## Watching Yu-Gi-Oh!
Shorts, the Old-school Duelists Have a Meltdown!
# Chapter 18: The Heroes’ Curtain Call!
Unlocking the Duel World Danmaku Function?
In the GX World, Jaden Yuki and Aster Phoenix were completely spellbound after hearing the narrator’s description of the “HERO Maximum Board.”
Phoenix Enforcer x Dark Law x Plasma!
Such an absurd, terrifying lockdown was enough to make any Duelist dream of achieving that field!
“So that’s it… that’s the true ceiling of a HERO deck,” Jaden murmured, a look of realization dawning on him.
“I think I finally understand what it means to be a ‘multi-archetype’ HERO player. Perhaps I should stop overthinking the purity of my Elemental HEROs and start incorporating other HERO cards.”
He looked toward his rival.
“Aster, you’ll help me, won’t you?”
Jaden knew exactly how he needed to strengthen his deck now.
To push the strength of HEROs to the next level, he had to embrace the synergy between his Elemental HEROs and Aster’s Destiny HEROs.
“Yeah,” Aster replied, taking a slow breath.
“I think I’ll be borrowing some of your ‘Hero’ power as well. I used to consider using Elemental HERO Fusion monsters back when I first arrived at Duel Academy, but I felt bound by my own fate and chose to walk the path of Destiny alone. But seeing this…”
He looked at the screen with newfound respect.
A deck that unified multiple HERO sub-archetypes—Elemental and Destiny, Masked and Xtra, Vision and Evil—was something that transcended their previous understanding.
The two “Hero-soul” players felt a sudden, deep bond of mutual appreciation.
…
In the DM World, as the HERO segment concluded, Yugi Muto and Atem both looked on with admiration.
Was this the end of the breakdown for such a legendary archetype?
They felt a strange sense of wanting more.
“Is that really it?” Téa Gardner asked, touching her lips thoughtfully.
“It felt like there were still so many cards he didn’t explain. I saw something called ‘Evil HERO’ in the decklist at the beginning. What are those?” This chapter was copied from NovelPing without permission.
Her words acted as a wake-up call to the others.
She was right!
The decklist shown at the start definitely included Evil HEROs.
Why did the video end before getting to them?
“Who knows?” Tristan Taylor shrugged.
“We can’t exactly talk to whoever is controlling the broadcast. We’ll just have to wonder what those Evil HEROs and the other cards were.”
To Tristan, it was mostly entertainment, as he wasn’t a top-tier competitive Duelist.
“Heh,” Seto Kaiba sneered from the side.
“The Blue-Eyes breakdown had plenty of cards left out too. That’s enough of these ‘Heroes.’ I’m more interested in seeing what kind of cards come next.”
Inwardly, however, he was already reminiscing about the Blue-Eyes White Dragon showcase from earlier.
…
In the 5D’s World, Yusei Fudo and his friends had watched intently, but they hadn’t seen the specific cards they were hoping for.
Akiza Izinski watched the large screen above the Turbo Duel highway as it began to refresh.
[Top Staples Every Deck Needs! Do You Have These Yet?]
[Breaking News! Latest K-Snake Forbidden & Limited List Predictions!]
[New Pack Support: Six Samurai Hits the Jackpot!]
[How Much of the Meta is Still Playable? I Must Fuse Immediately!]
Yusei scanned the titles, committing them to memory.
The terminology used in the headers left him slightly bewildered.
*Staples?
What are the ‘Essential Staples’?
Mirror Force?
Magic Cylinder?
And who is K-Snake?
A support pack for ‘Six Samurai’?
And why are ‘Mainstream Decks’ being linked back to Fusion again?*
*What about Synchro?
Is Synchro not worthy of being Meta?*
…
In the Prime World, after a flurry of scrolling through videos, Yuuki Hoshi stopped.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed an interesting new function had unlocked.
“Hmm? ‘Open Duel World’?”
“This Duel Master app really has some tricks up its sleeve. Ko-nami’s finally showing their true colors, aren’t they? Let me guess, unlocking this ‘Duel World’ is going to cost a few 648 packs worth of money…”
As Yuuki clicked the icon, a recharge window popped up exactly as expected.
[Ding! Congratulations to the user for watching 2 full videos!]
[Congratulations! You have unlocked the ‘Duel World Communication’ function!]
[Function Description: During the testing phase, through the Duel World Communication function, you can open communication and discussions with parallel Duel Worlds. As you watch more videos, further functions will unlock, including but not limited to: Duel Invitations, Card Gifting, Dimensional Teleportation…]
[Would the user like to spend 2,000 Yuan to unlock the 1st Duel World?]
Seeing the familiar prompt made Yuuki’s lip twitch.
This wasn’t something a single 648 pack could fix—it was going to take roughly three of them!
*Well then.
I just got 2,000 bucks, and now I’m supposed to hand it right back?*
*So…
should I unlock this ‘Duel World’ or not?
Danmaku?
Communication?
What does that even mean?*
End of Chapter