Such a classic “boy meets girl” scene left Elsie completely stunned.
She could only stare blankly at the spirit she had summoned, mouth agape, unable to say a single word.
On the other side, Yugi, who had been inexplicably summoned here, was just as confused————- Who am I?
Where am I?
Who is this little girl?
She kind of looks like Little Blue…?
Of course, Yugi also felt that the scene looked strangely familiar, so he struck a pose and blurted out the line “Are you my master?”
But because Elsie was completely frozen, unable to get a single word out for a long while, Yugi assumed his chuunibyou-style action had left her speechless.
His face flushed red as he prepared to speak…
only to see her eyelids flutter and then she collapsed.
The summoning circle had completely drained all of Elsie’s mental power.
The little girl now lay sprawled on the grass in a pose that screamed “My life is complete”, drooling slightly at the corners of her mouth.
“Hey!
Don’t sleep!
Explain what’s going on!”
Yugi, utterly exasperated, grabbed what he assumed was Little Blue’s shoulders and shook her.
She didn’t wake, but then a series of intense voices rang out nearby.
“Ooooooh——–!”
A blonde, mature woman in a bright red qipao came running at full speed, kicking up clouds of dust.
With a perfect Rider Kick, she leapt high and aimed a kick straight at Yugi’s face: “Don’t you dare bully Elsie!”
“Woah!”
Yugi was stunned.
First, he didn’t expect this blonde woman to be so agile, she could easily match the athletes he knew.
Second, she made no effort to hide herself; the angle of the Rider Kick let him see everything under her qipao.
Yep, it was the bold underwear fitting her mature, confident persona.
Just as he crossed his arms in front of him, preparing to endure the kick with his years of experience getting beaten in card shops, a dazzling burst of light suddenly erupted from his body, like a Shinra Tensei.
It sent the blonde woman flying, landing face-first with the exaggerated flair of a mischievous player eliminated from a game.
“What the…?”
Yugi didn’t even have time to react when the blonde beauty looked at him in complete shock.
“Are you kidding?
You’re a duel spirit?”
“Who?
What duel spirit?”
Still confused, Yugi looked around.
The blonde woman, however, now wore a look of complete understanding and suddenly laughed heartily.
“I see now.
That little girl, Elsie, really is incredible.”
Her proud expression was as if her own daughter had just received top exam results.
But Yugi, frustrated that no one was answering his questions and almost getting attacked, pinched his fingers together, making a dramatic “crack, crack” motion.
“Is there anyone…
who can actually listen to me!”
As he shouted in frustration, dark-gold light flared dramatically.
In midair, a massive, mysterious, and majestic figure began to faintly take shape.
“<Dark Magician>?”
Both the blonde woman and Yugi spoke simultaneously, visibly shocked.
The blonde woman reacted first, hoisting Elsie and pulling Yugi’s hand: “Come on!
That rainbow glow before was already eye-catching.
Now more people will be attracted.”
…………………
Half an hour later, in a hotel room near DM Academy, the blonde woman laughed heartily, patting Yugi on the shoulder.
“I really didn’t expect that little girl to turn the tide at the last moment.
I’m so impressed, truly.”
“What about my position?” Yugi rolled his eyes, his shoulders tingling from being patted.
After the recent explanation, he had a rough understanding of the situation: in short, because of the meme posts he made on the forum, he had now transmigrated.
Honestly, ending up in the real Yu-Gi-Oh!
world, where monsters are summoned with Duel Disks, wasn’t exactly a loss, but why was his identity not a duelist, but a duel spirit?!
He could play cards, sure, but he couldn’t fight!
In the card shop, he was always the one getting beaten up.
As for this blonde mature woman, she was Jounouchi Mai, Elsie’s childhood friend who often fed Elsie when the latter went hungry due to her poor family circumstances.
“I think there might be a bit of a misunderstanding between us.” Yugi said carefully, filling his stomach with the snacks Mai had brought.
“Before coming to this world, I was 100% human, not a duel spirit.”
“Ah, of course, of course.” Mai replied with a knowing expression.
“There are many humanoid spirits with strong self-awareness who don’t even know the dueling world exists and think their own world is the only one.
But just from that burst of power you just showed, and the rainbow glow that appeared during the summon, you’re undoubtedly a genuine duel spirit.
“If you still don’t believe it, there will be a duel spirit detection during tomorrow’s exam.
You’ll see as soon as you step into the machine.”
“Hmm…
so this is my cheat?
Or do all beings summoned through a duel spirit summoning circle automatically gain duel spirit powers?”
Yugi still didn’t dare confirm it, but one thing had become a fixed fact: he had become the spirit of the girl named Elsie.
What was that phrase again?
Oh no, I became a Boss Monster.
“By the way…
is this world really the same as the one in the anime?
Why does it all feel so…
weird?”
Since the entrance exam was tomorrow, Jounouchi Mai left early to rest.
In the room, Yugi sat by the window, gazing at the bright moonlight, and let out a sigh.
Normally, transmigrating into another world would be exciting, but for some reason, he felt strangely drained.
And the culprit behind this feeling was undoubtedly…
He turned his head helplessly toward the bed, where the little figure resembling Little Blue slept soundly, drooling a bit.
According to Mai, this was because Elsie’s spirit had overexerted herself and simply couldn’t stay awake, she wasn’t intentionally ignoring her spirit.
But from start to finish, the girl exuded an aura of utter incompetence, which made Yugi feel a touch pessimistic about his new life in this world.
“Well, first, let’s take a look at her deck.”
Normally, touching someone else’s cards is considered very rude.
Duelists treat their cards as precious, and even though Yugi’s card-playing was a bit…
unconventional, he still understood etiquette, he never poked at opponents’ cards or flipped them without permission.
But now he was Elsie’s duel spirit.
According to Mai, not only could he naturally stand behind her during duels and give pointers, he could also appear in the duel himself to attack opposing monsters, or even fuse with Elsie to boost her spirit and enhance her card plays.
A strong spirit could provide a huge advantage to a duelist.
With that justification, he naturally began examining Elsie’s deck.
After all, the girl seemed completely unreliable.
Even if he could act as her spirit, passing the practical portion of the entrance exam tomorrow would be tough for her.
As it turned out, Yugi’s concern was correct.
“What a terrible deck.”
Ten minutes later, he was laughing in frustration.
Sure, it was an exam for freshmen, so a slightly weaker environment could be forgiven, but a deck with almost no trap cards?
Really, with the surname Mutou, this is your deck?
It wasn’t that Elsie didn’t have trap cards.
Being from the Mutou family, even a starving camel is bigger than a horse, she actually owned plenty of valuable cards, but just hadn’t included them in her deck.
“No way, I have to properly teach this little girl…” Yugi thought, and without hesitation, began performing a full “DNA surgery” on Elsie’s deck, mostly swapping in trap cards.
“She needs to understand that Yu-Gi-Oh!
is a cruel game, and that half-measures just won’t cut it.”