.

"...Alright, I lost."

He got up, expressionless, looking at Kira.

"As agreed, you may leave this place. That is your reward."

Just like in the original story, this was a shadow duel, but not a high-level one. Although the Chief threatened to turn the loser into a mummy, the duel itself wasn’t fatal.

In fact, compared to the big shots in DM and the late-game villains in GX, the spirits’ power in these ruins wasn’t that strong—probably mid-tier compared to today’s dark duelists.

So even if the Gravekeepers decided to play dirty and start a brawl instead of a duel, Kira’s group could still muscle their way through.

The Chief had realized this during the duel. Plus, since he’d lost, starting trouble now would just backfire.

However, after giving the pass, he saw the boy didn’t leave, just kept looking at him with that half-smiling expression.

The Chief paused, then remembered something.

There was something else agreed to before the duel...

He took a deep breath, face dark, and stepped forward to hand over a deck.

A bet is a bet; a ritual needs its rules. He’d agreed to the terms and lost, so he had nothing more to say.

Kira accepted it, smiling and nodding. "That was a great duel. If we get another chance, let’s duel again and improve together."

The Chief’s face twitched.

Please, just don’t come back!

For a moment, the Chief even considered packing up the entire valley and fleeing in the night.

Because if this guy really came again, by tradition, he’d have to accept the challenge and duel with his deck.

That would basically make him the daily NPC for people to farm for experience.

Just thinking about it made the Chief feel cold inside. Having to duel this guy every day? How could he live like this?

For the first time in his life, he suddenly felt like this valley he guarded had become his own prison.

"Oh, right." Kira slapped his forehead as if remembering something. "Don’t you guys have...some special trinkets or something?"

"Just those with unique uses—a little evil, a little unusual."

Chief: "?"

His first reaction was, "We’re proper Gravekeepers—are you looking for that kind of thing here?"

But then he suddenly remembered something.

Oh right, almost forgot the rules.

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