KC Cup, one of the world's largest duel invitation tournaments hosted by Kaiba Company, is generally scheduled during the annual carnival celebration at Kaiba Land.
Top players from around the world gather to participate in the competition, but only duelist invited by the organizers can join.
Receiving an invitation letter itself is a high recognition of a duelist's strength. Many people keenly preserve the invitation letter as a part of their dueling career glory even if they cannot achieve rankings.
To know, KC Cup is the tournament hosted by Kaiba Seto, and his standards for judging duelists are so harsh they can be described as outrageous. After all, it's widely known that the legendary Dice War God, Jonouchi Katsuya, was deemed by him as "a talentless normal monster," showing his high standards.
So those duelists who pass President Kaiba's review to participate are certainly not weak.
At nine in the morning, Youyu and others arrived at Kaiba Land.
"Yu Yu!"
Standing at the doorway in a white suit was Mokuba, welcoming them.
He didn't forget to acknowledge Chinai, who was following Youyu: "Sister Chinai."
However, when Mokuba's gaze fell on one person at the back, he was stunned.
It was a girl dressed in an urban chic style, wearing a cute white duckbill cap, her long golden hair shining like treasure in the sunlight.
She had big, emerald green eyes, skin as delicate as porcelain, and a beautifully cute face that sparked a familiar feeling.
This stunning girl followed Youyu like a curious baby, looking around, licking a hard, thick ice stick.
Noticing Mokuba staring at her, she eagerly waved her small hand, behaving just like an old friend.
Mokuba blankly waved his hand back as a response, feeling that this girl looked familiar yet couldn't remember who she was...
As he walked, he couldn't resist secretly asking Youyu: "Yu Yu, who is this girl? Seems like I've seen her before but also haven't..."
Youyu smiled but didn't answer: "Take a guess."
Mokuba: "..."
"Where is President Kaiba?" Youyu casually asked.
"Brother is... slightly busy."
Youyu raised an eyebrow: "Playing computer games again?"
From Youyu's years of experience, this is usually the time when President Kaiba is playing against a computer.
"Not this time," Mokuba replied with a helpless smile, "a challenger caught his interest, he's in a duel."
"Oh?" Youyu raised an eyebrow, showing some interest.
Despite President Kaiba frequently succumbing to the urge to play cards, he isn't casual. No one ordinary can just come along and play cards with him.
President Kaiba has high standards for duel opponents; he barely considers ordinary people worthy opponents.
This is also why he repeatedly catches Youyu to duel...
A challenger caught the president's attention enough to be accepted for a duel, indicating this challenger must be significant.
"They just went inside, probably haven't started yet," Mokuba led them into the dueling arena, "If interested, we can go watch."
Youyu was slightly interested.
Interesting, let me see which expert caught the president's eye...
... Huh?
Upon entering the White Dragon Duel Hall, seeing President Kaiba opposite an eccentric duelist wearing a Bambi headpiece, Youyu was immediately stunned.
Isn't it... a player?
Youyu quickly glanced at the ID on the person's head—Professional Commentary.
Goodness, truly a player.
[Professional Commentary, LP 4000]
[Kaiba, LP 4000]
As they entered, the duel had just begun, with President Kaiba taking the first turn.
Considering he was brutally defeated by a peculiar unicorn-headed person many years ago in the inaugural KC Cup, the opponent's amusing headpiece did not reduce Kaiba's vigilance.
"Since you dare to challenge the pinnacle, prepare yourself for a complete defeat! My turn, draw!"
Kaiba raised his voice, drawing cards with momentum, causing his white trench coat to flutter.
"Activate the magic card 'The Melody of Awakening Dragon' from my hand!" Kaiba dramatically swung his hand, "Discard one hand card, and add up to two monsters with 3000 or more attack points and 2500 or less defense points from the deck to the hand!"
President Kaiba still uses the new Duel Disc with full data operation, with decks represented by data. Blue data streams transformed into two cards, which he drew out casually.
"I'll add 'Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon' and 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon' to the hand!"
Then, he displayed a card in hand, which quickly dissolved into data streams in his fingertips, and appeared on his Duel Disc.
"Summon 'Maiden with Eyes of Blue' in attack mode!"
[Maiden with Eyes of Blue, Attack Power 0]
Kisara took the stage personally, landing gracefully before Kaiba in simple robes, her silver hair gently falling.
After landing, the maiden turned back with a playful wink to the president, who responded with a slight nod, expressionless.
The opposite player hadn't yet played a card and was fed dog food first, secretly cursing the president for betraying the organization—
—True duelists weren't supposed to date, and women were supposed to affect card-drawing speed, were they not?
Could it be possible to have couple interactions while playing cards!
"Magic Card 'Trade-In', discard a Level 8 monster from hand, and draw two cards from the deck! I discard one 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', and draw two cards!"
Kaiba continued drawing cards, followed by a dramatic swing, data streams expelled a card from the graveyard.
"Activate the effect of 'Master with Eyes of Blue' in the graveyard!" Kaiba drew this card, "Return this card from the graveyard to the deck, choose one effect monster on own field to send to graveyard, then special summon a 'Blue-Eyes' monster from the graveyard!"
Kaiba pointed to the only monster he had on his field.
"I'll send 'Maiden with Eyes of Blue' to the graveyard, special summon from the graveyard!
The light dragon that turns all darkness into brightness—
—Blue-Eyes White Dragon, summon!!!"
Like a waterfall, the soaring light beam's holographic effect seemed to pierce through the ceiling. The white dragon spread its wings and soared, circling high in the sky before majestically landing behind Kaiba.
[Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Attack Power 3000]
"And at the moment 'Maiden with Eyes of Blue' was selected as target and sent to the graveyard, her effect activated too!" Kaiba shouted, "'Maiden with Eyes of Blue', when chosen as the card target, special summon one 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon' from hand, deck or graveyard!
Special summon another one from the deck, the light dragon that turns all darkness into brightness—
—Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Data torrents surged, shooting directly from the president's deck. Numerous data converged into card shapes on his Duel Disc, as the second proud white dragon soared down!
[Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Attack Power 3000]
Blue-Eyes White Dragon, double summon!!!