Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 158

Chapter 158 - 158 – You Bastard

"Duel!" x2

[Kira, LP 4000]

[Jinzo, LP 4000]

"I'll go first. Draw," Kira said, taking the first turn. "I play the Spell Card 'Foolish Burial' to send a monster from my deck to the graveyard.

I'll send—"

He pulled out the monster card that appeared from his deck.

"'Sinister Serpent' to the grave."

The spectators quickly guessed what kind of deck he was using.

"Sinister Serpent, so it's that Abyss Soldier-based strategy," Chumley mused, "I remember it's a pretty... well, a pretty nasty deck."

"Yeah, what kind of duel will Kira give us this time?" Jaden was excited.

Syrus: "Am I the only one who finds it scary to duel a spirit looking for sacrifices...?"

"..."

Kira: "I set one monster in face-down defense position, set a card, and end my turn."

Jinzo: "My turn, draw."

Jinzo didn't use a duel disk—giant card projections appeared behind him whenever he played cards.

With a wave of his arm, arcs of electricity crackled and a new card appeared out of thin air.

"I play the Spell Card 'Graceful Charity'—draw three cards, discard two."

Jinzo's voice was low and guttural.

"One of the cards I just discarded is 'Jinzo – Returner'. When this card is sent to the graveyard, Special Summon 'Jinzo' from my graveyard!"

In the GX anime, Returner's effect had no drawback, but in the real card game, the revived Jinzo would be destroyed at the end phase.

But this spirit, naturally, was using the anime version—no such restriction.

Syrus and Chumley exclaimed: "It's coming out already!?"

"Exactly!"

Jinzo's cold, raspy voice even had a hint of excitement.

"The other card I discarded was myself! With Jinzo – Returner's effect, I can use this duel to revive myself!"

He shouted eagerly. His ghostly, half-transparent body vanished. A second later, his image reappeared in the monster zone, slowly gaining solid form.

"Finally! The feeling of revival!"

He was elated.

Of course, it wasn't a full resurrection—just a temporary materialization under duel rules.

But even so, this taste of life made him even more determined to be revived.

"I activate my set card—Continuous Trap: Royal Oppression!" Kira flipped his back row. "While this card is on the field, either player can pay 800 LP to negate and destroy a Special Summon or a card effect that would Special Summon a monster!"

Jinzo: "NANI!?"

Royal Oppression—a forbidden card in modern Yu-Gi-Oh! Like Rivalry of Warlords, it's a card that makes modern players recoil, but in its early days, it was largely ignored.

You can see this from the ban list. As an ancient card, Oppression didn't even get semi-limited until the Synchro era and only became forbidden in the Xyz era.

It shows how slow the early game was. Plus, since both players can use it by paying 800 LP, it's a double-edged sword—not so easy to use.

Only when the meta shifted toward Special Summoning did players start to hate it with a passion.

"So I pay 800 LP," Kira said, "to negate Jinzo – Returner's Special Summon effect!"

[Kira, LP 4000 → 3200]

"Ugh!"

Jinzo, hit by Royal Oppression, was zapped away as soon as he appeared, his form disintegrating.

A moment later, his ghostly image flickered back to the duelist area.