Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Chapter 201: The Invincible Marionette

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Kira couldn’t help but size up the person in front of him.

Now that he thought about it, though the other party was wrapped up tightly and even had his face covered, there was something a bit robotic about his appearance.

Kaiba’s AI?

He quickly recalled the AI at Kaiba Land that had been beaten until its system crashed.

The other party seemed to guess what he was thinking and snorted arrogantly. "Don’t compare me to those inferior computers from KaibaCorp.

At best, those are just dueling programs, crude imitations of duelists’ tactics. They don’t have anything you could call a heart!

But we are different. We’re not clones; we were designed with Seto Kaiba as the prototype, analyzing his personality, tactics, and experience, but on that basis, we evolved and developed our self-awareness.

With each endless cycle of evolution and updates, we grow stronger and more exceptional every time!"

He paused here, his mind flashing to a certain teammate who seemed to have only learned how to be arrogant but had a negative IQ.

So his tone weakened a bit: "Well, overall, we do get better, I guess."

Kira: "So where’s your Blue-Eyes?"

Alpha froze.

Then he said gloomily, "I told you, I’m not Seto Kaiba. I was only designed with him as a template. I have my tactics."

Kira: "So, your Blue-Eyes?"

"I said, I’m not Kaiba! Are you deaf? Why do you keep asking about Blue-Eyes, goddamn it!" Alpha snapped.

"No need to be embarrassed if you don’t have one." Kira shrugged.

Alpha: "!!!"

Still, the fact that this was an AI based on Kaiba was a bit surprising to Kira. And from the way he talked, it sounded like there were more than one of them.

He recalled that Maximillion Pegasus had also said he suspected the ones hacking KaibaCorp and Industrial Illusions were some unknown AIs.

It seemed likely that these were the AIs he was talking about.

In that case, the Father this guy mentioned was probably their creator—and maybe the mastermind behind the scenes.

But if they were AIs, how come they didn’t use data cards like the AI at Kaiba Land?

Thinking back to theories he’d heard when talking with Yako and Gekko, Kira guessed that maybe data cards would limit the destiny power.

With self-aware AI, perhaps they could also gain the destiny power of real duelists. But Duel Monster cards were inherently extraordinary; if you only simulate data and don’t use real cards, it might have an effect.

"...My turn. Draw."

You couldn’t just hang around thinking in a duel, so Kira focused back on the game.

"Standby Phase, ’Nightmare Mirage’ effect," Alpha said. "I draw cards until I have four in hand."

He refilled his hand to four.

"Activate set card." Kira triggered his back row. "Continuous Trap ’Powerful Rebirth.’

Special Summon a Level 4 or lower monster from the graveyard, raise its level by 1, and increase its ATK by 100."

He pulled a card from the graveyard slot on his duel disk.

"I revive this card from my graveyard—

—Mythical Beast Cerberus!"

[Mythical Beast Cerberus, ATK 1400 → 1500]

"Since it was Special Summoned from the graveyard, it won’t be negated by ’Ruins of the Divine Dragon Lords.’"

As Kira spoke, he played another Spell.

"Spell Card ’Reinforcement of the Army.’ Add a Level 4 or lower Warrior from deck to hand. I add Level 4 ’Gearfried the Iron Knight’ to my hand."

Kira drew the monster from his deck.

"Then I activate ’Card of Burial Magic.’ Banish three Spell cards—’Reinforcement of the Army,’ ’Card Destruction,’ and the Spell ’Hidden Armory’ I discarded by hand—to draw two cards." (original card effect)

Kira drew two cards.

"Then I Normal Summon ’Gearfried the Iron Knight!’"

[Gearfried the Iron Knight, ATK 1800]

Alpha said in a low voice, "No matter how many weak monsters you summon—"

But Kira cut him off before he could finish: "You claim you’re an AI modeled after Kaiba, but your sense for how a duel will go seems to be less than a fraction of his."

"What did you say?" Alpha snapped.

"Ah, sorry, just talking to myself. You can ignore me."

Kira smiled and played the card he searched last turn.

"I activate the Equip Spell ’Butterfly Dagger – Elma’ and equip it to ’Gearfried the Iron Knight’ for 300 extra ATK," Kira said. "But Gearfried’s effect: Any Equip Card attached to him is destroyed instantly, so ’Butterfly Dagger – Elma’ is destroyed."

"But at that moment, ’Mythical Beast Cerberus’ effect: Each time a Spell Card is activated, it gains a Spell Counter, and its ATK increases by 500 times the number of counters."

[Mythical Beast Cerberus, ATK 1500 → 2000]

"Then, ’Butterfly Dagger – Elma’ returns to my hand when destroyed by its effect.

So, I equip ’Butterfly Dagger – Elma’ again to Gearfried."

Now Alpha finally reacted, taking two steps back in shock.

"This is...an infinite LOOP!?"

"That’s right. As long as I keep activating Butterfly Dagger, I can keep looping infinitely, and Cerberus gains 500 ATK each time. After infinite loops, its ATK becomes..."

Cerberus’s massive image dissolved into light, replaced by a sinister spellcaster, fingers dancing with marionette strings attached to a dual-bladed puppet. freewebnσvel.cøm