Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 203

Chapter 203: Chapter 203: The Biggest Fireball Ever

[bonus]

After ending his turn, Alpha looked at Kira for a long moment.

Then suddenly asked, "With your skills, you’d be a top duelist even in today’s world. Why..."

He paused, lowering his voice.

"...Why are you helping that Kaiba Seto?"

Kira met his gaze, expressionless.

"You guys seem to have misunderstood something," Kira said calmly. "I’m not helping Kaiba Seto. Like I’ve told many people, I’m not even that close to him.

But I don’t see any reason to join you, either."

Alpha was silent for a moment, then said, "Kaiba Seto isn’t what most of you think he is."

Kira: "Oh? What is he, then?"

"Great duelist, trailblazer...maybe those are true, but that’s not all," Alpha said coldly. "Seto Kaiba is a criminal, the most vicious and evil in history.

He wasn’t even worthy of the name ’Kaiba’ at first—he was worthless.

He was dragged up from the depths of hell, from a forgotten world, given a noble surname, an identity, everything people dream of.

But how did he repay the one who gave him that, taught him to read, and gave him all those resources? He took everything from that man, drove him to despair and death, and then took over KaibaCorp for himself.

And as he climbed to the top, he stepped over countless corpses—"

"Yeah, I know." Kira nodded.

Alpha was cut off.

"You know?"

"Of course, isn’t that common knowledge?" Kira shrugged.

A kid from an orphanage rising to this level—no one would believe he never used any dirty tricks or never got his hands dirty.

No one but Kaiba himself knows how much he schemed and how dark his path was.

"You know?" Alpha repeated. "You know, and you don’t care?"

"Yeah," Kira said quietly. "But what’s it got to do with me? Or rather, at least to me, Kaiba Seto made the world a better place."

Seto and Gozaburo both had their agendas when they first met; in the end, Gozaburo lost—simple as that. Seto’s ruthless climb might mean he isn’t a pure good guy, but at least he’s better than Gozaburo.

"When he was in the orphanage, Seto Kaiba made a promise with his brother: they’d build a paradise where everyone in the world could be happy.

Maybe he’s ruthless, maybe he’s done things even he’s not proud of. But seeing him now, as a person with power, I can see he hasn’t forgotten where he started.

Even now, even after going through hell, that dream hasn’t changed."

Kira spoke calmly.

"I just see someone trying to make the world better."

Alpha gritted his teeth: "You—"

"My turn, draw." Kira interrupted. "Set a card.

Then I activate the ’Card of Demise.’ Draw until I have five cards in hand." (anime effect)

"Kaiba’s card," Alpha said coldly. "But it has a drawback."

Uh, right, there’s a drawback...

So Kira put on a pained expression: "But after five turns, I have to discard my entire hand."

He thought to himself: If you hadn’t reminded me, I’d have forgotten about the risk.

Alpha looked at the card Kira had just set.

That must be "Butterfly Dagger – Elma," the core of his Gearfried combo.

But no matter, he had a counter.

Kira: "I Normal Summon ’Fire Princess.’"

[Fire Princess, ATK 1500]

"Next, activate Continuous Spell ’Morale Boost.’ While this card is face-up, whenever a player equips an Equip Spell to a monster, that player gains 1000 LP. And whenever an Equip Spell leaves the field, that player takes 1000 damage."

Alpha: "Every time you equip, you—wait! Don’t tell me—!"

"That’s right, I activate Equip Spell ’Butterfly Dagger – Elma’ to Gearfried. This moment, I gain 1000 LP because of ’Morale Boost.’"

[Kira, LP 2800 → LP 3800]

"Then, at this moment, the ’Fire Princess’ effect activates. Whenever I gain LP, you take 500 damage."

The fire girl swung her staff, firing a fireball at Alpha.

"Ugh—!"

[Alpha, LP 5000 → LP 4500]

"Then, because of Gearfried’s effect, Butterfly Dagger is destroyed. Because an Equip Spell left the field, ’Morale Boost’ makes me take 1000 damage."

[Kira, LP 3800 → LP 2800]

"But Butterfly Dagger returns to my hand. Then I equip it again."

"Another infinite loop...!" Alpha gritted his teeth.

As he expected.

Each time, Morale Boost heals Kira, triggering Fire Princess’s effect to burn Alpha. Then Butterfly Dagger returns to hand...

Another infinite burn loop!

Alpha felt a chill.

What a broken combo!

Even if he’d managed to get infinite LP last turn with Magic Cylinder, he’d still eventually be burned out by this.