Bekas: Sorry! With card printing and selling, you really can do whatever you want!

“My turn, I draw!” At this moment, Yugi had exhausted all the cards in his hand. In exchange, however, his field was set up in an extremely troublesome way. If he couldn’t draw a card to clear the field, Pegasus would be unable to construct the unique world that belonged to his deck.

As this thought crossed his mind, Pegasus lifted his only human right eye toward the card in his hand. At that instant, the Millennium Eye on his left sparkled brilliantly.

‘Did this guy… really draw a card to wipe the back row?’

Feather Wind, a counter trap card, was what Yugi had planned to use to destroy Pegasus’s custom spell card “Toon World” the moment it was activated. But if Pegasus drew a spell to clear the field right now, in order to protect the Soul Barrier—and to avoid having his Sailor Hero, with only 1400 attack points, destroyed in battle and taking unnecessary damage—he would have no choice but to activate Feather Wind!

“Excellent! Now, I’ll activate this card! Spell card ‘Heavy Storm’!”

As Pegasus played the spell he’d just drawn, a massive tornado, nearly reaching the ceiling, erupted on the duel field. The powerful gusts made the two trap cards in Yugi’s back row snap and flutter like paper in the wind.

“Tch! Counter Trap ‘Feather Wind’ activates! Since Sailor Hero was fused from Winged Hero, Feather Wind’s activation condition is fulfilled! Destroy Pegasus’s Heavy Storm!”

With a bold declaration, Yugi successfully activated “Feather Wind,” destroying the powerful field-clearing Heavy Storm! Yet, in exchange, he would now be unable to stop Pegasus from building his “Toon World.”

“That’s exactly what I wanted—you to use Feather Wind!”

With no counter traps left to protect him, Pegasus could finally use his world unimpeded:

“First, I summon ‘Egg Dragon’ in attack mode. Then, I activate the spell card ‘Toon World’!”

Toon World—not a field spell, but as potent as one—was a “continuous spell card.” Under its effect, the western dragon Egg Dragon was sucked into a castle-shaped comic book realm. When it emerged, it had become a denizen of this two-dimensional cartoon world!

“Ah, what is this…”

The spectators in the stands were all dumbfounded. Toon World? Duel monsters turning into cartoon characters? What madness was this!

“Toon World is the greatest masterpiece of a game world I have ever created!” Pegasus explained excitedly, his face glowing. If duel monster cards were his adopted children, then “Toon World” was his own flesh and blood.

“All the monsters on my field are sucked into this ‘Toon World,’ transforming from duel monsters into its residents—‘Toon Monsters!’ After every battle, they dive back into Toon World. Unless my opponent’s monster is also a Toon Monster, it cannot harm them!”

“This… this is shameless card creation!” After Pegasus finished his explanation, the others were furious. This was blatant card manipulation: his monsters could attack, but everyone else’s had to watch helplessly!

Pegasus! That despicable card-manipulating, card-selling fiend!

“Toon Egg Dragon! Attack Yugi’s Sailor Hero! Toon Dragon Breath!”

He commanded his newly cartoonified Egg Dragon to attack Yugi’s Sailor Hero, and as expected, Yugi activated his trap card, “Soul Barrier.”

Although he lost Sailor Hero, at least his life points were spared—but this was exactly the outcome Pegasus had hoped for!

“At this moment, I activate the spell card ‘Copycat’!”

“What?!” Yugi was stunned when he heard the card Pegasus was playing. This guy already had that card in hand? That means the Sailor Hero just sent to the graveyard…

“Copycat, as its name suggests, can select any card from my opponent’s graveyard to activate, as long as I have ‘Toon World’ and a ‘Toon Monster’ on my field.”

A blue, comical cat appeared on Pegasus’s field. The ghostly images of the cards in Yugi’s graveyard hovered before it. After glancing them over, Copycat leaned close to Pegasus’s ear, whispering which card it wanted to copy.

“Oh! My adorable kitty says it wants to copy (NTR) your monster!”

It wanted to copy a monster? No need to guess—it must be the recently fallen Sailor Hero.

As Copycat vanished, Sailor Hero was resurrected on Pegasus’s field. The next moment, a tremendous suction came from Toon World, giving Sailor Hero no chance to struggle before it was forcibly drawn inside.

A few seconds later, a two-dimensional version of Sailor Hero reappeared on Pegasus’s field, his appearance now resembling Popeye, the protagonist from an American cartoon Yugi had seen in his previous life.

“I set a card face-down, then activate Toon Sailor Hero’s effect! Direct damage to Yugi equal to half its attack points!”

At this moment, Yugi had only a Soul Barrier on his field, and for its effect to activate, he needed to have a monster present!

Thus, with no monsters left, Yugi took the very hit he’d given Pegasus earlier.

(Yugi: 2000 LP → 1300 LP)

“Damn it! Pegasus, you bastard!”

Joey clenched his fist in anger. Using Yugi’s own monster against him was a painful experience for any duelist!

“Hmph! Pegasus! Is this all the so-called Father of Duel Monsters can do?”

“Hm?” Seeing Yugi’s unbothered, sneering expression, Pegasus frowned slightly. A boy whose heart he could not read—how infuriatingly unlovable!

“Turn end.”

“My turn. I draw!”

With almost no cards in hand and an empty field, the situation was dire—especially since the tournament rules dictated: if a player cannot summon a monster, they lose the duel immediately, regardless of remaining life points!

“Luck seems to be on my side. I drew the spell card ‘Ace Chalice’!”

No need to explain its effect—just a coin toss, and as expected, the result favored Yugi. (For a true duelist, all things are inevitable!)

“I activate the spell card ‘Fusion Recovery’! I retrieve ‘Elemental Hero Winged Hero’ and ‘Fusion’ from the graveyard. Next, I activate ‘Fusion’ again, fusing Winged Hero with Wildman!”

The fusion of Winged Hero and Wildman produced a creature with Wildman’s torso, but Winged Hero’s arms, legs, groin, and the wings sprouting from his back.

(Elemental Hero Wildwing, Defense: 2300)

“I activate Wildwing’s effect! By discarding a card from my hand, I destroy your ‘Toon World,’ Pegasus!”

Indeed, I can’t directly defeat your Toon Monsters—but don’t forget, the thing turning them into cartoons, “Toon World,” is at its core just a continuous spell card!

And conveniently, Wildwing’s effect has no usage limit—discard a hand card, destroy a spell or trap.

“Without Toon World, your Toon Monsters cannot remain on the field! And since they’ve already become cartoon characters, they can never revert to their normal forms and return to your field!”